the best actors in history

Miracle on 34th street, pero....¿quien mato a Harry?, la humanidad en peligro, enviado especial, la tia de Carlos, el diablo burlado, compañeros de fatiga..............

"The razor edge's, the venus blonde, la loba, enviado especial, asesinato, la carta, the secret garden, el retrato de Dorian Grey, el angel de las tinieblas.........

Chicago deadline, el hombre de Laramie, vidas borrascosas, el fuego y la palabra, horizontes lejanos, encubridora, hombres errantes, vidas borrascosas, a summer place.............

The asphalt jungle

was the first person in Hollywood interested in making the James Bond novels into a film series. In 1955, paid a $1,000 a month option for 9 months on the Bond novel Moonraker (he eventually gave up the option when he learned he couldn't retain the rights for the entire 007 series). "De ilusion tambien se vive", calle river 99, the restless gun, el cuarto hombre, el filo de la navaja........

"Toper's return", diez negritos, una pareja invisible, sherlock holmes (Dr. Watson 1922), the Bishop murder case, madam Satan, the prodigal, el profugo, una hora contigo, street of woman, el hombre que podia hacer milagros, las minas del rey salomon (1937), ali baba goes to town, the young in heart, la pareja invisible se divierte.............

"Las uvas de la ira", el hijo de la furia.........

"La ciudad de los muchachos"

"La jungla de asfalto" , "Johnny Guitart"

"El tercer hombre", "Ciudadano Kane"

"Duelo al sol" , "El tercer hombre" , "Ciudadano Kane" , "La sombra de una sospecha" , "Niagara".

"Un americano en Paris" , "Cantando bajo la lluvia", "Cover girls" ,

"Medianoche", "Chicago" ,

"Las cuatro plumas" , "Rebeca", "El prisionero de zenda"

"La ley del silencio" , "La mano izquierda de Dios"

"La presa desnuda", "Trapecio" , "Que el cielo la juzgue"

"Raices profundas",

"Servidumbre humana" ,

Robin de los bosques, el Capitan Blood, el Halcon del mar, Murieron con las botas puestas, el principe y el mendigo.......

shane , los mongoles, hoguera de odios, atila rey de los hunos.........

Sueños de juventud, candidata a millonaria, comenzo en el tropico, recuerdo de una noche, no hay tiempo para amar, perdicion, el milagro de las campanas, el apartamento............

Alejandro Magno, mirando hacia atras con ira, el sueño de una noche de verano, Cleopatra, Becket, la noche de la iguana, Hamlet, castillos en la arena, el espia que surgio del frio.........

el robo al banco de inglaterra, los dientes del diablo, Lawrence de Arabia, becket, lord Jim, como robar un millon, la noche de los generales, el hombre de la mancha, el leon en invierno,

la princesa de Eboli, el tren, un hombre para la eternidad,

l1905 – 25 March 1956) was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. He was cited as a role model by actor Tony Hancock and drummer Keith Moon.Newton was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, a son of landscape painter Algernon Newton, R.A. He was educated in Lamorna near Penzance, Cornwall, and later at St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire.[1] His acting career began at the age of 16 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1921 and he followed this by performing in many plays in the West End of London, including Bitter Sweet by Noël Coward and Horatio to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at the Old Vic. He also appeared in Private Lives on Broadway. From 1932 to 1934 he was the manager of the Shilling Theatre in Fulham, London.

Les miserables, Oliver twist, The treasure island...........

Nido de viboras, Quo Vadis, Moby Dick, el dia mas largo..............Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was a British stage and film actorHe was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, England to a Jewish family. His father, Woolfe (William) Genn, was a jewellery salesman and the maiden name of his mother, Rachel, was Asserson.

Genn's first film role was as Shylock in Immortal Gentleman (1935), a biography of Shakespeare. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. hired Genn as a technical advisor on the movie Accused (1936). He was subsequently given a small part in the picture on the strength of a "splendid voice and presence". Genn received another small role in Alexander Korda's The Drum (1938) and was the young man who danced with Eliza Doolittle at the duchess's ball in Pygmalion, a film made in the same year, although he was uncredited.

Harold Clayton Lloyd (Burchard, Nebraska; 20 de abril de 1893 - Beverly Hills, California; 8 de marzo de 1971) fue un actor estadounidense de cine, considerado uno de los más grandes cómicos de la historia del séptimo arte.

Lloyd actuó en 208 películas entre 1913 y 1947. Durante la década de los veinte fue el actor más popular y mejor pagado del universo cinematográfico. Es conocido sobre todo por las secuencias de persecución que incluían proezas físicas como trepar por los muros de altos edificios. Junto a Buster Keaton y Charlie Chaplin forma el "triunvirato" de grandes cómicos del cine mudo y, como ellos, su carrera continuó en el período sonoro. el hombre mosca, el estudiante novato, el pecado de Harold, Relampago.................

Warner Oland was not the first actor to portray Charlie Chan on the silver screen. The Oriental detective was originally played by George Kuwa in The House Without a Key (1925) and Kamiyama Sojin in The Chinese Parrot (1927), both silent Pathe serials, and later by E.L. Park in a Fox Pictures talking feature, Behind That Curtain, (1929). However, it was Warner Oland who first breathed life into the character whose exploits have now thrilled several generations.

Oland was born Johan Verner Ölund on October 3, 1879 in rural village of Bjurholm, Sweden, which is located about 300 miles north of Stockholm. Just after his thirteenth birthday, on October 15, 1892, he emigrated to the United States with his parents, Jonas Ölund, a shopkeeper, and Maria Jojana Forsberg.

It was in 1931 that Charlie Chan was brought to life by Warner Oland with the Fox Pictures release of Charlie Chan Carries On. He went on to make a total of 17 Chan films over a period of seven years for Fox studios.

Oland did not need to use makeup to appear Asian. He attributed his appearance to having a measure of Mongolian blood in his heritage, passed to him through his Russian mother. To prepare for the role of Charlie Chan, he would simply brush the ends of his moustache down and his eyebrows upward. It is said that Chinese often mistook him for one of their countrymen. Regarding his experiences on a trip to China, Warner Oland said, "Everywhere I went, the natives addressed me in Chinese. I was introduced always as Mr. Chan. I was accepted as a Chinese." Indeed, Oland took great delight in studying the Chinese language as well as the art and philosophy of that culture.

The Jazz singer, with Al Jolson, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer......

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón[1] (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.

Ferrer was born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Maria Providencia Cintron and Rafael Ferrer, an attorney and writer. He studied in the Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey.[2] In 1933, he graduated from Princeton University, where he wrote a senior thesis, French Naturalism and Pardo Bazán; he was also a member of the Princeton Triangle Club.

Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Caine Moutiny...........

MEL FERRER (1917-2008)

Mel Ferrer (de nombre real Melchior Gaston Ferrer) nació el 25 de agosto de 1917 en la localidad de Elberon, sita en el estado norteamericano de New Jersey. Era hijo de un cirujano cubano y de una dama de la alta sociedad neoyorquina.

A pesar de que el público suele conocer simplemente su faceta como intérprete, Ferrer comenzó su carrera como bailarín, actor, director y productor de obras teatrales y programas de radio.

Desde que inició sus estudios en la Universidad de Princeton, Mel representaba y dirigía producciones teatrales, que terminaron llevándolo a la meca de la escena mundial, Broadway, a finales de la década de los 30.

Su carrera en el cine la inició como director, realizando la película "The girl of the Limberlost" (1945), un título menor que estaba protagonizado por Ruth Nelson, Loren Tindall y Dorinda Clifton.

Posteriormente tuvo el honor de acompañar como asistente en la dirección al mismísimo John Ford, cuando éste rodaba "El fugitivo" (1947), con Henry Fonda como principal protagonista.

En 1949 debutó como actor en la película de Alfred Werker "Lost Boundaries". Durante los años 50 su espigada figura pudo ser contemplada en títulos como "The Brave Bulls" (1951) de Robert Rossen, "Encubridora" (1952) de Fritz Lang, "Scaramouche" (1952) de George Sidney, encarnando al Rey Arturo en "Los caballeros del Rey Arturo" (1953) de Richard Thorpe, el musical realizado por Charles Walters "Lili" (1954) o "Guerra y Paz" (1956), la adaptación de Leon Tolstoi que dirigió King Vidor.

También tuvo tiempo para ponerse detrás de la cámara, dirigiendo películas como "The Secret Fury" (1950), con Claudette Colbert y Robert Ryan o "Mansiones verdes" (1959), un film que co-protagonizaban Anthony Perkins y Audrey Hepburn, su esposa desde 1954. Audrey y Mel se divorciarían en 1968.

He became a matinee idol by virtue of a play titled Cobra, and soon began to act in films. In the early 30s he was primarily cast as a character actor in Hollywood, while he continued to play leading roles on stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as an MGM contract player. Among his most memorable roles were three that he played in 1950: a singing one as Buffalo Bill in the film version of Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated role as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his stage role), as well as his portrayal of the title role in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film Julius Caesar in 1953 (adapted from Shakespeare's play). Prior to this, the most famous appearance was as Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Bros. movie, Duck Soup, in 1933.

In addition to The Magnificent Yankee, Calhern had Broadway successes in the English-language production of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky und der Oberst (1944) and in the title role of King Lear (also in 1950). He also played the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), a film adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the 1946 Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious. A performance as "wicked Uncle Willie" in 1956's High Society, a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be the actor's final film. Louis Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt on February 19, 1895 in Brooklyn, New York. His family left New York City while he was still a child and moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he grew up. While playing high school football, a stage manager from a touring theatrical stock company spotted him, and hired him as a bit player. Just prior to World War I, Calhern decided to move back to New York to pursue an acting career. He began as a prop boy and bit player with touring companies and burlesque companies. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the war and he served overseas in the military during World War I.

Born in Johannesburg, Hayward's screen work began in British films, notably as Simon Templar in Leslie Charteris' The Saint in New York. In 1939 he played a dual role in The Man in the Iron Mask.

During World War II, Hayward enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and commanded a photographic unit that filmed the Battle of Tarawa in a documentary titled With the Marines at Tarawa (winner of the 1944 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Hayward was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. When off-duty in New Zealand he went under the name of "Captain Richards" to avoid the rush of the ladies as recalled by a waiter at a Wellington restaurant, the Green Parrot.

He also played the role of Philip Lombard in the 1945 version of And Then There Were None. Hayward starred in the 1954 syndicated television series The Lone Wolf. Hayward's other television work includes a role as a judge in an episode, "Day of Reckoning" (original air date 22 November 1962), of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

He retired from acting during the 1970s.

The Man Outside (1933) A Feather in Her Hat (1935) Trouble for Two (1936) Anthony Adverse (1936) The Woman I Love (1937) The Saint in New York (1938) The Rage of Paris (1938) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) My Son, My Son! (1940) Ladies in Retirement (1941) And Then There Were None (1945)