List of University of Missouri Alumni - Arts, Film, and Literature

Arts, Film, and Literature

• Stephen Morehouse Avery, Hollywood screenwriter
• Tom Berenger, Journalism School. His portrait hung in the Arts & Science Office in Jesse Hall during the '80s and '90s.
• Neal E. Boyd (BA 2001), musician, Winner 2008 America's Got Talent
• Brent Briscoe MU 1984 actor
• Kate Capshaw (BS 1975, MEd 1977, ΑΔΠ), actress
• Chris Cooper (BGS 1976), actor
• Candice Crawford, (BJ 2009, ΠΒΦ), Miss Missouri and Miss USA finalist, TV news reporter
• Sheryl Crow (BS Ed 1984, ΚΑΘ, ΟΔΚ, SAI), musician
• Jon Hamm, actor
• William Least Heat-Moon (BA 1961, MA 1962, PhD 1973, BJ 1978, ΤΚΕ), author
• Robert Loggia (BJ 1951 ΑΣΦ), actor
• David Koechner, actor
• Blake Kuhre (BJ 2003), host, "Wakey Blakey" on Radio Disney and Disney Channel
• Harris Merton Lyon, short story writer
• Richard Matheson (BJ 1949, ΦΜΑ), author and screenwriter
• Marijane Meaker (BA 1949 ΑΔΠ) novelist
• Pamela Morsi, USA Today bestselling author
• Suniti Namjoshi, writer.
• Brad Pitt (ΣΧ), actor (Journalism School, remains 1 credit short of graduation)
• SallyAnn Salsano, producer and creator of reality television shows for MTV including Jersey Shore
• Ed Sanders (dropout 1958), poet, lead singer of the Fugs, social activist, author
• George C. Scott, actor
• Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican telenovela producer/director noted for her work on Televisa.
• Mort Walker (BA 1948, ΚΣ), cartoonist (A life size bronze statue of his creation Beetle Bailey sits in front of alumni center.)
• George Woodward Warder (BA about 1866), eccentric lawyer, real estate speculator, poet, philosopher, cosmologist
• Kurt Williams (BA 1986 ΛΧΑ) visual effects producer, The Incredible Hulk and Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Tennessee Williams (ΑΤΩ), playwright (attended)