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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series
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Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though...
Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most...
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...
Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-born actor and photographer. He is known for beginning his long career as a child actor. His best known role is in the "Planet of the Apes" films and...
Edward James Olmos
Edward James "Eddie" Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is a Mexican American actor and director. His most memorable roles are Commander/Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series , Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime...
Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos, and for his role as Cypher in The Matrix.
Pantoliano was born in Hoboken...
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...
Ray Walston
Ray Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American stage, television and film actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences.
He was born Herman...
James Brolin
James Brolin (born July 18, 1940) is an American television, film, character actor, producer, and director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and husband of singer/actress...
Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is an American actor. Smits is perhaps best known for his roles on the 1980s legal drama L.A. Law as Richard Dysart's youngest uptight law partner, Victor Sifuentes, who was also the firm's pro-bono lawyer (a role he...
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.
Weaver was born William...
Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He also appeared as Det. Ed Green's temporary replacement, Det...
James Coco
James Coco (March 21, 1930 – February 25, 1987) was an American character actor.
Born in New York City, Coco began acting as a child. As an overweight and prematurely balding adult, he found himself relegated to character roles. He made his Broadway...
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...
Michael Badalucco
Michael Badalucco (born December 20, 1954) is an American actor most famous for his role as lawyer Jimmy Berluti on the ABC legal drama The Practice. He won the 1999 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for his role on the aforementioned show.
Badalucco,...
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American actor best known for his role as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing.
One of Whitford's most memorable roles was as the evil businessman Eric Gordon in...
Terry O'Quinn
Terrance "Terry" O'Quinn (born July 15, 1952), né Quinn, is an American actor. He made his debut in a 1980 television movie called F.D.R.: The Last Year. Since then, O'Quinn has had minor supporting roles in films and TV movies such as Young Guns,...
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...
Hector Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is a Golden Globe–nominated and Emmy Award–winning American actor. Born in New York, Elizondo excelled in sports and later contemplated in becoming an educator. He took dancing classes. Elizondo's first major...
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...
James Daly
James Daly (Irish: Séamas Ó Dálaigh; October 23, 1918 - July 3, 1978) was an American theater, film and television actor born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, who is perhaps best-known for his role as Dr. Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series...
Milburn Stone
Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American television actor, a nephew of Broadway comedian Fred Stone and the son of a shopkeeper, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS western series Gunsmoke.
Stone was...
John Spencer
John Spencer (December 20, 1946 – December 16, 2005) was an American television actor best known for his role as Leo McGarry, the White House Chief of Staff on the NBC political drama The West Wing.
Spencer was born as John Speshock in New York City...
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff also made his directorial debut with The West Wing,...
John Karlen
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz on May 28, 1933) is a character actor best known for playing Willie Loomis and other characters on the ABC cult serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes between 206 and 1245, which aired from 1966-1971. In 1971...
John Hillerman
John Benedict Hillerman (born December 20, 1932) is an American actor, best known for his starring role on the television show Magnum, P.I.
Hillerman was born in Denison, Texas, the son of Lenora Joan (née Medlinger) and Christopher Benedict...
Fyvush Finkel
Philip “Fyvush” Finkel (born October 9, 1922) is an American actor best known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award in 1994. He is also...
Chad Lowe
Charles “Chad” Lowe (born January 15, 1968) is an American television actor. He is the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe. He won an Emmy Award for his starring role in Life Goes On as a man suffering with HIV. He has also had recurring roles on ER,...
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard...
Gordon Clapp
Gordon Clapp (born September 24, 1948) is an American actor, known for playing the role of Detective Greg Medavoy for all 12 seasons on the television series NYPD Blue, winning an Emmy Award in 1998. He has appeared in numerous TV shows like Check...
Timothy Busfield
Timothy "Timmy B" Busfield (born June 12, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan), is an American actor and director best known for his role as Eliot Weston on the television series Thirtysomething and his recurring role as Danny Concannon on the television...
David Burns
David Burns (June 22, 1902 – March 12, 1971) was an American Broadway theatre and motion picture actor and singer.
Burns was born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in Face the Music in 1932, Cole...
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...
Richard Dysart
Richard A. Dysart (born March 30, 1929) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Leland McKenzie on the NBC legal drama L.A. Law.
Dysart served for four years in the Air Force during the Korean War. In 1979, he starred in the film...
Stuart Margolin
Stuart Margolin (b. January 31, 1940) is an American film and television actor and director.
Margolin is best known for his role on the television show The Rockford Files, playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin, the shifty friend and former cellmate of Jim...
Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson (born September 7, 1954) is an Emmy Award winning American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Linus on Lost and his performance on The Practice.
Emerson was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and grew up in the nearby town of Toledo,...
Larry Drake
Larry Drake (born February 21, 1950) is an American actor.
Drake was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Lorraine, a homemaker, and Raymond Drake, a drafting engineer for an oil company. Drake is renowned for his portrayal of developmentally...
Željko Ivanek
Željko Ivanek (IPA: [ˈʒɛʎko iˈʋanɛk]; born 15 August 1957) is an Emmy-award winning Slovenian American actor.
Ivanek was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then a part of Yugoslavia) and emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1960, when he was...
Gary Frank
Gary Frank (born October 9, 1950, in Spokane, Washington) is an American actor who won an Emmy Award for his performances on the TV series Family (which also starred James Broderick, Sada Thompson, Meredith Baxter, and Kristy McNichol). He has been...
Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad (October 16, 1925 - November 22, 1983) was an American television actor who was born in New York. Conrad had a long acting career in television from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of veteran cop...
Albert Paulsen
Albert Paulsen (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 13 December 1925—Los Angeles, California, 25 April 2004) was an Ecuadorian actor who appeared in many United States television series beginning in the 1960s, playing characters primarily of European origin. He...
