Celebrities who had pancreatic cancer
by peter-pierre | created - 25 Nov 2019 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicFamous people who suffered from pancreatic cancer or related problems
1. Michael Landon
Actor | Little House on the Prairie
Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, on Saturday, October 31st, 1936, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. In 1941, he and his family moved to Collingswood, New Jersey.
When Eugene was in high school, he participated -- and did very well -- in track and field, especially javelin throwing, ...
age 54
2. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
3. Patrick Swayze
Actor | Dirty Dancing
Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982. ...
4. Steve Jobs
Producer | Toy Story
Steven Paul Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California, to students Abdul Fattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble who were unmarried at the time and gave him up for adoption. He was taken in by a working class couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up with them in Mountain View...
5. Keenan Wynn
Actor | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The talented scion of a show-business family, Keenan Wynn's father was the great burlesque and television buffoon Ed Wynn while his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, earned distinction on the other side of the entertainment ladder as a Shakespearean tragedian. Mother Hilda Keenan was also a minor...
6. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
7. Donna Reed
Actress | It's a Wonderful Life
Donna Reed was born in the midwestern town of Denison, Iowa, on January 27, 1921, as Donna Belle Mullenger. A small town - a population of less than 3,000 people - Denison was located by the Boyer River, and was the county seat of Crawford County. Donna grew up as a farm girl, much like many young ...
8. Powers Boothe
Actor | Sin City
Incisive, gravelly-voiced screen tough guy Powers Boothe was born on June 1, 1948 in Snyder, Texas, a sharecropper's son. Used to hard physical work "chopping cotton" as a youngster, he went on to become the first member of his family to attend university. He then proceeded to study acting via a ...
9. Alan Bates
Actor | Gosford Park
Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End debut in 1956, at 22...
10. Marcello Mastroianni
Actor | La dolce vita
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...
11. Oona Chaplin
Actress | Broken English
Oona O'Neil was born in Warwick Parish, Bermuda, the daughter of famed American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born socialite Agnes Boulton. Oona had a fairly happy childhood, although she rarely saw her busy father. During her teens Oona attended boarding school in New York where she met ...
12. Ben Gazzara
Actor | Road House
Ben Gazzara's screen career began with two critically acclaimed roles as heavies in the late 1950s. He turned to television in the 1960s but made a big screen comeback with roles in three John Cassavetes films in the 1970s. The 1980s and 1990s saw Gazzara work more frequently than ever before in ...
13. Rex Harrison
Actor | My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison was born Reginald Carey Harrison in Huyton, Lancashire, England, to Edith Mary (Carey) and William Reginald Harrison, a cotton broker. He changed his name to Rex as a young boy, knowing it was the Latin word for "King". Starting out on his theater career at age 18, his first job at the ...
14. Anna Magnani
Actress | Roma città aperta
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies claim), on March 7, 1908. She was the child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria region of Italy although she never knew his name. ...
15. Anne Francis
Actress | Forbidden Planet
Anne Francis got into show business quite early in life. She was born on September 16, 1930 in Ossining, New York (which is near Sing Sing prison), the only child of Phillip Ward Francis, a businessman/salesman, and the former Edith Albertson. A natural little beauty, she became a John Robert Powers...
16. Aretha Franklin
Actress | The Blues Brothers
Grammy-winning Queen of Soul and the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara Vernice (Siggers) and C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, who preached at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit for over thirty ...
17. 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 ...
18. Luciano Pavarotti
Soundtrack | Yes, Giorgio
Luciano Pavarotti was a best-selling classical singer and humanitarian known for his most original and popular performances with the 'Three Tenors' and 'Pavarotti & Friends'.
He was born on October 12, 1935, in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy. He was the first child and only son of two ...
19. Masaji Kiyokawa
Self | Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
Champion backstroke swimmer Masaji Kiyokawa was born on February 11, 1913 in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. Kiyokawa was selected as a member of the Japanese swimming team for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles; California and won the gold medal in the men's 100 meter backstroke. Masaji went on to win...
20. Syd Barrett
Soundtrack | Doctor Strange
Syd Barrett was born on January 6, 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Doctor Strange (2016), Mysterious Skin (2004) and The X-Files (1993). He died on July 7, 2006 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
founding member of Pink Floyd
21. Jack Benny
Actor | The Jack Benny Program
The son of a saloon keeper, Jack Benny (born Benny Kubelsky) began to study the violin at the age six, and his "ineptness" at it, would later become his trademark (in reality, he was a very accomplished player). When given the opportunity to play in live theatre professionally, Benny quit school ...
22. Barbara Britton
Actress | The Fabulous Suzanne
Radiant to a tee, well-coiffed and well-dressed Barbara Britton looked like she stepped out of a magazine when she entered into our homes daily as the 'Revlon Girl' on 50s and 60s TV. She sparkled with the best of them and managed to capture that "perfect wife/perfect mother" image with, well, ...
23. Richard Crenna
Actor | Rambo III
Richard Donald Crenna was born in Los Angeles, California, into a modest-income family, the only child of Edith J. (Pollette) and Domenick Anthony Crenna, a pharmacist. His parents were both of Italian descent. His mother managed a small hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where Richard and his family ...
24. John G. Avildsen
Director | Rocky
John G. Avildsen was born on December 21, 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Rocky (1976), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Rocky V (1990). He was married to Tracy Brooks Swope and Marie Olga Maturevich. He died on June 16, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, ...
director/cinematographer
25. Deanna Lund
Actress | Elves
Deanna Lund is best known for her role as "Valerie Scott" in the two-season cult series of the 1960s: Land of the Giants (1968), produced by Irwin Allen.
Irwin Allen cast Lund in the series, when he saw her in a recently made motion picture. Lund started out as the bad girl of the series, getting ...
26. Count Basie
Soundtrack | Pearl Harbor
The famed composer ("One O'Clock Jump", "Two O'Clock Jump", "Jumpin' at the Woodside"), pianist, songwriter and bandleader began as an accompanist to vaudeville acts. He joined the Bennie Moten orchestra in Kansas City, later organizing his own orchestra and performing on radio. In 1936 he came to ...
27. Fred Gwynne
Actor | My Cousin Vinny
Fred Gwynne was an enormously talented character actor most famous for starring in the television situation comedies Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) (as Officer Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (1964) (as the Frankenstein clone Herman Munster). He was very tall at 6'5" and had a resonant, baritone ...
28. Brock Peters
Actor | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Born of African and West Indian ancestry on July 2, 1927 in New York City, Brock Peters set his sights on a show business career early on, at age ten. A product of NYC's famed Music and Arts High School, Peters initially fielded more odd jobs than acting jobs as he worked his way up from Harlem ...
29. Randy Pausch
Actor | Star Trek
Randolph Frederick Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Columbia, Maryland. He graduated in 1978 from Oakland Mills High School in Columbia and, in May 1982, received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In August 1988 he ...
30. Pete Postlethwaite
Actor | The Usual Suspects
An oddly fascinating bloke with prominent bony cheeks and rawboned figure, Peter William (Pete) Postlethwaite was born on February 16, 1946 and was a distinguished character actor on stage, TV and film. Growing up the youngest of four siblings in a Catholic family in Warrington, Lancashire (near ...
31. Jared Martin
Actor | Aenigma
Born in Manhattan, New York to Charles E. Martin, prolific cover artist and cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine, and Florence Taylor, an artist and homemaker; Jared began acting at the age of thirteen when his parents gave him the choice of learning to play the piano or acting in the local ...
32. Edwin Hawkins
Soundtrack | xXx: Return of Xander Cage
The grammy award winning Edwin Hawkins has been coined, The father of contemporary gospel. He rose to fame when the choir he co-founded,The Northern California State Youth Choir, aka, The Edwin Hawkins Singers , performed a new version of the hymn, O Happy Day (1969). Radio stations in the San ...
Edwin Hawkins Gospel Singers
33. Fernando Lamas
Actor | The Cheap Detective
Handsome, dapper Argentine-born actor who came to Hollywood as a romantic lead in several colourful MGM extravaganzas and then succeeded in living up to his Latin Lover image in real life. Lamas studied drama at school in his native country and later enrolled in a law course at college. His strong ...
34. Sally Ride
Producer | Some Assembly Required
Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Some Assembly Required (2008), Space Age (1992) and Storytime (2020). She was married to Steve Hawley. She died on July 23, 2012 in La Jolla, California, USA.
first US female astronaut in space
35. Bonnie Franklin
Actress | One Day at a Time
Bonnie Franklin, of the freckled, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, rosy-cheeked, carrot-haired variety, could light up a room with her buoyant, folksy personality, but she could be quite serious in a take-charge manner when it came to purposeful acting work. It took Norman Lear and a highly popular TV ...
star of One Day at a Time TV series
36. Hans Rosling
Self | På spåret
Hans Rosling was born on July 27, 1948 in Uppsala, Sweden. He was married to Agneta Thordeman. He died on February 7, 2017 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden.
37. Richard Hatch
Actor | Battlestar Galactica
Born in Santa Monica, California, USA, Richard Hatch was studying classical piano at the age of eight, and knew he wanted to carve out a career as a performer before he reached his teens. After attending Harbor College in San Pedro, he joined a Los Angeles repertory company with which he traveled ...
38. Pernell Roberts
Actor | Bonanza
Best recalled as the eldest son and first member of the "Bonanza" Cartwright clan to permanently leave the Ponderosa in the hopes of greener acting pastures, dark, deep-voiced and durably handsome Pernell Roberts' native roots lay in Georgia. Born Pernell Elvin Roberts, Jr. on May 18, 1928, in ...
39. Angharad Rees
Actress | Under Milk Wood
Angharad Rees was born on July 16, 1944 in Edgware, Middlesex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Under Milk Wood (1971), Hands of the Ripper (1971) and Poldark (1975). She was married to David McAlpine and Christopher Cazenove. She died on July 21, 2012 in Knightsbridge, London, England, ...
40. Joan Crawford
Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; ...
died of a heart attack while battling pancreatic cancer
41. Henry Mancini
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman. Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band. In 1952, he was given a two-week ...
42. Paul Koslo
Actor | The Omega Man
Lean-faced, intense-looking, German-born, Canada-raised Paul Koslo was at his busiest during the 1970s, usually playing shifty, untrustworthy and often downright nasty characters. He first broke into films at age 22 in the low-budget Little White Crimes (1966), and then appeared in a rush of movies ...
43. Yvonne Suhor
Actress | The Young Riders
Yvonne Suhor, visiting assistant professor of theatre, received her MFA from the University of California and has been a professional actress, director and teacher for several years. She was a regular on ABC's The Young Riders (1989), played Cicely in an Emmy award-winning episode of Northern ...
44. Donna Douglas
Actress | The Beverly Hillbillies
An honest-to-goodness Southern Belle, similar to her most famous character role, "Elly May Clampett" on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Donna Douglas grew up in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area, loving "critters". She got married soon after high school, had a son, divorced and won a couple of beauty...
45. Art Fleming
Actor | Airplane II: The Sequel
Art Fleming was born on May 1, 1924 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), MacArthur (1977) and International Detective (1959). He was married to Rebecca Lynn, Peggy Ann Ellis and Mildred Lauretta Goodrich. He died on April 25, 1995 in Crystal ...
American actor
46. Bill Hicks
Producer | Ninja Bachelor Party
Born in Georgia but raised in Houston since the age of 7, this self-described "Prince of Darkness" was compelled to use the comedy stage as his philosophic soapbox. At 13, he would sneak out of his suburban house to hustle his way onto open-mike night rosters. In two brief decades, Hicks worked his...
47. Greg Lake
Soundtrack | Children of Men
Greg Lake was born on November 10, 1947 in Poole, Dorset, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Children of Men (2006), Power Rangers (2017) and MacGruber (2010). He was married to Regina Bottcher. He died on December 7, 2016 in London, England, UK.
founding member of Emerson, Lake and Palmer
48. Eiko Ishioka
Costume_designer | Bram Stoker's Dracula
Eiko Ishioka was born on July 12, 1938 in Tokyo, Japan. She was a costume designer and director, known for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Cell (2000) and The Fall (2006). She was married to Nico Soultanakis. She died on January 21, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan.
won Oscar for Best Costume Design (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
49. Satoshi Kon
Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...
Japanese film director
50. Simone Signoret
Actress | Les diaboliques
The face of Simone Signoret on the Paris Metro movie posters in March 1982 looked even older than her 61 years. She was still a box-office draw, but the film L'étoile du Nord (1982) would be her last theatrical release; she played the landlady. Signoret had a long film apprenticeship during ...
51. Nargis
Actress | Mother India
Nargis was born on June 1, 1929 as Fatima Rashid in Rawalpindi, British India, daughter to Jaddanbai and Uttamchand Mohanchand, a former Hindu Mohyal Brahmin who converted to Islam as Abdul Rashid. Her mother was a well-known dancer, singer, actor, composer, and director. This is what paved the way...
52. Elisabeth Sladen
Actress | Doctor Who
Elisabeth Sladen was born in Liverpool, England. She attended drama school for two years before joining the local repertory theatre in her home town of Liverpool. She met actor Brian Miller during her first production there and they were later married after meeting again in Manchester, three years ...
53. Bill Owen
Actor | Last of the Summer Wine
This English actor was born of humble, working class beginnings and became well-known for playing the same kind of blokes on both film and TV. Born William Rowbotham, he was the son of a tram driver and laundress. He knew early on that entertaining was the life for him. He worked in odd jobs as a ...
British actor
54. Ben Orr
Actor | The Cars: Drive
Bassist and singer Ben Orr was born Benjamin Orzechowski on September 8, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. His Russian and Czechoslovakian parents actively encouraged his musical endeavors. Ben grew up in Lakewood and Parma Heights, Ohio. He played bass, keyboards, and percussion instruments in his teen ...
founding member of The Cars with Ric Ocasek
55. Bushwick Bill
Writer | Bushwick Bill: Geto Boy
Bushwick Bill was born under the name Richard Stephen Shaw in Kingston, Jamaica, on December 1, 1966. His father is a merchant marine, and his mother a maid. According to a source from the Houston Chronicle, he is a high school dropout, and reads at the fourth grade level. He has failed a majority ...
56. Magnus Magnusson
Camera_department | Rokk í Reykjavík
Magnus Magnusson was born on October 12, 1929 in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was an actor and writer, known for Rock in Reykjavik (1982), Mastermind (1972) and Love and Death on Long Island (1997). He was married to Mamie Baird. He died on January 7, 2007 in Balmore, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK.
Broadcaster / BBC TV Mastermind quizmaster
57. Gareth Hunt
Actor | Fierce Creatures
Gareth Hunt was born on February 7, 1943 in Battersea, London, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Fierce Creatures (1997), Undercover Lover (1979) and The New Avengers (1976). He was married to Amanda, Annette Walter-Lax and Carol. He died on March 14, 2007 in Redhill, Surrey, ...
British actor
58. Reginald Bosanquet
Self | Story Box
He read history at Oxford and wanted to do something on current affairs so on leaving on the advice of BBC's Hue Weldon joined ITN at the birth of ITV, He spent his first 2 years behind the scenes before starting newscasting, He says that he was very bad for about a year before he got the hang of ...
British broadcaster / news anchorman
59. Gary McSpadden
Self | Precious Memories
Gary McSpadden was born on January 26, 1943 in Mangum, Oklahoma, USA. He died on April 15, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
producer / singer / song writer
60. Mike Winters
Writer | Dick Emery's Comedy Hour
Mike Winters was born on November 15, 1930 in Islington, North London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Dick Emery's Comedy Hour (1979), The Cool Mikado (1963) and Alice Through the Looking Box (1960). He was married to Cassie Chaney and Cassie. He died on August 24, 2013 in ...
English entertainer, brother of Bernie Winters
61. Sharon Jones
Soundtrack | The Great Debaters
Born Sharon Lafaye Jones in Augusta, Georgia, she moved to New York City at an early age. With a gifted voice, performing gospel songs in Church, since childhood, she has only recently received acclaim by the public and her peers in the areas of Soul, Funk and Rhythm and Blues. Until the late 90s ...
singer
62. Dizzy Gillespie
Soundtrack | The Talented Mr. Ripley
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the era of Be-Bop in the American jazz tradition. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, and was the youngest of nine children. He began playing piano at the age of four and received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute ...
maestro jazz musician
63. Charlotte Rae
Actress | The Facts of Life
Charlotte Rae was born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the middle daughter of three sisters, between Beverly and Mimi. Her parents, Esther (nee Ottenstein) and Meyer Lubotsky, were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her father owned an automobile tire business. Her mother had been ...
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer first, then bone cancer later on
64. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Self | RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Martin D. Ginsburg. She died on September 18, 2020 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
65. Bob Gibson
Self | Monday Night Baseball
Bob Gibson was born on November 9, 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was married to Wendy Nelson and Charline Johnson. He died on October 2, 2020 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Baseball Hall of Famer
66. Willy DeVille
Soundtrack | The Princess Bride
Willy DeVille was born on August 25, 1950 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Princess Bride (1987), Cruising (1980) and Death Proof (2007). He was married to Lisa Leggett, Susan Berle a.k.a. Toots and Nina Lagerwall. He died on August 6, 2009 in Manhattan, New ...
founding band member of Mink Deville
67. Alex Trebek
Producer | Jeopardy!
Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Alex Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Philosophy. After his first decision to become a newscaster, he joined the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), Canada's premier network in 1961. As he was working, he helped organize national ...
host of long-running TV game show Jeopardy
68. Gene Upshaw
Self | The NFL on CBS
Gene Upshaw was born on August 15, 1945 in Robstown, Texas, USA. He was married to Teresa Buich and Jimmye Hill. He died on August 20, 2008 in Lake Tahoe, California, USA.
NFL pro football Hall of Fame
69. Alex Rocco
Actor | The Godfather
Tough, gruff, thick-browed, volatile-looking character actor Alex Rocco was born Alessandro Federico Petricone, Jr. on February 29, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Cambridge, Mass. He grew up a member of Boston's Winter Hill gang (his nickname was "Bobo") and was briefly detained regarding a murder ...
played Moe Greene in the Godfather
70. Dorothy Arnold
Actress | The Phantom Creeps
Dorothy Arnold was a nightclub singer and budding movie star when she married baseball great Joe DiMaggio in 1940. She had made several films for Universal starting in 1938, but after her marriage to DiMaggio she gave up acting. Although the two divorced in 1944, Arnold did not try to resume her ...
71. Charles Arnt
Actor | Sudan
Charles Arnt was born on August 20, 1906 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Sudan (1945), The Great Gildersleeve (1942) and Dangerous Intruder (1945). He died on August 6, 1990 in Orcas Island, Washington, USA.
72. Vince Edwards
Actor | The Killing
Born in Brooklyn, the son of Italian immigrant parents, Vince Edwards early aspired to the theater. He was a swimming champion in high school, attended Ohio State University on an athletic scholarship, and was on their National Championship swimming team. Olympics were on the horizon, but an ...
played Dr. Ben Casey in 60's TV series
73. Peggy Ann Garner
Actress | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Actress Peggy Ann Garner was born Feb. 3, 1932, in Canton, Ohio. Her father was an English-born attorney, William H. Garner, who served as a U.S. Army officer during World War II. Virginia, her determined mother, got Peggy into summer stock and modeling before she was six. Estranged from her ...
74. Billy Carter
Actor | Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers
Billy Carter was born on March 29, 1937 in Plains, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers (1979), Mel & Susan Together (1978) and Hee Haw (1969). He died on September 25, 1988 in Plains, Georgia, USA.
younger brother of former US President Jimmy Carter
75. Geneviève Castrée
Composer | Elegy
Geneviève Castrée was born on April 9, 1981 in Quebec, Canada. Geneviève was a composer, known for Elegy (2018). Geneviève was married to Phil Elverum. Geneviève died on July 9, 2016 in Anacortes, Washington, USA.
Canadian illustrator and musician, died age 35
76. Joe Jackson
Producer | The Jacksons
Joseph Walter Jackson was born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas, to Crystal Lee (King) and Samuel Jackson, a schoolteacher. Raised during the Depression in Oakland, California, Jackson learned the importance of work at an early age. In the 1950s, he formed and played guitar with his band with his brother...
father of Michael Jackson
77. Marian McCargo
Actress | The Undefeated
Former Tennis Champion before she became an actress! During her days on the Silver screen, she was regarded as a classy lady. She had gone to the same finishing school as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and frequented Martha's Vineyard.
78. Dyanne Thorne
Actress | Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
American actress and performer Dyanne Thorne began her career in show business as a band vocalist and New York stage actress. Before breaking onto the silver screen, she was popular as a comedic sketch artist/talking foil. Comedy albums, with Allen & Rossi, Vaughn Meader and Loman & Barkley earned ...
79. Eddie Foy Jr.
Actor | Yankee Doodle Dandy
With the passing of Irving Foy in 2003, another era in American show business comes to a close. Eddie Foy & the Seven Little Foys appeared on screen together only once, in 1915 in A Favorite Fool (1915), while Eddie Sr., without his progeny, appeared on screen in Actors' Fund Field Day (1910) and ...
80. John Normington
Actor | Rollerball
John Normington was a distinguished English actor and a veteran of stage and screen. He also trained as an opera singer at the Northern School of Music. He made his theatrical debut in the 1950 production of "The Happiest Days of Your Life". He later became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
British TV actor
81. Jon Lord
Soundtrack | Point Break
Jon Lord was born on June 9, 1941 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Point Break (1991), Twister (1996) and Almost Famous (2000). He was married to Judith Feldman and Vickie. He died on July 16, 2012 in London, England, UK.
founding member of Deep Purple
82. Erich Kunzel
Soundtrack | Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
Erich Kunzel was born on March 21, 1935 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010), Great Performances (1971) and My Own Partridge Family (2002). He was married to Brunhilde Kunzel. He died on September 1, 2009 in Swan's...
led the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for over 30 years
83. David Greene
Director | Godspell: A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew
David Greene had a varied early career, beginning with his first job as junior reporter for the Walthamstow Guardian. Life as a journalist was not to be his forte, however. During the years spanning the mid- to late 1930's, he tried his luck variously in the furniture removal business, as a deck ...
British TV and film director
84. Fiorello LaGuardia
Self | Die Stimme Österreichs
Fiorello LaGuardia was born on December 11, 1882 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Marie Fisher and Thea Almerigotti. He died on September 20, 1947 in Bronx, New York, USA.
Mayor of New York for 3 terms
85. Morton Feldman
Soundtrack | Shutter Island
Morton Feldman was born on January 12, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Shutter Island (2010), Them (2021) and The House of Mirth (2000). He was married to Barbara Monk. He died on September 3, 1987 in Buffalo, New York, USA.
American composer
86. Lorraine Hansberry
Writer | A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for A Raisin in the Sun (1961), American Playhouse (1980) and A Raisin in the Sun (2014). She was married to Robert Nemiroff. She died on January 12, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA.
first black female playwright to showcase on Broadway
87. Mickey Spillane
Writer | The Girl Hunters
Mickey Spillane, the king of the pulp novelists in the post-WW II period, sold an estimated 200 million copies globally. He was born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, New York. Young Frank's mother was a Protestant who bestowed on him his middle name "Morrison", but his Irish Catholic father, ...
88. Dennis Potter
Writer | Gorky Park
Dennis Christopher George Potter was born 17 May 1935 in Berry Hill, a small village in the Forest of Dean, where his grandfather and father were coal miners. Through books, the young Potter found that "words were chariots". He attended school in London and spent two years in the Army. During his ...
British television dramatist, screenwriter
89. Madeleine Carroll
Actress | The 39 Steps
The original ash-blonde "iceberg maiden", Madeleine Carroll was a knowing beauty with a confident air, the epitome of poise and "breeding". Not only did she have looks and allure in abundance, but she had intellectual heft to go with them, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham ...
British actor
90. René Magritte
Animation_department | Between Earth and the End of Time
René Magritte was born on November 21, 1898 in Lessines, Belgium. He is known for Between Earth and the End of Time (1995), Quality Content (2017) and Illusion of Seeing (1990). He was married to Georgette Magritte. He died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels, Belgium.
Belgian surrealist artist
91. Harry Blackstone Jr.
Harry Blackstone Jr. was born on June 30, 1934 in Three Rivers, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), Hart to Hart (1979) and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989). He was married to Gay Blackstone. He died on May 14, 1997 in Loma Linda, California, USA.
US stage magician and TV performer
92. Cecil Day-Lewis
Writer | La bestia debe morir
Cecil Day-Lewis was born on April 27, 1904 in Ballintubber, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Beast Must Die (1952), This Man Must Die (1969) and The Beast Must Die (2021). He was married to Jill Balcon and Constance Mary King. He died on May 22, 1972 in London, England, UK.
English poet laureate
93. Jef Raskin
Self | In Search of the Valley
Jef Raskin was born on March 9, 1943 in New York, USA. He died on February 26, 2005 in Pacifica, California, USA.
pioneer human-computer interface expert
94. Frank Herbert
Writer | Dune
Frank Herbert was born on October 8, 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was a writer, known for Dune (2021), Dune (1984) and Dune: Part Two (2024). He was married to Theresa Shackleford, Beverley Ann Stuart and Flora Parkinson. He died on February 11, 1986 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
jounalist and sci-fi author (Dune)
95. Joan Lowery Nixon
Writer | Awake to Danger
Joan Lowery Nixon was born on February 3, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Joan Lowery was a writer, known for Awake to Danger (1995). Joan Lowery was married to Hershell Howard Nixon. Joan Lowery died on June 29, 2003 in Houston, Texas, USA.
US jounalist and author
96. Kenneth Mars
Actor | What's Up, Doc?
Kenneth Mars was an American actor and comedian. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), ...
character and voice actor
97. Harve Presnell
Actor | Fargo
By the time handsome, brawny baritone Harve Presnell arrived on the film scene, the "Golden Age" of musicals had long dissipated. Born in Modesto, California in 1933 and spending part of his youth on a family ranch near Yosemite Valley where he labored in the fields, it was discovered he had quite ...
American actor and singer
98. Irving Wallace
Writer | The West Point Story
U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter Irving Wallace excelled at writing popular fiction based on current events. He began writing for various magazines at age 15. He wrote screenplays for a variety of studios from 1950 to 1959, when he turned solely to writing books. His first major ...
best-selling author and screenwriter
99. Charles Guggenheim
Producer | Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Charles Guggenheim was born into a wealthy Cincinnati family (his father was a furniture manufacturer). While studying agriculture in college in 1943, Guggenheim was drafted into the army. Upon discharge from the service he decided against an agricultural career and moved to New York to pursue a ...
director and producer
100. Paul Naschy
Actor | El retorno del Hombre Lobo
Paul Naschy reigns supreme as the true king of Spanish horror cinema. He was born Jacinto Molina Alvarez on September 6, 1934, in Madrid, Spain. His father ran a successful fur business. Naschy grew up during the Spanish Civil War, and sought escape from the real-life horrors around him in ...
Spanish actor, director and screenwriter
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