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1. Greta Garbo Greta Garbo Actress, Ninotchka Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, 1905. She was 14 when her father died, leaving the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and go to work in a department store. The store used her for her modeling abilities for newspaper ads. She had no film aspirations...
2. Wallace Beery Wallace Beery Actor, Grand Hotel In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows. He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on Broadway and in traveling stock companies...
3. Richard Conte Richard Conte Actor, The Godfather Richard Conte was born Nicholas Richard Conte on March 24, 1910, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an Italian-American barber. The young Conte held a variety of jobs before becoming a professional actor, including truck driver, Wall Street clerk and singing waiter at a Connecticut resort. The gig as a singing waiter led to theatrical work in New York...
4. Raymond Bailey Raymond Bailey Actor, Vertigo Raymond Bailey was a great example of "If at first you don't succeed..." After high school, Bailey headed for Hollywood with the intent on becoming a movie star, but soon found it tougher than he thought. Instead Bailey went into a high finance career working as stockbroker and banker. He made a second stab at Hollywood...
5. Arthur Lowe Arthur Lowe Actor, The Ruling Class Lowe, rotund and professionally indefatigable, rightly gained acclaim as an accomplished comedy character actor; fondly remembered as the irascible "Captain Mainwaring" - in the Home Guard comedy series Dad's Army (1968-1977) and Coronation Street's "Leonard Swindley". Only child of a Derbyshire railworker...
6. Tim McIntire Tim McIntire Actor, A Boy and His Dog Tim McIntire was a remarkably fine, versatile and underrated actor/composer/singer/songwriter/musician who gave consistently strong, impressive and charismatic performances in both movies and TV shows alike. The son of character actor John McIntire and actress Jeanette Nolan, McIntire was born on July 19th...
7. Hazel Court Hazel Court Actress, The Masque of the Red Death Born in Birmingham, England, Hazel Court carried on a love affair with the world of movies and make-believe that made her a leading student at her hometown's School of Drama and later helped her land a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. Graduating from bits to supporting roles to leads, Court worked in English films from the mid-'40s until the early 1960s...
8. Richard LeParmentier Richard LeParmentier Actor, Star Wars Star Wars was Richard LeParmentier's third film after moving to Britain from the United States in 1974. Richard has appeared in over fifty films and TV shows. He now lives in Bath, UK, and works as a screenwriter. He is currently developing a comedy-drama series for the BBC and is writing a feature film.
9. Kenneth Williams Kenneth Williams Self, An Audience with Kenneth Williams The acting bug bit Kenneth Williams when, as a student, his English teacher suggested he try out for a school play. He found that he enjoyed it tremendously, but when he raised the possibility at home of becoming an actor, his father forbade it. Williams was eventually sent to art school in London in 1941...
10. Don Bexley Don Bexley Actor, What's Up, Doc?
11. Clara Blandick Clara Blandick Actress, The Wizard of Oz Clara Blandick was a character actress who was born aboard an American ship off the coast of Hong Kong on June 4, 1880. Little is known about her early life until she became an actress. Although she appeared in 118 films, she was primarily a stage actress. Clara actually began her film career at a late age...
12. Pedro Infante Pedro Infante Actor, Tizoc Undoubtedly, Pedro Infante was, and still is, the idol of Mexico. Because of his movies (59 including 55 leading roles and four cameos), records (366 songs recorded between 1943 and 1956) and public appearances in Mexico and Latin America, Infante became a star and the most beloved human being in Mexican history...
13. Emilio Diaz Emilio Diaz Actor, There's Something About Mary
14. Estelle Taylor Estelle Taylor Actress, Cimarron A former typist, Estelle Taylor married a banker at age 14 and, after leaving him, moved to New York to study dramatic acting. She also modeled for artists and appeared in the chorus of a couple of Broadway shows. In the early 1920s she came to Hollywood and was noted as one of the film colony's most beautiful women...
15. Richard Collins Richard Collins Actor, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
16. William Bakewell William Bakewell Actor, All Quiet on the Western Front
17. Totò Totò Actor, The Hawks and the Sparrows Natural son of Anna Clemente and Giuseppe de Curtis (son of Marquis de Curtis). In 1929 lives with Liliana Castagnola famous cafe-concert singer who comittes suicide after being abandoned in 1930. In 1932 marries Diana Rogliani and has a daughter in 1933 named Liliana in hommage to previous lover. In 1933 adoptted by Marquis Franc isco Maria Gagliardi Focos from who inherites the titles...
18. Joey Ramone Joey Ramone Soundtrack, The School of Rock Joey Ramone was born Jeffry Hyman and the lead singer of the four-member punk-rock band the Ramones. The band started in Queens, New York, in 1974, when, as he said, "The only thing that you heard on the radio was disco." By 1976, the band became a major force in the evolution of rock-n-roll; they have...
19. Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Writer, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
20. Robert Brubaker Robert Brubaker Actor, Days of Our Lives Robert Brubaker, son of George Brubaker and descendant of Jonas Sparks, a friend of frontiersman Daniel Boone, was born October 9, 1916 in Robinson, Illinois, a little town two hundred and ten miles south of Chicago and seven miles from the Wabash River. Probably the towns only claim to fame is that it's the home of Heath Candy Company...
21. Dwayne Schintzius Dwayne Schintzius Actor, Eddie
22. Paul Langton Paul Langton Actor, The Incredible Shrinking Man
23. Charles Vanel Charles Vanel Actor, The Wages of Fear
24. Paul Bogart Paul Bogart Director, Torch Song Trilogy
25. Gilbert Green Gilbert Green Actor, Norma Rae
26. Dave King Dave King Actor, The Long Good Friday Few British comedians were as successful in the 1950s and early 60s as Dave King. A hit recording singer, he was one of the few British comics to top the bill at the London Palladium as well as having top rating TV shows in both Britain and America. Although his success was relatively short as a comedian, he later became a respected TV and film actor...
27. Gaston Leroux Gaston Leroux Writer, The Phantom of the Opera A native of Paris, France, a poet, journalist and novelist, Gaston Leroux is known for his many creative horror stories, including "Rouilable", "The Haunted Chair" and "The Wax Mask", but is probably best known for his work "The Phantom of the Opera", which became Leroux's prize possession. He wrote...
28. Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre Writer, The Wall Jean-Paul Charles-Aymard Sartre was born on June 21, 1905, in Paris, France. His father, Jean-Baptiste Sartre, was an officer in the French Navy. His mother, Anne-Marie Schweitzer, was the cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Sartre was one year old when his father died. He was raised in Meudon...
29. Tommy Cooper Tommy Cooper Self, The Tommy Cooper Hour After leaving the army Tommy Cooper took up show business in 1947 and so started his long career of comedy derived around visual humour, magic tricks that didn't work and his trademark red fez, a prop that started from his days in the army. The BBC described him as an "Unattractive young man with an extremely unfortunate appearance" in an audition for new talent...
30. Harry Meyen Harry Meyen Actor, The Devil's General
31. Jean Genet Jean Genet Writer, Querelle Jean-Paul Sartre likens Jean Genet to a saint for a very particular reason, a reason that is apparent in the title of the biography, but which does not translate in the English title--"Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr"--because meaning and referentiality are lost. The French title is "Saint Genet: Comédien et Martyr"; the phrase "Saint Genet" evokes the memory of St...
32. Margaretta Scott Margaretta Scott Actress, Things to Come
33. Syd Chaplin Syd Chaplin Actor, Shoulder Arms
34. Erin Fleming Erin Fleming Actress, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
35. Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. Actor, General Hospital
36. Greg Fields Greg Fields Writer, Back to School
37. Jasmine Sabu Jasmine Sabu Miscellaneous Crew, The Godfather
38. Leslie Charteris Leslie Charteris Writer, The Saint Chinese-English crime novelist, creator of "The Saint"
39. Ernestine Wade Ernestine Wade Actress, Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert
40. Joseph Crehan Joseph Crehan Actor, The Roaring Twenties
41. Jaime Fernández Jaime Fernández Actor, Robinson Crusoe Jaime Fernandez, the Mexican movie star, director, and union leader, was born on December 6, 1937 in Monterrey, Mexico, the youngest of the three Fernandez brothers. His half-brother Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez was Mexico's greatest native-born movie director, as well as a greate movie star himself, while his brother Fernando Fernández was a famous singer and movie actor...
42. Esther Minciotti Esther Minciotti Actress, Marty
43. Moe Keale Moe Keale Actor, A Lion in the Streets
44. Peter Parker Peter Parker Self, Missing Our Connections
45. Kathleen Howard Kathleen Howard Actress, It's a Gift Former opera singer and magazine editor who played character roles in US films from the mid-30's through the 40's.
46. Roger Imhof Roger Imhof Actor, The Grapes of Wrath
47. Clement Freud Clement Freud Self, The 'Dont Care' Caterers
48. Marshall Reed Marshall Reed Actor, Angel and the Badman
49. Carlos Enrique Taboada Carlos Enrique Taboada Writer, Poison for the Fairies
50. Edward Hearn Edward Hearn Actor, The Shadow of the Eagle
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