Purple Rain 1984 premiere

1. Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer and social worker, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His father's stage name was "Prince Rogers". His parents were both from African-American families from Louisiana. They separated during his youth, ...

2. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...

3. Eddie Murphy

Actor | The Nutty Professor

Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...

4. Christopher Reeve

Actor | Superman

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City, to journalist Barbara Johnson (née Barbara Pitney Lamb) and writer/professor F.D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve). He came from an upper-class family; his paternal grandfather was CEO of Prudential Financial, and one of his ...

5. John Mellencamp

Soundtrack | The Perfect Storm

John Mellencamp was born on October 7, 1951 in Seymour, Indiana, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for The Perfect Storm (2000), Colors (1988) and Footloose (1984). He was previously married to Elaine Irwin, Victoria Granucci and Priscilla Diane Esterline.

6. Bob Casale

Music_department | Drop Dead Gorgeous

Robert Edward Casale Jr. was born on July 14, 1952 in Kent, Ohio. The younger brother of Gerald Casale, Robert grew up in Akron, Ohio and was trained as a medical radiation technologist, but eventually left that job to become a key founding member of the New Wave band Devo. Casale not only played ...

7. Gerald Casale

Soundtrack | Tank Girl

Gerald Casale was born on July 28, 1948 in Ravenna, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Tank Girl (1995), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995) and Casino (1995). He has been married to Krista Napp since September 11, 2015.

8. Mark Mothersbaugh

Composer | Thor: Ragnarok

Graduate of Woodridge High School in Peninsula, Ohio.

Attended Kent State University (1970-73) in Kent, Ohio, to focus on attaining an art degree. While at Kent State Mothersbaugh met Jerry Casale and Bob Lewis, who ultimately joined him in forming the 1970-80s avant-garde band Devo.

Awarded an ...

9. Robert Mothersbaugh

Soundtrack | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Robert Mothersbaugh was born on August 11, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Sky High (2005) and Heavy Metal (1981). He is married to Alison Martinello. They have two children. He was previously married to Maria Linda Borisoff.

10. Alan Myers

Actor | Human Highway

Alan Myers was born on December 29, 1954 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Human Highway (1982), Pray TV (1980) and We're All Devo (1983). He was married to Christine. He died on June 24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

11. Frankie Banali

Soundtrack | Babylon A.D.

Frankie Banali was born on November 14, 1951 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Babylon A.D. (2008), Crank (2006) and Footloose (1984). He was married to Regina Russell Banali and Karen Marie Banali. He died on August 20, 2020 in Los Angeles, California...

12. Carlos Cavazo

Soundtrack | Babylon A.D.

Carlos Cavazo was born on July 8, 1957 in Anaheim Hills, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Babylon A.D. (2008), Footloose (1984) and Footloose (2011).

13. Kevin DuBrow

Soundtrack | Babylon A.D.

Kevin DuBrow was born on October 29, 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Babylon A.D. (2008), Crank (2006) and Footloose (1984). He died on November 25, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

14. Rudy Sarzo

Soundtrack | Office Christmas Party

Rudy Sarzo was born on November 18, 1950 in Cuba. He is an actor, known for Office Christmas Party (2016), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Quiet Riot: Metal Health - Bang Your Head (1983). He has been married to Rebecca Garrard since June 24, 1984.

15. Kevin Bacon

Actor | Footloose

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.

Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...

16. Rickie Lee Jones

Soundtrack | Jerry Maguire

Rickie Lee Jones was born on November 8, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Jerry Maguire (1996), The King of Comedy (1982) and Friends with Money (2006).

17. Stevie Nicks

Soundtrack | Sweet November

Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona. From an early age, she showed a love and aptitude for music, singing country and western duets with her grandfather when she was 4 years old. After moving to San Francisco, she began songwriting and performing at Menlo-Atherton High School, where she met ...

18. Lionel Richie

Soundtrack | The Color Purple

Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and television judge. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of funk band the Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady" and "Still",...

19. D.J. Bonebrake

Soundtrack | A Perfect Day

D.J. Bonebrake was born on December 8, 1955 in Burbank, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for A Perfect Day (2015), Roadside Prophets (1992) and Don't Be Afraid to Pogo (2015). He is married to Diana Bonebrake.

20. Exene Cervenka

Soundtrack | The Kids Are All Right

Exene Cervenka was born on February 1, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Kids Are All Right (2010), Kalifornia (1993) and G.I. Jane (1997). She has been married to Jason Edge since August 18, 2002. She was previously married to Viggo Mortensen and John Doe...

21. John Doe

Actor | Road House

John Doe was born on February 25, 1953 in Decatur, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Road House (1989), The Bodyguard (1992) and Pure Country (1992). He has been married to Gigi Gonzalez since 1987. They have three children. He was previously married to Exene Cervenka.

22. Billy Zoom

Soundtrack | A Perfect Day

Billy Zoom was born on February 20, 1948 in Savanna, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for A Perfect Day (2015).

23. David Byrne

Soundtrack | True Stories

David Byrne is an Oscar winning composer, songwriter and singer, best known for being frontman of the New Wave/punk band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Born in Scotland but raised in the United States in Maryland, Byrne began performing musically in high school.

Byrne ...

24. Debbie Allen

Producer | Fame

Deborah Kaye Allen was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Debbie, her older brother, Andrew (called Tex), and her older sister, actress Phylicia Rashad, lived in Mexico to ...

25. Morgan Fairchild

Actress | Friends

This elegant lady has defined the television version of the rich, sophisticated businesswoman who knows what she wants, and will do whatever it takes to get it. She was born Patsy Ann McClenny on February 3, 1950 in Dallas, Texas. She began acting as a child, when her mother enrolled her in drama ...

26. Paul Reubens

Actor | Pee-wee's Playhouse

Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952 in Peekskill, New York, to Judy (Rosen), a teacher, and Milton Rubenfeld, a car salesman who had flown for the air forces of the U.S., U.K., and Israel, becoming one of the latter country's pioneering pilots. Paul grew up in Sarasota, Florida,...

27. John Sykes

Soundtrack | Bad Teacher

John Sykes was born on July 29, 1959 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Bad Teacher (2011), Chuck (2007) and Brütal Legend (2009). He was previously married to Jennifer Brooks.

28. Apollonia Kotero

Actress | Purple Rain

Patricia Apollonia Kotero was born on August 2, 1959 in Santa Monica, California, to Mexican parents, Maria Socorro Torres, a caregiver, and Victor Manuel Kotero, a restaurant manager. She initially pursued fame and fortune via work as an actress, singer and model. After winning the Miss San Pedro ...

29. Lindsey Buckingham

Soundtrack | Back to the Future

Lindsey Buckingham was born on October 3, 1949 in Palo Alto, California, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Back to the Future (1985), Twister (1996) and Vacation (1983). He has been married to Kristen Leigh Messner since February 15, 2000. They have three children.

30. Craig Denault

Camera_department | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Craig Denault was born on December 22, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Thief (1981) and Stand by Me (1986). He died on April 19, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

31. Armyan Bernstein

Producer | The Hurricane

Armyan Bernstein was born on August 12, 1947 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Hurricane (1999), Open Range (2003) and Children of Men (2006). He is married to Christine Meleo.

32. Kate Capshaw

Actress | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Kate Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, to Beverley Sue (Simon), a beautician and travel agent, and Edwin Leon Nail, an airline employee. Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in Learning Disabilities. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York where she landed a role on...

33. Paul Stanley

Soundtrack | Moulin Rouge!

Paul Stanley is the charismatic front man/lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist/songwriter for hard rock super group KISS, best known for his wailing vocals, high-energy on-stage antics and appeal to female fans. Born Stanley Eisen on January 20, 1952, in Queens, New York, Stanley took a keen interest in ...

34. Lisa Hartman

Actress | Tabitha

Lisa Hartman is an American actress and singer from Houston, Texas. Her best known role was playing the protagonist Tabitha Stephens in the short-lived fantasy sitcom "Tabitha" (1977-1978). Her character was depicted as a young witch who worked as a production assistant in a television station. ...

35. Cole Hartman

Art_department | Humanoids from the Deep

Cole Hartman is known for Humanoids from the Deep (1996).

36. Donna Mills

Actress | Knots Landing

Blonde, buoyant Donna Mills began acting in local amateur and professional productions in her home town of Chicago. Donna made her Broadway bow as a harem girl in Woody Allen's play "Don't Drink the Water," then played recurring roles on the Manhattan-based TV soap operas The Secret Storm (1954) ...

37. Martha Davis

Soundtrack | Mr. Church

Martha Davis was born on January 19, 1951 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Mr. Church (2016), Death Warrant (1990) and Something Wild (1986). She was previously married to Ronald Francis Paschall.

38. Todd Bridges

Actor | Diff'rent Strokes

Actor Todd Bridges has seen and done it all. Todd has lived and worked amongst some of the most famous and influential individuals in the world. For over twenty-five years, he has victoriously survived a rapidly changing business. He experienced his second rise to fame, as "Juice" on The Young and ...

39. Jayne Kennedy

Actress | Body and Soul

Jayne Kennedy (born Jane Harrison on October 27, 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress, model and sportscaster.

Jayne was crowned Miss Ohio USA 1970 (she was the first African American woman to win the title), and was one of the 10 semi-finalists in the 1970 Miss USA pageant. It was rare ...

40. 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Soundtrack | UHF

Few would have guessed that "Weird Al" Yankovic - who as a shy, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to the Dr. Demento Radio Show - would go on to become a pop culture icon and the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, with classic song and music video ...

41. Christopher Cross

Soundtrack | Arthur

Singer/songwriter Christopher Cross was born Christopher Charles Geppert on May 3, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas. A self-described Army brat, Christopher's father was a U.S. Army pediatrician who was stationed at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. in the mid-1950s. Cross began his career in the ...

42. Stephen Bishop

Soundtrack | National Lampoon's Animal House

Singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop was born on November 14, 1951 in San Diego, California. Bishop was inspired to become involved with music after he saw the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." While in high school Stephen formed the band the Weeds; the group performed at local fraternity ...

43. Dez Dickerson

Actor | Purple Rain

Dez Dickerson was born on August 7, 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Purple Rain (1984), Soul Music Festival: Part 5 (1999) and Vanity 6: He's So Dull (1982). He was previously married to Rebecca.

44. Melissa Manchester

Soundtrack | The Great Mouse Detective

Melissa Manchester attended the Manhattan School of Music and Arts, where she learned to play the piano and the harpsichord. Her father is a bassoon player in the New York Metropolitan Opera orchestra. In the early 1970s, Melissa studied songwriting at New York University School of the Arts in New ...

45. Robbie Robertson

Music_department | Killers of the Flower Moon

Robbie Robertson was born on July 5, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a music artist and actor, known for Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Ladder 49 (2004). He was married to Janet Zuccarini and Dominique Robertson. He died on August 9, 2023 in Los ...

46. Harold Ramis

Writer | Ghostbusters

Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine's joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago's Second City's Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in "The National Lampoon Show" ...

47. Little Richard

Actor | Last Action Hero

Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "Architect of Rock 'n' Roll", traveled in his early days with the legendary vaudeville star Spencer "Snake" Anthony. One of Richard's early bands had the young, then unknown singer James Brown (the Godfather of Soul), a ...

48. 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 ...

49. Candice Bergen

Actress | Miss Congeniality

One cool, eternally classy lady, Candice Bergen was elegantly poised for trendy "ice princess" stardom when she first arrived on the '60s screen, but she gradually reshaped that débutante image in the '70s, both on- and off-camera. A staunch, outspoken feminist with a decisive edge, she went on to ...

50. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

51. Glenn Close

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.

Glenn was a noted ...

52. Michael Douglas

Actor | Wall Street

A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.

In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...

53. Gregory Hines

Actor | History of the World: Part I

Gregory Hines was born on February 14, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for History of the World: Part I (1981), Running Scared (1986) and Renaissance Man (1994). He was married to Pamela Koslow and Patricia Panella. He died on August 9, 2003 in Los Angeles,...

54. William Hurt

Actor | A History of Violence

William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...

55. Amy Irving

Actress | Traffic

Naturally brunette/blue-eyed beauty Amy Davis Irving was born in Palo Alto, California. She is the youngest of three children, and the daughter of influential theatrical/television director and producer Jules Irving, and actress Priscilla Pointer. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent, and her ...

56. Diana Ross

Soundtrack | The Wiz

Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes, Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian (Moten), a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the ...

57. Tom Selleck

Actor | Blue Bloods

Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator "Thomas Magnum" on the 1980s television series, Magnum, P.I. (1980).

Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Martha (Jagger), a homemaker, and Robert Dean Selleck, a...

58. Kathleen Turner

Actress | Romancing the Stone

Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later ...

59. F. Murray Abraham

Actor | The Grand Budapest Hotel

Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham was born on October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in El Paso, Texas. His father, Fred Abraham, was a Syrian (Antiochian Orthodox Christian) immigrant. His mother, Josephine (Stello) Abraham, was the daughter of Italian immigrants. Born...

60. Gene Allen

Art_director | My Fair Lady

Gene Allen was born on June 17, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for My Fair Lady (1964), A Star Is Born (1954) and Les Girls (1957). He was married to Iris. He died on October 7, 2015 in Newport Beach, California, USA.

61. Victor Banerjee

Actor | A Passage to India

Victor Banerjee Early life Banerjee was born to a Zamindari Bangali Hindu family and is a descendant of The Raja Bahadur of Chanchal and the Raja of Uttarpara. He received his schooling at St. Edmund's School, Shillong, and graduated in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and did...

62. Jennifer Beals

Actress | Flashdance

Jennifer Beals is an internationally renowned actress who has over 90 credits to her name, including critically acclaimed feature films and some of the highest rated television series to date. Beals is currently executive producing and returning as a lead cast member in the revival of her hit ...

63. Robert Benton

Writer | Kramer vs. Kramer

Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and filmmaker from Waxahachie, Texas who is known for screenwriting Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer and Superman. He won two Academy Awards for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer. He directed other feature films including Twilight, Bad ...

64. Mark Berger

Sound_department | The English Patient

Mark Berger was born on May 14, 1943 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is known for The English Patient (1996), Amadeus (1984) and Apocalypse Now (1979).

65. Todd Boekelheide

Composer | 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets

Todd Boekelheide began his film career in 1974 as the projectionist at American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola's production company in San Francisco. Late in his tenure there, Walter Murch came in to mix "The Godfather: Part II," and Todd was his machine room tech. Two years later he was offered ...

66. Beau Bridges

Actor | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Beau Bridges was born in Hollywood, and is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, who was his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Bridges. Born just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbour, he was delivered by candlelight because of a power blackout. Named Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, his ...

67. Dorothy Dean Bridges

Actress | Finders Keepers

Dorothy Dean Bridges was born on September 19, 1915 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Finders Keepers (1921), Sea Hunt (1958) and See You in the Morning (1989). She was married to Lloyd Bridges. She died on February 16, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

68. Lloyd Bridges

Actor | Hot Shots! Part Deux

The star of many land and underwater adventures, Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was born on January 15, 1913 in San Leandro, California, to Harriet Evelyn (Brown) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr., who owned a movie theater and also worked in the hotel business. He grew up in various Northern California ...

69. Geneviève Bujold

Actress | Dead Ringers

Genevieve Bujold spent her first twelve school years in Montreal's oppressive Hochelaga Convent, where opportunities for self-expression were limited to making welcoming speeches for visiting clerics. As a child she felt "as if I were in a long dark tunnel trying to convince myself that if I could ...

70. Adolph Caesar

Actor | The Color Purple

Born in the Harlem section of New York City, joined the Navy, then studied drama at New York University; was an announcer for then joined the Negro Ensemble Co. in 1970 for such productions as "The River Niger", "Square Root of the Soul" and "The Brownsville Raid"; worked with repertory groups such...

71. Karel Cerný

Art_director | Amadeus

Karel Cerný was born on April 7, 1922 in Plzen, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Amadeus (1984), The Firemen's Ball (1967) and Loves of a Blonde (1965). He died on September 5, 2014 in Tábor, Czech Republic.

72. Tommy Chong

Actor | Up in Smoke

Tommy Chong was born on May 24, 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Up in Smoke (1978), Zootopia (2016) and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980). He has been married to Shelby Chong since 1975. They have four children. He was previously married to Maxine Sneed.

73. Gary Chryst

Self | Can't Stop Now

Gary Chryst is known for Can't Stop Now (1999), Great Performances: Dance in America (1976) and Beneath the White City Lights (2012).

74. Jim Clark

Editor | The Mission

Jim Clark was born on May 24, 1931 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for The Mission (1986), The Killing Fields (1984) and Marathon Man (1976). He was married to Laurence Méry-Clark and Jessica Andrew. He died on February 25, 2016 in the UK.

75. Arthur Cohn

Producer | Central do Brasil

Arthur Cohn is an independent film producer and has won six Academy Awards, more than any other independent producer in film history. Cohn was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father was Dr. Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss Zionist movement who saved many Jews in WWII from within ...

76. Phil Collins

Soundtrack | Tarzan

Phil Collins was born in Chiswick, London, England, to Winifred (Strange), a theatrical agent, Greville Philip Austin Collins, an insurance agent. He spent most of his early entertainment life as a young actor and model. He played the "Artful Dodger" in the West End production of "Oliver!" ...

77. Bill Conti

Soundtrack | Rocky

Bill Conti was born on April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Rocky (1976), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). He is married to Shelby Cox. They have two children.

78. Lindsay Crouse

Actress | The Arrival

Lindsay Crouse was born on May 12, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Arrival (1996), Slap Shot (1977) and The Insider (1999). She has been married to Rick Blue since 1998. She was previously married to David Mamet.

79. Judy Davis

Actress | Husbands and Wives

Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She found international success with the role of Adela Quested in A Passage to India (1984). Her performance was nominated an Academy Award for Best...

80. Dom DeLuise

Actor | The Cannonball Run

As might be said for the late and great comedians Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn, it seems that Mel Brooks was the only director on the planet who knew how to best utilize this funnyman's talents on film. Brooks once remarked that, whenever he cast Dom in one of his films he'd add an extra two ...

81. Plácido Domingo

Soundtrack | The Book of Life

Although born in Madrid, Spain, Placido Domingo spent a major portion of his life living in Mexico City where he graduated from the Mexico City Conservatory. His first operatic performance was in a staging of La Traviata in Monterrey playing Alfredo. He was then a Tenor for the Israel National ...

82. Kirk Douglas

Actor | The Final Countdown

Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...

83. Faye Dunaway

Actress | Bonnie and Clyde

An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...

84. 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.

85. Robert Duvall

Actor | The Apostle

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...

86. Robert Epstein

Director | Adams Morgan: The Movie

Robert Epstein is known for Adams Morgan: The Movie (2010), Grow Live Monsters (1995) and Spookies (1986).

87. Sally Field

Actress | Forrest Gump

Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...

88. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

89. George Gibbs

Special_effects | Brazil

George Gibbs was born on July 18, 1937 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is known for Brazil (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He died on December 15, 2020 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.

90. Cary Grant

Actor | North by Northwest

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...

91. Mike Hoover

Cinematographer | Up

Mike Hoover was born in 1944. He is known for Up (1985), The River Wild (1994) and Afghanistan: The Secret War (1988). He was previously married to Beverly Johnson.

92. 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 ...

93. Tom Hulce

Actor | Amadeus

Thomas Edward Hulce was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Plymouth, MI, where he was raised with his two sisters and older brother. He is the son of Joanna (Winkleman), who had sung professionally, and Raymond Albert Hulce, who worked for Ford. He has English, German, and Irish ancestry. ...

94. Linda Hunt

Actress | The Year of Living Dangerously

Linda Hunt is a veteran character actress who had only just begun acting in motion pictures when director Peter Weir required her peculiarities to animate one of cinema's most esoteric characters, Billy Kwan, the intellectual and virtuous Chinese-Australian dwarf and photographer, in the Australian...

95. Marjorie Hunt

Director | The Stone Carvers

Marjorie Hunt is known for The Stone Carvers (1984), Good Work: Masters of the Building Arts (2018) and The Grand Generation (1993).

96. Maurice Jarre

Composer | Lawrence of Arabia

Unlike many musicians who started to learn music while still in their childhood, Maurice Jarre was already late in his teens when he discovered music and decided to make a career in that field. Against his father's will, he enrolled at Conservatoire de Paris where he studied percussions, ...

97. Roland Joffé

Director | The Mission

Roland Joffé was born on November 17, 1945 in London, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for The Mission (1986), The Killing Fields (1984) and The Great Hunger.

98. Gene Kelly

Soundtrack | Singin' in the Rain

Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third son of Harriet Catherine (Curran) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of Irish and German ancestry.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in...

99. Kris Kristofferson

Actor | Blade

Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson. His paternal grandparents were Swedish, and his father was a United States Air Force general who pushed his son to a military career. Kris was a Golden Gloves boxer and went to Pomona College in ...

100. Christine Lahti

Actress | Chicago Hope

Christine Lahti was born April 4, 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, to Elizabeth Margaret (Tabar), a painter and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. She is of half Finnish and half Austro-Hungarian descent. She studied fine arts at Florida State University and received a bachelors degree in ...