Anthony Michael Hall

**Michael Anthony Hall** (born April 14, 1968) is an American actor, movie producer and director.  He is known  as **Anthony Michael Hall**. He was in several movies for teens in the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child.  He first made a movie in 1980. Hall was born in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in New York, New York.

He joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1985–1986) and featured in movies, for example, Out of Bounds (1986), Johnny Be Good (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Six Degrees of Separation (1993). After a progression of minor jobs during the 1990s, he featured as Microsoft's Bill Gates in the 1999 TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley. He had the main job in the USA Network arrangement The Dead Zone from 2002 to 2007. In 2020, he showed up in ABC's The Goldbergs.

### Movies

|Year|Movie|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1980|_The Gold Bug_|Young Edgar Allan Poe|Made-for-TV||
|1981|_Jennifer's Journey_|Michael|||
|rowspan=2|1982|_Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn_|Huckleberry "Huck" Finn|Made-for-TV|
|_Six Pack_|Doc||||
|1983|_National Lampoon's Vacation_|Russell 'Rusty' Griswold|||
|1984|_Sixteen Candles_|Farmer Ted (The Geek)|||
|rowspan=2|1985|_The Breakfast Club_|Brian R. Johnson||
|_Weird Science_|Gary Wallace||||
|1986|_Out of Bounds_|Daryl Cage|||
|1988|_Johnny Be Good_|Johnny Walker|||
|rowspan=3|1990|_Edward Scissorhands_|Jim||
|_A Gnome Named Gnorm_|Casey Gallagher||||
|_Whatever Happened to Mason Reese_|Mason Reese|Voice|||
|1992|_Into the Sun_|Tom Slade|||
|1993|_Six Degrees of Separation_|Trent Conway|||
|rowspan=3|1994|_Hail Caesar_|Julius Caesar McMurty|Also director|
|_Texas_|Yancey Quimper|Made-for-TV|||
|_Who Do I Gotta Kill?_|Jimmy's Friend Kevin Friedland||||
|rowspan=2|1995|_A Bucket of Blood_|Walter Paisley|Made-for-TV|
|_Ripple_|Marshall Gray||||
|rowspan=3|1996|_Hijacked: Flight 285_|Peter Cronin|Made-for-TV|
|_Exit in Red_|Nick||||
|_The Grave_|Travis||||
|rowspan=2|1997|_Trojan War_|Bus Driver||
|_Cold Night Into Dawn_|Eddie Rodgers||||
|rowspan=5|1999|_Pirates of Silicon Valley_|Bill Gates|Made-for-TV|
|_A Touch of Hope_|Dean Kraft|Made-for-TV|||
|_2 Little, 2 Late_|Mr. Burggins||||
|_Revenge_|Brian Cutler||||
|_Dirt Merchant_|Jeffry Alan Spacy||||
|rowspan=2|2000|_Happy Accidents_|Himself|Cameo|
|_The Photographer_|Greg||||
|rowspan=5|2001|_Hitched_|Ted Robbins|Made-for-TV|
|_The Caveman's Valentine_|Bob||||
|_Freddy Got Fingered_|Mr. Dave Davidson||||
|_Hysteria - The Def Leppard Story_|Robert "Mutt" Lange||||
|_61*_|Whitey Ford|Made-for-TV|||
|2002|_All About the Benjamins_|Lil J|||
|2005|_Funny Valentine_|Josh|Also co-producer||
|rowspan=2|2007|_LA Blues_|Larry||
|_Final Approach_|Greg Gilliad|Made-for-TV|||
|2008|_The Dark Knight_|Mike Engel|||
|2009|_Aftermath_|Tom Fiorini|Also producer||

### Television

|Year|Show|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1985–1986|_Saturday Night Live_|Various|Cast member||
|1993|_Tales from the Crypt_|Reggie Skulnick|Ep. # 5.9||
|rowspan=2|1995|_NYPD Blue_|Hanson Riker|Ep. # 2.13|
|_Deadly Games_|Chuck Manley/The Camp Counselor|Ep. # 1.6|||
|rowspan=2|1996|_Murder, She Wrote_|Les Franklin|Ep. # 12.22|
|_Touched by an Angel_|Thomas Prescott|Ep. # 2.22|||
|rowspan=2|1997|_The Jamie Foxx Show_|Tim|Ep. # 2.6|
|_Diagnosis: Murder_|Dr. Johnson|Ep. # 5.6|||
|1998|_Poltergeist: The Legacy_|John Griffin|Ep. # 3.8||
|rowspan=2|1999|_Touched by an Angel_|Thomas Prescott|Ep. # 5.22|
|_The Crow: Stairway to Heaven_|Officer Reid Truax|Ep. # 1.21|||
|2007|_Entourage_|Himself|Ep. # 4.02||
|2002–2007|_The Dead Zone_|Johnny Smith|Starring role, also producer||
|2009-2011|_Community_|Mike|Ep. # 1.12, 2.23||
|2010|_CSI: Miami_|Dr. James Bradstone|Ep. # 8.14||
|2011|_No Ordinary Family_|Roy Minor|Ep. #16||
|2011|_Warehouse 13_|Walter Sykes|Ep. #3.09, 3.11, 3.12||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Anthony Michael Hall
- **image**: Gsamhall.jpg
- **caption**: Anthony Michael Hall at Creation Grand Slam XII in 2004
- **birth name**: Michael Anthony Hall
- **birth place**: West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, U.S.
- **occupation**: Actor, producer, director, musician
- **years active**: 1980–present
- **website**: http://www.anthonymichaelhall.net/