Birth Date between 1882-01-01 and 1882-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Bela Lugosi
Actor | Dracula
Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), to Paula de Vojnich and István Blaskó, a banker. He was the youngest of four children. During WWI, he volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant, and was wounded ...
2. James Gleason
Actor | Arsenic and Old Lace
James Gleason was born in New York City to William Gleason and Mina Crolius, who were both in the theatre. He was married to Lucile Gleason (born Lucile Webster), and had a son, Russell Gleason. As a young man James fought in the Spanish-American War. After the war he joined the stock company at ...
3. John Barrymore
Actor | Twentieth Century
John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical ...
4. Donald Crisp
Actor | How Green Was My Valley
Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp at the family home in Bow, London. Donald's parents were James Crisp and Elizabeth Crisp, his birth was registered by his mother on 4th September 1882. Donald's sisters were Elizabeth, Ann, Alice (known as Louisa) and Eliza and his brothers were James, ...
5. Leopold Stokowski
Soundtrack | Fantasia
Flamboyant, latterly white-maned, U.S. conductor known best for his popularization of classical music. (He is also known for teaching 'Mickey Mouse' a few things about music in Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), in which Stokowski was featured with the Philadelphia Orchestra). He was a pioneer in the ...
6. Margaret Dumont
Actress | Duck Soup
Margaret Dumont would probably consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers' films (including most of their best). By all accounts she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on), which is of course a major reason...
7. 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 ...
8. Milton Sills
Actor | The Sea Hawk
American leading man of silent pictures. Born into affluence in Chicago, he attended the University of Chicago on scholarship and remained there as a professor of psychology and philosophy. A chance visit to the school by actor- manager Donald Robertson led to Sills abandoning his career and ...
9. Paul Harvey
Actor | Spellbound
Paul Harvey was born on September 10, 1882 in Sandwich, Illinois, USA as Roy Paul Harvey. He was an actor, known for Spellbound (1945), Calamity Jane (1953) and High Sierra (1941). He was married to Ottye Henrietta Cramer (actress) and Merle Stanton. He died on December 15, 1955 in Los Angeles, ...
10. George Bancroft
Actor | Stagecoach
George Bancroft was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school at Tomes Institute (Philadelphia). He won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated as a commissioned officer. He served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no...
11. Noah Beery
Actor | Zorro Rides Again
Respected character actor of the silent and early sound period, specializing in cruel villains. The son of Kansas City policeman Noah Webster Beery and Frances Margaret Fitzgerald Beery, Noah Nicholas Beery and his younger brother Wallace Beery both left home in their teens, each seeking a career ...
12. Mary Gordon
Actress | Bride of Frankenstein
Scots actress, long in the United States, who specialized in housekeepers and mothers, most notably the housekeeper Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the Thirties and Forties. She was born Mary Gilmour, the daughter of a Glasgow wire weaver. She worked as a dressmaker before ...
13. Fritz Leiber
Actor | Monsieur Verdoux
Fritz Leiber was born on January 31, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Fritz Reuter Leiber. He was an actor, known for Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Bagdad (1949) and The Queen of Sheba (1921). He was married to Virginia Bronson. He died on October 14, 1949 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
14. Leo White
Actor | Blood and Sand
Leo White started in comedy on the boards of English music hall in the late 1890's. He accompanied theatrical producer Daniel Frohman (later a partner of Adolph Zukor in Famous Players Lasky) to Hollywood in 1910. From 1914, he appeared in Essanay comedies and filmed the 'Sweedie' series with ...
15. Edward Van Sloan
Actor | Frankenstein
US character actor; he of the close-cropped gray hair, thick spectacles and clipped, ominous tones who would serve most memorably as the nemesis of evil-doers and monsters in 30's and 40's horror movies and suspensers, antagonizing first the likes of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff and then, years ...
16. Charles Judels
Actor | God's Gift to Women
Charles Judels or Charles Judel was born in Amsterdam in 1882. Starred on vaudeville in the early 1900s, and made his Broadway stage debut in 'The Ziegfeld Follies of 1912'. Highly talented chubby man who appeared in more than 130 American comedy and drama movies, his expertise with dialects served...
17. Sam Flint
Actor | My Pal Trigger
Sam Flint was born on October 19, 1882 in Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA as Samuel A. Ethridge. He was an actor, known for My Pal Trigger (1946), Winds of the Wasteland (1936) and The Crimson Ghost (1946). He was married to Ella Ethridge. He died on October 17, 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
18. Thurston Hall
Actor | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Movies, especially comedies, have always needed big, blustery, booming authoritarian types for the lead to play off of (or against), and one of the best was Thurston Hall, most famous for his role of Mr. Schuyler in the Topper (1953) series of the early 1950s. Hall was a tall, distinguished, ...
19. George Siegmann
Actor | Should She Obey?
George Siegmann was born on February 8, 1882 in New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Should She Obey? (1917), The Man Who Laughs (1928) and The Three Musketeers (1921). He was married to Maude Darby. He died on June 22, 1928 in Hollywood, California, USA.
20. Charles Trowbridge
Actor | Valley of the Zombies
This veteran character and his younger brother, western actor Jack Rockwell, were born to American parents south of the border in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1882. Charles Trowbridge was educated in Napa, California and Hawaii, then studied for his degree at Stanford University. He forsook a thriving ...
21. Ida Moore
Actress | Johnny Belinda
Ida Moore was born on March 1, 1882 in Altoona, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Johnny Belinda (1948), The Egg and I (1947) and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950). She died on September 26, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
22. Granville Bates
Actor | Of Mice and Men
Balding, worried-looking character actor of the 1930's who had a strong line in lawyers, judges, sheriffs, mayors and storekeepers. He was especially effective at playing choleric or obtuse. Bates had a career in dramatic plays on Broadway spanning the years from 1925 to 1935. He began in films ...
23. Holmes Herbert
Actor | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Holmes Herbert was a tall, intense English actor who made his first films after coming to America. He began in silent movies as a leading man but eventually was relegated to less important roles as a character actor when sound came in. He played in several of the Universal "Sherlock Holmes" movies,...
24. Virginia Woolf
Writer | Orlando
London-born Virginia Woolf came from a wealthy family and, unlike her brothers, received her education at home, an unusual step for the times. Her parents had both had children from previous marriages, so she grew up with a variety of siblings, stepbrothers and stepsisters. Her father was a ...
25. Sybil Thorndike
Actress | The Prince and the Showgirl
This distinguished theatrical tragedienne will be remembered forever if only for the fact George Bernard Shaw wrote his classic "Saint Joan" work specifically for her. Her over six-decade career allowed for a gallery of sterling, masterful portrayals, both classic and contemporary, performing all ...
26. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Writer | The President's Mystery
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to James and Sara Roosevelt. His father was 54 at the time of FDR's birth and already had a grown son, nicknamed "Rosy". Sarah was only 27 when FDR was born. Growing up, FDR had a happy but sheltered childhood. His ...
27. James Joyce
Writer | The Dead
Joyce was born at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, on 2 February 1882. His father invested unwisely, and the family's fortunes declined steadily. Joyce graduated from University College Dublin (UCD), in 1902. He briefly studied medicine in Paris but his mother's impending death from cancer ...
28. Edmund Breon
Actor | Dressed to Kill
Edmund Breon was born on December 12, 1882 in Hamilton, Scotland as Iver Edmund De Breon MacLaverty. He was an actor, known for Dressed to Kill (1946), The Woman in the Window (1944) and Gaslight (1944). He died on June 24, 1953 in Cork, Ireland.
29. Clinton Rosemond
Actor | Jungle Queen
Clinton Rosemond was born on November 1, 1882 in Seneca City, South Carolina, USA as Cresent Clinton Rosemond. He was an actor, known for Jungle Queen (1945), Hollywood Hotel (1937) and Safari (1940). He was married to Corinne Meaux. He died on March 10, 1966 in Sawtelle, California, USA.
30. Henry Edwards
Director | Scrooge
Henry Edwards was born on September 18, 1882 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England as Ethelbert Edwards. He was an actor and director, known for Scrooge (1935), A Welsh Singer (1915) and The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920). He was married to Chrissie White. He died on November 2, 1952 in...
31. Herbert Evans
Actor | The Third Degree
Herbert Evans was born on April 16, 1882 in London, England. He was an actor, known for The Third Degree (1919), Reunion in Vienna (1933) and The Hot Scots (1948). He died on February 10, 1952 in San Gabriel, California, USA.
32. Harry Hayden
Actor | Hail the Conquering Hero
Harry Hayden was born on November 8, 1882 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), The Velvet Touch (1948) and Merton of the Movies (1947). He was married to Lela Bliss. He died on July 24, 1955 in West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
33. Edward Earle
Actor | The Innocence of Ruth
Canadian native Edward Earle was born in Toronto on July 16, 1882, and was raised and schooled there. His stage career took form in Canada with an early emphasis on musical comedy, and he later toured in vaudeville and stock in association with Belasco, DeWolf Hopper Sr., Marie Cahill and the ...
34. Geraldine Farrar
Actress | Carmen
Famed singer and author Geraldine Farrar was educated in public schools and then became a music student of Mrs. J.H. Long, Trabadello, Emma Thursby, Lilli Lehman and Graziani. Her 1901 debut was at the Royal Opera House in Berlin, in the role of Marguerite in "Faust". From 1906-22 she was a member ...
35. Mona Darkfeather
Actress | Justice of the Wild
Princess Mona Darkfeather was born Josephine M. Workman in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on 13 January 1882. Her grandparents were William Workman (1799-1876), a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste (1802-1892), who hailed from the Taos pueblo of New Mexico. Consequently, though ...
36. Wladyslaw Starewicz
Director | Zhitel nyeobitayemovo ostrova
Although his name nowadays means very little except to animation buffs (and even they have to be pretty well informed), Wladyslaw Starewicz ranks alongside Walt Disney, as one of the great animation pioneers, and his career started nearly a decade before Disney's. He became an animator by accident ...
37. Charles Brabin
Director | Breakers Ahead
Charles Brabin was born on April 17, 1882 in Liverpool, England. He was a director and writer, known for Breakers Ahead (1918), While New York Sleeps (1920) and Thou Shalt Not (1919). He was married to Theda Bara and Susette Mosher. He died on November 3, 1957 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
38. Arturo Soto Rangel
Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Arturo Soto Rangel was born on March 12, 1882 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Maclovia (1948) and The Abandoned (1945). He died on May 25, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.
39. A.A. Milne
Writer | Christopher Robin
Based his 'Winnie the Pooh' series on his son, Christopher Robin Milne, whose favorite animal was a bear named Winnie at the London zoo.
40. Jim Farley
Actor | The General
Jim Farley was born on January 8, 1882 in Waldron, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The General (1926), Captain January (1936) and The Devil Within (1921). He died on October 12, 1947 in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, USA.
41. Natalie Kalmus
As wife of the inventor of the Technicolor process Herbert T. Kalmus, she was always made a part of the crew for early Technicolor movies. This was so that they could do their best to maintain control of what was filmed using Technicolor.
42. Germaine Dulac
Director | La souriante Madame Beudet
The daughter of a cavalry captain, she was raised by a grandmother in Paris, where she studied various forms of art with an emphasis on music and the opera. In 1905 she married engineer-novelist Marie-Louis Albert-Dulac and under his influence veered toward journalism. As one of the leading radical...
43. Alfred Hewston
Actor | A Texas Cowboy
Alfred Hewston was born on September 12, 1882 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Texas Cowboy (1929), The Masquerade Bandit (1926) and Below the Border (1929). He was married to Ollie Haywood. He died on September 6, 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
44. Dorothy Phillips
Actress | Broadway Love
A former stage actress, Dorothy Phillips was married to actor/director/producer Allen Holubar. They were known as two of the screen's most prominent players--her the star, he the director/producer. Dorothy was well known in Hollywood as one of the most warm-hearted, approachable stars in the ...
45. Harry Liedtke
Actor | Die Konkurrenz platzt
Harry Liedtke was born on October 12, 1882 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Konkurrenz platzt (1929), Der Mann ohne Namen - 1. Der Millionendieb (1921) and Die Liebe einer Königin (1923). He was married to Christa Tordy, Käthe Dorsch, Ernestine Emaline ...
46. Ralph Belmont
Actor | A Sea Mystery
Ralph Belmont was born on April 9, 1882 in Italy. He was an actor, known for A Sea Mystery (1916) and Li'l Nor'wester (1915). He was married to Lulu Sutton. He died on September 21, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
47. Theodore Kosloff
Actor | The Tree of Knowledge
Theodore Kosloff was born on January 22, 1882 in Moscow, Russian Empire as Fijodor Mikailovitch Koslov. He is known for his work on The Tree of Knowledge (1920), To Have and to Hold (1922) and The King of Kings (1927). He was married to Maria Alexandra Baldina. He died on November 22, 1956 in Los ...
48. Albert Austin
Assistant Director | City Lights
British-born supporting actor, primarily in the films of Charles Chaplin, for whom Austin also worked as an assistant director and co-writer. His career paralleled that of Chaplin, but dwindled prior to the coming of sound. His brother, William Austin, had a lengthy Hollywood career as a character ...
49. Felix Locher
Actor | Star Trek
Character actor Felix Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) didn't begin acting until he was 73 years old. The father of actor Jon Hall (born Charles Felix Locher), he was visiting his son who was preparing for his part in the film Hell Ship Mutiny (1957) when he was spotted by the director who convinced him...
50. Guy Coombs
Actor | Wolfe; Or, The Conquest of Quebec
Guy Coombs was born on June 15, 1882 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Wolfe; Or, The Conquest of Quebec (1914), Bab's Diary (1917) and A Celebrated Case (1914). He was married to Anna Q. Nilsson. He died on December 29, 1947 in Los Angeles, ...