Cast & creator
Anthony Michael Hall
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Reacher
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. 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).
Also known as: Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall, آنتونی مایکل هال
73
film credits
50
television credits
114
1975–2025 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (123)
Showing 123 of 123 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
Reacher
Zachary Beck
2022
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
2019
American Dad!
(voice)
2005American Dad!
Tom (voice)
2005
Saturday Night Live
Self - Various Characters
1975
The Blacklist
Robby Ressler
2013
The View
Self
1997
CSI: Miami
James Bradstone
2002
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Diagnosis: Murder
Dr. Johnson
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Psych
Harris Trout
2006
Murder, She Wrote
Les Franklin
1984
Riverdale
Principal Featherhead
2017
The Goldbergs
Security Guard
2013The Goldbergs
Mr. Perott
2013
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Mister Kitson
2013
Entourage
Anthony Michael Hall
2004
Touched by an Angel
Thomas Prescott
1994
Community
Mike
2009
Wednesday
Ron Krueger
2022
Warehouse 13
Walter Sykes
2009
The Dark Knight
Engel
2008The Tony Danza Show
Self - Guest
2004
The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith
2002The Dead Zone
Director
2002The Dead Zone
Co-Producer
2002The Dead Zone
Producer
2002The Dead Zone
Co-Executive Producer
2002
The Soup
Self
2004
Tales from the Crypt
Reggie Skulnick
1989
Z Nation
Gideon Gould
2014
Rosewood
Detective Willet
2015
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
2009
The Jamie Foxx Show
Tim
1996
Bosch: Legacy
Agent William Baron
2022
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Self - Contestant
2021
Awkward.
Mr. Hart
2011
Edward Scissorhands
Jim
1990
The Hunger
Michael
1997
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
1998The New Tom Green Show
Self - Guest
2003
Halloween Kills
Tommy Doyle
2021
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Self
2025
National Lampoon's Vacation
Rusty Griswold
1983
Live by Night
Gary L. Smith
2016
The Breakfast Club
Brian Johnson
1985
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
Self
2003
Sixteen Candles
Geek (Ted)
1984
Weird Science
Gary
1985
Trigger Warning
Ezekiel Swann
2024
War Machine
Greg Pulver
2017
Deadly Games
Chuck Manning
1995
The D'Amelio Show
Self
2021
Foxcatcher
Jack
2014
Clerks III
Auditioner
2022
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Caveman's Valentine
Bob
2001
Air Force One Down
Sam Waitman
2024
Johnny Be Good
Johnny Walker
1988
Freddy Got Fingered
Mr. Davidson
2001
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Bill Gates
1999
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Self
2025Retrosexual: The '80s
(archive footage)
2004
Trojan War
Bus Driver
1997
All About the Benjamins
Lil J
2002
Six Degrees of Separation
Trent
1993
Gotham Tonight
Mike Engel
2008
Dead in Tombstone
Red Hernandez
2013
A Gnome Named Gnorm
Casey Gallagher
1991
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
Mutt Lange
2001
Into the Sun
Tom Slade
1992
Texas
Yancey Quimper
1995
Happy Accidents
Anthony Michael Hall
2000
Out of Bounds
Daryl Cage
1986
Sexy Evil Genius
Mark Von Dutch
2013
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland
1994
Bodied
Professor Merkin
2018
Results
Grigory
2015
A Bucket of Blood
Walter
1995
61*
Whitey Ford
2001
Dirt Merchant
Jeffry Alan Spacy
1999
Final Approach
Greg Gilliad
2008
Cold Night Into Dawn
Eddie Rogers
1997
Halloween Store
Sheriff Van Hollis
Hail Caesar
Julius Caesar McMurty
1994Hail Caesar
Director
1994
Funny Valentine
Josh
2005
Six Pack
Doc
1982
Zombie Night
Patrick
2013
Sincerely Yours
Self
2008
The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith
2002Hitched
Ted
2001
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
Self
2011
A Touch of Hope
Dr. Neil Bachman
1999
The Killing Grounds
Art Styles
1998
The Grave
Travis Purcell
1996
Last Man Standing
Nick Collins
2011
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Huck Finn
1982
Hoboken Hollow
Producer
2006
Friend Request
Burk
2013
Something About Her
Jack
2021
The Photographer
Greg
2000
Hijacked: Flight 285
Peter Cronin
1996
Roswell Delirium
Jerry Baskin
2025Roswell Delirium
Producer
2025
The Lears
Glenn Lear
2017
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
Voice of Mason Reese
1990
The Gold Bug
The Boy
1980
Running Out
Kylie
1983
Aftermath
Tom Fiorini
2013
Exit in Red
Nick
1997
Natural Selection
Mr. Stevenson
2016
The Class
Faulk
2022The Class
Executive Producer
2022
Revenge
Brian Cutler
1999
LA Blues
Larry
2007LA Blues
Executive Producer
2007
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
Himself
2008