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1. Jerry Orbach Jerry Orbach Actor, Beauty and the Beast Jerry was born in the Bronx. His father, Leon, was a former vaudevillian actor and his mother, Emily, was a radio singer. His family moved frequently and eventually settled in Waukegan, Illinois where he went to high school. The constant moving made him the new kid on the block and forced him to become "a chameleon" to blend in his new settings...
2. Cassandra Harris Cassandra Harris Actress, For Your Eyes Only
3. Sam Peckinpah Sam Peckinpah Writer, The Wild Bunch "If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael. That exploding bottle...
4. Clayton Moore Clayton Moore Actor, The Lone Ranger Clayton Moore grew up in Illinois and was a circus acrobat at the age of eight. He would work his way up to aerialist with two circuses and also appear at the 1934 World's Fair. He then went to New York, where he found work as a male model. Hollywood was his next stop and he entered films in 1938 as a bit player and stuntman...
5. William Demarest William Demarest Actor, Sullivan's Travels Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, William Demarest was a prolific actor in movies and TV, making more than 140 films. Demarest started his acting career in vaudeville and made his way to Broadway. His most famous role was in My Three Sons, replacing a very sick William Frawley. Demarest was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting role in the real-life biography...
6. Jon Finch Jon Finch Actor, Frenzy Dark, broodingly handsome Jon Finch was the son of a merchant banker. His first stage role was in elementary school at age 13 playing a Roman noblewoman(!). After gaining experience in amateur theatre groups and following a short stint with a folk singing group, he suddenly left for military service at age 18...
7. Patrick Cranshaw Patrick Cranshaw Actor, Best in Show
8. Jacques Aubuchon Jacques Aubuchon Actor, Thunder Road
9. Howard Caine Howard Caine Actor, Judgment at Nuremberg At the age of 13 Howard Caine (family name Cohen) moved with his family from his hometown of Nashville, TN, to New York City, where he began studying acting. Learning to erase his Southern accent, he went on to became a master of 32 foreign and American dialects. After service in the Navy during WWII...
10. Kiel Martin Kiel Martin Actor, The Panic in Needle Park
11. Dennis Wilson Dennis Wilson Soundtrack, Marley & Me Dennis Wilson was born Hawthorne, California in the fall of 1944 to Murry and Audree Wilson. The middle son of three brothers, Dennis was rebellious, argumentative and as he often acknowledged, the "black sheep" of the family. His integration into America's band, The Beach Boys came when his mother pushed his brothers to allow him to play with them...
12. Max Steiner Max Steiner Composer, Casablanca Austrian composer who achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. As a child he was astonishingly musically gifted, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in only one year...
13. Helen Kleeb Helen Kleeb Actress, Seven Days in May
14. April Kent April Kent Actress, The Incredible Shrinking Man
15. Tab Thacker Tab Thacker Actor, Wildcats
16. Jared Nathan Jared Nathan Self, Zoom
17. Charlotte Greenwood Charlotte Greenwood Actress, Oklahoma! Tall, elastic-jointed nightclub dancer and zany comedienne, later in films, whose trademark was her high kick. Her eccentric humor was all the more incongruous on account of her aura of elegance in that fastidiously styled coiffure and those glamorous, magnificently tailored gowns in which she might appear.
18. Sam Levene Sam Levene Actor, Sweet Smell of Success Sam Levene was the actor who originated "craps-shooter extraordinaire" Nathan Detroit in the seminal American musical "Guys and Dolls" on the Great White Way in the original 1950 production. Levene was not a good singer and had trouble staying in key, so his solo number "Sue Me" had to be written in one octave to compensate for his lack of pipes...
19. Charles Tannen Charles Tannen Actor, The Grapes of Wrath
20. Allan Dwan Allan Dwan Director, Sands of Iwo Jima
21. Florence Lawrence Florence Lawrence Actress, Lady Helen's Escapade Florence Lawrence was the first film player whose name was used to promote her films and the studio (Independent Moving Pictures Company [IMP]) for which she worked. Before her, actors and actresses worked anonymously, partly out of fear that stage managers would refuse to hire them if they were found...
22. William Frankfather William Frankfather Actor, Death Becomes Her William Frankfather was not an albino, but played one in his first movie role in Foul Play. He was a long time Artistic Director for Theatre Forty, located in Beverly Hills, a graduate of New Mexico State University and got a M.F.A. from Stanford University. Bill was a talented actor, loving father and friend and is greatly missed.
23. Susan Sontag Susan Sontag Self, Zelig Born in New York City, raised in Arizona and California, educated at the University of Chicago, Harvard, Oxford and the Sorbonne, Susan Sontag constitutes a veritable challenge for any biographer. A novelist, philosopher, essayist, movie director and playwright, over the past thirty years she has been a controversial figure...
24. Richard DeAngelis Richard DeAngelis Actor, Chances Are Born in Boston, Richard De Angelis served in the Navy during the Korean conflict and worked as an accountant for 14 years. At 38, he quit smoking, became a vegetarian and enrolled in acting school. He received a master's degree in 1983 from the University of Maryland's theater arts program. He played Baltimore police Col...
25. Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel Soundtrack, The Dark Knight Rises
26. Hollis Irving Hollis Irving Actress, The Facts of Life
27. Paul Trinka Paul Trinka Actor, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
28. John D. MacDonald John D. MacDonald Writer, Cape Fear John Dann MacDonald was born on July 24, 1916, in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He served in the OSS in the far east during World War Two. While still in the military, he wrote a short story and mailed it home to his wife, simply for her entertainment. Unknown to him, she submitted it to the magazine "Story"...
29. Koreyoshi Kurahara Koreyoshi Kurahara Director, Hiroshima
30. Hideko Takamine Hideko Takamine Actress, Floating Clouds
31. Candy Toxton Candy Toxton Actress, Knock on Any Door Born in Vienna, Missouri, Candy Toxton moved with her family to East St. Louis, Illinois, when she was young. She attended St. Teresa High School and, after graduation, became a model in St. Louis. She went to Chicago for greater opportunities and dated band leader Tommy Dorsey. Seeking greener pastures...
32. Charles Becker Charles Becker Actor, The Terror of Tiny Town
33. Harry Woods Harry Woods Actor, Monkey Business
34. Renato Castellani Renato Castellani Writer, Due soldi di speranza
35. Edward Brayshaw Edward Brayshaw Actor, The Third Person
36. Theodore Dreiser Theodore Dreiser Writer, A Place in the Sun Theodore Dreiser was one of the great American writers, and a transitional figure between Victorian America and the "modern" age that was inaugurated after the cessation of hostilities after WWI and the publication of Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" in 1920. A naturalist with a committed social conscience...
37. David Abraham David Abraham Actor, Boot Polish David Abraham, usually credited as simply David, was a popular character actor of Jewish and Indian descent. He starred in over one-hundred films, and often portrayed a friendly and helpful uncle-like character. He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Boot Polish. Besides his acting roles...
38. Kaye Stevens Kaye Stevens Self, Episode #1.2
39. Patricia DeCou Patricia DeCou Actress, The Blair Witch Project
40. Arthur Hughes Arthur Hughes Actor, The Great Gatsby
41. Lowell Sherman Lowell Sherman Actor, Bachelor Apartment Lowell Sherman was one of the early cinema's first major stars who successfully made the transition from actor to director. Born in either 1885 or 1888, his parents were John Wm. Sherman, a theatrical producer (1855-1924), and Julia Gray Sherman, an actress and daughter of actress Kate Gray. In 1905...
42. Henry Oscar Henry Oscar Actor, The Brides of Dracula
43. Stevo Zigon Stevo Zigon Actor, Rondo
44. The Rev The Rev Soundtrack, Big Momma's House 2
45. Alfonso Balcázar Alfonso Balcázar Writer, Clint the Stranger
46. Aleksandr Rou Aleksandr Rou Director, Jack Frost
47. Brian Coburn Brian Coburn Actor, Fiddler on the Roof
48. Kitty de Hoyos Kitty de Hoyos Actress, Adventure at the Center of the Earth
49. Charlotte Kerr Charlotte Kerr Actress, Swann in Love
50. Jimmy Demaret Jimmy Demaret Self, Golfing with Demaret
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