- Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as perhaps the most influential actor of the 20th Century. Brando is perhaps best known for his roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront", both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, … - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22 1937), better known as Jack Nicholson, is an iconic Academy Award winning American method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson is one of the greatest actors of all time, having been nominated for an Academy Award 12 times and has won three. - Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor in "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump". Hanks is the second highest-grossing film star of all time. He is also only one of two actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million blockbusters, … - Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is a two time Academy Award-winning, BAFTA-winning, and Golden Globe-winning American actor. - Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), more commonly known as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. He is tied with Tom Hanks as the only actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million plus blockbusters on his resume, and Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won the Golden Globe Award. - Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 26, 1940) is an Academy Award- Golden Globe, AFI, Bafta, Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor played such iconic roles as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Trilogy" and Tony Montana in the 1983 film "Scarface". - Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand-Australian actor. Crowe is a recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 2000's Gladiator. - Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (born Eugene Allen Hackman on January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He came to fame during the 1970s, after his role in "The French Connection", and has continued to appear in major roles in Hollywood films. - George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22,1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S. Patton Jr. in the film "Patton", as well as for his flamboyant performance as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". - Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (born February 20 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world. - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director who is perhaps best known for playing intense, often humorless and unsympathetic characters. - Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily on movies and television, who arose to fame as Karl Malden's young partner, Insp. Steve Keller in the popular 1970s crime drama, "The Streets of San Francisco". - Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. - Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award. - Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor. Born Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch in London, he lived as a child in France and India, and finally in Australia, his parents' native country. There he grew up in Sydney. After finishing school, he worked in several badly paid jobs until he tried acting. He began in 1935 playing theatre roles, and also working in radio. In 1938, he appeared in his first film, "Dad and Dave Come to Town". - Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an American Academy Award-winning actor best known for his intense performances in such films as "In the Heat of the Night", "On the Waterfront" and "Doctor Zhivago". - Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster was an Oscar-winning American film actor, noted for his athletic physique (a rare thing for leading men of that time), distinct smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. Initially dismissed as "Mr Muscles and Teeth", in the late 1950s Lancaster would abandon his all-American image and gradually he would be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation. - Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. Kingsley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. - Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. Borgnine is the son of Carlo Borgnino and Anna Boselli, who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his mother went to live in Italy, but five years later they returned to Hamden, Connecticut, where he attended public schools. - Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (Peter James O'Toole) (b. August 2 1932 (accepted but presumed date) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. He has received three Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. He was also awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work (2003). Despite eight nominations, he has yet to win a Best Actor Oscar. - Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning Australian actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting. - Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor of English heritage. His career spanned from the 1920s until the year of his death, and saw him make one hundred films. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited for the many Westerns he made. Cooper received five Oscar nominations for Best Actor, winning twice. - F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham (born October 24, 1939) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in "Amadeus", and has since appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films, television, and mainly on stage. - Fredric March
Fredric March died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 77 from cancer. He was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death; they had 2 adopted children. Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. His support for the Republican (Second Spanish Republic) side during the Spanish Civil War was particularly controversial. - Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. - José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón, was an Academy Award-winning Puerto Rican actor and film director, born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was a 1933 graduate of Princeton University, where he wrote a senior thesis titled "French Naturalism and Pardo Bazán" and was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club. - James Dean
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, "Rebel Without a Cause", in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in "East of Eden", and as the surly, racist farmer Jett Rink in "Giant". - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. - Nick Nolte
Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is a Oscar-nominated American actor, model, and producer. - Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film, "The Last King of Scotland", Whitaker won several major awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. He became the fourth African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx. - Ray Milland
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 - March 10, 1986) was an Oscar-winning Welsh actor and director who worked primarily in the United States. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985. - Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 9th on the list of 100. He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor. - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Jim Carrey
James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. He is known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls", "The Mask", "Dumb and Dumber", "Me, Myself & Irene", "The Cable Guy", "Liar Liar" and "Bruce Almighty". - Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas was a Hungarian actor. Born Pál Lukács in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly he became typecast as a villain. In 1933, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Richard Burton
Richard Burton CBE (November 10 1925 - August 5 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.. Known for his distinctive voice, he was nominated seven times for Academy Awards for acting, yet never won. - Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, … - Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. More than any other actor, Fonda is associated with Western counterculture of the 1960s.
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