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John Magaro
John Magaro (John Robert Magaro, born 1983, Akron, Ohio) is an American actor known for First Cow, Past Lives, September 5, Koln 75, The Big Short, and The Agency, distinguished from others of the same name by his indie-film career.
John Mahoney
John Mahoney (1940–2018), English-born American actor Charles John Mahoney, Tony winner and star of Martin Crane on Frasier; Steppenwolf member, voice actor in The Iron Giant and Antz; died in Chicago aged 77.
John Malkovich
John Malkovich (born 1953), American actor and Steppenwolf Theatre founding member, two-time Oscar nominee known for Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, and starring as himself in Being John Malkovich (1999).
John Marley
John Marley (Mortimer Leon Marlieb, 1907–1984), American character actor. Known for Faces (1968, Volpi Cup), Love Story (Oscar nomination), and Jack Woltz in The Godfather (1972); died after open-heart surgery.
John McClane
John McClane is the fictional NYPD detective played by Bruce Willis in the five Die Hard films (1988-2013), an everyman action hero created from the novel character Joe Leland, known for vulnerability and the catchphrase Yippee-ki-yay.
John McCook
John McCook (born 1944, per IMDb; some sources say 1945), American actor from Ventura, California; Eric Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful since its 1987 debut, formerly Lance Prentiss on The Young and the Restless, 2022 Daytime Emmy winner.
John McGiver
John McGiver (John Irwin McGiver, 1913–1975) was an American character actor known for pompous, comic authority figures in over one hundred film and television roles from 1955 to 1975.
John McIntire
John Herrick McIntire (1907-1991) was an American character actor of westerns and crime dramas; replaced Ward Bond as wagonmaster Chris Hale on Wagon Train, played Clay Grainger on The Virginian, the sheriff in Psycho, and married Jeanette Nolan for 56 years.
John McTiernan
John McTiernan, American action film director from Albany, New York, directed Predator, Die Hard, and The Hunt for Red October, then was convicted in the Pellicano wiretapping case; his last film to date is Basic (2003).
John Megna
John Megna (1952-1995), American child actor who played Dill Harris in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and a boy in Star Trek's "Miri"; Broadway debut in Greenwillow and All the Way Home; later a Los Angeles stage director and teacher; half-brother of Connie Stevens.
John Meillon
John Meillon (1934–1989) was an Australian actor of radio, stage, film, and television, known as Wal in the Crocodile Dundee films, Wally Stiller in My Name's McGooley, AFI best actor 1977, OBE 1979.
John Melendez
John Melendez, known as Stuttering John, is an American radio personality who interviewed celebrities on The Howard Stern Show and announced The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
John Merivale
John Herman Merivale (Jack Merivale, 1917–1990), Canadian-born British stage, film, and TV actor; starred in A Night to Remember, King Rat, Arabesque; longtime partner of Vivien Leigh; married Jan Sterling and Dinah Sheridan.
John Michael Higgins
John Michael Higgins (born 1963) is an American actor and game show host known for Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Pitch Perfect, The Late Shift as David Letterman, Great News, America Says, and Split Second.
John Michael McDonagh
John Michael McDonagh (born 1967, London) is a British-Irish writer-director, older brother of Martin McDonagh, known for The Guard (2011), Calvary, War on Everyone, The Forgiven, and the Ned Kelly screenplay.
John Michie
John Michie (born 1956, Burma) is a Scottish actor known as DI Robbie Ross in Taggart (1998–2010), Karl Munro in Coronation Street, Guy Self in Holby City, and Fergus Sinclair in Karen Pirie.
John Milius
John Milius is an American screenwriter and director who rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his work in New Hollywood, including Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn.
John Mills
Sir John Mills (1908-2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, English actor with a 70-year, 100-plus-film career; Oscar winner for Ryan's Daughter (1970), famed for British war films, father of Hayley and Juliet Mills; not the WWI soldier or the Florida lawyer.
John Mitchum
John Mitchum (1919–2001) was an American character actor, singer, and poet, the younger brother of Robert Mitchum, best known as Inspector Frank DiGiorgio in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films.
John Moschitta Jr.
John Moschitta Jr. (born 1954), the "Fast Talking Guy" and Micro Machines pitchman, is an American fast-talk performer and voice actor, Guinness record holder at 586 wpm and Clio-winning FedEx ad star.
John Mulaney
John Mulaney, Chicago-born American stand-up comedian, Emmy-winning SNL writer (Stefon), creator of New in Town, Kid Gorgeous, Baby J, and Netflix's Everybody's Live talk show.
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA, also called Everybody's in L.A., is a six-night live Netflix talk series hosted by John Mulaney during the 2024 Netflix Is a Joke Fest, May 3-10, with Richard Kind as announcer and themed episodes on Los Angeles topics.
John Munch
John Munch is a fictional detective played by Richard Belzer, debuting on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and later Law & Order: SVU, based on Baltimore detective Jay Landsman and played across 10 TV series until 2016.
John Musker
John Edward Musker is an American Disney animator and director who, with Ron Clements, co-directed The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, and Moana.
John Nettles
John Nettles, full name John Vivian Drummond Nettles, is an English actor and author known for playing Jim Bergerac in Bergerac and DCI Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.
John Neville (actor)
John Reginald Neville (1925-2011), British-born Canadian actor and stage director; Old Vic Shakespearean lead, artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, Citadel, Neptune, and Stratford Festival, and the Well-Manicured Man in The X-Files.
John Noakes
John Noakes (1934-2017), English TV presenter and actor, longest-serving Blue Peter host (1965-1978), famous for daredevil stunts, Shep the collie, and the catchphrase "Get down, Shep!" Distinct from Prof Tim Noakes, the nutritionist.
John Noble
John Noble, born 1948 in Port Pirie, Australia, is an actor and theatre director known as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings and Walter Bishop in Fringe; not the Noble Corporation oil driller or the Scottish electrical engineer of the same name.
John O'Hurley
John O'Hurley (born 1954, Kittery, Maine) is an American actor and host, aka J. Peterman on Seinfeld, sixth host of Family Feud (2006–2010), and longtime host of NBC's National Dog Show.
John Oliver
John Oliver, British comedian and host of HBO's Last Week Tonight (2014–present), known for 20-minute researched satirical monologues, FCC-crashing activism, $5 million in pandemic fundraising, 23 Emmy wins, and a contract through 2027.