Dead or Alive?
by cgay | created - 2 months ago | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public
1. Janis Paige
Actress | Silk Stockings
Joyous scene-stealer Janis Paige started out playing rather bland film ingénues, but never seemed to be comfortable in those roles--she had too much snap, crackle and pop to be confined in such a formulaic way.
Born Donna Mae Tjaden in 1922 in Tacoma, Washington, she was singing in public from age 5...
2. William Webster
Self | CBS Reports
William Webster was born on March 6, 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
3. Eva Marie Saint
Actress | On the Waterfront
Actress and producer Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924 on Newark, New Jersey. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Her film career also includes ...
4. Jimmy Carter
Actor | The American President
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to...
5. June Lockhart
Actress | Lost in Space
Born in New York City on June 25, 1925, the daughter of actors Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart made her professional debut at age eight in a Metropolitan Opera production of "Peter Ibbetson", playing Mimsey in the dream sequence. In the mid-1930s, the Lockharts relocated to ...
6. Mahathir Mohamad
Self | Kapsul
Mahathir Mohamad was born on July 10, 1925 in Malaysia. He has been married to Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali since 1956. They have seven children.
7. Marv Levy
Actor | Football Playbook
Marv Levy was born on August 3, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Football Playbook (2000), NFL Head Coach (2006) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He has been married to Mary Frances Kozlowski since February 1993. He was previously married to Dorothy Prout.
8. Lee Grant
Actress | In the Heat of the Night
Academy Award-winner Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal on October 31, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City, to Witia (Haskell), a teacher and model, and Abraham Rosenthal, an educator and realtor. Her father was of Romanian Jewish descent, and her mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Lee ...
9. Dick Van Dyke
Actor | Mary Poppins
Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother was entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. His ancestry includes English, Dutch, Scottish, German and Swiss-German. Although he had ...
10. Alan Greenspan
Self | The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman
After school, he began studying economics at New York University, which he completed first with a bachelor's degree (1948) and then a master's degree (1950). In 1977 he subsequently completed his doctorate at the same university. At the beginning of the 1950s, Greenspan began working as a financial...
11. Gene Shalit
Actor | Mystery!
Gene Shalit was born on March 25, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Masterpiece Mystery (1980), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and The Critic (1994).
12. Peter Marshall
Self | The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)
Peter Marshall was born on March 30, 1926 in Huntington, West Virginia, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965), Annie (1982) and Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977). He has been married to Laurie Marshall since August 19, 1989. He was previously married ...
13. Roger Corman
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...
14. David Attenborough
Self | Blue Planet II
Born 8 May 1926, the younger brother of actor Lord Richard Attenborough. He never expressed a wish to act and, instead, studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in 1947, the year he began his two years National Service in the Royal Navy. In 1952, he joined BBC Television at ...
15. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
16. Leontyne Price
Soundtrack | Romeo + Juliet
Leontyne Price was born on February 10, 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, USA. She is an actress, known for Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977) and NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949). She was previously married to William Warfield.
17. William Daniels
Actor | St. Elsewhere
William Daniels is an American actor, born in Brooklyn, New York City. He was born in 1927, to bricklayer David Daniels and his wife Irene.
Daniels was a member of the singing Daniels family in Brooklyn. He made his television debut in 1943 at the age of 16, as part of a variety act. That same year,...
18. Doc Severinsen
Soundtrack | Nude on the Moon
Doc Severinsen was born on July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon, USA. He is an actor, known for Nude on the Moon (1961), Sharky's Machine (1981) and Cheers (1982).
19. William J. Perry
Self | The Robert MacNeil Report
William J. Perry was born on October 11, 1927 in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, USA.
20. Cleo Laine
Soundtrack | The Third Alibi
Cleo Laine was born on October 28, 1927 in Southall, Middlesex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Third Alibi (1961), The Concrete Jungle (1960) and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She was previously married to John Dankworth and George Langridge.
21. Estelle Parsons
Actress | Bonnie and Clyde
The charming, witty, and immeasurably talented Estelle Parsons was born November 20, 1927 in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Elinor and Eben Parsons. She attended the Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine, and later graduated from Connecticut College in 1949. She worked as a singer with a band before she ...
22. Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris was born on January 24, 1928 in Purton, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Quest for Fire (1981), The Naked Ape (1973) and Expulsion from Paradise (2001). He has been married to Ramona Morris since July 30, 1952. They have one child.
23. Paul Dooley
Actor | Breaking Away
Dooley was a keen cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at college. Moving to New York, he soon found success as a regular on the stage. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a stand-up ...
24. Jim Lovell
Writer | Apollo 13
James Arthur Lovell Jr. is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13...
25. James Watson
Writer | Horizon
James Watson was born on April 6, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer, known for Horizon (1964), Our Genes/Our Choices (2003) and Nova (1974). He has been married to Elizabeth Lewis since 1968. They have two children.
26. Tom Lehrer
Soundtrack | A Gathering of Eagles
Tom Lehrer was born on April 9, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for A Gathering of Eagles (1963), Marty Back Together Again (1974) and Better Call Saul (2015).
27. Ethel Kennedy
Actress | Cheers
Ethel Kennedy was born on April 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Cheers (1982), Ethel (2012) and The American Sportsman (1965). She was previously married to Robert F. Kennedy.
28. Ruth Westheimer
Actress | Une femme ou deux
Ruth Westheimer was born on June 4, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for One Woman or Two (1985), Electric Dreams (1984) and Ask Dr. Ruth (2019). She was previously married to Manfred "Fred" Westheimer.
29. James Ivory
Writer | Call Me by Your Name
The main part of his few movies were filmed in the quarter of a century in which he worked closely together with the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the German writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. His first films are all set in India and are very much influenced by the style of Satyajit Ray and Jean ...
30. Jean-Marie Le Pen
Self | À propos de... l'autre détail
Jean-Marie Le Pen was born on June 20, 1928 in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan, France. He has been married to Jeanne-Marie Paschos since May 31, 1991. He was previously married to Pierrette Lalanne.
31. Hans Blix
Actor | Lemmings
Hans Blix was born in 1928 in the Swedish university town, Uppsala, where his father served as a professor of chemistry. He followed in his father's academic footsteps and studied at the universities in Uppsala, Columbia (New York) and Cambridge where he received his Ph.D. Since 1963 he has served ...
32. Bob Cousy
Actor | Celtic Pride
Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Cousy entered the NBA in 1950, and became the foundation of the great Boston Celtic teams of the 50's and 60's. On retiring from the Celtics in 63, Cousy accepted the job of head coach at Boston college and built it into a respected 5 time NCAA Tournament team. Cousy ...
33. Ann Blyth
Actress | Mildred Pierce
The dark, petulant beauty of this petite American film and musical star worked to her advantage, especially in her early dramatic career. Anne Marie Blythe was born of Irish stock to Harry and Annie (nee Lynch) Blythe on August 16, 1928 in Mt. Kisco, New York. Her parents split while she was young ...
34. Earl Holliman
Actor | Forbidden Planet
Ruggedly handsome, slack-jawed actor Earl Holliman was born on September 11, 1928, in northeastern Louisiana amid meager surroundings. His father, a farmer named William Frost, died several months before Earl's birth, forcing his poverty-stricken mother to give up seven of her ten children. He was ...
35. Marion Ross
Actress | Superhero Movie
The lovely, cheery, continuously upbeat All-American mom from the classic Happy Days (1974) TV sitcom had fervent desires of becoming an actress while growing up in her obscure Minnesota town. Born Marian Ross (with an "a") on October 25, 1928, she grew up in her native state and, at one time, ...
36. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. From 1951-55, he was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. While a ...
37. Terry Moore
Actress | Peyton Place
Born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929, the Los Angeles, California native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century-Fox's Maryland (1940). Through the 1940s, she worked under a variety of names (her own, Judy Ford and January Ford) before settling on Terry ...
38. Patricia Routledge
Actress | Keeping Up Appearances
Daughter of Catherine and Isaac Routledge. Her father was a haberdasher, and, during WWII, the family lived weeks at a time in the basement of her father's shop. She attended Birkenhead High School, where she sang in the choir and ran the Sunday School. She studied English at Liverpool University, ...
39. Len Deighton
Writer | The Ipcress File
Len Deighton was born on February 18, 1929 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Ipcress File (1965), SS-GB (2017) and Only When I Larf (1968).
40. Rebecca Schull
Actress | Wings
Rebecca Schull was born on February 22, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Wings (1990), United 93 (2006) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). She was previously married to Eugene Arnold Schull.
41. Frank Gehry
Producer | Miles Ahead
After graduating from Harvard University, Gehry studied architecture. In the middle of his studies he moved to the University of Los Angeles. In 1962 he founded his own architectural firm in Venice, California. In the following years he advanced from a conventional planner to an early ...
42. Mark Rydell
Actor | The Long Goodbye
Mark Rydell was born on March 23, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for The Long Goodbye (1973), On Golden Pond (1981) and Hollywood Ending (2002). He was previously married to Esther Jacobs and Joanne Linville.
44. 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 ...
45. Bonnie Bartlett
Actress | St. Elsewhere
Bonnie Bartlett grew up in Moline, Illinois. Her father E.E. was a failed Shakespearean actor who became an insurance salesman. Her mother Carrie was a homemaker. At an early age, Bonnie became determined to fulfill her father's failed acting career. She went to Northwestern University to study ...
46. Imelda Marcos
Self | The Kingmaker
Imelda Romualdez Marcos (born Imelda Remedios Visitacion Trinidad Romualdez) is a Filipina politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law in September 1972. She is the ...
47. Dick Button
Writer | The Superstars
Dick Button was born on July 18, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Superstars (1973), The Young Doctors (1961) and 10th Winter Olympic Games (1968). He was previously married to Slavka Kahout.
48. Sid Krofft
Producer | Land of the Lost
Sid Krofft was born on July 30, 1929 in Athens, Greece. He is a producer and writer, known for Land of the Lost (2009), Pryor's Place (1984) and Land of the Lost (1974).
49. 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 ...
50. Bob Newhart
Actor | Elf
Bob Newhart is an American actor and stand-up comedian. His comedic style involves deadpan delivery of dialogue, a slight stammer when talking, and comedic monologues. He has cited earlier comedians George Gobel (1919-1991), Ray Goulding (1922-1990), and Bob Elliott (1923-2016) as his main ...
51. Violeta Chamorro
Self | The World Is Watching
Violeta Chamorro was born on October 18, 1929 in Rivas, Nicaragua. She was previously married to Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal.
52. Joan Plowright
Actress | The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own...
53. Rachel Ames
Actress | General Hospital
Rachel Ames has the distinction of being the longest-running performer on ABC Daytime's longest-running daytime drama, General Hospital (1963), which she joined on February 23, 1964, less than a year after the program's first air date. She has been nominated three times for an Emmy Award as Best ...
54. Berry Gordy
Soundtrack | Guardians of the Galaxy
Berry Gordy was born on November 28, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a composer and producer, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Charlie's Angels (2000) and Wild Card (2015). He was previously married to Grace Easton, Raynoma Singleton and Thelma Louise Coleman.
55. Tippi Hedren
Actress | The Birds
From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (née Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedren, who ran a general store, and is of Swedish, ...
56. Buzz Aldrin
Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and, as Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the...
57. 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 ...
58. Robert Wagner
Actor | The Towering Inferno
R.J. Wagner was born 1930 in Detroit, the son of a steel executive. His family moved to L.A. when he was six. Always wanting to be an actor, he held a variety of jobs (including one as a golf caddy for Clark Gable) while pursuing his goal, but it was while dining with his parents at a Beverly Hills...
59. Joanne Woodward
Actress | Rachel, Rachel
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27, 1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, to Wade Woodward and Elinor Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward in a modest household. Her one older brother, Wade Jr., who was the favorite of her father, eventually became an architect. Elinor Woodward was a ...
60. John Cullum
Actor | Northern Exposure
John Cullum was born on March 2, 1930 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Northern Exposure (1990), 1776 (1972) and Before We Go (2014). He has been married to Emily Frankel since May 5, 1959. They have one child.
61. Ion Iliescu
Actor | Medalia de onoare
Ion Iliescu was born on March 3, 1930 in Calarasi, Romania. He is an actor, known for Medalia de onoare (2009), Piata Universitatii - Romania (1991) and Vremya (1968).
62. John Astin
Actor | The Frighteners
Dark-haired, usually-mustachioed American actor with a cheeky grin, who achieved pop culture status through his portrayal of the kooky patriarch "Gomez Addams" in the hit TV series The Addams Family (1964), John Astin was born on March 30, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied mathematics at ...
63. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Actress | Dís
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was born on April 15, 1930 in Reykjavik, Iceland. She is an actress, known for Dís (2004), The New Year's Lampoon (1966) and Thingvellir - Thjódgardur á heimsminjaskrá (2000).
64. James Baker III
Self | The American Ruling Class
James Baker III was born on April 28, 1930 in Houston, Texas, USA. He has been married to Susan Garrett Winston since 1973. They have one child. He was previously married to Mary Stuart McHenry.
65. Will Hutchins
Actor | Shangani Patrol
Lanky and likable Will Hutchins was born in 1930 in Los Angeles, California, as Marshall Hutchason. He attended Pomona College and UCLA after spending two years as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army. Out of nowhere, he was discovered by a Warner Bros. TV talent scout and signed, despite having no ...
66. Jasper Johns
Camera_department | The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
From 1947 to 1948, Jasper Johns was a student at the University of South Carolina. He then studied at a private art school in New York from 1949 to 1952. After graduating, he did his military service for two years. Among other things, he also came to Japan. From there he took inspiration for his ...
67. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
68. Charles Rangel
Producer | Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame
Charles Rangel was born on June 11, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993), What's Eating Harlem (2014) and The Panama Deception (1992). He has been married to Alma Carter since July 26, 1964. They have two children.
69. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
70. Thomas Sowell
Writer | Thomas SowellTV
Thomas Sowell was born on July 30, 1930 in Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Thomas SowellTV (2021), The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman (2007) and Free to Choose (1980).
71. George Soros
Self | Inside Job
George Soros was born on August 12, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. He has been married to Tamiko Bolton since September 21, 2013. He was previously married to Susan Weber and Annaliese Witschak.
72. Warren Buffett
Actor | Entourage
Warren Edward Buffett born in Omaha ( August 30, 1930 ). He developed an interest in business and investing in his youth, eventually entering the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 before transferring and graduating from University of Nebraska-Lincoln at the age of 19. Buffett...
73. Jack McKeon
Self | Sunday Night Baseball
Jack McKeon was born on November 23, 1930 in South Amboy, New Jersey, USA. He has been married to Carol Isley since October 29, 1954. They have four children.
74. Edna O'Brien
Writer | I Was Happy Here
Edna O'Brien was born on December 15, 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland. She is a writer and actress, known for Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966), Girl with Green Eyes (1964) and X, Y & Zee (1972). She was previously married to Ernest Gebler.
75. Armin Mueller-Stahl
Actor | Eastern Promises
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German actor with a relatively long film career. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as an abusive father in the biographical drama "Shine" (1996).
In 1930, Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. The town developed ...
76. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
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. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
77. James Earl Jones
Actor | Rogue One
Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...
78. Judith Viorst
Writer | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst was born on February 2, 1931 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She is a writer, known for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. She has been married to ...
79. Mamie Van Doren
Actress | Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Mamie Van Doren was born on February 6, 1931 in Rowena, South Dakota, USA. She is an actress, known for Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), Teacher's Pet (1958) and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966). She has been married to Thomas Dixon since June 26, 1979. She was previously ...
80. Claire Bloom
Actress | Clash of the Titans
Age has not taken the flower off this Bloom. The well-known and highly respected stage, screen and television actress Claire Bloom continues to be in demand as an octogenarian actress and looks as beautiful as ever.
She was born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931, in Finchley, North London, ...
81. Hal Linden
Actor | Barney Miller
A familiar name thanks to his handsome, brush-mustachioed titular cop on a popular 70's TV show, Bronx-born actor/singer/musician Hal Linden (né Harold Lipschitz, March 20, 1931) was the son of Lithuanian immigrant Charles Lipshitz and his wife Frances Rosen. He had one older brother, Bernard, who ...
82. William Shatner
Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.
Shatner was born ...
84. Willie Mays
Soundtrack | About Last Night
Willie Mays was born on May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama, USA. He is an actor, known for About Last Night (2014), Ironside (1967) and The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950). He was previously married to Mae Louise Allen and Margherite Wendell Chapman.
85. Barbara Barrie
Actress | Breaking Away
After endless stage and television work, Barrie received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the ground-breaking racial drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964), as Julie, a young, white mother who marries a black man after she and her daughter are abandoned by her ...
86. Carroll Baker
Actress | Baby Doll
Carroll Baker was born on May 28, 1931 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a traveling salesman, William W. Baker. She attended community college for a year and then worked as a dancer and magician's assistant. After a brief marriage, she had a small part in Easy to Love (1953), did TV ...
87. Raúl Castro
Self | La guerra necesaria
Raúl Castro was born on June 3, 1931 in Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba. He is an actor, known for La guerra necesaria (1980), The New Yorker Presents (2015) and Castro (2003). He was previously married to Vilma Espin.
88. Virginia McKenna
Actress | Born Free
Talented flaxen-blonde British star combined her deep loves for acting and for wildlife throughout most her adult life. Born in London, England on June 7, 1931, her family possessed a sturdy theatrical background. Mother Anne was a jazz pianist, composer and cabaret performer while father Terry, an...
89. Marla Gibbs
Actress | The Jeffersons
Armed with an acid dry wit and a full arsenal of sarcasm and sass, African-American character comedienne Marla Gibbs showed up on 1970s television with a bang in middle age (44). Landing the feisty maid role on the popular ground-breaking CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975), eventually led to her very...
90. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Writer | Assuntina das Amérikas
Fernando Henrique Cardoso was born on June 18, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a writer, known for Assuntina das Amérikas (1976), Agamenon: The Film (2012) and Que País É Este? (1976). He was previously married to Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso.
91. Leslie Caron
Actress | Gigi
French ballet dancer Leslie Caron was discovered by the legendary MGM star Gene Kelly during his search for a co-star in one of the finest musicals ever filmed, the Oscar-winning An American in Paris (1951), which was inspired by and based on the music of George Gershwin. Leslie's gamine looks and ...
92. Robert Ito
Actor | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Robert Ito is a Canadian-born actor and dancer of Japanese parentage (Nisei). At the age of five, he won his first amateur tap dancing contest. As "little Bobby Ito", he performed for several more years in singing competitions and talent revues. In adulthood, Ito spent the first decade of his ...
93. Alice Munro
Writer | Julieta
Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer, known for Julieta (2016), Free Radicals and Runaway. She has been married to Gerald Fremlin since 1976. She was previously married to James Munro (I).
94. Roger Penrose
Self | Einstein's Universe
Roger Penrose was born on August 8, 1931 in Colchester, Essex, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Einstein's Universe (1979), A Brief History of Time (1991) and Horizon (1964). He is married to Vanessa Thomas. They have two children.
95. Don King
Actor | The Devil's Advocate
Don King coined the phrase, "Only in America." He lives it. He breathes it. He believes it. It's part of his soul. "Only in America can a Don King happen," explains Don. "America is the greatest country in the world-I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else." ...
96. Mitzi Gaynor
Actress | South Pacific
It is perhaps ironic that the film for which this performer is best remembered was also her musical swansong and one of her very last motion picture appearances. That was, of course, South Pacific (1958), with Mitzi Gaynor famously cast as feisty Ensign Nellie Forbush, warbling "I'm Gonna Wash That...
97. Barbara Bain
Actress | Mission: Impossible
Barbara Bain was born in Chicago, graduating from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology. She then relocated to New York City where she gained work as a dancer and high-fashion model. Ms. Bain studied with Martha Graham, permanently cementing her love of dance; however, it...
98. Angie Dickinson
Actress | Rio Bravo
Angie Dickinson was born in Kulm, North Dakota, in 1931, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Brown. Mr. Brown was the publisher of The Kulm Messenger. The family left North Dakota in 1942 when Angie was 11 years old, moving to Burbank, California. In December of 1946, when she was a senior at ...
99. Vivian Pickles
Actress | Harold and Maude
English character actress Vivian Kay Pickles is one of three siblings born in London and educated at Le Collège Feminin de Bouffément in Paris, a women's college set up in 1924. Her uncle was Wilfred Pickles, a veteran actor and radio broadcaster. Vivian began her acting career aged fourteen, ...
100. Dan Rather
Self | CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
Dan Irvin Rather Jr. was born in Wharton, Texas, to Byrl Veda (Page) and Dan Irvin Rather Sr., a ditch digger. He graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, where he wanted to play football. He worked at local radio station KSAM in Huntsville during his college years. Following ...
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