Verstorbene Schauspieler/innen

3. Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns was the daughter of actor Mervyn Johns. Best known for her light comedy roles and often playful flirtation, Glynis was born in South Africa while her parents were on tour there (her mother was a concert pianist) but was always proud of her Welsh roots and took delight in playing the ...

Geboren am 5. Oktober 1923 · Pretoria, Südafrika Verstorben 4. Januar 2024 · Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA

4. David Soul

Actor | Starsky & Hutch

David Soul achieved pop icon status as handsome, blond-haired, blue-eyed Detective Kenneth Hutchinson on the cult "buddy cop" TV series Starsky and Hutch (1975), Soul also had a very successful singing career recording several albums, with worldwide number one hit singles including "Silver Lady" & ...

Geboren am 28. August 1943 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Verstorben 4. Januar 2024 · Vereinigtes Königreich (nicht bekannt gegeben)

5. Piper Laurie

Actress | The Hustler

Piper Laurie was a three-time Oscar nominee, nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in 'The Hustler' with Paul Newman.

Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Charlotte Sadie (Alperin) and Alfred Jacobs, a ...

Geboren: 22. Januar 1932 · Detroit, Michigan, USA Verstorben: 14. Oktober 2023 · Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA

6. Alan Arkin

Actor | Argo

Alan Arkin was an Academy Award-winning American actor who was also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.

He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 1946, the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to...

Geboren: 26. März 1934 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Verstorben: 29. Juni 2023 · San Marcos, Kalifornien, USA (Herzbeschwerden)

7. Heinz Baumann

Actor | Adelheid und ihre Mörder

Heinz Baumann was born on February 12, 1928 in Oldenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Adelheid und ihre Mörder (1993), Wehner - Die unerzählte Geschichte (1993) and Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971). He was married to Gardy Brombacher. He died on March 4, 2023 in Munich, ...

Born February 12, 1928 in Oldenburg, Germany Died March 4, 2023 in Munich, Germany

8. Thomas Danneberg

Writer | Enigma rosso

Thomas Danneberg was born on June 2, 1942 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Red Rings of Fear (1978), Hot Dogs: Wau - wir sind reich! (1999) and Jack Keane (2007). He was married to Leni Danneberg. He died on September 30, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

Geboren: 2 June 1942 in Berlin, Germany Died: 30 September 2023 in Berlin, Germany

9. David McCallum

Actor | The Great Escape

Since David McCallum's father, David McCallum Sr., was first violinist for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother, Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist, it's not surprising that David was originally headed for a career in music, playing oboe. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Music. He ...

Geboren: 19. September 1933 · Glasgow, Schottland, Vereinigtes Königreich Verstorben: 25. September 2023 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (natürliche Gründe)

10. Kirstie Alley

Actress | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. From 1997 to 2000, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe ...

Born January 12, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas, USA Died December 5, 2022 (cancer)

11. Clarence Gilyard Jr.

Actor | Die Hard

Clarence Gilyard Jr. was born on December 24, 1955 in Moses Lake, Washington, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Die Hard (1988), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) and Top Gun (1986). He was married to Elena Castillo and Catherine Dutko. He died on November 28, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Born December 24, 1955 in Moses Lake, Washington, USA Died November 28, 2022 in USA (long illness)

12. Robert Clary

Actor | The Bold and the Beautiful

Born in France, Robert Clary early suffered the pangs of war, being interned in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. After WWII he became a singing star in France, and in 1949 came to the United States to promote his career. He appeared on The Ed Wynn Show (1949); still learning English he ...

Geboren am 1. März 1926 in Paris, Frankreich Verstorben 16. November 2022 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA

13. Robbie Coltrane

Actor | Cracker

Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a ...

Born: March 30, 1950 in Rutherglen, Scotland, UK Died: October 14, 2022 (age 72) in Larbert, Scotland

14. Ralf Wolter

Actor | Cabaret

Ralf Wolter was born on November 26, 1926 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Cabaret (1972), One, Two, Three (1961) and Hannibal Brooks (1969). He was married to Edith. He died on October 14, 2022 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Born: November 26, 1926 in Berlin, Germany Died: October, 14, 2022 (age 95) in Munich, Germany

15. Angela Lansbury

Actress | The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...

Born: October 16, 1925 in Regent's Park, London, England, UK Died: October 11, 2022 (age 96) in Los Angeles, California, USA

16. Marsha Hunt

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or ...

Born: October 17, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA Died: September 7, 2022 (age 104) in Sherman Oaks, California, USA

17. Roger E. Mosley

Actor | Magnum, P.I.

Roger E. Mosley was born on December 18, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Terminal Island (1973). He was married to Antoinette 'Toni' Laudermilk and Saundra J Locke. He died on August 7, ...

Born: December 18, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA Died: August 7, 2022 (age 83) in USA

18. Clu Gulager

Actor | The Return of the Living Dead

Clu Gulager was born William Martin Gulager in Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma. His nickname was given to him by his father for the clu-clu birds (known in English as martins, like his middle name) that were nesting at the Gulager home at the time Clu was born. He grew up on his uncle's ranch ...

Born: November 16, 1928 in Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA Died: August 5, 2022 (age 93) in Los Angeles, California, USA

19. Nichelle Nichols

Actress | Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols was one of 10 children born to parents Lishia and Samuel Nichols in Robbins, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. She was a singer and dancer before turning to acting and finding fame in her groundbreaking role of Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek (1966) series.

As long as she could remember,...

Born: December 28, 1932 in Robbins, Illinois, USA Died: July 30, 2022 (age 89) in Silver City, New Mexico, USA

20. Bernard Cribbins

Actor | Frenzy

An actor since the age of 14, Bernard Cribbins had become a major star on the London stage by his mid-20s, but it was another ten years before he became a national star by his success in film comedies and with a string of hit records. He appeared in several of the "Carry On" series, and also ...

Born: December 29, 1928 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK Died: July 28, 2022 (age 93) in England, UK

21. Larry Storch

Actor | F Troop

As a kid in the 1930s growing up in a tough New York neighborhood, kinetic wiseguy Larry Storch took in the multi-ethnic flavor of his surroundings and started blurting out various accents as a juvenile to provoke laughs and earn attention. Little did he know that this early talent would take him ...

Born: January 8, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA Died: July 8, 2022 (age 99) in New York, USA

22. James Caan

Actor | Thief

A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.

He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...

Born: March 26, 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA Died: July 6, 2022 (age 82) in Los Angeles, California, USA

23. Ray Liotta

Actor | Narc

Intense was the word for Ray Liotta. He specialized in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice-guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. He was born in Newark, New ...

Born: December 18, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey, USA Died: May 26, 2022 (age 67) in Dominican Republic

24. Fred Ward

Actor | Short Cuts

A marvelous character actor with intense eyes, a sly grin and somewhat grizzled appearance, Golden Globe-winner Fred Ward had nearly 90 appearances under his belt in many tremendous films and television programs. He first became interested in acting after serving three years in the US Air Force and...

Born: December 30, 1942 in San Diego, California, USA Died: May 8, 2022 (age 79) in USA

25. Rae Allen

Actress | A League of Their Own

The actress, singer and stage director Rae Allen was born Raffaella Julia Theresa Abruzzo in Brooklyn, New York, to Joseph and Julia Abruzzo (née Riccio). She attended New York University and later studied drama at the Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village and at the American Academy of ...

Born: July 3, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA Died: April 6, 2022 (age 95)

26. Nehemiah Persoff

Actor | An American Tail

Born in 1919 in Jerusalem, Nehemiah Persoff emigrated with his family to America in 1929.

Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction of his life.

He joined ...

Born: August 2, 1919 in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine [now Jerusalem, Israel] Died: April 5, 2022 (age 102) in San Luis Obispo, California, USA

27. William Hurt

Actor | A History of Violence

William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...

Born: March 20, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA Died: March 13, 2022 (age 71) in Portland, Oregon, USA

28. Mitchell Ryan

Actor | Grosse Pointe Blank

American character actor born in Cincinnati and raised in Louisville, Mitchell Ryan was a well known supporting actor in films and television. Joined the Navy in 1951 at age 17 and was later assigned to the Special Services Entertainment and became hooked on acting. After his term in the Navy, he ...

Born: January 11, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Died: March 4, 2022 (age 88) in Los Angeles, California, USA

29. Sally Kellerman

Actress | MASH

Sally Kellerman arrived quite young on the late 1950s film and television scene with a fresh and distinctively weird, misfit presence. It is this same uniqueness that continued to make her such an attractively offbeat performer. The willowy, swan-necked, flaxen-haired actress shot to film comedy ...

Born: June 2, 1937 in Long Beach, California, USA Died: February 24, 2022 (age 84) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

30. Ivan Reitman

Producer | Up in the Air

Canadian producer and director Ivan Reitman created many of American cinema's most successful and best loved feature film comedies and worked with Hollywood's acting elite. Reitman produced such hits as the ground-breaking sensation National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which ...

Born: October 27, 1946 in Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic] Died: February 12, 2022 (age 75)

31. Douglas Trumbull

Visual_effects | Blade Runner

Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer, Douglas Trumbull, was one of the Special Photographic Effects Supervisors for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He went on to become the Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture...

Born: April 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA Died: February 7, 2022 (age 79) in Albany, New York, USA

32. Hardy Krüger

Actor | A Bridge Too Far

Hardy Kruger was born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger in Wedding, Berlin, thee son of Auguste (Meier) and Max Krüger. At thirteen years, he became a member of the "Hitler Jugend" (Hitler Youth), as did all 13-year-old boys in Germany then. The purpose of the organization was to prepare the boys ...

Born: April 12, 1928 in Wedding, Berlin, Germany Died: January 19, 2022 (age 93) in California, USA

33. Bob Saget

Actor | Full House

Bob Saget was an American actor, stand-up comedian, and television host from Philadelphia. His best known role was playing pater familias Danny Tanner on the hit sitcom "Full House" (1987-1995). He played the character again in the sequel series "Fuller House" (2016-2020). Saget served as the ...

Born: May 17, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Died: January 9, 2022 (age 65) in Orlando, Florida, USA

34. Sidney Poitier

Actor | In the Heat of the Night

Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...

Born: February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida, USA Died: January 6, 2022 (age 94) in Bahamas

35. Betty White

Actress | The Proposal

Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She was of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.

Although she was best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the ...

Born: January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA Died: December 31, 2021 (age 99)

36. Arlene Dahl

Actress | Journey to the Center of the Earth

Elegance and femininity are fitting descriptions for Arlene Dahl. She is considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses to have graced the screen during the postwar period. Audiences were captivated by her breathtaking beauty and the way she used to it to her advantage, progressing from ...

Born: August 11, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Died: November 29, 2021 (age 96) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

37. Marie Versini

Actress | Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand

Marie Versini was born on August 10, 1939 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand (1966), Kennwort... Reiher (1964) and Wild Kurdistan (1965). She was married to Pierre Viallet. She died on November 22, 2021 in Pabu, Cotes-d'Armor, France.

Born: August 10, 1940 in Paris, France Died: November 22, 2021 (age 81) in Guingamp, Brittany, Cotes-d'Armor, France

38. Volker Lechtenbrink

Actor | M.E.T.R.O. - Ein Team auf Leben und Tod

Volker Lechtenbrink was born on August 18, 1944 in Cranz, East Prussia, Germany [now Zelenogradsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for M.E.T.R.O. - Ein Team auf Leben und Tod (2006), Der Hausgeist (1991) and The Bridge (1959). He was married to Gül Ural-Aytekin, ...

Born: August 18, 1944 in Cranz, East Prussia, Germany [now Zelenogradsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia] Died: November 22, 2021 (age 77) in Hamburg, Germany

39. Dean Stockwell

Actor | Quantum Leap

Dean Robert Stockwell grew up in North Hollywood, the son of Broadway performers Harry Stockwell and Elizabeth "Betty" Stockwell (née Veronica). His vaudevillian father was a replacement Curly in the original production of "Oklahoma!". He was also a decent tenor whose voice was used for the part of...

Born: March 5, 1936 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Died: November 7, 2021 (age 85) in USA

40. Don Collier

Actor | Tombstone

Don Collier made over 200 credited movie and television appearances. He performed with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Anthony Quinn, Dean Martin, Tom Selleck, James Arness, and even Elvis Presley. His first role was as an extra in 1948 in the western Massacre River (1949). This was followed by two ...

Born: October 17, 1928 in Santa Monica, California, USA Died: September 13, 2021 (age 92) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, USA

41. Edward Asner

Actor | Up

Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...

Born: November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA Died: August 29, 2021 (age 91) in Los Angeles, California, USA

42. Alex Cord

Actor | Airwolf

Born Alexander Viespi, Jr. in Floral Park, New York in 1933, handsome, often mustachioed Alex Cord was stricken with polio at the age of 12. Confined to a hospital and iron lung for a long time, he overcame the illness after being sent to a Wyoming ranch for therapy. He soon regained his dream and ...

Born: May 3, 1933 in Floral Park, Long Island, New York, USA Died: August 9, 2021 (age 88) in Valley View, Texas, USA

43. Markie Post

Actress | There's Something About Mary

Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and started her career on films and TV shows, such as Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and went on to even produce such projects as Double Dare (1976) and has made appearances on such television projects as 1st to Die (2003), E! ...

Born: November 4, 1950 in Palo Alto, California, USA Died: August 7, 2021 (age 70)

44. Richard Donner

Director | Superman

Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...

Born: April 24, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA Died: July 5, 2021 (age 91)

45. Michael Deffert

Actor | SK Babies

Michael Deffert was discovered for Sesame Street at age eleven while riding his bicycle in the streets of his native town Hamburg. When he noticed a film set in his neighborhood, he charmed his way into the hearts of the female make up artists and persuaded them to introduce him to the director. A ...

Born: January 1, 1968 in Hamburg, Germany Died: June 13, 2021 (age 53)

46. Ned Beatty

Actor | Network

Stocky, genial-looking supporting actor Ned Beatty was once hailed by Daily Variety as the "busiest actor in Hollywood."

Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and working on farms. His hometown of St. Matthews, ...

Born: July 6, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA Died: June 13, 2021 (age 83) in Los Angeles, California, USA

47. Charles Grodin

Actor | Midnight Run

Deadpan comedian Charles Sydney Grodin (originally Grodinsky) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of Russian/Polish ancestry and raised in a Jewish orthodox home. He attended the University of Miami but dropped out, opting instead for the life of a struggling actor. The movie A Place in the Sun (...

Born: April 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Died: May 18, 2021 (age 86) in Wilton, Connecticut, USA

48. Norman Lloyd

Actor | Dead Poets Society

Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne...

Born: November 8, 1914 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA Died: May 10, 2021 (age 106) in Los Angeles, California, USA

49. Anne Douglas

Producer | Scalawag

Anne Douglas was born on April 23, 1919 in Hanover, Germany. She was a producer and actress, known for Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973), Deep River (2009) and Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009). She was married to Kirk Douglas and Albert Buydens. She died on April 29, 2021 in Beverly Hills, ...

Born: April 23, 1919 in Hanover, Germany Died: April 29, 2021 (age 102) in Beverly Hills, California, USA

50. Yaphet Kotto

Actor | Alien

Physically imposing, intense Yaphet Kotto was one of the few actors of his generation to succeed in breaking racial stereotypes in Hollywood. He was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Gladys, a nurse and army officer, and Abraham Kotto, a businessman-turned-construction worker. His father was a ...

Born: November 15, 1939 in New York City, New York, USA Died: March 14, 2021 (age 81) in Phillipines

51. Henry Darrow

Actor | The Hitcher

In the late 1960s, Henry Darrow was THE ultimate Latin heartthrob on television. With a smooth, ingratiating style and a killer smile that brightened up the small screen, he also hit a cultural acting landmark as the first Hispanic actor to portray Zorro on television.

He was born Enrique Tomás ...

Born: September 15, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA Died: March 14, 2021 (age 87) in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

52. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

Born: December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Died: February 5, 2021 (age 91) in Weston, Connecticut, USA

53. Hal Holbrook

Actor | Into the Wild

Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on...

Born: February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA Died: January 23, 2021 (age 95) in Beverly Hills, California, USA

54. Bruce Kirby

Actor | The Muppet Movie

One of those hard-working supporting actors whose face you know but whose name might not ring any bells. Italian-American Bruce Kirby (real name Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu) was steadily employed--primarily on the small screen--to play a gallery of often likeable, mainly unimposing characters in a ...

Born: April 28, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA Died: January 24, 2021 (age 95) in Los Angeles, California, USA

55. Jeremy Bulloch

Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Jeremy Bulloch was born on February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, the son of Aziz Diane (Meade) and McGregor Bulloch, an aeronautical engineer. He was the middle of three siblings, along with three older half-brothers from his mother's earlier marriage. Even at the age of ...

Born: February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK Died: December 17, 2020 (age 75) in Tooting, London, England, UK

56. David Prowse

Actor | Star Wars

David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...

Born: July 1, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK Died: November 28, 2020 (age 85)

57. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

Born: August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Died: October 31, 2020 (age 90)

58. Conchata Ferrell

Actress | Two and a Half Men

It took 30 years since it was first predicted, but Conchata Ferrell finally achieved television stardom, albeit of the supporting variety, as the housekeeper "Berta" in the situation-comedy Two and a Half Men (2003). Ferrell originally had been tipped for stardom with her turn as the prostitute "...

Born: March 28, 1943 in Charleston, West Virginia, USA Died: October 12, 2020 (age 77) in Sherman Oaks, California, USA

59. Helen Reddy

Actress | Pete's Dragon

The #1 Grammy-winning "I Am Woman" became not only THE anthem of the feminist movement during the radical 1970s, but also the signature song for its lovely, crop-haired, reddish-haired composer and singer Helen Reddy. Many decades later this is the hit people still remember her for, despite the ...

Born: October 25, 1941 in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Died: September 29, 2020 (age 78) in Los Angeles, California, USA

60. Diana Rigg

Actress | Last Night in Soho

British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

Born: July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK Died: September 10, 2020 (age 82) in UK

61. Wilford Brimley

Actor | The Natural

Wilford Brimley was born on September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for The Natural (1984), In & Out (1997) and Cocoon (1985). He was married to Beverly Berry and Lynne Brimley. He died on August 1, 2020 in St. George, Utah, USA.

Born: September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Died: August 1, 2020 (age 85) in St. George, Utah, USA

62. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

Born: July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan Died: July 25, 2020 (age 104) in Paris, France

63. John Saxon

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street

John Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited small roles in It Should Happen to You (1954) and George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954). Born...

Born: August 5, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, USA Died: July 25, 2020 (age 84) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

64. Ennio Morricone

Composer | The Hateful Eight

A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first ...

Born: November 10, 1928 in Rome, Lazio, Italy Died: July 6, 2020 (age 91) in Rome, Lazio, Italy

65. Carl Reiner

Writer | The Dick Van Dyke Show

Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, who achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his album "The 2,000 Year Old Man", based on his ...

Born: March 20, 1922 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA Died: June 29, 2020 (age 98) in Beverly Hills, California, USA

66. Joel Schumacher

Director | The Phantom of the Opera

Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film "The Lost Boys" (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two ...

Born: August 29, 1939 in New York City, New York, USA Died: June 22, 2020 (age 80

67. Ian Holm

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...

Born: September 12, 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK Died: June 19, 2020 (age 88) in London, England, UK

67. Claus Biederstaedt

Actor | Die große Versuchung

Claus Biederstaedt was born in Stargard, a mid-sized historic town in Pomerania, the son of a senior educational councillor who was also a conductor and taught music and art history. He was conscripted into the army as a 16-year-old and served on the Eastern Front, barely managing to escape to the ...

Born: June 28, 1928 in Stargard, Pomerania, Germany [now Stargard Szczecinski, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland] Died: June 18, 2020 (age 91) in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany

69. Anthony James

Actor | Unforgiven

Character actor Anthony James was born on July 22, 1942 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Unusually tall (6' 6½) and lanky, with a rough, pockmarked face, a lean, stringy build, and an extremely intense screen presence, James was often cast in Westerns as scary, sleazy villains. He was especially ...

Born: July 22, 1942 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA Died: May 26, 2020 (age 77) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

70. Fred Willard

Actor | Best in Show

Fred Willard radiated a unique charm that established him as one of the industry's most gifted comic actors, first coming to prominence as ambitious but dimwitted sidekick Jerry Hubbard to Martin Mull's smarmy talk-show host Barth Gimble in the devastating satirical series Fernwood Tonight (1977). ...

Born: September 18, 1933 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA Died: May 15, 2020 (age 86) in Los Angeles, California, USA

71. Jerry Stiller

Actor | The Heartbreak Kid

As the short, straight-man counterpart of the stellar husband-and-wife comedy team "Stiller & Meara", Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara were on top of the comedy game in the 1960s, a steady and hilarious presence on television variety, notably The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), on which they appeared 36 ...

Born: June 8, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA Died: May 11, 2020 (age 92) in USA

72. Sam Lloyd

Actor | Scrubs

Sam Lloyd was born on November 12, 1963 in Springfield, Vermont, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Scrubs (2001), Galaxy Quest (1999) and Flubber (1997). He was married to Vanessa Villalovos. He died on April 30, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Born: November 12, 1963 in Weston, Vermont, USA Died: May 1, 2020 (age 56)

73. James Drury

Actor | The Virginian

Laconic, dark and handsome were the essential attributes for Hollywood western leading men in the 50s and 60s. James Drury fit the bill, keeping in mind that his most famous screen persona - that of the stalwart Shiloh estate ranch foreman known only as 'the Virginian' - took a while to properly ...

Born: April 18, 1934 in New York City, New York, USA Born: April 6, 1934 (Age 85)

73. Honor Blackman

Actress | Goldfinger

One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...

Born: August 22, 1925 in Plaistow, London, England, UK Died: April 6, 2020 (age 94) in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK

75. Forrest Compton

Actor | The F.B.I.

American supporting actor, on screen from 1954. A chemist's son, he was raised in Pennsylvania and saw action in France during World War II with the 103rd Infantry Division. After demobilisation, he studied acting at Swarthmore College and then spent three years at Yale Drama School (graduating ...

Born: September 15, 1925 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA Died: April 4, 2020 (age 94)

76. Stuart Whitman

Actor | The Comancheros

American leading man Stuart Maxwell Whitman was known for his rugged roles. He was born in San Francisco, California, the elder of two sons of Cecilia (Gold) and Joseph Whitman, a realtor. His mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant, while his paternal grandparents were Polish Jews. His family moved ...

Born: February 1, 1928 in San Francisco, California, USA Died: March 16, 2020 (age 92) in Montecito, California, USA

77. Robert Conrad

Actor | Jingle All the Way

Robert Conrad was a graduate of Northwestern University, spending his first few years out of school supporting himself and his family by driving a milk truck and singing in a Chicago cabaret. Conrad befriended up-and-coming actor Nick Adams during this period, and it was Adams who helped Conrad get...

Born: March 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA Died: February 8, 2020 (age 84) in Malibu, California, USA

78. Baby Peggy

Actress | Helen's Babies

Silent moppet star Jackie Coogan, immortalized as Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921), had only one screen rival during the early 1920s, and that was none other than Baby Peggy. She was "discovered" while visiting the Century Studios lot on Sunset Boulevard with her mother when she was a mere 19 ...

Born: October 29, 1918 in San Diego, California, USA Died: February 24, 2020 (age 101) in Gustine, California, USA

79. Kirk Douglas

Actor | The Final Countdown

Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...

Born: December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York, USA Died: February 5, 2020 (age 103) in Los Angeles, California, USA

80. Terry Jones

Writer | The Meaning of Life

Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...

Born: February 1, 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK Died: January 21, 2020 (age 77)

81. Danny Aiello

Actor | Do the Right Thing

Danny Aiello was an American actor of Italian descent, and enjoyed a lengthy career in film. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione in the comedy-drama film "Do the Right Thing" (1989).

Aiello was born in Manhattan, New York ...

Born: June 20, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA Died: December 12, 2019 (age 86) in New Jersey, USA

82. Rene Auberjonois

Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss ...

Born: June 1, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA Died: December 8, 2019 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

83. Caroll Spinney

Actor | Sesame Street

Caroll Spinney was born on December 26, 1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sesame Street (1969), The Muppet Movie (1979) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981). He was married to Debra Spinney and Janice Spinney. He died on December 8, 2019 in Woodstock, ...

Born: December 26, 1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Died: December 8, 2019 (age 85) in Connecticut, USA

84. Ron Leibman

Actor | Garden State

Ron Leibman was born on October 11, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Garden State (2004), Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) and Kaz (1978). He was married to Jessica Walter and Linda Lavin. He died on December 6, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA.

Born: October 11, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA Died: December 6, 2019 (age 82) in New York City, New York, USA

85. Robert Walker Jr.

Actor | Easy Rider

Born in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (Queens, New York City) on April 15, 1940, the son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker Jr. certainly had the right pedigree to make the grade in Hollywood. His parents separated when Robert was only three. Six years later, his mother ...

Born: April 15, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA Died: December 5, 2019 (age 79) in Malibu, California, USA

86. Peter Fonda

Actor | Easy Rider

Peter Henry Fonda was born in New York City, to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario, Canada-born New York socialite Frances Brokaw (born Frances Ford Seymour). He was the younger brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda.

Fonda made his professional...

Born: February 23, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA Died: August 16, 2019 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

87. Rutger Hauer

Actor | Hobo with a Shotgun

Blond, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer enjoyed an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. Hauer was born in Breukelen, a Dutch town and former municipality in the province of Utrecht.

He was the son of Teunke ...

Born: January 23, 1944 in Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands Died: July 19, 2019 (age 75) in Netherlands

88. Rip Torn

Actor | Men in Black

Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, the son of Thelma Mary (Spacek) and Elmore Rudolph Torn, who was an agriculturalist and economist, credited with popularizing the custom of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. "Rip" is a family name, taken by ...

Born: February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, USA Died: July 9, 2019 (age 88) in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA

89. Cameron Boyce

Actor | Mrs. Fletcher

Cameron Boyce was an American actor, with Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His paternal grandmother Jo Ann Allen was one of the "Clinton Twelve", the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States (specifically in Clinton, Tennessee).

In 1999, ...

Born: May 28, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA Died: July 6, 2019 (age 20) in Los Angeles, California, USA

90. Max Wright

Actor | ALF

Max Wright was born on August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for ALF (1986), All That Jazz (1979) and The Shadow (1994). He was married to Linda Ybarrondo. He died on June 26, 2019 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

Born: August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, USA Died: June 26, 2019 (age 75) in Hermosa Beach, California, USA

91. Billy Drago

Actor | The Untouchables

Drago was well known for his villainous parts (leading or supporting), and his rugged yet scary looks and evil smile. He was born William Eugene Burrows in Hugoton, Kansas. He became interested in acting and took his mother's maiden name "Drago" as a stage name. At first he worked as a stuntman in ...

Born: November 30, 1945 in Hugoton, Kansas, USA Died: June 24, 2019 (age 73) in Los Angeles, California, USA

92. Tim Conway

Actor | The Carol Burnett Show

Funny man Tim Conway was born on December 15th, 1933 in Willoughby, Ohio, to Sophia (Murgoiu) and Daniel Conway, a pony groomer. He was a fraternity man at Bowling Green State University, served in the army, and started his career working for a radio station.

Conway got into comedy when he started ...

Born: December 15, 1933 in Willoughby, Ohio, USA Died: May 14, 2019 (age 85) in Los Angeles, California, USA

93. Doris Day

Soundtrack | Love Me or Leave Me

One of America's most loved actresses was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master. Her grandparents were all German immigrants. She had two brothers, Richard, who died ...

Born: April 3, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Died: May 13, 2019 (age 97) in Carmel Valley, California, USA

94. Jan-Michael Vincent

Actor | Bite the Bullet

Virile, handsome and square-jawed youthful star of the 1970s and 1980s who showed early potential at super-stardom, Jan-Michael Vincent originally made a name for himself portraying rebellious young men bucking the system, as in Tribes (1970), White Line Fever (1975) and Baby Blue Marine (1976) or ...

Born: July 15, 1944 in Denver, Colorado, USA Died: February 10, 2019 (age 74) in Asheville, North Carolina, USA

95. Katherine Helmond

Actress | Overboard

Katherine Marie Helmond was born on July 5, 1929, in Galveston, Texas. After her parents divorced, she was raised by her mother, Thelma (nee Malone) Helmond, and her maternal grandmother, both of Irish Catholic descent. She attended Catholic school, and appeared in numerous school plays and ...

Born: July 5, 1929 in Galveston, Texas, USA Died: February 23, 2019 (age 89) in USA

96. Morgan Woodward

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

Craggy-faced, athletic veteran character actor who played hard-bitten or menacing types in numerous westerns and crime dramas. One of five brothers, Woodward grew up in Arlington, Texas. He had a keen interest in aviation early on and took flying lessons from 1941, getting his pilot's license and ...

Born: September 16, 1925 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA Born: February 22 (age 93) http://www.morganwoodward.com

97. Donald Moffat

Actor | The Thing

The cinema took a while to discover him. Born in England, the son of an insurance agent, RADA-trained Donald Moffat first appeared on the Shakespearean stage with the Old Vic. In 1954, he stage managed the popular revue "Salad Days". Then, 'discontentment' (which, he later explained, had much to do...

Born: December 26, 1930 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK Died: December 20, 2018 (age 87) in Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA

98. Katherine MacGregor

Actress | Little House on the Prairie

Best known for her performance as the nasty, gossiping, greedy and arrogant Mrs. Harriet Oleson on the TV series Little House on the Prairie (1974). Katherine (Scottie) MacGregor could not appear in the final feature length episode "The Last Farewell" because she was on a pilgrimage in India.

Before...

Born: January 12, 1925 in Glendale, California, USA Died: November 13, 2018 (age 93) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

99. Stan Lee

Producer | Black Panther

Stan Lee was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics.

Stan was born in New York City, to Celia (Solomon) and Jack Lieber, a dress cutter. His parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants. Lee co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, ...

Born: December 28, 1922 in New York City, New York, USA Died: November 12, 2018 (age 95) in Los Angeles, California, USA

100. Burt Reynolds

Actor | Boogie Nights

Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a ...

Born: February 11, 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, USA Died: September 6, 2018 (age 82) in Jupiter, Florida, USA

101. Bill Daily

Actor | The Bob Newhart Show

Congenial, unassuming and always ingratiating comic actor Bill Daily came to fame as the bumbling, jittery playboy astronaut Roger Healy, best buddy and sidekick to Larry Hagman's accident-prone Tony Nelson in the perennial sitcom favourite I Dream of Jeannie (1965). Though his role had initially ...

Born: August 30, 1927 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA Died: September 4, 2018 (age 91) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

102. Wolfgang Völz

Actor | Astérix & Obélix contre César

Wolfgang Völz was born on August 16, 1930 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Babeck (1968) and Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). He was married to Roswitha Völz...

Wolfgang Völz was born on August 16, 1930 in Free City of Danzig as Wolfgang Otto Völz. He is an actor and writer, known for Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1967), Käpt'n Blaubär - Der Film (1999) and Neues vom Wixxer (2007). He has been married to Roswitha Völz since December 22, 1955. They have two children. See full bio » Born: August 16, 1930 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland] Died: May 2 2018 in Berlin, Germany