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