Anthony Michael Hall
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 19.018 |
| Birthday | 1968-04-14 |
| Place of Birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As |
1990
Edward Scissorhands
7.716/12480
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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Edward Scissorhands
2008
The Dark Knight
8.5/31787
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the rema...
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The Dark Knight
1985
The Breakfast Club
7.748/7730
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel...
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The Breakfast Club
1999
Pirates of Silicon Valley
7.1/499
The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the in...
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Pirates of Silicon Valley
1988
Johnny Be Good
4.5/120
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one...
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Johnny Be Good
2001
61*
6.9/121
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally ha...
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61*
1983
National Lampoon's Vacation
7.126/1463
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
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National Lampoon's Vacation
1990
A Gnome Named Gnorm
4.5/35
A young Los Angeles police officer and a mysterious gnome become unlikely partners as they track a killer. When a sting operation goes awry, officer C...
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A Gnome Named Gnorm
1985
Weird Science
6.539/1310
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a wo...
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Weird Science
2001
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
7.1/42
A dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen...
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Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
2001
Freddy Got Fingered
4.6/395
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that...
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Freddy Got Fingered
2005
Funny Valentine
5/1
Funny-Valentine is romantic comedy about what it takes to find true love in the city.
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Funny Valentine
1999
Revenge
3/2
A serial killer, whose victims are men with similar pasts, is tracked by a policewoman.
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Revenge
2008
Final Approach
5.2/19
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nigh...
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Final Approach
1986
Out of Bounds
5.5/23
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at...
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Out of Bounds
1982
Six Pack
6.5/32
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quick...
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Six Pack
1997
Exit in Red
3.6/8
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more troub...
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Exit in Red
1997
Cold Night Into Dawn
2/1
FBI Agent Parr is going through a bad spell: his partner and best friend has just retired, and his wife has just left him. While investigating a robbe...
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Cold Night Into Dawn
2011
Last Man Standing
4.4/19
Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is kidnap...
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Last Man Standing
1982
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
5.8/4
The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con arti...
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Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
2013
Dead in Tombstone
5/180
An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal w...
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Dead in Tombstone
1998
The Killing Grounds
4.7/6
After the fatal crash of a small airplane in the high Sierras, six greedy strangers clash over a fortune in stolen gold. The torturous trip down the...
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The Killing Grounds
2013
Sexy Evil Genius
6/93
A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable a...
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Sexy Evil Genius
1990
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
2.5/2
One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.
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Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
2000
The Photographer
3.5/2
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night befo...
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The Photographer
2013
Aftermath
4.8/11
Tom Fiorini (Anthony Michael Hall, The Dead Zone) owns a successful construction company. After his long time foreman goes missing, events take a dras...
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Aftermath
2001
Hitched
4/3
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
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Hitched
1994
Hail Caesar
3.5/17
Caesar is having a hard time dividing his time between his band and his rich girlfriend, Buffer. Buffer's dad doesn't like Ceasar, so he makes Caesar...
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Hail Caesar
2013
Zombie Night
3.9/72
Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.
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Zombie Night
1995
A Bucket of Blood
5.3/15
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster....
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A Bucket of Blood
2014
Foxcatcher
6.66/2211
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988...
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Foxcatcher
2015
Results
5/185
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
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Results
2016
Natural Selection
5.4/122
Tyler is a young man who is desperately seeking direction from a world that seems to have abandoned him. Searching for answers he looks to his new fri...
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Natural Selection
2001
The Caveman's Valentine
5.705/129
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tr...
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The Caveman's Valentine
2007
LA Blues
0/0
Opening in a Hollywood parking lot on New Years Eve as a crowd gathers around an ambulance as a guy is being loaded in on a gurney, the story is told...
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LA Blues
2013
Friend Request
5.4/63
A team of two detectives is tasked with apprehending a crazed, online psycho who tracks down and lures victims via a popular social media site.
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Friend Request
1996
The Grave
5.3/13
Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.
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The Grave
1999
Dirt Merchant
3/6
A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.
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Dirt Merchant
2016
Live by Night
6.253/1256
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Live by Night
1999
A Touch of Hope
5/1
Hands-on healer Dean Kraft struggles for many years to come to terms with his abilities and deal with the skepticism of the medical profession.
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A Touch of Hope
1992
Into the Sun
4.7/21
Paul Watkins is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken away from his normal duties of protecting the skies to show an actor ever...
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Into the Sun
1984
Sixteen Candles
6.777/2009
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread....
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Sixteen Candles
2018
Bodied
7.2/111
A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.
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Bodied
1980
The Gold Bug
5/2
Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's Island off Charleston S.C., a boy encounters two obses...
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The Gold Bug
2017
The Lears
5.3/3
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
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The Lears
2002
The Dead Zone
7.5/31
A young man awakens from a six-year coma with the ability to see into peoples futures. This is the first two episodes of the television series.
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The Dead Zone
2017
War Machine
5.591/1088
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...
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War Machine
1997
Trojan War
6.1/124
Brad is about to hook up with the girl of his dreams, but runs into a problem, no condom. So Brad sets out into the night to find one, running into ma...
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Trojan War
2011
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
6.5/2
A look at the making of the classic comedy film.
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Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
1995
Texas
5/5
In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Texas. As the years go by, political conflicts between t...
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Texas
2021
Halloween Kills
6.5/2530
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last enc...
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Halloween Kills
2008
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
0/0
A retrospective look at "Sixteen Candles" from cast and crew, as well as fellow screenwriters, directors, and critics.
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Celebrating Sixteen Candles
2021
Something About Her
4/2
A story of an improbable friendship between a Santa Barbara socialite, suffering from ALS and her caretaker from Senegal.
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Something About Her
2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
7.1/20
This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman films and inching its way toward t...
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
2008
Sincerely Yours
0/0
Documentary about the making and impact of "The Breakfast Club."
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Sincerely Yours
2021
Mike Tyson: The Knockout
10/1
Mike Tyson's climb, crash and comeback, from his difficult childhood to becoming undisputed world champion to his 1992 rape conviction and his persona...
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Mike Tyson: The Knockout
1983
Running Out
0/0
A young woman, unable to handle the stress of raising a family, runs out on her husband and young daughter. 12 years later, she returns in hopes of re...
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Running Out
2022
The Class
3.5/4
A coming of age film about a group of high school seniors forced to spend a Saturday at school completing an exam they either missed taking or failed....
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The Class
1996
Hijacked: Flight 285
5.3/10
A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after takeoff, two of his aides, traveling as ordinar...
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Hijacked: Flight 285
2000
Happy Accidents
6.773/121
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary...
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Happy Accidents
1993
Six Degrees of Separation
6.4/306
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-cl...
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Six Degrees of Separation
2022
Clerks III
6.1/213
After narrowly surviving a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his old friend Dante to help him make a movie immortalizing their youthful days at the...
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Clerks III
2023
Roswell Delirium
2/0
During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and after the fallout those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they...
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Roswell Delirium
Trigger Warning
0/0
A traumatized veteran who inherits her grandfather’s bar after his untimely death, and is faced with a moral dilemma after discovering the truth behin...
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Trigger Warning
2024
Air Force One Down
6.4/68
On her first assignment aboard Air Force One, a rookie Secret Service agent faces the ultimate test when terrorists hijack the plane, intent on derail...
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Air Force One Down
2000
Les Vampyres
0/0
Undead erotic action featuring some of the adult entertainment industry's biggest names. Winner of the Best All-Girl Sex Scene award at the 2001 AVN A...
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Les Vampyres
2022
Haddonfield's Open Wounds
0/0
Those who die at the hands of Michael Myers are not his only victims. We look at some of the returning characters, and why their past traumatic encoun...
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Haddonfield's Open Wounds
2022
The Kill Team
0/0
It takes a big team to create a film on the scale of Halloween Kills, especially when part of the task is raising the bar for Michael's gruesome kills...
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The Kill Team
2022
1978 Transformations
0/0
Shooting new footage that matches the feel of the iconic 1978 footage is no easy task, and even takes a little bit of luck. We reveal some of the secr...
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1978 Transformations
2022
The Power of FEAR
0/0
The impact of Michael Myers' pure evil extends far beyond his victims. We examine how fear of The Shape changed the psychology of the people of Haddon...
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The Power of FEAR
1994
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
4.4/10
A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination....
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Who Do I Gotta Kill?
2002
All About the Benjamins
5.9/155
Bucum Jackson (Cube) is a bounty hunter with a lot of attitude and no interest in taking on a partner. Working at Martinez Bail Bonds, Jackson has uno...
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