Once and again

1. Francis L. Sullivan

Francis L. Sullivan was born on January 6, 1903 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Great Expectations (1946), Night and the City (1950) and Oliver Twist (1948). He was married to Frances Joan Perkins (designer). He died on November 19, 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.

As "Jaggers" in the Hollywood production "Great Expectations" (1934), and again in the David Lean directed "Great Expectations" (1946).

2. Peter Cushing

Actor | Star Wars

Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was ...

As "Sherlock Holmes" in the Hammer Film production "The Hound of Baskervilles" (1959) and again in the BBC TV-series "Sherlock Holmes" (1968) including the two part "The Hound of Baskervilles".

3. Alan Hale

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Alan Hale decided on a film career after his attempt at becoming an opera singer didn't pan out. He quickly became much in demand as a supporting actor, starred in several films for Cecil B. DeMille and directed others for him. With the advent of sound, Hale played leads in a few films but soon ...

As "Little John" in "Robin Hood" (1922) and "Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) and again in "Rogues of Sherwood Forest" (1950).

4. 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 ...

As "James Bond - Agent 007" in the Broccoli & Saltzman productions 1962 - 1971 and again in the independent production "Never Say Never Again" (1983).

5. Joseph Olita

Actor | Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

Joseph Olita was born on March 31, 1944 in Kenya. He was an actor, known for Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981), Mississippi Masala (1991) and Sheena (1984). He died on June 1, 2014 in South East Alego, Kogelo, Kenya.

As Ugandan dictator "Idi Amin" in "Rise and Fall of Idi Amin" (1981) and "Mississippi Masala" (1991).

6. Charlton Heston

Actor | Ben-Hur

With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty ...

As "Marc Anthony" in "Julius Caesar" (1950) and in "Julius Caesar" (1970) and "Anthony and Cleopatra" (1972). Furthermore played "Juda Ben Hur" in "Ben Hur" (1959) and voiced "Ben Hur" (2003) the animated video,

7. Peter O'Toole

Actor | Lawrence of Arabia

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. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a...

As "King Henry II." in "Becket" (1964) and in "The Lion in Winter" (1968).

8. Robert Newton

Actor | Around the World in Eighty Days

Robert Newton was one of the great character actors -- and great characters -- of the British cinema, best remembered today for playing Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1950) and its sequel in 1954. His portrayal of Long John Silver and of Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) created a persona that ...

As "Long John Silver" in "Treasure Island" (1950) and "Long John Silver" (1954). Different productions but same director, Byron Haskin.

9. Flora Robson

Actress | Clash of the Titans

Flora Robson knew she was no beauty, but her wise and sympathetic face would become a familiar - indeed, shining - ornament of the 1930s and '40s silver screen. Though not sure of acting as a career in her early years, she first appeared on stage when 5 years old. She was educated at Palmer's Green...

As "Queen Elisabeth I" in "Fire Over England" (1937) and "The Sea Hawk" (1940).

10. 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...

As "Queen Elisabeth I" in "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" (1939) and "The Virgin Queen" (1955).

11. Derek Jacobi

Actor | Gosford Park

Preeminent British classical actor of the first post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre, and, in fact, is only the second to enjoy the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and English (Olivier was the other). Modest and unassuming in nature, ...

As "Emperor Claudius" in TV-series "I-Claudius" (1976) and the movie "Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans" (2019).

12. Charles Laughton

Actor | Witness for the Prosecution

Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). ...

As "King Henry VIII." in "The Private Life of Henry VIII." (1933) and "Young Bess" (1953). And as the pirate "Captain Kidd" in "Captain Kidd" (1945) and again in the spoof "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" (1952).

13. Vladimir Medar

Actor | Fiddler on the Roof

Vladimir Medar was born in 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Le fils de Tarass Boulba (1962) and Fire Over Rome (1965). He died on May 17, 1978 in Bela Crkva, Serbia, Yugoslavia.

As "Taras Bulba" in "Taras Bulba, il cosacco" (1962) and as "Boulba" in "Le fils de Tarass Boulba" (1964).

14. Rita Carlyle

Actress | The Vampire Bat

Rita Carlyle was born on February 23, 1869 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for The Vampire Bat (1933), Sing While You're Able (1937) and Waterloo Bridge (1931). She died on August 24, 1949 in Banning, California, USA.

As "The Old Woman" on the bridge in "Waterloo Bridge" (1931) and again "Flower Woman on Bridge" in "Waterloo Bridge" (1940).

15. Bernard Hepton

Actor | Get Carter

Tall, dignified-looking Bernard Hepton enjoyed a six-decade-long career on both stage and screen during which he particularly excelled at subtle, self-effacing, or introspective roles. An electrician's son, Hepton grew up in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford. Due to poor eyesight, he missed out ...

As "Archbishop Thomas Cranmer" in "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (1970)(TV Mini-Series), "Elisabeth R" (1971)(TV Mini-Series) and again in "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" (1972).

16. Keith Michell

Actor | Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Keith Michell was an Emmy Award-winning Australian stage, television, and film actor. Born 1 December 1926 in Adelaide, South Australia, he was brought up some 150 miles away, in Warnertown, on the Augusta Highway between Crystal Brook and Port Pirie. He taught art until he made his debut on the ...

As "King Henry VIII" in "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (1970)(TV Mini-Series) and "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" (1972).

17. Carmen Ejogo

Actress | Selma

Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo was born in Kensington, London, England, to a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother. Her television career began in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, where she presented the children's series Saturday Disney (1990). Subsequently, she has had an acting career in the ...

As "Coretta Scott King", wife of Martin Luther King Jr. in "Boycott" (TV movie 2001) and in "Selma" (2014).

18. Richard Greene

Actor | The Hound of the Baskervilles

Before achieving his greatest fame in the 1950s as television's "Robin Hood", handsome Richard Greene had a significant if largely unremarkable film career, turning in several skillful leading man performances in the late 1930s before becoming type-cast in routine costume adventures. Like his ...

As "Robin Hood" in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (TV Series 1955 - 1960) and in "Sword of Sherwood Forest" (1960), although Yeoman Films Ltd. was involved in both.

19. Romy Schneider

Actress | L'important c'est d'aimer

Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into a family of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthrough came two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (1955). Her mother, supervising her daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participation ...

As "Empress Elisabeth of Austria" in the Austrian sequels "Sissi" (1955), "Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin" (1956) & "Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin" (1957). And then 16 years later in the Italien production "Ludwig" (1973).

20. Zlatko Buric

Actor | Triangle of Sadness

Zlatko Buric was born on May 13, 1953 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He is an actor, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Pusher (1996) and 2012 (2009).

As "Milo" in Danish "Pusher" (1996) and again in the British remake "Pusher" (2012).

21. Ove Verner Hansen

Actor | Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter

Ove Verner Hansen was born on July 20, 1932 in Helsingør, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter (1974), Olsen-banden på sporet (1975) and Olsen-banden over alle bjerge! (1981). He was married to Birthe Bruun. He died on February 20, 2016 in Gentofte, Denmark.

Played the goon, "Bøffen/Biffen" (The Beef) in both the Danish comedies "Olsenbanden" and the Norwegian remakes.

22. Anton Walbrook

Actor | The Red Shoes

This dark, debonair, dashing and extremely distinguished Austrian actor was christened Adolf Wohlbrück in Vienna, the scion of a family of circus clowns. He broke away easily from generations of tradition as the circus life had no appeal whatsoever to Walbrook.

Trained by the legendary director Max ...

As "Michael Strogoff" in the German "Der Kurier des Zaren" (1936) and in the French "Michel Strogoff" (1936) and again in the American "The Soldier and the Lady" (1937).

23. Curd Jürgens

Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me

Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the 20th Century. He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany, a subject of Kaiser ...

As "Michel Strogoff" in the French/West German/Italien/Yugoslavien "Michel Strogoff" (1956) and in the French/Italien "Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff" (1961).

24. Eric Pohlmann

Actor | The Return of the Pink Panther

Born in Vienna. Studied at Max Reinhardt School. Early years as entertainer at Reiss Bar in Vienna. Often appeared at still-existing Raimund-Theater. Met wife, Liselotte, on stage in Brno (now Czech Republic). She escaped to London in 1938, he in 1939, where they married that year. Frequent ...

As the British "King George III" in "John Paul Jones" (1959) and in the Disney movie and TV series "Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow" (1963) and "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 1-3" (1963-64)

25. Marguerite Viby

Actress | Peggy på vift

Marguerite Viby was born on June 25, 1909 in Viby Jylland, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Peggy på vift (1946), Milly, Maria och jag (1938) and I dag gifter sig min man (1943). She was married to Erik Henry Tangfelt, Preben Mahrt, Knud Wold, Emanuel Gregers and Poul Christian Guldager...

As "Eva Holm" in the Swedish comedy "Fröken Kyrkråtta" (1941) and again in the Danish remake "Frk. Kirkemus" (1941).

26. Raymond Massey

Actor | Arsenic and Old Lace

Educated at the University of Toronto & Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the Canadian Field Artillery in World War I, served in France & was wounded. His first appearance was in a stage production in Siberia, during the multi-nation intervention of 1918 - 1919. Raymond returned to Canada & his ...

Played "President Abraham Lincoln" in several film and TV versions of Robert E. Sherwood's play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois". Furthermore played the slave abolisher "John Brown" in "Santa Fe Trail" (1940) and in "Seven Angry Men" (1955).

27. Angela Bassett

Actress | Strange Days

Captivating, gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters and on stages and television screens throughout the world. Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City, to Betty Jane (Gilbert), a social worker, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a ...

As "Betty Shabazz", the wife and widow of Malcolm X in "Malcolm X" (1992) and "Panther" (1995).

28. Christopher Lee

Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...

As "Count Dracula" i several Britsh Hammer Film productions and in the German/Spanish "Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" (1970).

29. George C. Scott

Actor | Patton

George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...

As "General George S. Patton" in "Patton" (1970) and in the TV film "The Last Days of Patton" (1986).

30. Gael García Bernal

Actor | Mozart in the Jungle

Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal, an actress/model & José Ángel García, an actor/director. His stepfather's cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. He began his acting career as a child, working w/ his parents in a variety of plays. At 14, he starred in a soap opera called El ...

As "Che Guevara" in the TV-movie "Fidel" (2002) and in "Diarios de motocicleta" (2004).

31. Patrick Stewart

Actor | Logan

Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...

As "Claudius" in both "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" (TV-movie) (1980) and in "Hamlet" (TV-movie)(2009).

32. Bob Hoskins

Actor | The Long Good Friday

Bob Hoskins was described by the director John Mackenzie as "an actor from the British tradition but with an almost American approach, an instinctive approach to acting and knowing how to work with the camera". He was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was ...

As "Smee" in Steven Spielberg's "Hook" (1992) and in the TV-miniseries "Neverland" (2011).

33. David Prowse

Actor | Star Wars

David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...

As "Frankenstein's Monster" in "Casino Royale" (1966), "The Horror of Frankenstein" (1970) and in "Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell" (1974).

34. Yul Brynner

Actor | The King and I

Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible. It was not until the publication of the books "Yul: The Man Who Would Be King" ...

As "King Mongkut of Siam" in "The King and I" (1956) and again in the TV series "Anna and the King" (1972).

35. Robert Beer

Actor | The Right Stuff

Robert Beer is known for The Right Stuff (1983), My Science Project (1985) and Americathon (1979).

As "President Dwight D. Eisenhower" in "The Right Stuff" (1983) and in "My Science Project" (1985).

36. 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...

As "Ray Nicolette" in "Jackie Brown" (1997) and in "Out of Sight" (1998).

37. James Hayter

Actor | Oliver!

The son of a police superintendent in India, the character actor James Hayter was educated in Scotland, where he was urged into acting by his headmaster. After one year (1924-5) at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts in London, he performed in repertory theater, eventually appearing in The West ...

As "Friar Tuck" in the Disney movie "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (1952), and again in the Hammer Film "A Challenge for Robin Hood" (1967).

38. Erville Alderson

Actor | The Scarlet Empress

A character actor whose film career spanned from Hollywood's Silent Era until the 1950s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 11, 1882, Erville would start his film career in 1918 at the age of 36 in Her Man (1918). Film pioneer D.W. Griffith utilized Erville in many of his films, including ...

As "Jefferson Davis" in "Hearts in Bondage" (1936) and "Santa Fe Trail" (1940).

39. Katy Jurado

Actress | High Noon

Katy Jurado was born María Cristina Estela Jurado García into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924. Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry. Despite the loss of property, the matriarch of...

As the prostitute "Helen Ramírez" in "High Noon" (1952) and it's TV-movie sequel "High Noon: The Clock Strikes Noon Again" (1966).

40. Charles Gray

Actor | Diamonds Are Forever

The son of a surveyor, Charles Gray was born and raised in Queen's Park, Bournemouth. As a young actor, he received his vocal training from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Old Vic, having long abandoned his first job as clerk for a real estate agent. His voice was to...

As Sherlock Holmes' smarter brother, "Mycroft Holmes" in "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976) and in the TV-series "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1988) and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1994).

41. Monica Calhoun

Actress | Out of Rosenheim

Monica Calhoun has been acting since the age of 13. As a child actress, she worked for Walt Disney Family in "She Stood Alone", and starred on CBS's series "Bagdad Café", "Getting Straight" and "Taking a Stand", ABC's "Where I Live", "The Ditchdigger's Daughter", and "The Ernest Green Story". She ...

As "Phyllis" in the movie "Bagdad Café" (1987) and "Debbie" in the TV-series "Bagdad Cafe" (1990-1991). Basically the same character.

42. Herbert Lom

Actor | The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Herbert Lom was born on September 11, 1917 as Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru into an aristocratic family living in genteel poverty. His incredibly long surnames led him to select the shortest surname he could find extant ("Lom") and adopt it as his own, professionally. He ...

As "Napoleon" in "The Young Mr. Pitt" (1942) and in "War and Peace" (1956).

43. Frank Thring

Actor | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Frank Thring was born on May 11, 1926 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Ben-Hur (1959) and The Vikings (1958). He was married to Joan Cunliffe. He died on December 29, 1994 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

As "Herod Antipas" in "King of Kings" (1961) and in the TV-movie "Salome" (1968).

44. Ian Holm

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...

Played "Puck" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"(1959) (TV Movie), and again in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1968). And "Napoleon" in "Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series)" (1974) and in "Time Bandits" (1981), as well as in "The Emperor's New Clothes" (2001).

45. Vladimir Chuprikov

Actor | The Courier

Vladimir Olegovich Chuprikov, born July 24, 1964 in Moscow (USSR). In 1988, he graduated from the Lunacharskii State Institute of Theatrical Arts (GITIS) with the master's degree of the Drama acting (A.V. Borodin's course). In 2017 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute with the ...

Played "Nikita Khrushchev" in the TV-mini series "Messing" in 2009 and in the TV series "The Optimists" (2017) and again before his death in the movie "The Courier" in 2020.

46. Udo Kier

Actor | Hunters

Beginning his life with the same flair for the dramatic that would come to define his career, Udo Kier was born in Köln, Germany near the end of the 2nd world war. The hospital was bombed and buried Kier and his mother in the rubble. Both survived, and Kier would later move to London as a young ...

As "Adolf Hitler" in "100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker" (1989), as "Vril Adolf Hitler" in "Iron Sky: The Coming Race" (2019) and as Mr. Herzog (allegedly Adolf Hitler) in "My Neighbor, Adolf" (2021).

47. Kevin Stoney

Actor | Emmerdale Farm

Kevin Stoney served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, where he trained as a pilot and was sent to the Middle East. However, he crashed so many planes that he had to be reclassified as a navigator. As an actor he did his best work for the small screen, often appearing as doctors, ...

As the soothsayer "Thrasyllus" in "The Caesars" (TV Mini Series) (1968) and in "I, Claudius" (TV Mini Series) (1976).

48. 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 ...

In the Oscar-winning part "Cesira" in "La ciociara" (1960) and again in the same role in "La ciociara" (TV movie)(1989).

49. Neville Brand

Actor | Stalag 17

Neville Brand joined the Illinois National Guard in 1939, bent on a career in the military. His National Guard unit was activated into federal service shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. It was while he was in the army that he made his acting debut, in Army training films, ...

As "Butch Cassidy" in the western films "The Three Outlaws" (1956) and "Badman's Country" (1958).

50. Caspar Phillipson

Actor | Jackie

Caspar Phillipson was born in 1971 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the oldest of four children to Dane Helle Vibeke Brinch and Brit Robert Phillipson. He was raised bilingually in Yugoslavia, England, and Denmark, and studied acting at the National Danish Drama School at Aarhus Theater, Denmark. The first ...

Recurring role as USA president "John F. Kennedy" as in "Jackie" (2016) and "Blonde" (2022) and several other occasions.

51. Glenda Jackson

Actress | Women in Love

Few in modern British history have come as far or achieved as much from humble beginnings as Glenda Jackson did. From acclaimed actress to respected MP (Member of Parliament), she was known for her high intelligence and meticulous approach to her work. She was born to a working-class household in ...

As "Queen Elisabeth 1." in the movie "Mary, Queen of Scots" (1971) and in the TV mini series "Elisabeth R" (1971).

52. Audie Murphy

Actor | To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war. Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive. In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and...

As western robber/hero "Jesse James" in "Kansas Raiders" (1950) and his last movie "A Time for Dying" (1969).

53. Jay Koch

Actor | Back to the Future Part II

Born in Rechnitz, Austria and raised in Brooklyn from the age of three, Julius Koch, Jr. had been a New York City police officer who walked a beat and retired with the rank of sergeant in 1969. At retirement, he moved to California, where Ronald Reagan was then governor.

His second career began when...

As governor or president "Ronald Regan" in a handful of films until "Panther" (1995).

54. Brett Stimely

Actor | Parkland

In Brett's first on-screen role, only his hands appeared in the commercial for "Skipper's Seafood 'N Chowder House" fish-n-chips. Soon after, he made his way to Zurich, Switzerland where he introduced the "Fresh Start Laundry Detergent" commercial campaign to German television audiences. After ...

As "President John F. Kennedy" in "Watchmen" (2009), "Transformers 3" (2011), "El Teniente Amado" (2013) and "Parkland" (2013).

55. 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 ...

As show and dance man "George M. Cohan" in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) and again in "The Seven Little Foys" (1955).

56. Helen Morgan

Actress | Show Boat

Before the tragic legacies of songbird icons Édith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Judy Garland took hold, there was the one...the original...lady who sang the blues and started the whole "bawl" rolling. Like her successors, Helen Morgan lived the sad songs she sang...and more.

She started her life ...

As "Julie" in "Show Boat" (1929) and again in "Show Boat" (1936).

57. Martin Kosleck

Actor | Agent for H.A.R.M.

His icy demeanor and piercing stare on screen epitomized the type of Nazi menace with a blind obedience to Hitler that everyone loved to hate. Kosleck portrayed Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, 5 times, as well as various German army officers, SS troopers and concentration camp officers. He ...

As "Joseph Goebbels"in "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" (1939) and in "The Hitler Gang" (1944).

58. Catherine Oxenberg

Actress | Dynasty

Award-winning actress Catherine Oxenberg was born in New York and raised in London. She is the daughter of HRH Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and the granddaughter of Prince Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia. Her first acting coach was Richard Burton. She was admitted to Harvard University. She ...

As "Lady Diana Spencer" in "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" (TV Movie) (1982) and as "Princess Diana" in "Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After" TV Movie (1992).

59. Michael Sheen

Actor | Masters of Sex

Even though he had burned up the London stage for nearly a decade--and appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" by American audiences until his critically-acclaimed turn as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1999 Broadway revival of "Amadeus".

Sheen was born in Newport, Wales...

As British prime minister "Tony Blair" in "The Queen" (2006) and "The Special Relationship" (TV Movie) (2010).

60. Greta Garbo

Actress | Ninotchka

Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...

As "Anna Karenina" in the silent movie "Love" (1927) and again in the sound version "Anna Karenina" (1935).

61. David Warner

Actor | Titanic

Distinguished character actor David Hattersley Warner was born on July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen (Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner. He was born out of wedlock and raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his itinerant father and stepmother. He only saw his ...

As "Reinhard Heydrich" in the TV Miniseries "Holocaust" (1978) and in the TV Movie "Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil" (1985).

62. Robert Helpmann

Actor | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Robert Murray Helpmann was born in Mount Gambier, Australia, as the eldest of three children born to stock and station agent James Murray Helpman and Mary Gardiner.

After the family moved to Adelaide in 1914, Helpmann was educated at Prince Alfred's College, but he soon left school at the age of 14 ...

As "Dr. Coppelius" in both "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951) and in the TV-Movie "Coppélia" (1957).

63. Frederic Forrest

Actor | Apocalypse Now

Frederic Forrest, the Oscar-nominated character actor, was born two days before Christmas Day in 1936 in Waxahachie, Texas, the same home town as director Robert Benton. Forrest had long wanted to be an actor, but he was so nervous that he ran out of auditions for school plays. Later, at Texas ...

As "Dashiell Hammett" in "Hammett" (1982) and in in the TV-Movie "Citizen Cohn" (1992).

64. Heinz Ingo Hilgers

Actor | Winnetou II

Heinz Ingo Hilgers was born on August 7, 1926 in Duisburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Winnetou II (1966), Old Surehand (1965) and In den Schluchten des Balkan (1960). He died on April 27, 2004.

As "Winnetou" in the TV Movie "Der Ölprinz" (1961) and the TV Movie "Der Ölprinz" (1970).

65. David Niven

Actor | Murder by Death

His mother was the French Lady Comynyplatt Henrietta de Gacher, his father was the British Lieutenant William Graham Niven, who died in the war when David was six years old. Niven was considered a difficult child to educate and had to change schools often until he finally went to Sandhurst Military...

As "Phileas Fogg" in both "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956) and "The Return of Phileas Fogg" (1957).

66. Roger Moore

Actor | Moonraker

Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down.

Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His ...

As "James Bond" in an episode of "Mainly Millicent" (TV-series) (1964) and in the EON Productions of the feature James Bond-movies from 1973 to 1985.

67. Finlay Currie

Actor | Ben-Hur

Scottish-born Finlay Currie was a former church organist and choirmaster, who made his stage debut at 20 years of age. It took him 34 more years before making his first film, but he worked steadily for another 30 years after that. Although he was a large, imposing figure, with a rich, deep voice ...

As "Captain Joshua Stuart" in "Thunder Rock" (1943) and again in "Thunder Rock" (TV-Movie) (1955).

68. Judi Dench

Actress | Skyfall

Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...

As "Queen Victoria" in "Mrs Brown" (1997) and 20 years later in "Victoria & Abdul" (2017).

69. Michael Sheard

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Michael Sheard was born on June 18, 1938 in Aberdeen, Grampian, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Outsider (1983) and Mind Your Language (1977). He was married to Rosalind Allaway. He died on August 31, 2005 in Newport, Isle of Wight...

As "Heinrich Himmler" in "The Bunker" (TV Movie) (1981) and in the TV miniseries "Space" (1985). And furthermore as "Adolf Hitler" in "Rogue Male" (TV Movie) (1976), "The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission" (TV Movie) (1985) and in " Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989).

70. Richard Harris

Actor | Unforgiven

Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred (Harty) and Ivan Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout ...

As King Arthur in "Camelot" (1967) and in "Camelot" (TV-Movie 1982).

71. Vincent Price

Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb "Daisy" (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, who was President of the National Candy ...

As Cardinal Richelieu in "The Three Musketeers" (1948) and in TV Movie "Family Classics: The Three Musketeers" (1960).

72. Ann Robinson

Actress | The War of the Worlds

Growing up in the proverbial shadow of the studios, California native Ann Robinson acted in grade-school plays and later fibbed her way into the movie business as a stunt woman on movies such as Black Midnight (1949), The Story of Molly X (1949), and Frenchie (1950). She was part of Paramount's ...

As "Sylvia Van Buren" in "The War of the Worlds" (1953) and again in 3 episodes of the the succeeding TV Series "War of the Worlds" (1988-1990) and last time in "The Naked Monster" (2005).

73. Les Tremayne

Actor | The War of the Worlds

One of America's most heard men back in the day with thousands of radio programs to his credit and the possessor of one of the most prominent male voices of that medium's war-era "Golden Age," veteran actor Les Tremayne was considered to have the third most distinctive tones on the airwaves, only ...

As "General Mann" in "The War of the Worlds" (1953) and finally in "The Naked Monster" (2005) alongside actress Ann Robinson.

74. Isabel Jewell

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Isabel Jewell, like other actresses in Hollywood in the 1930s, suffered from chronic typecasting. The diminutive, platinum-haired daughter of a doctor and medical researcher seemed to be often playing hard-boiled, tough-talking broads: gangster's molls, dumb blondes, prostitutes and, of course, ...

As "Belle Star" in both " Badman's Territory" (1946) and "Belle Starr's Daughter" (1948).

75. Frank McGlynn Sr.

Actor | Captain Blood

Frank McGlynn Sr. was born on October 26, 1866 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Captain Blood (1935), Little Miss Marker (1934) and The Plainsman (1936). He was married to Rose O'Byrne. He died on May 18, 1951 in Newburgh, New York, USA.

Played USA President Abraham Lincoln in several movies in 1920 - 1930's.

76. 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 ...

Played "Sofía" in both the Spanish "Abre los ojos" (1997) and it's Hollywood remake "Vanilla Sky" (2001).

77. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

As "Long John Silver" in "Treasure Island" (1965) and in "Treasure Island" (1972).

78. John Laurie

Actor | The 39 Steps

John Laurie was a Scotsman who would play many character roles in his long career - a lot of Scotsmen to be sure - but an enthusiastic and skilled actor in nearly 120 screen roles. He was the son of a mill worker, and studied for a career in architecture which he indeed began. But with World War I ...

Played "Ebenezer Balfour" in both the TV series "Kidnapped" (1956) and the Walt Disney film "Kidnapped" (1960).

79. William Devane

Actor | Knots Landing

William Devane, the movie and television actor, was born in Albany, New York, the son of Joseph Devane, who served as Franklin D. Roosevelt's chauffeur when he was Governor of New York. After graduating from New York City's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he appeared on-stage. He finally made ...

As "Sgt. Milt Warden" in the TV Mini Series "From Here to Eternity" (1979) and one year after in the TV Series "From Here to Eternity" (1980).

80. Charles Edward Bull

Actor | The Heart of Maryland

Charles Edward Bull born in Texas in 1881, tall, handsome man was a real life Judge working for the Justice of the Peace in Reno, Nevada, became better known for his impersonation of Abraham Lincoln in two films, first a western starring O'Brien and Madge Bellamy in 'The Iron Horse' at the Fox Film...

As "President Abraham Lincoln" in "The Iron Horse" (1924 and "The Heart of Maryland" (1927) and nothing more.

81. Sessue Hayakawa

Actor | The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class. The young Hayakawa wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a career officer in the Japanese navy, but he was turned down due to ...

As "Hishuri Toro" in "The Cheat" (1915) and as basically the same character "Prince Hu-Long" in basically the same story "Forfaiture" (1937).

82. José Ferrer

Actor | The Caine Mutiny

José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.

In 1912, Ferrer was...

As "Cyrano de Bergerac" in both "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1950) and "Cyrano et d'Artagnan" (1964).

83. Mikael Persbrandt

Actor | Hævnen

Mikael was born in Jakobsberg, Stockholm, Sweden on September 25th 1963. His interest in acting started at an early age when working as an extra in Ingmar Bergman's staging of William Shakespeare's "King Lear."

In the 1990s, Mikael starred in the immensely popular Swedish TV series, "Rederiet" ("The...

As the UN General Secretary, Dag Hammarskjöld in the Irish Netflix production "The Siege of Jadotville" (2016) and in the Swedish biopic "Hammarskjöld" (2023).