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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 14, 1968
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall
- آنتونی مایکل هال
Anthony Michael Hall
2.6 Popularity
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
8.0
Self
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
5.0
Jerry Baskin
Roswell Delirium
2025
5.7
Ezekiel Swann
Trigger Warning
2024
6.0
Sam Waitman
Air Force One Down
2024
3.4
Faulk
The Class
2022
6.0
Auditioner
Clerks III
2022
8.0
Agent William Baron
Bosch: Legacy
2022
8.1
Zachary Beck
Reacher
2022
6.4
Tommy Doyle
Halloween Kills
2021
5.0
Self
The D'Amelio Show
2021
Credits
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
as Self
2025
8.0
Roswell Delirium
as Jerry Baskin
2025
5.0
Trigger Warning
as Ezekiel Swann
2024
5.7
Air Force One Down
as Sam Waitman
2024
6.0
The Class
as Faulk
2022
3.4
Clerks III
as Auditioner
2022
6.0
Bosch: Legacy
as Agent William Baron
2022
8.0
Reacher
as Zachary Beck
2022
8.1
Halloween Kills
as Tommy Doyle
2021
6.4
The D'Amelio Show
as Self
2021
5.0
Mike Tyson: The Knockout
2021
10.0
Something About Her
as Jack
2021
3.0
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
as Self - Contestant
2021
7.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
Bodied
as Professor Merkin
2018
7.2
War Machine
as Greg Pulver
2017
5.6
The Lears
as Glenn Lear
2017
5.3
Riverdale
as Principal Featherhead
2017
8.4
Live by Night
as Gary Smith
2016
6.3
Natural Selection
as Mr. Stevenson
2016
5.4
Rosewood
as Detective Willet
2015
6.5
Results
as Grigory
2015
5.0
Foxcatcher
as Jack
2014
6.7
Z Nation
as Gideon Gould
2014
7.3
Aftermath
as Tom Fiorini
2013
4.8
Zombie Night
as Patrick
2013
3.9
Dead in Tombstone
as Red Hernandez
2013
5.0
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as Mister Kitson
2013
7.5
The Goldbergs
as Security Guard
2013
7.5
The Goldbergs
as Mr. Perott
2013
7.5
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
as Self (archive footage)
2013
6.8
The Blacklist
as Robby Ressler
2013
7.6
Friend Request
as Burk
2013
5.4
Sexy Evil Genius
as Mark Von Dutch
2013
6.0
Honest Trailers
as Mike Engel (archive footage)
2012
6.4
Awkward.
as Mr. Hart
2011
7.4
Last Man Standing
as Nick Collins
2011
4.4
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
as Self
2011
6.5
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
2009
7.3
Community
as Mike
2009
8.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Warehouse 13
as Walter Sykes
2009
7.7
Sincerely Yours
as Self
2008
0.0
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
as Himself
2008
0.0
The Dark Knight
as Engel
2008
8.5
Gotham Tonight
as Mike Engel
2008
7.3
Final Approach
as Greg Gilliad
2008
5.0
LA Blues
as Larry
2007
0.0
Psych
as Harris Trout
2006
7.9
🎬
Funny Valentine
as Josh
2005
5.0
American Dad!
as (voice)
2005
7.0
American Dad!
as Tom (voice)
2005
7.0
🎬
Retrosexual: The '80s
as (archive footage)
2004
10.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Entourage
2004
7.3
The Soup
as Self
2004
6.2
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
as Self
2003
6.7
🎬
The New Tom Green Show
as Self - Guest
2003
4.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
The Dead Zone
as Johnny Smith
2002
7.5
CSI: Miami
2002
7.7
The Dead Zone
as Johnny Smith
2002
7.2
All About the Benjamins
as Lil J
2002
5.8
🎬
Hitched
2001
4.0
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
as Mutt Lange
2001
7.1
61*
as Whitey Ford
2001
7.0
Freddy Got Fingered
as Mr. Davidson
2001
4.7
The Caveman's Valentine
as Bob
2001
5.8
Les Vampyres
as Man with Torch
2000
0.0
The Photographer
as Greg
2000
3.5
Happy Accidents
as Himself
2000
6.8
A Touch of Hope
as Dr. Neil Bachman
1999
5.0
Dirt Merchant
as Jeffry Alan Spacy
1999
2.9
Revenge
as Brian Cutler
1999
3.0
Pirates of Silicon Valley
as Bill Gates
1999
7.1
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
1998
6.6
The Killing Grounds
as Art Styles
1998
4.7
Cold Night Into Dawn
as Eddie Rogers
1997
2.0
Trojan War
as Bus Driver
1997
6.1
Exit in Red
as Nick
1997
3.7
The View
as Self
1997
4.5
The Hunger
as Michael
1997
5.7
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996
6.7
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Hijacked: Flight 285
as Peter Cronin
1996
5.3
The Grave
as Travis Purcell
1996
4.9
A Bucket of Blood
as Walter
1995
5.1
Deadly Games
as Chuck Manning
1995
8.0
Texas
as Yancey Quimper
1995
5.0
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
as Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland
1994
4.1
Touched by an Angel
as Thomas Prescott
1994
7.2
Hail Caesar
as Julius Caesar McMurty
1994
3.4
Six Degrees of Separation
as Trent
1993
6.4
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Johnson
1993
7.1
Into the Sun
as Tom Slade
1992
4.7
A Gnome Named Gnorm
as Casey Gallagher
1991
4.6
Edward Scissorhands
as Jim
1990
7.7
🎬
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
as Voice of Mason Reese
1990
2.5
Tales from the Crypt
as Reggie Skulnick
1989
8.0
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.5
Johnny Be Good
as Johnny Walker
1988
4.6
Out of Bounds
as Daryl Cage
1986
5.5
Weird Science
as Gary
1985
6.5
The Breakfast Club
as Brian Johnson
1985
7.7
Murder, She Wrote
as Les Franklin
1984
7.5
Sixteen Candles
as Geek (Ted)
1984
6.8
National Lampoon's Vacation
as Rusty Griswold
1983
7.1
Running Out
as Kylie
1983
0.0
Six Pack
as Doc
1982
6.5
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Huck Finn
1982
5.0
The Gold Bug
as The Boy
1980
5.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1975
6.9
🎬
Halloween Store
as Sheriff Van Hollis
N/A
0.0