- Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 26, 1940) is an Academy Award- Golden Globe, AFI, Bafta, Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor played such iconic roles as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Trilogy" and Tony Montana in the 1983 film "Scarface". - Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), … - Cary Grant
Archibald Alec Leach, better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, witty and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute. - Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as perhaps the most influential actor of the 20th Century. Brando is perhaps best known for his roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront", both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, … - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was an Academy Award-winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. Raised under Nazi rule in Arnhem, Netherlands during World War II, Hepburn trained extensively to become a ballerina, before deciding to pursue acting. She first gained notice for her starring role in the Broadway production of "Gigi" (1951). She was then cast in "Roman Holiday" (1953) as Princess Ann, … - Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award. - Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an iconic American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen). - Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. - Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 - August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. - Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly, better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in "Singin' in the Rain", … - Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He has been nicknamed "The King of Hollywood." His most famous role was in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind", in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. - Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films that revolutionized the genre. - Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor of English heritage. His career spanned from the 1920s until the year of his death, and saw him make one hundred films. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited for the many Westerns he made. Cooper received five Oscar nominations for Best Actor, winning twice. - Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. - James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy". Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney — a billing never found on any of his films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Cagney eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 9th on the list of 100. He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor. - Grace Kelly
Grace, Princess of Monaco "née" Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco. Princess Grace maintained dual American and Monegasque citizenship after her marriage. - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish, was an Oscar-nominated American actress. The American Film Institute named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time (AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars). - William Holden
William Holden (April 17, 1918 - ca. November 12, 1981) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was named one of the "Top 10 stars of the year" six times (1954-1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list as #25. - Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age. Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. - Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-born actress, singer, and entertainer. Throughout her long career, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, World War II frontline entertainer during the 1940s, and finally as an international stage show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s, Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century. - Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She was known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, … - Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated American screen actress who worked on film and television. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time. - Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actress of film, theater and television. She was acclaimed for her performances in screwball comedies as well as dramatic roles. She received Academy Award nominations in both film genres. - Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his great elegance and his fine sense of humour. French director Jean Renoir once said that no other Hollywood director understood people better than Leo McCarey. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, … - Ward Bond
Wardell E. Bond was an American film actor whose qualities of both rugged appearance and easygoing charm led to featured roles in numerous classic films. - Todd Field
Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and Academy Award-nominated writer/director. - Miguel Arteta
Miguel Arteta (born 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American director of film and television, best known for his independent film "Chuck & Buck" (2000). Born to a Peruvian father and Spanish mother, Arteta grew up all over Latin America due to his father's itinerant existence as a Chrysler auto parts salesman. He went to high school in Costa Rica, but was expelled, and went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, where he learned filmmaking. - Frederick Warde
Frederick Warde (23 February 1851, Wardington, Oxfordshire, England - 7 February 1935, Brooklyn, New York) was a Shakesperian actor who moved from Britain to the United States in the late 1800s. He had two notable achievements, one being the "discovery" of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and persuading him to move from Denver to join Warde's New York City actors troupe. The second achievement was as the star of "Richard III" (1912), based on the play by William Shakespeare. - Marie Windsor
Marie Windsor (December 11, 1919--December 10, 2000). Sometimes called "Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many noirs and b-movies like "Cat-Women of the Moon" (1953), Marie Windsor was born Emily Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah on December 11, 1919. She got her break into movies when she was seen crying while working as a cigarette girl. - Manny Coto
Manny Coto is a Cuban-American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. He was the executive producer and showrunner of "Star Trek: Enterprise" in its final season. He is the co-executive producer on the fifth and sixth seasons of "24". Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has had much experience in sci-fi and fantasy genre. - Barry Primus
Barry Primus (born February 16 1938 in New York City) is an American television and film actor. Barry Primus is primarily an actor, but has also doubled and tripled as writer and director. He worked on stage for the first decade of his career, then made his screen bow in the Manhattan-filmed "The Brotherhood" (1968). Additional films include "Boxcar Bertha" (1972), "Heartland" (1979), "Night Games" (1980) and "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991). - Ellen Muth
Ellen Anna Muth (born March 6, 1981) is an American actress, best known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime's short-lived series "Dead Like Me". - Abdel Kechiche
Abdel Kechiche, born December 7, 1960 in Tunis, Tunisia is an actor, movie director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with "La Faute à Voltaire (Blame it on Voltaire)", aka "Poetical Refugee", which he also wrote. He also directed "L'Esquive", which won a César Award for Best Film. As an actor, his introduction to most English-speaking audiences was starring as Ashade the taxi driver in the 2005 psychological thriller "Sorry, … - Todd Verow
Todd Verow (born Bangor, Maine, 11 November 1966) is an American film director who now resides in New York City. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the American Film Institute. He was also the cinematographer for Jon Moritsugu's film "Terminal USA" (1993). - Jace Alexander
Jace Alexander (born April 7, 1964) is an American television director and former actor. Alexander was born Jason Alexander in New York City, the only son of actress Jane Alexander and her first husband Robert, founder and former director of The Living Stage. After attending New York University, he began his professional career as the stage manager of a 1983 Broadway revival of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial", in which he also played a small role.
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