Baltimore Bred Starz
by imanidon111 | created - 03 Jul 2011 | updated - 23 Nov 2015 | PublicAll Celebrities From Charm City Baltimore Maryland
1. Michael Phelps
Self | London 2012: Games of the XXX Olympiad
Michael Fred Phelps II was born in Towson, Maryland, to Deborah Sue (Davisson), a middle school principal, and Michael Fred Phelps, a state trooper. Before the 2004 Olympics started, rumor had it that 19 year-old Phelps was thinking of trying to match or even surpass Mark Spitz's legendary seven ...
2. Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Actor | Ragtime
Howard E. Rollins Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1950. He was the youngest of four children born to Howard E. Rollins Sr. (steelworker) and Ruth R. Rollins (domestic worker). Rollins graduated from Towson State College, where he studied theater. His first break into acting came when a ...
3. Babe Ruth
Actor | Speedy
Most of Babe Ruth's records have been broken. In 1961, not only did Roger Maris break The Babe's 34-year-old record for most home runs in a season with 61* (2001), but Maris' teammate on the '61 Yankees, pitcher Whitey Ford broke the Babe's 43-year-old record for most scoreless innings pitched in a...
4. Charles S. Dutton
Actor | Gothika
Charles S. Dutton was born on January 30, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Gothika (2003), Alien³ (1992) and A Time to Kill (1996). He was previously married to Debbi Morgan.
5. Jada Pinkett Smith
Actress | The Matrix Revolutions
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Robsol Grant Pinkett, Jr., a contractor, and 'Gammy' Adrienne Banfield Norris, a nurse. They divorced after only a few months of marriage. Her father is of African-American descent and her mother is of Afro-Caribbean ancestry (from ...
6. Thurgood Marshall
Self | Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was married to Cissy Marshall and Vivien Burey. He died on January 24, 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
7. Thomas Jane
Actor | Boogie Nights
Thomas Jane is an American actor who is known for portraying Frank Castle from the 2004 Marvel Comics film The Punisher and the 2012 fan film Dirty Laundry. He also was in Boogie Nights, The Thin Red Line, Deep Blue Sea, The Predator, 1922, The Mist and Evening Raga of the West.
8. Anna Faris
Actress | The House Bunny
Anna Kay Faris was born on November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Karen (Bathurst), a special education teacher, and Jack Faris, a sociologist. She was raised in Edmonds, Washington. Her ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, French, Dutch, Irish, and Welsh. Anna started acting very ...
9. Susan Dalian
Actress | The Kid
Susan Dalian was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Susan Patterson Dalian. She is known for her role as the gun wielding, jilted bride, "Bebe" in the 2001 Sony Screen Gems film The Brothers opposite Shemar Moore with Morris Chestnut and Gabrielle Union. She studied acting at Baltimore School for ...
10. Lance Reddick
Actor | John Wick
Incisive, intense, multi-talented American actor Lance Solomon Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two sons, to Solomon Reddick and public schoolteacher Dorothy Gee. Having opted initially for a career in music, he attended first the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Walden ...
11. Montel Williams
Producer | The Montel Williams Show
Montel Williams was born on July 3, 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The Montel Williams Show (1991), JAG (1995) and Matt Waters (1996). He has been married to Tara Fowler since October 6, 2007. He was previously married to Grace Morley and Rochele See.
12. Nicole Ari Parker
Actress | Boogie Nights
Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe is an American actress and model. She made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and went on to appear in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Parker has...
13. Josh Charles
Actor | Dead Poets Society
Joshua Aaron Charles is an American actor. He is best known for the roles of Dan Rydell on Sports Night; Will Gardner on The Good Wife, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations; and his early work as Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society. He is the son of Allan Charles, an advertising ...
14. Karin Konoval
Actress | War for the Planet of the Apes
Karin Konoval has appeared in guest starring roles in numerous TV series and supporting lead roles in many feature films, including the role of "Maurice" (the orangutan) in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). She ...
15. Kevin Clash
Actor | Sesame Street
Kevin Clash was born on September 17, 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Sesame Street (1969), Muppet Treasure Island (1996) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). He was previously married to Genia Loving.
16. Penn Badgley
Actor | You
Penn Badgley was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Lynne Murphy Badgley and Duff Badgley, who worked as a newspaper reporter and carpenter. Badgley split his childhood years between Richmond, Virginia. and Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, he was involved in the Seattle Children's Theater and did ...
17. Mo'Nique
Actress | Precious
Mo'Nique received a standing ovation when she stepped on stage for the first time in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, giving her confidence to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian. After numerous stand-up performances, she took a leap forward with one of the starring roles in The Parkers (...
18. Parker Posey
Actress | Scream 3
Parker Posey was born two months premature in Baltimore, Maryland, to Lynda (Patton) and Chris Posey. The family moved to Monroe, La. and then Laurel, Mississippi, where Chris became owner of Laurel's own Posey Chevrolet. Parker attended high school at R. H. Watkins High School in Laurel, and ...
19. Tracie Thoms
Actress | Rent
Tracie Thoms has had wide-ranging success in film, television and theatre throughout her busy career.
Tracie's currently a series regular opposite Oscar winner Octavia Spencer on the Apple series, Truth Be Told, while at the same time recurring on Fox's 9-1-1 and ABC's Station 19.
Tracie realized a ...
20. Robin Quivers
Actress | Private Parts
Robin Quivers is best-known for having acted as the straight-woman and co-host for nearly two decades on the popular, controversial The Howard Stern Radio Show (1998) morning radio broadcast. As a result, Quivers has been hailed the most popular female radio personality in the U.S. She made her ...
21. Christi Shake
Self | My Antonio
Buxom, gorgeous, and exquisitely full-figured blonde bombshell Christi Shake was born on August 22, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland. She's of mixed Czech, Dutch, German, Polish, and Swedish descent. Shake attended Chesapeake High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Her mother encouraged her to start ...
22. Peyton List
Actress | The Tomorrow People
Peyton List was born on August 8, 1986, in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up with her older sister Brittany, who works as a model in Germany, and her parents Sherri Anderson and Douglas "Doug" List. Peyton studied at the School of American Ballet in New York City and also played there on stage.
She...
23. David Hasselhoff
Actor | Baywatch
David Hasselhoff has become one of the most recognizable faces on television and throughout the world. Aside from starring in Knight Rider (1982) and Baywatch (1989), he is also an accomplished singer and popular recording artist.
David Michael Hasselhoff was born on July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, ...
24. Mario
Actor | Freedom Writers
Mario is an American R&B singer who since his mid-teens has developed a convincingly strong career. Born and raised in Baltimore and now living in New Jersey, he was signed to the New York label 3rd Street/J Records, working with producer Clive Davis. After contributing to the soundtrack of Dr. ...
25. Dwight Schultz
Actor | Star Trek: First Contact
Dwight Schultz is an American actor who is known for playing Howling Mad Murdock from The A-Team and Reginald Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also known for his voice work as Mung Daal from Chowder, Professor Pyg from Batman: Arkham Knight, Vulture from Spider-Man video games, Dr...
26. Brendan Hines
Actor | The Tick
Brendan Hines is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a former nun and a former priest who became Philosophy professors. He began playing the trombone when he was 11 but gave it up for the guitar seven years later. Brendan attended Loyola High School where ...
27. Jerome Ro Brooks
Actor | The Caregiver
American Actor, Ro Brooks, born Jerome Curtis Brooks Jr., was born and raised in the hood of West Baltimore. Ro's natural acting ability was cultivated by his Grandmother and Great Aunt, who would encourage Ro and his three older sisters to perform dance and musical routines for them by throwing ...
28. Evan Taubenfeld
Actor | Flipped
Evan Taubenfeld was born on June 27, 1983 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Flipped (2015), Private (2009) and The Bronze (2015).
29. Julie Bowen
Actress | Happy Gilmore
Julie Bowen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the middle daughter of Suzanne and John Luetkemeyer Jr., a real estate developer. Her early education was at Calvert School in Baltimore, and Garrison Forest School, Maryland. She moved on to St. George's School, Rhode Island and then attended ...
30. Rico Chiapparelli
Actor | Redbelt
Rico Chiapparelli is known for Redbelt (2008), This Was Dunes (2022) and X-Training with Randy Couture Volume 2: Kick Boxing & Submission (2006).
31. Stacy Keibler
Actress | Bubble Boy
Although her career spans over two decades, Stacy Keibler continues to be the fresh-faced beauty that both film and television audiences adore. Stacy was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She began dancing when she was three-years-old and has a background in ballet, tap and jazz. Stacy went to school in...
32. Barry Levinson
Director | Rain Man
Barry Lee Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Violet (Krichinsky) and Irvin Levinson, who worked in furniture and appliance. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Levinson graduated from high school in 1960, attended college at American University in Washington, DC. He did well, but decided he ...
33. Sarah Jones
Producer | Sell/Buy/Date
Sarah Jones (Actress/Writer/Producer): Called "a master of the genre" by The New York Times, Sarah Jones is a Tony® and Obie Award-winning performer and writer known for the multi-character, one-person Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel, originally produced by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, and her current,...
34. Tom Clancy
Writer | The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy became one of the best-selling writers of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, starting with the publication of his 1984 thriller, The Hunt for Red October (1990). Born in Baltimore to a U.S. Post Office employee and his wife on April 12, 1947, Clancy graduated from Loyola Blakefield,...
35. Steven Fischer
Producer | Freedom Dance
Steven Fischer's two strongest passions in life are cartoons and live action filmmaking. His Steve & Bluey cartoons have been amusing audiences since 1989 in books such as There's a Blue Dog Under My Bed; on TV with Steve & Bluey: In a Minute (TCI-TV, 1996-1999); and in radio comedies for the ...
36. John Patrick Amedori
Actor | Three Women
At a very young age, Amedori discovered he had the natural ability to learn and play music. This creative outlet quickly ignited his love for all things creative. Throughout his growing career, he has had the privilege to work with and learn from some of the smartest and brightest people in ...
37. John Waters
Writer | Pecker
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his weird counter-culture friends as his cast, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-'60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore ...
38. Derek Waters
Writer | Drunk History
Derek Waters was born on July 30, 1979 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Drunk History (2013), Hall Pass (2011) and The Brothers Solomon (2007).
39. John Astin
Actor | The Frighteners
Dark-haired, usually-mustachioed American actor with a cheeky grin, who achieved pop culture status through his portrayal of the kooky patriarch "Gomez Addams" in the hit TV series The Addams Family (1964), John Astin was born on March 30, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied mathematics at ...
40. Noelle Beck
Actress | Fletch Lives
Noelle Beck was born on December 14, 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Fletch Lives (1989), As the World Turns (1956) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She was previously married to Eric Petterson.
41. Ric Ocasek
Soundtrack | Super 8
Ric Ocasek was born on March 23, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Super 8 (2011), The Saint (1997) and Transformers (2007). He was married to Paulina Porizkova, Suzanne LaPointe and Constance Campbell. He died on September 15, 2019 in Manhattan, New York ...
42. Geoffrey Blake
Actor | Forrest Gump
Geoffrey Blake is an Emmy nominated, two-time SAG Award winning actor best known for his role as 'Wesley' (the abusive radical boyfriend) opposite Robin Wright's 'Jennie' in the iconic Academy Award Best Picture Forrest Gump (1994). In addition to Forrest Gump (1994), Blake has appeared alongside ...
43. Kevin Liles
Producer | Race: Bubba Wallace
Kevin Liles is known for Race: Bubba Wallace (2022), Blood Brother (2018) and Milli Vanilli. He is married to Erika . They have two children.
44. Natalie Joy Johnson
Actress | When in Rome
Natalie Joy Johnson is known for When in Rome (2010), Legally Blonde: The Musical (2007) and The Battery's Down (2008).
45. John Kassir
Actor | Tales from the Crypt
John Edward Kassir is an American actor and producer from Baltimore, Maryland who is known for voicing the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt. He also played Jibolba from Tak and the Power of Juju, Deadpool in various Marvel games and cartoons, Ralph from Reefer Madness and many more roles.
46. Sisqó
Actor | Get Over It
This distinctive silver-haired singer established his performing credentials as a founding member of highly successful urban R&B quartet Dru Hill, who enjoyed transatlantic hits in the late 90s with singles such as 'How Deep Is Your Love' and 'These Are The Times'. The four members of Dru Hill set ...
47. Philip Glass
Soundtrack | The Truman Show
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Glass worked in his father's radio store and discovered music listening to the offbeat Western classical records customers didn't seem to want. He studied the violin and flute, and obtained early admission to the University of Chicago. After graduating in mathematics ...
48. Kweisi Mfume
Self | The Remarkable Journey
Kweisi Mfume was born on October 24, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He has been married to Tiffany McMillan since 2012. He was previously married to Linda Shields.
49. Joe Warfield
Actor | Hard Target
Joseph Warfield was a 50-year veteran of stage, film and television working as an actor, director and teacher. He was also a former full-time Professor and Head of Acting Study in the NYU Grad Film Department teaching Directing Actors. Joe taught at Loyola University, New Orleans as well as at the ...
50. Cass Elliot
Soundtrack | Free Guy
Cass Elliot was born Ellen Naomi Cohen on September 19, 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in the Washington D.C. environs and in her senior year of high school, performed in a summer stock production of "The Boyfriend" at the Owings Mills Playhouse, where she played the French nurse who ...
51. Chick Webb
Soundtrack | The Age of Adaline
Chick Webb was born on February 10, 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was married to Sallye. He died on June 16, 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
52. Tyrone Bogues
Actor | Space Jam
Tyrone Bogues was born on January 9, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Space Jam (1996), Juwanna Mann (2002) and Eddie (1996). He has been married to Kimberly Bogues since January 9, 2015. He was previously married to Kimberly Bogues.
53. Dru Hill
Soundtrack | Wild Wild West
Dru Hill is known for Wild Wild West (1999), Rush Hour (1998) and The Best Man (1999).
54. David Wingate
Actor | Eddie
David Wingate was born on December 15, 1963 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Eddie (1996), NBA on NBC (1990) and The 1996 NBA Finals (1996).
55. Spiro Agnew
Self | Spiro Agnew's Asian Trip
Spiro Agnew was a Greek-American politician from Baltimore, Maryland. He served as the Governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969. He became a national celebrity for his "law and order" rhetoric in response to nationwide civil unrest. He was chosen by Richard Nixon as his running mate for the ...
56. Grant Aleksander
Actor | The Guiding Light
Grant Aleksander was born on August 6, 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Guiding Light (1952), All My Children (1970) and As the World Turns (1956). He has been married to Sherry Ramsey since September 19, 1987.
57. Egypt
Actress | Young Soul Rebels: I Got Soul
Egypt is known for Young Soul Rebels: I Got Soul (2009) and Diplomats & Friends: The Book of Hip-Hop (2006).
58. Sam Cassell
Producer | Chain Letter
Sam Cassell was born on November 18, 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer, known for Chain Letter (2010), Kid Edition (2009) and The NBA on TNT (1988).
59. Conrad Brooks
Actor | Jan-Gel, the Beast from the East
Conrad Brooks was born as Conrad Biedrzycki on January 3, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Polish immigrants, with a baker father, and had seven brothers and sisters. At seventeen, along with his brothers Henry and Ted, he went to Hollywood, California. Brooks first encountered ...
60. Keith Booth
Self | Poet Pride
Keith Booth was born on October 9, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
61. Felicia Pearson
Actress | The Wire
Felicia Pearson was born on May 18, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wire (2002), The Family Plan (2023) and Guns and Grams (2016).
62. Hasim Rahman
Actor | AJ McLean: Night Visions
His father worked as an engineer. Rahman grew up in Baltimore. He started boxing relatively late, at the age of 20. After a few amateur fights, he turned to professional boxing in 1994. In December 1994, Rahman had his first professional fight against Gregory Harrington, whom he knocked out in the ...
63. Brandon Novak
Actor | Haggard
In a nutshell, Brandon was a professional skateboarder discovered by Tony Hawk, rose to fame on the hit MTV show Viva la Bam, and the movies Jackass, got hooked on heroin for 20 years, wrote the addiction memoir, Dreamseller, and it became a best seller on Amazon. Brandon gives back by helping ...
64. Panda Bear
Soundtrack | Shortbus
Panda Bear is known for Shortbus (2006), Sisters (2015) and Project X (2012). He has been married to Fernanda Pereira since 2004. They have two children.
65. Greg Kihn
Soundtrack | Let Me In
Greg Kihn was born on July 10, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Let Me In (2010), Beautiful Girls (1996) and Take Me Home Tonight (2011). He has been married to Jay Baltazar Arafiles since December 15, 2000. He was previously married to Debra Echard.
66. Al Kaline
Self | Home Run Derby
15-time All-Star Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers was one of the premier baseball players of his generation, slugging 399 home-runs and amassing 3,007 hits in those less-statistics crazy times. (In this era, Kaline -- who announced his retirement before his final season of 1974 and stuck to it -- ...
68. Brian Jordan
Self | 1999 National League Championship Series
Brian Jordan was born on March 29, 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
70. Antonio Freeman
Self | The NFL on CBS
Antonio Freeman was born on May 27, 1972 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
71. Divine
Actor | Pink Flamingos
Originally born Harris Glen Milstead just after the end of WWII, Baltimore's most outrageous resident eventually became the international icon of bad taste cinema, as the always shocking and highly entertaining transvestite performer, Divine.
Milstead met maverick film director & good friend, John ...
72. Miriam Cooper
Actress | The Birth of a Nation
Miriam Cooper was born to Julian Cooper and Margaret Stewart in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1891. The family was Roman Catholic, and the Coopers were fairly well-to-do. After the birth of five children in five years (one of whom died in infancy), Julian Cooper deserted his family and fled to Europe. ...
73. Nancy Pelosi
Actress | 30 Rock
Nancy Pelosi is an American Democratic Party politician serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since January 2019. She is the first woman in U.S. history to hold this position. As such, and having first been elected to Congress in 1987, Pelosi is the highest-ranking female...
74. Eubie Blake
Soundtrack | My Girl
Songwriter ("I'm Just Wild About Harry", "You Were Meant For Me", "Memories of You"), pianist and arranger, Eubie Blake was educated at New York University. He studied the Schillinger System, and studied with Margaret Marshall and Llewellyn Wilson. He was a pianist and organist in cafés and in ...
75. N. Paul Stookey
Soundtrack | About Schmidt
N. Paul Stookey was born on December 30, 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for About Schmidt (2002), Norman Normal (1968) and Love the Coopers (2015). He has been married to Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Bannard since September 4, 1963. They have three children.
76. David Lochary
Actor | Pink Flamingos
Divine's former best friend, with dyed silver hair, met the future Waters star in beauty school in Baltimore, Maryland. Divine later claimed that he had "never even heard the word 'drag' before David," and that Lochary did his makeup and wigs at parties (prior to Van Smith). Divine introduced ...
77. Dorothy Phillips
Actress | Broadway Love
A former stage actress, Dorothy Phillips was married to actor/director/producer Allen Holubar. They were known as two of the screen's most prominent players--her the star, he the director/producer. Dorothy was well known in Hollywood as one of the most warm-hearted, approachable stars in the ...
78. Gina Schock
Soundtrack | Bull Durham
Gina Schock was born on August 31, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Bull Durham (1988), The Accused (1988) and Superstar (1999).
79. Tamara Dobson
Actress | Cleopatra Jones
Tamara Dobson was born on May 14, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Cleopatra Jones (1973), Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975) and Chained Heat (1983). She died on October 2, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
80. Joni Eareckson Tada
Soundtrack | Joni
Joni Eareckson Tada was born on October 15, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Joni (1979), Alone Yet Not Alone (2013) and Joni and Friends (2007). She has been married to Ken Tada since July 3, 1982.
81. Mildred Dunnock
Actress | The Trouble with Harry
Petite American character actress who was celebrated for her definitive portrayal of long-suffering Linda Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", a part she played opposite Lee J. Cobb at the Morosco Theatre for 742 consecutive performances between 1949 and 1950. Mildred recreated her role ...
82. Mike Rowe
Producer | Dirty Jobs
Michael "Mike" Gregory Rowe (March 18, 1962) is the host, narrator and executive producer of one of Discovery Channel's most famous series, Dirty Jobs. In the series, Mike travels the world performing what are considered the worst jobs in the world.Mike is the narrator and co-creator/producer of ...
83. Leon Uris
Writer | Topaz
Leon Uris was born on August 3, 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Topaz (1969), The Angry Hills (1959) and Exodus (1960). He was married to Jill Peabody, Margery Edwards and Betty Katherine Beck. He died on June 21, 2003 in Shelter Island, New York, USA.
84. Mike Shula
Self | The NFL on CBS
Mike Shula was born on June 3, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
85. Mink Stole
Actress | Serial Mom
Part of the original motley crew of cast players in underground shock master John Waters' bare-bones 8mm, 16mm and 35mm cult perversions during the late 60s and early 70s, Mink Stole would remain a thoroughly offbeat, outrageous presence in counterculture films for five decades.
She was born with ...
86. Charley Chase
Actor | Neighborhood House
While Charley Chase is far from being as famous as "The Big Three" (Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd) today, he's highly respected as one of the "greats" by fans of silent comedy.
Chase (real name Charles Parrott) was born in Maryland, USA, in 1893. After a brief career in vaudeville,...
87. Robert Pirosh
Writer | Battleground
Robert Pirosh enjoyed a lengthy Hollywood career, which began when he was signed by MGM, along with fellow newcomer George Seaton , as a contributing writer in 1934. His most notable success was garnering the Academy Award for his screenplay of Battleground (1949), a film based on the Second World ...
88. Paul Ford
Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
If any man ever had a curmudgeon character face absolutely made for TV and film, it was Paul Ford. Small-eyed, balding, lugubrious, pot-bellied and with a memorable plum nose to rival that of the great Karl Malden, he made a very late entry into show business, finding major success as blowhard ...
89. Slappy White
Actor | Amazon Women on the Moon
Slappy White was born on September 20, 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Sanford and Son (1972) and The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970). He was married to La Vern Baker. He died on November 7, 1995 in Brigantine, New Jersey, USA.
90. Sam Warner
Director | A Dangerous Adventure
Sam Warner could rightly be called "The Father of Talking Pictures". Of the four Warner brothers, Sam was the most in favor of using synchronized sound with movies. He was the driving force behind the studio's partnership with Western Electric to create Vitaphone. At first, he only wanted to use ...
91. Upton Sinclair
Writer | There Will Be Blood
Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for There Will Be Blood (2007), The Money Changers (1920) and Maiden No More. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, Mary Craig Sinclair and Meta Fuller. He died on November 25, ...
92. Stephen Bayly
Producer | Richard III
Stephen Bayly was born on July 7, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Richard III (1995), Coming Up Roses (1986) and Diamond's Edge (1988).
93. Nicholas Pryor
Actor | Damien: Omen II
Name a soap opera and invariably character actor Nicholas Pryor has appeared on it. Playing the quirky professor Victor Collins on the daytime drama Port Charles (1997), the tall, rangy, silver-haired player was born Nicholas David Probst and is a native of Baltimore, with early training received ...
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