Name
Anthony Michael Hall
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1968-04-14 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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. 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
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Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District...
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A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named...
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Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a...
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Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacat...
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Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. ...
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A Special Forces commando uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she returns to her hometown...
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Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lin...
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A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us insid...
- 2008 The Dark Knight as Engel
- 1990 Edward Scissorhands as Jim
- 1985 The Breakfast Club as Brian Johnson
- 1999 Pirates of Silicon Valley as Bill Gates
- 1983 National Lampoon's Vacation as Rusty Griswold
- 1988 Johnny Be Good as Johnny Walker
- 2001 61* as Whitey Ford
- 1991 A Gnome Named Gnorm as Casey Gallagher
- 1985 Weird Science as Gary
- 2001 Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story as Mutt Lange
- 2001 Freddy Got Fingered as Mr. Davidson
- 2022 The Class as Faulk
- 1984 Sixteen Candles as Geek (Ted)
- 2005 Funny Valentine as Josh
- 1999 Revenge as Brian Cutler
- 2008 Final Approach as Greg Gilliad
- 1986 Out of Bounds as Daryl Cage
- 1982 Six Pack as Doc
- 2024 Air Force One Down as Sam Waitman
- 1997 Exit in Red as Nick
- 2011 Last Man Standing as Nick Collins
- 1997 Cold Night Into Dawn as Eddie Rogers
- 2014 Foxcatcher as Jack
- 1982 Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as Huck Finn
- 2013 Dead in Tombstone as Red Hernandez
- 2013 Sexy Evil Genius as Mark Von Dutch
- 1998 The Killing Grounds as Art Styles
- 1990 Whatever Happened to Mason Reese as Voice of Mason Reese
- 2000 The Photographer as Greg
- 2013 Aftermath as Tom Fiorini
- 2001 Hitched as Ted
- 2000 Les Vampyres as Man with Torch
- 1994 Hail Caesar as Julius Caesar McMurty
- 1992 Into the Sun as Tom Slade
- 1995 A Bucket of Blood as Walter
- 2013 Zombie Night as Patrick
- 1996 Hijacked: Flight 285 as Peter Cronin
- 2000 Happy Accidents as Anthony Michael Hall
- 1993 Six Degrees of Separation as Trent
- 1994 Who Do I Gotta Kill? as Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland
- 2022 Clerks III as Auditioner
- 2015 Results as Grigory
- 2025 Roswell Delirium as Jerry Baskin
- 2024 Trigger Warning as Ezekiel Swann
- 2002 The Dead Zone as Johnny Smith
- 2002 All About the Benjamins as Lil J
- 2016 Natural Selection as Mr. Stevenson
- 2007 LA Blues as Larry
- 2001 The Caveman's Valentine as Bob
- 2013 Friend Request as Burk
- 2017 War Machine as Greg Pulver
- 1996 The Grave as Travis Purcell
- 1999 Dirt Merchant as Jeffry Alan Spacy
- 2016 Live by Night as Gary L. Smith
- 1999 A Touch of Hope as Dr. Neil Bachman
- 2018 Bodied as Professor Merkin
- 1980 The Gold Bug as The Boy
- 2017 The Lears as Glenn Lear
- 1997 Trojan War as Bus Driver
- 2011 Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation as Self
- 1995 Texas as Yancey Quimper
- 2021 Halloween Kills as Tommy Doyle
- 2008 Celebrating Sixteen Candles as Himself
- 2021 Something About Her as Jack
- 2008 Sincerely Yours as Self
- 1983 Running Out as Kylie
- Soon Halloween Store as Sheriff Van Hollis
- Soon Final Invasion
- 2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Les Franklin
- 2004 The Tony Danza Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2002 The Dead Zone ( 80 episodes ) as Johnny Smith
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2002 CSI: Miami ( 1 episode ) as James Bradstone
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 18 episodes ) as Self - Various Characters
- 1994 Touched by an Angel ( 2 episodes ) as Thomas Prescott
- 1996 The Jamie Foxx Show ( 1 episode ) as Tim
- 2004 Entourage ( 1 episode ) as Anthony Michael Hall
- 1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Reggie Skulnick
- 1997 The View ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2017 Riverdale ( 1 episode ) as Principal Featherhead
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
- 1998 The Crow: Stairway to Heaven ( 1 episode )
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Johnson
- 2004 Retrosexual: The '80s ( 5 episodes ) as (archive footage)
- 2003 The New Tom Green Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2004 The Soup ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Community ( 2 episodes ) as Mike
- 2006 Psych ( 3 episodes ) as Harris Trout
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2011 Awkward. ( 10 episodes ) as Mr. Hart
- 2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
- 2015 Rosewood ( 1 episode ) as Detective Willet
- 2022 Bosch: Legacy ( 5 episodes ) as Agent William Baron
- 1997 The Hunger ( 1 episode ) as Michael
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2009 Warehouse 13 ( 4 episodes ) as Walter Sykes
- 2021 The D'Amelio Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2013 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ( 1 episode ) as Mister Kitson
- 2013 The Goldbergs ( 1 episode ) as Security Guard
- 2013 The Goldbergs ( 8 episodes ) as Mr. Perott
- 2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as Tom (voice)
- 2014 Z Nation ( 1 episode ) as Gideon Gould
- 2013 The Blacklist ( 2 episodes ) as Robby Ressler
- 2008 Gotham Tonight ( 4 episodes ) as Mike Engel
- 2021 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune ( 1 episode ) as Self - Contestant
- 1995 Deadly Games ( 2 episodes ) as Chuck Manning
- 2003 Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica ( 10 episodes ) as Self
- 2022 Reacher ( 8 episodes ) as Zachary Beck
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2022 Wednesday ( 1 episode ) as Ron Krueger
- 2025 SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
