- Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- Eddie Murphy
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", …
- Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can".
- Joe Pesci
Joseph Francesco DeLores Eliot Pesci (born February 9, 1943), commonly known as Joe Pesci, is an American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster, mafia thug, or a grouchy funnyman.
- Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as "Catch-22", "The In-Laws", "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", and "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin.
- Haing S. Ngor
Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 - February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician and actor who is best known for winning a 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie "The Killing Fields", in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in 1970s Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He was an ethnic Chinese whose family came from Chaozhou, China.
- Chris Cooper
Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s, having appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including "American Beauty" and "Seabiscuit".
- Timothy Hutton
Timothy Hutton is an American Academy Award-winning actor - the youngest ever to win the award for Best Supporting Actor. Hutton received the award for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in "Ordinary People" (1980), the Oscar-winning directorial debut of Robert Redford.
- Walter Huston
Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 - April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born actor. Born in Toronto, Ontario to an Irish Anglican father and a Scottish mother, he began his Broadway career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood. His first major role was in 1929's "The Virginian", opposite Gary Cooper. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1936 for "Dodsworth", which he had also performed on Broadway.
- Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri (b. May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in "The Usual Suspects", "A Bronx Tale" and "Mulholland Falls".
- Red Buttons
Red Buttons (February 5 1919 - July 13 2006) was the stage name of American comedian and actor Aaron Chwatt. He won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Airman Joe Kelly in "Sayonara" (1957), a rare dramatic role.
- Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (14 June 1909 - 14 April 1995) was an Academy Award winning American actor and acclaimed folk music singer and author. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie The Big Country.
- Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an award-winning English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his role as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons; he had previously originated the role in the stage version both in the West End and on Broadway, winning a Tony Award.
- Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois. His family later moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. He was something of a rebel, playing in bands but paying little attention to school. Gary and some friends tried out for "West Side Story" as a lark, but Gary was hooked on acting for life by closing night. Gary credits his love for theatre to his drama teacher, Barbara Patterson .
- George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer and Academy Award winning film actor. Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio to immigrants from Greece. He made his film debut in 1947. For several years he appeared in small roles, usually as a dancer or a member of the chorus in various musical films.
- Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (September 26 1877-September 6, 1959) was an English theatre and film actor. Born Edmund Kellaway in Wandsworth, London, Gwenn started his acting career in theatre in 1895. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, and cast him in the first production of "Man and Superman", and subsequently in five more of his plays.
- Harold Russell
Harold John Russell (b. January 14, 1914 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, d. January 29, 2002 in Needham, Massachusetts) was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting. Harold Russell was born in Canada and moved to Massachusetts with his family in 1933. He was so profoundly affected by the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Army on 1941-12-08.
- Van Heflin
Van Heflin (December 13, 1910 - July 23, 1971) was an Academy Award-winning American film and theater actor.
- Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor.
- Hugh Griffith
Hugh Emrys Griffith (May 30, 1912 - May 14, 1980) was a Welsh film, stage and television actor. He was born in Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales. Griffith was educated in local schools and attempted to gain entrance to university, but failed the English examination. He was then urged to make a career in banking. He became a bank clerk and transferred to London to be closer to acting opportunities.
- Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien was an American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in "D.O.A." (1950). Born in New York, New York, O'Brien made his film debut in 1938, and gradually built a career as a highly regarded supporting actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), and was also nominated for his role in "Seven Days in May" (1964).
- Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born Joel Katz on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stage and screen actor, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1950.
- Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor.
- Charles Coburn
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 - August 30, 1961) was an Oscar-winning American film and theater actor.
- Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Academy Award winning Irish actor. Born William Joseph Shields in Dublin. He worked as a civil servent, and joined the Abbey Theatre. Starring in such plays as Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock", a role he recreated for Alfred Hitchcock in his screen debut in 1930. He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields.
- Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated African actor, dancer and fashion model.
- Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger (7 November 1903 - 5 February 1991) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in "The Woman from Hell" (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor, without becoming a major star, and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death.
- George Segal
George Segal (born February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York) is an American film and stage actor. He was educated at the George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown, Pennsylvania. A 1955 graduate of Columbia University, the amiable, wavy-haired leading man is equally at home in drama and comedy, although he is more often seen in the latter.
- Dith Pran
Dith Pran was born into a respectable family in 1942. He grew up in Siemp Reap, Cambodia. Cambodia was under the rule of the French, but at the time the Japanese army had invaded it. Although most of Cambodia was poor, he grew up in a family with at least a little bit of money. His father had a high ranking job in the government, and while most had to work, Pran was able to go to school.
- James Dunn
James Howard Dunn (November 2, 1905 - September 3, 1967) was an American film actor. Born in New York, New York, of Irish descent, Dunn was the son of a Wall Street stockbroker who, according to Dunn, "either had a million or nothing." Dunn started his entertainment career in vaudeville before progressing to films in the early 1930s. He made a strong first impression with his early roles, including "Society Girl" (1932) with Peggy Shannon and "Hello, …
- Pat Morita
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, (June 28, 1932 - November 24, 2005) was an American actor who is probably best known for playing the roles of Arnold on the TV show "Happy Days" and Mr. Miyagi in the "The Karate Kid" movie tetralogy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.
- Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut (March 22, 1896 - January 21, 1964) was a stage and film actor. Born in Vienna, Austria, Schildkraut was the son of popular stage (and later motion picture) actor Rudolf Schildkraut. The younger Schildkraut moved to the United States in the early 1900's. He appeared in many Broadway productions. Among the plays that he starred in was a notable production of Peer Gynt.
- Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn (born Russell Irving Tamblyn on December 30, 1934) is an American actor and former dancer.
- Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American screen actor. Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern and was formerly married to actress Diane Ladd.
- Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932 in Orange, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated American actor.
- Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian-American Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning stage, film, and television actor. Gardenia was born Vincenzo Scognamiglio in Naples, Italy to Elisa and Gennaro Gardenia Scognamiglio. After emigrating to the United States as a child, he lived most of his life in Brooklyn, New York.
- John Garfield
John Garfield was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles, and was twice nominated for an Academy Award (see below). Born Jacob Julius Garfinkle in New York City to Jewish immigrants David and Hannah Garfinkle, he was raised in Sea Gate, Brooklyn until sent to a school for problem children in the Bronx after the death of his mother when he was seven years old.
- Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 - September 18, 1949) was an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film "The Wizard of Oz". Born Francis Phillip Wuppermann in New York City to the wealthy family which distributed Angostura bitters, he attended Cornell University where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He then followed his older brother Ralph Morgan into show business, …
- Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series "Dawson's Creek" and later graduated to full length features, such as "Brokeback Mountain", for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
- Howard Rollins
Howard Ellsworth Rollins, Jr. (October 17, 1950-December 8, 1996) was an American actor. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied theater at Towson State College. In the late 1960s he played the role of "Slick" in the Maryland Public Television Series "Our Street," the nation's first black soap opera. He got his start in acting in a production of "Of Mice and Men" directed by his friend Steve Yeager.