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Hairspray Live!

Hairspray Live! is NBC's 2016 live televised musical special adapted from the Broadway show Hairspray, broadcast December 7, 2016 from the Universal Studios back lot with Maddie Baillio, Harvey Fierstein, Jennifer Hudson, and Ariana Grande; it drew 8.9 million viewers and won three Creative Arts Emmys.

Haiwan

Haiwan (हैवान, "beast") is a title shared by several Indian films and a Pakistani TV series, chiefly Haiwaan (2026), Priyadarshan's Hindi remake of his Malayalam Oppam, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, released 11 September 2026 to negative reviews.

Haji Gara

Haji Gara (Hacı Qara), fully titled Sərgüzəşti-mərdi-xəsis (The Adventures of the Miser), is an 1852 comedy by Azerbaijani playwright Mirzə Fətəli Axundzadə, a landmark of realist drama satirizing a greedy merchant.

Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Hakeem Kae-Kazim, also Hakeem Kae-Adebola, Nigerian-born British-raised actor (born 1962) known for George Rutaganda in Hotel Rwanda, Dubaku in 24, Mr. Scott in Black Sails, voice work in Halo and Call of Duty, and producing and directing African films.

Hakeem Lyon

Hakeem Lyon is a fictional rapper in the Fox drama Empire, the youngest son of Lucious and Cookie Lyon, portrayed by Bryshere Y. Gray, founder of Lyon Dynasty and briefly CEO of Empire Entertainment.

Hakim Shahjahan

Hakim Shahjahan (ഹക്കിം ഷാജഹാൻ), also Hakkim Shah, is a Malayalam and Tamil film actor who began as an associate director, debuted in ABCD (2013), and became known through Kadaseela Biriyani, Pranaya Vilasam, Kadakan, and Jailer 2.

Hal (ハル) (2013 film)

Hal (ハル) is a 2013 Japanese animated romance-science fiction film, WIT Studio's first theatrical work, directed by Ryotaro Makihara, about robot Q01 becoming Robo-Hal to comfort grieving Kurumi in near-future Kyoto.

Hal & Harper

Hal & Harper is a 2025 American comedy-drama series created by and starring Cooper Raiff with Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo, about codependent siblings after their mother's death; it premiered at Sundance 2025 and streamed on MUBI from October 19 to November 30, 2025.

HAL 9000

HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is the fictional AI of Discovery One in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), voiced by Douglas Rain, which kills its crew and became AI's defining fictional reference point.

Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was an American film director and Oscar-winning editor of 1970s New Hollywood, known for Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Coming Home, and Being There, and for his post-1979 career decline and later reassessment.

Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook (1925–2021), American actor, Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr., famed for the one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! (1954–2017, 2,300+ performances), Tony and five Emmy winner, Deep Throat in All the President's Men, Oscar nominee for Into the Wild.

Hal Jordan

Hal Jordan is DC Comics' Silver Age Green Lantern, created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Showcase #22 (1959). A test pilot chosen by dying alien Abin Sur, he later became the villain Parallax and is now played by Kyle Chandler in HBO's Lanterns.

Hal LeSueur

Hal LeSueur, born Hal Hays LeSueur, was an American actor and older brother of Oscar winner Joan Crawford, playing small, largely uncredited MGM roles between 1935 and 1942.

Hal Linden

Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz/Lipschitz, March 20, 1931) is an American actor, singer, and clarinetist, Tony winner for The Rothschilds and star of ABC's Barney Miller (1975–1982).

Hal Needham

Hal Needham (1931-2013), American stuntman and director, Hollywood's highest-paid stuntman, doubled Burt Reynolds, directed Smokey and the Bandit, invented the Shotmaker camera car, received a 2012 honorary Oscar.

Hal Roach

Hal Roach, born Harold Eugene Roach, was an American film producer who founded Hal Roach Studios in 1914 and produced Harold Lloyd, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy comedies.

Hal Smith (actor)

Hal Smith (Harold John Smith, 1916–1994), American character and voice actor; Otis Campbell the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show (32 episodes); also voiced Disney's Owl, Goofy, Winnie the Pooh, and radio's John Avery Whittaker.

Hal Sparks

Hal Sparks (born 1969, Cincinnati) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and political commentator; star of Queer as Folk's Michael Novotny, Lab Rats' Donald Davenport, Talk Soup host, ZERO 1 frontman, and WCPT radio host.

Haldun Taner

Haldun Taner (1915–1986) was a Turkish playwright, short-story writer, and academic who introduced epic theater to Turkey with Keşanlı Ali Destanı (1964) and founded Devekuşu Kabare Tiyatrosu in 1967.

Hale and Pace

Hale and Pace (Hale & Pace) is a British ITV sketch show starring Gareth Hale and Norman Pace, ten series 1988–1998, known for the Two Rons, Billy and Johnny, and the controversial microwaved cat sketch.

Haley Bennett

Haley Bennett (Haley Loraine Keeling, born 1988, Fort Myers, Florida) is an American actress and singer, debut in Music and Lyrics, breakout in The Magnificent Seven and The Girl on the Train, Tribeca Best Actress for Swallow.

Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment (born 1988) is an American actor, Oscar-nominated at 11 for The Sixth Sense, also known for Forrest Gump, A.I., and voicing Sora in Kingdom Hearts.

Haley Lu Richardson

Haley Lu Richardson (born 1995, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress and producer known for Columbus, Five Feet Apart, Portia in The White Lotus season two, and Twila in Peacock's Ponies; also author of poetry collection I'm Sad and Horny.

Haley Pham

Haley Pham, American YouTuber born 2000 in Austin, Texas; lifestyle and book vlogger with 3.9M subscribers, wife of Ryan Trahan, founder of Retro Reprise, and author of the 2026 bestseller Just Friends.

Haley Ramm

Haley Ramm (Haley Michelle Ramm, born 1992, Collin, Texas) is an American actress, Brenna Carver on Chasing Life and Violet Simmons on Light as a Feather, also young Jean Grey in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Half & Half

Half & Half is an American UPN sitcom (2002-2006, 91 episodes) about half-sisters Mona and Dee Dee Thorne, played by Rachel True and Essence Atkins, a black-cast comedy later cited for its streaming-era unavailability.

Half Baked

Half Baked is a 1998 American stoner comedy directed by Tamra Davis, written by Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan, starring Chappelle, Jim Breuer, and Guillermo Diaz; released by Universal January 16, 1998, grossing $17.5M, with 28% on Rotten Tomatoes but 81% audience approval.

Half Girlfriend (film)

Half Girlfriend (हाफ गर्लफ्रेंड) is a 2017 Hindi romantic drama directed by Mohit Suri, adapted from Chetan Bhagat's novel, starring Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor; released 19 May 2017, critically panned at 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Half Loop

"Half Loop" is the second episode of Severance season 1, an Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller. Aired February 18, 2022 (53 minutes), directed by Ben Stiller, written by Dan Erickson; it introduces Christopher Walken as Burt Goodman and follows Helly's severance and Mark's meeting with Petey.

Half Man (TV series)

Half Man is a 2026 six-part BBC/HBO drama created by and starring Richard Gadd, with Jamie Bell, about stepbrothers Niall and Ruben across four decades in Glasgow; premiered April 2026, Metacritic 67, Rotten Tomatoes 80%.