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John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey (born 1963, Plano, Texas) is an American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Felix Turner in The Normal Heart (2011), Emmy-nominated for The Big C, and director of Broadway's Plaza Suite revival.
John Bennett Perry
John Bennett Perry (born 1941) is an American actor and singer, the Old Spice "sailor" of 1970s-80s commercials, with roles in 240-Robert, Falcon Crest, and Fools Rush In, and father of actor Matthew Perry.
John Bernecker
John Bernecker (1984-2017) was an American stunt performer with over 90 credits who died falling about 22 feet from a balcony while rehearsing a Walking Dead fight scene; his family won an $8.6 million verdict.
John Billingsley
John Billingsley (born 1960, Media, Pennsylvania) is an American character actor, also known as John A. Billingsley, who played Dr. Phlox in all 98 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), with later roles in True Blood, The Nine, and Pam & Tommy, and charity work with the Hollywood Food Coalition.
John Bindon
John Bindon (1943-1993), nicknamed Biffo, was a British actor and bodyguard typecast as London gangland heavies in Poor Cow, Performance, Get Carter and Quadrophenia, and bodyguard for Led Zeppelin.
John Bishop
John Bishop is an English comedian, presenter, and actor and ex-pharmaceutical salesman who began stand-up at 35, broke through via RTÉ's The Panel and an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination, and inspired Bradley Cooper's film Is This Thing On?.
John Bluthal
John Bluthal (Isaac Bluthal, 1929-2018), Polish-born Australian-British comedy actor; starred as tailor Manny Cohen in Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, voiced Fireball XL5's Commander Zero, and played Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley.
John Blyth Barrymore
John Blyth Barrymore (John Barrymore III), born 1954, is an American actor, son of John Drew Barrymore and Cara Williams, half-brother of Drew Barrymore; best known as Zeke in Kung Fu (1975), later an acting coach and software developer.
John Boorman
John Boorman (born 1933, Shepperton) is a British film director of Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, and The General; twice Cannes Best Director winner, five-time Oscar nominee, and longtime County Wicklow, Ireland resident.
John Boyd (actor)
John Boyd (born 1981, New York City) is an American actor and son of Guy Boyd; plays Special Agent Stuart Scola on CBS's FBI after Arlo Glass on 24 and James Aubrey on Bones, with film credits Argo and Peppermint.
John Boyega
John Boyega (John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega), British-Nigerian actor born 1992 in Peckham, London; broke out as Moses in Attack the Block (2011), played Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, won the 2016 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, and starred in Breaking, The Woman King, and They Cloned Tyrone.
John Bradley (English actor)
John Bradley (John Bradley West, born 1988) is an English actor from Wythenshawe, Manchester, known for Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones, and for Moonfall, Marry Me, and 3 Body Problem.
John Byner
John Byner, born John Thomas Biener, is an American comedian and impressionist known for his impressions and for voicing the Ant and the Aardvark cartoons.
John Byrne (playwright)
John Byrne (1940–2023), Scottish playwright, painter, and designer from Paisley; creator of The Slab Boys trilogy and BBC series Tutti Frutti; won Evening Standard and Olivier awards.
John C. McGinley
John C. McGinley (born 1959) is an American actor known as Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs (2001–2010, 2026 ABC revival) and for Oliver Stone films Platoon, Wall Street, and Any Given Sunday, plus Seven, The Rock, Office Space, and Rooster.
John C. Reilly
John C. Reilly (John Christopher Reilly, born 1965) is an American actor from Chicago known for Paul Thomas Anderson films Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia; Oscar-nominated for Chicago; comedy roles with Will Ferrell; voices Wreck-It Ralph.
John C. Reilly filmography
John C. Reilly filmography: screen credits of the Chicago-born American actor (born 1965), from Casualties of War (1989) and Paul Thomas Anderson dramas to Chicago, Walk Hard, Wreck-It Ralph, and Stan & Ollie.
John Callahan (actor)
John Kevin Callahan (1953–2020), American soap opera actor born in Brooklyn, best known as Edmund Grey on All My Children (1992–2005); also Falcon Crest, Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives; ex-husband of Eva LaRue; distinct from the cartoonist John Callahan.
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell, American actor, writer, and director born 1963 in El Paso, Texas; creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998 stage, 2001 film), director of Shortbus and Rabbit Hole, and 2015 Special Tony winner.
John Campbell (YouTuber)
John Lorimer Campbell, English retired nurse educator and YouTuber whose COVID-19 channel drew millions of viewers; later widely fact-checked for misleading vaccine claims by Full Fact, Science Feedback, and FactCheck.org.
John Candy
John Candy (1950–1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor, a Second City Toronto and SCTV star known for Johnny LaRue and Yosh Shmenge, who headlined Splash, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings before dying at 43.
John Candy: I Like Me
John Candy: I Like Me is a 2025 Prime Video documentary directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds about comedian John Candy, premiering at TIFF 2025 and titled after his Planes, Trains and Automobiles line.
John Cardoza
John Cardoza (born 1994, Massachusetts) is an American musical theater actor, Boston Conservatory BFA 2016, known as Younger Noah in Broadway's The Notebook, and for Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Karate Kid, and Heathers; distinct from an older film actor of the same name.
John Carney (director)
John Carney, Irish film director, screenwriter, and composer, ex-bassist of The Frames; known for the naturalistic musicals Once (2007), Begin Again, Sing Street, Modern Love, Flora and Son, and Power Ballad.
John Carpenter
John Carpenter (born 1948, Bowling Green, Kentucky) is the American director-composer of Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, and They Live; since The Ward (2010) he has worked mainly as a musician.
John Carpenter (game show contestant)
John Carpenter, IRS agent from Hamden, Connecticut, first $1 million winner on the U.S. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (November 19, 1999), answered Richard Nixon on Laugh-In question, used no lifelines except a call to his father.
John Carradine
John Carradine (Richmond Reed Carradine, 1906-1988), American character actor of Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, father of David, Keith, and Robert Carradine, prolific in horror films, never a star.
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch, born 1963 in Boulder, Colorado, is an American character actor known for Norm Gunderson in Fargo and Twisty the Clown in American Horror Story.
John Carter (ER)
Noah Wyle portrayed John Truman Carter III, a fictional doctor in the NBC series ER. He grew from a third-year student into a confident and skilled attending physician.
John Carter (film)
John Carter (2012) is Andrew Stanton's Disney sci-fi film adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, starring Taylor Kitsch; it earned about $284 million worldwide against a $250-307 million budget, causing a $200 million loss.