Anthony Michael Hall
Acting
- Born:
- 1968-04-14
- 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
Filmography
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Roswell Delirium
Trigger Warning
Air Force One Down
Wednesday
The Class
Clerks III
Bosch: Legacy
Reacher
Halloween Kills
The D'Amelio Show
Something About Her
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Bodied
War Machine
The Lears
Riverdale
Live by Night
Natural Selection
Rosewood
Results
Foxcatcher
Z Nation
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Zombie Night
Dead in Tombstone
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Goldbergs
The Blacklist
Friend Request
Sexy Evil Genius
Aftermath
Awkward.
Last Man Standing
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Community
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Warehouse 13
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
Sincerely Yours
The Dark Knight
Gotham Tonight
Final Approach
LA Blues
Psych
Funny Valentine
American Dad!
Retrosexual: The '80s
The Tony Danza Show
Entourage
The Soup
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
The New Tom Green Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Dead Zone
CSI: Miami
The Dead Zone
All About the Benjamins
Hitched
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
61*
Freddy Got Fingered
The Caveman's Valentine
Les Vampyres
The Photographer
Happy Accidents
A Touch of Hope
Dirt Merchant
Revenge
Pirates of Silicon Valley
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Killing Grounds
Cold Night Into Dawn
Trojan War
Exit in Red
The View
The Hunger
The Jamie Foxx Show
E! True Hollywood Story
Hijacked: Flight 285
The Grave
A Bucket of Blood
Deadly Games
Texas
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Touched by an Angel
Hail Caesar
Six Degrees of Separation
Diagnosis: Murder
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Into the Sun
A Gnome Named Gnorm
Edward Scissorhands
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
Tales from the Crypt
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Johnny Be Good
Out of Bounds
Weird Science
The Breakfast Club
Murder, She Wrote
Sixteen Candles
National Lampoon's Vacation
Running Out
Six Pack
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
The Gold Bug
Saturday Night Live
Halloween Store
Final Invasion