- 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. - Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born on March 16, 1926, according to most sources), is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and director known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Jerry Lewis has won many prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, The Venice Film Festival and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. - Shannon Elizabeth
Shannon Elizabeth (born September 7, 1973) is an American actress, poker player, and former fashion model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film "American Pie". - Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his directorial work on splatter films, including "Zombi II" (1979) and "The Beyond" (1981), although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy. - Mack Swain
Mack Swain (February 16, 1876 - August 25, 1935) was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked in vaudeville before starting in silent film at Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. While with Keystone, he was teamed up with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as "Ambrose" and Conklin as the grand mustachioed "Walrus", … - January Jones
January Jones (born January 5, 1978 in Brookings, South Dakota, USA) is an actress. She is best known for her role as "Cadence Flaherty" in the 2003 movie "American Wedding" (also known as "American Pie: The Wedding", especially outside the USA), the third movie in the "American Pie" comedy film series. - Om Prakash
Om Prakash (19 December 1919; Lahore - 21 February 1998; Mumbai) was an Indian character actor his acting career started in 1947. From the 1950's until the 1980's he was among the leading supporting actors. His pivotal roles in the films "Chupke Chupke", "Julie", and "Buddha Mil Gaya" are considered to be among his best along with Dadu in "Namak Halaal" and De Silva in "Zanjeer". He is known for his roles in comedy films. - Jean Rochefort
Jean Rochefort is a French actor who has appeared in more than 100 movies. Rochefort was born in Dinan, a town of Côtes-d'Armor, France. He was 19 years old when he entered the "Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche". Later he joined the "Conservatoire National". After his national service, in 1953, he worked with the "Compagnie Grenier Hussenot" as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noticed for his ability to play both drama and comedy. - Anne Dudek
Anne Dudek (b. March 22 1975, Boston, Massachusetts) is an actress from Newton, Massachusetts. She played the role of cruise line heiress Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 comedy film "White Chicks". She also starred in the Channel 4 sitcom, "The Book Group"; she has appeared as a guest star on "Desperate Housewives" (as Karl Mayer's girlfriend in Season 1), "How I Met Your Mother" (as Ted's Krav Maga-trained ex-girlfriend) ,"Friends", … - Joely Fisher
Joely Fisher (born October 29, 1967) is an American actress. She was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens. Her younger sister is actress Tricia Leigh Fisher. Her older half-sister and half-brother are actress Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher, whose mother is actress Debbie Reynolds. Her parents divorced when she was age two and she was raised by her mother. - Paulo Costanzo
Paulo Costanzo (born September 21, 1978 in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian actor of Italian and Jewish ancestry, who is perhaps best-known for his roles in the 2000 comedy "Road Trip" and the sitcom "Joey" which ran from 2004-2006. - Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon was an American stage actor and stage and film director. Born in Baltimore of Jewish heritage, he was a member of the Group Theatre (1935 - 1940), he was blacklisted as a Communist in the days of McCarthyism. He later joined the faculty of the UCLA Theatre Arts Department. Gordon was the maternal grandfather of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Due to this, Gordon's Hollywood career neatly falls into two phases. - Art Linson
Art Linson (b. 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, "Where the Buffalo Roam", which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer. He also directed 1984's The Wild Life. Linson has produced many films including "Car Wash", "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "Fight Club", … - 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. - John Cromwell
John Cromwell (December 23, 1887 - September 26, 1979) was an American actor, producer and director. - Hazel Court
Hazel Court (born February 10, 1926) is a British actress known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960's. Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. Her father was a notable cricketer. At the age of fourteen, she studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexander Theatre, also in Birmingham. At the age of sixteen she met the director Sir Anthony Asquith in London, … - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, best known for "Fuddy Meers" and for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama "Rabbit Hole". He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a family of five he describes as "very blue collar." His mother was a factory worker and his father worked for the Chelsea fruit market. He attended Boston public schools until the seventh grade, when he received a six-year scholarship to the Milton Academy, … - Paul Willson
Paul Willson (born December 25, 1945 in Fairmont, Minnesota) is an American actor, most notable for his television work. Willson has played numerous guest characters on a variety of shows including "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Boston Public", and "Star Trek: Voyager". He is perhaps most famous for his repeated guest character of "Paul" on the television show "Cheers" (which he also reprised in an episode of the "Cheers"' spin-off, … - Don Davis
Donald Romain Davis (born February 4, 1957) is an American film score composer, conductor, and orchestrator. Best known for his work on "The Matrix", he has worked on a variety of films, from horror to comedy. He is also in the process of composing an opera, entitled "Rio De Sangre." - Audrey Wells
Audrey Wells (born April 29, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Wells was born in San Francisco, California, and worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM. She has written a number of successful screenplays and has directed three for which she had created the script. Among her notable works is "The Truth About Cats & Dogs" (1996) and "Under the Tuscan Sun" (2003), both of which she also produced. - Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is a film producer active from the 1970s to the present. He has produced several horror-comedy films, particularly with director Joe Dante. Finnell worked for American producer Roger Corman before emerging as a producer in his own right. His first films were "Avalanche" (1978) and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" (1979), with Corman. - Luenell
Luenell Campbell (born March 12 1959) is an American comedian and actress. She was born in the U.S. state of Arkansas and uses only her first name. She is the youngest of eight children. Luenell was raised in Northern California and attended Castro Valley High School. She was one of the few actual actors in the 2006 hit mockumentary-styled comedy film "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". - Hans Moser
Hans Moser (August 6, 1880 - June 19, 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career (from the 1920s up to his death), mainly played in comedy films. Born Johann Julier in Vienna, Moser very often portrayed the man in the street, typically someone else's subordinate (servant, waiter, porter, shopkeeper, coachman, petty bureaucrat, etc.). Practically always Moser played honest, moral and well-intentioned people who, … - Justin Walker
Justin Walker is a American actor best known for his portrayal of Christian Stovitz in the 1995 comedy film "Clueless". According to the Internet Movie Database, Walker is related to actors Michael Paré and Joshua Morrow. Justin Walker was chapter president of VA Beta chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the prestigious Washington and Lee University, where he majored in theater. - Kate Vernon
Kate Vernon (born c. 1961) is a Canadian-born film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Prescott on the CBS soap opera "Falcon Crest" from (1984 - 1985), and for her role as the stuck -up Benny Hanson in the comedy film "Pretty in Pink" (1986). Vernon was briefly a regular on "Who's the Boss?" in 1990 as a girlfriend of Tony Micelli (Tony Danza). - Joel Murray
Joel Murray (born April 17,1963 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA) is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. Joel is the brother of actors Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, and John Murray. A sister, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican nun in Illinois. His career began in Chicago, where he performed at various improvisational theaters, including the Improv Olympic, the Improv Institute and The Second City. - Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee (born June 26, 1937 in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand) is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances (more than 600). By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns (Thai soap operas). A prolific leading man in action films, romance, dramas, comedies and musicals at the height of his career in the 1960s and '70s, … - Franz Antel
Franz Antel (born June 28, 1913) is a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies (romantic, slapstick, and/or musical) and "K.u.k. films" all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since. - Nae Caranfil
Nae Caranfil (Nicolae Caranfil) (born 1960, Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Nae Caranfil studied at the Film and Theatre Institute (UNATC) in Bucharest, which he graduated in 1984. He is the son of important Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil. In the beginning of his career he directed only short films: "Venice in September" (1983), "Thirty Years of Insomnia" (1984) and "Backstage" (1988). - Liane Haid
Liane Haid was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the "Süßes Wiener Mädel" ("Sweet Viennese Girl") and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s. Her first motion picture was a propaganda film made during the First World War, "Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland" (1916). She worked for UFA and, as a trained singer, … - Ellie Cornell
Ellie Cornell (b. December 15, 1963 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York) is an American actress and movie producer, known primarily for her roles in horror films. After her marriage to producer Mark Gottwald, she is sometimes credited as Ellie Gottwald. Ellie graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 1986. Ellie first starred in the 1988 comedy film "Married to the Mob", … - Daniella Monet
Daniella Monet (born March 1, 1989) is an American film and television actress. Monet was born Daniella Monet Zuvic in West Hills, Los Angeles, California. She has performed on the small screen in numerous television commercials beginning at the age of seven. In 1997 she had a guest appearance in an episode of "Pacific Blue". In 2003 she landed recurring roles on the television series "American Dreams" and "8 Simple Rules". - Tricia Leigh Fisher
Tricia Leigh Fisher (born December 26, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens. Her older sister is actress Joely Fisher. Her older half-sister and half-brother are actress Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher, whose mother is actress Debbie Reynolds. - Minoru Kawasaki
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his magical realist comedy films. Kawasaki began his career with some self-financed films, including "Iko the Earth Patrol Girl", and manga to live action adaptions, before working on "Ultraman Tiga". He had his first hit with "Calamari Wrestler", a film about a wrestler who becomes a large squid. He followed this up with "Executive Koala", featuring a koala office worker, "Beetle, … - Natalie Kingston
Natalie Kingston was an American actress. - Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (July 31, 1896 - June 24, 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. - Carlos Leal
Carlos Leal (born 1969) is a Swiss rapper and actor. Leal was born in Lausanne to Spanish immigrants. In 1990, he co-founded Sens Unik. The group produced four gold records and contributed music to the films "La Haine" (1995) and "Neutre" (2001). He had already produced videos with Sens Unik, but after making an appearance in the documentary "Babylon 2" (1993), Leal decided to pursue a serious acting career. - Susi Nicoletti
Susi Nicoletti (September 3, 1918 - June 5 2005) was a German-Austrian actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films, where she frequently played rich eccentric women. She was born Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich and spent most of her childhood with her parents in Amsterdam. Back in Munich, she made her stage debut at the age of 13 and at 15 became a ballerina. In the early 1930s she turned to cabaret. - Jonathan Dixon
Jonathan Dixon (born 25 October 1965) from Los Angeles, California is an American film and television actor. He has also been credited as John Dixon and Jon Dixon. He has appeared in several TV shows created by J.J. Abrams, including a guest-starring role in three episodes of Alias as a C.I.A. Agent and in one episode of Alias as "Oliver". He has also appeared in a guest-star capacity in three episodes Lost as JD, … - Benjamin Eicher
Benjamin Eicher is a film director famous for his cult film sequel "Dei Mudder Sei Gesicht II" and further feature-length gangster comedies. His company Los Banditos Films, founded in 2000 together with Timo Joh. Mayer, produces controversial movies with stylistic influences from American and French film. Lately they concentrate on filming in Street Gangster Movies.
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