Gay Actors/Directors

                                                                                                                                          

 

 

             
    Chad Allen        Gay 

actor

June 5, 1974

 

best known for his role on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman he was also a regular on the following shows:  St. Elsewhere, My Two Dads, Webster and Our House.

Guest star on Air Wolf, Wonder Years, Star Trek TNG, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven.

 

    Steve Antin (actor & writer)

February 17, 1961

Gay

acting credits: Til There Was You, It's My Party, NYPD Blue, S.F.W., Survival Quest, Vietnam War Story, The Accused, Can A Guy Say No, The Goonies, The Last American Virgin and Sweet 16.

writing:  Chasing Papi, Young Americans

 

    Allan Ball (producer & writer)

 

Gay

TV Shows (writer & creator)  -  Six Feet Under, The M-Word, Oh Grow Up

TV Shows (writer)  -  Grace Under Fire and Cybil

Movies (writer)  -  American Beauty 

Academy Award - Best Screen Play                 

 

    Drew Barrymore  (actress & producer)

February 22, 1975

Bi-sexual

acting:  50 First Dates, Duplex, Charlie's Angels, Riding In Cars With Boys, Home Fries, Ever After, The Wedding Singer, Batman Forever, Poison Ivy and E.T.

producing:  Duplex, Charlies Angels, Donnie Darko, Never Been Kissed

 

    Amanda Bearse  (actress, writer, director)

August 9, 1958

Gay

acting:  Married With Children, Give Or Take An Inch, Here Come The Munsters, All My Children

directing:  Ladies Man, Reunited, Married With Children, Veronica's Closet, Darma & Greg, MadTv, Jesse, Ask Hariett, The Tom Show

writing:  Married With Children

 

    Marlon Brando  (actor)

April 3, 1924

Bisexual

acting credits:  The Godfather Trilogy, Don Juan DeMarco,  Christopher Columbus, The Freshman, Apocalypse Now, Superman, Last Tango In Paris, The Nightcomers, Bedtime Story, The Young Lions, Sayonara, Guys and Dolls, A Streetcar Named Desire, Julius Caesar, The Wild One, On the Waterfront

 

    Raymond Burr  (actor)

May 21, 1917 to Sept 12, 1993

Gay

acting credits:  Perry Mason, Ironside, Grass Roots, Delirious, Godzilla, Airplane II, The Night the City Screamed, Out of the Blue, The Return, Love's Savage Fury, A Cry in the Night, Secret of Treasure Moutain, Please Murder Me, Passion, Thunder Pass, Rear Window, Black Magic, Red Light, Criss Cross
 
    Dan Butler   (actor)

December 2, 1954

Gay

TV:  Frasier, More Tales of the City, Ally McBeal, Miss Match, Just Shoot Me, Star Trek - Voyager, Roseanne

Movies:  Enemy of the State, Silence of the Lambs, Fixing Frank, The Fan, Rising Sun, Dave, Captain Ron

Animation Voice:  Hey Arnold & The Sissy Duckling

 

    Richard Chamberlain (actor)  

March 31, 1934

Gay

TV Mini-series:  Shogun, The Thornbirds, Dream West, Too Rich - The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Movies:  Julius Caesar, The Three Musketeers, The Towering Inferno, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain and the lost City of Gold, The Pavilion

TV:  Dr. Kildare, Drew Carey, Touched By An Angel

 

    Margaret Cho (Actress, Comedian, Producer)

December 5, 1968

Bi-sexual

TV:  All American Girl, Angie, Life 360

Movies:  $pent, The Tavern, It's My Party, The Rugrats Movie, Sweethearts, The Doom Generation, Face/Off

Producer:  CHO Revolution, Notorious C.H.O., I'm the One I Want

 

    Gavin Crawford  (Actor, Comedian)

born in Lethbridge, AB not sure of the date

Gay

The Gavin Crawford Show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Red Green Show, Minor Adjustments, Dead By Monday, Hype, The Five Senses, My Dog Vincent, Made In Canada

 

    Allan Cumming  (Actor, Director, Writer, Producer)

January 27, 1965

Gay

Acting:  X-Men 2, Garfield - The Movie, Spy Kids, Titus, Eyes Wide Shut, Spice World, Emma, Golden Eye, Frasier, Sex and the City, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Mr. Bean, Saturday Night Live, Circle of Friends, Buddy, Get Carter, Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas

Director, Writer, Producer:  The Anniversary Party, Burn Your Phone, Butter, The High Life

 

    Portia De Rossi  (Actress)

January 31, 1973

Gay

TV:  Ally McBeal, Arrested Development, Too Something, Veronica's Closet, The Twilight Zone

Movies:  Cursed, The Night We Called It A Day, Who Is Cletus Tout, Stigmata, American Intellectuals, Scream 2, The Invisibles, The Woman in the Moon, Sirens

 

    James Dean  (Actor)

February 8, 1933 to September 30, 1955

Bi-sexual

Giant, Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, Harvest, Trouble Along the Way, Has Anybody Seen My Gal, Sailor Beware, Fixed Bayonets, Tales of Tomorrow

 

    Ellen Degenres  (actress, comedian, host and producer)

January 26, 1958

Gay

shows that had her name:  Ellen: The Ellen Degenres Show (2003), The Ellen Show (2001), Ellen (1994)

acting credits:  Finding Nemo, On the Edge, If These Walls Could Talk 2, Reaching Normal, The Love Letter, EdTV, Dr. Doolittle, Goodbye Lover, Nine, Mister Wrong, Coneheads

producer:  Ellen: The Ellen Degenres Show, The Ellen Show, Ellen, Here and Now

 

    Rupert Everett   (Actor)

May 29, 1959

Gay

acting credits:  Shrek 2 (voice), Stage Beauty, Mr. Ambassador, To Kill A King, The Wilde Thornberrys Movie (voice), The Importance of Being Ernest, Unconditional Love, The Next Best Thing, Inspector Gadget, A Midsummer Night's Dream, An Ideal Husband, Shakespeare In Love, My Best Friend's Wedding, Dunston Checks In, The Madness of King George, Hearts of Fire, The Right Hand Man

 

    Harvey Fierstein  (Actor, writer)

June 6, 1954

Gay

acting credits:  Duplex, Death to Smoochy, Playing Mona Lisa, Common Ground, Kull the Conqueror, Elmo Saves Christmas, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Harvest, Torch Song Trilogy, Ellen, Cheers, The Larry Sanders Show, The Simpsons, Murder She Wrote, Miami Vice     voice for animation:  Mulan, The Sissy Duckling, X-Chromosome

writer:  Common Ground, The Sissy Duckling, Torch Song Trilogy, Tidy Endings

 

    David Geffen      

 

    Sir John Gielgud  (actor)

April 14, 1904 to May 21, 2000

Gay

acting credits:  Julius Caesar, Hamlet, St. Joan, Becket, The Loved One, From Chekhov With Love, Assignment to Kill, Oh What A Lovely War, Probe, Home, Lost Horizon, Gold, Galileo, Aces High, Peter Pan (narrator), Caligula, The Elephant Man, The Formula, Arthur, Chariots of Fire, The Wicked Lady, Arthur 2, The Whistle Blower, First Knight, Shine, Quest For Camelot (voice), Elizabeth, Catastrophe

 

    Jason Gould (actor, writer, director, producer)

December 29, 1966

Gay

acting credits:  Boys Life 3, Inside Out, Subterfuge, The Prince of Tides, The Big Picture, Listen to Me, Say Anything, Up the Sandbox (uncredited role)

directing, writing & producing credits:  Boys Life 3, Inside Out

Interesting note:  Jason is the son of Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould

 

    Alec Guiness (actor)

April 2, 1914 to August 5, 2000

Bi-sexual

acting credits:  Evensong, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Last Holiday, The Mudlark, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Lady Killers, Barnacle Bill, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Hotel Paradiso, The Comedians, Scrooge, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Raise the Titanic, Lovesick, A Passage to India, Kafka, A Foreign Field, Mute Witness, Eskimo Day

 

    Randy Harrison (actor)

November 2, 1977

Gay

acting credits:  Queer As Folk (US), Bang Bang You're Dead

 

    Rock Hudson  (actor)

November 17, 1925 to October 2, 1985

Gay

acting credits:  The Desert Hawk, Tomahawk, Air Cadet, The Fat Man, Iron Man, Bend of the River, Scarlet Angels, Horizons West, The Golden Blade, Never Say Good-bye, Giant, A Farewell to Arms, Pillow Talk, Strange Bedfellows, Tobruk, Pretty Maids All in a Row, McMillan & Wife, Embryo, Wheels, Avalanche, The Martian Chronicles, The Mirror Crack'd, The Devlin Connection, The Vegas Strip War, Dynasty

 

    Angelina Jolie  (actress & producer)

June 4, 1975

Bi-Sexual

acting credits:  Hackers, Without Evidence, Love Is All There, Foxfire, Mojave Moon, True Women, George Wallace, Playing God, Gia, Hell's Kitchen, Playing By Heart, Pushing Tin, The Bone Collector, Girl Interupted, Gone In Sixty Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 1 & 2, Original Sin, Life Or Something Like It, Beyond Borders, Taking Lives

producing credit:  Lovesick

 

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