Persons




J.P. McGowan (1880 - 1952) Pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer
Walter McGrail (1888 - 1970) American film actor
Charles McGraw (1914 - 1980) American stage, film and television actor
Ewan McGregor (1971) Scottish actor and director
Malcolm McGregor (1892 - 1945) 
Dorothy McGuire (1916 - 2001) American actress
Kathryn McGuire (1903 - 1978) American dancer and silent-film actress
Frank McHugh (1898 - 1981) American film and television actor.
John McIntire (1907 - 1991) American character actor
Dave McKean (1963) 
Michael McKean (1947) American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician
Ian McKellen (1939) English actor
Siobhan McKenna (1923 - 1986) Irish stage and screen actress
Virginia McKenna (1931) 
Jacqueline McKenzie (1967) Australian film and stage actress
Leo McKern (1920 - 2002) Australian actor
Robert McKim (1886 - 1927) American actor of the silent film era and a performer in vaudeville
Sammy McKim (1924 - 2004) Canadian film actor and artist
Bill McKinney (1931 - 2011) American character actor
Florine McKinney (1909 - 1975) American actress
Nina Mae McKinney (1912 - 1967) American actress
Ray McKinnon (1957) American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer
Victor McLaglen (1886 - 1959) English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.
Norman McLaren (1914 - 1987) 
Norman Z. McLeod (1898 - 1964) American film director, cartoonist, and writer
Horace McMahon (1906 - 1971) American actor
Julian McMahon (1968) Australian actor and model
Kenneth McMillan (1932 - 1989) American actor
Scoot McNairy (1977) American actor and producer
Stephen McNally (1911 - 1994) American actor
Edward McNamara (1884 - 1944) American Broadway and Hollywood actor
John McNaughton (1950) American film and television director
Christopher McQuarrie (1968) American filmmaker
Butterfly McQueen (1911 - 1995) 
Steve McQueen (1930 - 1980) American actor known as 'The King of Cool'.
Graham McTavish (1961) 
Janet McTeer (1961) English actress
Lucille McVey (1890 - 1925) 
Robert McWade (1872 - 1938) American stage and film actor
Audrey Meadows (1922 - 1996) 
Colm Meaney (1953) Irish actor
Maria de Medeiros (1965) Portuguese actress, director, and singer.
Patricia Medina (1919 - 2012) English actress
Donald Meek (1878 - 1946) Scottish-American actor
George Meeker (1904 - 1984) American character film and Broadway actor
Ralph Meeker (1920 - 1988) 
Josephine van der Meer (1959) Dutch actress
Tim Meeuws (1950) Dutch actor.
Blanche Mehaffey (1908 - 1968) American showgirl and film actress
Maxim Mehmet (1975) German actor
L. Carlos Meier  Organist
Thomas Meighan (1879 - 1936) American actor of silent films and early talkies.
Izzy Meikle-Small (1996) British teenage actress
Edith Meinhard (1908) German actress
Josef Meinrad (1913 - 1996) Austrian actor.
Fernando Meirelles (1955) Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter
Kurt Meisel (1912 - 1994) Austrian actor and film director
Angelika Meissner (1940 - 2018) German actress and child star.
Maria Meissner (1905 - 1994) German actress
Jonas Mekas (1922 - 2019) Lithuanian American filmmaker
Fred Melamed (1956) American actor and writer.
Georges Melchior (1889 - 1944) French actor of the silent era
Ib Melchior (1917 - 2015) Danish-American novelist, short-story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter
Lauritz Melchior (1890 - 1973) 
Judson Melford (1900 - 1978) 
Georges Méliès (1861 - 1938) French magician, actor, and film director
Raquel Meller (1888 - 1962) Spanish diseuse, cuplé, and tonadilla singer and actress
Otto Mellies (1931 - 2020) German actor on stage, in film and television, and a voice actor
Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 - 1973) French filmmaker
Margarete Melzer (1907 - 1959) German actress
Menaka  
Ben Mendelsohn (1969) 
David Mendenhall (1971) American actor
Eva Mendes (1974) American actress and model
Lothar Mendes (1894 - 1974) German-born screenwriter and film director
Sam Mendes (1965) British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter
Chris Menges (1940) British cinematographer and film director
Adolphe Menjou (1890 - 1963) American actor, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for The Front Page (1931).
Marie Menken (1909 - 1970) American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite
Denis Menochet (1976) French actor
Oleg Menshikov (1960) Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer
Jirí Menzel (1938 - 2020) Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter
Tobias Menzies (1974) 
William Cameron Menzies (1896 - 1957) 
Kad Merad (1964) 
Jean Mercanton (1920 - 1947) French film actor
Daniëlla Mercelina  
Beryl Mercer (1882 - 1939) Spanish-born American actress of stage and screen who was based in the United States
Melina Mercouri (1920 - 1994) Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician
Burgess Meredith (1907 - 1997) 
Judi Meredith (1936) American actress
Bess Meredyth (1890 - 1969) American screenwriter and silent film actress
Claude Mérelle (1888 - 1976) French stage and film actress who appeared in numerous films during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the late 1920s
Philip Merivale (1886 - 1946) English film and stage actor and screenwriter
Käte Merk (1919 - 1997) German actress
Una Merkel (1903 - 1986) American Tony Award-winning stage and film actress.
Elsa Merlini (1903 - 1983) Italian film actress
Ethel Merman (1908 - 1984) American actress and singer
Cleo de Merode (1875 - 1966) French dancer of the Belle Époque
Gary Merrill (1915 - 1990)