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Anthony Michael Hall

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

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).

Filmography 108

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
as Self
2025
Roswell Delirium
as Jerry Baskin
2025
Trigger Warning
as Ezekiel Swann
2024
Air Force One Down
as Sam Waitman
2024
Wednesday
as Ron Krueger
2022
The Class
as Faulk
2022
Clerks III
as Auditioner
2022
Bosch: Legacy
as Agent William Baron
2022
Reacher
as Zachary Beck
2022
Halloween Kills
as Tommy Doyle
2021
The D'Amelio Show
as Self
2021
Something About Her
as Jack
2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
as Self - Contestant
2021
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
2019
Bodied
as Professor Merkin
2018
War Machine
as Greg Pulver
2017
The Lears
as Glenn Lear
2017
Riverdale
as Principal Featherhead
2017
Live by Night
as Gary Smith
2016
Natural Selection
as Mr. Stevenson
2016
Rosewood
as Detective Willet
2015
Results
as Grigory
2015
Foxcatcher
as Jack
2014
Z Nation
as Gideon Gould
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Zombie Night
as Patrick
2013
Dead in Tombstone
as Red Hernandez
2013
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as Mister Kitson
2013
The Goldbergs
as Security Guard
2013
The Goldbergs
as Mr. Perott
2013
The Blacklist
as Robby Ressler
2013
Friend Request
as Burk
2013
Sexy Evil Genius
as Mark Von Dutch
2013
Aftermath
as Tom Fiorini
2013
Awkward.
as Mr. Hart
2011
Last Man Standing
as Nick Collins
2011
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
as Self
2011
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
2009
Community
as Mike
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
Warehouse 13
as Walter Sykes
2009
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
as Himself
2008
Sincerely Yours
as Self
2008
The Dark Knight
as Engel
2008
Gotham Tonight
as Mike Engel
2008
Final Approach
as Greg Gilliad
2008
LA Blues
as Larry
2007
Psych
as Harris Trout
2006
Funny Valentine
as Josh
2005
American Dad!
as (voice)
2005
American Dad!
as Tom (voice)
2005
Entourage
as Anthony Michael Hall
2004
The Soup
as Self
2004
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
The Dead Zone
as Johnny Smith
2002
CSI: Miami
as James Bradstone
2002
The Dead Zone
as Johnny Smith
2002
All About the Benjamins
as Lil J
2002
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
as Mutt Lange
2001
61*
as Whitey Ford
2001
Freddy Got Fingered
as Mr. Davidson
2001
The Caveman's Valentine
as Bob
2001
Les Vampyres
as Man with Torch
2000
The Photographer
as Greg
2000
Happy Accidents
as Anthony Michael Hall
2000
A Touch of Hope
as Dr. Neil Bachman
1999
Dirt Merchant
as Jeffry Alan Spacy
1999
Revenge
as Brian Cutler
1999
Pirates of Silicon Valley
as Bill Gates
1999
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
1998
The Killing Grounds
as Art Styles
1998
Cold Night Into Dawn
as Eddie Rogers
1997
Trojan War
as Bus Driver
1997
Exit in Red
as Nick
1997
The View
as Self
1997
The Hunger
as Michael
1997
The Jamie Foxx Show
as Tim
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Hijacked: Flight 285
as Peter Cronin
1996
The Grave
as Travis Purcell
1996
A Bucket of Blood
as Walter
1995
Deadly Games
as Chuck Manning
1995
Texas
as Yancey Quimper
1995
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
as Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland
1994
Touched by an Angel
as Thomas Prescott
1994
Hail Caesar
as Julius Caesar McMurty
1994
Six Degrees of Separation
as Trent
1993
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Johnson
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
Into the Sun
as Tom Slade
1992
A Gnome Named Gnorm
as Casey Gallagher
1991
Edward Scissorhands
as Jim
1990
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
as Voice of Mason Reese
1990
Tales from the Crypt
as Reggie Skulnick
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
Johnny Be Good
as Johnny Walker
1988
Out of Bounds
as Daryl Cage
1986
Weird Science
as Gary
1985
The Breakfast Club
as Brian Johnson
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Les Franklin
1984
Sixteen Candles
as Geek (Ted)
1984
National Lampoon's Vacation
as Rusty Griswold
1983
Running Out
as Kylie
1983
Six Pack
as Doc
1982
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Huck Finn
1982
The Gold Bug
as The Boy
1980
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1975