You Only Get Noted Once

1. Aaron Wolff

Actor | A Serious Man

Aaron Wolff was born in March, 1994 in Minneapolis.

In the years 2000 to 2005 he lived in London. Here he attended University College School and the Royal Academy of Music.

He and his brothers are in a rock band called Bedrin. Bedrin is English slang for 'brethren'.

In theatrical school productions, ...

2. Chuck Aspegren

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Chuck Aspegren conquered a small-time of fame after appearing in the Oscar winning film The Deer Hunter (1978). In fact, he wasn't a trained actor but he was a steel worker from Gary, Indiana, who happened to be in the right place and the right time. When the likes of Robert De Niro and Christopher...

3. François Leterrier

Actor | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut

Though François Leterrier's career evolved from assistant director to writer and director, he left an important mark in cinema with an acting role as the leading man in Robert Bresson's immortal classic A Man Escaped (1956), as Fontaine, the man who skillfully tries several ways and attempts to ...

4. Danny Lloyd

Actor | The Shining

Danny Lloyd was selected for the role of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) because of his ability to concentrate for extended periods of time. Because of his age (6) and the genre of The Shining (1980) Danny was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn't know it was a...

5. Steven Prince

Actor | Taxi Driver

Steven Prince was born in 1948. He is an actor and producer, known for Taxi Driver (1976), Mariah (2016) and Waking Life (2001).

6. Edmund Moeschke

Actor | Germania anno zero

One film acting but an important one that cemented a young boy's career to cinema eternity. Edmund Moeschke, a non-professional actor who had the starring role in Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero (1948) was sufficient enough for him to make an impression on audiences around the world. As the ...

7. Fernando Ramos da Silva

Actor | Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Fernando was the star of only one film in his short life. He played Pixote - a street child - in Pixote (1980). During his short period of fame, Fernando was seen as a symbol of hope for the Brazilian street kids. He grew up in a poor neighborhood of Diadema - a industrial city close to São Paulo -...

7. Pierre Blaise

Actor | Lacombe Lucien

Pierre Blaise was born on February 29, 1952 in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He was an actor, known for Lacombe, Lucien (1974), Le grand délire (1975) and Les noces de porcelaine (1975). He died on August 31, 1975 in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.

8. Hunter McCracken

Actor | The Tree of Life

Hunter McCracken joined a limited and interesting group of non-professional actors whose first acting gig came on the hands of the great Terrence Malick and his masterpieces, along with Linda Manz in the acclaimed Days of Heaven (1978) and Q'orianka Kilcher in The New World (2005). All of them have...

9. Jeremy Blackman

Actor | Magnolia

Jeremy Blackman will always be remembered as the pressured and suffering Stanley from P.T. Anderson masterpiece Magnolia (1999), where the kid echoes sad expressions moments from the silent classic Dreyer film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). He showcases pain, fragility, a turmoil of emotion ...

10. Dillon Freasier

Actor | There Will Be Blood

Dillon Freasier has one of those incredible legendary Hollywood stories that doesn't happen often. A speeding ticket given to a casting director and a nice talk afterwards between that director and the police officer provided the chance of a lifetime to this local Texas kid in appearing in Paul ...

11. Jeremy Black

Actor | The Boys from Brazil

He was born in Connecticut. Son of a Broadway director/writer/producer. One great film alone and one brilliant performance was enough to put Jeremy Black on the map for the delight of film-buffs around the globe, even though a part of us wanted to see more of him in the years to come. But Black ...

12. Gene Palma

Actor | Taxi Driver

Palma was a street drummer based in New York during the 1970's and 1980's, famous for his slick black hair and heavy makeup use, and also for his drumming routine that included several different styles - even though Gene Krupa was his favorite drummer of all time. He could use not only a minor drum...

13. Leonard Harris

Actor | Taxi Driver

An aristocratic face and presence and a confident voice granted Leonard Harris - an acquaintance of Martin Scorsese - a significant role in Marty's classic Taxi Driver (1976), playing the potential presidential candidate Senator Charles Palantine, a target Travis Bickle has to eliminate in order to...

14. Maria Falconetti

Actress | La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

Renée Jeanne or Maria Falconetti, born in Pantin (not in Sermano, Corsica, as many film dictionaries wrongly attest) on July 21, 1892 and died in Buenos Aires on December 12, 1946, is a French actress of theater and cinema. Joining the troupe of the Odeon theater in 1916, she made her debut in "...

15. Mario Peixoto

Director | Limite

With just one film Mario Peixoto left a mark on cinema with his acclaimed masterpiece Limit (1931). The surrealistic and artistic film launched his film career but unfortunately due to several circumstances he never managed to release another film and outdo himself. Many Brazilian filmmakers were ...

16. Bridget O'Connor

Writer | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Bridget was born and raised in Harrow, London. From a large family, she was the second of 5 children. Her parents are Irish, her mother Bridie hails from Limerick and her father Jim is from Cork. As a result, Bridget grew up around Ceilidh bands and dancing. She attended Catholic schools and went ...

17. Ricky Busker

Actor | Big Shots

Ricky Busker was born in 1974 in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Big Shots (1987).

18. Pernilla Allwin

Actress | Fanny och Alexander

Pernilla Alwin is a Swedish actress born on 4 September 1970. Her major film role came under the direction of Ingmar Bergman in the acclaimed masterpiece Fanny and Alexander (1982), where she played Fanny (also in the extended miniseries as well). Ver natural instincts are all evident while playing...

19. Bertil Guve

Actor | Fanny och Alexander

Bertil Guve was born on 9 September, 1970 in Sweden. The young actor is best remembered for his sensible and magic performance in Ingmar Bergman's award winning film "Fanny and Alexander", where Guve acts as Alexander. He also appeared in the miniseries (an extended version of the film and two TV ...

20. John Adames

Actor | Gloria

John Adames in an American actor born in 1972 and best remembered for cinema lovers as the young kid rescued by Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' film Gloria (1980). As Phil Dawn, Adames is protected by the title character who tries to save him from the mobsters who killed his parents and the duo ...

21. Allison Gompf

Actress | Children of a Lesser God

Allison Gompf is known for Children of a Lesser God (1986). She has been married to Jamie H. Clark since 1989.

22. Frank Carter Jr.

Actor | Children of a Lesser God

Frank Carter Jr. is known for Children of a Lesser God (1986).

23. John Limnidis

Actor | Children of a Lesser God

John Limnidis is known for Children of a Lesser God (1986).

24. William D. Byrd

Actor | Children of a Lesser God

William D. Byrd was born on May 3, 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986), A Man Called Hawk (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1987). He died on July 21, 1993 in Inglewood, California, USA.

25. John F. Cleary

Actor | Children of a Lesser God

John F. Cleary is known for Children of a Lesser God (1986), Law & Order (1990) and Sex and the City (1998).

26. Philip Holmes

Actor | Children of a Lesser God

Philip Holmes was born on December 20th 1976 in Newcastle Upon Tyne but moved to Penrith, Cumbria when just a few months old. His Cousin Gary Gilchrist is also an actor starting in films such as Rob Roy, Gladiator and Chariots of Fire.

Philip is now a qualified Electrician and lives back in the ...

27. Georgia Ann Cline

Actress | Children of a Lesser God

Georgia Ann Cline was born on December 11, 1965. She is an actress, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986).

28. Brandon Stoughton

Actor | Teen Wolf

Brandon Stoughton, born in 1981, in Los Angeles, California, is an American model, best known for his appearance in Britney Spears "Womanizer" music video. Stoughton started his career in 2006 represented by FORD models where he's done countless jobs all over the world from Australia to South ...

29. Zane Cassidy

Actor | Short Cuts

American actor and stunt man born in 1984, Zane Cassidy is best remembered for his only on-screen film role in Robert Altman's masterpiece Short Cuts (1993), where he played the Finnegan's son, a kid who is accidentally hit by a car conducted by a waitress (played by Lily Tomlin) in this ...

30. Kevin McKeon

Actor | Pink Floyd: The Wall

Kevin McKeon is a British actor born in 1968. As the tormented young Pink in Alan Parker's classic masterpiece Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), McKeon made his film debut as the young title character, later played by Bob Geldof as an adult. His memorable face defined a generation, and for non viewers ...

31. Bob Geldof

Soundtrack | Pink Floyd: The Wall

Bob Geldof was frontman for the late '70s to mid '80s Irish punk rock band the Boomtown Rats. He also conceived and co-wrote Band Aid's tune "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with his friend, musician Midge Ure of Ultravox, which became the 1984 Christmas number one in the UK and the best-selling ...

32. Nadine Nortier

Actress | Mouchette

Nadine Nortier is a French actress born in 1948 and best remembered for her only film performance as the title character in Robert Bresson's classic Mouchette (1967). As the innocent country house girl who tries to survive in a harsh world of abuse from her family, Nadine (a non professional ...

33. Aurel Surulescu

Actor | Blessed

Aurel Surulescu is known for Blessed (2004).

34. Gaspard Manesse

Actor | Au revoir les enfants

As the new best friend of poor persecuted boy Jean Bonnet, the young Gaspard Manesse conquered audiences with his role as Julien Quentin in the Oscar nominated picture Goodbye, Children (1987). Manesse was born on March 25, 1975, and after this film debut he ventured into some other projects such ...

35. Lee Quigley

Actor | Superman

Lee Quigley was born on August 13, 1976 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman (1978). He died on March 10, 1991 in Eastbourne, England, UK.

36. Matthew Garber

Actor | Mary Poppins

Matthew Garber was a British child actor. Both of his parents were theatrical actors, but neither was particularly famous.

In 1963, Garber came to the attention of actor Roy Dotrice (father of Karen Dotrice) who was seeking potential child actors. Roy recommended Garber to the casting department of ...

37. Frances O'Connor

Actress | Freaks

Frances Belle O'Connor was born on September 8, 1914 in Granite Falls, Reville County, Minnesota. She was born without arms, but learned to use her feet in incredibly dexterous ways. Combining her physical beauty and an outgoing personality, it made her a natural for the sideshow circuit. Billed as...

38. Peter Robinson

Actor | Freaks

Peter Robinson was born the son of Norwegian immigrants. He stated that during his childhood, he had a normal appearance until his early teens when his weight began to drop rapidly. He first went on exhibition in 1895, working at Coney Island and later Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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39. Olga Roderick

Actress | Freaks

Olga Roderick, Madame Olga, was born Jane Barnell in Wilmington, NC on January 3, 1871 (or February 28, 1877, depending on the source). Her father was a Russian Jew and her mother Catawba Indian. According to historians, she was growing hair by the age of two and was bearded at four. Her deformity ...

40. Josephine Joseph

Actress | Freaks

Josephine Joseph was born in Austria of Polish-Austrian descent in 1913, whose body was allegedly split down the middle, one side male and the other female. She/he claimed to be a true intersex, or "hermaphrodite,' but there is no evidence to confirm whether this was the case or not. Hermaphrodites...

41. Johnny Eck

Actor | Freaks

Johnny Eck was born John Echkardt, twenty minutes after his twin brother Robert. The boys entered the sideshow circuit at the age of 12, where John was billed as "Johnny Eck, The Half-boy." Johnny went on to play a role in Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) before returning with his brother to Baltimore,...

42. Prince Randian

Actor | Freaks

Prince Randian was born in the Demarara district, British Guyana in 1871, the child of British Indian slaves. Born with tetra-amelia syndrome (the lacking of all four limbs), little is known about his early life or how he was discovered, but it seems his incredible adaptability did not go unnoticed...

43. Elvira Snow

Actress | Freaks

Born in Georgia and exhibited in sideshows along with sister Jenny Lee Snow. They were billed as Pip and Flip, Pipo and Zipo or under similar such names. At one time they were managed by their brother, Cliff. They appeared at Coney Island in the late 20s and were still being exhibited as late as ...

44. Jenny Lee Snow

Actress | Freaks

Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow, also known as the Snow Twins, were born in Georgia, but they were often advertised in their sideshow act as being from the Yucatan of Mexico and sometimes from Australia. (Some reports state that they were not actually twins at all). Reputedly, Elvira's birthdate was ...

45. Elizabeth Green

Actress | Freaks

Elizabeth Green (aka Betty Green) was an American sideshow performer who was presented to audiences as "The Human Stork" during the early 1900's. Elizabeth was actually the first "Koo Koo the Bird Girl" (predating Minnie Woolsey), and toured with Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus in the ...

46. Koo Koo

Actress | Freaks

"Koo Koo the Bird Girl" was born Minnie Woolsey in Rabun County, Georgia in 1880. She suffered from a rare congenital skeletal disorder called Virchow-Sechel or Harper's syndrome, also known as bird-headed dwarfism or nanocephaly. This very rare syndrome is characterized by various physical ...

47. Josette Maccario

Actress | Short Cuts

Josette Maccario is known for Short Cuts (1993).

48. Joseph C. Hopkins

Actor | Short Cuts

Joseph C. Hopkins is known for Short Cuts (1993).

49. Cassie Friel

Actress | Short Cuts

Cassie Friel is known for Short Cuts (1993).

50. Dustin Friel

Actor | Short Cuts

Dustin Friel is known for Short Cuts (1993), Runaways (2017) and Room 104 (2017).

51. Austin Friel

Actor | Short Cuts

Austin Friel is known for Short Cuts (1993).

52. Pelle Hvenegaard

Actor | Pelle erobreren

Pelle Hvenegaard is a Danish actor and writer, best known for his role in the award-winning film Pelle the Conqueror (1987).

Hvenegaard is named after the title character of Pelle from Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø's 1910 novel Pelle the Conqueror.

At age 11, director Bille August chose ...

53. Troels Asmussen

Italiensk for begyndere

Troels Asmussen was born on June 5, 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor, known for Italian for Beginners (2000), Et rigtigt menneske (2001) and Pelle the Conqueror (1987).

54. Dominique Dunne

Actress | Poltergeist

Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills. Upon graduation from high ...

55. Jorge Julião

Actor | Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Jorge Julião is known for Pixote (1980), Moinhos de Vento (1983) and Aurora (1987).

56. Edilson Lino

Actor | Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Edilson Lino is known for Pixote (1980).

57. Joey Singer

Music_department | Mrs. Davis

Joey Singer began her career working for music publisher Stage Three Music, representing the catalogs of Aerosmith, ZZ Top and Gerry Rafferty, among others. She transitioned into music clearance in 2011, working for music supervisor and mentor Robin Kaye on three music heavy reality series ...

58. Damon Albarn

Music_department | Ravenous

Damon Albarn was born in Whitechapel Hospital, London. He was the son of Keith (a former luminary of England's late-1960s psychedelic rock scene that yielded Soft Machine and others) and Hazel (a stage designer for Joan Littlewood's theatre company). Arriving in Colchester, Essex in the late '70s, ...

59. Justin Elvin

Actor | Happiness

Justin Elvin is known for Happiness (1998).

60. Lila Glantzman-Leib

Actress | Happiness

Lila Glantzman-Leib is known for Happiness (1998).

61. Federico Pitzalis

Actor | Diavolo in corpo

Federico Pitzalis is known for Devil in the Flesh (1986).

62. Matt Carey

Actor | Dead Poets Society

Matt Carey is an American actor, best remembered as the slow and funny student Hopkins in Peter Weir's classic Dead Poets Society (1989). He's the student who composes the poem "The cat sat on the mat", which causes a hysterical moment with his schoolmates and gets a funny reaction from the teacher...

63. James J. Christy

Actor | Dead Poets Society

James J. Christy is known for Dead Poets Society (1989), Sucker Shram (2002) and Love and Communication (2022).

64. Rusty Jacobs

Actor | Once Upon a Time in America

Rusty Jacobs was born on July 10, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Taps (1981) and Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years (1996).

65. Adrian Curran

Actor | Once Upon a Time in America

Adrian Curran is known for Once Upon a Time in America (1984).

66. David Edwin Knight

Actor | Dèmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna

David Edwin Knight was born in 1962. He is an actor, known for Demons 2 (1986) and Who Shot Pat? (1989).

67. Ryan Falconer

Actor | Son of the Mask

Ryan Falconer was born on April 17, 2003 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor, known for Son of the Mask (2005) and Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of 'Son of the Mask' (2005).

68. Liam Falconer

Actor | Son of the Mask

Liam Falconer was born on April 17, 2003 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor, known for Son of the Mask (2005) and Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of 'Son of the Mask' (2005).

69. William O'Malley

Actor | The Exorcist

William O'Malley was born on August 18, 1931 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Exorcist (1973), This Christmas (2007) and Fear and Love: The Story of the Exorcist (2024). He died on July 15, 2023 in the USA.

70. Ian Michael Smith

Actor | Simon Birch

Ian Michael Smith was born on May 5, 1987 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Simon Birch (1998).

71. Klinton Spilsbury

Actor | The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Klinton Spilbury was born in Chihuahua in Mexico.

After his only feature film, "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" in 1981, he travelled around Europe, and also did some modelling.

Amazingly, considering that he is only known for the one film, he coached acting at the Herpolscheimer Academy in Vancouver,...

72. Freddie Prinze

Actor | Chico and the Man

Freddie Prinze was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel in New York City, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother, Aurea Elena Ruiz, and a German immigrant father, Edward Karl Pruetzel. Freddie grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City. As a chubby child, he was often bullied, but was quite ...

73. Peter Ostrum

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Peter Ostrum was born on November 1, 1957 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Sicko (2007) and Remembering Gene Wilder (2023). He has been married to Loretta Lepkowski since 1987. They have two children.

74. Paris Themmen

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

The former child actor Paris Themmen was born on June 25th, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, the self-proclaimed "Hub" of the Universe, to classical musicians. Young Paris first appeared on stage in 1965, while his parents were performing in summer stock in Michigan. After the family returned to New ...

75. Michael Bollner

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Michael Bollner was born on September 14, 1958 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), M.U.G.E.N (1999) and Bizarre Transmissions from the Bermuda Triangle (2015).

76. Julia Winter

Actress | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Julia Winter, a Swedish former child actress, is known for playing Veruca Salt in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opposite Johnny Depp, her first and only feature film gig to date. Despite the film's commercial success and enduring popularity, she has since led a life out of the ...

77. Robbie Fleming

Actor | Six Pack

Robbie Fleming is known for Six Pack (1982).

78. R. Darrell Hunter

Actor | Pretty Woman

R. Darrell Hunter is known for Pretty Woman (1990).

79. David Resnik

Soundtrack | The Losers

David Resnik is known for The Losers (2010), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995).

80. Linda Nystedt

Actress | The Outsiders

Linda Nystedt is known for The Outsiders (1983).

81. Bryan Montgomery

Actor | Badlands

Bryan Montgomery was born on July 20, 1946 in San Angelo, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Badlands (1973), Columbo (1971) and Barnaby Jones (1973). He died on December 12, 2008 in Malibu, California, USA.

82. Gail Threlkeld

Actress | Badlands

Gail Threlkeld is known for Badlands (1973).

83. Charles Fitzpatrick

Actor | Badlands

Charles was a resident of LaJunta when Badlands was being filmed in this small Colorado town. His son Michael played pick up basketball with Martin Sheen in the city park. One thing led to another and Charles was introduced to Martin and was given the clerk role in the movie. Mr.Fitzpatrick was a ...

84. Ben Bravo

Actor | Badlands

Ben Bravo is known for Badlands (1973).

85. Niilo Kivirinta

Actor | At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Niilo Kivirinta is known for At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991).

86. Perry R. Russo

Actor | JFK

Perry R. Russo was born on May 14, 1941. He was an actor, known for JFK (1991), The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes (1992) and The JFK Conspiracy (1992). He died on August 16, 1995 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

87. Elizabeth Threatt

Actress | The Big Sky

American actress who made an impression in her only film. The daughter of an English father and a Cherokee mother, Threatt grew up in South Carolina. At 19, she went to New York and began a successful modeling career. In 1952, director Howard Hawks saw her photograph and cast her as the Blackfoot ...

88. Michael Conner Humphreys

Actor | Forrest Gump

Michael Conner Humphreys is an American actor best known for playing young Forrest Gump in the 1994 film of the same name, a performance for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award. Humphreys was born in the small town of Independence, Mississippi. In 1993, when he was eight years old, he ...

89. Bolaji Badejo

Actor | Alien

Bolaji Badejo was a graphic designer from Lagos. He is primarily remembered for his single acting role, playing the titular predatory alien in the science fiction-horror film Alien (1979).The film was a box-office hit, having earned a worldwide gross of US$143 million by 1992 estimates.

In 1953, ...

90. Billie Gibson

Actress | The Shining

Billie Gibson was born on December 21, 1928 in Dike, Hopkins County, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Shining (1980). She died on July 8, 2012 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA.

91. Gerry Murillo

Actor | Testament

Gerry Murillo is known for Testament (1983).

92. Martha West

Actress | Creation

Martha West grew up in South East London. She first auditioned for a professional role at the age of 9, winning the supporting lead role opposite Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly in Creation, a biopic about Charles Darwin. She later paused her child acting career at the decision of her parents, ...

93. Massimo Busetti

Actor | La dolce vita

Massimo Busetti is known for La Dolce Vita (1960).

94. Lisa Burns

Actress | The Shining

Lisa Burns was born in 1968. She is an actress, known for The Shining (1980), Kids (1979) and From Borehamwood to Hollywood: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Elstree (2014).

95. Louise Burns

Actress | The Shining

Louise Burns was born in 1968. She is an actress, known for The Shining (1980), Kids (1979) and From Borehamwood to Hollywood: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Elstree (2014).

96. Jean-Pierre Cargol

Actor | Caravan to Vaccares

Jean-Pierre Cargol is a French actor known for his role in the film The Wild Child (1970), where he plays a child who lives in the wilderness without any education and can't even speak who is brought to civilization by a doctor (played by François Truffaut) who's interested in teaching him how to ...

97. Andrew Hubatsek

Actor | Pet Sematary

Andrew Hubatsek is known for Pet Sematary (1989), Blue Steel (1990) and Human Resources (2014).

98. Margherita Russo

99. Loretta Pepi