- Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 - December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), "The Three Musketeers" (1921), "Robin Hood" (1922), "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) and "The Black Pirate" (1926). - Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. - Cecil B. Demille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a very successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century. - Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of theatrical animated shorts for Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation--and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions. He is regarded as one of the most gifted and influential persons in his field, providing the definitive voices for iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, … - Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958), usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as "Ty Power", was an American film and stage actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often as a swashbuckler or romantic lead, in such movies as "The Mark of Zorro", "The Black Swan", "Prince of Foxes", "The Black Rose", and "Captain from Castile". - John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing several classic films, "The Maltese Falcon", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Key Largo", and "The African Queen". - Darla Hood
Darla Jean Hood (November 8, 1931 - June 13, 1979) was an American child actress. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, … - Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr., KBE, DSC, K.st.j. (December 9, 1909 - May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. - Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1904 - January 4, 1999) was an actor born in Gueydan, Louisiana. He was born Espera De Corti, the son of Sicilian immigrants Francesca Salpietra and Antonio De Corti. He was not born a Native American, but he claimed to be part Cherokee and part Cree. Cody and his wife Bertha Parker adopted children that were Native American. Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death. - 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". - Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress. She was the first performer of African descent to ever win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). McDaniel was also a professional singer, stage actress, radio performer and television star. - Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 - September 14, 1984) was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. - Johnny Ramone
John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 - September 15, 2004), better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the guitarist for the punk rock group The Ramones. Along with vocalist Joey Ramone, he remained a member of the band throughout their career. - Bugsy Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 - June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, popularly thought to be the impetus behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. - Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett was an American-born actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television. Born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools, which she did not always attend punctually. Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series "Young Doctor Malone" in 1959. She had a leading role in the Twilight Zone episode "A Piano in the House" (1962). - Fay Wray
Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 - August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress. - Leon Schlesinger
Leon Schlesinger was an American film producer, most noted for founding what later became the Warner Bros. Animation studio during the golden age of Hollywood animation. Schlesinger was born in Philadelphia. After working at a theater as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager (including the Palace Theater in Buffalo, NY (source Buffalo News, April 15, 1944), he founded Pacific Title and Art in 1919, … - Paul Muni
Paul Muni was an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning stage actor. - Florence Lawrence
Florence Lawrence was an inventor and silent film actress, who is often referred to as "The First Movie Star." She was also known as "The Biograph Girl" and "The Girl of a Thousand Faces". During her lifetime, Lawrence appeared in more than 270 films for various motion picture companies. Married three times: (1) Harry Solter, 1908, divorced 1913 (2) Charles Woodring, 12 May 1921, divorced 1931 (3) Henry Bolton, 1932, divorced 5 months later. - Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 - February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing. - William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies, and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s. His murder on February 1, 1922 remains officially unsolved. Following other scandals, the murder of William Desmond Taylor was a catalyst that brought censorship to Hollywood movies and morality clauses to acting contracts. - Virginia Rappe
Virginia Rappe (pronounced ) (July 7, 1891 - September 9, 1921) was an American model and silent film actress. - Bebe Daniels
Bebe Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on radio and television in England. - Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre, born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a charismatic Austrian stage and screen actor and director, who later became a naturalized US citizen. He was especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries alongside iconic leading actors of the day including Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable. He played Le Chiffre, the first James Bond villain, … - David White
David White was an American stage, film and television actor. - William Beaudine
William Beaudine (January 15 1892 - March 18 1970) was an American film actor and director. Born in New York City, he began his career as an actor in 1909 with American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. In 1915, he was hired as an actor as well as a director by the Kalem Company. He was an assistant to director D.W. Griffith on the films "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance". By the time he was 23, Beaudine had directed his first picture, … - Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb was an American actor, dancer and singer. - Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris (November 29, 1901 - July 20, 1944) was a notable actress of the silent film era. - Marion Davies
Marion Davies (January 3 1897 - September 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress. - Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming (sometimes "Vic Fleming") was an Academy Award-winning American film director. - Don Adams
Don Adams (April 13, 1923 - September 25, 2005), born Donald James Yarmy, was an American actor best known for his role as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the TV situation comedy "Get Smart" (1965-1970, 1995), for which he also directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart (1967-1969). Additional fame came when he provided the voice for "Inspector Gadget" as the title character. - John Adams
Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS (24 May 1920-3 March 1984) was a British nuclear physicist and administrator. During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. After the war he moved to Harwell, and the Atomic Energy Research establishment, designing a 180 MeV synchro-cyclotron. In 1953 he joined CERN as director of the Proton Synchotron division. - Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 - October 29, 1963) was an American actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of French and Irish descent, he was raised Roman Catholic, and attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. Attracted to the vaudeville stage, he made his movie debut in 1916 in "The Blue Envelope Mystery". During World War I, he served as a captain in the ambulance service. - Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891-February 27, 1958), sometimes nicknamed King Cohn, was president and production director of Columbia Pictures. Cohn was born to a working-class German-Jewish family in New York City. In later years, he appears to have disparaged his heritage. After working for a time as a streetcar conductor, and then as a promoter for a sheet music printer, he got a job with Universal Pictures, where his brother, Jack Cohn, was already employed. - Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1952 - June 5, 2002) was a German American songwriter and bassist, best remembered as a founding member of punk rock band The Ramones. Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the group's primary lyricist, penning songs such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach" and "Poison Heart". - Victor Young
Victor Young (August 8, 1899 - November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago. Young began as a concert violinist but moved into the popular music sphere when he joined Ted Fiorito's orchestra. In the mid-1930s he moved to Hollywood where he concentrated on film work as well as making a large number of recordings of light music and providing the backing for popular singers, including Bing Crosby. - Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman (December 24 1906 - February 24 1967) was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura "Carmen Fantasie" for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera "Carmen", and for his musical scores for films. - Art Pepper
Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr. (September 1 1925-June 15, 1982) was an American cool jazz alto saxophonist. He began his musical career in the 1940s playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton. In the 1950s Pepper became one of the leading lights of West coast jazz, along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Shelly Manne, and others. Pepper was born in Gardena, California, but lived for many years in the hills of Echo Park, in Los Angeles. He became a heroin addict in the 1940s, … - Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon was an United States film actor, and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film "Flaming Youth" (1923), and steadily developed into a leading man. He was most successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era including Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, … - Al Christie
Al Christie, (October 23, 1881 - April 14, 1951) was a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Alfred Ernest Christie, in London, Ontario, Canada, he was one of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, California, attracted by the newly developing motion picture business. Al Christie began his career in 1909 working for David Horsley's Nestor film company.
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