Famous People Who Lived to Be 100+

1. Bob Hope

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...

2. 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...

3. 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 ...

4. Gloria Stuart

Actress | Titanic

Gloria Stuart was born on a dining room table on 4th Street in Santa Monica, California on July 4, 1910. Her early roles as a performing artist were in plays she produced in her home as a young girl. She was the star of her senior class play at Santa Monica High School in 1927. Attending the ...

5. 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. ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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...

8. 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,...

9. 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...

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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...

13. Estelle Winwood

Actress | The Producers

When Estelle saw the girl on a white horse at the circus, she then decided that she wanted to be an actress. And she was from the age of 5, to the disapproval of her father. Her mother had her train with the Liverpool Repertory Company, and Estelle performed in many plays and many roles in the West...

14. 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, ...

15. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Soundtrack | The Autobiography of a 'Jeep'

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was born on August 4, 1900 in St. Paul's Waldenbury, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She was married to King George VI. She died on March 30, 2002 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.

16. Baby Peggy

Actress | Helen's Babies

Silent moppet star Jackie Coogan, immortalized as Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921), had only one screen rival during the early 1920s, and that was none other than Baby Peggy. She was "discovered" while visiting the Century Studios lot on Sunset Boulevard with her mother when she was a mere 19 ...

17. Dolores Hope

Actress | Soup for Nuts

Dolores Hope was born on May 27, 1909 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Soup for Nuts (1934), There Were Times, Dear (1985) and The Christophers (1952). She was married to Bob Hope. She died on September 19, 2011 in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, ...

18. Beverly Cleary

Writer | Ramona and Beezus

Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for Ramona and Beezus (2010), Ramona (1988) and ABC Weekend Specials (1977). She was married to Clarence Thomas Cleary. She died on March 25, 2021 in Carmel, California, USA.

19. Irving Berlin

Soundtrack | Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools....

20. Grandma Moses

Self | Grandma Moses

Grandma Moses was born on September 7, 1860 in Greenwich, New York, USA. She was married to Thomas Salmon Moses. She died on December 13, 1961 in Hoosick Falls, New York, USA.

21. 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 ...

22. Mary Carlisle

Actress | The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

She was the standard prototype of the porcelain-pretty collegiate and starry-eyed romantic interest in a host of Depression-era films and although her name may not ring a bell to most, Mary Carlisle enjoyed a fairly solid decade in the cinematic limelight.

The petite Boston-born, blue-eyed blonde ...

23. 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, ...

24. Herb Jeffries

Actor | The Bronze Buckaroo

This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films. Today he is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial ...

25. 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 ...

26. 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.

27. Earl Cameron

Actor | Inception

Earl Cameron did not set out to be an actor. Bermudian by birth, Cameron joined the British Merchant Navy in the 1930s for the travel opportunities that it afforded. By the early 1940s, with World War II in full swing, Cameron found himself in London working menial jobs to survive. After seeing a ...

28. 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.

29. Marge Champion

Actress | The Party

One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion was best known as the former wife of Gower Champion, when they worked together as a highly successfully dancing team in the MGM musical years. After retiring from movies, Champion worked as a dance teacher and as a ...

30. Julie Gibson

Actress | Bowery Buckaroos

Julie Gibson was born on September 6, 1913 in Grant County, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Bowery Buckaroos (1947), The Contender (1944) and Chick Carter, Detective (1946). She was married to Charles Barton, Dean Dillman Jr. and Jimmie Grier. She died on October 2, 2019 in Los ...

31. 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 ...

32. 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 ...

33. Don Marion

Actor | Percy

Born in the film capital of the world near the end of World War I, he made his film debut under the name John Henry Jr. in a Valentine's Day film short. During the 1920s he was considered to be one of the most popular film stars of the decade, alongside Mickey Rooney, Peggy Montgomery, and the many...

34. Fay McKenzie

Actress | The Party

Fay Eunice McKenzie was born February 19, 1918 into a show business family where she was the youngest of two sisters and an actress cousin, and made her screen debut at only ten weeks old in "Station Content" (1918) in which she was carried in the arms of Gloria Swanson. Her parents, Eva & Bob "...

35. Doris Merrick

Actress | The Big Noise

Doris Merrick was born on June 6, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Big Noise (1944), Untamed Women (1952) and The Fighting Stallion (1950). She was married to Matthew Lawton Hatfield, John Meagher Knoll and Max Marek. She died on November 30, 2019 in Yuma, Arizona, ...

36. Sheila Mercier

Actress | Emmerdale Farm

Born January 1st 1919 in Hull Sheila started her stage career with Sir Donald Wolfit;s company as did her brother, Brian Rix, During the war she was a WAAF adjutant then in 1955 she joined her brother's Whitehall Theatre Company and was with him for 11 years .She joined the new television soap ...

37. 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 ...

38. Meg Mundy

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Meg Mundy was born on January 4, 1915 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fatal Attraction (1987), The Doctors (1963) and Ordinary People (1980). She was married to Konstantinos "Dino" Yannopoulos. She died on January 12, 2016 in The Bronx, New York, USA.

39. 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 ...

40. 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...

41. Helen Shaw

Actress | Parenthood

Helen Shaw was born on July 25, 1897 in Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Parenthood (1989), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and Wicked Stepmother (1989). She died on September 8, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

42. 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 ...

43. Doris Eaton

Actress | Man on the Moon

Doris Eaton was born in Norfolk, Virginia, into a show business family. The young Doris began appearing on stage with her brothers Charles and Joseph and her sisters Mary and Pearl when she was five years old. She made her Broadway debut aside her brother Charles in "Mother Carey's Chickens" in ...

44. Dorothy Stickney

Actress | I Never Sang for My Father

Stickney, who was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, studied acting in Minneapolis, after which she spent several years in summer stock and vaudeville. Her father, Victor Hugo Stickney, was a doctor who made house calls on horseback; he was among the first 10 elected to the National Cowboy Hall of ...

45. Señor Wences

Final Approach

The Spanish born ventriloquist Senor Wences was one of the highest paid vaudeville acts in the world. Hugely popular with American TV audiences Wences was also a top nightclub favorite.

Born Wenceslao Moreno in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca (Spain), Wences began performing ventriloquism as a ...

46. Pauline Wagner

Actress | Up Pops the Duke

Pauline Wagner was born on August 18, 1910 in Shattuck, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Up Pops the Duke (1931). She was married to Mike Lally and Alfred J. McCourtney. She died on May 2, 2014 in Montrose, California, USA.

47. Mary Ward

Actress | Blue Heelers

Mary Ward was born on March 6, 1915 in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. She was an actress, known for Blue Heelers (1994), If This Be Sin (1949) and Homicide (1964). She died on July 19, 2021 in Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

48. Rose Kennedy

Self | Jack: The Last Kennedy Film

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was born Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald on July 22, 1890 to Josie Hannon and the future mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald. She grew up with several brothers and sisters and thanks to her father, the family was very well off. Rose went to a series of Catholic Schools in ...

49. Lupita Tovar

Actress | María

Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lupita Tovar appeared first in silent Fox films before making the move to Universal and co-starring in the Spanish-language version of 1930's "The Cat Creeps" (La voluntad del muerto (1930)). For the same producer, Czech-born Paul Kohner, she appeared as Eva Seward (the ...

50. Ruth Tompson

Animation_department | The Lord of the Rings

Ruth Tompson was born on July 22, 1910 in Portland, Maine, USA. She is known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Popeye the Sailor (1960) and Metamorphoses (1978). She died on October 10, 2021 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

51. Nehemiah Persoff

Actor | An American Tail

Born in 1919 in Jerusalem, Nehemiah Persoff emigrated with his family to America in 1929.

Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction of his life.

He joined ...

52. Earl Schuman

Actor | Taxi

Earl Schuman was born on February 24, 1916 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Taxi (2004), Mr. Deeds (2002) and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). He was married to Edith (Edie) Bartnof and Beulah. He died on March 24, 2016 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.

53. Marsha Hunt

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or ...

54. Doreen Brownstone

Actress | Silent Night

Doreen Brownstone was born on September 28, 1922 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Silent Night (2012), The Murdoch Mysteries (2004) and Therapy (2018). She was married to William Brownstone. She died on December 16, 2022 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

55. Bert I. Gordon

Director | The Food of the Gods

Bert I. Gordon, affectionately nicknamed "Mr. B.I.G." by Forrest J. Ackerman, produced, directed, and wrote more than twenty-five Sci/Fi and Horror features, such as The Magic Sword (1962), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Village of the Giants (1965), The Cyclops (1957), in addition to comedies ...

56. Gloria Dea

Actress | Plan 9 from Outer Space

Gloria Dea was born on August 25, 1922 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), King of the Congo (1952) and The Prodigal (1955). She was married to Sam J. Anzalone, Hal Borne, John F. Statham and Jack Shulem . She died on March 18, 2023 in Las ...

57. Bill Butler

Camera_department | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Bill Butler was born on April 7, 1921 in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Grease (1978) and Jaws (1975). He was married to Iris Butler and Alma Hortense Smith. He died on April 5, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

58. Al Jaffee

Writer | The Mad Magazine TV Special

Al Jaffee was born on March 13, 1921 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974), Bum Future (2013) and When We Went MAD!. He was married to Joyce Revenson and Ruth Ahlquist. He died on April 10, 2023 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

59. Nikolai Dupak

Actor | Kapitan Nemo

Nikolai Dupak was born on October 5, 1921 in village Starobeshevo, Mariupol uyezd, Donetsk Governorate, Ukrainian SSR [now Starobesheve, Starobesheve Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Captain Nemo (1975), Captain Nemo (1976) and Yaroslav Mudry (1982). He died on March 26, ...

60. Guido Gorgatti

Actor | Quiere casarse conmigo...?!

Guido Gorgatti was born on December 5, 1919 in Rovigo, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Quiere casarse conmigo...?! (1967), Bárbara atómica (1952) and Delito de corrupción (1991). He died on May 11, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

61. Henry Kissinger

Tomorrow Never Dies

Heinz Alfred grew up in his hometown, where he attended school. When the persecution of the Jewish population in Germany intensified as a result of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in January 1933, he emigrated to the USA with his parents Paula Stern and Ludwig Kissinger in 1938. Kissinger attended ...

62. Norman Lear

Producer | All in the Family

Norman Lear enjoyed a long career in television and film, political and social activism, and philanthropy.

Born in 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut, Lear flew 52 combat missions over Europe in World War II before beginning his television career. His classic shows of the 1970s and '80s - All in the ...

63. Stan Waterman

Camera_department | The Deep

Stan Waterman was born on April 5, 1923 in Maine, USA. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for The Deep (1977), The Lost Treasure of the Concepcion (1979) and The World of Survival (1971). He died on August 10, 2023 in the USA.

64. Ebrahim Golestan

Director | Khesht va Ayeneh

Ebrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975. He was closely associated with the controversial and eminent Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad until her death, whom he met at his studio in 1958. He...

65. Katherine Johnson

Self | 1969

Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA. She was married to James Arthur Johnson and James Francis Goble. She died on February 24, 2020 in Newport News, Virginia, USA.

66. Walter Arlen

Music_department | Die Stadt ohne Juden

Walter Arlen was born on July 31, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. He was a composer, known for The City Without Jews (1924), Die Öscars (2016) and Das erste Jahrhundert des Walter Arlen (2019). He was married to Howard Myers. He died on September 2, 2023 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

67. Louise Meriwether

Actress | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Louise Meriwether was born on May 8, 1923 in Haverstraw, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003), Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016) and Life with Linkletter (1950). She was married to Angelo Meriwether and Earle Howe. She died on October 10, 2023 in...

68. Mervin Shiner

Actor | Holiday Rhythm

Mervin Shiner was born on February 20, 1921. He was an actor, known for Holiday Rhythm (1950). He died on October 23, 2023 in Tampa, Florida, USA.

69. Manuel Bromberg

Self | They Drew Fire

70. Wei Wei

Actress | Xiao cheng zhi chun

Wei Wei was born on May 17, 1922 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China. She was an actress, known for Spring in a Small Town (1948), The Great Reunion (1948) and Fire of Conscience (2010). She died on November 2, 2023 in Hong Kong, China.

71. Ida Keeling

Self | If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

Ida Keeling was born on May 15, 1915 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She died on August 28, 2021.

72. Irving Fields

Soundtrack | Scoop

Composer, songwriter ("Managua, Nicaragua"), pianist, arranger, conductor and publisher, educated at the Eastman School of Music and the Masters Institute. He led his own trio on television and in hotels and nightclubs, and made many records. He appeared in concerts at Carnegie Hall and at Boston's...

73. Tao Porchon

Actress | I Married Joan

Tao Porchon was born on August 13, 1918 in Pondicherry, French India [now Puducherry, India]. She was an actress, known for I Married Joan (1952), The Adventures of McGraw (1957) and I Know a Woman Like That (2009). She was married to Bill Lynch. She died on February 21, 2020 in White Plains, New ...

74. Guje Lagerwall

Actress | Farligt löfte

Guje Lagerwall was born on January 13, 1918 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Farligt löfte (1955), Doktor Glas (1942) and Maria på Kvarngården (1945). She was married to Sture Lagerwall. She died on January 8, 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.

75. Walter Munk

Self | Spirit of Discovery

Walter Munk was born on October 19, 1917 in Vienna, Austria. He was married to Mary Coakley, Judith Horton and Mary Chapin. He died on February 8, 2019 in La Jolla, California, USA.

76. Edith Iglauer

Writer | Navigating the Heart

Edith Iglauer was born on March 10, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Navigating the Heart (2000), Modern Marvels (1993) and Ice Road Truckers (2000). She was married to Franklin Wetmore White, Philip Hamburger and John Heywood Daly. She died on February 13, 2019 in Sechelt,...

77. Hilde Zadek

Actress | Großstadtnacht

Hilde Zadek was born on December 15, 1917 in Bromberg, Posen, Germany [now Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Großstadtnacht (1950), Unsterblicher Mozart (1954) and Was wurde aus...? (2011). She died on February 21, 2019 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

78. Thanga Darlong

Self | Tree of Tongues in Tripura

Thanga Darlong was born on July 20, 1920 in Marui village, Tripura, British India. He died on December 3, 2023 in Kailashahar, Tripura, India.

79. Strom Thurmond

Self | Our World

Strom Thurmond is an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States' Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the ...

80. Norma Barzman

Writer | Fanciulle di lusso

Norma Barzman was born on September 15, 1920 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Fanciulle di lusso (1952), Never Say Goodbye (1946) and Theatre 70 (1960). She was married to Ben Barzman and Claude Shannon. She died on December 17, 2023 in Beverly ...

81. I.M. Pei

Art_department | Une nuit, le Louvre avec Lambert Wilson

I.M. Pei was born on April 26, 1917 in Canton, China. He was an actor, known for Une nuit, le Louvre avec Lambert Wilson (2017), A Place to Be (1979) and Berlin Babylon (2001). He was married to Eileen Loo. He died on May 16, 2019 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

82. Herman Wouk

Writer | The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk was born on May 27, 1915 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Caine Mutiny (1954), Slattery's Hurricane (1949) and Her First Romance (1951). He was married to Betty Sarah Brown. He died on May 17, 2019 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

83. Milton Quon

Actor | Speed

Milton Quon was born on August 22, 1913 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Speed (1994), Sweet Jane (1998) and Chill Factor (1989). He was married to Peggy Wong. He died on June 18, 2019 in Torrance, California, USA.

84. David Bartholomew

Soundtrack | The Blues Brothers

David Bartholomew was born on December 24, 1918 in Edgard, Louisiana, USA. He is known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Gangster Squad (2013) and Road House (1989). He was married to Pearl and Rhea Douse. He died on June 23, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

85. Sid Ramin

Music_department | West Side Story

Sid Ramin was born on January 22, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a composer, known for West Side Story (1961), Demolition Man (1993) and Secretary (2002). He was married to Gloria Breit. He died on July 1, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA.

86. Artur Brauner

Producer | Babij Jar

Artur Brauner was born on August 1, 1918 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. He was a producer and writer, known for Babij Jar (2003), Europa Europa (1990) and The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972). He was married to Maria Brauner. He died on July 7, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

87. Dorothy Fong Toy

Self | Forbidden City, U.S.A.

Dorothy Fong Toy was born on May 28, 1917 in Menlo Park, California, USA. She died on July 10, 2019 in Oakland, California, USA.

88. Morton Tubor

Editor | Vigilante Force

Morton Tubor was born on April 29, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an editor, known for Vigilante Force (1976), Cannonball! (1976) and Daddy-O (1958). He died on August 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

89. Alda Grimaldi

Director | Papà investigatore

Alda Grimaldi was born on October 6, 1919 in San Pier d'Arena [now Genoa], Liguria, Italy. She was a director and actress, known for Papà investigatore (1968), Vivere ancora (1945) and La signora è servita (1945). She was married to Giovanni Francesco Rubino. She died on December 28, ...

90. Helen Shingler

Actress | Portrait of Alison

Helen Shingler was born on August 29, 1919 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Portrait of Alison (1955), The Caretaker's Daughter (1952) and Enemy at the Door (1978). She was married to Seafield Head. She died on October 8, 2019.

91. Lucy Jarvis

Producer | The Peking Ballet: First Spectacular from China

Lucy Jarvis was born on June 24, 1917 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer and actress, known for The Peking Ballet: First Spectacular from China (1972), The Kremlin (1963) and Christopher Discovers America (1969). She was married to Serge Jarvis. She died on January 26, 2020 in New ...

92. A.E. Hotchner

Writer | The Fifth Column

A.E. Hotchner was born on June 28, 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Fifth Column (1960), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963). He was married to Virginia Kiser, Ursula Robbins and Geraldine Mavor. He died on February 15, ...

93. Zoe Gail

Actress | Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Zoe Gail was born on February 20, 1920 in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1955), No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) and Lady Luck (1948). She was married to Bert Bernard and Hubert Gregg. She died on February 20, 2020 in ...

94. Suzy Delair

Actress | L'assassin habite... au 21

Prototype of the sexy cheeky French lady, Suzy Delair was discovered by Henri-Georges Clouzot, who became her companion and gave her two memorable roles : Mila Malou, inspector Wens' unbearable girlfriend in two films, Le dernier des six (1941), which he wrote, and The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (...

95. Armando Francioli

Actor | Il cavaliere di Maison Rouge

Armando Francioli was born on October 21, 1919 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Il cavaliere di Maison Rouge (1954), The Pharaohs' Woman (1960) and Barber of Seville (1961). He died on April 6, 2020 in Rome, Italy.

96. Lois Kelly-Miller

Actress | Meet Joe Black

Lois Kelly-Miller was born on October 15, 1917 in Crossroads, Saint Andrew, Jamaica. She was an actress, known for Meet Joe Black (1998). She died on April 8, 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica.

97. Ida Schuster

Actress | La mort en direct

Ida Schuster was born on September 28, 1918 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Death Watch (1980), The Revenue Men (1967) and Living Apart Together (1982). She was married to Allan Berkeley. She died on April 8, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

98. 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.

99. Lily Lian

Actress | The Cut Runs Deep

Lily Lian was born on May 1, 1917 in France. She was an actress, known for The Cut Runs Deep (1999) and La chance aux chansons (1984). She died on May 24, 2020 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.

100. Vera Lynn

Soundtrack | Hellboy

Vera Lynn was born on March 20, 1917 in East Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hellboy (2004), Lolita (1997) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). She was married to Harry Lewis. She died on June 18, 2020 in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK.