Favorite Actors of All-Time
by JohnnyMarsan | created - 16 Aug 2016 | updated - 8 months ago | Public
1. Christopher Lee
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...
The Wicker Man (1973) Horror of Dracula (1958) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Return from Witch Mountain (1978) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) The Oblong Box (1969) The Devil Rides Out (1968) Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) The Crimson Cult (1968) The City of the Dead (1960) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Island of the Burning Damned (1967) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Horror Express (1972) Scars of Dracula (1970) The Gorgon (1964) The Bloody Judge (1970) Nothing But the Night (1973) The Creeping Flesh (1973) Scream and Scream Again (1970) Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985) Circle of Iron (1978) An Eye for an Eye (1981) The Mummy (1959) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) To the Devil a Daughter (1976) Psycho-Circus (1966)
2. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
Taxi Driver (1976) Casino (1995) Mean Streets (1973) Goodfellas (1990) Raging Bull (1980) A Bronx Tale (1993) The King of Comedy (1982) The Deer Hunter (1978) Heat (1995) The Score (2001) Midnight Run (1988) New York, New York (1977) Mad Dog and Glory (1993) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) The Godfather: Part II (1974) Ronin (1998) Angel Heart (1987) Night and the City (1992) Meet the Parents (2000) Jackie Brown (1997) Cape Fear (1991) Analyze This (1999) Wag the Dog (1997) Awakenings (1990) We're No Angels (1989) The Untouchables (1987) Cop Land (1997) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) The Fan (1996) Stanley & Iris (1990) True Confessions (1981) The Last Tycoon (1976)
3. Peter Sellers
Actor | Being There
Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his ...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) A Shot in the Dark (1964) The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) The Party (1968) The Pink Panther (1963) After the Fox (1966) Casino Royale (1967) What's New Pussycat (1965) Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) Being There (1979) The World of Henry Orient (1964) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) Murder by Death (1976) The Magic Christian (1969) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) The Ladykillers (1955)
4. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
Scarface (1983) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather: Part II (1974) Serpico (1973) Heat (1995) Carlito's Way (1993) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Cruising (1980) The Panic in Needle Park (1971) Frankie and Johnny (1991) The Devil's Advocate (1997) Donnie Brasco (1997) Scent of a Woman (1992) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Sea of Love (1989) Insomnia (2002) The Godfather: Part III (1990) Any Given Sunday (1999) Scarecrow (1973) Author! Author! (1982) ...and justice for all. (1979) Bobby Deerfield (1977)
5. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
The Shining (1980) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Chinatown (1974) Batman (1989) The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Carnal Knowledge (1971) The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) Hoffa (1992) Terms of Endearment (1983) The Departed (2006) Wolf (1994) Man Trouble (1992) A Few Good Men (1992) Anger Management (2003) Mars Attacks! (1996) The Missouri Breaks (1976) Goin' South (1978) Prizzi's Honor (1985) The Two Jakes (1990) Easy Rider (1969) Five Easy Pieces (1970) The Last Detail (1973) The Passenger (1975) Ironweed (1987) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) Psych-Out (1968) Something's Gotta Give (2003) The Bucket List (2007) The Shooting (1966) The Raven (1963) The Terror (1963)
6. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...
Predator (1987) Total Recall (1990) Conan the Barbarian (1982) True Lies (1994) The Terminator (1984) Twins (1988) Kindergarten Cop (1990) Conan the Destroyer (1984) Commando (1985) The Running Man (1987) Eraser (1996) Last Action Hero (1993) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Collateral Damage (2002) End of Days (1999) The 6th Day (2000) Jingle All the Way (1996) Red Heat (1988) Raw Deal (1986) Stay Hungry (1976) Red Sonja (1985)
7. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
Rocky (1976) First Blood (1982) Rocky II (1979) Rocky III (1982) Rocky IV (1985) Nighthawks (1981) Cop Land (1997) Cobra (1986) Lock Up (1989) Tango & Cash (1989) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) The Specialist (1994) Creed (2015) Victory (1981) Demolition Man (1993) Assassins (1995) The Expendables (2010) The Expendables 2 (2012) Over the Top (1987) Get Carter (2000) Rocky Balboa (2006) Eye See You (2002) Rambo III (1988) F.I.S.T. (1978) Paradise Alley (1978) Death Race 2000 (1975) The Lords of Flatbush (1974) Oscar (1991) Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Rocky V (1990)
8. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margaret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took ...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Dirty Harry (1971) High Plains Drifter (1973) For a Few Dollars More (1965) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Hang 'Em High (1968) Sudden Impact (1983) The Dead Pool (1988) Unforgiven (1992) The Eiger Sanction (1975) Coogan's Bluff (1968) Magnum Force (1973) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) The Enforcer (1976) Kelly's Heroes (1970) Tightrope (1984) Where Eagles Dare (1968) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) In the Line of Fire (1993) Gran Torino (2008) Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) The Gauntlet (1977) Every Which Way But Loose (1978) Play Misty for Me (1971) The Beguiled (1971) Pink Cadillac (1989) The Witches (1967) Joe Kidd (1972) Any Which Way You Can (1980) Firefox (1982) The Rookie (1990) A Perfect World (1993) Million Dollar Baby (2004)
9. 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 ...
The Godfather (1972) Apocalypse Now (1979) On the Waterfront (1954) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Wild One (1953) The Freshman (1990) Last Tango in Paris (1972) The Score (2001) The Chase (1966) The Missouri Breaks (1976) Superman (1978) The Nightcomers (1971) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Guys and Dolls (1955) Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
10. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
Saturday Night Live (1980-1984) Coming to America (1988) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Trading Places (1983) 48 Hrs. (1982) The Nutty Professor (1996) Harlem Nights (1989) Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Another 48 Hrs. (1990) The Golden Child (1986) Boomerang (1992) Bowfinger (1999) Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) Shrek (2001) Showtime (2002) The Haunted Mansion (2003) Life (1999) Metro (1997) Best Defense (1984) The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
11. Vincent Price
Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb "Daisy" (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, who was President of the National Candy ...
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) The Oblong Box (1969) Witchfinder General (The Conqueror Worm) (1968) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) House of Wax (1953) House of Usher (1960) House on Haunted Hill (1959) The Haunted Palace (1963) Diary of a Madman (1963) Theatre of Blood (1973) The Last Man on Earth (1964) Tales of Terror (1962) The Comedy of Terrors (1963) The Raven (1963) Cry of the Banshee (1970) Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Madhouse (1974) The Fly (1958) Scream and Scream Again (1970) Laura (1944) Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) The Tingler (1959) Spirits of the Dead (1968) The Ten Commandments (1956)
12. Mel Gibson
Actor | Braveheart
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...
Braveheart (1995) Mad Max (1979) Lethal Weapon (1987) Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Signs (2002) Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior (1981) Blood Father (2016) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) Tequila Sunrise (1988) The Man Without a Face (1993) The Patriot (2000) Air America (1990) Payback (1999) The Bounty (1984) Gallipoli (1981) We Were Soldiers (2002) Conspiracy Theory (1997) The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) Forever Young (1992) Ransom (1996) Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) Bird on a Wire (1990) What Women Want (2000)
13. Christopher Walken
Actor | The Deer Hunter
Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...
The Deer Hunter (1978) King of New York (1990) True Romance (1993) At Close Range (1986) Wild Side (1995) The Dead Zone (1983) The Prophecy (1995) Envy (2004) Seven Psychopaths (2012) Batman Returns (1992) Wayne's World 2 (1993) A View to a Kill (1985) The Rundown (2003) $5 a Day (2008) Joe Dirt (2001) Pulp Fiction (1994) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Kill the Irishman (2011) Nick of Time (1995) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) Stand Up Guys (2012) Excess Baggage (1997) The Opportunists (2000) Suicide Kings (1997) Biloxi Blues (1988) Catch Me If You Can (2002) Brainstorm (1983) Poolhall Junkies (2002) One More Time (2015) Heaven's Gate (1980) Annie Hall (1977) The Sentinel (1977) Roseland (1977) Click (2006) Wedding Crashers (2005) Gigli (2003)
14. Michael Douglas
Actor | Wall Street
A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...
Basic Instinct (1992) Falling Down (1993) Romancing the Stone (1984) Wall Street (1987) The Game (1997) Black Rain (1989) Fatal Attraction (1987) The China Syndrome (1979) The Jewel of the Nile (1985) Coma (1978) The War of the Roses (1989) Disclosure (1994) The American President (1995) A Perfect Murder (1998) Wonder Boys (2000) Don't Say a Word (2001)
15. Gene Wilder
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Young Frankenstein (1974) The Woman in Red (1984) Blazing Saddles (1974) Stir Crazy (1980) The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) The Producers (1967) Silver Streak (1976) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) Another You (1991) Haunted Honeymoon (1986) Hanky Panky (1982)
16. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor | Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...
Iron Man (2008) Tropic Thunder (2008) Less Than Zero (1987) The Avengers (2012) Due Date (2010) Only You (1994) Captain America: Civil War (2016) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Iron Man 2 (2010) Chaplin (1992) Sherlock Holmes (2009) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) The Pick-up Artist (1987) The Judge (2014) Iron Man 3 (2013) Zodiac (2007) Gothika (2003) In Dreams (1999) Home for the Holidays (1995) Wonder Boys (2000) Air America (1990) 1969 (1988) Friends & Lovers (1999) Two Girls and a Guy (1997) Back to School (1986) Weird Science (1985) Natural Born Killers (1994) Johnny Be Good (1988) Charlie Bartlett (2007) A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
17. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
Forrest Gump (1994) Cast Away (2000) Big (1988) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Bachelor Party (1984) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Philadelphia (1993) A League of Their Own (1992) The Green Mile (1999) Toy Story (1995) Toy Story 2 (1999) The 'Burbs (1989) Splash (1984) Bosom Buddies (1980-1982) Family Ties (1983-1984) The Terminal (2004) That Thing You Do! (1996) Catch Me If You Can (2002) The Money Pit (1986) The Da Vinci Code (2006) Toy Story 3 (2010) You've Got Mail (1998) Dragnet (1987) Nothing in Common (1986)
18. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) The Birdcage (1996) Jack (1996) Moscow on the Hudson (1984) Popeye (1980) Mork & Mindy (1978-1982) Good Will Hunting (1997) Dead Poets Society (1989) The World According to Garp (1982) One Hour Photo (2002) Hook (1991) Jumanji (1995) Awakenings (1990) The Best of Times (1986) Insomnia (2002) What Dreams May Come (1998) Aladdin (1992) Night at the Museum (2006) House of D (2004) Club Paradise (1986) Cadillac Man (1990) Death to Smoochy (2002) RV (2006)
19. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
Vertigo (1958) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) The Philadelphia Story (1940) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) Bell Book and Candle (1958) Harvey (1950) You Can't Take It with You (1938) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Rear Window (1954) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Rope (1948) The Man from Laramie (1955) The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Shenandoah (1965) The Shootist (1976) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) Bandolero! (1968) Firecreek (1968) Call Northside 777 (1948) Ziegfeld Girl (1941) You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) The Mortal Storm (1940) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The FBI Story (1959) After the Thin Man (1936) The Stratton Story (1949) Winchester '73 (1950) The Jackpot (1950) The Naked Spur (1953) The Glenn Miller Story (1954) Two Rode Together (1961) Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Made for Each Other (1939) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) Dear Brigitte (1965) On Our Merry Way (1948) The Rare Breed (1966) The Murder Man (1935) The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) Take Her, She's Mine (1963) Fools' Parade (1971) Airport '77 (1977) The Magic of Lassie (1978)
20. 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 ...
Casablanca (1942) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) The Roaring Twenties (1939) The Harder They Fall (1956) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) In a Lonely Place (1950) The Big Sleep (1946) Dark Passage (1947) The Oklahoma Kid (1939) We're No Angels (1955) The Desperate Hours (1955) Sabrina (1954) The African Queen (1951) Beat the Devil (1953) They Drive by Night (1940) Dead End (1937) High Sierra (1941) Key Largo (1948) The Caine Mutiny (1954) The Barefoot Contessa (1954) The Enforcer (1951) To Have and Have Not (1944) Passage to Marseille (1944) All Through the Night (1942) Brother Orchid (1940) Across the Pacific (1942) Dead Reckoning (1947) The Wagons Roll at Night (1941) The Big Shot (1942) Sahara (1943) The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) Black Legion (1937) Conflict (1945) Kid Galahad (1937) Dark Victory (1939) Knock on Any Door (1949) The Return of Doctor X (1939) You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) King of the Underworld (1939) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Crime School (1938)
21. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
Die Hard (1988) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Pulp Fiction (1994) The Sixth Sense (1999) Blind Date (1987) Moonlighting (1985-1989) Unbreakable (2000) The Last Boy Scout (1991) Sin City (2005) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Lay the Favorite (2012) The Story of Us (1999) Four Rooms (1995) RED (2010) Alpha Dog (2006) Die Hard 2 (1990) Hudson Hawk (1991) The Fifth Element (1997) Mortal Thoughts (1991) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Striking Distance (1993) Looper (2012) The Whole Nine Yards (2000) Color of Night (1994) Death Becomes Her (1992) Lucky Number Slevin (2006) The Expendables 2 (2012) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Armageddon (1998) Planet Terror (2007) Tears of the Sun (2003)
22. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
City Lights (1931) Modern Times (1936) The Great Dictator (1940) Limelight (1952) The Gold Rush (1925) The Circus (1928) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) King in New York (1957) The Pilgrim (1923)
23. John Travolta
Actor | Pulp Fiction
John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...
24. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
25. Kurt Russell
Actor | Escape from New York
Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...
26. Malcolm McDowell
Actor | A Clockwork Orange
Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Edna (McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a publican. His father was an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life...
A Clockwork Orange (1971) O Lucky Man! (1973) If.... (1968) Time After Time (1979) Caligula (1979) Gangster No. 1 (2000) Get Crazy (1983) Class of 1999 (1990) Jezebel's Kiss (1990) Figures in a Landscape (1970) Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971) Royal Flash (1975) The Passage (1979) Britannia Hospital (1982) Sunset (1988) Mortacci (1989) Cat People (1982) Blue Thunder (1983) The Company (2003)
27. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
28. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
29. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
30. Peter Cushing
Actor | Star Wars
Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was ...
31. Bruce Lee
Actor | Jing wu men
Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream North American and ...
Enter the Dragon (1973) The Way of the Dragon (Return of the Dragon) (1972) The Chinese Connection (1972) The Big Boss (Fists of Fury) (1971)
32. Gary Oldman
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) State of Grace (1990) Léon: The Professional (1994) Immortal Beloved (1994) The Dark Knight (2008) Batman Begins (2005) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Hannibal (2001) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012) The Fifth Element (1997) JFK (1991) Basquiat (1996) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Air Force One (1997) The Scarlet Letter (1995) True Romance (1993) Sid and Nancy (1986) Prick Up Your Ears (1987) The Unborn (2009) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) The Book of Eli (2010) Dead Fish (2005) RoboCop (2014) Paranoia (2013) The Space Between Us (2017)
33. Bill Murray
Actor | Lost in Translation
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...
34. Denzel Washington
Actor | Fences
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
35. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
36. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
37. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
38. Samuel L. Jackson
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...
39. Michael J. Fox
Actor | Back to the Future
Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
40. Steve Martin
Writer | Roxanne
Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. In 1960, he got a job at the Magic ...
41. Sean Connery
Actor | The Rock
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...
42. Chevy Chase
Actor | Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Chevy Chase was born Cornelius Crane Chase on October 8, 1943 in Lower Manhattan, New York, to Cathalene Parker (Browning), a concert pianist and librettist, and Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase, an editor and writer. His parents both came from prominent families, and his grandfathers were artist and ...
43. James Cagney
Actor | Angels with Dirty Faces
One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur ...
44. Lon Chaney
Actor | He Who Gets Slapped
Although his parents were deaf, Leonidas Chaney became an actor and also owner of a theatre company (together with his brother John). He made his debut at the movies in 1912, and his filmography is vast. Lon Chaney was especially famous for his horror parts in movies like e.g. Quasimodo in The ...
45. Dudley Moore
Actor | Arthur
Dudley Moore, the gifted comedian who had at least three distinct career phases that brought him great acclaim and success, actually started out as a musical prodigy as a child. Moore -- born in Dagenham, Essex, England to working class parents in 1935 -- won a music scholarship to Magdalen College...
46. Steve McQueen
Actor | The Great Escape
He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...
47. David Duchovny
Actor | The X Files
David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...
48. Jackie Gleason
Actor | The Hustler
Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey, and later a comedian in night clubs. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series ...
49. Dennis Hopper
Actor | Easy Rider
Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...
50. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
51. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
52. Gregory Peck
Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child...
53. Robert Mitchum
Actor | Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. His father died in a ...
54. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
55. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
56. Alec Guinness
Actor | Star Wars
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...
57. Charlton Heston
Actor | Ben-Hur
With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty ...
58. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
59. Joe Pesci
Actor | Goodfellas
Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....
60. Alec Baldwin
Actor | The Departed
Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...
61. Steve Buscemi
Actor | Fargo
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to...
62. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
63. Boris Karloff
Actor | Bride of Frankenstein
Along with fellow actors Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, Boris Karloff is recognized as one of the true icons of horror cinema, and the actor most closely identified with the general public's perception of the "monster" from the classic Mary Shelley book, "Frankenstein". William Henry ...
64. Lee Marvin
Actor | Paint Your Wagon
American actor Lee Marvin was born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. in New York City. After leaving school aged 18, Marvin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and after being wounded in action ...
65. George C. Scott
Actor | Patton
George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...
66. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
67. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
68. Rex Harrison
Actor | My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison was born Reginald Carey Harrison in Huyton, Lancashire, England, to Edith Mary (Carey) and William Reginald Harrison, a cotton broker. He changed his name to Rex as a young boy, knowing it was the Latin word for "King". Starting out on his theater career at age 18, his first job at the ...
69. Basil Rathbone
Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, ...
70. Patrick Swayze
Actor | Dirty Dancing
Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982. ...
71. Roger Moore
Actor | Moonraker
Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down.
Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His ...
72. Claude Rains
Actor | Casablanca
William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...
73. Ray Liotta
Actor | Narc
Intense was the word for Ray Liotta. He specialized in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice-guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. He was born in Newark, New ...
74. James Caan
Actor | Thief
A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.
He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...
75. Russell Crowe
Actor | Les Misérables
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...
76. Richard Gere
Actor | Chicago
Humanitarian and actor Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five children of Doris Anna (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, an insurance salesman, both Mayflower descendants. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high ...
77. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
78. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
79. Burt Lancaster
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...
80. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
81. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
82. Robert Shaw
Actor | Jaws
Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. Shaw's mother, who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, met his father while...
83. John Ritter
Actor | Sling Blade
Jonathan Southworth Ritter was born in Burbank, California, on September 17, 1948. He was the son of legendary country singer/actor Tex Ritter (born Woodward Maurice Ritter) and his wife, actress Dorothy Fay (née Dorothy Fay Southworth). The couple married in 1941 and had their first child, Tom ...
84. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
85. Charles Bronson
Actor | Death Wish
The archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features--one film critic described his rugged looks as "a Clark Gable who had been left out in the sun too long"--Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinsky, one of 15 children of struggling parents in Pennsylvania. His mother, Mary (Valinsky), ...
86. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
87. Oliver Reed
Actor | Gladiator
Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. His notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Revolver (1973), ...
88. 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 ...
89. George Sanders
Actor | All About Eve
George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in ...
90. Terence Stamp
Actor | The Limey
Terence was born in London and spent his early years watching American films and dreamed of being like the stars on the screen, He was awarded a scholarship for the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. In his second year, during an audition, Peter Ustinov signed him for the title role in Billy ...
91. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
92. Matt Dillon
Actor | Crash
Matt Dillon's successful film career has spanned over three decades and has showcased his wide range of dramatic and comedic talents. Dillon displayed his versatility with an arresting performance co-starring as a racist cop in the critically acclaimed Paul Haggis film Crash. This role earned him ...
93. Anthony Quinn
Actor | Alexis Zorbas
Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...
94. James Spader
Actor | The Blacklist
James Todd Spader was born on February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Jean (Fraser) and Stoddard Greenwood "Todd" Spader. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover with director Peter Sellars; he dropped out in eleventh grade. He bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga ...
95. David Niven
Actor | Murder by Death
His mother was the French Lady Comynyplatt Henrietta de Gacher, his father was the British Lieutenant William Graham Niven, who died in the war when David was six years old. Niven was considered a difficult child to educate and had to change schools often until he finally went to Sandhurst Military...
96. Jeffrey Wright
Actor | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Born and raised in Washington DC, Jeffrey Wright graduated from Amherst College in 1987. Although he studied Political Science while at Amherst, Wright left the school with a love for acting. Shortly after graduating he won an acting scholarship to NYU, but dropped out after only two months to ...
97. Dan Aykroyd
Writer | Ghostbusters
Daniel Edward Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Lorraine Hélène (Gougeon), a secretary from a French-Canadian family, and Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer who advised prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Aykroyd attended Carleton University in 1969, where...
98. Vince Vaughn
Producer | The Break-Up
Vincent Anthony Vaughn was born on March 28, 1970, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, and was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. His parents, Vernon Vaughn (a salesman and character actor), and Sharon Vaughn, née Sharon Eileen DePalmo (a real-estate agent and stockbroker) divorced in 1991. He has two ...
99. John Turturro
Actor | Fading Gigolo
Highly talented, lightly built American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles.
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian-American parents, Katherine (...
100. Michael Madsen
Actor | Reservoir Dogs
Michael Madsen is an enigmatic force in the entertainment industry, widely regarded as one of the most intense and compelling actors of our time. With an electrifying presence both on and off the screen, Madsen has captivated audiences worldwide with his mesmerizing performances, making an ...
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