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• 1914-02-15

Kevin McCarthy (February 15, 1914 – September 11, 2010) was an American actor. He is best remembered as the male lead in the horror science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).Following several television guest roles, McCarthy gave his first credited film performance in Death of a S

• 1904-03-15

James Rudolph OMalley (15 March 1904 – 27 February 1985) was an English singer and character actor who appeared in many American films and television programmes from the 1940s to 1982, using the stage name J. Pat OMalley. He also appeared on the Broadway stage in Ten Little Indians (1944) and Dial

• 1929-11-12

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956.Kelly was born into a prominent Catholic family in Philadelphia.

• 1924-08-21

Jack Weston (born Jack Weinstein; August 21, 1924 – May 3, 1996) was an American film, stage, and television actor.Weston usually played comic roles in films such as Cactus Flower and Please Dont Eat the Daisies, but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker w

• 1919-11-03

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Bert Freed (November 3, 1919 — August 2, 1994) was a prolific American character actor, voice over actor, and the first actor to portray Detective Columbo on television.Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Freed began acting while attending Penn State

• 1911-02-22

Vaughn Taylor  (February 22, 1910 – April 26, 1983) was an American film and television actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His film credits include Jailhouse Rock, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Psycho and In Cold Blood. In his many television appearances, Taylor appeared in several episodes of

• 1914-06-18

E. G. Marshall (June 18, 1914 – August 24, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones The New Doctors in the 1970s. Among his film roles, he is perhaps best known as

• 1905-10-09

Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television. He is probably best remembered for his bombastic General Bullmoose, which he played in the stage and screen versions of the

• 1901-04-05

Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. Douglas later played mature and fa

• 1893-10-14

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, includ

• 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

• 1913-02-08

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBetty Field (February 8, 1913 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.Born in Boston, Massachusetts to George Field and Katharine Lynch, Field

• 1895-08-13

Bert Lahr (born Irving Lahrheim; August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was also well-known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadwa

• 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

• 1906-02-05

John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMilles stock company and later John Fords company, best known for his roles in horror films,

• 1930-02-27

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture

• 1898-08-11

Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor. Homolkas strong accent, stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and Slavic-sounding name led many to believe he was Eastern European or Russian, but he was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.Description above from th

• 1923-04-01

• 1920-11-22

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaImelda Anne Crawford (22 November 1920 – 17 October 1956) was an English film actress.She is best remembered today for her role as Morgan LeFay opposite Mel Ferrer in Knights of the Round Table. She married Wallace Douglas in 1953 and died in 1956 of leukemi

• 1920-12-29

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors was a Swedish stage and screen actress, writer and director. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would become a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. Viveca Lindfors appeared in almost 150 feature films and television producti

• 1909-10-01

Everett Sloane (October 1, 1909 – August 6, 1965) was an American stage, film and television actor, songwriter, and theatre director.Description above from the Wikipedia article Everett Sloane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1886-10-25

Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films - Rebecca, Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Strangers on a Train, and North by Northwest - and the television series Topper, Going My Way, and The Man

• 1928-09-19

Adam West (September 19, 1928 - June 9, 2017) was an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman (1966–68) TV series and the film of the same name. He was also known for portraying eccentric characters, as well as his voice work on animated series such as The Fairly OddParents and as

• 1921-04-23

Janet Blair  (April 23, 1921 – February 19, 2007) was an American film and television actress.Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Blair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

• 1928-06-19

Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theater in 1951. She was most famous for her television portrayals of Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos.

• 1928-08-23

Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Fathers Day (1971), Deathtrap (1978–82), Ring Round t

• 1927-02-20

Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy

• 1908-03-29

Arthur OConnell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films (starting with a small role in Citizen Kane) in 1941 and television programs (mostly guest appearances). Among his screen appearances were Picnic, Anatomy of a Murder, and as the watch-maker

• 1924-04-20

Nina Foch (born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch American actress. After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age 19, Foch became a regular in the studios horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid-1940s th

• 1915-12-07

Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Go

• 1892-01-17

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMarguerita Maria Mady Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951) was an Austrian actress and naturalized US citizen who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period. She was b

• 1927-03-07

James Joseph Broderick III (March 7, 1927 – November 1, 1982) was an American actor.

• 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

• 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

• 1923-09-28

William Windom was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his work on television, including several episodes of The Twilight Zone; playing the character of Glen Morley, a congressman from Minnesota like his own great-grandfather and namesake in The Farmers Daughter; the character of John Mo

• 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

• 1929-09-20

Anne Meara (September 20, 1929 – May 23, 2015) was an American actress and comedian. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television, a

• 1940-08-05

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNatalie Trundy (August 5, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actress. In the early 1970s, Trundy played the telepathic mutant Albina in the second Planet of the Apes movie series film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the early 1970s human Dr. Stephanie (St

• 1920-10-01

Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor, comedian and film director.He is best known for his film roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957), King Creole (1958) and as a coach of a hapless little league team in the baseball comedy The Bad News Bears

• 1925-09-03

Anne Jackson was born on September 3, 1925 in Millvale, Pennsylvania. She was an actress and producer from the 1940s to the 2000s. She was married to actor Eli Wallach for 66 years, one of the longest and most successful Hollywood marriages ever! She died on April 12, 2016 in Manhattan, New York Cit

• 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.

• 1922-07-26

Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene ONeill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 perfor

• 1907-03-19

Kent Smith (born Frank Kent Smith) was an American stage, screen, and television actor.Smiths early acting experience started in 1925 when he was one of the founders of the famed Harvard University Players, which later included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and Margaret Sullavan in Falmou

• 1926-04-30

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded a

• 1917-10-17

Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022) was an American actress, model and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.Although initially reluctant to pursue a film c

• 1930-11-05

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRichard Davalos (born November 5, 1935) was an American actor.Davalos starred in East of Eden (1955) as James Deans brother and portrayed the convict Blind Dick in Cool Hand Luke (1967). He won the Theatre World Award for his performance in the Arthur Miller play

• 1922-12-22

Don Fellows was an American actor known for his roles in British theater and television. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Fellows served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Actors

• 1925-01-26

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the

• 1920-03-22

Werner Klemperer was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogans Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969

• 1920-02-29

Arthur Franz (February 29, 1920 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – June 17, 2006) was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy (1949), Invaders from Mars (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible

• 1916-01-05

Alfred Ryder, the veteran actor who appeared on radio and Broadway and in the movies and TV and who also was a renowned stage director, was born Alfred Jacob Corn on January 5, 1916, in New York City. He made his professional debut as an actor at the age of eight and attended New York Citys Professi

• 1919-02-11

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-born American actress and socialite. She is widely known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas. She voiced Duchess in The Aristocats as well as Miss Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.