Hamlet 1990 (LA) premiere

1. Mel Gibson

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 ...

2. Joan Hotchkis

Actress | Legacy

Joan Hotchkis, veteran actress, writer, screenwriter, playwright and groundbreaking feminist performance artist, whose career spanned over five decades, has died. She was 95. She died on September 27 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, according to her daughter, Paula Chambers.

Hotchkis was ...

3. Don Johnson

Actor | Miami Vice

Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...

4. Malcolm Kingston

Actor | Fleshtone

Malcolm Kingston is known for Fleshtone (1994).

5. Sam Wanamaker

Actor | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Actor and director Sam Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Molly (Babell) and Maurice Wattenmaker, a tailor. He studied at Drake University, IA, then trained at Goodman Theatre, Chicago, worked with summer stock companies in Chicago as an actor and director, and...

6. Glenn Close

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.

Glenn was a noted ...

7. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...

8. Franco Zeffirelli

Director | Romeo and Juliet

Franco Zeffirelli is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.

He was known for several of the movies he ...

9. Robert A. Daly

Self | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

Robert A. Daly has been married to Carole Bayer Sager since June 8, 1996.

10. John Gavin

Actor | Psycho

John Gavin, the American film and TV actor, businessman and diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's first Ambassador to Mexico, was born Juan Vincent Apablasa in Los Angeles, California.

The future "Jack" Gavin was a fifth-generation Angeleno, the son of Delia Diana Pablos and Juan Vincent Apablasa, and ...

11. Constance Towers

Actress | General Hospital

This elegant, lovely blonde singer/actress initially had designs on becoming an opera singer. Born in Montana on May 20, 1933, and christened Constance Mary Towers, she appeared on radio as a child singer. Her family moved to New York where she subsequently studied at the Julliard School of Music ...

12. Tamara Asseyev

Producer | Norma Rae

Tamara Asseyev enjoys the enviable position of being able to produce motion pictures that are equally successful at the box office and with the critics. NORMA RAE was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and won two Oscars including Sally Field for Best Actress, won the Best ...

13. Roger Smith

Actor | Auntie Mame

Debonair, dark-haired, exceedingly handsome Roger LaVerne Smith was born in South Gate, California to Dallas and Leone Smith on December 18, 1932. At age 6, his parents enrolled him at a professional school for singing, elocution and dancing lessons. By age 12, the family moved to Nogales, Arizona,...

14. Kay Tornborg

Actress | Robo Man

Kay Tornborg was born on January 24, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Who? (1974), Otherworld (1985) and Not My Kid (1985). She was previously married to Christopher Lloyd.

15. Joni Smith

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Joni Smith was born in South Pasadena, California, USA. She is known for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Me Time (2022) and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).

16. Sue Russell

Actress | Coronation Street

Sue Russell is known for Coronation Street (1960), Crown Court (1972) and Kipps (1960).

17. Helen Bing

Producer | Sing China!

Helen Bing is known for Sing China! (2009), The Choir and Conductor and Vietnam Long Time Coming (1998).

18. Stephen Garrett

Producer | Culprits

Stephen Garrett is known for working on moves such as Eastern Promises (2007), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008). Garrett has also worked as an executive producer on notable television series, including 'The Undoing' (2020), 'The Night Manager' (2016), and...

19. 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 ...

20. Lydia Clarke

Actress | The Atomic City

Lydia Clarke came to Chicago in 1941, at the age of 18, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1945. She worked in summer stock at the Belfry Theater in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and with the University Players at Northwestern. After graduating, she had four years of professional experience ...

21. Frani Ridder

Actress | Kenny & Company

Frani Ridder is known for Kenny & Company (1976).

22. 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. ...

23. Samantha Eggar

Actress | The Collector

Samantha Eggar was born on March 5, 1939 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Collector (1965), Hercules (1997) and The Brood (1979). She was previously married to Tom Stern.

24. David Birney

Actor | Someone's Watching Me!

David began his career with the repertory companies at the Barter Theatre in Virginia America and the Hartford Stage Company followed by his New York debut as one of the twins in A Comedy of Errors in Joseph Papps Shakespeare Festival. In 1968 he played the lead in Summertree at New York's: Lincoln...

25. Edward Asner

Actor | Up

Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...

26. Cindy Gilmore

Producer | Sister Act

Cindy Gilmore was born in 1936 in the USA. She is a producer, known for Sister Act (1992) and Gypsy (1993). She was previously married to Edward Asner.

27. William Shatner

Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

Shatner was born ...

28. Marcy Lafferty

Actress | Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Marcy Lafferty was born on June 21, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and The Day Time Ended (1979). She was previously married to William Shatner and Lawrence Hayes Brown.

29. Kevin Costner

Actor | The Postman

Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...

30. Jane Fonda

Actress | Klute

Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...

31. Ted Turner

Angels in the Outfield

Ted Turner was born on November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA as Robert Edward Turner III. He is the founder of CNN, Turner Broadcast System (TBS) and Turner Network Television (TNT). He was previously married to Jane Fonda, Jane Shirley Smith and Judy Nye. He started in the business as a ...

32. Juliet Mills

Actress | Avanti!

An English actress of stage, screen and television, sister to Hayley Mills and daughter of Sir John Mills, Juliet first came to notice in films, actually after her sister Hayley started her career. Juliet, however, was first plucked onto the screen and signing a contract with Warner Brothers and ...

33. Sean Mills

Visual_effects | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

An Alumnus of Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Sean Mills has worked for several years as a freelance and staff modeler. Sean has worked for such companies as 525 Studios, Radium, and most recently as the resident modeler at Zoic Studios. His credits include character modeling for Linkin Park's ...

34. Marisa Berenson

Actress | Cabaret

Marisa Berenson was born on February 15, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Cabaret (1972), Barry Lyndon (1975) and Cinéman (2009). She was previously married to Aaron Richard Golub and Jim Randall.

35. Jeff Goldblum

Actor | Jurassic Park

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry.

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36. Jerry Weintraub

Producer | The Avengers

Jerry Weintraub was born on September 26, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Avengers (1998), The Firm (1993) and Behind the Candelabra (2013). He was married to Jane Morgan and Janice Ivy Greenberg. He died on July 6, 2015 in Santa Barbara, ...

37. Lisa Niemi

Actress | One Last Dance

Lisa Niemi was born on May 26, 1956 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and director, known for One Last Dance (2003), She's Having a Baby (1988) and Super Force (1990). She has been married to Albert DePrisco since May 25, 2014. She was previously married to Patrick Swayze.

38. Olivia Hussey

Actress | Romeo and Juliet

At age 15, when most young women are nurturing dreams of romance, Olivia Hussey was giving life to Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). Her performance in one of the most celebrated roles ever written in the English language won her the Golden Globe and two successive Best Actor ...

39. David Glen Eisley

Producer | Island Prey

David Glen Eisley was born on September 5, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Island Prey (2001), Action Jackson (1988) and Social Suicide (2015). He has been married to Olivia Hussey since 1991. They have one child.

40. Alexander Martin

Actor | Josie and the Pussycats

Alexander Martin was born on February 12, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and 21 (2000). He has been married to Megan W. Martin since October 22, 2011. They have one child.

41. Bonnie Bedelia

Actress | Die Hard

The native New Yorker was born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin on March 25, 1948, the daughter of Phillip Harley Culkin, a journalist, and Marian Ethel Wagner Culkin, a writer and editor. Trained in ballet, her parents guided all of the children at one time or another into acting (which included Kit Culkin, ...

42. Dyson Lovell

Actor | Romeo and Juliet

Dyson Lovell was born on August 28, 1936 in Rhodesia. He was a producer and actor, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), Merlin (1998) and Endless Love (1981). He died on January 11, 2024.

43. Jane Morgan

Soundtrack | The Next Karate Kid

Jane Morgan was born on May 3, 1924 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for The Next Karate Kid (1994), Ocean's Thirteen (2007) and Ocean's Twelve (2004). She was previously married to Jerry Weintraub, Laurence Augustine Stith Jr and Peter Smith.