Anthony Michael Hall

Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone from 2002 to 2007. He also rose to fame starring in films with John Hughes, which include the teen classics Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. Hall diversified his roles to avoid becoming typecast as his geek persona, joining the cast of Saturday Night Live (1985–1986) and starring in films such as Out of Bounds (1986), Johnny Be Good (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Six Degrees of Separation (1993). After a series of minor roles in the 1990s, he starred as Microsoft's Bill Gates in the 1999 television film Pirates of Silicon Valley and started in 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered. He had the leading role in the USA Network series The Dead Zone from 2002 to 2007. In 2008, he appeared in a minor role in The Dark Knight. In 2020, he appeared in ABC's The Goldbergs. Additionally, he starred in the slasher film Halloween Kills (2021).

Known For: Acting

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1968-04-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	The Gold Bug	The Boy	50
2	1982	Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn	Huck Finn	50
3	1982	Six Pack	Doc	65
4	1983	Running Out	Kylie	0
5	1983	National Lampoon's Vacation	Rusty Griswold	71
6	1984	Sixteen Candles	Geek (Ted)	68
7	1985	The Breakfast Club	Brian Johnson	77
8	1985	Weird Science	Gary	66
9	1986	Out of Bounds	Daryl Cage	55
10	1988	Johnny Be Good	Johnny Walker	46
11	1990	Whatever Happened to Mason Reese	Voice of Mason Reese	25
12	1990	Edward Scissorhands	Jim	77
13	1991	A Gnome Named Gnorm	Casey Gallagher	46
14	1992	Into the Sun	Tom Slade	47
15	1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Trent	64
16	1994	Hail Caesar	Julius Caesar McMurty	34
17	1994	Who Do I Gotta Kill?	Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland	41
18	1995	Texas	Yancey Quimper	50
19	1995	A Bucket of Blood	Walter	51
20	1996	The Grave	Travis Purcell	49
21	1996	Hijacked: Flight 285	Peter Cronin	57
22	1997	Exit in Red	Nick	37
23	1997	Trojan War	Bus Driver	61
24	1997	Cold Night Into Dawn	Eddie Rogers	20
25	1998	The Killing Grounds	Art Styles	47
26	1999	Pirates of Silicon Valley	Bill Gates	71
27	1999	Revenge	Brian Cutler	30
28	1999	Dirt Merchant	Jeffry Alan Spacy	29
29	1999	A Touch of Hope	Dr. Neil Bachman	50
30	2000	Happy Accidents	Himself	68
31	2000	The Photographer	Greg	35
32	2000	Les Vampyres	Man with Torch	0
33	2001	The Caveman's Valentine	Bob	58
34	2001	Freddy Got Fingered	Mr. Davidson	47
35	2001	61*	Whitey Ford	70
36	2001	Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story	Mutt Lange	71
37	2001	Hitched	Ted Robbins	40
38	2002	All About the Benjamins	Lil J	58
39	2002	The Dead Zone	Johnny Smith	75
40	2005	Funny Valentine	Josh	50
41	2007	LA Blues	Larry	0
42	2008	Final Approach	Greg Gilliad	50
43	2008	The Dark Knight	Engel	85
44	2008	Celebrating Sixteen Candles	Himself	0
45	2008	Sincerely Yours	Self	0
46	2011	Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation	Self	65
47	2011	Last Man Standing	Nick Collins	44
48	2013	Sexy Evil Genius	Mark Von Dutch	60
49	2013	Friend Request	Burk	54
50	2013	The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy	Self (archive footage)	68
51	2013	Dead in Tombstone	Red Hernandez	49
52	2013	Zombie Night	Patrick	39
53	2013	Aftermath	Tom Fiorini	48
54	2014	Foxcatcher	Jack	67
55	2015	Results	Grigory	51
56	2016	Natural Selection	Mr. Stevenson	54
57	2016	Live by Night	Gary Smith	63
58	2017	The Lears	Glenn Lear	53
59	2017	War Machine	Greg Pulver	56
60	2018	Bodied	Professor Merkin	72
61	2021	Something About Her	Jack	30
62	2021	Mike Tyson: The Knockout		100
63	2021	Halloween Kills	Tommy Doyle	64
64	2022	Clerks III	Auditioner	60
65	2022	The Class	Faulk	34
66	2024	Air Force One Down	Sam Waitman	60
67	2024	Trigger Warning	Ezekiel Swann	57
68	2025	Roswell Delirium	Jerry Baskin	50
69		Halloween Store	Sheriff Van Hollis	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Various Characters	70
2	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Les Franklin	75
3	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
4	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Reggie Skulnick	80
5	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Dr. Johnson	71
6	1994	Touched by an Angel	Thomas Prescott	72
7	1995	Deadly Games	Chuck Manning	80
8	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
9	1996	The Jamie Foxx Show	Tim	67
10	1997	The Hunger	Michael	58
11	1997	The View	Self	45
12	1998	The Crow: Stairway to Heaven		66
13	2002	The Dead Zone	Johnny Smith	72
14	2002	CSI: Miami		77
15	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
16	2003	The New Tom Green Show	Self - Guest	45
17	2003	Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica	Self	67
18	2004	The Soup	Self	61
19	2004	Entourage		74
20	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
21	2004	Retrosexual: The '80s	(archive footage)	100
22	2005	American Dad!	(voice)	70
23	2005	American Dad!	Tom (voice)	70
24	2006	Psych	Harris Trout	79
25	2008	Gotham Tonight	Mike Engel	73
26	2009	Warehouse 13	Walter Sykes	77
27	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
28	2009	Community	Mike	80
29	2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self	73
30	2011	Awkward.	Mr. Hart	74
31	2012	Honest Trailers	Mike Engel (archive footage)	65
32	2013	The Blacklist	Robby Ressler	76
33	2013	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Mister Kitson	75
34	2013	The Goldbergs	Security Guard	75
35	2013	The Goldbergs	Mr. Perott	75
36	2014	Z Nation	Gideon Gould	73
37	2015	Rosewood	Detective Willet	65
38	2017	Riverdale	Principal Featherhead	84
39	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
40	2021	Celebrity Wheel of Fortune	Self - Contestant	74
41	2021	The D'Amelio Show	Self	50
42	2022	Reacher	Zachary Beck	81
43	2022	Bosch: Legacy	Agent William Baron	80
44	2025	SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night	Self	80

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