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• 1892-03-08

Francesco Giuseppe Frank Puglia (9 March 1892 – 25 October 1975) was an Italian-American film actor. He had small, but memorable roles in films including Casablanca (a Moroccan rug merchant), Now, Voyager and The Jungle Book.

• 1919-11-07

Fern Aline Waller, known as Aline Towne, was an American film and television actress, best remembered for her lead roles in 1950s Republic serials, such as Radar Men from the Moon.

• 1915-02-21

Ann Sheridan, or Clara Lou Sheridan, (February 21, 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American actress.She is best known for her roles in the films San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogar

• 1902-02-08

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLyle Talbot (born Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996) was an American actor on stage and screen, known for his career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. He played Ozzie Nelsons friend and neigh

• 1915-09-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Edmond OBrien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The

• 1902-12-25

Barton MacLane graduated from Wesleyan University, where he displayed a notable aptitude for sports, in particular football and basketball. Not surprisingly, his physical prowess led to an early role in The Quarterback (1926) with Richard Dix. MacLane once commented that, as an actor, he needed to h

• 1921-01-21

John Arthur Doucette (January 21, 1921 – August 16, 1994) was an American character actor who performed in more than 280 film and television productions between 1941 and 1987. A man of stocky build who possessed a deep, rich voice, he proved equally adept at portraying characters in Shakespearean

• 1905-07-12

Katherine Warren (July 12, 1905 – July 17, 1965) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the 1949 film All the Kings Men, the 1951 film The Prowler, and the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny.

• 1918-10-07

Helmut Dantine was an Austrian-American actor who often played Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. His best-known performances are perhaps the German pilot in Mrs. Miniver, and the desperate refugee in Casablanca, who tries gambling to obtain travel visa money for himself and his wife. As his acti

• 1925-01-09

Clarence LeRoy Lee Van Cleef Jr. was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High

• 1912-08-23

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed

• 1922-10-31

Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and childrens author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor Miss Ellie Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin R

• 1906-08-30

Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress.After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and televisio

• 1905-11-01

Born in East Boston, Johnny Indrisano was from a poverty stricken family. As a youth he vowed to have money some day. He boxed 155 amateur fights. He turned professional and went on to fight 83 main events in which he won 80. He defeated 5 world champions. His career lasted from 1924 to 1934. He def

• 1907-01-23

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDan Duryea (January 23, 1907, in White Plains, New York – June 7, 1968, in Hollywood, California) was an American actor of film, stage and television. Duryea graduated from Cornell University in 1928. While at Cornell, Duryea was elected into the Sphinx Head

• 1905-09-29

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Ted de Corsia (September 29, 1903 [or 1905] – April 11, 1973) was an American radio, film, and television actor best remembered for his role as a gangster who turned states evidence in the film The Enforcer (1951).

• 1909-06-07

Jessie Alice Jessica Tandy (June 7 1909 – September 11 1994) was an English - American stage and film actress.She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Oliviers Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielguds King Lear. She als

• 1908-08-19

• 1916-09-12

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Edward Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He had a wide-spanning career in film and television, often portraying competent, hard working, and purposeful characters in his various roles. Binns was b

• 1918-01-29

John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father (1957–1962)

• 1922-09-01

Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as of Anna Marie in Salome Where She Dance

• 1930-07-14

Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur. She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in The Helen Morgan Story. For her stage work, she was nominated for the Tony A

• 1915-12-22

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBarbara Billingsley (December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010) was an American film, television, voice, and stage actress.She gained prominence in the 1950s movie The Careless Years, acting opposite Natalie Trundy, followed by her best known role, that of iconic 19

• 1911-01-30

Hugh Marlowe (January 30, 1911 – May 2, 1982) was an American film, television, stage and radio actor.Marlowe was born Hugh Herbert Hipple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and began his stage career in the 1930s at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Marlowe was usually a secondary lead or support

• 1896-01-20

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJoseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radios Life with Luigi (1948–1953), wh

• 1937-05-16

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16, 1937 - August 17, 2015) was an American actress best known for her role as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series Batman, and as the Orion Marta in the Star Trek The Original Series episode Whom Gods Destroy”.Description above from the Wi

• 1884-03-20

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFrank S. Hagney (March 20, 1884 – June 25, 1973) was an Australian actor. Born in Sydney in 1884, Hagney appeared in more than 350 Hollywood films between 1919 and 1966. Most of his film roles were small and uncredited. Because of his tall and strong appearance

• 1910-10-23

Hayden Rorke (1910–1987) was an American actor best known for playing Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie.Rorke was born in New York City as the son of screen and stage actress Margaret Rorke. He began his stage career in the 1930s with the Hampden Theatrical Company. During World War II, he enliste

• 1917-03-30

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHerbert Anderson (March 30, 1917 – June 11, 1994) was an American character actor probably best remembered for his role as Henry Mitchell, the father in the CBS television sitcom Dennis the Menace.After a few minor roles in films for Warner Bros., Anderson got

• 1914-05-18

Prolific American character actor of primarily villainous roles. The son of German parents, Cincinnati feed-store manager August Wilke and his wife Rose, Robert Joseph Wilke grew up in Cincinnati. He worked as a lifeguard at a Miami, Florida, hotel, where he made contacts in the film business. He wa

• 1906-04-22

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. Other well-known sc

• 1931-03-11

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDiane Brewster (March 11, 1931 – November 12, 1991) was an American actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in television series of the 1950s and 1960s confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in the western Maverick; pretty young secon

• 1911-07-29

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStephen McNally (born Horace Vincent McNally, July 29, 1911 – June 4, 1994) was an American actor remembered mostly for his appearances in many Westerns and action films. He often played hard-hearted characters or villains. He was an attorney in the late 193

• 1922-09-30

Lamont Johnson (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.Johnson was born Ernest Lamont Johnson, Jr. in Stockton, California, the son of Ruth Alice (née Fairchild) and E

• 1892-07-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThomas Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald OHara, the father of Scarlett OHara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John For

• 1919-03-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Lorna Thayer (10 March 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an American character actress.Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney. She appeared often in theatre and on television. In 1955 she played in The Beast with a Million Eyes wit

• 1932-10-06

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Fay Spain (October 6, 1932 – May 8, 1983) was an American actress in motion pictures and television. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona.Description above from the Wikipedia article Fay Spain,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikiped

• 1917-05-22

• 1923-07-14

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDayle Lymoine Robertson (July 14, 1923 – February 27, 2013) was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the long-running NBC/ABC hit television series Tales of Wells Fargo, and Ben Calho

• 1917-04-15

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982) was an American actor, voice actor and comedian, who was very active in voice-over roles and known for providing the voices of Walt Disneys Mr. George Darling and Captain Hook in Peter Pan (1953), for p

• 1918-05-31

• 1924-06-04

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.Description above from the Wi

• 1914-01-14

Osa Massen (January 13, 1914 - January 2, 2006) was a Danish actress who went on to become a successful movie actress in Hollywood. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1941.

• 1913-09-13

• 1898-02-11

Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique.Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, Engla

• 1921-07-10

Jeff Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. Born Jean Marie Donnell, she grew up in South Windham, Maine. As a child, she adopted the nickname Jeff after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. Donnell graduated from Towson High Scho

• 1931-08-15

Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress and psychotherapist.Description above from the Wikipedia article Janice Rule, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1921-07-06

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She served as the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Davis film car

• 1887-11-21

Boris Karloff (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), whose real name was William Henry Pratt, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankensteins monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein

• 1914-10-25

Maudie Prickett was an American character actress who performed in over 300 stage, film, and television productions during a career that spanned nearly four decades.

• 1918-08-05

Tom Drake was born on August 5, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Alfred Alderdice. He was an actor, known for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Green Years (1946) and Raintree County (1957). He was married to Isabelle Dunn. He died on August 11, 1982 in Torrance, California, USA.

• 1908-05-20

James Maitland Jimmy Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Life

• 1901-03-13

Paul Fix (March 13, 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York – October 14, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in westerns. Fix appeared in more than a hundred movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career spanning from 1925

• 1926-03-18

Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926 on 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 Air Force, he studied drama

• 1914-06-12

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWilliam Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951), The House on T

• 1932-03-11

Valerie French (March 11, 1932 - November 3, 1990) was an English film and stage actress whose career began in 1954, with much occurring in 1956.

• 1928-03-24

Known as the bright radio Quiz Kid, Vanessa Brown became a popular leading lady in films and stage productions of the 1940s and 1950s and later a respected writer. During her heyday as an actress, Brown appeared in such varied productions as The Seven Year Itch opposite Tom Ewell on Broadway (a role

• 1911-12-30

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974), and in films such as Macbeth (1948).Nolan began her prolific acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse

• 1922-06-16

• 1920-08-18

Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in

• 1899-08-29

George Peabody Macready, Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.Description above from the Wikipedia article George Macready, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1919-11-02

Warren Albert Stevens was an American stage, screen, and television actor. A founding member of The Actors Studio in New York, Stevens received notice on Broadway in the late 1940s, and thereafter was offered a Hollywood contract at 20th Century Fox. His first Broadway role was in The Life of Galile

• 1918-05-26

John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor.Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles; the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcocks film Rope, and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy.He first came to fame as the young pr

• 1908-08-25

• 1913-04-17

Paul Langton was an American screen, radio, and television actor best known for his role as Leslie Harrington on the prime time television series Peyton Place (1964-68).

• 1913-11-24

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin FitzGerald.She studied painting at the Dublin School of Art. Inspired by her aunt, and began her ac

• 1929-08-23

Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of Miss Kansas in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television ser

• 1894-03-25

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.William Henry Will Wright (March 26, 1894, San Francisco, California - June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California) was an American character actor. He was frequently cast in westerns and in curmudgeonly roles. Over the course of his career, Wright appeared in more t

• 1911-06-01

Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911, Talladega, Alabama – December 31, 1964, Beverly Hills, California) was an American film, stage and television actress.Born as Lillian Gertrude Michael in Talladega, Alabama, she reportedly graduated from high school at the age of 14. She became a radio singer on the

• 1922-05-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Margaret Field (born Margaret Morlan, May 10, 1923) is a former American film actress.Born in Houston, Texas, Field was discovered by talent scout Milton Lewis for Paramount Pictures. Following a successful screen test, she was offered an 18-month contract. She

• 1910-06-05

A well known character actor, Vigran was originally a law school graduate. He later chose to pursue acting, and performed in hundreds of radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante. He appeared frequently as various villains on the television series Adventures of Superman (1

• 1912-09-26

Jacqueline deWit (September 26, 1912 – January 7, 1998) was an American film and TV character actress from Los Angeles who appeared in over two dozen films, including Spellbound (1945), The Snake Pit, The Damned Dont Cry!, Tea and Sympathy, All That Heaven Allows and Harper. She also appeared in t

• 1908-03-29

Dennis OKeefe (March 29, 1908 – August 31, 1968) was an American actor. He was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States. As a small child he joined his parents act and later wrote skits for the stage.OKeefe started in films as an extra in the early 1930s. After a small but impre

• 1893-03-15

Isobel Elsom (March 16, 1893 — January 12, 1981) was an English screen, stage, and television actress.

• 1901-08-20

Harvey Stephens (August 21, 1901 – December 22, 1986) was an American actor, known initially for his performances in Broadway productions, and thereafter for his work in film and on television. He was most active in film beginning in the 1930s and through the mid-1940s. Beginning in the mid-1950s,

• 1916-02-14

Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart (1965), character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two decades prior to copping that rare comedy role. Born in Staten Island, New York, on Valentines Day, 1916

• 1893-08-13

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCarl Benton Reid (August 14, 1893 – March 16, 1973) was an American actor. He achieved fame on the Broadway stage in 1939 as Oscar Hubbard, one of Regina Giddenss (Tallulah Bankhead) greedy, devious brothers in the play The Little Foxes, and made his film debut

• 1911-12-23

One of the most beloved actors of all, James Gregory was born December 23, 1911, in the Bronx and grew up in New Rochelle, NY. In high school, he was elected president of the Drama Club. He went to work on Wall Street as a runner shortly after the 1929 crash. James Gregory performed in drama groups

• 1894-03-04

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCharles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Se

• 1899-11-10

Pat O’Brien (born William Joseph Patrick OBrien) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He was a star during the first several years of his film career, the height of his popularity being during the 1930s and 1940s.

• 1897-10-03

Jerome Palmer Cowan (October 6, 1897 – January 24, 1972) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

• 1910-10-27

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohn Elmer Jack Carson (October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963) was a Canadian-born, American film actor, with a film career spanning the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Though he was primarily used in supporting roles for comic relief, his work in films such as Mildred P

• 1926-08-08

Richard Norman Anderson (born August 8, 1926) was an American film and television actor. Among his best-known roles is his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television ser

• 1903-12-10

Southerner Una Merkel was a popular American stage, screen, and television actress. In movies, while often cast as the female lead, she more typically appeared in prominent supporting roles.

• 1910-01-12

Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/; January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a German-American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award; at the time of her death she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient.Her training began in Germany from the age of 16 by leading stage dir

• 1918-07-16

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.William Paxton Bishop (July 16 1918 - October 3 1959) was an American television and movie actor from Oak Park, Illinois. He was best known for his role as Steve Connors on the 1950s NBC comedy series Its a Great Life[1] and for his roles in films including Harr

• 1911-05-27

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, radio, and in ove

• 1899-05-31

Madge Blake (née Cummings; May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969) was an American character actress best remembered for her roles as Larry Mondellos mother, Margaret Mondello, on the CBS/ABC sitcom Leave it to Beaver, as Flora MacMichael on the ABC/CBS sitcom The Real McCoys, and as Aunt Har

• 1890-08-22

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African-born character actor.Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author, and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding h

• 1915-02-27

• 1928-03-19

• 1913-08-25

Donald John Don DeFore (August 25, 1913 – December 22, 1993) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1952 to 1957 and the sitcom Hazel from 1961 to 1965, the former which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

• 1916-07-26

Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor. His expressive face was his stock-in-trade; and though he rarely carried the lead role, he had prominent billing in most of his film and television roles.Description above from th

• 1927-09-26

Patrick ONeal (September 26, 1927 – September 9, 1994) was an American television, stage and film actor. He was also a successful New York restaurateur.Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick ONeal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1924-11-23

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Paula Raymond (November 23, 1924 – December 31, 2003) was an American model and actress.In 1950, she was put under contract by MGM, where she played opposite such leading men as Cary Grant and Dick Powell. Earlier in her career, Raymond acted in film noir thri

• 1917-04-02

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRobert William Dabbs Greer (April 2, 1917 – April 28, 2007) was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for over 50 years. His distinctive voice and southern accent was a good fit for shows featuring rustic character

• 1925-06-03

Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years

• 1911-02-06

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975) and prior to that an actor.Upon his college graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began

• 1915-08-02

Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances.Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Merri

• 1907-01-13

New York-born Morrow developed an interest in the theater as a result of his studies at art school. As Irving Morrow, he was acting on stage (in Pennsylvania) as early as 1927; he later appeared in such plays as Penal Law, Once in a Lifetime, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet

• 1920-11-21

Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) was an American actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance. In film,

• 1941-12-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Thomas Noel Tommy Rettig (December 10, 1941 – February 15, 1996) was an American child actor and computer software engineer and author. Rettig is best remembered for portraying the character Jeff Miller in the first three seasons of CBSs Lassie television seri

• 1931-07-28

Darryl Hickman (July 28, 1931 - May 21, 2024) emerged as a prominent American actor whose career transitioned from childhood stardom to adult roles. Starting in the industry at a young age, he showcased his talent in notable films like The Grapes of Wrath and The Human Comedy. Hickmans versatility a

• 1923-10-30

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHerschel Bernardi (30 October 1923, New York City – 9 May 1986, Los Angeles, California) was an American film, Broadway, and television actor.He is best known for his starring roles on Broadway including Fiddler on the Roof (as Tevye), Zorba, and Bajour, but he

• 1924-08-10

Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924, Fort Worth, Texas - May 31, 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American actress.She attended Northwestern University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946. She had roles in So Big (1953), Sab

• 1907-08-20

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907, Pleasant Lake, Indiana - May 28, 1986, Encino, California) was a character actress, who made transitions from vaudeville to radio, to films and television. Her most enduring impact was as one of network radios most versatile

• 1900-08-22

Preston Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970) was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley

• 1902-10-20

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAddison Whitaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared in more than three hundred films and television series between 1933 and his death.

• 1919-03-26

Strother Martin (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison captain in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, What weve got here is...failure to communicate.Description above from th

• 1921-07-29

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 - July 20, 1987) was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan.Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Egan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1897-12-30

Rhys Williams (31 December 1897 – 28 May 1969) was a Welsh character actor in films and television, whose career spanned several decades.

• 1936-12-29

Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which helped define a new vision of American womanhood and appealed t

• 1910-03-08

Claire Trevor (née Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954

• 1926-09-23

John Ericson (sometimes Erickson; born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes; September 25, 1926 - May 3, 2020) was a German-American actor and film and television star. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, played the lead role in Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski

• 1911-10-27

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLeif Erickson (born William Wycliffe Anderson) was an American stage, film, and television actor.Erickson was born in Alameda, California, near San Francisco. He worked as a soloist in a band as vocalist and trombone player, performed in Max Reinhardts production

• 1931-09-30

Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which

• 1907-05-24

Willis Ben Bouchey (May 24, 1907 – September 27, 1977) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films and television shows.

• 1930-10-05

Skip Homeier (born as George Vincent Homeier on October 5, 1930) is an actor.Description above from the Wikipedia article Skip Homeier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1909-02-16

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 – May 14, 1982) was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church. Beaumont is best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the 1957-1963 television series Leave I

• 1900-12-04

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is mo

• 1915-02-07

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Vincent Eddie Bracken was an American actor. Bracken became a Hollywood comedy legend with lead performances in the films Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgans Creek both in 1944, both of which have been preserved by the National Film Regis

• 1907-02-20

Malcolm MacLeod Atterbury (February 20, 1907 – August 16, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudevillian.Atterbury is perhaps best known for his uncredited role in Alfred Hitchcocks North by Northwest (1959), as the rural man who exclaims, That planes dustin crops where

• 1920-06-22

Solomon Hersh Frees, better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist and screenwriter known for his work on MGM, Walter Lantz, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle

• 1914-04-24

Larry J. Blake was born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York on April 24, 1914. At the age of 18, his talent at impersonations and dialects grew into a vaudeville act. Blake eventually became a headliner, playing the Orpheum circuit, as well as the Roxy Theatre and the Rainbow Room in Rock

• 1917-12-19

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPaul Brinegar (December 19, 1917 – March 27, 1995) was an American character actor best known for his roles in three western series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Rawhide, and Lancer.Brinegars first credited appearance in a feature film was in Larceny (1948

• 1940-08-19

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJill St. John (born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim; August 19, 1940) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Tiffany Case, first American Bond girl of the 007 franchise, in Diamonds Are Forever. Her other films include The Lost World, Tender Is the Night, Com

• 1919-02-12

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaForrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films.Tucker described himself as a farm boy. He was born in Plainfield, Indiana, on February 12, 1919, a son of

• 1891-07-17

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEdwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs. He became a United States citizen in 1939.Born in London, Ontario, the son of John Coa

• 1913-08-13

Kurt Kasznar (August 12, 1913 – August 6, 1979) was a stage, film, and television actor.Kasznars first major Broadway appearance was in The Happy Time. (He recreated his role for the film version and earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.) He also appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in

• 1924-09-29

A ruggedly handsome action man of the 1960s and 70s, Steve Forrest began his screen career as a small part contract player with MGM. A brother of star Dana Andrews, he was born William Forrest Andrews, the youngest of thirteen children. His father was a Baptist minister in Huntsville, Texas. In 1942

• 1908-07-23

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKarl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor. Early in his career, he was credited as Peter WayneSwenson was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Swedish parentage. Planning to be a doctor, he enrolled at M

• 1901-01-10

Harry Harvey Sr. was an American actor of theatre, film, and television.Harvey appeared in minstrel shows, in vaudeville, and on the Broadway stage but is best remembered as a character actor who appeared in more than three hundred films and episodes of television series.He had roles in the films Th

• 1907-01-04

Ray Milland (born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones or Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. He is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), as well as for his performances in Dial

• 1909-08-13

• 1893-01-02

Jesslyn Fax (January 4, 1893 – February 16, 1975) was an Canadian-American actress. She is known for playing the elderly Miss Hearing Aid in Rear Window (1954)

• 1898-06-30

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGeorge Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985), born in Waukegan, Illinois, was an American actor. He made his screen debut in 1928, ultimately appearing, throughout his career, in over 140 films, usually in smaller supporting roles. Chandler is perhaps best k