Actors Who Married The Same Partner More Than Once

1. June Allyson

American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined ...

Married 2 times to Alfred Glenn Maxwell.

2. Pamela Anderson

Actress | Barb Wire

Pamela Denise Anderson was born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada at 4:08 PST, to young newlywed parents, Barry Anderson and Carol Anderson. Her ancestry includes Finnish, English, Irish, and Volga German. During her childhood, she moved to the city of Vancouver. She has a ...

Married 2 times to Rick Saloman.

3. Milton Berle

Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor.

Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948-55), he was the first major American television star and ...

Married 2 times to Joyce Mathews.

4. Richard Burton

Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.

Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in ...

Married 2 times to Elizabeth Taylor.

5. Corinne Camacho

Actress | The Six Million Dollar Man

Corinne Camacho was a veteran American television actress and singer-songwriter. After an impressive career in television, spanning nearly four decades, Camacho dedicated the majority of her adult life to being a mother, a life coach, opening hospice centers and writing children's music.

Camacho was...

Married 2 times to Richard Paul Camacho.

6. Rosemary Clooney

Actress | White Christmas

She was the daughter of Andrew and Frances Clooney and grew up in Maysville, Kentucky, where she and her sister Betty Clooney used to sing in her grandfather's mayoral election campaigns, which he won three times. She made her singing debut on Cincinnati radio station WLW in 1941 at 13. On WLW she ...

Married 2 times to Jose Ferrer.

7. Elisha Cook Jr.

Actor | House on Haunted Hill

Although this pint-sized actor started out in films often in innocuous college-student roles in mid-30s rah-rahs, playing alongside the likes of a pretty Gloria Stuart or a young, pre-"Oz" Judy Garland, casting directors would soon enough discover his flair for portraying intense neurotics or ...

Married 2 times to Elvia Ann (Peggy) McKenna.

8. Susanne Cramer

Actress | Get Smart

Susanne apparently had a tumultuous private life. She married actor Hermann Nehlsen in 1956. Apparently that did not go well, as she tried to commit suicide twice in 1957 and was soon divorced. In 1958, she married actor Helmuth Lohner and was divorced five months later. She married Helmut a second...

Married 2 times to Helmuth Lohner.

9. 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 ...

Married 2 times to Lana Turner.

10. Rodney Dangerfield

Actor | Back to School

Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen on November 22, 1921 in Deer Park, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. He was the son of Dorothy "Dotty" (Teitelbaum) and Phillip Cohen, who performed in vaudeville under the name Phil Roy. His father was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents, and ...

Married 2 times to Joyce Indig.

11. Gloria DeHaven

Actress | The Thin Man Goes Home

Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born on July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles to vaudeville headliners Carter and Flora DeHaven. Her parents made sure their daughter would be educated at the very best private schools. They also indulged her ambition to be in show business by packing her off to the Mar-Ken ...

Married 2 times to Richard W Fincher.

12. Colleen Dewhurst

Actress | Anne of Green Gables

Tall, luminous and leonine, the legendary Colleen Dewhurst must go down as one of the theater's finest contemporary tragediennes of the late 1900s. With trademark dusky tones and a majestically careworn appearance, she possessed an inimitable down-to-earth fierceness that not only earned her the ...

Married 2 times to George C Scott.

13. Eminem

Soundtrack | 8 Mile

Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Deborah R. (Nelson) and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr., who were in a band together, Daddy Warbucks. He is of English, as well as some German, Scottish, and Swiss-German, ancestry. Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved ...

Married 2 times to Kimberly Anne Scott.

14. José Ferrer

Actor | The Caine Mutiny

José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.

In 1912, Ferrer was...

Married 2 times to Rosemary Clooney.

15. Mel Ferrer

Actor | Lili

Actor/director/producer Mel Ferrer was born Melchor Gaston Ferrer on August 25, 1917, in Elberon, New Jersey. The son of a Cuban-born surgeon and a Manhattan socialite, he went to prep school and attended Princeton University. From the age of 15 he worked in summer stock. After Princeton he became ...

Married 2 times to Frances Gunby Pilchard.

16. Melanie Griffith

Actress | Working Girl

Melanie Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 in New York City, to then model/future actress Tippi Hedren and former child actor turned advertising executive Peter Griffith. Her parents' marriage ended when she was four years old and Tippi brought Melanie to Los Angeles to get a new start. Tippi ...

Married 2 times to Don Johnson.

17. Paul Hogan

Actor | Crocodile Dundee

Paul Hogan became a worldwide success with his irresistible comic performance in Crocodile Dundee (1986), which he created and co-wrote. This earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor as well as an Academy Award nomination (for Best Screenplay). The versatile actor got his start in Australian ...

Married 2 times to Noelene Edwards.

18. John Jarratt

Actor | Wolf Creek

John Jarratt was born on August 5, 1951 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor and writer, known for Wolf Creek (2005), Django Unchained (2012) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

Married 2 times to Rosa Miano.

19. George Jessel

Actor | Lucky Boy

George Jessel gained fame in vaudeville, where it was not uncommon for him--and other performers, such as Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor--to perform in blackface, and in fact at age 11 Jessel was Cantor's vaudeville partner. Jessel acted in several movies in the '30s and became a respected film producer. ...

Married 2 times to Florence Courtney.

20. Don Johnson

Actor | Miami Vice

Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...

Married 2 times to Melanie Griffith.

21. Harry Karl

Self | The 37th Annual Academy Awards

Harry Karl was born on March 9, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Debbie Reynolds, Joan Perry, Marie McDonald and Ruth Elizabeth Lamb. He died on August 7, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Married 2 times to Marie McDonald.

22. George Kennedy

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter ...

Married 2 times to Norma Jean Wurman.

23. Karen Lamm

Actress | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Karen Lamm was born on June 21, 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Police Woman (1974) and The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975). She was married to Dennis Wilson and Robert Lamm. She died on June 29, 2001 in Playa del Rey,...

Married 2 times to Dennis Wilson.

24. Carole Landis

Actress | I Wake Up Screaming

Carole Landis was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Her father, a railroad mechanic, was of Norwegian descent and her mother was Polish. Her father walked out, leaving Carole, her mother and an older brother and sister to fend for themselves.

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Married 2 times to Jack Robbins.

25. Stan Laurel

Actor | Saps at Sea

Stan Laurel came from a theatrical family, his father was an actor and theatre manager, and he made his stage debut at the age of 16 at Pickard's Museum, Glasgow. He traveled with Fred Karno's vaudeville company to the United States in 1910 and again in 1913. While with that company he was Charles ...

Married 2 times to Virginia Ruth Rogers.

26. Lotte Lenya

Actress | From Russia with Love

Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer. While best remembered in the U.S. for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), she is celebrated in Germany for her ground-breaking performances in the plays of Kurt ...

Married 2 times to Kurt Weill

27. Georgia Lind

Actress | Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann

Georgia Lind was born on November 20, 1905 in Chemnitz, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann (1938), Wie werde ich reich und glücklich? (1930) and Die Halbwüchsigen (1929). She was married to Rudolf Platte. She died on December 10, 1984 in Berlin, ...

Married 2 times to Rudolf Platte.

28. Sophia Loren

Actress | La ciociara

Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...

Married 2 times to Carlo Ponti.

29. Gavin MacLeod

Actor | Mary Tyler Moore

Gavin MacLeod's pleasing, agreeable manner on two hit TV series in the 1970s and '80s belied a number of shady villains he portrayed in his early career. Born Allan George See in Mt. Kisco, New York, on February 28, 1931, and raised in Pleasantville, he was the son of Margaret (Shea) and George See...

Married 2 times to Patti MacLeod.

30. Patti MacLeod

Actress | Time Changer

Patti MacLeod was born on February 15, 1931 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is an actress, known for Time Changer (2002), Wonder Woman (1975) and The Love Boat (1977). She was previously married to Gavin MacLeod and Harry Thomas Steele.

Married 2 times to Gavin MacLeod.

31. Marie McDonald

Actress | A Scream in the Dark

Kentucky-born Marie McDonald, born Cora Marie Frye in 1923, was a leggy, voluptuous blonde starlet who pursued her career with a vengeance but found little reward in the end. Her mother was a former Ziegfeld girl and her grandmother an operatic singer. Her father, on the other hand, was not so ...

Married 2 times to Harry Karl.

32. Joyce Mathews

Actress | Sudden Money

Joyce Mathews was born on December 5, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Sudden Money (1939), $1000 a Touchdown (1939) and Mister Universe (1951). She was married to Don Beddoe, Ivor Studebaker Schmidt, Billy Rose, Milton Berle and Gonzalo Gómez. She died on January...

Married 2 times to Milton Berle and married 2 times to Billy Rose.

33. Thomas Mitchell

Actor | Stagecoach

Thomas Mitchell was one of the great American character actors, whose credits read like a list of the greatest American films of the 20th century: Lost Horizon (1937); Stagecoach (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); It's a ...

Married 2 times to Anne Stewart Brewer.

34. Louisa Moritz

Actress | Death Race 2000

Lovely, buxom, and vivacious blonde bombshell Louisa Moritz was born as Luisa Cira Castro Netto on September 25, 1936 in Havana, Cuba. Many members of Louisa's family which include her father Luis, sister Aurora, and her older brother Rafael all worked in the law profession. Moritz left Cuba and ...

Married 2 times to William N Fine.

35. Barry Newman

Actor | Vanishing Point

Barry Foster Newman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Sarah and Carl Newman. After graduating from Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the country, he graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Anthropology. While at Brandeis he met Lee Strasberg, who was teaching a course ...

Married 2 times to Angela G Spilker.

36. Jennifer O'Neill

Actress | Scanners

Jennifer O'Neill was born on February 20, 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Scanners (1981), Summer of '42 (1971) and The Innocent (1976). She has been married to Mervin Sidney Louque, Jr. since 1996. She was previously married to Richard Alan Brown, Neil ...

Married 2 times to Richard Alan Brown.

37. Yoko Ono

Soundtrack | The Beatles: Get Back

Yoko Ono was born on Saturday, February 18th, 1933, in her ancestral estate in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Eisuke Ono, was the descendant of a 9th Century Emperor of Japan. Her mother, Isoko Yasuda Ono, was the granddaughter of Zenijiro Yasuda, the founder of Yasuda Bank. Yoko was two years old when ...

Married 2 times to Anthony Cox.

38. Begoña Palacios

Actress | Baila mi amor

Begoña Palacios married the film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) when he was filming Major Dundee (1965) in Mexico. A very young and beautiful actress and dancer became the second wife of this controversial movie maker. They had a daughter Maria Guadalupe Peckinpah Palacios (better known as ...

Married 3 times to Sam Peckinpah.

39. Marisa Pavan

Actress | The Rose Tattoo

Maria Luisa Pierangeli and her twin sister Anna Maria were born in Sardinia, Italy. They were fraternal twins with different personalities as well. Anna Maria was dreamy and innocent; Maria Luisa was independent and studious. They moved to Rome in the late 1940s. In 1948 their lives changed when ...

Married 2 times to Jean-Pierre Aumont.

40. Vic Perrin

Soundtrack | Watchmen

Vic Perrin was born on April 26, 1916 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Watchmen (2009), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Gunsmoke (1955). He was married to Rita Singer and Evelyn Held. He died on July 4, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Married 2 times to Rita Singer.

41. Rudolf Platte

Actor | Tante Wanda aus Uganda

Rudolf Platte was born on February 12, 1904 in Hörde [now Dortmund], Germany. He was an actor, known for Tante Wanda aus Uganda (1957), Veronika Voss (1982) and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1960). He was married to Georgia Lind, Marina Ried and Vally Hager. He died on December 18, 1984 in West ...

Married 2 times to Georgia Lind.

42. Gladys Portugues

Actress | The Morning After

Gladys Portugues was born on September 30, 1957 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Morning After (1986), It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987) and The Wil Shriner Show (1987). She has been married to Jean-Claude Van Damme since June 25, 1999. She was ...

Married 2 times to Jean-Claude Van Damme.

43. Tom Poston

Actor | Christmas with the Kranks

Veteran comedic actor Tom Poston, he with the bugged-out eyes that commonly accentuated a vague look of bewilderment, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on October 17, 1921. By age nine, the young boy was appearing with an acrobatic troupe.

Poston later attended Bethany College in West Virginia when World ...

Married 2 times to Wilma Kay Hudson.

44. Andrew Prine

Actor | Gettysburg

Andrew Prine, a well-known stage actor also known for military and western dramas, was first seen in Kiss Her Goodbye (1959), then in The Miracle Worker (1962). Prine, who has a Texan-sounding voice, was also well remembered in westerns like Texas Across the River (1966), Generation (1969) and ...

Married 3 times to Brenda Scott.

45. Richard Pryor

Actor | Superman III

Highly influential, and always controversial, African-American actor/comedian who was equally well known for his colorful language during his live comedy shows, as for his fast paced life, multiple marriages and battles with drug addiction. He has been acknowledged by many modern comic artist's as ...

Married 2 times to Jennifer Lee Pryor and 2 times to Flynn Belaine.

46. Jack Robbins

A Gentleman at Heart

Jack Robbins was born Irving Kay Wheeler in Connecticut in 1913. He grew up in Banning, California, where he worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps. In August of 1934 Irving married fifteen-year-old Frances Ridste from San Bernardino. The marriage only lasted several weeks. Frances moved to ...

Married 2 times to Carole Landis.

47. Bartlett Robinson

Actor | Sleeper

Bartlett Robinson was born on December 9, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sleeper (1973), The Fortune Cookie (1966) and The Spirit of St. Louis (1957). He was married to Margaret White Ballantine. He died on March 26, 1986 in Fallbrook, California, USA.

Married 2 times to Margaret White Ballantine.

48. Brenda Scott

Assistant_director | Oscar Phitkin: A Vendor's Tale

Brenda Scott was born on March 15, 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and assistant director, known for Oscar Phitkin: A Vendor's Tale (1998), Simon & Simon (1981) and Mannix (1967). She has been married to Dean Hargrove since April 21, 1979. She was previously married to Andrew ...

Married 3 times to Andrew Prine.

49. George C. Scott

Actor | Patton

George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...

Married 2 times to Colleen Dewhurst.

50. Dick Smothers

Actor | Casino

Dick Smothers was born on November 20, 1938 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Casino (1995), The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967) and The Informant! (2009). He was previously married to Denby Franklin, Lorraine Wallace and Linda Miller.

Married 2 times to Linda Miller.

51. Freddie Starr

Actor | The Squeeze

The tale of Freddie Starr is a long twisting turning plot of "rags to riches" fame, ending in near destitution and self destruction.

In the end his immense success led to absolute failure. If things had developed a little more slowly for him this unique talent could have been one of the true heroes ...

Married 2 times to Donna Smith.

52. Ben Stein

Actor | Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born on Nov. 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C. The son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein, he grew up in Silver Spring, Md., and attended Montgomery Blair High School. Some of his classmates included journalist Carl Bernstein, and actors Goldie Hawn and ...

Married 2 times to Alexandra Denman.

53. Milburn Stone

Actor | Gunsmoke

Character actor Milburn Stone, the beloved "Doc Adams" on TV's long-running western classic Gunsmoke (1955), was born in Kansas on July 5, 1904. Acting must have been in his blood as the nephew of Broadway comedian Fred Stone for Milburn left home as a teenager to find work with touring repertory ...

Married 2 times to Jane Garrison.

54. Elizabeth Taylor

Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...

Married 2 times to Richard Burton.

55. Lana Turner

Actress | Madame X

Lana Turner had an acting ability that belied the "Sweater Girl" image MGM thrust upon her, and even many of her directors admitted that they knew she was capable of greatness (check out The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)). Unfortunately, her private life sometimes overshadowed her professional ...

Married 2 times to Stephen Crane.

56. Jean-Claude Van Damme

Actor | Double Impact

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...

Married 2 times to Gladys Portugues.

57. Robert Wagner

Actor | The Towering Inferno

R.J. Wagner was born 1930 in Detroit, the son of a steel executive. His family moved to L.A. when he was six. Always wanting to be an actor, he held a variety of jobs (including one as a golf caddy for Clark Gable) while pursuing his goal, but it was while dining with his parents at a Beverly Hills...

Married 2 times to Natalie Wood.

58. James Whitmore

Actor | The Shawshank Redemption

Born on October 1, 1921, in White Plains, New York, gruff veteran character actor James Whitmore earned early and widespread respect with his award-winning dramatic capabilities on Broadway and in films. He would later conquer TV with the same trophy-winning results.

The son of James Allen Whitmore ...

Married 2 times to Nancy Richmond Mygatt.

59. Natalie Wood

Actress | Rebel Without a Cause

Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.

Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...

Married 2 times to Robert Wagner.

60. Jane Wyman

Actress | Falcon Crest

Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she attempted, with the help ...

Married 2 times to Fred Karger.