Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. The son of Irving and Bessie (Mathias) Reiner, he is the father of actor-turned-director Rob Reiner (b. 1945), poet, playwright and author Sylvia Anne (Annie) Reiner (b. 1947) and painter, actor, director Lucas Reiner (b. 1960), and husband of Estelle Lebost Reiner (b. 1914). Reiner won nine Emmys during his career.

Born of Jewish descent in the Bronx, New York, Reiner was educated at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and served in the United States Army during World War II.

Leonard Marx, known as Chico, (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was one of the Marx Brothers.

He was originally nicknamed Chicko due to his reputation as a ladies man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally dropped the "k" in his name and it became Chico. It was still pronounced "Chick-o" although those who were unaware of its origin tended to pronounce it "Cheek-o". Radio recordings from the 1940s exist where announcers and fellow actors mispronounce the nickname, but Chico apparently felt it was unnecessary to correct them. As late as the 1950s, even Groucho used the "wrong" pronunciation for comedic effect. A guest on You Bet Your Life told the quizmaster she came from Chico, California and Groucho responded that he had a brother named "Cheek-oh." (Chico can sometimes be spotted in cutaways to the studio audience, out of character and costume.)

Corey Scott Feldman (born July 16, 1971) is an American film and television actor. To date, he has appeared in 10 feature films, and became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films The Goonies and Stand by Me.

Feldman, the second of five children, was born in Chatsworth, California, the son of Sheila (née Goldstein), a cocktail waitress who was once a Playboy Bunny, and Bob Feldman, a rock producer and musician. Feldman is Jewish and has two brothers, Eden and Devin, as well as two sisters, Mindy and Brittnie. Mindy Feldman started her career at age six, as the youngest member of the new Mickey Mouse Club in the '70s.

Corey Ian Haim (born December 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films such as Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, and in particular, collaborated numerous times with Corey Feldman and the pair were dubbed "the two Coreys". Haim and Feldman currently star in a television show titled The Two Coreys, airing on the A&E Network. 

Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Judy, an Israeli-born computer operator, and Bernie Haim, who worked in sales. Haim is Jewish. He was enlisted in acting lessons by his mother in an attempt to help him overcome his shyness. Haim, not particularly fascinated by acting, practiced other hobbies such as ice hockey, playing music on his keyboard and collecting comic books.

Cornelius Louis Wilde (October 13, 1915 – October 16, 1989) was an American actor and film director.

Wilde was born 1915 in Manhattan, to Hungarian Jewish parents Béla Weisz and Renée Vojtech. A talented linguist, and astute mimic, he had an ear for languages which became apparent later in his acting career. He qualified for the United States fencing team prior to the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, but quit the team just prior to the games saying that it was in order to take a role in the theater.

Curly Howard (born Jerome Lester Horwitz) (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine, although Curly was more or less the breakout character. Curly is generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He is well known for his high-pitched voice, chuckling laugh (commonly rendered as "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!"), and excited yell (commonly rendered as "woo-woo-woo!"), as well as numerous pantomimed "bits of business".

Family members recalled in print that Curly borrowed (and significantly exaggerated) the "woo woo" from "nervous" and soft-spoken comedian Hugh Herbert, but was otherwise an original and inspired performer. In any case, Curly's unique version of "woo-woo-woo" was firmly established by the time of the Stooges' second film Punch Drunks in 1934. According to Moe, Curly was never very good with written dialogue, and whenever he got stuck, he would improvise some visual or vocal nonsense that the directors usually kept in the finished film.

Curly was born in Bath Beach, a summer resort in a section of Brooklyn, New York. He was the fifth of the five Horwitz brothers and of Levite and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. Because he was youngest, his brothers called kid brother Jerry "Babe" to tease him. The nickname stuck with him all his life

Daniel Futterman (born June 8, 1967) is an American actor and screenwriter. Although he is known for several high-profile acting roles, including Val Goldman in the film The Birdcage and Vincent Gray on the CBS television series Judging Amy, he is also a screenwriter. In 2005, he wrote the screenplay for the film Capote for which he received an Academy Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award, Boston Society of Film Critics award, and Los Angeles Film Critics Association award.

Futterman, one of four siblings,[2] was born in Brooklyn, New York,[3] to a lawyer father and a psychoanalyst mother.[3] He was raised in Conservative Judaism and grew up in an "intellectual family".[2][3][4] Futterman grew up in Larchmont, New York, and graduated from Columbia University in 1989. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American character actor. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals.

Hedaya was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Sephardic Jewish family from Syria. Hedaya was a junior high school teacher for many years before deciding to pursue acting full-time.

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1950) is a Brazilian-American actor of television, film and theater.

Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents. He is the middle child of three boys born to a father who was an actor in the Yiddish theater in New York and a mother who was a homemaker.

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English/Irish actor, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest living actors in the world.

After studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Daniel Day-Lewis performed in numerous plays and films that gained him an Academy Award, three BAFTA awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has become known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only three movies in the last ten years. He has also been acknowledged for his constant devotion to his roles and copious amounts of research he performs. Often he will remain in character and speak in the accents he has used on screen throughout the entire shooting schedule.

David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian who won Academy and Golden Globe awards

Born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early youth attending PS 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated. He learned his trade in his teen years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht Belt.

Daniel Jacob Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his roles in the 1990s Hollywood films City Slickers and Home Alone.

Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to a social worker father and a mother who managed a day care center. His brother is television writer David M. Stern. Stern applied for a job as a lighting engineer for a Shakespeare Festival in Washington, D.C., but was hired as a walk-on. After taking acting lessons, Stern began his acting career in Off Broadway and Broadway productions, including a performance at Second Stage Theatre with actor Bob Gunton.

David Abraham Cheulkar (1908 - 1981), popularly known as David was a Jewish-Indian Hindi-language film actor, who started his film career with 1941 film Naya Sansar and went on to act in over 110 films.

He was actively associated with IPTA and hence was part of many Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's films, including, Pardesi, Shehar Aur Sapna, Munaa and Char Dil Char Raahein.

He was a member of Mumbai's Bene Israel community.

David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor, best known for his role as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files.
 
Duchovny was born in New York City, New York, the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram Ducovny, a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. Duchovny's father was Jewish and his mother a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland. His father dropped the "h" in his surname because of frequent mispronunciations of the name

David Lawrence Groh (May 21, 1939 - February 12, 2008) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Joe Gerard in the 1970s Mary Tyler Moore spinoff series Rhoda, opposite Valerie Harper.

Born in Brooklyn, Groh and a sister, Marilyn, were the children of a Jewish-American architect,[citation needed] and Groh developed an early interest in art and period furniture. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, then enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English literature.

David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple.David Horovitch trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1960's.