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1. Ted Bessell

Director | The Tracey Ullman Show

Born in New York City, Ted's early career included guest appearances in soap operas, Lover Come Back (1961) and It's a Man's World (1962). Ted went on to appear as "Frankie" on Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964), but his big break was as "That Guy" on the successful Marlo Thomas Television series That Girl (...

2. Mabel Ballin

Actress | The Journey's End

Mabel Ballin entered the film business in 1917 when Hugo Ballin, her husband, was having little success with his painting career. She played quite a few leading roles at the World Film Co. and was a well-known and popular actress at the time. However, after World War I her career momentum slowed ...

3. George Bancroft

Actor | Stagecoach

George Bancroft was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school at Tomes Institute (Philadelphia). He won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated as a commissioned officer. He served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no...

4. Jay Belasco

Actor | The Phantom Island

Jay Belasco was born on January 11, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Phantom Island (1916), Sweetheart Daze (1926) and In for Life (1927). He died on May 1, 1949 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

5. Hugo Ballin

Director | Pagan Love

Hugo Ballin was born on March 7, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an art director and director, known for Pagan Love (1920), The Journey's End (1921) and East Lynne (1921). He was married to Mabel Ballin. He died on November 27, 1956 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

6. Charles Bickford

Actor | A Star Is Born

American character actor of gruff voice and appearance who was a fixture in Hollywood pictures from the earliest days of the talkies. The fifth of seven children, he was born in the first minute of 1891. He was a boisterous child, and at nine was tried and acquitted for attempted murder in the ...

7. Barbara Billingsley

Actress | Airplane!

Born Barbara Lillian Combes, she attended Los Angeles Junior College in the mid-1930s and then moved to New York City, where she worked as a model. In 1945, she received a contract from MGM, and she appeared in several films during the late 1940s and 1950s, sometimes without screen credit. In the ...

8. William Bishop

Actor | Lorna Doone

William attended grammar and high schools in New York and New Jersey. Upon graduation, he enrolled at West Virginia University where he planned to study law and played football and tennis. One summer, his uncle got him a job at the Suffern County (in New York) Theatre. He worked with actors ...

9. Janet Blair

Actress | The Black Arrow

When it came to bright and polished, they didn't get much spiffier than singer/actress Janet Blair -- perhaps to her detriment in the long haul. At Columbia, she was usually overlooked for the roles that might have tested her dramatic mettle. Nevertheless, she pleased audiences as a pert and perky ...

10. Bonnie Bonnell

Actress | Nertsery Rhymes

Bonnie Bonnell was born on August 1, 1905 in Thomasville, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Nertsery Rhymes (1933), Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934) and Beer and Pretzels (1933). She died on March 14, 1964 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

11. Edwina Booth

Actress | Trapped in Tia Juana

American leading actress of the early talkie period, whose ordeal during the production of Trader Horn (1931) led her retirement and to false rumors of her death. She had some brief stage experience before getting some unimportant film roles. She was given a leading role in the ambitious adventure ...

12. Edward Brophy

Actor | The Thin Man

Edward S. Brophy was born on February 27, 1895 in New York City and educated at the University of Virginia. He became a bit and small-part in the movies starting in 1919, but switched to behind-the-scenes work for job security, though he continued appearing in small parts. While serving as a ...

13. Octavia Broske

Actress | The Great Adventure

Octavia Broske was born on June 4, 1886 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Great Adventure (1921) and She Loves and Lies (1920). She was married to George C. Burke and George Bancroft. She died on March 19, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

14. Leo Carrillo

Actor | The Guilty Generation

Leo Carrillo was born on August 6, 1881 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Guilty Generation (1931), The Cisco Kid (1950) and Crime, Inc. (1945). He was married to Edith Shakespear Haeselbarth. He died on September 10, 1961 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

15. Henry Cuesta

Self | From the Heart: A Tribute to Lawrence Welk and the American Dream

Henry Cuesta was born on December 23, 1931 in McAllen, Texas, USA. He was married to Janette Cuesta. He died on December 17, 2003 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

16. Henry Daniell

Actor | The Philadelphia Story

One of Hollywood's greatest screen villains, Charles Henry Pywell Daniell was born in London, England, the son of Elinor Mary (Wookey) and Henry Pyweh Daniell, L.R.C.P. He had the profound misfortune to make his professional theatrical debut on the eve of World War I. His life thus interrupted, he ...

17. John Dodsworth

Actor | Jungle Jim

John Dodsworth was born on September 17, 1910 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Jungle Jim (1955), The Maze (1953) and Loose in London (1953). He was married to Donna Heydt. He died on September 11, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

18. Weston Doty

Actor | Peter Pan

Weston Doty was born on February 18, 1913 in Malta, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Peter Pan (1924) and One Terrible Day (1922). He died on January 1, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

19. Winston Doty

Actor | Peter Pan

Winston Doty was born on February 18, 1913 in Malta, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Peter Pan (1924), One Terrible Day (1922) and A Pleasant Journey (1923). He died on January 1, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

20. Cathy Downs

Actress | My Darling Clementine

A pleasant, attractive leading lady, Cathy Downs was an "outdoors type" who worked as a model before she became a Fox contract player in 1944. In the late 1940s she was being groomed for major success -- e.g., she played the title role in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) -- but most of her ...

21. Vernon Duke

Soundtrack | Chinatown

Composer, songwriter ("April in Paris", "Autumn in New York", "I Can't Get Started"), author and pianist, educated at the Kiev Conservatory (which he entered at age thirteen) and a music student of Reinhold Gliere and Marian Dombrovsky. He had composed ballets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, but he ...

22. Bud Duncan

Actor | Private Snuffy Smith

Bud Duncan was born on October 31, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Private Snuffy Smith (1942), Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942) and Mutt and Jeff and the Italian Strikers (1912). He died on November 25, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

23. Lion Feuchtwanger

Writer | Semya Oppengeym

Feuchtwanger graduated from high school in 1903. From 1903 he studied German, history and philosophy in Munich and Berlin. He moved in the Munich artistic scene and began his first literary attempts with theater reviews, stories and dramas. In 1907 he received his doctorate. phil. with a work on ...

24. Paul Fix

Actor | El Dorado

Paul Fix, the well-known movie and TV character actor who played "Marshal Micah Torrance" on the TV series The Rifleman (1958), was born Peter Paul Fix on March 13, 1901 in Dobbs Ferry, New York to brew-master Wilhelm Fix and his wife, the former Louise C. Walz. His mother and father were German ...

25. Glenn Ford

Actor | Gilda

Legendary actor Glenn Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada, to Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, a railroad executive. His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school...

26. Ilka Grüning

Actress | Peer Gynt

Ilka Grüning was born on September 4, 1876 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Peer Gynt (1919), Figaros Hochzeit (1920) and Words and Music (1948). She died on November 11, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

27. William Haines

Actor | Show People

Born in Staunton, Virginia, William Haines ran off to live life on his own terms while still in his teens, moving to New York City and becoming friends with such later Hollywood luminaries as designer Orry-Kelly and Cary Grant. His film career started slowly, but by the end of the silent era he was...

28. Paul Henreid

Actor | Casablanca

Paul Henreid was born Paul Georg Julius Freiherr von Hernreid Ritter von Wasel-Waldingau in Trieste, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the son of Marie Luise Heilig (Lendecke) and Baron Karl Alphons Hernreid. His father was an aristocratic banker, who was born to a Jewish family whose surname ...

29. Phil Hill

Actor | Grand Prix

One of America's greatest racing drivers of all time, Hill, a native of Southern California, was the first American to win the Formula 1 World Championship, in 1961. Hill started his racing career in the 1950s, winning the 1955 Sports Car Club of America Championship, then moving to Europe and ...

30. Evelyn Hooker

Self | Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker

Evelyn Hooker was born on September 2, 1907 in North Platte, Nebraska, USA. She was married to Edward Hooker. She died on November 18, 1996 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

31. Richard Hylton

32. Olaf Hytten

Actor | The Good Earth

Olaf Hytten was born on March 3, 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Good Earth (1937), California Straight Ahead! (1937) and Drums of Fu Manchu (1940). He died on March 11, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

33. Ted Koehler

Soundtrack | Spider-Man 3

Songwriter ("Stormy Weather", "Let's Fall in Love"), author, lyricist and pianist, educated in public schools. He was a photo engraver before working as a pianist in film theatres, and he wrote special material for vaudeville before going on to produce night club shows. He wrote the songs for the ...

34. Harvey Korman

Actor | Blazing Saddles

Harvey Korman was a lanky, popular TV comedy veteran with a flair for broad comic characterizations, who shone for a decade as leading man and second banana par excellence on The Carol Burnett Show (1967).

Harvey Herschel Korman was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ellen (Blecher) and Cyril Raymond ...

35. Henry Kuttner

Writer | The Twilight Zone

Henry Kuttner was born on April 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), The Last Mimzy (2007) and Tales of Tomorrow (1951). He was married to C.L. Moore. He died on February 4, 1958 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

36. Florence Lake

Actress | Secret Service

Florence Lake was born on November 27, 1904 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Secret Service (1931), Quiet Please! (1933) and Wrong Direction (1934). She was married to John Graham Owens. She died on April 11, 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

37. Audra Lindley

Actress | Three's Company

Audra Marie Lindley was born in Los Angeles, California, to a show-business family -- her father, Bert Lindley, was a stage and film actor. She got her early start in Hollywood as a stand-in, which eventually progressed to stunt work. After a while, however, she found stunt work not to her liking ...

38. Bert Lindley

Actor | Are We Civilized?

Bert Lindley was born on December 3, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Are We Civilized? (1934), Custer of Big Horn (1926) and Wild Bill Hickok (1923). He was married to Elizabeth (Bessie) Frances Fisher. He died on September 12, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

39. Hughie Mack

Actor | Bringing Up Father

Hughie Mack was born on November 26, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bringing Up Father (1915), C.O.D. (1914) and As You Like It (1912). He was married to Mary Agnes McGowan. He died on October 13, 1927 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

40. Heinrich Mann

Writer | Der blaue Engel

Heinrich Mann, German novelist and the elder brother of Nobel-Prize winner Thomas Mann, is most famous in the English-speaking world for his novel "Professor Unrat" that was turned into the successful 1930 movie "Der Blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel"). Mann once enjoyed a considerable reputation in ...

41. Doug McClure

Actor | The Virginian

Douglas Osborne McClure was born on May 11, 1935 in Glendale, California. Educated at UCLA, this blond leading man long made a career of apparent agelessness. He played one young sidekick after another through numerous movies and one television series after another, playing 20ish roles into his ...

42. Catherine McLeod

Actress | The Outer Limits

Of Scottish descent, Catherine McLeod was a self-confessed movie fan as a child of the Depression. Born on July 2, 1921, in Santa Monica, California, she was a convent trained. She became a theater cashier in Dallas for a time before returning to Los Angeles and studying at an acting school. A ...

43. Red Norvo

Soundtrack | Touch of Evil

Red Norvo was born on March 31, 1908 in Beardstown, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Touch of Evil (1958), Hands of a Stranger (1962) and Screaming Mimi (1958). He was married to Mildred Bailey and Eve Rogers. He died on April 6, 1999 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

44. George Washington Ogden

Writer | The Bond Boy

George Washington Ogden was born on December 9, 1871 in Johnson County, Kansas, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bond Boy (1922), The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921) and The Trail Rider (1925). He died on March 31, 1966 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

45. Lynne Overman

Actor | Union Pacific

Lynne Overman was born on September 19, 1887 in Maryville, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Union Pacific (1939), Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and She Loves Me Not (1934). He was married to Emily Helen Drange and Sylvia Antoinette Hazette. He died on February 19, 1943 in Santa Monica, ...

46. Walter Perry

Actor | The Johnstown Flood

Walter Perry was born on September 14, 1868 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Johnstown Flood (1926), Troopers Three (1930) and The Third Alarm (1930). He died on January 22, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

47. Beverly Pratt

Beverly Pratt was born on October 19, 1923 in Boise, Idaho, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Paul Fix. She died on November 13, 1979 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

48. Janos Prohaska

Actor | Bewitched

Janos Prohaska was born on October 10, 1919 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Bewitched (1964), Star Trek (1966) and The Outer Limits (1963). He was married to Irene M . Knoke. He died on March 13, 1974 in Bishop, California, USA.

49. Frances Raeburn

Actress | Seven Sweethearts

Frances Raeburn was born on August 15, 1924 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Seven Sweethearts (1942) and Swing Out, Sister (1945). She was married to Sidney Abraham Kurstin and David Miller. She died on December 26, 1976 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

50. Bill Raisch

Actor | The Fugitive

Bill Raisch was born of German immigrant parents in New Jersey in 1905. After graduating from high school, Raisch took a job at a construction site hauling cement. When he wasn't working, he lifted weights at Sig Klein's Gym in New York City. Raisch was noticed by a society girl looking for a ...

51. Sally Ride

Producer | Some Assembly Required

Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Some Assembly Required (2008), Space Age (1992) and Storytime (2020). She was married to Steve Hawley. She died on July 23, 2012 in La Jolla, California, USA.

52. Irene Ryan

Actress | The Beverly Hillbillies

Before becoming known to millions as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Irene Ryan was already an established vaudeville, radio and movie actress, though not as famous prior to her television stint. She accompanied Bob Hope on his famous military tours and she was known as "the gal who makes...

53. E.C. Segar

Writer | Popeye

E.C. Segar was born on December 8, 1894 in Chester, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Popeye (1980), Untitled Popeye Live-action movie and Popeye and Friends: Vol. 1 (1937). He was married to Myrtle Annie Johnson. He died on October 13, 1938 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

54. Hal Smith

Actor | The Great Race

Hal Smith was born on August 24, 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Great Race (1965), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) and The Andy Griffith Show (1960). He was married to Vivian M. Angstadt. He died on January 28, 1994 in Woodland Hills, Los ...

55. Joan Taylor

Actress | 20 Million Miles to Earth

Joan Taylor's mother, Amelia Berky, was a vaudeville singing-dancing star in the 1920s. Her father was a prop man in Hollywood during that same period, but, after Joan's birth, the family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where her father managed a movie theater. She developed a love of movies from ...

56. William Tuttle

Make_up_department | Logan's Run

William Tuttle was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1911. At the age of 15 he was forced to leave school in order to earn a living so he could support his mother and younger brother, Thomas Tuttle. His music background got him work with comedy teams and a burlesque orchestra and, finally, his own ...

57. Jesse M. Unruh

Actor | The Candidate

Jesse M. Unruh was born on September 30, 1922 in Newton, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Candidate (1972), NBC Presents (1964) and The Joey Bishop Show (1967). He was married to Chris Edwards-Unruh and Virginia June Lemon. He died on August 4, 1987 in Marina del Rey, California, USA.

58. Erich von Stroheim Jr.

Assistant_director | West Point

Erich von Stroheim Jr. was born on August 25, 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for West Point (1956), One Step Beyond (1959) and Science Fiction Theatre (1955). He was married to Mary Alice Jones and Sheila Darcy. He died on October 26, 1968 in ...

59. Guy Way

Actor | Invasion of the Body Snatchers

A somewhat chubby but menacing Guy Way played a frequent heavy in movies and television. During the 1960s you could catch him on numerous shows from Mission Impossible to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Once in a while he did get a few lines as with The Sting (1973), where he takes Robert Redford ...

60. Linda Fay Webb

Actress | Tag

Linda Fay Webb is known for Tag (2012).

61. Jack Hanlon

Actor | The Shakedown

Jack Hanlon was born on February 15, 1916 in Amarillo, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Shakedown (1929), Ten Years Old (1927) and Hide-Out (1930). He was married to Jean. He died on December 13, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

62. Cliff Osmond

Writer | The Streets of San Francisco

Cliff Osmond was born on February 26, 1937 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Streets of San Francisco (1972), The Front Page (1974) and The Penitent (1988). He was married to Gretchen Lee Petty. He died on December 22, 2012 in Pacific Palisades, California, ...

63. Don Keefer

Actor | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Don Keefer was born on August 18, 1916 in Highspire, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Death of a Salesman (1951). He was married to Catherine McLeod. He died on September 7, 2014 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

64. Jack Curtis

Actor | Captain Blood

Jack was born in San Francisco in 1880 in to the well-known Curtis family. Chris Curtis was himself well-known in the financial circles. His uncle William was a lawyer in New York City in the early 1900s. Jack and Lil met on a ship heading to Hong Kong in 1904 and were married sometime in 1904. ...

65. Micole Mercurio

Actress | While You Were Sleeping

Micole Diana Mercurio was born in Chicago to Mary and Michael Mercurio on March 10, 1938. The first born of her generation and a beautiful child, she flourished under the attention of her extended Italian-American family. Her father had been a captain in the Italian Army and became a private in the...

66. Bess Myerson

Actress | The Philco Television Playhouse

Bess Myerson was born on July 16, 1924 in The Bronx, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Philco Television Playhouse (1948), The Jackie Gleason Show (1952) and Frasier (1993). She was married to Arnold M. Grant and Allan Wayne. She died on December 14, 2014 in Santa Monica, California,...

67. Robert Graham

Actor | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Robert Graham was born on August 19, 1938 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Step Fast (1994) and Yorick (2002). He was married to Anjelica Huston and Joey Graham. He died on December 27, 2008 in ...

68. Claire Malis

Actress | The Incredible Hulk

Claire Malis was born on February 17, 1943 in Gary, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Incredible Hulk (1977), Simon & Simon (1981) and One Life to Live (1968). She was married to Thomas Callaway. She died on August 24, 2012 in Duarte, California, USA.

69. Steve Bing

Producer | Get Carter

Steve Bing was born on March 31, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Get Carter (2000), Kangaroo Jack (2003) and Every Breath (1994). He died on June 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.