Famous People I have ran into over the years.
by mgentalen | created - 05 May 2015 | updated - 20 May 2022 | Public
1. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
2. Andrew Dice Clay
Actor | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
Andrew Dice Clay was born on September 29, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Blue Jasmine (2013) and A Star Is Born (2018). He has been married to Valerie Silverstein since February 14, 2010. He was ...
3. Bill Handel
Actor | Wag the Dog
Bill Handel was born on August 25, 1951 in Brazil. He is an actor, known for Wag the Dog (1997), Judge for Yourself (1993) and The Cookie Thief (2008).
4. Gary Dell'Abate
Actor | Private Parts
Gary Dell'Abate was born on March 14, 1961 in Uniondale, Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Private Parts (1997), The Uncle Floyd Show (1974) and Brooklyn Rules (2007). He has been married to Mary Caracciolo since July 3, 1992. They have two children.
5. Beetlejuice
Actor | Bubble Boy
Beetlejuice was born on June 2, 1968 in Browns Mills, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Bubble Boy (2001), Scary Movie 2 (2001) and WCW Monday Nitro (1995).
6. Sal Governale
Actor | Sanctum Void
Sal Governale was born on October 24, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA as Salvatore C. Governale. He is an actor and producer, known for Howard Stern on Demand (2005), The Killers of Comedy: On the Road (2009) and Howard Stern (1994). He has been married to Christine Governale since 1996. They ...
7. Artie Lange
Actor | MADtv
Arthur Steven Lange grew up a child of a middle class family in Union, New Jersey. At Union High School, Lange excelled in baseball, becoming an All County third baseman. Working long afternoons with his loving contractor father, Artie developed a comical view of social classes, and his place in ...
8. Jon Cryer
Actor | Two and a Half Men
Jonathan Niven Cryer is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. Born into a show business family, he made his motion picture debut as a teenager photographer in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair; his breakout role came in 1986, in the John Hughes-written film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he ...
9. Teresa Strasser
Writer | Win Ben Stein's Money
Teresa Lynn Strasser is an Emmy-winning writer (Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money (1997)and Emmy-nominated television host (TLC's While You Were Out (2002)). Radio and podcast audiences know her as the longtime co-host of The Adam Carolla Show.
Her first book, Exploiting My Baby, was published ...
10. Adam Carolla
Writer | The Man Show
Adam Carolla was born in Los Angeles but raised in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and later North Hollywood. His mother was a recipient of welfare with a degree in Chicano studies, his dad was a psychologist, and he got where he is today, he says, in spite of them. After Adam graduated from North ...
11. Adam Sandler
Actor | The Waterboy
Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took ...
12. Judd Apatow
Producer | Girls
Judd Apatow is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He directed The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This is 40, Funny People, Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island. He also developed the television shows Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing. He is ...
13. Leslie Mann
Actress | Knocked Up
Leslie Jean Mann was born in San Francisco, California. She was raised in Newport Beach, California by her mother, Janet Ann Ayres. At the age of seventeen, she launched her career, appearing in various TV commercials.
Her screen break came when she was cast as Nurse Mary in the short-lived Birdland...
14. Julie Andrews
Actress | The Sound of Music
Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...
15. Sarah Silverman
Actress | Wreck-It Ralph
Sarah Silverman was most recently the host of the two-time Emmy-nominated weekly topical series, I Love You America, which streamed on Hulu and also received a Writers Guild Awards nomination.
Silverman is currently working on a musical adaptation of her 2010 memoir and New York Times Bestseller ...
16. Larry King
Actor | Ghostbusters
Larry King was born on November 19, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Shrek 2 (2004) and Enemy of the State (1998). He was married to Shawn Ora Engemann, Julie Alexander, Sharon Lepore, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Annette ...
17. Jon Hein
Producer | For What It's Worth
Jon Hein was born on November 24, 1967 in Hempstead, New York, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for For What It's Worth (2013), Food Factory USA (2014) and The Arrested Development Documentary Project (2013).
18. Kourtney Kardashian
Actress | He's All That
Kourtney was born in Los Angeles, California as the eldest of four children of Kris Jenner (née Kristen Mary Houghton) and attorney Robert Kardashian, with siblings Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Rob Kardashian. Her father was of Armenian descent and her mother is of mostly English and ...
19. Kim Kardashian
Actress | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
TV star, entrepreneur, fashion designer, and author (New York Times best-seller - "Kardashian Konfidential"), Kim Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, to Kris Jenner (née Kristen Mary Houghton) and attorney Robert Kardashian. Her father was of Armenian descent and her mother is of mostly...
20. Khloé Kardashian
Producer | Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Born in Los Angeles, Khloé Alexandra Kardashian is a model, actress, and businesswoman who became famous with the reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007) where she shared the success with her family, most notably her older sister Kim Kardashian. On top of spin-offs with her sister ...
21. Whitney Cummings
Writer | Whitney
Whitney Ann Cummings is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer and pod-caster. A native of Washington, D.C., Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where she had studied with the intention of becoming a ...
22. Nick Swardson
Actor | Grandma's Boy
Nick Swardson was born on October 9, 1976 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Grandma's Boy (2006), The Benchwarmers (2006) and Just Go with It (2011).
23. Heidi Hamilton
Actress | Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
Growing up in southern Indiana, Heidi officially started her radio career at WTRE-AM (1330) in Greensburg, Indiana, the summer before her freshman year in college. She attended the University of Cincinnati where she obtained a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. She then worked at WUBE-FM (105.1) and ...
24. Frank Kramer
Producer | Squatters
Frank Kramer was born on September 5, 1970 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Squatters (2010), Totally Baked (2007) and Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015).
25. Tim Conway Jr.
Actor | Licorice Pizza
Tim Conway Jr. was born on October 13, 1963. He is a producer and actor, known for Licorice Pizza (2021), Up All Night (1989) and Cyclone (1987).
26. David Spade
Actor | Joe Dirt
Adept at playing comic brat extraordinaires both on film and TV, David Spade was born on July 22, 1964, in Birmingham, Michigan, the youngest of three brothers. He is the son of Judith J. (Meek), a writer and editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales rep, and is of German, English, Irish, and Scottish ...
27. Bob Saget
Actor | Full House
Bob Saget was an American actor, stand-up comedian, and television host from Philadelphia. His best known role was playing pater familias Danny Tanner on the hit sitcom "Full House" (1987-1995). He played the character again in the sequel series "Fuller House" (2016-2020). Saget served as the ...
28. Jeff Probst
Producer | Survivor
Jeff Probst is the Emmy Award-winning host of Survivor (2000). He won the inaugural Emmy for Best Reality Show Host in 2008 and again in 2009. Probst also received an Emmy as Host/Producer of Survivor (2000) back in 2001.
He was also voted one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People.
As a ...
29. John Melendez
Actor | Dude, Where's My Car?
After 14 years on The Howard Stern Radio Show (1998), John Melendez did 10 years on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). Besides being the Tonight Show's nightly announcer and a staff writer, Melendez appeared in the show's comedy sketches and did correspondent pieces.
Melendez, who began ...
30. Huell Howser
Actor | Winnie the Pooh
Huell Howser was born on October 18, 1945 in Gallatin, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Winnie the Pooh (2011), California's Gold (1991) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He died on January 7, 2013 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
31. Jim Belushi
Actor | Red Heat
James Adam Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Chicago, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. The third of four children - his brother was comedian John Belushi - he ...
32. Bonnie Hunt
Actress | Jumanji
Bonnie Lynn Hunt is an American actress and comedienne who is known for her work in Rain Man, Beethoven, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile and Cheaper by the Dozen. She voiced in the Disney films A Bug's Life, Zootopia, Monsters, Inc, Toy Story 3 and Cars. She was married to John Murphy but ...
33. George Lopez
Producer | George Lopez
George Lopez was born on April 23, 1961, in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California, the son of Frieda and Anatasio Lopez, a migrant worker. He is of Mestizo Mexican descent. He was deserted by his father when he was two months old and by his mother when he was 10 years old, but was raised by his ...
34. Chris Harrison
Actor | Date Movie
Chris Harrison was born on July 26, 1971 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Date Movie (2006), The Short Cut (2011) and Hot in Cleveland (2010). He has been married to Lauren Zima since October 14, 2023. He was previously married to Gwendolyn Kay Jones.
35. Chrissy Metz
Actress | This Is Us
Christine Michelle Metz is an American actress and singer. She played Kate Pearson in the television series This Is Us (2016-2022), which earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has also appeared in films such as Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018) and ...
36. Patricia Heaton
Actress | Everybody Loves Raymond
While studying acting in New York with drama teacher William Esper, Heaton made her Broadway debut in the gospel musical "Don't Get God Started." She and her fellow students then formed Stage Three, an acting company that produced plays Off-Broadway. They took one production, "The Johnstown ...
37. Chris Sullivan
Actor | This Is Us
Chris starred as 'Toby' in NBC's award-winning drama, "This Is Us", which earned him 2 Primetime Emmy Award Nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Also well known for starring on Steven Soderbergh's drama series "The Knick" (2014-2015), in which Chris, along with his cast ...
38. Larry King
Actor | Ghostbusters
Larry King was born on November 19, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Shrek 2 (2004) and Enemy of the State (1998). He was married to Shawn Ora Engemann, Julie Alexander, Sharon Lepore, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Annette ...
39. Shawn Ora Engemann
Actress | Remington Steele
Shawn Ora Engemann was born on November 5, 1959 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Remington Steele (1982), WWE Raw (1993) and Knight Rider (1982).
40. Tom Leykis
Actor | Black Scorpion
Tom Leykis started out in radio by winning a contest in 1970 for a one-time radio appearance in Long Island. He did such a good job on the air that they asked him back several times to fill in. In the late 1970s he had his own cable public access program in Manhattan, NY.
He got his his first paying...
41. Drew Pinsky
Actor | Wild Hogs
One of the most listened to doctors in America, Dr. Drew hosted the nationally syndicated radio show "Loveline", where he had taken calls from listeners since 1983. Dr. Drew is a practicing physician who is board certified in internal and addiction medicine, sill runs a private practice, is on ...
43. Doug Steckler
Writer | SCTV Network 90
Doug Steckler is known for SCTV Network (1981), The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show (1995) and My Talk Show (1990).
44. Ray Bradbury
Writer | The Ray Bradbury Theater
Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.
He was...
45. Steve Grad
Actor | Strange Inheritance
Expertise: Entertainment, historical, and sports autographs Chicago native Steve Grad originally started his career in radio. He majored in Broadcast Journalism at Columbia College launched him into the radio world for seven years. Grad worked as an anchor/reporter, morning show co-host on Mancow's...
46. Gina Grad
Actress | Ergo Proxy
Gina Rochelle Grad is a Los Angeles radio personality who grew up in Kansas and briefly lived in New York. She's worked for CBS, Clear Channel, Bonnevile, Entercom, and PodcastOne, as well as taking on independent ventures like The Gina Grad Show and the long-running Pretty Good Podcast. Working on...
47. Sam Phillips
Actor | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Sam Phillips was born on March 18, 1948 in South Africa. He was an actor and writer, known for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Nna Sajene Kokobela (2001) and Nukie (1987). He died on January 16, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
48. Jodie Sweetin
Actress | Full House
Jodie Sweetin was born on January 19, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Full House (1987), Fuller House (2016) and Just Swipe (2021). She has been married to Mescal Wasilewski since July 30, 2022. She was previously married to Morty Coyle, Cody Herpin ...
49. Andrea Barber
Actress | Full House
Andrea Barber was born on July 3, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Full House (1987), Fuller House (2016) and Days of Our Lives (1965). She was previously married to Jeremy Rytky.
50. Jeff Franklin
Producer | Full House
Jeff Franklin has been a successful writer-producer-director for over twenty-five years. He is responsible for hundreds of hours of quality television and motion pictures. Jeff created and executive produced two long-running , hit ABC comedies, Full House (1987) and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992), ...
51. Ringo Starr
Actor | A Hard Day's Night
Ringo Starr is a British musician, actor, director, writer, and artist best known as the drummer of The Beatles who also coined the title 'A Hard day's Night' for The Beatles' first movie.
He was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, in a small two-storey house in the working class area of Liverpool...
52. Chris Kattan
Actor | A Night at the Roxbury
Christopher Lee Kattan was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to model Hajni Joslyn and actor Kip King. Chris moved to Mt. Baldy when he turned five, and resided there until the age of fifteen, when he moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington for high school.
After he graduated from high school, Chris ...
53. Shawn Ora Engemann
Actress | Remington Steele
Shawn Ora Engemann was born on November 5, 1959 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Remington Steele (1982), WWE Raw (1993) and Knight Rider (1982).
54. Mark Kriski
Actor | Speed
Mark Kriski's charismatic approach, quirky sidebar comments and hilarious observations keep "KTLA Morning News" viewers tuning in day after day. Yet, when Mother Nature darkens the skies of Southern California, Kriski's weather knowledge and expertise shine through, placing him at the top of his ...
55. Robert Bakish
Self | Barron's Roundtable
Robert M. Bakish is President and Chief Executive Officer of ViacomCBS. Bakish oversees one of the world's leading producers of media and entertainment content, driven by a global portfolio of powerful consumer brands, including CBS, Showtime, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Paramount ...
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