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John Dryden
John Dryden (1631–1700), English Restoration poet, playwright, critic, and translator; first poet laureate (1668), author of Absalom and Achitophel, All for Love, and the Virgil translation, called the father of English criticism by Johnson.
John Ducey
John Ducey (John Joseph Ducey, born 1969, Endwell, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer; Harvard-educated, known as Tom Lucas on Disney's Jonas, Ford Lowell on Oh Grow Up, and writer of streaming films like I Believe in Santa.
John Dunsworth
John Francis Dunsworth (1946–2017), Canadian actor from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia; played Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys (2001–2018, 106 episodes), founded Halifax's Pier One Theatre (1970) and Filmworks Casting (1987), and ran for the NDP in 1988.
John Duttine
John Duttine (born 1949, Barnsley) is an English actor known for David Powlett-Jones in To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Bill Masen in The Day of the Triffids (1981), and Sergeant George Miller in Heartbeat; husband of actress Mel Martin, uncle of actor Joe Duttine.
John Dye
John Dye (John Carroll Dye, 1963-2011), American actor from Amory, Mississippi, best known as Andrew, the Angel of Death, on CBS's Touched by an Angel (1995-2003); also Tour of Duty and Campus Man.
John Early (comedian)
John Early (born 1988, Nashville) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker known as Elliott Goss in Search Party, his 2023 HBO special Now More Than Ever with band the Lemon Squares, and his creative partnership with Kate Berlant on 555.
John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is Shakespeare's comic knight, appearing in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor and mentioned in Henry V. Originally named Oldcastle, he inspired Verdi's opera and the word "Falstaffian."
John Farrow
John Farrow, in full John Villiers Farrow (1904–1963), was an Australian-born Hollywood director of film noir who shared the 1956 Oscar for Around the World in Eighty Days.
John Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler (1925-2005), American character actor: Juror No. 2 in 12 Angry Men, Vinnie in The Odd Couple, Mr. Peterson on The Bob Newhart Show, and the voice of Disney's Piglet from 1968 to 2005.
John Fisher (social media personality)
John Fisher (born 1973), known as Big John or the Boshfather, is an English food and boxing influencer from Romford, distinct from boxer Johnny Fisher (his son) and the Jimmy Dean song Big Bad John; famous for Chinese takeaway reviews and the catchphrase "Bosh".
John Ford
John Ford (John Martin Feeney, 1894–1973), American film director born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, holder of a record four Best Director Oscars, maker of Stagecoach and The Searchers, Monument Valley westerns, first AFI Life Achievement Award recipient.
John Ford filmography
John Ford filmography: films directed by John Ford (Jack Ford), 1917-1966, over 135 titles including Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, and the cavalry trilogy; five Academy Awards, none for a Western.
John Forsythe
John Forsythe, born John Lincoln Freund, was an American actor best known as Blake Carrington on Dynasty and the voice of Charlie Townsend on Charlie's Angels.
John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley (born 1985) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director, also known as Sam Weir in Freaks and Geeks and Lance Sweets in Bones. With Jonathan Goldstein he wrote Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming and directed Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer (1930–2002), American film and television director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds, and Ronin; emerged from 1950s live TV, won four consecutive 1990s Emmys.
John Franklin (actor)
John Franklin (born 1959, Blue Island, Illinois; birth name John Paul Salapatek) is the American actor who played Isaac in Children of the Corn (1984) and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family films; later a teacher, returning in Hag (2014).
John Fugelsang
John Fugelsang is an American actor, comedian, and broadcaster, host of SiriusXM's Tell Me Everything, former VH1 host and America's Funniest Home Videos presenter, author of Separation of Church and Hate.
John G. Avildsen
John G. Avildsen (John Guilbert Avildsen, 1935-2017) was an American film director and editor who won the 1977 Oscar for Best Director for Rocky (1976) and directed The Karate Kid (1984) and its first two sequels.
John Gallagher Jr.
John Gallagher Jr. (born 1984, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actor and singer-songwriter, Tony winner for originating Moritz in Spring Awakening, later Johnny in American Idiot, Jim Harper on The Newsroom, and star of Short Term 12 and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
John Garfield
John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, 1913–1952), American film and stage actor, Warner Bros. star and pioneer of rebellious screen antiheroes; Oscar-nominated for Four Daughters, famed for The Postman Always Rings Twice, blacklisted after HUAC.
John Gau (producer)
John Gau (John Glen Mackay Gau, 1940-2024) was a British television producer, BBC Panorama producer and head of current affairs, founder of John Gau Productions, Channel 4 director, and CBE.
John Gavin
John Gavin (1931–2018), born Juan Vincent Apablasa or John Anthony Golenor, American actor in Psycho, Spartacus, and Imitation of Life, SAG president 1971–73, and US Ambassador to Mexico 1981–86 under Reagan.
John Getz
John Getz (born 1946, Davenport, Iowa) is an American character actor known for Ray in Blood Simple, Stathis Borans in The Fly and The Fly II, and roles in The Social Network, Zodiac, The Last of Us, and The Pitt.
John Gibson (actor, born 1948)
John Gibson (1948–1986) was an American actor from Michigan, the Baseball Fury in The Warriors (1979), also seen in The Fall Guy and One Life to Live; fiancé of Vanna White, he died piloting his own plane near Van Nuys airport.
John Gielgud
Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), English actor and director, one of the twentieth century's great Shakespeareans alongside Olivier and Richardson; famed for Hamlet and Richard II, directed Burton's 1964 Hamlet, and completed an EGOT in 1991.
John Gilbert (actor)
John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle, 1897–1936) was an American silent-film superstar and MGM's top male romantic lead, famed for The Big Parade and four films with Greta Garbo; his talkie-era decline is now attributed to studio politics, not his voice.
John Glen (director)
John Glen (born 1932, Sunbury-on-Thames) is a British director who made five consecutive James Bond films (1981–1989), the series record, after serving as editor and second-unit director on earlier Bond entries.
John Glover (actor)
John Soursby Glover Jr. (born 1944, Salisbury, Maryland) is an American character actor, Tony winner for Love! Valour! Compassion!, five-time Emmy nominee, and Lionel Luthor on Smallville; not the artist John Glover or John V. Glover.
John Goodman
John Goodman, American actor born 1952 in Affton, Missouri, known as Dan Conner on Roseanne (1988–1997), Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski, Sulley in Monsters, Inc., and later The Conners and The Righteous Gemstones.
John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair (b. Glasgow, 1962), Scottish actor and crime novelist; played Gregory in Gregory's Girl (1981), won a 1995 Olivier Award for She Loves Me, and writes Faber crime fiction.