- Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. - Gene Autry
Orvon Gene Autry (September 29 1907 - October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television. - Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an iconic American comedian, actress and star of the landmark sitcom "I Love Lucy", a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. A major movie star and "glamour girl" of the 1930s and 1940s, she later achieved tremendous success as a television actress. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. - Hubert Eaton
Hubert Eaton was an American businessman. Born in Liberty, Missouri, he is noted as the creator of the Forest Lawn Glendale and Hollywood Hills cemeteries in the Los Angeles, California area that became the burial site for many movie stars and other film industry members. As well, with its several chapels spread throughout the park-like setting, it is also the marriage place for such personalities as U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman. - Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 - February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th Century until post-World War II. - Alan Ladd
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American film actor. He was famous for his emotionless demeanor and small stature (reports of his height vary from 5'2" to 5'9", with 5'5" being the most generally accepted today). In the majority of his films he played either the hero or a bad guy with a conscience. - John Gilbert
John Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was an actor and major star of the silent film era. Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even the great Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw. Though he was often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies, his decline as a star in fact had as much to do with studio politics and money as did the sound of his screen voice. - Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, … - Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was an American actor in the silent film era of the 1910s and 20s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Harrison Ford began acting on stage and made his Broadway debut in 1904. He turned to film beginning in 1915 and moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite early stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies, and Clara Bow. Ford's acting career ended with the advent of talkies. - John Ritter
Johnathan Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 - September 11, 2003) was an American actor and comedian best known for his role of Jack Tripper in the sitcom "Three's Company". - Warner Baxter
Warner Baxter (March 29, 1889 - May 7, 1951) was an American actor. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he moved to San Francisco, California when he was nine. Following the 1906 earthquake, he and his family lived in a tent for two weeks. By 1910 Baxter was in vaudeville, and from there began acting on the stage. Warner Baxter began as an extra in 1918 and quickly rose to become a star. He had his first starring role in 1921, … - Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs was a creative and innovative entertainer in the early days of television. His on-air antics would influence later TV shows such as "Laugh-In", "the Uncle Floyd Show", "Saturday Night Live" and TV hosts like David Letterman. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, the Hungarian-American Kovacs became a pioneer of television comedy as a distinct medium. Earlier television comedians had mainly continued the comedy styles of vaudeville, … - Sid Grauman
Sidney Patrick Grauman (March 17, 1879 - March 5, 1950) was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater. A failed prospector in the Klondike gold rush, he had owned movie theaters in Alaska and Northern California before building three noteworthy Los Angeles movie palaces: the Million Dollar Theater, the Egyptian Theater, and finally the Chinese, … - Marie Wilson
Marie Wilson (August 19, 1916 - November 23, 1972) was an American radio, film, and television actress. Born Katherine Elisabeth Wilson in Anaheim, California, she began her show business career in New York City as a dancer on the Broadway stage. She gained national prominence with " My Friend Irma" on radio, … - Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 - September 19, 1969) was an African American film and stage actor. Born near Cairo, Illinois on the Mississippi River (his father was a steamer fireman on the riverboat "Robert E. Lee"), he claimed to have obtained a medical degree from Northwestern University in 1919 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, but this is not confirmed. - Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour was an American motion picture actress. - Marty Feldman
Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 - 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. - Andy Gibb
Andrew Roy Gibb (March 5, 1958 - March 10, 1988) was an English-born Australian singer and teen idol, and the younger brother of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees. He was noted for his good looks and vocal abilities. - Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning 62 years. - Bobby Fuller
Bobby Fuller was an American rock singer and guitarist best known for his classic "I Fought the Law". - Lee van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef (January 9 1925 - December 16 1989) was an American film actor, who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes made him an ideal "bad guy," though he was occasionally cast in a hero's role, such as a bounty hunter in "For a Few Dollars More". - Fifi D'Orsay
Fifi D'Orsay was an actress. Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young girl, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City. There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song "Yes, We Have No Bananas" in French. In a burst of creativity, she told the play's director she was from Paris, France where she had worked in the Folies Bergères. - William Castle
William Castle born William Schloss, was an American film director, producer, and actor. Born in New York City to a Jewish family, he spent most of his teenage years working on Broadway in a number of jobs ranging from set building to acting. This put him in a good stead to become a director, and he left for Hollywood at the age of 23, going on to direct his first film 6 years later. He also worked an as assistant to director Orson Welles, … - Art Acord
Artemus Ward Acord (April 17, 1890 - January 4, 1931) was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion. Born to Mormon parents in Prattsville, Utah, Acord as a young man worked as a cowboy and ranch hand. He went on to become one of the first true cowboys of Western films. He was sometimes called the Mormon Cowboy. A celebrated rodeo champion, Acord not only acted but also wrote scripts and performed as a stuntman. - John M. Stahl
John Malcolm Stahl was an American film director and producer. Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914. In the early 1920s Stahl signed on with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in Hollywood and in 1924 was part of the Mayer team that became MGM Studios. - Harriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson was an American singer and actress. Born Peggy Lou Snyder in Des Moines, Iowa on July 18, 1909, to Roy Hilliard Snyder and Hazel Dell McNutt. By 1932, she was performing in vaudeville when she met the saxophone-playing Ozzie Nelson and was hired by him as vocalist for his orchestra. They married three years later and with him and their children, Eric "Ricky" Nelson and David Nelson, … - Tom Smith
Robert Thomas "Tom" Smith (May 20, 1878 - January 23, 1957) was an American thoroughbred race horse trainer. Born in a log cabin in the backwoods of northwest Georgia, as a young man he trained horses for the United States Cavalry and worked on a cattle ranch. In 1934, he got a job with the wealthy businessman Charles S. Howard who owned the racehorse, Seabiscuit. Known as "Silent Tom," because of his quiet nature, Smith would become famous as the trainer of Seabiscuit. - Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh (September 30, 1913 - January 27, 1975) was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions. He was born in New York City. For his work on "Mary Poppins", he shared Academy Award nominations for Best Picture with Walt Disney, and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with Don DaGradi. - Myron Selznick
Myron Selznick was an American film producer and talent agent. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of film executive Lewis J. Selznick and brother of renowned producer David O. Selznick. As a young man, Myron Selznick learned the film production business from his father and worked for his father's film company as a production supervisor. After his father's company closed in 1925, Myron Selznick worked for other studios, primarily as a production adviser. - Bruno Frank
Bruno Frank (Stuttgart, June 13, 1878 - Beverly Hills, June 20, 1945) was a German author, poet, dramatist and a humanist. Frank studied law and philosophy in Munich where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933. Fearing the new government because of his Jewish heritage, he left Nazi Germany with his wife Liesl and lived for four years in Austria and England, … - Joe Grant
Joe Grant was a Disney artist and writer. Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". He co-wrote "Dumbo". He also led development of "Fantasia" and "Pinocchio". - Ruth Roland
Ruth Roland (August 26 1892 - September 22 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer. Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville. Hired by director Sidney Olcott who had seen her on stage in New York City, … - Sam de Grasse
Samuel Alfred de Grasse (born June 12, 1875, died November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he trained to be a dentist. After his older brother Joe had gone into the fledgling movie business, de Grasse decided to also give it a try. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 he acted in his first motion picture. - Donald O'Connor
Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Movie fans know him best for his bravura performance in the musical "Singin’ in the Rain" (1952), in which he performed the vaudeville-inspired comedy number "Make 'Em Laugh", … - Lottie Pickford
Lottie Pickford, born Charlotte Smith on June 9 1895 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada died December 9 1936 in Los Angeles, California, was a silent-film actress. She was actress Mary Pickford and actor/director Jack Pickford's sister. Her mother, Charlotte Smith, also had acting credits. Pickford wed actor Allan Forrest on January 7, 1922. She died in 1936 and was interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California, USA. - William Demarest
William Demarest (February 27, 1892 - December 28, 1983) was an American character actor. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a very prolific film and TV actor, having worked on over 140 films. He worked frequently with director Preston Sturges, becoming part of a "stock" troupe of actors that Sturges repeatedly cast in his films. He started in show business working in vaudeville, then moved on to Broadway. - Athole Shearer
Athole Shearer was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer. Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As a teenager, her divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film role. In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. - Tom Keene
Tom Keene (born George Duryea) (December 30, 1896 - August 4, 1963) was an American actor born in Rochester, New York known mostly for his roles in B Westerns. Little is known of his earlier life but he arrived in Hollywood in the late 20s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made some impact co-starring in "The Godless Girl" (1929) directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Known for his sharp, pleasant looks and physique, … - Junior Durkin
Junior Durkin was an American film actor. Born Trent Bernard Durkin in New York, New York, Durkin began his acting career in theater while a child. He entered films in 1930, and played the role of Huckleberry Finn in "Tom Sawyer" (1930), and "Huckleberry Finn" (1931). Under contract with RKO Studios he was cast in a series of "B" films in comedic roles that capitalized on his gangly appearance. - Albert R. Broccoli
Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon) (April 5, 1909 - June 27, 1996) nicknamed "Cubby," was an American film producer who produced more than 40 movies, most of them produced in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjac, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of the iconic James Bond series of films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas, …
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