- 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, … - Terrence Howard
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. Having appeared in film and on television since the late 1980s, Howard had his first major role in the 1995 film "Mr. Holland's Opus", which subsequently led to a number of roles in films and high visibility among African-American audiences. Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of well-reviewed television and film roles between 2004 and 2006, … - Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. He was born and raised in Wales, but became an American citizen in 2000. - 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), … - 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. - 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. - Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28 1902 - December 30 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. Many of his compositions continue to have a broad appeal and have had a significant impact on the development of popular music. - Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theater actress. - Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie Smith (born December 5, 1968 in Piscataway, New Jersey), more commonly referred to as simply Lisa Marie, is an American model and actress. She was raised by her father and grandparents. Her grandmother died when she was only four years old and she attended Catholic school as a child. She studied ballet for eight years at the New Jersey Ballet and learned classical piano. Lisa moved to New York City at age 15 to study theater, dance and music. - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Viggo Mortensen
Young Viggo was an artistic kid, always to be seen with a pencil and paper on hand. This would continue back in New York State when, his parents divorcing in 1969, he and his brothers would move with their mother from Argentina back to Watertown. - James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (b. January 17, 1931) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage, well known for his deep baritone voice. - William H. Macy
William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in "Fargo". He is also a teacher and director in theatre, film and television. Macy has described his screen persona as "sort of a Middle American, WASPy, Lutheran kind of guy... Everyman". - Lauren Bacall
Betty Joan Perske (born on September 16, 1924), better known as Lauren Bacall, is a Golden Globe- and Tony Award-winning, as well as Academy Award-nominated, American film and stage actress. Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she became a fashion icon and role model for women in the late 1940s. Today, she is considered a legendary actress, partly due to the longevity of her career. - Neil Labute
Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Born in Detroit, Michigan, LaBute was raised in Spokane, Washington. He studied theater at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church; see also Mormon). At BYU he also met actor Aaron Eckhart, who would later play leading roles in several of his films. - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 - October 30, 1943) was an influential Austrian-American director and actor. He was born as Maximilian Goldmann, of Jewish ancestry, in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary. From 1902 until the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933, he worked as a director at various theaters in Berlin. From 1905 to 1930 he managed the "Deutsches Theater" ("German Theatre") in Berlin and, in addition, … - Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American theatrical, film, and television actress, and a stage and television director. - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - Betty Buckley
Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American theater, film, and television actress. - Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American film, television and theater actress, and singer. She began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, including "American Gothic" and "Once and Again". Wood made her debut as a lead film actress in 2002's "Little Secrets", and became well known after her Golden Globe-nominated role in "Thirteen", which garnered her critical praise. - Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 - January 14, 1984) was the theater critic for "The New York Times" from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the most important reviewer of his time." Atkinson was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, where as a boy he printed his own newspaper (using movable type), and planned a career in journalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1917, and worked at The Springfield Daily News and The Boston Evening Transcript, … - Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 1, 1958) is an American playwright, film producer, theater and film director, and Academy Award and BAFTA award winning screenwriter. in 2003 Kaufman was listed at #100 on Premiere's annual "Power 100" list. He was also identified by Time Magazine in 2004 as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. - John Madden
John Philip Madden (born April 8 1949) is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio. He began his career in British independent films. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 1970 with a B.A. in English Literature. He started work in television including directing "Prime Suspect 4" and episodes of "Sherlock Holmes" and "Inspector Morse". - Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is with good certainty both Austria's most esteemed and most controversial active filmmaker. His feature Benny's Video (1992) shocked crowds with its restrained, antipsychological portrait of a teenager who kills a young girl to see how it is. Funny Games (1997) inspired a fierce debate on how one can interrogate violence in film. - Anthony Rapp
Anthony Dean Rapp (b. October 26 1971, Chicago) is an American stage and film actor best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of "Rent" in 1996 and later for reprising the same role in the film version. He also performed the role of Charlie Brown in the 1999 Broadway revival of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - James Morrison
James Morrison (born April 21, 1954 in Bountiful, Utah) is an American actor. A professional theater actor, Morrison has been on the professional stage since the early 1980s and has won awards such as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance. He has also directed theater productions. His most recent role is that of Counter Terrorist Unit Director Bill Buchanan on "24". He began as a guest star mid-way through the fourth season (2005), … - Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson (born July 3 1973) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American theater and film actor and singer. Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Mary K. a voice teacher and professional singer, and John Wilson, who works as FOX news anchor for WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida (as does Wilson's brother, Mark). Wilson graduated from Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall (born October 17 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA) is an American theater and film director, and choreographer. He is a 6-time Tony nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film "Chicago" and the 1998 Broadway revival of "Cabaret". - Paul O'Neill
Paul O'Neill OC LLD, (born 1928) is a historian, writer and producer born in Bay de Verde, Newfoundland, Canada, who has written many books on the history of Newfoundland. His parents, Josephine (Flynn) and James O'Neill, were prominent merchants in the town of Bay de Verde. Educated at St. Bonaventure's College in St. John's, National Academy of Theater Arts at New York, O'Neill was an aspiring actor in the United States and England from 1949 to 1952. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn". Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten. - 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". - Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor (born February 20 1967) is an American film and television actress. Taylor, the second youngest of six children, was born in Glencoe, Illinois to Marie, a professional babysitter, and Park Taylor, a folk artist and hardware store operator. She grew up in a "warm family environment" and has described herself as being a "tomboy" and "a bit of a searcher" during her childhood. She graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, … - Joe Mantegna
Joseph Anthony Mantegna, Jr. (born November 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. - Ken Watanabe
is a Japanese Oscar-nominated stage, film, and television actor. - Shag
Josh Agle, is an American artist known by most followers by the nickname “SHAG” which is how he started signing his paintings in 1987 (derived from the last two letters of his first name, and the first two letters of his last name). He's best known for comical, richly-colored cocktail and tiki-themed scenes reminiscent of the slick commercial art of the 1950s to mid-1960s. SHAG started out as a freelance commercial illustrator, primarily for independent record labels, … - Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons (born November 20, 1927 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an American theater, film and television actress. Parsons originally studied law, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950's. Moving to New York, she worked as a writer, producer and commentator for The Today Show . - Dylan Baker
Dylan Baker (born October 7, 1959) is an American actor known for playing supporting roles in both major studio movies and independent films. - Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999) was an Academy Award-nominated Jewish American actress of movie, television, and theater distinguished by an unusual gift for comedy. Director Mel Brooks - who directed her in four films - said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived. I mean, either in stand-up comedy, or acting, or whatever you want, you can't beat Madeline Kahn". - George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe (b. September 23, 1954) is an African-American playwright and director of theater and film. He is openly gay. Wolfe was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, at the time a heavily-segregated city. As a young child, he attended the all-black private school at which his mother taught, but began attending the integrated Frankfort public school district after a family move. He attended Frankfort High School. There began to pursue his interest in theater, … - Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel "The Phantom of the Opera" ("Le Fantôme de l'Opéra", 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel "Phantom" by Susan Kay.
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