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John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes (1929-1989), American actor and independent filmmaker, husband of Gena Rowlands. Director of Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, and Love Streams, pioneer of American independent cinema.
John Cazale
John Cazale (John Holland Cazale, 1935 to 1978) was an American character actor who appeared in five films, each nominated for Best Picture, and played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather films.
John Challis
John Challis (1942–2021), English character actor best known as Boycie in Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass; also Benidorm, Z Cars, Doctor Who, and Boycie in Belgrade.
John Cho
John Cho (조요한, born 1972, Seoul) is a Korean American actor, Berkeley English graduate, star of Harold & Kumar, Sulu in Star Trek (2009), and Searching (2018), living in Los Angeles.
John Clark (Ryanverse character)
John Clark (born John Terence Kelly) is Tom Clancy's CIA paramilitary operative in the Ryanverse novels, lead of Without Remorse (1993) and Rainbow Six (1998), "Ryan's dark side," played on screen by Willem Dafoe, Liev Schreiber, and Michael B. Jordan.
John Clarke (satirist)
John Morrison Clarke (1948–2017), New Zealand-born satirist and comedian; creator of farmer Fred Dagg, half of Clarke and Dawe mock interviews, co-creator of The Games; moved to Australia in 1977.
John Cleese
John Cleese (born 1939) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, a founding member of Monty Python, co-creator and star of Fawlty Towers, star of A Fish Called Wanda, and co-founder of the Video Arts training-film company.
John Cochran (Survivor contestant)
John Martin Cochran is an American TV writer and two-time Survivor contestant, winner of Survivor: Caramoan (2013) by unanimous 8-0-0 vote with zero votes against, after finishing 8th on South Pacific (2011); later a CBS sitcom writer.
John Colicos
John Colicos (1928–2000), Canadian Shakespearean actor, played Commander Kor, the first Klingon in Star Trek, and Count Baltar in the original Battlestar Galactica, plus Mikkos Cassadine on General Hospital.
John Connor
John Connor is the fictional savior and Resistance leader at the center of the Terminator franchise, son of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese, hunted by Skynet across timelines and killed off in Terminator: Dark Fate.
John Constantine
John Constantine, the Hellblazer, is DC Comics' British working-class occult detective and con man, created by Alan Moore, Bissette, and Totleben in Swamp Thing #37 (1985), star of the 300-issue Vertigo series Hellblazer and adaptations starring Keanu Reeves and Matt Ryan.
John Corbett
John Corbett (born 1962, Wheeling, WV) is an American actor and country singer, not the virologist, writer, or boxer of the same name; known for Northern Exposure's Chris Stevens, Aidan in Sex and the City, and Ian Miller in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
John Crist (comedian)
John Crist (born 1984) is an American stand-up comedian from Lilburn, Georgia, known for clean comedy about evangelical Christian culture, viral sketches, the 2019 harassment allegations and hiatus, and specials including Emotional Support (2025).
John Cullum
John Cullum (born 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American stage and television actor, two-time Tony winner for Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century, known as Holling Vincoeur on Northern Exposure.
John Cusack
John Cusack (born 1966, Evanston, Illinois), American actor, producer, and screenwriter; rose in 1980s teen films (Say Anything), peaked with Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, later shifted to writing, including the 2026 graphic novel Momo.
John Dall
John Dall (John Dall Thompson, 1920-1971) was an American stage and film actor, Oscar-nominated for his debut The Corn Is Green (1945), best known as Brandon in Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and the lead of Gun Crazy (1950).
John David Washington
John David Washington (born 1984) is an American actor and former football player, son of Denzel Washington; star of Ballers, BlacKkKlansman, Tenet, and The Piano Lesson on stage and screen.
John Davidson (entertainer)
John Davidson (born 1941, Pittsburgh) is the American singer-actor-TV host of That's Incredible! and Hollywood Squares, distinct from the NHL goaltender John Davidson and the Scottish Tourette campaigner of the same name.
John Davis (producer)
John Andrew Davis (born 1954, Denver) is an American film producer, founder of Davis Entertainment (1984), producer of Predator, The Firm, I, Robot, Game Night, Jungle Cruise, Prey, and TV's The Blacklist; over 100 projects grossing more than $5 billion.
John de Lancie
John de Lancie (born 1948, Philadelphia), also John Sherwood de Lancie Jr., American actor known as Q in Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, Picard and Strange New Worlds; also Eugene Bradford on Days of Our Lives, Donald Margolis on Breaking Bad, and the voice of Discord in My Little Pony.
John Debney
John Debney (born 1956, Glendale, California) is an American film and TV composer, son of Disney producer Louis Debney, known for The Passion of the Christ (Oscar-nominated), Elf, Hocus Pocus, Cutthroat Island, and The Jungle Book (2016), with three Emmy wins.
John Dehner
John Dehner (John Dehner Forkum, 1915-1992), American character actor and baritone radio voice; Disney animator turned actor, radio's J.B. Kendall and Paladin, Pat Garrett in The Left Handed Gun.
John Derek
John Derek (born Derek Harris, 1926–1998) was an American actor turned director and cinematographer, married to Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek, whom he directed in Tarzan the Ape Man, Bolero, and Ghosts Can't Do It.
John Diehl
John Diehl (John Henry Diehl, born 1950, Cincinnati) is an American character actor with 150+ credits, known as Det. Larry Zito on Miami Vice, Maj. Kawalsky in Stargate (1994), G. Gordon Liddy in Nixon, Ben Gilroy on The Shield, and Fred Trump in Armageddon Time.
John Dies at the End (film)
John Dies at the End (2012/2013) is Don Coscarelli's horror-comedy adapting David Wong's novel about Dave and John, dropouts fighting an otherworldly invasion after taking the drug Soy Sauce; Magnet Releasing released it limitedly in January 2013 to mixed reviews.
John DiMaggio
John William DiMaggio, born 1968 in North Plainfield, New Jersey, is an American voice actor known for Bender in Futurama, Jake the Dog in Adventure Time, and Marcus Fenix in Gears of War; 2001 Annie Award winner.
John Doman
John Doman (born 1945, Philadelphia) is an American character actor, Marine Vietnam veteran, and former advertising executive who began acting at 46, known for William Rawls in The Wire, Pope Alexander VI in Borgia, and Carmine Falcone in Gotham.
John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore (1932–2004), also known as John Barrymore Jr., was an American actor, son of John Barrymore and Dolores Costello and father of Drew Barrymore, whose sporadic film career included While the City Sleeps and High School Confidential.
John Drew Jr.
John Drew Jr. (1853–1927), American stage actor, son of John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew; leading man in Augustin Daly's company with Ada Rehan, then a Charles Frohman star, uncle of the Barrymores.
John Drew Sr.
John Drew Sr. (1827–1862), Irish-born American stage actor and Philadelphia theater manager, husband of Louisa Lane Drew, father of John Drew Jr., and grandfather of the Barrymores; not the NBA player or pastor John Drew Sheard Sr.