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.

Alain Delon is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. Delon’s star rose quickly, and by the age of twenty-three he was garnering comparisons to French screen legends such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot. Not wanting to fall back on his looks, Delon tried to take roles that presented him with more of a challenge.

Tony Musante (born Antonio Mauro Musante on June 30, 1936) is an Italian-American actor originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut. He attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University. Musante has acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series "Toma" (predecessor to "Baretta") and the soap opera "As The World Turns", and the 1975 Broadway play, …

Fred Kelsey played the same role in the 1930 film "The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case" and in its 1945 remake, "If a Body Meets a Body, " the latter of which starred The Three Stooges. Son: Robert Miller Kelsey. Character actor who built up a hefty resume of over 200 movies, directing a few of them, including silent and talking features. He found a comfortable niche in broad, vivid comedy roles -- that of the bumbling, bungling detective. He livened up everything from Three Stooges...

Jeff Corey, the film and television character actor famed for being one of the top acting teachers in America, was born on August 10, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. He was an indifferent student, but after taking a drama class in high school, the young Corey became hooked. His talent earned him a scholarship to the Feagin School of Dramatic Arts, the top acting school in New York City at the time. Corey then became a professional actor, a career choice which saved him from a life selling...

Screen, stage, television, and vaudeville actor.

American character actor whose career was influenced (and often overshadowed) by that of his father, silent film star Lon Chaney. The younger Chaney was born while his parents were on a theatrical tour, and he joined them onstage for the first time at the age of six months. However, as a young man, even during the time of his father's growing fame, Creighton Chaney worked menial jobs to support himself without calling upon his father. He was at various times a plumber, a meatcutter's...

Immigrated to the United States in 1910.

Tall, suave and sophisticated Cesar Romero actually had two claims to fame in Hollywood. To one generation, he was the distinguished Latin lover of numerous musicals and romantic comedies, and the rogue bandit The Cisco Kid in a string of low-budget westerns. However, to a younger generation weaned on television, Romero was better known as the white-faced, green-haired, cackling villain The Joker of the camp 1960s TV series "Batman" (1966), and as a bumbling corporate villain in...

Uncle of actress Marta Heflin Turned down the role of Elliot Ness on "The Untouchables" (1959) TV series. Uncle of actress Mady Kaplan. Daughters: actresses Vana O'Brien and Cathleen (Kate Heflin). Son: Tracy Heflin. Grandfather of actor Ben O'Brien and actress Eleanor O'Brien. Brother of actress Frances Heflin. Uncle of actresses Marta Heflin and

Character actor John Davis Chandler was born on January 28, 1937 in Hinton, West Virginia. Short and stocky, with fair hair, piercing blue eyes, a pale complexion, and a nasal, whiny voice, Chandler specialized in portraying mean, neurotic and dangerous villains. John made his fine and impressive film debut in his sole starring part as the titular sniveling weasel gangster in "Mad Dog Coll." Chandler acted in a trio of Westerns for director Sam Peckinpah; he's especially memorable (and...