Actors and Directors
- Angela Aames (1956–1988), actress; born in Pierre
- Catherine Bach (born 1954), actress; grew up in South Dakota
- Bruce Baillie (born 1931), experimental filmmaker; born in Aberdeen
- Rachael Bella (born 1984), actress; born in Vermillion
- Shannon Bolin (born 1917), actress, singer; born in Spencer
- Moses Brings Plenty (born 1969), actor; born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
- Christopher Cain (born 1943), actor, director, screenwriter; born in Sioux Falls
- Leslie Carlson (born 1933), actor; born in Mitchell
- Harvey B. Dunn (1894–1968), actor; born in Yankton
- Judith Evelyn (1913–1967), actress; born in Seneca
- Amy Hill (born 1953), actress; born in Deadwood
- Candace Hilligoss (born 1935), actress; born in Huron
- Ron Holgate (born 1937), actress, opera singer; born in Aberdeen
- January Jones (born 1978), actress; born in Brookings
- Eddie Little Sky (1926–1997), actor; born in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
- Beth Maitland (born 1958), actress; born in Rapid City
- Gail Matthius (born 1953), actress, voice actress; born in Sioux Falls
- Russell Means (1939-2012), actor, left-wing activist; born in Wanblee
- John Miljan (1892–1960), actor; born in Lead City
- Debra Mooney (born 1947), actress; born in Aberdeen
- Gary Owens (born 1936), voice actor, disc jockey; born in Mitchell
- Cheryl Ladd (born 1951), actress, singer; born in Huron
- Cliff Lyons (1901–1974), stuntman, actor; born in Lake County
- Dorothy Provine (1937–2010), actress, singer, dancer, comedienne; born in Deadwood
- Gene Roth (1903–1976), actor; born in Redfield
- Chic Sale (1885–1936), actor, vaudevillian; born in Huron
- Michael Spears (born 1977), actor; born in Lower Brulé Tribe, South Dakota
- Michael Steinberg (born 1959), director, writer; born in Rapid City
- Joan Tabor (1932–1968), actress; born in Sioux Falls
- Delores Taylor (born 1939), actress, writer, director; born in Winner
- Casey Tibbs (1929–1990), cowboy, rodeo performer, actor; born in Fort Pierre
- Mamie Van Doren (born 1931), actress; born in Rowena
- Jerry verDorn (born 1949), actor; born in Sioux Falls
- Alfred L. Werker (1896–1975), director; born in Deadwood
- John War Eagle (1901–1991), actor; born in the Yankton Indian Reservation
- Floyd Red Crow Westerman (1936–2007), actor, left-wing activist; born in the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation
- Timmy Williams (born 1981), actor, comedian; born in Watertown
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“I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.”
—Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins)
“It has no share in the leadership of thought: it does not even reflect its current. It does not create beauty: it apes fashion. It does not produce personal skill: our actors and actresses, with the exception of a few persons with natural gifts and graces, mostly miscultivated or half-cultivated, are simply the middle-class section of the residuum.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)