List of male theater actors

This is an alphabetical list of notable male theater actors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The list includes also male actors from other countries who have played leading or co-leading roles in notorious theaters of United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Actors who have become famous playing leading or co-leading parts in musicals are also listed. Further, a certain number of theater actors included in this list are known as movie actors, too.

See also: Actors and List of female theater actors.

List of actors

A

*John Alastair
*Eddie Albert
*Alan Arkin
*George Arliss
*Anthony Aston
*René Auberjonois
*Jean-Pierre Aumont

B

*Amitabh Bachchan
*Abhishek Bachchan
*Martin Ball
*Paul Basleigh
*Alan Bates
*David Beach
*Simon Russell Beale
*Orson Bean
*Harry Belafonte
*Drake Bell
*Theodore Bikel
*Eric Blore
*Liam Brennan
*Matthew Broderick
*Yul Brynner
*Richard Burton

C

*Len Cariou
*Peter Challis
*Berton Churchill
*Vincent Coleman
*Bert Convy
*Andy Couchman
*Michael Crawford
*Hume Cronyn
*Tim Curry
*Henry Ian Cusick

D

*Darius Danesh
*Brian Dennehy
*John Dossett
*Jonathan Dokuchitz
*Charles Durning

E

*Omena Edo-Ukeh
*Raúl Esparza
*Robert Evan

F

*Ralph Fiennes
*Albert Finney
*Morgan Freeman
*Pierre Fresnay
*Peter Forbes
*Micheal J. Fox

G

*Michael Gambon
*Victor Garber
*Vincent Gardenia
*David Garrick
*John Gielgud
*Will Geer
*John Gielgud
*Robert Goulet
*Joel Grey
*Richard Griffiths
*Alec Guinness
*Sacha Guitry
*Mike Gwilym

H

*James K. Hackett
*Jack Haley
*Robert Hands
*Gale Harold
*Richard Harris
*Randy Harrison
*Rex Harrison
*Nigel Hawthorne
*Sir Charles Hawtrey
*Murray Head
*Gregory Hines
*Ian Holm
*Anthony Hopkins
*Cecil Humphreys
*Walter Huston

I

*Jeremy Irons
*Henry Irving

J

*Hugh Jackman
*Derek Jacobi
*Lou Jacobi
*Louis Jouvet
*Curt Jurgens

K

*Boris Karloff
*Edmund Kean
*Ben Kingsley
*Michael Edo Keane[1]
*Werner Klemperer
*Jack Klugman
*Edward Kynaston

L

*Dinsdale Landen
*Nathan Lane
*Bert Lahr
*Peter Land
*Charles Laughton
*Anton Lesser
*Adrian Lester
*Norm Lewis
*Robert Lindsay
*Brenden J. Lovett
*Wilfred Lucas
*Lucy Liu
*Aurélien Lugné-Poe
*Alfred Lunt

M

*Joe Mantegna
*Jean Marais
*Constantine Maroulis
*Raymond Massey
*Walter Matthau
*John McEnery
*Peter McEnery
*Ian McKellen
*David Merrick
*Jean Meyer
*Henry Miller
*Mark L. Montgomery
*Robert Morse

O

*Denis O'Hare
*Laurence Olivier
*Jerry Orbach

P

*Kevin Pittman
*Adam Pascal
*Michael Pennington
*Christopher Plummer
*Robert Preston

Q

*Anthony Quayle
*Denis Quilley

R

*Tony Randall
*Dale Rapley
*Michael Redgrave
*Erik Rhodes
*Ralph Richardson
*David Rounds
*Laurance Rudic
*Mark Rylance
*Knud Riepen

S

*Paul Scofield
*Tony Shalhoub
*Heronimo Sehmi
*Martin Sheen
*Michael Sheen
*Martin Short
*Simon Slater
*Kevin Spacey
*Robert Stephens
*Patrick Stewart
*Dean Stobbart
*David Suchet
*Chambers Stevens

T

*Rohan Tickell
*Tommy Tune
*Chief Tahachee

W

*Sydney Walker
*Eli Wallach
*Greg Walloch
*Timothy West
*Bart Whiteman
*Colm Wilkinson
*Robin Williams

Y

*Welly Yang