LBJ Library from Austin · Public domain

An actor and director who broke through as the murderous Carl Bruner in Ghost, then built a career moving between period drama and popcorn fare — Nixon's son in Nixon, Neil Armstrong in From the Earth to the Moon, the voice of Disney's Tarzan. He spent seven seasons playing President Fitzgerald Grant on Scandal while also directing episodes of the show, work that earned the production a Peabody Award.