Celebrities Who Lived 100 years or Longer.

by big-gun | created - 09 Dec 2016 | updated - 10 Feb 2017 | Public

1. George Abbott

Writer | The Pajama Game

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

Died at 107.

2. Rosa Albach-Retty

Actress | Geld auf der Straße

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

German actress, died at 105.

3. Jenny Alpha

Actress | Une femme, une époque

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

Martinique actress, died at 100.

4. Lukas Ammann

Actor | Hast noch der Söhne ja...?

Lukas Ammann was born on September 29, 1912 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor and director, known for Hast noch der Söhne ja...? (1959), Bel-Ami Der Frauenheld von Paris (1955) and Bel Ami (1955). He was married to Liselotte Ebnet, Hedda Ippen and Hertha Heger. He died on May 3, 2017 in ...

Swiss actor, 104 and still going.

5. Nina Andrycz

Actress | Uczta Baltazara

Nina Andrycz was born on November 11, 1912 in Brzesc, Poland, Russian Empire [now Brest, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Uczta Baltazara (1954), Horror w Wesolych Bagniskach (1995) and And a Warm Heart (2008). She was married to Józef Cyrankiewicz. She died on January 31, 2014 in Warsaw, ...

Polish actress, died at 101.

6. Nikolai Annenkov

Actor | Sud chesti

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

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

Russian actor, died at 100.

7. Neal Arden

Actor | Life of St. Paul

Neal Arden was born on December 27, 1909 in Fulham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Life of St. Paul (1938), The Best House in London (1969) and Department S (1969). He was married to Julia Byfield and Dorothy Brown. He died on June 4, 2014 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

British actor, died at 104.

8. Richard L. Bare

Director | 77 Sunset Strip

Richard L. Bare was born on August 12, 1913 in Turlock, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for 77 Sunset Strip (1958), The Islanders (1960) and I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew (1969). He was married to Gloria Jean Bailey, Jeanne Evans, Julie Van Zandt, Phyllis Coates, ...

Director, writer, producer, died at 101.

9. Etta Moten

Actress | Flying Down to Rio

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

Actress, singer, died at 102.

10. Amelia Bence

Actress | A sangre fría

Amelia Bence was born on November 13, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for A sangre fría (1947), La danza del fuego (1949) and Lauracha (1946). She was married to Alberto Closas and Charlie Ortiz Basualdo. She died on February 8, 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentine actress, died at 101.

11. Bruce Bennett

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Actor, died at 100.

12. Irving Benson

Actor | Scanty Panties

Irving Benson was born on January 31, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Scanty Panties (1961), Here's Lucy (1968) and The Milton Berle Show (1948). He was married to Lillian Benson. He died on May 19, 2016 in Port Jefferson, New York, USA.

Actor, died at 102.

13. Margaret Booth

Editor | Mutiny on the Bounty

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

Film editor, died at 104.

14. Osmond Borradaile

Camera_department | The Four Feathers

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

Cameraman, cinematographer, died at 100.

15. Robert F. Boyle

Production_designer | North by Northwest

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

Art director, production designer, died at 100.

16. Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Director | Amore

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia was born on July 8, 1894 in Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Amore (1935), Barbablù (1941) and L'amore si fa così (1939). He died on January 3, 1998 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Italian director and screenwriter, died at 103.

17. Renate Brausewetter

Actress | Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines

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

Actress, died at 100.

18. Helen Bray

Actress | Big Timber

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

Actress, died at 100.

19. Oscar Brodney

Writer | Harvey

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

Screenwriter, died at 100.

20. Mona Bruns

Actress | Shadow of the Cloak

Mona Bruns was born on November 26, 1899 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Shadow of the Cloak (1951), The Brighter Day (1954) and Mannix (1967). She was married to Frank M. Thomas. She died on June 13, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Actress, died at 100.

21. George Burns

Actor | Oh, God!

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

Actor, comedian, died at 100.

22. John Calvert

Actor | Dark Venture

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

Actor, magician, died at 102.

23. Christian Casadesus

Actor | Le capitaine jaune

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

Actor, died at 101.

24. Gisèle Casadesus

Actress | Les aventures de Casanova

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

Actress, 102, still living.

25. Wally Cassell

Actor | White Heat

Wally Cassell was born on March 3, 1912 in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for White Heat (1949), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Story of G.I. Joe (1945). He was married to Marcy McGuire. He died on April 2, 2015 in Palm Desert, California, USA.

Actor, died at 103.

26. Irwin Corey

Actor | The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority," was born on July 29, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. He and his five siblings were wards of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and during the Great Depression, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corp. Possessing brawn as well as brains, ...

Comedian, died at 102.

27. Louise Currie

Actress | The Ape Man

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Louise Currie attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, became interested in acting and began taking courses at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Hollywood. Talent scouts spotted the aspiring actress in the acting workshop's stage productions and ...

Actress, died at 100.

28. Jean Delannoy

Director | Dieu a besoin des hommes

Jean Delannoy began his film career in the 1920s as an actor. By the 1930s he had switched careers and become an editor, then a short-subjects director. By the mid-'30s he was a full-fledged director, and soon garnered a reputation as a sensitive, understated craftsman with a thorough command of ...

French actor, director, died at 100.

29. Leila Danette

Actress | Law & Order

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

Actress, died at 103.

30. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

Actress, 100, still living.

31. Rosine Delamare

Costume_designer | Du rififi chez les hommes

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

Costume designer, died at 101.

32. 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. ...

Actor, 100, still living.

33. Dorothy Dickson

Actress | The Ringer

Dorothy Dickson was an American-born London theater star, who popularized the song, "Look for the Silver Lining", in Britain when she introduced it in London in 1921 in the Jerome Kern musical "Sally". She appeared on the New York stage and in the Ziegfield Follies before World War II.

In 1914, she ...

Actress, died at 102.

34. Ellen Albertini Dow

Actress | The Wedding Singer

The multifaceted Ellen Albertini was a student of dance and piano at the age of five, and obtained a B.A. and M.A. in theater from Cornell University. She moved to New York, and studied and worked with the legendary likes of Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Michael Shurtleff, Uta Hagen, Marcel Marceau, ...

Actress, died at 101.

35. Paulette Dubost

Actress | La règle du jeu

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

French actress, died at 101.

36. Claire Du Brey

Actress | The Bishop's Wife

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

Educated in a convent ...

Actress, died at 100.

37. Mártha Eggerth

Actress | La chanson du souvenir

From the day she was born Martha lived in a world of music. For sure her father was a banker but he was also an amateur pianist. As for her mother, she was a housewife but also a very talented opera singer who had given up her career for the joys of matrimony and motherhood. It does not come as a ...

Actress, died at 101.

38. Mary Ellis

Actress | Bella Donna

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

Actress, died at 105.

39. Jean Erdman

Actress | Medusa

Jean Erdman was born on February 20, 1916 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She was an actress, known for Medusa (1949), Camera Three (1955) and The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell (1987). She was married to Joseph Campbell. She died on May 4, 2020 in Kailua. Hawaii, USA.

Dancer, 100, still living.

40. Carl Esmond

Actor | From the Earth to the Moon

Born Willy Eichberger in Vienna, Austria, he changed his name to the ethnically nondescript Carl Esmond and went on to become a well-regarded actor both here and in Europe, a career that sustained itself for nearly 50 years. He initially studied drama in Vienna at the State Academy of Dramatic Arts...

Actor, died at 102.

41. Irving Fein

Producer | The George Burns One-Man Show

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

Producer, died at 101.

42. Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

Actress | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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

Actress, died at 101.

43. Gunnar Fischer

Cinematographer | Smultronstället

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

Cinematographer, died at 100.

44. Rina Franchetti

Actress | Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby

Rina Franchetti was born on December 23, 1907 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958), David Copperfield (1965) and The Mean Machine (1973). She died on August 18, 2010 in Formello, Lazio, Italy.

Italian actress, died at 102.

45. Arthur Gardner

Producer | Safari 3000

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

TV producer, died at 104.

46. Bob Hope

Actor | The Ghost Breakers

Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents...

Actor, comedian, died at 100.

47. Yvonne Howell

Actress | Take Me Home

Yvonne Howell was born on July 31, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Take Me Home (1928), Fashions for Women (1927) and The Great Mail Robbery (1927). She was married to George Stevens. She died on May 27, 2010 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Actress, died at 104.

48. Gertrude Jeannette

Actress | Shaft

Gertrude Jeannette was born on November 28, 1914 in Urbana, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Shaft (1971), Nothing But a Man (1964) and Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). She was married to Joe Jeanette. She died on April 4, 2018 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, ...

Actress, director, producer, 102, still living.

49. Barbara Kent

Actress | Lonesome

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

Actress, died at 103.

50. Robert Kinoshita

Production_designer | The Phantom Planet

Robert Kinoshita was born on February 24, 1914 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Phantom Planet (1961), Highway Patrol (1955) and Hell's Bloody Devils (1970). He was married to Lillian F. Matsuyama. He died on December 9, 2014 in Torrance...

Art director, died at 100.

51. Hans F. Koenekamp

Special_effects | White Heat

Born in Denison, Iowa, of immigrant parents from Oldenburg, Germany, Hans Koenekamp began his film career with a job as a motion picture projectionist. He became a cinematographer in 1913 at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios. He later worked at Fox Films and then joined Vitagraph in 1917, where he ...

Cinematographer, died at 100.

52. Mae LaBorde

Actress | Pineapple Express

Mae LaBorde was born on May 13, 1909 in Fresno, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Pineapple Express (2008), The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005). She was married to Nicholas Laborde. She died on January 9, 2012 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Actress, died at 102.

53. Carla Laemmle

Actress | The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

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

Actress, died at 104.

54. Charles Lane

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

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

Actor, died at 102.

55. Erna Lazarus

Writer | Atlantic Flight

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

Screenwriter, died at 102.

56. Francis Lederer

Actor | One Rainy Afternoon

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

Actor, died at 100.

57. Aleen Leslie

Writer | Affectionately Yours

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

Screenwriter, died at 101.

58. Norman Lloyd

Actor | Dead Poets Society

Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne...

Actor, producer, director, 102, still living.

59. Don Lusk

Animation_department | Lady and the Tramp

Don Lusk was born on October 28, 1913 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He was married to Marjorie Gummerson. He died on December 30, 2018 in San Clemente, ...

Animator, 103, still living.

60. Lincoln Maazel

Actor | Martin

Lincoln Maazel was born on February 12, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Martin (1977), The Amusement Park (1975) and NET Playhouse (1964). He died on September 15, 2009 in Castleton, Virginia, USA.

Actor, singer, died at 106.

61. Leslie H. Martinson

Director | Batman: The Movie

Leslie H. Martinson was born on January 16, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Batman: The Movie (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Hot Rod Girl (1956). He was married to Connie Martinson. He died on September 3, 2016 in Los Angeles, ...

Director, died at 101.

62. Patricia Morison

Actress | The Song of Bernadette

Woefully misused while in her prime screen years at Paramount during the late '30s and '40s, Patricia Morison, lovely and exotic with Rapunzel-like long, dark hair, nevertheless became a star in her own right -- as a supremely talented diva on the singing stage.

Born on March 19, 1915, in New York ...

Actress, 101, still living.

Actress, died at 101.

64. Audrey Munson

Actress | Purity

Audrey Munson was a model and actress who achieved fame in the early part of the 20th Century in the United States. Born on June 8, 1891, in Rochester, New York, Munson was the only child produced by the marriage of Edgar Munson and Katherine Mahoney Munson. After her parents divorced, Munson was ...

Model, actress, died at 104.

65. Grim Natwick

Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Myron "Grim" Natwick was born in 1890 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, where he is still considered a favorite son and, throughout his lifetime, displayed exhibitions of his work there. He is best known as the creator of the animated character, "Betty Boop", which often in the past was credited to ...

Animator, died at 100.

66. Gladys O'Connor

Actress | The Long Kiss Goodnight

Gladys O'Connor was born on November 28, 1903 in East London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Billy Madison (1995) and Half Baked (1998). She died on February 21, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Actress, died at 108.

67. Ethel Owen

Actress | Robert Montgomery Presents

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

Actress, died at 103.

68. Fern Persons

Actress | Hoosiers

Fern Persons was born on July 27, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Hoosiers (1986), Risky Business (1983) and Field of Dreams (1989). She was married to Max Persons. She died on July 22, 2012 in Littleton, Colorado, USA.

Actress, died at 101.

69. Marc Platt

Actor | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

One of Hollywood's more high-flying dancers on film, dimpled, robust, fair-haired Marc Platt provided fancy footwork to a handful of "Golden Era" musicals but truly impressed in one vigorous 1950s classic.

Born to a musical family on December 2, 1913 in Pasadena, California as Marcel Emile Gaston ...

Actor, dancer, died at 100.

70. Luise Rainer

Actress | The Great Ziegfeld

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

Actress, died at 104.

71. Ted Richmond

Producer | Papillon

Ted Richmond was born on June 10, 1910 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Papillon (1973), Blonde Comet (1941) and Shakedown (1950). He died on December 23, 2013 in Paris, France.

Producer, died at 103.

72. Leni Riefenstahl

Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten

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

Filmmaker, died at 101.

73. Hal Roach

Producer | One Million B.C.

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

Producer, died at 100.

74. Jack Rollins

Producer | Match Point

Jack Rollins was born on March 23, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Match Point (2005), Cassandra's Dream (2007) and Blue Jasmine (2013). He was married to Pearl (Jane) Rose Levine. He died on June 18, 2015 in Manhattan, New York City, New York,...

Producer, died at 100.

75. Frederica Sagor Maas

Writer | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

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

Screenwriter, playwright, died at 111.

76. Sol Saks

Writer | Bewitched

Sol Saks, the screenwriter and TV executive who became a millionaire for writing the pilot for the TV series Bewitched (1964), was born on December 13, 1910 n New York City, though he was raised Chicago from the time he was two-years-old.

A radio actor as a child, Saks started out his professional ...

Screenwriter, producer, died at 100.

77. Connie Sawyer

Actress | Dumb and Dumber

Connie Sawyer was born on November 27, 1912 in Pueblo, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pineapple Express (2008) and Out of Sight (1998). She was married to Marshall Schacker. She died on January 21, 2018 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Actress, 104, still living.

78. Ivy Sawyer

Actress | Booklovers

Ivy Sawyer was born on February 13, 1898 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Booklovers (1929) and Hearst-International News Pictorial, No. 85 (1916). She was married to Joseph Santley. She died on November 16, 1999 in California, USA.

Singer, actress, dancer, died at 101.

79. Miriam Seegar

Actress | Seven Keys to Baldpate

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

Actress, died at 103.

80. Zohra Sehgal

Actress | Kal Ho Naa Ho

Sahibzadi Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan, better known as Zohra Sehgal, was born into a Sunni Muslim Rohilla Pathan family of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, on 27th April, 1912 in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India. However, unlike most other children of traditional households, Zohra Sehgal was a tomboy, who ...

Dancer, actress, died at 102.

81. Tonio Selwart

Actor | The Other Side of the Wind

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

Actor, died at 106.

82. Marina Semyonova

Actress | Bolshoy kontsert

Marina Semyonova was born on June 12, 1908 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was an actress, known for The Grand Concert (1951), Nastenka Ustinova (1934) and When the Spirit Soars in Flight (1959). She was married to Lev Karakhan. She died on June 9, 2010 in Moscow, Russia.

Prima ballerina, died at 101.

83. Athene Seyler

Actress | Drake of England

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

Actress, died at 101.



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