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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film. Actors of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.
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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (pronounced /ˈdʒɒn mɑrˈsɛləs ˈhjuːstən/; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He was known for directing the films The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...
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Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his...
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century, a prodegy of Stella Adler, at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting which boasts students including Robert DeNiro, Melanie...
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
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Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn, Ph.D. (born November 22, 1932) is an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. His most famous film role is...
Albert Finney
Albert Finney, Jr. (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor. Hailed as a "second Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s. Although his early fame was later tempered by long absences from major...
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (pronounced /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvieɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries...
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Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor.
Balsam was born in The Bronx to Jewish parents Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, who was a manufacturer of ladies sportswear. He attended DeWitt Clinton High...
Ian Bannen
Ian Bannen (June 29, 1928 – November 3, 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.
Bannen was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, the son of Clare (née Galloway) and John James Bannen, a lawyer. Bannen served in the...
Frank Finlay
Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE (born 6 August 1926) is a British stage, film and television actor.
Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of Margaret and Josiah Finlay, a butcher. A devout Catholic, he belongs to the British Catholic Stage...
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his...
George Segal
George Segal, Jr. (born February 13, 1934) is an American actor of stage and screen.
Segal was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, the son of Fannie and George Segal, Sr. He was educated at George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding...
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Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross;...
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Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates, CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was a British actor of stage, screen and television.
Bates was born in Allestree, Derby, England on 17 February 1934, the eldest of three sons of Florence Mary (née Wheatcroft), a...
John McEnery
John McEnery (born 1 November 1943 in Birmingham, England) is a British actor and writer.
At age 20 he found his first stage work, spending three seasons with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He joined the British National Theatre Company in 1966....
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Gig Young
Gig Young (November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, his parents John and Emma Barr raised him and his older siblings in Washington D.C. He developed a...
John Mills
Sir John Mills, CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an Academy Award winning English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
Lewis Ernest Watts Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk,...
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins (born 29 December 1928, Oldham, Lancashire) is an English character actor and musical comedian.
Born in Derker, Oldham, he served an apprenticeship at the Oldham Repertory Theatre, taking a break during his years of study to...
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Edward Fox
Edward Charles Morrice Fox, OBE (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He is generally associated with the role of an upper-class Englishman. He is known particularly for playing the title role in the film The Day of...
Ben Johnson
Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher.
Johnson was born in Foraker, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian Reservation,...
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Michael Gough
Michael Gough (born December 3, 1956 in San Jose, California) is an American voice actor.
Notable roles in television animation include:
He is also known for doing:
Gough has also provided voice characterizations for many computer games, including:
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Ian Hendry
Ian Hendry (13 January 1931 — 24 December 1984) was an English film and television actor. He is best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s such as The Avengers, and for his roles in 1970s films such as Get Carter (1971)....
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Max Adrian
Max Adrian (1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was a Northern Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
In addition to his success as a character actor...
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito...
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Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 — 15 April 1982) was a BAFTA Award winning English actor. He was best known for playing Captain George Mainwaring in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977.
Arthur Lowe was born in Hayfield,...
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Randy Quaid
Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles in the National Lampoons Vacation movies, Independence Day (1996), Kingpin (1996), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the CBS miniseries...
Michael Lonsdale
Michael Lonsdale, sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931) is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows.
Lonsdale was born in Paris to a French mother and an English father. Lonsdale is perfectly bilingual...
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François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʀɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains...
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31...
Adam Faith
Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940, East Acton, London – 8 March 2003, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) was an English singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was...
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Brad Dourif
Bradford Claude "Brad" Dourif (born March 18, 1950) is a BAFTA-winning and Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated American film and television actor, best known for his roles as Younger Brother in Ragtime, Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,...
Jack Klugman
Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman (born April 27, 1922) is an American stage, film and television actor, known for his roles in sitcoms, movies, television and on Broadway. He is best-known for his role as Tony Randall's sloppy roommate, Oscar Madison,...
Michael Hordern
Sir Michael Murray Hordern (4 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre.
Hordern was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and educated at Brighton College, as was his brother Peter. He acted at...
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Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor. He was best-known for portraying Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and The Penguin in the...
Zero Mostel
Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye onstage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus onstage and onscreen in A Funny...
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Colin Blakely
Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish character actor. He was considered an actor of great power and presence, working chiefly in the theatre but also in television and films.
Born in Bangor, County Down,...
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Jack Warden
Jack Warden (September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an American character actor.
Warden was born John H. Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. (née Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. His father...
Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to...
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John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, and has since retained a career as a lead and supporting actor of many popular...
Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), the Academy Award (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States...
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor/director/producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which...
Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is an English actor known for his stage work and for many film roles, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the athletics trainer Sam...
Nigel Havers
Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1949 in London) is a BAFTA nominated English actor.
He is probably best known for his BAFTA-nominated role as Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film Chariots of Fire.
He is also known for his role as Dr. Tom...
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Colin Welland
Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934) lived in Boaler Street, Kensington, Liverpool, before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire as a child. His parents were Jack and Nora Williams. He is an English actor and screenwriter and a Rugby League fanatic....
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Roshan Seth
Roshan Seth (born April 2, 1942) is a Genie Award winning and BAFTA Award nominated English-Indian actor, who appears mainly in British and American films. He is most well-known for his critically acclaimed performances in the films Gandhi,...
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, recording and is also known for his...
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Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films.
Richardson...
Michael Elphick
Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English actor, noted for his deep-lined, ruggedly handsome features.
Elphick was known primarily in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in...
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Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 22 June 1944) is an Austrian actor, film director, and pedagogue.
Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria. He was the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Stenj, a civil servant. He subsequently took...
James Fox
James Fox, OBE (born 19 May 1939) is an English actor.
James Fox was born in London to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. He is also a paternal half-brother...
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Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey OBE (Punjabi: ਸਈਦ ਜਾਫ਼ਰੀ, سعيد جعفری; Hindi: सईद जाफ़री) (born 8 January 1929) is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits include The Man Who Would Be King...
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Bob Hoskins
Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born October 26, 1942) is an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986), and lighter roles in Who Framed...
Denholm Elliott
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits.. Today he is probably most known for his roles in the Indiana Jones movies as Dr. Marcus Brody.
Elliott...
Simon Callow
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer and theatre director.
Callow was born in Streatham, London, UK, to Yvonne Mary Guise, a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. He attended the London Oratory...
Ray McAnally
Ray McAnally (March 30, 1926 – June 15, 1989) was an Irish actor famous for his performances in films such as The Mission, My Left Foot, and A Very British Coup.
Ray McAnally was born in Buncrana, a seaside town located on the scenic Inishowen...
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.
He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven...
John Thaw
John Edward Thaw CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor, who made his television début in the military police drama Redcap (1964–1966), and subsequently appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most...
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Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil is a French actor born on January 24, 1950, in Algiers, French Algeria, to parents who were both opera singers. His starring role in Jean de Florette brought him international recognition, and he has since become one of the best-known...
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and currently a novelist.
Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination. His...
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Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
Palin wrote most of his material...
