Why Him? (2016): Cast List and Film Details

Why Him?, released in 2016, is listed here with its full credited cast rather than the two or three names that usually travel with it. That is what a cast search is generally after, not the lead, but the face further down that someone cannot place.

Cast

Alphabetical: the billing order is not recorded, and an invented order would read as a fact.

• Adam DeVine role not recorded
• Andrew Rannells role not recorded
• Bob Stephenson role not recorded
• Bryan Cranston role not recorded
• Casey Wilson role not recorded
• Cedric the Entertainer role not recorded
• Elon Musk role not recorded
• Gene Simmons role not recorded
• Griffin Gluck role not recorded
• James Franco role not recorded
• Kaley Cuoco role not recorded
• Keegan-Michael Key role not recorded
• Mary Pat Gleason role not recorded
• Megan Mullally role not recorded
• Paul Stanley role not recorded
• Steve Aoki role not recorded
• Steve Bannos role not recorded
• Zack Pearlman role not recorded
• Zoey Deutch role not recorded

Production

Released

2016

Directed by

John Hamburg

Production

20th Century Studios

Credited cast

19

What this cast list does and does not tell you

19 performers are credited, and the roles are recorded for 0 of them. That ratio is the honest shape of film credit data: who was cast is reliable, what they were called is patchy, and the order they were billed in is usually absent altogether. This page reflects that rather than smoothing it into a confident-looking table.

The question a cast list cannot answer is what the film led to, which is usually the next thing asked. The sequel tracker covers the follow-ups that were set up and whether they arrived, the film index is the route to the other cast pages, and the actor index gathers the performers who have a page of their own.

Why Him? is 10 years old, which matters for a cast page in one specific way: the further back a film sits, the more of its supporting cast have since become recognisable in something else, and the more likely it is that someone arrives here trying to place a face rather than to look up a lead.

At 19 credited performers this sits against a median of 19 across the 16 films held here, larger than 8 of them. Cast size is worth a glance because it predicts how findable the supporting players are: the bigger the ensemble, the more of it exists nowhere else in a readable form, which is the whole reason to write these lists out in full.

What this page is built from

Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in.

Questions about Why Him?

Who is in the cast of Why Him??

19 credited performers, listed below.

Why is the cast not in billing order?

Because billing is not recorded for this film. The names are alphabetical, and putting them in an invented order would present a guess as a fact.

Where do these details come from?

Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.