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John Turturro
John Turturro (John Michael Turturro, born 1957, Brooklyn) is an American actor and director, a Spike Lee and Coen brothers collaborator, Cannes Best Actor for Barton Fink, Caméra d'Or winner for Mac, Emmy winner for Monk, and Irving in Severance.
John Van Druten
John William Van Druten (1901–1957), Anglo-American playwright and director of small-cast drawing-room comedies: Young Woodley, The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama, Bell Book and Candle, I Am a Camera, source of Cabaret.
John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) was an English dramatist and Baroque architect who wrote the Restoration comedies The Relapse and The Provoked Wife and designed Blenheim Palace.
John Ventimiglia
John Ventimiglia (born 1963) is an American actor, best known as Artie Bucco on The Sopranos and Dino Arbogast on Blue Bloods; unrelated to Milo Ventimiglia, born in Ridgewood, Queens.
John Vernon
John Vernon (Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz, 1932–2005) was a Canadian character actor, RADA-trained, known for Dean Wormer in Animal House, the mayor in Dirty Harry, and CBC's Wojeck; distinct from Baron Vernon and the novelist.
John Waters
John Waters (born 1946, Baltimore) is the American filmmaker, writer, and artist nicknamed the Pope of Trash, creator of Pink Flamingos (1972), the Trash Trilogy, and Hairspray (1988), and leader of the Dreamlanders ensemble.
John Waters (actor)
John Waters (born 1948, London) is an English-born Australian actor, singer and musician, not the Baltimore filmmaker of the same name. Known for Rush, Play School (1972–1991), Offspring, All Saints, the 1988 AFI Award for Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and Lennon: Through a Glass Onion.
John Wayne
John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison, 1907-1979), American film star nicknamed the Duke, defined the movie Western from Stagecoach to True Grit, won the 1969 Best Actor Oscar, and remains polarizing for his 1971 Playboy remarks.
John Wayne filmography
The John Wayne filmography records the screen appearances of American actor John Wayne, from late-1920s silent films to The Shootist (1976), including about 180 roles, 83 of them Westerns.
John Webster
John Webster (c.1580–c.1634) was a Jacobean English dramatist, son of a London coach maker, author of The White Devil (1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c.1614), often ranked second only to Shakespeare among Jacobean tragedians.
John Wells (filmmaker)
John Marcum Wells (born 1956, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American TV and film producer, writer, and director, showrunner of ER, The West Wing, Third Watch, Southland, and Shameless, founder of John Wells Productions at Warner Bros., and executive producer of the Emmy-winning The Pitt.
John Wells (satirist)
John Campbell Wells (1936–1998), English satirist, actor and writer; original Private Eye contributor behind Mrs Wilson's Diary and Dear Bill, performer of Denis Thatcher, and co-author of A Melon For Ecstasy and Bernstein's Candide narration. Distinct from the American TV producer John Wells.
John Wesley Shipp
John Wesley Shipp (born 1955, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actor known as Barry Allen in The Flash (1990), Mitch Leery on Dawson's Creek, two-time Daytime Emmy winner, and Henry Allen/Jay Garrick on The Flash (2014–2023).
John Wick
John Wick is an American action film franchise starring Keanu Reeves as a retired hit man seeking revenge, created by Derek Kolstad and directed by Chad Stahelski; known for its assassin underworld with Continental hotels, gold coins, and the High Table, and for influencing 2010s action cinema.
John Wick (character)
John Wick is the fictional hitman played by Keanu Reeves in the John Wick film series (2014-2023) and Ballerina; a retired assassin, born Jardani Jovonovich, drawn back into a criminal underworld of gold coins, Continental hotels, and the High Table.
John Wick (film)
John Wick (film) is a 2014 American action thriller directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves. It launched a franchise that has grossed over $1 billion worldwide.
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 2 is a 2017 American action-thriller directed by Chad Stahelski, written by Derek Kolstad, starring Keanu Reeves, Common, and Laurence Fishburne. Released February 10, 2017; 122 minutes; $40 million budget; $174.3 million box office; centers on the marker blood oath and Wick's excommunicado.
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, also known as John Wick 3, is a 2019 American action thriller directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves.
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 is a 2023 American action film directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves, the fourth entry in the John Wick series.
John Williams (actor)
John Williams (1903–1983), English character actor of Dial M for Murder and Sabrina; Broadway debut 1924 in The Fake, 1953 Tony winner, later Hollywood and TV supporting player, died La Jolla, California.
John Winchester (Supernatural)
John Eric Winchester is the father of Sam and Dean in Supernatural (2005–2020), played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan; a Marine-turned-hunter who trades his soul to Azazel, distinct from The Winchesters prequel version.
John Witherspoon (actor)
John Witherspoon (John Weatherspoon, 1942-2019), Detroit-born American comedian and actor, Willie Jones in the Friday films, Pops on The Wayans Bros., voice of Granddad on The Boondocks.
John Woo (吴宇森)
John Woo (吳宇森, born 1946, Guangzhou) is a Hong Kong action film director, creator of heroic bloodshed via A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer, and Hard Boiled, later a Hollywood director of Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II.
John Wood (English actor)
John Lamin Wood (1930–2011) was an English actor known for Shakespearean roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for winning a 1976 Tony Award for Tom Stoppard's Travesties.
John Yorke (producer)
John Yorke, British TV producer and drama executive (ex-Controller of BBC Drama Production, Head of Channel 4 Drama, MD of Company Pictures), author of Into the Woods on five-act narrative structure and founder of the BBC Writers' Academy.
John-Paul Lavoisier
John-Paul Lavoisier (John Paul Seponski, born 1980) is an American soap opera actor known as Rex Balsom on One Life to Live (2002–2012) and Philip Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives (2015–2026).
Johnathon Schaech
Johnathon Schaech (born 1969, Edgewood, Maryland) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for That Thing You Do!, How to Make an American Quilt, Prom Night, Jonah Hex, and starring in Blue Ridge as Sheriff Justin Wise.
Johnlock
Johnlock is the fandom ship name (John + Sherlock) for a romantic pairing of John Watson and Sherlock Holmes in BBC's Sherlock; the fandom's most popular ship, center of the TJLC theory and queerbaiting debate.
Johnnie To (杜琪峰)
Johnnie To (杜琪峯, born 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer, co-founder of Milkyway Image with Wai Ka-fai, known for The Mission, PTU, Election, Exiled, and Drug War, with three Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Director awards.
Johnny "Drama" Alves
Johnny "Drama" Alves (born 1961), born John Alves, is a Plymouth, Massachusetts funk musician and actor, Mark Wahlberg's honorary "cuzin" and the real-life inspiration for Kevin Dillon's Johnny Drama Chase on HBO's Entourage.