Anthony Michael Hall

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1968-04-14 (56 years old)

Place of Birth Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall

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. 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

Actor

2024
Trigger Warning

as Ezekiel Swann

2024
Air Force One Down

as Sam Waitman

2023
Roswell Delirium

as Jerry Baskin

2022
The Class

as Faulk

2022
Clerks III

as Auditioner

2022
Bosch: Legacy

as Agent William Baron

2021
Halloween Kills

as Tommy Doyle

2021
2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

as Self - Contestant

2018
Bodied

as Professor Merkin

2017
War Machine

as Greg Pulver

2017
The Lears

as Glenn Lear

2017
Riverdale

as Principal Featherhead

2016
Live by Night

as Gary Smith

2016
Natural Selection

as Mr. Stevenson

2015
Results

as Grigory

2015
Rosewood

as Detective Willet

2014
Foxcatcher

as Jack

2014
Z Nation

as Gideon Gould

2013
Aftermath

as Tom Fiorini

2013
Zombie Night

as Patrick

2013
Dead in Tombstone

as Red Hernandez

2013
2013
Sexy Evil Genius

as Mark Von Dutch

2013
2013
The Goldbergs

as Security Guard

2013
The Goldbergs

as Mr. Perott

2013
The Blacklist

as Robby Ressler

2012
Honest Trailers

as Mike Engel (archive footage)

2011
Last Man Standing

as Nick Collins

2011
Awkward.

as Mr. Hart

2009
Community

as Mike

2009
Warehouse 13

as Walter Sykes

2008
2008
2008
Final Approach

as Greg Gilliad

2008
Gotham Tonight

as Mike Engel

2007
LA Blues

as Larry

2006
Psych

as Harris Trout

2005
2005
American Dad!

as (voice)

2005
American Dad!

as Tom (voice)

2004
Retrosexual: The '80s

as (archive footage)

2003
The New Tom Green Show

as Self - Guest

2002
The Dead Zone

as Johnny Smith

2002
The Dead Zone

as Johnny Smith

2001
61*

as Whitey Ford

2001
Freddy Got Fingered

as Mr. Davidson

2000
Les Vampyres

as Man with Torch

2000
2000
Happy Accidents

as Himself

1999
A Touch of Hope

as Dr. Neil Bachman

1999
Dirt Merchant

as Jeffry Alan Spacy

1999
Revenge

as Brian Cutler

1999
1998
The Killing Grounds

as Art Styles

1997
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

1996
Hijacked: Flight 285

as Peter Cronin

1996
The Grave

as Travis Purcell

1995
1995
Texas

as Yancey Quimper

1995
Deadly Games

as Chuck Manning

1994
Who Do I Gotta Kill?

as Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland

1994
Hail Caesar

as Julius Caesar McMurty

1994
Touched by an Angel

as Thomas Prescott

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as Dr. Johnson

1992
A Gnome Named Gnorm

as Casey Gallagher

1992
Into the Sun

as Tom Slade

1990
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese

as Voice of Mason Reese

1989
Tales from the Crypt

as Reggie Skulnick

1988
Johnny Be Good

as Johnny Walker

1986
Out of Bounds

as Daryl Cage

1985
1985
The Breakfast Club

as Brian Johnson

1984
Sixteen Candles

as Geek (Ted)

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Les Franklin

1983
National Lampoon's Vacation

as Rusty Griswold

1983
Running Out

as Kylie

1982
Six Pack

as Doc

1980
The Gold Bug

as The Boy

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters

Producer

2022
The Class

as Executive Producer

2007
LA Blues

as Executive Producer

2006
Hoboken Hollow

as Producer

Director

2002
The Dead Zone

as Director

1994
Hail Caesar

as Director