Stay tuned for additions in the coming months and keep commenting! Torin Thatcher - Actor. Robert Golden Armstrong ("Bob" to his friends) was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 7, 1917. He was born in Grand Island, Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. Although this pint-sized actor started out in films often in innocuous college-student roles in mid-30s rah-rahs, playing alongside the likes of a pretty Gloria Stuart or a young, pre-"Oz" Judy Garland, casting directors would soon enough discover his flair for portraying intense neurotics or Back in 2011 when this list was first being compiled I was largely ignorant of Mr. Cook, having seen him only in The Maltese Falcon as Gilmer and later alongside Vincent Price and Richard Long in The House on Haunted Hill. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers Actor | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Robert Prosky was born on December 13, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He attended Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop at the New School on the GI Bill after being demobilized from the US Army Air Force after World War II.Gazzo's first major success was as a playwright. Lyle Bettger - And yet another guy who played the "old friend who'd gone bad" or the rich rancher who wanted to control the town, Lyle Bettger played a variety of roles in TV westerns, often as a bad guy. Anyone?) Actor Henry Silva turns 86 today - he was born 9-15 in 1928. The purpose of the organization was to prepare the boys Frank Wolff started his career by acting in several Roger Corman films. He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School San Antonio, where he acted in the department of theatre, and from The University A character actor who seems to pop up everywhere as the stereotypical cop, military officer and/or tough guy, von Bargen could turn in performances of stunning complexity when given the chance.Daniel von Bargen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 5, 1950 to Juanita (Bustle) and Donald L. von Gotta give a shout out to this wonderful actor. His parents worked in an acting company run by his Eijir Tno was born on September 17, 1907 in Gunma, Japan. Born in Long Island, New York, on October 10, 1926, Jaeckel's family moved to Los Angeles when he was still in his teens. His stocky build and nervous, jumpy mannerisms fit well with the weaselly criminals, lecherous villains and corrupt businessmen and Moses Gunn was born on October 2, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. After serving in the Army during WWII, he used the GI Bill to study at the Dramatic Workshop of the American Theater Wing and the prestigious Actors Studio. Lauter has portrayed an eclectic array of characters over the years, including (but not limited to), authority/military figures, edgy villains, and good-hearted heavies. From the 1990s onwards, it's getting off the merry-go-round at . Richard Dysart served for four years in the Air Force during the Korean War. 6 = 17%. Robert Donner -- (4/27/1931-6/8/2006). His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry. Elliott Gould is an American actor known for his roles in M*A*S*H (1970), his Oscar-nominated performance in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), and more recently, his portrayal of old-time con artist Reuben Tishkoff in Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen ( 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) Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. He would later conquer TV with the same trophy-winning results.The son of James Allen Whitmore John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and television since the 1960s. Born on March 29, 1942, the Atlanta native was awarded a basketball scholarship following high school at Georgia's Southern Tech Actor | He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. Prove your '60s and '70s TV character IQ with this quiz! Aside from his acting career, Vincent was the author of three cookbooks, and has written numerous A veteran of nearly 100 films, Jon Polito is most recognized for his work with The Coen brothers, as well as his many television appearances as a series regular and guest star. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. Upcoming films include "Horizon Line" with Allison Williams ("Get Out") and " Physically imposing, intense Yaphet Kotto was one of the few actors of his generation to succeed in breaking racial stereotypes in Hollywood. Last 30 days: $ 60, October 2022: $ 37, September 2022: $. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Theater. Distinguished U.S. actor and longtime civil rights campaigner Robert Bushnell Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, whose wealthy family owned a real estate firm. Star Trek Tos Leonard Nimoy Famous Men Famous People Famous Faces Michael Keaton Adam West Homo History: Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was an American actor, singer, dancer and comedian who was active in film, radio and TV for almost 60 years.Many Hollywood historians have identified Romero as a closeted gay man. After being noticed in several stage productions, Coburn appeared in a handful of minor westerns Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. Although he came from a traditional middle-class Jewish family that urged him to become a doctor or lawyer, Paymer felt more at home in the world of the thespian. This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. James Robert Rebhorn (September 1, 1948 - March 21, 2014) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 films, television series, and plays. He was born as Gary Neil Miller in Shattuck, Oklahoma. He began working in theatre and television, where he was soon noticed as one of the most promising actors of his generation. Cazale only made five feature films in his career, all which many fans and critics alike call classics. The series ran for only 13 episodes, beginning on September 8, 1978, and ending on January 5, 1979. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi. 80 for Brady: Directed by Kyle Marvin. He rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant, and later was bestowed the honorary rank of Gunnery Sergeant by the Marine Corps, after he served 14 months in Vietnam and later did Stocky tough-guy character actor Richard Jaeckel was one of Hollywood's most prolific supporting stars. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. At thirteen years, he became a member of the "Hitler Jugend" (Hitler Youth), as did all 13-year-old boys in Germany then. His father was of Irish ancestry, and his mother was of English and Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. Also check him out in "The Crate" segment in "Creepshow" as well as his co-lead roles in the sadly neglected "Black Sunday", alongside Bruce Dern and the late great Robert Shaw. Burly, talented character actor who has remained consistently busy playing "rough at the edge" type characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a John Irwin McGiver came to acting relatively late in life. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen Frances Marie (Burchell), a charlady, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish-market porter. Benign, balding and often bearded, Yulin off camera was a stark contrast to the tough, Menacing looking Italian American actor who developed into the quintessential on-screen hoodlum via several strong roles in key crime films of the early 1970s. He died on May 24, Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s. Points from my "The Best Films Ever Made"-Lists. Rocket J. Squirrel. He is an actor, known for Repo Man (1984), Batman (1989) and Conan the Destroyer (1984). Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became "one of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen", with over 90 film credits. Great character actors of the 60's & 70's, Michael Dunn (1934 - 1973) Diminutive actor who played Dr. Loveless in the TV series "The Wild Wild West", he also appeared in "Ship of Fools" (as the narrator), "Madigan", and other movies. Lawman - Deputy Johnny McKay [Peter Brown] in the 1958-1962 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Lawman. Jay Ward Productions. Frank Marth - Another guy who often played the father, rich rancher, or maybe card shark, Frank Marth was a regular in TV westerns of this era. Homo History: Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was an American actor, singer, dancer and comedian who was active in film, radio and TV for almost 60 yearsMany Hollywood historians have identified Romero as a closeted gay man. Born in 18th century. He attended a university for a time but dropped out to become a drummer. He sprang to international fame in 197 as the assassin in Day of the Jackal, then had cameo style roles in Gandhi, The Dresser, Never Say Never Again and leads in The Wild Geese and The Shooting One of the greats. Check him out as another unseemly character (C.E. Started theatrical acting in 1950, but was regarded untalented at first, until Roger Vadim discovered him for the movies. He left that, Prematurely white-haired character star who began as a supporting player of generally vicious demeanor, then metamorphosed into a star of both action and drama projects, Lee Marvin was born in New York City, the son of Courtenay Washington (Davidge), a fashion writer, and Lamont Waltman Marvin, an Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. He entered the film industry as a costume and set designer for such directors as Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques Feyder, all the time attending acting school Soumitra Chatterjee is an Indian actor, playwright and poet. The son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara', the handsome and likable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. In his second Year during an audition Peter Ustinov signed him for the leading role in the film Rolan Bykov was born on November 12, 1929 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. After the conscription he got his first role, a bit part on the theater Lilla Teatern in Renato Salvatori was born on March 20, 1933 in Seravezza, Tuscany, Italy. Born on September 10, 1915, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, O'Brien learned the craft of performance as a magician, reportedly tutored by Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. Some time ago (early 2011) I took the time to compile a list of the 250 greatest character actors of all time for the IMDB website and deservedly placed Ed in the #1 slot. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. Times were good for Americans after WWII, resulting in some of the largest birth numbers in the history of the country. He was born William Eugene Burrows in Hugoton, Kansas. Vernon was directed by some stellar filmmakers, including Henry Silva was born on September 23, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. However, Wolff had to travel to Europe to be successful. Following university training, he founded George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Photo: Michael Buckner / Getty Images. His presence brought every film he was in to a totally different level of greatness, whether it be the Ninth Configuration, Alligator II, Bad Dreams, The Premonition, Rob Zombie's Halloween II remake, or my personal favorite role of his."Moon" in "the Seven Ups." What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1970), Yojimbo (1961) and Tokyo Story (1953). 240 TV Stars The Late 60's, 70's & 80's ideas | tv stars, old tv shows, classic tv TV Stars The Late 60's, 70's & 80's 242 Pins 7y K Collection by karen weber Similar ideas popular now TV TV Shows Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld Kramer Seinfeld Characters Seinfeld Episodes Go To Netflix Classic Comedies Comedy Show Me Tv Film Serie seinfeld - Google Search Talented and highly capable character actor Geoffrey Lewis, with rustic (sometimes sour-faced) looks, grew up in Rhode Island but was moved out to California at the age of ten. The award-winning Canadian-American character actor Maury Chaykin was born on July 27, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Professor Irving J. Chaykin and his wife Clarice. Film & Television Actor. He only saw his Sandy-haired American actor Bo Hopkins was born William Mauldin Hopkins in Greenville, South Carolina, and was raised by his mother and grandmother after his father died when Bo was only nine years old. He made his first film appearance in 1926. You will be missed, Gunny. As the impeccably handsome Dr. James Kildare, the slim, butter-haired hunk with the near-perfect Ivy-League charm and smooth, intelligent demeanor, had the distaff fans fawning unwavering over him through the series' run. He was an actor and director, known for Stroitsya most (1966), War and Peace (1965) and Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967). After several supporting appearances in George Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in New York City, New York, to Fannie Blanche (Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. He was the first-born child. Russian actor who has popped up on screen in countless great movies over the past thirty or so years, including "2010", "The Name of the Rose" and "October Sky.". Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. Character actor Anthony James was born on July 22, 1942 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has been married to Patricia Balme since 2018. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. A star athlete at Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. Sidney had little formal Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. He was born out of wedlock and raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his itinerant father and stepmother. He was previously married to Star Herrmann and Leigh Curran. He has been married to Nanette Mirkovich since September 20, 1997. Notable motion picture roles include: Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Crow, Blankman, and The Drago was well known for his villainous parts (leading or supporting), and his rugged yet scary looks and evil smile. Paine. Here are the 60 greatest characters of the '60s. adam ya yok ok fazla ayt 70 st yapan varm falan filan bu zamanlarda hayr iin garibi forumda dn konu vard tp kazananlarn u zamanki netleri neredeyse hepsinin ayt 45-50 , tyt 80-90 aras ve bu adamlar tp kazanyor, ben . While at high school he worked as a theatre usher and was nicknamed "Chick" by 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. CHIPS At the time of his death, he had recurring roles in the current series White Collar and Homeland.An early performance was in Butterflies are Free at the Timothy Carey had one of the most unusual careers of all Hollywood character actors, obtaining full cult status for his portrayals of the doomed, the psychotic and the plain crazy. He was born on August 11, 1950 in Riga, USSR [now Latvia] as Elya Zalmanovich Baskin to Zalman and Frieda Baskin, both of Russian Jewish descent. Warren Beatty Rated - Custom 7.4 153 Rated 3. He was an actor, known for Quai des Orfvres (1947), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and The Organizer (1963). After graduating, Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. But, Whit Bissell came to Hollywood in the 1940s, and by the time he retired he had appeared in more than 200 movies and scores of TV series. The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in pied, cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. Handsome, rugged, versatile and charismatic character actor Tom Atkins was born on November 13, 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian What an amazing career! He was an actor, known for Overboard (1987), The Lost Boys (1987) and Annie (1982). I'm sorry to report that I never did work up enough courage to call up this amazing actor and now, with his untimely death, I'll never get the chance to do so. He studied acting at NYU's Theatre Program. Within.18 months he took part in 14 landings in the Pacific, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor. With a face that seems to pop up everywhere, Lauter has remained in demand for roles on both television and film. Versatile, gimlet-eyed, soulful-looking Franois Prier was one of France's most prolific leading men and character lead for almost six decades. He died on February 26, 2022 in Japan. A rather wanderlust fellow before he latched onto acting, Denver Pyle--who made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types--was actually born in Colorado in 1920, to a farming family. Leave It to Beaver I Dream of Jeannie Make Room for Daddy The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Wiki Commons by Friedman-Abeles Alan Alda is Captain Hawkeye Pierce, the army doctor in which TV series? However, he first worked as a baker's apprentice, in a barber shop or in the docks. 50 Stunningly Beautiful Actresses From The '50s, '60s, and '70s. McKinney died at age 80 on December 1, 2011. Keiji Sada was born on December 9, 1926 in Kyoto City, Japan. Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. John was a football tackle and participated in both track and basketball at Another one of those frustratingly nameless but omnipresent and talented faces of stage, film and TV, chameleon-like player Harris Yulin has avoided the severe stereotyping lost to many a prolific actor. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. He was one of One of the great screen villains. Typical Role: You Might Know Me From: The Hills Have Eyes (1977) The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) The Devil's Rejects. In the most beautiful cars. Union, near Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, to Linus Pitts Napier, a tobacco farmer and postman, and his wife, Sara, on April 12, 1936. Lively) in the underrated 1987 film "Matawan", opposite Chris Cooper and James Earl Jones. He was an actor, known for Black Lizard (1968), Killers on Parade (1961) and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993). Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Vote for Your Favourite Actors Who Are In Their 60s. He held B.A. Highly influential, and always controversial, African-American actor/comedian who was equally well known for his colorful language during his live comedy shows, as for his fast paced life, multiple marriages and battles with drug addiction. His father was a Ronny Cox is a superbly talented actor, singer-songwriter, and musician who has been consistently active in Hollywood for more than 40 years portraying a diverse range of characters. He was an actor, known for Tora! He first came to the screen as a child actor in films such as Going My Way (1944) and The Song of Bernadette (1943), before entering the service during the Korean War, where his fluency in foreign Big BillA legend. Tatsuya Nakadai Actor | Seppuku Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of Japanese actors well known outside Japan. In light of his recent tragedy (Feb. 2012) lets hope Dan can get back to doing what he does best, giving a great performance no matter how small the role! He was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Gladys, a nurse and army officer, and Yaphet Kotto, a businessman-turned-construction worker. He was previously married to Alla Pokrovskaya, Irina Mazuruk and Liliya Tolmacheva. Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. James Garner! Brigitte Bardot Rated - Custom 8.1 993 Rated 2. His father was of German and Irish descent, and his mother was of Irish ancestry. Bissell A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. After graduation from Hollywood High School, Jaeckel was discovered by a Stuart Margolin, the Emmy Award-winning actor and director, was born in Davenport, Iowa. Happy Birthday, George! The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The following year, he played the lead character in the first Mickey McGuire short film. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. In a film career that has extended for over four decades, Ed Lauter has starred in a plethora of film and television productions since making his big screen debut in the 1971 western "Dirty Little Billy". He died on April 30, 1989. We wanted to feature some of the most stunning actresses throughout the golden years of Hollywood, but we quickly realized that there were so many to choose from. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular Won international fame with the leading role of Maciek Chelmicki in Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds (1958). I've been in love with this man my entire life! Drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during Hailing from Long Beach, California, talented character actor Anthony Zerbe has kept busy in Hollywood and on stage since the late 1960s, often playing villainous or untrustworthy characters, with his narrow gaze and unsettling smirk. Elegant, urbane and well-spoken, Gabriele Ferzetti was one of Italy's most prominent international stars of the 1950's and 60's. He was previously married to Elena Sanaeva. Since David McCallum's father, David McCallum Sr., was first violinist for the London Philharmonic and his mother, Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist, it's not surprising that David was originally headed for a career in music, playing oboe. Cazale only made five feature films in his career, all which many fans and critics alike call classics. Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. In the early '80s, Blair dated singer Rick James for two years with James stating, "She liked to get high and get down as much as I did." A moment in history where the best in all areas was concentrated. This list originally ended at 250 people, but seeing that I can now add as many of these deserving actors as I want, this list will continue to grow exponentially.===April 2011===Updated August 30, 2013=== Lean-faced, intense-looking, German-born, Canada-raised Paul Koslo was at his busiest during the 1970s, usually playing shifty, untrustworthy and often downright nasty characters. Nakadai was a tall handsome clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast him in The Thick-Walled Room (1956). He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. He is best known for the films Pulp Fiction (1994) and Swimming with Sharks (1994), and has worked with Oliver Stone multiple times. Character actress Beulah Bondi was a favorite of directors and audiences and is one of the reasons so many films from the 1930s and 1940s remain so enjoyable, as she was an integral part of many of the ensemble casts (a hallmark of the studio system) of major and/or great films, including The Trail . He is best known for playing the evil scientist who turned Michael Landon into a half beast in the 1957 cult classic film I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978). Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. He died on March 11, 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany. Many thanks to any and all who've commented and left their thoughts on who should be here and who may have been left out. The list is still mighty popular here it looks like and will be expanded to the big 4-0-0. When the war ended, he was sent to join the occupation forces in Korea, where he wrote, directed and produced ''The Military Government Hour,'' a radio propaganda program. This paved the way to a scholarship at the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art (Accademia d'arte Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He is a television, film, and theater actor, best known for The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Eureka (2006), and Scandal (2012). Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). He joined the circus as an acrobat and Martin Henry Balsam was born on November 4, 1919 in the Bronx, New York City, to Lillian (Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, a manufacturer of women's sportswear. I greatly look forward to seeing his brainchild "The World's Greatest Sinner" (1962) in its entirety at some point (how about a DVD? This generation, born between the late '40s and early '60s, has been privy to advantages and technologies not seen in other generations. Before starting a career as an actor, he joined the United States Marine Corps in 1958. A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Strother Martin Jr. was the youngest of three children of Strother Douglas Martin, a machinist, and Ethel Dunlap Martin. Also check him out as the drugged out shotgun toting hitman in "Sharky's Machine" alongside Burt Reynolds. Actor Sgt Frank Sutton US Army (Served 1943-1946) Short Bio: Best remembered as "Sgt Carter" on TV's "Gomer Pyle" Sutton was assigned to a Joint Assault Signal Company, composed of Army and Navy men. (1970), High and Low (1963) and The Stranger Within a Woman (1966). Indeed, with the exception of Maurice Chevalier and Bernard Blier was born on January 11, 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions Fritz Weaver, the American actor, was born on January 19, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. Broad-shouldered and beefy Claude Akins had wavy black hair, a deep booming voice and was equally adept at playing sneering cowardly villains as he was at portraying hard-nosed cops. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. Additionally, Marc Copage wooed America as Julia's adorable son, Corey. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). By the most charming actors and actresses. He had a prolific career on the stage before making his film debut in 1968. Audrey Hepburn Rated - Custom 8.7 1707 Rated 5. Best known as the ancient Mafia don in Prizzi's Honor (1985), Hickey had a long, distinguished career in film, television, and the stage. Frank Whaley is a critically acclaimed actor/writer/director. Keith had a supporting role in The Rose (1979) starring Bette Midler, had a supporting Edward Herrmann was born on July 21, 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. They have one child. Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities. He was previously married to Mila Burnette. Kim Soo-hyun was born in Seoul, the national capital of South Korea in a slightly troubled family on 16th February 1988. He was born in Old David Morse, a 6' 4" tall blue-eyed blond who performed on stage for 10 years before breaking into film, has become established as a respected supporting, character actor and second lead.He was born the first of four children of Charles, a sales manager, and Jacquelyn Morse, a schoolteacher, on David Lemuel Keith was born on May 8, 1954 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Lemuel Grady Keith Jr. and Hilda Earle. Forrest had long wanted to be an actor, but he was so nervous that he ran out of auditions for school plays. Someone please upload a picture for the late, great and unforgettable character actor Joe Spinell. Since that time I've had the opportunity to see him pop in a host of other spots, including a late career performance on the Rockford Files. This suave, elegant character star was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades. Drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. from "TheManchurian Candidate" to his numerous appearances in violent Italian films of the seventies to one of his last screen roles in Jarmusch's "Samurai: The Way of the Ghost Dog". He was acting in the 50s as a graduate of The Actors Studio in such films as Ocean's Eleven (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - he moved to Italian films for a time, coming back to Hollywood in the 80s appearing in such films as Dick Tracy. He was good friends with Diana Muldaur, who played Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law. Ogg, "One More Train to Rob" as Sheriff Adams, "Fools Parade" as Willis Hubbard, "Five Days From Home" as Karl Baldwin, "Under the Rainbow" as The Assassin, "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" as Swarma and "Hoot" as Kalo. Spinell was a tough guy on and off the screen all his life. He became interested in acting and took his mother's maiden name "Drago" as a stage name. Marlene Dietrich was quoted as observing that Romero was, "the undisputed queen of homosexuals. 172. He first became interested in acting after serving three years in the US Air Force and Scatman Crothers was born Benjamin Sherman Crothers on May 23, 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Following a two-year stint in the army, Matt attended George Washington University, but William Atherton's career has spanned motion pictures, Broadway and television. In which show did she appear? Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. Began career as a child actor on the variety stage. He served for four years where he made Corporal, and did a tour of the As he is remembered.one of the great character actors of our time, Richard Lynch (1936-2012). In his long acting career, he has received many awards from home and abroad. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Jack Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter, Jr. on September 18, 1920 in Newark, New Jersey, to Laura M. (Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter. He died on March 27, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Fonda made his professional stage debut on Broadway in 1961 in Blood, Sweat 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. A native of southern Japan, Shimura was a descendant of the samurai warrior class. Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. He started out as romantic hero full of beauty and talent in Girl with a Suitcase (1961) beside Claudia Cardinale. From there, his weatherbeaten features, somewhat menacing attitude and a tough-as-nails voice--the kind that used to be described in detective novels as "whiskey-soaked"--reminiscent of ' Peter Stormare was born in Arbr, Gvleborgs ln, Sweden, to Gunhild (Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He attended public school in Scottsville. Newbold Morris, his stepfather, was a member of the New York Born on October 1, 1921, in White Plains, New York, gruff veteran character actor James Whitmore earned early and widespread respect with his award-winning dramatic capabilities on Broadway and in films. Edward Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire life) was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, just after his twin sister Roberta (1920-2014) and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. Tora! The son of an English army officer (Edward Lonsdale-Crouch) and a Franco-Irish mother ( James Mason was born in Huddersfield and had a film career spanning over 50 years during which he appeared in over 100 films in England and America but never won an Oscar. I don't think there was a gay actor in all Hollywood who hadn't been there. He was 91. 100 names 1. The family soon moved to Beaumont, California (between Los Angeles and Palm Springs), where his parents built and operated a movie theater, where stars such as Gene Autry would occasionally stop WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. Heartland bids a tearful farewell to R. Lee Ermey, host of Military Makeover, a Golden Globe nominated actor, and Marine Corps veteran. His parents divorced when he was fairly young.While growing up, Oskar found performing in school John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Birthdate: July 3, 1962. Everett Collection/YouTube Screenshot. Sidney had little formal 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. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. This child star became an instant hit when the sitcom Julia premiered in 1968. 17. Mr. Lauter's friend was even kind enough to send me Ed's cell phone number (I was told to keep it private) and was also told that Ed appreciated my kind words about him and his acting career on the above bio I wrote for him on the IMDB site. There he studied under the great Konstantin Stanislavski, and launched a Tell us what you think about this feature. Vol. He was an actor, known for Shaft (1971), Rollerball (1975) and Heartbreak Ridge (1986). Much thanks and stay tuned for more! He portrayed Exidor on TV Series "Mork and Mindy". In 1962, he was offered his first big film role, in Bluebeard (1963). Few have been able to have to relate to three generations. Which '60s TV character is seen here? Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. But before his film debut, the short The American Way ( Tell us what you think about this feature. The 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were traversed by the most beautiful women and the most handsome men. Zerbe was born May 20, 1936 in Long Beach, and served a stint in J.T. A Western is a genre that takes place in the Old West and involves cowboys, cattle ranchers, miners, farmers, Native Americans, Spaniards, swords, guns and horses.It was among the most popular genres of television in the 1950s and 1960s, when several hundred were aired. He was an actor, known for Z (1969), Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Organizer (1963). as Co-Pilot, "Catalina Caper" as Tad Duval, "Blood of the Iron Maiden" as Peter. He completed his education at Rugby School and had a brief spell at RADA, before treading the boards for the first time as the straight man in a music hall comedy act in 1931. Over the past three decades, Tobolowsky has racked up a lengthy list of roles in movies and television across many different genres.While Tobolowsky initially attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with Actor | Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. William served two years in the US Army. I first remember cathcing him as the creepy mobster Flo in "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" (1976) a few years ago and at the time never bothered to learn his name. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. Quade transferred from Perry Rural High School in Perry, Kansas to Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas in 1954. Leslie Nielsen (1926 2010), Canadian actor, comedian, and producer. An athlete turned actor, Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA. He played Uncle Charly on "My Three Sons ". 4 = 25%, Vol. Tracey Walter was born on November 25, 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Oates was born in Depoy, a very small Kentucky town. Jed Clampett. Character actor Stephen Tobolowsky was born on May 30, 1951 in Dallas, Texas. This man has seemingly been in everything.while that may seem a strange remark, take a look at his filmography. He has made Bengali film a place in the court of the world. She then began to travel (with her son Keith David is a classically trained actor, winning 3 Emmys out of 6 nominations as well as being nominated for a Tony award. The list is organized chronologically, grouping actors by their birth year. He was previously married to Annette Martin and Gisle Brunet. He was an actor, known for One, Two, Three (1961), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). We readily celebrate the New Hollywood's. . Born on September 10, 1915, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, O'Brien learned the craft of performance as a magician, reportedly tutored by. 50 . He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. His better known roles include Chief George Earle in "Demolition Man" (1993), Prison Warden Samuel Norton in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), medical school dean Dr. Walcott in " Gotta give some love for ol' Warden Norton..sadly that's the role he's most known for. A monumental acting talent and villain extraordinaire, the likes of which won't be seen againRIP good sir. The Best Last-Minute Christmas Gifts to Buy. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. His mother, Mary (Valinsky), Innokenti Smoktunovsky (birth name Smoktunovich) was born in Siberian village of Tatianovka near Tomsk in 1925. Oscar-winner Edmond O'Brien was one of the most respected character actors in American cinema, from his heyday of the mid-1940s through the late 1960s. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. R Robin Bodnaruk 50's 60's 70's Western Icon TV shows actor's. Classic Hollywood Old Hollywood Hollywood Stars Tv Stars Movie Stars Cinema Western Western Music He was an actor and director, known for Chuchelo (1984), Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967) and Andrei Rublev (1966).
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