Famous People Who Had Pancreatic Cancer

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, ...

2. 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.

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. 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 ...

5. 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; ...

6. 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 ...

7. Joseph Bologna

Actor | The Big Bus

Before signing with director Stanley Donen to play Michael Caine's libidinous best friend in Blame It on Rio (1984), Joe Bologna netted rave reviews for his Sid Caesar send-up in the well-received comedy My Favorite Year (1982) with Peter O'Toole. Well known as both a writer and an actor, Bologna ...

8. Powers Boothe

Actor | Sudden Death

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. John Beradino

Actor | General Hospital

John Beradino was born on May 1, 1917 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for General Hospital (1963), Adventures of Superman (1952) and Young Doctors in Love (1982). He was married to Marjorie Ann Binder, Charissa Hughes and Jeanette Nadine Barritt. He died on May 19...

10. Lillian Carter

Self | Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala

Lillian Carter was born on August 15, 1898 in Richland, Georgia, USA. She was married to James Earl Carter. She died on October 30, 1983 in Americus-Sumter County Hospital, Americus, Georgia, USA.

11. 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 ...

12. 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...

13. 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...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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.

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. Robert Hazard

Soundtrack | Anomalisa

Robert Hazard was born Robert Rimato on August 21, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a tenor opera singer with the Philadelphia Opera Company and owned a jeweler's shop. Hazard began writing and singing songs at age ten. He grew up in Springfield, Pennsylvania and graduated from ...

22. Etta Moten

Actress | Flying Down to Rio

In addition to her vocal dubbing and on-screen film credits, Etta Moten played the role of Bess in the 1943 revival of "Porgy and Bess" at the personal request of Ira Gershwin (not George, who had died in 1937). Etta and husband Claude Barnett, founder of the Negro Associated Press, served as US ...

23. 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.

24. 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 ...

25. 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, ...

26. Symona Boniface

Actress | Girls' Dormitory

An American actress most frequently seen in bit parts in comedy shorts, mostly at Columbia Pictures, particularly those of The Three Stooges, Symona Boniface entered the theatre as a playwright and actress, and produced plays as well. After the stock market crash of 1929 she began taking bit parts ...

27. 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 ...

28. 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...

29. 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 ...

30. 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...

31. 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...

32. 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 ...

33. Karl Lagerfeld

Actor | La doublure

Karl Lagerfeld was born on September 10, 1933 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a costume designer and actor, known for The Valet (2006), Reincarnation (2014) and The Tale of a Fairy (2011). He died on February 19, 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

34. 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.

35. 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 ...

36. Diana Lewis

Actress | It's a Gift

Diana Lewis was born on September 18, 1919 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Her parents were vaudeville performers. The family moved to Hollywood and Diana, her sister Maxine, and her brother J.C. all went into show business. Diana made her film debut in the comedy It's a Gift (1934). At the age of ...

37. Charlie Louvin

Soundtrack | Jesus' Son

Charlie Louvin was born on July 7, 1927 in Section, Alabama, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Jesus' Son (1999), Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001) and The Slaughter Rule (2002). He was married to Betty Harrison. He died on January 26, 2011 in Wartrace, Tennessee, USA.

38. 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 ...

39. 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 ...

40. Margaret Mead

Writer | A Balinese Family: the Karmas of Bajoeng Gedé

Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer and director, known for A Balinese Family: the Karmas of Bajoeng Gedé (1952), The Working Mother (1961) and Trance and Dance in Bali (1952). She was married to Gregory Bateson, Reo Fortune and ...

41. 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...

42. Denis Thatcher

Self | ITN News

Denis Thatcher was born on May 10, 1915 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. He was married to Margaret Thatcher and Margaret Doris Kempson. He died on June 26, 2003 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.

43. Stefán Karl Stefánsson

Actor | LazyTown

Stefan Karl Stefansson was an Icelandic film and stage actor/comedian, best known for playing the villain Robbie Rotten of Nickjr's popular TV program Lazy Town, that currently airs worldwide in over 103 countries, in all five continents, on [such distinguished] networks as BBC, CBBC, CBS, ...

44. Ruth Carter Stapleton

Self | New York, New York

Ruth Carter Stapleton was born on August 7, 1929 in Plains, Georgia, USA. She died on September 26, 1983 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA.

45. 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 ...

46. 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 ...

47. 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 ...

48. 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.

49. 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). ...

50. 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 ...

51. 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 ...

52. 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 ...

53. Ray Price

Soundtrack | The Guilt Trip

Ray Price was born on January 12, 1926 in Perryville, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Guilt Trip (2012), Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) and A Man of No Importance (1994). He was married to Janie Mae and Betty Berthena Greb (Linda Powers). He died on December 16, 2013 in Mount Pleasant, ...

54. 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 ...

55. 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 ...

56. 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 ...

57. Alice Playten

Actress | Legend

Alice Playten was born on August 28, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Legend (1985), The Rebound (2009) and I.Q. (1994). She was married to Joshua White. She died on June 25, 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

58. Webb Pierce

Soundtrack | Ad Astra

Webb Pierce was born on August 8, 1921 in West Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Ad Astra (2019), Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) and The Help (2011). He died on February 24, 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

59. 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 ...

60. 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 ...

61. 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 ...

62. Barbara Orbison

Producer | Roy Orbison: I Drove All Night

Barbara Orbison was born on January 10, 1950 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was a producer, known for Roy Orbison: I Drove All Night (1992), Forbidden Apple (2018) and Roy Orbison Live in Texas (1986). She was married to Roy Orbison. She died on December 6, 2011 in Los Angeles, ...

63. Terry O'Sullivan

Actor | Search for Tomorrow

Terry O'Sullivan was born on July 7, 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Search for Tomorrow (1951), The Secret Storm (1954) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He was married to Jill Melody, Sherry Godfrey, Jan Miner and Norma Jayne Duncan. He died on September 14, ...

64. Danny Aiello III

Actor | The Natural

Danny Aiello was an accomplished producer and director with twenty-five years experience in the industry, receiving considerable notice as one of New York's finest up-and-coming filmmakers. He most recently produced and directed: 18 Shades of Dust (1999), a feature film nominated at the London Film...

65. 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 ...

66. 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...

67. Melvin Belli

Producer | Tokyo File 212

Melvin Belli was born on July 29, 1907 in Sonora, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Tokyo File 212 (1951), Star Trek (1966) and Ground Zero (1973). He was married to Nancy Ho, Lia Triff, Pat Montandon, Betty Ballantine, Toni Nichols and Joy Turney. He died on July 9, 1996 in ...

68. Harry Blackstone Jr.

Get to Know Your Rabbit

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.

69. 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 ...

70. Mark Goodson

Writer | Family Feud

Mark Goodson was born on January 14, 1915 in Sacramento, California, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Family Feud (1976), Tattletales (1974) and Password (1973). He was married to Suzanne Russell Waddell, Virginia McDavid and Bluma Neveleff. He died on December 18, 1992 in Los Angeles, ...

71. Nigel Hawthorne

Actor | The Madness of King George

Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native UK and internationally, the unparalleled Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England on 5 April 1929, raised in South Africa and returned to the UK in the 1950s with his extensive work as a great gentleman of acting...

72. 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 ...

73. Clifford Irving

Writer | Fake!

Clifford Irving was born on November 5, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Fake!, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) and The Hoax (2006). He was married to Julie Anne Schall, Maureen Earl, Edith Sommer, Fay Brooke Ward, Claire Lydon and Nina Wilcox. He died ...

74. 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 ...

75. 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. ...

76. Vincent McMahon

Writer | WWWF Championship Wrestling

Vincent McMahon was born on July 6, 1914 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for WWF Championship Wrestling (1972), WWWF Heavyweight Wrestling from Washington (1956) and WWF on MSG Network (1973). He was married to Vicki Askew and Juanita McMahon. He died on...

77. 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 ...

78. 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), ...

79. Cliff Osmond

Writer | The Streets of San Francisco

Cliff Osmond was born on February 26, 1937 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Streets of San Francisco (1972), The Front Page (1974) and The Penitent (1988). He was married to Gretchen Lee Petty. He died on December 22, 2012 in Pacific Palisades, California, ...

80. Billy Paul

Soundtrack | Beautiful Girls

Billy Paul was born on December 1, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Beautiful Girls (1996), Coneheads (1993) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). He was married to Blanche Williams. He died on April 24, 2016 in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.

81. 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 ...

82. 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 ...

83. 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, ...

84. 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 ...

85. 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.

86. Benjamin Orr

Self | Letters to my Grandchildren

87. Joël Robuchon

Writer | Bon appétit bien sûr

Joël Robuchon was born on April 7, 1945 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Bon appétit bien sûr (2000), Le grand échiquier (1972) and Top Chef (2006). He died on August 6, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland.

88. Rocío Jurado

Actress | La Lola se va a los puertos

Rocío Jurado was born on September 18, 1940 in Chipiona, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for La Lola se va a los puertos (1993), Proceso a una estrella (1966) and La querida (1976). She was married to José Ortega Cano and Pedro Carrasco. She died on June 1, 2006 in Madrid, Spain.

89. 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.

90. Melvin Belli

Producer | Tokyo File 212

Melvin Belli was born on July 29, 1907 in Sonora, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Tokyo File 212 (1951), Star Trek (1966) and Ground Zero (1973). He was married to Nancy Ho, Lia Triff, Pat Montandon, Betty Ballantine, Toni Nichols and Joy Turney. He died on July 9, 1996 in ...

91. 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...

92. Michael Deaver

Producer | K Street

Michael Deaver was born on April 11, 1938 in Bakersfield, California, USA. He was a producer, known for K Street (2003), All the Presidents' Movies: The Movie (2009) and CMT: True Grit (2006). He was married to Carolyn Deaver. He died on August 18, 2007 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

93. William Safire

Writer | In Event of Moon Disaster

William Safire was born on December 17, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for In Event of Moon Disaster (2019), The Story of English (1986) and Al Franken: God Spoke (2006). He was married to Helene Belmar Julius. He died on September 27, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland, USA.

94. 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.

95. Ralph Ellison

Writer | Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison was born on March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Invisible Man, American Masters (1985) and The Fifties (1997). He was married to Fanny McConnell and Rose Poindexter. He died on April 16, 1994 in New York City, New York, USA.

96. 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.

97. 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.

98. 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 Camera Three (1955). She was married to Robert Nemiroff. She died on January 12, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA.

99. 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 ...

100. 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.