How many centenarians of entertainment do you know?

1. Gloria Stuart

Actress | Titanic

Gloria Stuart was born on a dining room table on 4th Street in Santa Monica, California on July 4, 1910. Her early roles as a performing artist were in plays she produced in her home as a young girl. She was the star of her senior class play at Santa Monica High School in 1927. Attending the ...

2. George Burns

Actor | Oh, God!

George Burns was an American actor, comedian, singer, and published author. He formed a comedy duo with his wife Gracie Allen (1895-1964), and typically played the straight man to her zany roles. Following her death, Burns started appearing as a solo performer. He once won an Academy Award for Best...

3. Margaret Booth

Editor | Mutiny on the Bounty

Margaret Booth was born on January 14, 1898 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an editor and producer, known for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Murder by Death (1976) and Annie (1982). She died on October 28, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

4. Ethel Owen

Actress | Robert Montgomery Presents

Ethel Owen was born on March 30, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Robert Montgomery Presents (1950), Inner Sanctum (1954) and Kraft Theatre (1947). She was married to John Hale Almy and Dr. Raymond Gilbert Owens. She died on February 16, 1997 in Savannah, Georgia, USA.

5. Irving Berlin

Soundtrack | Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools....

6. Irving Lippman

Cinematographer | Jungle Jim

Irving Lippman was born on November 8, 1906 in Edendale, California, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Jungle Jim (1955), Angel Unchained (1970) and 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). He died on November 15, 2006 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

7. Irving Rapper

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Irving Rapper was one of the last surviving directors from the "Golden Age of Hollywood," passing away on Dec. 20, 1999, at the age of 101, four weeks shy of his 102nd birthday. Rapper is best remembered for the films he made with Bette Davis, including the classics Now, Voyager (1942) and The Corn...

8. Irving Fein

Producer | The George Burns One-Man Show

Born in Brooklyn, New York on June 21, 1911, Irving Ashley Fein was found to be an excellent student and skipped several elementary school grades. His interest in acting and writing was developed during the summer months between college terms at various summer camps. After working in the publicity ...

9. Irving Caesar

Soundtrack | Entrapment

Composer, songwriter ("Swanee", "Tea for Two", "Crazy Rhythm", "Just a Gigolo"), author and publisher, educated at Chautauqua Mountain Institute and City College of New York. He was a stenographer aboard the Henry Ford Peace Ship during World War I. He joined ASCAP in 1920 and was a director ...

10. Doris Eaton

Actress | Man on the Moon

Doris Eaton was born in Norfolk, Virginia, into a show business family. The young Doris began appearing on stage with her brothers Charles and Joseph and her sisters Mary and Pearl when she was five years old. She made her Broadway debut aside her brother Charles in "Mother Carey's Chickens" in ...

11. Lucile Zinman

Self | Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America

Lucile Zinman was born on July 22, 1903 in Yonkers, New York, USA. She was married to M. Boyd Zinman. She died on December 22, 2004.

12. Myrtle Woods

Actress | A Woman's Tale

Myrtle Woods was born on March 14, 1900 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for A Woman's Tale (1991), Homicide (1964) and The Great MacArthy (1975). She was married to Woods. She died on May 12, 2001 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

13. Sylvia Davis

Actress | Stardust Memories

Sylvia Davis was born on April 10, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Stardust Memories (1980), Alice's Restaurant (1969) and The Edge of Night (1956). She died on November 3, 2010 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

14. Jimmie Davis

Soundtrack | The Devil All the Time

American politician and songwriter who appeared in a number of films. Davis was born in the now-nonexistent town of Beech Springs, Louisiana, the son of sharecroppers. He and his ten siblings lived in dire poverty, but Davis paid his way through Louisiana College and Louisiana State University as a...

15. Mary Ward

Actress | Blue Heelers

Mary Ward was born on March 6, 1915 in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. She was an actress, known for Blue Heelers (1994), If This Be Sin (1949) and Homicide (1964). She died on July 19, 2021 in Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

16. Miguel Morayta

Director | El mártir del Calvario

Miguel Morayta was born on August 15, 1907 in Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for El mártir del Calvario (1952), Vagabunda (1950) and La mujer marcada (1957). He died on June 19, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

17. Manoel de Oliveira

Director | Os Canibais

Manoel de Oliveira was born on December 11, 1908 in Oporto, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for The Cannibals (1988), I'm Going Home (2001) and Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007). He was married to Maria Isabel Brandão de Meneses de Almeida Carvalhais. He died on April 2, 2015 in...

18. Leni Riefenstahl

Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten

Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With...

19. Rosa Albach-Retty

Actress | Geld auf der Straße

Rosa Albach-Retty was born on December 26, 1874 in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress, known for Geld auf der Straße (1930), Dreimal Hochzeit (1941) and Der Kongreß tanzt (1955). She was married to Karl Albach. She died on August 26, 1980 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austria.

20. Tonio Selwart

Actor | The Other Side of the Wind

Tonio Selwart was born on June 9, 1896 in Wartenberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Other Side of the Wind (2018), Wilson (1944) and The Hitler Gang (1944). He died on November 2, 2002 in New York, USA.

21. Erwin Geschonneck

Actor | Leute mit Flügeln

Erwin Geschonneck was born on 27 December 1906 in Bartenstein/East Prussia (now Poland). In the Twenties, he became a member of the Communistic Party of Germany. After rise of Nazism, he emigrated to Poland, later to Latvia and Czechoslovakia. In the Soviet Union he became a member of a German ...

22. Guzzi Lantschner

Cinematographer | Osterskitour in Tirol

Guzzi Lantschner was born on August 12, 1910 in Innsbruck, Austria. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Osterskitour in Tirol (1940), Canción de la nieve (1954) and Wilde Wasser (1937). He died on March 19, 2011 in Krailling, Bavaria, Germany.

23. Renate Brausewetter

Actress | Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines

Renate Brausewetter was born on October 1, 1905 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926), Menschen untereinander (1926) and Schwere Jungs - leichte Mädchen (1927). She was married to Hubert Wagner. She died on August 19, 2006 in ...

24. Eva von Berne

Actress | The Masks of the Devil

In the quest to discover "another Garbo" M.G.M. production chief Irving Thalberg and his actress wife, Norma Shearer saw a picture in a newspaper of a dancing instructor by the name of Eva Plentzner von Sharneck while on a belated honeymoon to Europe, specifically Vienna in late 1927 - early 1928. ...

25. Luise Rainer

Actress | The Great Ziegfeld

Luise Rainer, the first thespian to win back-to-back Oscars, was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish family. Her parents were Emilie (Königsberger) and Heinrich Rainer, a businessman. She took to the stage, and plied her craft on the boards in Germany. As a ...

26. Willy Sommerfeld

Self | The Sounds of Silents - Der Stummfilmpianist

Willy Sommerfeld was born on May 11, 1904 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He died on December 19, 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

27. Kurt Maetzig

Director | Das Kaninchen bin ich

Kurt Maetzig was born on January 25, 1911 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954). He was married to Yvonne Merin, Bärbel and Marion Keller. He died on August 8, 2012 in ...

28. Charles Lane

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Mean, miserly and miserable-looking, they didn't come packaged with a more annoying and irksome bow than Charles Lane. Glimpsing even a bent smile from this unending sourpuss was extremely rare, unless one perhaps caught him in a moment of insidious glee after carrying out one of his many nefarious...

29. Bruce Bennett

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Herman Brix was a star shot-putter in the 1928 Olympics. After losing the lead in MGM's Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) due to a shoulder injury, he was contracted by Ashton Dearholt for his independent production of The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), a serial and the only Tarzan film between the ...

30. Beatrice Shaw

Actress | ITV Play of the Week

Beatrice Shaw was born on August 2, 1908 in Barking, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for ITV Play of the Week (1955), The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) and The Girl from Starship Venus (1975). She died on December 1, 1995 in Colchester, Essex, England, UK.

31. Helen Shaw

Actress | Parenthood

Helen Shaw was born on July 25, 1897 in Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Parenthood (1989), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and Wicked Stepmother (1989). She died on September 8, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

32. Estelle Winwood

Actress | The Producers

When Estelle saw the girl on a white horse at the circus, she then decided that she wanted to be an actress. And she was from the age of 5, to the disapproval of her father. Her mother had her train with the Liverpool Repertory Company, and Estelle performed in many plays and many roles in the West...

33. Rosa Rio

Composer | The Blasphemer

A prodigy, Rosa Rio began playing the piano at age four, taking lessons at eight, & at nine was invited to play the piano at a silent movie theatre. Her music education included stints at Oberlin College, & a course of study in film accompaniment at the Eastman School of Music. Her career as a ...

34. Carla Laemmle

Actress | The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Carla Laemmle was born on October 20, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936), King of Jazz (1930) and The Gate Crasher (1928). She died on June 12, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

35. Marjorie Lane

Soundtrack | Born to Dance

Petite, auburn-haired, Kansas-born beauty Marjorie Lane (her real name) is best remembered as the singing voice of dancing icon Eleanor Powell in late 1930s Hollywood, but she actually garnered more personal attention at the time as a popular singing attraction in Los Angeles niteries. While she ...

36. Barbara Kent

Actress | Lonesome

A pretty, diminutive (4'11") actress of the silent and early sound era, Barbara Cloutman (later Kent) was born in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada on December 16, 1907. Upon graduating from Hollywood High School in 1925, Kent won the Miss Hollywood Pageant, and set her sights on a career in the movies. She ...

37. Bradbury Foote

Writer | Homicide for Three

Bradbury Foote was born on April 5, 1894 in Fairfield, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for Homicide for Three (1948), Prisoners in Petticoats (1950) and The Bride Wore Red (1937). He died on December 14, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

38. Tullio Pinelli

Writer | La dolce vita

Tullio Pinelli was born on June 24, 1908 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for La Dolce Vita (1960), The Road (1954) and 8½ (1963). He was married to Madeleine Lebeau. He died on March 7, 2009 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

39. Oscar Brodney

Writer | Harvey

Oscar Brodney was born on February 18, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Harvey (1950), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and The Gal Who Took the West (1949). He died on February 12, 2008 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

40. Aleen Leslie

Writer | Affectionately Yours

Aleen Leslie was born on February 5, 1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Affectionately Yours (1941), It Comes Up Love (1943) and Rosie the Riveter (1944). She was married to Jacques Leslie. She died on February 2, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

41. Lester Ziffren

Writer | Sharpshooters

Lester Ziffren was born on April 30, 1906 in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Sharpshooters (1938), Charlie Chan in Panama (1940) and Charter Pilot (1940). He was married to Edythe L. Wurtzel. He died on November 12, 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.

42. Erna Lazarus

Writer | Atlantic Flight

Erna Lazarus was born on June 16, 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Atlantic Flight (1937), Meet Me After the Show (1951) and Cracked Nuts (1941). She died on February 19, 2006 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

43. George Abbott

Writer | The Pajama Game

Legendary Broadway writer/producer/director George Abbott was born in 1887 in Forestville, New York. His father was mayor of Salamanca, New York, for two terms. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Abbott attended Kearney Military Academy. The family returned to New York, where Abbott...

44. Frederica Sagor Maas

Writer | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Frederica Sagor Maas was born in America, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Feeling no great desire to complete her course in journalism at Columbia University, New York, she found film an exciting new artistic medium, and was hired by Universal Studios as a story editor, and later MGM ...

45. Mabel Richardson

Mabel Richardson was born on July 27, 1890 in London, England, UK. She was an actress. She was married to John J. Richardson. She died on March 15, 2001 in Long Beach, California, USA.

46. Dorothy Stickney

Actress | I Never Sang for My Father

Stickney, who was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, studied acting in Minneapolis, after which she spent several years in summer stock and vaudeville. Her father, Victor Hugo Stickney, was a doctor who made house calls on horseback; he was among the first 10 elected to the National Cowboy Hall of ...

47. Dorothy Young

Self | E! Mysteries & Scandals

Dorothy Young was born on May 3, 1907 in Otisville, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998), 100 Years of Dorothy Young (2007) and Biography (1987). She was married to Gilbert Kiamie and Robert Perkins. She died on March 20, 2011 in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, ...

48. Francis Lederer

Actor | One Rainy Afternoon

Frantisek Lederer was born on November 6th, 1899, in Czechoslovakia. His father was a leather merchant, and young Frantisek began his working life as a department store delivery boy in Prague. He fell in love with acting from a young age, and was soon on stage touring Moravia and then all over ...

49. Red Wing

Actress | The Squaw Man

Red Wing was born on February 13, 1884 on the Winnebago Reservation, Nebraska, USA as Lillian St. Cyr. Her parents were Julia De Cora (Winnebago) and Mitchell St. Cyr (French Canadian and Sauk). She was graduated in 1902 from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Red Wing was an ...

50. Moy Ming

Actor | Shadow of Chinatown

Moy Ming's life is something that a Hollywood movie couldn't dream up. He immigrated to the United States in 1876. There was not much work for Chinese workers back then, so Ming became a craftsman, a professional occupation he later taught his son.

While trying to find work one day Ming was seen by ...

51. Tyrus Wong

Animation_department | Bambi

Tyrus Wong was born on October 25, 1910 in Taishan, Guangdong Province, China. He is known for Bambi (1942), How to Live Forever (2009) and When the World Breaks (2010). He was married to Ruth Ng Kim. He died on December 30, 2016 in Sunland, California, USA.

52. Run Run Shaw

Blade Runner

Run Run Shaw was born in Shanghai, China on October 4, 1907. He went into the filming industry with his brother, Runme Shaw, and established the Shaw Organization in 1926 and the Shaw Studios (formerly South Seas Film studio) in 1930. In 1967, Shaw established the famous Television Broadcasts ...

53. Nikolai Annenkov

Actor | Sud chesti

Nikolai Annenkov, one of Russian theatre's most eloquent voices who was a descendant of liberated peasants, was a leading actor of Maly Theatre and teacher of many film stars.

He was born Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kokin on September 21, 1899, in the village of Inzhaviono, Tambov province, Russian ...

54. Hal Roach

Producer | One Million B.C.

Hal Roach was born in 1892 in Elmira, New York. After working as a mule skinner, wrangler and gold prospector, among other things, he wound up in Hollywood and began picking up jobs as an extra in comedies, where he met comedian Harold Lloyd in 1913 in San Diego. By all accounts, including his own,...

55. Adolph Zukor

Sullivan's Travels

Adolph Zukor was a poor Hungarian immigrant when he arrived in the United States in 1889. He tried his hand in the fur trade (starting as a sweeper for $2 a week pay) and proved his entrepreneurial acumen by steady advancement, eventually setting up successful businesses in New York and Chicago. By...

56. Miriam Seegar

Actress | Seven Keys to Baldpate

Miriam Seegar was born on September 1, 1907, to Frank and Carrie (née Wall) Seegar, both teachers. Raised in Greentown, Indiana, in the Seegar-Sewell home on 404 S. Main Street, she was the fourth of five daughters. Her sisters, known around town as the Seegar Sisters, were educator Helen ...

57. Florence Lee

Actress | A Mixed Affair

Florence Lee was born on March 12, 1888 in Jamaica, Vermont, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for A Mixed Affair (1912), A Natural Mistake (1914) and Illusion of Love (1929). She was married to Dell Henderson. She died on September 1, 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

58. Lucile Taft

Actress | The Idol of the Stage

Lucile Taft was born on October 15, 1881 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Idol of the Stage (1916), Queen X (1917) and The Drifter (1916). She was married to ? Deacuna. She died on April 16, 1988 in Orange County, California, USA.

59. Helen Bray

Actress | Big Timber

Helen Bray was born on November 25, 1889 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Big Timber (1917), Little Miss Optimist (1917) and Bob's Love Affairs (1915). She was married to George C. Pearce. She died on October 15, 1990 in Redwood City, California, USA.

60. Elsie Greeson

Actress | In the Days of Buffalo Bill

Elsie Greeson was born on March 20, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922), An Heiress for Two (1915) and The Sealed Package (1914). She died on June 11, 1995 in Banning, California, USA.

61. Louise Henry

Actress | Reckless

Louise Henry was born as Jessouise Heiman to Dr. Jesse Heiman and his wife, Louise Henry Heiman, who was a vaudeville star. Louise Henry Sr. as she was known, contracted tuberculosis while performing in vaudeville and was sent to a sanitarium in Saranac Lake, NY. While there she was treated by Dr. ...

62. Mabel Trunnelle

Actress | The Master Passion

Mabel Trunnelle was born in Dwight, Illinois on November 8, 1879. A stage actress from the East Coast, Mabel was 32 when she appeared on the silver screen. In 1911 she was in A MODERN CINDERELLA, IN THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY, and THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, the latter being the most notable. Her last film...

63. Georgie Stone

Actor | Just Pals

Georgie Stone was born on September 3, 1909 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Just Pals (1920), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918) and Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916). He died on April 25, 2010 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

64. Jennie Mac

Jennie Mac (born Yachna Sosa Shimon, later known as Jennie Cecile Simon and Jennie Simon MacMahon) was born in Tsarist Russia into a Jewish family that would emigrate to the United States.

She began her acting career in 1931 at the age of 53 after the death of her husband, William MacMahon. Her ...

65. Hugues Cuénod

Actor | Turandot

Hugues Cuénod was born on June 26, 1902 in Corseaux, Vaud, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Turandot (1987), Love Reinvented (1996) and On Such a Night (1956). He died on December 6, 2010 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

66. John Calvert

Actor | Dark Venture

John Calvert was born on August 5, 1911 in New Trenton, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Dark Venture (1956), Search for Danger (1949) and Gold Fever (1952). He was married to Tammy and Ann Cornell. He died on September 27, 2013 in Lancaster, California, USA.

67. Señor Wences

Final Approach

The Spanish born ventriloquist Senor Wences was one of the highest paid vaudeville acts in the world. Hugely popular with American TV audiences Wences was also a top nightclub favorite.

Born Wenceslao Moreno in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca (Spain), Wences began performing ventriloquism as a ...

68. Mino Doro

Actor | La dolce vita

Mino Doro was born on May 6, 1903 in Venice, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor and production manager, known for La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963) and Una notte dopo l'opera (1942). He died on April 13, 1992 in Marino, Italy.

69. Germaine Auger

Actress | Théodore et Cie

Germaine Auger was born on June 13, 1889 in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for Théodore et Cie (1933), Tout pour rien (1933) and Il faut rester garçon (1932). She died on August 24, 2001 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.

70. Marie Glory

Actress | Monte Cristo

Marie Glory was born on March 3, 1905 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France. She was an actress, known for Monte Cristo (1929), La femme idéale (1934) and ...And God Created Woman (1956). She died on January 24, 2009 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

71. Madeleine Milhaud

Actress | Les jumeaux de Brighton

Madeleine Milhaud was born on March 22, 1902 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936), Courrier Sud (1937) and Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928). She was married to Darius Milhaud. She died on January 17, 2008 in Paris, France.

72. Jenny Alpha

Actress | Une femme, une époque

Jenny Alpha was born on April 22, 1910 in Fort de France, Martinique. She was an actress, known for Une femme, une époque (1978), La vieille quimboiseuse et le majordome (1987) and Noir comme le souvenir (1995). She died on September 8, 2010 in Paris, France.

73. Pierre Gérald

Actor | Highlander

Pierre Gérald was born on May 26, 1906 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Highlander (1992), Les dossiers de Jérôme Randax (1965) and Hunting and Gathering (2007). He died on March 24, 2012 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

74. Roger Karl

Actor | Le prince Jean

One of the very few actors to have spent more than a hundred years on this earth and to have performed his art until he was over 90, Roger Karl (1882-1984) was an exceptionally gifted person who could have become an artist ('Pablo Picasso' was a friend of his) or a writer (he was close to Guillaume...

75. Lucien Pascal

Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac

Lucien Pascal is known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Ridicule (1996) and After Sex (1997).

76. Gisèle Casadesus

Actress | Les aventures de Casanova

Gisèle Casadesus was born on June 14, 1914 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Loves of Casanova (1947), Paméla (1945) and Sous le figuier (2012). She was married to Lucien Pascal. She died on September 24, 2017 in Paris, France.

77. Christian Casadesus

Actor | Le capitaine jaune

Christian Casadesus was born on December 26, 1912 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Le capitaine jaune (1930), Hôtel des étudiants (1932) and Coups de roulis (1932). He died on March 6, 2014.

78. Andrée Champeaux

Actress | Diva

Andrée Champeaux was born on December 1, 1905 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She was an actress and casting director, known for Diva (1981), Docteur Erika Werner (1978) and La grotte aux fées (1972). She died on November 12, 2006 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.

79. Yvette Lebon

Actress | Michel Strogoff

Yvette Lebon was born on August 14, 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Michel Strogoff (1936), Paméla (1945) and Ulysses Against Hercules (1962). She was married to Nat Wachsberger and Roger Duchesne. She died on July 28, 2014 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

80. Rosine Delamare

Costume_designer | Du rififi chez les hommes

Rosine Delamare was born on June 11, 1911 in Colombes, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France], France. She was a costume designer, known for Rififi (1955), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and The Earrings of Madame De... (1953). She died on March 17, 2013 in Paris, France.

81. Paulette Dubost

Actress | La règle du jeu

Paulette Dubost was born on October 8, 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette (1933) and Les mystères de Paris (1962). She was married to André Ostertag. She died on September 21, 2011 in Longjumeau, Essonne, ...

82. René Le Hénaff

Director | Joli monde

René Le Hénaff was born on April 24, 1901 in Saigon, Vietnam. He was an editor and director, known for Joli monde (1935), Monsieur de Falindor (1947) and Mountain Man (1934). He died on January 5, 2005 in Belley, Ain, France.

83. Arthur Gardner

Producer | Safari 3000

Jules V. Levy, Arthur Gardner and Arnold Laven met in 1943 in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force; they were stationed at the Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, CA (with other notables such as Capt. Ronald Reagan, Capt. Clark Gable and Lt. William Holden, etc.), making training films...

84. Robert F. Boyle

Production_designer | North by Northwest

Robert F. Boyle was born on October 10, 1909 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for North by Northwest (1959), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and The Shootist (1976). He was married to Bess Boyle. He died on August 1, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, ...

85. Harry Redmond Jr.

Producer | Ripcord

Harry Redmond Jr. was born on October 15, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Ripcord (1961), Science Fiction Theatre (1955) and Sea Hunt (1987). He was married to Dorothea Holt. He died on May 23, 2011 in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

86. Emily Perry

Actress | Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch

Emily Perry was born on June 28, 1907 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch (1992), Dame Edna's Hollywood (1991) and A Night on Mount Edna (1990). She died on February 20, 2008 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK.

87. Etta Moten

Actress | Flying Down to Rio

In addition to her vocal dubbing and on-screen film credits, Etta Moten played the role of Bess in the 1943 revival of "Porgy and Bess" at the personal request of Ira Gershwin (not George, who had died in 1937). Etta and husband Claude Barnett, founder of the Negro Associated Press, served as US ...

88. Sybil Rhoda

Actress | Downhill

Born in Plymouth, England in 1902, Sybil Fowler's family never had any money. Her father, although a dentist, drank heavily. She went to a local convent school until the age of 16 and was expected to become a teacher. To everyone's horror she said she was going to be a stage actress.

Leaving ...

89. Claire Du Brey

Actress | The Bishop's Wife

Lovely brown-eyed, brunette Claire Du Brey enjoyed a rich, four-decade film career in all. Born Clara Violet Dubrey on August 31, 1892, in Bonner's Ferry Idaho, her family traveled the rugged Sierra Madre terrain by covered wagon in their move to California when she was 13.

Educated in a convent ...

90. Osmond Borradaile

Camera_department | The Four Feathers

Osmond Borradaile was born on July 17, 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Four Feathers (1939), After the Fog (1930) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He was married to Christiane Lippens. He died on March 23, 1999 in Canada.

91. Gunnar Fischer

Cinematographer | Smultronstället

Gunnar Fischer was born on November 18, 1910 in Ljungby, Sweden. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957) and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). He was married to Gull Söderblom. He died on June 11, 2011 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.

92. Eric Cross

Cinematographer | The Lure

Eric Cross was born on May 31, 1902 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for The Lure (1933), The Gang (1938) and Sporting Love (1936). He died on March 1, 2004 in Middlesex, England, UK.

93. Ninette de Valois

Actress | The Female Swindler

It has been rightly suggested that Dame Ninette de Valois is one of the most important women of the century. It was due to her drive and ambition that the modern English ballet was created. In that respect she changed history single handed. Born in Ireland, young Ninette (her stage name was her ...

94. Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

Actress | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies was born on January 25, 1891 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991), Nine Days a Queen (1936) and Paul Krüger (1956). She died on January 27, 1992 in Stambourne, Essex, England, UK.

95. Mary Ellis

Actress | Bella Donna

A promising star first with the Metropolitan Opera than on the Broadway and London stages, soprano Mary Ellis had little chance to prove herself as either a musical or dramatic film star with only a few creaky vehicles left for audiences to ponder. Her versatility on stage, however, was extensive, ...

96. Cora Goffin

Actress | Down Under Donovan

Cora Goffin was one of Britain's most famous pantomime princpal boys and musical comedy stars. At the height of her fame during the 1920s and 30s she was a household name and her picture adorned chocolate boxes, cigarette cards and magazine covers.

Married to the powerful impresario Emile Littler ...

97. Teruko Nagaoka

Actress | Tôkyô monogatari

Teruko Nagaoka was born on January 5, 1908 in Morioka, Iwate, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), Sound of the Mountain (1954) and The First Kiss (1955). She died on October 18, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.

98. Athene Seyler

Actress | Drake of England

Athene Seyler was born on May 31, 1889 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Drake the Pirate (1935), Curse of the Demon (1957) and The Franchise Affair (1951). She was married to Nicholas Hannen and James Bury Sterndale-Bennett. She died on September 12, 1990 in ...

99. Johannes Heesters

Actor | Die Fledermaus

Growing up as the youngest of four sons of the merchant Jacobus Heesters and his wife Gertruida, née van der Hoevel, he began a commercial apprenticeship after finishing school. He actually wanted to become a priest, but then began an apprenticeship in a bank. In 1920 he switched to acting. He ...

100. Leila Danette

Actress | Law & Order

Leila Danette was born on August 23, 1909 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), Running on Empty (1988) and The Rosary Murders (1987). She died on September 4, 2012.