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1. Ethel Barrymore

Actress | The Spiral Staircase

Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of ...

2. Kathryn Adams

Actress | Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

Kathryn Adams was born on May 25, 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917), Pampered Youth (1925) and A Little Brother of the Rich (1919). She was married to Jacques Magnin and Arthur William Witter. She died on February 17, 1959 in ...

3. King Baggot

Actor | Jim Webb, Senator

St. Louis-born King Baggot traveled to New York City with the express intent of crashing Broadway, but began his film career in nearby Fort Lee, NJ, in 1909. It didn't take long before he graduated from actor to writer and director--at times performing all three functions; in Shadows (1914) he not ...

4. Frank Abbott

Actor | The Wild Bull's Lair

Frank Abbott was born on July 16, 1878 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wild Bull's Lair (1925), The Broken Law (1924) and Fade Away Foster (1926). He died on February 2, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

5. John Blyth Barrymore

Actor | Full Moon High

John Blyth Barrymore was born on May 15, 1954 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Full Moon High (1981), Kung Fu (1972) and Before I Sleep (2013).

6. Lionel Barrymore

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon...

7. Eugenie Besserer

Actress | The Jazz Singer

Eugenie Besserer was born in Watertown, New York on Christmas Day of 1868. She was largely a silent film actress who made her debut in 1910's silent version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910). She was 42 at the time. For the most part Eugenie was a character actress, much in demand for filling in ...

8. Francelia Billington

Actress | Blind Husbands

Francelia Billington was born in Dallas, Texas, where she was raised on a ranch and became an expert horsewoman. The pretty young Texan was also on stage from a young age and soon journeyed to Hollywood and became a star of westerns and melodramas, first working with the Kalem Film Co. in 1912, ...

9. Richard Boleslawski

Director | Theodora Goes Wild

Inventing a stage name "Boleslawski" (later spelled also "Boleslavsky"), young Pole Boleslaw Ryszard Srzednicki left his second home (Odessa, Russian Empire) to study theatre and train as an actor at the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre before and during WW I. He also acted in a few early Russian ...

10. James Burke

Actor | The Maltese Falcon

James Burke was born on September 24, 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Maltese Falcon (1941), Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940) and At the Circus (1939). He was married to Eleanor Durkin. He died on May 23, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

11. Mary Carr

Actress | Lights of New York

American character actress famed for roles as mothers. Born in a Philadelphia suburb as Mary Kennevan, she became a schoolteacher, but soon gave it up for work as an actress in touring companies. She married actor William Carr and toured extensively with his company. After the turn of the century, ...

12. Cliff Clark

Actor | The Falcon Strikes Back

Cliff Clark was born on June 10, 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), The Falcon's Brother (1942) and The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943). He was married to Stella Delauries. He died on February 8, 1953 in Hollywood, California, USA.

13. Eddie Collins

Actor | The Blue Bird

Eddie Collins was born on January 30, 1883 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Blue Bird (1940), Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938) and Quick Millions (1939). He was married to Florence Wilmot (actress). He died on September 2, 1940 in Arcadia, California, USA.

14. Samuel Colt

Actor | Johnny Trouble

Samuel Colt was born on November 28, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Johnny Trouble (1957), The Mating Season (1951) and Playhouse 90 (1956). He was married to Eleanore Phillips. He died on August 1, 1986 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

15. Dolores Costello

Actress | The Sea Beast

Dolores Costello was once known as the Goddess of the Silent Screen but is probably best remembered today as Drew Barrymore's grandmother. She was born in 1905 to actors Maurice Costello and Mae Costello. Her father began his film career in 1908 and soon became the most popular matinée idol of his ...

16. Helene Costello

Actress | The Fatal Warning

Some of Helene Costello's films available on video are Her Crowning Glory (1911), Lulu's Doctor (1912) and Lights of New York (1928), the first all-talking feature. She worked for a time as a reader for 20th Century Fox in the early 1940s. Miss Costello died on January 26, 1957, in California's ...

17. Lou Costello

Actor | Hold That Ghost

Lou Costello was born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, to Helen (Rege) and Sebastiano Cristillo. His father was from Calabria, Italy, and his mother was an American of Italian, French, and Irish ancestry. Raised in Paterson, Costello dropped out of high school and headed west to ...

18. Mae Costello

Actress | Diamond Cut Diamond

Mae Costello was born on August 13, 1882 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Diamond Cut Diamond (1912), The Joys of a Jealous Wife (1913) and Her Right to Live (1917). She was married to Maurice Costello. She died on August 2, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

19. Maurice Costello

Actor | The Man Who Couldn't Beat God

Maurice Costello was born on February 22, 1877 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Man Who Couldn't Beat God (1915), The Golden Pathway (1913) and Iron and Steel (1914). He was married to Ruth Reeves and Mae Costello. He died on October 28, 1950 in ...

20. Phyllis Cox

21. Ivy Crosthwaite

Actress | The Surf Girl

Ivy Crosthwaite was born on December 1, 1897 in San Diego, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Surf Girl (1916), A Game Old Knight (1915) and The Beauty Bunglers (1915). She was married to Adolph Linkof. She died on November 8, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

22. Josephine Dillon

Actress | The Lady and the Monster

Josephine Dillon was born on January 26, 1884 in Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Lady and the Monster (1944). She was married to Clark Gable. She died on November 10, 1971 in Verdugo, California, USA.

23. Beatrice Dominguez

Actress | The White Horseman

Beatrice Dominguez born in San Bernardino in California in 1896. A exotic dancer, first working in vaudeville under the name of 'La Bella Sevilla'. dark-haired genuine beauty who appeared in a handful of melodrama and western movies, making her film debut in 1914 under the direction of Burton L. ...

24. Irene Dunne

Actress | The Awful Truth

Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20, 1898, in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Joseph Dunne, who inspected steamships, and Adelaide Henry, a musician who prompted Irene in the arts. Her first production was in Louisville when she appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age...

25. Frank Fay

Actor | God's Gift to Women

Frank Fay was born on November 17, 1891 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for God's Gift to Women (1931), Nothing Sacred (1937) and The Matrimonial Bed (1930). He was married to Barbara Stanwyck, Frances White, Betty Kean and Gladys Buchanan. He died on September ...

26. Irene Fenwick

Actress | The Spendthrift

Irene Fenwick was born Irene Frizzel in Chicago, Illinois on September 5, 1887. She was predominately a stage actress and a fine one at that. Her first film was THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR in 1915. She was to make three more that year, but one in 1916 called A CONEY ISLAND PRINCESS. Her services were, ...

27. Stepin Fetchit

Actor | Judge Priest

Stepin Fetchit remains one of the most controversial movie actors in American history. While he was undoubtedly one of the most talented physical comedians ever to do his schtick on the Big Screen, achieving the rare status of being a character actor/supporting player who actually achieved ...

28. Lou Fillipo

Actor | Rocky IV

Lou Fillipo was born on December 1, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocky IV (1985), Rocky II (1979) and Rocky (1976). He was married to Pat Filippo. He died on November 2, 2009 in Downey, California, USA.

29. Bryan Foy

Producer | I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.

Bryan Foy started in showbiz as a vaudevillian, touring nationally for ten years as one of the 'Seven Little Foys' (the oldest). He left the act in 1918 to embark on a solo career in Hollywood, at first devising gags for Buster Keaton then filming two-reelers at Fox. In 1927, he began his long ...

30. Trixie Friganza

Actress | Free and Easy

Trixie Friganza was born on November 29, 1870 in Grenola, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Free and Easy (1930), If I Had My Way (1940) and Silks and Saddles (1936). She was married to Charles A. Goettler and William J.M. Barry. She died on February 27, 1955 in Flintridge, California, USA.

31. Cedric Gibbons

Art_director | Gaslight

After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, ...

32. Eddie Gribbon

Actor | The Bat

Eddie Gribbon was born on January 3, 1890 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bat (1926), The Great Dictator (1940) and Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950). He was married to Marion L. Duffy. He died on September 28, 1965 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

33. Elaine Hammerstein

Actress | The Midnight Express

Elaine Hammerstein was born on June 16, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Midnight Express (1924), Rupert of Hentzau (1923) and The Foolish Virgin (1924). She was married to James Walter Kays. She died on August 13, 1948 in Tijuana, Mexico.

34. John Harron

Actor | White Zombie

Actor John (Johnnie) Harron was born in New York City on March 31, 1903, a younger brother of silent screen star Robert Harron. John got his first taste of the movie business with an unbilled bit in one of his brother's many classic films, Hearts of the World (1918). After all the tabloid hoopla of...

35. Ted Healy

Actor | Mad Love

Ted Healy was was born Ernest Lea Nash and grew up as a very good friend of Moses "Moe" and Samuel "Shemp" Horwitz (later Moe and Shemp Howard). In the '20s he changed his name to Ted Healy and got Moe, Shemp, and a violinist named Larry Feinberg (later Larry Fine) to do vaudeville acts with him as...

36. Charles Hines

Director | All Aboard

Charles Hines was born on February 14, 1892 in Oakland, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and actor, known for All Aboard (1927), The Live Wire (1925) and Stepping Along (1926). He died on July 16, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

37. Johnny Hines

Actor | Little Johnny Jones

Johnny Hines was born on July 25, 1895 in Golden, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Little Johnny Jones (1923), Whistling in the Dark (1933) and The Live Wire (1925). He was married to Irma Warner. He died on October 24, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

38. John Hodiak

Actor | Lifeboat

Pittsburgh-born John Hodiak was one of several up-and-coming male talents who managed to take advantage of the dearth of WWII-era superstars (MGM's Clark Gable, Van Johnson, Robert Taylor and James Stewart, among others) who were off serving their country. John's early death at age 41, however, ...

39. Jimmie Horan

Actor | F Troop

Jimmie Horan was born on October 23, 1907 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for F Troop (1965), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) and Cavalcade of America (1952). He died on May 4, 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.

40. Leno LaBianca

Self | What Happened After...?

Leno LaBianca was born on August 6, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Rosemary LaBianca and Alice Skolfield. He died on August 10, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

41. Linda Loredo

Actress | Come Clean

Linda Loredo was born on June 20, 1907 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She was an actress, known for Come Clean (1931), Los calaveras (1931) and Politiquerías (1931). She died on August 11, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

42. John Macchia

Actor | Pink Motel

John Macchia is known for Pink Motel (1982), The Island (1980) and Knight Rider (1982).

43. Charles Mack

Actor | Why Bring That Up?

Charles Mack was born on November 22, 1887 in White Cloud, Kansas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Why Bring That Up? (1929), Anybody's War (1930) and Hypnotized (1932). He was married to Myrtle Buckley and Marian Robinson. He died on January 11, 1934 in Mesa, Arizona, USA.

44. Edwin Markham

Writer | Lincoln, the Man of the People

Edwin Markham was born on April 23, 1852 in Oregon City, Oregon, USA. He was a writer, known for Lincoln, the Man of the People (1923) and Love's Redemption (1921). He was married to Anna Catherine Murphy. He died on March 7, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.

45. Mary McCarty

Actress | Babes in Toyland

Mary McCarty was born on September 27, 1923 in Winfield, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Babes in Toyland (1961), All That Jazz (1979) and The French Line (1953). She died on April 30, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

46. Etta McDaniel

Actress | The Great Man's Lady

Etta McDaniel was born on December 1, 1890 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Great Man's Lady (1941), What a Man! (1944) and The Pittsburgh Kid (1941). She died on January 13, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

47. John McGroarty

Self | Alice in Storageland

48. Jimmy McHugh

Soundtrack | North by Northwest

Jimmy McHugh was born on July 10, 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for North by Northwest (1959), Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Labor Day (2013). He was married to Bessie Hornbrook. He died on May 23, 1969 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

49. Bull Montana

Actor | Victory

Bull Montana was born on May 16, 1887 in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Victory (1919), Laughing at Danger (1924) and The Lost World (1925). He was married to Mary Mathews. He died on January 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

50. Alex Montoya

Actor | The Magnificent Seven

Alex Montoya was born on October 19, 1907 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and Soldiers of Fortune (1955). He died on September 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

51. Matt Moore

Actor | Rain

Matt Moore was born on January 8, 1888 in County Meath, Ireland. He was an actor and director, known for Rain (1932), The Unholy Three (1925) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). He died on January 20, 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.

52. Owen Moore

Actor | A Star Is Born

Born in 1884, virile and dashing silent screen idol Owen Moore, equipped with incredibly handsome reddish and ruddy features, came to America with his family from Ireland at the age of 11. After some stage work, he entered films at the Biograph Studio in 1908 and appeared in many of D.W. Griffith's...

53. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton

Soundtrack | Last Man Standing

Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton was born on October 20, 1890 in Gulfport, Louisiana, USA. He is known for Last Man Standing (1996), The Legend of 1900 (1998) and Beginners (2010). He died on July 10, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

54. J. Carrol Naish

Actor | Sahara

One of the most versatile character actors in the business, Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (pronounced Nash) was born of Irish descent in New York City. His illustrious ancestors hailed from county Limerick and were listed in Burke's Peerage. He had a Catholic education at St. Cecilia's Academy, but ...

55. Pola Negri

Actress | Bella Donna

Pola Negri was born in Lipno, Poland, and moved to Warsaw as a child. Living in poverty with her mother, a teenage Pola auditioned and was accepted to the Imperial Ballet. Due to an illness that ended her dancing career, she soon switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became ...

56. Margaret Nicholls

Actress | Juno and the Paycock

Margaret Nicholls is known for Juno and the Paycock (1938), Spreading the News (1939) and Hyacinth Halvey (1938).

57. Mabel Normand

Actress | Mickey

Mabel Normand was one of the comedy greats of early film. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Her films debuted the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin's tramp and the pie in the face gag. She co-starred with both Chaplin and Roscoe "...

58. Ramon Novarro

Actor | Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

Ramon Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899 in Durango, Mexico, to Leonor (Gavilan) and Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego Siqueiros, a prosperous dentist. Ramon and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1913, as refugees from the Mexican Revolution. After stints as a ballet dancer, ...

59. Peggy O'Neill

60. Eddie Parker

Actor | All Ashore

Eddie Parker was born on December 12, 1900 in Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for All Ashore (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) and The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942). He was married to Bess. He died on January 20, 1960 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

61. Mary Philbin

Actress | The Man Who Laughs

Mary Philbin's life should be a lesson to domineering parents. Mary was born on July 16, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois, to John Philbin and his first wife and namesake, Mary. The child was regarded as a little beauty from an early age and her mother was exceedingly proud of her and loved to show her ...

62. Sol Polito

Cinematographer | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Sol Polito, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the distinct visual character of Warner Bros. films in the 1930s and 1940s, was born Salvador Polito on November 12, 1892, in Palermo, Sicily. While still young he emigrated to the US with his family, which settled in New York City, ...

63. Robert Polo

Actor | Borgia

Robert Polo is known for Borgia (2011), Star Wars: Hunting of the Fallen (2016) and Revelations (2005).

64. Irene Rich

Actress | Everybody's Hobby

Born Irene Luther on October 13, 1891, silent-screen femme Irene Rich came from a once well-to-do family in Buffalo, New York. Her father had a reversal of fortune while she was quite young and the family subsequently had to move to California. Following her education, Irene pursued a career as a ...

65. Hal Roach Jr.

Director | One Million B.C.

Hal Roach Jr. was born on June 15, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and director, known for One Million B.C. (1940), The Fabulous Joe (1947) and Captain Scarface (1953). He died on March 29, 1972 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

66. Jack Santoro

Actor | One Stolen Night

Jack Santoro was born on April 18, 1898 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for One Stolen Night (1929), Ginsberg the Great (1927) and Women They Talk About (1928). He died on October 23, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

67. Hunt Stromberg

Producer | The Thin Man

Hunt Stromberg was born on July 12, 1894 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Thin Man (1934), Sweethearts (1938) and Naughty Marietta (1935). He was married to Katherine Kerwin. He died on August 23, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

68. John Wray

Actor | All Quiet on the Western Front

John Wray was an American character actor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was primarily active during the 1930s.

Wray's real name was "John Griffith Malloy". He had a notable theatrical career, and appeared regularly in Broadway. In the late 1920s, there was a transition from silent films to ...

69. John Barrymore

Actor | Twentieth Century

John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical ...