- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor.
- Gary Oldman
Leonard Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, Saturn and BAFTA Award-winning English actor, writer and director. He initially came to prominance in the 1986 film "Sid & Nancy", in which he played the ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious. He later starred in films such as "Dracula", "Léon", "The Fifth Element" and "Hannibal". Generally regarded as one of the world's most versatile actors, …
- Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, …
- Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director.
- Jennifer Aniston
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- Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can".
- Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director.
- Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in films during the 1990s, appearing in several supporting performances, and came to fame in the early 2000s, after his roles in the well-received films "American Splendor", "Sideways" and "Cinderella Man".
- Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993) was an American film actor. He is well remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive horror films, his tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff.
- Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub, (born October 9, 1953) is a three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show "Monk" in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Italian cabdriver, …
- Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show", and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on "Happy Days" (a role he played from 1974 to 1980).
- Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins (born December 2 1953 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA) is an American actor. Jenkins earned a degree in drama from Illinois Wesleyan University before relocating to Rhode Island. He worked as an actor with Trinity Repertory Theater Company in Providence, Rhode Island before breaking into film with a bit part in "Feasting with Panthers" (1974), a television movie.
- Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornberry (born Joe (spoken with a deep voice and with no last name) on August 4 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. He came to fame in the mid 1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film "Sling Blade", and has since established a career as a Hollywood leading actor, having appeared in several successful films, …
- Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper is born ( 1936 ). This Hollywood survivor has lent his eccentric persona to a number of genre Movies , including Space Truckers ( 1997 ), Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), Waterworld ( 1995 ), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ) and My Science Project ( 1985 ). He was born in Dodge City, Kansas, USA.
- Vincent Schiavelli
Vincent Andrew Schiavelli was an Italian-American character actor noted for his work in film, stage and television. He was often described as "the man with the sad eyes".
- Charles Lane
Charles Lane (January 26 1905 – July 9 2007) was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death was the oldest living American actor. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Arsenic and Old Lace", and "It's a Wonderful Life".
- Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. on September 23, 1920), is an American film actor and musician whose career began in 1922 at seventeen months and has continued through 2007.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966).
- Ron Perlman
Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950, in Washington Heights, New York), billed as Ron Perlman, is an American television, film and voice over actor.
- 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, …
- Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television.
- Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a two-time Emmy Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom, "The Flying Nun". She is currently starring as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC hit drama, "Brothers & Sisters", as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business. Her newest film, "Two Weeks" came out in early 2007.
- Don Cheadle
Donald Frank Cheadle (born November 29, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor.
- Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 - December 12, 2006) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond". He is also well known for his roles in the 1974 film, "Young Frankenstein" and "Taxi Driver" in 1976. He won praise for both comedic and dramatic roles following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film "Joe".
- Bruno Kirby
Bruno Kirby was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for his roles in the Hollywood films "City Slickers" and "When Harry Met Sally...".
- Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22 1958) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. He is best known for his starring role as Ash in the "Evil Dead" trilogy of horror/slapstick movies, and has since become a B-movie icon.
- Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress.
- Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina (born February 29, 1944) is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police.
- Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), "Platoon" (1986) and the "Spider-Man" series.
- Leonard Nimoy
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies, TV shows such as 'Dragnet', and serials such as Republic Pictures 'Zombies of the Stratosphere' in 1952.
- Don Knotts
Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21 1924 - February 24 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" (a role which earned him five Emmy Awards), and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom "Three's Company". He also appeared opposite Tim Conway in a number of comedy films aimed at children.
- Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne III (born July 30 1961) is an American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor of screen and stage, playwright, director, and producer.
- Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American character actor. Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky to Ersel and Sheridan Harry Stanton, who divorced when Stanton was in high school; they later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California.
- Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning American actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history.
- Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is notable for being the first actor to play Hannibal Lecter, a role he took in the Michael Mann film "Manhunter".
- John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt CBE (born January 22, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is one of Britain's best-known, most prolific and sought after character actors, and has had a versatile career spanning over 40 years. He is highly respected for his many Shakespearean roles.
- Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21 1917 - September 12, 1993) was an Emmy-nominated actor and vintner, perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas "Perry Mason" and "Ironside".
- James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940), sometimes credited as Jamie Cromwell, is an Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor.
- Mr. T
Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud on May 21 1952) is an iconic actor known for his roles as Sgt. "B. A." Baracus in the 1980s television series "The A-Team", as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film "Rocky III", and for his numerous appearances in the WWE and pro-wrestling. He is also well-known for his distinctive mohawk hairstyle and for wearing an excessive amount of gold jewelry. He currently stars in the reality show "I Pity the Fool", …
- Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox (born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961) is an award-winning, Canadian-born film and television actor. His best known roles include Marty McFly from the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990); Alex P. Keaton from "Family Ties" (1982-1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty from "Spin City" (1996-2000), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, …