Died on their Birthday or within 30 days of their birthdate
by camels-55854 | created - 2 months ago | updated - 1 week ago | PublicOur bodies remember when we came into this world and most want to leave close to that anniversary date.
1. Ingrid Bergman
Actress | Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...
2. Simon Oakland
Actor | Psycho
One of the movies' most memorable tough guys, Simon Oakland actually began his career as a concert violinist, turning to acting in the late 1940s. After a long string of roles in Broadway hits, including "Light Up the Sky," "The Shrike" and "Inherit the Wind," Oakland made his film debut as the ...
3. Philip Kenneally
Actor | Little Big Man
Philip Kenneally was born on December 8, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Little Big Man (1970), Garden of the Dead (1972) and Man Against Crime (1949). He died on December 14, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
4. Dorothy Malone
Actress | Written on the Wind
The blonde, sultry, dreamy-eyed beauty of Dorothy Malone, who was born Mary Maloney in Chicago on January 29, 1924, took some time before it made an impact with American film-going audiences. But once she did, she played it for all it was worth in her one chance Academy Award-winning "bad girl" ...
5. Jacques Bergerac
Actor | Gigi
Jacques Bergerac was born on May 26, 1927 in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. He was an actor, known for Gigi (1958), Missione speciale Lady Chaplin (1966) and Un homme se penche sur son passé (1958). He was married to Dorothy Malone and Ginger Rogers. He died on June 15, 2014 in ...
6. Peggy Rea
Actress | Grace Under Fire
Peggy Rea was born on March 31, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for Grace Under Fire (1993), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) and Love Field (1992). She died on February 5, 2011 in Toluca Lake, California, USA.
7. Eddie Little Sky
Actor | The Car
Oglala Lakota, born Edsel Wallace Little Sky on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. Eddie served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Tall (at 6 ft, 2") and muscular, he was subsequently employed as an oil field wildcatter and then toured the rodeo circuit ...
8. Dal McKennon
Actor | Lady and the Tramp
Dal McKennon was born on July 19, 1919 in La Grande, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Gumby: The Movie (1995). He was married to Betty Warner. He died on July 14, 2009 in Raymond, Washington, USA.
9. Lee Patrick
Actress | The Maltese Falcon
The highly versatile character actress Lee Patrick could readily play a tough, scrapping, hard-bitten dame as she did in the gritty women's prison drama Caged (1950), or a meek and twittery wife as exemplified by her uppity socialite Doris Upson in the freewheeling farce Auntie Mame (1958). She ...
10. Rosalind Knight
Actress | About a Boy
Born in Marylebone, London, versatile character actress Rosalind Marie Knight was born to theatrical parentage. Her father was the accomplished thespian Esmond Knight. Her mother, the comedienne Frances Clare, often featured in Ivor Novello operettas. Rosalind's interest in theatre was first ...
11. Betty Barry
Actress | Burke's Law
Betty Barry was born on February 12, 1923 in Far Rockaway, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Burke's Law (1963), Bat Masterson (1958) and The Adventures of Nellie Bly (1981). She was married to Gene Barry. She died on January 31, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
12. Tommy Leonetti
Music_department | She Came to the Valley
Tommy Leonetti was born on September 10, 1929 in North Bergen, New Jersey, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for She Came to the Valley (1979), Massacre at Central High (1976) and Squeeze a Flower (1970). He was married to Cynthia Chenault and Patricia Quinn. He died on September 15, 1979 in ...
13. Dilys Laye
Actress | Carry on Camping
A raven-haired, sometimes blonde (particularly in the earlier years) pretty actress, Dilys Laye was capable of a wide range of roles, from straight drama to comedy. She began in the 1950s, like most other British screen actresses of the era, in studio-system-style films. One of her first films was ...
14. Rod Roddy
Actor | Soap
Rod Roddy was born on September 28, 1937 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Soap (1977), House of Mouse (2001) and Whew! (1979). He died on October 27, 2003 in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
15. David Wayne
Actor | The Andromeda Strain
His father was an insurance executive; his mother died when he was four. He attended Western Michigan University then worked as a statistician in Cleveland where he joined a Shakespeare repertory company. Two years later he had a minor role in "The American Way" in New York. He was rejected by the ...
16. Barbara Joyce
Actress | Tales of Tomorrow
Barbara Joyce was born on August 2, 1917 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Tales of Tomorrow (1951), Rocky King, Detective (1950) and The Plainclothesman (1949). She was married to William Windom and Richard L. Bare. She died on August 11, 2009.
17. Michael Keep
Actor | 40 Guns to Apache Pass
Michael Keep was born on December 15, 1922 in Pueblo, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for 40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967), The Twilight Zone (1959) and The High Chaparral (1967). He died on November 27, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
18. Reza Badiyi
Assistant_director | Carnival of Souls
Reza Badiyi was born on April 17, 1929 in Arak, Iran. He was a director and producer, known for Carnival of Souls (1962), Stop Susan Williams (1979) and Get Smart (1965). He was married to Tania Harley, Barbara Turner and Gwendolyn M Dennis. He died on August 20, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, ...
19. Tod Andrews
Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Tod Andrews was born on November 9, 1914 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Heaven Can Wait (1943) and From Hell It Came (1957). He was married to Karolyn Rainwater, Valerie Veigel, Alice Kirby Hooker, Gloria Eleanor Folland and Isabelle ...
20. Jack Prince
Actor | The Andy Griffith Show
Jack Prince, whose birth name was John Upchurch, was trained in singing at an early age.
Prince appeared on Broadway in the 1950s in main and understudy/replacement roles in at least three musicals: "Guys and Dolls" (1950-1953), as "Nicely Nicely Johnson", "Lil' Abner" (1956-1958) as "Marryin' Sam",...
21. Hope Summers
Actress | Rosemary's Baby
Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968).
Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early interest in the theater. ...
22. Howard McNear
Actor | The Andy Griffith Show
Although Los Angeles native Howard McNear had a long career on radio and in films, he will forever be remembered for his memorable - and scene-stealing - portrayal of Floyd the Barber in the long-running The Andy Griffith Show (1960) (actor Don Knotts once said that playing Floyd wasn't much of a ...
23. Frances Bavier
Actress | The Andy Griffith Show
Frances Bavier was born in New York City on December 14, 1902. Her first Broadway appearance was in April 1925 in "The Poor Nut," the start of a successful Broadway career. She traveled with the USO to entertain the U.S. troops in the Pacific during World War II. Her last appearance on Broadway was...
24. Burt Mustin
Actor | The Twilight Zone
Burt Mustin was a salesman most of his life, but got his first taste of show business as the host of a weekly radio variety show on KDKA Pittsburgh in 1921. He appeared onstage in "Detective Story" at Sombrero Playhouse in Phoenix Arizona, and played the janitor in the movie version, (Detective ...
25. Jon Lormer
Actor | Creepshow
Jon Lormer was born on May 7, 1906 in Canton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Creepshow (1982), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Getting Straight (1970). He died on March 19, 1986 in Burbank, California, USA.
26. Ed Cambridge
Actor | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Edmund J. Cambridge is the Founding Member of the Legendary "Cambridge Players" a Theater Troupe that First Produce James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner" on Broadway in 1965 which was produced by Nat King Cole Wife "Maria Ellington". The founding members of The Cambridge Players are Juanita Moore, ...
27. Walker Edmiston
Actor | The Great Mouse Detective
Talented, prolific and versatile voice and character actor Walker Edmiston had a remarkable career in radio, movies and television that spanned over five decades. Walker was born on February 6, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri. Edmiston discovered at an early age that he could perfectly mimic other ...
28. 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,...
29. Al Checco
Actor | Bullitt
Al Checco was born on July 21, 1921 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Bullitt (1968), The Party (1968) and Helter Skelter (1976). He died on July 19, 2015 in Studio City, California, USA.
30. Frank Ramírez
Actor | Cóndores no entierran todos los días
Frank Ramírez was born on February 12, 1939 in Aguazul, Colombia. He was an actor and writer, known for A Man of Principle (1984), María Cano (1990) and Técnicas de duelo: Una cuestión de honor (1988). He died on February 19, 2015 in Bogota, Colombia.
31. Jill Janssen
Actress | Love Minus One
Jill Janssen was born on July 31, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Love Minus One (1972) and The Fugitive (1963). She was married to Stephen Lodge. She died on July 30, 2022 in Manhattan Beach, California, USA.
32. Richard Harris
Actor | Unforgiven
Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred (Harty) and Ivan Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout ...
33. Elizabeth Rees
Actress | Dawn
Elizabeth Rees was born on May 1, 1936 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Dawn (1991), BBC2 Playhouse (1973) and Graham's Gang (1977). She was married to Jonathan Aitken, Peter Aitken, Rex Harrison and Richard Harris. She died on April 15, 2022 in London.
34. Ned Romero
Actor | I Will Fight No More Forever
Ned Romero was born on December 4, 1926 in Franklin, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for I Will Fight No More Forever (1975), Star Trek (1966) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He was married to Gwyneth E. Howard Coty and Jolene Lontere. He died on November 4, 2017 in Palm Desert, ...
35. Lou Frizzell
Actor | The Front Page
Lou Frizzell was born on June 10, 1920 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Front Page (1974), The Other (1972) and Summer of '42 (1971). He died on June 17, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
36. Bill Quinn
Actor | Twilight Zone: The Movie
Bill Quinn was born on May 6, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) and The Birds (1963). He was married to Mary Catherine Roden. He died on April 29, 1994 in Camarillo, California, USA.
37. Bill Henderson
Actor | Clue
Bill Henderson was born on March 19, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Clue (1985), City Slickers (1991) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). He was married to Ritsuyo Moriyasu. He died on April 3, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
38. James Farentino
Actor | The Final Countdown
James Farentino was an American actor, with many appearances in film and television. He is better known for playing fisherman and apostle Simon Peter in the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977), and revenge-seeking psychiatrist Dr. Nick Toscanni in the soap opera "Dynasty". He played the role of ...
39. John Crawford
Actor | The Poseidon Adventure
Burly, handsome and rugged character actor John Crawford appeared in over 200 movies and TV shows combined in a career that spanned over 40 years, usually cast as tough and/or villainous characters.
Crawford was born Cleve Richardson on September 13, 1920, in Colfax, Washington. He was discovered by...
40. E.J. André
Actor | The Ten Commandments
E.J. André was born on August 14, 1908 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Papillon (1973) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). He died on September 6, 1984 in Hollywood, California, USA.
41. Ken Renard
Actor | True Grit
Ken Renard was born on November 19, 1905 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was an actor, known for True Grit (1969), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and Something of Value (1957). He died on November 16, 1993 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
42. Cynthia Lynn
Actress | Hogan's Heroes
Cynthia Lynn was born on April 2, 1937 in Riga, Latvia. She was an actress, known for Hogan's Heroes (1965), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). She died on March 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
43. Alan Manson
Actor | Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Alan Manson was one of a group of World War II soldiers selected to appear in Irving Berlin's 1942 musical This Is the Army (1943). He appeared in the Broadway production as well as in the film. After the war, he continued to perform on Broadway. In 1955, he was called before the House committee ...
44. William Sylvester
Actor | 2001: A Space Odyssey
William Sylvester was born on January 31, 1922 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Gorgo (1961) and Riding with Death (1976). He was married to Veronica Hurst and Sheila Sweet. He died on January 25, 1995 in Sacramento, California, USA.
45. Jed Allan
Actor | General Hospital
Jed Allan was born on March 1, 1935 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for General Hospital (1963), Days of Our Lives (1965) and Port Charles (1997). He was married to Janice Toby Druger. He died on March 9, 2019 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
46. Charles Wagenheim
Actor | Foreign Correspondent
Initially drawn to an acting career to counterbalance an acute case of shyness, diminutive character actor Charles Wagenheim's career comprised hundreds upon hundreds of minor but atmospheric parts on stage, film and TV. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1896, he was the son of immigrant parents. ...
47. Audrey Totter
Actress | The Unsuspected
One is certainly hard-pressed to think of another true "bad girl" representative so closely identifiable with film noir than hard-looking blonde actress Audrey Totter. While she remained a "B"-tier actress for most her career, she was an "A" quality actress and one of filmdom's most intriguing ...
48. Bing Russell
Actor | The Magnificent Seven
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell was also well-known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the Class-A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before ...
49. Olan Soule
Actor | Captain Midnight
Olan Soule was born in La Harpe, Illinois and began his acting career in 1926 on radio, performing for 11 years in the daytime soap opera "Bachelor's Children". A versatile actor with a "chameleon-like" voice, Soule played the male lead characters in plays presented on the evening radio show "First...
50. Lani O'Grady
Actress | Eight Is Enough
Although Lani O'Grady retired from acting in the '80s to become a talent agent like her mother, she had long secured her place in the TV Land pantheon as Mary, the brainiac wannabe doctor in Eight Is Enough (1977)'s expansive Bradford brood. The dramedy, starring Dick Van Patten as a newspaper ...
51. Macon McCalman
Actor | Smokey and the Bandit
Macon McCalman was born on December 30, 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Deliverance (1972). He died on November 29, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
52. Robert Loggia
Actor | Big
Born and raised in New York City, Robert Loggia studied journalism at the University of Missouri before moving back to New York to pursue acting. He trained at the Actors Studio while doing stage work. From the late 1950s he was a familiar face on TV, usually as authoritative figures. Loggia also ...
53. Diane Fawcett Walls
Self | The Mike Douglas Show
Diane Fawcett Walls was born on October 27, 1938 in Montgomery, Texas, USA. She was married to Earl Eugene Walls and Jeffry Curtis Riggs. She died on October 16, 2001 in Houston, Texas, USA.
54. Victor Buono
Actor | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Larger than life, Laughtonesque, and with an eloquent, king-sized appetite for maniacal merriment, a good portion of the work of actor Victor Buono was squandered on hokey villainy on both film and television. Ostensibly perceived as bizarre or demented, seldom did Hollywood give this cultivated ...
55. David J. Stewart
Actor | Murder, Inc.
David J. Stewart was born on January 8, 1915 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Murder, Inc. (1960), Sunday Showcase (1959) and The Defenders (1961). He died on December 23, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
56. Richard Eastham
Actor | Tombstone Territory
Another in the long line of 1950s and 1960s character actors whose face was oh-so familiar but not the name, Richard Eastham was originally headed for a musical career.
He was born Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, on June 22, 1916. A student at Washington University, he was gifted ...
57. Liam Sullivan
Actor | Star Trek
Liam Sullivan was schooled at Illinois College while having his first fling with the acting profession in regional theater. He then studied drama at Harvard, made his way to New York and first appeared on Broadway in "The Constant Nymph" in 1951. He later returned to the West Coast to perform in an...
58. Isaac Hayes
Actor | Escape from New York
Isaac Hayes, the second-born child of Eula and Isaac Hayes Sr., was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wade Sr. The child of a poor family, he grew up picking cotton in Covington, Tennessee. He dropped out of high school, but later his former high-school teachers to get his diploma, ...
59. Don Diamond
Actor | Zorro
Brooklyn-born Don Diamond's most famous role is probably that of the scheming and ambitious, but inept and somewhat cowardly, underling Crazy Cat to Frank DeKova's Chief Wild Eagle in the cult western comedy series F Troop (1965). By the time he got that role he had been an actor for quite some ...
60. Wilfrid Hyde-White
Actor | My Fair Lady
British character actor of wry charm, equally at home in amused or strait-laced characters. A native of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, he attended Marlborough College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. His stage debut came in 1922, and by 1925 he was a busy London actor. He married ...
61. William Watson
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Character actor William C. "Bill" Watson was born on October 5, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois. The son of Harold and Vesta Watson, William had two brothers and a sister. Watson first began acting in both films and TV shows in the mid-1960s. Husky and tough looking, with cold eyes, curly blonde hair, ...
62. Tony Ballen
Actor | Disneyland
Tony Ballen was born on July 6, 1930 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954), Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983) and McCloud (1970). He died on July 15, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
63. Peter Graves
Actor | Stalag 17
Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While growing up in Minnesota, he excelled at sports and music (as a saxophonist), and by age 16, he was a radio announcer at WMIN in Minneapolis. After two years in the United States Army Air Force, he studied...
64. Vince Howard
Actor | Star Trek
Vince Howard is probably best-known for his role as Pete Butler on the television series Mr. Novak (1963), with fellow "Man Trap" guest star Jeanne Bal and Bill Zuckert, and as Officer Vince Howard on Emergency! (1972), with Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth. He was also a regular on Barnaby Jones ...
65. Tom Palmer
Casting_director | The Young and the Restless
Thomas Palmer was a character actor in early television, Broadway and films. Palmer, originally from Toronto, appeared in such quality dramatic series on the small screen as "Philco Playhouse," "U.S. Steel Hour," "Kraft Theatre," "Armstrong Circle Theatre," "Playhouse 90" and "Studio One." As ...
66. John Graham
Actor | The Outer Limits
John Graham was born on December 24, 1906 in Monticello, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for The Outer Limits (1963), Lights Out (1946) and The Invaders (1967). He died on November 29, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
67. Sharon Acker
Actress | Happy Birthday to Me
Although she was presented in 1969 the first Film Star of Tomorrow by The Motion Picture Exhibitors of Canada, the status of Sharon Acker as a star never materialized. Not that she was inactive, quite the opposite, but she worked almost only for TV and appeared only in a few undistinguished movies....
68. George Cooper
Actor | Crossfire
George Cooper was born on January 24, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Crossfire (1947), Blood on the Moon (1948) and Roughshod (1949). He was married to Valerie M. Conte. He died on February 14, 2015 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
69. Thom Carney
Actor | Columbo
Thom Carney was born on May 16, 1923 in Charleston, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Columbo (1971), Tales of Tomorrow (1951) and It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958). He died on May 4, 1982 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
70. William Swan
Actor | Cavalcade of America
William Swan was born on February 6, 1928 in Amherst, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Cavalcade of America (1952), Producers' Showcase (1954) and The Parallax View (1974). He died on January 20, 2019 in Lee, Massachussets.
71. Oskar Werner
Actor | Ship of Fools
Remote, somewhat morose and, as a result, intriguing, Viennese talent Oskar Werner was born in 1922, not far from the birthplace of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, and christened Oskar Josef Bschließmayer. His parents divorced when he was fairly young.
While growing up, Oskar found performing in school...
72. Trisha Noble
Actress | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Patricia Ann Ruth Noble was born on February 3, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales to a popular Australian theater family. Her father, Buster Noble, was a well-known comedian, singer and dancer, and her mother, Helen de Paul, was a noted choreographer and producer. At the age of six, Patsy Ann, as she...
73. Vance Davis
Actor | Knight Rider
Vance Davis was born on May 5, 1922 in Smackover, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Knight Rider (1982), Highway to Heaven (1984) and The Zebra Force (1976). He died on May 6, 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
74. John Finnegan
Actor | An American Tail
John Finnegan, or sometimes known as J.P. Finnegan, is an American film actor, mostly known for his roles on the American crime fiction series, Columbo (1971), which aired regularly from 1971 to 1978. Another role included voicing the character, "Warren T. Rat", who was the main villain in the 1986 ...
75. Pervis Atkins
Actor | The Longest Yard
Pervis Atkins was born on November 24, 1935 in Ruston, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Longest Yard (1974), Melinda (1972) and Police Woman (1974). He was married to Fleta Sharpe and Sheila Shorter. He died on December 22, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
76. Lara Parker
Actress | Dark Shadows
Lara Parker was born, Mary Lamar Rickey, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Memphis. She attended Central High School in Memphis, and won a scholarship to Vassar College. At Vassar, Lara began a major in philosophy, which she completed at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), receiving...
77. Milton Selzer
Actor | Sid and Nancy
Possessing one of TV's more identifiable mugs, Jewish-American character actor Milton Selzer was here, there and everywhere in the 1960s and 1970s, playing a host of usually unsympathetic mobsters, gamblers, and crooks with a sad, almost pathetic quality in about every popular crime story offered, ...
78. C. Lindsay Workman
Actor | Westworld
C. Lindsay Workman was born on March 6, 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Westworld (1973), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Buffalo Rider (1976). He was married to Patricia R. Robinson. He died on April 24, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
79. Victor Sen Yung
Actor | Across the Pacific
Achieving both film and TV notice during his lengthy career, this diminutive Asian-American character was born Victor Cheung Young on October 18, 1915 in San Francisco to Chinese emigrants. When his mother died during the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, his father placed Victor and his sister in a ...
80. Victor Holchak
Actor | Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell
Victor J. Holchak, nicknamed Vic, was born in South Central Los Angeles, to Victor A. Holchak and Norma Jean (Philen) Holchak.
Vic graduated from Manual Arts High School in 1958. In his high school years, Vic was interested in sports and sports journalism. He became the High School Editor of the Los...
81. Jack Sheldon
Soundtrack | The Long Goodbye
Jack Sheldon was the son of Jen Loven (1909-1989), who taught many of the Hollywood entertainment elite and their children to swim at her famous Jen Loven Swim School in Hollywood. Jack was known mostly for his sidekick status on the The Merv Griffin Show (1962) in the 1970s.
He had two sons, Kevin ...
82. Dimitri Diatchenko
Actor | Get Smart
A native of San Francisco, Dimitri Diatchenko attended Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school, he attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida where he was a scholarship music student, majoring in classical guitar. After completing the Bachelors program, he ...
83. Buck Henry
Writer | The Graduate
Prolific, multi-talented comedy writer, story editor, actor and director. His father was an Air Force general (Paul Steinberg Zuckerman) turned stockbroker and his mother was silent screen star Ruth Taylor, formerly a member of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties. Buck Henry's first fling with comedy ...
84. Raymond O'Connor
Actor | The Rock
Raymond O'Connor was born on September 13, 1952 in South Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Rock (1996), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Just Like Heaven (2005). He died on October 9, 2023 in the USA.
85. Will MacMillan
Actor | The Enforcer
Born in Steubenville, Ohio on November 25th, 1944. Raised in West "By God" Virginia. Attended Washington & Jefferson for his undergrad, and BU for grad school. Worked with Lovelace Marionette Theater in Pittsburgh. Has worked extensively on stage as an actor and director, as well as being involved ...
86. Ramon Bieri
Actor | Badlands
Imposing American character actor whose typical screen personae tended to be gruff westerners, irate cops, and hard-boiled gangsters. A decorated Korean War veteran, Bieri appeared on stage from 1954, both on ('Death of a Salesman', 1975) and off-Broadway. He latterly acted with the ensemble of San...
87. Kermit Murdock
Actor | The Andromeda Strain
Kermit Murdock was born on March 20, 1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Andromeda Strain (1971), In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Star Trek (1966). He died on February 11, 1981 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA.
88. George Mitchell
Actor | The Andromeda Strain
George Mitchell was born on February 21, 1905 in Larchmont, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Dark Shadows (1966). He was married to Katherine Squire and Mary Alice Shroyer. He died on January 18, 1972 in Washington, ...
89. Katherine Squire
Actress | When Harry Met Sally...
Katherine Squire was born on March 9, 1903 in Defiance, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for When Harry Met Sally... (1989), The Story on Page One (1959) and Studs Lonigan (1960). She was married to George Mitchell and Byron McGrath. She died on March 29, 1995 in Lake Hill, New York, USA.
90. Ray Henderson
Soundtrack | Public Enemies
Songwriter ("The Best Things in Life Are Free", "Birth of the Blues", "Button Up Your Overcoat"), composer, pianist, publisher and producer, educated at the Chicago Conservatory. He was a pianist in dance bands and an arranger for New York publishing companies in vaudeville. In 1925, he joined B. G...
91. John Dye
Actor | Tour of Duty
John Dye was born on January 31, 1963 in Amory, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Tour of Duty (1987), Touched by an Angel (1994) and Jack's Place (1992). He died on January 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California, USA.
92. Gregory Sierra
Actor | The Towering Inferno
Lanky, balding, intense American character actor of Puerto Rican ancestry, born in New York's Spanish Harlem. Deserted by his parents, Sierra was brought up by an aunt in a rough, predominantly Irish neighbourhood from the age of six. Though briefly tempted by gang life as a teenager, he took up ...
93. Cliff Emmich
Actor | Halloween II
Tubby and engaging character actor Cliff Emmich was born on December 13, 1936 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father Clifford was a popular exotic car dealer whose celebrity customers included Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, and Ozzie Nelson. Following graduation from John...
94. Cab Calloway
Soundtrack | The Blues Brothers
Bandleader, songwriter ("Minnie the Moocher", "Are You Hep to That Jive?"), composer, singer, actor and author, educated at Crane College. While studying law, he sang with the band The Alabamians, and took over the group in 1928. He led The Missourians orchestra, then organized and led his own ...
95. Jay Varela
Actor | The Unholy Rollers
Jay Varela was born on July 7, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Unholy Rollers (1972), Knots Landing (1979) and Falcon Crest (1981). He died on June 24, 2021.
96. Tony Burton
Actor | Assault on Precinct 13
Tony Burton, who is famous for playing the corner man in six "Rocky" movies, was himself, in real life, a professional heavyweight boxer. Boxing in such avenues as Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Hollywood, California, the 6 feet 200 pound Burton knocked-out among others, Bob Smith and Denny Chaney....
97. Anthony Caruso
Actor | The Asphalt Jungle
For more than three decades Hollywood defaulted to a small core group of actors when it came to casting convincing mobsters, gamblers and racketeers. These often typecast individuals included Joseph Ruskin, Bruce Gordon, Neville Brand, Robert Loggia and...Anthony Caruso. Square-jawed, ...
98. Don Calfa
Actor | The Return of the Living Dead
Don is probably best remembered for his role as "Ernie Kaltenbrunner" in the 1985 comedy horror The Return of the Living Dead (1985). Don's career spans over 40 years in both film and TV. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ozone Park Queens, and later West Hempstead, Long Island, Don Calfa ...
99. Frank Christi
Actor | Terminal Island
Frank Christi was born on July 16, 1929 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Terminal Island (1973), Toma (1973) and The Don Is Dead (1973). He died on July 9, 1982 in Hollywood, California, USA.
100. Warren J. Kemmerling
Actor | Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After graduating from St. Louis University in 1947 and serving a hitch in the Marines, Warren Kemmerling began his professional acting career. He debuted on Broadway in 1953 in a new musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein, "Me and Juliet". After several years of performing in Broadway plays and musicals,...
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