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...
Greats: Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) (1950)★; Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962)
Other Notable Film(s): Joan of Arc (1948) (1948)✰; Whirlpool (1950) (1949); Crisis (1950) (1950); Moulin Rouge (1952) (1952)✰; Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) (1953); The Caine Mutiny (1954) (1954); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965); Ship of Fools (1965) (1965); The Big Bus (1976) (1976); Voyage of the Damned (1976) (1976); The Sentinel (1977) (1977); The Swarm (1978) (1978); Fedora (1978) (1978); Battle Creek Brawl (1980) (1980); Bloody Birthday (1981) (1981); A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) (1982); To Be or Not to Be (1983) (1983); The Evil That Men Do (1984) (1984); Dune (1984) (1984)
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 ...
Greats: Dodsworth (1936) (1936)★; Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (1942)★; And Then There Were None (1945) (1945); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (1948)★
Other Notable Film(s): Abraham Lincoln (1930) (1930); American Madness (1932) (1932); Rain (1932) (1932); The Shanghai Gesture (1941) (1941); Swamp Water (1941) (1941); The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)✰; The North Star (1943) (1943); Edge of Darkness (1943) (1943); The Outlaw (1943) (1943); Dragon Seed (1944) (1944); Dragonwyck (1946) (1946); Duel in the Sun (1946) (1946); The Furies (1950) (1950)
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. ...
Greats: From Here to Eternity (1953) (1953)★; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) (1955)★; The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (1962)★
Give It a Shot: On the Town (1949) (1949); The Detective (1968) (1968)
Other Notable Film(s): Anchors Aweigh (1945) (1945); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) (1949); Suddenly (1954) (1954); Young at Heart (1954) (1954); The Tender Trap (1955) (1955); Not as a Stranger (1955) (1955); Guys and Dolls (1955) (1955); High Society (1956) (1956); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); The Pride and the Passion (1957) (1957); Pal Joey (1957) (1957)✰; The Joker Is Wild (1957) (1957); Kings Go Forth (1958) (1958); Some Came Running (1958) (1958); Never So Few (1959) (1959); A Hole in the Head (1959) (1959); Ocean's Eleven (1960) (1960); Can-Can (1960) (1960); The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) (1961); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (1963); 4 for Texas (1963) (1963); Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) (1964); Von Ryan's Express (1965) (1965); Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) (1966); Tony Rome (1967) (1967); Lady in Cement (1968) (1968); The First Deadly Sin (1980) (1980)
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 ...
Greats: Giant (1956) (1956)★
Give It a Shot: Pillow Talk (1959) (1959)
Other Notable Film(s): Winchester '73 (1950) (1950); Bend of the River (1952) (1952); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) (1952); Magnificent Obsession (1954) (1954); All That Heaven Allows (1955) (1955); Written on the Wind (1956) (1956); A Farewell to Arms (1957) (1957); The Tarnished Angels (1957) (1957); Seconds (1966) (1966); Lover Come Back (1961) (1961); Come September (1961) (1961); The Last Sunset (1961) (1961); Send Me No Flowers (1964) (1964); Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) (1964); Tobruk (1967) (1967); Ice Station Zebra (1968) (1968); The Undefeated (1969) (1969); Darling Lili (1970) (1970); McMillan & Wife (1971) [TV series] (1971-1977); The Mirror Crack'd (1980) (1980)
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...
Greats: Dodsworth (1936) (1936); Wuthering Heights (1939) (1939); The Guns of Navarone (1961) (1961)
Give It a Shot: The Bishop's Wife (1947) (1947); Separate Tables (1958) (1958)★
Caution: Murder by Death (1976) (1976)
Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)
Other Notable Film(s): The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (1936); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) (1937); Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) (1938); The Dawn Patrol (1938) (1938); Bachelor Mother (1939) (1939); Stairway to Heaven (1946); The Moon Is Blue (1953) (1953)✰; Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) (1960); 55 Days at Peking (1963) (1963); The Pink Panther (1963) (1963); The Brain (1969); Candleshoe (1977) (1977); Death on the Nile (1978) (1978); Escape to Athena (1979) (1979); The Sea Wolves (1980) (1980); Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) (1982); Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) (1983)
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 ...
Greats: Sweet Smell of Success (1957) (1957)★; The Defiant Ones (1958) (1958)★; Some Like It Hot (1959) (1959); Spartacus (1960) (1960)
Other Notable Film(s): Winchester '73 (1950) (1950); Houdini (1953) (1953); Trapeze (1956) (1956); The Vikings (1958) (1958); Kings Go Forth (1958) (1958); Operation Petticoat (1959) (1959); Taras Bulba (1962) (1962); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (1963); Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) (1963); Goodbye Charlie (1964) (1964); Sex and the Single Girl (1964) (1964); Boeing, Boeing (1965) (1965); The Great Race (1965) (1965); The Boston Strangler (1968) (1968)✰; The Last Tycoon (1976) (1976); Sextette (1977) (1978); The Manitou (1978) (1978); The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) (1978); The Mirror Crack'd (1980) (1980); Insignificance (1985) (1985); Naked in New York (1993) (1993); The Immortals (1995) (1995)
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 ...
Greats: Gone with the Wind (1939) (1939)★
Give It a Shot: 49th Parallel (1941) (1941)
Other Notable Film(s): Five and Ten (1931) (1931); A Free Soul (1931) (1931); Smilin' Through (1932) (1932); The Animal Kingdom (1932) (1932); Berkeley Square (1933) (1933)✰; The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (1934); Of Human Bondage (1934) (1934); The Petrified Forest (1936) (1936); Romeo and Juliet (1936) (1936); It's Love I'm After (1937) (1937); Stand-In (1937) (1937); Pygmalion (1938) (1938)✰; Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) (1939); 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941) (1941); The First of the Few (1942) (1942)
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 ...
Greats: Going My Way (1944) (1944)★; The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) (1945)★
Give It a Shot: White Christmas (1954) (1954)
Other Notable Film(s): Going Hollywood (1933) (1933); Road to Singapore (1940) (1940); Road to Zanzibar (1941) (1941); Holiday Inn (1942) (1942); Road to Morocco (1942) (1942); Road to Utopia (1945) (1946); Blue Skies (1946) (1946); Road to Rio (1947) (1947); The Emperor Waltz (1948) (1948); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) (1949); Here Comes the Groom (1951) (1951)✰; Road to Bali (1952) (1952); The Country Girl (1954) (1954)✰; High Society (1956) (1956); The Road to Hong Kong (1962) (1962); Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) (1964); Stagecoach (1966) (1966)
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 ...
Greats: The Champ (1931) (1931)★
Give It a Shot: Dinner at Eight (1933) (1933)
Other Notable Film(s): The Last of the Mohicans (1920) (1920); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) (1921); Robin Hood (1922) (1922); Three Ages (1923) (1923); The Lost World (1925) (1925); Beggars of Life (1928) (1928); Min and Bill (1930) (1930); The Big House (1930) (1930)✰; Grand Hotel (1932) (1932); Treasure Island (1934) (1934); Viva Villa! (1934) (1934)✰; China Seas (1935) (1935); A Date with Judy (1948) (1948)
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 ...
Greats: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) (1941)★
Give It a Shot: The Divorcee (1930) (1931)
Other Notable Film(s): Their Own Desire (1929) (1929); Free and Easy (1930) (1930); The Big House (1930) (1930); Private Lives (1931) (1931); Blondie of the Follies (1932) (1932); Forsaking All Others (1934) (1934); No More Ladies (1935) (1935); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) (1937); Night Must Fall (1937) (1937)✰; Ever Since Eve (1937) (1937); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) (1941); They Were Expendable (1945) (1945); Lady in the Lake (1946) (1947); Ride the Pink Horse (1947) (1947); June Bride (1948) (1948)
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 ...
Give It a Shot: A Double Life (1947) (1947)★
Other Notable Film(s): The White Sister (1923) (1923); Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) (1925); The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) (1926); Bulldog Drummond (1929) (1929)✰; Raffles (1930) (1930); Arrowsmith (1931) (1931); Cynara (1932) (1932); A Tale of Two Cities (1935) (1935); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) (1937); Lost Horizon (1937) (1937); If I Were King (1938) (1938); The Talk of the Town (1942) (1942); Random Harvest (1942) (1942)✰; Kismet (1944) (1944); Champagne for Caesar (1950) (1950); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); The Story of Mankind (1957) (1957)
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, ...
Greats: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (1962)
Give It a Shot: Darling (1965) (1965)
Other Notable Film(s): The Black Rose (1950) (1950); Room at the Top (1958) (1959)✰; The Alamo (1960) (1960); BUtterfield 8 (1960) (1960); Summer and Smoke (1961) (1961); Walk on the Wild Side (1962) (1962); The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) (1962)✰; The Outrage (1964) (1964); The Magic Christian (1969) (1969)
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. ...
Greats: The King's Speech (2010) (2010)★
Give It a Shot: Shine (1996) (1996)★; Shakespeare in Love (1998) (1998)★; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) (2003); Finding Nemo (2003) [voice] (2003); Munich (2005) (2005)
Caution: Intolerable Cruelty (2003) (2003); Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) (2007)
Other Notable Film(s): Children of the Revolution (1996) (1996); Children of the Revolution (1996) (1998); Elizabeth (1998) (1998); Mystery Men (1999) (1999); House on Haunted Hill (1999) (1999); Quills (2000) (2000)✰; The Tailor of Panama (2001) (2001); Lantana (2001) (2001); Frida (2002) (2002); The Banger Sisters (2002) (2002); Swimming Upstream (2003) (2003); Ned Kelly (2003) (2003); The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) (2004)✰; Candy (2006) (2006); Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) (2007); $9.99 (2008) (2008); Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) (2011); The Eye of the Storm (2011) (2011); The Best Offer (2013); The Book Thief (2013) (2013); The Daughter (2015) (2015); Holding the Man (2015) (2015); Gods of Egypt (2016) (2016); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) (2017)
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 ...
Greats: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (1961)★
Other Notable Film(s): The Young Lions (1958) (1958); Topkapi (1964) (1964); The Deadly Affair (1967) (1966); Krakatoa: East of Java (1968) (1969); The ODESSA File (1974) (1974); The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) (1975)✰; St. Ives (1976) (1976); Cross of Iron (1977) (1977); A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); Julia (1977) (1977)✰; The Black Hole (1979) (1979); The Freshman (1990) (1990); A Far Off Place (1993) (1993); Little Odessa (1994) (1994); Telling Lies in America (1997) (1997); The Eighteenth Angel (1997) (1998); Left Luggage (1998) (1998); Vampires (1998) (1998); Deep Impact (1998) (1998); The Brothers Bloom (2008) (2008)
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 ...
Greats: The Magnificent Seven (1960) (1960); The Great Escape (1963) (1963); Charade (1963) (1963); Affliction (1997) (1998*)★
Give It a Shot: Monsters, Inc. (2001) [voice] (2001)
Caution: The Nutty Professor (1996) (1996)
Flops: Hudson Hawk (1991) (1991); Deadfall (1993) (1993); Snow Dogs (2002) (2002)
Other Notable Film(s): Ride Lonesome (1959) (1959); Hell Is for Heroes (1962) (1962); The Americanization of Emily (1964) (1964); Major Dundee (1965) (1965); A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) (1965); The Loved One (1965) (1965); Our Man Flint (1966) (1966); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) (1966); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) (1966); In Like Flint (1967) (1967); Waterhole #3 (1967) (1967); The President's Analyst (1967) (1967); Candy (1968) (1968); Duck, You Sucker (1971); The Carey Treatment (1972) (1972); A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972); Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) (1973); The Last of Sheila (1973) (1973); Bite the Bullet (1975) (1975); Hard Times (1975) (1975); The Last Hard Men (1976) (1976); Midway (1976) (1976); Cross of Iron (1977) (1977); The Muppet Movie (1979) (1979); Looker (1981) (1981); Young Guns II (1990) (1990); Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) (1993); Maverick (1994) (1994); Eraser (1996) (1996); Keys to Tulsa (1997) (1996); The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) (2001); American Gun (2002) (2002)
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 ...
Greats: Sullivan's Travels (1941) (1941); The More the Merrier (1943) (1943)
Give It a Shot: The Palm Beach Story (1942) (1942)
Other Notable Film(s): The Most Dangerous Game (1932) (1932); The Richest Girl in the World (1934) (1934); Barbary Coast (1935) (1935); Come and Get It (1936) (1936); These Three (1936) (1936); Dead End (1937) (1937); Union Pacific (1939) (1939); Foreign Correspondent (1940) (1940); Primrose Path (1940) (1940); The Great Moment (1944) (1944); Colorado Territory (1949) (1949); Stars in My Crown (1950) (1950); Ride the High Country (1962) (1962)
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), ...
Greats: The Magnificent Seven (1960) (1960); The Great Escape (1963) (1963); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)★
Other Notable Film(s): House of Wax (1953) (1953); Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) (1953); Crime Wave (1953) (1954); Apache (1954) (1954); Vera Cruz (1954) (1954); Jubal (1956) (1956); Run of the Arrow (1957) (1957); Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) (1958); Never So Few (1959) (1959); Master of the World (1961) (1961); Kid Galahad (1962) (1962); 4 for Texas (1963) (1963); The Sandpiper (1965) (1965); Battle of the Bulge (1965) (1965); This Property Is Condemned (1966) (1966); The Dirty Dozen (1967) (1967); Guns for San Sebastian (1968); Farewell, Friend (1968); Rider on the Rain (1970); The Family (1970); Red Sun (1971); The Valachi Papers (1972) (1972); Chato's Land (1972) (1972); The Mechanic (1972) (1972); The Stone Killer (1973) (1973); Mr. Majestyk (1974) (1974); Death Wish (1974) (1974); Breakout (1975) (1975); Hard Times (1975) (1975); Breakheart Pass (1975) (1975); St. Ives (1976) (1976); From Noon Till Three (1976) (1976); The White Buffalo (1977) (1977); Telefon (1977) (1977); Death Hunt (1981) (1981); Death Wish II (1982) (1982); 10 to Midnight (1983) (1983); The Evil That Men Do (1984) (1984); Death Wish 3 (1985) (1985); Murphy's Law (1986) (1986); Assassination (1987) (1987); Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) (1987); Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989) (1989); The Indian Runner (1991) (1991); Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994) (1994)
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.
Greats: The Lady Eve (1941) (1941); The More the Merrier (1943) (1943)★
Give It a Shot: Monkey Business (1952) (1952)
Other Notable Film(s): Vivacious Lady (1938) (1938); Made for Each Other (1939) (1939); Stanley and Livingstone (1939) (1939); In Name Only (1939) (1939); Bachelor Mother (1939) (1939); Road to Singapore (1940) (1940); Edison, the Man (1940) (1940); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) (1941)✰; George Washington Slept Here (1942) (1942); In This Our Life (1942) (1942); Kings Row (1942) (1942); The Constant Nymph (1943) (1943); Heaven Can Wait (1943) (1943); Princess O'Rourke (1943) (1943); Wilson (1944) (1944); The Green Years (1946) (1946)✰; Lured (1947) (1947); The Paradine Case (1947) (1947); Impact (1949) (1949); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) (1952); Trouble Along the Way (1953) (1953); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (1953); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956)
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 ...
Greats: Shane (1953) (1953)★; The Big Knife (1955) (1955)★; Contempt (1963)
Give It a Shot: Batman (1989) (1989)
Other Notable Film(s): Panic in the Streets (1950) (1950); Halls of Montezuma (1951) (1950); Sudden Fear (1952) (1952)✰; Arrowhead (1953) (1953); Man in the Attic (1953) (1953); The Silver Chalice (1954) (1954); Attack (1956) (1956); Barabbas (1961) (1961); Once a Thief (1965) (1965); The Professionals (1966) (1966); Il mercenario (1968) (1968); Monte Walsh (1970) (1970); Chato's Land (1972) (1972); Angels' Brigade (1979) (1979); Hawk the Slayer (1980) (1980); Without Warning (1980) (1980); Alone in the Dark (1982) (1982); Alone in the Dark (1982) (1982); Bagdad Cafe (1987); Gor (1987) (1987); Young Guns (1988) (1988); Tango & Cash (1989) (1989); Outlaw of Gor (1988) (1989); Solar Crisis (1990) (1990); City Slickers (1991) (1991)✰; Cops and Robbersons (1994) (1994); The Swan Princess (1994) [voice] (1994); City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) (1994)
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...
Greats: Sounder (1972) (1972)★; White Dog (1982) (1982)★; The Terminator (1984) (1984)
Caution: Cliffhanger (1993) (1993); Mars Attacks! (1996) (1996)
Other Notable Film(s): Hustle (1975) (1975); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) (1977); Damnation Alley (1977) (1977); Carbon Copy (1981) (1981); Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (1988); Presumed Innocent (1990) (1990); Dennis the Menace (1993) (1993); Relax... It's Just Sex (1998) (1998)
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 ...
Greats: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (2001)★; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (2003)
Give It a Shot: X-Men (2000) (2000); X2 (2003) (2003); X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) (2014)
Caution: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) (2006)
Flops: Last Action Hero (1993) (1993)
Other Notable Film(s): The Keep (1983) (1983); Plenty (1985) (1985); Scandal (1989) (1989); Six Degrees of Separation (1993) (1993); The Shadow (1994) (1994); Richard III (1995) (1995)✰; Restoration (1995) (1995); Bent (1997) (1997); Swept from the Sea (1997) (1997); Apt Pupil (1998) (1998); Gods and Monsters (1998) (1998)✰; The Da Vinci Code (2006) (2006); Flushed Away (2006) [voice] (2006); The Golden Compass (2007) [voice] (2007); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) (2012); The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) (2013); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) (2014); Mr. Holmes (2015) (2015); Animal Crackers (2017) [voice] (2016); Beauty and the Beast (2017) (2017)
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.
Greats: The Wages of Fear (1953)
Give It a Shot: Grand Prix (1966) (1966)
Other Notable Film(s): Gates of the Night (1946); The Wide Blue Road (1957); The Law (1959); Let's Make Love (1960) (1960)✰; Goodbye Again (1961) (1961); My Geisha (1962) (1962); The Sleeping Car Murder (1965); The War Is Over (1966); Is Paris Burning? (1966); Vivre pour vivre (1967) (1967); The Devil by the Tail (1969); Z (1969) (1969); The Confession (1970); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) (1970); Le Cercle Rouge (1970); Delusions of Grandeur (1971); Tout va bien (1972) (1972); César and Rosalie (1972); State of Siege (1972); Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974); Le Sauvage (1975); Police Python 357 (1976) (1976); Womanlight (1979); I as in Icarus (1979); Choice of Arms (1981); Jean de Florette (1986) (1986)✰; Manon of the Spring (1986)
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 ...
Greats: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (1955); Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) (1959); The Wild Bunch (1969) (1969)
Other Notable Film(s): The Woman on the Beach (1947) (1947); Crossfire (1947) (1947)✰; Berlin Express (1948) (1948); The Boy with Green Hair (1948) (1948); Act of Violence (1948) (1948); The Set-Up (1949) (1949); Caught (1949) (1949); Born to Be Bad (1950) (1950); The Racket (1951) (1951); Flying Leathernecks (1951) (1951); Clash by Night (1952) (1952); On Dangerous Ground (1951) (1952); The Naked Spur (1953) (1953); The Tall Men (1955) (1955); House of Bamboo (1955) (1955); Men in War (1957) (1957); Day of the Outlaw (1959) (1959); King of Kings (1961) (1961); The Longest Day (1962) (1962); Battle of the Bulge (1965) (1965); Billy Budd (1962) (1966); The Professionals (1966) (1966); The Dirty Dozen (1967) (1967); Hour of the Gun (1967) (1967); Anzio (1968); Lawman (1971) (1971); The Outfit (1973) (1973); The Iceman Cometh (1973) (1973)
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"....
Greats: Raging Bull (1980) (1980)★; Once Upon a Time in America (1984); Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) (1989); Goodfellas (1990) (1990)★; JFK (1991) (1991)★; A Bronx Tale (1993) (1993); Casino (1995) (1995)★; The Irishman (2019)★
Give It a Shot: Home Alone (1990) (1990); My Cousin Vinny (1992) (1992); Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) (1992)
Caution: The Good Shepherd (2006) (2006)
Flops: 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) (1997)
Other Notable Film(s): The Death Collector (1976) (1976); Eureka (1983) (1983); Easy Money (1983) (1983); Man on Fire (1987) (1987); Moonwalker (1988) (1988); Betsy's Wedding (1990) (1990); The Super (1991) (1991); Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) (1992); The Public Eye (1992) (1992); Jimmy Hollywood (1994) (1994); With Honors (1994) (1994); Gone Fishin' (1997) (1997); Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) (1998); Love Ranch (2010) (2010)
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...
Greats: Gilda (1946) (1946)★
Give It a Shot: Superman (1978) (1978)
Other Notable Film(s): A Stolen Life (1946) (1946); Affair in Trinidad (1952) (1952); The Big Heat (1953) (1953); Human Desire (1954) (1954); Blackboard Jungle (1955) (1955); Interrupted Melody (1955) (1955); The Violent Men (1955) (1955); The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) (1956); The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) (1956); Jubal (1956) (1956); 3:10 to Yuma (1957) (1957)✰; Torpedo Run (1958) (1958); The Sheepman (1958) (1958); Cowboy (1958) (1958); The Gazebo (1959) (1959); Cimarron (1960) (1960); Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (1961); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) (1962); Experiment in Terror (1962) (1962); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) (1963); Fate Is the Hunter (1964) (1964); Is Paris Burning? (1966); Midway (1976) (1976); Happy Birthday to Me (1981) (1981)
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, ...
Greats: Spartacus (1960) (1960)★; Robin Hood (1973) [voice] (1973)
Flops: The Bachelor (1999) (1999)
Other Notable Film(s): One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) (1942); The Way Ahead (1944) (1944); Quo Vadis (1951) (1951)✰; The Magic Box (1951) (1951); The Egyptian (1954) (1954); Beau Brummell (1954) (1954); We're No Angels (1955) (1955); Lola Montès (1955) (1955); The Sundowners (1960) (1960); Billy Budd (1962) (1962); Topkapi (1964) (1964)✰; The Comedians (1967) (1967); Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) (1968); Hot Millions (1968) (1968); One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) (1975); Logan's Run (1976) (1976); The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) (1977); Death on the Nile (1978) (1978); Ashanti (1979) (1979); The Great Muppet Caper (1981) (1981); Evil Under the Sun (1982) (1982); Appointment with Death (1988) (1988); Lorenzo's Oil (1992) (1992); Luther (2003) (2003)
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...
Greats: From Russia with Love (1963) (1963); A Man for All Seasons (1966) (1966)★; The Sting (1973) (1973); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) (1974); Jaws (1975) (1975)★
Other Notable Film(s): The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (1951); The Dam Busters (1955) (1955); The Caretaker (1963) (1963); Battle of the Bulge (1965) (1965); Custer of the West (1967) (1967); The Birthday Party (1968) (1968); Battle of Britain (1969) (1969); Young Winston (1972) (1972); Robin and Marian (1976) (1976); Swashbuckler (1976) (1976); Black Sunday (1977) (1977); The Deep (1977) (1977); Force 10 from Navarone (1978) (1978); Avalanche Express (1979) (1979)
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 ...
Greats: Witness (1985) (1985); Carlito's Way (1993) (1993); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (2001); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (2003); A History of Violence (2005) (2005)★; Eastern Promises (2007) (2007)★
Give It a Shot: Crimson Tide (1995) (1995); A Dangerous Method (2011) (2011)★; Captain Fantastic (2016) (2016)★
Caution: Albino Alligator (1996) (1996); A Perfect Murder (1998) (1998)
Other Notable Film(s): Prison (1987) (1988); Fresh Horses (1988) (1988); Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) (1990); The Reflecting Skin (1990) (1990); Young Guns II (1990) (1990); The Indian Runner (1991) (1991); Boiling Point (1993) (1993); Ruby Cairo (1992) (1993); The Young Americans (1993) (1993); American Yakuza (1993) (1993); Floundering (1994) (1994); The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) (1995); The Prophecy (1995) (1995); The Portrait of a Lady (1996) (1996); Daylight (1996) (1996); G.I. Jane (1997) (1997); Psycho (1998) (1998); A Walk on the Moon (1999) (1999); 28 Days (2000) (2000); Hidalgo (2004) (2004); Alatriste (2006) (2006); Appaloosa (2008) (2008); Good (2008) (2008); The Road (2009) (2009)✰; On the Road (2012) (2012); The Two Faces of January (2014) (2014); Jauja (2014) (2014); Far from Men (2014)
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...
Greats: On the Town (1949) (1949); An American in Paris (1951) (1951)✰; Singin' in the Rain (1952) (1952); Inherit the Wind (1960) (1960)
Other Notable Film(s): For Me and My Gal (1942) (1942); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) (1943); Thousands Cheer (1943) (1943); The Cross of Lorraine (1943) (1943); Cover Girl (1944) (1944); Christmas Holiday (1944) (1944); Anchors Aweigh (1945) (1945)✰; Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (1945); The Pirate (1948) (1948); The Three Musketeers (1948) (1948); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) (1949); Summer Stock (1950) (1950); Brigadoon (1954) (1954); It's Always Fair Weather (1955) (1955); Les Girls (1957) (1957); Marjorie Morningstar (1958) (1958); What a Way to Go! (1964) (1964); The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967); Xanadu (1980) (1980)
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 ...
Greats: Double Indemnity (1944) (1944)★; The Apartment (1960) (1960)
Other Notable Film(s): Alice Adams (1935) (1935); Hands Across the Table (1935) (1935); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) (1936); True Confession (1937) (1937); Remember the Night (1939) (1940); Dive Bomber (1941) (1941); Above Suspicion (1943) (1943); Murder, He Says (1945) (1945); The Egg and I (1947) (1947); The Caine Mutiny (1954) (1954); Pushover (1954) (1954); There's Always Tomorrow (1956) (1956); The Shaggy Dog (1959) (1959); The Absent Minded Professor (1961) (1961)✰; Son of Flubber (1962) (1963); Follow Me, Boys! (1966) (1966); The Happiest Millionaire (1967) (1967); The Swarm (1978) (1978)
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 ...
Greats: The 39 Steps (1935) (1935)
Other Notable Film(s): The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (1933); The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) (1934); The Ghost Goes West (1935) (1935); Knight Without Armour (1937) (1937); The Citadel (1938) (1938)✰; Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) (1939)✰; The Adventures of Tartu (1943) (1943); The Winslow Boy (1948) (1948); The Magic Box (1951) (1951); The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) (1958)✰
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 ...
Give It a Shot: The Great Ziegfeld (1936) (1936)
Other Notable Film(s): The Last Command (1928) (1928); The Kennel Murder Case (1933) (1933); Manhattan Melodrama (1934) (1934); The Thin Man (1934) (1934)✰; My Man Godfrey (1936) (1936)✰; After the Thin Man (1936) (1936); Libeled Lady (1936) (1936); Double Wedding (1937) (1937); After the Thin Man (1936) (1939); Another Thin Man (1939) (1939); I Love You Again (1940) (1940); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) (1941); Love Crazy (1941) (1941); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944) (1945); Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (1945); Life with Father (1947) (1947)✰; Song of the Thin Man (1947) (1947); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) (1953); Mister Roberts (1955) (1955)
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 ...
Greats: Fury (1936) (1936); Meet John Doe (1941) (1941); The Pride of the Yankees (1942) (1942); Sergeant York (1941) (1941)★; My Darling Clementine (1946) (1946); Red River (1948) (1948); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (1955); Rio Bravo (1959) (1959)
Other Notable Film(s): Barbary Coast (1935) (1935); Come and Get It (1936) (1936)✰; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) (1938); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) (1938); Kentucky (1938) (1938)✰; The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) (1939); Stanley and Livingstone (1939) (1939); 'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) (1940) (1940); The Westerner (1940) (1940)✰; Swamp Water (1941) (1941); The North Star (1943) (1943); Slightly Dangerous (1943) (1943); Hangmen Also Die! (1943) (1943); To Have and Have Not (1944) (1944); The Princess and the Pirate (1944) (1944); A Stolen Life (1946) (1946); Blood on the Moon (1948) (1948); Task Force (1949) (1949); Along the Great Divide (1951) (1951); The Far Country (1954) (1954); Drums Across the River (1954) (1954); Good-bye, My Lady (1956) (1956); The Proud Ones (1956) (1956); Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) (1957); How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); Those Calloways (1965) (1965); The Oscar (1966) (1966); The Gnome-Mobile (1967) (1967); Who's Minding the Mint? (1967) (1967); The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) (1968); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) (1969)
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 ...
Greats: Thelma & Louise (1991) (1991); Se7en (1995) (1995); 12 Monkeys (1995) (1995)★; Fight Club (1999) (1999); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) (2008)★; Inglourious Basterds (2009) (2009); Moneyball (2011) (2011)★; 12 Years a Slave (2013) (2013); The Big Short (2015)
Give It a Shot: A River Runs Through It (1992) (1992); True Romance (1993) (1993); Sleepers (1996) (1996); Snatch (2000) (2000); Ocean's Eleven (2001) (2001); Troy (2004) (2004); Ocean's Twelve (2004) (2004); Babel (2006) (2006)★; Ocean's Thirteen (2007) (2007); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) (2007); The Tree of Life (2011) (2011)★; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)★
Caution: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) (1994); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) (2005); Burn After Reading (2008) (2008); Killing Them Softly (2012) (2012)
Other Notable Film(s): The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) (1988); Cutting Class (1989) (1989); Across the Tracks (1990) (1991); Johnny Suede (1991) (1991); Cool World (1992) (1992); Kalifornia (1993) (1992); The Favor (1994) (1994); Legends of the Fall (1994) (1994); The Devil's Own (1997) (1997); Seven Years in Tibet (1997) (1997); Meet Joe Black (1998) (1998); The Mexican (2001) (2001); Spy Game (2001) (2001); World War Z (2013) (2013); Fury (2014); By the Sea (2015); Allied (2016); War Machine (2017); Ad Astra (2019)
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 ...
Greats: Monster's Ball (2001) (2001); Brokeback Mountain (2005) (2005)★
Give It a Shot: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) (1999); The Dark Knight (2008) (2008)★
Caution: I'm Not There (2007) (2007)
Other Notable Film(s): Two Hands (1999) (1999); The Patriot (2000) (2000); A Knight's Tale (2001) (2001); The Four Feathers (2002) (2002); Ned Kelly (2003) (2003); The Order (2003) (2003); Lords of Dogtown (2005) (2005); The Brothers Grimm (2005) (2005); Casanova (2005) (2005); Candy (2006) (2006); The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (2009)
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 ...
Greats: Out of Sight (1998) (1998); The Thin Red Line (1998) (1998); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) [voice] (2009); The Descendants (2011) (2011)★
Give It a Shot: Three Kings (1999) (1999); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) (2000)✰; The Perfect Storm (2000) (2000); Ocean's Eleven (2001) (2001); Ocean's Twelve (2004) (2004); Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) (2005); Ocean's Thirteen (2007) (2007); Michael Clayton (2007) (2007)★; Up in the Air (2009) (2009)★; The Ides of March (2011) (2011); Gravity (2013) (2013)
Caution: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (1996); The Peacemaker (1997) (1997); Spy Kids (2001) (2001); Intolerable Cruelty (2003) (2003); Burn After Reading (2008) (2008); The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) (2009)
Flops: Batman & Robin (1997) (1997)
Other Notable Film(s): Return to Horror High (1987) (1987); Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988) (1988); One Fine Day (1996) (1996); South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) [voice] (1999); Welcome to Collinwood (2002) (2002); Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) (2002); Solaris (2002) (2002); Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003) (2003); Syriana (2005) (2005)✰; The Good German (2006) (2006); Leatherheads (2008) (2008); The American (2010) (2010); The Monuments Men (2014) (2014)
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, ...
Greats: Blue Valentine (2010) (2010)★; Drive (2011) (2011); The Big Short (2015) (2015); La La Land (2016) (2016)★
Give It a Shot: Remember the Titans (2000) (2000); The Notebook (2004) (2004); Half Nelson (2006) (2006)★; Lars and the Real Girl (2007) (2007)★; Fracture (2007) (2007); The Ides of March (2011) (2011); Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) (2011)★; The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) (2012); The Nice Guys (2016) (2016); Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (2017)
Other Notable Film(s): The Believer (2001) (2001); The Slaughter Rule (2002) (2002); Murder by Numbers (2002) (2002); The United States of Leland (2003) (2003); Stay (2005) (2005); All Good Things (2010) (2010); Gangster Squad (2013) (2013); Only God Forgives (2013) (2013); Song to Song (2017) (2017)
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).
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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 ...
Greats: Silver Linings Playbook (2012) (2012)★; American Hustle (2013) (2013)★; American Sniper (2014) (2014)★
Give It a Shot: The Hangover (2009) (2009); The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) (2012); Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) [voice] (2014); Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 2 [voice] (2017);
Caution: Wedding Crashers (2005) (2005); Failure to Launch (2006) (2006); Joy (2015)
Other Notable Film(s): Wet Hot American Summer (2001) (2001); My Little Eye (2002) (2002); Bending All the Rules (2002) (2002); Touching Evil (2004) [TV series] (2004); Jack & Bobby (2004) [TV series] (2004-2005); Kitchen Confidential (2005) [TV series] (2005-2006); Alias (2001) [TV series] (2001-2006); The Comebacks (2007) (2007); The Rocker (2008) (2008); The Midnight Meat Train (2008) (2008); New York, I Love You (2008) (2008); Yes Man (2008) (2008); He's Just Not That Into You (2009) (2009); Nip/Tuck (2003) [TV series] (2007-2009); Case 39 (2009) (2009); All About Steve (2009) (2009); Valentine's Day (2010) (2010); The A-Team (2010) (2010); The Hangover Part II (2011) (2011); Limitless (2011) (2011); The Words (2012) (2012); Hit and Run (2012) (2012); The Hangover Part III (2013) (2013); Serena (2014) (2014); Aloha (2015) (2015); Burnt (2015) (2015)
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 ...
Greats: Jaws (1975) (1975); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (1977); The Goodbye Girl (1977) (1977)★
Give It a Shot: Stand by Me (1986) (1986); What About Bob? (1991) (1991); RED (2010) (2010)
Caution: James and the Giant Peach (1996) (1996); W. (2008) (2008); Piranha 3D (2010) (2010)
Other Notable Film(s): Dillinger (1973) (1973); American Graffiti (1973) (1973)✰; Inserts (1975) (1974); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) (1974); The Big Fix (1978) (1978); The Competition (1980) (1980); Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) (1981); Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) (1986); Tin Men (1987) (1987); Stakeout (1987) (1987); Nuts (1987) (1987)✰; Moon Over Parador (1988) (1988); Let It Ride (1989) (1989); Always (1989) (1989); Postcards from the Edge (1990) (1990); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) (1990); Once Around (1991) (1991); Lost in Yonkers (1993) (1993); Another Stakeout (1993) (1993); Silent Fall (1994) (1994); The American President (1995) (1995); Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) (1995)✰; Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) (1996); Mad Dog Time (1996) (1996); Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) (1998); The Crew (2000) (2000); Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) (2001); Silver City (2004) (2004); Poseidon (2006) (2006); My Life in Ruins (2009) (2009); Leaves of Grass (2009) (2009); Very Good Girls (2013) (2013); Paranoia (2013) (2013); Zipper (2015) (2015); Madoff (2016) [TV movie] (2016); Killing Winston Jones (2016)
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 ...
Greats: Inglourious Basterds (2009) (2009); 12 Years a Slave (2013) (2013)★; Steve Jobs (2015) (2015)★
Give It a Shot: Hunger (2008) (2008); X: First Class (2011) (2011); Shame (2011) (2011)★; A Dangerous Method (2011) (2011); X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) (2014); Frank (2014) (2014)
Caution: 300 (2006) (2006); Prometheus (2012) (2012)
Flops: Assassin's Creed (2016) (2016)
Other Notable Film(s): Angel (2007) (2007); Eden Lake (2008) (2008); Blood Creek (2009); Fish Tank (2009) (2009); Centurion (2010) (2010); Jonah Hex (2010) (2010); Jane Eyre (2011) (2011); Haywire (2011) (2011); The Counselor (2013) (2013); Slow West (2015) (2015); Macbeth (2015) (2015); Song to Song (2017) (2016); Trespass Against Us (2016) (2016); The Light Between Oceans (2016) (2016); X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) (2016)
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 ...
Greats: The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) (1996)★; Fight Club (1999) (1999)★; Moonrise Kingdom (2012) (2012); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (2014); Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) (2014)★
Give It a Shot: Primal Fear (1996) (1997)★; American History X (1998) (1998)★; Red Dragon (2002) (2002); 25th Hour (2002) (2002); The Italian Job (2003) (2003)
Caution: The Score (2001) (2001); The Incredible Hulk (2008) (2008); The Bourne Legacy (2012) (2012)
Other Notable Film(s): Everyone Says I Love You (1996) (1996); Rounders (1998) (1998); Keeping the Faith (2000) (2000); Death to Smoochy (2002) (2002); Frida (2002) (2002); Kingdom of Heaven (2005) (2005); Down in the Valley (2005) (2005); The Illusionist (2006) (2006); The Painted Veil (2006) (2006); Pride and Glory (2008) (2008); The Invention of Lying (2009) (2009); Leaves of Grass (2009) (2009); Stone (2010) (2010)
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...
Greats: Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (1966)
Other Notable Film(s): Decision Before Dawn (1951) (1951); Lola Montès (1955) (1955); Jules and Jim (1962); Ship of Fools (1965) (1965)✰; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) (1965)✰; The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) (1968); Voyage of the Damned (1976) (1976)✰
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 ...
Greats: Captain Blood (1935) (1935)★
Other Notable Film(s): The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (1936); The Prince and the Pauper (1937) (1937); Four's a Crowd (1938) (1938); The Sisters (1938) (1938); The Dawn Patrol (1938) (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (1938); Dodge City (1939) (1939); Essex and Elizabeth (1939); Virginia City (1940) (1940); Santa Fe Trail (1940) (1940); Dive Bomber (1941) (1941); They Died with Their Boots On (1941) (1941); The Sea Hawk (1940) (1940); Desperate Journey (1942) (1942); Gentleman Jim (1942) (1942); Edge of Darkness (1943) (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) (1943); Uncertain Glory (1944) (1944); San Antonio (1945) (1945); Objective, Burma! (1945) (1945); Silver River (1948) (1948); Adventures of Don Juan (1948) (1948); It's a Great Feeling (1949) (1949); Montana (1950) (1950); Kim (1950) (1950); Against All Flags (1952) (1952); The Master of Ballantrae (1953) (1953); The Sun Also Rises (1957) (1957)
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...
Greats: The English Patient (1996) (1996); The King's Speech (2010) (2010)★
Give It a Shot: Shakespeare in Love (1998) (1998); Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) (2001); Love Actually (2003) (2003); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) (2011); Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) (2014)
Flops: Mamma Mia! (2008) (2008); A Christmas Carol (2009) [voice] (2009)
Other Notable Film(s): Another Country (1984) (1984); Apartment Zero (1988) (1988); Valmont (1989) (1989); Circle of Friends (1995) (1995); Fever Pitch (1997) (1997); A Thousand Acres (1997) (1997); The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (2002); Hope Springs (2003) (2003); What a Girl Wants (2003) (2003); Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) (2003); Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) (2004); Where the Truth Lies (2005) (2005); Nanny McPhee (2005) (2005); The Last Legion (2007) (2007); Then She Found Me (2007) (2007); St. Trinian's (2007) (2007); The Accidental Husband (2008) (2008); Easy Virtue (2008) (2008); Genova (2008) (2008); Dorian Gray (2009) (2009); St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) (2009); A Single Man (2009) (2009)✰; Main Street (2010) (2010); Gambit (2012) (2012); Arthur Newman (2012) (2013*); Devil's Knot (2013) (2013); The Railway Man (2013) (2013); Before I Go to Sleep (2014) (2014); Magic in the Moonlight (2014) (2014); Paddington (2014) (2014)
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...
Greats: Boogie Nights (1997) (1997); Out of Sight (1998) (1998); Traffic (2000) (2000); Hotel Rwanda (2004) (2004)★; Crash (2004) (2005*)
Give It a Shot: Ocean's Eleven (2001) (2001); Ocean's Twelve (2004) (2004); Ocean's Thirteen (2007) (2007); Reign Over Me (2007) (2007); Flight (2012) (2012)
Caution: Volcano (1997) (1997); The Family Man (2000) (2000); Swordfish (2001) (2001); Rush Hour 2 (2001) (2001); Iron Man 3 (2013)
Other Notable Film(s): Moving Violations (1985) (1985); Hamburger Hill (1987) (1987); Colors (1988) (1988); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) (1995); Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) (1995); Rosewood (1997) (1997); Bulworth (1998) (1998); Mission to Mars (2000) (2000); Manic (2001) (2001); The United States of Leland (2003) (2003); The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) (2004); After the Sunset (2004) (2004); Talk to Me (2007) (2007); Traitor (2008) (2008); Brooklyn's Finest (2009) (2009); Iron Man 2 (2010) (2010); The Guard (2011) (2011);
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. ...
Greats: Top Hat (1935) (1935); Swing Time (1936) (1936)
Give It a Shot: The Towering Inferno (1974) (1974)★
Other Notable Film(s): Flying Down to Rio (1933) (1933); The Gay Divorcee (1934) (1934); Roberta (1935) (1935); Follow the Fleet (1936) (1936); Shall We Dance (1937) (1937); A Damsel in Distress (1937) (1937); Carefree (1938) (1938); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) (1939); Second Chorus (1940) (1940); Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) (1940); You'll Never Get Rich (1941) (1941); Holiday Inn (1942) (1942); You Were Never Lovelier (1942) (1942); The Sky's the Limit (1943) (1943); Yolanda and the Thief (1945) (1945); Blue Skies (1946) (1946); Easter Parade (1948) (1948); The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) (1949); Three Little Words (1950) (1950)✰; Let's Dance (1950) (1950); Royal Wedding (1951) (1951); The Belle of New York (1952) (1952); The Band Wagon (1953) (1953); Daddy Long Legs (1955) (1955); Funny Face (1957) (1957); Silk Stockings (1957) (1957); On the Beach (1959) (1959)✰; The Pleasure of His Company (1961) (1961)✰; The Notorious Landlady (1962) (1962); Finian's Rainbow (1968) (1968)✰; Ghost Story (1981) (1981)
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 ...
Greats: American Beauty (1999) (1999)★; Adaptation. (2002) (2002)★; Capote (2005) (2005)
Give It a Shot: Lone Star (1996) (1996); The Bourne Identity (2002) (2002); Breach (2007) (2007)★; The Town (2010) (2010)
Caution: Guilty by Suspicion (1991) (1991); Me, Myself & Irene (2000) (2000); Jarhead (2005) (2005); The Kingdom (2007) (2007)
Other Notable Film(s): Matewan (1987) (1987); City of Hope (1991) (1991); This Boy's Life (1993) (1993); Money Train (1995) (1995); Boys (1996) (1996); A Time to Kill (1996) (1996); Breast Men (1997) (1997); Great Expectations (1998) (1998); The Horse Whisperer (1998) (1998); October Sky (1999) (1999); The Patriot (2000) (2000); Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) (2002); Seabiscuit (2003) (2003); Silver City (2004) (2004); Syriana (2005) (2005); Married Life (2007) (2007); New York, I Love You (2008) (2009); Where the Wild Things Are (2009) [voice] (2009); Remember Me (2010) (2010); The Tempest (2010) (2010); The Muppets (2011) (2011); The Company You Keep (2012) (2012)
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 ...
Greats: Affliction (1997) (1998*)★; The Thin Red Line (1998) (1998); Hotel Rwanda (2004) (2004)
Give It a Shot: 48 Hrs. (1982) (1982); Cape Fear (1991) (1991); Tropic Thunder (2008) (2008)
Caution: Peaceful Warrior (2006) (2006)
Flops: Hulk (2003) (2003)
Other Notable Film(s): Return to Macon County (1975) (1975); The Deep (1977) (1977); Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) (1978); Extreme Prejudice (1987) (1987); Weeds (1987) (1987)✰; Another 48 Hrs. (1990) (1990); The Prince of Tides (1991) (1991)✰; Lorenzo's Oil (1992) (1992); Blue Chips (1994) (1994); U Turn (1997) (1997); The Good Thief (2002) (2002); Warrior (2011) (2011)✰; Gangster Squad (2013) (2013)
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 ...
Greats: Night Moves (1975) (1975); Once Upon a Time in America (1984) (1984); Salvador (1986) (1986)★; Casino (1995) (1995)
Give It a Shot: Videodrome (1983) (1983); Chaplin (1992) (1992); The Virgin Suicides (1999) (1999); True Crime (1999) (1999)
Caution: Hercules (1997) [voice] (1997); Any Given Sunday (1999) (1999); John Q (2002) (2002); Be Cool (2005) (2005)
Flops: Scary Movie 2 (2001) (2001)
Other Notable Film(s): The Visitors (1972) (1972); The Way We Were (1973) (1973); The Gambler (1974) (1974); The Choirboys (1977) (1977); The Onion Field (1979) (1979)✰; Eyewitness (1981) (1981); Against All Odds (1984) (1984); Cat's Eye (1985) (1985); Best Seller (1987) (1987); Cop (1988) (1988); The Boost (1988) (1988); True Believer (1989) (1989); Immediate Family (1989) (1989); The Hard Way (1991) (1991); Straight Talk (1992) (1992); Diggstown (1992) (1992); The Getaway (1994) (1994); Curse of the Starving Class (1994) (1994); The Specialist (1994) (1994); Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995) (1995); Nixon (1995) (1995); Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) (1996)✰; Contact (1997) (1997); Vampires (1998) (1998); Another Day in Paradise (1998) (1998); The General's Daughter (1999) (1999); Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) [voice] (2001); Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) (2001); End Game (2006) (2006); Surf's Up (2007) [voice] (2007); An American Carol (2008) (2008); Straw Dogs (2011) (2011); Officer Down (2013) (2013); Jobs (2013) (2013)
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 ...
Give It a Shot: Dinner at Eight (1933) (1933)
Other Notable Film(s): Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) (1920); Don Juan (1926) (1926); The Beloved Rogue (1927) (1927); Svengali (1931) (1931); Grand Hotel (1932) (1932); A Bill of Divorcement (1932) (1932); Counsellor at Law (1933) (1933); Twentieth Century (1934) (1934); Romeo and Juliet (1936) (1936); True Confession (1937) (1937); Maytime (1937) (1937); Marie Antoinette (1938) (1938); Midnight (1939) (1939); The Invisible Woman (1940) (1940)
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 ...
Greats: Dallas Buyers Club (2013) (2013)★; True Detective (2014) [TV series] (2014)★
Give It a Shot: Dazed and Confused (1993) (1993); Lone Star (1996) (1996); Frailty (2001) (2001); Tropic Thunder (2008) (2008); Bernie (2011) (2011); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (2013); Interstellar (2014) (2014)
Caution: EDtv (1999) (1999); How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) (2003); Two for the Money (2005) (2005); Failure to Launch (2006) (2006); We Are Marshall (2006) (2006); Fool's Gold (2008) (2008); Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) (2009); Killer Joe (2011) (2012)
Flops: Reign of Fire (2002) (2002)
Other Notable Film(s): Angels in the Outfield (1994) (1994); The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994) (1994); Boys on the Side (1995) (1995); Glory Daze (1995) (1995); A Time to Kill (1996) (1996); Larger Than Life (1996) (1996); Contact (1997) (1997); Amistad (1997) (1997); The Newton Boys (1998) (1998); U-571 (2000) (2000); The Wedding Planner (2001) (2001); Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) (2001); Tiptoes (2002) (2003); Sahara (2005) (2005); Surfer, Dude (2008) (2008); The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) (2011); The Paperboy (2012) (2012); Mud (2012) (2012); Magic Mike (2012) (2012); The Sea of Trees (2015) (2015); Free State of Jones (2016) (2016); Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) [voice] (2016); Sing (2016) [voice] (2016); Gold (2016) (2016); The Dark Tower (2017) (2017)
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...
Greats: East of Eden (1955) (1955); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (1958)★; White Dog (1982) (1982)
Other Notable Film(s): So Dear to My Heart (1948) (1948); The Big Country (1958) (1958)✰; Desire Under the Elms (1958) (1958); Day of the Outlaw (1959) (1959); Our Man in Havana (1959) (1959); Summer Magic (1963) (1963); Ensign Pulver (1964) (1964); Two Moon Junction (1988) (1988)
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 ...
Greats: Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (1957)
Other Notable Film(s): Lloyds of London (1936) (1936); In Old Chicago (1938) (1937); Marie Antoinette (1938) (1938); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) (1938); Suez (1938) (1938); The Rains Came (1939) (1939); Jesse James (1939) (1939); The Mark of Zorro (1940) (1940); A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) (1941); Blood and Sand (1941) (1941); The Black Swan (1942) (1942); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) (1942); The Razor's Edge (1946) (1946); Captain from Castile (1947) (1947); Nightmare Alley (1947) (1947); Prince of Foxes (1949) (1949); The Black Rose (1950) (1950); Rawhide (1951) (1951); The Long Gray Line (1955) (1955); The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) (1956); The Sun Also Rises (1957) (1957); Abandon Ship (1957)
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 ...
Greats: The Great Escape (1963) (1963); Grand Prix (1966) (1966)
Give It a Shot: Sayonara (1957) (1957); The Children's Hour (1961) (1961); Victor/Victoria (1982) (1982); Space Cowboys (2000) (2000); The Notebook (2004) (2004)
Caution: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) (2002); The Ultimate Gift (2006) (2006)
Other Notable Film(s): Boys' Night Out (1962) (1962); Move Over, Darling (1963) (1963); The Thrill of It All (1963) (1963); The Americanization of Emily (1964) (1964); 36 Hours (1964) (1965); Duel at Diablo (1966) (1966); Hour of the Gun (1967) (1967); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) (1969); Marlowe (1969) (1969); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) (1971); The Fan (1981) (1981); Tank (1984) (1984); Murphy's Romance (1985) (1985)✰; Sunset (1988) (1988); The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) (1992); Fire in the Sky (1993) (1993); Maverick (1994) (1994); My Fellow Americans (1996) (1996); Twilight (1998) (1998); Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) [voice] (2001)
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 ...
Greats: Bringing Up Baby (1938) (1938); How Green Was My Valley (1941) (1941); Going My Way (1944) (1944)★; And Then There Were None (1945) (1945); The Naked City (1948) (1948)
Other Notable Film(s): Juno and the Paycock (1929) (1929); The Dawn Patrol (1938) (1938); The Saint Strikes Back (1939) (1939); The Long Voyage Home (1940) (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941) (1941); Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) (1941); None But the Lonely Heart (1944) (1944); Union Station (1950) (1950); The Quiet Man (1952) (1952); The Catered Affair (1956) (1956)
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 ...
Greats: Rebecca (1940) (1940); All About Eve (1950) (1950)★; Journey to Italy (1954)
Give It a Shot: A Shot in the Dark (1964) (1964)
Flops: Psychomania (1973) (1973)
Other Notable Film(s): Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) (1939); Allegheny Uprising (1939) (1939); The House of the Seven Gables (1940) (1940); Foreign Correspondent (1940) (1940); The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) (1940); Man Hunt (1941) (1941); Sundown (1941) (1941); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) (1942); Tales of Manhattan (1942) (1942); The Moon and Sixpence (1942) (1942); The Black Swan (1942) (1942); This Land Is Mine (1943) (1943); The Lodger (1944) (1944); Summer Storm (1944) (1944); Hangover Square (1945) (1945); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) (1945); The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) (1945); A Scandal in Paris (1946) (1946); The Strange Woman (1946) (1946); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) (1947); Lured (1947) (1947); Forever Amber (1947) (1947); Samson and Delilah (1949) (1949); Ivanhoe (1952) (1952); Call Me Madam (1953) (1953); Moonfleet (1955) (1955); While the City Sleeps (1956) (1956); Solomon and Sheba (1959) (1959); The Last Voyage (1960) (1960); Village of the Damned (1960) (1960); In Search of the Castaways (1962) (1962); Good Times (1967) (1966); Good Times (1967) (1967); The Jungle Book (1967) [voice] (1967); The Kremlin Letter (1970) (1970); Doomwatch (1972) (1972); Endless Night (1972) (1972)
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 ...
Greats: Sling Blade (1996) (1996)★; Monster's Ball (2001) (2001)★
Give It a Shot: Dead Man (1995) (1995); A Simple Plan (1998) (1998)★; The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (2001)✰; Bad Santa (2003) (2003)✰
Caution: Armageddon (1998) (1998); Intolerable Cruelty (2003) (2003); Friday Night Lights (2004) (2004); The Alamo (2004) (2004)
Flops: School for Scoundrels (2006) (2006); Mr. Woodcock (2007) (2007)
Other Notable Film(s): Going Overboard (1989) (1989); One False Move (1991) (1992); Trouble Bound (1993) (1993); Blood In, Blood Out (1993); Indecent Proposal (1993) (1993); Tombstone (1993) (1993); On Deadly Ground (1994) (1994); Princess Mononoke [voice] (1997); U Turn (1997) (1997); The Apostle (1997) (1997); Primary Colors (1998) (1998); Homegrown (1998) (1998); Pushing Tin (1999) (1999); Daddy and Them (2001) (2001); Bandits (2001) (2001)✰; The Badge (2002) (2002); Waking Up in Reno (2002) (2002); Levity (2003) (2003); Love Actually (2003) (2003); Bad News Bears (2005) (2005); The Ice Harvest (2005) (2005); The Astronaut Farmer (2006) (2006); Eagle Eye (2008) (2008); The Informers (2008) (2008); Faster (2010) (2010); Puss in Boots (2011) [voice] (2011); Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) (2012*)
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 ...
Greats: Le Samouraï (1967)
Other Notable Film(s): Rocco and His Brothers (1960); Purple Noon (1960); L'Eclisse (1962); Any Number Can Win (1963); The Leopard (1963)✰; The Black Tulip (1964); Joy House (1964); The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964); Once a Thief (1965) (1965); Lost Command (1966) (1966); Texas Across the River (1966) (1966); Is Paris Burning? (1966); The Last Adventure (1967); The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) (1968); Spirits of the Dead (1968); Farewell, Friend (1968); La Piscine (1969); The Sicilian (1969); Borsalino (1970) (1970); Le Cercle Rouge (1970); Red Sun (1971); The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) (1972); Indian Summer (1972); The Cop (1972); Scorpio (1973) (1973); Two Men in Town (1973); Blood on the Streets (1974); Zorro (1975) (1975); Flic Story (1975) (1975); Mr. Klein (1976) (1976); Mort d'un pourri (1977) (1977); The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) (1979); Swann in Love (1984)
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.
Allen ...
Greats: Take the Money and Run (1969) (1969); Sleeper (1973) (1973); Love and Death (1975) (1975); Annie Hall (1977) (1977)★; Manhattan (1979) (1979); Stardust Memories (1980) (1980); Broadway Danny Rose (1984) (1984); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (1986); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) (1989)
Give It a Shot: Bananas (1971) (1971); Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (1995); Deconstructing Harry (1997) (1997); Small Time Crooks (2000) (2000)
Caution: Zelig (1983) (1983)✰; The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) (2001)
Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)
Other Notable Film(s): What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) (1966); What's New Pussycat (1965) (1965); Play It Again, Sam (1972) (1972); Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972); The Front (1976) (1976); A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) (1982); King Lear (1987) (1987); New York Stories (1989) (1989); Scenes from a Mall (1991) (1991); Shadows and Fog (1991) (1991); Husbands and Wives (1992) (1992); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) (1993); Everyone Says I Love You (1996) (1996); Antz (1998) [voice] (1998); Picking Up the Pieces (2000) (2000); Hollywood Ending (2002) (2002); Anything Else (2003) (2003); Scoop (2006) (2006); To Rome with Love (2012) (2012)
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 ...
Greats: The Navigator (1924) (1924); Sherlock Jr. (1924) (1924); The General (1926) (1926)★; Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) (1928)
Other Notable Film(s): The Butcher Boy (1917) (1917); The Rough House (1917) (1917); Out West (1918) (1918); The Bell Boy (1918) (1918); One Week (1920) (1920); The Saphead (1920) (1920); Convict 13 (1920) (1920); Neighbors (1920) (1920); The Scarecrow (1920) (1920); The Play House (1921) (1921); The Boat (1921) (1921); The Haunted House (1921) (1921); Hard Luck (1921) (1921); The High Sign (1921) (1921); The Goat (1921) (1921); The Paleface (1922) (1922); Cops (1922) (1922); My Wife's Relations (1922) (1922); The Blacksmith (1922) (1922); The Frozen North (1922) (1922); The Electric House (1922) (1922); Day Dreams (1922) (1922); Balloonatic (1923) (1923); Love Nest (1923) (1923); Three Ages (1923) (1923); Our Hospitality (1923) (1923); Go West (1925) (1925); Seven Chances (1925) (1925); Battling Butler (1926) (1926); College (1927) (1927); The Cameraman (1928) (1928); Spite Marriage (1929) (1929)
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 ...
Greats: Brief Encounter (1945) (1945); The Third Man (1949) (1949); Gandhi (1982) (1982)
Give It a Shot: Superman (1978) (1978)
Other Notable Film(s): I See a Dark Stranger (1946) (1946); Green for Danger (1946) (1946); They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) (1947); The Passionate Friends (1949) (1949); Outcast of the Islands (1951) (1951); The Heart of the Matter (1953) (1953); The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) (1955); Run for the Sun (1956) (1956); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); The Key (1958) (1958); Sons and Lovers (1960) (1960)✰; Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) (1962); Father Goose (1964) (1964); Operation Crossbow (1965) (1965); Von Ryan's Express (1965) (1965); Morituri (1965) (1965); Triple Cross (1966) (1966); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) (1968); Battle of Britain (1969) (1969); Ryan's Daughter (1970) (1970)✰; The Night Visitor (1971) (1971); Kidnapped (1971) (1971); Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) (1971); The Offence (1973) (1972); Ludwig (1973) (1972); 11 Harrowhouse (1974) (1974); Aces High (1976) (1976); The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) (1977); Meteor (1979) (1979); The Sea Wolves (1980) (1980); Windwalker (1980) (1981); The Missionary (1982) (1982); Sword of the Valiant (1984); White Mischief (1987) (1987)
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 ...
Greats: Dodsworth (1936) (1936); The Lady Vanishes (1938) (1938)
Give It a Shot: Watch on the Rhine (1943) (1943)★
Other Notable Film(s): City Streets (1931) (1931); Downstairs (1932) (1932); Little Women (1933) (1933); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) (1939); Strange Cargo (1940) (1940); The Ghost Breakers (1940) (1940); Uncertain Glory (1944) (1944); Experiment Perilous (1944) (1944); Deadline at Dawn (1946) (1946); Berlin Express (1948) (1948); Kim (1950) (1950); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (1954); The Roots of Heaven (1958) (1958); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) (1962); Tender Is the Night (1962) (1962); 55 Days at Peking (1963) (1963); Fun in Acapulco (1963) (1963); Lord Jim (1965) (1965)
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 ...
Greats: Rocky (1976) (1976)★
Give It a Shot: Rocky II (1979) (1979); Rocky III (1982) (1982)
Caution: Foul Play (1978) (1978); Rocky V (1990) (1990)
Other Notable Film(s): Winterset (1936) (1936); Idiot's Delight (1939) (1939); Of Mice and Men (1939) (1939); Castle on the Hudson (1940) (1940); Second Chorus (1940) (1940); That Uncertain Feeling (1941) (1941); Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) (1941); Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (1945); The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) (1946); The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) (1949); Advise & Consent (1962) (1962); The Cardinal (1963) (1963); In Harm's Way (1965) (1965); Madame X (1966) (1966); A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) (1966); Batman: The Movie (1966) (1966); Hurry Sundown (1967) (1967); Torture Garden (1967) (1967); Stay Away, Joe (1968) (1968); Skidoo (1968) (1968); Mackenna's Gold (1969) (1969); The Reivers (1969) (1969); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) (1970); The Day of the Locust (1975) (1975)✰; The Hindenburg (1975) (1975); Burnt Offerings (1976) (1976); The Sentinel (1977) (1977); The Manitou (1978) (1978); Magic (1978) (1978); When Time Ran Out... (1980) (1980); Clash of the Titans (1981) (1981); True Confessions (1981) (1981); Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) (1985); State of Grace (1990) (1990); Grumpy Old Men (1993) (1993); Camp Nowhere (1994) (1994); Grumpier Old Men (1995) (1995)
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 ...
Greats: The Sting (1973) (1973); Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (1975)★; Tootsie (1982) (1982)
Give It a Shot: The Front Page (1974) (1974); To Be or Not to Be (1983) (1983)★; Dick Tracy (1990) (1990); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (1994); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) (2000)
Other Notable Film(s): Sisters (1972) (1973); The Hindenburg (1975) (1975); Breakheart Pass (1975) (1975); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) (1977); The Choirboys (1977) (1977); The Fury (1978) (1978); An Enemy of the People (1978) (1978); The Greek Tycoon (1978) (1978); The Muppet Movie (1979) (1979); North Dallas Forty (1979) (1979); Starting Over (1979) (1979); When a Stranger Calls (1979) (1979); The Final Countdown (1980) (1980); True Confessions (1981) (1981); Sharky's Machine (1981) (1981); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) (1982)✰; Two of a Kind (1983) (1983); Mass Appeal (1984) (1984); Stick (1985) (1985); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) (1985); Big Trouble (1986) (1986); Tough Guys (1986) (1986); Solarbabies (1986) (1986); The Rosary Murders (1987) (1987); Happy New Year (1987) (1987); Cop (1988) (1988); Cat Chaser (1989) (1989); V.I. Warshawski (1991) (1991); The Music of Chance (1993) (1993); I.Q. (1994) (1994); The Last Supper (1995) (1995); The Grass Harp (1995) (1995); Home for the Holidays (1995) (1995); Spy Hard (1996) (1996); One Fine Day (1996) (1996); Jerry and Tom (1998) (1998); State and Main (2000) (2000)
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 ...
Greats: Laura (1944) (1944); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (1946)★; Night of the Demon (1957) (1957)
Other Notable Film(s): The Westerner (1940) (1940); Tobacco Road (1941) (1941); Swamp Water (1941) (1941); Ball of Fire (1941) (1941); Crash Dive (1943) (1943); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) (1943); The North Star (1943) (1943); Up in Arms (1944) (1944); The Purple Heart (1944) (1944); Wing and a Prayer (1944) (1944); State Fair (1945) (1945); Fallen Angel (1945) (1945); A Walk in the Sun (1945) (1945); Canyon Passage (1946) (1946); Boomerang! (1947) (1947); Daisy Kenyon (1947) (1947); My Foolish Heart (1949) (1949); Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) (1950); The Frogmen (1951) (1950); Elephant Walk (1954) (1954); While the City Sleeps (1956) (1956); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (1956); The Satan Bug (1965) (1965); In Harm's Way (1965) (1965); Crack in the World (1965) (1965); The Loved One (1965) (1965); Battle of the Bulge (1965) (1965); The Devil's Brigade (1968) (1968); Airport 1975 (1974) (1974); The Last Tycoon (1976) (1976); Good Guys Wear Black (1978) (1978)
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). ...
Greats: Rosemary's Baby (1968) (1968)
Other Notable Film(s): Crime in the Streets (1956) (1956); Edge of the City (1957) (1957); Saddle the Wind (1958) (1958); The Killers (1964) (1964); Devil's Angels (1967) (1967); The Dirty Dozen (1967) (1967)✰; Bandits in Rome (1968); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) (1969); Machine Gun McCain (1969); Husbands (1970) (1970); Capone (1975) (1975); Two-Minute Warning (1976) (1976); Mikey and Nicky (1976) (1976); Opening Night (1977) (1977); The Fury (1978) (1978); Brass Target (1978) (1978); Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) (1981); Incubus (1981) (1982); Tempest (1982) (1982); Marvin & Tige (1983) (1983); Love Streams (1984) (1984)
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 & ...
Greats: Psycho (1960) (1960)★
Give It a Shot: The Trial (1962)
Caution: Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (1974)
Other Notable Film(s): The Actress (1953) (1953); Friendly Persuasion (1956) (1956)✰; Fear Strikes Out (1957) (1957); The Lonely Man (1957) (1957); The Tin Star (1957) (1957); The Sea Wall (1957); Desire Under the Elms (1958) (1958); The Matchmaker (1958) (1958); Green Mansions (1959) (1959); On the Beach (1959) (1959); Tall Story (1960) (1960); Goodbye Again (1961) (1961)✰; Phaedra (1962) (1962); Five Miles to Midnight (1962); Two Are Guilty (1963); Agent 38-24-36 (1964); Violent Journey (1965); Is Paris Burning? (1966); The Champagne Murders (1967); Pretty Poison (1968) (1968); Catch-22 (1970) (1970); WUSA (1970) (1970); Someone Behind the Door (1971); Ten Days Wonder (1971); Play It As It Lays (1972) (1972); The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) (1972); Lovin' Molly (1974) (1974); Mahogany (1975) (1975); Remember My Name (1978) (1978); Winter Kills (1979) (1979); Twice a Woman (1979); The Black Hole (1979) (1979); North Sea Hijack (1980) (1980); Double Negative (1980) (1980); Psycho II (1983) (1983); Crimes of Passion (1984) (1984); Psycho III (1986) (1986); Destroyer (1988) (1988); Edge of Sanity (1989) (1989); A Demon in My View (1991); The Naked Target (1992)
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 ...
Greats: Saving Private Ryan (1998) (1998); The Truman Show (1998) (1998); Sideways (2004) (2004)★
Give It a Shot: Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (1995); Donnie Brasco (1997) (1997); Deconstructing Harry (1997) (1997); The Negotiator (1998) (1998); Man on the Moon (1999) (1999); Win Win (2011) (2011); The Ides of March (2011) (2011); Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Caution: Doctor Dolittle (1998) (1998)
Flops: Big Momma's House (2000) (2000); Planet of the Apes (2001) (2001); Big Fat Liar (2002) (2002); Paycheck (2003) (2003); Lady in the Water (2006) (2006)
Other Notable Film(s): Sabrina (1995) (1995); Private Parts (1997) (1997); My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) (1997); Duets (2000) (2000); Storytelling (2001) (2001); Confidence (2003) (2003); American Splendor (2003) (2003); Robots (2005) [voice] (2005); Cinderella Man (2005) (2005)✰; The Illusionist (2006) (2006); Shoot 'Em Up (2007) (2007); The Nanny Diaries (2007) (2007); Fred Claus (2007) (2007); Cold Souls (2009) (2009); Duplicity (2009) (2009); The Last Station (2009) (2009); Barney's Version (2010) (2010)✰; The Hangover Part II (2011) (2011); Ironclad (2011) (2011); Cosmopolis (2012) (2012); John Dies at the End (2012) (2012); Rock of Ages (2012) (2012)
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)
Other Notable Film(s):
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 ...
Give It a Shot: Chaplin (1992) (1992)★; Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) (2005); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) (2005); Zodiac (2007) (2007); Tropic Thunder (2008) (2008)★; Iron Man (2008) (2008); Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) (2011)
Caution: Back to School (1986) (1986); Natural Born Killers (1994) (1994); Bowfinger (1999) (1999); Sherlock Holmes (2009) (2009)✰; The Avengers (2012) (2012)
Flops: Gothika (2003) (2003); Due Date (2010) (2010)
Other Notable Film(s): Weird Science (1985) (1985); Less Than Zero (1987) (1987); 1969 (1988) (1988); Johnny Be Good (1988) (1988); True Believer (1989) (1989); Chances Are (1989) (1989); Air America (1990) (1990); Soapdish (1991) (1991); Short Cuts (1993) (1993); Heart and Souls (1993) (1993); Only You (1994) (1994); Richard III (1995) (1995); Home for the Holidays (1995) (1995); Restoration (1995) (1995); One Night Stand (1997) (1997); Two Girls and a Guy (1997) (1997); The Gingerbread Man (1998) (1998); U.S. Marshals (1998) (1998); In Dreams (1999) (1999); Black and White (1999) (1999); Wonder Boys (2000) (2000); The Singing Detective (2003) (2003); Game 6 (2005) (2005); A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) (2006); A Scanner Darkly (2006) (2006); Lucky You (2007) (2007); Charlie Bartlett (2007) (2007); The Soloist (2009) (2009); Iron Man 2 (2010) (2010); Iron Man Three (2013) (2013); Chef (2014) (2014); The Judge (2014) (2014); Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (2015); Captain America: Civil War (2016) (2016)
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)
Other Notable Film(s):
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 ...
Greats: The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (1971); Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) (1985)★
Caution: The Morning After (1986) (1986); The Rookie (1990) (1990); The Addams Family (1991) (1991); Addams Family Values (1993) (1993)
Flops: One from the Heart (1981) (1982); Street Fighter (1994) (1994)
Other Notable Film(s): The Gumball Rally (1976) (1976); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) (1978); Tempest (1982) (1982)✰; Moon Over Parador (1988) (1988); Tequila Sunrise (1988) (1988); Romero (1989) (1989); Frankenstein Unbound (1990) (1990); Presumed Innocent (1990) (1990)
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,...
Give It a Shot: Gentleman's Agreement (1947) (1947)
Caution: Tortilla Flat (1942) (1942)
Other Notable Film(s): Four Daughters (1938) (1938)✰; They Made Me a Criminal (1939) (1939); Juarez (1939) (1939); The Sea Wolf (1941) (1941); Out of the Fog (1941) (1941); Air Force (1943) (1943); The Fallen Sparrow (1943) (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) (1943); Destination Tokyo (1943) (1943); Between Two Worlds (1944) (1944); Pride of the Marines (1945) (1945); Humoresque (1946) (1946); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (1946); Body and Soul (1947) (1947)✰; Force of Evil (1948) (1948); We Were Strangers (1949) (1949); The Breaking Point (1950) (1950); He Ran All the Way (1951) (1951)
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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