TCM Remembers 2020 Predictions (finalized)

by TrekFan1 | created - 28 Dec 2019 | updated - 15 Dec 2020 | Public

Here are my predictions for who will be included in TCM Remembers 2020, in alphabetical order.

Also considered: Kevin Conway, actor; Irm Hermann, actress; John Karlen, actor; Anthony James, actor; Hugh Keays-Byrne, actor; Kim Ki-duk, filmmaker; Monique Mercure, actress; Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, director; Martin Spellman, actor; Tetsuya Watari, actor

Removed: David Foster, producer; Joe Baltake, film critic/historian

UPDATE - 12/11/2020, 2:22AM EST: These predictions have been finalized and locked.

UPDATE - 12/11/2020, 7:35AM EST: Filmmaker Kim Ki-duk passed away after these predictions were finalized. Kim could very well end up in this year's TCM Remembers, or it may be too late to include him. I won't make a prediction for him because I would need a little more time to consider his chances, and, as I said, I've already locked my predictions. The tribute could be released as early as tonight, assuming it hasn't started airing already, so it's a bit late to be making changes now. This is just to let you know that I have acknowledged Kim's death and the possibility of his inclusion in TCM Remembers 2020.

UPDATE - 12/11/2020, 11:49AM EST: It appears I was a day early; I thought TCMR2020 would be up today (Friday), but I forgot they're doing it on the second Saturday of the month now. As such, I have unlocked my predictions for a couple of hours and am now considering the possible inclusion of Kim Ki-duk.

FINAL UPDATE - 12/12/2020, 2:42AM EST: These predictions are now finalized and locked. For real this time.

ONE LAST NOTE - 12/15/2020, 12:10AM EST: So TCMR2020 still hasn't dropped, but I'm told it is coming soon. Unfortunately, I have one more passing to note -- that of Ann Reinking, a Broadway legend who also starred in a handful of films, most notably Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (playing a fictionalized version of herself) and John Huston's Annie. Had I not finalized my predictions already, I would probably say she would make the cut. I suppose I could go ahead and add her, but I've already edited this locked in my predictions twice now, so... I'll just let it be. But the tribute is coming, folks; you can probably expect it to arrive sometime in the next few days. Maybe.

1. India Adams

Actress | The Roommates

India Adams was a 'ghost singer', a voice double for Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (1953) (her most famous number being "That's Entertainment") and for Joan Crawford in Torch Song (1953). This was kept under wraps for a long time, the actress having had to sign a gag order as part of her contract ...

Singer ('The Bang Wagon,' 'Torch Song,' 'Johnny Guitar')

2. Claudine Auger

Actress | Thunderball

Claudine Auger, a former Miss France 1st Runner-up (1958), received her dramatic training at the Paris Drama Conservatory and is best known to US / UK audiences as the stunning brunette "Domino" opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond thriller Thunderball (1965), She has kept fairly busy since her ...

Actress ('Thunderball,' 'Yoyo,' 'Triple Cross')

NOTE: Auger's death was first reported on Dec. 22, 2019, two days after the release of the final edit of TCM Remembers 2019.

3. Baby Peggy

Actress | Helen's Babies

Silent moppet star Jackie Coogan, immortalized as Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921), had only one screen rival during the early 1920s, and that was none other than Baby Peggy. She was "discovered" while visiting the Century Studios lot on Sunset Boulevard with her mother when she was a mere 19 ...

Actress ('Carmen Jr.,' 'Peg o' the Mounted,' 'Captain January') / Author ('What Ever Happened to Baby Peggy,' 'Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King') / Film Historian

4. Orson Bean

Actor | Being John Malkovich

Orson Bean, the American actor, television personality and author, was born Dallas Frederick Burrows on July 22, 1928 in Burlington, Vermont to George Frederick Burrows, a policeman who later went on to become the chief of campus police at Harvard University, and the former Marion Ainsworth Pollard...

Actor ('Anatomy of a Murder,' 'Lola,' 'Being John Malkovich')

5. Warren Berlinger

Actor | The Cannonball Run

Warren Berlinger was born on August 31, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Cannonball Run (1981), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The World According to Garp (1982). He was married to Betty Lou Keim. He died on December 2, 2020 in Santa Clarita, California, ...

Actor ('Blue Denim,' 'The Wackiest Ship in the Army,' 'The Long Goodbye')

6. Honor Blackman

Actress | Goldfinger

One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...

Actress ('A Night to Remember,' 'Jason and the Argonauts,' 'Goldfinger')

7. Chadwick Boseman

Actor | Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...

Actor ('42,' 'Get on Up,' 'Black Panther')

8. Wilford Brimley

Actor | The Natural

Wilford Brimley was born on September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for The Natural (1984), In & Out (1997) and Cocoon (1985). He was married to Beverly Berry and Lynne Brimley. He died on August 1, 2020 in St. George, Utah, USA.

Actor ('The China Syndrome,' 'Absence of Malice,' 'Tender Mercies,' 'The Natural,' 'Cocoon')

9. Edd Byrnes

Actor | Grease

Edd Byrnes was born Edward Byrne Breitenberger on July 30, 1932 in New York City, the son of Mary (Byrne) and Augustus "Gus" Breitenberger. Edd shared an impoverished and unhappy childhood with brother Vincent and sister Jo-Ann. Their mother worked hard at various jobs to keep the family together ...

Actor ('Up Periscope,' 'Darby's Rangers,' 'Yellowstone Kelly')

10. Earl Cameron

Actor | Inception

Earl Cameron did not set out to be an actor. Bermudian by birth, Cameron joined the British Merchant Navy in the 1930s for the travel opportunities that it afforded. By the early 1940s, with World War II in full swing, Cameron found himself in London working menial jobs to survive. After seeing a ...

Actor ('Safari,' 'Thunderball,' 'A Warm December')

11. Lewis John Carlino

Writer | The Great Santini

Lewis John Carlino was born on January 1, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Great Santini (1979), The Mechanic (2011) and Mechanic: Resurrection (2016). He was married to Jill Denise Chadwick and Natelle Lamkin. He died on June 17, 2020 in Whidbey ...

Screenwriter ('Seconds,' 'The Mechanic') and director ('The Great Santini')

12. Marge Champion

Actress | The Party

One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion was best known as the former wife of Gower Champion, when they worked together as a highly successfully dancing team in the MGM musical years. After retiring from movies, Champion worked as a dance teacher and as a ...

Dancer / Actress ('Show Boat,' 'Give a Girl a Break,' 'The Party')

13. Michael Chapman

Cinematographer | Raging Bull

Michael Chapman is an American cinematographer. He is best known for Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Fugitive (1993), and Primal Fear (1996).

Chapman began his film career as a camera operator before making the leap to cinematographer. As a cinematographer, he became famous for his two ...

Cinematographer ('The Last Detail,' 'Taxi Driver,' 'The Front,' 'Raging Bull,' 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid')

14. Soumitra Chatterjee

Actor | Apur Sansar

Soumitra Chatterjee is an Indian actor, playwright and poet. World-renowned film director Satyajit Ray has acted in multiple shadow films. He has made Bengali film a place in the court of the world. In his long acting career, he has received many awards from home and abroad. His films have also won...

Actor ('The World of Apu,' 'The Lonely Wife,' 'The Coward')

15. Lynn Cohen

Actress | Munich

Lynn Cohen was born on August 10, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Munich (2005), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) and The Cobbler (2014). She was married to Ronald Theodore Cohen and Gilbert Laman Frazen. She died on February 14, 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.

Actress ('Manhattan Murder Mystery,' 'Vanya on 42nd Street,' 'The Station Agent')

16. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

Actor (James Bond, 'The Man Who Would Be King,' 'The Untouchables')

17. Ben Cooper

Actor | Johnny Guitar

Handsome, boyish-looking Ben Cooper graduated from child roles to playing juvenile leads in second features, often for Poverty Row studio Republic. As a nine year old, he made his stage debut in Bretaigne Windust's Broadway production of Life With Father, remaining in the cast for the entire run of...

Actor ('Johnny Guitar,' 'The Rose Tattoo,' 'Arizona Raiders')

18. Gene Corman

Producer | Night of the Blood Beast

Gene Corman preceded his more-famous brother Roger in the film business, working as a motion picture agent. Beginning in 1956, he and Roger joined forces as producers to make such films as "Hot Car Girl", "Night of the Blood Beast", "Attack of the Giant Leeches" and "Beast from Haunted Cave" for ...

Producer ('Tower of London,' 'The Secret Invasion,' 'You Can't Win 'Em All,' 'Von Richthofen and Brown,' 'F.I.S.T.')

19. Linda Cristal

Actress | The High Chaparral

Argentinian leading lady Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges was one of three siblings, born in Buenos Aires to a French father and Italian mother. When she was five years of age, her father, a publisher, fled with his family to Montevideo, Uruguay, where they went on to live for several years in ...

Actress ('The Perfect Furlough,' 'The Alamo,' 'Two Rode Together')

20. Ben Cross

Actor | Star Trek

Ben Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross on December 16, 1947, in London, England. He was the son of Catherine (O'Donovan), a cleaning woman, from Keelraheen, Dunmanway, Ireland, and Harry Cross, an English doorman and nurse. He began acting at a very young age and participated in grammar school ...

Actor ('Chariots of Fire,' 'First Knight,' 'Star Trek')

21. Sonia Darrin

Actress | Bury Me Dead

Sonia Paskowitz was born to Russian Jewish parents, Louis and Rose Paskowitz, who emigrated to the USA and settled in Galveston, Texas. The family relocated to San Diego, California, in 1934. Dorian Paskowitz, a medical doctor who gave up medicine to become a professional surfer and surfing teacher...

Actress ('The Big Sleep,' 'Bury Me Dead,' 'Caught')

22. Allen Daviau

Cinematographer | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Allen Daviau was born on June 14, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for E.T. (1982), Empire of the Sun (1987) and Bugsy (1991). He died on April 15, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Cinematographer ('E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,' 'The Color Purple,' 'Bugsy')

23. Brian Dennehy

Actor | First Blood

Imposing, barrel-chested and often silver-haired Brian Dennehy was a prolific US actor, well respected on both screen and stage over many decades. He was born in July 1938 in Bridgeport, CT, and attended Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship. Brian majored in history, ...

Actor ('Foul Play,' 'Never Cry Wolf,' 'Cocoon')

24. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

Actress ('The Adventures of Robin Hood,' 'Gone with the Wind,' 'To Each His Own,' 'The Heiress,' 'Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte')

25. Kirk Douglas

Actor | The Final Countdown

Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...

Actor / Producer ('Ace in the Hole,' 'The Bad and the Beautiful,' 'Lust for Life,' 'Paths of Glory,' 'Spartacus')

26. James Drury

Actor | The Virginian

Laconic, dark and handsome were the essential attributes for Hollywood western leading men in the 50s and 60s. James Drury fit the bill, keeping in mind that his most famous screen persona - that of the stalwart Shiloh estate ranch foreman known only as 'the Virginian' - took a while to properly ...

Actor ('Forbidden Planet,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Ride the High Country')

27. John Ericson

Actor | Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Ericson was born in Düsseldorf, the son of a German chemist and a Swedish actress and opera singer. Escaping from the Nazi regime, his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was three. At first living in Detroit, they eventually settled in New York where his dad (according to a 1955 newspaper article...

Actor ('Bad Day at Black Rock,' 'Forty Guns,' '7 Faces of Dr. Lao')

28. Rhonda Fleming

Actress | Out of the Past

A native-born Californian, Rhonda Fleming attended Beverly Hills public and private schools. Her father was Harold Cheverton Louis (1896-1951). Her mother, Effie Olivia Graham (1891-1985), was a famous model and actress in New York. She has a son (Kent Lane), two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly)...

Actress ('Spellbound,' 'Out of the Past,' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral')

29. Harriet Frank Jr.

Writer | Hud

Harriet Frank Jr. was born on March 2, 1923 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Hud (1963), The Cowboys (1972) and Norma Rae (1979). She was married to Irving Ravetch. She died on January 28, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Writer ('The Long, Hot Summer,' 'Hud,' 'Norma Rae')

30. John Fraser

Actor | Repulsion

John Fraser was born on March 18, 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Repulsion (1965), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) and El Cid (1961). He died on November 7, 2020 in London, England, UK.

Actor ('Tunes of Glory,' 'El Cid,' 'Repulsion')

31. Allen Garfield

Actor | Beverly Hills Cop II

New Jersey-born Allen Garfield was trained at the Actors Studio in New York City. He had a prolific career on the stage before making his film debut in 1968. His stocky build and nervous, jumpy mannerisms fit well with the weaselly criminals, lecherous villains and corrupt businessmen and ...

Actor ('The Conversation,' 'Nashville,' 'The Stunt Man')

32. Stuart Gordon

Writer | Re-Animator

Stuart Gordon started his film directing career in 1985. After graduating from Lane Technical High School, Gordon worked as a commercial artist apprentice prior to enrolling at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Unable to get into the film classes, he enrolled in an acting class and ended up ...

Director ('Re-Animator,' 'From Beyond') and writer ('Honey, I Shrunk the Kids')

33. Juliette Gréco

Actress | The Sun Also Rises

Juliette Gréco was born on February 7, 1927 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. She was an actress, known for The Sun Also Rises (1957), Crack in the Mirror (1960) and The Big Gamble (1961). She was married to Gérard Jouannest, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Lemaire. She died on September 23, 2020 in ...

Actress ('Orpheus,' 'The Sun Also Rises,' 'The Night of the Generals')

34. Ronald Harwood

Writer | The Pianist

Born in Cape Town, Union of South Africa in 1934, Ronald Harwood moved to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last 'actor-manager' of Great-Britain. From 1953 to 1958...

Screenwriter ('A High Wind in Jamaica,' 'The Dresser,' 'The Doctor and the Devils')

35. Buck Henry

Writer | The Graduate

Prolific, multi-talented comedy writer, story editor, actor and director. His father was an Air Force general (Paul Steinberg Zuckerman) turned stockbroker and his mother was silent screen star Ruth Taylor, formerly a member of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties. Buck Henry's first fling with comedy ...

Writer / Actor ('The Graduate', 'Heaven Can Wait,' 'Gloria')

36. Richard Herd

Actor | All the President's Men

Utilitarian character actor Richard Herd was one of those stern familiar faces you saw countless times on film and TV but couldn't quite place the name. The stage-trained actor, who shared a striking resemblance to actor Karl Malden, never found the one role that would make him a household name, ...

Actor ('The China Syndrome,' 'Private Benjamin,' 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil')

37. Ian Holm

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...

Actor ('Alien,' 'Chariots of Fire,' 'Brazil,' 'The Madness of King George,' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring')

38. Rafer Johnson

Actor | Licence to Kill

A distinguished American athlete and occasional actor with many other strings to his bow, Rafer Johnson was a UCLA basketball star who went on to become Pan American decathlon champion in 1955, a two time decathlon silver medallist at the Melbourne Olympics (despite injuries) and winner of gold ...

Actor ('Wild in the Country,' 'The Sins of Rachel Cade,' 'None But the Brave')

39. Terry Jones

Writer | The Meaning of Life

Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...

Actor / Writer / Director ('Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' 'Monty Python's Life of Brian,' 'Monty Python's The Meaning of Life')

40. Jack Kehoe

Actor | Serpico

Jack Kehoe was born on November 21, 1934 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Serpico (1973), The Sting (1973) and Midnight Run (1988). He died on January 14, 2020 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.

Actor ('Serpico,' 'The Sting,' 'The Untouchables')

41. Paula Kelly

Actress | The Andromeda Strain

Tall, graceful, supremely accomplished American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer Paula Kelly was born in Jacksonville, Florida, one of three daughters, to Ruth and Lehman Kelly. The family moved to Harlem in New York when she was six years old. Unlike her siblings, she had strong musical ...

Actress ('Sweet Charity,' 'The Andromeda Strain,' 'Trouble Man')

42. Irrfan Khan

Actor | The Lunchbox

Born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan, in Jaipur, Rajasthan (NW India) January 7, 1967 to a Pashto-speaking Muslim family. Khan's mother, Begum Khan, was from the Tonk Hakim family and his father, Jagirdar Khan, from the Khajuriya village near the Tonk district, ran a tire business.

The Khan family name ...

Actor ('Slumdog Millionaire,' 'Life of Pi,' 'The Lunchbox')

43. Shirley Knight

Actress | As Good as It Gets

Shirley Knight was an American actress who appeared in more than 180 feature films, television movies, television series, and Broadway productions in her career playing leading and character roles.

She was a member of the Actors Studio. Knight was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best ...

Actress ('The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,' 'Sweet Bird of Youth,' 'As Good as It Gets')

44. James Lipton

Writer | Inside the Actors Studio

James Lipton was an actor, academic, author, choreographer, interviewer, scriptwriter, and producer for stage and television projects. He was known for creating and hosting the noted and popular TV series Inside the Actors Studio (1994), where successful and prominent actors discussed their craft ...

TV Host / Writer / Producer ('Inside the Actors Studio')

45. Tom Lister Jr.

Actor | Le Cinquième Élément

If you ever wanted a 6' 5", musclebound, broad-shouldered, shaved-head actor to play a terrifying bodyguard, a soldier of fortune or a fearsome gangster, then Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. was your man. The basketball player turned actor, who notched up appearances in roughly 132 films, first popped up ...

Actor ('Friday,' 'The Fifth Element,' 'The Dark Knight')

46. Michael Lonsdale

Actor | The Day of the Jackal

Tall, bearded, heavy-set Anglo-French character actor, best known internationally for playing Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker (1979). The son of an English army officer (Edward Lonsdale-Crouch) and a Franco-Irish mother (...

Actor ('Stolen Kisses', 'Murmur of the Heart,' 'The Day of the Jackal,' 'Moonraker,' 'The Remains of the Day')

47. Sue Lyon

Actress | Lolita

Suellyn Lyon was born in Davenport, Iowa, the youngest of five siblings born to Sue Lyon (née Karr) and James Lyon. Sue Karr Lyon was 42 years old when she was widowed, when Suellyn was just 10 months old. Her mother worked in a hospital to provide for her children, and money was tight. The family ...

Actress ('Lolita,' 'The Night of the Iguana,' '7 Women')

NOTE: Lyon died on Dec. 26, 2019, nearly a week after the final edit of TCM Remembers 2019 was released.

48. Johnny Mandel

Music_department | MASH

Inducted into the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame in 2009 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame a year later, Johnny Mandel is perhaps best known as the composer of the iconic M*A*S*H (1972) theme song, "Suicide is Painless". Born and raised in Manhattan, he was the son of a garment manufacturer and an opera ...

American composer and arranger ('The Americanization of Emily,' 'Point Blank,' 'MASH,' 'Being There,' 'The Verdict')

49. Linda Manz

Actress | Days of Heaven

Linda Manz was born on August 20, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Days of Heaven (1978), The Wanderers (1979) and The Game (1997). She was married to Robert L. Guthrie. She died on August 14, 2020 in Palmdale, Los Angeles County, California, USA.

Actress ('Days of Heaven,' 'The Wanderers,' 'Out of the Blue')

50. Syd Mead

Art_department | Blade Runner

Syd Mead was a designer for Ford Motor Company, U.S. Steel, and Philips Electronics. After establishing himself as a "Futurist" consultant, he visualized technology and products for companies like Sony, Chrysler, Mechanix Illustrated, and Playboy. Syd's movie designs appeared in 'Star Trek - The ...

Conceptual Artist ('Blade Runner,' 'TRON,' 'Aliens')

NOTE: Mead died on Dec. 30, 2019, far too late to be included in TCM Remembers 2019.

51. Michael Medwin

Actor | Never Say Never Again

Michael Medwin was born on July 18, 1923 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Never Say Never Again (1983), The Duchess (2008) and Scrooge (1970). He was married to Sunny Sheila Back. He died on February 26, 2020 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK.

English actor ('Hell in Korea,' 'Scrooge') and producer ('O Lucky Man!')

52. Jirí Menzel

Director | Ostrzhe sledované vlaky

Jirí Menzel was born on February 23, 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for Closely Watched Trains (1966), I Served the King of England (2006) and Larks on a String (1969). He was married to Olga Menzelová-Kelymanová. He died on September 5, ...

Writer / Director ('Closely Watched Trains,' 'Capricious Summer,' 'Pearls of the Deep')

53. Ennio Morricone

Composer | The Hateful Eight

A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first ...

Composer ('The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,' 'Once Upon a Time in the West,' 'Days of Heaven,' 'The Mission,' 'Cinema Paradiso')

54. Lori Nelson

Actress | Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Lori Nelson began her show biz career at the age of two-and-a-half, dancing in a show in her native Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was voted Santa Fe's most talented and beautiful child, and toured the state billed as "Santa Fe's Shirley Temple." At age four, Nelson moved to Hollywood with her parents ...

Actress ('Bend of the River,' 'I Died a Thousand Times,' 'Revenge of the Creature')

55. Alan Parker

Director | Evita

The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a ...

Filmmaker ('Midnight Express,' 'Mississippi Burning,' 'Evita')

56. Ivan Passer

Director | Intimní osvyetlení

Ivan Passer was one of the key authors of the "new wave" of Czech cinema, a group of young people who forged an energetic and transgressive film movement in the 1960s, breaking away from the precepts of hard socialist realism. Passer was not only the author of the scenarios of his own films, but he...

Director / Writer ('Loves of a Blonde,' 'Intimate Lighting,' 'Cutter's Way')

57. Michel Piccoli

Actor | Le mépris

This suave, elegant character star was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades. His distinguished career extended to both stage and screen and his versatility was such that he could take on just about any persona (in his own words: "I do not put on an act... I slip away ...

Actor ('Contempt,' 'Belle de Jour,' 'Atlantic City')

58. Kelly Preston

Actress | Battlefield Earth

Kelly Preston was born on October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A talented and captivating performer, she first garnered international attention with her role as "Marnie Mason" in Ivan Reitman's Twins (1988), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. With her diverse character portrayals in ...

Actress ('Mischief,' 'Jerry Maguire,' 'For Love of the Game')

59. David Prowse

Actor | Star Wars

David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...

Actor ('The Horror of Frankenstein,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Star Wars')

60. Tommy Rall

Actor | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Tommy Rall, dynamic actor/dancer of many 1950s musicals, was born in 1929 and began his dancing career at age 14 with American Ballet Theater. He appeared on Broadway in "Miss Liberty" (1949) and "Milk and Honey" (1960), as well as in several less successful shows. After a series of great dancing ...

Actor / Dancer ('Kiss Me Kate,' 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,' 'My Sister Eileen')

61. Helen Reddy

Actress | Pete's Dragon

The #1 Grammy-winning "I Am Woman" became not only THE anthem of the feminist movement during the radical 1970s, but also the signature song for its lovely, crop-haired, reddish-haired composer and singer Helen Reddy. Many decades later this is the hit people still remember her for, despite the ...

Singer / Actress ('Pete's Dragon,' 'Airport 1975,' 'The Perfect Host')

62. Carl Reiner

Writer | The Dick Van Dyke Show

Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, who achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his album "The 2,000 Year Old Man", based on his ...

Actor ('The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!,' 'Ocean's Eleven') / Writer ('The Thrill of It All') / Director ('Where's Poppa?,' 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid')

63. Gene Reynolds

Producer | M*A*S*H

Gene Reynolds might have fulfilled a youthful ambition and become a baseball player. However, his father's business failed and the family relocated from their erstwhile home in Detroit to Los Angeles in 1934.

Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Maude Evelyn (Schwab), a...

Actor ('Boys Town,' 'The Mortal Storm,' 'The Country Girl')

64. Diana Rigg

Actress | Last Night in Soho

British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

Actress ('On Her Majesty's Secret Service,' 'Theatre of Blood,' 'Evil Under the Sun')

65. Reni Santoni

Actor | Cobra

Born Reinaldo Santoni in New York City on April 21, 1938 of French and Spanish heritage, Reni (aka Reni Sands) started his career off in entertainment as a comedy writer. He moved in front of the camera in the early 60s and was performing episodic TV drama ("East Side/West Side," "The Trials of ...

Actor ('Enter Laughing,' 'Dirty Harry,' 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid')

66. John Saxon

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street

John Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited small roles in It Should Happen to You (1954) and George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954). Born...

Actor ('The Reluctant Debutante,' 'The Unforgiven,' 'Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation,' 'Enter the Dragon,' 'Black Christmas')

67. Joel Schumacher

Director | The Phantom of the Opera

Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film "The Lost Boys" (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two ...

Director ('The Lost Boys,' 'Batman Forever,' 'A Time to Kill')

68. Elizabeth Sellars

Actress | The Barefoot Contessa

Hazel-eyed Glaswegian Elizabeth Sellars enrolled at Lincoln's Inn (in central London) to study law with the intention of becoming a barrister. Somehow, this fell through, though she continued to nurture a lifelong interest in the legal profession which kept her reading law books well into her ...

Actress ('The Long Memory,' 'The Barefoot Contessa,' 'The Day They Robbed the Bank of England,' 'Never Let Go,' 'The Chalk Garden')

NOTE: Sellars died too late in 2019 to be included in that year's tribute.

69. Lynn Shelton

Director | Humpday

Two time Emmy-nominated actress and director Lynn Shelton fell ill and was taken to a Los Angeles, California hospital. During her medical examination it was found that she had been suffering, without diagnosis or any apparent symptoms, from acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood. She died ...

Filmmaker ('Humpday,' 'Your Sister's Sister,' 'Laggies')

70. Jô Shishido

Actor | Koroshi no rakuin

Jô Shishido or Joe Shishido a.k.a. Joe The Ace (esu no Jô) owing to his role in 1961's Fast-Draw Guy entered acting following an audition for the Nikkatsu Studio and being one of the few to be picked and offered a contract via its New Face contest. Having signed with Nikkatsu in 1954 he began ...

Actor ('Cruel Gun Story,' 'A Colt is My Passport,' 'Branded to Kill')

71. Jerry Stiller

Actor | The Heartbreak Kid

As the short, straight-man counterpart of the stellar husband-and-wife comedy team "Stiller & Meara", Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara were on top of the comedy game in the 1960s, a steady and hilarious presence on television variety, notably The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), on which they appeared 36 ...

Actor ('The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,' 'The Ritz,' 'Hairpsray')

72. Max von Sydow

Actor | Flash Gordon

Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.

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Actor ('The Seventh Seal,' 'The Virgin Spring,' 'Hour of the Wolf,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Hannah and Her Sisters')

73. Pamela Tiffin

Actress | One, Two, Three

Born in Oklahoma City in 1942, Pamela Tiffin Wonso grew up in Chicago, where she began a modeling career while in her early teens. She moved to New York to model and attend college, but became so successful in her modeling career that college soon took a back seat. On a trip to California she met ...

Actress ('One, Two, Three,' 'The Hallelujah Trail,' 'Harper')

74. Ann E. Todd

Actress | How Green Was My Valley

Ann E. Todd was born Ann Todd Phillips on August 26, 1931, in Denver, Colorado. Both of her parents had extensive careers in music; her father, Burrill Phillips, was an accomplished composer and pianist. Ann also had one brother, Stephen, who was born in 1937 (and died in 1986). Ann was adopted and...

Actress ('Intermezzo: A Love Story,' 'All This, and Heaven Too,' 'Remember the Day')

75. Alex Trebek

Producer | Jeopardy!

Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Alex Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Philosophy. After his first decision to become a newscaster, he joined the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), Canada's premier network in 1961. As he was working, he helped organize national ...

Host / Emcee (TCM Classic Cruise, TCM Classic Film Festival, TCM Guest Programmer)

76. Jon Whiteley

Actor | The Kidnappers

Amazingly talented child star Jon Whiteley was born Jon James Lamont Whiteley on February 19, 1945 in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and put together an enviable, albeit brief, career in 1950s film drama. This precocious talent started things off winningly at age six by earning first prize for ...

Actor ('The Kidnappers' aka 'The Little Kidnappers,' 'Moonfleet,' 'The Spanish Gardener')

77. Stuart Whitman

Actor | The Comancheros

American leading man Stuart Maxwell Whitman was known for his rugged roles. He was born in San Francisco, California, the elder of two sons of Cecilia (Gold) and Joseph Whitman, a realtor. His mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant, while his paternal grandparents were Polish Jews. His family moved ...

Actor ('Murder, Inc.,' 'The Mark,' 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines')

78. Fred Willard

Actor | Best in Show

Fred Willard radiated a unique charm that established him as one of the industry's most gifted comic actors, first coming to prominence as ambitious but dimwitted sidekick Jerry Hubbard to Martin Mull's smarmy talk-show host Barth Gimble in the devastating satirical series Fernwood Tonight (1977). ...

Actor ('This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Best in Show,' 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy')

79. Barbara Windsor

Actress | EastEnders

Legendary EastEnders actress and Carry On star Barbara Windsor was born Barbara Ann Deeks in Stepney, London, the daughter of Rose (Ellis), a dressmaker, and John Deeks, a costermonger. She was a bright pupil at school and her parents wanted her to go to university, but after her first taste of ...

Actress ('Carry On' films, 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'The Boy Friend')



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