- Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous performers as well as a notable director and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field. - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", … - Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his work with an Academy Honorary Award. His films "MASH" and "Nashville" have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. - Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972). - Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valenti was a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world. - Gene Autry
Orvon Gene Autry (September 29 1907 - October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television. - Will H. Hays
William Harrison Hays, an American politician, was the namesake of the Hays Code, chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918–1921) and U.S. Postmaster General. Hays was born in Sullivan, Indiana, where he also died. Hays was the campaign manager for Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the United States in the 1920 U.S. presidential election and subsequently became Harding's Postmaster-General. - John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and subsequent Great Depression. - Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. - Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton was an American film actress and singer. - Melvin van Peebles
Born Melvin Peebles on August 21, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up during World War II and attended Township High School in Phoenix, Illinois, where he graduated in 1949. After a transitional year at West Virginia State College, he then transferred to Ohio Wesleyan University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1953. - Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Gattaca" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" movies (2003–04). - Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, … - Ally Sheedy
Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire". - Joan Graves
Joan Graves is the head of the Classification and Rating Administration for the MPAA, and was appointed to that position by Jack Valenti. She was featured in the documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated", although she would not allow her image to be used. - Jack Palance
Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two "City Slickers" movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances. - Eric Johnston
Eric Allen Johnston was president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a motion picture association executive and U.S. government administrator. - Frank Fay
Frank Fay (November 17, 1897 - September 25, 1961) was a movie and stage actor, most famous for playing 'Elwood P. Dowd' (whose friend is an invisible 6-foot rabbit) in the play "Harvey" by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase on Broadway. James Stewart would play the role in the film version. Born Francis Anthony Donner in San Francisco, California to Irish Catholic parents. - Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Hollywood actor. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" on the stage and on the screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film "The Ten Commandments" and as Chris Adams in "The Magnificent Seven". - Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell Walker on "Walker, Texas Ranger". In 2006, he became the subject of an internet phenomenon known as Chuck Norris Facts. - Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993) was a comedian of the Mexican theatre and film industry. He earned wide popularity with his interpretation of the character Cantinflas, an impoverished "campesino" cum slumdweller that originated in the "pelado". The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Moreno to establish a long, … - Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, "Popular Mechanics for Kids", and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series "24". She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film "The Girl Next Door". - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. He is the author of many books on film, including "Film: The Front Line 1983" (1983), "Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism" (1995), "Moving Places: A Life at the Movies" (1980; reprint 1995), "Movies as Politics" (1997) and "Essential Cinema" (2004). His most popular work is "Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See" (2002). - June Allyson
June Allyson was a Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. - Walter Mirisch
Walter Mortimer Mirisch is an American film producer in Hollywood, California. In his long and successful motion picture career, Walter Mirisch has produced some of the industry’s finest and most memorable films. As President and Executive Head of Production of The Mirisch Corporation, an independent filmmaking organization, which he formed in 1957 with his two brothers, the late Marvin and Harold, Walter continues to turnout fresh and highly entertaining films. - Herbert Biberman
Herbert J. Biberman (b. March 4, 1900, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. June 30, 1971, New York City) was an American screenwriter and film director who may be equally known for having been one of the Hollywood Ten as for having made a striking if somewhat ideological film about a Grant County, New Mexico zinc miners' strike, 1954's "Salt of the Earth". - Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 - August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-born actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. He was born to Anglo-Quebecer parents at Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City, Quebec and was a grand-nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Ford moved to Santa Monica, California with his family at the age of eight, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939. - Edward Albert
Edward Albert (February 20 1951 - September 22 2006) was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert Jr. He was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo (Margo Albert); both parents were once blacklisted. - Carl Laemmle Jr.
Carl Laemmle Jr. was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, called “Junior”, by his friends and family, developed a reputation for spending too much money at the studios on several films that did not earn back their cost. Although Universal had great success with "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), "Dracula" (1931), … - Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and was raised in Miami. He attended North Miami High School and Florida State University where he played football. He was signed to a minor league baseball contract by the Cleveland Indians, but never made it into the big leagues. - Henry Willson
Henry Willson (31 July 1911 - 2 November 1978) was a Hollywood talent agent, who played a role in popularizing the beefcake craze of the 1950s. Some of his notable clients included Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Guy Madison, Troy Donahue, and Robert Wagner. He also discovered a young Rhonda Fleming walking to Beverly Hills High School, brought her to David O. Selznick's attention, and helped groom her for stardom. - John L. Adams
After attending Winston-Salem University in North Carolina, Adams moved to Los Angeles, where he began his career as a stand-up comic. Adams as been seen performing at many of the industry's most infamous comedy clubs, including L.A.'s The Improv, The Laugh Factory, and The Comedy Store, as well as at the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas. A natural with and charisma on stage, it wasn't long before Adams was being sought out as an up-and-coming character actor. - Ron Carey
Ron Carey (December 11 1935 - January 16 2007) was an American film and television actor. Born Ronald Joseph Cicenia in Newark, New Jersey, the 5ft 4in actor was best known for playing cocky Officer Carl Levitt on TV's "Barney Miller", in which he was almost always surrounded by male actors (and sometimes female guest stars) who stood at least 4" taller. The series' stars (Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass) all stand well over six feet. - Richard Fleischer
Richard O. Fleischer was an American film director. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the son and biographer (2005) of animator Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the classic "Betty Boop", "Popeye" and "Superman" series. His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO studio, directing shorts, documentaries, … - John Boorman
John Boorman (born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, Surrey), is an English filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as "Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur", "The General" and "In My Country". - Jason Statham
Jason Statham (born on 12 September, 1972, in Sydenham, Lewisham, London) is an English actor, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "Revolver" and "Snatch". Statham also appeared in supporting roles in several American films, such as "The One", "The Italian Job", and "Collateral", as well as playing the lead role in "The Transporter", … - Gila Golan
Gila Golan (born 1940) was an Israeli fashion model and Hollywood film actress. Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1940, she was adopted by a Roman Catholic family that found her left in a bundle at a train station during the Holocaust. Her adopted family sent her to be educated in a monastery. Arriving in Israel after World War II with the name Zusia Sobetzcki, she became Miriam Goldberg and continued her schooling in an Orthodox girls' boarding school. - Kevyn Major Howard
Kevyn Major Howard is a Canadian actor best known for his role is Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket". After acting in high school Howard moved to Los Angeles and the Hollywood limelight in the late 70's. Kevyn became frustrated with LA's headshot industry and perceived that it was unable to create an actor's artistic expression through their head shot. As a result, he decided to take his own picture. Kevyn's new headshot was delivered to Paramount Studios, … - Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is an Mexican-American actor who has appeared in many Hollywood movies.
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