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1. James MacArthur

Actor | Hang 'Em High

In a career spanning more than four decades, James MacArthur developed a body of work which is wonderfully dynamic in both scope and range. Portraying everything from crazed killer to stalwart defender of law and order, frustrated teenager to cynical senior supervisor, he has appeared in numerous ...

2. James B. Harris

Producer | The Killing

James B. Harris was born on August 3, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Killing (1956), The Black Dahlia (2006) and Paths of Glory (1957).

3. Pandro S. Berman

Producer | Father of the Bride

Pandro S. Berman was born into the film industry. His father, Harry, was distributor and exhibitor of films. Pandro also had a number of relatives in the film industry. When he started working in the 1920's he started as a script clerk and then rose to film editor. By 1931, the 26 year old Berman ...

4. Victor Buono

Actor | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Larger than life, Laughtonesque, and with an eloquent, king-sized appetite for maniacal merriment, a good portion of the work of actor Victor Buono was squandered on hokey villainy on both film and television. Ostensibly perceived as bizarre or demented, seldom did Hollywood give this cultivated ...

5. Matt Cimber

Director | Butterfly

Writer, director and producer Matt Cimber was born as Matteo Ottaviano in 1936 and began his career in the early 60s directing off-Broadway plays including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams and the US premieres of the Jean Cocteau trilogy. During his theater years, Cimber rewrote ...

6. Peter Fonda

Actor | Easy Rider

Peter Henry Fonda was born in New York City, to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario, Canada-born New York socialite Frances Brokaw (born Frances Ford Seymour). He was the younger brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda.

Fonda made his professional...

7. M.J. Frankovich

Producer | The Shootist

M.J. Frankovich was born on September 29, 1909 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Shootist (1976), Cactus Flower (1969) and The Looking Glass War (1970). He was married to Binnie Barnes and Georgiana Feagans. He died on January 1, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, ...

8. Mark Goddard

Actor | Lost in Space

Born Charles Harvey Goddard, Mark Goddard was best known for his role as the feisty, combative Major Don West in the cult TV series Lost in Space (1965). The youngest of five siblings, he was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, but grew up in Scituate, raised as a Catholic. Though excelling in sports, ...

9. Curly Howard

Actor | If a Body Meets a Body

Jerome "Curly" Howard, the rotund, bald Stooge with the high voice was the most popular member of The Three Stooges. His first stage experience was as a comedic conductor for the Orville Knapp Band in 1928. Curly joined The Three Stooges in 1932, replacing his brother Shemp Howard. He made more ...

10. Moe Howard

Actor | If a Body Meets a Body

Moe Howard, the "Boss Stooge" and brother of Stooges Curly Howard and Shemp Howard, began his acting career in 1909 by playing bit roles in silent Vitagraph films. At 17 he joined a troupe working on a showboat and also appeared in several two-reel comedy shorts. In 1922 he, brother Shemp and Larry...

11. Shemp Howard

Actor | Scrambled Brains

Shemp Howard was born Samuel Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was also the brother of fellow stooges Moe Howard and Curly Howard. Larry Fine was not related to any of the other stooges.

When not working with The Three Stooges, Shemp made a lot of feature film appearances, such as The Bank Dick...

12. Stubby Kaye

Actor | Guys and Dolls

Sunny, lovable tenor Stubby Kaye with his butterball frame kept his real name a secret for his entire career. He was born Bernard Kotzin in New York and started off in the world of entertainment in 1939 after winning a radio contest. Touring as a comedian in vaudeville for over a decade, he also ...

13. Stanley Kramer

Producer | Judgment at Nuremberg

Stanley Kramer was born on September 29, 1913 in Hell's Kitchen [now Clinton], Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Inherit the Wind (1960). He was married to Karen Sharpe, Anne P. ...

14. Gary Kincaid

Actor | Palm Springs Weekend

Gary Knafelc spent 10 seasons in the NFL as a flanker / tight end for three different teams, most notably with the Green Bay Packers (1954-62).

His fourth-quarter TD catch on 29th September 1957, beat the Chicago Bears in the first game at new City Stadium (now Lambeau Field).

He retired from the San...

15. George Kennedy

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter ...

16. Angela Lansbury

Actress | The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...

17. Francis Lederer

Actor | One Rainy Afternoon

Frantisek Lederer was born on November 6th, 1899, in Czechoslovakia. His father was a leather merchant, and young Frantisek began his working life as a department store delivery boy in Prague. He fell in love with acting from a young age, and was soon on stage touring Moravia and then all over ...

18. Trini López

Actor | The Dirty Dozen

Trini Lopez was an American singer and actor who had 16 Top 40 songs on the charts from 1963 through 1968. He was born Trinidad López III in the Little Mexico neighborhood of Dallas, Texas on May 15, 1937. He started performing with his own band when he was 15 years old and caught the eye of rock ...

19. Mervyn LeRoy

Director | Gypsy

The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...

20. BarBara Luna

Actress | One Life to Live

Barbara Ann Luna was born in Manhattan and virtually grew up on Broadway. Her Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino background has led her to portray a variety of roles. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II cast her in the Broadway hit musical "South Pacific", as Ngana, which was...

21. Jayne Mansfield

Actress | The Girl Can't Help It

One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Peers) and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney ...

22. Jody McCrea

Actor | Beach Blanket Bingo

Just as strapping (6' 3") and amiably handsome as his actor/father, Joel McCrea, Jody was born Joel Dee McCrea on September 6, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, and bore a strong resemblance to his famous namesake. The oldest of three children, his mother was actress Frances Dee and his two younger ...

23. Meredith MacRae

Actress | Bikini Beach

Meredith Lynn MacRae was born on May 30, 1944, in Houston, Texas. She was born on a military base where her father was stationed.

Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)...

24. Denny Miller

Actor | The Party

Denny Miller was born in Bloomington, Indiana, where his father, Ben Miller, was a physical=education instructor at Indiana University. He and his brother Kent began playing basketball almost from the days they were born. The Miller family left Bloomington when Denny was in fourth grade. He and ...

25. Virginia O'Brien

Actress | The Harvey Girls

Known to classic film fans by various nicknames--including Miss Deadpan, Frozen Face, and Miss Ice Glacier--this statuesque, dark-haired singer/actress carved a unique niche for herself on stage and screen by the hilarious Sphinx-like way she delivered a song. The daughter of the captain of ...

26. Garry Owen

Actor | Arsenic and Old Lace

Garry Owen was born on February 18, 1902 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Case of the Black Cat (1936) and Hold Your Man (1933). He died on June 1, 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA.

27. Peter Palmer

Actor | Li'l Abner

Peter Palmer was born on September 20, 1931 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Li'l Abner (1959), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and CBS Summer Playhouse (1987). He was married to Mary Lou "Aniko" Farrell and Jackalee Ann Gleason. He died on September 21, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, ...

28. Juliet Prowse

Actress | Can-Can

Born in India to South African parents, Juliet studied to be a dancer from the age of 4. Attending the Royal Academy of Dance, by the time Juliet was 14, she was deemed too tall to enter the world of ballet. She signed as a chorus dancer with the London Palladium and then pursued a career as a ...

29. Louis Quinn

Actor | All the President's Men

Louis Quinn was born on March 23, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for All the President's Men (1976), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and The Crowded Sky (1960). He was married to Christine Nelson and Joanne Elizabeth (Jody) Ward. He died on September 14, 1988 in Los Angeles, ...

30. Martin Ransohoff

Producer | Dance of the Vampires

Martin Ransohoff was born on July 7, 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Nightwing (1979) and Silver Streak (1976). He was married to Joan Marie Madgey and Nancy Hope Lundgren. He died on December 13, 2017 in Bel-Air, ...

31. Christiane Schmidtmer

Actress | The Big Doll House

Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany. She took acting lessons in Munich and worked in the stage in Germany from 1961-1963, then turned to photographic modeling for German nude magazines and later, Playboy. She also modeled for advertising companies, namely Max Factor cosmetics, ...

32. Walter Seltzer

Producer | The Omega Man

The son of a motion picture exhibitor, Seltzer started out as a theatre usher before joining MGM in the 1930s where he worked on the advertising campaign for such films as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). He served in the Marines for four years during World War II before his return to Hollywood as ...

33. Jackie Shannon

34. Peter Shaw

Actor | The Exile

Peter Shaw was born on June 24, 1918 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Exile (1947) and Sons of the Sea (1939). He was married to Angela Lansbury and Mercia Lydia Squires. He died on January 29, 2003 in Brentwood, California, USA.

35. Abigail Shelton

Actress | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Abigail Shelton was born on May 3, 1932 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) and Zig Zag (1970). She was married to William S. Baker, John T. Kelley, Brandon Carroll and Hubert Allen Clarke Jr.. She ...

36. Nita Talbot

Actress | Hogan's Heroes

Despite being in just seven episodes, Nita Talbot is best remembered for her Emmy-nominated role as the crafty Russian spy Marya Parmanova in the iconic 60s wartime sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965). Her character was the only one in the show capable of outmaneuvering Bob Crane's shrewd Colonel Hogan.

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37. Bobby Vee

Soundtrack | Cold Case

Contrary to popular belief, Bobby Vee was not one of the flood of Italian-American rockers to come out of the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia area in the '50s and '60s. He was born Robert Velline in Fargo, ND, and, although he started playing music when he was just a young teenager, it was country...

38. David Weisbart

Producer | Rebel Without a Cause

David Weisbart was born on January 21, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and editor, known for Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Mildred Pierce (1945) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). He died on July 21, 1967 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

39. Martin West

Actor | Assault on Precinct 13

Actor Martin West (born Martin Weixelbaum) began appearing in feature films and on television in 1960 with Freckles (1960). In 1966, he played Dr. Phil Brewer on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (1963), becoming the fifth actor to play the role. In 1965, he was featured in Harper (1966), ...

40. Jesse White

Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Lovable, laid-back Jesse White made acting seem fun and easy. He was born Jesse Marc Weidenfeld in Buffalo, New York, and was raised in Akron, Ohio. He made his first amateur appearance on the local stage at age 15. Before breaking into professional theater in the 1940s, he held many different jobs...

41. Tony Dow

Actor | Leave It to Beaver

Tony Dow was an American actor, film producer, television director, and sculptor from Los Angeles, California. His most famous role was that of athletic adolescent Wallace "Wally" Cleaver in the popular sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" (1957-1963). Dow played the older brother to the series' protagonist...

42. Chill Wills

Actor | Giant

Colorful character actor of American Westerns. Named "Chill" as an ironic comment on his birth date being the hottest day of 1902. A musician from his youth, he performed from the age of 12 with tent shows, in vaudeville, and with stock companies. While performing in vaudeville in Kansas City, he ...

43. William Wellman Jr.

Actor | Image of the Beast

Rangy, sturdy-looking actor William Wellman Jr., was born in Los Angeles on January 20, 1937, one of seven children born to legendary director William A. Wellman and his fourth wife, one-time actress Dorothy Coonan Wellman, who appeared in a few of her husband's pictures. Bill Jr. spent most of his ...