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Mark Patton

1959 - Today

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Mark Patton (born September 22, 1959) is an American interior designer and actor. Beginning his professional acting career in 1982, Patton is perhaps best known for his feature film roles as Joe Qualley in the dramatic film Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and as Jesse Walsh in the 1985 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, a role for which he is touted as the first "scream king" (male equivalent of scream queen) in modern cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Patton is the 10,457th most popular actor (up from 10,632nd in 2024), the 15,399th most popular biography from United States (up from 15,441st in 2019) and the 4,848th most popular American Actor.

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Among people born in 1959, Mark Patton ranks 723Before him are Tom Chambers, Fabio Lanzoni, Zdzisław Hoffmann, Winona LaDuke, Pete Trewavas, and Andrey Prokofyev. After him are Mikhail Devyatyarov, Beth Heiden, Francisco Javier Toledo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Uma Bharti, and Brian Goodell.

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Mark Patton ranks 4,856Before him are Max Greenfield (1980), Jessica Tuck (1963), Jane Bryan (1918), Brooke Langton (1970), Rosa Blasi (1972), Nick Robinson (1995), Dante Basco (1975), Peggy McCay (1927), Adam G. Sevani (1992), Chris Wood (1988), and Kayla Ewell (1985). After him are Pamela Gidley (1965).