Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932 in Orange, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated American actor.

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.

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.

Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a German film actor. Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany, (now Sovetsk, Russia). He was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager. He turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950. He was a successful film and stage actor in East Germany, but being blacklisted by the government, he emigrated to West Germany in 1980 after protesting against Wolf Biermann's denaturalisation in 1976.

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.

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.

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.

Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning 62 years.

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.

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.

John Benjamin Ireland was an Academy Award-nominated actor and sometime film director. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in New York City. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway. A tall, lean former Canadian professional swimmer who once performed in a water carnival, he appeared on Broadway and toured in Shakespeare in the late 1930s and early 40s before entering film in the mid-40s. He made his screen debut as Pvt.

Gene (Eugene) Lockhart was a Canadian Academy Award-nominated character actor, singer, playwright and popular composer. Born in London, Ontario, Lockhart had a long stage career; he also wrote professionally and taught acting. He made his Broadway debut in 1917, in the musical " The Riviera Girl" He was a member of the travelling play "The Pierrot Players" (for which he wrote the book and lyrics).

Michael Lerner (born June 22, 1941) is an Academy-Award nominated American character actor. Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York of Romanian Jewish descent. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Lerner began participating in a number plays in San Francisco.

Ian Bannen (June 29, 1928 - November 3, 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.

Jack Wild (30 September 1952 - 2 March 2006) was an English actor who achieved fame for his roles in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical "Oliver!". For the latter performance (playing the Artful Dodger), he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16, but the Oscar went to Jack Albertson for his performance in "The Subject was Roses".

Jack Kruschen (March 20, 1922 - April 2, 2002) was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in American film, television, and radio. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kruschen began his career in the 1940s as staple of West Coast radio drama. He had regular or recurring roles on "Broadway Is My Beat" (as Sgt. Muggavan), and "Pete Kelly's Blues" (as Red, the bass player), as well as frequent episodic roles on anthology series, Westerns, and crime dramas.

Jean Rochefort is a French actor who has appeared in more than 100 movies. Rochefort was born in Dinan, a town of Côtes-d'Armor, France. He was 19 years old when he entered the "Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche". Later he joined the "Conservatoire National". After his national service, in 1953, he worked with the "Compagnie Grenier Hussenot" as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noticed for his ability to play both drama and comedy.

Leonard Frey (born September 4, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York; died August 24, 1988 in New York) was an American actor. After college, where he studied art with designs on being a painter, he studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner, and decided to pursue a career in theater instead. In 1968, he received critical acclaim for his performance as a bitter, bitchy, …

Firdous Bamji (born May 3, 1966 in Bombay, India) is an actor who has played leading roles in world and American premieres of plays by such noted playwrights as Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian and Tom Stoppard. He has also appeared in a number of television shows, such as "Law & Order", and several successful movies, such as "The Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable" and "Analyze That".

Don Fernando (born April 12, 1948) is a director and actor of pornographic films. He has been in the pornography business since 1977 and has won the Best Supporting Actor award twice (1995 and in 2005) during the Festival de Cine Erotica-Barcelona. Fernando has won the award for Best Actor at the 2006 EXPOSEX Madrid Awards Gala, and was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in 1997.

Xie Shaoguang is a former Singaporean Chinese actor. Known for his roles on MediaCorp TV Channel 8's drama serials and other programmes, he rose to fame for his acting prowess and versatility despite not being known for his physical appearance. Since the start of his acting career in 1989 in his first drama "A Mother's Love" (亲心唤我心), he has received numerous allocades, …

Chris Leavins is a Canadian actor and writer based in Los Angeles. Leavins has been a cast member, or guest-star on some of Canada's most popular and critically acclaimed television series including: Traders (Gemini Winner 1997 and 1998 "Best Dramatic Series"), The Eleventh Hour (Gemini Winner 2002-2003 "Best Dramatic Series"), and Slings and Arrows(Gemini Winner 2006 "Best Dramamtic Series") which airs in America on Sundance Channel.

Nils Börje Ahlstedt is a Swedish actor who has worked a lot with the world famous director Ingmar Bergman in films like "Fanny and Alexander" (1982), "The Best Intentions" (1982) and "Saraband" (2003). Ahlstedt has also worked with the directors Bo Widerberg and Kay Pollak. Börje Ahlstedt is well associated with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

Simon Coates is a British actor who has worked extensively with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom he has appeared throughout the world. He has appeared in many celebrated productions including Robert Lepage's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Tim Supple's "The Comedy of Errors", David Farr's "Coriolanus" and Declan Donnelan's "As You Like It", …