King Kong’s 50th Birthday 1983 premiere
by magicmikepeaches | created - 30 Dec 2022 | updated - 30 Dec 2022 | PublicThursday May 26th, TCL Chinese Theatre 6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
1. Fay Wray
Actress | King Kong
Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age. She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career as a heroine in westerns at Universal during the silent era. In 1926 the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers ...
2. Forrest J. Ackerman
Actor | Braindead
Forrest J. Ackerman was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Braindead (1992), The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988) and Vampirella (1996). He was married to Mathilde "Wendayne" Wahrman. He died on December 4, 2008 in Los Angeles, California...
3. Rick Baker
Make_up_department | Planet of the Apes
Rick Baker was born on December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Planet of the Apes (2001), Men in Black (1997) and The Wolfman (2010). He has been married to Silvia Abascal since November 8, 1987. They have two children. He was previously married to Elaine Alexander.
4. Tom Bosley
Actor | Happy Days
Tom Bosley was born on October 1, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Happy Days (1974), The Back-up Plan (2010) and Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). He was married to Patricia Carr and Jean Eliot. He died on October 19, 2010 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
5. Ray Bradbury
Writer | The Ray Bradbury Theater
Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.
He was...
6. Tom Bradley
Self | Nick of Time
Tom Bradley was born on December 29, 1917 in Calvert, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Nick of Time (1995), It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986) and 16 Days of Glory (1985). He was married to Ethel Arnold. He died on September 29, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
7. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
8. Lyle Conway
Art_department | Little Shop of Horrors
Lyle Conway is known for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Blade (1998) and Return to Oz (1985).
9. Dorothy Jordan
Actress | The Searchers
Brunette Dorothy Jordan was a graduate of Southwestern University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Trained as a ballerina, she first graced the stage as a chorus girl in top flight musicals, like "Funny Face" (1927), with Fred Astaire, and "Treasure Girl" (1928), with Gertrude Lawrence and...
10. Dan Curry
Visual_effects | Star Trek: Voyager
Dan Curry is known for Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001).
11. Jim Danforth
Special_effects | They Live
Jim Danforth was born on July 13, 1940 in the USA. He is known for They Live (1988), Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) and The Prophecy (1995).
12. Joe Dante
Director | Innerspace
Joe Dante is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his directorial debut in 1976 with Hollywood Boulevard (1976) (co-directed with Allan Arkush)...
13. Tony Danza
Actor | Don Jon
Tony Danza is an American actor, perhaps best known for starring on some of television's most beloved and long-running series, including "Taxi" (1978-1983) and "Who's the Boss?" (1984-1992).
Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anne (Cammisa), a bookkeeper, and Matty Iadanza, a garbageman. His ...
14. Linwood G. Dunn
Visual_effects | West Side Story
Linwood G. Dunn was born on December 27, 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for West Side Story (1961), The Thing from Another World (1951) and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). He was married to Alice Dunn. He died on May 15, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
15. Rhonda Fleming
Actress | Out of the Past
A native-born Californian, Rhonda Fleming attended Beverly Hills public and private schools. Her father was Harold Cheverton Louis (1896-1951). Her mother, Effie Olivia Graham (1891-1985), was a famous model and actress in New York. She has a son (Kent Lane), two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly)...
16. Fred Fox Jr.
Producer | Family Matters
Fred Fox Jr. was born on February 7, 1947 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Family Matters (1989), My Secret Identity (1988) and It's Your Move (1984).
17. Orville Goldner
Orville Goldner was born on May 18, 1906 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a director and writer, known for King Kong (1933), Miss Clark Introduces Panorama (1960) and Your Dream Home (1939). He was married to Dorothy Goldner. He died on February 28, 1985.
18. Jack Haley Jr.
Producer | Hollywood and the Stars
Jack Haley Jr. was born on October 25, 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Hollywood and the Stars (1963), Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front (1977) and Movin' with Nancy (1967). He was married to Liza Minnelli. He died on April 21, 2001 in ...
19. Mark Harmon
Actor | NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Thomas Mark Harmon was born on September 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, to football player and broadcaster Tom Harmon and actress and artist Elyse Knox (née Kornbrath). Harmon played college football and found success as one of TV's hunkiest actors. While many of his roles have relied on good ...
20. Ray Harryhausen
Actor | Spies Like Us
When it comes to motion-picture special effects, there is only one name that personifies movie magic: Ray Harryhausen. From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Harryhausen imbued magic and visual strength to motion-picture special effects as no other technician has, before or since.
...
21. Hugh Hefner
Actor | Miss March
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Miss March (2009), Hop (2011) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). He was married to Crystal Hefner, Kimberley Conrad and Mildred Williams. He died on September 27, 2017 in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles,...
22. Ron Howard
Producer | Arrested Development
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.
Howard ...
23. Ruby Keeler
Actress | 42nd Street
Ruby Keeler started as a dancer on Broadway. After her marriage to Al Jolson she moved to Hollywood and become a star in Warners musicals opposite Dick Powell. After her divorce from Jolson she retired for almost 30 years, until she appeared in "No No Nanette" on Broadway in 1971 under the ...
24. John Landis
Director | The Blues Brothers
John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...
25. Brian Levant
Producer | Still the Beaver
Brian Michael Levant is an American filmmaker and producer known for directing many films such as The Flintstones, Jingle All the Way, Snow Dogs, Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins, The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas, Scooby-Doo: Curse of the Lake Monster, Are We There Yet?, The Spy Next Door and Max 2: ...
26. Ted Mann
Producer | Krull
Ted Mann was born on April 16, 1916 in Wishek, North Dakota, USA. He was a producer, known for Krull (1983), The Nude Bomb (1980) and Brubaker (1980). He was married to Rhonda Fleming and Ida Charon. He died on January 15, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
27. Penny Marshall
Actress | Laverne & Shirley
Penny Marshall was born Carole Penny Marshall on October 15, 1943 in Manhattan. The Libra was 5' 6 1/2", with brown hair and green eyes. She was the daughter of Marjorie (Ward), a tap dance teacher, and Anthony "Tony" Marshall, an industrial film director. She was the younger sister of filmmakers ...
28. Mary Martin
Soundtrack | Peter Pan
Originally a dance instructor, she came to Broadway during the Depression to begin her career as a professional actress. A daughter of Texas, she originally began work as a dance instructor until a local evangelical-adherent burned down her studio citing her work as being too sinful for human ...
29. Jerry Mathers
Actor | The Trouble with Harry
Jerry Mathers was born on June 2, 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Trouble with Harry (1955), Leave It to Beaver (1957) and The Love Boat (1977). He has been married to Teresa Modnick since January 30, 2011. He was previously married to Diana Platt and ...
30. Roddy McDowall
Actor | Fright Night
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was born in Herne Hill, London, to Winifriede Lucinda (Corcoran), an Irish-born aspiring actress, and Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman of Scottish descent. Roddy was enrolled in elocution courses at age five and by ten had appeared in his first film, ...
31. John Milius
Writer | Conan the Barbarian
John Milius is a screenwriter and director who came to prominence in the 1970s, when he was associated with Francis Ford Coppola and the pre-Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) George Lucas. Born on April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, Milius was one of the first movie industry ...
32. Leonard Nimoy
Actor | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Leonard Simon Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Dora (Spinner) and Max Nimoy, who owned a barbershop. His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. Raised in a tenement and acting in community theaters since age eight, Nimoy did not make his Hollywood debut until he was 20, with a bit ...
33. Vincent Price
Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb "Daisy" (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, who was President of the National Candy ...
34. David Raskin
David Raskin is known for Messengers (2004), The Breakup Artist (2004) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Swing But Were Afraid to Ask (1999).
35. Debbie Reynolds
Actress | Singin' in the Rain
Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Maxine N. (Harmon) and Raymond Francis Reynolds, a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Reynolds wasn't a ...
36. Gene Roddenberry
Writer | Star Trek
While in junior high school, he became interested in science fiction, and years later while reading a copy of 'Astounding Stories' when he was working as an airline pilot, he decided to give it up and become a writer. He moved West and joined the Los Angeles police force to gain experience that ...
37. Daniel Selznick
Producer | Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War
Daniel Selznick was born on May 18, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War (1987), Targets (1968) and Night Drive (1977). He has been married to Susan Warms Dryfoos since 1989.
38. William Shatner
Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.
Shatner was born ...
39. Rod Steiger
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at...
40. George E. Turner
Special_effects | Zorro
George E. Turner was born on September 30, 1925 in Harris County, Texas, USA. He is known for Zorro (1957), The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (2002) and Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997). He died on June 20, 1999 in Pasadena, California, USA.
41. Michaele Vollbracht
Costume_department | The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
Michaele Vollbracht was born on November 17, 1947 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. He is known for The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983), Hart to Hart (1979) and The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982). He died on June 7, 2018 in Safety Harbor, Florida, USA.
42. Henry Winkler
Actor | The Waterboy
Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945, in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Ilse Anna Maria (Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler, were German Jewish immigrants who escaped the Holocaust by moving to the US in 1939. His father was the president of an international lumber company while his ...
43. Robert Wise
Director | West Side Story
Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...
44. Bob Burns
Actor | The Lovely Bones
World renown archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other screen used paraphernalia from some of the greatest (and not so great) science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures. Among some of the things found in his "basement" museum are, the original Time Machine from the George Pal ...
45. Bill Welsh
Actor | Dragstrip Girl
Bill Welsh was born on April 25, 1911 in Greeley, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Dragstrip Girl (1957), The Rose Bowl Story (1952) and Hollywood Horror House (1970). He was married to Lucinda Pennington. He died on February 27, 2000 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
46. Edward Asner
Actor | Up
Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...
47. Ginger Rogers
Actress | Kitty Foyle
Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911, the daughter of Lela E. Rogers (née Lela Emogene Owens) and William Eddins McMath. Her mother went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he ...
48. Pandro S. Berman
Producer | Father of the Bride
Pandro S. Berman was born into the film industry. His father, Harry, was distributor and exhibitor of films. Pandro also had a number of relatives in the film industry. When he started working in the 1920's he started as a script clerk and then rose to film editor. By 1931, the 26 year old Berman ...
49. Joseph F. Biroc
Camera_department | The Towering Inferno
Joseph Biroc was destined to become one of the most versatile cinematographers in Hollywood, working on films of almost every genre. He started as a lab assistant in 1918, based at Paragon Studio, located in America's first 'film capital', Ft.Lee, New Jersey. From there, he moved on to the ...
50. Richard Fleischer
Director | Soylent Green
Richard firmly established his credentials with such epics as The Vikings (1958) , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Barabbas (1961) and also proved to be a master of intimate drama with Compulsion (1959) , which won Cannes Festival awards for the male stars. He won an Academy Award for one ...
51. James G. Stewart
Sound_department | The Magnificent Ambersons
James G. Stewart was born on May 21, 1907 in Homewood, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Citizen Kane (1941) and Portrait of Jennie (1948). He was married to Dorothy Lockhart Stewart. He died on March 22, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
52. Robert Mitchum
Actor | Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. His father died in a ...
53. Katherine Brown
Self | Ingrid
Katherine Brown was born on December 7, 1902 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA. She is known for Ingrid (1984), Our World (1986) and Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987). She was married to James Barrett. She died on January 18, 1995 in Hightstown, New Jersey, USA.
54. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...
55. John Houseman
Actor | The Paper Chase
Academy Award-winning actor John Houseman's main contribution to American culture was not his own performances on film but rather, his role as a midwife to one of the greatest actor-directors-cinematic geniuses his adopted country ever produced (Orson Welles) and as a midwife to a whole generation ...
56. William Fadiman
Producer | Rampage
William J. Fadiman, longtime Hollywood story editor, literary critic and producer, was educated at the University of Wisconsin and the Sorbonne. While still in college he wrote a literary game called "Poetic Posers" that was published regularly in the New York Herald. From the 1940s to the 1970s he...
57. 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 ...
58. William Dozier
Producer | Batman: The Movie
William Dozier was an American TV and movie producer who made it to the top of the TV heap briefly in the mid-1960s with his show Batman (1966). Born on February 13, 1908 in Omaha, Nebraska, Dozier was also known for his wives. After divorcing his first wife, he was married to Oscar-winner Joan ...
59. Bert Granet
Writer | Legion of Terror
New York-born television pioneer Bert Granet graduated with a B.A. from Yale University. He began in the film industry in 1934, and, a decade later, was working as writer-producer under contract at RKO (1944-48). He set up his own short-lived production company, Kaladore Corporation, under which ...
60. Lucille Ball
Actress | I Love Lucy
The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York, the daughter of Desiree Evelyn "DeDe" (Hunt) and Henry Durrell "Had" Ball. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked ...
61. John Springer
John Springer was born on April 25, 1916 in Rochester, New York, USA. He is known for The Only Game in Town (1970), Lust in the Dust (1984) and Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998). He was married to Monica Lane. He died on October 30, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
62. Rudy Vallee
Actor | The Palm Beach Story
Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a bandleader. In the 1920s and early '30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (although his explosive, ego-driven personality made his cast and crew hate him). In the early 1930s he was ranked with ...
63. Edward Dmytryk
Director | The Caine Mutiny
Edward Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco, the son of Ukrainian immigrants. After his mother died when he was 6, his strict disciplinarian father beat the boy frequently, and the child began running away while in his early teens. Eventually, juvenile authorities allowed him to live alone at the age ...
64. William Alland
Actor | Citizen Kane
Born in Delmar, DE, William Alland began his show-biz career as an actor with a semi-professional Baltimore troupe. Arriving in Manhattan with $25, "a paper suitcase" and the ambition to work on Broadway, he took courses and acted at the Henry Street Settlement House, where he met "boy wonder" ...
65. Hermes Pan
Academy Award-winning dance director responsible for choreographing several dozen of Hollywood's most truly memorable musicals, including every one of the nine Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers 1930s gems - not to mention Fred and Ginger's screen swan song, The Barkleys of Broadway (1949). He also ...
66. Fred Astaire
Actor | The Towering Inferno
Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Johanna (Geilus) and Fritz Austerlitz, a brewer. Fred entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. ...
67. Miriam Geiger
Writer | Woman Doctor
Miriam Geiger is known for Woman Doctor (1939), Lassie (1954) and The Four Just Men (1959).
68. Murray Spivack
Sound_department | Tora! Tora! Tora!
Murray Spivack was born on September 6, 1903 in Russia. He is known for Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Hello, Dolly! (1969) and West Side Story (1961). He died on May 8, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
69. Mario Zamparelli
Self | Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
Mario Zamparelli was born on October 15, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on September 8, 2012 in California, USA.
70. Jane Russell
Actress | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was a United States Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. Once Mr. Russell was mustered out of the service, the family took up residence in ...
71. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Actor | The Rise of Catherine the Great
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 ...
72. Maurice Seiderman
Make_up_department | The Madmen of Mandoras
Maurice Seiderman was born on October 27, 1907 in Samara, Russia. He is known for The Madmen of Mandoras (1963), Shake Hands with Murder (1944) and First Yank Into Tokyo (1945). He was married to Genya Fidler. He died on July 18, 1989 in Port Angeles, Washington, USA.
73. Michael Woulfe
Costume_department | The Thing from Another World
Michael Woulfe was born on June 2, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a costume designer, known for The Thing from Another World (1951), Dangerous Mission (1954) and Jet Pilot (1957). He died on August 30, 2007 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
74. Ralph Hoge
Assistant_director | The Black Book
Ralph Hoge was born on November 28, 1909 in California, USA. He was an assistant director, known for The Black Book (1929), The Sharkfighters (1956) and Sudden Fear (1952). He died on November 28, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
75. Garson Kanin
Writer | Adam's Rib
Garson Kanin has worked as an actor on stage and as a director on Broadway and in Hollywood, but his best-known work is as a writer. During the Great Depression, he dropped out of high school to help support his family by working as a musician and later as a comedian. He attended the American ...
76. Hal Borne
Soundtrack | Cake
Songwriter ("Tenement Symphony", "I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown"), composer and conductor. Educated at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Music School. He worked at RKO for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for seven years, and was musical director for Tony Martin 1949-1956. ...
78. Allan Scott
Writer | So Proudly We Hail!
Allan Scott was born on May 23, 1906 in Arlington, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for So Proudly We Hail! (1943), Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936). He was married to Laura Ramsey Straub. He died on April 13, 1995 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
79. Fay Kanin
Writer | Friendly Fire
This screenwriter and playwright began working in Hollywood in the early 1940s, usually in collaboration with her husband, Michael Kanin, and blossomed after his retirement as a writer and producer of some of the small screen's most distinguished TV-movies. Statuesque, articulate, with the air of a ...
80. Vernon Harbin
Self | Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
Vernon Harbin was born in 1909. He is known for Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987). He died on July 31, 1988.
81. Ruth Warrick
Actress | Citizen Kane
Reedy and regal actress Ruth Warrick will be remembered for two names and two names alone. In films, she will indelibly be referred to as the castoff first "Mrs. Citizen Kane," and on TV she will forever be synonymous with her character of Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, the obnoxiously wealthy, ...
82. Erik Rhodes
Actor | Top Hat
With his slicked back hair and thin moustache Erik Rhodes arrived in Hollywood to recreate his stage role of Rudolfo Tonetti (which he had performed first on Broadway and then in London, 1932-1933) for the filming of The Gay Divorcee (1934), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Contrary to his ...
83. Joan Fontaine
Actress | Suspicion
Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...
84. Maurice Zuberano
Art_department | West Side Story
Maurice Zuberano was born on October 5, 1911 in Connecticut, USA. He was an art director, known for West Side Story (1961), Dick Tracy (1990) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). He died on July 2, 1994 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
85. Shifra Haran
It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles
Shifra Haran was born on December 16, 1913. She was an actress, known for It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993), Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987) and L'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a vu l'ours (1990). She died in 1988.
86. Janet Leigh
Actress | Psycho
Janet Leigh was the only child of a couple who often moved from town to town. Living in apartments, Janet was a bright child who skipped several grades and finished high school when she was 15. A lonely child, she would spend much of her time at movie theaters. She was a student, studying music and...
87. Zoe Porter
Self | Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
Zoe Porter was born on August 20, 1901 in Oklahoma, USA. She is known for Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987). She died on September 20, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
88. Jean Simmons
Actress | Guys and Dolls
Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944). She had a small part as a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (...
90. Stewart Granger
Actor | King Solomon's Mines
Stewart Granger was born James Lablache Stewart in London, the great grandson of the opera singer Luigi Lablache. He attended Epsom College but left after deciding not to pursue a medical degree. He decided to try acting and attended Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art, London. By 1935, he made ...
91. Richard Wilson
Director | It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles
Richard Wilson was born on December 25, 1915 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and producer, known for It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993), The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Raw Wind in Eden (1958). He was married to Elizabeth Wilson. He died on ...
92. Kemp Niver
Kemp Niver was born on October 17, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Monstrosity (1963), The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) and Niver vs Walls (2016). He died on October 15, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
94. Paul Jarrico
Writer | The Girl Most Likely
Producer and screenwriter who, among many in his craft labeled in the late 1940's and early 1950's as 'subversive' by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, was blacklisted, Jarrico in the prime of his career. His name was left out of the credits of most American films that he wrote ...
95. Edward Eliscu
Music_department | Flying Down to Rio
Edward Eliscu was primarily known as a songwriter, son of author Edward Eliscu. Educated at City College, New York, he acted in plays. And subsequently became a lyricist of high caliber and authored libretti for shows and later films. His lyric writing credits include Broadway shows Great Day, The ...
96. Perry Lieber
Self | Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
Perry Lieber was born on June 1, 1905 in the USA. He is known for Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987). He was married to Josephine ?. He died on December 12, 1988 in New York, USA.
97. Jean Porter
Actress | Cry Danger
One of MGM's more vivacious secondary stars during the 40s, petite and lovely Jean Porter was born in Texas in 1922 but left the state while young to pursue her dream as an actress. Following some vaudeville experience, she made her uncredited film debut in 1939 (age 17) and slowly graduated to ...
98. Gene Raymond
Actor | Smartest Girl in Town
Gene Raymond was born on August 13, 1908, in New York City as Raymond Guion. He was a child performer and a Broadway veteran by the age of 12. Blond, husky, and handsome, he enjoyed his greatest popularity in the 1930s and early 1940s. His big break came in Personal Maid (1931). He was soon cast in...
99. Tom O'Neil
Self | Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
Tom O'Neil was born on April 18, 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was married to Claire ?. He died on March 14, 1998 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
100. Grande Otelo
Actor | Macunaíma
Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata was born in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais state, but became a famous actor in Rio de Janeiro.
At the National Opera, where he studied, got the nickname "The Little Otelo". Then, he decided to be called "Great Otelo" or in Portuguese, "Grande Otelo".
He acted in theaters,...
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