- 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.
- Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, …
- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …
- Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972).
- 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.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.
- Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton was an American film actress and singer.
- Melvin van Peebles
Born Melvin Peebles on August 21, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up during World War II and attended Township High School in Phoenix, Illinois, where he graduated in 1949. After a transitional year at West Virginia State College, he then transferred to Ohio Wesleyan University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1953.
- Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Gattaca" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" movies (2003–04).
- Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …
- Ally Sheedy
Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire".
- Jack Palance
Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two "City Slickers" movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances.
- Frank Fay
Frank Fay (November 17, 1897 - September 25, 1961) was a movie and stage actor, most famous for playing 'Elwood P. Dowd' (whose friend is an invisible 6-foot rabbit) in the play "Harvey" by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase on Broadway. James Stewart would play the role in the film version. Born Francis Anthony Donner in San Francisco, California to Irish Catholic parents.
- Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Hollywood actor. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" on the stage and on the screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film "The Ten Commandments" and as Chris Adams in "The Magnificent Seven".
- Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell Walker on "Walker, Texas Ranger". In 2006, he became the subject of an internet phenomenon known as Chuck Norris Facts.
- Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993) was a comedian of the Mexican theatre and film industry. He earned wide popularity with his interpretation of the character Cantinflas, an impoverished "campesino" cum slumdweller that originated in the "pelado". The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Moreno to establish a long, …
- Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, "Popular Mechanics for Kids", and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series "24". She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film "The Girl Next Door".
- June Allyson
June Allyson was a Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 - August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-born actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. He was born to Anglo-Quebecer parents at Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City, Quebec and was a grand-nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Ford moved to Santa Monica, California with his family at the age of eight, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939.
- Edward Albert
Edward Albert (February 20 1951 - September 22 2006) was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert Jr. He was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo (Margo Albert); both parents were once blacklisted.
- Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and was raised in Miami. He attended North Miami High School and Florida State University where he played football. He was signed to a minor league baseball contract by the Cleveland Indians, but never made it into the big leagues.
- John L. Adams
After attending Winston-Salem University in North Carolina, Adams moved to Los Angeles, where he began his career as a stand-up comic. Adams as been seen performing at many of the industry's most infamous comedy clubs, including L.A.'s The Improv, The Laugh Factory, and The Comedy Store, as well as at the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas. A natural with and charisma on stage, it wasn't long before Adams was being sought out as an up-and-coming character actor.
- Ron Carey
Ron Carey (December 11 1935 - January 16 2007) was an American film and television actor. Born Ronald Joseph Cicenia in Newark, New Jersey, the 5ft 4in actor was best known for playing cocky Officer Carl Levitt on TV's "Barney Miller", in which he was almost always surrounded by male actors (and sometimes female guest stars) who stood at least 4" taller. The series' stars (Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass) all stand well over six feet.
- Jason Statham
Jason Statham (born on 12 September, 1972, in Sydenham, Lewisham, London) is an English actor, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "Revolver" and "Snatch". Statham also appeared in supporting roles in several American films, such as "The One", "The Italian Job", and "Collateral", as well as playing the lead role in "The Transporter", …
- Gila Golan
Gila Golan (born 1940) was an Israeli fashion model and Hollywood film actress. Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1940, she was adopted by a Roman Catholic family that found her left in a bundle at a train station during the Holocaust. Her adopted family sent her to be educated in a monastery. Arriving in Israel after World War II with the name Zusia Sobetzcki, she became Miriam Goldberg and continued her schooling in an Orthodox girls' boarding school.
- Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is an Mexican-American actor who has appeared in many Hollywood movies.
- William Garwood
William Garwood (April 28 1884 - December 28 1950) was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s. Earlier in his film career between 1911 and 1913 Garwood starred in a number of early adaptions of popular classics including "Jane Eyre" and "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1910), "Lorna Doone", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "David Copperfield" (1911), "The Merchant of Venice" (1912), …
- Kevyn Major Howard
Kevyn Major Howard is a Canadian actor best known for his role is Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket". After acting in high school Howard moved to Los Angeles and the Hollywood limelight in the late 70's. Kevyn became frustrated with LA's headshot industry and perceived that it was unable to create an actor's artistic expression through their head shot. As a result, he decided to take his own picture. Kevyn's new headshot was delivered to Paramount Studios, …
- Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrey Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (born August 20, 1937 in Moscow) is an acclaimed Russian film writer and director.
- John Holmes
John Curtis Holmes better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most famous male adult film stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and porno feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including at least one gay feature film and a handful of gay loops. He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, …
- Jane Wyatt
Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 - October 20, 2006) was an American actress in films and television. Her most famous role was as Ronald Colman's love interest in Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" (1937). Other film appearances included 1947's "Gentleman's Agreement" (with Gregory Peck), "None but the Lonely Heart" (with Cary Grant), and "Boomerang" (with Dana Andrews). For many people, she is best remembered for her television roles, …
- Christy Cabanne
Christy Cabanne born William Christy Cabanne (April 16 1888 - October 15 1950) was an American film director, screenwriter and silent film actor. Christy Cabanne was, along with Sam Newfield and William Beaudine, one of the most prolific directors in the history of American film.
- J.C. Quinn
J.C. Quinn (November 30, 1940 - February 10, 2004) was an American film and theatre actor. Quinn's career was marked by dozens of films from the 1970s onwards and hundreds of minor television appearances. Quinn was born in Philadelphia and studied acting in New York, spending seventeen years on stage before moving to Hollywood to act in films. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, J.C. Quinn was often mistaken for two better-known actors, …
- Ron van Clief
Ron Van Clief (born January 25, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American martial artist and an actor in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films.He is the father of slam poetry guru Shihan van Clief.
- Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret (b. 25 December, 1895 - d. 18 February, 1982) (some sources give 1889-1992) in New York, to an Austrian-Jewish immigrant family was an American composer and conductor. For many years he was "director of light music" for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor). He conducted the orchestra for the very first recording of George Gershwin's symphonic poem "An American in Paris", in 1928.
- Olivia Williams
Olivia Haigh Williams (born July 26, 1968) is an English actress who has appeared in British and American films.
- Barnard Hughes
Barnard Hughes was an American character actor of theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder.
- Marc McDermott
Marcus McDermott (July 24 1881 - January 5 1929) was an Australian-born American actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death. McDermott was born Marcus McDermott in Goulburn, New South Wales to Irish parents. At age 15, while McDermott was studying at the Jesuit College of Sydney, his father Patrick died. To support his mother and sister, McDermott joined an acting troupe in Sydney.
- G. Wood
George Wood was an American film and television actor. Wood was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. He was one of three actors to appear in both the 1970 film "M*A*S*H" and the television series "M*A*S*H" (the other two were Timothy Brown and Gary Burghoff.) In both the film and the television series, Wood played General Hammond. The character was dropped after the show's first season. He also played the psychiatrist in Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, …
- Paterson Joseph
Paterson Joseph (born 22 June 1964 in London) is a British actor. Joseph trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).