Attractive Actors

1. James Cardwell

Eager young James (aka Jimmy) Cardwell had an auspicious beginning and showed great promise in 1940s films. Dark-haired and thick-browed with an earnest, boyish look and set-jawed handsomeness that could remind someone of a John Garfield type, he couldn't have started off much better than by ...

2. Peter Coe

Actor | Vigilante Force

Peter Coe was born on November 11, 1918 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Vigilante Force (1976), Road to Bali (1952) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). He was married to Rosalee Calvert. He died on June 9, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

3. Rory Calhoun

Actor | Motel Hell

Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in Los Angeles, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd McCown. Rory starred in over 80 films and 1,000 television episodes. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. Tall and handsome, he benefited ...

4. Elliott Reid

Actor | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Elliott Reid was born on January 16, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Vicki (1953). He died on June 21, 2013 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

5. Carl Betz

Actor | Judd for the Defense

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carl Betz formed a repertory theatre company while still in high school, then worked in summer stock. He served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, then attended Carnegie Tech. Following graduation, he worked as a radio announcer. He made his Broadway ...

6. Robert Q. Lewis

Actor | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

Robert Q. Lewis was born on April 5, 1921 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), An Affair to Remember (1957) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967). He died on ...

7. Marshall Reed

Actor | The Madmen of Mandoras

Marshall Reed was born on May 28, 1917 in Englewood, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Madmen of Mandoras (1963), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) and They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968). He was married to Carlyn Miller. He died on April 15, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, ...

8. Ray Anthony

Soundtrack | Sixteen Candles

Ray Anthony (real name Raymond Antonini) was born in Bentleyville, PA, on Jan. 20, 1922. His family moved to Cleveland, where he spent most of his early life. There he studied trumpet with his father. From 1940-1941 he played in Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1942 and...

9. Robert Hutton

Actor | They Came from Beyond Space

The son of a hardware merchant and cousin of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, Robert Hutton was born in Kingston, New York, and attended Blair Academy in New Jersey. For several seasons the future film actor was a leading man and director with the Woodstock Playhouse stock company in New York. He ...

10. Audie Murphy

Actor | To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war. Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive. In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and...

11. George D. Wallace

Actor | Minority Report

George D. Wallace was born in New York and, at age 13, moved with his mom and her new husband to McMechen, West Virginia, a coal mining town where the boy began working in the mines. He joined the Navy in 1936, got out in 1940, and then went right back in again when World War II started. A chief ...

12. John Bromfield

Actor | Hot Cars

The name may be hard-pressed to anyone but the most devoted film buffs, but dark-haired actor John Bromfield was a "B"-level leading man during the late 1950s. Possessed with a fine build and square-faced handsomeness, he was somewhat of a blend between Steve Cochran and Rory Calhoun, both 1950s ...

13. Yuki Shimoda

Actor | Auntie Mame

Yuki Shimoda was born on August 10, 1921 in Sacramento, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Auntie Mame (1958), A Town Like Alice (1981) and Black Sheep Squadron (1976). He died on May 21, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

14. William Reynolds

Actor | The Land Unknown

William de Clerq Reynolds, born in Los Angeles, began his film career in 1951, one year after his marriage to Molly Sinclair. The handsome actor portrayed many authority figures, both in the movies and on television. He managed to display a wide emotional range, as evidenced by his tour-de-force ...

15. Read Morgan

Actor | Maverick

Brawny Read Lawrence Morgan spent two years as an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky where he acquitted himself as a star baseball player for the Kentucky Wildcats. He then became heavily involved with bodybuilding, undertook further studies at Northwestern University and served for two ...

16. Rory Harrity

Actor | One Step Beyond

Rory Harrity was born on May 26, 1933 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for One Step Beyond (1959), Where the Boys Are (1960) and Not for Hire (1959). He was married to Marguerite Lamkin. He died on July 23, 1974 in Klosters, Graubünden, Switzerland.

17. John Ireland

Actor | All the King's Men

Born in Canada, John Ireland was raised in New York. Performing as a swimmer in a water carnival, he moved into the legitimate theater, often appearing in minor roles in Broadway plays. His first big break in pictures came in 1945 when he appeared as Windy the introspective letter-writing G.I. in ...

18. William Bishop

Actor | Lorna Doone

William attended grammar and high schools in New York and New Jersey. Upon graduation, he enrolled at West Virginia University where he planned to study law and played football and tennis. One summer, his uncle got him a job at the Suffern County (in New York) Theatre. He worked with actors ...

19. Helmut Dantine

Actor | War and Peace

Actor/director/producer Helmut Dantine was born in Vienna, Austria on October 7, 1917. He made a name for himself as an actor during World War Two playing German soldiers and Nazi villains in Hollywood films, most notably in Mrs. Miniver (1942). The young Dantine was a fervent anti-fascist/...

20. Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Actor | Virginia City

The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname "Big Boy" (and he was, too - 6' 2" of mostly solid muscle from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball) by Will Rogers, with whom he made one of his first films, in 1919. Although his father ...

21. Lash La Rue

Actor | The Dark Power

He looked so much like superstar Humphrey Bogart that character actress Sarah Padden asked if the two were related. LaRue said he didn't think so. After a long pause studying the young actor's face, she asked, "Did your mother ever meet Humphrey Bogart?"

Alfred "Lash" LaRue was born in Louisiana (...

22. Robert Dix

Actor | Forbidden Planet

Robert Dix was born on May 8, 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Forbidden Planet (1956), Five Bloody Graves (1969) and Young Jesse James (1960). He was married to Lynette Avery Allen, Jeanette P Dunn, Darlene Lucht, Anna Mae Slaughter and Janet Lake. He ...

23. John Lupton

Actor | Airport 1975

Genial, fair-haired and boyishly handsome, lanky actor John Lupton's biggest claim to fame was as the co-star of the western TV series Broken Arrow (1956). A reliable actor, if not particularly distinctive, he enjoyed a four-decade-long career on stage, film and TV. Born on August 22, 1928, in ...

24. Steve Barclay

Actor | The Great Flamarion

Steve Barclay was born on November 20, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Great Flamarion (1945), Macumba Love (1960) and Dark Purpose (1964). He was married to Lyla Rocco and Lisa Simone. He died on February 2, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

25. David Gorcey

Actor | Loose in London

Leo Gorcey's younger brother, David Gorcey is not usually thought of as one of the "original" Dead End Kids, but he did have a small role in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" - and he is the person responsible for getting his brother Leo a part in the play. Ultimately ...

26. Jeffrey Hunter

Actor | The Searchers

Jeffrey Hunter was born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr. on November 25, 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, an only child. His parents met at the University of Arkansas, and when he was almost four his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his teens, he acted in productions of the North Shore Children's ...

27. Ian Carmichael

Actor | I'm All Right Jack

Unassuming, innocent-eyed and undeniably ingratiating, Brit comedy actor Ian Carmichael was quite the popular chap in late 50s and early 60s film. He was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England on June 18, 1920, the son of Arthur Denholm Carmichael, an optician, and his wife Kate (Gillett). After ...

28. Hugh O'Brian

Actor | The Shootist

Hugh O'Brian had the term "beefcake" written about him during his nascent film years in the early 1950s, but he chose to avoid the obvious typecast as he set up his career.

O'Brian was born Hugh Charles Krampe on April 19, 1925, in Rochester, New York, to Ohio-born parents Edith Lillian (Marks) and ...

29. Maurice Ronet

Actor | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

Maurice Ronet was born on April 13, 1927 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), The Fire Within (1963) and Purple Noon (1960). He was married to Maria Pacôme. He died on March 14, 1983 in Paris, France.

30. Vernon Gray

Actor | The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Vernon Gray grew up in Elk Point, Alta., as Vernon Raham-Gray. "Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be an actor," said Gray in a 1953 interview, but his family was dead set against his bid for a show-business career. Chief opponents were his father, Arthur Raham, a railway agent in Elk Point,...

31. Pat Conway

Actor | Destination 60,000

Born on January 9, 1931, in Los Angeles, California, Patrick (Pat) Douglas Conway was the son of Hollywood "royalty"-film actor/director/producer Hugh ("Jack") Ryan Conway and his second wife, Virginia C. Bushman Conway, daughter of famous silent screen star Francis X. Bushman. Pat was a real ...

32. Lance Fuller

Actor | This Island Earth

Lance Fuller was born on December 6, 1928 in Somerset, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for This Island Earth (1955), God's Little Acre (1958) and Kentucky Rifle (1955). He was married to Joi Lansing. He died on December 22, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

33. Jay Kirby

Actor | Zorro's Black Whip

American actor best known for a short string of Hopalong Cassidy Westerns in the 1940s in which he played Cassidy's youthful sidekick Johnny Travers. Kirby was born William B. George in Missouri. He began acting in films in 1942 when he was cast to replace Russell Hayden in the Cassidy films. He ...

34. Johnny Sands

Actor | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Johnny Sands was born on April 29, 1928 in Lorenzo, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), Born to Speed (1947) and Aladdin and His Lamp (1952). He was married to Donella B. Clementini and Sue Allen. He died on December 30, 2003 in Ainaloa, Hawaii, USA.

35. Barry Coe

Actor | Peyton Place

Barry Coe was born on November 26, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Peyton Place (1957), Jaws 2 (1978) and The 300 Spartans (1962). He was married to Jorunn Kristiansen. He died on July 16, 2019 in Palm Desert, California, USA.

36. Richard Emory

Actor | Red Snow

Richard Emory was born on January 27, 1919 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Red Snow (1952), Beginning of the End (1957) and Rescue 8 (1958). He died on February 15, 1994 in Moab, Utah, USA.

37. Philip Carey

Actor | One Life to Live

Tall, blond and of rugged proportions, handsome actor Philip Carey started out as a standard 1950s film actor in westerns, war stories and crime yarns but didn't achieve full-fledged stardom until well past age 50 when he joined the daytime line-up as ornery Texas tycoon Asa Buchanan on the popular...

38. John Derek

Actor | The Ten Commandments

John Derek was born on August 12, 1926 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Ghosts Can't Do It (1989) and Bolero (1984). He was married to Bo Derek, Linda Evans, Ursula Andress and Pati Behrs. He died on May 22, 1998 in ...

39. Scott Brady

Actor | Gremlins

He had the manly good looks and rugged appeal to make it to top stardom in Hollywood and succeeded quite well as a sturdy leading man of standard action on film and TV. Born in Brooklyn on September 13, 1924, Irish-American Scott Brady was christened Gerard Kenneth Tierney (called Jerry) by parents...

40. Dean Miller

Actor | December Bride

Dean Miller was born on November 1, 1924 in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for December Bride (1954), Skirts Ahoy! (1952) and Small Town Girl (1953). He was married to Ida Miller. He died on January 13, 2004 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA.

41. 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...

42. Bob Crosby

Soundtrack | Raging Bull

An orchestra leader renowned for his Dixieland group, Bob Crosby Orchestra, and Bob Crosby and the Bobcats, Bob Crosby is Bing's younger brother. His band continues to perform today. His daughter, Cathy Crosby, appeared with him on his television program and sang in a few movies of her own, ...

43. Antonio Cifariello

Actor | In Search of the Castaways

Antonio Cifariello was born on May 19, 1930 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for In Search of the Castaways (1962), Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955) and Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958). He was married to Patrizia Della Rovere. He died on December 12, 1968 in Lusaka, Zambia.

44. Edouard Dermithe

Actor | Orphée

Edouard Dermithe was born on January 18, 1925 in Gallignana, Istria, Italy [now Gracisce, Croatia]. He was an actor, known for Orpheus (1950), The Terrible Children (1950) and Thomas the Impostor (1965). He died on May 15, 1995 in Paris, France.

45. Carlos Agostí

Actor | La Valentina

Carlos Agostí was born on July 3, 1922 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for La Valentina (1966), Dos corazones y un cielo (1959) and Viva Revolution (1956). He died on December 13, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

46. Arthur Space

Actor | The Big Noise

Arthur Space was born on October 12, 1908 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Noise (1944), The Bat People (1974) and Terror at Red Wolf Inn (1972). He was married to Mary (Mollie) Campbell. He died on January 13, 1983 in Hollywood, California, USA.

47. Philip Friend

Actor | Buccaneer's Girl

Philip Friend was born on February 20, 1915 in Horsham, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Buccaneer's Girl (1950), Dick Turpin: Highwayman (1956) and Spy Hunt (1950). He was married to Eileen Erskine. He died on September 1, 1987 in Chiddingfold, Surrey, England, UK.

48. Dean Harens

Actor | Christmas Holiday

Dean Harens was born on June 30, 1920 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Christmas Holiday (1944), Wonder Woman (1975) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He was married to June Dayton. He died on May 20, 1996 in Van Nuys, California, USA.

49. Glen Vernon

Actor | So I Married an Axe Murderer

Glen Vernon was born on October 27, 1923 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), Ding Dong Williams (1946) and Impact (1949). He was married to Joy Rogers. He died on October 27, 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

50. Michael St. Angel

Actor | Bride by Mistake

Second lead and featured actor Michael St. Angel was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1916, the son of prominent business man Jasper St. Angel. Following high school the darkly handsome youth attended Wisconsin's Beloit College majoring in drama, then later transferred to Iowa's St. Ambrose College ...

51. Ivan Desny

Actor | Die Ehe der Maria Braun

Ivan Desny was born on December 28, 1922 in Peking, China [now Beijing, China]. He was an actor, known for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Guns for San Sebastian (1968) and Wrong Move (1975). He was married to Ghislaine Arsac. He died on April 13, 2002 in Ascona, Switzerland.

52. Tony Russel

Actor | La leggenda di Fra Diavolo

One of several handsome American actors who migrated to Europe in the early 60s when their careers in the States weren't progressing as well as they wanted, Antonio Pietro Russo, aka Tony Russel (or Tony Russell), was born on November 23, 1925 in Wisconsin, the son of Italian immigrants. Brought up...

53. Terence Morgan

Actor | Hamlet

Terence Morgan was born on December 8, 1921 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1948), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and Piccadilly Third Stop (1960). He was married to Georgina Jumel. He died on August 25, 2005 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.

54. Armand Mestral

Actor | Gervaise

Armand Mestral was born on November 25, 1917 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Gervaise (1956), White Slave Ship (1961) and Morgan the Pirate (1960). He was married to Jacqueline Martin. He died on September 17, 2000 in Paris, France.

55. Don Taylor

Actor | Stalag 17

Born in Freeport, Pennsylvania, Don Taylor studied law, then speech and drama at Penn State University, where as a freshman he began taking part in college stage productions. Hitchhiking to Hollywood in 1942, the youthful Taylor screen-tested at Warner Brothers but was rejected because of his draft...

56. 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 ...

57. Mike Road

Actor | The Roaring 20's

Mike Road was born on March 18, 1918 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Roaring 20's (1960), Hawaiian Eye (1959) and The Fantastic Journey (1977). He was married to Ruth Brady and Norma Lehn. He died on April 14, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

58. Rex Reason

Actor | This Island Earth

Rex Reason was born in Germany, while his family was in Europe on a business trip. Although he grew up in Los Angeles, his acting aspirations were nil; his mother, however, hoped that both Rex and his lookalike brother Rhodes Reason would get into the acting profession. He played the lead in "...

59. Antonio El Bailarín

Actor | Nuits andalouses

Antonio El Bailarín was born on November 4, 1921 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Nuits andalouses (1954), Hollywood Canteen (1944) and Pan-Americana (1945). He died on February 5, 1996 in Madrid, Spain.

60. Vic Damone

Soundtrack | Payback

At fourteen he worked as an usher at the NYC Paramount Theatre. His father was an electrician who played guitar and his mother taught piano. Damone attended PS 163 and sang in St. Finbar's choir and later attended the Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School and then Lafayette High School in ...

61. Stephen McNally

Actor | No Way Out

Dark-haired, rugged-looking Stephen McNally forsook a thriving career as an attorney in the late 1930s in order to pursue an acting career. This impulsive decision to switch gears in mid-life was rewarded in the end, playing a steady stream of hard-edged, noirish characters and more than his share ...

62. Todd Karns

Actor | It's a Wonderful Life

Todd Karns was born on January 15, 1921 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was married to Katherine Julia Flaten. He died on February 5, 2000 in Ajijic, Jalisco, ...

63. Vince Edwards

Actor | The Killing

Born in Brooklyn, the son of Italian immigrant parents, Vince Edwards early aspired to the theater. He was a swimming champion in high school, attended Ohio State University on an athletic scholarship, and was on their National Championship swimming team. Olympics were on the horizon, but an ...

64. Douglas Kennedy

Actor | The Land Unknown

A tall, powerfully built man, Douglas Kennedy entered films after graduating from Amherst. Making his debut in 1940, he appeared in many westerns and detective thrillers, often as a villain. World War II interrupted his career, and he spent the war years as a Signal Corps officer and an operative ...

65. Buster Crabbe

Actor | Nabonga

Buster Crabbe graduated from the University of Southern California. In 1931, while working on That's My Boy (1932) for Columbia Pictures, he was tested by MGM for Tarzan and rejected. Paramount Pictures put him in King of the Jungle (1933) as Kaspa, the Lion Man (after a book of that title but ...

66. Anthony Steel

Actor | The Master of Ballantrae

Known primarily in Britain for his many "matinée idol" roles during the 1950s, Anthony Steel is perhaps best remembered in Hollywood and elsewhere as the erstwhile husband of Anita Ekberg.

His career never really took off in Hollywood; at one point during his marriage to Ms. Ekberg, he was referred ...

67. Rod Taylor

Actor | Inglourious Basterds

Suave and handsome Australian actor arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, and built himself up from a supporting actor into taking the lead in several well-remembered movies. Arguably his most fondly remembered role was that as George (Herbert George Wells), the inventor, in George Pal's spectacular ...

68. Ed Fury

Actor | Ursus nella valle dei leoni

Ed Fury was born on June 6, 1928 in Long Island, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Valley of the Lions (1961), Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963) and Ursus (1961). He was married to Marceline Yvette Dubois. He died on February 24, 2023 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

69. James Caan

Actor | Thief

A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.

He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...

70. Robert Webber

Actor | The Dirty Dozen

Over his 40-year career as one of Hollywood's veteran character actors, Robert Webber always marked his spot by playing all types of roles and was not stereotyped into playing just one kind of character. Sometimes he even got to play a leading role (see Hysteria (1965)). Webber first started out in...

71. John Gavin

Actor | Psycho

John Gavin, the American film and TV actor, businessman and diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's first Ambassador to Mexico, was born Juan Vincent Apablasa in Los Angeles, California.

The future "Jack" Gavin was a fifth-generation Angeleno, the son of Delia Diana Pablos and Juan Vincent Apablasa, and ...

72. Richard Madden

Actor | Game of Thrones

Richard Madden, born 18 June 1986, is a Scottish stage, film, and television actor best known for portraying Robb Stark in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" and Prince Kit in Disney's "Cinderella." Starring as David Budd in the BBC miniseries "Bodyguard" has also brought him more international ...

73. John Cassavetes

Actor | Rosemary's Baby

John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.

Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...

74. 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 ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 6 Golden Globe Nominations: 17

Greatest Performances:

"The Shining" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "As Good as It Gets" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "One Flew…….Cuckoo's Nest" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars

75. Daniel Day-Lewis

Actor | There Will Be Blood

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Greatest Performances:

"Lincoln" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "My Left Foot" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "There Will Be Blood" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars

76. 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, ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Golden Globes: 5 Golden Globe Nominations: 13

Greatest Performances:

"Rain Man" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "Midnight Cowboy" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Kramer vs. Kramer" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

77. Tom Hanks

Producer | Cast Away

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

Greatest Performances:

"Forrest Gump" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "Philadelphia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars "Saving Private Ryan" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars

78. Anthony Hopkins

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

Greatest Performances:

"Nixon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Silence of the Lambs" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "The Remains of the Day" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars

79. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 (1 for Producing) BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

Greatest Performances:

"Glory" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "Malcolm X" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Training Day" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars

80. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 22

Greatest Performances:

"Mister Roberts" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars "Save the Tiger" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Some Like It Hot" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

81. 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 ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 12

Greatest Performances:

"Educated Rita" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "The Cider House Rules" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Hannah and Her Sisters" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

82. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 10

Greatest Performances:

"The Fisher King" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Good Will Hunting" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Dead Poets Society" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars

83. 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 ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.8 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Greatest Performances:

"The Apostle" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Tender Mercies" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "Lonesome Dove" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars

84. Sean Penn

Actor | Mystic River

Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.

Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Milk" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "I Am Sam" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "Mystic River" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars

85. 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...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Glory" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "Million Dollar Baby' - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Shawshank Redemption" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

86. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.9 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Greatest Performances:

"Starman" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "True Grit" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Crazy Heart" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars

87. Sidney Poitier

Actor | In the Heat of the Night

Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Greatest Performances:

"Lilies of the Field" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Defiant Ones" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "In the Heat of the Night" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

88. Peter O'Toole

Actor | Lawrence of Arabia

A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.9 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 11

Greatest Performances:

"Becket" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Lion in Winter" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Lawrence of Arabia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars

89. 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 ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.3 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 (Directing) Oscar Nominations: 7 (6 for Directing) BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 (Directing) Golden Globes: 3 (Directing) Golden Globe Nominations: 12 (Directing)

Greatest Performances:

"Unforgiven" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars "Million Dollar Baby" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars

90. 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 ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

Greatest Performances:

"Unforgiven" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "Mississippi Burning" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The French Connection" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars

91. Ben Kingsley

Actor | Sexy Beast

Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

Greatest Performances:

"Gandhi" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "Sexy Beast" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "House of Sand and Fog" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars

92. Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actor | The Master

Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Capote" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars "Doubt" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "The Master" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars

93. George C. Scott

Actor | Patton

George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.8 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Patton" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "The Hustler" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Hospital" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars

94. Jason Robards

Actor | All the President's Men

Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles. A star athlete at ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.8 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Julia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Melvin and Howard" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "All the President's Men" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

95. Anthony Quinn

Actor | Alexis Zorbas

Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Lust for Life" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Viva Zapata!" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars "Alexis Zorbas" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars

96. Peter Sellers

Actor | Being There

Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.8 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Greatest Performances:

"Being There" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars

97. Peter Finch

Actor | Network

Despite being one of the finest actors of his generation, Peter Finch will be remembered as much for his reputation as a hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer as for his performances on the screen. He was born in London in 1916 and went to live in Sydney, Australia, at the age of ten. There, he ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

Greatest Performances:

"Network" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Sunday Bloody Sunday - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "The Flight of the Phoenix" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

98. Richard Burton

Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.

Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Greatest Performances:

"Equus" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "My Cousin Rachel" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars

99. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.4 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

Greatest Performances:

"Beginners" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Last Station" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Sound of Music" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars

100. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

Acting Abilities:

Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 Stars

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Greatest Performances:

"Lincoln" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "The Fugitive" - Level of Difficulty - 4.2 Stars "In the Valley of Elah" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars