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Anthony Michael Hall is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 14 april 1968 at West Roxbury (USA)
Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer, and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980. His films with director-screenwriter John Hughes, beginning with the popular 1983 comedy National Lampoon's Vacation and the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, shaped his early career. Hall's next movies with Hughes were the teen classics The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, both in 1985.
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. He had the leading role in the USA Network series The Dead Zone, from 2002 to 2007. During its run, the show was one of the highest-rated cable television series.
Hall attended St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School of New York before moving on to Manhattan's Professional Children's School. Hall began his acting career at age eight and continued throughout high school. "I did not go to college," he has said, "but I'm an avid reader in the ongoing process of educating myself." Through the 1980s, Hall's mother managed his career, eventually relinquishing that role to her second husband.
Hall assists at-risk youth through his literacy program, The Anthony Michael Hall Literacy Club, in association with Chapman University. The club provides an opportunity for the students to improve their literacy skills by exploring genres not typically used to enhance literacy, such as films, music and lyrics, scripts, and novels with audio. Following family tradition, Hall is pursuing his other passion, music. He is the lead singer and songwriter for his band, Hall of Mirrors, formed in 1998. The band released an album, Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors, through Hall's own RAM Records label in 1999, with collaborations from former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke and Prince's former keyboard player Tommy Barbarella.
Hall is godfather to Robert Downey, Jr.'s son Indio Falconer Downey.
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Birth name Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall
Nationality USA
Birth 14 april 1968 (56 years) at West Roxbury (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 14 april 1968 (56 years) at West Roxbury (USA)
Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer, and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980. His films with director-screenwriter John Hughes, beginning with the popular 1983 comedy National Lampoon's Vacation and the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, shaped his early career. Hall's next movies with Hughes were the teen classics The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, both in 1985.
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. He had the leading role in the USA Network series The Dead Zone, from 2002 to 2007. During its run, the show was one of the highest-rated cable television series.
Biography
Anthony Michael Hall was born in West Roxbury, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the only child of blues-jazz singer Mercedes Hall's first marriage. She divorced Hall's father, Larry, an auto-body-shop owner, when their son was six months old. When Hall was three, he and his mother relocated to the West Coast where she found work as a featured singer. After a year and a half, they returned to the East, eventually moving to New York City, where Hall grew up. Hall's ancestry is Irish and Italian. He has one half-sister, Mary Chestaro, from his mother's second marriage to Thomas Chestaro, a show business manager. His half-sister is pursuing a career as a singer under the name of Mary C. Hall uses the name Anthony, rather than Michael. He transposed his first and middle names when he entered show business because there was another actor named Michael Hall who was already a member of the Screen Actors Guild.Hall attended St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School of New York before moving on to Manhattan's Professional Children's School. Hall began his acting career at age eight and continued throughout high school. "I did not go to college," he has said, "but I'm an avid reader in the ongoing process of educating myself." Through the 1980s, Hall's mother managed his career, eventually relinquishing that role to her second husband.
Hall assists at-risk youth through his literacy program, The Anthony Michael Hall Literacy Club, in association with Chapman University. The club provides an opportunity for the students to improve their literacy skills by exploring genres not typically used to enhance literacy, such as films, music and lyrics, scripts, and novels with audio. Following family tradition, Hall is pursuing his other passion, music. He is the lead singer and songwriter for his band, Hall of Mirrors, formed in 1998. The band released an album, Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors, through Hall's own RAM Records label in 1999, with collaborations from former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke and Prince's former keyboard player Tommy Barbarella.
Hall is godfather to Robert Downey, Jr.'s son Indio Falconer Downey.
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Filmography of Anthony Michael Hall (42 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Halloween Kills | Actor | Tommy Doyle |
| 2018 | Bodied | Actor | Professor Merkin |
| 2017 | War Machine | Actor | Greg Pulver |
| 2017 | Live by Night | Actor | Gary Smith |
| 2015 | Results | Actor | Grigory |
| 2014 | Foxcatcher | Actor | Jack |
| 2013 | Sexy Evil Genius | Actor | Mark Von Dutch |
| 2013 | Dead in Tombstone | Actor | Red Hernandez |
| 2013 | Zombie Night | Actor | Patrick |
| 2011 | Last Man Standing | Actor | Nick Collins |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Actor | Mike Engel |
| 2008 | Final Approach | Actor | Greg Gilliad |
| 2006 | Hoboken Hollow | Producer | |
| 2002 | All About the Benjamins | Actor | Lil J |
| 2001 | Freddy Got Fingered | Actor | Mr. Davidson |
| 2001 | The Caveman's Valentine | Actor | Bob |
| 2001 | 61* | Actor | Whitey Ford |
| 2000 | Happy Accidents | Actor | Himself |
| 2000 | The Photographer | Actor | Greg |
| 1999 | 2 Little, 2 Late | Actor | Mr. Burggins |
| 1999 | Dirt Merchant | Actor | Jeffry Alan Spacy |
| 1999 | Pirates of Silicon Valley | Actor | Bill Gates |
| 1998 | A Touch of Hope | Actor | Dr. Neil Bachman |
| 1997 | Trojan War | Actor | Bus Driver |
| 1997 | Exit in Red | Actor | Nick |
| 1996 | The Grave | Actor | Travis Purcell |
| 1995 | A Bucket of Blood | Actor | Walter |
| 1994 | Who Do I Gotta Kill? | Actor | Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland |
| 1994 | Hail Caesar | Actor, Director | Julius Caesar McMurty |
| 1994 | Texas | Actor | Yancey Quimper |
| 1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Actor | Trent |
| 1992 | Into the Sun | Actor | Tom Slade |
| 1990 | Edward Scissorhands | Actor | Jim |
| 1990 | A Gnome Named Gnorm | Actor | Casey Gallagher |
| 1988 | Johnny Be Good | Actor | Johnny Walker |
| 1986 | Out of Bounds | Actor | Daryl Cage |
| 1985 | The Breakfast Club | Actor | Brian Johnson |
| 1985 | Weird Science | Actor | Gary Wallace |
| 1985 | National Lampoon's European Vacation | Actor | |
| 1984 | Sixteen Candles | Actor | Geek (Ted) |
| 1983 | National Lampoon's Vacation | Actor | Rusty Griswold |
| 1982 | Six Pack | Actor | Doc |