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Jose Manalo

Jose Manalo (Ariel Pagtalonia Manalo, born 1966) is a Filipino comedian, actor, and Eat Bulaga! host since 1994, one half of the Jose and Wally duo with Wally Bayola, 2005 MMFF Best Supporting Actor winner, married Mergene Maranan in 2024.

José María Yazpik

José María Yazpik (José María Meza Yazpik, born 1970, Mexico City) is a Mexican actor, producer, and director known for Amado Carrillo Fuentes in Narcos and Narcos: Mexico, Almodóvar's I'm So Excited, and directing Polvo (2019).

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Jose Pablo Cantillo, American actor born 1979 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, known as Hector Salazar in Sons of Anarchy, Caesar Martinez in The Walking Dead, and Yankie in Chappie; also creator of Repo Games.

José Roberto Torero

José Roberto Torero is a Brazilian writer born in Santos in 1963, known for the humorous historical novel O Chalaça, winner of the Prêmio Jabuti.

José Ron

José Ron (born 1981, Guadalajara) is a Mexican telenovela actor, CEA Televisa graduate, star of Juro que te amo, Ringo, Te doy la vida, and Papás por conveniencia, and lead singer's bandmate in Koktel; distinct from baseball player José Rondón.

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020 film)

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) is a 2020 Bones anime film directed by Kotaro Tamura, adapting Seiko Tanabe's short story about wheelchair-using artist Josee and student Tsuneo in Osaka; Japan Academy Prize winner, Busan 2020 closing film.

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) (2003 film)

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) is a 2003 Japanese romance drama by Isshin Inudo, adapted from Seiko Tanabe's short story, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Chizuru Ikewaki; it drew about 300,000 Japanese admissions and inspired 2020 anime and Korean remakes.

Josef Davies

Josef Davies is a British actor and LAMDA graduate (2015), distinct from composer Joe Wilson Davies and comedian Huge Davies. Known for Young Wallander, Andor, The Hunt for Raoul Moat, 1917, and Star City (2026).

Josef Kajetán Tyl

Josef Kajetán Tyl, born Josef František Till, was a Czech dramatist and writer of the National Revival who wrote the text of the Czech national anthem.

Josef Kubota Wladyka

Josef Kubota Wladyka (born 1981, Fairfax, Virginia), also credited as Josef Wladyka, is an American film and TV director of Japanese and Polish descent; NYU MFA; directed Manos Sucias, Catch the Fair One, Ha-Chan, and episodes of Narcos, Tokyo Vice, and One Piece.

Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer (Maximilian Josef Sommer, born 1934, Greifswald, Germany) is a German-American retired stage, film, and television actor, an Obie winner known for Witness, Dirty Harry, Close Encounters, Silkwood, and portraying Ford, FDR, and Joseph Kennedy on TV.

Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg (Jonas Sternberg, 1894-1969), Austrian-born American film director of The Salvation Hunters, Underworld, and seven Marlene Dietrich films from The Blue Angel (1930) to The Devil Is a Woman (1935), ending with The Saga of Anatahan (1953).

Josei manga (女性漫画)

Josei manga (女性漫画), or ladies comics (レディコミ), is Japanese manga for adult women, the fourth demographic category alongside shonen, shojo and seinen; known for realistic adult-life themes, late-1990s critical coinage, and underrepresentation in English translation.

Joseline Hernandez

Joseline Hernandez (born 1986, Ponce, Puerto Rico), "the Puerto Rican Princess," is a reality TV star, rapper, and entrepreneur, an original Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta cast member, later Love & Hip Hop: Miami and creator of Joseline's Cabaret.

Joseph (ജോസഫ്) (2018 film)

Joseph (ജോസഫ്) is a 2018 Malayalam drama-thriller directed by M. Padmakumar, written by policeman Shahi Kabir, starring Joju George as a retired Kerala cop investigating his ex-wife's death; it won Kerala State and Filmfare awards.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a sung-through Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical based on Genesis, first staged 1 March 1968 as a short Colet Court School cantata, expanded to full length, reaching the West End in 1973 and Broadway in 1982.

Joseph Baena

Joseph Baena, born in 1997, is an American actor, real estate agent, and natural bodybuilder known as the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, winning his professional bodybuilding card in 2026.

Joseph Balderrama

Joseph Balderrama, also known as Pepe or Joe Balderrama, is a Mexican-British actor born 1986 in Mexico City, known for Julio Spring in Heartstopper, F1: The Movie, The Batman, and video game voice work including It Takes Two.

Joseph Barbera

Joseph Roland Barbera (1911–2006), American animator and producer who co-founded Hanna-Barbera with William Hanna; created Tom and Jerry at MGM, then Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and The Jetsons for television.

Joseph Bishara

Joseph Bishara (born 1970) is an American composer, music producer, and actor known for scoring the Insidious and Conjuring horror franchises and for playing the Lipstick-Face Demon in Insidious.

Joseph Bologna

Joseph Bologna (1934-2017), American actor and playwright; Oscar-nominated co-writer of Lovers and Other Strangers and King Kaiser in My Favorite Year; longtime creative partner of wife Renée Taylor.

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952), the Miracle Decision, held motion pictures protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and voided New York's 'sacrilegious' film-censorship standard as an unconstitutional prior restraint.

Joseph Campanella

Joseph Campanella (1924-2018), American character actor with 200+ TV and film credits, known as Lew Wickersham on Mannix (1968 Emmy nomination), Ed Cooper on One Day at a Time, and the voice of the Lizard in Spider-Man; distinct from catcher Roy Campanella.

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten (1905–1994), American actor from Petersburg, Virginia; Mercury Theatre member, Jedediah Leland in Citizen Kane, star of Shadow of a Doubt and The Third Man; Venice Best Actor 1949; never won an Oscar.

Joseph Cross (actor)

Joseph Cross (Joseph Michael Cross, born 1986) is an American actor, producer, and director; child star of Northern Lights and Wide Awake, Satellite Award winner for Running with Scissors, later in Flags of Our Fathers, Milk, Lincoln, and Licorice Pizza; directed Summer Night (2019).

Joseph Duggar

Joseph Garrett Duggar (born 1995) is a former TLC reality personality, seventh child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting, husband of Kendra Caldwell, arrested in 2026 on Florida child molestation charges and Arkansas child endangerment counts.

Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Fiennes (born 1970, Salisbury) is an English actor, star of Shakespeare in Love, The Handmaid's Tale's Commander Waterford, and Olivier-nominated Gareth Southgate in Dear England; brother of Ralph Fiennes.

Joseph Gatt

Joseph Gatt (born 1974, Notting Hill, London) is a British actor of Maltese descent known for Star Trek Into Darkness, Banshee, Game of Thrones, Dumbo, and motion capture for Kratos in God of War.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born 1982) is an American actor, filmmaker, and HitRecord founder: child star of 3rd Rock from the Sun, lead in (500) Days of Summer, Inception, and Looper, and writer-director of Don Jon.

Joseph Kearns

Joseph Sherrard Kearns (1907 or 1904-1962), American character actor: radio's Man in Black on Suspense, Ed the Guard on Jack Benny, Doorknob voice in Alice in Wonderland, and Mr. Wilson on CBS's Dennis the Menace until his death in February 1962.