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This is an alphabetical list of notable male theater actors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The list includes also male actors from other countries who have played leading or co-leading roles in notorious theaters of United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Actors who have become famous playing leading or co-leading parts in musicals are also listed. Further, a certain number of theater actors included in this list are known as movie actors, too. Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...
See also: Actors and List of female theater actors. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...
This is an alphabetical list of notable female theater actors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...
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A Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, or for his role in the 1960s television comedy...
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. ...
Anthony Anderson Anthony Anderson (born August 15, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian and actor. ...
George Arliss (10 April 1868- 5 February 1946) was a British actor. ...
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René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940 in New York City) is an American actor best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ...
Jean-Pierre Aumont (January 5, 1911 – January 29, 2001) was a French actor. ...
B Amitabh Bachchan (born October 11, 1942) (; Devanagari: अमिताठबचà¥à¤šà¤¨) is a Bollywood actor, and one of the most prominent figures in the Indian film industry. ...
Abhishek Bachchan (Hindi: , born 5 February 1976[2][3] in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an award-winning Indian actor. ...
Martin Ball is an experienced theatre and television actor currently starring as Doctor Dillamond in Wicked (musical) at the Apollo Victoria Theatre London. ...
Alan Bates as butler in Gosford Park (2001) Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE, (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was a British actor. ...
David Nelson Beach (November 30, 1848-October 18, 1926) was an American theologian, born at South Orange, N. J., and a brother of Harlan Page Beach. ...
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Orson Bean, born Dallas Frederick Burroughs (July 22, 1928 in Burlington, Vermont), is an American film and stage actor. ...
Harold George Belafonte, Jr. ...
Jared Drake Bell (Born June 27, 1986), better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, guitarist, and singer/songwriter. ...
Theodore Bikel. ...
Eric Blore (December 23, 1887 - March 2, 1959) comic actor. ...
Marlon Brando, Jr. ...
Robin Brockway (born April 17, 1981 in Shrewsbury) is a British actor. ...
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is a Tony Award winning American film and stage actor who is perhaps best known for his role as the title character in Ferris Buellers Day Off. ...
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920[1] – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor. ...
Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ...
Gerard James Butler (born November 13, 1969) is a Scottish actor and singer, best known for his roles as King Leonidas in 300 and as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. ...
José Antonio DomÃnguez Banderas (born August 10, 1960), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor and singer who has starred in several high-profile Hollywood films including Ballistic: Ecks vs. ...
C Len Cariou (born September 30, 1939 in Saint Boniface, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor. ...
Berton Churchill (December 9, 1876 _ October 10, 1940) was a Canadian actor. ...
Vincent Coleman Vincent Coleman (February 16, 1901 - October 26, 1971) was an American stage and film actor of the silent film era of the late 1910s and early 1920s. ...
Bernard Whalen Bert Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American game show host and panelist, actor and singer known for his tenure as the host for Tattletales, Super Password, and Win, Lose or Draw. ...
Michael Crawford (right) as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do Ave Em Michael Crawford, OBE (born Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, 19 January 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire), is an English actor and singer. ...
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Henry Ian Cusick (born April 17, 1967) is an Emmy nominated actor of stage, television, and motion pictures. ...
Chan Kong-Sang (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), also known as Jackie Chan Sing Lung (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese martial artist, action star, actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, singer and stunt performer. ...
D Darius Danesh (born August 19, 1980) in Scotland. ...
Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman Brian Dennehy parodied in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is an Irish-American actor who has appeared in movies, television shows, and stage productions. ...
John Dossett is an American actor and singer. ...
Charles Durning Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923 in Highland Falls, New York) is an American actor of stage and screen, born to an impoverished Irish American Catholic family, which he left as soon as possible to ease the financial pressure on his mother. ...
Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994...
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Raul Esparza in 2005 Raúl Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American stage actor. ...
F Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated British actor. ...
Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ...
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Pierre Fresnay (April 4, 1897 - January 9, 1975) was a French stage and film actor. ...
Peter Forbes Peter Forbes is an English actor. ...
Michael J. Fox on the cover of his book, Lucky Man Michael J. Fox (born June 9, 1961) is a Canadian-born actor, made famous by his roles as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy and as Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties from which...
G Sir Michael John Gambon, KBE (born October 19, 1940), is an acclaimed Irish-British actor who has worked in television, film and theatre. ...
Victor Joseph Garber (born on March 16, 1949 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a six-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. ...
Vincent Gardenia (January 7, 1922 - December 9, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor. ...
Portrait of David Garrick David Garrick (February 19, 1717 – January 20, 1779) was an English actor, dramatist, theatrical producer and theatrical manager, and a friend and pupil of Samuel Johnson. ...
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning British theatre and film actor. ...
TV Guide August 21, 1976, featuring Will Geer (center) with his Waltons costars, Richard Thomas and Ellen Corby Will Geer (born 9 March 1902 in Frankfort, Indiana – died 22 April 1978 in Los Angeles) was an American actor. ...
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning British theatre and film actor. ...
Robert Goulet Robert Gerard Goulet (born November 26, 1933 in Lawrence, Massachusetts) is an American entertainer. ...
Joel Grey (born Joel Katz on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stage and screen actor, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1950. ...
Richard Griffiths (born 31 July 1947) is a Tony award winning English actor who has appeared on stage, film and television. ...
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Sacha Guitry, born February 21, 1885 in St. ...
Mike Gwilym (born March 5, 1949), is a Welsh actor. ...
H Jack Haley August 10, 1898-June 6, 1979, was an American film actor best known for his portrayal of The Tin Man (and farmworker Hickory) in The Wizard of Oz, which role he got only because actor Buddy Ebsen had a near-fatal reaction from ingesting the aluminum dust makeup...
Gale Morgan Harold III (born on July 10, 1969 in Decatur, Georgia, United States) is an American actor. ...
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Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator. ...
Randolph Clarke Harrison (known as Randy Harrison, born November 2, 1977 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American actor whose best-known role so far is that of Justin Taylor in the 2000s television drama Queer as Folk. ...
Sir Reginald Carey Rex Harrison (b. ...
Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was a renowned English actor. ...
Cartoon in Punch magazine 25 August 1920, showing Charles Hawtrey accompanying Joan Barry. ...
Murray Head on the cover of his album Passion. ...
Greg Hicks is a British actor, born 27 May 1953 in Leicester, England. ...
Gregory Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. ...
Sir Ian Holm Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September 1931), born as Ian Holm Cuthbert, is an English actor. ...
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. ...
Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born American actor. ...
I Jeremy John Irons (born September 19, 1948) is an Academy Award, Tony Award, Screen Actors Guild, two-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ...
Sir Henry Irving, as Hamlet, in an 1893 illustration from The Idler magazine John Henry Brodribb (February 6, 1838 – October 13, 1905), knighted in 1895, as Sir Henry Irving, was one of the most famous stage actors of the Victorian era. ...
J Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian film producer, and film, television and stage actor, known for playing Wolverine in X-Men and its sequels, and for his Tony Award-winning performance on Broadway in The Boy from Oz. ...
Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (IPA: ) (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. ...
Lou Jacobi (born December 28, 1913 in Toronto, Canada) is a character actor. ...
Entertainment career The Rock starred, along with former Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, in the remake of Walking Tall, from MGM Pictures, as war hero-turned-sheriff Chris Vaughn (loosely based on the real-life inspiration for the original) who returns to the town where he grew up and rids it...
Louis Jouvet (December 24, 1887 - August 16, 1951) was a renowned French actor and producer. ...
Jürgens in a scene from Der Kommissar (1973) Curd Jürgens (December 13, 1915 - June 18, 1982) was a German stage and motion-picture actor. ...
K Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
Edmund Kean (March 17, 1787 – May 15, 1833) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever. ...
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning British actor. ...
Klemperer as Colonel Klink on Hogans Heroes Werner Klemperer (March 22 1920Cologne – December 6, 2000) was an Emmy Award-winning comedic actor, best known for his role as Colonel Klink on the television sitcom, Hogans Heroes. ...
Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor. ...
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Shahrukh Khan (born November 2, 1965) (Devanagari: शाहरà¥à¤–़ ख़ान, Naskh: Ø´Ø§Û Ø±Ø® خان) is a prominent Bollywood actor, producer, and was recently the host of the game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati. ...
L Dinsdale Lansden portraying Dr Judson possessed by the evil Fenric, from the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric Dinsdale Landen (4 September 1932 - 29 December 2003) was a British actor, known mainly for his television appearances. ...
Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning actor of the stage and screen. ...
Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion. ...
Peter Land (July 9, 1953) is a New Zealand actor and singer born in Taihape who achieved notable stage success after moving to England in 1977. ...
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. ...
Anton Lesser (b. ...
Adrian Lester (born August 14, 1968) is an English actor. ...
Norm Lewis is an African-American Broadway actor currently enrolled with the revival of Les Miserables as Javert. ...
Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born December 13, 1949)) is an English actor known as Robert Lindsay. ...
Wilfred Lucas, born January 30, 1871 in the Province of Ontario, Canada - died December 5, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, United States, was a stage and film actor, a film director, and a screenwriter. ...
Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲 Liú YùlÃng, born December 2, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ...
Aurelien Francois Marie Lugné-Poe(1869 - 1940) was a French actor and theatre director. ...
Alfred Lunt photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892–August 3, 1977) was an American actor. ...
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Jean Marais photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 Jean Marais, born Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (December 11, 1913 - November 8, 1998) was a French actor, and the lover of Jean Cocteau. ...
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Raymond Massey photographed by Carl Van Vechten Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor. ...
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best-known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon. ...
John McEnery (born 1 November 1943 in Birmingham, England) is a British actor and writer. ...
Peter McEnery is an English stage and film actor. ...
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ...
David Merrick (November 27, 1911 - April 25, 2000) was an American theatrical producer and director, associated with both musicals and dramas, brilliant successes and embarrassing fl ops. ...
Doctor Jean Meyer Barth (born on February 8, 1942 in Nice) is a Mexican historian and author of French origin. ...
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Temuera Derek Morrison (born December 26, 1960) is a New Zealand actor. ...
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O Denis OHare (born January 17, 1962 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) is a Tony Award-winning actor. ...
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ...
Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor best known for his starring role as wisecracking Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series and for his musical theater roles. ...
P Adam Pascal Adam Pascal (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, best known for being the first to play the role of Roger Davis in the Jonathan Larson musical Rent on Broadway. ...
Michael Pennington as Moff Jerjerrod in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. ...
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Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 - March 21, 1987), better known as Robert Preston, was an Oscar-nominated American actor. ...
Q Anthony Quayle Sir John Anthony Quayle (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director. ...
Denis Quilley (December 26, 1927 - October 5, 2003) was a British theatre, television and film character actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre. ...
R Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American comic actor. ...
Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938) Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, KBE (March 20, 1908 — March 21, 1985) was an English actor and the son of the Australian silent film star Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. ...
Clive Selsby Revill (born April 18, 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an experienced character actor who has made more than 50 films and TV movies and whose work has ranged from theatrical blockbusters to stage classics. ...
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Ralph Richardson Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film. ...
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an acclaimed, award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ...
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Mark Rylance (born January 18, 1960) is an internationally well-known actor and theatre director. ...
S David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (born 21 January 1922) is a British actor who was born in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England. ...
Tony Shalhoub (Arabic: ), (born October 9, 1953) is a three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. ...
Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ...
Michael Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is an award-winning Welsh actor, known for his work on stage and film. ...
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ...
Simon Slater (Sam) and Laura Michelle Kelly (Sophie) in Mamma Mia! Simon Slater is an actor and a composer. ...
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Lionel Stander & Freeway Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994) was an American character actor in movies, radio, theater and television. ...
Sir Robert Stephens (July 14, 1931 – November 12, 1995) was a leading actor in the early years of Britains Royal National Theatre. ...
Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English film, television and stage actor. ...
David Suchet OBE (born May 2, 1946) is an English actor best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot in the television series Agatha Christies Poirot. ...
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T Thomas James Tune (born February 28, 1939) is a famous actor, dancer, singer, and choreographer. ...
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W patrick wilson Sydney Walker (May 5, 1921 - September 30, 1994) was an American actor. ...
Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor. ...
Greg Walloch (born July 8, 1970 in San Bernardino, California) is an American comedian, actor, author, and monologist. ...
Timothy West CBE (born October 20, 1934) is a British film, stage and television actor. ...
Bart Whiteman (1948-March 14, 2006) was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer. ...
Colm Wilkinson’s life is surrounded by music. ...
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Y Wellington Yang (Chinese traditional: 楊呈å‰, Pinyin: Yang Chengwei) is a Taiwanese American actor, playwright, and singer. ...
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