Film and Television
- Bryan Batt, actor
- Kitty Carlisle, entertainer
- John Carroll, actor and singer
- Patricia Clarkson, actor
- Marshall Colt, psychologist and former actor
- Ellen DeGeneres comedienne, talk show host
- Vance DeGeneres, actor and screenwriter
- Raquel "Rocsi" Diaz, television host and personality on BET's 106 and Park
- John Goodman, actor
- Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer
- Indigo (actress), actress
- Eddie Jemison,actor
- Bayn Johnson, former child actress and singer
- Leatrice Joy, actress
- Dorothy Lamour, actress
- John Larroquette, actor
- Sabrina LeBeauf,actress
- Anthony Mackie, actor
- Adah Isaacs Menken, actress
- Taylor Miller, actress
- Garrett Morris, comedian
- Arthel Neville, journalist
- Sid Noel, actor, portrayed Morgus the Magnificent
- Chris Owens, burlesque performer and entrepreneur
- Pauley Perrette, actress
- Tyler Perry, actor, director
- Wendell Pierce, actor, Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire
- Godfrey Reggio, experimental filmmaker/documentarian (Qatsi trilogy)
- Sydney Shields stage actress
- Richard Simmons, entertainer
- Ian Somerhalder, actor
- Ben Turpin, silent film comedian
- Ray Walston, actor
- Carl Weathers, actor, football player
- Walter Williams, Creator of Mr. Bill
- Reese Witherspoon, actress
- Allison Harvard, the runner-up of twelfth cycle of America's Next Top Model
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Famous quotes containing the words film and television, film and/or television:
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)