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Kenneth Mars

Kenneth Mars (1935-2011), American character actor and comedian; Franz Liebkind in The Producers and Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein; voice of King Triton and Grandpa Longneck.

Kenneth McMillan (actor)

Kenneth McMillan (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 1989), American character actor from Brooklyn; Gimbels manager turned Broadway and screen player; memorable as the Dune Baron Harkonnen; distinct from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan.

Kenneth Mitchell (actor)

Kenneth Mitchell (1974–2024), Canadian actor; played Klingons Kol, Kol-Sha, and Tenavik plus Aurellio on Star Trek: Discovery, Eric Green on Jericho, and Joseph Danvers in Captain Marvel; died of ALS at 49.

Kenneth More

Kenneth More (Kenneth Gilbert More, 1914-1982), English film and stage actor, CBE, Britain's biggest 1950s movie star: Genevieve, Doctor in the House, Reach for the Sky, A Night to Remember, later The Forsyte Saga and Father Brown.

Kenneth Parcell

Kenneth Ellen Parcell, also Kenneth the Page, is the fictional NBC page played by Jack McBrayer on 30 Rock (2006–2013); a running joke, confirmed in the 2090 finale flash-forward, presents him as immortal and later NBC president.

Kenneth Tobey

Kenneth Tobey (1917-2002), American character actor of nearly 100 films and seven decades; best known as Captain Patrick Hendry in The Thing from Another World (1951) and star of the TV series Whirlybirds.

Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927–1980) was an English theater critic and writer, the National Theatre's first literary manager, celebrated for championing John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Kenneth Welsh

Kenneth Welsh (Kenneth Clifford Welsh), Canadian stage, film, and TV actor (1942–2022), trained at the National Theatre School, played Hamlet at Stratford, and was best known as villain Windom Earle in Twin Peaks; Gemini and Genie winner, Member of the Order of Canada.

Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), English comic actor and diarist; star of over twenty Carry On films and radio's Round the Horne and Just a Minute; famous for camp voice, diaries, and 1988 barbiturate overdose.

Kenny Baker (English actor)

Kenny Baker (Kenneth George Baker, 1934–2016), English actor 3 ft 8 in tall, played R2-D2 inside the costume in six Star Wars films from 1977 and Paploo the Ewok; also appeared in Time Bandits, The Elephant Man, and Willow; distinct from the 1921–1999 British jazz trumpeter of the same name.

Kenny Blank

Kenny Blank, also credited as Kenn Michael (born 1977, New York), American actor, composer, director, and producer. Known for Michael Peterson on The Parent 'Hood, the voice of Darren Patterson in As Told by Ginger, Saints Row IV's President, and directing Ganked (2005).

Kenny Doughty

Kenny Doughty, English actor born 1975 in Barnsley, played DS Aiden Healy in ITV's Vera 2015-2023 across 35 episodes, leaving with The Rising Tide; also known for Stella, The Full Monty, and The Au Pair.

Kenny Hotz

Kenny Hotz (Kenneth Joel Hotz, born 1967), Canadian comedian and Toronto native, co-creator and star of Kenny vs. Spenny (2002–2010, 88 episodes), former Gulf War photojournalist, South Park writer, creator of Testees and Triumph of the Will, now touring live shows with Spencer Rice.

Kenny Ireland

Kenny Ireland (George Ian Kenneth Ireland, 1945-2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director, known for Benidorm's Donald Stewart, Acorn Antiques, and as Royal Lyceum Edinburgh artistic director 1993-2003.

Kenny Johnson

Kenny Johnson (Kenneth Allen Johnson, born 1963) is an American actor known as Detective Lemansky on The Shield, Caleb Calhoun on Bates Motel, and Officer Luca on S.W.A.T., and a champion arm wrestler.

Kenny Kramer

Kenny Kramer, American comedian and entrepreneur, Larry David's neighbor at Manhattan Plaza and inspiration for Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer; ran the Kramer Reality Tour and ran twice for NYC mayor.

Kenny McCormick

Kenny McCormick, also known as Kenneth McCormick, is a fictional character in South Park who died in nearly every episode of its first five seasons.

Kenny Ortega

Kenny Ortega (Kenneth John Ortega, born 1950) is an American director, choreographer, and producer known for Dirty Dancing choreography, the High School Musical and Descendants Disney franchises, Newsies, Hocus Pocus, Michael Jackson's tours, Olympic ceremonies, and his 2019 Disney Legends induction.

Kenny vs. Spenny

Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian reality-comedy competition series starring Toronto friends Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, airing 2003-2010 on CBC, Showcase, and Comedy Central, in which each episode's loser performs a humiliation chosen by the winner.

Kenny Wormald

Kenny Wormald, full name Kenneth Edgar Wormald, is an American dancer and actor born in 1984, best known for playing Ren McCormack in the 2011 remake of Footloose.

Kenshiro (ケンシロウ)

Kenshiro (ケンシロウ) is the protagonist of Fist of the North Star, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1983–1988; the seven-scarred 64th successor of Hokuto Shinken, star of the 1984 and 2026 anime.

Kensho Ono (小野 賢章)

Kensho Ono (小野 賢章, born 1989, Fukuoka) is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and singer with Animo Produce. Known as Harry Potter's Japanese dub voice for 10 years and for roles as Kuroko, Giorno Giovanna, and Hathaway Noa.

Kensington Tallman

Kensington Tallman (born 2008, Denver, Colorado) is an American actress, Emmy-nominated voice of Riley Anderson in Inside Out 2 and Dream Productions, lead of Home Sweet Rome!, and Nickelodeon actress in Drama Club and That Girl Lay Lay.

Kent McCord

Kent McCord (born Kent Franklin McWhirter, 1942) is an American actor known as Officer Jim Reed on Adam-12 (1968–1975) with Martin Milner; later Galactica 1980, Predator 2, Farscape; SAG first Vice President and 1999 Ralph Morgan Award recipient.

Kento Yamazaki (山﨑賢人)

Kento Yamazaki (山﨑賢人), born 1994 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor with Stardust Promotion known for L in Death Note, Shin in the Kingdom films, Golden Kamuy, and Netflix's Alice in Borderland; 48th Japan Academy Prize lead actor winner.

Kentucky Educational Television

Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is Kentucky's statewide public broadcasting network, headquartered in Lexington. It signed on in 1968 and is one of the largest public television networks in the nation.

Kenya Barris

Kenya Barris (born 1974, Inglewood, California) is an American TV writer, producer, and showrunner, creator of Black-ish and #blackAF, co-writer of Girls Trip, director of You People, and a Netflix and BET Studios producer.

Kenyu Horiuchi (堀内賢雄)

Kenyu Horiuchi (堀内賢雄, b. 1957) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator, the long-running Japanese dub voice of Brad Pitt (also Tom Cruise, John Stamos), anime lead voices such as Pain in Naruto and Guin, and founder of the agency Kenyu Office and training school talk back. Not to be confused with musician Takao Horiuchi or violinist Yuri Horiuchi.

Keo Motsepe

Keo Motsepe (Keoikantse Motsepe, born 1989, Pretoria) is a South African dancer and choreographer, eight-time South African Latin champion, first South African on Burn the Floor, and Dancing with the Stars' first black professional dancer.

Keone Young

Keone Young (born 1947, Honolulu) is an American character and voice actor known for Mr. Wu in Deadwood, Commander Sato in Star Wars Rebels, Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe, and Chen Stormstout in World of Warcraft.