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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Guest Supporting Actor. The category for guest supporting actor was withdrawn after and only one award in 1977.
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Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch or И́сер Даниело́вич; December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer recognized for his prominent cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once...
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Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born January 24, 1917) is an American actor whose career has spanned for over five decades. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the motion picture Marty. On television, he is known for playing the title character in the 1960s...
Red Buttons
Red Buttons (February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an American comedian and actor.
Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 in New York City to Jewish immigrants. At sixteen years old, Buttons got a job as an entertaining bellhop at...
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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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...
Paul Winfield
Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film...
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...
James Whitmore
James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film actor.
Born as James Allen Whitmore, Jr. in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle (née Crane) and James Allen Whitmore Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended...
Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby, born Wilfred Bailey Bixby, (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) was an American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades; he appeared on stage, in motion pictures and...
Tony Musante
Tony Musante (born June 30, 1936) is an American actor.
Musante was born Anthony Peter Musante, Jr. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant. He attended Oberlin...
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LeVar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. (born February 16, 1957 in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC...
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Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen (born October 10, 1946, in Laurinburg, North Carolina) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.
He was nominated for a...
Edward Herrmann
Edward Kirk Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an Emmy Award winning and Tony Award nominated American television and film actor. He is best known for his role as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls.
Herrmann was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jean...
Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974)....
John Amos
John Amos (born December 27, 1939) is an American actor and former football player. He is best known for his TV roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, the miniseries Roots, and a recurring role in The West Wing. He has also appeared on...
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Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor who has been starring in U.S. television programs and films since the mid-1970s. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the popular CBS series NCIS.
Harmon was born Thomas...
Robert Reed
Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was an American stage and television actor.
Reed was born John Robert Rietz, in Highland Park, Illinois, the son of Helen (née Teaverbaugh) and John R. Rietz. Reed spent much of his childhood in Muskogee...
Ricardo Montalbán
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (pronounced /ˌmɒntəlˈbɑːn/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˌmontalˈβan] November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009), was a Mexican-born American radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning...
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Henry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer, and author.
Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. "The Fonz", a leather-clad greaser and auto mechanic, started...
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...
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor.
He was born in New York City, New York as...
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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....
John Rubinstein
John Arthur Rubinstein (born December 8, 1946) is an American film, Broadway, and television actor, a composer of film and theatre music, and a director in theatre and television.
Rubinstein was born in Los Angeles, the son of Aniela (née Młynarska)...
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Barnard Hughes
Bernard Aloysius Kiernan “Barnard” Hughes (July 16, 1915 – July 11, 2006) was an American actor of theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering...
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David Cassidy
David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his role as Shirley Jones's eldest son, Keith Partridge, in the 1970s musical/sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. ...
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Judd Hirsch
Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor known for playing the characters Alex Reiger on the television comedy series Taxi and Alan Eppes on the current CBS series Numb3rs.
Hirsch was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of...
Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American film and television actor and former President of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. More recently,...
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor.
Gossett, Jr. was born in Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York to Hellen Rebecca (née Wray), a nurse, and Louis Gossett, Sr., a porter. His stage debut came at age 16 in...
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 2, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Pryor was known for his unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was renowned for his frequent use...
John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced /ˈlɪθɡoʊ/; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and author, best known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He has also achieved success on stage, film,...
Joe Spano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Spano (born July 7, 1946) is an American actor who was formerly perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Henry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues but who is now recognized for his work in NCIS.
He was born in San Francisco, California,...
Rene Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940) is an American actor, known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the movie version of M*A*S*H and for creating a number of characters in long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson ...
William Hickey
William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He was known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film Prizzi's Honor.
Hickey was born in Brooklyn, the son of Nora and Edward...
James Woods
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American film, stage and television actor and comedian. Woods is best known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Ghosts of Mississippi, Salvador, Casino and as the Disney villain...
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Peter Weitz (born May 27, 1943) is an American actor. He is perhaps best-known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama...
James Stacy
James Stacy (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor whose career was effectively ended in a motorcycle crash which left him a multiple amputee and took the life of his girlfriend. Returning to acting after his recovery, Stacy retired from...
Steve Allen
Steve Allen (December 26, 1921(1921-12-26) – October 30, 2000), born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen, was an American television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best-known for...
Bob Newhart
George Robert "Bob" Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s...
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...
Dabney Coleman
Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his usually present mustache.
Coleman was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Mary Wharton (née Johns) and Melvin Randolph Coleman. He...
Richard Kiley
Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his voice work, as narrator of various documentary series, and for having played Don Quixote in the original 1965 production...
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when...
Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director.
Davison was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1964 at Marple Newtown Senior High School, the son of Marian E. (née Holmes), a secretary, and Clair W. Davison, a...
Edward Woodward
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (born 1 June, 1930, Croydon) is an English actor and singer.
Originally a Shakespearian stage actor, he is best known for his role in the 1960s-1970s spy series, Callan, for the 1973 film The Wicker Man and the 1980...
Peter Frechette
Peter Frechette (born October 3, 1956) is an American film, stage and television actor.
Born and raised in Coventry, Rhode Island, Frechette earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from the University of Rhode Island. Off-Broadway he has appeared...
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Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002...
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David Opatoshu
David Opatoshu (January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was born as David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was reared and educated. His father was the Yiddish writer, Joseph Opatoshu.
His career in...
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Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, Cuba Gooding,...
Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American actor.
Michael Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee to Virginia and William Jeter, a dentist. Jeter was a student at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) when...
Tim Curry
Timothy James "Tim" Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor, singer, composer and voice artist, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Curry first...
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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...
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons on the TV series Law & Order.
Moriarty, an Irish American, was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son...
John Larroquette
John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series Night Court, Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride and Carl Sack in Boston Legal....
Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American character actor. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals; two of his best-known roles are as a cuckolded husband in the Coen Brothers crime thriller Blood Simple, and the...
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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...
Milton Berle
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. He is best known for his role on the television series Roseanne, as well as his film work with the Coen brothers.
Goodman was born in Affton, Missouri, the son of Virginia, a store...
James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American film and television actor. He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.
Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California and...
Alan Rosenberg
Alan Rosenberg (born October 4, 1950) is an American actor of both stage and screen. From 2005 to 2009, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union.
Rosenberg was born and raised in...
