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1. Elsa Pataky

Elsa Pataky was born Elsa Lafuente Medianu in Madrid, Spain. Her mother, Cristina Pataky Medianu, is a publicist of Romanian and Hungarian ancestry, and her father, José Francisco Lafuente, is a Spanish biochemist. She attended the Universidad de San Pablo CEU where she studied journalism and began...

2. Paul Benedict

Actor | This Is Spinal Tap

Genial, pleasant-voiced character actor Paul Benedict was born in New Mexico on September 17, 1938, and made hosts of stage, film and TV appearances in a career lasting five decades. The son of a doctor, he was diagnosed with acromegaly by an endocrinologist who happened to catch the nascent actor ...

3. Rebecca De Mornay

Actress | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Rebecca De Mornay was born 1959 as Rebecca Jane Pearch, in Santa Rosa, CA, to Wally George and Julie Eager. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother moved to Pasadena and married Richard De Mornay, who adopted her. After her stepfather's untimely death in 1962, Rebecca's mother moved...

4. Margo Martindale

Actress | August: Osage County

Margo Martindale was born July 18, 1951 in Jacksonville, Texas, to Margaret (Pruitt) and William Everett Martindale, a lumber company owner and dog handler. She is the youngest of three children, and the only daughter. Margo attended Lon Marris College, and later transferred to University of ...

5. Marilyn Johnson

Actress | Secrets of a Sorority Girl

Marilyn Johnson was born on September 19, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Secrets of a Sorority Girl (1945), Wife Decoy (1945) and A Hit with a Miss (1945). She was married to Forrest Tucker. She died on July 19, 1960 in Beverly Hills, California, USA(undisclosed).

6. Roddy McDowall

Actor | Fright Night

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was born in Herne Hill, London, to Winifriede Lucinda (Corcoran), an Irish-born aspiring actress, and Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman of Scottish descent. Roddy was enrolled in elocution courses at age five and by ten had appeared in his first film, ...

7. Marie-France Pisier

Actress | Cousin cousine

Marie-France first came to the fore as an actress of the Nouvelle Vague movement in the 1960's. She had spent her early childhood in French Indochina, where her father was employed as colonial governor, but the family moved to Paris when she was twelve. Just five years later, she was spotted by a ...

8. Diane Shalet

Actress | The Reivers

Diane Shalet was born on February 23, 1935 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Reivers (1969), The Last Tycoon (1976) and The Waltons (1972). She was married to Michael Strong. She died on February 23, 2006 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

9. Lynne Griffin

Actress | Black Christmas

The talented Lynne Griffin started out on Canadian television in the early 1970s, then moved on to acting on stage. She is known for her work in Shakespearean plays and has frequently appeared at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. She gave a notable performance in the television movie ...

10. Donald Kirke

Actor | Women Won't Tell

Donald Kirke was born on May 17, 1901 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Women Won't Tell (1932), The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937) and Paradise Express (1937). He died on May 18, 1971 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

11. Brad Dexter

Actor | The Magnificent Seven

American supporting player specializing in tough guys. Of Serbian extraction, he was born in Nevada in 1917. As a young man, he boxed in amateur bouts and had early training in theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse. He joined the Air Corps during World War II and was assigned to the troupe performing ...

12. Tony Parker

Producer | Voyagers

Tony Parker, is a former professional basketball player, playing as a point guard. He began his career with the Paris Basket Racing in Pro A, before joining the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Drafted by the Spurs in 28th place in 2001, he quickly became their ...

13. James Brolin

Actor | Traffic

James Brolin is an American actor. Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin.

He is best known for his TV roles such as Stephen Kiley on Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969-1976), Peter McDermott on ...

14. Anne Bancroft

Actress | The Graduate

Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...

15. Sheila Ryan

Actress | Road House

Sheila Ryan was born on September 17, 1952 in Franklin Park, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Road House (1989), Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell (1990) and Hunter (1984). She was married to James Caan. She died on September 18, 2012 in Canoga Park, California, USA.

16. Timothy Burd

Actor | Saw II

The fourth child of five. He attended classes on improvisation at the Firehall Second City in Toronto, the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College in Hollywood and at HB Studios in NYC. His first guest appearance in a television series was in, "Sidestreet", starring Donelly Rhodes. Perhaps best known ...

17. Ruth Donnelly

Actress | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Feisty, ebullient character comedienne who, for three decades, enlivened Hollywood films with her drollery and quick-fire repartee. The daughter of a newspaper editor and music critic, Ruth made her stage debut in the chorus of the touring production 'The Quaker Girl' in 1913. Four years later, she...

18. Randolph Mantooth

Actor | Emergency!

Randolph Mantooth definitely fit the bill when he made a bankable name for himself in the TV medical series Emergency! (1972) as strong but sensitive paramedic/firefighter "John Gage".

Tall, dark and good-looking, Randy is of Seminole Indian heritage, born in Sacramento, California on September 19, ...

19. Rosemarie Stack

Actress | The Big Bluff

Rosemarie Bowe frequently turned heads with her flashing turquoise eyes, sultry mane of black hair and sparkling personality. Effortlessly diverting attention from the scenic location spots of her mid-'50s film adventures and dramas, her stroll before the cameras was short--it was over within a few...

20. Doug Stevenson

Actor | The Prowler

Doug Stevenson was born on July 18, 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Prowler (1981), Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) and Breaker! Breaker! (1977). He was married to Lisa Loring. He died in December 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21. Richard Pasco

Actor | Mrs Brown

Richard Pasco was born on July 18, 1926 in Barnes, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Mrs. Brown (1997), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and The Man Who Finally Died (1959). He was married to Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Greta Watson. He died on November 12, 2014 in Warwickshire, England, UK.

22. Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Actor | Love Business

Robert E. Hutchins was born March 29th, 1925, in Tacoma, Washington. He was born to James Hutchins and Olga Hutchins (nee Roe). Robert was a very outgoing boy with a charming personality, because friends persuaded James and Olga to go to a Hollywood photographer and get his picture taken. The ...

23. Lee Marvin

Actor | Paint Your Wagon

American actor Lee Marvin was born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. in New York City. After leaving school aged 18, Marvin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and after being wounded in action ...

24. Alice Backes

Actress | Gable and Lombard

A long long career. 140 roles in films ('I Want to Live', 'The Glory Guys', 'The Cat from Outer Space'...) and on television ('Bachelor Father', 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', 'Lux Video Theatre'...). And many many radio shows ('This Is Your FBI', 'Dangerous Assignment', 'Suspense, 'The Whistler '......

25. Michael Aaron Milligan

Actor | Outer Banks

Michael Aaron Milligan is an American actor, producer, and comedian. He is best known for his role as "Macias" on Netflix' Outer Banks (2023), and as "Tuna" in the film Samaritan (2022) and as "Deke Ward" in the TV series FBI (2022). Michael's most notable appearances are in several films such as ...

26. Julia Cæsar

Actress | Bröderna Östermans huskors

Her career began with small parts at the theatre, and she considered her debut to have been made in 1905. Just like Edvard Persson she worked at the Apollo Theatre in Helsinki, Finland, during World War I. When she returned to Sweden she worked in Stockholm's popular park theatres, such as ...

27. Isabel Sanford

Actress | The Jeffersons

Isabel Sanford was a Broadway actress for over thirty years before moving to Hollywood. She made numerous guest appearances on TV, including a stint as a supporting cast member on The Carol Burnett Show (1967). Until her passing, Isabel continued to act frequently, most recently in a series of ...

28. Kyle Chandler

Actor | Argo

Kyle M. Chandler is an Emmy-winning American actor who was born in Buffalo, New York in 1965. He resides in the United States with his wife, Kathryn Chandler, and their two children, Sawyer and Sydney. Some of his most notable credits include "Friday Night Lights" (Friday Night Lights (2006)), "...

29. Chrissie Burnett

Soundtrack | I've Got a Secret

Chrissie Burnett was born on December 12, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was previously married to Fritz Arnold Frauchiger and Will Hutchins.

30. Darleen Carr

Actress | The Jungle Book

Darleen Carr was born on December 12, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for The Jungle Book (1967), The Beguiled (1971) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). She has been married to Jameson Parker since June 18, 1992. She was previously married to Zeljko Negovetic and ...

31. Sunrise Coigney

Actress | In the Cut

Sunrise Coigney was born on September 17, 1972 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress, known for In the Cut (2003), Campfire Stories (2001) and 100 Centre Street (2001). She has been married to Mark Ruffalo since June 11, 2000. They have three children.

32. David Fresco

Actor | Mouse Hunt

David Fresco was born on December 5, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Mousehunt (1997), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) and Diggstown (1992). He died on July 18, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

33. Stephen Crane

Actor | Cry of the Werewolf

Joseph Stephenson Crane was born on February 7, 1916, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, to William E. and Katheryn Stephenson Crane. The Cranes were well known in the community due to their family cigar store, the Stephenson Crane Cigar Store, located at 107 S. Washington Street in downtown ...

34. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...

35. Hume Cronyn

Actor | Cocoon

Hume Cronyn was a Canadian actor with a lengthy career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Seventh Cross" (1944).

Cronyn was born to a prominent family. His father was politician Hume Blake Cronyn (1864-1933), Member of Parliament for London, ...

36. Pat Crowley

Actress | Forever Female

A very pleasing and thoroughly enjoyable vision on 1950s film and 1960s TV, Patricia Crowley effortlessly lit up her surroundings with a warm, inviting personality and fresh-faced attractiveness that she still carries today. At her peak she courted top TV stardom in the mid-'60s as the beleaguered ...

37. Julius Sumner Miller

Actor | The Hilarious House of Frightenstein

Julius Sumner Miller was born on May 17, 1909 in Billerica, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971), Why Is It So? (1963) and The Jerry Lewis Show (1963). He was married to Alice Brown. He died on April 14, 1987 in San Jose, California, ...

38. Alvy Moore

Actor | Green Acres

Comic light actor in U.S. films and TV. Born in Vincennes and raised in Terre Haute, IN, Moore studied drama at Indiana State Teachers College before serving in the Marines in WWII. He had a tough time breaking into movies, although he performed in local and regional live theatre. He finally found ...

39. Lucie Mannheim

Actress | The 39 Steps

Lucie Mannheim was born on April 30, 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for The 39 Steps (1935), Der Ball (1931) and Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965). She was married to Marius Goring. She died on July 18, 1976 in Braunlage, Lower Saxony, Germany.

40. Kristen Bell

Actress | Frozen

Kristen Anne Bell (born 1980) is an American actress and singer. She was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and is the daughter of Lorelei (Frygier), a nurse, and Tom Bell, a television news director. Her ancestry is Polish (mother) and German, English, Irish, and Scottish (father). ...

41. Chill Wills

Actor | Giant

Colorful character actor of American Westerns. Named "Chill" as an ironic comment on his birth date being the hottest day of 1902. A musician from his youth, he performed from the age of 12 with tent shows, in vaudeville, and with stock companies. While performing in vaudeville in Kansas City, he ...

42. Curtis Harrington

Director | Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Curtis Harrington was an excellent and shamefully underrated writer and director who specialized in marvelously offbeat and atmospheric low-budget independent horror pictures. Harrington was born on September 17, 1926, in Los Angeles and grew up in Beaumont, California. A hardcore film buff from a ...

43. Cassandra Peterson

Actress | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Cassandra Peterson was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She began her career at age 17 as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history in the show "Vive Les Girls" at the Dunes Hotel. After receiving advice from "The King" himself, Elvis Presley, she traveled to ...

44. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Actor | Airplane!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record...

45. Burt Reynolds

Actor | Boogie Nights

Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a ...

46. Ruth Dunning

Actress | The Grove Family

Ruth Dunning was born on May 17, 1909 in Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for The Grove Family (1954), Young and Willing (1954) and It's a Great Day! (1955). She was married to Jack Allen. She died on February 27, 1983 in London, England, UK.

47. Willard Waterman

Actor | Auntie Mame

Willard Waterman was born on August 29, 1914 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Auntie Mame (1958), The Apartment (1960) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). He was married to Mary Anna Theleen. He died on February 2, 1995 in Burlingame, California, USA.

48. Joe Belcher

Actor | An American Werewolf in London

Joe Belcher was born on August 29, 1928 in Berkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), Village Hall (1974) and The Practice (1985). He died on August 16, 2006 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK.

49. Pernell Roberts

Actor | Bonanza

Best recalled as the eldest son and first member of the "Bonanza" Cartwright clan to permanently leave the Ponderosa in the hopes of greener acting pastures, dark, deep-voiced and durably handsome Pernell Roberts' native roots lay in Georgia. Born Pernell Elvin Roberts, Jr. on May 18, 1928, in ...

50. Alex Rocco

Actor | The Godfather

Tough, gruff, thick-browed, volatile-looking character actor Alex Rocco was born Alessandro Federico Petricone, Jr. on February 29, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Cambridge, Mass. He grew up a member of Boston's Winter Hill gang (his nickname was "Bobo") and was briefly detained regarding a murder ...

51. Dick Durock

Actor | Stand by Me

Big, brawny, and imposing actor and stuntman Dick Durock was born on January 18, 1937 in South Bend, Indiana. The fourth of five children; he grew up in South Bend, Indiana and New Jersey. After serving a stint in the Marine Corps and briefly working as a computer programmer, Durock went to ...

52. Michiel Huisman

Actor | Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

Michiel Huisman boasts an extensive career on both the small and large screen. He is currently shooting a lead role in Zack Snyder's film Rebel Moon for Netflix. He will next be seen as "Prince" in the Apple TV series Echo 3 opposite Luke Evans and created by Mark Boal. Most recently, he was seen ...

53. Raphael Fejtö

Actor | Au revoir les enfants

Raphael Fejtö is a French actor, he secured an important role in Louis Malle's classic film Goodbye, Children (1987) where Raphael plays Jean Bonnet, a Jewish boy who is sent to a boarding school during the early days of World War II. His status as a Jew is hidden from everybody except the school ...

54. Red West

Actor | Road House

Robert Gene "Red" West was a close friend of Elvis Presley and a member of Presley's inner circle, known as "The Memphis Mafia". He first met Elvis in high school, where he was a year behind him. West played football for the Memphis Tigers high school football team, boxed in the Golden Gloves and ...

55. Travis McKenna

Actor | National Lampoon's Van Wilder

Travis McKenna was born on July 18, 1960 in Lutherville, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Batman Returns (1992) and Road House (1989).

56. Sarah Roemer

Actress | Disturbia

American actress and model Sarah Roemer starred as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character in the thriller Disturbia (2007). She was born in San Diego, California, and began modeling at the age of 15 after she was discovered buying coffee at a local 7-Eleven while attending Horizon Jr/Sr High...

57. Dennis Hopper

Actor | Easy Rider

Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...

58. Mary Murphy

Actress | The Wild One

This actress' two-decade career produced only one single stand-out film role but that one role as the "good girl" who redeems "bad boy" Marlon Brando's tough biker in the cult flick The Wild One (1953) put Mary Murphy at the head of the acting class for one brief shining moment. In others, she ...

59. Miriam Byrd-Nethery

Actress | Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

Miriam Byrd-Nethery was born on May 17, 1929 in Lewisville, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and From a Whisper to a Scream (1987). She was married to Clu Gulager. She died on January 6, 2003 in Los Angeles,...

60. Iris Adrian

Actress | The Odd Couple

Sugar, Pepper, Pearl, Bunny, Dottie, Ruby, Ginger, Sunny, Goldie, Bubbles, all those are nicknames borne by petite actress Iris Adrian in several of the 160 movies and television productions she appeared in. With such names, don't expect to see her playing Joan of Arc or Electra but it remains that...

61. George Petrie

Actor | Planes, Trains & Automobiles

George Petrie was born on November 16, 1912 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), The Day After (1983) and Leave It to Beaver (1957). He was married to Patricia Pope. He died on November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, ...

62. Burt Kwouk

Actor | The Return of the Pink Panther

Burt Kwouk was a British actor, who was best known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films, and for playing Mr Ling in the third James Bond film, Goldfinger.

Kwouk was born in Warrington, but was brought up in Shanghai. He made his film debut in the 1957 film Windom's Way. In Goldfinger (1964...

63. Jaime Del Valle

Producer | The Lineup

Jaime Del Valle was born on January 19, 1910 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Jaime was a producer, known for The Lineup (1958), The Lawbreakers (1961) and Playhouse 90 (1956). Jaime was married to Gertrude E. Hinterholz, Virginia Gregg and Helene Lucile Rosson. Jaime died on September 16, 1981 in ...

64. Davis Roberts

Actor | Westworld

Davis Roberts was born on March 7, 1917 in Mobile, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for Westworld (1973), Star Trek (1966) and What's Happening!! (1976). He died on July 18, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

65. Larry D. Mann

Actor | The Sting

Larry D. Mann was born on December 18, 1922 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Sting (1973), In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). He was married to Gloria Kochberg. He died on January 6, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

66. Cynda Williams

Actress | One False Move

Cynda Williams was born on May 17, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for One False Move (1991), Mad As Hell (2021) and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She has been married to Roderick Plummer since July 26, 2001. They have one child. She was previously married to Arthur...

67. Bruce Spence

Actor | Mad Max 2

Bruce Spence was born on September 17, 1945 in New Zealand. When he was growing up in Henderson, just out of Auckland, the last thing he ever expected to be was an actor. Bruce's family were winemakers, and he worked in the family winery from a very tender age, later attending Henderson High School...

68. David Powell

Actor | Missing Millions

David Powell was born on December 17, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Missing Millions (1922), The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915) and Fine Feathers (1915). He died on April 16, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.

69. David Powell

Actor | Missing Millions

David Powell was born on December 17, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Missing Millions (1922), The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915) and Fine Feathers (1915). He died on April 16, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.

70. Kelly Reilly

Actress | Pride & Prejudice

Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reilly (born July 18, 1977) is an English actress. Her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse made her a star of the London stage and earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress of 2003. Reilly was born and brought up in Chessington, ...

71. George Coe

Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon

George Coe was born on May 10, 1929 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and The Stepford Wives (1975). He was married to Karen Foray, Nancy Baker and Susan Allsopp Massaron. He died...

72. Harry Winer

Director | Alias

Harry Winer was born on May 4, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Alias (2001), Erased (2012) and SpaceCamp (1986). He has been married to Shelley Hack since 1989. They have one child. He was previously married to Eileen Harriette Pittler.

73. Hank Williams

Soundtrack | The Last Picture Show

Hank Williams was born in September 1923 in a small Alabama farming community about 70 miles south of Montgomery. His father was a railroad engineer who was also a victim of shell shock after a year of fighting in France in 1918 during World War I and spent many years in veterans hospitals. Hank's ...

74. Ayn Ruymen

Actress | Private Parts

Ayn Ruymen was born on July 18, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Private Parts (1972), Kodiak (1974) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). She is married to Robert Lee Ross.

75. Andy Anderson

Actor | House of Wax

Andy Anderson was born on July 18, 1947 in Naenae, Wellington, New Zealand. He is an actor, known for House of Wax (2005), Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) and The Sullivans (1976).

76. Stacey Travis

Actress | Ghost World

Stacey, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in the United Kingdom and graduated with a degree in film from USC.

Her film credits include, Cindy in The Great Buck Howard (2008), Amanda Bynes mother in Easy A (2010), Geoffrey Rush's wife Bonnie in ...

77. Frank Tidy

Cinematographer | Chain Reaction

Frank Tidy was born on May 17, 1932 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Chain Reaction (1996), Under Siege (1992) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992). He was married to Maureen Catherine Corcoran. He died on January 27, 2017 in Kent, England, UK.

78. Simon Oakland

Actor | Psycho

One of the movies' most memorable tough guys, Simon Oakland actually began his career as a concert violinist, turning to acting in the late 1940s. After a long string of roles in Broadway hits, including "Light Up the Sky," "The Shrike" and "Inherit the Wind," Oakland made his film debut as the ...

79. Lurene Tuttle

Actress | Psycho

Quite a familiar lady and notorious busybody on 1950s and '60s TV and film, petite, red-headed character actress Lurene Tuttle was born in Pleasant Lake, Indiana and raised on a ranch close to the Arizona border. Her father, O.V. Tuttle, started out as a performer in minstrels, but found a job as a...

80. Claude Johnson

Actor | Disneyland

Claude Johnson was born on May 17, 1938 in Lassen County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954), Adam-12 (1968) and Space Raiders (1983). He died on May 18, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

81. Maureen O'Sullivan

Actress | The Thin Man

Of Irish, English, and Scottish descent, Maureen Paula O'Sullivan was born on May 17, 1911 in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland. Her father was Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers, and his wife, the former Mary Fraser (or Frazer). She was educated at Catholic schools in ...

82. Suzan Farmer

Actress | Die, Monster, Die!

Suzan Farmer was born on June 16, 1942 in Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Die, Monster, Die! (1965), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968). She was married to Ian McShane. She died on September 17, 2017 in England, UK.

83. Hill Harper

Actor | CSI: NY

Hill Harper, an accomplished film, television and stage actor, stars in the hit CBS drama series, CSI: NY (2004). He portrays "Dr. Sheldon Hawkes", a reclusive coroner who walked away from a promising surgical career after the traumatic loss of two patients. This February, he will star in the HBO ...

84. Wendy Worthington

Actress | Ally McBeal

Born in Memphis and raised in Philadelphia, Wendy started making student films in the summer of 1969 and began acting because she wanted to be able to write for and direct other actors. She discovered a love of acting that became a lifetime commitment, but only turned into a full-time pursuit when ...

85. Patrick Barr

Actor | Octopussy

Patrick Barr, born into a judicial family in British India in 1908, was active for more than half a century on the stage, screen and, later, very successfully on television.

Tall and distinguished, the son of a judge and (in retirement) theatrical manager, Barr was educated at Radley and Trinity ...

86. Chace Crawford

Actor | The Covenant

Christopher Chace Crawford was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son of Dana (Plott), a teacher, and Chris Wayne Crawford, a dermatologist. He grew up in Plano, Texas, and has a younger sister, Candice Crawford Romo, who studied broadcast journalism and won the Miss Missouri USA title in 2008. Chace ...

87. Craig Richard Nelson

Actor | The Paper Chase

Craig Richard Nelson was born on September 17, 1947 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Paper Chase (1973), 3 Women (1977) and Quantum Leap (1989).

88. Susan Marie Snyder

Actress | Ruthless People

Susan Marie Snyder was born on July 18, 1963 in Idaho, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Ruthless People (1986), Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Santa Barbara (1984). She has been married to Daniel Sonis since April 28, 2003. She was previously married to Peter G. Boynton.

89. Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...

90. Hannes Messemer

Actor | The Great Escape

Hannes Messemer was born on May 17, 1924 in Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Great Escape (1963), General Della Rovere (1959) and The Devil Strikes at Night (1957). He was married to Monika Keusch, Susanne Korda, Rose Schäfer and Herta Jung. He died on ...

91. Helmut Schmid

Actor | Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer

Helmut Schmid was born on April 8, 1925 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer (1960), Der Stechlin (1975) and The Salzburg Connection (1972). He was married to Liselotte Pulver. He died on July 18, 1992 in Heiligenschwendi, Bern, ...

92. Karl Lieffen

Actor | One, Two, Three

German character actor on screen, TV and stage. Trained in Brunswick he had his stage debut in Freiburg. Later he was on stage in Frankfurt and since 1975 in Munich. After more and more bigger filmparts since 1949 he played his only leading role in The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon (1959). Then he ...

93. Jesse Moss

Actor | Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Jesse Moss was born on May 4, 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), The Uninvited (2009) and Final Destination 3 (2006).

94. Vin Diesel

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy

Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' ...

95. Ella Purnell

Actress | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ella Purnell was born in London, U.K. She is best known for her roles in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016), in BBC One's Ordeal By Innocence (2017) and Starz' Sweetbitter (2017), in which she plays the series lead role of Tess in the adaptation of Stephanie Danler's ...

96. Betty Phillips

Actress | 2012

In her mid-teens she sang leading roles in musicals at Richmond High School and also sang in a girls' choir organised by Burton Kurth; in the early 1940s she studied voice with in turn Mignon Duke Gidy, Avis Phillips, and Phylis Inglis and piano with Phyllis Schuldt. She appeared at TUTS for the ...

97. Arielle Holmes

Actress | American Honey

Arielle Holmes was born on September 17, 1993 in Hollywood, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for American Honey (2016), Heaven Knows What (2014) and 2307: Winter's Dream (2016).

98. Eric Sykes

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

'Eric Sykes' started as a radio scriptwriter but he soon found he could perform as well as write. The slight handicap of being very hard of hearing doesn't interfere with his wonderful comic timing. The spectacles he wears have no lenses but contain a bone conducting hearing aid.

99. Emily Perkins

Actress | Ginger Snaps

Emily Perkins was born on May 4, 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Ginger Snaps (2000), It (1990) and Juno (2007). She is married to Ernest Mathijs.

100. John Stuart

Actor | Superman

John Stuart was born on July 18, 1898 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman (1978), Number 17 (1932) and Hindle Wakes (1931). He was married to Barbara Markham, Muriel Angelus and Jeanne Lagrene. He died on October 17, 1979 in London, England, UK.