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John Gregson
John Gregson (Harold Thomas Gregson, 1919-1975), English actor of stage, film and television; star of Genevieve (1953), Ealing comedies, and Commander Gideon in Gideon's Way (1964-66).
John Hammond (Jurassic Park)
John Hammond, Dr. John Alfred Hammond, is the fictional founder of InGen and Jurassic Park, created by Michael Crichton and portrayed by Richard Attenborough in the films.
John Hannah (actor)
John Hannah (born 1962, East Kilbride, Scotland) is a Scottish actor known for Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral (BAFTA-nominated), James Hammerton in Sliding Doors, Jonathan Carnahan in The Mummy trilogy, and Batiatus in Spartacus.
John Hart (actor)
John Hart (John Lewis Hart, 1917–2009), American actor also credited as John Hilton, who replaced Clayton Moore as TV's Lone Ranger for 52 episodes from 1952 and starred in the Jack Armstrong serial and Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans.
John Hawkes (actor)
John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins, 1959) is an American character actor known for Deadwood's Sol Star, his Oscar-nominated Teardrop in Winter's Bone, The Sessions, and two 2024 Emmy nominations for True Detective: Night Country.
John Heard (actor)
John Matthew Heard (1945 or 1946 - 2017), American character actor; played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Detective Vin Makazian in The Sopranos; Emmy-nominated 1999; Obie and Theatre World Award stage actor.
John Henson (comedian)
John Morris Henson (born 1967, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American comedian and TV host, distinct from Jim Henson's puppeteer son; he hosted E!'s Talk Soup 1995-1999, ABC's Wipeout, and Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship.
John Henton
John Henton (born 1960, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor and comedian, known as Overton Wakefield Jones on Living Single (1993-1998) and Milsap Morris on The Hughleys (1998-2002), after a stand-up career launched by a 1991 Johnny Carson appearance.
John Hillerman
John Hillerman (1932-2017), American character actor from Denison, Texas; Emmy-winning as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on Magnum, P.I. (1980-88), also in Chinatown and Blazing Saddles.
John Hodgman
John Hodgman (born 1971, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American humorist, author of the fake-facts trilogy starting with The Areas of My Expertise, the PC in Apple's Get a Mac ads, a Daily Show correspondent, and host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast.
John Hodiak
John Hodiak (Годяк; 1914–1955) was an American actor of Ukrainian and Polish descent who worked in radio, stage, and film, and starred in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
John Hollingworth (actor)
John Hollingworth (born 1981, Keighley, England) is an English actor and playwright, distinct from conductor John Hollingsworth. Known for Poldark's Captain Henshawe, 1917, The Crown, Napoleon, and the Globe's Antony and Cleopatra.
John Holmes (actor)
John Holmes (John Curtis Estes, 1944–1988), also Johnny Wadd, American adult film star of the 1970s golden age; over 573 feature credits, acquitted in the Wonderland murders, died of AIDS in 1988.
John Hopkins (actor)
John Hopkins is an English actor from Luton, Bedfordshire, a RADA graduate and Royal Shakespeare Company member known as DS Dan Scott in Midsomer Murders, Sir Francis Basset in Poldark, and Jeffrey Epstein in A Very Royal Scandal; distinct from the 1931–1998 writer of the same name.
John Hopkins (screenwriter)
John Richard Hopkins (1931–1998), British screenwriter and playwright, lead writer of BBC's Z Cars, author of Talking to a Stranger, and co-writer of Thunderball, Smiley's People, and Hiroshima; died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, in 1998.
John Houseman
John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann, 1902–1988), Romanian-born American producer, director, actor: Mercury Theatre co-founder with Orson Welles, Juilliard Drama Division founder, Oscar winner for The Paper Chase.
John Howard (Australian actor)
John Howard (Australian actor), born 1952 in Corowa, NSW, is an Australian stage and screen actor; NIDA graduate (1978) known for Bob Jelly in SeaChange, Dr Frank Campion in All Saints, The Club, and The People Eater in Mad Max: Fury Road; distinct from the former Prime Minister of the same name.
John Hoyt
John Hoyt (born John McArthur Hoysradt) was an American character actor, a charter member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre who played Dr. Phillip Boyce in Star Trek's first pilot.
John Hughes (filmmaker)
John Hughes, born John Wilden Hughes Jr. (1950–2009), was an American filmmaker who defined the 1980s teen film with The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, then wrote Home Alone.
John Hurt
Sir John Hurt (1940–2017), English actor, John Vincent Hurt, born Shirebrook, Derbyshire; famed for Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, The Elephant Man, Alien, and 1984; two Oscar nominations, four BAFTAs, knighted 2015.
John Huston
John Huston (1906–1987), American film director and screenwriter; directed 41 features from The Maltese Falcon (1941) to The Dead (1987), won directing and screenplay Oscars for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and acted as Noah Cross in Chinatown.
John Huston filmography
John Huston was an American director and actor who created 104 titles across his career. He is most famous for The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
John Inman
John Inman (1935–2007), English actor and singer, played camp menswear assistant Mr Humphries with the catchphrase "I'm free!" in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972–1985), and was a celebrated British pantomime dame.
John James (actor)
John James (John James Anderson, born 1956), American actor, played Jeff Colby on Dynasty (1981–1989) and The Colbys, later on As the World Turns and All My Children; distinct from the London actor, the 1913–1960 actor, and the Michigan politician.
John Jarratt
John Jarratt (born 1951) is an Australian actor known for Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek, NIDA training, The Last Outlaw, Better Homes and Gardens, and Django Unchained.
John Kani
John Kani (Bonisile John Kani), born 1943 in New Brighton, South Africa, is a Tony Award-winning actor, playwright, and director who co-created Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, led the Market Theatre, and later played T'Chaka in Black Panther.
John Kapelos
John Kapelos is a Canadian character actor, born in 1956, best known as the janitor Carl Reed in The Breakfast Club and Detective Donald Schanke in Forever Knight.
John Kassir
John Edward Kassir, also credited as Jon Kassir, is an American actor and comedian from Baltimore, Maryland, born 1957, best known as the voice of the Crypt Keeper on HBO's Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996), plus Buster Bunny, Meeko, Scrooge McDuck, and Deadpool.
John Kavanagh (actor)
John Kavanagh (born 1946, Dublin) is an Irish character actor, Abbey Theatre member 1967–1977, known as Cardinal Campeggio in The Tudors and the Seer in Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla, with films including Braveheart, Cal, and The Butcher Boy.
John Kerr (actor)
John Kerr (John Grinham Kerr), 1931-2013, American stage, film and TV actor; Tony-winning original Tom Lee in Tea and Sympathy on Broadway and screen, Lt. Cable in South Pacific, later a California lawyer.