- Dan Aykroyd - comedian, actor (lapsed)
- Alan Alda - actor famous for his role as "Dr. 'Hawkeye' Pierce" on TV's M*A*S*H (devout Catholic until early adulthood, then mostly lapsed)
- Robert Alda - actor, movie star, father of actor Alan Alda
- Gracie Allen - actress, comedian, TV star, partner and wife of George Burns
- Robert Altman - acclaimed film director whose movies include M*A*S*H; Nashville
- Eve Arden - actress, movie star, Academy Award nomination for supporting role in the Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Adele Astaire - sister and former on-stage dancing partner of Fred Astaire (she had a Catholic father, Lutheran mother)
- Stephen Baldwin - actor

- Anne Bancroft - Oscar-winning actor, The Miracle Worker (1962)
- Ethel Barrymore - actress
- John Barrymore - actor
- Lionel Barrymore - actor
- Andre Bazin - influential French film critic
- Bernardo Bertolucci - prominent Italian film director; Last Tango in Paris; Little Buddha; etc. (lapsed)
- Sonny Bono - singer ("Sonny and Cher"), U.S. Representative (convert to Scientology)
- Ernest Borgnine - actor; McHale's Navy, Marty, etc.
- Peter Boyle - actor (former Christian Brother, i.e., he was studying to become a priest; lapsed)
- Joseph Breen - chief of movie production code (Hollywood's self-censorship program)
- Luis Bunuel - influential Spanish film director
- Nicolas Cage - Oscar-winning actor, Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- James Cagney - Oscar-winning actor, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Karel Capek - prominent Czech writer, playwright, novelist, philosopher; coined the word "robot"
- Frank Capra - director, It's a Wonderful Life; etc.
- Jim Caviezel - actor; played "Jesus" in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
- Gary Cooper - actor, movie star (convert)
- Claudette Colbert - actress, movie star
- Sean Connery - movie star
- Francis Ford Coppola - film director (non-practicing)
- Roger Corman - prolific independent film producer/director
- Joan Crawford - actress, movie star
- Bing Crosby - actor, singer, movie star
- Robert De Niro - actor, movie star (non-practicing)
- Theodore Dreiser - influential 20th Century author; wrote An American Tragedy (convert to other denom.)
- Patty Duke - actress
- Faye Dunaway - Oscar-winning actor, Network (1976)
- Irene Dunne - actress
- Roger Ebert - America's leading film critic (lapsed)
- Joe Eszterhas - screenwriter
- Clair L. Farrand - motion picture sound engineer; inventor of the cone loudspeaker
- Mia Farrow - actress, former wife of Woody Allen
- Federico Fellini - influential Italian film director
- Robert Flaherty - influential documentary filmmaker, Nanook of the North, etc. (half Catholic, half Protestant)
- John Ford - influential American film director, particularly known for classic Westerns
- Clark Gable - Oscar-winning actor, It Happened One Night (1934)
- Mel Gibson - actor, film director (traditionalist Catholic)
- John Guare - playwright, screenwriter; Six Degrees of Separation, etc. (lapsed)
- Alec Guinness - Oscar-winning actor, The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
- John Lee Hancock - film director; The Rookie, etc.
- Josh Hartnett - actor, movie star
- Helen Hayes - actress
- Susan Hayward - Oscar-winning actor, I Want to Live! (1958)
- Edith Head - influential Hollywood costume designer
- Alfred Hitchcock - influential film director
- Agnieszka Holland - film director; The Third Miracle, etc.
- Bob Hope - movie star, comedian
- Casey Kasem - nationally prominent Top 10 D.J.
- John T. Kelley - TV writer
- Gene Kelly - actor, dancer, movie star
- Grace Kelly - Oscar-winning actor, The Country Girl (1954)
- Mary Kelly - dancer
- Nicole Kidman - actress
- Tom Laughlin - actress (lapsed)
- Vivien Leigh - Oscar-winning actor, Gone With the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Jack Lemmon - movie star
- Sophia Loren - actress (non-practicing)
- Madonna - pop singer, actress (lapsed; convert to Kabbalah)
- Bill Maher - comedian, commentator, previously hosted TV talk show Politically Incorrect (non-practicing)
- Louis Malle - screenwriter, director (lapsed)
- Dean Martin - movie star
- Gerda Maurus - Croatian actress based in Vienna
- Leo McCarey - influential filmmaker
- Georges Melies - early filmmaker
- Cathy Moriarty - actress
- Gerald Morin - film director/producer
- Patricia Neal - actress
- Bob Newhart - popular TV sitcom actor, comedian
- Jack Nicholson - actor
- Al Pacino - Oscar-winning actor, Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Gregory Peck - actor
- Bernadette Peters - singer, actress
- Mary Pickford - actress (converted to Christian Science)
- Anthony Quinn - actor (lapsed)
- Jean Renoir - film director
- Eric Rohmer - film director
- Roberto Rossellini - film director
- Pierre Roustang - French filmmaker
- Ken Russell - film director
- Rosalind Russell - actress
- Susan Sarandon - Oscar-winning actor, Dead Man Walking (1995)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - movie star, governor of California
- Martin Scorsese - film director
- Mack Sennett - film director
- William Shakespeare - playwright
- Martin Sheen - actor
- Vittorio de Sica - film director
- Jon Voight - Oscar-winning actor, Coming Home (1978)
- Sylvester Stallone - movie star
- Sharon Tate - actress
- Eduard Tisse - cinematographer
- Spencer Tracy - actor
- John Travolta - actor (convert to Scientology)
- Francois Truffaut - film director
- John Wayne - actor
- Mae West - actress
- James Woods - actor
- Loretta Young - actress

This is an edited list taken from the site Adherents