2000-2009 RIP

1. Arthur Batanides

Actor | Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

Stocky, general purpose actor, a prolific face on the small screen during the 1960s and 1970s. Batanides got into acting after performing stand-up routines in front of fellow GI's in Europe during World War II. His training in dramatic art at the Actors Lab in Los Angeles was followed by extensive ...

2. John Newland

Director | The Man Who Never Was

Tall, dignified-looking Newland began in show business as a song-and-dance man with a vaudeville troupe ('The Vikings'), whose trade-mark was wearing gold capes. He acted in stock with the Stuart Walker Company, then found work on the New York stage in tandem with Milton Berle at the Roxy, Capitol ...

3. Helena Carter

Actress | The Fighting O'Flynn

Of Irish descent, Helena Carter pursued a master's degree in English Literature at Columbia University with which she hoped to teach, but due to her striking beauty was sidetracked into modeling, signing with the Conover agency. Renowned photographer Dick Isaacs shot some magazine covers of her ...

4. Dan Kemp

Actor | I Spy

Dan Kemp was born on November 29, 1927 in San Diego, California, USA. He was an actor, known for I Spy (1965), The High Chaparral (1967) and Run, Angel, Run! (1969). He was married to Rosalie Anne Buck. He died on January 11, 2000 in Nevada City, California, USA.

5. Fran Ryan

Actress | Stripes

As an American character actress, Fran Ryan was a familiar face on stage, screen and television from her theatrical stage debut in the 1950s and continuing for nearly three decades. Ryan's similarity to actress Marjorie Main was soon noticed in the late 1960s, and she frequently played tough, ...

6. Chuck Courtney

Actor | Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

Chuck Courtney was born on July 23, 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), The Rookie (1990) and Pet Sematary (1989). He was married to Geraldine Courtney. He died on January 19, 2000 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

7. Hedy Lamarr

Actress | Samson and Delilah

Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lemberg (now known as Lviv). Her parents were ...

8. Alan North

Actor | See No Evil, Hear No Evil

After wartime naval service, Alan North began his show business career as a stage manager in New York. He first worked on Broadway in "Plain and Fancy", doubling up as understudy for the small part of Isaac Miller. The play had a successful run between 1955 and 1956 (461 performances) and this led ...

9. Ralph Manza

Actor | Godzilla

Ralph Manza was born on December 1, 1921 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Godzilla (1998), Get Shorty (1995) and Dave (1993). He was married to Catherine Antonette LaFata. He died on January 31, 2000 in Encinitas, California, USA.

10. James N. Harrell

Actor | Michael

James Nelson Harrell, born in Waco, Texas to Margaret Teny and Jefferson Whitfield Harrell, Chair of the Baylor University Mathematics Department, graduated from Waco High School and Baylor University. He held a Master's Degree in Drama from Trinity University. He studied acting at the original ...

11. Will Disney

Actor | The Crazies

Will Disney was born on October 6, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crazies (1973). He died on February 5, 2000 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

12. Todd Karns

Actor | It's a Wonderful Life

Todd Karns was born on January 15, 1921 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was married to Katherine Julia Flaten. He died on February 5, 2000 in Ajijic, Jalisco, ...

13. Jim Varney

Actor | Ernest Goes to Camp

James Albert Varney, Jr. was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nancy Louise (Howard) and James Albert Varney, Sr. He became interested in theater as a teenager, winning state titles in drama competitions while a student at Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky. At age 15 he played Ebeneezer ...

14. Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Actor | Mystery Train

Screamin' Jay Hawkins was best known for his song "I Put a Spell On You, " which he recorded on the Okeh label in 1956 and which helped win him cult status in the United States, Europe and Japan. He had originally planned the tune as a ballad, but after a night of heavy drinking he tried again--...

15. Charles M. Schulz

Writer | The Peanuts Movie

Charles Monroe Schulz (nicknamed "Sparky") was an American comic strip writer and artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was primarily known for creating the long-running comic strip "Peanuts" (1950-2000), and serving as its sole artist for the strip's entire run. His comic strip was known for its ...

16. John Colicos

Actor | The Changeling

John Colicos was born on December 10, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Changeling (1980), Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He was married to Mona McHenry. He died on March 6, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

17. Charles Gray

Actor | Diamonds Are Forever

The son of a surveyor, Charles Gray was born and raised in Queen's Park, Bournemouth. As a young actor, he received his vocal training from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Old Vic, having long abandoned his first job as clerk for a real estate agent. His voice was to...

18. Richard Collier

Actor | Blazing Saddles

Richard Collier was born on June 13, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Blazing Saddles (1974), Christine (1983) and Hello, Dolly! (1969). He died on March 11, 2000 in Calabasas, Los Angeles, California, USA.

19. Rex Everhart

Actor | Friday the 13th

Rex Everhart was born on June 13, 1920 in Watseka, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th (1980), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Superman (1978). He was married to Claire Richard. He died on March 13, 2000 in Branford, Connecticut, USA.

20. Adele Malis-Morey

Actress | The Black Cauldron

Adele Malis-Morey was born on August 23, 1927. She was an actress, known for The Black Cauldron (1985), Doc Hollywood (1991) and Critters (1986). She was married to Morey. She died on March 16, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21. Jeremy Applegate

Actor | Heathers

In the mid 1980s, while pursuing his acting career, Jeremy Applegate worked at Victoria Station in Universal City. He made fast friends, and, although his career was just beginning, he was considered by many to be an impressively talented impersonator. His characters were pursued with intense ...

22. Lew Lehman

Writer | Search and Rescue

Lew Lehman was born on April 8, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Search and Rescue: The Alpha Team (1977), South of Hell Mountain (1971) and Phobia (1980). He died on March 25, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

23. Helen Martin

Actress | Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Helen Martin was born on July 23, 1909 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), Death Wish (1974) and Bulworth (1998). She died on March 25, 2000 in Monterey, California, USA.

24. Ian Dury

Actor | Judge Dredd

Ian Dury had to face polio at the age of 7, and consequently a string of institutions over the next few years. He joined The Walthamstow College of Art at 17, and from 1966-73 he worked as an art teacher in different schools. It was in the middle of this period he started his musical career with a ...

25. Christopher Cary

Actor | The Time Tunnel

Christopher Cary was born on June 16, 1934 in Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Time Tunnel (1966), Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) and The Wild Wild West (1965). He was married to Elen Julie Orson, Victoria Judith Canning, Cheri Maugans, Loretta Elizabeth ...

26. Chino 'Fats' Williams

Actor | The Terminator

Chino 'Fats' Williams was born on July 26, 1933 in Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Terminator (1984), Weird Science (1985) and Road House (1989). He died on April 5, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

27. Claire Trevor

Actress | Key Largo

Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Fifth Avenue merchant-tailor Noel Wemlinger, an immigrant Frenchman from Paris who lost his business during the Depression, and his Belfast-born wife, Benjamina, known as "Betty". Young ...

28. Larry Linville

Actor | M*A*S*H

Larry Linville was born on September 29, 1939 in Ojai, California, USA. He was an actor, known for M*A*S*H (1972), Paper Dolls (1984) and Mannix (1967). He was married to Deborah Guydon, Susan Hagan, Melissa Gallant, Vaughn Taylor and Kate Geer. He died on April 10, 2000 in New York City, New York,...

29. John Pearce

Actor | THX 1138

John Pearce was born on November 7, 1927 in Gainesville, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for THX 1138 (1971), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) and Billy Two Hats (1974). He died on April 29, 2000 in West Los Angeles, California, USA.

30. Steve Reeves

Actor | Le fatiche di Ercole

Handsome bodybuilder Steve Reeves certainly had an enviable Herculean physique, and made plenty good use of it in Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s portraying some of filmdom's most famous bronzed gods. Reeves was originally a Montana boy born on a cattle ranch in 1926. His destiny was ...

31. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Actor | Little Caesar

Although he appeared in approximately 100 movies or TV shows, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. never really intended to take up acting as a career. However, the environment he was born into and the circumstances naturally led him to be a thespian. Noblesse oblige.

He was born Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr. in ...

32. Craig Stevens

Actor | Gunn

Born in Liberty, Missouri, as Gail Shikles Jr., tall, suave Craig Stevens will forever be remembered for his role as the cool, laid-back private eye Peter Gunn (1958), a ground-breaking show that ushered in the era of tough but smooth private eyes who were handy with their fists and with the ladies...

33. Paul Bartel

Actor | Eating Raoul

Paul Bartel was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He decided he wanted to direct animated movies when he was 11 and by 13 had spent a summer working at New York's UPA animation studio. He majored in theater arts at UCLA, and received a Fulbright scholarship to study film direction in Rome, producing a ...

34. Robert Burr

Actor | The Seven-Ups

Robert Burr was born on March 5, 1922 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Seven-Ups (1973), Out on a Limb (1992) and The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972). He was married to Jacqueline Britton. He died on May 13, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

35. Edward Bernds

Director | Assignment: Underwater

Edward Bernds was born in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois. While in his junior year in Lake View High School, he and several friends formed a small radio club and obtained amateur licenses. In the early '20s there was considerable prestige for an amateur operator (a "ham") to have commercial radio ...

36. 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 ...

37. Sô Yamamura

Actor | Tora! Tora! Tora!

Sô Yamamura was born on February 24, 1910 in Tenri, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Kuroi ushio (1954) and Gung Ho (1986). He was married to Yuriko Yamamura. He died on May 26, 2000 in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan.

38. Irving Hellman

Actor | Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Irving Hellman was born on December 21, 1912 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Big Business (1988). He was married to Shirley Hellman. He died on June 1, 2000.

39. Tito Puente

Soundtrack | Star Trek Into Darkness

Ernest "Tito" Anthony Puente was the eldest son of Puerto Rican parents. His mother called him "Ernestito" which means "Little Ernest", which was later shortened to "Tito". His mother saw his musical potential and enrolled him in piano classes. Eventually he attended the Juilliard School of Music ...

40. Nancy Marchand

Actress | The Sopranos

Nancy Marchand's mother, a pianist, sent her shy daughter to acting classes in hopes of breaking her out of her shell. As a student at Carnegie Tech (Carnegie Mellon University), she studied the works of William Shakespeare and the other great playwrights and, upon graduation, set off for New York ...

41. David Tomlinson

Actor | Mary Poppins

David Tomlinson is best known for his role as George Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964). As a youth he spent a short spell in the guards. He joined the RAF in WW2 where he survived the trauma of a plane crash on his first solo flight due to engine failure, then becoming a flying instructor ...

42. Logan Ramsey

Actor | Walking Tall

Logan Ramsey was born on March 21, 1921 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Walking Tall (1973), Walking Tall Part II (1975) and Scrooged (1988). He was married to Anne Ramsey. He died on June 26, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

43. Michael Ripper

Actor | Quatermass and the Pit

The British character actor Michael Ripper was born in 1913 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. His father was a speech therapist and encouraged him to participate in diction and public speaking competitions. From this, the young Michael gained an interest in acting and got his first taste of the ...

44. Walter Matthau

Actor | The Odd Couple

Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars.

He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York...

45. Ángel Aranda

Actor | Javier y los invasores del espacio

Ángel Aranda was born on September 18, 1934 in Jaén, Andalucía, Spain. He is an actor, known for Javier y los invasores del espacio (1967), Planet of the Vampires (1965) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1959).

46. Eric Christmas

Actor | Porky's

Christmas trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, gained experience in English repertory theatre in 1936, and had a principal role in the London production of Noël Coward's "Bitter Sweet" in the 1930s. During the Second World War, he was a member of Royal Air Force production units and ...

47. Harold Nicholas

Actor | Tap

Harold Nicholas, the younger half of the world famous Nicholas Brothers dance team, is known as one of the world's greatest dancers. He and his brother Fayard Nicholas were established superstars at Twentieth Century Fox with their astounding dance numbers in the studios musicals features. Harold ...

48. Roberto Contreras

Actor | Scarface

Roberto Contreras was born on December 12, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Scarface (1983), Bound by Honor (1993) and Topaz (1969). He died on July 18, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

49. Gordon Solie

Actor | The Daredevil

Dubbed the Walter Cronkite of pro wrestling by the sport's most dedicated fans, Gordon Solie was one of the most respected commentators wrestling had ever been privy to for almost five decades. Solie first got into the wrestling game in Tampa, Florida in 1950, before moving on to primarily work for...

50. Max Showalter

Actor | Sixteen Candles

Born in Kansas, Max Showalter picked up the "acting bug" as a toddler when mother used to take him to the local theater where she played the piano for silent movies. He acted in 92 shows at the Pasadena Playhouse between 1935 and '38, made his Broadway debut under the aegis of Oscar Hammerstein II ...

51. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

52. Max Phipps

Actor | Mad Max 2

Max Phipps was born on November 18, 1939 in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Nate and Hayes (1983) and Stir (1980). He died on August 6, 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

53. Loretta Young

Actress | The Stranger

Sweet, sweeter, sweetest. No combination of terms better describes the screen persona of lovely Loretta Young. A&E's Biography (1987) has stated that Young "remains a symbol of beauty, serenity, and grace. But behind the glamour and stardom is a woman of substance whose true beauty lies in her ...

54. John Milford

Actor | Homefront

John Milford was born on September 7, 1927 in Johnstown, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Homefront (1991), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Legend of Jesse James (1965). He was married to Susan Graw. He died on August 14, 2000 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

55. John Hayes

Director | The Cut-Throats

John Patrick Hayes was a writer, director, editor, producer and occasional actor who made a wide variety of offbeat and interesting low-budget independent pictures throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Born in New York, he began his film career making short movies in the 1950s--his 1958 short "The Kiss" ...

56. Tomata Du Plenty

Actor | Population: 1

Tomata Du Plenty was born on May 28, 1948 in Queens, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Population: 1 (1986), Underground U.S.A. (1980) and Tricia's Wedding (1971). He died on August 21, 2000 in San Francisco, California, USA.

57. Professor Toru Tanaka

Actor | Last Action Hero

Built like the proverbial Patton tank, Professor Toru Tanaka was arguably the successor to Harold Sakata as the archetypal Asian henchman who possessed incredible strength, and clobbered those foolish enough to tangle with him. Born Charles Kalani, he was a successful wrestler and served for over ...

58. Shelagh Fraser

Actress | Star Wars

Shelagh Fraser was born on November 25, 1920 in Purley, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), The History of Mr. Polly (1949) and Doomwatch (1970). She was married to Anthony Squire. She died on August 29, 2000 in London, England, UK.

59. Patricia Owens

Actress | The Fly

Patricia Owens was born in Golden, British Columbia, in 1925. When she was eight she moved to England, where she embarked on a number of stage plays. Later she was spotted by a Twentieth Century-Fox executive, who offered her a contract, and in 1956 she went to Hollywood. There she met Sy Bartlett,...

60. Jean Speegle Howard

Actress | Apollo 13

Jean Speegle Howard was born on January 31, 1927 in Duncan, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Apollo 13 (1995), Scrooged (1988) and Cocoon (1985). She was married to Rance Howard. She died on September 2, 2000 in Burbank, California, USA.

61. Curt Siodmak

Writer | 13 Demon Street

Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1902, Curt Siodmak worked as an engineer and a newspaper reporter before entering the literary and movie fields. It was as a reporter that he got his first break (of sorts) in films: in 1926 he and his reporter-wife hired on as extras on Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) ...

62. Beah Richards

Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Beah Richards left her native Vicksburg, Mississippi, for New York City in 1950. She would not acquire a significant role on stage until 1955,when she appeared in the off-Broadway show "Take a Giant Step" convincingly portraying an 84-year-old grandmother without using theatrical makeup. In 1962 ...

63. Ann Doran

Actress | Rebel Without a Cause

Ann Doran appeared in over 500 motion pictures and 1000 television shows, by one count. Starting at the age of four, she appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names so her father's family wouldn't find out. Rarely a featured player (although Charles Starrett's Rio Grande (1938) is a ...

64. Gloria Talbott

Actress | All That Heaven Allows

Gloria Talbott was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, a city co-founded by her great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Nye Patterson. Growing up in the shadows of the Hollywood studios, her interests inevitably turned to acting, with the result that she participated in school plays and landed...

65. Patti Jerome

Actress | Alligator

Patti Jerome was born on August 5, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Alligator (1980), White House Madness (1975) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978). She was married to Harry Balk. She died on September 24, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

66. Richard Mulligan

Actor | Soap

Originally a student of playwriting at Columbia University, Richard Mulligan began his acting career in regional theater and soon after made his Broadway debut in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "All the Way Home". In addition to his continuing Broadway career, Mulligan had successfully transferred...

67. Ted Gehring

Actor | Bad Company

Ted Gehring was born on April 6, 1929 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. He was an actor, known for Bad Company (1972), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and The Domino Principle (1977). He was married to Barbara Coates. He died on September 28, 2000 in Steelville, Missouri, USA.

68. Richard Liberty

Actor | Day of the Dead

Richard Liberty was born on March 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Day of the Dead (1985), Flight of the Navigator (1986) and The Final Countdown (1980). He died on October 2, 2000 in Dania, Florida, USA.

69. Ben Orr

Actor | The Cars: Drive

Bassist and singer Ben Orr was born Benjamin Orzechowski on September 8, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. His Russian and Czechoslovakian parents actively encouraged his musical endeavors. Ben grew up in Lakewood and Parma Heights, Ohio. He played bass, keyboards, and percussion instruments in his teen ...

70. Richard Farnsworth

Actor | The Straight Story

An American stuntman who, after more than 30 years in the business, moved into acting and became an acclaimed and respected character actor, Richard Farnsworth was a native of Los Angeles. He grew up around horses and as a teenager was offered an opportunity to ride in films. He appeared in ...

71. David Dukes

Actor | Gods and Monsters

David Dukes was born on June 6, 1945 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Gods and Monsters (1998), Rawhead Rex (1986) and A Little Romance (1979). He was married to Carol Muske-Dukes and Carolyn Lee McKenzie. He died on October 9, 2000 in Lakewood, Washington, USA.

72. Rick Jason

Actor | Combat!

The only child of a stockbroker and well-to-do mother, Richard Jacobson (who changed his surname to "Jason") described himself as "second-generation nouveau riche" and a born romantic. His behavior got him expelled from eight prep schools before he managed to graduate from the Rhodes School. His ...

73. Julie London

Actress | Emergency!

Julie London recorded 32 albums during her career. Forced to give up band singing when her true age was discovered, she was primarily a torch singer. Her vocal range was described by "sultry" and "low-keyed". Her own favorite singers were Barbra Streisand and Roberta Flack.

She was known in some ...

74. Gwen Verdon

Actress | Cocoon

Gwen Verdon was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer. Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. She had to wear corrective boots as a child to straighten out her legs, which were misshapen by childhood illness. Nonetheless, she first appeared as a tapper...

75. Yokozuna

Actor | WWE Monday Night RAW

The man who would eventually become known as Yokozuna was born in San Francisco on October 22, 1966. He came from a wrestling family, as his uncles were Afa Anoai and Sika Anoai. He was trained by his uncles and Sam Fatu as a teenager and wrestled in Alabama and the USWA under the name Kokina Anoai...

76. Steve Allen

Actor | Casino

Steve Allen was born on December 26, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Casino (1995), The Player (1992) and College Confidential (1960). He was married to Jayne Meadows and Dorothy Goodman. He died on October 30, 2000 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA.

77. Raymond Laine

Actor | Sudden Death

Raymond Laine was born on April 9, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sudden Death (1995), The Affair (1971) and The Devil and Sam Silverstein (1976). He was married to Pamela Murphy and Susan McGregor-Laine. He died on November 1, 2000 in Pittsburgh, ...

78. James Edmond

Actor | Black Christmas

James Edmond was born on February 7, 1924 in Walkerton, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Black Christmas (1974), Devil Girl from Mars (1954) and ABC Weekend Specials (1977). He was married to Shirley Faessler. He died on November 4, 2000 in Paris, Ontario, Canada.

79. Rayford Barnes

Actor | The Wild Bunch

Rayford Barnes was born on October 23, 1920 in near Whitesboro, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wild Bunch (1969), Death Hunt (1981) and Young Jesse James (1960). He was married to Debra ?. He died on November 11, 2000 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

80. Robert Doyle

Actor | Alligator

Robert Doyle was born on September 22, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Alligator (1980), Lancer (1968) and The Outer Limits (1963). He was married to Pamela Dunlap. He died on November 16, 2000 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.

81. Anne Barton

Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Anne Barton was born on March 20, 1924 in Evansville, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Whirlybirds (1957). She was married to Dan Barton. She died on November 27, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

82. Chris Rebello

Actor | Jaws

Chris Rebello was born on August 8, 1963 in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Jaws (1975). He was married to Lyn Wadsworth. He died on November 30, 2000 in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA.

83. Gail Fisher

Actress | Mannix

A classy, smart-looking African-American actress who broke racial barriers in 1970s Hollywood but suffered greatly in her private life years after her TV glory days, award-winning actress Gail Fisher was born on August 18, 1935, in Orange, New Jersey, the youngest of five children. Her father, a ...

84. Werner Klemperer

Actor | Hogan's Heroes

Werner Klemperer, everyone's favorite TV German Air Force colonel, was best known for his role as the bumbling Col. Wilhelm Klink on the comedy series Hogan's Heroes (1965). Although he'll forever be known as the blustering but inept German commandant of Stalag 13, Klemperer was in fact a talented ...

85. Marie Windsor

Actress | The Killing

Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen) was born in Marysvale, Utah, and attended Brigham Young University. She trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya before she began playing leading roles in B pictures in the late 1940s. So many B films in fact, that she garnered the title of 'Queen of ...

86. George Montgomery

Actor | Samar

George Montgomery was boxing champion at the University of Montana where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later he decided to take up boxing more seriously. He moved to California where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in ...

87. Trevor Adams

Actor | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Trevor Adams was born on May 19, 1946. He was an actor, known for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976), I Am a Groupie (1970) and Private Road (1971). He died on December 15, 2000 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK.

88. Billy Barty

Actor | Masters of the Universe

Billy Barty was born William John Bertanzetti on October 25, 1924 in Millsboro, Pennsylvania. He began performing at age three and began making pictures in 1927. He played Mickey Rooney's little brother in the "Mickey McGuire" comedy shorts series. He was equally adept in both comedy and drama, and...

89. Victor Borge

Actor | Higher and Higher

Pianist, composer, songwriter, entertainer and actor, educated at Borgerdydskolen and the Conservatory of Copenhagen. He studied with Egon Petri and Frederic Lammond. His concert career began in 1922, and he performed in a musical revue in 1934, and in films by 1937. Arriving in the US in 1940, he ...

90. Leo Gordon

Actor | Maverick

Big, burly character actor, one of the toughest of screen heavies. New York-born Leo Gordon's combination of a powerful physique, deep, menacing voice and icy, withering glare was guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of even the bravest screen hero. Director Don Siegel, who used Gordon in his ...

91. Jason Robards

Actor | All the President's Men

Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles. A star athlete at ...

92. Ray Walston

Actor | Popeye

Ray Walston started his acting career as a spear carrier with a local stock company. When the family moved to Houston, Texas, Walston's father wanted to teach him the oil business, but Walston instead joined a traveling repertory company (selling tickets as well as acting). He went on to associate ...

93. Dario Michaelis

Actor | Nana

Dario Michaelis was born on March 29, 1927 in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Nana (1955), I briganti italiani (1961) and La strada dei giganti (1960). He died on January 5, 2001 in Rome, Italy.

94. Nancy Parsons

Actress | Porky's

Nancy Parsons was born in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to Mary Margaret née Samsa and Charles Walter Parsons. She had two siblings -- Mary Jean Parsons and Theresa Mae Macrae née Parsons. When she was seventeen, her father remarried Genevieve Stack and moved with the three girls to South Pasadena, ...

95. Bryan Gregory

Actor | The Foreigner

Bryan Gregory was born on February 20, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Foreigner (1978) and The Cramps: Human Fly (1978). He was married to Robyn Hunt. He died on January 10, 2001 in Anaheim, California, USA.

96. Amando de Ossorio

Writer | I tre del Colorado

He was born in 1918, although there isn't a consensus as some books date his birth in 1925. He was one of the main directors of the Spanish horror boom in the 70s, specially for his quartet of films about the living dead templars which started with Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972).

97. Richard Woods

Actor | Miller's Crossing

Richard Woods was born on May 9, 1923 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Miller's Crossing (1990), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and I.Q. (1994). He died on January 16, 2001 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

98. Al Waxman

Actor | Cagney & Lacey

Al Waxman was born on March 2, 1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for Cagney & Lacey (1981), Heavy Metal (1981) and The Hurricane (1999). He was married to Sara. He died on January 18, 2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

99. Sandy Baron

Actor | The Grifters

Sandy Baron was born Sanford Beresofsky in Brooklyn, New York on May 5, 1936. Raised in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood, the young Sandy attended public schools and participated in accelerated classes. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he spent his early years working summers in the Catskill ...

100. David Byrd

Actor | Tango & Cash

David Byrd was born on September 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Tango & Cash (1989), Lost Highway (1997) and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He was married to Anne Gee Byrd. He died on January 26, 2001 in Studio City, California, USA.