Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American theater, television, and film actress and singer/dancer.

Neuwirth was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the daughter of Sydney Anne, an artist, and Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. Neuwirth is Jewish and attended the Chapin School of Princeton. She began to study dance at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977. During this period, she performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppelia and appeared in community theater musicals.

Bonnie Franklin (born January 6, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress.

Franklin once said that people have a hard time believing that she's Jewish because of her red hair and freckles.

Barry Dennen (born February 22, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, singer, and writer.

In New York City from 1960 to 1963, he had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, including living together for a year, during which time he helped her develop the nightclub act that began her successful career as a singer and actress.

Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American film and television actor. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1988 to 1995.

Gordon's career began as a child star, with his million-selling hit record "Nuttin' for Christmas" in the '50s, which continues to be a holiday favorite. His TV debut came at three years old on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. He also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show and Star Time with Benny Goodman.

Barry Foster Newman (born November 7, 1938), is an American actor perhaps best known for the character "Kowalski" in the cult classic film Vanishing Point in which he plays a pill-popping outlaw/hero driving a white 1970 Dodge Challenger. He is also known for his television character Anthony Petrocelli on the crime-drama Petrocelli, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy award.

Baruch Lumet (1898-1992) was a Jewish actor best known for his work in the Yiddish theater. The father of film director Sidney Lumet, he was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire. Although he appeared alongside his son in the film One Third Of a Nation in 1939, the elder Lumet made few film appearances, though he played character roles in two of Sidney's films from the 1960's, The Pawnbroker (1964), and The Group (1966). He also appeared in Woody Allen's comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, improbably cast as a bondage fetishist.

Ben Blue (September 12, 1901 – March 7, 1975), born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.

Born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Bernstein emigrated to the United States where he became a dance instructor, a dance school owner, and a nightclub proprietor. He began his motion picture career doing short films for Warner Brothers Studios in 1926, and later worked at the Hal Roach Studios, Paramount Studios, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He also, like his "The Big Broadcast of 1938" co-star Bob Hope, was a radio comedian. In 1950, he had his own short-lived TV series, The Ben Blue Show, and was also a regular on The Frank Sinatra Show.

Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is a Daytime Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is known for his roles in the teen movies Liberty Heights and Get Over It, as well as the action films Hostage (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007).

Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage (born on September 13, 1980) is an American film and TV actor and child star of the 1990s.

Savage is best known for his role as the lead character Cory Matthews on the TV sitcom Boy Meets World for seven seasons, which catapulted him into stardom, and for being the younger brother of Fred Savage, who starred in the TV-series The Wonder Years.

Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer and commentator, Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian, and game show host. He was also formerly a lawyer, law professor, and White House speechwriter. In recent years he has become an outspoken advocate for the Creationist/Intelligent Design movement. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. His sister, Rachel, is also a writer.

Stein was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Mildred (née Fishman), a homemaker, and Herb Stein, a writer, economist, and presidential adviser. He was raised Jewish and grew up in the Woodside Forest neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland.

Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. After beginning his acting career with a play, he wrote several mockumentaries, and was offered two of his own shows, both entitled The Ben Stiller Show. After acting in a few films, Stiller had his directorial debut with Reality Bites, and has since written, starred in, directed, and produced over fifty films and television shows. Stiller's films have grossed $1.38 billion.

Stiller was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, the second child of Stiller and Meara. Stiller's father is Jewish and his mother, who is of Irish Catholic background, converted to Judaism after marrying his father.

Bernie Kopell (born June 21, 1933 in New York City) is a television actor who portrayed Siegfried in Get Smart, Alan-a-Dale in When Things Were Rotten, Jerry Bauman in That Girl, Louie Pallucci in "The Doris Day Show", and Dr. Adam Bricker in The Love Boat. He also played several characters on the hit sitcom Bewitched most notably in episode # 239, The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit, as the apothocary. He had a cameo as a patient in the Scrubs episode, My Friend the Doctor.

Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was a Tony Award-winning American comic actor. Born in New York City, he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway.

Bill Dana (born October 5, 1924) is a U.S. comedian, actor and screenwriter who often appeared on the Ed Sullivan show.

He was born William Szathmary in Quincy, Massachusetts. Although he is of Hungarian-Jewish descent, Dana created the heavily accented Latino character José Jiménez for the Steve Allen Show.

Bill Macy (born May 18, 1922) is an American actor, known for his portrayal of Walter Findlay, Bea Arthur's long-suffering husband on the 1970s television sitcom Maude.

Macy was born Wolf Marvin Garber in Revere, Massachusetts, the son of Mollie (Friedopfer) and Michael Garber, a manufacturer.

William Jacob Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Richard Mulligan's & Cathryn Damon's TV son, Jodie Dallas, on the ABC comedy-drama, Soap, and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers.

Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as "large" and "loving".

Billy Sands (January 6, 1911 - August 27, 1984) was a character actor who appeared as a regular on The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt Bilko) as Pvt Dino Papparelli and was a regular on McHale's Navy as Tinker. Also co starred on many TV shows such as All in the Family, Here's Lucy, Happy Days and four appearances on The Odd Couple.

Robert Elmer "Bob" Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and director, best known for his collaborations with Christopher Guest.

Balaban is an alumnus of Colgate University and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his family. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. He is Jewish, with his paternal grandparents having immigrated from Russia to Chicago.

Robert Lane Saget (born May 17, 1956) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director, producer, and game show host. He is well known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House from 1987 to 1995, host of America's Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997. Currently he is the host of the NBC game show 1 vs. 100 as well as the narrator of the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother.

Saget is generally known for his clean-cut, family-friendly television persona from the hit shows Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos, which have been widely rerun in syndication for over a decade. In contrast, Saget is also known for using edgy humor in his stand-up comedy acts and movies.

Bobby Van (December 6, 1928 – July 31, 1980) was a musical actor probably best known for his career on Broadway in the 1950s and 1970s.

Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up backstage to many memorable Depression-era acts. Originally, Van took King as his stage name (after his father's stage name, from the trio "Gordon, Reed and King"). He finally opted for Van, supposedly after seeing a Van Johnson poster hanging in his sister's bedroom.