Best living actors over 80 years old
by EdwardNashtonReeves | created - 01 Mar 2011 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicList of people born 1942 or earlier who are acting legends living as of 31/12/2023.
Of course this list is very subjective and I prefer adding ones I saw and especially ones I love for awhile. However, there are certain people that I didn't see yet, but still know they have to be here to make a proper list. I also welcome suggestions.
- To make it more easy to locate someone, I decided to put them in the order by date of birth.
2024 waiting list. These actors and actresses will hopefully turn 80 during 2024 and will be added (suggest someone if you like):
1. Leon Lamar
Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Leon Lamar was born on August 22, 1919 in Georgia. He is an actor, known for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), They Cloned Tyrone (2023) and American Made (2017).
b. 1919
Actor known as the Old Man who gives the first signal in The Hunger Games, as well as for his newest role of Cornelius P. Willows in She-Hulk.
1. Bess Meisler
Actress | My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Bess Meisler was born on July 19, 1922 in the USA. She is an actress, known for My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) and Daddy Day Care (2003).
b. 1922
Actress known for her role of Nana Yiayia in My Fat Greek Wedding franchize.
3. Glynis Johns
Actress | Mary Poppins
Glynis Johns was the daughter of actor Mervyn Johns. Best known for her light comedy roles and often playful flirtation, Glynis was born in South Africa while her parents were on tour there (her mother was a concert pianist) but was always proud of her Welsh roots and took delight in playing the ...
b. 1923
Who doesn't remember the matriarch of the family in which Mary Poppins came in?
3. Eva Marie Saint
Actress | On the Waterfront
Actress and producer Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924 on Newark, New Jersey. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Her film career also includes ...
b. 1924
Silver Age star, I saw her in Superman Returns as Ma Kent. She is an Oscar winner for On the Waterfront. Still active on film.
4. William Russell
Actor | The Great Escape
William Russell was born William Russell Enoch on 19 November 1924, in Sunderland, County Durham, England, to Eva Compston (Pile) and Alfred James Enoch. He became interested in acting at an early age. He was involved in organizing entertainments during his national service in the Royal Air Force ...
b. 1924
The actor who played the first Doctor Who companion, Ian Chesterton.
5. Dick Van Dyke
Actor | Mary Poppins
Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother was entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. His ancestry includes English, Dutch, Scottish, German and Swiss-German. Although he had ...
b. 1925
One of the most recognizable actors and comedians of his generation. Still active! Loved him in Mary Poppins and Night at the museum! Hilarious!
6. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
b. 1926
Amazing actor too, but first and foremost one of the biggest cinematic intellectuals of our time. His films are so hilarious on the outside and yet so smart on the deeper level. And he's still got it!
7. Lisa Lu
Actress | The Last Emperor
Lisa Lu is a Chinese-American actress. She started her career as a teenager, performing in Kunqu theatrical productions, a traditional style of Chinese opera. The Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) ended with a Communist victory. While the new regime financially subsidized China's theaters for most of ...
b. 1927
Seasoned tv and film actress (Crazy Rich Asians, 2012)
8. Rosemary Harris
Actress | Spider-Man
Rosemary Harris is an English actress. She has won 4 Drama Desk Awards, and nominated 9 times for Tony Awards. In 1966, she won the "Tony Award for Best Actress" for her role as Eleanor of Aquitaine in "The Lion in Winter". In films, she is better known for portraying May Reilly Parker in the "...
b. 1927
This lovely British actress is mostly known for her role of Aunt May in Sam Raimi's Spiderman trilogy, but she is also a prolific film, television and theater actress. Her daughter is actress Jennifer Ehle. She's still active in theater productions.
9. James Hong
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
James Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, but at some point along the way became interested in acting. He graduated from the University of Southern California and practiced for 1½ years as a road engineer with the County of Los ...
b. 1929
American film(Blade Runner) and Tv actor (Hawaii 5.0., Rush Hour), and voice-over actor (Kung Fu Panda, TMNT). Still very much active! In 2022 he gave a stunning performance as the leading character's father in the Oscar-winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
10. Thelma Barlow
Actress | Mrs. Henderson Presents
Thelma Barlow (née Pigott) is an English television actress and writer, most famous for her roles as Mavis Wilton in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and as Dolly Bellfield in the sitcom Dinnerladies.
Thelma Barlow was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, the younger of two ...
b. 1929
11. Betty Ruth
Actress | Mariana de la noche
Betty Ruth was born on August 1, 1929 in Tolima, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Mariana de la noche (1975), Diana Carolina (1984) and Esa muchacha de ojos cafe (1986).
born 1929
Great performance of a very unusual character in La Mujer de Judas
12. Vera Miles
Actress | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she ...
b. 1929
Starred in 1960 Psycho
13. Fernanda Montenegro
Actress | Central do Brasil
Arlette Pinheiro Esteves da Silva was born on 16th October 1929 in Rio de Janeiro. She adopted the name "Fernanda" because she thought it sounded good. "Montenegro" came after her family doctor.
In late 40s she was translating and adapting famous theater plays to radio. She begun her artistic life ...
b. 1929
Brazilian tv and movie diva, also nominated for Oscar
14. Joan Plowright
Actress | The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own...
b. 1929
Interesting trivia: She is the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier
15. June Squibb
Actress | Nebraska
June Squibb is an American actress, once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Squibb was born in 1929 in Vandalia, Illinois. Vandalia had served as the state capital of Illinois for two decades (1819-1839), but it has remained a small city since the capital was transferred ...
b. 1929
Oscar nominee for Nebraska, saw her in horror film Would You Rather.
16. Frances Sternhagen
Actress | Outland
Raised in Washington, D.C., the great-granddaughter (on her father's side) of German immigrants, Frances Hussey Sternhagen taught acting, singing and dancing to young schoolchildren before first performing herself with the Arena Stage Group.
Since then, she was seen in numerous Broadway and ...
b. 1930
Loved her in Misery:)
17. Tippi Hedren
Actress | The Birds
From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (née Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedren, who ran a general store, and is of Swedish, ...
b. 1930
Leading lady from Birds and mother of Melanie Griffith.
18. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
b. 1930
One of the great ones, for sure. Oscar winner who earned it! Too bad he is retured now. I know him from Unforgiven, Superman, Enemy of the State, Absolute Power... Is it just me, or he played crooked politicians a lot?
19. Robert Wagner
Actor | The Towering Inferno
R.J. Wagner was born 1930 in Detroit, the son of a steel executive. His family moved to L.A. when he was six. Always wanting to be an actor, he held a variety of jobs (including one as a golf caddy for Clark Gable) while pursuing his goal, but it was while dining with his parents at a Beverly Hills...
b. 1930
Awesome in Austin Powers trilogy, where he starred as Number One!
20. John Astin
Actor | The Frighteners
Dark-haired, usually-mustachioed American actor with a cheeky grin, who achieved pop culture status through his portrayal of the kooky patriarch "Gomez Addams" in the hit TV series The Addams Family (1964), John Astin was born on March 30, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied mathematics at ...
b. 1930
Riddler from Batman 60s tv show and Gomez from The Addams Family tv show.
21. Mary Costa
Actress | Sleeping Beauty
American lyric soprano and actress, best known on screen as the voice of Princess Aurora in Walt Disney's animated feature Sleeping Beauty (1959). A beautiful blue-eyed blonde, Mary was born of Italian ancestry, the daughter of John and Hazel Costa. She trained at the Los Angeles Conservatory of ...
b. 1930
Disney legend, orginal Princess Aurora from the animated classic. Still active as an opera singer.
22. Alan Oppenheimer
Actor | Westworld
Alan Oppenheimer is an American actor from New York City, who started his career in the 1950s. By the 1970s, Oppenheimer started performing voice acting roles. He eventually emerged as one of the most prolific voice actors in the United States, with roles in numerous series and films. His better ...
b. 1930
Voice of Alfred Pennyworth from Batman / Superman Public Enemies and villainous Alistair Crane from soap opera Passions.
23. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
b. 1930
A man who doesn't have to be introduced. Actor, director, writer, producer, Oscar winner and living legend. I saw him in many excellent films, from Dirty Harry to Unforgiven and Gran Torino.
24. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
b. 1930
Always amazing and touching in her performances, even when her character is supposed to be unlikeable. Even so, she mostly plays nice grannies. Her performance in Notebook is my fav of hers.
25. Eric del Castillo
Actor | Amigas y rivales
Eric del Castillo was born on July 22, 1934 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor and writer, known for Amigas y rivales (2001), Mujeres engañadas (1999) and The Exterminating Angel (1962).
b. 1930
Veteran Mexican actor (Nina amada mia, Tres veces Ana, Lo que la vida me robo). Father of famous actress Kate del Castillo.
26. Armin Mueller-Stahl
Actor | Eastern Promises
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German actor with a relatively long film career. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as an abusive father in the biographical drama "Shine" (1996).
In 1930, Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. The town developed ...
b. 1930
Gave a great performance in excellent and underrated movie Angels and Demons
27. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
b. 1931
Need I say more? From Godfather to Broken Trail, he has left a permanent marker on movie history and truely is one of the living legends of cinema.
28. James Earl Jones
Actor | Rogue One
Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...
b. 1931
He is definitely one of the best screen presences today! That voice alone! Mufassa! Darth Vader!!!! Also, in Conan he was awesome as the main villain. Amazing actor!!
29. Claire Bloom
Actress | Clash of the Titans
Age has not taken the flower off this Bloom. The well-known and highly respected stage, screen and television actress Claire Bloom continues to be in demand as an octogenarian actress and looks as beautiful as ever.
She was born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931, in Finchley, North London, ...
b. 1931
Saw her in Kings Speech, gave a great supporting role of Queen Mother, also great in Marple: By Pricking of my Thumbs, as another grumpy granny!
30. William Shatner
Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.
Shatner was born ...
b. 1931
There is only one Shatner, the original Kirk on Star Trek!! Still very much active.
31. Leslie Caron
Actress | Gigi
French ballet dancer Leslie Caron was discovered by the legendary MGM star Gene Kelly during his search for a co-star in one of the finest musicals ever filmed, the Oscar-winning An American in Paris (1951), which was inspired by and based on the music of George Gershwin. Leslie's gamine looks and ...
b. 1931
32. Silvia Pinal
Actress | Viridiana
Now a living legend and still very active, Silvia Pinal began her career in theater and became a leading lady in her first movie roles, in the late 1940s. Always a smart urban girl, she belongs to the second and most versatile generation of Mexican movie stars of the Golden Era, together with Pedro...
b. 1931
Legendary Mexican actress of big screen and television
33. Rita Moreno
Actress | West Side Story
Rita Moreno is one of the very few performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, thus becoming an EGOT. She was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in the hospital in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931 (but raised in nearby, smaller Juncos, which had no hospital), to seamstress Rosa ...
b. 1931
Oscar winner for West Side Story. Also starred in Oz.
34. Piper Laurie
Actress | The Hustler
Piper Laurie was a three-time Oscar nominee, nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in 'The Hustler' with Paul Newman.
Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Charlotte Sadie (Alperin) and Alfred Jacobs, a ...
b. 1932
Great as a demon mother to Carrie in Stephen King's horror classic!
35. Anouk Aimée
Actress | 8½
The daughter of actress Geneviève Sorya, in 1948 she played the part of Juliette in The Lovers of Verona (1949). During the 1950s and 1960s she made various films, including Montparnasse 19 (1958) and La Dolce Vita (1960), but only Lola (1961) , Jacques Demy, and A Man and a Woman (1966) Claude ...
b. 1932
36. Phyllida Law
Actress | The Time Machine
Phyllida Law was born on May 8, 1932 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and The Winter Guest (1997). She was previously married to Eric Thompson.
b. 1932
Great actress and mother to two more great actresses, Emma and Sophie Thompson.
37. Prunella Scales
Actress | Howards End
Prunella Scales was born on June 22, 1932 in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Howards End (1992), Fawlty Towers (1975) and Wolf (1994). She has been married to Timothy West since October 26, 1963. They have two children.
b. 1932
38. Murray Melvin
Actor | The Phantom of the Opera
Murray Melvin was born on August 10, 1932 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Phantom of the Opera (2004), A Taste of Honey (1961) and Barry Lyndon (1975). He died on April 14, 2023 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
b. 1932
British character actor (Midsomer Murders, The Lost City of Z, Phantom of the Opera)
39. Ellen Burstyn
Actress | Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...
b. 1932
Oscar-winning actress (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), starred in Requiem for a Dream, Interstellar, Age of Adaline and The Exorcist.
40. Caroline Blakiston
Actress | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Incisive, classically-trained English stage and screen actress, latterly often seen on TV as imperious titled ladies or dowagers. She was born Caroline Georgiana Blakiston in Chelsea, London, the daughter of archivist Hugh Noel Blakiston (1905-1984) and non-fiction author Rachel Georgiana Russell (...
b. 1933
Mon Mothma in Star Wars. Still active on television (Poldark).
41. Kim Novak
Actress | Vertigo
Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even ...
b. 1933
Legendary actress of Film Noir of 1950s and 1960s (Vertigo)
42. Sheila Hancock
Actress | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Sheila Hancock was born February 22, 1933. on the Isle of Wight. She later moved to King's Cross in London, where her mother and father ran a pub. Sheila went to Dartford Grammar School, and then with a grant she went to RADA. She then went into nine years of weekly repertory around the country. ...
b. 1933
British character actress, recently seen in A Discovery of Witches.
43. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
b. 1933
Perfect actor, amazing, amazing guy. He was a legend in his younger days and still is.
Best roles I saw: Alfred in TDK trilogy, Inception, Quiet American, Dressed to Kill, Get Carter, ect.
44. Renée Taylor
Actress | The Nanny
Renée Taylor was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA to Frieda (née Silverstein) and Charles Wexler. She worked as a comedian in the early 1960s at the New York City nightclub Bon Soir. Her opening act was a then unknown Barbra Streisand. She earned notice for her portrayal of Eva Braun...
b. 1933
Mama Sylvia from ''The Nanny''
45. Carol Burnett
Soundtrack | The Carol Burnett Show
The entertainment world has enjoyed a six-decade love affair with comedienne/singer Carol Burnett. A peerless sketch performer and delightful, self-effacing personality who rightfully succeeded Lucille Ball as the carrot-topped "Queen of Television Comedy," it was Burnett's traumatic childhood that...
b. 1933
Famous comedienne, ''The Carol Burnett Show''
46. Siân Phillips
Actress | Dune
Welsh-born stage veteran Dame Siân Phillips is forever identified on television as the tarantula mother/empress Livia in the classic BBC miniseries I, Claudius (1976) (for which she won a BAFTA-TV award), and as the Reverend Mother in the science fiction epic film Dune (1984). Her broad range of ...
b. 1933 (several sources cite 1934)
One of best British stage, tv and movie actresses, most notably as Livia in I Claudius and as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen in Dune. Also starred in tv series such as Poirot and Midsomer Murders.
47. Joan Collins
Actress | Dynasty
Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). In 1997, She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. In 2015, She...
b. 1933
Legendary tv actress, Alexis from Dynasty, the original soap opera 'b*tch'.
48. Elisa Stella
Actress | Amar al ladrón
Venezuelan veteran actress Elisa Stella was born on June 15, 1933 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She spent many years working in theatre and made her film debut in 1971 and TV debut in 1975. Through the years she gave some of the finest performances in series such as Mi Gorda Bella (as Dona Elena), ...
b. 1933 (some sources cite 1916)
Venezuelan tv. actress (La Mujer de Judas, Mi Gorda Bella)
49. Julie Newmar
Actress | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Julia Chalene Newmeyer was born on August 16, 1933, in Los Angeles, California, the eldest of three children. Her father, Don, was a one-time professional football player (LA Buccaneers, 1926), her mother, Helene Jesmer, was a star of the Follies of 1920 and later became a fashion designer under ...
b. 1933
Catwoman from old Batman series.
50. Tsai Chin
Actress | Memoirs of a Geisha
Tsai Chin, pinyin Zhou Caiqin is an actor, director, teacher and author, best known in America for her film role as Auntie Lindo in The Joy Luck Club. The third daughter of Zhou Xinfang, China's great actor in the last century, she was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London (first ...
b. 1933
One of three Bond Girls to appear in more than one movie. She was a deadly masseuse in You Only Live Twice (1967) and a card player Madam Wu in Casino Royale (2006).
51. Tom Baker
Actor | Doctor Who
One of Britain's most recognizable (and most larger-than-life) character actors, Tom Baker is best known for his record-setting seven-year stint as the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He was born in 1934 in Liverpool, to Mary Jane (Fleming) and John Stewart Baker. His father was of English and ...
b. 1934
The Fourth Doctor Who
52. Annette Crosbie
Actress | The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella
Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress. Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens. Her big break came in 1970 when she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television ...
b. 1934
53. Richard Chamberlain
Actor | The Towering Inferno
Richard Chamberlain became the leading heartthrob of early 1960s television. As the impeccably handsome Dr. James Kildare, the slim, butter-haired hunk with the near-perfect Ivy-League charm and smooth, intelligent demeanor, had the distaff fans fawning unwavering over him through the series' run. ...
b. 1934
Leading actor from Thorn Birds
54. Shirley MacLaine
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...
b. 1934
Amazing actress and great to see her still working in 2014.
- Sister of Warren Beatty (also on the list under 1937)
55. Eileen Atkins
Actress | Gosford Park
Eileen Atkins was born in a Salvation Army Women's Hostel in north London. Her father was a gas meter reader; her mother, a seamstress and barmaid. A drama teacher taught her how to drop her Cockney accent, and she studied Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. Her breakthrough role in "The Killing of ...
b. 1934
Amazing character actress. Starred in Cold Mountain, Robin Hood, The Hours, Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express and much more.
56. Jean Marsh
Actress | Willow
Born in London, Jean Marsh became interested in show business while taking dancing and mime classes as therapy for a childhood illness. After attending a charm school and working as a model, she started acting in repertory and took voice lessons. Her repertory work was supplemented by a number of ...
b. 1934
I know her as Evil Queen Bavmorda from Willow
57. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
b. 1934
One of the most iconic actresses of Golden Age. Many times pronounced one of the most beautiful women alive.
58. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
b. 1934
Dame Judi, Oscar winner and one of the finest actors of today! From Shakespeare to Bond, this lady proves to be one of the heavyweights in the business. She is simply spectacular in everything she's been in. Saw her in so many diverse and memorable roles.
59. Maggie Smith
Actress | Gosford Park
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...
b. 1934
Great Dame of British cinema, and grand lady that still films equally as before.
- Notable roles are Minerva McGonnagall in Harry Potter films, Gosford Park, Sister Act, Hook, A Room with a view and few notable ones I haven't seen so far.
- Recently renowned her fame as the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.
60. Judd Hirsch
Actor | The Fabelmans
Judd Hirsch is an American actor from New York City. His main claim to fame is playing taxicab driver Alex Reiger in the hit sitcom Taxi (1978). For this role, Hirsch twice won the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series." He has since had a long career.
In 1935, Hirsch ...
b. 1935
Known for Numbers, Dear John, Independence Day, ect.
61. M. Emmet Walsh
Actor | Blood Simple
Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.
Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and...
b. 1935
62. Julian Glover
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Julian Wyatt Glover was born on March 27, 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, to Honor Ellen Morgan (Wyatt), a BBC journalist, and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. He is of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Primarily a classical stage actor, Glover trained at the National Youth ...
b. 1935
Known as Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only. Also starred in Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones franchises.
63. Lee Meriwether
Actress | Batman: The Movie
Today, sexy Lee Meriwether is best remembered for her roles in a few science fiction/fantasy cult productions made between 1966 and 1969. Batman: The Movie (1966), Star Trek (1966), The Time Tunnel (1966) and Land of the Giants (1968).
Firstly Batman: The Movie (1966), in which she played both evil ...
b. 1935
Catwoman from 1966 Batman: The Movie
64. Donald Sutherland
Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.
Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint ...
b. 1935
Acting legend, from his early to new works. He steals every scene in The Hunger Games.
65. Julie Andrews
Actress | The Sound of Music
Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...
b. 1935
Grand Dame of cinema, from Mary Poppins to Princess Diaries, proven to be one of the greatest.
66. Judy Parfitt
Actress | Girl with a Pearl Earring
Of regal bearing and imposing stance, flame-haired British classical actress Judy Parfitt is the possessor of the chilliest blue orbs in all of London and has used them to her advantage over the years with her clever portrayals of haughty, bossy, imperious, deliciously malevolent patricians. Born ...
b. 1935
Great British character actress (Midsomer Murders, Poirot: Death on the Nile, Call the Midwife)
67. Diane Ladd
Actress | Wild at Heart
The amazingly gifted and versatile, Ms. Diane Ladd, received immense praise for her dramatic efforts throughout the course of her electric and unique seventy-year career. Her timeless offbeat charm and beauty reminiscent of a lamented Hollywood Golden Era actress gleam in the most understated roles...
b. 1935
Three times Oscar-nominated actress. With Bruce Dern (also on the list under 1936) mother of actress Laura Dern.
68. Barbara Wallace
Actress | Riverdale
Barbara Wallace is an actress who has appeared in over 70 stage plays but is best known for her work as Nana Rose Blossom on the television series Riverdale. Additional television credits include Fargo; The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries; The Town That Came a Courtin'; Harry and Meghan - a Royal ...
b. 1935 (some sources claim 1923)
Charismatic and energetic Nana Rose from Riverdale. Very active on several Canadian television projects.
69. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
b. 1935
Legendary actor, writer and director
71. Alan Alda
Actor | M*A*S*H
Alan Alda (born under the name Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter from New York City. His father was the Italian-American actor Robert Alda. Alda's best known role was playing chief surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the ...
b. 1936
71. K Callan
Actress | Knives Out
Born in Dallas, Texas, K Callan's first professional job was at the Margo Jones Theatre. She first gained national attention as Peter Boyle's mousy wife in the legendary Joe (1970). Her career includes film, television and theater. Other memorable films include American Gigolo (1980) and A Touch of...
b. 1936
Great-grandma Thormbey from Knives Out.
72. Joe Don Baker
Actor | GoldenEye
Tall, broad shouldered character actor with Texan drawl first appeared in support in several Western vehicles both on TV and the cinema in the mid 1960s. Got himself noticed playing Steve McQueen's younger brother in Junior Bonner (1972), and then scored the lead role of Buford Pusser (!) in the ...
b. 1936
Bond villain of The Living Daylights and Bond ally in GoldenEye.
73. Ursula Andress
Actress | Dr. No
The quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, Ursula Andress was born in the Swiss canton of Berne on March 19, 1936, one of six children in a strict German Protestant family. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had an impetuous ...
b. 1936
Known as first Bond girl ever, Honey Rider, in Dr. No
74. Ljubica Jovic
Actress | Pukotina raja
Ljubica Jovic was born on April 20, 1936 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia. She is an actress, known for Heaven Without Love (1959), H-8... (1958) and U registraturi (1974).
b. 1936
Great Yugoslavian actress, also filming in Germany. I saw her in Ponos Ratkajevih and she was a scene-stealer.
75. Louis Gossett Jr.
Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman
Louis Gossett Jr. was one of the most respected and beloved actors on stage, screen and television and is also an accomplished writer, producer and director. Off-screen he is a social activist, educator and author dedicated to enriching the lives of others. Gossett was the first African-American to...
b. 1936
Oscar-nominated actor (An Officer and a Gentleman)
76. Bruce Dern
Actor | Nebraska
Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern's tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors of his generation.
Dern currently appears opposite...
b. 1936
Twice Oscar-nominated actor (Nebraska, Coming Home). With Diane Ladd (also on this list under 1935) father of actress Laura Dern.
77. Kris Kristofferson
Actor | Blade
Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson. His paternal grandparents were Swedish, and his father was a United States Air Force general who pushed his son to a military career. Kris was a Golden Gloves boxer and went to Pomona College in ...
b. 1936
Singer and actor; starred in Blade Trilogy, Watchmen...
78. Elizabeth McRae
Actress | 30 Days of Night
Elizabeth McRae is known for 30 Days of Night (2007), Go Girls (2009) and The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988).
b. 1936
Veteran New Zealand actress. Recently notable as Mrs. Marlowe in Brokenwood Mysteries.
79. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...
b. 1936
Legendary actor (The Sting, Out of Africa, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid), Oscar winner for directing Ordinary People, founder of The Sundance Film Festival.
80. Walter Koenig
Actor | Star Trek
Walter Koenig began his acting career in 1962 as an uncredited Sentry in the TV series Combat! (1962), and in the following few years had bit roles in several television shows, until he landed the role that would catapult his career in ways he could never have imagined, as Ensign Pavel Chekov in ...
b. 1936
Original Chekov from The Star Trek franchize
81. Brian Blessed
Actor | Flash Gordon
Boisterous British actor Brian Blessed is known for his hearty, king-sized portrayals on film and television. A giant of a man accompanied by an eloquent wit and booming, operatic voice, Brian was born in 1936 and grew up in the mining village of Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire. His father was a ...
b. 1936
Known from Flash Gordon, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Phantom Menace
82. Susan Kohner
Actress | Imitation of Life
Susan Kohner was born on November 11, 1936 in Los Angeles, California. Her Mexican mother was actress Lupita Tovar, a successful performer from the 1930s and it was only natural that for Susan to gravitate toward acting. Her first role was in To Hell and Back (1955) in 1955. One more film in 1956 ...
b. 1936
Oscar-nominated actress, ''Imitation of life''. She is the mother of filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz and daughter of Lupita Tovar (1910-2016), Mexican actress who was the oldest person on this list from 2014 to 2016.
83. Hector Elizondo
Actor | Pretty Woman
Hector Elizondo was born in New York City, New York, where he was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is the son of Carmen Medina Reyes and Martín Echevarría Elizondo. Hector is of Basque and Puerto Rican descent, and "Elizondo" means "at the foot of the church" in Basque. His lifestyle ...
b. 1936
Charming man from Princess Diaries and Pretty Woman.
84. Dyan Cannon
Actress | Heaven Can Wait
Dyan Cannon is the first woman in the history of the Motion Picture Academy to be nominated for Oscars both in front of and behind the camera. Her diligence and determination have been rewarded by many prestigious honors.
She received her first Academy Award nomination for her memorable role as ...
b. 1937
Known as Jennifer from Ally McBeal
85. Shirley Eaton
Actress | Goldfinger
Long before Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and company showed up in 1980s TV households, Hollywood had, in effect, its own original "Golden Girl"...literally...in the form of stunning British actress Shirley Eaton. Although she found definitive cult stardom in 1964 with her final golden moment in a ...
b. 1937
Famous for her role as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger. Her iconic death scene, of her covered in gold lying on bed, has been depicted many times in popular culture.
86. Vanessa Redgrave
Actress | Coriolanus
On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier, announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, ...
b. 1937
Legendary character actress, known for Howards End, Mission Impossible, The Atonement, Deep Impact... Oscar winner for Julia. She is also the mother of character actresses Joely Richardson and late Natasha Richardson.
87. Tom Courtenay
Actor | 45 Years
Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s. An undying love for the theatre, however, had Courtenay channeling a ...
b. 1937
Sir Courtenay is best known for portraying Pasha Antipov in Dr. Zhivago.
88. Barbara Babcock
Actress | Far and Away
Blue-eyed, red-haired American character actress, often seen as resolute, strong-willed women. Though born in Kansas, Barbara Babcock spent much of her early childhood in Japan, where her father, U.S. Army Major General Conrad Stanton Babcock Jr., was posted (he was also a noted equestrian, who ...
b. 1937
Starred in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Pasadena.
89. Warren Beatty
Actor | Heaven Can Wait
Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...
b. 1937
Actor, writer, producer and director, nominated for 14 Academy Awards and recipient of Irving G. Thalberg Award.
- Brother of Shirley MacLaine (also on the list under 1934)
90. Billy Dee Williams
Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams on April 6, 1937 in New York City. Billy Dee has notched up an impressive array of film and television appearances over the past 50+ years. He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two ...
b. 1937
Star Wars legend, playing Lando Calrissian in two of the original films. Also, starred as Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's Batman 1989.
91. Edward Fox
Actor | A Bridge Too Far
Educated at Harrow he worked at Marks and Spencers but was dismissed for wearing a loud checked suit. He sprang to international fame in 1973 as the assassin in Day of the Jackal, then had cameo style roles in Gandhi, The Dresser, Never Say Never Again and leads in The Wild Geese and The Shooting ...
b. 1937
Acclaimed British Tv and film actor, starred in Gandhi,Marple and Poirot series, Midsomer Murders... Brother of James Fox (Death on the Nile), father of Emilia Fox (Silent Witness) and uncle of Laurence Fox (Lewis)
92. George Takei
Actor | Star Trek
George Takei was born Hosato Takei in Los Angeles, California. His mother was born in Sacramento to Japanese parents & his father was born in Japan. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he & his family were relocated from Los Angeles to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Later, they were ...
b. 1937
Iconic Sulu from the first Star Trek series.
93. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
b. 1937
The one, the only, legendary Jack Nicholson! The Shining, Chinatown, Batman, The Departed, Few Good Men... with 12 Oscar nominations, 3 won and numerous other awards, he truly is one of the greats in cinema. This guy is one of the first actors I know of as a kid and I am so happy seeing he is still doing well. :)
94. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
b. 1937
Perhaps the greatest living African-American actor, Freeman always adds charisma and versatility to any role he touches. Oscar winner for Million Dollar Baby, also known for his roles in The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Seven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Driving Miss Daisy and Ben Hur.
95. Luciana Paluzzi
Actress | Thunderball
Luciana Paluzzi's an Italian actress, best known for playing SPECTRE assassin ,Fiona Volpe, in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball.
In the film, Thunderball she had auditioned for the part of the lead Bond girl, Dominetta "Domino" Petacchi, but producers cast Claudine Auger, changing the Domino ...
b. 1937
Starred in Thunderbolt as Fiona Volpe, first major villain Bond Girl.
96. Edwin Craig
Actor | Batman
Edwin Craig was born on July 10, 1937 in the USA. He is an actor, known for Batman (1989), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
b. 1937
Antoine Rotelli (The mob boss electrocuted by The Joker's electric gloves) from Tim Burton's 1989 Batman.
97. Bill Cosby
Actor | The Cosby Show
Bill Cosby is one of the world's most well-known entertainers and comedians. William Henry Cosby, Jr. was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Anna Pearl (Hite), a maid and William Henry Cosby, Sr., a U.S. Navy sailor. After 10th grade, Cosby joined the Navy and completed high ...
b. 1937
From The Cosby Show.
98. Steven Berkoff
Actor | Octopussy
Highly acclaimed English actor, playwright, author and director continues to set the benchmark in stunning, intense performances on both stage and screen. Berkoff was born in Stepney, London in August 1937 and received dramatic arts training in both Paris and London and then moved on to performing ...
b. 1937
Bond villain Orlov from Octopussy, Frode from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
99. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
b. 1937
An acting legend and double Oscar winner (Rain Man, Kramer vs. Kramer)
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