Actors with Disabilities



Dirk Benedict

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Was famous as Templeton Peck ("The Face") in The A Team, and Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica

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Sarah Bernhardt

Disability: knee injury, her leg amputated in 1914 (source: Sarah Bernhardt history on Spartacus Schoolnet)

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Chris Burke

Disability: Downs Syndrome (source: Chris Burke Web Pages)

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Richard Burton

Disability: Epilepsy (source: Disease (sic) Lists for Epilepsy)

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Billy Connolly

Disability: ADD (attention Defecit Disorder), according to article on him in the Observer ("Connolly on the Couch"). Online source

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Tom Cruise

Disability: dyslexia (source: AMC TV profile)

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Oliver Dillon

Disability: cystic fibrosis (source: BBC News: Beating the odds to become a child actor)

Has appeared in the Basil Brush Show, BBC sitcom My Family, and is best known as the voice of Lumpy in My Friends Tigger & Pooh

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Dana Elcar

Disability: blind from Glaucoma

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Lou Ferrigno

Disability: partially deaf, resulting from infections as a kid (source: Lou Ferrigno biography)

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Danny Glover

Disability: had epilepsy when younger (source: Epilepsy Foundation web page)

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Dorian Gregory

disability: diabetes (IDDM , type 1) since age 9 (source: dlife profile of Dorian Gregory)

A man of many talents, starred in many films and TV shows. Possibly most famous as Inspector Darryl Morris in Charmed


Bob Hope

Disability: asthma (source: Famous people with asthma)

actor and comedian, from the 1930's onwards


Mary Tyler Moore

Disability : diabetes type 1 (IDDM) (source: nndb profile of Mary Tyler Moore)

Has appeared in numerous TV shows (notably the Mary Tyler Moore Show) and films.


Marilyn Munroe

Disability: stutter (between ages of 13 and 15 - source: Celebrity Collector feature on Marilyn Munroe)

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Paul Newman

Disability: Colour blind (source - Hello Magazine profile)

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Christopher Reeve

Disability: in a wheelchair, paralysed from the waist down following a horse riding accident (what do you mean prove it?)

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Sylvester Stallone

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Has starred in many films, including Rambo, Rocky and Cobra

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Elizabeth Taylor

disability:; asthma (sourc

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John Thaw

disability: slight limp, resulting from accident at age of 15 (source: John Thaw obituary)

Has starred in TV series The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, and appeared in several films.


Bruce Willis

Disability: had a stutter when younger (source: AbsoluteNow Bruce Willis biography)

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Other disabled people significant to films and TV include:

Walt Disney

Disability: dyslexia (source: Dyslexia My Life)

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Michael J Fox

Disability: Parkinsons Disease (source: Disease Lists for Parkinsons Disease)

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Billy Graham

Disability: Parkinsons Disease (source: Disease Lists for Parkinsons Disease)

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James Earl Jones

Disability: stutter (source: npr)

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Martin Scorsese

disability: asthma (source: American Masters - Martin Scorsese)

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Quentin Tarantino

Disability: dyslexia (source: Wikipedia feature on dyslexia)

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Kim Tserkezie

Disability:  paraplegic, uses a wheelchair

Plays Penny Pocket in the CBeebies show Balamory

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