Favorite Actors

1. Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, ...

(1892-1967)

The Bishop Murder Case (1929) David Copperfield (1935) Anna Karenina (1935) The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Captain Blood (1935) The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The Dawn Patrol (1938) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) The Mark of Zorro (1940) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) The Scarlet Claw (1944) The Pearl of Death (1944) The Spider Woman (1944) The House of Fear (1945) The Woman in Green (1945) Pursuit to Algiers (1945) Terror by Night (1946) Dressed to Kill (1946) The Wind in the Willows (1949) [voice] The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) Casanova's Big Night (1954) We're No Angels (1955) The Court Jester (1955) The Last Hurrah (1958) Tales of Terror (1962) The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

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2. Harold Lloyd

Actor | Safety Last!

Born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd who fought constantly and soon divorced (at the time a rare event), Harold Clayton Lloyd was nominally educated in Denver and San Diego high schools and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San ...

(1893-1971)

Grandma's Boy (1922) Dr. Jack (1922) Safety Last! (1923) Why Worry? (1923) Girl Shy (1924) Hot Water (1924) The Freshman (1925) For Heaven's Sake (1926) The Kid Brother (1927) Speedy (1928) Feet First (1930) Movie Crazy (1932) The Milky Way (1936)

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3. Buster Keaton

Actor | The General

Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...

(1895-1966)

The Saphead (1920) Three Ages (1923) Our Hospitality (1923) Sherlock Jr. (1924) The Navigator (1924) Seven Chances (1925) Go West (1925) Battling Butler (1926) The General (1926) College (1927) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) The Cameraman (1928) Spite Marriage (1929) Free and Easy (1930) Doughboys (1930) Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) Sidewalks of New York (1931) The Passionate Plumber (1932) In the Good Old Summertime (1949) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Limelight (1952) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

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4. James Cagney

Actor | Angels with Dirty Faces

One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur ...

(1899-1986)

Sinners' Holiday (1930) The Doorway to Hell (1930) Other Men's Women (1931) The Public Enemy (1931) The Millionaire (1931) Smart Money (1931) Blonde Crazy (1931) The Crowd Roars (1932) Winner Take All (1932) Hard to Handle (1933) Picture Snatcher (1933) The Mayor of Hell (1933) Footlight Parade (1933) Jimmy the Gent (1934) He Was Her Man (1934) 'G' Men (1935) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) The Oklahoma Kid (1939) Each Dawn I Die (1939) The Roaring Twenties (1939) Torrid Zone (1940) City for Conquest (1940) The Strawberry Blonde (1941) The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) White Heat (1949) What Price Glory (1952) Mister Roberts (1955) Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) One, Two, Three (1961)

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5. Humphrey Bogart

Actor | Casablanca

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...

(1899-1957)

The Petrified Forest (1936) Bullets or Ballots (1936) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) The Oklahoma Kid (1939) Dark Victory (1939) The Roaring Twenties (1939) The Return of Doctor X (1939) Brother Orchid (1940) They Drive by Night (1940) High Sierra (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1941) All Through the Night (1942) Across the Pacific (1942) Casablanca (1942) Action in the North Atlantic (1943) Passage to Marseille (1944) To Have and Have Not (1944) Conflict (1945) The Big Sleep (1946) Dead Reckoning (1947) The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) Dark Passage (1947) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Key Largo (1948) Knock on Any Door (1949) In a Lonely Place (1950) The African Queen (1951) Beat the Devil (1953) The Caine Mutiny (1954) Sabrina (1954) We're No Angels (1955) The Desperate Hours (1955) The Harder They Fall (1956)

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6. Gary Cooper

Actor | High Noon

Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ...

(1901-1961)

Wings (1927) Morocco (1930) If I Had a Million (1932) A Farewell to Arms (1932) Design for Living (1933) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) The Plainsman (1936) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Beau Geste (1939) The Westerner (1940) Meet John Doe (1941) Sergeant York (1941) Ball of Fire (1941) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Casanova Brown (1944) Dallas (1950) High Noon (1952) Garden of Evil (1954) Vera Cruz (1954) Friendly Persuasion (1956) Love in the Afternoon (1957) Man of the West (1958) The Hanging Tree (1959) Alias Jesse James (1959) The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

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7. Cary Grant

Actor | North by Northwest

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...

(1904-1986)

This Is the Night (1932) Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) Blonde Venus (1932) Hot Saturday (1932) She Done Him Wrong (1933) The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) I'm No Angel (1933) Kiss and Make-Up (1934) Sylvia Scarlett (1935) Big Brown Eyes (1936) Suzy (1936) Topper (1937) The Awful Truth (1937) Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Hawks Holiday (1938) - Cukor Gunga Din (1939) Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - Hawks In Name Only (1939) His Girl Friday (1940) - Hawks My Favorite Wife (1940) The Philadelphia Story (1940) - Cukor Suspicion (1941) - Hitchcock The Talk of the Town (1942) Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) Mr. Lucky (1943) Destination Tokyo (1943) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Night and Day (1946) Notorious (1946) - Hitchcock The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) The Bishop's Wife (1947) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) People Will Talk (1951) Room for One More (1952) Monkey Business (1952) - Hawks Dream Wife (1953) To Catch a Thief (1955) - Hitchcock An Affair to Remember (1957) Kiss Them for Me (1957) Indiscreet (1958) Houseboat (1958) North by Northwest (1959) - Hitchcock Operation Petticoat (1959) The Grass Is Greener (1960) That Touch of Mink (1962) Charade (1963) Father Goose (1964)

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8. James Stewart

Actor | Vertigo

James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...

(1908-1997)

Wife vs. Secretary (1936) After the Thin Man (1936) You Can't Take It With You (1938) - Capra It's a Wonderful World (1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Capra The Shop Around the Corner (1940) The Mortal Storm (1940) No Time for Comedy (1940) The Philadelphia Story (1940) Come Live With Me (1941) Ziegfeld Girl (1941) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Capra Call Northside 777 (1948) Rope (1948) - Hitchcock Broken Arrow (1950) Winchester '73 (1950) - Mann Harvey (1950) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Naked Spur (1953) - Mann Thunder Bay (1953) - Mann Rear Window (1954) - Hitchcock The Man From Laramie (1955) - Mann Strategic Air Command (1955) - Mann The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Hitchcock The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock Bell Book and Candle (1958) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Firecreek (1968) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) The Shootist (1976) Airport '77 (1977)

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9. Errol Flynn

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn, a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school in which he was enrolled. In his late teens ...

(1909-1959)

Captain Blood (1935) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) The Prince and the Pauper (1937) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Four's a Crowd (1938) The Dawn Patrol (1938) Dodge City (1939) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) The Sea Hawk (1940) Santa Fe Trail (1940) Footsteps in the Dark (1941) Dive Bomber (1941) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) Desperate Journey (1942) Gentleman Jim (1942) Northern Pursuit (1943) Objective, Burma! (1945) The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

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10. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

(1914-2000)

Great Expectations (1946) Oliver Twist (1948) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Last Holiday (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) The Card (1952) [a.k.a. The Promoter] The Captain's Paradise (1953) The Detective (1954) [a.k.a. Father Brown] The Ladykillers (1955) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Horse's Mouth (1958) The Scapegoat (1959) Tunes of Glory (1960) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Cromwell (1970) Star Wars (1977) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raise the Titanic (1980) Return of the Jedi (1983)

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11. Toshirô Mifune

Actor | Yôjinbô

Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in ...

(1920-1997)

Drunken Angel (1948) Stray Dog (1949) Scandal (1950) Rashomon (1950) Seven Samurai (1954) Throne of Blood (1957) The Lower Depths (1957) Yojimbo (1961) Sanjuro (1962) High and Low (1963) Grand Prix (1966) Red Sun (1971) 1941 (1979)

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12. Marlon Brando

Actor | Apocalypse Now

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. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...

(1924-2004)

The Men (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Viva Zapata! (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) The Wild One (1953) On the Waterfront (1954) Guys and Dolls (1955) The Young Lions (1958) The Fugitive Kind (1960) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) The Chase (1966) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Burn! (1969) The Godfather (1972) Last Tango in Paris (1972) Superman (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Freshman (1990) The Score (2001)

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13. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

(1925-2001)

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14. Paul Newman

Actor | The Hustler

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). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...

(1925-2008)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) The Rack (1956) The Long, Hot Summer (1958) From the Terrace (1960) The Hustler (1961) Hud (1963) The Prize (1963) Lady L (1965) Harper (1966) Torn Curtain (1966) Hombre (1967) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) The Sting (1973) The Towering Inferno (1974) The Drowning Pool (1975) Slap Shot (1977) Absence of Malice (1981) The Verdict (1982) The Color of Money (1986) Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Nobody's Fool (1994) Twilight (1998) Road to Perdition (2002) Cars (2006) [voice]

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15. Peter Sellers

Actor | Being There

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. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his ...

(1925- 1980)

The Ladykillers (1955) tom thumb (1958) Only Two Can Play (1962) The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) The Pink Panther (1963) Dr. Strangelove (1964) A Shot in the Dark (1964) After the Fox (1966) Casino Royale (1967) The Party (1968) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) The Optimists (1973) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) Being There (1979)

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16. Max von Sydow

Actor | Flash Gordon

Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.

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(1929-2020)

The Seventh Seal (1957) Wild Strawberries (1957) Through a Glass Darkly (1961) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) The Exorcist (1973) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Flash Gordon (1980) Conan the Barbarian (1982) Never Say Never Again (1983) Dreamscape (1984) Dune (1984) Ghostbusters II (1989) [voice] Until the End of the World (1991) Minority Report (2002) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Rush Hour 3 (2007) Shutter Island (2010) Robin Hood (2010) Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

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17. Gene Hackman

Actor | The French Connection

Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...

b. 1930

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Gypsy Moths (1969) Downhill Racer (1969) I Never Sang for My Father (1970) The French Connection (1971) Prime Cut (1972) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) The Conversation (1974) Young Frankenstein (1974) Night Moves (1975) Superman (1978) Superman II (1980) Uncommon Valor (1983) Hoosiers (1986) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) No Way Out (1987) Bat*21 (1988) Mississippi Burning (1988) The Package (1989) Company Business (1991) Unforgiven (1992) The Firm (1993) Wyatt Earp (1994) The Quick and the Dead (1995) Crimson Tide (1995) Get Shorty (1995) The Birdcage (1996) Absolute Power (1997) Twilight (1998) Antz (1998) [voice] Enemy of the State (1998) The Replacements (2000) Heartbreakers (2001) Heist (2001) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Runaway Jury (2003)

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18. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

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

(1930-2020)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) The Longest Day (1962) Dr. No (1962) From Russia with Love (1963) Marnie (1964) Goldfinger (1964) The Hill (1965) Thunderball (1965) A Fine Madness (1966) You Only Live Twice (1967) The Molly Maguires (1970) The Anderson Tapes (1971) Diamonds Are Forever (1971) The Offence (1973) Zardoz (1974) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Robin and Marian (1976) A Bridge Too Far (1977) The Great Train Robbery (1978) Time Bandits (1981) Never Say Never Again (1983) Highlander (1986) The Name of the Rose (1986) The Untouchables (1987) The Presidio (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Family Business (1989) The Hunt for Red October (1990) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) Medicine Man (1992) Rising Sun (1993) First Knight (1995) The Rock (1996) Entrapment (1999) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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19. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...

(1933-2016)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Producers (1967) Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Blazing Saddles (1974) Young Frankenstein (1974) Silver Streak (1976) The Frisco Kid (1979) Stir Crazy (1980) The Woman in Red (1984) See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

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20. Jack Nicholson

Actor | Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. 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 ...

b. 1937

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) The Raven (1963) Easy Rider (1969) Five Easy Pieces (1970) Carnal Knowledge (1971) The Last Detail (1973) Chinatown (1974) Tommy (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The Shining (1980) Reds (1981) Terms of Endearment (1983) The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Batman (1989) A Few Good Men (1992) Hoffa (1992) Wolf (1994) Mars Attacks! (1996) As Good As It Gets (1997) About Schmidt (2002) Anger Management (2003) The Departed (2006) The Bucket List (2007)

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21. Dustin Hoffman

Actor | Tootsie

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 was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...

b. 1937

The Graduate (1967) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Little Big Man (1970) Papillon (1973) Lenny (1974) All the President's Men (1976) Marathon Man (1976) Straight Time (1978) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Tootsie (1982) Ishtar (1987) Rain Man (1988) Family Business (1989) Dick Tracy (1990) Billy Bathgate (1991) Hook (1991) Hero (1992) Outbreak (1995) Sleepers (1996) Wag the Dog (1997) Runaway Jury (2003) Finding Neverland (2004) Meet the Fockers (2004) Stranger Than Fiction (2006) Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) Kung Fu Panda (2007) [voice] Chef (2014) The Cobbler (2014)

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22. Harrison Ford

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...

b. 1942

American Graffiti (1973) The Conversation (1974) Star Wars (1977) Force 10 from Navarone (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Blade Runner (1982) Return of the Jedi (1983) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Witness (1985) Working Girl (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Regarding Henry (1991) Patriot Games (1992) The Fugitive (1993) Clear and Present Danger (1994) Sabrina (1995) The Devil's Own (1997) Air Force One (1997) Six Days Seven Nights (1998) What Lies Beneath (2000) K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Cowboys & Aliens (2011) 42 (2013) Anchorman 2: The Legends Continues (2013) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

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23. Steve Martin

Writer | Roxanne

Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. In 1960, he got a job at the Magic ...

b. 1945

The Muppet Movie (1979) The Jerk (1979) Pennies from Heaven (1981) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) All of Me (1984) Three Amigos (1986) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Roxanne (1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) Parenthood (1989) Father of the Bride (1991) Father of the Bride Part II (1995) The Spanish Prisoner (1997) Bowfinger (1999) The Pink Panther (2006) The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

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24. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

b. 1949

The Last Picture Show (1971) Fat City (1972) Bad Company (1972) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) King Kong (1976) Heaven's Gate (1980) Cutter's Way (1981) TRON (1982) The Last Unicorn (1982) [voice] Starman (1984) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) The Fisher King (1991) American Heart (1992) The Big Lebowski (1998) The Contender (2000) K-PAX (2001) Seabiscuit (2003) Iron Man (2008) The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Crazy Heart (2009) TRON: Legacy (2010) True Grit (2010) The Giver (2014) Hell or High Water (2016)

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25. Bill Murray

Actor | Lost in Translation

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...

b. 1950

Meatballs (1979) Caddyshack (1980) Stripes (1981) Tootsie (1982) Ghostbusters (1984) The Razor's Edge (1984) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Ghostbusters II (1989) Quick Change (1990) What About Bob? (1991) Groundhog Day (1993) Ed Wood (1994) Kingpin (1996) The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Rushmore (1998) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Lost in Translation (2003) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Get Low (2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) The Monuments Men (2014) St. Vincent (2014) The Jungle Book (2016) Ghostbusters (2016) Isle of Dogs (2018) The French Dispatch (2021) Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

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26. Michael Keaton

Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...

b. 1951

Mr. Mom (1983) Johnny Dangerously (1984) Gung Ho (1986) Beetlejuice (1988) The Dream Team (1989) Batman (1989) Batman Returns (1992) Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Multiplicity (1996) Jackie Brown (1997) Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) Toy Story 3 (2010) [voice] The Other Guys (2010) RoboCop (2014) Birdman (2014) Spotlight (2015) The Founder (2016) Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

27. Jeff Goldblum

Actor | Jurassic Park

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry.

...

Death Wish (1974) California Split (1974) The Sentinel (1977) Annie Hall (1977) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) The Big Chill (1983) The Right Stuff (1983) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) Silverado (1985) The Fly (1986) The Player (1992) Deep Cover (1992) Jurassic Park (1993) Independence Day (1996) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) The Prince of Egypt (1998) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Adam Resurrected (2008) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Isle of Dogs (2018) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

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28. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

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29. Tom Hanks

Producer | Cast Away

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...

b. 1956

Splash (1984) The Money Pit (1986) Dragnet (1987) Big (1988) The 'Burbs (1989) Turner & Hooch (1989) Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) A League of Their Own (1992) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) Apollo 13 (1995) Toy Story (1995) [voice] That Thing You Do! (1996) Saving Private Ryan (1998) You've Got Mail (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) [voice] The Green Mile (1999) Cast Away (2000) Road to Perdition (2002) Catch Me If You Can (2002) The Ladykillers (2004) The Terminal (2004) The Polar Express (2004) The Da Vinci Code (2006) Toy Story 3 (2010) [voice] Larry Crowne (2011) Captain Phillips (2013) Saving Mr. Banks (2013) Bridge of Spies (2015) Sully (2016) The Circle (2017) The Post (2017) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) News of the Day (2020)

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30. Daniel Day-Lewis

Actor | There Will Be Blood

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...

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31. Kevin Spacey

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...

b. 1959

Working Girl (1988) See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) The Usual Suspects (1995) Outbreak (1995) Se7en (1995) A Time to Kill (1996) L.A. Confidential (1997) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) The Negotiator (1998) A Bug's Life (1998) [voice] American Beauty (1999) K-PAX (2001) Beyond the Sea (2004) Superman Returns (2006) Fred Claus (2007) The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Horrible Bosses (2011) Elvis & Nixon (2016)

32. Jean Arthur

Actress | You Can't Take It with You

This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna ...

(1900-1991)

Whirlpool (1934) Party Wire (1935) If You Could Only Cook (1935) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) The Plainsman (1936) History is Made at Night (1937) Easy Living (1937) You Can't Take It With You (1938) Only Angels Have Wings (1938) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Talk of the Town (1942) The More the Merrier (1943) Shane (1953)

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33. Barbara Stanwyck

Actress | Double Indemnity

Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the ...

(1907-1990)

Baby Face (1933) Stella Dallas (1937) Breakfast for Two (1937) Union Pacific (1939) Remember the Night (1940) The Lady Eve (1941) Meet John Doe (1941) Ball of Fire (1941) Double Indemnity (1944) Christmas in Connecticut (1945) The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) No Man of Her Own (1950) The Furies (1950) Clash by Night (1952) All I Desire (1953) Crime of Passion (1956) Forty Guns (1957)

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34. Bette Davis

Actress | All About Eve

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...

(1908-1989)

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) Jimmy the Gent (1934) Of Human Bondage (1934) Front Page Woman (1935) The Petrified Forest (1936) Satan Met a Lady (1936) Jezebel (1938) Dark Victory (1939) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) The Letter (1940) The Great Lie (1941) The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) The Little Foxes (1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) In This Our Life (1942) Now, Voyager (1942) Watch on the Rhine (1943) Old Acquaintance (1943) Mr. Skeffington (1944) The Corn Is Green (1945) Deception (1946) Winter Meeting (1948) June Bride (1948) All About Eve (1950) Payment on Demand (1951) The Star (1952) The Catered Affair (1956) The Scapegoat (1959) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Return from Witch Mountain (1978) The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

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35. Carole Lombard

Actress | My Man Godfrey

Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West. While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being spotted playing baseball in the street with the ...

(1908-1942)

Ladies' Man (1931) Virtue (1932) No Man of Her Own (1932) The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) Twentieth Century (1934) Hands Across the Table (1935) My Man Godfrey (1936) Nothing Sacred (1937) Fools for Scandal (1938) Made for Each Other (1939) In Name Only (1939) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942)

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36. Ginger Rogers

Actress | Kitty Foyle

Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911, the daughter of Lela E. Rogers (née Lela Emogene Owens) and William Eddins McMath. Her mother went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he ...

You Said a Mouthful (1932) 42nd Street (1933) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Upper World (1934) Top Hat (1935) Follow the Fleet (1936) Swing Time (1936) Shall We Dance (1937) Stage Door (1937) Having Wonderful Time (1938) Carefree (1938) Bachelor Mother (1939) Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) Primrose Path (1940) Kitty Foyle (1940) The Major and the Minor (1942) Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) Monkey Business (1952)

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37. Ann Sheridan

Actress | Kings Row

Ann Sheridan won the "Search for Beauty" contest which carried with it a Paramount screen test. Signed to a contract at 18, she was put into a number of small roles under her real name of Clara Lou Sheridan. As she got better, her name was changed to Ann. In 1936, after two dozen films, she went to...

(1915-1967)

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Dodge City (1939) Torrid Zone (1940) They Drive by Night (1940) City for Conquest (1940) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Kings Row (1942)

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38. Ingrid Bergman

Actress | Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...

(1915-1982)

Intermezzo (1936) A Woman's Face (1938) Rage in Heaven (1941) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Casablanca (1942) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Gaslight (1944) Spellbound (1945) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Notorious (1946) Stromboli (1950) Europa '51 (1952) Indiscreet (1958) The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) Cactus Flower (1969) Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

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39. Veronica Lake

Actress | Sullivan's Travels

Veronica Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockleman on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, who worked for an oil company as a ship employee. Her father was of half German and half Irish descent, and her ...

(1922-1973)

Sullivan's Travels (1941) This Gun for Hire (1942) The Glass Key (1942)

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40. Janet Leigh

Actress | Psycho

Janet Leigh was the only child of a couple who often moved from town to town. Living in apartments, Janet was a bright child who skipped several grades and finished high school when she was 15. A lonely child, she would spend much of her time at movie theaters. She was a student, studying music and...

(1927-2004)

Holiday Affair (1949) Little Women (1949) Angels in the Outfield (1951) The Naked Spur (1953) Living It Up (1954) Touch of Evil (1958) The Vikings (1958) Psycho (1960) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Harper (1966)

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41. Vera Miles

Actress | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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 series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she ...

b. 1929

The Searchers (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Psycho (1960) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Those Calloways (1965)

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42. Sophia Loren

Actress | La ciociara

Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...

b. 1934

Legend of the Lost (1957) Houseboat (1958) El Cid (1961) Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Marriage Italian Style (1964) Operation Crossbow (1965) Lady L (1965) Arabesque (1966) More Than a Miracle (1967) The Cassandra Crossing (1976) Firepower (1979)

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43. Helen Mirren

Actress | The Queen

Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...

b. 1945

Age of Consent (1969) Excalibur (1981) 2010 (1984) The Madness of King George (1994) The Prince of Egypt (1998) [voice] The Queen (2006) National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) State of Play (2009) RED (2010) Monsters University (2013) [voice] RED 2 (2013)

44. Andie MacDowell

Actress | Groundhog Day

Andie MacDowell was born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina, to Pauline Johnston (Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive. She was enrolled at Winthrop College located in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Initially discovered by a ...

b. 1958

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) St. Elmo's Fire (1985) The Player (1992) Groundhog Day (1993) Multiplicity (1996)

45. Madeleine Stowe

Actress | 12 Monkeys

Madeleine Stowe was born in Los Angeles, California, to Mireya Maria (Mora Steinvorth) and Robert Alfred Stowe, a civil engineer. Her mother was a from a prominent political family in Costa Rica. Stowe grew up in Eagle Rock, a working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles. At age ten she started ...

b. 1958

Stakeout (1987) The Last of the Mohicans (1992) China Moon (1994) Twelve Monkeys (1995)

46. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

b. 1969

Elizabeth (1998) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) The Aviator (2004) Babel (2006) Hot Fuzz (2007) Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Robin Hood (2010) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Blue Jasmine (2013) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) The Monuments Men (2014) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) Carol (2015) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) The House with a Clock in It's Walls (2018) Nightmare Alley (2021) Tar (2022)

47. Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress | Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...

b. 1972

Hook (1991) Se7en (1995) Emma (1996) Sliding Doors (1998) Shakespeare in Love (1998) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Iron Man (2008) Iron Man 2 (2010) The Avengers (2012) Iron Man 3 (2013) Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

48. Penélope Cruz

Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...

b. 1974

All About My Mother (1999) Blow (2001) Vanilla Sky (2001) Noel (2004) Sahara (2005) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

49. Jennifer Lawrence

Actress | The Hunger Games

As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...

b. 1990

X-Men: First Class (2011) The Hunger Games (2012) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) American Hustle (2013) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) Serena (2014) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Passengers (2016) Red Sparrow (2018) No Hard Feelings (2023)