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).
111 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 111
The Blacklist
2013
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
American Dad!
2005
CSI: Miami
2002
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Reacher
2022
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Psych
2006
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Riverdale
2017
Wednesday
2022
The View
1997
The Dark Knight
2008
Entourage
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Goldbergs
2013
Community
2009
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Touched by an Angel
1994
Warehouse 13
2009
The Dead Zone
2002
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Z Nation
2014
Bosch: Legacy
2022
Awkward.
2011
The Soup
2004
Rosewood
2015
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996
Edward Scissorhands
1990
The Hunger
1997
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
1998
The Breakfast Club
1985
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
The New Tom Green Show
2003
Halloween Kills
2021
Deadly Games
1995
Trigger Warning
2024
Sixteen Candles
1984
Weird Science
1985
Air Force One Down
2024
The D'Amelio Show
2021
War Machine
2017
Foxcatcher
2014
Live by Night
2016
Freddy Got Fingered
2001
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
2003
Clerks III
2022
Pirates of Silicon Valley
1999
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
Retrosexual: The '80s
2004
Gotham Tonight
2008
61*
2001
All About the Benjamins
2002
Trojan War
1997
Johnny Be Good
1988
Bodied
2018
The Caveman's Valentine
2001
Dead in Tombstone
2013
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
1994
Hijacked: Flight 285
1996
Out of Bounds
1986
Hail Caesar
1994
Six Pack
1982
Last Man Standing
2011
A Gnome Named Gnorm
1991
The Photographer
2000
Zombie Night
2013
Final Approach
2008
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
2001
Happy Accidents
2000
LA Blues
2007
Into the Sun
1992
The Grave
1996
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982
Results
2015
A Bucket of Blood
1995
Sexy Evil Genius
2013
Natural Selection
2016
Exit in Red
1997
Halloween Store
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Hitched
2001
Something About Her
2021
Texas
1995
Aftermath
2013
The Class
2022
The Dead Zone
2002
Dirt Merchant
1999
Roswell Delirium
2025
The Killing Grounds
1998
Running Out
1983
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
2011
Revenge
1999
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
2008
The Lears
2017
Friend Request
2013
The Gold Bug
1980
Cold Night Into Dawn
1997
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
1990
A Touch of Hope
1999
Sincerely Yours
2008
Funny Valentine
2005
Les Vampyres
2000