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1. Tod Browning

Director | Dracula

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916)...

2. Henry Armstrong

Actor | Keep Punching

Henry Armstrong, born Henry Jackson, decided to become a boxer after reading in a St. Louis newspaper that Kid Chocolate had beaten Al Singer at the Polo Grounds in New York, and was paid a purse of $75,000.

At the "colored" YMCA on Pine Street in St. Louis, he met an older fighter named Harry ...

3. Ivie Anderson

Soundtrack | The Hit Parade

Ivie Anderson was born on July 10, 1904 in Gilroy, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Hit Parade (1937), A Day at the Races (1937) and Corrina, Corrina (1994). She was married to Walter Collins and Marque Nea. She died on December 28, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

4. Betty Burbridge

Actress | In the Clutches of the Gangsters

Betty Burbridge was born on December 7, 1895 in San Diego, California, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for In the Clutches of the Gangsters (1914), Anybody's Blonde (1931) and Paradise Express (1937). She died on September 19, 1987 in Tarzana, California, USA.

5. Eric Campbell

Actor | Behind the Screen

Campbell was born in Sale, Cheshire on 26th April 1880 and began acting as a boy. He married fellow music hall performer Fanny Gertrude Robotham on March 30, 1901 and was later hired by English music hall impresario Fred Karno for his "Fun Factory" comedy troupes that featured other comics like a ...

6. Rita Carewe

Actress | Revenge

Rita Carewe was born Violette Fox on September 9, 1909 in New York City. Her father was Native American director Edwin Carewe. The family moved to Hollywood in 1914 after he was hired by United Artists. When Rita was a teenager her father helped her get contract at First National. She made her film...

7. Frank Chance

Self | Baseball's Peerless Leader

Frank Chance was born on September 9, 1877 in Fresno, California, USA. He was married to Edythe L. Chance. He died on September 15, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

8. Eric Dolphy

Soundtrack | Dynamite Chicken

Eric Dolphy was born on June 20, 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a composer, known for Dynamite Chicken (1971), Suspension of Disbelief (2012) and A Matter of Degrees (1990). He died on June 29, 1964 in Berlin, Germany.

9. John Reynolds Gardiner

Writer | Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner was born on December 6, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. John Reynolds was a writer, known for Stone Fox (1987). John Reynolds was married to Gloria Gardiner. John Reynolds died on March 4, 2006 in Anaheim, California, USA.

10. Louise Glaum

Actress | Sex

Louise Glaum was born on September 10, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Sex (1920), Sweetheart of the Doomed (1917) and The Three Musketeers (1916). She was married to Zachary M. Harris and Harry J. Edwards. She died on November 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, ...

11. Theresa Harris

Actress | I Walked with a Zombie

Theresa Harris appeared with more stars of the Golden Era of Hollywood than anyone else. She sang, she danced, she appeared in movies and TV. She graced the screen with her magnetic presence and most times stole scenes from the top stars of the day every chance she got and made a lot of dull films ...

12. Nellie Lutcher

Soundtrack | The Mule

Singer/pianist Nellie Lutcher began her musical career in the late 1940s and worked on a variety of genres, including blues, jazz and pop. She had a string of hits in the late 1940s on Capitol, such as "Hurry On Down" and "Fine Brown Frame".

She first started singing in church in her home town of ...

13. Hattie McDaniel

Actress | Gone with the Wind

After working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George ...

14. Tim Moore

Actor | The Amos 'n Andy Show

Although Tim Moore will forever be known as "The Kingfish" in the pioneering series The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951), he was actually far better known for his career on the stage and as a comedian in vaudeville than he was for his film and television work. In fact, he had only made (as far as is known)...

15. Marshall Neilan

Actor | Daddy-Long-Legs

In the early days of silent pictures, Marshall Neilan was a top director for Goldwyn Pictures. He had also directed a small number of Louis B. Mayer's independently produced melodramas, but there was a mutual dislike between the two men. During the festivities inaugurating the merger of Metro and ...

16. Stanley Price

Actor | Scared to Death

Prolific western utility player, in Hollywood from 1932. Noticeable for his dusky looks, hypnotic stare and crocodilian smile, Price was perhaps one of the busier small-part actors of the period, as attested by the fact, that -- in 1939 alone -- he worked for 52 weeks and earned $2700. He served in...

17. Andy Razaf

Soundtrack | The Mask

Andy Razaf was born on December 16, 1895 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Andy is known for The Mask (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996) and When Harry Met Sally... (1989). Andy died on February 3, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

18. Monroe Salisbury

Actor | The Barbarian

Monroe Salisbury was born Orange Salisbury Cash, the son of David Cash and Ellen Louise Salisbury Cash, and grandson of Aaron Cash and Ann Roat Cash of Evans, Erie County, New York. He grew up with two sisters, Adelaide Mary Cash and Anna Louise Cash. By 1900, he was a working actor supporting his ...

19. Everett Sloane

Actor | Citizen Kane

Everett Sloane, the actor most known for playing Mr. Bernstein in Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane (1941) as a member of Welles' Mercury Players, was born in New York, New York on October 1, 1909. Sloane was bitten by the acting bug quite early, and first went on-stage when he was seven years old....

20. Art Tatum

Soundtrack | The Great Debaters

Art Tatum was born on October 13, 1909 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Great Debaters (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and They All Laughed (1981). He was married to Geraldine Williamson and Ruby Arnold. He died on November 5, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21. Ernestine Wade

Actress | The Amos 'n Andy Show

Ernestine Wade was born on August 7, 1906 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951), The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) and Playhouse 90 (1956). She died on April 15, 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

22. Ernest Whitman

Actor | The Green Pastures

Ernest Whitman was born on February 21, 1893 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Green Pastures (1936), Road to Zanzibar (1941) and Maryland (1940). He died on August 5, 1954 in Hollywood, California, USA.

23. Dooley Wilson

Actor | Casablanca

"You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh; the fundamental things apply, as time goes by...". . The gentleman who crooned this now legendary tune for the morose Humphrey Bogart and moist-eyed Ingrid Bergman at Rick's Cafe Americain amid the bleak WWII backdrop was none ...

24. Anna May Wong

Actress | The Toll of the Sea

Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, California, to laundryman Wong Sam Sing and his wife, Lee Gon Toy. A third-generation American, she managed to have a substantial acting career during a deeply racist time when the ...

25. Honorable Wu

Actor | Stowaway

Honorable Wu was born on August 10, 1896 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Stowaway (1936), Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939) and North of Shanghai (1939). He died on February 27, 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA.

26. Marjorie Zier

Actress | A Racing Romeo

Marjorie Zier was born on February 3, 1909 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for A Racing Romeo (1927), Cactus Trails (1927) and Phantom of the Range (1928). She was married to Michael Cudahy, Richard Conover, Pickering and Page. She died on March 9, 1952 in Los Angeles, ...

27. Gertrude Temple

Gertrude Amelia Krieger was born on July 15, 1893, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1903, her father, German-born Julius Otto Krieger, relocated the family to Los Angeles, California. Because her parents worked long hours and her father died when she was 15, Gertrude spent much of her childhood caring for ...

28. George Temple

George Francis Temple was born in Fairview, Pennsylvania, in May 1888, to Francis Temple, a doctor, and Cynthia Yaeger Temple. Dr. Temple was devoted to his patients, but long hours and house calls in inclement weather soon took their toll, and he died of pneumonia in June 1896, when he was only 39...

29. Edward Ellis

Actor | The Thin Man

Character actor in films, often portraying strident types, he is best remembered cast as "The Thin Man" (actually, "Wynant") of the hit 1934 MGM film. He Ellis was active on Broadway as an actor, producer and playwright from 1905-32 (see "Other Works"). He died in Beverly Hills, CA at age 81 in ...

30. Clyde Grimes

Actor | Repo Man

Clyde Grimes is known for Repo Man (1984), No Man's Land (1987) and Skateboard (1978).

31. Rita Carewe

Actress | Revenge

Rita Carewe was born Violette Fox on September 9, 1909 in New York City. Her father was Native American director Edwin Carewe. The family moved to Hollywood in 1914 after he was hired by United Artists. When Rita was a teenager her father helped her get contract at First National. She made her film...

32. Rito Punay

Actor | Dangerous Money

Rito Punay was born on September 17, 1907 in Cebu City, Philippines. He was an actor, known for Dangerous Money (1946). He died on January 12, 1977 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

33. Fernando Lamas

Actor | The Cheap Detective

Handsome, dapper Argentine-born actor who came to Hollywood as a romantic lead in several colourful MGM extravaganzas and then succeeded in living up to his Latin Lover image in real life. Lamas studied drama at school in his native country and later enrolled in a law course at college. His strong ...

34. Yvette Mimieux

Actress | The Time Machine

An intelligent, slender leading lady of the 1960s and 70s, Yvette Carmen Mimieux was born in Hollywood, California, to Maria (Montemayor) and René Mimieux, an occasional movie extra. Her father was born in England, of French and German descent, and her mother was Mexican. While she was first ...

35. Calvert Carter

Actor | Less Than Kin

Calvert Carter was born on October 23, 1858 in Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Less Than Kin (1918), Broadway Fever (1929) and The Fighting Shepherdess (1920). He died on August 29, 1932 in Long Beach, California, USA.