Handsome actors

1. Michael Duane

Michael Duane was born on April 12, 1914 in Dunkirk, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Keeper of the Bees (1947), Alias Mr. Twilight (1946) and The Return of the Whistler (1948). He was married to Phyllis Ann Ellerman. He died on March 26, 1963 in Wilton, Connecticut, USA.

2. James Cardwell

Actor | Daughter of the Jungle

Eager young James (aka Jimmy) Cardwell had an auspicious beginning and showed great promise in 1940s films. Dark-haired and thick-browed with an earnest, boyish look and set-jawed handsomeness that could remind someone of a John Garfield type, he couldn't have started off much better than by ...

3. 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...

4. James Craig

Actor | All That Money Can Buy

Tall, rugged James Craig's career as an MGM contract player blossomed in the 1940s. This was due in large part to his strong physical and vocal resemblance to the studio's top leading man, Clark Gable (who was -- by the time Craig was signed to MGM -- serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces). The Rice ...

5. Patric Knowles

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Fourteen-year-old Reginald Lawrence Knowles was being readied to take his place with other relatives in the family bookbinding business (in Leeds) when he ran off to become an actor. He was inevitably brought back home, but he made good his second escape a few years later - his willful Knowles ...

6. Peter Coe

Actor | Vigilante Force

Peter Coe was born on November 11, 1918 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Vigilante Force (1976), Road to Bali (1952) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). He was married to Rosalee Calvert. He died on June 9, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

7. 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 ...

8. Frank Vosper

Writer | Love from a Stranger

Frank Vosper was born on December 15, 1899 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for A Night of Terror (1937), Shadows on the Stairs (1941) and Love from a Stranger (1947). He died on March 6, 1937 in at sea.

9. John Ridgely

Actor | The Big Sleep

John Ridgely was a versatile character actor who made over 100 films at Warner Brothers during the 1930s and 1940s. Starting out in bit roles in such films as Dark Victory (1939), They Died with Their Boots On (1941) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), Ridgely eventually graduated to larger ...

10. Ian Hunter

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Ian Hunter was born in the Kenilworth area of Cape Town, South Africa where he spent his childhood. In his teen years he and his parents returned to the family origins in England to live. Sometime between that arrival and the early years of World War I, Hunter began exploring acting, then in 1917 -...

11. Robert Allen

Actor | Air Hawks

As a young man Robert Allen, born Irvine E. Theodore Baehr, learned about horses: he played polo, hunted fox, and rode in the cavalry of of New York Military School, graduating there in 1924. After graduating Dartmouth College in 1929 with a degree in English he worked for a bank which failed in ...

12. Dennis Morgan

Actor | My Wild Irish Rose

Dennis Morgan was born Stanley Morner in the small town of Prentice, Wisconsin. His first jobs in Hollywood were mostly bit parts, but he scored big after playing opposite Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940). He starred in films like My Wild Irish Rose (1947), God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) and The Very...

13. Will Osborne

Soundtrack | Swing Parade of 1946

Will Osborne was born on November 25, 1905 in Toronto, Canada. He was an actor, known for Swing Parade of 1946 (1946), In Society (1944) and A Feller Who Plays in a Band (1941). He was married to Jean Helmes. He died on October 22, 1981 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

14. Kenneth Harlan

Actor | The Penalty

Kenneth Harlan was born on July 26, 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Penalty (1920), Paradise Island (1930) and Danger Island (1931). He was married to Rosemarie Gonsalves Mirjanian, Rhea Walker, Helene Stanton, Helen (Donna) Spelner, Phyllis McClure, Doris Hilda ...

15. Charles Lang

Actor | Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1915, Charles Lang played semi-professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers' farm team before being spotted by a Hollywood talent scout in a Manhattan restaurant in 1937. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and made his Broadway debut in "...

16. Curt Bois

Actor | Der Himmel über Berlin

Curt had one of the longest careers in film history appearing in films at the age of 8, In 1933 he fled Germany to seek artistic freedom in New York where he quickly captivated audiences in his many stage appearances. After a few years Hollywood beckoned with the mot productive period of his career...

17. Rory Calhoun

Actor | Motel Hell

Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in Los Angeles, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd McCown. Rory starred in over 80 films and 1,000 television episodes. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. Tall and handsome, he benefited ...

18. Elliott Reid

Actor | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Elliott Reid was born on January 16, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Vicki (1953). He died on June 21, 2013 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

19. Alexander D'Arcy

Actor | The Awful Truth

Alexander D'Arcy was born on August 10, 1908 in Cairo, Egypt. He was an actor, known for The Awful Truth (1937), Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969) and Horrors of Spider Island (1960). He was married to Arleen Whelan. He died on April 20, 1996 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

20. Carl Betz

Actor | Judd for the Defense

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carl Betz formed a repertory theatre company while still in high school, then worked in summer stock. He served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, then attended Carnegie Tech. Following graduation, he worked as a radio announcer. He made his Broadway ...

21. Anthony Warde

Actor | Dangers of the Canadian Mounted

Anthony Warde was born on November 4, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948), Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949) and Buck Rogers (1939). He died on January 8, 1975 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

22. Wallace Ford

Actor | Freaks

A stocky, friendly-faced character actor, Ford was born Samuel Jones in England, where the brutality of his childhood rivaled anything that Charles Dickens ever dreamed up. He lived for a while in an orphanage after being separated from his parents. While still young, he was sent to a Toronto ...

23. Gary Cooper

Actor | High Noon

Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ...

24. Tyrone Power

Actor | Witness for the Prosecution

Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known ...

25. Don Ameche

Actor | Cocoon

Don Ameche was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film ...

26. Richard Denning

Actor | An Affair to Remember

Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Louis Albert Denninger Jr. was the son of a garment manufacturer who relocated and set up shop in Los Angeles when Louis Jr. was 18 months old. After finishing school, Denninger enrolled at Woodbury Business College and majored in business and accounting, graduating ...

27. Robert Q. Lewis

Actor | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

Robert Q. Lewis was born on April 5, 1921 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), An Affair to Remember (1957) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967). He died on ...

28. Lew Ayres

Actor | Holiday

Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul ...

29. Carleton G. Young

Actor | His Kind of Woman

Carleton G. Young was born on May 26, 1907 in Fulton, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for His Kind of Woman (1951), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945) and The Plymouth Playhouse (1953). He was married to Barbara Leonard Davis. He died on July 11, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, ...

30. Don Dillaway

Actor | Pack Up Your Troubles

Don Dillaway was born on March 17, 1903 in Westfield, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Pack Up Your Troubles (1932), Platinum Blonde (1931) and Frontier Pony Express (1939). He was married to Vivian Josephine Nusser. He died on November 18, 1982 in West Lake, California, USA.

31. Marshall Reed

Actor | The Madmen of Mandoras

Marshall Reed was born on May 28, 1917 in Englewood, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Madmen of Mandoras (1963), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) and They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968). He was married to Carlyn Miller. He died on April 15, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, ...

32. Victor Varconi

Actor | The Divine Lady

Handsome Hollywood character player Victor Varconi was born into a farming family on the Hungarian/Rumanian border. Christened Mihály Várkonyi, his career, following training at Budapest's commercial college and dramatic school, thrived for a time on the Transylvanian stage, where he played leads ...

33. Jason Robards Sr.

Actor | Ship of Wanted Men

Famed American stage actor. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bits. Consistently billed as Jason Robards, as his more famous son, Jason Robards, did not come into fame until the end of the ...

34. John Emery

Actor | Spellbound

John Emery was born on May 20, 1905 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Spellbound (1945), The Spanish Main (1945) and Rocketship X-M (1950). He was married to Tamara Geva, Tallulah Bankhead and Patricia Calvert. He died on November 16, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA.

35. James Flavin

Actor | King Kong

Although he attended West Point, James Flavin decided on an acting career instead of the military. After touring with several stock and repertory companies, he arrived in Hollywood and broke into films in the early 1930s. A fast-talking, granite-jawed Irishman, Flavin appeared in hundreds of films ...

36. Rex Lease

Actor | Troopers Three

Born Rex Lloyd Lease in West Virginia on February 11, 1903 (not 1901, according to Social Security records found), future cowboy actor Rex Lease was raised in Columbus, Ohio and very briefly attended Ohio Wesleyan University initially interested in the ministry. When this fell through, he decided ...

37. Glenn Tryon

Actor | Lonesome

Glenn Tryon was born on August 2, 1898 in Julietta, Idaho, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Lonesome (1928), The Secret Menace (1931) and Hot Heels (1927). He was married to Jane Frazee and Lillian Hall. He died on April 18, 1970 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

38. Ray Anthony

Soundtrack | Sixteen Candles

Ray Anthony (real name Raymond Antonini) was born in Bentleyville, PA, on Jan. 20, 1922. His family moved to Cleveland, where he spent most of his early life. There he studied trumpet with his father. From 1940-1941 he played in Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1942 and...

39. Creighton Hale

Actor | The Cat and the Canary

Creighton Hale was born on May 24, 1882 in County Cork, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Circle (1925) and Riley of the Rainbow Division (1928). He was married to Victoire Lowe and Kathleen Bering. He died on August 9, 1965 in South Pasadena, California, USA.

40. Phillip Reed

Actor | Unknown Island

Phillip Reed was born on March 25, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Unknown Island (1948), Tripoli (1950) and Song of the Thin Man (1947). He was married to Audrey Gillin. He died on December 7, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

41. Robert Hutton

Actor | They Came from Beyond Space

The son of a hardware merchant and cousin of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, Robert Hutton was born in Kingston, New York, and attended Blair Academy in New Jersey. For several seasons the future film actor was a leading man and director with the Woodstock Playhouse stock company in New York. He ...

42. William Bakewell

Actor | All Quiet on the Western Front

William Bakewell was born on May 2, 1908 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Gone with the Wind (1939) and Romance on the High Seas (1948). He was married to Diane Virginia Griffiths (June DeMent) and Jennifer Holt. He died on April 15,...

43. Walter Woolf King

Actor | A Night at the Opera

The son of a whiskey peddler, tall, dark and handsome baritone Walter Woolf King was born in San Francisco on November 2, 1899, and began singing for his supper at quite a young age, primarily in churches. Following high school graduation, he decided to pursue a professional singing career and ...

44. Paul Kelly

Actor | Flying Tigers

Lean, red/auburn-haired, athletically-inclined Paul Michael Kelly grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn, New York. Born August 9, 1899, the ninth of ten children in a Roman Catholic family of Irish descent. The siblings' father, Michael, owned a bar called Kelly's Cafe. He died while Paul was ...

45. 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 ...

46. Richard Arlen

Actor | Island of Lost Souls

During World War I, Richard Arlen served in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps as a pilot, but he never saw combat. After the war he drifted round and eventually wound up in Los Angeles, where he got a job as a motorcycle messenger at a film laboratory. When he crashed into the gates of Paramount ...

47. Onslow Stevens

Actor | Them!

Son of character actor Houseley Stevenson, brother of actor Houseley Stevenson Jr., Onslow Stevens was highly active from mid-1920s at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked frequently as performers, directors and teachers. he scored a major success on Broadway in "Stage ...

48. Phillips Holmes

Actor | Men Must Fight

A future in movies for this fair-haired, fresh-faced young adult of the 1930s was by no means certain at the time of his untimely death in a mid-air plane collision. Hints of the All-American leading man promise Phillips Holmes managed to convey during the early to mid decade, particularly in the ...

49. Robert Armstrong

Actor | King Kong

Robert Armstrong is familiar to old-movie buffs for his case-hardened, rapid-fire delivery in such roles as fast-talking promoters, managers, FBI agents, street cops, detectives and other such characters in scores of films--over 160--many of them at Warner Brothers, where he was part of the ...

50. Henry Wadsworth

Actor | The Thin Man

Henry Wadsworth was born on June 18, 1903 in Maysville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Thin Man (1934), Applause (1929) and The Show-Off (1934). He died on December 5, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA.

51. Stanley Brown

Actor | Atlantic City

Stanley Brown was born on August 18, 1914 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Atlantic City (1944), The Man with Nine Lives (1940) and The Face Behind the Mask (1941). He was married to Lorraine McCall and Ruth F. Brown. He died on September 29, 2001 in West Los Angeles, Los ...

52. John Hubbard

Actor | The Tall T

John Hubbard was born on April 14, 1914 in East Chicago, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Tall T (1957), Dramatic School (1938) and One Million B.C. (1940). He was married to Lois. He died on November 6, 1988 in Camarillo, California, USA.

53. Tony Martin

Soundtrack | The Big Store

Born Alvin Morris, the son of immigrants from Poland, Tony Martin received a soprano saxophone on his tenth birthday. In his grammar school glee club, he became an instrumentalist and soprano pop singer. When in high school, he then formed his first band called "The Red Peppers", eventually joining...

54. Fred Kohler Jr.

Actor | The Ten Commandments

Fred Kohler Jr. was born on July 8, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), The Pecos Kid (1935) and Texas Stampede (1939). He was married to Dorothy J. Downing, Carol Janis and Ouida V. Ross. He died on January 7, 1993 in Scottsdale, Arizona, ...

55. Forrest Taylor

Actor | Shadow of Chinatown

Minor American character actor Forrest Taylor was a veteran of the stage by the time he started appearing as a silent lead in both short and feature-length films. He went on to appear in hundreds of secondary "B" movies, although his name does not appear in a large percentage of them. Taylor was ...

56. Billy De Wolfe

Actor | Tea for Two

Most certainly egged on by the dandified antics of an Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and/or Franklin Pangborn, burlesque clown Billy DeWolfe in turn gave obvious inspiration to such effeminate cutups as Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly. Billy's life was one hundred percent show business from...

57. Kevin O'Morrison

Actor | Sleepless in Seattle

Kevin O'Morrison was born on May 25, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Funny Farm (1988) and Dear Ruth (1947). He was married to Linda Soma. He died on December 11, 2016 in Lynnwood, Washington, USA.

58. Ted North

Actor | The Unsuspected

Ted North was born on October 3, 1916 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Unsuspected (1947), Chad Hanna (1940) and Syncopation (1942). He was married to Mary Beth Hughes. He died on November 22, 1975 in Florida, USA.

59. Junior Durkin

Actor | Recaptured Love

Quiet, benign, blue-eyed, rangy-framed child/teen actor Junior Durkin, who was an absolute natural on film and possessed major "down home" appeal, showed strong promise in just the few 1930s films he appeared in. A fatal roadster accident quickly ended the dreams of this young "Henry Fonda" type ...

60. Audie Murphy

Actor | To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war. Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive. In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and...

61. George D. Wallace

Actor | Minority Report

George D. Wallace was born in New York and, at age 13, moved with his mom and her new husband to McMechen, West Virginia, a coal mining town where the boy began working in the mines. He joined the Navy in 1936, got out in 1940, and then went right back in again when World War II started. A chief ...

62. John Bromfield

Actor | Hot Cars

The name may be hard-pressed to anyone but the most devoted film buffs, but dark-haired actor John Bromfield was a "B"-level leading man during the late 1950s. Possessed with a fine build and square-faced handsomeness, he was somewhat of a blend between Steve Cochran and Rory Calhoun, both 1950s ...

63. Victor Sen Yung

Actor | Across the Pacific

Achieving both film and TV notice during his lengthy career, this diminutive Asian-American character was born Victor Cheung Young on October 18, 1915 in San Francisco to Chinese emigrants. When his mother died during the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, his father placed Victor and his sister in a ...

64. Duke Ellington

Composer | Anatomy of a Murder

Composer ("It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady", "Mood Indigo", "Solitude", "In a Mellotone", "Satin Doll"), pianist and conductor, holder of an honorary music degree from Wilberforce University and an LHD from Milton College, Duke Ellington led his own orchestra ...

65. Monroe Owsley

Actor | Indiscreet

Largely forgotten today, glossy, beak-nosed, oval-faced actor Monroe Owsley, whose unappetizing film career lasted less than a decade, was born in Atlanta, Georgia near the turn of the century on August 11, 1900, and raised by his mother, stage actress Gertrude Owsley (1872-1936). A younger sister,...

66. Robert Light

Actor | My Man Godfrey

In addition to movies and stage (Broadway in 1928 at age 17), Robert Light also was one of the first U. S. Armed Forces Network Radio broadcasters, signing the network on the air during WWII in France and Germany after D-Day. His engineer was Loyd Sigmon, inventor of the SigAlert traffic alert ...

67. Allan Jones

Actor | A Night at the Opera

Allan Jones was born Theodore Allen Jones in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. A coal miner's son, he worked in the mines until 1926. At that point in time, he received a scholarship from Syracuse University, but chose instead to study music at New York University with Claude Warford and then with Felix ...

68. James Ellison

Actor | I Walked with a Zombie

American light leading man, primarily of Westerns, James Ellison was born James Ellison Smith in Guthrie Center, Iowa, in 1910. He grew up on a ranch in Valier, Montana, where he learned the skills that would stand him in good stead as a movie cowboy. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was a ...

69. Forrest Tucker

Actor | The Abominable Snowman

Forrest Tucker, best known to the Baby Boom generation as Sergeant O'Rourke on the classic TV sitcom F Troop (1965), was born on February 12, 1919, in Plainfield, Indiana. He began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair, pushing big wicker tourists' ...

70. Yuki Shimoda

Actor | Auntie Mame

Yuki Shimoda was born on August 10, 1921 in Sacramento, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Auntie Mame (1958), A Town Like Alice (1981) and Black Sheep Squadron (1976). He died on May 21, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

71. William Reynolds

Actor | The Land Unknown

William de Clerq Reynolds, born in Los Angeles, began his film career in 1951, one year after his marriage to Molly Sinclair. The handsome actor portrayed many authority figures, both in the movies and on television. He managed to display a wide emotional range, as evidenced by his tour-de-force ...

72. Edmund MacDonald

Actor | Detour

Edmund MacDonald was born on May 7, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Detour (1945), Hangmen Also Die! (1943) and Great Guns (1941). He was married to Augusta. He died on September 2, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

73. Preston Foster

Actor | Two Seconds

Actor, composer, songwriter, guitarist and author. He moved from Broadway acting (1928-1932) into films, touring America with his wife and daughter, and did some recordings. He was the executive producer at the El Camino Playhouse in California. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his chief musical collaborator...

74. Ralph Forbes

Actor | Twentieth Century

Ralph Forbes had other ideas than the family wish for him to seek a career in law or the navy. He became interested in acting and began stage work in England. By 1917, he had come to the US to get his feet wet in the film medium with his first silent that year. But he returned to the UK to work in ...

75. Glenn Langan

Actor | The Amazing Colossal Man

Thomas Glenn Langan spent most of his early life in his home town of Denver, Colorado. After completing his education he acted in local repertory companies before moving to New York. In 1942, he appeared on Broadway opposite Luise Rainer in J.M. Barrie's "Kiss for Cinderella". He garnered good ...

76. Read Morgan

Actor | Maverick

Brawny Read Lawrence Morgan spent two years as an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky where he acquitted himself as a star baseball player for the Kentucky Wildcats. He then became heavily involved with bodybuilding, undertook further studies at Northwestern University and served for two ...

77. Eddie Acuff

Actor | The Case of the Velvet Claws

Eddie Acuff is one of those wonderful supporting actors who peopled the fascinating world of Hollywood's A, B or Z movies. In a career spanning eighteen years he appeared in an amazing almost 300 movies and one TV episode! His appearances could be invisible (when deleted), hardly visible (he ...

78. Charles Quigley

Actor | The Crimson Ghost

Charles Quigley was born on February 12, 1906 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crimson Ghost (1946), The Shadow (1937) and Brick Bradford (1947). He was married to Harriet. He died on August 5, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

79. Rory Harrity

Actor | One Step Beyond

Rory Harrity was born on May 26, 1933 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for One Step Beyond (1959), Where the Boys Are (1960) and Not for Hire (1959). He was married to Marguerite Lamkin. He died on July 23, 1974 in Klosters, Graubünden, Switzerland.

80. Jack Randall

Actor | Where the West Begins

Romantic leading man and singing cowboy star whose career was far eclipsed by that of his brother Robert Livingston. He acted and sang on Broadway prior to entering films, then appeared in a number of non-Western films before signing with Monogram Pictures in 1937 as a singing cowboy. Unfortunately...

81. Matty Kemp

Producer | Million Dollar Weekend

Matty Kemp was born on September 10, 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Million Dollar Weekend (1948), The French Line (1953) and America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978). He died on December 12, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

82. Frankie Darro

Actor | Wild Boys of the Road

Born into a show-business family - his parents were circus aerialists - Frankie Darro appeared in his first film at age six. Due to his small size and youthful appearance, he played teenagers well into his 20s. Always a physical performer, Darro often did his own stunts, many times out of necessity...

83. John Ireland

Actor | All the King's Men

Born in Canada, John Ireland was raised in New York. Performing as a swimmer in a water carnival, he moved into the legitimate theater, often appearing in minor roles in Broadway plays. His first big break in pictures came in 1945 when he appeared as Windy the introspective letter-writing G.I. in ...

84. William Bishop

Actor | Lorna Doone

William attended grammar and high schools in New York and New Jersey. Upon graduation, he enrolled at West Virginia University where he planned to study law and played football and tennis. One summer, his uncle got him a job at the Suffern County (in New York) Theatre. He worked with actors ...

85. Rod La Rocque

Actor | The Locked Door

Rod La Rocque was born Roderick Ross LaRocque on November 29, 1898 in Chicago to a French father and an Irish mother. Stage-struck in his early teen years, he spent his summers with local stock companies, playing juvenile roles for $1.00 per performance. By the time he was 16, while he was ...

86. Herbert Rawlinson

Actor | The Flame Fighter

Herbert Rawlinson was born on November 15, 1885 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for The Flame Fighter (1925), The Carter Case (1919) and The Belle of Broadway (1926). He was married to Loraine Abigail Long, Roberta Arnold and Josephine Norman. He died on ...

87. Ray Milland

Actor | The Lost Weekend

Ray Milland became one of Paramount's most bankable and durable stars, under contract from 1934 to 1948, yet little in his early life suggested a career as a motion picture actor.

Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones in the Welsh town of Neath, Glamorgan, to Elizabeth Annie (Truscott) and Alfred ...

88. Eddie Foy Jr.

Actor | Yankee Doodle Dandy

With the passing of Irving Foy in 2003, another era in American show business comes to a close. Eddie Foy & the Seven Little Foys appeared on screen together only once, in 1915 in A Favorite Fool (1915), while Eddie Sr., without his progeny, appeared on screen in Actors' Fund Field Day (1910) and ...

89. Phillip Terry

Actor | The Lost Weekend

The only child of a San Francisco couple, actor Phillip Terry was born Frederick Henry Kormann on March 7, 1909. His father, a chemical engineer in the oil fields, moved about in his work so Phillip was sent to live with relatives in New Jersey to achieve more stable schooling.

Following high school...

90. Helmut Dantine

Actor | War and Peace

Actor/director/producer Helmut Dantine was born in Vienna, Austria on October 7, 1917. He made a name for himself as an actor during World War Two playing German soldiers and Nazi villains in Hollywood films, most notably in Mrs. Miniver (1942). The young Dantine was a fervent anti-fascist/...

91. Harvey Stephens

Actor | The Bat

At age 30, actor Harvey Stephens had a sophisticated charm and staid, long-jawed handsomeness that seemed ideal for the big screen, particularly in elegant or period settings. A veteran of a handful of Broadway shows by the time he made his sudden move to film, he was handed on a silver platter a ...

92. John Sutton

Actor | The Three Musketeers

Of British parentage, John Sutton was born in Rawalpindi, India (now part of Pakistan), on October 22, 1908. After graduating from Wellington College, he spent a decade or so working in various British colonies, including several in Africa, as a hunter, rancher and tea plantation manager. An avid ...

93. Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Actor | Virginia City

The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname "Big Boy" (and he was, too - 6' 2" of mostly solid muscle from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball) by Will Rogers, with whom he made one of his first films, in 1919. Although his father ...

94. Bruce Cabot

Actor | King Kong

Hollywood stalwart Bruce Cabot's main claim to fame, other than rescuing Fay Wray from King Kong (1933), is that he tested for the lead role of The Ringo Kid in John Ford's Western masterpiece Stagecoach (1939). John Wayne got the role and became the most durable star in Hollywood history, while ...

95. Emlyn Williams

Writer | The Last Days of Dolwyn

Born George Emlyn Williams in Pen-y-Ffordd, Mostyn, Flintshire in northeast Wales on November 1905, he lived in a rural village in which Welsh was spoken until he was 12 years old, when his family moved to an English-speaking town, Connah's Quay. It changed the course of his life, as it was there ...

96. Robert Douglas

Actor | The Fountainhead

Robert Douglas' real last name was Finlayson - a Scots name - and perhaps it was that side of him that meant to do what he wanted to do. The males of the family had followed the military for several generations - his father and grandfather were commanders of the West Sussex regiment - but he ...

97. Robert Taylor

Actor | The Bribe

Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Robert Taylor began displaying a diversity of talents in his youth on the plains of Nebraska. At Beatrice High School, he was a standout track athlete, but also showed a talent for using his voice, winning several oratory awards. He was a musician and played the cello...

98. Michael Denison

Actor | My Brother Jonathan

One of the finest exponents of the art of light comedy acting, Michael Denison enjoyed a highly successful career both on stage and screen. He and his wife, actress Dulcie Gray, appeared in over 100 West End shows and their marriage, which lasted nearly sixty years, was regarded as one of the ...

99. Norman Foster

Director | Letter to Loretta

Norman Foster was born on December 13, 1903 in Richmond, Indiana, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Loretta Young Show (1953), I Cover Chinatown (1936) and Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1938). He was married to Sally Blane and Claudette Colbert. He died on July 7, 1976 in Santa Monica, ...

100. Lash La Rue

Actor | The Dark Power

He looked so much like superstar Humphrey Bogart that character actress Sarah Padden asked if the two were related. LaRue said he didn't think so. After a long pause studying the young actor's face, she asked, "Did your mother ever meet Humphrey Bogart?"

Alfred "Lash" LaRue was born in Louisiana (...