Born 1914-1934 still among us

1. Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne...

2. Beverly Cleary

Writer | Ramona and Beezus

Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA as Beverly Atlee Bunn. She is a writer, known for Ramona and Beezus (2010), Ramona (1988) and ABC Weekend Specials (1977). She was previously married to Clarence Cleary.

3. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | The Heiress

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan, to British parents Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister, Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

4. Kirk Douglas

Actor | Spartacus

Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...

5. Vera Lynn

Soundtrack | Hellboy

Vera Lynn was born on March 20, 1917 in East Ham, London, England as Vera Margaret Welch. She was previously married to Harry Lewis.

6. Earl Cameron

Actor | Inception

Earl Cameron was born on August 8, 1917 in Pembroke, Bermuda. He is an actor, known for Inception (2010), The Interpreter (2005) and Thunderball (1965). He has been married to Barbara Cameron since September 20, 1994. He was previously married to Audrey Cameron.

7. Marsha Hunt

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or ...

8. Suzy Delair

Actress | L'assassin habite... au 21

Prototype of the sexy cheeky French lady, Suzy Delair was discovered by Henri-Georges Clouzot, who became her companion and gave her two memorable roles : Mila Malou, inspector Wens' unbearable girlfriend in two films, The Last One of the Six (1941), which he wrote, and The Murderer Lives at Number...

9. Baby Peggy

Actress | Captain January

Silent moppet star Jackie Coogan, immortalized as Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921), had only one screen rival during the early 1920s, and that was none other than Baby Peggy. She was "discovered" while visiting the Century Studios lot on Sunset Boulevard with her mother when she was a mere 19 ...

10. Caren Marsh

Actress | Secrets of a Sorority Girl

She began her career as a radio actress and professional dancer in 1937 shortly after her graduation from Hollywood High School. In 1939 she was signed under contract to MGM Studios and appeared as a dance stand in for Judy Garland in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939). She later became a free lance actress...

11. Nehemiah Persoff

Actor | An American Tail

Born in 1919 (some sources say 1920) in Jerusalem, Nehemiah Persoff immigrated with his family to America in 1929.

Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction...

12. Grace Albertson

Actress | Arson Squad

Grace Albertson was born on August 4, 1919 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA as Mary Grace Gillern. She is an actress, known for Arson Squad (1945), Unmasked (1950) and Mission: Impossible (1966). She was previously married to Robert E. Meredith and Frank Albertson.

13. Walter Bernstein

Writer | The Front

Blacklisted writer in the 50s, a victim of the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), he still continued to write under pseudonyms as did many other blacklisted writers such as Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, and his biggest contribution during that time was probably his writing work ...

14. Marge Champion

Actress | The Party

One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion is best known today as the former wife of Gower Champion, when they worked together as a highly successfully dancing team in the MGM musical years. After retiring from movies, Champion now works as a dance teacher ...

15. Alfie Scopp

Actor | Fiddler on the Roof

Alfie Scopp was born on September 15, 1919 in London, England. He is an actor and writer, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and Howdy Doody (1954).

16. Don Kennedy

Actor | The Stunt Man

Don Kennedy was born on June 8, 1920 as Donald Kennedy. He is an actor, known for The Stunt Man (1980), You Are There (1953) and Zane Grey Theater (1956).

17. Sergio Mendizábal

Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Sergio Mendizábal was born on July 3, 1920 in San Sebastián, Spain. He is an actor, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and La comedia (1983).

18. Martin Eric

Actor | A Summer Place

Martin was raised in the Wishkah Valley near Aberdeen, Washington. He served in the United States Navy during during WWII, where he was a radioman second class and serving on a Liberty ship which delivered ammunition and supplies to the forces in the south pacific. Martin was discharged from the ...

19. Holly Harris

Actress | Once Upon a Tune

Holly Harris was born on December 27, 1920 in St. Charles, Illinois, USA as Holly May Harris. She is an actress, known for Once Upon a Tune (1951), Act of Vengeance (1974) and Yancy Derringer (1958).

20. Hugh Downs

Self | Live From Lincoln Center

Hugh Downs was born on February 14, 1921 in Akron, Ohio, USA as Hugh Malcolm Downs. He is an actor and producer, known for Live From Lincoln Center (1976), Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) and Concentration (1958). He was previously married to Ruth Shaheen.

21. Jack Rader

Actor | The Blob

Jack Rader was born on February 23, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Blob (1988), Outbreak (1995) and Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).

22. Geoffrey Chater

Actor | Gandhi

An English actor born in 1921. He starred in both film and television projects. His television credits include appearances in The Champions, Dad's Army, Callan, Mapp and Lucia, Heartbeat, Foyle's War, One Foot in the Grave (1990), The Thin Blue Line (1995) and Midsomer Murders (1997).

The very image...

23. Bill Butler

Camera_department | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Bill Butler was born on April 7, 1921 in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA as Wilmer C. Butler. He is known for his work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Grease (1978) and Jaws (1975). He has been married to Iris Butler since May 28, 1984. They have two children. He was previously married to ...

24. Elizabeth Sellars

Actress | The Barefoot Contessa

Elizabeth Sellars was born on May 6, 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland as Elizabeth McDonald Sellars. She is an actress, known for The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Long Memory (1953) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). She was previously married to Francis Austin Henley.

25. Wally Campo

Actor | The Little Shop of Horrors

Wally Campo was born on June 22, 1921 in Alameda, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Mark of the Gun (1969) and Shock Corridor (1963).

26. Bob Gravage

Actor | Earthquake

Bob Gravage was born on July 25, 1921 in Kern, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Earthquake (1974), Gunsmoke (1955) and The Undefeated (1969).

27. Walter Mirisch

Producer | In the Heat of the Night

Walter Mirisch and brothers Marvin Mirisch and Harold Mirisch were one of the most successful producing teams in Hollywood history. Their Mirisch Company produced such diverse hits as Some Like It Hot (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963), The Pink ...

28. Tom Felleghy

Actor | L'età di Cosimo de Medici

Tom Felleghy was born on November 26, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary as Tamás Fellegi. He is an actor and producer, known for The Age of the Medici (1972), Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1983) and Mission Stardust (1967). He was previously married to Liane Ger.

29. Jay Jacobus

Actor | Patch Adams

Jay Jacobus was born on December 7, 1921 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Patch Adams (1998), Copycat (1995) and The Confessional (2009).

30. Betty White

Actress | The Proposal

Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She is of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.

Although best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the classic ...

31. Ray Anthony

Soundtrack | Sixteen Candles

Ray Anthony (real name Raymond Antonini) was born in Bentleyville, PA, on Jan. 20, 1922. His family moved to Cleveland, where he spent most of his early life. There he studied trumpet with his father. From 1940-1941 he played in Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1942 and...

32. Carl Reiner

Actor | Ocean's Eleven

Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, having achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He has won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his "2,000 Year Old Man" album, based on his ...

33. Margia Dean

Actress | The Quatermass Xperiment

Stunning, dark-haired '40s and '50s leading lady Margia Dean was the daughter of a Greek lawyer. Her parents moved from Athens to the US in 1913, a number of years before her birth on April 7, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois. The youngest of three girls, she was christened Marguerite Louise Skliris. Her...

34. Helen Mowery

Actress | The Fighting Frontiersman

Helen Mowery was born on April 25, 1922 in Casper, Wyoming, USA as Helen Emily Inkster. She is an actress, known for The Fighting Frontiersman (1946), All About Eve (1950) and Range Beyond the Blue (1947).

35. Joan Copeland

Actress | Brother Bear

Joan Copeland, the sister of famed playwright Arthur Miller, is a renowned actress in her own right. She made her name on Broadway, debuting there in 1945 to begin a career that lasted more than 60 years. She also had a long career on television, where she appeared in a number of that medium's most...

36. Terence Kelly

Actor | Watchmen

Terence Kelly was born on June 12, 1922 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as Terence Reginald Kelly. He is an actor, known for Watchmen (2009), Walking Tall (2004) and The Big Year (2011).

37. Norman Lear

Writer | All in the Family

Norman Lear is a World War II veteran, actor, writer, producer, director, and creator of such legendary sitcoms that defined and revolutionized American television.

Norman Milton Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Enie/Jeanette (Sokolovsky) and Hyman "Herman" Lear, a traveling salesman. His...

38. Micheline Presle

Actress | If a Man Answers

Dark-haired, Paris-born Micheline Presle (better known in the States as Micheline Prelle) was the daughter of a businessman and took acting classes as a teen. She was discovered by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and cast in Young Girls in Trouble (1939) (Young Girls in Distress) and Four Flights to Love (1940)...

39. 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...

40. Bert I. Gordon

Director | Empire of the Ants

Bert I. Gordon, affectionately nicknamed "Mr. B.I.G." by Forrest J. Ackerman, produced, directed, and wrote more than twenty-five Sci/Fi and Horror features, such as The Magic Sword (1962), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Village of the Giants (1965), The Cyclops (1957), in addition to comedies ...

41. Larry Storch

Actor | The Great Race

As a kid in the 1930s growing up in a tough New York neighborhood, kinetic wiseguy Larry Storch took in the multi-ethnic flavor of his surroundings and started blurting out various accents as a juvenile to provoke laughs and earn attention. Little did he know that this early talent would take him ...

42. Donald Elson

Actor | Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Donald Elson was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, just a "whoop and a holler" from Hollywood. He was a young college student at the outbreak of WWII. After serving in the Air Force, he attended the Columbia Radio School of Broadcasting on the GI Bill and pursued a career as a radio ...

43. Gloria Henry

Actress | Air Hostess

New Orleans-born second-string actress Gloria Henry was born Gloria Eileen McEniry on April 2, 1923, and lived on the edge of the Garden District growing up. Educated at the Worcester Art Museum School, she moved to Los Angeles in her very late teens and worked on a number of radio shows and ...

44. Gene Reynolds

Producer | M*A*S*H

Gene Reynolds was born on April 4, 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA as Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal. He is a producer and director, known for M*A*S*H (1972), Lou Grant (1977) and Room 222 (1969). He has been married to Ann Sweeny since 1979. They have one child. He was previously married to Bonnie Jones.

45. Ralph Senensky

Director | Star Trek

Ralph Senensky was born on May 1, 1923 in Mason City, Iowa, USA. He is known for his work on Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), The Wild Wild West (1965) and The Twilight Zone (1959).

46. Jimmy Lydon

Actor | Strange Illusion

Born to a large Irish Catholic family (the fifth of nine children) and raised in New York City, Lydon overcame a birth defect and alcoholic father to begin a Broadway career in 1937, acting opposite Van Heflin, Sidney Lumet and Uta Hagen in separate productions. After a number of films with ...

47. Ray Boyle

Actor | Zombies of the Stratosphere

Ray Boyle was born on June 28, 1923 in Lisbon, North Dakota, USA as Raymond Cornelius Boyle. He is an actor and production designer, known for Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952), A Boy and His Dog (1975) and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955). He has been married to Jan Shepard since February...

48. María Martín

Actress | Alba de América

María Martín was born on July 14, 1923 in Marbella, Spain as María Martín Vargas. She is an actress, known for Dawn of America (1951), The Cruel Ones (1967) and La venganza de Maria (1983).

49. Sam Gray

Actor | The Cowboy Way

Sam Gray was born on July 18, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The Cowboy Way (1994), Wolfen (1981) and Naked City (1958).

50. Kelo Henderson

Actor | 26 Men

Kelo Henderson was born on August 8, 1923 in Pueblo, Colorado, USA as Paul Henderson Jr. He is an actor, known for 26 Men (1957), Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) and Pyramid of the Sun God (1965).

51. Rhonda Fleming

Actress | Out of the Past

A native-born Californian, Rhonda Fleming attended Beverly Hills public and private schools. Her father was Harold Cheverton Louis (1896-1951). Her mother, Effie Olivia Graham (1891-1985), was a famous model and actress in New York. She has a son (Kent Lane), two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly)...

52. Jerome Guardino

Actor | Columbo

Jerome Guardino was born on August 27, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Leonard Jerome Guardino. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Columbo (1971), Dream No Evil (1970) and Car 54, Where Are You? (1961).

53. Glynis Johns

Actress | Mary Poppins

Husky voiced Glynis is the daughter of actor Mervyn Johns. Best known for her light comedy roles and often playful flirtation, Glynis was born in South Africa while her parents were on tour there (her mother was a concert pianist) but was always proud of her Welsh roots and took delight in playing ...

54. Patrick Jordan

Actor | The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Patrick Jordan was born on October 20, 1923 in Hendon, Middlesex, England as Albert Patrick Jordan. He is known for his work on The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Portrait of Alison (1955) and Patrol Car (1954).

55. Bob Harris

Stunts | Commando

Bob Harris was born on November 8, 1923 in Long Beach, California, USA as Robert L. Harris. He is known for his work on Commando (1985), The China Syndrome (1979) and The Deer Hunter (1978).

56. Bob Barker

Producer | The New Price Is Right

For 35 years Bob Barker had been the host of The Price Is Right (1972) game show. Not only is it the highest-rated daytime game show, it's also the longest-running game show in TV history, surpassing the prime-time hit What's My Line? (1950), which ran for 18 years. He also served the show's ...

57. Jimmy Weldon

Actor | The Phantom Planet

Former host of "The Webster Webfoot Show" at KJEO-47 in Fresno, California during the 1960s (KJEO is now KGPE-47). Webster Webfoot was a squat duck (ventriloquist's dummy), who was the eternal Webelo Cub Scout, including hat, scarf and Boy Scout emblem choker. Later produced children's Christian ...

58. Mike Nussbaum

Actor | Men in Black

Mike Nussbaum was born on December 29, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Men in Black (1997), Fatal Attraction (1987) and House of Games (1987).

59. Carole Cook

Actress | Sixteen Candles

Actress Carole Cook showed a knack for comic timing from early on, so much so that the legendary Lucille Ball took her on as a protégée. Cook would make many appearances on Ball's TV shows The Lucy Show (1962) and Here's Lucy (1968), as well as other shows like Magnum, P.I. (1980), Dynasty (1981), ...

60. Peg Murray

Actress | Another World

Peg Murray was born on February 14, 1924 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She is an actress, known for Another World (1964), Me & Mrs. C. (1986) and Act of Vengeance (1986).

61. Raymond Mason

Actor | Nicholas Nickleby

Raymond Mason was born on April 17, 1924 in Great Bridge, Staffordshire, England. He is an actor, known for Nicholas Nickleby (1977), The Brothers Karamazov (1964) and Les Misérables (1967).

62. Leslie Phillips

Actor | Venus

A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major ...

63. Priscilla Pointer

Actress | Blue Velvet

Though character actress Priscilla Pointer may be better known as the mother of Amy Irving, she has enjoyed a major stage, film and TV career herself for over four decades. The New York-born performer was trained on the stage and appeared in several tours and Broadway shows, including "A Streetcar ...

64. José Manuel Martín

Actor | The Castle of Fu Manchu

Interpretation takes its first steps in the TEU, with José Luis López Vázquez, María Jesús Valdés and Valeriano Andrés. After obtaining a scholarship at the Lope de Rueda, starts as a professional theater under the command of Alejandro Ulloa with simultaneous functions broadcaster Radio Nacional of...

65. Raymond Guth

Actor | Silver Streak

Raymond Guth was born on May 29, 1924 in Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA as Raymond John Guth. He is known for his work on Silver Streak (1976), Emperor of the North (1973) and The Incredible Petrified World (1959).

66. Barbara Collentine

Actress | Everglades

Barbara Collentine was born on June 17, 1924 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA as Barbara Ann Collentine. She is an actress, known for Everglades (1961), Hunter (1984) and Police Story (1973). She was previously married to Richard Bull.

67. 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 ...

68. Sarita Vara

Actress | Che!

Sarita Vara was born on July 23, 1924. She is an actress, known for Che! (1969), The Wild Wild West (1965) and Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957).

69. Eunice Christopher

Actress | The Waltons

Eunice Christopher was born on July 26, 1924 in the USA. She is an actress, known for The Waltons (1971), The Other Side of Midnight (1977) and Audrey Rose (1977).

70. Ray Hastings

Actor | Highway Patrol

Ray Hastings was born on August 10, 1924. He is an actor, known for Highway Patrol (1955), Hogan's Heroes (1965) and The Flying Nun (1967).

71. Bob Herron

Stunts | L.A. Confidential

Stuntman and actor Bob Herron was born on September 23, 1924 in Lomita, California. Herron grew up with his father in Hawaii. After his parents divorced, Bob's mother remained in California and married Ace Hudkins, who was a famous supplier of horses for movies. Following service in the Navy in the...

72. Robert Casper

Actor | Playhouse 90

Robert Casper was born on October 7, 1924 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for Playhouse 90 (1956), Simon & Simon (1981) and Studs Lonigan (1960).

73. Wayne Mallory

Special_effects | Volcano

Wayne Mallory was born on October 13, 1924 in Bakerfield, California, USA as Wayne Wiley Moseley. He is known for his work on Volcano (1997), American Pie (1999) and The Silent Service (1957).

74. Joyce Randolph

Actress | The Honeymooners

Joyce Randolph was born on October 21, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, USA as Joyce Sirola. She is an actress, known for The Honeymooners (1955), Everything's Jake (2000) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). She was previously married to Richard Charles.

75. Ted Hartley

Actor | High Plains Drifter

Ted Hartley was born on November 6, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA as Theodore Ringwalt Hartley. He is an actor and producer, known for High Plains Drifter (1973), Race to Witch Mountain (2009) and Mighty Joe Young (1998). He was previously married to Dina Merrill.

76. William Russell

Actor | The Great Escape

William Russell was born William Russell Enoch on 19 November 1924, in Sunderland, County Durham, England, to Eva Compston (Pile) and Alfred James Enoch. He became interested in acting at an early age. He was involved in organizing entertainments during his national service in the Royal Air Force ...

77. Mark Miller

Writer | A Walk in the Clouds

Mark Miller was born on November 20, 1924 in Houston, Texas, USA as Claude Herbert Miller Jr. He is an actor and writer, known for A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965) and Guestward Ho! (1960). He was previously married to Barbara Stanger and Beatrice Miller.

78. Robert M. Young

Director | Alambrista!

Born in New York City. Made many award-winning documentaries including The Eskimo: Fight for Life (1970) and a documentary about the civil war in Angola. In 1978 he won the Camera d'Or at Cannes and Best Feature at San Sebastian for Alambrista! (1977).

79. Maria Riva

Actress | Scrooged

Maria Riva was born on December 13, 1924 in Berlin, Germany as Maria Elisabeth Sieber. She is an actress, known for Scrooged (1988), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and Suspense (1949).

80. Marge Redmond

Actress | Manhattan Murder Mystery

Marge Redmond was born on December 14, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA as Marjorie A Redmond. She is an actress, known for Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), The Flying Nun (1967) and The Fortune Cookie (1966).

81. Cicely Tyson

Actress | The Help

Cicely Tyson was born in Harlem, New York City, where she was raised by her devoutly religious parents, from the Caribbean island of Nevis. Her mother, Theodosia, was a domestic, and her father, William Tyson, was a carpenter and painter. She was discovered by a fashion editor at Ebony magazine and...

82. Hal Holbrook

Actor | Into the Wild

Hal Holbrook is an Emmy- and Tony-Award winning actor who is one of the great craftsman of stage and screen. He is best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on ...

83. Selma Archerd

Actress | Die Hard

Selma Archerd was born on February 26, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey, USA as Selma Helene Fenning. She is an actress, known for Die Hard (1988), Lethal Weapon (1987) and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992).

84. Dennis Lotis

Actor | The City of the Dead

Dennis Lotis was born on March 8, 1925 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor, known for The City of the Dead (1960), Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) and Love Is a Woman (1966).

85. Peter Brook

Director | Lord of the Flies

Born in London, Peter was educated at Westminster, and Magdalen College Oxford. He has staged numerous productions for Birmingham Rep, Stratford Upon Avon and Broadway. In 1962 he was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a position he held for 2 decades. His most famous stage ...

86. Casper Roos

Actor | Deadtime Stories

Casper Roos was born on March 21, 1925 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Deadtime Stories (1986), Finder of Lost Loves (1984) and Great Performances (1971).

87. Alice Beardsley

Actress | Zelig

Born in Richmond, Virginia, Alice Beardsley stepped a stage at the early age of 12. The event took place in the festival hall of her junior high school. Disguised as a witch, she enjoyed playing the villain in 'Hansel and Gretel'. And that was not to be a flash in the pan. Alice wanted to be a ...

88. Eugenio Martín

Writer | El precio de un hombre: The Bounty Killer

Eugenio Martín was born on May 15, 1925 in Ceuta, Spain as Eugenio Martín Márquez. He is a writer and director, known for The Ugly Ones (1966), Viaje romántico a Granada (1955) and Horror Express (1972).

89. Bill Hayes

Actor | Days of Our Lives

Throughout the 1970s and a good part of the 1980s, Bill Hayes and his second wife, Emmy-winning Susan Seaforth Hayes, reigned as the Lunt and Fontanne of daytime soaps. Prior to this he had become a noted singer/actor on the Broadway stage and in night clubs. Born William Foster Hayes III in Harvey...

90. Antony Carbone

Actor | Creature from the Haunted Sea

Born in Italy in 1925, Antony Carbone was raised in Syracuse, New York, and credits the area's cold and snow (which he hated) for his determination to move out and become an actor. He has worked on stage, in TV and in a baker's dozen movies, but his best-remembered acting credits are the ...

91. John Briley

Writer | Gandhi

John Briley was born on June 25, 1925 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Gandhi (1982), Molokai (1999) and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992).

92. 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 ...

93. Cara Williams

Actress | The Defiant Ones

This perky, talented, blue-eyed redhead had acting aspirations from the get-go. She was born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1925, as Bernice Kamiat, to an Austrian Jewish father and a Russian Jewish mother. Cara began performing as a child and continued into her teens. After her parents' divorce, she ...

94. Sue Thompson

Actress | Webb Pierce and His Wonderin' Boys

Sue Thompson was born on July 19, 1925 in Nevada, Missouri, USA as Eva Sue McKee. She was previously married to Hank Penny.

95. Hans Meyer

Actor | Le pacte des loups

Hans Meyer was born in South Africa, into a German farming family. He spent his childhood in Natal and Zululand. He also became a farmer, but then he decided to travel to Europe. A friend in Germany working in an advertising agency helped him get his first acting job, in a popular television advert...

96. Miiko Taka

Actress | Sayonara

Miiko Taka was born on July 24, 1925 in Seattle, Washington, USA as Betty Miiko Shikata. She is an actress, known for Sayonara (1957), Walk Don't Run (1966) and The Wild Wild West (1965).

97. Barbra Fuller

Actress | Alias the Champ

Barbra Fuller was born on July 31, 1925 in Nahant, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Alias the Champ (1949), Unmasked (1950) and Harbor of Missing Men (1950). She was previously married to Lash La Rue.

98. Arlene Dahl

Actress | Journey to the Center of the Earth

Elegance and femininity are fitting descriptions for Arlene Dahl. She is considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses to have graced the screen during the postwar period. Audiences were captivated by her breathtaking beauty and the way she used to it to her advantage, progressing from ...

99. Honor Blackman

Actress | Goldfinger

Comparing this sultry-eyed blonde to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich may seem a bit overzealous, but Honor Blackman's stylish allure over the years cannot be denied.

One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End to a statistician father employed with the civil service and a homemaker ...

100. Alan Bergman

Soundtrack | The Way We Were

Prolific songwriter ("Nice 'n' Easy", "Yellow Bird"), composer and author, educated at UCLA and the University of Northern Carolina (BA). During WW II, he wrote and directed Special Services shows, then directed TV shows for CBS in Philadelphia, PA from 1945-1953. He joined ASCAP in 1955 and wrote ...