The Best Actresses and Actors - Born in the 1940s
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 04 Sep 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicThe current year of the competition: 2000 - Film No. 19
Here is the link to the current year: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027056439/
Points from my "The Best Films Ever Made"-Lists: Vol. 1 = 100%, Vol. 2 = 50%, Vol. 3 = 33%, Vol. 4 = 25%, Vol. 5 = 20 %, Vol. 6 = 17%
1. 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 ...
9746 points
2. 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)...
7203 points
3. Gérard Depardieu
Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac
Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, to Anne Jeanne Josèphe (Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, who was a metal worker and fireman. Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Café de la Gare", along ...
6167 points
4. Diane Keaton
Actress | Annie Hall
Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...
5688 points
5. Mia Farrow
Actress | Rosemary's Baby
Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the ...
4988 points
6. 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, ...
4744 points
7. Daniel Olbrychski
Actor | Salt
Daniel Olbrychski was born on February 27, 1945 in Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Salt (2010), The Deluge (1974) and The Tin Drum (1979). He has been married to Krystyna Demska since October 23, 2003. He was previously married to Zuzanna Lapicka and Monika...
4450 points
8. 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), ...
4233 points
9. Paul Herman
Actor | American Hustle
Paul Herman was born on March 29, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for American Hustle (2013), Heat (1995) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). He died on March 29, 2022 in New York City, New York, USA.
4169 points
10. Nikita Mikhalkov
Actor | 12
Nikita Mikhalkov is the son of the famous communist poet Sergey Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics of the Soviet national anthem and had strong connections to the Communist Party. Nikita Mikhalkov's mother, Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya, was also a poet and daughter of famous painter Pyotr Petrovich...
3836 points
11. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
3785 points
12. Jacques Perrin
Actor | Z
He started out as romantic hero full of beauty and talent in Girl with a Suitcase (1961) beside Claudia Cardinale. Director Valerio Zurlini engaged the talented young actor for his Family Diary (1962) as Marcello Mastroianni's brother. Jacques Perrin's longtime work with director Costa-Gavras ...
3733 points
13. Stefania Sandrelli
Actress | Il conformista
She was born in Viareggio (Tuscany, Italy) on June 5th, 1946. She won a beauty contest when she was just 15 years old, which led to her first role in "Il federale" together with the great Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi. She was then cast by Germi for the Italian comedy "Divorzio all'Italiana", working ...
3558 points
14. 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"....
3513 points
15. Catherine Deneuve
Actress | 8 femmes
Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (...
3459 points
16. Andrzej Seweryn
Actor | Schindler's List
Andrzej Seweryn was born on April 25, 1946 in Heilbronn, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Schindler's List (1993), The Last Family (2016) and Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiaca (2000). He has been married to Katarzyna Kubacka since August 30, 2015. He was previously married to Mireille ...
3431 points
17. Geraldine Chaplin
Actress | Hable con ella
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, to Oona Chaplin (née O'Neill) and legendary entertainer Charles Chaplin (A.K.A. Charlie Chaplin). She is a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and a great-granddaughter of stage actor James O'Neill. She attended the Royal Ballet ...
3421 points
18. John Savage
Actor | The Last Full Measure
John Savage is an American actor best known for his roles in The Deer Hunter (1978), The Onion Field (1979), Hair (1979), Salvador (1986), The Last Full Measure (2019), In Dubious Battle (2016), and the television shows Goliath (2016), Twin Peaks (2017), and Dark Angel (2000). He was born in Old ...
3389 points
19. Bozena Dykiel
Actress | Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera
Bozena Dykiel was born on August 26, 1948 in Grabowo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988), Mokry szmal (1986) and Day of the Wacko (2002).
3359 points
20. 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...
3233 points
21. Sigourney Weaver
Actress | Alien Resurrection
Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...
3203 points
22. David Clennon
Actor | Missing
A tall, lean, sometimes bearded actor with a career lasting more than forty years, David Clennon is also a very vocal political agitator. In 1967, during the most savage years of U.S. aggression against Vietnam, Clennon turned in his Selective Service System identification card (a federal felony) ...
3127 points
23. Sharmila Tagore
Actress | Gulmohar
A Bengali actress who achieved success young, Sharmila appeared in numerous Bengali classics before making the jump to Hindi cinema, which first made her a romantic actress and later a legendary actress thanks to her intense films opposite Superstar Rajesh Khanna. A distant relative of poet ...
2992 points
24. Bruno Kirby
Actor | City Slickers
Native New Yorker and Italianate Bruno Kirby tended towards assertive, pushy, streetwise characters and was armed with a highly distinctive scratchy tenor voice that complemented his slim eyes and droopy puss and accentuated his deadpan comedic instincts on film and TV. The well-regarded character ...
2973 points
25. Jerzy Stuhr
Actor | Historie milosne
Jerzy Stuhr was born on April 18, 1947 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is an actor and director, known for Love Stories (1997), Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny (1999) and Camera Buff (1979). He is married to Barbara Stuhr. They have two children.
2948 points
26. Tracey Walter
Actor | Repo Man
Tracey Walter was born on November 25, 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Repo Man (1984), Batman (1989) and Conan the Destroyer (1984).
2923 points
27. Faye Dunaway
Actress | Bonnie and Clyde
An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...
2891 points
28. Sergey Nikonenko
Actor | Klassik
Sergei Nikonenko is a popular Russian actor and director, known for his portrayal of Russian historic characters in film and on stage, such as poet Sergei Esenin and commander Chapaev.
He was born Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko on April 16, 1941, in Moscow, Russia. His father, Petr Nikanorovich, and his...
2800 points
29. Martin Sheen
Actor | The Departed
Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. Moving flawlessly between artistic mediums, Sheen's acting range is striking.
Sheen was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estevez in Dayton, Ohio, to Mary-Ann (Phelan), an Irish ...
2696 points
30. Giancarlo Giannini
Actor | Quantum of Solace
Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.
He was born August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. For 10 years he ...
2696 points
31. Wojciech Pszoniak
Actor | Danton
Wojciech Pszoniak was born on May 2, 1942 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Danton (1983), The Promised Land (1975) and Korczak (1990). He was married to Barbara. He died on October 19, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.
2691 points
32. Tadeusz Huk
Actor | Schindler's List
Tadeusz Huk was born on May 1, 1948 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Danton (1983) and Television Theater (1953).
2660 points
33. Veronica Cartwright
Actress | Alien
Born in Bristol, England, Veronica is the older sister of the popular child actress Angela Cartwright. In her early career, Veronica was cast in a number of popular movies such as William Wyler's The Children's Hour (1961), Spencer's Mountain (1963) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). As such,...
2656 points
34. Boguslaw Sobczuk
Actor | And the Violins Stopped Playing
Boguslaw Sobczuk was born on July 25, 1947 in Zlocieniec, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is an actor and writer, known for And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988), Camera Buff (1979) and Zabic na koncu (1990).
2647 points
35. Olgierd Lukaszewicz
Actor | Seksmisja
Olgierd Lukaszewicz was born on September 7, 1946 in Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland. He is an actor and writer, known for Sexmission (1984), A Cat with a Dog (2018) and General Nil (2009). He has been married to Grazyna Marzec since March 13, 1968. They have one child.
2611 points
36. Danny DeVito
Actor | Matilda
Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. ...
2584 points
37. Jean-Pierre Léaud
Actor | Les quatre cents coups
Jean-Pierre Léaud is not everybody's cup of tea for sure, but will remain an important name in film history. As an actor he can be adored or hated for exactly the same reasons: he is one of those rare players that directors let improvise his dialogue, which gets on certain viewers' nerves while it ...
2583 points
38. Jeffrey DeMunn
Actor | The Green Mile
Jeffrey DeMunn was born on April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York. He studied in England at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, then returned to America and was a member of the National Shakespeare Company. He has starred in many theatre productions, both on and off Broadway, including "K2" (for which...
2580 points
39. Brian Libby
Actor | The Mist
Brian Libby was born on April 20, 1949. He was an actor, known for The Mist (2007), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Air Force One (1997). He died on June 18, 2021.
2578 points
40. Mikhail Kononov
Actor | Andrey Rublyov
Mikhail Kononov was born on April 25, 1940 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), The Inner Circle (1991) and Captain Nemo (1975). He died on July 16, 2007 in Moscow, Russia.
2536 points
41. Harry Northup
Actor | Taxi Driver
Harry E. Northup has made a living as an actor for 30 years, acting in 37 films, including Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976) (1976 Palme d'Or winner at Cannes), Fighting Mad (1976) (starring role), Citizens Band (1977), Blue Collar (1978), Over the Edge...
2501 points
42. Kôji Shitara
Actor | Ohayô
Kôji Shitara was born on June 4, 1946 in Yamagata, Japan. He is an actor, known for Good Morning (1959), Late Autumn (1960) and The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952).
2495 points
43. Dianne Wiest
Actress | The Birdcage
One of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on 28 March 1946. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but she was bitten by acting bug after some stage work, most notably playing Desdemona to James Earl Jones' Othello on ...
2471 points
44. Sissy Spacek
Actress | In the Bedroom
As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.
...
2416 points
45. James Woods
Actor | Vampires
James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...
2403 points
46. Burt Young
Actor | Rocky
Burly, talented character actor who remained consistently busy playing "rough edged" or scary characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was born on April 30, 1940, in New York City, the son of a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent. Young received his dramatic arts ...
2393 points
47. Bruno Ganz
Actor | Der Untergang
Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).
Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a ...
2363 points
48. Otto Sander
Actor | Der Himmel über Berlin
Sander spent his childhood and youth in Hanover and Kassel. He also went to school there and graduated from high school in 1962. After his military service in the navy, he studied theater studies, German, literature, art history and philosophy until 1967. Sander made his theater debut in 1965 at ...
2345 points
49. 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 ...
2344 points
50. Scott Wilson
Actor | The Ninth Configuration
One chillingly infamous screen role for Scott Wilson in 1967 set the tone for an actor who went on to prove himself an invaluable character player for five decades. Born on March 29, 1942, the Atlanta native was awarded a basketball scholarship following high school at Georgia's Southern Tech ...
2340 points
51. Richard Dreyfuss
Actor | The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers.
He was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, to Geraldine (Robbins), an activist, and Norman Dreyfus, a restaurateur and attorney. His paternal grandparents ...
2314 points
52. Irm Hermann
Actress | Fünf letzte Tage
Irm Hermann was born on October 4, 1942 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress and assistant director, known for Five Last Days (1982), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972). She was married to Dietmar Roberg. She died on May 26, 2020 in Berlin, ...
2309 points
53. Tomasz Lengren
Actor | Tanie pieniadze
Tomasz Lengren was born on March 7, 1945 in Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for Tanie pieniadze (1986), The Devil (1972) and Dziad domniemany (2001). He died on July 9, 2008 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
2301 points
54. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
2296 points
55. Talia Shire
Actress | Rocky
Talia Rose Shire is an American actress who played roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather films and Adrian Balboa in the Rocky series. For her work in The Godfather Part II and Rocky, Shire was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, and for the ...
2284 points
56. Frankie Faison
Actor | Coming to America
Frankie Faison was born on June 10, 1949 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for Coming to America (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989) and White Chicks (2004). He is married to Samantha Jupiter Faison. He was previously married to Jane Mandel.
2279 points
57. Günther Kaufmann
Actor | Wickie und die starken Männer
Günther Kaufmann was born on June 16, 1947 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Wickie und die starken Männer (2009), Querelle (1982) and Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972). He was married to Patrizia, Alexandra von Herrendorf and Gabriele. He died on May 10, 2012 in ...
2279 points
58. Macha Méril
Actress | Profondo rosso
Macha Méril was born on September 3, 1940 in Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]. She is an actress and producer, known for Deep Red (1975), Belle de Jour (1967) and Vagabond (1985). She was previously married to Michel Legrand and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
2275 points
59. 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) ...
2227 points
60. Conchata Ferrell
Actress | Two and a Half Men
It took 30 years since it was first predicted, but Conchata Ferrell finally achieved television stardom, albeit of the supporting variety, as the housekeeper "Berta" in the situation-comedy Two and a Half Men (2003). Ferrell originally had been tipped for stardom with her turn as the prostitute "...
2222 points
61. Georges Poujouly
Actor | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Georges Poujouly was born on January 20, 1940 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Diabolique (1955) and Forbidden Games (1952). He died on October 28, 2000 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France.
2215 points
62. John Rothman
Actor | One Mississippi
John Rothman was born on June 3, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for One Mississippi (2015) and Prime (2005).
2213 points
63. Oleg Yankovskiy
Actor | Nostalghia
Yankovsky was named best actor in a 1984 reader poll by Soviet Screen for his role in "In Love Because He Wants to Be." He was awarded the State Prize in 1987 for his role in "Flying Asleep and Awake." In 1989 he received the Vasiliev State Prize for his role in "The Kreutzer Sonata." Yakovsky was ...
2210 points
64. Shima Iwashita
Actress | Seppuku
Shima Iwashita was born on January 3, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Harakiri (1962), Ballad of Orin (1977) and Clouds at Sunset (1967). She has been married to Masahiro Shinoda since 1967.
2210 points
65. Dragan Nikolic
Actor | Balkan ekspres
Dragan Nikolic's movie debut was in 1964 Pravo stanje stvari (1964), but he started his career with role Dzimi Barka in movie When I Am Dead and Gone (1967), directed by Zivojin Pavlovic and for this role, he was awarded with Diploma at Pula Film Festival in 1968. He appeared in more than 90 ...
2183 points
66. Jerzy Trela
Actor | Quo vadis
Jerzy Trela was born on March 14, 1942 in Lencze, Malopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Quo vadis (2001), Three Colors: White (1994) and Self-Portrait with a Lover (1996). He died on May 15, 2022 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
2182 points
67. Norbert Weisser
Actor | Midnight Express
Norbert Weisser, born in Neu-Isenburg Germany, came to Los Angeles in the late 60s and began acting in the LA Experimental theatre scene of the 60s and 70s. He became a founding member of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, the ProVisional Theatre and the Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival where he ...
2179 points
68. Vincent Pastore
Actor | The Sopranos
Pastore was born to an Italian-American family in the Bronx, New York City, and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. Following his graduation from high school, he enlisted as a sailor in the United States Navy and then attended Pace University for three years, before eventually going into the acting ...
2164 points
69. Ryan O'Neal
Actor | Love Story
Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal was an American actor and former boxer. He trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. It was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He ...
2161 points
70. Anna Karina
Actress | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
Born in Denmark, she came to Paris at 18. She met Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and started as a top model. She met Jean-Luc Godard about a cameo in Breathless (1960), but she had to be naked and she refused to play in the movie. One year later, they wed and she became famous with the "Nouvelle ...
2140 points
71. Marisa Paredes
Actress | Todo sobre mi madre
Marisa Paredes was born on April 3, 1946 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for All About My Mother (1999), The Skin I Live In (2011) and High Heels (1991).
2139 points
72. Madeline Kahn
Actress | Paper Moon
Madeline Kahn was born Madeline Gail Wolfson of Russian Jewish descent on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Freda Goldberg (later known as Paula Kahn), who was still in her teens, and Bernard B. Wolfson, a garment manufacturer. She began her acting career in high school and went on to...
2129 points
73. Peter Maloney
Actor | The Thing
Peter Maloney was born on November 23, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The Thing (1982), Private Parts (1997) and Requiem for a Dream (2000). He has been married to Kristin Griffith since 1981. They have two children.
2126 points
74. Harry Baer
Actor | Faustrecht der Freiheit
Harry Baer was born on September 27, 1947 in Biberach an der Riß, Germany. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Fox and His Friends (1975), Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972) and Raid (2003).
2104 points
75. Avangard Leontev
Actor | Esenin
Avangard Leontev was born on February 27, 1947. He is an actor, known for Esenin (2005), Geroy nashego vremeni (2006) and Mirror for a Hero (1987).
2089 points
76. David Warner
Actor | Titanic
Distinguished character actor David Hattersley Warner was born on July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen (Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner. He was born out of wedlock and raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his itinerant father and stepmother. He only saw his ...
2088 points
77. Hanna Schygulla
Actress | Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Lead icon of the influential New German Cinema of the 70's & 80's, Schygulla's natural blonde beauty and amazing versatility keep her among the world's top actresses. She won best actress at Cannes in 1983 for The Story of Piera (1983) (aka "The Story of Piera"), an Italian/German co-production. The...
2076 points
78. Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
Actor | Schindler's List
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew was born on August 17, 1946 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He was an actor and writer, known for Schindler's List (1993), Sophie's Choice (1982) and Prostytutki (1998). He died on July 8, 2005 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
2044 points
79. Jessica Lange
Actress | Tootsie
Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...
2012 points
80. J.T. Walsh
Actor | Breakdown
J.T. Walsh was born on September 28, 1943 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Breakdown (1997), Sling Blade (1996) and Needful Things (1993). He was married to Susan West. He died on February 27, 1998 in La Mesa, California, USA.
2011 points
81. Barbara Hershey
Actress | Black Swan
Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Lynn Herzstein in Hollywood, California, to Melrose (Moore) and Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse racing columnist. Her father, born in Manhattan, was from a Jewish family (from Hungary and Russia), and her mother, originally from Arkansas, had English and ...
2007 points
82. R. Lee Ermey
Actor | Full Metal Jacket
A talented character actor known for his military roles, Ronald Lee Ermey was in the United States Marine Corps for 11 years. He rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant, and later was bestowed the honorary rank of Gunnery Sergeant by the Marine Corps, after he served 14 months in Vietnam and later did ...
2004 points
83. David Strathairn
Actor | Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Russell Strathairn was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Mary Frances (Frazier), a nurse, and Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr., a physician. He has two siblings, Tom and Anne. His ancestry includes English, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Hawaiian, and one ...
1998 points
84. Joe Grifasi
Actor | Batman Forever
Joe Grifasi was born on June 14, 1944 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Batman Forever (1995), Natural Born Killers (1994) and The Deer Hunter (1978). He has been married to Jane Ira Bloom since 1974.
1991 points
85. Sam Shepard
Actor | August: Osage County
Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base ...
1990 points
86. Bob Balaban
Actor | Gosford Park
Bob Balaban was born on August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Gosford Park (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since April 1, 1977. They have two children.
1967 points
87. Hayley Mills
Actress | Pollyanna
Born Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills in London in 1946, she is the daughter of the great actor Sir John Mills and the well-known novelist-playwright Mary Hayley Bell. Her sister is the actress Juliet Mills. She grew up in her parents' home, an outgoing, funny child, and, because she spent so ...
1963 points
88. Leo Gullotta
Leo Gullotta was born on January 9, 1946 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for Zootopia (2016), A Respectable Man (1999) and Cinema Paradiso (1988). He has been married to Fabio Grossi since 2019.
1963 points
89. Barbra Streisand
Actress | Yentl
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...
1954 points
90. Wallace Shawn
Actor | My Dinner with Andre
American character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, delightfully mischievously gnomish faces made for entertaining. Though he got out of the acting starting gate rather late, he quickly excelled film and TV while managing to turn himself into comedy egghead or loser types. ...
1947 points
91. Yuriy Bogatyryov
Actor | Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I. Oblomova
Yuriy Bogatyryov was born on March 2, 1947 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]. He was an actor, known for A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980), Myortvye dushi (1984) and At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974). He died on February 2, 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now...
1942 points
92. Petr Cepek
Actor | Faust
Petr Cepek was born on September 16, 1940 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Faust (1994), I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970) and The Three Veterans (1984). He was married to Ivana Cepková and Helena Rytírová. He died on September 20, 1994 ...
1935 points
93. Tracy Reed
Actress | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Tracy Reed was born on September 21, 1941 in Barnet, Middlesex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), A Shot in the Dark (1964) and Casino Royale (1967). She was married to Christopher McCabe, Bill Simpson, Neil ...
1934 points
94. Ivan Palúch
Actor | Racha, chemi sikvaruli
Ivan Palúch was born on June 20, 1940 in Zvolen, Slovakia. He was an actor, known for Racha, chemi sikvaruli (1977), The Ear (1970) and It Rains in My Village (1968). He died on July 3, 2015 in Martin, Slovakia.
1929 points
95. Ben Kingsley
Actor | Sexy Beast
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...
1913 points
96. Lyudmila Saveleva
Actress | Voyna i mir
Lyudmila Savelyeva is a Russian actress known as Natasha Rostova in epic film War and Peace (1965), a powerful adaptation of the eponymous masterpiece by Lev Tolstoy.
She was born Lyudmila Mikhailovna Savelyeva on 24 January 1942, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), while the city suffered the heroic ...
1896 points
97. Madhavi Mukherjee
Actress | Diba Ratrir Kabya
Madhavi Mukherjee was born on February 10, 1942 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. She is an actress and director, known for Diba Ratrir Kabya (1970), The Coward (1965) and Charulata (1964). She is married to Nirmal Kumar Chakraborty. They have two children.
1894 points
98. Charles Levin
Actor | The Golden Child
Charles Levin was born on March 12, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Golden Child (1986), Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979). He was married to Katherine De Hetre and Mollie Weinblatt. He died on June 28, 2019 in Selma, Oregon, USA.
1893 points
99. Eddie Axberg
Sound_department | Utvandrarna
Eddie Axberg was born on July 9, 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for The Emigrants (1971), The New Land (1972) and The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004).
1891 points
100. Pierre Lindstedt
Actor | Mysteriet på Greveholm
Pierre Lindstedt was born on August 15, 1943 in Dalarö, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Mysteriet på Greveholm (1996), The Emigrants (1971) and Hugs and Kisses (1967).
1890 points
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