AFI - Top 25 Male Movie Stars

by jaysinn | created - 12 Sep 2020 | updated - 1 day ago | Public

I've listed each film of the star's that I own

1. 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 ...

Bullets or Ballots (1936) The Petrified Forest (1936) Black Legion (1937) Dead End (1937) Kid Galahad (1937) Marked Woman (1937) San Quentin (1937) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Dark Victory (1939) Invisible Stripes (1939) The Roaring Twenties (1939) Brother Orchid (1940) It All Came True (1940) They Drive by Night (1940) Virginia City (1940) High Sierra (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Across the Pacific (1942) All Through the Night (1942) Casablanca (1942) Action in the North Atlantic (1943) Sahara (1943) Passage to Marseille (1944) To Have And Have Not (1944) Conflict (1945) The Big Sleep (1946) Dark Passage (1947) Dead Reckoning (1947) Key Largo (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Chain Lightning (1950) In a Lonely Place (1950) The African Queen (1951) The Enforcer (1951) Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) Beat the Devil (1953) The Barefoot Contessa (1954) The Caine Mutiny (1954) Sabrina (1954) The Desperate Hours (1955) We're No Angels (1955) The Harder They Fall (1956) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (arch. foot.)

2. 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 ...

Blonde Venus (1932) Hot Saturday (1932) Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) I'm No Angel (1933) She Done Him Wrong (1933) The Amazing Adventure (1936) The Awful Truth (1937) Topper (1937) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Holiday (1938) Gunga Din (1939) Only Angels Have Wings (1939) His Girl Friday (1940) My Favorite Wife (1940) The Philadelphia Story (1940) Penny Serenade (1941) Suspicion (1941) Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) The Talk of the Town (1942) Destination Tokyo (1943) Mr. Lucky (1943) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) None But the Lonely Heart (1944) Night and Day (1946) Notorious (1946) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) The Bishop's Wife (1947) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) Monkey Business (1952) Room for One More (1952) To Catch A Thief (1955) An Affair to Remember (1957) The Pride and the Passion (1957) Houseboat (1958) Indiscreet (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Operation Petticoat (1959) That Touch of Mink (1962) Charade (1963) Father Goose (1964) Walk Don't Run (1966) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (arch. foot.)

3. 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 ...

After the Thin Man (1936) Rose-Marie (1936) Wife vs. Secretary (1936) The Last Gangster (1937) Destry Rides Again (1939) It's A Wonderful World (1939) Made for Each Other (1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) You Can't Take it With You (1939) The Mortal Storm (1940) The Philadelphia Story (1940) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Come Live With Me (1941) Pot O' Gold (1941) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Magic Town (1947) Call Northside 777 (1948) Rope (1948) You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) Stratton Story, The (1949) Broken Arrow (1950) Harvey (1950) Winchester '73 (1950) No Highway in the Sky (1951) Bend of the River (1952) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Naked Spur (1953) The Far Country (1954) The Glenn Miller Story (1954) Rear Window (1954) The Man from Laramie (1955) Strategic Air Command (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Night Passage (1957) The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) Bell Book and Candle (1958) Vertigo (1958) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) How the West Was Won (1962) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Shenandoah (1965) The Rare Breed (1966) Firecreek (1968) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) The Shootist (1976) The Big Sleep (1978) An American Tale: Fieval Goes West (1991)

4. 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 Men (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Viva Zapata! (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) The Wild One (1953) On the Waterfront (1954) Guys and Dolls (1955) Sayonara (1957) The Young Lions (1958) The Fugitive Kind (1960) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) - also director Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) The Chase (1966) A Countess From Hong Kong (1967) Burn! (1969) The Night of the Following Day (1969) The Godfather (1972) Last Tango in Paris (1972) Superman (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Formula (1980) A Dry White Season (1989) The Score (2001)

5. Fred Astaire

Actor | The Towering Inferno

Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Johanna (Geilus) and Fritz Austerlitz, a brewer. Fred entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. ...

Dancing Lady (1933) The Gay Divorcee (1934) Roberta (1935) Top Hat (1935) Follow the Fleet (1936) Swing Time (1936) Shall We Dance (1937) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Holiday Inn (1942) You Were Never Lovelier (1942) Easter Parade (1948) The Barkley's of Broadway (1949) Three Little Words (1950) The Band Wagon (1953) Daddy Long Legs (1955) Funny Face (1957) Silk Stockings (1957) On the Beach (1959) Towering Inferno (1974) Ghost Story (1981) The Green Mile (1999) (arch. foot.)

6. 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, ...

You Only Live Once (1937) Carefree (1938) Jezebel (1938) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Lady Eve (1941) Rings on Her Fingers (1942) Tales of Manhattan (1942) Immortal Sergeant (1943) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) Ziegfled Follies (1945) My Darling Clementine (1946) Daisy Kenyon (1947) Fort Apache (1948) Mister Roberts (1955) War and Peace (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) 12 Angry Men (1957) The Tin Star (1957) Warlock (1959) Advise & Consent (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) The Longest Day (1962) Spencer's Mountain (1963) The Best Man (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Battle of the Bulge (1965) In Harm's Way (1965) A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) The Boston Strangler (1968) Firecreek (1968) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) There Was a Crooked Man (1970) Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) My Name is Nobody (1973) Midway (1976) Fedora (1978) Gideon's Trumpet (1980) On Golden Pond (1981)

7. Clark Gable

Actor | It Happened One Night

William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle ...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) (uncredited) A Free Soul (1931) Night Nurse (1931) Possessed (1931) No Man of Her Own (1932) Polly of the Circus (1932) Red Dust (1932) Dancing Lady (1933) Night Flight (1933) It Happened One Night (1934) Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Call of the Wild (1935) China Seas (1935) Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) Love on the Run (1936) San Francisco (1936) Wife vs. Secretary (1936) Test Pilot (1938) Gone With the Wind (1939) Boom Town (1940) Strange Cargo (1940) Command Decision (1949) To Please a Lady (1950) Across the Wide Missouri (1951) Mogambo (1953) Run Silent Run Deep (1958) Teacher's Pet (1958) But Not for Me (1959) The Misfits (1961)

8. 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 ...

The Public Enemy (1931) Footlight Parade (1933) Hard To Handle (1933) G Men (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (uncredited) Great Guy (1936) Something to Sing About (1937) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Each Dawn I Die (1939) The Roaring Twenties (1939) City for Conquest (1940) Torrid Zone (1940) The Strawberry Blonde (1941) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Blood on the Sun (1945) 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) The Time of Your Life (1948) White Heat (1949) The West Point Story (1950) What Price Glory (1952) Love Me or Leave Me (1955) Mister Roberts (1955) Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) The Gallant Hours (1960) One, Two, Three (1961) Ragtime (1981) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (arch. foot.)

9. Spencer Tracy

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard...

Young America (1932) Dante's Inferno (1935) Fury (1936) Libeled Lady (1936) San Francisco (1936) Captains Courageous (1937) Boys Town (1938) Boom Town (1940) Test Pilot (1938) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Keeper of the Flame (1942) Woman of the Year (1942) The Seventh Cross (1944) Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Without Love (1945) Cass Timberlane (1947) The Sea of Grass (1947) State of the Union (1948) Adam's Rib (1949) Father of the Bride (1950) Father's Little Dividend (1951) Pat and Mike (1952) Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) Broken Lance (1954) Desk Set (1957) The Last Hurrah (1958) The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Inherit the Wind (1960) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

10. 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 ...

The Kid (1921) also director A Woman of Paris (1923) (uncredited) - also director The Gold Rush (1925) - also director The Circus (1928) - also director City Lights (1931) - also director Modern Times (1936) - also director The Great Dictator (1940) - also director Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - also director Limelight (1952) - also director A King in New York (1957) - also director A Countess From Hong Kong (1967) - also director

11. Gary Cooper

Actor | High Noon

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

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) (uncredited) It (1927) (uncredited) Wings (1927) Morocco (1930) City Streets (1931) A Farewell to Arms (1932) Design for Living (1933) Today We Live (1933) Peter Ibbetson (1935) The General Died at Dawn (1936) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Beau Geste (1939) The Westerner (1940) Ball of Fire (1941) Meet John Doe (1941) Sergeant York (1941) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Casanova Brown (1944) Along Came Jones (1945) Good Sam (1948) The Fountainhead (1949) It's a Great Feeling (1949) (uncredited) Dallas (1950) High Noon (1952) Vera Cruz (1954) Friendly Persuasion (1956) Love in the Afternoon (1957) Man of the West (1958) The Hanging Tree (1959)

12. 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...

The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) Spellbound (1945) The Valley of Decision (1945) The Yearling (1946) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) The Paradine Case (1947) Yellow Sky (1948) The Great Sinner (1949) Twelve O'Clock High (1949) The Gunfighter (1950) Captain Horation Hornblower (1951) The World in His Arms (1952) Roman Holiday (1953) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) Moby Dick (1956) Designing Woman (1957) The Big Country (1958) The Bravados (1958) On the Beach (1959) Pork Chop Hill (1959) The Guns of Navarone (1961) Cape Fear (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Captain Newman M.D, (1963) Mirage (1965) Arabesque (1966) The Chairman (1969) Marooned (1969) I Walk the Line (1970) The Omen (1976) Boys From Brazil, The (1978) Scarlet and the Black, The (1983) Cape Fear (1991)

13. John Wayne

Actor | True Grit

John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.

Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...

Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) (uncredited) The Big Trail (1930) Baby Face (1933) His Private Secretary (1933) Stagecoach (1939) A Man Betrayed (1941) Lady for a Night (1942) The Fighting Seabees (1944) They Were Expendable (1945) 3 Godfathers (1948) Fort Apache (1948) Red River (1948) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) Rio Grande (1950) Operation Pacific (1951) The Quiet Man (1952) Island in the Sky (1953) The High and the Mighty (1954) The Searchers (1956) The Wings of Eagles (1957) The Horse Soldiers (1959) Rio Bravo (1959) North to Alaska (1960) Hatari (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) The Longest Day (1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) McLintock (1963) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) In Harm's Way (1965) The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) El Dorado (1966) The Green Berets (1968) True Grit (1969) The Undefeated (1969) Big Jake (1971) The Cowboys (1972) Cahill U.S. Marshall (1973) The Train Robbers (1973) The Shootist (1976)

14. Laurence Olivier

Actor | Sleuth

Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...

Wuthering Heights (1939) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Rebecca (1940) 49th Parallel (1941) That Hamilton Woman (1941) Henry V (1944) - also director Hamlet (1948) - also director Carrie (1952) Richard III (1955) - also director The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) - also director The Devil's Disciple (1959) The Entertainer (1960) Spartacus (1960) Uncle Vanya (1963) Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) Othello (1965) Romeo and Juliet (1968) (uncredited) The Battle of Britain (1969) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) The Merchant of Venice (1973) Love Among the Ruins (1975) Marathon Man (1976) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Daphne Laureola (1978) The Boys From Brazil (1978) A Little Romance (1979) Dracula (1979) The Jazz Singer (1980) Sleuth (1980) Clash of the Titans (1981) A Voyage Round My Father (1982) King Lear (1983) The Bounty (1984)

15. Gene Kelly

Soundtrack | Singin' in the Rain

Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third son of Harriet Catherine (Curran) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of Irish and German ancestry.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in...

For Me and My Gal (1942) Cover Girl (1944) Anchors Aweigh (1945) Ziegfled Follies (1945) The Three Musketeers (1948) Words and Music (1948) On the Town (1949) Summer Stock (1950) An American in Paris (1951) The Devil Makes Three (1952) Singin' In The Rain (1952) Brigadoon (1954) It's Always Fair Weather (1955) Les Girls (1957) Inherit the Wind (1960) Let's Make Love (1960) (uncredited) The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

16. 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 ...

Citizen Kane (1941) - also director Jane Eyre (1943) The Stranger (1946) - also director Tomorrow is Forever (1946) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) also director Macbeth (1948) - also director Prince of Foxes (1949) The Third Man (1949) Othello (1951) - also director Moby Dick (1956) The Long, Hot Summer (1958) Touch of Evil (1958) - also director David and Goliath (1960) The Trial (1962) - also director The V.I.P.'s (1963) Chimes at Midnight (1965) - also director A Man for All Seasons (1966) Is Paris Burning? (1966) The Immortal Story (1968) - also director Catch-22 (1970) Waterloo (1970) F for Fake (1973) - also director The Muppet Movie (1979) Someone to Love (1987)

17. 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. ...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) I Walk Alone (1947) Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Out of the Past (1947) My Dear Secretary (1948) A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Champion (1949) Young Man With a Horn (1949) Ace in the Hole (1951) Detective Story (1951) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) The Story of Three Loves (1953) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Ulysses (1954) Lust For Life (1956) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Paths of Glory (1957) The Devil's Disciple (1959) Last Train From Gun Hill (1959) Operation Petticoat (1959) (uncredited) Spartacus (1960) Strangers When We Meet (1960) Town Without Pity (1961) 2 Weeks in Another Town (1962) Lonely are the Brave (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) Seven Days in May (1964) In Harm's Way (1965) Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) Is Paris Burning? (1966) There Was a Crooked Man (1970) Posse (1975) - also director The Final Countdown (1980) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (arch. foot.) The Man from Snowy River (1982) Illusion (2004)

18. James Dean

Actor | East of Eden

James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...

East of Eden (1955) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Giant (1956)

19. 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 ...

The Killers (1946) Brute Force (1947) I Walk Alone (1947) All My Sons (1948) Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Criss Cross (1949) Mister 880 (1950) Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) The Crimson Pirate (1952) From Here to Eternity (1953) Vera Cruz (1954) The Rose Tattoo (1955) The Rainmaker (1956) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Run Silent Run Deep (1958) Separate Tables (1958) The Devil's Disciple (1959) Elmer Gantry (1960) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) The Young Savages (1961) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) A Child is Waiting (1963) The Leopard (1963) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) Seven Days in May (1964) The Train (1964) The Hallelujah Trail (1965) The Professionals (1966) The Swimmer (1968) Airport (1970) The Candidate (1972) (uncredited) 1900 (1976) Trwilight's Last Gleaming (1977) Atlantic City (1980) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (arch. foot.) Local Hero (1983) Field Of Dreams (1989)

20. The Marx Brothers

Actor | Duck Soup

The zaniest of all madcap comedy teams were the Marx Brothers, namely Groucho (aka Julius Henry), Chico (aka Leonard), and Harpo (aka Adolph). There were also Zeppo (aka Herbert) -- who featured in their early comedies as a straight man and later became a theatrical agent -- and Gummo (aka Milton),...

The Cocoanuts (1929) Animal Crackers (1930) Monkey Business (1931) Horse Feathers (1932) Duck Soup (1933) A Night at the Opera (1935) A Day at the Races (1937)

21. Buster Keaton

Actor | The General

Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...

The Scarecrow (1920) The Paleface (1922) Our Hospitality (1923) - also director The Navigator (1924) Sherlock, Jr. (1924) - also director Go West (1925) - also director Seven Chances (1925) - also director Battling Butler (1926) - also director The General (1926) College (1927) The Cameraman (1928) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Spite Marriage (1929) Doughboys (1930) Sidewalks of New York (1931) In the Good Old Summertime (1949) Sunset Blvd. (1950) Limelight (1952) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

22. Sidney Poitier

Actor | In the Heat of the Night

Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...

No Way Out (1950) Blackboard Jungle (1955) Good-bye, My Lady (1956) Edge of the City (1957) The Mark of the Hawk (1957) The Defiant Ones (1958) Porgy and Bess (1959) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Pressure Point (1962) Lilies of the Field (1963) A Patch of Blue (1965) The Bedford Incident (1965) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) In the Heat of the Night (1967) To Sir, With Love (1967) They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) The Organization (1971) A Warm December (1973) Sneakers (1992) The Jackal (1997) The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)

23. 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 ...

Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) (uncredired) Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Crossfire (1947) Out of the Past (1947) Pursued (1947) The Big Steal (1949) Holiday Affair (1949) His Kind of Woman (1951) The Racket (1951) Angel Face (1952) River of No Return (1954) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Foreign Intrigue (1956) The Enemy Below (1957) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) Home From the Hill (1960) The Sundowners (1960) Cape Fear (1962) The Longest Day (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) El Dorado (1966) Five Card Stud (1968) The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) Ryan's Daughter (1970) Friends of Eddie Coyle The (1973) The Yakuza (1974) Farewell, My Lovely (1975) The Big Sleep (1978) Scrooged (1988) Cape Fear (1991) Dead Man (1995)

24. Edward G. Robinson

Actor | Double Indemnity

Emanuel Goldenberg arrived in the United States from Romania at age ten, and his family moved into New York's Lower East Side. He took up acting while attending City College, abandoning plans to become a rabbi or lawyer. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts awarded him a scholarship, and he began ...

Little Caesar (1931) The Hatchet Man (1932) The Little Giant (1933) Bullets or Ballots (1936) Kid Galahad (1937) The Last Gangster (1937) A Slight Case of Murder (1938) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Brother Orchid (1940) Sea Wolf, The (1941) Larceny, Inc. (1942) Tales of Manhattan (1942) Double Indemnity (1944) Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) The Woman in the Window (1944) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) The Locket (1946) The Stranger (1946) The Red House (1947) All My Sons (1948) Key Largo (1948) House of Strangers (1949) It's a Great Feeling (1949) (uncredited) Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) Illegal (1955) The Ten Commandments (1956) 2 Weeks in Another Town (1962) The Prize (1963) Good Neighbor Sam (1964) The Outrage (1964) The Cincinnati Kid (1965) Soylent Green (1973)

25. William Holden

Actor | Stalag 17

Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". For almost four decades, the handsome, affable 'Golden Holden' was among Hollywood's most durable and engaging stars. He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary ...

Golden Boy (1939) Invisible Stripes (1939) The Man From Colorado (1948) Born Yesterday (1950) Sunset Blvd. (1950) Union Station (1950) Stalag 17 (1953) The Bridges of Toko-Ri (1954) The Country Girl (1954) Executive Suite (1954) Sabrina (1954) Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Picnic (1955) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Horse Soldiers (1959) The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) Paris When it Sizzles (1964) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Towering Inferno (1974) Network (1976) Fedora (1978)



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