Though best known for his Native American characterizations, Michael Ansara is actually of Lebanese extraction. He is best known for his portrayal of Cochise in the American television series Broken Ar...

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Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905–January 2, 1974), better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the father ...

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Salvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr. , born January 10, 1939, died February 12, 1976 American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Reb...

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Robert Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. Life and career Addy was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Maren S. and John R. Addy. He played many roles on ...

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He was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was also well known for work i...

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Ralph Morgan (July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956) was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor, and the older brother of Frank Morgan (who played the title role in The Wizard of Oz, 1939). Early lif...

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Prominent actor and director. Actor, Director. Born John Cooper, Jr, nephew of director Norman Taurog, he entered the entertainment industry at the age of three appearing in Bobby Clark and Lloyd Ham...

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Actor. He appeared in 21 television series/shows and 45 motion pictures, including "Scandal Sheet," "The Bad and The Beautiful," "Love Me or Leave Me," "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Story on Page On...

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John Carroll (July 17, 1906 – April 24, 1979) was an American actor and singer. He was born Julian Lafaye in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carroll performed in several small roles in films under his origin...

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Dennis O'Keefe (29 March 1908 – 31 August 1968) was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States. As a small child he joined his p...

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Robert Livingston (December 9, 1904 – March 7, 1988) was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975. Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original "Stony Brooke" i...

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Addison Byron Owen Randall (May 12, 1906 in San Fernando, California – July 16, 1945 in Canoga Park, California) was an American film actor, chiefly in Westerns. He often used a pseudonym for his film ...

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) John Emery (May 20, 1905 – November 16, 1964) was an American stage, film, radio and television actor. Born on May 20, 1905 in New York City, he was the son of stage actors Edward Emery (c. 1861 – ...

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WEBB, CLIFTON (Nov. 19, 1893-Oct. 13, 1966), American singer, dancer, and actor, was born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis, Ind. In 1896 his family moved to New York City, and there, when he ...

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William Alexander Kirkland (September 15, 1901 – 1980s) was a leading man in Hollywood during the early sound era, as well as a notable actor in Pittsburgh theatre. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico...

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Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004), known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to mod...

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Luciano Charles Scorsese (May 8, 1913 - August 23, 1993) was an American film actor. Biography Scorsese was born in New York City, the son of Teresa and Francesco Scorsese, Sicilian immigrant...

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. Biography for Jason Robards Sr. More at IMDbPro » advertisement Date of Birth: 31 December 1892, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA Date of Death: 4 April 1963, Sherman Oaks, California, USA (heart att...

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Lex Barker was an American actor best known for playing Tarzan of the Apes and leading characters from Karl May's novels.

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Franklin Dyall was an English actor. He appeared in 26 films between 1916 and 1948 and was father of Valentine Dyall.

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Dyall was an English character actor, the son of veteran actor Franklin Dyall. Dyall was especially popular as a voice actor, due to his very distinctive sepulchral voice, he was known for many years a...

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Osgood Perkins (May 16, 1892 – September 21, 1937) was an American actor. Life and career Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Perkins in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Henry Phelps Perki...

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Herbert Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966), born Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall, was an English actor. His parents were Percy F. Marshall and Ethel May Turner. He graduated from St. Mary's ...

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) Kevin McCarthy (February 15, 1914 – September 11, 2010) was an American stage, film, and television actor who appeared in over two hundred television and film roles. For his role in the 1951 film v...

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John Davis Lodge (October 20, 1903 – October 29, 1985), United States Republican politician, was the 64th Governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain,...

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Hal De Forrest (born 1862, Portugal – died 16 February 1938, New York City) was a Portuguese-born American early silent film actor. Born as Aloysius J. De Sylva, he emigrated to the United States...

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Henry Watterson Hull (October 3, 1890 – March 8, 1977) was an American character actor with a unique voice, best remembered for playing the lead in Universal Pictures's Werewolf of London (1935). ...

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Shelly Hull (June 17, 1884 - January 14, 1919) born Shelly Vaughan Hull was an American stage actor who appeared in two motion pictures. His Broadway popularity as a suave handsome leading man was co...

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American swimmer (Olympic gold-medalist) and actor, known as the 'original Tarzan'. (For more information, see Wikipedia... ) Johnny Weissmuller was born in 1904 in Hungary, which then was part of ...

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) Grant Mitchell (June 17, 1874 – May 1, 1957) was an American stage actor on Broadway and character actor in B films of the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared on Broadway from 1902 to 1939 and appeared in...

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Lupino Lane was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous Lupino family. Lane started out as a child performer, known as 'Little Nipper', and went on to appear in a wide range of...

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Mr Peter Finch, a leading man of the British cinema for nearly 30 years, died in Los Angeles on January 14, aged 60. He entered films in Australia, where he spent his early years, in 1936, and establ...

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Mr. Arthur Towle, known professionally as Arthur Lucan, whose death at the age of 67 was briefly reported in our later editions yesterday, for long delighted large audiences, particularly in Yorkshire ...

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Nigel Stock, a character actor familiar for many roles in the theatre and cinema, and on television, has died at the age of 66. A thoroughly reliable player who lent distinction to every aspect of th...

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Mr Sandy Powell, MBE, an old-time music hall comedian, who made a name for himself from the 1920s onwards as a radio star, died on June 26. He was 82. Born on January 20, 1900, in Rotherham, Yorkshir...

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Leo G. Carroll, the British-born actor who played spymaster Mr Waverley in 'The Man from UNCLE' television series, has died at the age of 80. Carroll, whose career began on the stage in London, achie...

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Mr. Arthur Haynes, who died on Saturday at the age of 52, was a comedian whose success was due rather to the native drollery of his personality than to the undoubted skill with which he worked. The son...

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Mr. Eric Blore, the English stage and film actor, died in Hollywod on Sunday at the age of 71. He was born in London on December 23, 1887, and at first took up insurance as a career, but he later bec...

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Marty Feldman, the writer and comedian, died in Mexico City on December 2 at the age of 49. He was on location with a film company. Feldman, who was born in Canning Town, East London, of a poor Jewis...

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Actor/Manager. President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts 1936.

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Basil Dignam, a native of Sheffield, acted on film and television between 1951 and 1975. He often appeared as an authority figure, such as a police officer, army general or peer.

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Born in London, the son of salesman in the steel industry, Dignam grew up in Sheffield and was educated at the Jesuit College where he appeared in numerous Shakespearean plays. He learned his craft tou...

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Michael Wilding was an English actor. Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Wilding was a successful commercial artist when he joined the art department of a London movie studio in 1933. He soon embark...

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Author: 'A Society Clown' and 'Piano and I'; co-author: 'A Diary of a Nobody'.

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Robert Stack (January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 feature films, he starred in the 1959–63 television series ...

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Originally a newspaper reporter, Burgess Meredith came to the screen in 1936, repeating his stage role in Winterset, a part written for him by Maxwell Anderson. He was best-known for portraying Rocky B...

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Academy Award-winning British film and television actor George Sanders was best known for his roles of Addison DeWitt in the 1950 film All About Eve as well as the villainous tiger Shere Khan in The Ju...

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) Carl Lee (November 22, 1926 – April 17, 1986), born Carl Vincent Canegata, was an African-American actor. He was also the son of late pioneering African American actor/professional boxer Canada Lee...

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Canada Lee (March 3, 1907 — May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, he died shortly before he was scheduled to...

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ROBERTSON HARE - _Bunny_ Hare as he was so long to so many - died yesterday, aged 87. All those who have enough humility to imagine themselves at the wrong end of a raw deal, have a feeling of sympat...

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British character actor and comedian.

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Jack Esmond, known professionally as Henry Vernon Esmond, was an English actor and playwright. Esmond began his career as an actor in London in 1889 where he had several successes in comedies. He began...

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Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE (14 September 1910 - 18 July 1973) was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.

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Sir Ralph Richardson, who died yesterday at the age of 80, was the most human of all our great actors. With his ripe face and his excitable voice, his amiable combination of eccentricity and down-to-ea...

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Richard St John Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, and is perh...

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Horne was an English comedian and businessman. The son of a clergyman and politician, he combined a successful business career with regular broadcasting for the BBC. His first hit series, Much-Binding-...

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THE film star Laurence Harvey, who played Joe Lampton in the film "Room at the Top", has died at his Hampstead, London home. Mr. Harvey, 45, had been ill with cancer for about 18 months and in May ha...

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Roger Livesey born June 25, 1906 died February 4, 1976 Roger Livesey was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The ...

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Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lun...

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Eric Sykes From Wikipedia CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wro...

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Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), more commonly known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English theatre, film and television actor. Early life Cecil was born in Lon...

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Mr. Robert Newton, who died at Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday at the age of 50, as briefly reported in our later editions yesterday, was an actor of force and power, to which for some reason he w...

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José Vincente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron, known professionally as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director. He was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Awa...

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Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. ) born September 23, 1920. American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple ...

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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (1 December 1940 – 10 December 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of ra...

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Alistair Sim Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebe...

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