2000-2009 RIP

101. Bert Williams

Bert Williams was born on April 12, 1922 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Usual Suspects (1995), Cobra (1986) and Public Access (1993). He died on January 31, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

102. James Gallery

Actor | Mr. Mom

James Gallery was born on March 24, 1935 in Auburn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Mr. Mom (1983), Sour Grapes (1998) and Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992). He died on February 5, 2001 in Camarillo, California, USA.

103. Carl Byrd

Actor | Star Trek

Carl Byrd was born on August 10, 1935 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Telefon (1977). He died on February 7, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

104. Dale Evans

Soundtrack | Cowboy and the Senorita

American leading lady of musical westerns of the 1940s. Born Frances Octavia Smith in Uvalde, Texas. She was raised in Texas and Arkansas. Married at 14 and a mother at 15, she was divorced at 17 (some sources say widowed). Intent on a singing career, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and worked in ...

105. King Moody

Actor | Teenagers from Outer Space

King Moody was born on December 6, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), Quantum Leap (1989) and Get Smart (1965). He was married to Jacqueline L Larson and Rachel Rosenthal. He died on February 7, 2001 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, ...

106. Lewis Arquette

Actor | Little Nicky

Lewis Arquette was born on December 14, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Little Nicky (2000), Waiting for Guffman (1996) and Tango & Cash (1989). He was married to Brenda Denaut. He died on February 10, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

107. Burt Kennedy

Director | The War Wagon

American screenwriter and director--particularly of westerns--Burt Kennedy was the son of performers. He was part of their act, "The Dancing Kennedys", from infancy. He served in World War II as a cavalry officer and was highly decorated. After the war he joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, ...

108. Gilly Flower

Actress | Fawlty Towers

Gilly Flower was born on August 26, 1908 in Hendon, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fawlty Towers (1975), Only Fools and Horses (1981) and The New Hotel (1932). She was married to Norman Fenton Tardrew. She died on February 17, 2001 in Surrey, England, UK.

109. Wallace Wilkinson

Actor | Apocalypse domani

Wallace K. Wilkinson was born in Atlanta, GA and lived most of his life in Rome, Georgia USA. He was married to Vera Pilgrim Wilkinson until his death in 2001. He had three children Wallace K. Wilkinson, Jr. "Knox", Sallie Wilkinson Ballard and Martha Wilkinson. Mr. Wilkinson was a very talented ...

110. Rosemary DeCamp

Actress | The Bob Cummings Show

Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was the quintessential small-town American mother, a calming and steadying presence in scores of films in the 1940s and 1950s. She came to Hollywood after a successful career on the stage and in radio, making her film debut in 1941. Though she worked for many studios, she ...

111. Louis Edmonds

Actor | House of Dark Shadows

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he studied at Louisiana State University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. During WWII, he served in the Navy. His career was started in New York, acting in regional and Off-Broadway Theatre until his Broadway debut in the musical, "Candide" in 1956. Edmonds ...

112. Glenn Hughes

Soundtrack | Highlander II: The Quickening

Glenn Hughes was born on July 18, 1950 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Can't Stop the Music (1980) and Married... with Children (1987). He died on March 4, 2001 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

113. Kim Walker

Actress | Heathers

Known for her supporting roles, Kim Walker was an up and coming young actress in Hollywood before retiring from the business in the late 1990s. As a teen she landed a few guest roles in series such as Matlock (1986) and Highway to Heaven (1984) before moving on to supporting roles in feature films ...

114. Morton Downey Jr.

Actor | Predator 2

Talk-show host and songwriter ("Because We're Young", "Hearts Are Wild"), composer, author, actor and singer, educated at New York University (BS) and a two-year Law School student. He was a program director and announcer at WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut, and later made several records under his ...

115. Robert Ludlum

Writer | The Bourne Supremacy

Robert Ludlum was born on May 25, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). He was married to Karen Dunn and Mary Patricia Ryducha. He died on March 12, 2001 in Naples, Florida, ...

116. John A. Alonzo

Cinematographer | Chinatown

John A. Alonzo was born on June 12, 1934 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Chinatown (1974), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was married to Suzanne L. Heltzel and Jan Murray. He died on March 13, 2001 in Beverly Hills, California...

117. Ann Sothern

Actress | Lady Be Good

Ann Sothern's film career started as an extra in 1927. Originally a redhead, she began to bleach her hair blonde for comedy roles. After working at MGM and on Broadway, Ann was signed by Columbia Pictures for Let's Fall in Love (1933). The next year she would work with Eddie Cantor in his hit Kid ...

118. John Phillips

Soundtrack | Cocktail

John Phillips was born on August 30, 1935 in Parris Island, South Carolina, USA. He was a composer and producer, known for Cocktail (1988), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Rock (1996). He was married to Farnaz Arasteh, Geneviève Waïte, Michelle Phillips and Suzy Phillips-January. He died ...

119. Hector Morales

Actor | Three Amigos!

Hector Morales was an actor, known for Three Amigos! (1986), Oh, God! (1977) and Out of the Dark (1988). He died on March 24, 2001.

120. Theodore Gottlieb

Actor | The 'Burbs

Theodore Gottlieb was born on November 11, 1906 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The 'Burbs (1989), The Last Unicorn (1982) and Nocturna (1979). He died on April 5, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.

121. Riley Mills

Actor | I Drink Your Blood

Riley Mills was born on March 18, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for I Drink Your Blood (1971) and Family Affair (1966). He died on April 6, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

122. David Graf

Actor | Police Academy

David Graf was a Lancaster, Ohio native. He was a graduate of Lancaster High School in 1968. He went on to attend college at Otterbein University where he graduated in 1972 as a theater major. He attended Ohio State University grad school until 1975 when he dropped out to pursue an acting career in...

123. Beatrice Straight

Actress | Network

In her long career, Beatrice Straight did quite a bit of work in the movies, despite plying her trade mostly onstage. When she did grace the silver screen, she did it with great skill. Her first love was theater, having debuted on Broadway in the 1935 "Bitter Oleander". Her work garnered her much ...

124. Joey Ramone

Soundtrack | Rock 'n' Roll High School

Joey Ramone was born Jeffrey Ross Hyman and the lead singer of the four-member punk-rock band the Ramones. In 1974, the band began in Queens, New York, when as he said "The only thing that you heard on the radio was disco." By 1976, the band became a major force in the evolution of rock-n-roll; ...

125. Michael Ritchie

Director | The Golden Child

Michael Ritchie was born on November 28, 1938 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Golden Child (1986), The Island (1980) and Fletch (1985). He was married to Jimmie Brown and Georgina Tebrock. He died on April 16, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.

126. Jack Murdock

Actor | Rain Man

Jack Murdock during the 1960's and 1970's played in commercials for "Grandpas" discount stores in the Midwest. He was well known and played a "Grandpa" type character complete with overalls, bald head, glasses and a country accent to complete his character. Very successful and well received by the ...

127. Gina Mastrogiacomo

Actress | Goodfellas

Gina Mastrogiacomo was born on November 5, 1961 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Goodfellas (1990), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Jungle Fever (1991). She died on May 2, 2001 in Oceanside, California, USA.

128. Sidney Chankin

Actor | The Running Man

Sidney Chankin was born on November 20, 1913. He was an actor, known for The Running Man (1987), Eyes of an Angel (1991) and Falcon Crest (1981). He died on May 3, 2001 in Valley Village, California, USA.

129. Vincent D. Survinski

Production_manager | Night of the Living Dead

Vincent D. Survinski was born on January 25, 1912 in the USA. He was an actor and production manager, known for Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Creepshow (1982). He died on May 7, 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

130. Deborah Walley

Actress | Ski Party

Actress, author, producer, and Photoplay's "Most Popular Actress of 1961," the daughter of Ice Capades skating stars and choreographers Nathan and Edith Walley. She was skating with her parents at age three, but resisted her father's urging to continue, opting to study acting at the New York ...

131. John Cliff

Actor | The Money Jungle

John Cliff was born on November 26, 1918 in Swainsboro, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Money Jungle (1967), The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) and The Milkman (1950). He died on May 12, 2001 in Hayward, California, USA.

132. Perry Como

Soundtrack | The Perry Como Show

In a singing (and sometimes acting) career that spanned over six decades, the name Perry Como has come to mean that warm, smooth, easy-listening, general-audience, slow-flame romance that characterized popular music in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. It has also come to represent an overall good feeling....

133. Jason Miller

Actor | The Exorcist

Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. In 1973, he...

134. Peter Griffith

Actor | Halloween

Peter Griffith was born on October 23, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Halloween (1978), Suspense (1949) and Roads to Romance (1946). He was married to Debra Meyer Boyd, Marianne ?, Daryl ?, Nanita Greene and Tippi Hedren. He died on May 14, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico...

135. Joe Baker

Actor | Pocahontas

The son of British vaudevillians, Joe Baker performed pantomime and stand-up in London clubs and cabarets, and acted in such West End stage shows as "Joey, Joey" and "The Great Grimaldi". He starred in his own BBC-TV shows. "The Joe Baker Show", "Baker's Half Dozen", "My Man Joe", and was a ...

136. Whitman Mayo

Actor | Sanford and Son

Noted for portraying characters older than his actual age, Whitman Mayo was in his early 40s in the early 1970s when he first played the sexagenarian "Grady" on "Sandford & Son" -- a role that popularized the expression "Good Goobily Goop!" Nearly thirty years later his "Grady" role had just about ...

137. Harry Townes

Actor | Star Trek

Harry Townes was born and died in Huntsville, Alabama, where he served as an ordained Episcopal priest. Aside from Huntsville and the priesthood, he had a distinguished, prolific, and quite long career as a character actor in movies and on television. He attended the University of Alabama in the ...

138. Anne Haney

Actress | Mrs. Doubtfire

Anne Haney held prominent roles acting on stage, on the screen, and on TV. All these achievements came in her mid-40s, after she had raised a daughter and buried a husband. It wasn't until after she had packed her daughter off to college and "the maid quit", as she said, that she decided to try her...

139. Imogene Coca

Actress | National Lampoon's Vacation

Imogene Coca is best remembered for playing opposite Sid Caesar in the live 90-minute Your Show of Shows (1950), which ran every Saturday night in regular season on NBC from February 1950 to June 1954. Their repertoire of comedy acts included the very memorable, hilarious, timeless and ...

140. Anthony Quinn

Actor | Alexis Zorbas

Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...

141. Diana Bellamy

Actress | Outbreak

Plump and personable character actress Diana Bellamy was born on September 19, 1943 in Los Angeles. She graduated with a master's degree in Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1970.

Diana Alice Bellamy began her acting career in puppet theater in her native Los Angeles. On the big ...

142. Carroll O'Connor

Actor | All in the Family

Carroll was born in Manhattan and raised in Forest Hills, a heavily Jewish community in New York City's borough of Queens. After graduating from high school in 1942, O'Connor joined the Merchant Marines and worked on ships in the Atlantic. In 1946, he enrolled at the University of Montana to study ...

143. William Bryant

Actor | King Dinosaur

William Bryant was born on January 31, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for King Dinosaur (1955), Hondo (1967) and Gable and Lombard (1976). He was married to Patricia. He died on June 26, 2001 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

144. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

145. Karen Lamm

Actress | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Karen Lamm was born on June 21, 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Police Woman (1974) and The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975). She was married to Dennis Wilson and Robert Lamm. She died on June 29, 2001 in Playa del Rey,...

146. Bruce Detrick

Actor | Invasion of the Blood Farmers

Composer, musician, teacher and poet Bruce Detrick wrote music and lyrics for the theater, scores for two documentary films (on the natural world as healer) and pieces for the Robin Becker Dance Company. "Crosstown Bus", a musical eavesdropping (with original book, music and lyrics), was produced ...

147. Jack Gwillim

Actor | Jason and the Argonauts

Although he did not turn to the stage until middle age after two decades in the Royal Navy, Jack Gwillim was a notable actor on both sides of the Atlantic. During the 1950s he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare company in Stratford, England, for three years during Sir Anthony Quayle's stint as ...

148. Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy

Actor | WWE Monday Night RAW

Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy was born on April 23, 1961 in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWF Superstars (1986) and Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) (1986). He died on July 16, 2001 in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, USA.

149. Alex Nicol

Actor | The Screaming Skull

A regular "good guy" and "bad guy" presence in sagebrush sagas and two-fisted film action during the early 1950s, brawny, blond-haired Alexander Livingston Nicol Jr. was born in 1916 in Ossining, New York, the son of a prison warden there at Sing Sing, and his wife, the matron of a detention center...

150. Christopher Hewett

Actor | The Producers

Christopher Hewett was born on April 5, 1921 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Producers (1967), Mr. Belvedere (1985) and Fantasy Island (1977). He died on August 3, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

151. Hugh Farrington

Actor | The Terminator

Hugh Farrington was born on June 9, 1931. He was an actor, known for The Terminator (1984), T.J. Hooker (1982) and The Golden Girls (1985). He died on August 7, 2001 in Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA.

152. Walter Reed

Actor | Flying Disc Man from Mars

The son of an Army officer, Walter Reed was born in Washington and grew up in Honolulu and Los Angeles, where he attended school with the children of movie stars. After his parents' divorce, and, during the darkest days of the Depression, 17-year-old Reed decided to try acting as a career and made ...

153. Kim Stanley

Actress | Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Kim Stanley's movie roles were few and far between; she is perhaps best known for her stellar performances on stage, including successes on Broadway. But when she did step in front of the camera, nothing short of memorable resulted. Her repertoire in movies and on stage covered such diversity from ...

154. Kathleen Freeman

Actress | The Blues Brothers

Kathleen Freeman's introduction to show business came very early in life. Her parents were vaudevillians, and she made her debut at age 2 in their act. Later she attended UCLA with intentions of becoming a pianist, but was bitten by the acting bug and never looked back. She gained experience on ...

155. Leo Kharibian

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Leo Kharibian was born on April 27, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Death Wish 3 (1985). He was married to Jenny Till. He died on August 23, 2001 in Leicester, England, UK.

156. Jane Greer

Actress | Out of the Past

As a baby, she was winning beauty contests; as a teenager, with good looks and an attractive contralto voice, she was singing with big bands (most notably Enric Madriguera's orchestra in Latin Club Del Rio in Washington, D.C.. She met Rudy Vallee, her first husband, on the radio where she also ...

157. Aaliyah

Soundtrack | Romeo Must Die

Talented. Beautiful. Modest. These three words described R&B singer-turned-actress Aaliyah perfectly.

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Diane (Hankerson) and Michael Haughton. Her uncle was music manager Barry Hankerson and her brother is director Rashad Haughton. Aaliyah was ...

158. Francisco Rabal

Actor | Átame!

Francisco Rabal -- Paco to everyone -- was born in the mining camp where his father worked. His mother owned a small mill. At the age of six, with the Civil War breaking out, the family emigrated to Madrid and he started working as a street salesman and later in a chocolate factory, which later led...

159. Troy Donahue

Actor | A Summer Place

Troy Donahue was a journalism student at Columbia University when he began playing in stock productions. He made his film debut in Man Afraid (1957) and in 1959 signed as a contract player with Warner Bros., which promoted him to stardom with A Summer Place (1959) that year. He was soon a teenage ...

160. Thuy Trang

Actress | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Thuy Trang was born on December 14th of 1973 in Saigon, Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975 to Communist forces, her father who had fought in the Vietnam War, traveled to the United States to seek political asylum. However, his entire family, unable to follow, were left behind.

In 1979, Thuy ...

161. Charles McCrann

Director | Bloodeaters

Charles Austin McCrann, a Princeton Unviersity and Yale Law School grad, was senior vice-president of the Marsh & McLennan Companies financial-services conglomerate, who worked at the firm's World Trade Center offices. Despite his executive exterior, he was a film buff who made his own horror movie...

162. Victor Wong

Actor | Big Trouble in Little China

Eccentric-looking Chinese-American actor with a slightly drooping face (the result of a bout of Bell's palsy) who studied political science, art & journalism before becoming a news reporter for a San Francisco public TV station in the late 1960s.

Apart from a brief stint in the mid-1970s on the TV ...

163. Dorothy McGuire

Actress | Gentleman's Agreement

A genuine model of sincerity, practicality and dignity in most of the roles she inhabited, actress Dorothy McGuire offered Tinseltown more talent than it probably knew what to do with. A quiet, passive beauty, she had a soothing quality to her open-faced looks and voice. She was a natural when he ...

164. Samuel Z. Arkoff

Dressed to Kill

By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle. As a shark, Arkoff was physically...

165. Lani O'Grady

Actress | Eight Is Enough

Although Lani O'Grady retired from acting in the '80s to become a talent agent like her mother, she had long secured her place in the TV Land pantheon as Mary, the brainiac wannabe doctor in Eight Is Enough (1977)'s expansive Bradford brood. The dramedy, starring Dick Van Patten as a newspaper ...

166. Martin Garner

Actor | Twilight Zone: The Movie

Martin Garner was born on July 9, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Memphis (1992) and It Takes Two (1982). He was married to Virginia. He died on September 28, 2001 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

167. Pat Reese

Actor | Night of the Living Dead

Pat Reese was born on January 24, 1927 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Night of the Living Dead (1990). He died on September 30, 2001 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA.

168. Herbert Ross

Director | The Turning Point

Herbert Ross was born on May 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Turning Point (1977), The Goodbye Girl (1977) and The Secret of My Success (1987). He was married to Lee Radziwill and Nora Kaye. He died on October 9, 2001 in New York ...

169. Otis Young

Actor | The Last Detail

Otis Young was born on July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Last Detail (1973), The Clones (1973) and The Capture of Bigfoot (1979). He was married to Cara Croninger and Barbara Young. He died on October 11, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

170. David Lowell Rich

Director | The Concorde... Airport '79

Under-rated producer and director of the 1960s and 1970s.

In the 1960s he directed episodes of several cult TV shows including one episode of The Twilight Zone.

In the 1970s he got caught up in the disaster movie craze by putting out atleast five disaster films, four for TV and one feature (The ...

171. Robert Winley

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Robert Winley was born on December 9, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Joy Ride (2001) and Near Dark (1987). He died on October 21, 2001 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.

172. Harlan Jordan

Actor | Local Hero

Harlan Jordan was born on January 1, 1939 in Kaufman, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Local Hero (1983), Talk Radio (1988) and Tender Mercies (1983). He died on November 3, 2001 in Terrell, Texas, USA.

173. Joan Marion

Actress | Black Limelight

Joan Marion was born on September 28, 1908 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. She was an actress, known for Footsteps in the Sand (1939), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Double Wedding (1933). She was married to Louis De Rouet. She died on November 5, 2001 in Sheringham, Norfolk, England, UK.

174. Regina Waldon

Actress | The Fog

Regina Waldon was born on February 7, 1908 in Van Nuys, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fog (1980), Electric Dreams (1984) and Time After Time (1979). She died on November 17, 2001 in San Rafael, California, USA.

175. Major Brock

Actor | Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Major L. Brock Sr. was born on September 3, 1916 in Lake End, Red River Parish, Louisiana. The son of Hardy Brock and Stella Holly Brock, Major also had a brother named Johnny. Brock worked as a baggage handler for Delta Airlines for 31 years. Director Jim McCullough Sr. persuaded Major to play ...

176. George Harrison

Actor | A Hard Day's Night

A master musician, a film producer and actor, best known as the lead guitarist and occasionally lead vocalist of The Beatles, George Harrison was born February 25, 1943, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He was also the youngest of four children, born to Harold Harrison and Louise Harrison.

Like ...

177. John Mitchum

Actor | The Enforcer

John Newman Mitchum was the September child of a Norwegian mother and an Irish/Blackfoot father whom he never knew, as he was killed in a tragic train yard accident in 1919. His two-years-older brother Robert filled the role as best as he could, while their older sister Annette studied the lively ...

178. Roy Brocksmith

Actor | Total Recall

Roy Brocksmith began his career on the bar at Hap Kuhl's Tavern in his native Quincy, Illinois, at the age of three. As a boy soprano, he performed in churches, schools, and appeared regularly on local radio and television programs. At 16, he taught at the local children's theater. Two years later ...

179. Robert Gunner

Actor | Planet of the Apes

Robert Gunner was born on July 27, 1931 in North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Planet of the Apes (1968), The Jackals (1967) and The Green Hornet (1966). He died on December 18, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

180. Arkie Whiteley

Actress | Mad Max 2

Arkie Whiteley was born on November 6, 1964 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), The Killing of Angel Street (1981) and A Town Like Alice (1981). She was married to Jim Elliott and Christopher Kuhn. She died on December 19, 2001 in Palm Beach, ...

181. Nigel Hawthorne

Actor | The Madness of King George

Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native UK and internationally, the unparalleled Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England on 5 April 1929, raised in South Africa and returned to the UK in the 1950s with his extensive work as a great gentleman of acting...

182. Eileen Heckart

Actress | The Bad Seed

Versatile, award-winning character actress Eileen Heckart, with the lean, horsey face and assured, fervent gait, was born Anna Eileen Herbert on March 29, 1919, in Columbus, Ohio. An only child, she lived with her mother after her parents separated when she was 2 years old, and was eventually ...

183. Carol Ohmart

Actress | House on Haunted Hill

She was one of a bevy of sexy blondes shuffled about in 50s films, thrust into the limelight by ambitious movie studios as possible contenders to Marilyn Monroe's uncooperative pedestal. Almost none of these ladies managed to even step up to the plate when it came to the powerful allure of "La ...

184. Meg Wyllie

Actress | The Last Starfighter

Meg Wyllie was born on February 15, 1917 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]. She was an actress, known for The Last Starfighter (1984), Marnie (1964) and Dragnet (1987). She died on January 1, 2002 in Glendale, California, USA.

185. Avery Schreiber

Actor | Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Avery Schreiber's 1960s and 1970s partner on the comedy stage was Jack Burns, the slimmer, chatty, clean-cut, better-looking dunderhead. Avery Schreiber was the Oliver Hardy counterpart who bore the brunt of Burns' verbal drone. This rumpled, gap-toothed, hefty-sized master of the slow boil stood ...

186. Bill McCutcheon

Actor | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Bill McCutcheon was born on May 23, 1924 in Russell, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), Steel Magnolias (1989) and Hot Stuff (1979). He was married to Lora Anne Routsong. He died on January 9, 2002 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA.

187. Felicite Morgan

Actress | The Boogey Man

Felicite Morgan was born on August 8, 1926 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Boogey Man (1980). She died on January 10, 2002 in Maine, USA.

188. Ted Demme

Director | Blow

Ted Demme was born on October 26, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Blow (2001), Beautiful Girls (1996) and A Decade Under the Influence (2003). He was married to Amanda Scheer-Demme. He died on January 13, 2002 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

189. Ron Taylor

Actor | Trading Places

Ron Taylor was born on October 16, 1952 in Galveston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Trading Places (1983), Matlock (1986) and Twin Peaks (1990). He was married to Deborah Sharpe-Taylor. He died on January 16, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

190. Peggy Lee

Actress | Lady and the Tramp

Peggy Lee was Born Norma Dolores Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, on May 26, 1920. At age four her mother died. Peggy's father, a railroad station agent, remarried but later left home, leaving Peggy's care entrusted to a stepmother who physically abused her. Peggy later memorialized this in the ...

191. Harold Russell

Actor | The Best Years of Our Lives

Harold John Russell was born in Nova Scotia in 1914. His family moved to Cambridge Massachusetts when his father died in 1919. He was training paratroopers at Camp MacKall NC on June 6, 1944 when some TNT he was using exploded in his hands. He lost both hands. After receiving hooks, and training on...

192. Earl Rowe

Actor | The Blob

Earl Rowe was born on August 21, 1920 in Riverside, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Blob (1958), Kojak (1973) and The Doctors (1963). He died on February 1, 2002 in Moorestown, New Jersey, USA.

193. Guy Stockwell

Actor | The War Lord

Although younger brother Dean Stockwell is perhaps the better known actor of the two, Guy Stockwell was a strong, seriously handsome and highly reliable performer over the years, appearing in over 30 films and 200 television shows. The son of Broadway singing baritone Harry Stockwell, his mother, ...

194. Barry Foster

Actor | Frenzy

John Barry Foster's acting career began and ended on the stage. At the age of 20 he won a scholarship to the Central School of Speech and Drama where he befriended future playwright Harold Pinter. After two years training, Barry went on tour with Andrew McMaster and fellow actors Patrick Magee and ...

195. Jack Lambert

Actor | The Killers

American character actor specializing in tough guys and heavies. A native of Yonkers, New York. He worked on the Broadway stage and then became an increasingly familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas, after World War II. Although almost as familiar a presence in films as his contemporaries ...

196. Chuck Jones

Actor | Gremlins

Starting as a cel washer, Chuck Jones worked his way up to animator and then director at the animation division of Warner Bros. He is famous for creating such beloved cartoon characters as Wile E. Coyote, Henery Hawk, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Ralph Wolf, Road Runner, Sam Sheepdog, Sniffles,...

197. Mel Stewart

Actor | Tabitha

Mel Stewart was born on September 19, 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Tabitha (1976), Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983). He was married to Annie Dong. He died on February 24, 2002 in Pacifica, California, USA.

198. Lawrence Tierney

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Legendary Hollywood "tough guy", on screen and off. Remembered as the title character in Dillinger (1945) and as the consummately brutal lover of Claire Trevor in Born to Kill (1947). Notorious for his frequent, well-publicized barroom brawls and the like, including being stabbed in 1973. In his ...

199. Prunella Ransome

Actress | ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?

Prunella Ransome was born on January 18, 1943 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and Man in the Wilderness (1971). She died in March 2002 in Suffolk, England, UK.

200. Alan Manson

Actor | Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Alan Manson was one of a group of World War II soldiers selected to appear in Irving Berlin's 1942 musical This Is the Army (1943). He appeared in the Broadway production as well as in the film. After the war, he continued to perform on Broadway. In 1955, he was called before the House committee ...