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1. Sherwood Bailey

Sherwood Bailey was born on August 6, 1923 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Choo-Choo! (1932), Readin' and Writin' (1932) and The Pooch (1932). He was married to Ruth. He died on August 6, 1987 in Newport Beach, California, USA.

2. Norma Varden

Actress | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

The daughter of a retired sea captain and his much-younger wife, actress Norma Varden was born and raised in turn-of-the-century London. A piano prodigy, she studied in Paris and appeared in concert in England during her teenage years. Acting, however, became her career of choice, studying at the ...

3. David Bowie

Soundtrack | Labyrinth

David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest ...

4. Gavin Gordon

Actor | Bride of Frankenstein

Gavin Gordon was born on April 7, 1901 in Chicora, Mississippi [now Buckatunna, Wayne County, Mississippi], USA. He was an actor, known for Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and The Scarlet Empress (1934). He died on April 7, 1983 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...

5. Lee Patrick

Actress | The Maltese Falcon

The highly versatile character actress Lee Patrick could readily play a tough, scrapping, hard-bitten dame as she did in the gritty women's prison drama Caged (1950), or a meek and twittery wife as exemplified by her uppity socialite Doris Upson in the freewheeling farce Auntie Mame (1958). She ...

6. Simon Oakland

Actor | Psycho

One of the movies' most memorable tough guys, Simon Oakland actually began his career as a concert violinist, turning to acting in the late 1940s. After a long string of roles in Broadway hits, including "Light Up the Sky," "The Shrike" and "Inherit the Wind," Oakland made his film debut as the ...

7. Sheila Ryan

Actress | Road House

Sheila Ryan was born on September 17, 1952 in Franklin Park, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Road House (1989), Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell (1990) and Hunter (1984). She was married to James Caan. She died on September 18, 2012 in Canoga Park, California, USA.

8. Lew Parker

Actor | Are You with It?

Lew Parker was born on October 29, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Are You with It? (1948), That Girl (1966) and The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956). He was married to Betty Kean. He died on October 27, 1972 in New York City, New York, USA.

9. Patrick Troughton

Actor | The Omen

Patrick Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London and was educated at Mill Hill School. He trained as an actor at the Embassy School of Acting in the UK and at Leighton Rollin's Studio for for Actors at Long Island, New York in the USA. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy and after the ...

10. Cliff Robertson

Actor | Spider-Man

Clifford Parker Robertson III became a fairly successful leading man through most of his career without ever becoming a major star. Following strong stage and television experience, he made an interesting film debut in a supporting role in Picnic (1955). He then played Joan Crawford's deranged ...

11. Harry Landers

Actor | Ben Casey

Harry Landers was born on September 3, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Ben Casey (1961), Star Trek (1966) and Phantom from Space (1953). He was married to Jeanne Vaughn. He died on September 9, 2017 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

12. 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...

13. Marianna Elliott

Costume_designer | Blue Thunder

Marianna Elliott was born on June 23, 1930 in China Grove, North Carolina, USA. She was a costume designer, known for Blue Thunder (1983), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and The Big Bus (1976). She was married to Alan Oppenheimer. She died on June 21, 2003 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

14. Lew Gallo

Producer | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Lew graduated from Ithaca College in 1951 and was a member of Delta Kappa fraternity. He attended graduate school at Columbia University from 1954-1955. He received Ithaca College's Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 2001. He founded the golf tournament for the Entertainment Industry ...

15. Priscilla Bonner

Actress | Charley's Aunt

Priscilla Bonner was born on February 17, 1899 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Charley's Aunt (1925), 3 Bad Men (1926) and The False Alarm (1926). She was married to Dr. E. Bertrand Woolfan and Allen Wynes Alexander. She died on February 21, 1996 in Los ...

16. David Berlatsky

Director | The Farmer

David Berlatsky was born on July 21, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an editor and production manager, known for The Farmer (1977), The Deep (1977) and King (1978). He died on July 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

17. Ken Renard

Actor | True Grit

Ken Renard was born on November 19, 1905 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was an actor, known for True Grit (1969), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and Something of Value (1957). He died on November 16, 1993 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

18. Barbara Read

Actress | Make Way for Tomorrow

Barbara Read was born on December 29, 1917 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Three Smart Girls (1936) and The Spellbinder (1939). She was married to William Talman, Willard Edward Josephy, John Pershing Crawford and William Paul III. She ...

19. Shirin Devrim

Actress | Wolf

Shirin Devrim was born on March 3, 1926 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Wolf (1994). She was married to Robert Browning Trainer and Wesley Lau. She died on March 6, 2011 in New York City, New York, USA.

20. George E. Stone

Actor | Some Like It Hot

A minor prototype of the "Runyon-esque" character for more than three decades, Polish-born actor George E. Stone (né Gerschon Lichtenstein, on May 18, 1903) was, in actuality, a close friend of writer Damon Runyan and would play scores of colorful "dees, dem and dos" cronies throughout the 1920s, '...

21. Annie Ross

Actress | Short Cuts

Annie Ross was born on July 25, 1930 in Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Short Cuts (1993), Superman III (1983) and Throw Momma from the Train (1987). She was married to Sean Lynch. She died on July 21, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

22. Lucille Meredith

Actress | They Live

Lucille Meredith was born on May 8, 1916 in Elyria, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for They Live (1988), Matlock (1986) and Banning (1967). She was married to Roland Kibbee. She died on May 1, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

23. Del Close

Actor | The Blob

Del Close was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas, and attended Kansas State University, after touring with a sideshow act for a period of time in his teenage years. In 1957, at the age of 23, he became a member of the St. Louis branch of "The Compass Players", the direct precursor of "The Second ...

24. Joe George

Actor | Day by Day

Joe George was born on July 30, 1927 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Day by Day (1988), Across 110th Street (1972) and Rollercoaster (1977). He was married to Eleanor Ross. He died on July 31, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

25. Al Checco

Actor | Bullitt

Al Checco was born on July 21, 1921 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Bullitt (1968), The Party (1968) and Helter Skelter (1976). He died on July 19, 2015 in Studio City, California, USA.

26. Stanley Fafara

Actor | Leave It to Beaver

In 1957, seven-year-old Stanley Fafara's mother took him to an open casting call for a new television series about a suburban family entitled "Leave It To Beaver." He had been working in commercials and television westerns since the age of four, and was somewhat of an old hand at auditions. He ...

27. Frank Bank

Actor | Leave It to Beaver

Frank Bank was born on April 12, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Leave It to Beaver (1957), The New Leave It to Beaver (1983) and Life with Archie (1962). He was married to Rebecca Fink, Jeri Lynn Handelman and Marlene Kay Blau. He died on April 13, 2013 in Los ...

28. Sue Randall

Actress | Desk Set

Sue Randall was an actress who was born in 1935. Her primary roles were television instead of motion pictures with Desk Set (1957) being her only silver screen appearance. Sue's TV appearances were mostly guest roles in programs such as The Twilight Zone (1959), The Fugitive (1963), Bonanza (1959) ...

29. Lew Ayres

Actor | Holiday

Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul ...

30. Konstantin Shayne

Actor | The Stranger

The brother of actress Tamara Shayne, he was to join the Moscow Arts Theatre, but World War I intervened, and then he fought with General Pyotr Wrangel and the White Armies. Although he received few significant roles, he was outstanding in None But the Lonely Heart (1944) as Ike Weber, and in The ...

31. Hume Cronyn

Actor | Cocoon

Hume Cronyn was a Canadian actor with a lengthy career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Seventh Cross" (1944).

Cronyn was born to a prominent family. His father was politician Hume Blake Cronyn (1864-1933), Member of Parliament for London, ...

32. Jane Hoffman

Actress | Deconstructing Harry

Jane Hoffman was born on July 24, 1911 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Deconstructing Harry (1997), *batteries not included (1987) and In & Out (1997). She was married to Richard McMurray, Billy Friedberg and James William McGlone Jr.. She died on July 26, 2004 in ...

33. Lesley Woods

Actress | Nurse Betty

Lesley Woods was born on August 22, 1910 in Berwick, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Nurse Betty (2000), Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Young Dr. Malone (1958). She was married to Richard McMurray. She died on August 2, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

34. Terri DeMarco

Skirts Ahoy!

Terri DeMarco was born on September 30, 1930. She was an actress, known for Skirts Ahoy! (1952). She was married to Murray Hamilton. She died on September 3, 1999 in Washington, North Carolina, USA.

35. Suzanne Pleshette

Actress | The Birds

Suzanne Pleshette achieved television immortality in her role as Bob Newhart's wife in the 1970s classic situation comedy, The Bob Newhart Show (1972). For her role as "Emily Hartley," wife of psychologist "Bob Hartley" (played by Bob Newhart), Pleshette was nominated for the Emmy Award twice, in ...

36. Ross Hagen

Actor | Wonder Women

Rough-and-tumble character actor Ross Hagen was born Leland Lando Lilly on May 21, 1938, in Williams, AZ, the son of Lando Irvin Lilly and Mary Alice Johnson. Handsome and rugged, with a highly distinctive deep gravelly voice and a commandingly raw masculine screen presence, Ross was frequently ...

37. Claire Polan

Actress | Wonder Women

Claire Polan was born on December 31, 1937. She was an actress and producer, known for Wonder Women (1973), Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds (1995) and The Media Madman (1992). She was married to Ross Hagen. She died on December 3, 2003 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

38. Paul Keenan

Actor | Dynasty

Paul Keenan was born on December 10, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Dynasty (1981), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) and Days of Our Lives (1965). He died on December 11, 1986 in Canton, Massachusetts, USA.

39. Michael Bryant

Actor | Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Michael Bryant was born on April 5, 1928 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972) and Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). He was married to Judith Coke and Josephine Martin. He died on April 25, 2002 in Richmond, London, England, UK.

40. Ingrid Pitt

Actress | Where Eagles Dare

Best known as Hammer Films' most seductive female vampire of the early 1970s, the Polish-born Pitt possessed dark, alluring features and a sexy figure that made her just right for Gothic horror! Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov) survived World War II and became a well-known actress on the East ...

41. Frank Albertson

Actor | Psycho

Frank Albertson entered the film industry in 1922 as a prop boy, but soon graduated into acting. He was a prolific and reliable character actor who occasionally played the lead in a "B" picture, but was used mainly as a supporting actor in scores of films, often cast as a wisecracking cab driver, a...

42. Claude Johnson

Actor | Disneyland

Claude Johnson was born on May 17, 1938 in Lassen County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954), Adam-12 (1968) and Space Raiders (1983). He died on May 18, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

43. Jed Allan

Actor | General Hospital

Jed Allan was born on March 1, 1935 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for General Hospital (1963), Days of Our Lives (1965) and Port Charles (1997). He was married to Janice Toby Druger. He died on March 9, 2019 in Palm Desert, California, USA.

44. Leo Gordon

Actor | Maverick

Big, burly character actor, one of the toughest of screen heavies. New York-born Leo Gordon's combination of a powerful physique, deep, menacing voice and icy, withering glare was guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of even the bravest screen hero. Director Don Siegel, who used Gordon in his ...

45. Robert Clarke

Actor | The Hideous Sun Demon

A movie-crazy kid in his native Oklahoma City, Robert Clarke decided at an early age that he wanted to be an actor, but nevertheless suffered from stage fright in his first school productions. He acted in University of Oklahoma radio plays and on stage at the University of Wisconsin before hitching...

46. Alyce King

Actress | On Stage Everybody

Alyce King was born on August 14, 1915 in Payson, Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for On Stage Everybody (1945), Cuban Pete (1946) and Larceny with Music (1943). She was married to Robert Clarke and Sydney de Azevedo. She died on August 21, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

47. Rance Howard

Actor | Nebraska

Rance Howard was born on November 17, 1928 in Duncan, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Nebraska (2013), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and Universal Soldier (1992). He was married to Judy Howard and Jean Speegle Howard. He died on November 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, ...

48. Robert Prosky

Actor | Thief

Robert Prosky was born on December 13, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Thief (1981), Broadcast News (1987) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). He was married to Ida Hove. He died on December 8, 2008 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

49. Niall Toibin

Actor | Far and Away

Niall Toibin was born in Cork, Ireland in 1929. Married Judy Kenny (1931-2001) in 1957. Five children and six grand-children. He has had an illustrious acting career spanning over four decades. On October 29 2002 he received the CFT Excellence Award for Best Actor.

50. Peter Graves

Actor | Stalag 17

Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While growing up in Minnesota, he excelled at sports and music (as a saxophonist), and by age 16, he was a radio announcer at WMIN in Minneapolis. After two years in the United States Army Air Force, he studied...

51. Robert Shaw

Actor | Jaws

Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. Shaw's mother, who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, met his father while...

52. 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 ...

53. Jean Alexander

Actress | Coronation Street

Jean Margaret Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress. She was best known to British television viewers as Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street (1960), a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and also as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running ...

54. José Ferrer

Actor | The Caine Mutiny

José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.

In 1912, Ferrer was...

55. Richard Marner

Actor | The Sum of All Fears

A Russian-born stage and screen actor who usually plays a military man in lots of spy thrillers and war films, Alexander Molchanoff was born in Petrograd in 1921. He was the eldest son of Colonel Paul Molchanoff, of the Semionovsky regiment. In 1924 his family left Russia via Finland and Germany ...

56. Thelma Ritter

Actress | Rear Window

Thelma Ritter appeared in high school plays and was trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the 1940s she worked in radio. Her movie career was started with a bit part in the 1946 Miracle on 34th Street (1947). In the movie she played a weary Xmas shopper. Her performance in the short ...

57. Walter Hampden

Actor | Sabrina

Walter Hampden was one of the great American stage actors and the only performer, aside from Maurice Evans, to play Hamlet three times on Broadway in the post-World War I-era. Born Walter Hampden Dougherty on June 30, 1879, in Brooklyn, New York, he learned his craft in London, where he made his ...

58. Jean Simmons

Actress | Guys and Dolls

Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944). She had a small part as a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (...

59. Hope Summers

Actress | Rosemary's Baby

Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early interest in the theater. ...

60. Peter Hobbs

Actor | The Man with Two Brains

Peter Hobbs was born on January 18, 1918 in Etretat, France. He was an actor, known for The Man with Two Brains (1983), The Andromeda Strain (1971) and Sleeper (1973). He was married to Carolyn Adams, Patience Cleveland, Parker McCormick and Ruth Margaret Davis. He died on January 2, 2011 in Santa ...

61. Patience Cleveland

Actress | Donnie Darko

Patience Cleveland was born on May 23, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Donnie Darko (2001), Psycho III (1986) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). She was married to Peter Hobbs. She died on May 27, 2004 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

62. Robert Russell

Actor | Sitting Target

Robert Russell was born on May 24, 1936 in Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sitting Target (1972), Witchfinder General (1968) and Blake's 7 (1978). He died on May 12, 2008 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK.

63. Patricia Haines

Actress | The Avengers

Patricia Haines was born on February 3, 1932 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), The Last Shot You Hear (1969) and The Adventures of Don Quick (1970). She was married to Bernard Kay and Michael Caine. She died on February 25, 1977 in Northampton,...

64. Isaac Hayes

Actor | Escape from New York

Isaac Hayes, the second-born child of Eula and Isaac Hayes Sr., was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wade Sr. The child of a poor family, he grew up picking cotton in Covington, Tennessee. He dropped out of high school, but later his former high-school teachers to get his diploma, ...

65. David Graf

Actor | Police Academy

David Graf was a Lancaster, Ohio native. He was a graduate of Lancaster High School in 1968. He went on to attend college at Otterbein University where he graduated in 1972 as a theater major. He attended Ohio State University grad school until 1975 when he dropped out to pursue an acting career in...

66. Judy Garland

Actress | The Wizard of Oz

One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.

She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in ...

67. Ray Bolger

Actor | The Wizard of Oz

Ray Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bolger on January 10, 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Anne C. (Wallace) and James Edward Bolger, both Irish-Americans. Ray began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. ...

68. 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.

69. Samuel Hoffenstein

Writer | Laura

Lithuanian-born author and screenwriter, in the U.S. from 1894. Hoffenstein graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and subsequently went to work as a reporter for a local newspaper. By 1913, he had moved on to a position as a drama critic for the New York Evening Sun. At the same time, he...

70. Malcolm Tierney

Actor | Braveheart

Malcolm Tierney was born on February 25, 1938 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Braveheart (1995), The Saint (1997) and In the Name of the Father (1993). He was married to Andrea Schinko. He died on February 18, 2014 in the UK.

71. Beatrix Lehmann

Actress | Doctor Who

Beatrix Lehmann was born on July 1, 1903 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Portrait of a Lady (1968) and Crime and Punishment (1979). She died on July 31, 1979 in London, England, UK.

72. Renato Salvatori

Actor | Z

Renato Salvatori was born on March 20, 1933 in Seravezza, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Z (1969), Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Organizer (1963). He was married to Annie Girardot. He died on March 27, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

73. Peter van Eyck

Actor | The Longest Day

With his whitish blond crew-cut, slow, menacing drawl and Germanic manner, Van Eyck was destined to be typecast as stereotypically scowling, arrogant Nazi officers. This was ironic, because he was an avowed anti-fascist who had left Germany in 1931 -- two years before Adolf Hitler came to power. ...

74. Jacques Sernas

Actor | Helen of Troy

With eye-catching good looks, blond Lithuanian-born actor Jacques Sernas (aka Jack Sernas) is best known for cutting a fine figure in European costumers and spectacles in the 1950s and 1960s. Born on July 30, 1925, his father died when he was a year old and the boy would be raised by his mother in ...

75. 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 ...

76. Telly Savalas

Actor | Kojak

Of Greek descent on both sides, the son of immigrants, Savalas was a soldier during World War II, although most of his enlistment records were destroyed in a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973. He later studied psychology at Columbia University under the ...

77. Shirley Douglas

Actress | Dead Ringers

Shirley Douglas was born on April 2, 1934 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was an actress, known for Dead Ringers (1988), Wind at My Back (1996) and Lolita (1962). She was married to Donald Sutherland and Timothy Emil Sicks. She died on April 5, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

78. Clint Walker

Actor | The Dirty Dozen

Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, southwestern Illinois, to Gladys Huldah (Schwanda), a Czech immigrant, and Paul Arnold Walker, who was from Arkansas. Walker almost single-handedly started the western craze on TV in the 1950s as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne (1955). Growing up ...

79. Al Mancini

Actor | Falling Down

Al Mancini was born on November 13, 1932 in Steubenville, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Falling Down (1993), Miller's Crossing (1990) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). He was married to Carlyn Clayton and Denny Dayviss. He died on November 12, 2007 in London, Ohio, USA.

80. Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...

81. John Banner

Actor | Hogan's Heroes

John Banner, who achieved television immortality for his portrayal of the Luftwaffe POW camp guard Sergeant Schultz in the TV series Hogan's Heroes (1965), was born on Tuesday, January 28th, 1910 in Vienna., which in 1938 was then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The 28-year-old Banner, ...

82. Hugh Griffith

Actor | Ben-Hur

Enjoyably larger-than-life character actor Hugh Emrys Griffith was born in Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales, to Mary (Williams) and William Griffith. Griffith left the world of banking (having been employed as a teller) after winning a scholarship to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...

83. Greta Kukkonen

Self | Gregory Peck kävi Suomessa

Greta Kukkonen was born on January 25, 1911 in Helsinki, Finland. She was married to Gregory Peck. She died on January 19, 2008 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

84. Jean Peters

Actress | Pickup on South Street

Green-eyed beauty Jean Elizabeth Peters flashed across the screen as a bright star during her relatively brief tenure in Hollywood. After just seven years under contract to 20th Century-Fox (1947-54), she joined in the reclusive lifestyle of her eccentric billionaire husband, Howard Hughes, and all...

85. Myrtle Reeves

Actress | Beautifully Trimmed

Myrtle Reeves was born on January 15, 1897 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Beautifully Trimmed (1920), A Kentucky Cinderella (1917) and The Grip of Evil (1916). She was married to Oliver Hardy. She died on January 18, 1983 in Garden Grove, California, USA.

86. Ida Kitaeva

Self | One Moment Please

Ida Kitaeva was born on January 26, 1899 in Chita, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for One Moment Please (1956) and This Is Your Life (1950). She was married to Stan Laurel and Raphael. She died on January 26, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

87. Judy Lewis

Writer | Search for Tomorrow

Judy Lewis was born and raised in Los Angeles, the love child of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable. At the time of her birth, Gable was married, Young was unmarried. Young covered up the fact of her pregnancy, later announcing she had adopted the girl. Judy graduated from Marymount High School ...

88. Lorena Layson

Actress | Side Streets

She came to Los Angeles alone and signed a contract with Warner Brothers in. In December 1934 she married Daniel J.Danker Jr., head of the J. Walter Thompson Hollywood Office. He was a Vice-President and later a board member of the Company. The Thompson Hollywood Office produced many popular radio ...

89. Jack Tenner

Actor | The '70s

Jack Tenner was born on October 2, 1920 in Kiev, Ukraine. He was an actor, known for The '70s (2000). He was married to Georgann Johnson and Hallie Jean Bialac. He died on October 13, 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

90. Debralee Scott

Actress | Police Academy 3: Back in Training

Debralee Scott was born in 1953 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the youngest of four daughters born to William Henry Scott, Jr. (March 1, 1914, Scranton, Pennsylvania - September 17, 1993, Scranton, Pennsylvania) and Marion Jones (February 11, 1916, Scranton, Pennsylvania - October 1993, Pittston, ...

91. Carolyn Mitchell

Actress | Dragstrip Riot

Carolyn Mitchell was born Barbara Ann Thomason on January 25, 1937 in Phoenix, Arizona, to Don and Helen Thomason. While attending Emerson Elementary School in Phoenix, she became known as the prettiest girl in Phoenix. Her family moved to Inglewood, California in 1951, a part of Los Angeles, a ...

92. Maj Hagman

Actress | Antonio

Maj Hagman was born on May 13, 1928 in Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Antonio (1973), The Annual National Jewish Fund Awards Dinner (1989) and Living with Ed (2007). She was married to Larry Hagman. She died on May 31, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

93. Donald Moffat

Actor | The Thing

The cinema took a while to discover him. Born in England, the son of an insurance agent, RADA-trained Donald Moffat first appeared on the Shakespearean stage with the Old Vic. In 1954, he stage managed the popular revue "Salad Days". Then, 'discontentment' (which, he later explained, had much to do...

94. Ken Howard

Actor | Rambo

Ken Howard was elected the National President of The Screen Actors Guild on September 24, 2009. He was a working member of SAG for over forty years. The Tony and two-time Emmy Award-winning actor, most recently received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie ...

95. Dinah Shore

Soundtrack | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Her real name was Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore, and she was born in Winchester, Tennessee. Stricken with polio at 18 months of age, she recovered after receiving the Sister Kenny treatment. She became a cheerleader at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville and went on to graduate from Vanderbilt ...

96. Nipsey Russell

Actor | The Wiz

Nipsey Russell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1918. He got his start in Rock and Roll Review and other music revues in the 1950s. In the 1960s Russell achieved his first major role as Officer Anderson in Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). After being on the show for a year, Russell was a mainstay on ...

97. John Conte

Actor | The Man with the Golden Arm

John Conte was born on September 15, 1915 in Palmer, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Musical Comedy Time (1950) and Thousands Cheer (1943). He was married to Sirpuhe Philibosian, Ruth Harris Conte and Marilyn Maxwell. He died on September 4, 2006 ...

98. Ken Clark

Actor | Attack of the Giant Leeches

Ken Clark was born on June 4, 1927 in Neffs, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), Missione speciale Lady Chaplin (1966) and None But the Lonely Spy (1964). He was married to Bette Lola Eileen Kruger. He died on June 1, 2009 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

99. Alexis Smith

Actress | The Age of Innocence

Statuesque, smart Canadian-born Alexis Smith, with her blue/green eyes and a seductively husky voice, lent a touch of class to her leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s.

After her family moved to California, Alexis grew into a precocious talent and performed ballet in public by the age of thirteen -...

100. Mort Shuman

Soundtrack | Army of the Dead

Mort Shuman was born on November 12, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Army of the Dead (2021), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) and Lost Highway (1997). He was married to Maria-Pia. He died on November 2, 1991 in London, England, ...