Greatest Actors

by OfficialPaul | created - 28 Sep 2010 | updated - 1 month ago | Public

★ - Great Performance ✰ - Critically Accailmed Performances (Either I do not agree, haven't seen, or need to re-watch) ☠ - Awful Performance

101. José Ferrer

Actor | The Caine Mutiny

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

In 1912, Ferrer was...

102. Walter Huston

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...

103. Frank Sinatra

Actor | From Here to Eternity

Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. ...

104. Rock Hudson

Actor | Giant

Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois, to Katherine (Wood), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, an auto mechanic. He was of German, Swiss-German, English, and Irish descent. His parents divorced when he was eight years old. He failed to obtain parts in school ...

105. Alan Arkin

Actor | Argo

Alan Arkin was an Academy Award-winning American actor who was also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.

He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 1946, the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to...

Greats: Wait Until Dark (1967) (1967)★; Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) (1992); Little Miss Sunshine (2006) (2006)★

Give It a Shot: Edward Scissorhands (1990) (1990); Argo (2012) (2012)✰

Caution: The Change-Up (2011) (2011)

Flops: America's Sweethearts (2001) (2001)

Other Notable Film(s): The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) (1966)✰; Inspector Clouseau (1968) (1968); The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) (1968)✰; Popi (1969) (1969)✰; Catch-22 (1970) (1970); Little Murders (1971) (1971); Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) (1972); Freebie and the Bean (1974) (1974); Hearts of the West (1975) (1975); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) (1976); The In-Laws (1979) (1979); Simon (1980) (1980); Full Moon High (1981) (1981); The Last Unicorn (1982) [voice] (1982); The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) (1983); Bad Medicine (1985) (1985); Big Trouble (1986) (1986); Coupe de Ville (1990) (1990); Havana (1990) (1990); The Rocketeer (1991) (1991); Indian Summer (1993) (1993); North (1994) (1994); The Jerky Boys (1995) (1995); Steal Big Steal Little (1995) (1995); Mother Night (1996) (1996); Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) (1997); Four Days in September (1997); GATTACA (1997) (1997); Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) (1998); Jakob the Liar (1999) (1999); Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) (2001); Noel (2004) (2004); Firewall (2006) (2006); The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) (2006); Rendition (2007) (2007); Sunshine Cleaning (2008) (2008); Get Smart (2008) (2008); Marley & Me (2008) (2008); City Island (2009) (2009); The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) (2009); Thin Ice (2011); The Muppets (2011) (2011); Stand Up Guys (2012) (2013); The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) (2013); In Security (2013) (2013); Grudge Match (2013) (2013); Million Dollar Arm (2014) (2014); Love the Coopers (2015) (2015); Going in Style (2017) (2017)

106. David Niven

Actor | Murder by Death

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

107. Tony Curtis

Actor | Some Like It Hot

Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only ...

108. Leslie Howard

Actor | Pygmalion

Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London to Lilian (Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. Leslie went to Dulwich College, then worked as a bank clerk until the outbreak of World ...

109. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

Greats: A Man for All Seasons (1966) (1966); Midnight Express (1978) (1978)★; Alien (1979) (1979); Heaven's Gate (1980) (1980); The Elephant Man (1980) (1980)★

Give It a Shot: History of the World: Part I (1981) (1981); The Hit (1984) (1984); Spaceballs (1987) (1987); Dead Man (1995) (1995); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (2001); V for Vendetta (2005) (2005); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) (2011); Melancholia (2011) (2011); Jackie (2016)

Caution: Contact (1997) (1997); Hellboy (2004) (2004); Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): 10 Rillington Place (1971) (1971); The Ghoul (1975) (1975); The Shout (1978) (1978); Watership Down (1978) (1978); The Lord of the Rings (1978) [voice] (1978); Night Crossing (1982) (1982); Partners (1982) (1982); The Plague Dogs (1982) (1982); The Osterman Weekend (1983) (1983); 1984 (1984); The Black Cauldron (1985) [voice] (1985); White Mischief (1987) (1987); From the Hip (1987) (1987); Aria (1987) (1987); Scandal (1989) (1989); The Field (1990) (1990); Frankenstein Unbound (1990) (1990); King Ralph (1991) (1991); Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) (1993); Thumbelina (1994) [voice] (1994); Second Best (1994) (1994); Rob Roy (1995) (1995); Wild Bill (1995) (1995); Love and Death on Long Island (1997) (1997); All the Little Animals (1998) (1998); Lost Souls (2000) (2000); Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) (2001); Miranda (2002) (2002); Owning Mahowny (2003) (2003); The Proposition (2005) (2005); Beyond the Gates (2005); The Skeleton Key (2005) (2005); The Oxford Murders (2008) (2008); Outlander (2008) (2008); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) (2008); New York, I Love You (2008) (2009); The Limits of Control (2009) (2009); 44 Inch Chest (2009) (2009); Brighton Rock (2010) (2010); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) (2010); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) (2011); Immortals (2011) (2011); Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) (2012); Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) (2013); Snowpiercer (2013) (2013); Hercules (2014) (2014); Damascus Cover (2017) (2016); ChickLit (2016) (2016); The Legend of Tarzan (2016) (2016); The Journey (2016) (2016)

110. Bing Crosby

Actor | White Christmas

Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr. in Tacoma, Washington, the fourth of seven children of Catherine (Harrigan) and Harry Lincoln Crosby, a brewery bookkeeper. He was of English and Irish descent. Crosby studied law at Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in playing the ...

111. Wallace Beery

Actor | A Date with Judy

In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows. He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on ...

112. Robert Montgomery

Actor | Night Must Fall

Robert Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr., the elder son of New York businessman Henry Montgomery and his wife, Mary Weed (Barney), a native of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Montgomery had a younger brother, Donald. He was not related to Belinda Montgomery.

As a child, he enjoyed a ...

113. Ronald Colman

Actor | A Double Life

British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's ...

114. Laurence Harvey

Actor | The Manchurian Candidate

Laurence Harvey was a British movie star who helped usher in the 1960s with his indelible portrait of a ruthless social climber, and became one of the decade's cultural icons for his appearances in socially themed motion pictures.

Harvey was born Zvi Mosheh Skikne on October 1, 1928 in Joniskis, ...

115. Geoffrey Rush

Actor | The King's Speech

Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...

116. Maximilian Schell

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi. Indeed, with the exception of Maurice Chevalier and ...

117. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

Greats: Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) (1980)✰; JFK (1991) (1991)★; The Fugitive (1993) (1993)★; No Country for Old Men (2007) (2007); Lincoln (2012) (2012)★

Give It a Shot: Men in Black (1997) (1997); Space Cowboys (2000) (2000); In the Valley of Elah (2007) (2007)★; Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) (2011)

Caution: Natural Born Killers (1994) (1994); Batman Forever (1995) (1995); Volcano (1997) (1997); Men in Black³ (2012) (2012); The Family (2013) (2013)

Flops: Men in Black II (2002) (2002)

Other Notable Film(s): Love Story (1970) (1970); Life Study (1973) (1973); Eliza's Horoscope (1975) (1975); Jackson County Jail (1976) (1976); Rolling Thunder (1977) (1977); The Betsy (1978) (1978); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) (1978); Back Roads (1981) (1981); Nate and Hayes (1983) (1983); The River Rat (1984) (1984); Black Moon Rising (1986) (1986); The Big Town (1987) (1987); Stormy Monday (1988) (1988); The Package (1989) (1989); Fire Birds (1990) (1990); Under Siege (1992) (1992); House of Cards (1993) (1993); Heaven & Earth (1993) (1993); Blown Away (1994) (1994); Blue Sky (1994) (1994); The Client (1994) (1994); Cobb (1994) (1994); U.S. Marshals (1998) (1998); Small Soldiers (1998) [voice] (1998); Double Jeopardy (1999) (1999); Rules of Engagement (2000) (2000); The Hunted (2003) (2003); The Missing (2003) (2003); Man of the House (2005) (2005); The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) (2005)✰; A Prairie Home Companion (2006) (2006); In the Electric Mist (2009) (2009); The Company Men (2010) (2010); Hope Springs (2012) (2012); Emperor (2012) (2012); The Homesman (2014) (2014); Criminal (2016) (2016); Jason Bourne (2016) (2016); Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) (2016)

118. James Coburn

Actor | The Great Escape

Lanky, charismatic and versatile actor with an amazing grin that put everyone at ease, James Coburn studied acting at UCLA, and then moved to New York to study under noted acting coach Stella Adler. After being noticed in several stage productions, Coburn appeared in a handful of minor westerns ...

119. Ernest Borgnine

Actor | Marty

Ernest Borgnine was born Ermes Effron Borgnino on January 24, 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut. His parents were Anna (Boselli), who had emigrated from Carpi (MO), Italy, and Camillo Borgnino, who had emigrated from Ottiglio (AL), Italy. As an only child, Ernest enjoyed most sports, especially boxing, ...

May not be the lead actor in many of his well-known films but he is still a respectable actor. His first well-known role was in 1953 Best Picture winner From Here to Eternity. Afterwards he received roles in classics such as Johnny Guitar and Bad Day at Black Rock. His best performance came in 1955 when he won an oscar for Marty. His other known performances are in The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch, The Poseidon Adventure, and Escape from New York.

Greats: From Here to Eternity (1953) (1953); Marty (1955) (1955)★; Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (1955); The Wild Bunch (1969) (1969)

Give It a Shot: The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (1972); Escape from New York (1981) (1981); RED (2010) (2010)

Caution: All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) [voice] (1996)

Other Notable Film(s): Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) (1954); Vera Cruz (1954) (1954); Johnny Guitar (1954) (1954); Jubal (1956) (1956); The Catered Affair (1956) (1956); The Vikings (1958) (1958); The Badlanders (1958) (1958); Torpedo Run (1958) (1958); Barabbas (1961); The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) (1965); The Dirty Dozen (1967) (1967); Ice Station Zebra (1968) (1968); Willard (1971) (1971); Hannie Caulder (1971) (1971); Emperor of the North (1973); The Devil's Rain (1975) (1975); Hustle (1975) (1975); Convoy (1978) (1978); The Black Hole (1979) (1979); When Time Ran Out... (1980) (1980); Super Fuzz (1980); Deadly Blessing (1981) (1981); Laser Mission (1989) (1989); Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996) (1996); McHale's Navy (1997) (1997); GATTACA (1997) (1997); Small Soldiers (1998) [voice] (1998); BASEketball (1998) (1998); Renegade (2004); Strange Wilderness (2008) (2008)

120. Joel McCrea

Actor | Sullivan's Travels

One of the great stars of American Westerns, and a very popular leading man in non-Westerns as well. He was born and raised in the surroundings of Hollywood and as a boy became interested in the movies that were being made all around. He studied acting at Pomona College and got some stage ...

121. Charles Bronson

Actor | Death Wish

The archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features--one film critic described his rugged looks as "a Clark Gable who had been left out in the sun too long"--Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinsky, one of 15 children of struggling parents in Pennsylvania. His mother, Mary (Valinsky), ...

122. Charles Coburn

Actor | The More the Merrier

A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm. In 1918 he and his first wife formed the Coburn Players and appeared on Broadway in many plays. With her death in 1937, he accepted a Hollywood contract and began making films at the age of sixty.

123. Jack Palance

Actor | City Slickers

Jack Palance quite often exemplified evil incarnate on film, portraying some of the most intensely feral villains witnessed in 1950s westerns and melodrama. Enhanced by his tall, powerful build, icy voice, and piercing eyes, he earned two "Best Supporting Actor" nominations early in his career. It ...

124. Paul Winfield

Actor | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Signifying intelligence, eloquence, versatility and quiet intensity, one of the more important, critically acclaimed black actors to gain a Hollywood foothold in the 1970s was Paul Winfield. He was born in 1939 in Dallas, Texas, where he lived in his early years before moving with his family to Los...

125. Ian McKellen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...

126. Yves Montand

Actor | Jean de Florette

Yves Montand was born on October 13, 1921 in Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Jean de Florette (1986), Z (1969) and The Wages of Fear (1953). He was married to Simone Signoret. He died on November 9, 1991 in Senlis, Oise, France.

127. Robert Ryan

Actor | The Wild Bunch

Distinguished U.S. actor and longtime civil rights campaigner Robert Bushnell Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, whose wealthy family owned a real estate firm. His father was of Irish ancestry, and his mother was of English and ...

128. Joe Pesci

Actor | Goodfellas

Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....

129. Glenn Ford

Actor | Gilda

Legendary actor Glenn Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada, to Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, a railroad executive. His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school...

130. Peter Ustinov

Actor | Spartacus

Peter Ustinov was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.

He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow on April 16, 1921 in Swiss Cottage, ...

131. Robert Shaw

Actor | Jaws

Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. Shaw's mother, who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, met his father while...

132. Viggo Mortensen

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

Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.

Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...

133. Gene Kelly

Soundtrack | Singin' in the Rain

Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third son of Harriet Catherine (Curran) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of Irish and German ancestry.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in...

134. Fred MacMurray

Actor | Double Indemnity

Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type.

Frederick Martin MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to ...

135. Robert Donat

Actor | The 39 Steps

Robert Donat's pleasant voice and somewhat neutral English accent were carefully honed as a boy because he had a stammer and took elocution lessons starting at age 11 to overcome the impediment. It was not too surprising that freedom from such a vocal embarrassment was encouragement to act. His ...

136. William Powell

Actor | The Thin Man

William Powell was on the New York stage by 1912, but it would be ten years before his film career would begin. In 1924 he went to Paramount Pictures, where he was employed for the next seven years. During that time, he played in a number of interesting films, but stardom was elusive. He did ...

137. Liam Neeson

Actor | Kinsey

Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...

Greats: The Mission (1986) (1986); Schindler's List (1993) (1993)★; Gangs of New York (2002) (2002); Silence (2016) (2016)

Give It a Shot: Love Actually (2003) (2003); Batman Begins (2005) (2005); Taken (2008) (2008); Ponyo [voice] (2008); The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (2012); The Lego Movie (2014) [voice] (2014)

Caution: Ted 2 (2015) (2015)

Flops: The Haunting (1999) (1999); Wrath of the Titans (2012) (2012); Battleship (2012) (2012)

Other Notable Film(s): Excalibur (1981) (1981); Krull (1983) (1983); The Bounty (1984) (1984); A Prayer for the Dying (1987) (1987); Suspect (1987) (1987); Satisfaction (1988) (1988); The Dead Pool (1988) (1988); Next of Kin (1989) (1989); Darkman (1990) (1990); Under Suspicion (1991) (1991); Shining Through (1992) (1992); Husbands and Wives (1992) (1992); Leap of Faith (1992) (1992); Ethan Frome (1992) (1993); Ruby Cairo (1992) (1993); Nell (1994) (1994); Rob Roy (1995) (1995); Michael Collins (1996) (1996)✰; Before and After (1996) (1996); Les Misérables (1998) (1998); Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) (1999); Gun Shy (2000) (2000); K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) (2002); Kinsey (2004) (2004)✰; Kingdom of Heaven (2005) (2005); Breakfast on Pluto (2005) (2005); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) [voice] (2005); Seraphim Falls (2006) (2006); The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) [voice] (2008); The Other Man (2008) (2008); Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) (2009); Chloe (2009) (2009); After.Life (2009) (2009); Clash of the Titans (2010) (2010); The A-Team (2010) (2010); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) [voice] (2010); The Next Three Days (2010) (2010); Unknown (2011) (2011); The Grey (2011) (2011); Taken 2 (2012) (2012); Third Person (2013) (2014); Non-Stop (2014) (2014); A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) (2014); A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) (2014); Taken 3 (2014) (2014); Run All Night (2015) (2015); Entourage (2015) (2015); A Monster Calls (2016) (2016); Operation Chromite (2016)

138. Walter Brennan

Actor | The Westerner

In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...

139. Woody Harrelson

Actor | True Detective

Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. After receiving degrees in theater arts and English from Hanover College, he...

Greats: The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) (1996)★; The Thin Red Line (1998) (1998); No Country for Old Men (2007) (2007); True Detective (2014) [TV series] (2014)★; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (2017)★

Give It a Shot: Wag the Dog (1997) (1997); Zombieland (2009) (2009); Rampart (2011) (2011)★; The Hunger Games (2012) (2012); Out of the Furnace (2013) (2013); Now You See Me (2013) (2013); Now You See Me 2 (2016) (2016)

Caution: Natural Born Killers (1994) (1994); Kingpin (1996) (1995); EDtv (1999) (1999); Anger Management (2003) (2003); Seven Psychopaths (2012) (2012)

Flops: Semi-Pro (2008) (2008); Friends with Benefits (2011) (2011)

Other Notable Film(s): Cheers (1982) [TV series] (1985-1993)✰; Wildcats (1986) (1986); Doc Hollywood (1991) (1991); White Men Can't Jump (1992) (1992); Indecent Proposal (1993) (1993); I'll Do Anything (1994) (1994); The Cowboy Way (1994) (1994); Money Train (1995) (1995); The Sunchaser (1996) (1996); Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) (1997); Palmetto (1998) (1998); The Hi-Lo Country (1998) (1998); Play It to the Bone (1999) (1999); Scorched (2003) (2003); She Hate Me (2004) (2004); After the Sunset (2004) (2004); The Big White (2005) (2005); North Country (2005) (2005); The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) (2005); A Prairie Home Companion (2006) (2006); Free Jimmy [voice] (2006); A Scanner Darkly (2006) (2006); The Walker (2007) (2007); The Grand (2007) (2007); Battle in Seattle (2007) (2007); Transsiberian (2008) (2008); Sleepwalking (2008) (2008); Surfer, Dude (2008) (2008); Management (2008) (2008); Seven Pounds (2008) (2008); 2012 (2009) (2009); The Messenger (2009) (2009)✰; Defendor (2009) (2009); Bunraku (2010) (2010); Game Change (2012) [TV] (2012)✰; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) (2013); The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) (2014); The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) (2015); Triple 9 (2016) (2016); The Duel (2016) (2016); LBJ (2016) (2016); The Edge of Seventeen (2016) (2016); The Glass Castle (2017) (2017); Wilson (2017) (2017); War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) (2017)

140. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

141. Heath Ledger

Actor | Brokeback Mountain

When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...

142. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

Greats: The Sound of Music (1965) (1965)★; The Man Who Would Be King (1975) (1975); Malcolm X (1992) (1992); 12 Monkeys (1995) (1995); The Insider (1999) (1999); A Beautiful Mind (2001) (2001); Up (2009) [voice] (2009); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (2011)

Give It a Shot: The New World (2005) (2005); Inside Man (2006) (2006); Beginners (2010) (2011)★

Caution: Cold Creek Manor (2003) (2003); National Treasure (2004) (2004)

Flops: Alexander (2004) (2004); Must Love Dogs (2005) (2005); Priest (2011) (2011)

Other Notable Film(s): The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) (1964); Inside Daisy Clover (1965) (1965); Triple Cross (1966) (1966); The Night of the Generals (1967) (1967); Battle of Britain (1969) (1969); Waterloo (1970) (1970); The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) (1975); Aces High (1976) (1976); The Silent Partner (1978) (1978); International Velvet (1978) (1978); Starcrash (1978) (1978); Hanover Street (1979) (1979); Murder by Decree (1979) (1979); Somewhere in Time (1980) (1980); Eyewitness (1981) (1981); The Amateur (1981) (1981); Dreamscape (1984) (1984); The Boy in Blue (1986) (1986); An American Tail (1986) [voice] (1986); Dragnet (1987) (1987); Gandahar (1987) [voice] (1988); Where the Heart Is (1990) (1990); Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) (1991); Rock-A-Doodle (1991) [voice] (1991); Wolf (1994) (1994); Dolores Claiborne (1995) (1995); Dracula 2000 (2000) (2000); Nicholas Nickleby (2002) (2002); Ararat (2002) (2002); Syriana (2005) (2005); The Lake House (2006) (2006); Closing the Ring (2007) (2007); Already Dead (2007) (2007); My Dog Tulip (2009) [voice] (2009); The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (2009); 9 (2009) [voice] (2009); The Last Station (2009) (2009)✰; Barrymore (2011) (2011); Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) (2013); Elsa & Fred (2014) (2014); Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) (2014); The Forger (2014) (2014); Danny Collins (2015) (2015); Remember (2015) (2015); The Exception (2016) (2016); All the Money in the World (2017)✰

143. John Malkovich

Actor | Being John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...

Greats: In the Line of Fire (1993) (1993)★; Being John Malkovich (1999) (1999)★

Give It a Shot: Empire of the Sun (1987) (1987);Changeling (2008) (2008); RED (2010) (2010)

Caution: Con Air (1997) (1997); Beowulf (2007) (2007); Burn After Reading (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): Places in the Heart (1984) (1984)✰; The Killing Fields (1984) (1984); Eleni (1985) (1985); Making Mr. Right (1987) (1987); The Glass Menagerie (1987) (1987); Miles from Home (1988) (1988); Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (1988); The Sheltering Sky (1990) (1990); Queens Logic (1991) (1991); The Object of Beauty (1991) (1991); Shadows and Fog (1991) (1991); Of Mice and Men (1992) (1992); Jennifer Eight (1992) (1992); The Convent (1995); Beyond the Clouds (1995); Mulholland Falls (1996) (1996); Mary Reilly (1996) (1996); The Portrait of a Lady (1996) (1996); Der Unhold (1996) (1996); The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) (1998); Rounders (1998) (1998); Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999); The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999); Ladies Room (1999) (2000); Shadow of the Vampire (2000) (2000); Les âmes fortes (2001) (2001); I'm Going Home (2001); Knockaround Guys (2001) (2001); Hotel (2001) (2001); Ripley's Game (2002) (2002); Johnny English (2003) (2003); A Talking Picture (2003); The Libertine (2004) (2004); The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) (2005); Color Me Kubrick (2005); Art School Confidential (2006) (2006); Klimt (2006) (2006); Eragon (2006) (2006); In Tranzit (2008) (2008); The Great Buck Howard (2008) (2008); Gardens of the Night (2008) (2008); Mutant Chronicles (2008) (2008); Disgrace (2008) (2008); Afterwards (2008) (2008); Jonah Hex (2010) (2010); Secretariat (2010) (2010); Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (2011); Warm Bodies (2013) (2013); RED 2 (2013) (2013); Cut Bank (2014) (2014); Penguins of Madagascar (2014) [voice] (2014); Zoolander 2 (2016) (2016); 100 Years (2016); Last Call (2017) (2016); Deepwater Horizon (2016) (2016); Unlocked (2017) (2016)

144. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

145. Ryan Gosling

Actor | Blue Valentine

Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...

146. Benicio Del Toro

Actor | Sicario

Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).

...

Greats: The Usual Suspects (1995) (1995); Traffic (2000) (2000)★; 21 Grams (2003) (2003)★

Give It a Shot: Fearless (1993) (1993); Snatch (2000) (2000); The Pledge (2001) (2001)★; Sin City (2005) (2005); Guardians of the Galaxy (2014); Sicario (2015)

Caution: The Fan (1996) (1996); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) (1998)

Flops: Excess Baggage (1997) (1997)

Other Notable Film(s): Licence to Kill (1989) (1989); The Indian Runner (1991) (1991); Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) (1992); Money for Nothing (1993) (1993); China Moon (1994) (1994); Swimming with Sharks (1994) (1994); Basquiat (1996) (1996); The Funeral (1996) (1996); The Way of the Gun (2000) (2000); The Hunted (2003) (2003); Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) (2007); Che [Part One, Part Two] (2008)✰; The Wolfman (2010) (2010); Savages (2012) (2012)

147. Bradley Cooper

Actor | A Star Is Born

Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...

148. Richard Dreyfuss

Actor | The Goodbye Girl

Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers.

He was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, to Geraldine (Robbins), an activist, and Norman Dreyfus, a restaurateur and attorney. His paternal grandparents ...

149. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

"was a magical and special privilege. His performances were unlike anything any of us had ever seen, they came from some spiritual and otherworldly place." ~ Chris Columbus

Greats: Dead Poets Society (1989) (1989)★; Good Will Hunting (1997) (1997)★; Insomnia (2002) (2002)★

Give It a Shot: Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) (1987)★; Awakenings (1990) (1990)★; The Fisher King (1991) (1991)★; Aladdin (1992) [voice] (1992)★; Deconstructing Harry (1997) (1997); A.I. Artificial Intelligence [voice] (2001); One Hour Photo (2002) (2002)★

Caution: Hook (1991) (1991); Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (1993)✰; Jumanji (1995) (1995); The Birdcage (1996) (1996); Jack (1996) (1996); Bicentennial Man (1999) (1999); Man of the Year (2006) (2006); Night at the Museum (2006) (2006)

Flops: Flubber (1997) (1997); Patch Adams (1998) (1998)✰; RV (2006) (2006); License to Wed (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Mork & Mindy (1978) [TV series] (1978-1982)✰; Popeye (1980) (1980); The World According to Garp (1982) (1982); The Survivors (1983) (1983); Moscow on the Hudson (1984) (1984)✰; The Best of Times (1986) (1986); Club Paradise (1986) (1986); Seize the Day (1986) (1986); The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) (1988); Cadillac Man (1990) (1990); Dead Again (1991) (1991); Shakes the Clown (1991) (1991); FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) [voice] (1992); Toys (1992) (1992); Being Human (1994) (1994); Nine Months (1995) (1995); Hamlet (1996) (1996); Fathers' Day (1997) (1997); What Dreams May Come (1998) (1998); Jakob the Liar (1999) (1999); Death to Smoochy (2002) (2002); The Final Cut (2004) (2004); House of D (2004) (2004); Robots (2005) [voice] (2005); The Big White (2005) (2005); The Night Listener (2006) (2006); Happy Feet (2006) [voice] (2006); August Rush (2007) (2007); Shrink (2009) (2009); World's Greatest Dad (2009) (2009); Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) (2009); Old Dogs (2009) (2009); Happy Feet Two (2011) [voice] (2011); The Big Wedding (2013) (2013); The Butler (2013) (2013); The Face of Love (2013) (2013); The Crazy Ones (2013) [TV series] (2013-2014); The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) (2014); A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014) (2014); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) (2014); Absolutely Anything (2015) [voice] (2015)

150. Michael Fassbender

Actor | Shame

Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...

151. Edward Norton

Actor | Fight Club

American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.

His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...

152. Dennis Hopper

Actor | Easy Rider

Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...

Greats: Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (1955); Giant (1956) (1956); Cool Hand Luke (1967) (1967); True Grit (1969) (1969); The American Friend (1977); Apocalypse Now (1979) (1979); Blue Velvet (1986) (1986)★

Give It a Shot: Hang 'Em High (1968) (1968); Easy Rider (1969) (1969); Rumble Fish (1983) (1983); Hoosiers (1986) (1986)★; True Romance (1993) (1993); Speed (1994) (1994)

Caution: Waterworld (1995) (1995)☠; EDtv (1999) (1999); Land of the Dead (2005) (2005)

Flops: Super Mario Bros. (1993) (1993)☠

Other Notable Film(s): Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) (1957); Night Tide (1961) (1961); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) (1965); Queen of Blood (1966) (1966); The Trip (1967) (1967); Mad Dog Morgan (1976) (1976); Out of the Blue (1980) (1980); The Osterman Weekend (1983) (1983); O.C. and Stiggs (1985) (1985); My Science Project (1985) (1985); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) (1986); River's Edge (1986) (1986); Straight to Hell (1987) (1987); Black Widow (1987) (1987); The Pick-up Artist (1987) (1987); Chattahoochee (1989) (1989); Flashback (1990) (1990); Catchfire (1990) (1990); Paris Trout (1991) (1991); The Indian Runner (1991) (1991); Boiling Point (1993) (1993); Red Rock West (1993) (1993); Chasers (1994) (1994); Search and Destroy (1995) (1995); Carried Away (1996) (1996); Space Truckers (1996) (1996); Basquiat (1996) (1996); The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1996) (1996); The Blackout (1997) (1997); Meet the Deedles (1998) (1998); Jesus' Son (1999) (1999); Ticker (2001) (2001); Knockaround Guys (2001) (2001); House of 9 (2005) (2005); The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) (2005); Elegy (2008) (2008); Swing Vote (2008) (2008)

153. John Cazale

Actor | Dog Day Afternoon

John Cazale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an Irish-American mother, Cecilia (Holland), and an Italian-American father, John Cazale. Cazale made only five feature films in his career, which fans and critics alike call classics. But before his film debut, in the short The American Way (1962),...

"Cazale broke hearts on screen with portrayals of volatile, vulnerable, vacillating men, including Pacino's tragic bank-robbing partner in Dog Day Afternoon." David Germain

Greats: The Godfather (1972) (1972); The Godfather Part II (1974) (1974)★; The Conversation (1974) (1974); Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (1975)★; The Deer Hunter (1978) (1978)

154. Willem Dafoe

Actor | Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...

Greats: Platoon (1986) (1986)★; The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (1988); Born on the Fourth of July (1989) (1989); The English Patient (1996) (1996); Affliction (1997) (1998*); The Aviator (2004) (2004); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) [voice] (2009); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (2014); The Florida Project (2017) (2017)★

Give It a Shot: Mississippi Burning (1988) (1988); Wild at Heart (1990) (1990); The Boondock Saints (1999) (1999); American Psycho (2000) (2000); Spider-Man (2002) (2002); Finding Nemo (2003) [voice] (2003); Spider-Man 2 (2004) (2004); Inside Man (2006) (2006); Out of the Furnace (2013) (2013); John Wick (2014) (2014); Finding Dory (2016) [voice] (2016)

Caution: Clear and Present Danger (1994) (1994); Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) (2003); Spider-Man 3 (2007) (2007); John Carter (2012) (2012)

Flops: Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) (1997); xXx: State of the Union (2005) (2005)

Other Notable Film(s): The Loveless (1981) (1982); The Hunger (1983) (1983); Streets of Fire (1984) (1984); To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) (1985); Off Limits (1988) (1988); Triumph of the Spirit (1989) (1989); Cry-Baby (1990) (1990); Flight of the Intruder (1991) (1991); Light Sleeper (1992) (1992); White Sands (1992) (1992); Body of Evidence (1992) (1993); Faraway, So Close! (1993); Tom & Viv (1994) (1994); Basquiat (1996) (1996); Lulu on the Bridge (1998) (1998); New Rose Hotel (1998) (1998); eXistenZ (1999) (1999); Animal Factory (2000) (2000); Shadow of the Vampire (2000) (2000)✰; Edges of the Lord (2001) (2001); Auto Focus (2002) (2002); The Reckoning (2003) (2003); The Clearing (2004) (2004); Control (2004) (2004); Manderlay (2005) (2005); American Dreamz (2006) (2006); The Walker (2007) (2007); Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) (2007); Anamorph (2007) (2007); Fireflies in the Garden (2008) (2008); Adam Resurrected (2008) (2008); Antichrist (2009) (2009); Farewell (2009); My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) (2009); Daybreakers (2009) (2009); Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) (2009); Miral (2010) (2010); The Hunter (2011) (2011); Tomorrow You're Gone (2012) (2012); Odd Thomas (2013) (2013); Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) (2013); A Most Wanted Man (2014) (2014); Bad Country (2014) (2014); The Fault in Our Stars (2014) (2014); Pasolini (2014) (2014); My Hindu Friend (2015); Dog Eat Dog (2016) (2016); A Family Man (2016) (2016); The Great Wall (2016) (2016); What Happened to Monday (2017); Death Note (2017) (2017); Murder on the Orient Express (2017) (2017); Aquaman (2018) (2018)

155. Oskar Werner

Actor | Ship of Fools

Remote, somewhat morose and, as a result, intriguing, Viennese talent Oskar Werner was born in 1922, not far from the birthplace of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, and christened Oskar Josef Bschließmayer. His parents divorced when he was fairly young.

While growing up, Oskar found performing in school...

156. Errol Flynn

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn, a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school in which he was enrolled. In his late teens ...

157. Jack Warden

Actor | 12 Angry Men

Jack Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter, Jr. on September 18, 1920 in Newark, New Jersey, to Laura M. (Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter. His father was of German and Irish descent, and his mother was of Irish ancestry. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of seventeen, young Jack ...

Greats: From Here to Eternity (1953) (1953); 12 Angry Men (1957) (1957); All the President's Men (1976) (1976); Heaven Can Wait (1978) (1978)★; Being There (1979) (1979); The Verdict (1982) (1982)

Give It a Shot: Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) (1958); Brian's Song (1971) [TV] (1971); ...And Justice for All (1979) (1979); Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (1995); Bulworth (1998) (1998)

Flops: Problem Child (1990) (1990); The Replacements (2000) (2000)

Other Notable Film(s): Edge of the City (1957) (1957); Darby's Rangers (1958) (1958); Donovan's Reef (1963) (1963); Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) (1971); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) (1974); Shampoo (1975) (1975)✰; The White Buffalo (1977) (1977); Death on the Nile (1978) (1978); The Champ (1979) (1979); Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) (1979); Used Cars (1980) (1980); The Great Muppet Caper (1981) (1981); Carbon Copy (1981) (1981); Crackers (1984) (1984); The Aviator (1985) (1985); September (1987) (1987); The Presidio (1988) (1988); Everybody Wins (1990) (1990); Problem Child 2 (1991) (1991); Passed Away (1992) (1992); Night and the City (1992) (1992); Toys (1992) (1992); Guilty as Sin (1993) (1993); Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (1994); While You Were Sleeping (1995) (1995); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) (1995); Ed (1996) (1996); The Island on Bird Street (1997) (1997); Chairman of the Board (1997) (1998); Dirty Work (1998) (1998); A Dog of Flanders (1999) (1999)

158. Colin Firth

Actor | A Single Man

Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...

159. Don Cheadle

Actor | Crash

Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. His childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye (née North), a teacher; father Donald Frank Cheadle Sr., a clinical psychologist; sister Cindy; and brother Colin. After graduating from high...

160. Fred Astaire

Actor | The Towering Inferno

Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Johanna (Geilus) and Fritz Austerlitz, a brewer. Fred entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. ...

161. Tom Wilkinson

Actor | Michael Clayton

Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, ...

Greats: In the Name of the Father (1993) (1993); In the Bedroom (2001) (2001)★; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (2004); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (2014)

Give It a Shot: The Full Monty (1997) (1997); Shakespeare in Love (1998) (1998); Batman Begins (2005) (2005); Michael Clayton (2007) (2007)★

Caution: Rush Hour (1998) (1998); The Green Hornet (2011) (2011)

Flops: Black Knight (2001) (2001)

Other Notable Film(s): Royal Deceit (1994); Priest (1994) (1994); Sense and Sensibility (1995) (1995); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) (1996); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) (1997); Wilde (1997) (1997); Oscar and Lucinda (1997) (1997); The Governess (1998) (1998); Ride with the Devil (1999) (1999); The Patriot (2000) (2000); Essex Boys (2000) (2000); Chain of Fools (2000) (2000); The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (2002); Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) (2003); If Only (2004) (2004); Stage Beauty (2004) (2004); A Good Woman (2004) (2004); The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) (2005); Separate Lies (2005) (2005); The Last Kiss (2006) (2006); Dedication (2007) (2007); Cassandra's Dream (2007) (2007); RocknRolla (2008) (2008); Valkyrie (2008) (2008); Duplicity (2009) (2009); 44 Inch Chest (2009) (2009); The Ghost Writer (2010) (2010); The Debt (2010) (2010); The Conspirator (2010) (2010); Burke & Hare (2010) (2010); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) (2012); The Samaritan (2012) (2012); The Lone Ranger (2013) (2012); Unfinished Business (2015) (2014); Good People (2014) (2014); Little Boy (2015) (2014); Selma (2014)

162. Chris Cooper

Actor | Adaptation.

Christopher Walton Cooper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Mary Ann (Walton), a homemaker, and Charles Sherwood Cooper, a cattleman and internist who served as a doctor in the US Air Force. His parents were from Texas, where Cooper was raised.

Educated at the University of Missouri school of ...

163. Nick Nolte

Actor | Warrior

Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska and began his career on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse and in regional theatre productions. His breakthrough role was in the TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), playing the role of "Tom/Tommy Jordache". Nick Nolte said that when he played a young man in ...

164. James Woods

Actor | Vampires

James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...

165. 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 ...

166. Matthew McConaughey

Actor | Interstellar

American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...

167. Burl Ives

Actor | The Big Country

Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a...

168. Tyrone Power

Actor | Witness for the Prosecution

Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known ...

169. James Garner

Actor | The Notebook

Amiable and handsome James Garner had obtained success in both films and television, often playing variations of the charming anti-hero/con-man persona he first developed in Maverick, the offbeat western TV series that shot him to stardom in the late 1950s.

James Garner was born James Scott ...

170. Barry Fitzgerald

Actor | The Quiet Man

One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and ...

171. John Gielgud

Actor | Arthur

Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Best known for his Shakespearean roles in the theater, he first played Hamlet at the age of 26. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other ...

Greats: Becket (1964) (1964)★; The Elephant Man (1980) (1980); Gandhi (1982) (1982)

Give It a Shot: Julius Caesar (1953) (1953); Chimes at Midnight (1965); Arthur (1981) (1981)★; Shine (1996) (1996)

Caution: Secret Agent (1936) (1936); Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (1974); Chariots of Fire (1981) (1981)

Other Notable Film(s): The Good Companions (1933) (1933); Romeo and Juliet (1954) (1954); Richard III (1955) (1955); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); Saint Joan (1957) (1957); Hamlet (1964) (1964); The Loved One (1965) (1965); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) (1968); The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) (1968); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) (1969); Julius Caesar (1970) (1970); Lost Horizon (1973) (1973); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) [TV] (1973); Gold (1974) (1974); 11 Harrowhouse (1974) (1974); Galileo (1975) (1975); Aces High (1976) (1976); Providence (1977) (1977); Joseph Andrews (1977) (1977); Les Miserables (1978) [TV] (1978); Murder by Decree (1979) (1979); Caligula (1979); The Human Factor (1979) (1979); The Conductor (1980); The Formula (1980) (1980); Sphinx (1981) (1981); Lion of the Desert (1980) (1981); The Wicked Lady (1983) (1983); The Shooting Party (1984) (1985); Plenty (1985) (1985); The Whistle Blower (1986) (1986); Appointment with Death (1988) (1988); Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) (1988); Prospero's Books (1991) (1991); Shining Through (1992) (1992); The Power of One (1992) (1992); First Knight (1995) (1995); Haunted (1995) (1995); Gulliver's Travels (1996) [TV] (1996); DragonHeart (1996) [voice] (1996); The Portrait of a Lady (1996) (1996); Hamlet (1996) (1996); Quest for Camelot (1998) [voice] (1998); Elizabeth (1998) (1998)

172. George Sanders

Actor | All About Eve

George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in ...

173. Gérard Depardieu

Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac

Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, to Anne Jeanne Josèphe (Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, who was a metal worker and fireman. Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Café de la Gare", along ...

Give It a Shot: La vie en rose (2007); Life of Pi (2012) (2012)

Flops: 102 Dalmatians (2000) (2000); Babylon A.D. (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): Going Places (1974); Stavisky... (1974) (1974); 1900 (1976); Buffet Froid (1979); Loulou (1980) (1980); My American Uncle (1980); The Last Metro (1980); Police (1985) (1985)✰; Jean de Florette (1986) (1986)✰; Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) (1990)✰; Green Card (1990) (1990)✰

174. Bill Murray

Actor | Lost in Translation

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...

Greats: Tootsie (1982) (1982); Ghostbusters (1984)✰; Groundhog Day (1993) (1993); Ed Wood (1994) (1994); Rushmore (1998) (1998)★; The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (2001); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) [voice] (2009); Moonrise Kingdom (2012) (2012); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (2014)

Give It a Shot: Stripes (1981) (1981); Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (1986); Scrooged (1988) (1988); What About Bob? (1991) (1991); Lost in Translation (2003) (2003)★; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) (2004); Broken Flowers (2005) (2005); The Darjeeling Limited (2007) (2007)

Caution: Caddyshack (1980) (1980); Ghostbusters II (1989) (1989); Kingpin (1996) (1996); Wild Things (1998) (1998); Charlie's Angels (2000) (2000)

Flops: The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) (1997); Garfield: The Movie (2004) [voice] (2004)

Other Notable Film(s): Meatballs (1979) (1979); Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) (1980); The Razor's Edge (1984) (1984); Quick Change (1990) (1990); Mad Dog and Glory (1993) (1993); Larger Than Life (1996) (1996); Cradle Will Rock (1999) (1999); Hamlet (2000) (2000); Osmosis Jones (2001) (2001); Speaking of Sex (2001) (2001); Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) (2003); The Lost City (2005) (2005); Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006) [voice] (2006); Get Smart (2008) (2008); City of Ember (2008) (2008); The Limits of Control (2009) (2009); Get Low (2009) (2010); Passion Play (2010) (2010); Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) (2012)✰; Charles Swan (2012); St. Vincent (2014) (2014)✰; The Monuments Men (2014) (2014); Aloha (2015) (2014)

175. Billy Bob Thornton

Actor | Sling Blade

Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased). He is the older brother of James Donald (Jimmy Don) (born in ...

176. Harvey Keitel

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

American actor and producer Harvey Keitel was born on May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Miriam (Klein) and Harry Keitel. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists (...

Greats: Mean Streets (1973) (1973); Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) (1974); Taxi Driver (1976) (1976); Bad Timing (1980) (1980); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (1988); Bugsy (1991) (1991)★; Thelma & Louise (1991) (1991); The Piano (1993) (1993)★; Reservoir Dogs (1992) (1993); Pulp Fiction (1994) (1994); Moonrise Kingdom (2012) (2012); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (2014)

Give It a Shot: Bad Lieutenant (1992) (1992); Clockers (1995) (1995); Cop Land (1997) (1997); National Treasure (2004) (2004); Red Dragon (2002) (2002)

Caution: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (1996); Little Nicky (2000) (2000); Be Cool (2005) (2005)

Flops: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) (2007); Little Fockers (2010) (2010)

Other Notable Film(s): Who's That Knocking on My Door (1967); Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976) (1976); Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976); Welcome to L.A. (1976) (1976); The Duellists (1977) (1977); Blue Collar (1978) (1978); Fingers (1978) (1978); Eagle's Wing (1979) (1979); Death Watch (1980); Saturn 3 (1980) (1980); The Border (1982) (1982); That Night in Varennes (1982); Order of Death (1983); Exposed (1983) (1983); Falling in Love (1984) (1984); Wise Guys (1986) (1986); The Pick-up Artist (1987) (1987); The January Man (1989) (1989); Two Evil Eyes (1990); The Two Jakes (1990) (1990); Mortal Thoughts (1991) (1991); Sister Act (1992) (1992); Point of No Return (1993) (1993); Rising Sun (1993) (1993); The Young Americans (1993) (1993); Snake Eyes (1993) (1993); Monkey Trouble (1994) (1994); Imaginary Crimes (1994) (1994); Smoke (1995) (1995); Blue in the Face (1995) (1995); Ulysses' Gaze (1995); Head Above Water (1996) (1996); City of Industry (1997) (1997); FairyTale: A True Story (1997) (1997); Shadrach (1998) (1998); Lulu on the Bridge (1998) (1998); Finding Graceland (1998) (1998); Ba mùa (1999) (1998); Holy Smoke (1999) (1999); U-571 (2000) (2000); Prince of Central Park (2000) (2000); The Grey Zone (2001) (2001); Taking Sides (2001) (2001); Crime Spree (2003) (2003); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) (2004); The Shadow Dancer (2005) (2005); A Crime (2006) (2006); Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009) (2009)

177. Alain Delon

Actor | Le samouraï

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being ...

178. Bruno Ganz

Actor | Der Untergang

Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).

Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a ...

Greats: The American Friend (1977)★; Downfall (2004)★

Wings of Desire

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179. 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 ...

Greats: Dr. Strangelove (1964); Star Wars [voice] (1977); The Empire Strikes Back [voice] (1980); Return of the Jedi [voice] (1983)

Give It a Shot: The Great White Hope (1970) (1970)★; Field of Dreams (1989) (1989); Patriot Games (1992) (1992); The Lion King (1994) [voice] (1994)

Caution: Coming to America (1988) (1988); Clear and Present Danger (1994) (1994)

Flops: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) (1977); The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) [voice] (1978)

Other Notable Film(s): The Comedians (1967) (1967); Claudine (1974) (1974)✰; The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) (1976); Swashbuckler (1976) (1976); The Greatest (1977) (1976); The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) (1977); A Piece of the Action (1977) (1977); Conan the Barbarian (1982) (1982); Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) (1986); Gardens of Stone (1987) (1987); Matewan (1987) (1987); Three Fugitives (1989) (1989); Best of the Best (1989) (1989); The Hunt for Red October (1990) (1990); The Ambulance (1990) (1990); Sneakers (1992) (1992); Sommersby (1993) (1993); The Sandlot (1993) (1993); Excessive Force (1993) (1993); The Meteor Man (1993) (1993); Clean Slate (1994) (1994); Jefferson in Paris (1995) (1995); Judge Dredd (1995) [voice] (1995); Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) (1995); A Family Thing (1996) (1996); Good Luck (1996) (1996); Gang Related (1997) (1997); Finder's Fee (2001) (2001); Robots (2005) [voice] (2005); Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) [voice] (2005); Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) (2008)

180. Woody Allen

Writer | Annie Hall

Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.

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181. Buster Keaton

Actor | The General

Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...

182. Trevor Howard

Actor | The Third Man

The son of an insurance underwriter who represented Lloyd's of London in Ceylon, Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Margate, Kent. He spent his early childhood globetrotting with his mother, frequently left in the care of strangers. After attending private school he went on to study drama at ...

183. Paul Lukas

Actor | Watch on the Rhine

Oscar-winning actor Paul Lukas was born in Hungary and graduated from the School for Dramatic Arts. In 1916 he went to Kosice (Kassa) to be an actor; in 1918 he became an actor specializing in comedy. For ten years he was the most popular character player and romantic lead of the company. In 1918 ...

184. Burgess Meredith

Actor | Clash of the Titans

One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century, who often suffered lesser roles, Burgess Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts, before joining Eva Le Gallienne's Student Repertory stage company in 1929. By 1934 he was a star ...

185. Charles Durning

Actor | Dog Day Afternoon

WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. The stockily built Charles Durning was one of Hollywood's most ...

186. Martin Landau

Actor | Ed Wood

Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...

Greats: North by Northwest (1959) (1959); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) (1989)★; Ed Wood (1994) (1994)★

Caution: City Hall (1996) (1996); Rounders (1998) (1998); EDtv (1999) (1999); The Majestic (2001) (2001)

Flops: Ready to Rumble (2000) (2000)

Other Notable Film(s): Pork Chop Hill (1959) (1959); Cleopatra (1963) (1963); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965); Mission: Impossible (1966) [TV show 76 episodes] (1966-1969); Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (1988)✰; Hollywood Homicide (2003) (2003); 9 (2009) [voice] (2009); Frankenweenie (2012) [voice] (2012)

187. Dana Andrews

Actor | Laura

American leading man of the 1940s and 1950s, Dana Andrews was born Carver Dana Andrews on New Years Day 1909 on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. One of thirteen children, including fellow actor Steve Forrest, he was a son of Annis (Speed) and Charles Forrest Andrews, a ...

188. John Cassavetes

Actor | Rosemary's Baby

John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.

Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...

189. Alan Bates

Actor | Gosford Park

Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End debut in 1956, at 22...

Give It a Shot: Gosford Park (2001)

Other Notable Film(s): Gregory Girl (1966)✰; Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)✰; The Fixer (1968)✰

190. Anthony Perkins

Actor | Psycho

Anthony Perkins was born April 4, 1932 in New York City, to Janet Esselstyn (Rane) and Osgood Perkins, an actor of both stage and film. His father died when he was five. Anthony's paternal great-grandfather was engraver Andrew Varick Stout Anthony. Perkins attended the Brooks School, the Browne & ...

191. Paul Giamatti

Actor | Sideways

Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...

192. John Lithgow

Actor | The World According to Garp

If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. He was born in Rochester, New York, to Sarah Jane (Price), an actress, and Arthur Washington Lithgow III, who was both a theatrical producer and director. John's father was ...

Greats: All That Jazz (1979); Blow Out; Terms of Endearment (1983)★; Dexter [TV series]★

Shrek (voice)

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193. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

Greats: Do the Right Thing (1989) (1989); Goodfellas (1990) (1990); Jurassic Park (1993) (1993); Pulp Fiction (1994) (1994)★; Jackie Brown (1997) (1997)★; Out of Sight (1998) (1998); Unbreakable (2000) (2000); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) (2004); The Incredibles (2004) [voice] (2004)

Give It a Shot: Sea of Love (1989) (1989); Patriot Games (1992) (1992); True Romance (1993) (1993); Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) (1995); Hard Eight (1996); The Negotiator (1998) (1998); Changing Lanes (2002) (2002); Black Snake Moan (2006) (2006); Django Unchained (2012); The Hateful Eight (2015) (2015); Incredibles 2 (2018) [voice] (2019); Avengers: Endgame (2019) (2019)

Caution: Coming to America (1988) (1988); Amos & Andrew (1993) (1993); Menace II Society (1993) (1993); (1993); Fluke (1995) [voice] (1995); The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) (1996); Sphere (1998) (1998); xXx (2002) (2002); No Good Deed (2002) (2002); S.W.A.T. (2003) (2003); Coach Carter (2005) (2005); Snakes on a Plane (2006) (2006); Resurrecting the Champ (2007) (2007); The Other Guys (2010); The Avengers (2012); Captain Marvel (2019) (2019)

Flops: Deep Blue Sea (1999) (1999); xXx: State of the Union (2005) (2005); The Man (2005) (2005); 1408 (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Ragtime (1981) (1981); School Daze (1988) (1988); A Shock to the System (1990) (1990); Def by Temptation (1990) (1990); Betsy's Wedding (1990) (1990); Mo' Better Blues (1990) (1990); The Exorcist III (1990) (1990); Jungle Fever (1991) (1991)✰; Johnny Suede (1991) (1991); Strictly Business (1991) (1991); Fathers and Sons (1992) (1992); Juice (1992) (1992); White Sands (1992) (1992); Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (1993); Fresh (1994) (1994); The New Age (1994) (1994); Losing Isaiah (1995) (1995); Kiss of Death (1995) (1995); The Great White Hype (1996) (1996); Trees Lounge (1996) (1996); A Time to Kill (1996) (1996)✰; One Eight Seven (1997) (1997); Eve's Bayou (1997) (1997); Le violon rouge (1998) (1998); Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) (1999); Rules of Engagement (2000) (2000); Shaft (2000) (2000); The Caveman's Valentine (2001) (2001); Formula 51 (2001); Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (2002); Basic (2003) (2003); In My Country (2004); Twisted (2004) (2004); Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) (2005); Freedomland (2006) (2006); Home of the Brave (2006) (2006); Cleaner (2007) (2007)

194. Robert Downey Jr.

Actor | Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.

Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...

195. Jean Gabin

Actor | La grande illusion

Jean-Alexis Moncorgé started his career with 15 years at the theatre and debuted at the "Moulin Rouge" in Paris in 1929. Despite of his rude aspect he knew to be the gentleman of the French cinema in the time between the two World Wars. One of his most popular personalities was inspector Maigret. ...

Greats: The Grand Illusion (1937)

Other Notable Film(s): The Lower Depths (1936); Pépé le Moko (1937) (1937); La Bête Humaine (1938); Port of Shadows (1938); Daybreak (1939)

196. Anthony Quayle

Actor | Lawrence of Arabia

Anthony Quayle was born in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire, England in September 1913. He completed his education at Rugby School and had a brief spell at RADA, before treading the boards for the first time as the straight man in a music hall comedy act in 1931. Tall, burly, round-faced and ...

Greats: The Wrong Man (1956); The Guns of Navarone (1961); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Anne of Thousand Days (1969)★

Give It a Shot: Hamlet (1948)

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197. Raul Julia

Actor | Street Fighter

Raul Julia was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Olga Arcelay, a mezzo-soprano singer, and Raúl Juliá, an electrical engineer. He graduated from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan. Here he studied the rigorous classical curriculum of the Jesuits and was always active ...

198. John Garfield

Actor | Four Daughters

John Garfield was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle on the Lower East Side of New York City, to Hannah Basia (Margolis) and David Garfinkle, who were Jewish immigrants from Zhytomyr (now in Ukraine). Jules was raised by his father, a clothes presser and part-time cantor, after his mother's death in 1920,...

199. Don Ameche

Actor | Cocoon

Don Ameche was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film ...

Give It a Shot: Trading Places (1983); Cocoon (1985)✰; Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) [voice] (1993)

Other Notable Film(s): In Old Chicago (1937); Heaven Can Wait (1943)

200. Hugh Griffith

Actor | Ben-Hur

Enjoyably larger-than-life character actor Hugh Emrys Griffith was born in Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales, to Mary (Williams) and William Griffith. Griffith left the world of banking (having been employed as a teller) after winning a scholarship to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...

Greats: Ben-Hur (1959)★; Oliver! (1968)✰

Caution: Tom Jones (1963)✰

Other Notable Film(s): The Fixer (1968)✰



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