Lights, Camera, Action: Actors of Hollywood

101. Eric Balfour

Eric Balfour is a true Angelino, one who embraces everything the City of Angels has to offer. As a lover of the ocean he is an avid surfer and supports many environmental causes. His charitable endeavors include Surfrider, Oceana and Sea Shepard. As a lover of fashion he's built an incredible ...

Career Highlights: What Women Want (2000) Secondhand Lions (2003) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Skyline (2010)

102. Martin Balsam

Actor | All the President's Men

Martin Henry Balsam was born on November 4, 1919 in the Bronx, New York City, to Lillian (Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, a manufacturer of women's sportswear. He was the first-born child. His father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and his mother was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents. ...

Career Highlights: 12 Angry Men (1957) Psycho (1960) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) The Untouchables (1962) Cape Fear (1962) Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) All the President's Men (1976) Blood and Diamonds (1977) St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

103. Jonathan Banks

Actor | Mudbound

Versatile veteran character actor Jonathan Banks was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947. While growing up he always had an interest in acting and stage work, so decided to pursue a career in entertainment. To this day he is a very accomplished stage actor. While acting in film, he usually plays ...

Career Highlights: Airplane! (1980) 48 Hrs. (1982) Gremlins (1984) Beverly Hill Cops (1984) Armed and Dangerous (1986) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) Mudbound (2017)

104. Trevor Bardette

Actor | The Monolith Monsters

Wavy-haired, articulate, quietly-spoken Bardette was one of Hollywood's archetypal villains of westerns and cliffhanger serials. He initially aspired to become a mechanical engineer after graduating from Oregon State University in June 1925. However, by the late 1920s, he had changed his name from ...

Career Highlights: In Old Mexico (1938) Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) Apache Trail (1942) Dick Tracy (1945)

105. Lex Barker

Actor | Tarzan's Savage Fury

Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. was a direct descendant of the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and of Sir William Henry Crichlow, historical Governor-General of Barbados. Barker attended the Fessenden School and Phillips-Exeter Academy, where he excelled in football and track. He went to ...

Career Highlights: The Farmer's Daughter (1945) Played Tarzan from 1949-1953

106. Reginald Barlow

Actor | Bride of Frankenstein

Reginald Barlow was born on June 17, 1866 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Big Cage (1933) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). He was married to Carol Brown and Selma Rose. He died on July 6, 1943 in Hollywood, California, ...

Career Highlights: The Last of the Mohicans (1936) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Les Miserables (1935)

107. Justus D. Barnes

Actor | The Declaration of Independence

Justus D. Barnes was born on October 2, 1862 in Little Falls, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Declaration of Independence (1911), The Star of Bethlehem (1912) and A Beauty Parlor Graduate (1913). He died on February 6, 1946 in Weedsport, New York, USA.

Career Highlights: The Great Train Robbery (1903) David Copperfield (1911)

108. Robert Barrat

Actor | The Last of the Mohicans

Robert Barrat pursued a stage career on Broadway from 1918 to 1932. He did sample a scant three silent movies starting in 1915, but returned to stage work. Barrat had a distinguished enough visage but also a well knit physique that would foretell a busy career in films with many featured character ...

Career Highlights: Baby Face (1933) Bordertown (1935) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Charlie Chan on Honolulu (1938) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) Joan of Arc (1948) Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)

109. Raymond J. Barry

Actor | Just Married

Raymond J. Barry was born in New York, and attended Brown University, where he was a star athlete in football, basketball, and track. While there, he earned his degree in Philosophy and as a senior, was cast in the stage production of "Picnic," where he played a football player. He then entered the...

Career Highlights: The Goodbye Girl (1977) Year of the Dragon (1985) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Cool Runnings (1993) Flubber (1997) Training Day (2001) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) The Purge: Election Year (2016)

110. Don 'Red' Barry

Actor | Jesse James' Women

Donald Barry went from the stage to the screen. After four years of playing villains and henchmen at various studios, Barry got the role that changed his image: Red Ryder in the Republic Pictures serial Adventures of Red Ryder (1940). Although he had appeared in westerns for two years or so, this ...

Career Highlights: Young Dr. Kildare (1938) Black Hills Express (1943) Walk Like a Dragon (1960) The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) Hustle (1975)

111. John Barrymore

Actor | Twentieth Century

John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical ...

Career Highlights: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920) Sherlock Holmes (1922) Don Juan (1926) Moby Dick (1930) Grand Hotel (1932) Twentieth Century (1934) Romeo and Juliet (1936) True Confession (1937) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) Marie Antoinette (1938) Midnight (1939)

112. Lionel Barrymore

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon...

Career Highlights: The Lion and the Mouse (1928) A Free Soul (1931) Grand Hotel (1932) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) One Man's Journey (1933) David Copperfield (1935) Captains Courageous (1937) Young Dr. Kildare (1938) Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940) The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942) Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) 3 Men in White (1944) Dragon Seed (1944) Between Two Women (1945) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Duel in the Sun (1946) Key Largo (1948)

113. Paul Bartel

Actor | Eating Raoul

Paul Bartel was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He decided he wanted to direct animated movies when he was 11 and by 13 had spent a summer working at New York's UPA animation studio. He majored in theater arts at UCLA, and received a Fulbright scholarship to study film direction in Rome, producing a ...

Career Highlights: Grand Theft Auto (1977) Frankenweenie (1984) Caddyshack 2 (1988) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Posse (1993) Hamlet (2000)

114. Justin Bartha

Actor | National Treasure

Justin Bartha was born on July 21, 1978 in West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for National Treasure (2004), Gigli (2003) and The Hangover (2009). He has been married to Lia Smith since January 4, 2014. They have one child.

Career Highlights: National Treasure (2004) Failure to Launch (2006) National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) The Hangover (2009) The Hangover Part II (2011) The Hangover Part III (2013)

115. Richard Barthelmess

Actor | Only Angels Have Wings

Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and ...

Career Highlights: Camille (1917) Broken Blossoms (1919) Soul-Fire (1925) Drag (1929)

116. James Baskett

Actor | Song of the South

James Baskett was born on February 16, 1904 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as James Franklin Baskett. He was an actor, known for Song of the South (1946), Revenge of the Zombies (1943) and Policy Man (1938). He was married to Margaret. He died on July 9, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Career Highlights: Dumbo (1941) Song of the South (1946) Known for singing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah".

117. Ben Bass

Actor | Rookie Blue

Ben Bass was born on August 14, 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Rookie Blue (2010), Burden of Truth (2018) and Would Be Kings (2008). He was previously married to Laura Carswell.

Career Highlights: Bride of Chucky (1998) The 6th Day (2000)

118. Jason Bateman

Actor | Arrested Development

Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).

He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director...

Career Highlights: Starsky & Hutch (2004) Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) Smokin' Aces (2007) Juno (2007) Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) Up in the Air (2009) Paul (2011) Horrible Bosses (2011) The Gift (2015) Zootopia (2016)

119. Steven Bauer

Actor | Scarface

Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson) is a Cuban-born American actor. Bauer began his career on PBS, portraying Joe Peña, the son of Cuban immigrants on Qué Pasa, USA (1977-1980) and is perhaps most famous for his role as the Cuban drug lord Manny Rivera in the 1983 crime drama ...

Career Highlight: Scarface (1983) Wildfire (1988) Raising Cain (1991) Snapdragon (1993) Primal Fear (1996) Traffic (2000) Nola (2003)

120. Dave Bautista

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy

David Michael Bautista, Jr. was born on January 18, 1969 in Washington, D.C., to Donna Raye (Mullins) and David Michael Bautista, a hairdresser. He has Filipino and Greek ancestry.

When WCW officials told him he'd never make it in sports entertainment, Bautista pushed himself to achieve his dream of...

Career Highlights: The Man with the Iron Fist (2012) Riddick (2013) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Spectre (2015) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

121. Alan Baxter

Actor | Saboteur

Before there was an Alan Ladd, there was another furtive-eyed, baby-faced, cigarette-dangling Alan, impacting the movie scene with his various colorless and cold-hearted thugs, mobsters and killers. Dark-haired, bullet-headed actor Alan Baxter earned a noticeable degree of popularity back in the ...

Career Highlights: It Could Happen to You (1937) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) The Pittsburgh Kid (1941) Saboteur (1942) The True Story of Jesse James (1957) The End of the Line (1957) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Paint Your Wagon (1969) Willard (1971)

122. Warner Baxter

Actor | Penthouse

Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent." When he was age 9, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco where, following ...

Career Highlights: In Old Arizona (1928) The Arizona Kid (1930) The Stolen Jools (1931) The Cisco Kid (1931) 42nd Street (1933) The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)

123. Michael Beach

Actor | Aquaman

Born and raised in Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood, by a single mom with four children, Beach was an athlete who never expected to be an actor. After performing in a few plays at Noble and Greenough School, he auditioned for, got accepted to and later graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School ...

Career Highlights: The Abyss (1989) True Romance (1993) Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) Aquaman (2018)

124. Ned Beatty

Actor | Network

Stocky, genial-looking supporting actor Ned Beatty was once hailed by Daily Variety as the "busiest actor in Hollywood."

Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and working on farms. His hometown of St. Matthews, ...

Career Highlights: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) The Last American Hero (1973) All the President's Men (1976) Network (1976) Superman (1978) Superman II (1980) The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) Hear My Song (1991) Rudy (1993) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2004) Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Toy Story 3 (2010) Rango (2011)

125. Warren Beatty

Actor | Reds

Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...

Career Highlights: Splendor in the Grass (1961) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Shampoo (1975) Heaven Can Wait (1978) Reds (1981) Dick Tracy (1990) Bugsy (1991) Bulworth (1998)

126. William Beaudine

Director | The Ape Man

William Beaudine, the director of nearly 350 known films (nearly one for every day of the year; some listings of his work put his output at 500 movies and hundreds of TV episodes) and scores of television episodes, enjoyed a directing career that stretched across seven decades from the 'Teens to ...

127. Hugh Beaumont

Actor | Leave It to Beaver

Beaumont began his career in show business by perfoming in theatres, nightclubs, and on the radio in 1931. He attended the University of Chattanooga, but left when his position on the football team was changed. He later attended the University of Southern California, and graduated with a Master of ...

Career Highlights: Too Many Winners (1947) Second Chance (1950)

128. Jim Beaver

Actor | Deadwood

Jim Beaver is an American character actor, best known for his leading roles on the TV series Deadwood (2004) and Supernatural (2005). Born in Laramie, Wyoming a minister's son, he was raised in and around Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Following high school and a year of college, he joined the ...

Career Highlights: Turner & Hooch (1989) Sister Act (1992) Joy Ride (2001) Adaptation. (2002) The Life of David Gale (2003) Crimson Peak (2015)

129. Graham Beckel

Actor | L.A. Confidential

Graham Beckel was born on December 22, 1949 in Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and director, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), Leaving Las Vegas (1995) and Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018). He has been married to Elizabeth Briggs Bailey since December 1, 1984.

Career Highlights: L.A. Confidential (1997) Black Dog (1998) Bulworth (1998) Blue Streak (1999) Brokeback Mountain (2005) The Astronaut Farmer (2007) Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) Escape Plan (2013) Nocturnal Animals (2016) Rules Don't Apply (2016)

130. Don Beddoe

Actor | The Night of the Hunter

American character actor. Raised in New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio, Beddoe was the son of a professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music who happened also to be the world-famous Welsh tenor, Dan Beddoe. Although Don Beddoe intended a career in journalism, he took an interest in theatre and...

Career Highlights: Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940) The Farmer's Daughter (1947) Easy Living (1949) Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) Bullwhip (1958)

131. Wallace Beery

Actor | A Date with Judy

In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows. He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on ...

Career Highlights: Wild Honey (1922) Robin Hood (1922) White Tiger (1923) Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923) The Drums of Jeopardy (1923) The Lost World (1925) Volcano! (1926) Grand Hotel (1932) The Champ (1932)

132. Noah Beery

Actor | Beau Geste

Respected character actor of the silent and early sound period, specializing in cruel villains. The son of Kansas City policeman Noah Webster Beery and Frances Margaret Fitzgerald Beery, Noah Nicholas Beery and his younger brother Wallace Beery both left home in their teens, each seeking a career ...

Career Highlights: The Squaw Man (1918) Wild Honey (1922) Tennessee Johnson (1942)

133. Ed Begley

Actor | 12 Angry Men

Charismatic character star Edward James Begley was born in Hartford, Connecticut of Irish parents and educated at St.Patrick's school. His interest in acting first surfaced at the age of nine, when he performed amateur theatricals at the Hartford Globe Theatre. Determined to make his own way, he ...

Career Highlights: Dark City (1950) On Dangerous Ground (1951) 12 Angry Men (1957) Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) Inherit the Wind (1965)

134. Ed Begley Jr.

Actor | A Mighty Wind

Ed Begley Jr. was born on September 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Mighty Wind (2003), Pineapple Express (2008) and Whatever Works (2009). He has been married to Rachelle Carson-Begley since August 23, 2000. They have one child. He was previously ...

Career Highlights: Now You Seen Him, Now You Don't (1972) Charley and the Angels (1973) Battlestar Galactica (1978) Cat People (1982) Get Crazy (1983) Addams Family Reunion (1998)

135. Drake Bell

Actor | Drake & Josh

Drake Bell was born on June 27, 1986, in Santa Ana, California, USA as Jared Drake Bell. He is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also known as Drake Campana, under which name he records Spanish-language songs. In December 2005, Bell was driving a vehicle that was stopped at...

Career Highlights: Jerry Maguire (1996) High Fidelity (2000) Yours, Mine, and Ours (2005) The Amanda Show (1999-2002; TV) Drake & Josh (2004-07; TV)

136. Marshall Bell

Actor | Starship Troopers

A tall, imposing character actor with a penetrating stare, Marshall Bell has provided excellent support in a variety of roles and genres. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 28, 1942, and had been working as a consultant, teaching senior executives how to improve their speaking skills, ...

Career Highlights: Stand By Me (1986) No Way Out (1987) Johnny Be Good (1988) Twins (1988) Total Recall (1990) Dick Tracy (1990) Payback (1995) Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) Starship Troopers (1997) The Rum Diary (2011) Rules Don't Apply (2016)

137. Tobin Bell

Actor | Saw

Tobin Bell is an American actor with a career in film, television and theater spanning three decades. He was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Mass. His mother is the British actress Eileen Bell. He is perhaps best known for his role as the iconic villain "Jigsaw" in the Saw film ...

Career Highlights: Mississippi Burning (1988) Goodfellas (1990) Ruby (1992) In the Line of Fire (1993) The Quick and the Dead (1995) The Road to El Dorado (2000) Saw (2004) Saw II (2005) Saw III (2006) Saw IV (2007) Saw V (2008) Saw VI (2009) Saw 3D (2010) Jigsaw (2017)

138. Ned Bellamy

Actor | Blonde

Ned was born in Dayton, Ohio to Bill and Nelle Bellamy. After spending his childhood in Joplin, Missouri, the family moved to La Jolla, California. Mark, his brother, is the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya. Anne, his sister, is president of African Travel in Los Angeles. After graduating from UCLA, Ned ...

Career Highlights: Bob Roberts (1992) Ed Wood (1994) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Con Air (1997) Being John Malkovich (1999) Twilight (2008) Django Unchained (2012)

139. Jim Belushi

Actor | Red Heat

James Adam Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Chicago, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. The third of four children - his brother was comedian John Belushi - he ...

Career Highlights: Trading Places (1983) The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) Red Heat (1988) Curly Sue (1991) The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) Hoodwinked! (2005) Cougars, Inc. (2011) Wonder Wheel (2017)

140. Richard Belzer

Actor | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

A social misfit, Belzer was kicked out of every school he ever attended, due to his uncontrollable wit. His mother (Frances) died of breast cancer when Richard was 18. Four years later, his father (Charles) committed suicide. A dedication is written to Charles Belzer in Richard Belzer's "UFOs, JFK,...

Career Highlights: Scarface (1983) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Law & Order: SVU (1999-2016; TV)

141. Paul Ben-Victor

Actor | The Wire

Paul Ben-Victor is an internationally recognized actor whose career spans four decades on stage, film, and television which includes his iconic performance as the Greek mobster Spiros Vondas on the acclaimed HBO series THE WIRE which has been called the greatest series of all-time.

One of the film ...

Career Highlights: Cool World (1992) Tombstone (1993) True Romance (1993) A Civil Action (1998) Daredevil (2003) Don Jon (2013) Grudge Match (2013)

142. Maurice Benard

Actor | General Hospital

Daytime Emmy Award winning Actor Maurice Benard joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Sonny Corinthos in August 1993. He briefly left the show for a year-long hiatus in December 1998. For his portrayal, Mr. Benard received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003. He was also ...

Career Highlights: Rudy (1992) General Hospital (1993-present) Joy (2015)

143. William Bendix

Actor | Lifeboat

William Bendix was not a son of Brooklyn, New York, although because of his stereotypical "Brooklyn accent" it has been widely supposed that he was. Bendix was actually born in the Borough of Manhattan (New York City proper), in a midtown flat hard by the tracks of the long-since defunct ...

Career Highlights: China (1943) Calcutta (1947) Variety Girl (1947) For Love or Money (1963)

144. William 'Billy' Benedict

Actor | The Killing

William Benedict was active in the drama department of his Tulsa, Oklahoma, high school and, at the height of the Depression (1934), decided to relocate to California. At first, he wanted to be a dancer, but when he discovered that dancers were a dime-a-dozen in Hollywood, he concentrated on acting...

Career Highlights: Ramona (1936) Wildcat (1942) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) Million Dollar Kid (1944) Bowery Champs (1944) Docks of New York (1945) Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945) Come Out Fighting (1945)

145. Jimmy Bennett

Actor | Star Trek

James 'Jimmy' Bennett was born on February 9, 1996 in Seal Beach, California. He has appeared in guest starring roles on The Guardian (2001), Judging Amy (1999), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and recently Everwood (2002), and has been cast in some of the most successful productions in that ...

Career Highlights: The Jungle Book 2 (2003) Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) The Polar Express (2004) The Amityville Horror (2005) Firewall (2006) Poseidon (2006) Evan Almighty (2007) Star Trek (2009)

146. Robby Benson

Actor | Beauty and the Beast

Robby Benson is an American writer, director, composer, lyricist, actor, professor of film, filmmaker and novelist. He began his career in the theater, (Oliver, The King and I); on Broadway (co-starring in Zelda, The Rothschilds and Joseph Papp's The Pirates of Penzance, where he met and fell in ...

Career Highlights: Jeremy (1973) Jory (1973) Ode of Billy Joe (1976) City Limits (1985) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) Dragonheart: A New Beginning (2000)

147. Wes Bentley

Actor | American Beauty

Wes Bentley is an American actor who first became well-known via his role in the Oscar-winning film American Beauty (1999), in which he played the soulful, artistic next-door neighbor Ricky Fitts. He also portrayed game-maker Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012), and co-stars in Lovelace (2013) ...

Career Highlights: American Beauty (1999) Soul Survivors (2001) The Four Feathers (2002) Ghost Rider (2007) There Be Dragons (2011) Underworld: Awakening (2012) Gone (2012) The Hunger Games (2012) Interstellar (2014) Knight of Cups (2015) We Are Your Friends (2015) Pete's Dragon (2016)

148. Tom Berenger

Actor | Platoon

Born in Chicago, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Tom Berenger was born Thomas Michael Moore and raised in a working class Roman Catholic family of Irish descent. His father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Tom attended the University of Missouri to study journalism. ...

Career Highlights: The Sentinel (1977) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) The Big Chill (1983) Platoon (1986) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Sniper (1993) Gettysburg (1993) Training Day (2001) Inception (2010)

149. Xander Berkeley

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Xander's father was a painter and his mother a school teacher who sewed, providing him with costumes (his preference over toys). School plays and Community Theater were next. An experimental theater troupe in the area (which was an offshoot from Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater in New York) took ...

Career Highlights: The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) The Rookie (1990) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Billy Bathgate (1991) A Few Good Men (1993) Apollo 13 (1995) Heat (1995) Air Force One (1997) Gattaca (1997) Amistad (1997) Taken (2008) Kick-Ass (2010)

150. Corbin Bernsen

Actor | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Corbin Bernsen made his initial mark on the seminal television series L.A. Law as opportunistic divorce lawyer "Arnie Becker" earning him multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations over the show's eight-year run. He proved along the way the role was not to be a dead-end stereotype, maintaining a ...

Career Highlights: Major League (1990) Major League II (1994) Radioland Murders (1994) Major League: Back to the Minors (1998) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) L.A. Law (1986-94; TV) Psych (2006-14; TV)

151. Jon Bernthal

Actor | The Wolf of Wall Street

Jon Bernthal was born and raised in Washington D.C., the son of Joan (Marx) and Eric Bernthal, a lawyer. His grandfather was musician Murray Bernthal. Jon went to study at The Moscow Art Theatre School, in Moscow, Russia, where he also played professional baseball in the European professional ...

Career Highlights: The Air I Breathe (2007) Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Fury (2014) Sicario (2015) We Are Your Friends (2015) Wind River (2017) Baby Driver (2017)

152. Michael Berryman

Actor | Weird Science

Late 1970s horror genre icon who's best known for his creepy performance as "Pluto" in the uncompromising Wes Craven horror film The Hills Have Eyes (1977). Berryman (who suffers from Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia, a rare condition leaving him with no sweat glands, hair, fingernails or teeth) ...

Career Highlights: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The Hills Have Eyes (1977) The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984) Weird Science (1985) My Science Project (1985) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Double Dragon (1994)

153. Ahmed Best

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Ahmed Best is an African-American actor, musician and dancer. He gained recognition for portraying Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). He would later reprise the role in the rest of the prequel trilogy, video games and cartoons as well as Robot Chicken Star Wars ...

Career Highlights: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clone (2002) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Voiced and preforms as Jar Jar Binks)

154. Matthew Betz

Actor | The Big Chance

Matthew Betz was born on September 13, 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Big Chance (1933), The Crimson City (1928) and The Terror (1928). He was married to Lulu Slipp. He died on January 26, 1938 in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Career Highlights: The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924) Shipwrecked (1926) Broadway After Midnight (1927) The Terror (1928) Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931) Tarzan the Fearless (1933) Mississippi (1935) Just My Luck (1937)

155. Richard Beymer

Actor | West Side Story

Born in Avoca, Iowa and moved with his parents to Hollywood, California in the late 1940s, Richard Beymer acted in various films while attending North Hollywood High School. He enjoys making his own films and has a film used in a PBS series on the civil rights movement.

Career Highlights: Johnny Tremain (1957) The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) West Side Story (1961)

156. Charles Bickford

Actor | A Star Is Born

American character actor of gruff voice and appearance who was a fixture in Hollywood pictures from the earliest days of the talkies. The fifth of seven children, he was born in the first minute of 1891. He was a boisterous child, and at nine was tried and acquitted for attempted murder in the ...

Career Highlights: The Squaw Man (1931) Red Wagon (1933) Of Mice and Men (1939) Fallen Angel (1945) The Farmer's Daughter (1947) Johnny Belinda (1948) Whirlpool (1949)

157. Michael Biehn

Actor | Aliens

Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left prematurely two ...

Career Highlights: The Terminator (1984) Aliens (1986) The Abyss (1989) Navy SEALS (1990) K2 (1991) Tombstone (1993) The Rock (1996) Clockstoppers (2002) Dragon Squad (2005) Grindhouse (2007)

158. Craig Bierko

Actor | The Thirteenth Floor

Craig Bierko was born on August 18, 1964 in Rye Brook, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and Scary Movie 4 (2006).

Career Highlights: The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) The Thirteenth Floor (1999) Cinderella Man (2005) Scary Movie 4 (2006) The Three Stooges (2012) Equity (2016)

159. Jason Biggs

Actor | American Pie

Jason Matthew Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela (Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company manager. Jason has two sisters, Heather, a tax specialist born in 1971, and Chiara, born in 1980. He was raised Catholic, and is of English and mostly Italian ...

Career Highlights: American Pie (1999) Loser (2000) American Pie 2 (2001) American Wedding (2003) Jersey Girl (2004) Guy X (2005) American Reunion (2012) Orange is the New Black (2013-17; TV)

160. Edward Binns

Actor | 12 Angry Men

Gravel-voiced, authoritative American character actor, a reliable presence on screen for more than four decades.

Edward Thomas Binns was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Esther (Bracken) and Edward Thoms Binns. His family were Quakers. He was a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and ...

Career Highlights: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 12 Angry Men (1957) North By Northwest (1959) Judgment of Nuremberg (1961) Patton (1970)

161. Gil Birmingham

Actor | Wind River

Gil Birmingham is an American actor of Comanche ancestry, best known for his portrayal of Billy Black in the The Twilight Saga film series. Birmingham was born in San Antonio, Texas. His family moved frequently during his childhood, due to his father's career in the military. He learned to play the...

Career Highlights: Twilight (2008) Twilight: New Moon (2009) Twilight: Eclipse (2010) Rango (2011) Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2012) Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2013) Hell or High Water (2016) Wind River (2017)

162. Jack Black

Actor | School of Rock

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los ...

Career Highlights: Bob Roberts (1992) The NeverEnding Story III (1994) Dead Man Walking (1995) Mars Attacks! (1996) The Jackal (1997) Enemy of the State (1998) High Fidelity (2000) Shallow Hal (2001) Ice Age (2002) School of Rock (2003) King Kong (2005) Nacho Libre (2006) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Tropic Thunder (2008) Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) Bernie (2011) Goosebumps (2015) Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

163. Lucas Black

Actor | Sling Blade

Lucas York Black was born on November 29, 1982 in Decatur, Alabama to Jan (Keenum), an office worker, and Larry Black, a museum worker. With no formal acting lessons, Lucas made his film debut with a small part in the Kevin Costner film The War (1994) at age 11. This small role helped him land his ...

Career Highlights: Sling Blade (1996) Flash (1997) All the Pretty Horses (2000) Cold Mountain (2003) Friday Night Lights (2004) Jarhead (2005) The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Seven Days in Utopia (2011) 42: The Jackie Robinson Story (2013)

164. Stephen Blackehart

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Stephen Blackehart was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He was previously married to Mercedes Blackehart.

Career Highlights: Rush Hour (1998) Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) The Land that Time Forgot (2009) Super (2011) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) The Belko Experiment (2017) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

165. Sidney Blackmer

Actor | Rosemary's Baby

Sidney Blackmer, the Tony-award winning actor who played Teddy Roosevelt in seven movies, is best remembered by today's movie audiences for his turn as the warlock/coven-leader Roman Castevet in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina, where he made his ...

Career Highlights: Little Caesar (1931) The Count of Monte Carlo (1934) Shadows of the Orient (1935) Heidi (1937) It's a Wonderful World (1939) The Panther's Claw (1942) Duel in the Sun (1946) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

166. Geoffrey Blake

Actor | Forrest Gump

Geoffrey Blake is an Emmy nominated, two-time SAG Award winning actor best known for his role as 'Wesley' (the abusive radical boyfriend) opposite Robin Wright's 'Jennie' in the iconic Academy Award Best Picture Forrest Gump (1994). In addition to Forrest Gump (1994), Blake has appeared alongside ...

Career Highlights: Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Forrest Gump (1994) Apollo 13 (1995) Contact (1997) Mighty Joe Young (1999) Cast Away (2000) Frost/Nixon (2008)

167. Roberts Blossom

Actor | Escape from Alcatraz

Roberts Blossom was a marvelously quirky, talented, and versatile character actor who was especially adept at portraying cantankerous old oddballs. Born in 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, Blossom graduated from the prestigious Asheville School in 1941 and attended Harvard. Roberts initially planned...

Career Highlights: The Great Gatsby (1974) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Christine (1983) Home Alone (1990) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

168. Marc Blucas

Actor | Knight and Day

Marc graduated Girard High School in 1990. Marc played basketball throughout high school and his senior year. Because of his athletic ability, Marc went on full scholarship to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina. After college, he played one year in Europe for the Manchester ...

Career Highlights: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) We Were Soldiers (2002) The Alamo (2004) Meet Dave (2008) Stay Cool (2009) Brawl on Cell Block 99 (2017)

169. Monte Blue

Actor | Key Largo

Stalwart, durable Monte Blue, a romantic leading man of the silent days, was born January 11, 1887, as Gerard Monte Blue (some sources indicate 1890, but his mother's application for his admission to the Soldier's and Sailor's Orphan's Home lists his birth date as January 11, 1887). Various sources...

Career Highlights: The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) The Squaw Man (1918) Main Street (1923) The Black Diamond Express (1927) Tiger Rose (1929) Juarez (1939) Key Largo (1948)

170. Alan Blumenfeld

Actor | Heroes

A devoted Angelino, a native New Yorker (well...actually, Long Islander), Alan is proud that for the past 40 years, he has appeared in the homes and on the screens of people all over the United States and in the world.

In college, at Sarah Lawrence among the first 3 classes of men admitted to the ...

Career Highlights: WarGames (1983) Tin Men (1987) Innerspace (1987) Problem Child 2 (1991) The Flintstones (1994) The Ring (2002)

171. Earl Boen

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Veteran character actor Earl Boen is probably best known for his role as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator series. Other films which he appeared include Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Alien Nation (1988), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult ...

Career Highlights: The Taming of the Shrew (1976) Hawaii Five-O (1977) Barnaby Jones (1979) The Dukes of Hazzard (1981) M.A.S.H. (1982) The Terminator (1984) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

172. Humphrey Bogart

Actor | Casablanca

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...

Career Highlights: Up the River (1930) The Petrified Forest (1936) Black Legion (1937) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) The Oklahoma Kid (1939) High Sierra (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Casablanca (1942) Sahara (1943) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) Key Largo (1948) In a Lonely Place (1950) The African Queen (1951) The Caine Mutiny (1954) The Barefoot Contessa (1954) Sabrina (1954)

173. Ray Bolger

Actor | The Wizard of Oz

Ray Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bolger on January 10, 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Anne C. (Wallace) and James Edward Bolger, both Irish-Americans. Ray began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. ...

Career Highlights: The Great Ziegfeld (1936) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Harvey Girls (1946) Babes in Toyland (1961)

174. Joseph Bologna

Actor | The Big Bus

Before signing with director Stanley Donen to play Michael Caine's libidinous best friend in Blame It on Rio (1984), Joe Bologna netted rave reviews for his Sid Caesar send-up in the well-received comedy My Favorite Year (1982) with Peter O'Toole. Well known as both a writer and an actor, Bologna ...

175. Matt Bomer

Actor | In Time

Matthew Staton Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, to Elizabeth Macy (Staton) and John O'Neill Bomer IV, a Dallas Cowboys draft pick. Matt was raised in Spring, Texas, and educated at Klein High School, near Houston. After school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in...

Career Highlights: In Time (2011) Magic Mike (2012) Winter's Tale (2014) Magic Mike XXL (2015) The Nice Guys (2016) The Magnificent Seven (2016) White Collar (2009-14; TV)

176. Rudy Bond

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Rudolph Bond was raised in Philadelphia. He got his start at the Neighborhood Players. After World War II, he was invited by Elia Kazan to be a student at the famed "Actors Studio" in New York, working with such future stars as Paul Newman, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. His first big break was a ...

Career Highlights: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Godfather (1972) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

177. Mark Boone Junior

Actor | Memento

Mark Boone Junior was born on March 17, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Memento (2000), 30 Days of Night (2007) and Batman Begins (2005).

Career Highlights: Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) Die Hard 2 (1990) Of Mice and Men (1992) The Quick and the Dead (1995) Seven (1995) I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) The Thin Red Line (1998) Memento (2000) Get Carter (2000) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) Batman Begins (2005) 30 Days of Night (2007) The Birth of a Nation (2016)

178. Powers Boothe

Actor | Sudden Death

Incisive, gravelly-voiced screen tough guy Powers Boothe was born on June 1, 1948 in Snyder, Texas, a sharecropper's son. Used to hard physical work "chopping cotton" as a youngster, he went on to become the first member of his family to attend university. He then proceeded to study acting via a ...

Career Highlights: Red Dawn (1984) Tombstone (1993) Nixon (1995) Frailty (2001) Sin City (2005) The Avengers (2012)

179. Ernest Borgnine

Actor | Marty

Ernest Borgnine was born Ermes Effron Borgnino on January 24, 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut. His parents were Anna (Boselli), who had emigrated from Carpi (MO), Italy, and Camillo Borgnino, who had emigrated from Ottiglio (AL), Italy. As an only child, Ernest enjoyed most sports, especially boxing, ...

Career Highlights: China Corsair (1951) From Here to Eternity (1953) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Marty (1955) The Rabbit Trap (1959) Pay or Die (1960) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Hustle (1975) Spike of Bensonhurst (1988) Gattaca (1997) Night Club (2011) Spongebob Squarepants (1999-2012; TV)

180. Chadwick Boseman

Actor | Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...

Career Highlights: 42: The Jackie Robinson Story (2013) Captain America: Civil War (2016) Marshall (2017) Black Panther (2018) The Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

181. Wade Boteler

Actor | The Green Hornet

Wade Boteler was born on October 3, 1888 in Santa Ana, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Green Hornet (1940), The Mandarin Mystery (1936) and The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940). He was married to Ellen Evelyn James. He died on May 7, 1943 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...

Career Highlights: Hold That Lion (1926) Possessed (1931) Duck Soup (1933) Black Fury (1935) Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

182. Joseph Bottoms

Actor | The Dove

Joseph Bottoms was born on April 22, 1954 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Dove (1974), Holocaust (1978) and The Black Hole (1979).

Career Highlights: The Dove (1974) High Rolling (1977) The Black Hole (1979) Blind Date (1984)

183. Sam Bottoms

Actor | The Outlaw Josey Wales

Sam Bottoms was born on October 17, 1955 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Seabiscuit (2003). He was married to Laura Bickford and Susan Arnold. He died on December 16, 2008 in Los Angeles, California,...

Career Highlights: The Last Picture Show (1971) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Apocalypse Now (1979) Seabuscuit (2003)

184. Timothy Bottoms

Actor | The Last Picture Show

From a talented acting generation of four brothers, Timothy Bottoms was the closest to achieving out-and-out super-stardom in the 1970s. The eldest of four siblings, he was followed in birth by Joseph Bottoms, Sam Bottoms and Ben Bottoms.

All four boys were born and raised in Santa Barbara, ...

Career Highlights: The Last Picture Show (1971) Rollercoaster (1977) Tin Man (1983) The Man with the Iron Mask (1998) The Land That Time Forgot (2009)

185. Michael Bowen

Actor | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Michael Bowen Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Nicolas Cage's romantic rival, Tommy, in the cult classic Valley Girl (1983), Danny Pickett on the ABC series Lost, and Jack Welker on the AMC series Breaking Bad. Bowen is the only son of Beat painter Michael Bowen Sr. and ...

Career Highlights: Iron Eagle (1986) The Godfather Part III (1990) The Player (1992) Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) Django Unchained (2012)

186. Tom Bower

Actor | Lucky Hank

Tom Bower grew up in Denver, Colorado, and thought he would have a career as an athlete, having played varsity baseball, basketball, golf, ran track, and just assumed a professional career would follow. Didn't quite work out that way, and so his hobby of acting seemed to be the next course of ...

Career Highlights: River's Edge (1986) Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Die Hard 2 (1990) Clear and Present Danger (1994) Nixon (1995) The Postman (1997) The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Appaloosa (2008) Crazy Heart (2009) Out of the Furnace (2009)

187. Peter Boyle

Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond

A bold, blunt instrument of hatred and violence at the onset of his film career, Peter Boyle recoiled from that repugnant, politically incorrect "working class" image to eventually play gruff, gentler bears and even comedy monsters in a career that lasted four decades.

He was born on October 18, ...

Career Highlights: Joe (1970) Crazy Joe (1974) Young Frankenstein (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) Johnny Dangerously (1984) Red Heat (1988) Solar Crisis (1990) Malcolm X (1992) The Santa Clause (1994) Dr. Dolittle (1998) Monster's Ball (2001) Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005; TV)

188. Scott Brady

Actor | Gremlins

He had the manly good looks and rugged appeal to make it to top stardom in Hollywood and succeeded quite well as a sturdy leading man of standard action on film and TV. Born in Brooklyn on September 13, 1924, Irish-American Scott Brady was christened Gerard Kenneth Tierney (called Jerry) by parents...

Career Highlights: A Perilous Journey (1953) The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954) John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) Journey to the Center of Time (1967) Gremlins (1984)

189. Zach Braff

Actor | Garden State

Zach Braff was born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, to Anne Hutchinson (Maynard), a clinical psychologist, and Harold Irwin Braff, a trial attorney. His father is from Russia and Austria, while Zach's mother is from a family with deep roots in New England. Zach attended Columbia High School...

Career Highlights: Garden State (2004) Chicken Little (2005) Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) The Disaster Artist (2017) Scrubs (2001-2010; TV)

190. Richard Brake

Actor | Doom

Richard Brake was born in Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales, UK. He is an actor, known for Doom (2005), 31 (2016) and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014).

Career Highlights: Cold Mountain (2003) Batman Begins (2005) Doom (2005) Munich (2005) The Black Dahlia (2006) Hannibal Rising (2007) Water for Elephants (2011) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) Spy (2015) 31 (2016)

191. Neville Brand

Actor | Stalag 17

Neville Brand joined the Illinois National Guard in 1939, bent on a career in the military. His National Guard unit was activated into federal service shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. It was while he was in the army that he made his acting debut, in Army training films, ...

Career Highlights: D.O.A. (1950) Red Mountain (1951) Stalag 17 (1953) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) That Darn Cat! (1965) Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

192. Chet Brandenburg

Assistant_director | Under Two Jags

Chet Brandenburg was born on October 15, 1897 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Under Two Jags (1923), Las fantasmas (1930) and Powder and Smoke (1924). He died on July 17, 1974 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Career Highlights: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Judgment of Nuremberg (1961) The Young Philadelphians (1959) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Calamity Jane (1953) The War of the Worlds (1953) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

193. Marlon Brando

Actor | Apocalypse Now

Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...

Career Highlights: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Viva Zapata! (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) On the Waterfront (1954) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) Sayonara (1957) The Young Lions (1958) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) The Ugly American (1963) The Nightcomers (1971) The Godfather (1972) Last Tango in Paris (1972) A Dry White Season (1989)

194. Henry Brandon

Actor | The Searchers

German-born Henry Brandon was a character actor in American films, most often seen in villainous roles. His parents emigrated to the US shortly after his birth. His early interest in acting led him to study at the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse. He landed the lead villain role in the Stan ...

Career Highlights: Babes in Toyland (1934) Black Legion (1937) Joan of Arc (1948) The War of the Worlds (1953) Pony Express (1953) Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

195. Benjamin Bratt

Actor | Miss Congeniality

The middle of five children, Bratt hails from a close-knit family. His mother, an indigenous Quechua Peruvian from Lima, moved to the U.S. at age 14. He grew up in San Francisco. He is known for his roles in the films Traffic (2000), Miss Congeniality (2000), and Despicable Me 2 (2013). He is ...

Career Highlights: Clear and Present Danger (1994) The River Wild (1994) Red Planet (2000) Traffic (2000) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2011) Despicable Me 2 (2013) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) Coco (2017)

196. Nicholas Braun

Actor | Succession

Nicholas was born in Bethpage, New York. His parents are actor Craig Braun and Elizabeth Lyle. He made his debut in Disney productions such as Sky High (2005) and Princess Protection Program (2009). He also had a recurring role as Cameron in ABC Family's 2009-2010 series 10 Things I Hate About You ...

Career Highlights: Sky High (2005) Red State (2011) Prom (2011) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2013) Whisky Tango Foxtrot (2016)

197. Patrick Breen

Actor | Galaxy Quest

Patrick Breen was born on October 26, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Galaxy Quest (1999), Men in Black (1997) and Whole Day Down (2011). He has been married to Nadine Van der Velde since 1992. They have two children.

Career Highlights: 21 Jump Street (1987) Fallen Angels (1993) Get Shorty (1995) Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) Men in Black (1997) Sex and the City (1999) Galaxy Quest (1999)

198. Edmund Breese

Actor | Duck Soup

Edmund Breese was born on June 18, 1871 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Duck Soup (1933), Platinum Blonde (1931) and The Hurricane Express (1932). He was married to Genevieve Landry and Harriet A. Beach. He died on April 6, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.

Career Highlights: Wildfire (1925) Girls Gone Wild (1929) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Duck Soup (1933) Treasure Island (1934)

199. El Brendel

Actor | Just Imagine

El Brendel was born on March 25, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Just Imagine (1930), Wings (1927) and The Big Trail (1930). He was married to Flo Bert. He died on April 9, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Career Highlights: Wings (1927) Hot Pepper (1933) The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

200. Walter Brennan

Actor | The Westerner

In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...

Career Highlights: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Meet John Doe (1941) My Darling Clementine (1946) Rio Bravo (1959) How the West Was Won (1962)