Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

male, deceased (1977)
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin...
Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

male, deceased (1966)
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark...
Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd

male, deceased (1971)
Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and director, most famous for his silent comedies. Harold Lloyd...
Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

male, deceased (1939)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 - December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his...
Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

female, deceased (1985)
Louise Brooks (14 November 1906 - 8 August 1985) was an American dancer, showgirl, and silent film actress. She became, at the end of her life, a...
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson

female, deceased (1983)
Gloria Swanson, was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress. She was prolific during the silent film era, but...
Clara Gordon Bow

Clara Gordon Bow

female, deceased (1905) (Brooklyn)
There are some actresses who are adored by critics and the public alike, and some who find adulation with fans despite critical derision. Clara Bow...
Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

female, deceased (1930)
Mabel Normand (November 10, 1895 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne of the silent film era.
Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

male, deceased (1948)
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike",...
Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

male, 53 years old
Over the course of a career that has spanned nearly two decades and 25 films, both short and feature, filmmaker Guy Maddin has provided his viewers...