TCM Remembers in Chronological Order
by thitipiew | created - 03 Jan 2022 | updated - 3 months ago | Public1995: 1 - 22 (22)*
1996: 23 - 51 (29)*
1997: 52 - 79 (28)*
1998: 80 - 117 (38)*
1999: 118 - 152 (35)*
2000: 153 - 194 (42)
2001: 195 - 228 (34)
2002: 229 - 264 (36)*
2003: 265 - 301 (37)
2004: 302 - 336 (35)
2005: 337 - 375 (39)
2006: 376 - 420 (45)
2007: 421 - 464 (44)
2008: 465 - 529 (65)
2009: 530 - 576 (47)
2010: 577 - 626 (50)
2011: 627 - 692 (66)
2012: 693 - 747 (55)
2013: 748 - 816 (69)
2014: 817 - 884 (68)
2015: 885 - 945 (61)
2016: 946 - 1016 (71)
2017: 1017 - 1093 (77)
2018: 1094 - 1160 (67)
2019: 1161 - 1252 (92)
2020: 1253 - 1336 (84)
2021: 1337 - 1428 (92)
2022: 1429 - 1519 (91)*
2023: 1520 - 1615 (96)
Most inclusives:
1. 2023: 96
2. 2019, 2021: 92
3. 2022: 91*
4. 2020: 84
5. 2017: 77
6. 2016: 71
7. 2013: 69
8. 2014: 68
9. 2018: 67
10. 2011: 66
11. 2008: 65
12. 2015: 61
13. 2012: 55
14. 2010: 50
15. 2009: 47
16. 2006: 45
17. 2007: 44
18. 2000: 42
19. 2005: 39
20. 1998: 38*
21. 2003: 37
22. 2002: 36*
23. 1999*, 2004: 35
24. 2001: 34
25. 1996: 29*
26. 1997: 28*
27. 1995: 22*
*My revision
101. Binnie Barnes
Actress | The Time of Their Lives
British-born actress who appeared in both British and American films, but who found her greatest success in Hollywood second leads. After a variety of jobs, including nurse, chorus girl and milkmaid, Barnes entered vaudeville. She appeared in more than a score of short comedies with comedian ...
Actress - died 27 July 1998
102. Jerome Robbins
Writer | West Side Story
Jerome Robbins was one of the founding members of the Ballet Theatre when it was formed in 1940 portraying a variety of roles for several years before devising his own creations such as 'Fancy Free' about 3 sailors on leave in New York which marked a long association with Leonard Bernstein. With ...
Choreographer - died 29 July 1998
103. E.G. Marshall
Actor | 12 Angry Men
With over 150 Film and TV appearances to his credit, E. G. Marshall was arguably most well known as the imperturbable Juror No. 4 in the Sidney Lumet legal drama 12 Angry Men (1957).
Some of his stand-out performances are in Creepshow (1982), Christmas Vacation (1989), and Nixon (1995).
Marshall ...
Actor - died 24 August 1998
104. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
Director - died 6 September 1998
105. Leonid Kinskey
Actor | Casablanca
Leonid Kinskey, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, performed across Europe and much of Latin America before his arrival in the United States. By 1932 he landed a small role as a radical in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932). The next year he played an agitator in Duck Soup (...
Actor - died 8 September 1998
106. Dane Clark
Actor | Destination Tokyo
Dane Clark was born Bernard Elliot Zanville in Brooklyn, New York City, to Rose (Korostoff) and Samuel Zanville, who were Russian Jewish immigrants. He graduated from Cornell University and St. John's Law School (Brooklyn). When he had trouble finding work in the mid-1930s he tried boxing, baseball,...
Actor - died 11 September 1998
107. Marius Goring
Actor | The Red Shoes
The son of Dr. Charles Buckman Goring M.D. and Kate Winifred (nee MacDonald). Marius Goring was educated at Perse School, Cambridge, England and at the Universities of Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris. He studied for the stage under Harcourt Williams at the Old Vic dramatic school, London. His ...
Actor - died 30 September 1998
108. Gene Autry
Soundtrack | The Gene Autry Show
After high school Gene Autry worked as a laborer for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in Oklahoma. Next he was a telegrapher. In 1928 he began singing on a local radio station, and three years later he had his own show and was making his first recordings. Three years after that he made his ...
Actor - died 2 October 1998
109. Roddy McDowall
Actor | Fright Night
Roddy McDowall was born in Herne Hill, London, England, to Winifriede Lucinda (Corcoran), an Irish-born aspiring actress, and Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman. Roddy was enrolled in elocution courses at age five and by ten had appeared in his first film, Murder in the Family (1938), ...
Actor - died 3 October 1998
110. Richard Denning
Actor | An Affair to Remember
Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Louis Albert Denninger Jr. was the son of a garment manufacturer who relocated and set up shop in Los Angeles when Louis Jr. was 18 months old. After finishing school, Denninger enrolled at Woodbury Business College and majored in business and accounting, graduating ...
Actor - died 11 October 1998
111. Martha O'Driscoll
Actress | House of Dracula
Another gorgeous "B" movie blonde who came and went uneventfully in the 1940s, the beautiful Tulsa-born Martha O'Driscoll started off modeling as a child. Her parents were nonprofessionals. Trained in singing and dancing, Martha was discovered by choreographer Hermes Pan in a local theater ...
Actress - died 3 November 1998
112. Jean Marais
Actor | La Belle et la Bête
Jean Marais was a popular French cinema actor and director who played over 100 roles in film and on television, and was also known for his many talents as a writer, painter and sculptor.
He was born Jean Alfred Villain-Marais on December 11, 1913, in Cherbourg, France. His father practiced ...
Actor - died 8 November 1998
113. Valerie Hobson
Actress | Bride of Frankenstein
Elegant, quintessentially British Valerie Hobson was the daughter of a British army officer. She studied dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and appeared onstage for the first time at age 16, but she contracted a case of scarlet fever and decided to give up dancing for acting. She ...
Actress - died 13 November 1998
114. Alan J. Pakula
Producer | Sophie's Choice
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice (1982).
He also directed Presumed Innocent (...
Director / Producer - died 19 November 1998
115. Nicky Blair
Actor | The Godfather Part III
Nicky Blair was born on July 26, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Godfather Part III (1990), A Bronx Tale (1993) and Beaches (1988). He died on November 22, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Actor - died 22 November 1998
116. Freddie Young
Cinematographer | Lawrence of Arabia
Freddie Young was a British cinematographer. He is best known for his work on David Lean's films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.
Young was an cinematographer on 130 films, including ...
Cinematographer - died 1 December 1998
117. Norman Fell
Actor | Three's Company
Norman Fell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1924. He graduated from Temple University with a bachelor's degree in drama. During World War II, he was an Air Force tail gunner in the Pacific. After the war, he studied acting and obtained small parts in television and on stage. His first ...
Actor - died 14 December 1998
118. Robert Douglas
Actor | The Fountainhead
Robert Douglas' real last name was Finlayson - a Scots name - and perhaps it was that side of him that meant to do what he wanted to do. The males of the family had followed the military for several generations - his father and grandfather were commanders of the West Sussex regiment - but he ...
Actor - died 11 January 1999
119. Betty E. Box
Music_department | Benji
British producer Betty Box started out as a commercial artist. Her brother Sydney Box was a documentary filmmaker, and during World War II he asked Betty to join him at Verity Films. She took to it like a fish to water, and by the time the war ended she was in charge of almost a dozen documentary ...
Producer - died 15 January 1999
120. Susan Strasberg
Actress | Picnic
Susan Strasberg was born in New York City on May 22, 1938. From the time of her birth, she was destined to be an actress, as her father was Lee Strasberg, acting coach at the famed Actors Studio in New York. In 1953, Susan made her acting debut in the episode Goodyear Playhouse: Catch a Falling Star...
Actress - died 21 January 1999
121. Huntz Hall
Actor | Dead End
The 14th of 16 children born to an air conditioning repairman, Henry Richard Hall (he got the name "Huntz" from a brother who said his large nose made him look German) was anything but the tough street kid he played in the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films. He made his stage debut at the age of 1 in...
Actor - died 30 January 1999
122. Gene Siskel
Self | Siskel & Ebert & the Movies
Gene Siskel was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. He partnered with fellow critic Roger Ebert to present a series of television shows which centered on film reviews. Their partnership lasted from 1975 to Siskel's death in 1999. Siskel became famous for his heated ...
Film Critic - died 20 February 1999
123. Richard Kiley
Actor | Jurassic Park
Although Richard Kiley's rich baritone and strong vocal talent was much in evidence and received due respect with his award of a Tony for "Man of La Mancha", it was little used in his television and movie appearances. Won two Tony Awards as Best Actor (Musical): in 1959 for "Redhead" and in 1966 ...
Actor - died 5 March 1999
124. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
Director - died 7 March 1999
125. Garson Kanin
Writer | Adam's Rib
Garson Kanin has worked as an actor on stage and as a director on Broadway and in Hollywood, but his best-known work is as a writer. During the Great Depression, he dropped out of high school to help support his family by working as a musician and later as a comedian. He attended the American ...
Writer / Director - died 13 March 1999
126. Ernest Gold
Music_department | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ernest Gold was born on July 13, 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He was a composer, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Exodus (1960) and On the Beach (1959). He was married to Jeanette (Jan) Keller, Marni Nixon and Ruth Andree Golbin. He died on March 17, 1999 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Composer - died 17 March 1999
127. Faith Domergue
Actress | This Island Earth
Sultry, brunette Faith Domergue was born in New Orleans, part Creole, but primarily of Irish and English extraction. She was adopted when she was six weeks old. In 1927 her adoptive parents took her to live in California, where she was educated at Catholic schools in Santa Monica. She had her first...
Actress - died 4 April 1999
128. Ellen Corby
Actress | The Waltons
Ellen Corby was born Ellen Hansen on June 3, 1911, in Racine, Wisconsin. She played many uncredited bit parts from the late '20s through the '30s. Ellen would not be seen on the big screen again until 1945 in Cornered (1945). In 1946, she appeared in 14 films, although mostly in small, minor roles....
Actress - died 14 April 1999
129. Anthony Newley
Actor | Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Anthony Newley was born in Hackney, London, England, to Frances Grace Newley and George Kirby, a shipping clerk. He was attracted to acting, after seeing an ad for a child actor in a Fleet Street window. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School from the age of 14 and, two years later, played the ...
Actor - died 14 April 1999
130. Rudi Fehr
Editor | Prizzi's Honor
Rudi Fehr was born on July 6, 1911 in Berlin, Germany. He was an editor and producer, known for Prizzi's Honor (1985), Key Largo (1948) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He was married to Maris Wrixon. He died on April 16, 1999 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Editor - died 16 April 1999
131. Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Actor | Wings
"America's Boyfriend" Buddy Rogers was born in Olathe Kansas and became a talented musician on several instruments. He began acting in Hollywood in the 1920's and is probably best remembered as Clara Bow's love interest in "Wings". He also made several appearances in the "Mexican Spitfire" series ...
Actor - died 21 April 1999
132. Rory Calhoun
Actor | Motel Hell
Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in Los Angeles, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd McCown. Rory starred in over 80 films and 1,000 television episodes. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. Tall and handsome, he benefited ...
Actor - died 28 April 1999
133. Oliver Reed
Actor | Gladiator
Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. His notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Revolver (1973), ...
Actor - died 2 May 1999
134. Dirk Bogarde
Actor | The Servant
Sir Dirk Bogarde, distinguished film actor and writer, was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde on March 28, 1921, to Ulric van den Bogaerde, the art editor of "The Times" (London) newspaper, and actress Margaret Niven in the London suburb of Hampstead. He was one of three children...
Actor - died 8 May 1999
135. Henry Jones
Actor | Vertigo
Henry Burk Jones was born in New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Helen (Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones, and the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk, a Prussian immigrant. He graduated from St. Joseph's College. His Broadway debut was in 1938 in ...
Actor - died 17 May 1999
136. Vanessa Brown
Actress | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The attractive daughter of Austrian-Jewish émigrés who fled their homeland to Paris in 1937 before coming to the United States, "B" actress Vanessa Brown grew up exceptionally fluent in German, French, Italian and English. She developed an early interest in acting.
Auditioning for Lillian Hellman at...
Actress - died 21 May 1999
137. Francine Everett
Actress | Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
Francine Everett, who was called the most beautiful woman in Harlem and one of the most beautiful actresses to appear on screen. She became a familiar face with black audiences through the race films, now known as Black Cinema. She was one of the few who became a movie star through Black Cinema and...
Actress - died 27 May 1999
138. Mel Tormé
Soundtrack | Gangster Squad
A professional singer at the age of three, Mel Torme was a genuine musical prodigy. As a teenager, he played the drums in Chico Marx's band and earned the nickname "The Velvet Fog" because of his smooth, mellow tenor voice. In the 1940s, he formed his own group, the Mel-Tones, one of the first ...
Singer - died 5 June 1999
139. DeForest Kelley
Actor | Star Trek
Jackson DeForest Kelley was born in Toccoa, Georgia, to Clora (Casey) and Ernest David Kelley.
He graduated from high school at age 16 and went on to sing at the Baptist church where his father was a minister. At age 17, he made his first trip outside the state to visit an uncle in Long Beach, ...
Actor - died 11 June 1999
140. Edward Dmytryk
Director | The Caine Mutiny
Edward Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco, the son of Ukrainian immigrants. After his mother died when he was 6, his strict disciplinarian father beat the boy frequently, and the child began running away while in his early teens. Eventually, juvenile authorities allowed him to live alone at the age ...
Director - died 1 July 1999
141. Sylvia Sidney
Actress | Beetlejuice
Sylvia Sidney was born in The Bronx, New York City, on August 8, 1910 as Sophia Kosow to Jewish parents. Her father was born in Russia and her mother was born in Romania. They divorced not long after her birth. Her mother subsequently remarried and young Sophia was adopted by her stepfather, ...
Actress - died 1 July 1999
142. Mario Puzo
Writer | The Godfather
Mario Puzo was born October 15, 1920, in "Hell's Kitchen" on Manhattan's (NY) West Side and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His best-known novel, "The Godfather," was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels...
Writer (my revision) - died 2 July 1999
143. Victor Mature
Actor | The Robe
American leading man Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Clara P. (Ackley) and Marcellus George Mature, a cutler and knife sharpener. His father, born Marcello Gelindo Maturi in Pinzolo, Trentino, was Italian, and his mother was of Swiss-German and German descent. Mature worked ...
Actor - died 4 August 1999
144. Marguerite Chapman
Actress | The Seven Year Itch
Marguerite Chapman, a small-town secretary and tomboy nicknamed "Slugger", became a model only after friends insisted "you oughta be in pictures", and she went on to act in more than 30 movies. Never a Hollywood wannabe, Chapman grew up in Chatham, New York, with four brothers. She started working ...
Actress - died 31 August 1999
145. Ruth Roman
Actress | Strangers on a Train
Ruth Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the youngest of three daughters of Lithuanian-Jewish parents Mary Pauline (Gold) and Abraham Roman. Her father, a carnival barker, died when she was a small child, forcing her mother to support the family by working as a waitress and cleaning woman. Ruth ...
Actress - died 9 September 1999
146. George C. Scott
Actor | Patton
George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...
Actor - died 22 September 1999
147. Maris Wrixon
Actress | The Case of the Black Parrot
This shapely starlet had a minor career at Warner Brothers during the 1930's and 40's. She possessed all the physical endowments that had propelled other screen sirens of the period to stardom. Hollywood's premier glamour photographer, George Hurrell Sr., thought her alluring. Her face adorned ...
Actress (my revision) - died 6 October 1999
148. Abraham Polonsky
Writer | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Writer-director Abraham Lincoln Polonsky, one of the most prominent victims of the Hollywood blacklisting of communists and social progressives in the post-World War II period, was born on December 5, 1910, in New York, New York. An unreconstructed Marxist, Polonsky never hid his membership in the ...
Writer / Director - died 26 October 1999
149. William 'Billy' Benedict
Actor | The Killing
William Benedict was active in the drama department of his Tulsa, Oklahoma, high school and, at the height of the Depression (1934), decided to relocate to California. At first, he wanted to be a dancer, but when he discovered that dancers were a dime-a-dozen in Hollywood, he concentrated on acting...
Actor - died 25 November 1999
150. 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...
Actress - died 3 December 1999
151. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
Director / Screenwriter (my revision) - died 18 December 1999
152. Desmond Llewelyn
Actor | GoldenEye
Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. His family would not give up their effort to prevent him from a life on stage, so an uncle who was a ...
Actor (my revision) - died 19 December 1999
153. James Card
James Card was born on October 25, 1915 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA. He is known for The Titans (1962), Arena (1975) and All But Forgotten (1978). He died on January 16, 2000 in Syracuse, New York State, USA.
Film Preservationist - died 16 January 2000
154. Nancy Coleman
Actress | The Gay Sisters
Nancy Coleman was born on December 30, 1912 in Everett, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for The Gay Sisters (1942), Her Sister's Secret (1946) and Devotion (1946). She was married to Whitney Bolton. She died on January 18, 2000 in Brockport, Monroe County, New York, USA.
Actress - died 18 January 2000
155. Hedy Lamarr
Actress | Samson and Delilah
Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lemberg (now known as Lviv). Her parents were ...
Actress - died 19 January 2000
156. Claude Autant-Lara
Director | Le diable au corps
Claude Autant-Lara was born on August 5, 1901 in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France. He was a director and writer, known for Devil in the Flesh (1947), The Crossing of Paris (1956) and The Red and the Black (1954). He was married to Ghislaine Autant-Lara. He died on February 5, 2000 in Antibes, ...
Director / Writer - died 5 February 2000
157. Roger Vadim
Writer | Barbarella
Roger Vadim was born on January 26, 1928 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Barbarella (1968), The Game Is Over (1966) and No Sun in Venice (1957). He was married to Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Schneider, Jane Fonda, Annette Stroyberg and Brigitte Bardot. He died on ...
Director - died 11 February 2000
158. Marceline Day
Actress | The Cameraman
The younger sister of actress Alice Day, Marceline achieved stardom in the mid-1920s, appearing opposite such stars as John Barrymore and Lon Chaney. Adept at comedy, she also starred with such top comics as Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. Her career faltered in the early 1930s, however, and she ...
Actress - died 16 February 2000
159. George Duning
Composer | From Here to Eternity
George Duning was educated in Cincinnati, Ohio, and during his early 20s played trumpet and piano for the Kay Kyser band, later arranging most of the music for Kyser's popular "Kollege of Musical Knowledge" radio program. It was during the Kyser band's appearance in Carolina Moon (1940) that ...
Composer - died 27 February 2000
160. Claire Trevor
Actress | Key Largo
Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Fifth Avenue merchant-tailor Noel Wemlinger, an immigrant Frenchman from Paris who lost his business during the Depression, and his Belfast-born wife, Benjamina, known as "Betty". Young ...
Actress - died 8 April 2000
161. Steve Reeves
Actor | Le fatiche di Ercole
Handsome bodybuilder Steve Reeves certainly had an enviable Herculean physique, and made plenty good use of it in Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s portraying some of filmdom's most famous bronzed gods. Reeves was originally a Montana boy born on a cattle ranch in 1926. His destiny was ...
Actor - died 1 May 2000
162. Lewis Allen
Director | The 20th Century-Fox Hour
Born in England on Christmas Day, 1905, Lewis Allen first came on the show-biz scene when he was appointed executive in charge of West End and Broadway stage productions for famed impresario Gilbert Miller. Allen also co-directed some of the productions (including the celebrated "Victoria Regina" ...
Director - died 3 May 2000
163. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Actor | Little Caesar
Although he appeared in approximately 100 movies or TV shows, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. never really intended to take up acting as a career. However, the environment he was born into and the circumstances naturally led him to be a thespian. Noblesse oblige.
He was born Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr. in ...
Actor - died 7 May 2000
164. Craig Stevens
Actor | Gunn
Born in Liberty, Missouri, as Gail Shikles Jr., tall, suave Craig Stevens will forever be remembered for his role as the cool, laid-back private eye Peter Gunn (1958), a ground-breaking show that ushered in the era of tough but smooth private eyes who were handy with their fists and with the ladies...
Actor - died 10 May 2000
165. David Bretherton
Editor | Cabaret
David Bretherton was born on February 29, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Cabaret (1972), Westworld (1973) and Clue (1985). He died on May 11, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Editor - died 11 May 2000
166. John Gielgud
Actor | Arthur
Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Best known for his Shakespearean roles in the theater, he first played Hamlet at the age of 26. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other ...
Actor - died 21 May 2000
167. Francis Lederer
Actor | One Rainy Afternoon
Frantisek Lederer was born on November 6th, 1899, in Czechoslovakia. His father was a leather merchant, and young Frantisek began his working life as a department store delivery boy in Prague. He fell in love with acting from a young age, and was soon on stage touring Moravia and then all over ...
Actor - died 25 May 2000
168. Bill Thomas
Costume_designer | Logan's Run
Bill Thomas was born on October 13, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a costume designer, known for Logan's Run (1976), Spartacus (1960) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He died on May 30, 2000 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Costume Designer - died 30 May 2000
169. Nancy Marchand
Actress | The Sopranos
Nancy Marchand's mother, a pianist, sent her shy daughter to acting classes in hopes of breaking her out of her shell. As a student at Carnegie Tech (Carnegie Mellon University), she studied the works of William Shakespeare and the other great playwrights and, upon graduation, set off for New York ...
Actress - died 18 June 2000
170. David Tomlinson
Actor | Mary Poppins
David Tomlinson is best known for his role as George Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964). As a youth he spent a short spell in the guards. He joined the RAF in WW2 where he survived the trauma of a plane crash on his first solo flight due to engine failure, then becoming a flying instructor ...
Actor - died 24 June 2000
171. Nils Poppe
Actor | Det sjunde inseglet
While studying, he became interested in acting and was discovered when performing in a school play.
His talent for comedic acting made him known for the public when he debuted with Pengar - en tragikomisk saga (1947), which he directed himself. He is today best remembered for his character Fabian ...
Actor - died 28 June 2000
172. Vittorio Gassman
Actor | Sleepers
Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball player. He debuted on stage in 1943 and soon felt home in all classical theatre works. Since 1946 he also worked at the movies and his first big role there was the criminal in Bitter Rice (1949). This fixed him to his ...
Actor - died 29 June 2000
173. Walter Matthau
Actor | The Odd Couple
Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars.
He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York...
Actor - died 1 July 2000
174. Harold Nicholas
Actor | Tap
Harold Nicholas, the younger half of the world famous Nicholas Brothers dance team, is known as one of the world's greatest dancers. He and his brother Fayard Nicholas were established superstars at Twentieth Century Fox with their astounding dance numbers in the studios musicals features. Harold ...
Dancer - died 3 July 2000
175. Don Weis
Director | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Milwaukee-born Don Weis began as a director of light-hearted, often youth-oriented entertainment. After graduating in film studies from the University of Southern California in 1942, he got his first job as an errand boy at Warner Brothers. He saw wartime service as a technician with the 1st Motion...
Director - died 26 July 2000
176. Max Showalter
Actor | Sixteen Candles
Born in Kansas, Max Showalter picked up the "acting bug" as a toddler when mother used to take him to the local theater where she played the piano for silent movies. He acted in 92 shows at the Pasadena Playhouse between 1935 and '38, made his Broadway debut under the aegis of Oscar Hammerstein II ...
Actor - died 30 July 2000
177. Nan Leslie
Actress | Kings Row
Nan Leslie was born on June 4, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Kings Row (1955), Sunset Pass (1946) and Western Heritage (1948). She was married to Albert Jason Coppage and Charles Pawley. She died on July 30, 2000 in San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.
Actress - died 30 July 2000
178. Alec Guinness
Actor | Star Wars
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...
Actor - died 5 August 2000
179. Joan Marsh
Actress | Rainbow Over Broadway
A brassy, blue-eyed platinum blonde of the 1930s in the Jean Harlow tradition. Joan was the daughter of Hollywood cinematographer Charles Rosher and appeared as a child in Mary Pickford movies (on which her father worked as cameraman) billed as Dorothy Rosher. She acted in some amateur dramatics as...
Actress - died 10 August 2000
180. Loretta Young
Actress | The Stranger
Sweet, sweeter, sweetest. No combination of terms better describes the screen persona of lovely Loretta Young. A&E's Biography (1987) has stated that Young "remains a symbol of beauty, serenity, and grace. But behind the glamour and stardom is a woman of substance whose true beauty lies in her ...
Actress - died 12 August 2000
181. Rose Hobart
Actress | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Born in New York City, Rose Hobart responded to the lure of the theater at a young age, went on stage at 15, then drifted to Hollywood and embarked on a movie career. Hobart film-debuted in the 1930 Fox version of "Liliom" and went on to appear in over 40 additional films, both in the A and B ...
Actress - died 29 August 2000
182. Joseph H. Lewis
Director | Gun Crazy
The term "style over content" fits director Joseph H. Lewis like a glove. His ability to elevate basically mundane and mediocre low-budget material to sublime cinematic art has gained him a substantial cult following among movie buffs. The Bonnie & Clyde look-alike Gun Crazy (1950), shot in 30 days...
Director - died 30 August 2000
183. Curt Siodmak
Writer | 13 Demon Street
Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1902, Curt Siodmak worked as an engineer and a newspaper reporter before entering the literary and movie fields. It was as a reporter that he got his first break (of sorts) in films: in 1926 he and his reporter-wife hired on as extras on Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) ...
Writer / Director - died 2 September 2000
184. Beah Richards
Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Beah Richards left her native Vicksburg, Mississippi, for New York City in 1950. She would not acquire a significant role on stage until 1955,when she appeared in the off-Broadway show "Take a Giant Step" convincingly portraying an 84-year-old grandmother without using theatrical makeup. In 1962 ...
Actress - died 14 September 2000
185. Ann Doran
Actress | Rebel Without a Cause
Ann Doran appeared in over 500 motion pictures and 1000 television shows, by one count. Starting at the age of four, she appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names so her father's family wouldn't find out. Rarely a featured player (although Charles Starrett's Rio Grande (1938) is a ...
Actress - died 19 September 2000
186. Richard Farnsworth
Actor | The Straight Story
An American stuntman who, after more than 30 years in the business, moved into acting and became an acclaimed and respected character actor, Richard Farnsworth was a native of Los Angeles. He grew up around horses and as a teenager was offered an opportunity to ride in films. He appeared in ...
Actor - died 6 October 2000
187. Jean Peters
Actress | Pickup on South Street
Green-eyed beauty Jean Elizabeth Peters flashed across the screen as a bright star during her relatively brief tenure in Hollywood. After just seven years under contract to 20th Century-Fox (1947-54), she joined in the reclusive lifestyle of her eccentric billionaire husband, Howard Hughes, and all...
Actress - died 13 October 2000
188. Gwen Verdon
Actress | Cocoon
Gwen Verdon was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer. Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. She had to wear corrective boots as a child to straighten out her legs, which were misshapen by childhood illness. Nonetheless, she first appeared as a tapper...
Actress / Dancer - died 18 October 2000
189. Julie London
Actress | Emergency!
Julie London recorded 32 albums during her career. Forced to give up band singing when her true age was discovered, she was primarily a torch singer. Her vocal range was described by "sultry" and "low-keyed". Her own favorite singers were Barbra Streisand and Roberta Flack.
She was known in some ...
Actress - died 18 October 2000
190. Muriel Evans
Actress | Call of the Prairie
Muriel Evans was born on July 20, 1910 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Call of the Prairie (1936), Three on the Trail (1936) and Manhattan Melodrama (1934). She was married to Marshall R. Worcester and Michael Cudahy. She died on October 26, 2000 in Woodland Hills, Los...
Actress - died 26 October 2000
191. Ring Lardner Jr.
Writer | MASH
The Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ring Lardner, Jr., will always be known for one of two things: that he was the son of one of the greatest humorists American literature has produced, and he was one of the Hollywood 10, the ten film-makers who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American ...
Screenwriter - died 31 October 2000
192. Marie Windsor
Actress | The Killing
Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen) was born in Marysvale, Utah, and attended Brigham Young University. She trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya before she began playing leading roles in B pictures in the late 1940s. So many B films in fact, that she garnered the title of 'Queen of ...
Actress - died 10 December 2000
193. Billy Barty
Actor | Masters of the Universe
Billy Barty was born William John Bertanzetti on October 25, 1924 in Millsboro, Pennsylvania. He began performing at age three and began making pictures in 1927. He played Mickey Rooney's little brother in the "Mickey McGuire" comedy shorts series. He was equally adept in both comedy and drama, and...
Actor - died 23 December 2000
194. Jason Robards
Actor | All the President's Men
Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles. A star athlete at ...
Actor - died 26 December 2000
195. Ray Walston
Actor | Popeye
Ray Walston started his acting career as a spear carrier with a local stock company. When the family moved to Houston, Texas, Walston's father wanted to teach him the oil business, but Walston instead joined a traveling repertory company (selling tickets as well as acting). He went on to associate ...
Actor - died 1 January 2001
196. James Hill
Producer | Sweet Smell of Success
James Hill was born on August 1, 1916 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Sweet Smell of Success (1957), His Majesty O'Keefe (1954) and Thunder in the Sun (1959). He was married to Rita Hayworth. He died on January 11, 2001 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Producer - died 11 January 2001
197. Virginia O'Brien
Actress | The Harvey Girls
Known to classic film fans by various nicknames--including Miss Deadpan, Frozen Face, and Miss Ice Glacier--this statuesque, dark-haired singer/actress carved a unique niche for herself on stage and screen by the hilarious Sphinx-like way she delivered a song. The daughter of the captain of ...
Actress - died 16 January 2001
198. Jean-Pierre Aumont
Actor | Lili
Another in the long line of dramatically handsome foreign imports who made an immediate impact on WWII Hollywood was debonair French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. The epitome of grace and sophistication, the stylish leading man went on to have a long and respected career on stage, film and TV, both ...
Actor - died 30 January 2001
199. Dale Evans
Soundtrack | Cowboy and the Senorita
American leading lady of musical westerns of the 1940s. Born Frances Octavia Smith in Uvalde, Texas. She was raised in Texas and Arkansas. Married at 14 and a mother at 15, she was divorced at 17 (some sources say widowed). Intent on a singing career, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and worked in ...
Actress - died 7 February 2001
200. Burt Kennedy
Director | The War Wagon
American screenwriter and director--particularly of westerns--Burt Kennedy was the son of performers. He was part of their act, "The Dancing Kennedys", from infancy. He served in World War II as a cavalry officer and was highly decorated. After the war he joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, ...
Director / Screenwriter - died 15 February 2001
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