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John Kirby (actor)
John Kirby (1950/1951 – July 15, 2026) was an American acting coach and bit-part actor, son of Bruce Kirby and brother of Bruno Kirby, Caviezel's longtime coach, nicknamed Actor's Guardian Angel.
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005), known as John Brabourne, was a British film and television producer whose credits included A Passage to India and Thames Television chairmanship.
John Koyama
John Koyama (born 1973) is an American stunt coordinator, fight coordinator, second unit director, and actor, a three-time Emmy winner for supervising stunt coordination on The Boys, known for Preacher and for playing Emilio in Breaking Bad.
John Krasinski
John Krasinski (born 1979), American actor and filmmaker: Jim Halpert on The Office (2005–2013), writer-director-star of A Quiet Place (2018), Jack Ryan in the Prime Video series and 2026 film Ghost War.
John Krasinski filmography
John Krasinski filmography: screen credits of the American actor and filmmaker (born 1979), from Jim Halpert on The Office (2005-2013) to directing A Quiet Place, IF, and starring as Jack Ryan.
John Kreese
John Kreese is the fictional Cobra Kai sensei of The Karate Kid franchise, played by Martin Kove, a Vietnam veteran whose "no mercy" teaching defines the villain of the 1984 film and the Cobra Kai series.
John Kricfalusi
John Kricfalusi (John K., Michael John Kricfalusi), Canadian animator born 1955 in Chicoutimi, Quebec; creator of Nickelodeon's The Ren & Stimpy Show and founder of Spümcø; fired in 1992 over missed deadlines; later web animation; 2018 sexual-abuse allegations.
John Lahr
John Lahr (born 1941), American theater critic and biographer, son of Bert Lahr; longtime New Yorker senior drama critic, author of Prick Up Your Ears and the NBCC-winning Tennessee Williams biography, and first critic to win a Tony.
John Landis
John Landis (born 1950), American film director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, and Michael Jackson's Thriller; acquitted in the Twilight Zone set-deaths manslaughter trial.
John Larroquette
John Larroquette (born 1947, New Orleans) is an American actor, five-time Emmy winner as Dan Fielding on Night Court, also a Tony winner for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
John Lasseter
John Lasseter (born 1957, Hollywood) is an American animator, director, and producer, Pixar co-founder and director of Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature; two-time Oscar winner, Disney CCO 2006–2018, later head of Skydance Animation.
John Laurie
John Paton Laurie (1897–1980) was a Scottish Shakespearean stage actor and prolific film character actor, best known as Private Frazer with the catchphrase 'We're doomed!' in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977).
John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 1912–1983) was an English character actor, the genteel Sergeant Arthur Wilson in BBC's Dad's Army (1968–1977), a BAFTA-winning lead in Traitor, married three times including Hattie Jacques; not the same-named Jeremy Thorpe plot figure.
John Lee Hancock
John Lee Hancock (John Lee Hancock Jr., born 1956), American screenwriter-director from Texas, ex-lawyer; wrote A Perfect World and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed The Rookie, The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder, The Highwaymen, The Little Things, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, and Talamasca: The Secret Order (2025).
John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, comedian, and playwright born in Bogotá, known for one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Freak, Latin History for Morons), an Emmy, a Special Tony, Ice Age's Sid, and Latino representation advocacy.
John Leguizamo filmography
John Leguizamo filmography: screen credits of the Colombian-American actor (born 1960), from Mixed Blood and Carlito's Way to Sid the Sloth in Ice Age, Bruno in Encanto, and Eumaeus in Nolan's The Odyssey (2026).
John Leslie (director)
John Leslie (John Leslie Nuzzo, 1945–2010) was an American adult film actor-director of porn's Golden Age, star of Talk Dirty to Me (1980), one of the first performers to direct, with 21 AVN/XRCO awards and three hall-of-fame inductions; distinct from the Scottish TV presenter of the same name.
John Leslie (TV presenter)
John Leslie (John Leslie Stott, born 1965, Edinburgh) is a Scottish TV and radio presenter, first Scottish Blue Peter host (1989-1994), later Wheel of Fortune and This Morning; career ended by 2002 allegations, with charges dropped, not proven, or acquitted.
John Light (actor)
John Light (born 1972, Birmingham) is an English LAMDA-trained actor known for Hercule Flambeau in Father Brown, Henry Lennox in North & South, Band of Brothers, and an Olivier-nominated stage career; formerly married to Neve Campbell.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow (born 1945) is an American actor of stage, film, and TV, known for 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dexter, The Crown, and Giant. Three Tonys, six Emmys as of 2019, two Oscar nominations; cast as Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter.
John Lloyd Cruz
John Lloyd Cruz (born 1983, Pasay City) is a Filipino actor known for the ABS-CBN loveteam with Bea Alonzo (One More Chance, A Second Chance), Gawad Urian and Locarno Boccalino d'Oro Best Actor awards, and a 2021 GMA Network comeback.
John Lloyd Young
John Lloyd Young (born 1975) is an American actor and singer, original Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys; 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World winner, later the 2014 Eastwood film and Grammy-winning cast album.
John Locke (Lost)
John Locke is a fictional character on ABC's Lost (2004-2010), played by Terry O'Quinn; a paralyzed man healed on the island, the show's man of faith opposite Jack Shephard, later impersonated by the Man in Black.
John Loder (actor)
John Loder (born John Muir Lowe, 1898-1988) was a British leading man in films from silent-era Germany to Sabotage, How Green Was My Valley and Now, Voyager; third husband of Hedy Lamarr.
John Logan (writer)
John David Logan (born 1961, San Diego) is an American playwright and screenwriter: writer of Gladiator, The Aviator, Skyfall, and Hugo; Tony-winning author of Red; creator of Penny Dreadful and book writer for Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
John Lone
John Lone (尊龍), born 1952 in Hong Kong, is a Chinese-American actor trained in Peking Opera, known for The Last Emperor (1987), M. Butterfly, and two Golden Globe nominations; distinct from John Lennon subjects.
John Lyly
John Lyly (c. 1554–1606) was an English playwright and prose writer whose Euphues novels created euphuism, and whose court comedies shaped Shakespeare's early comic practice.
John Lynch (actor)
John Lynch (born 1961, Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish actor and novelist, not the American actor John Carroll Lynch. Debut in Cal (1984); known for In the Name of the Father, Some Mother's Son, Angel Baby, The Fall, and novels Torn Water and Falling Out of Heaven.
John M. Jackson
John M. Jackson (John Murice Jackson, born 1950) is an American actor, best known as Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden on CBS's JAG (1996-2004), later on Bones, NCIS, and NCIS: Los Angeles; distinct from the Dallas litigator and other namesakes.
John Madden (director)
John Madden is an English film and theater director from Portsmouth, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Debt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011); distinct from the NFL coach John Madden.