List of People From Montclair, New Jersey - Arts - Movies, Stage and Television

Movies, Stage and Television

  • Richard E. Besser (born 1959), former Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and currently Senior Health and Medical Editor at ABC News.
  • Richard Burgi (born 1958), film and television actor.
  • John Callahan (born 1953), actor, most notably of soaps such as Falcon Crest, Santa Barbara, All My Children and Days of Our Lives.
  • Stephen Colbert (born 1964), Host of The Colbert Report.
  • Margaret Colin (born 1957), actress who appeared in Independence Day.
  • R.J. Colleary (1928–2012), Peabody and Emmy Award winning comedy writer and producer for M*A*S*H and Barney Miller, who produced Benson and It's a Living.
  • Justin Deas (born 1948), actor.
  • Allen DuMont (1901–65), television pioneer.
  • Olympia Dukakis (born 1931), actress and former resident.
  • Beth Ehlers (born 1968), actress on Guiding Light and All My Children.
  • Frankie Faison (born 1949), actor in such films as The Silence of the Lambs.
  • Frank Field (born 1923), meteorologist, current resident.
  • Savion Glover (born 1974), tap dancer and choreographer.
  • Peter Greene (born 1965), actor appearing in such films as Pulp Fiction and The Mask.
  • Sterling Hayden (1916–1986), actor who appeared in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
  • Shuler Hensley (born 1967), actor of stage and screen, who won a Tony Award for his performance in Oklahoma!.
  • Louis Jean Heydt (1903–1960), actor.
  • Steve Hofstetter (born 1979), comedian / radio personality.
  • Janet Hubert-Whitten (born 1956), television and Broadway actress.
  • Vincent Irizarry (born 1959), Emmy-award winning actor on All My Children.
  • The Amazing Kreskin (born 1935), paranormalist / TV personality.
  • Eva La Rue (born 1966), actress, model, singer.
  • Nicole Leach (born 1979), actress.
  • Delroy Lindo (born 1952), actor nominated for Tony and SAG awards whose films include Get Shorty, The Cider House Rules, Crooklyn, Gone in 60 Seconds, Malcolm X and More American Graffiti.
  • Warren Littlefield, (born 1952), former TV executive who was President of NBC in the 1990s.
  • Priscilla Lopez (born 1948), actress, singer, dancer, Maid in Manhattan.
  • Tyler Mathisen (born 1957), writer, editor, co-anchor, analyst and co-host of CNBC's Power Lunch.
  • John Miller (born 1959), journalist, author, former FBI and ABC news reporter and anchorman, current CBS News Senior Correspondent and award winning investigative reporter.
  • Trevor Moore (born 1980), actor, writer, producer.
  • Joe Morton (born 1947), actor.
  • Roscoe Orman (born 1944), actor who has portrayed Gordon Robinson on Sesame Street.
  • Michael O'Leary (born 1958), played the character of Dr. Fredrick "Rick" Bauer on Guiding Light from 1983–1991 and from 1995 to the series' end in September 2009.
  • Stacie Passon, film director and screenwriter
  • Kal Penn (born 1977), actor, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
  • Todd Porter (born 1968), child/teen actor, Starstuff, Pinocchio's Christmas and Whiz Kids.
  • Christina Ricci (born 1980), actress, The Addams Family and Buffalo '66.
  • Rosemary Rice (1925–2012), actress who portrayed Katrin on Mama, voice-over artist and children's musician; born in Montclair
  • Bruce Sinofsky (born 1956), screenwriter, editor, producer and filmmaker who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 2012.
  • Steven Spielberg (born 1946), film director.
  • Elaine Stewart (1930–2011), model and Hollywood actress of the 1950s, promoted as a 'dark haired Marilyn Monroe'.
  • Michelle Thomas (1968–98), actress who played Myra on Family Matters.
  • Dallas Townsend (1919–95), anchor for the CBS World News Roundup.
  • Jake Weary (born 1990), actor, As The World Turns.
  • Mary Alice Williams (born 1949), television personality.
  • Wendy Williams (born 1964), TV & radio host, on radio with The Wendy Williams Experience and host of The Wendy Williams Show on television.
  • Patrick Wilson (born 1973), Broadway and film actor.
  • Alex Winter (born 1965), Broadway, television and film actor.
  • Kim Zimmer (born 1955), actress, Guiding Light.
  • Louis Zorich (born 1924), actor, former resident.

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