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Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster: Granada/ITV comedy-drama (1990-1993, 23 episodes, 4 series) adapted from P.G. Wodehouse, starring Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, written by Clive Exton.

Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson (Jeffrey Allan Anderson, born 1970) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter, best known as Randal Graves in Kevin Smith's Clerks (1994), Clerks II, and Clerks III; Independent Spirit Award nominee; directed Now You Know (2002). Distinct from the Vikings executive and the NYPD-detector actor of the same name.

Jeff Baena

Jeff Baena (Jeffrey Lance Baena), American screenwriter and director, born 1977 in Miami; co-wrote I Heart Huckabees (2004) and directed Life After Beth, Joshy, The Little Hours, Horse Girl, and Spin Me Round; married to Aubrey Plaza; died January 3, 2025.

Jeff Bennett

Jeff Bennett (born 1962) is an American voice actor, the voice of Johnny Bravo with an Elvis Presley impersonation, also Petrie, Kowalski, Dexter's Dad; Annie Award 2012, Emmy 2016; distinct from a British actor of the same name.

Jeff Bergman

Jeff Bergman (Jeffrey Allen Bergman, born 1960), American voice actor who replaced Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes voices; Space Jam: A New Legacy, Our Cartoon President, Toy Story 5.

Jeff Brazier

Jeff Brazier (born 1979) is an English TV presenter and former footballer who began on Shipwrecked (2001), raised his sons with the late Jade Goody, wrote The Grief Survival Guide, and presents This Morning, The One Show, and TNT Sport football.

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges (born 1949, Los Angeles) is an American actor, musician, and photographer, son of Lloyd Bridges, The Dude in The Big Lebowski, Oscar winner for Crazy Heart, seven-time Oscar nominee.

Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel, 1918–1961), American actor and singer, Oscar-nominated as Cochise in Broken Arrow, radio's Mr. Boynton on Our Miss Brooks and Michael Shayne, Universal star of 1950s Westerns.

Jeff Cohen (actor)

Jeff Cohen (born 1974, Los Angeles) is the American former child actor who played Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen in The Goonies (1985), originator of the Truffle Shuffle; he left acting after puberty and became a Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, co-founding Cohen Gardner LLP and representing Ke Huy Quan.

Jeff Conaway

Jeff Conaway (1950–2011), American actor known as Kenickie in Grease (1978), Bobby Wheeler on Taxi, and Zack Allan on Babylon 5; died of pneumonia with sepsis at 60.

Jeff Corwin

Jeff Corwin (born 1967, Norwell, Massachusetts) is an American wildlife biologist, conservationist, and Emmy-winning TV host of Going Wild, The Jeff Corwin Experience, Ocean Mysteries, and Wildlife Nation.

Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels (born 1955, Athens, Georgia; raised Chelsea, Michigan) is an American actor, playwright, and musician, Emmy winner for The Newsroom and Godless, founder of the Purple Rose Theatre Company, and star of Dumb and Dumber.

Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell (Jean Marie Donnell, 1921–1988), American character actress of over 50 Columbia films, George Gobel's TV wife Alice, Gidget's mother, and Stella Fields on General Hospital.

Jeff Fahey

Jeff Fahey (born 1952, Olean, New York) is an American actor known for Silverado, The Lawnmower Man, The Marshal, Frank Lapidus on Lost, Fire Country, and Horizon: An American Saga.

Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum (Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum, born 1952, Pittsburgh) is an American actor and jazz pianist known for The Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Wicked, and leading the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, distinct from other actors of the same name.

Jeff Hephner

Jeff Hephner (Jeffrey Lane Hephner, born 1975) is an American actor known as Jeff Clarke on Chicago Fire and Chicago Med, Ben Zajac on Boss, John Case on Agent X, and host of GSN's Switch; films include Interstellar, Peppermint, and Oppenheimer.

Jeff Kober

Jeff Kober (born 1953, Billings, Montana) is an American character actor known for China Beach's Dodger, Sons of Anarchy's Jacob Hale Jr., Walking Dead's Joe, and Emmy-winning General Hospital role Cyrus Renault; also a Vedic meditation teacher.

Jeff Nichols

Jeff Nichols, American writer-director from Little Rock, Arkansas; films Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special, Loving, The Bikeriders; known for rural working-class settings and Michael Shannon collaborations.

Jeff Perry (American actor)

Jeff Perry (born 1955) is an American actor who co-founded Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre with Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney, and is known for playing Cyrus Beene on Scandal, Thatcher Grey on Grey's Anatomy, and Harvey Leek on Nash Bridges.

Jeff Pierre

Born in 1986, Jeff Pierre is an American actor celebrated for his roles as Caleb on Shameless, Jeff McArdle on Beyond, and Trey Barnett on The CW's Walker.

Jeff Probst

Jeff Probst (born 1961, Wichita, Kansas) is the American host and executive producer of CBS's Survivor since its May 31, 2000 premiere, a five-time Emmy winner, showrunner, and author of Survivor: Forged by Fire.

Jeff Richmond

Jeff Richmond (born 1961, Kilsyth, West Virginia) is an American composer, producer, and director, husband of Tina Fey. He composed 30 Rock's 17-second theme, won three Emmys, and scored Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the Mean Girls musical.

Jeff Russo

Jeff Russo (born 1969), American Emmy-winning composer and guitarist, founding member of rock band Tonic; scores Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery and Picard, Legion, Ripley, For All Mankind; BAFTA-nominated for What Remains of Edith Finch.

Jeff Schaffer

Jeff Schaffer (born 1970, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comedy writer, director, and producer: Seinfeld writer-EP, Curb Your Enthusiasm showrunner 2009-2024, co-creator with Jackie Schaffer of The League and Dave.

Jeff Stryker

Jeff Stryker, born Charles Casper Peyton, is an American adult film actor who starred in over 30 gay, straight, and bisexual features from 1986 and joined the AVN Hall of Fame.

Jeff Tremaine

Jeff Tremaine (Jeffrey James Tremaine, born 1966) is an American director and producer, co-creator of MTV's Jackass with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville, former Big Brother magazine editor, and director of all Jackass films.

Jeff Wahlberg

Jeff Wahlberg (Jeffrey Wahlberg), American actor born 1996 in Boston, nephew of Mark and Donnie Wahlberg; known for Don't Come Back from the Moon, Diego in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Cherry, and Euphoria.

Jeff Ward (actor)

Jeff Ward (born 1986, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor known as Deke Shaw on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Buggy the Clown in Netflix's live-action One Piece, plus Manson's Lost Girls, Brand New Cherry Flavor, and Hacks.

Jeff Zucker

Jeff Zucker (born 1965) is an American television executive, former Today executive producer, NBC Universal CEO (2007–2011), CNN Worldwide president (2013–2022), and now RedBird IMI CEO and Banijay chair.

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Jeff, Who Lives at Home is a 2011 Duplass brothers comedy-drama starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and Susan Sarandon; a Baton Rouge slacker follows cosmic signs on a wood-glue errand, grossing $4.4 million.