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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series
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Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies....
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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Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933) is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.
Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as...
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is best known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, Terrence Mann in Field...
Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, best known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award,...
Jack Gilford
Jack Gilford (July 25, 1908 – June 4, 1990) was an American actor on Broadway, films and television.
Gilford was born Jacob Aaron Gellman on the lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, and grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His parents were...
Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. Carney portrayed the upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the...
Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp. Steve Keller, in the 1970s...
Will Geer
Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist. His original name was William Aughe Ghere. He is remembered for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons.
Geer was born in...
Harold Gould
Harold V. Goldstein (born December 10, 1923), best known by his stage name Harold Gould, is an American actor best known for playing Martin Morgenstern in the 1970s sitcoms Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Miles Webber on The Golden Girls....
Larry Gelman
Larry Gelman (born November 3, 1930) is an American film and television character actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Bernie Tupperman on the US TV series The Bob Newhart Show.
He also played Professor Albert Einstein in the real-time strategy...
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Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen, OC (born February 11, 1926) is a Canadian actor and comedian. Although Nielsen's acting career crosses a variety of genres in both television and films, he has achieved his greatest film success as Commander John J. Adams in...
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia (born January 3, 1930) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor and director, who specializes in character parts.
Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island, the son of Elena...
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian.
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early...
Tom Selleck
Thomas William "Tom" Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer, perhaps best known for his starring role on the television show Magnum, P.I., and for his recurring role as Dr. Richard Burke in Friends, he...
Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger (born May 31, 1949) is an American actor known mainly for his roles in action films.
Berenger was born as Thomas Michael Moore in Chicago to an Irish Catholic family. Berenger's father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Berenger...
Roscoe Lee Browne
Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1925 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing.
Browne was the son of Baptist minister Sylvanus Browne and his wife Lovie (born Lovie Lee). Born in Woodbury, New...
Earle Hyman
Earle Hyman (born October 11, 1926, Rocky Mount, North Carolina) is an American stage, television, and film actor. Hyman is best known for his recurring role on The Cosby Show as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable.
A native of Rocky Mount, North...
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Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955), better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor and producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action...
Tom Poston
Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston (October 17, 1921 – April 30, 2007) was an American television and film actor. He starred on television in a career that began in 1950. He appeared as a comic actor, game show panelist, comedy/variety show host, film actor...
John Glover
John Soursby Glover, Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is an American award-winning actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor in the TV series Smallville.
Glover was born in Kingston, New York...
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (pronounced /ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of the group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's...
Herb Edelman
Herbert "Herb" Edelman (November 5, 1933 – July 21, 1996) was an American actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work. One of his best remembered roles was as Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband...
Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (pronounced /ˈdʒækəbi/; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British.
Jacobi, an only child, was born in...
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer.
Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis was a childhood vaudevillian, and became internationally famous for his performances on Broadway and Las Vegas, as a...
Robert Picardo
Robert Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor. He may be best known for his portrayals of Dr. Dick Richards on ABC's China Beach, the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH), also known as The Doctor, on UPN's Star Trek: Voyager, The Cowboy...
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Cleavon Little
Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his lead role as Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early 1970s sitcom...
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Dick Van Dyke
Richard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang...
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin (born William Lyle Richardson; May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and also his portrayal in the movie A Christmas...
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David Huddleston
David William Huddleston (born September 17, 1930) is an American actor, best known for his roles in Santa Claus: The Movie and The Big Lebowski.
Huddleston was born in Vinton, Virginia, the son of Ismay Hope (née Dooley) and Lewis Melvin Huddleston...
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Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (born November 11, 1925) is an American comedian and actor.
Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore (née Rodgers), a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is...
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy, or The Danny Thomas Show. He is also the founder of St. Jude...
David Clennon
David Clennon (born May 10, 1943) is an American actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of Miles Drentell in the ABC series Thirtysomething. He revived the role in the TV show Once and Again. One of his most recent roles was his portrayal of the...
Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard (February 22, 1907 – January 10, 1997) was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.
Leonard was born Sheldon Leonard Bershad in New York City, the son of middle class Jewish parents Anna and...
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Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American voice actor who has had an active career in cartoons since the 1970s.
As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in...
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Jay Thomas
Jay Thomas (born July 12, 1948) is an American actor and disc jockey.
Thomas was born Jon Thomas Terrell in Kermit, Texas, the son of Katharine "Kathy" (née Guzzino) and T. Harry Terrell, Sr. He was raised in New Orleans, where he attended Jesuit...
Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and in the Wayne's World movies.
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the son of Billie, a schoolteacher, and William Carvey, a...
Bill Erwin
William Lindsey Erwin (born December 2, 1914), better known as Bill Erwin, is an American television, film, and stage actor. He has over 250 television shows and films to his credit. Erwin has won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, four Drama...
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William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek...
Martin Landau
Martin Landau (born June 20, 1928 ) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977). He received a Golden Globe Award in 1969 for...
Judge Reinhold
Edward "Judge" Reinhold (born May 21, 1957) is an American actor, perhaps best known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Santa Clause.
Reinhold was born Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr., in...
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Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley (born February 22, 1928) is an American actor.
Dooley was born Paul Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née Barringer), a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. Dooley was a keen cartoonist as a youth...
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer and comedian, best-known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as...
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Robert Pastorelli
Robert Joseph Pastorelli (June 21, 1954 – March 8, 2004) was an American actor. He had many roles on TV, in movies, and on the stage, but is probably best known for the seven years he played the portly painter Eldin Bernecky on the television series...
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Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.
Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't...
William H. Macy
William Hall Macy, Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor. He was nominmated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built...
Griffin Dunne
Thomas Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an American actor and film director.
Dunne was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz (née Griffin) Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice...
Larry Thomas
Larry Thomas (born c. 1961) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as the "The Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld. He has appeared in a number of films, TV shows, and commercials, and appears at autograph-signing shows across the country. He was...
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Harris Yulin
Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of Hollywood and television films.
Yulin first emerged in the Brian De Palma film Scarface (1983) as Mel Bernstein, a crooked "cop". Since then, he has appeared in...
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Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an American comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2...
Jerry Stiller
Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian and actor.
He spent many years in the comedy team Stiller and Meara with his wife Anne Meara. Stiller and Meara are the parents of actor Ben Stiller (with whom he co-starred in...
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939), is an English actor of stage and screen. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and...
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an American actor, comedian and singer, best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld.
Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish...
David Duchovny
David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.
Duchovny was born in New York City, New York, the son...
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a two-time Tony and Emmy award winning American actor of stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in...
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American actor. Bridges starred in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.
Bridges was born in San Leandro, California, the son of Harriet Evelyn (née Brown) and...
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE (13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years: he was a core member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 until 1982 and honoured as...
Hank Azaria
Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American film, television and stage actor, director, comedian and voice artist. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons. He performs the...
Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game....
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi (born December 17, 1974) is an American actor. His film credits include Perfect Stranger, Heaven, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Saving Private Ryan, That Thing You Do!, Boiler Room, subUrbia, The Gift, Basic, Lost in Translation, Flight of...
