Al Jolson (May 26, 1886–October 23, 1950) was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian and actor of Jewish heritage whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century whose influence extended to other popular performers, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mandy Patinkin, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Jr., Eddie Fisher, Jerry Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, David Lee Roth and Rod Stewart.

Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress, known for her films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie and her Oscar-nominated role in Yentl.

Irving was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of film and stage director Jules Irving (née Jules Israel) and actress Priscilla Pointer. Irving's brother is writer/director David Irving (not the British holocaust denier of the same name), and her sister is singer Katie Irving. Irving is of Jewish descent on her father's side and has Welsh and Cherokee ancestry on her mother's. She was raised in Christian Science.

Ann Turkel (born July 16, 1946 in New York, U.S.) is an actress, dancer, singer, writer, producer and model. Turkel had studied at the Musical Theatre Academy with prominent acting coaches by the time she was 16.

Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning and four-time Emmy nominated American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Glengarry Glen Ross and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin.

Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher, and David I. Arkin, a painter and writer who mostly worked as a teacher. Arkin was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion;" his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine.

Anne Meara (born September 20, 1929) is an American comedienne and actress. She and Jerry Stiller are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and actress Amy Stiller, and were a prominent 1960s comedy team, appearing as Stiller and Meara.

Meara was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Mary (née Dempsey) and Edward Joseph Meara,[1] Irish-born immigrants from a village called Toomevara. Her mother committed suicide when Meara was 11, and she has been in therapy since the mid-1980s. Meara was raised Catholic, but converted to Judaism six years after marrying Stiller.

Alan Hamel (b. June 30, 1936 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was the co-host of a Canadian children's television show called Razzle Dazzle from 1961 to 1964. The show featured a talking turtle named Howard.

Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on 23 July 1954 (1954-07-23) (age 53) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is a former prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. Sprinkle, who is bisexual, married her long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007.

Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He appeared in a number of movies and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes.

Anouk Aimée (born April 27, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning French film actress.

Aimée was born Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of another actress, Geneviève Sorya, and Henri Dreyfus. She is Jewish.

Ari Meyers (born April 6, 1969, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an actress, probably best known for her role as Emma Jane McArdle in the Kate & Allie (1984) TV series.

She was born Ariadne Meyer to Jewish American parents who were touring in Puerto Rico; her mother is actress Taro Meyer, who appeared in the television soap opera Another World. Meyers grew up in New York City.

Alan Rachins (born October 3, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American television actor, best known for his role as Douglas Brackman in L.A. Law, which earned him both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, as well as for his portrayal of Dharma's hippie father, Larry, on the hit television series, "Dharma & Greg".

Alan Rosenberg (born October 4, 1951) is an American actor of both stage and screen, and current president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union.

Rosenberg was born and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. Alan's late brother, Mark, was a political activist in the 1960's, later a film producer; while his first cousin is musician Donald Fagen.

Alan's German Jewish parents gave him enough money to apply to graduate school, but while studying at Case Western Reserve University he became New York state's backgammon champion in 1982[

Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director.

Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, the son of Thelma Leeds (née Goodman), a singer and actress, and Harry Parke (né Einstein), a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyarkarkus. His brothers are comedic actor Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name "Super Dave Osborne" and Cliff Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at the Los Angeles ad agency Dailey & Associates. Brooks is Jewish and attended Beverly Hills High School. Brooks grew up among show business royalty in southern California, attending high school with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner.

Albert Hague (born October 13, 1920 - died November 12, 2001) was a German-born songwriter and composer.

Hague was born as Albert Marcuse to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. His father was a psychiatrist and a musical prodigy and his mother a chess champion. His family considered their Jewish heritage a liability and raised him as a Lutheran.

Hague came to America in 1939 on scholarship to the University of Cincinnati. After graduating in 1942, he served in the United States Air Force during World War II.

Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English/American actor, director, and film writer, known for his role as "Bill S. Preston" in the 1988 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels and spin-offs 

Winter was born in London, England. His mother, Gregg (née Mayer), was a New York-born American who was a former Martha Graham dancer and founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s. His father, Ross Albert Winter, was Australian and danced with Winter's mother's troupe. The two divorced in 1973. Winter trained as a dancer as a child. When he was five, his family relocated to Missouri, where his father ran the Mid-American Dance Company, while his mother taught dance at Washington University. Winter is Jewish. He is married to Sonia Y. Dawson and has a son named LeRoy

Albie Selznick is an American film and television actor. His major role so far is that of Ben Rubenstein on the sitcom Suddenly Susan.

Allan Arbus (born February 15, 1918) is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.

Arbus was born in New York City of Jewish background. His first wife was photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov), whom he married in 1941. At one time before he became an actor, he was so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.

Allan Corduner (born 1951) is a Russian-born British actor of German and Russo-Finnish origin. He has worked for television as well as in movies.

Corduner is Jewish; his mother was from Germany and his father's family from Russia and Finland.

Allen Garfield, born and sometimes credited as Allen Goorwitz (born November 22, 1939), is an American film and television actor.

Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Alice (née Lavroff) and Philip Goorwitz.[1][2] A graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He studied acting at The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked in stage before film. Garfield is a quirky and prolific actor who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He is known for playing nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he has appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt.

Andre Gregory (born May 11, 1934) is an American director and actor.

He has had occasional film roles as a character actor, including John the Baptist in The Last Temptation of Christ and Reverend Spellgood in The Mosquito Coast. But his best-known film appearance was as the title character in My Dinner with Andre, directed by Louis Malle, in which he and Wallace Shawn, playing characters based on themselves, discussed Gregory's spiritual sojourn in Europe and his doubts about the future of theatre and of Western civilization in general. Gregory also appeared as himself in Malle's film Vanya on 42nd Street, which documented his Uncle Vanya production. He also performed in the movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone, as well as with Goldie Hawn in Protocol.