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Joe Bob Briggs
Joe Bob Briggs, created by journalist John Irving Bloom (born 1953 or 1959), is a satirical drive-in movie critic persona hosting Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (TMC 1986-96), MonsterVision (TNT 1996-2000), and The Last Drive-In on Shudder.
Joe Carnahan
Joe Carnahan (Joseph Aaron Carnahan, born 1969, Sacramento) is an American director-screenwriter of Narc, Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey, Copshop and the Netflix thriller The Rip (2026), distinct from unrelated Carnahans in other fields.
Joe Chen (陈乔恩)
Joe Chen (陈乔恩/陳喬恩, born 1979, Hsinchu, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese actress, singer, and host; ex-7 Flowers member whose Fated to Love You (2008) and Swordsman (2013) made her an idol-drama star in Taiwan and mainland China.
Joe Chill
Joe Chill (Joseph Chilton) is the DC Comics mugger who murdered Thomas and Martha Wayne, created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane; unnamed in Detective Comics #33 (1939), named and killed in Batman #47 (1948), later retconned as Lew Moxon's hitman.
Joe Cornish
Joe Cornish (Joseph Murray Cornish, born 1968, London) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and director of Adam and Joe fame, whose debut film Attack the Block (2011) earned a BAFTA nomination; he also co-wrote Tintin and Ant-Man.
Joe D'Amato
Joe D'Amato, pseudonym of Aristide Massaccesi (1936–1999), Italian director and cinematographer of over 200 exploitation films, known for the Emanuelle series, Antropophagus, Beyond the Darkness, and Filmirage.
Joe Dallesandro
Joe Dallesandro (Joseph Angelo D'Alessandro, born 1948), American actor and Warhol superstar, lead of Flesh, Trash, and Heat, later European art films and Hollywood roles, image on Sticky Fingers cover.
Joe Dante
Joe Dante (born 1946, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, and Innerspace, known for horror-comedy satire, movie-buff in-jokes, and his Roger Corman and Steven Spielberg associations.
Joe Dempsie
Joe Dempsie (Joseph Maxwell Dempsie) is an English actor, born in 1987 in Liverpool, best known for Chris Miles in Skins and Gendry in HBO's Game of Thrones.
Joe DeRita
Joe "Curly Joe" DeRita (Joseph Wardell, 1909-1993), American comedian, last of the Three Stooges' third members, joining Moe Howard and Larry Fine in 1958 and starring in six Stooge feature films.
Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Dennie Gordon and written by David Spade and Fred Wolf, starring Spade as a mullet-wearing janitor searching for his parents.
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser is a 2015 American comedy directed by Fred Wolf, written by and starring David Spade, and a sequel to Joe Dirt.
Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker (1936–2025), American tough-guy character actor from Groesbeck, Texas; starred as Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall (1973), was BAFTA-nominated for Edge of Darkness, and played Brad Whitaker and Jack Wade across three James Bond films, ending with Mud (2012).
Joe Duttine
Joe Duttine (born 1970) is an English actor, nephew of John Duttine, trained at Drama Centre London; Coronation Street's Tim Metcalfe since 2013, previously DS Max Carr in 2010 and Steve Turner in Pie in the Sky.
Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown (Joseph Evans Brown, 1891 or 1892–1973), American actor and comedian of the 1930s–40s; circus-to-Broadway performer, star of Some Like It Hot's Osgood Fielding III, distinct from singer Joe Brown.
Joe Estevez
Joe Estevez (born 1946, Dayton, Ohio) is an American character actor, brother of Martin Sheen. Uncredited Willard voice and stand-in in Apocalypse Now; hundreds of credits in independent and cult film, and a regular on On Cinema.
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas (József Antal Eszterhás), born 1944 in Hungary and raised in Cleveland, is a Hungarian-American screenwriter, journalist, and author who wrote Flashdance, Basic Instinct, and Showgirls.
Joe Exotic
Joe Exotic (Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, aka Joseph Schreibvogel) is the Oklahoma roadside zoo operator of Tiger King fame, convicted in 2019 of a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin and wildlife crimes, serving a 21-year federal sentence.
Joe Flaherty
Joe Flaherty (Joseph O'Flaherty, 1941–2024), American actor, writer, and comedian; founding SCTV cast member (Guy Caballero, Count Floyd), two-time Emmy-winning writer, Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks, heckler in Happy Gilmore.
Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American actor and writer, best known as Lt. Colonel John Sheppard on all five seasons of Stargate Atlantis (2004–2009), for which he also wrote two episodes; formerly a White House advance man and magazine writer.
Joe Flynn (American actor)
Joe Flynn (1924–1974), American comic character actor from Youngstown, Ohio; played Captain Binghamton on McHale's Navy (1962–1966) and Disney's Dean Higgins; voiced Mr. Snoops in The Rescuers.
Joe Freeman
Joe Freeman (born 2006, London) is a British actor, son of Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington, who plays Luke Ellis as series lead in MGM+'s The Institute (2025), after a 2024 Doctors episode.
Joe Gatto
Joe Gatto (Joseph Anthony Gatto Jr., born 1976, Staten Island) is an American comedian and producer, founding member of The Tenderloins and original star of Impractical Jokers (2011-2021, about 300 episodes), now a solo stand-up comedian, Two Cool Moms podcast co-host, and operator of the Gatto Pups and Friends animal rescue.
Joe Gilgun
Joe Gilgun (Joseph William Gilgun, born 1984, Chorley) is an English actor and co-creator of Brassic, also known for Woody in This Is England, Rudy in Misfits, and Cassidy in Preacher.
Joe Hamilton (producer)
Joe Hamilton (Joseph Henry Hamilton Jr., 1929–1991), American television producer, executive producer of The Carol Burnett Show (278 episodes, 1967–1978), ex-husband of Carol Burnett, five-time Emmy winner per obituaries, also produced Mama's Family.
Joe Johnston
Joe Johnston (Joseph Eggleston Johnston II, born 1950) is an American film director and founding ILM effects art director who designed Star Wars icons and directed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Joe Keery
Joe Keery (born 1992, Newburyport, Massachusetts) is an American actor and musician, aka Djo. Known for Steve Harrington on Stranger Things (2016–2025, 42 episodes), Post Animal, and solo albums Twenty Twenty, Decide, The Crux.
Joe Kidd
Joe Kidd (1972) is a revisionist Western directed by John Sturges, written by Elmore Leonard, starring Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and John Saxon; a Malpaso/Universal land-dispute Western that grossed $6,330,000 domestically.
Joe Lando
Joe Lando, born Joseph John Lando in 1961, is an American actor best known as Byron Sully, Jane Seymour's love interest on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, from 1993 to 1998.
Joe Lara
Joe Lara (William Joseph Lara, 1962–2021), American actor who played Tarzan in Tarzan in Manhattan (1989) and Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996–1997), later a country musician; died in the 2021 Percy Priest Lake plane crash with his wife Gwen Shamblin Lara.