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1. Ben Johnson Ben Johnson Actor, The Last Picture Show Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California. He decided to stick around (the pay was good), and for some years was a stunt man, horse wrangler, and double for such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart...
2. Annette Funicello Annette Funicello Actress, Babes in Toyland 12-year-old, curly raven-haired Annette Joanne Funicello achieved immense teenage popularity starting in October, 1955 after she debuted as a Mouseketeer. Born on October 22, 1942 in Utica New York, the family had moved to California when she was still young. Walt Disney himself saw her performing...
3. Stanley Kamel Stanley Kamel Actor, Domino Stanley Kamel was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 1, 1943 and was raised in South River, New Jersey. He attended school at Rutgers Prepatory School in Somerset, New Jersey and graduated from Boston University School of Fine Arts in 1965. Kamel got his start in acting with bit parts off-Broadway before his big break into television playing Eric Peters on Days of Our Lives in the 1970s...
4. Bing Russell Bing Russell Actor, The Magnificent Seven Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza and Robert in The Magnificent Seven, Russell's notoriety on a national level was as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham, there were the Mavericks...
5. Claire Trevor Claire Trevor Actress, Stagecoach Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, the only child of Fifth Avenue merchant-tailor Noel Wemlinger, an immigrant Frenchmen from Paris who lost his business during the Depression, and his Belfast-born wife Betty. Trevor's interest in acting began when she was 11 years old...
6. Kathie Browne Kathie Browne Actress, Wink of an Eye Kathie Browne, a very busy TV actress of the 1960s and '70s, was born Jacqueline Katherine Browne in San Luis Obispo, California on September 19, 1930. She got her break in TV after appearing in a Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams play _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), making her debut in 1957 in the Western TV series The Gray Ghost...
7. Sara Montiel Sara Montiel Self, Sara, una estrella Sara Montiel was born in the village of Campo de Criptana, province of Ciudad Real, in the region of Castille-La Mancha, Spain, on March 10, 1928. Her parents were Isidoro Abad, a peasant, and Maria Vicenta Fernández, a door-to-door beautician. The future star was christened Maria Antonia Alejandra Abad Fernández...
8. Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Self, Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1925 in Grantham, England, the younger daughter of Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. Her father was a greengrocer and respected town leader, serving as lay-leader with their church, city-alderman and then as mayor. He taught Margaret never to do things because other people are doing them; do what you think is right and persuade others to follow you...
9. Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Self, Le mystère Picasso Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of the 20th century art who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time. He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso on October 6, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez...
10. Richard Brooker Richard Brooker Actor, Friday the 13th Part III Discovered by a casting magazine "Dramalogue" for the role of mindless killer Jason Voorhees in _Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982)_, Richard Brooker also gained the role of Oghris in "Deathstalker" (1983). It was the only acting experience of Brooker, who later start creating completely a different professional career...
11. María Félix María Félix Actress, Enamorada Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself. La Doña, as the star was known after the character of her 1943 movie Doña Bárbara, starred in 47 movies, most of them forgettable except for her presence in them. More a star than an actress, she constructed an image of a tough woman...
12. Greg Kramer Greg Kramer Actor, 300
13. Jose De Vega Jose De Vega Actor, West Side Story
14. John Hudson John Hudson Actor, The Screaming Skull
15. Jane Bryan Jane Bryan Actress, Each Dawn I Die Endearing to watch and a moving, understated presence on the silver screen, demure-looking Jane Bryan showed great promise as a contract player at Warner Brothers in the late 30s. Queen of the Warners' lot Bette Davis took a strong liking to Jane and, in fact, served as her mentor during Jane's brief stay...
16. Pamela Archer Pamela Archer Self, North Hollywood Shoot Out
17. Jacqueline Voltaire Jacqueline Voltaire Actress, The Holy Mountain Born in England, Jacqueline Voltaire has lived in Africa, France, Germany, the United States anmd Mexico. She was a model, a singer and dancer as well as an accomplished actress. Most recently she also has done work as an image consultant. She is very well known in Mexico, where she has lived for thirty years.
18. Thomas A. Geas Thomas A. Geas Actor, Lethal Weapon 3
19. León Klimovsky León Klimovsky Director, The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
20. Dorothy Sebastian Dorothy Sebastian Actress, Spite Marriage The daughter of a clergyman and a mother, who was an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes, Stella Dorothy Sabiston spent her formative years in her home state of Alabama. She had three siblings, all of whom died relatively young. She attended the University of Alabama, but always harbored ambitions of becoming an actress...
21. Gaetano Donizetti Gaetano Donizetti Soundtrack, The Departed Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was born November 29, 1797 in Bergamo, Italy. He was born in a windowless cellar into a poor family of a government clerk. At the age of 9 he became a protégé of Johann Simon Mayr, Maestro di Cappella of the Lombard city. Johann Mayr hosted and educated young Donizetti...
22. Arthur Housman Arthur Housman Actor, Sunrise
23. Malcolm McLaren Malcolm McLaren Soundtrack, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 In the mid 1970s, as a young man not yet thirty, Malcolm McLaren owned and operated a London shop simply called "Sex" and dreamed of fame and fortune. He met a half formed group of teenage rock star hopefuls and fed them happy half truths about the great bands he had led to stardom. With his help in finding corner stone members John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) and Sid Vicious...
24. Ryan White Ryan White Actor, The Ryan White Story Ryan White was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1971. A hemophiliac, Ryan regularly needed injections of blood products to survive. In 1985 at the age of 13, it was discovered that Ryan contracted the AIDS virus sometime during the previous year from tainted blood. His case got national attention when his school expelled him when they learned about his disease...
25. Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky Writer, Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky was one of the most important male dancers of all time. He was born Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky on December 28, 1889, while his parents were on tour in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kiev, Ukraine). His father, Foma (Thomas) Lavrentevich Nijinsky, and his mother, Eleonora Bereda, were of Polish-Russian heritage...
26. Pauline Jameson Pauline Jameson Actress, Murder Most Foul
27. Lars Hanson Lars Hanson Actor, The Wind
28. Georges Géret Georges Géret Actor, Diary of a Chambermaid
29. Harry Baur Harry Baur Actor, Les Misérables
30. Laura Nyro Laura Nyro Soundtrack, Final Destination
31. Margaret Perry Margaret Perry Actress, New Morals for Old Margaret Perry is one of two daughters of Antoinette 'Toni' Perry, namesake of the Tony Awards for Broadway Theater. Her sister Elaine Perry was a noted Broadway director and producer, who passed away on the family's Salt Works Ranch, in Colorado, in 1986. Most of Margaret's work was done on stage in New York and on tour...
32. Stole Arandjelovic Stole Arandjelovic Actor, Zena s krajolikom
33. Tommy J. Huff Tommy J. Huff Stunts, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
34. Omar N. Bradley Omar N. Bradley Writer, Patton
35. Anatole Dauman Anatole Dauman Producer, Wings of Desire
36. Yoshitaro Nomura Yoshitaro Nomura Director, Suspicion
37. Hazel Coppen Hazel Coppen Actress, The Witch
38. Nelson Olmsted Nelson Olmsted Actor, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
39. Herb Andress Herb Andress Actor, Enemy Mine Herb Andress was born in upper Austria, and always intended to become an actor. In 1957 he moved to France, appeared there in Every Day Has Its Secret and in 1961 moved to New York, then later to San Francisco. He worked with Elena Williams in Las Vegas and Los Angeles in an act that became well known as "The Magical Dolls"...
40. Onna White Onna White Miscellaneous Crew, Oliver!
41. Tilo von Berlepsch Tilo von Berlepsch Actor, Tattoo
42. Tommy Abbott Tommy Abbott Miscellaneous Crew, West Side Story
43. Robert Emmett Robert Emmett Writer, Color Me Barbra
44. Edda Mussolini Edda Mussolini Self, Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare
45. Jerry Harper Jerry Harper Actor, Banjo the Woodpile Cat Jerry Harper was born in the Dalles, Oregon in 1930. His parents divorced early in his life and, in 1944, Jerry and his mother moved to Alaska. Eventually Jerry's mother married Zach Loussac, the mayor of Anchorage. As a young man, Jerry pursued his acting career in many venues - working in carnivals and circuses before finding work on stage and in films and television...
46. Robert Youngson Robert Youngson Director, Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
47. Dan Miller Dan Miller Self, Miller & Company
48. Gerard Reve Gerard Reve Writer, The Fourth Man
49. Harry L. Fraser Harry L. Fraser Director, Rustler's Paradise
50. Virginia Kellogg Virginia Kellogg Writer, Caged
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