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 Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of Japanese actors well known outside Japan. He performed extensively on radio, stage, television and film with credits including off-Broadway productions of "The Deer Park" in 1967 and "All My Sons" in 1974. His parents divorced when he was five years old. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers Actor | Frank Marth - Another guy who often played the father, rich rancher, or maybe card shark, Frank Marth was a regular in TV westerns of this era. Spinell was a tough guy on and off the screen all his life. The following year, he played the lead character in the first Mickey McGuire short film. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. He grew up fishing and working on farms. He was born William Eugene Burrows in Hugoton, Kansas. He died on April 30, 1989. Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). He held B.A. Vernon was directed by some stellar filmmakers, including Henry Silva was born on September 23, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He played Uncle Charly on "My Three Sons ". Talented and highly capable character actor Geoffrey Lewis, with rustic (sometimes sour-faced) looks, grew up in Rhode Island but was moved out to California at the age of ten. His father was of Irish ancestry, and his mother was of English and Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. Birthdate: July 3, 1962. This suave, elegant character star was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades. Actor | Ogg, "One More Train to Rob" as Sheriff Adams, "Fools Parade" as Willis Hubbard, "Five Days From Home" as Karl Baldwin, "Under the Rainbow" as The Assassin, "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" as Swarma and "Hoot" as Kalo. The Night Stalker (1972) Kent Smith as D.A. Brigitte Bardot Rated - Custom 8.1 993 Rated 2. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions Fritz Weaver, the American actor, was born on January 19, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A rather wanderlust fellow before he latched onto acting, Denver Pyle--who made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types--was actually born in Colorado in 1920, to a farming family. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army in 1954. He died on March 11, 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany. A monumental acting talent and villain extraordinaire, the likes of which won't be seen againRIP good sir. Image via PInterest, Alec Guinness AKA Alec Guinness de Cuffe Born: 2-Apr-1914 Birthplace: London, England Died: 5-Aug-2000 Location of death: Midhurst, West Sussex, England [1] Cause of death: Cancer - Liver, An actor is totally vulnerable. This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes performers in film, radio, stage and television. His better known roles include Chief George Earle in "Demolition Man" (1993), Prison Warden Samuel Norton in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), medical school dean Dr. Walcott in " Gotta give some love for ol' Warden Norton..sadly that's the role he's most known for. His hometown of St. Matthews, American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. Following university training, he founded George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Also check him out as the drugged out shotgun toting hitman in "Sharky's Machine" alongside Burt Reynolds. In the most beautiful cars. The award-winning Canadian-American character actor Maury Chaykin was born on July 27, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Professor Irving J. Chaykin and his wife Clarice. Sanford and Son M*A*S*H Tora! Educated at Harrow he worked at Marks and Spencers but was dismissed for wearing a loud checked suit. He is an actor and producer, known for CHiPs (1977), Sealab 2021 (2000) and Loaded Weapon 1 (1993). Bewitched (1964-1972, ABC) Alice Pearce as Gladys Kravitz (1964-1966). Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. They have one child. Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. Also keep in mind that this list is three pages long, so if you think I've missed someone, they may be on another page---Andy== Updated August 7, 2017==And we're back! Tora! Richard Hugh Lynch was born on February 12, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Irish immigrant parents. Truly interesting actor, and its a shame he didn't have more roles come his way late in his career. Lewis was very keen on the dramatic arts at high school, but often preferred to put on his own one-man shows rather than Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Ersel (Moberly), a cook, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a barber and tobacco farmer. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of seventeen, young Jack One chillingly infamous screen role for Scott Wilson in 1967 set the tone for an actor who went on to prove himself an invaluable character player for five decades. Vol. Made Broadway debut as walk-on in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" (1951 Fair complexioned, cold-eyed actor Richard Bright notched up an impressive array of character performances of often shifty, or deadly characters on the wrong side of the law. Nakadai was a tall handsome clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast him in The Thick-Walled Room (1956). He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. He was an actor, known for Human (1962), Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963) and Tora-san, the Expert (1982). Quade transferred from Perry Rural High School in Perry, Kansas to Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas in 1954. This list originally ended at 250 people, but seeing that I can now add as many of these deserving actors as I want, this list will continue to grow exponentially.===April 2011===Updated August 30, 2013=== In 1962, he was offered his first big film role, in Bluebeard (1963). The Best Last-Minute Christmas Gifts to Buy. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Jack Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter, Jr. on September 18, 1920 in Newark, New Jersey, to Laura M. (Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter. She finally shed the title of a child star and achieved sex symbol status for her salacious role in 1979's Roller Boogie a film about disco roller skaters in skintight spandex thwarting the mob. His West End debut in 1956, at 22 Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. Lauter has also worked with some of the biggest film luminaries of the last fifty years, including Alfred Hitchcock, Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster and Charles Bronson. When he was 11 he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Ceasar then when he was 15 and saw Lee J Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' he decided he would be a comedy actor. The son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara', the handsome and likable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. He died on August 17, 1964 in Nirazaki, Japan. He was previously married to Annette Martin and Gisle Brunet. He first achieved international recognition as the leading man in Steven Spielberg's debut feature The Sugarland Express (1974), and next starred in John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust (1975), Robert Wise's The Michael Vincente Gazzo was born in Hillside, New Jersey, on April 5, 1923. A star athlete at Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. Born in Milan in 1933, Gian Maria Volont studied in Rome at the National Dramatic Arts Academy, where he obtained his degree in 1957. Imprisoned for William Smith was probably best known for his portrayal as "Falconetti" in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Later, at Texas Elya Baskin is a Soviet Latvia-born American actor, best-known for his work on Spider-Man 2 (2004), The Name of the Rose (1986) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). 21: Goleiro: GOL-Etimesgut Bld: custo . He was Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (ne Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a Stony-faced, grizzled-looking tough guy Charles McGraw (real name Charles Butters) notched up dozens of TV and film credits, usually portraying law enforcement figures or military officers, plus the odd shifty gangster. Actor | And Col. Strelnikov in Red Dawn! He is an actor, known for The Day of the Jackal (1973), Belle de Jour (1967) and Vague Stars of Ursa (1965). In 1934, the young teenager wrote to legendary actor Louis Jouvet Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard Sir Michael Redgrave was of the generation of English actors that gave the world the legendary John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, Britain three fabled "Theatrical Knights" back in the days when a knighthood for thespian was far more rare than it is today. Versatile, gimlet-eyed, soulful-looking Franois Prier was one of France's most prolific leading men and character lead for almost six decades. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese affluence Yuri Nikulin was a Russian film actor, comedian, mime, and circus clown who was also Artistic Director of Moscow Circus and popular TV show host.He was born Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin on December 18, 1921, in the town of Demidov, Smolensk province, Central Russia. At 19 he decided to pursue acting as a career and was chosen from among 500 applicants to the Moscow Art Theater School. But, Whit Bissell came to Hollywood in the 1940s, and by the time he retired he had appeared in more than 200 movies and scores of TV series. The purpose of the organization was to prepare the boys Frank Wolff started his career by acting in several Roger Corman films. He died of Cardiac Arrhythmia, age 75. He was previously married to Ida Hove. I greatly look forward to seeing his brainchild "The World's Greatest Sinner" (1962) in its entirety at some point (how about a DVD? from "TheManchurian Candidate" to his numerous appearances in violent Italian films of the seventies to one of his last screen roles in Jarmusch's "Samurai: The Way of the Ghost Dog". In short, his ego. James Garner! 3. Someone please upload a picture for the late, great and unforgettable character actor Joe Spinell. Breaking that rule did him no harm, though, as he achieved pop cult status by finding, An actor with over fifty years of experience in theatre, film, and television, Michael Douglas branched out into independent feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He died on December 16, 1993 in Guilford, Connecticut, USA. He died on October 6, 1998 in Moscow, Russia. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a Klaus Kinski was born as Klaus Gnter Karl Nakszynski in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Susanne (Lutze), a nurse, and Bruno Nakszynski, a pharmacist. Blustery, stocky, loud although often genial character actor who has created a niche for himself playing often frustrated and fast talking Southern characters most noticeably as Sheriff J.W. He had a prolific career on the stage before making his film debut in 1968. Born Franois Pilu in Paris on November 10, 1919, he was the son of a wine shop manager. The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. He was previously married to Gwendolyn Mumma Landes. Oates was born in Depoy, a very small Kentucky town. He was previously married to Frances Hewitt Hendrickson and Nell Ethelyn Hulsizer. After serving in the Army during WWII, he used the GI Bill to study at the Dramatic Workshop of the American Theater Wing and the prestigious Actors Studio. Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. He was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Gladys, a nurse and army officer, and Yaphet Kotto, a businessman-turned-construction worker. It took the better part of four years hemming and hawing and trying to remember my password here, but here I am. He died on March 29, 1989 in Saint-Cloud, Oleg Efremov was born on October 1, 1927 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. 60s 70s 80s CLASSIC ROCK POP FOLK.60s 70s 80s Classic FEMALE COUNTRY Stars. Rocket J. Squirrel. 6 = 17%. as Co-Pilot, "Catalina Caper" as Tad Duval, "Blood of the Iron Maiden" as Peter. After several supporting appearances in George Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in New York City, New York, to Fannie Blanche (Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. 80 for Brady: Directed by Kyle Marvin. Linda Blair / s_bukley/Image Collect. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. Bob Balaban was born on August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Director Valerio Zurlini engaged the talented young actor for his Family Portrait (1962) as Marcello Mastroianni's brother. Russian actor who has popped up on screen in countless great movies over the past thirty or so years, including "2010", "The Name of the Rose" and "October Sky.". He was acting in the 50s as a graduate of The Actors Studio in such films as Ocean's Eleven (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - he moved to Italian films for a time, coming back to Hollywood in the 80s appearing in such films as Dick Tracy. He was an actor, known for One, Two, Three (1961), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). The list will be increased to 350 starting today. Broad-shouldered and beefy Claude Akins had wavy black hair, a deep booming voice and was equally adept at playing sneering cowardly villains as he was at portraying hard-nosed cops. After graduating, Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. His play about drug A talented character actor known for his military roles, Ronald Lee Ermey was in the United States Marine Corps for 11 years. 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