No picture?? Actors/Actresses too prolific for IMDB to not have a headshot
by GrandMoffZ | created - 20 Jun 2012 | updated - 02 Aug 2014 | PublicA list in progress as I come across them. No real order. Please feel free to give additional names. [some powers-that-be have added headshots -- not all neccessarily great ones but somethin at least -- after the list was originally started]
1. Britt Leach
Actor | The Great Outdoors
Chubby and engaging character actor Britt Leach was born on July 18, 1938 in Gadsden, Alabama. Leach was often cast as no-nonsense police officers, scruffy everyday blue collar working class types, and crude hillbillies in both movies and TV shows alike. Britt graduated from the McCallie prep ...
2. Mona Washbourne
Actress | My Fair Lady
British character player Mona Washbourne was a natural symbol for the working-class as much of her early career was in playing midwives, barmaids, nannies, landladies and factory workers. Born November 27, 1903, in Birmingham, England, where she attended Yardley Secondary School. The daughter of ...
"Mrs. Pearce!"
3. Warren William
Actor | The Wolf Man
Warren William, the stalwart leading man of pre-Production Code talkies, was born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894 in Aitkin, Minnesota, the son of a newspaper publisher. William originally planned to become a journalist, but he had a change of heart, and instead went to the American ...
Employee' Entrance, the first Perry Mason
4. George Brent
Actor | Dark Victory
The favorite leading man of star Bette Davis was born George Brendan Nolan in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland (although his place of birth has also been variosuly given as Raharabeg, County Roscommon and Shannonbridge, County Offaly). He was the youngest of five children born to shopkeeper John...
Dark Victory amongst others alongside Bette Davis. so handsome, how can he be on this list?
5. Barbara Harris
Actress | Nashville
Barbara Harris began acting while still a teenager in Chicago, playing small parts in the Playwrights Theatre Club (whose other players included such youngsters as Edward Asner, Mike Nichols and Elaine May). She was also in "The Compass Players", the first ongoing improvisational theater troupe in ...
Freaky Friday, A Thousand Clowns, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
6. Meg Foster
Actress | They Live
Blue-eyed brunette Meg Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 10, 1948 to David and Nancy. She has four siblings and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut. Foster studied acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.
Foster's first role came about in 1969, when she appeared in an episode of NET ...
They Live, Leviathan, Masters of the Universe
7. Clint Walker
Actor | The Dirty Dozen
Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, southwestern Illinois, to Gladys Huldah (Schwanda), a Czech immigrant, and Paul Arnold Walker, who was from Arkansas. Walker almost single-handedly started the western craze on TV in the 1950s as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne (1955). Growing up ...
Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen, More Dead Than Alive
8. Gregory Walcott
Actor | Plan 9 from Outer Space
Gregory Walcott grew up in North Carolina and went into the Army just after the end of World War II. After leaving the service, he grew restless on the East Coast and, with $100 in his pocket, thumbed his way west to pursue an acting career. An agent who spotted him in a little theater play helped ...
Plan 9, Ed Wood, A Man from the East, numerous television appearances
9. Tor Johnson
Actor | Plan 9 from Outer Space
Tor Johnson was a big man, with a big heart, who was born October 19, 1903, in Sweden.
Most of his adult life, he was a professional wrestler. Tor started appearing (uncredited, or in bit parts) in movies as early as 1934. He was in 31 movies, usually as "Weightlifter" or "Strongman."
Later, he got ...
10. Barbara Shelley
Actress | Quatermass and the Pit
The sexy Barbara Shelley was born Barbara Kowin on February 13, 1932 in London, England. With her beautiful looks and stature, she worked as a model during her salad days. Her film career began in Italy in the mid-1950s in such tempting fare as Luna nova (1955) and Nero's Mistress (1956), but when ...
Hammer horror queen
11. Leon Greene
Actor | Flash Gordon
Leon Greene was born on July 15, 1931 in East Ham, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon (1980), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and The Devil Rides Out (1968). He was married to Jean Percival. He died on June 19, 2021 in the UK.
Flash Gordon, The Devil Rides Out (aka The Devil's Bride), The Four Musketeers, also a professional opera singer
12. Harry Carey Jr.
Actor | Tombstone
Harry Carey, Jr., had been reliable character actor for decades, mostly in Westerns, before he retired. He is the son of the actor Harry Carey and the actress Olive Carey. He was born on his parents' 1000-acre ranch near Saugus, in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, which is now next door...
13. Raye Birk
Actor | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Raye Birk was born in Flint, Michigan in 1943. He grew up there and graduated from Southwestern High school in 1961. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois and graduated with a degree in theater in 1965. He received an MFA in theater from the University of Minnesota in 1967.
He ...
14. Billy Curtis
Actor | High Plains Drifter
Diminutive American actor Billy Curtis avoided the usual onus of freak-show employment as a youth, opting for a mainstream job as a shoe clerk. Encouraged by stock company actress Shirley Booth to take a little person role in a stage production, Curtis soon became a professional actor, with ...
15. Jim Davis
Actor | Big Jake
Tall, rangy Jim Davis spent much of his early career in westerns mainly at Republic Pictures. The Missouri-born and -raised Davis' relaxed, easygoing manner and Southern drawl easily fit most moviegoers' image of the cowboy and Republic put him in a ton of them over the years (the fact that, unlike...
Jock Ewing...
16. Kay Walsh
Actress | The Horse's Mouth
Kay Walsh graced the British Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s as a leading lady, before maturing into character roles. She was born Kathleen Walsh in London, England of Irish parentage. She and her sister Peggy were raised in Pimlico by their grandmother. She began her career as a dancer in the chorus...
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