Amazing Actors
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1. Richard Griffiths
Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The avuncular star character actor Richard Griffiths grew up in a council flat in less than prosperous conditions, the son of deaf and volatile parents in a dysfunctional family setting. According to an article in the Telegraph newspaper, his father Thomas was a steelworker 'who fought in pubs for ...
2. Geoffrey Bayldon
Actor | Casino Royale
Born Leeds, England and trained at Old Vic Theatre School, 1947-1949. First stage appearance in "Tough at the Top" (C.B. Cochran's last musical) in 1949, followed by seasons at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Glasgow Citizen's and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. First in ...
3. Ian McNeice
Actor | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Ian McNeice went to Taunton School in Somerset and then had two years at the Salisbury Playhouse as an Acting A.S.M. before going to L.A.M.D.A. 1971-74. The next few years were spent in theatre, including four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, ending with "Nicholas Nickleby" on Broadway. ...
4. John Thomson
Actor | Inkheart
John Thomson was born on April 2, 1969 in Salford, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Inkheart (2008), 24 Hour Party People (2002) and The Fast Show (1994). He was previously married to Samantha Sharp.
5. Roger Allam
Actor | V for Vendetta
Born October 26, 1953 in Bow, London, England as Roger William Allam, he is a British stage, television, film, and radio actor, best known for originating the role of Javert in the musical "Les Misérables", for playing Douglas Richardson in the radio series "Cabin Pressure" and for his roles as ...
6. Stephen Moyer
Actor | True Blood
Stephen Moyer's passion for acting began in local theatre in Brentwood & Chelmsford, Essex where he also made a name for himself with his own theatre company "The Reject Society". He then trained at LAMDA and began his professional acting career on stage, including 2 years with the RSC ("Romeo & ...
7. Toby Jones
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on September 7, 1966 in Hammersmith, London. His parents, Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood, are actors as well. Toby has two brothers: Rupert, ...
8. Nigel Davenport
Actor | A Man for All Seasons
Nigel Davenport was born on May 23, 1928 in Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977). He was married to Maria Aitken and Helena Margaret White. He died on October 25, 2013 ...
9. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
10. Alec McCowen
Actor | Never Say Never Again
Alec McCowen was born Alexander Duncan McCowan on May 26, 1925 in Tunbridge Wells, England. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he made his professional debut in 1942. He established his reputation in classical stage roles, appearing in the ensemble of Laurence Olivier's famed ...
11. John Nettles
Actor | Midsomer Murders
John Nettles has been a familiar face on British and International television screens for over 30 years.
From his early beginnings in the UK hit comedy The Liver Birds (1969), he became a household name overnight playing the Jersey detective Jim Bergerac. The series, Bergerac (1981), was a huge hit ...
12. John Sessions
Actor | The Good Shepherd
Actor and comedian known for his various roles on film, TV and stage. He was born in Largs, Scotland, in 1953. He has an older brother and a twin sister. His debut film was The Sender (1982), a horror feature in which he played a patient. His next film was The Bounty (1984) with Mel Gibson and ...
13. Anton Lesser
Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
British actor Anton Lesser (b. 1952) has played many of the principal Shakespearian roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Associate Artist since 1990), including Petruchio, Romeo and Richard III. He is very active in radio (BBC) and spoken word audio. Over a dozen recordings range from Paradise ...
14. Freddie Jones
Actor | Dune
British character actor Freddie Jones came to the acting profession after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant and acting in amateur theater on the side. To kick off his mid-life career change, Jones attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on a scholarship. He ...
15. Jason Hughes
Actor | Midsomer Murders
Jason Hughes was born in 1971 in Porthcawl, South Wales, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Midsomer Murders (1997), This Life (1996) and Killing Me Softly (2002). He has been married to Natasha Dahlberg since September 2005. They have three children.
16. Simon Callow
Actor | Four Weddings and a Funeral
Simon Callow was born on June 13, 1949 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and A Room with a View (1985). He has been married to Sebastian Fox since June 2016.
17. Sam Kelly
Actor | Topsy-Turvy
Genial Manchester-born comic actor Sam Kelly had a considerable gift for timing and observation. His special forte was playing decrepit, rheumy characters of more advanced years than his own actual age. Among the many endearing impressions he made on the small screen, he is probably best remembered...
18. Tom Harper
Actor | What a Girl Wants
Tom Harper broke into the mainstream of on-camera acting, back in 2000. After being classically-trained in acting during his time in London, England, Tom first made his major debut in the Hallmark TV epic Jason and the Argonauts (2000) (TV). Since his debut year, Tom Harper has enjoyed a well-off ...
19. Jeroen Krabbé
Actor | The Fugitive
Jeroen Krabbe was born in Amsterdam to a family of painters. His grandfather was a famous impressionist, his father a talented artist and his mother a qualified interpreter responsible for translating Dutch films into English. He was destined to be a painter but after high school and a year of ...
20. Mark Heap
Actor | Stardust
Mark Heap was born on May 13, 1957 in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India. He is an actor and writer, known for Stardust (2007), Green Wing (2004) and Lark Rise to Candleford (2008).
21. Oliver Kieran-Jones
Actor | Episodes
Oliver Kieran-Jones is known for Episodes (2011), Glee (2009) and Midsomer Murders (1997).
22. Bertie Carvel
Actor | Dalgliesh
Bertie Carvel was born on September 6, 1977 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Dalgliesh (2021), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) and Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned (2015). He has been married to Sally Scott since January 5, 2019. They have one child.
23. Michael Maloney
Actor | The Young Victoria
Michael Maloney was born on June 19, 1957 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Young Victoria (2009), Henry V (1989) and Notes on a Scandal (2006).
24. James Fox
Actor | Sherlock Holmes
James Fox is the second of three sons, born to the theatrical agent Robin Fox and his actress wife Angela Worthington - aka Angela Fox. His brothers are the actor Edward Fox and the producer Robert Fox. He started acting as a child actor and used his real name, until he reached his early 20s. He ...
25. Murray Melvin
Actor | The Phantom of the Opera
Murray Melvin was born on August 10, 1932 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Phantom of the Opera (2004), A Taste of Honey (1961) and Barry Lyndon (1975). He died on April 14, 2023 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
26. Kenny Ireland
Actor | Local Hero
George Ian Kenneth "Kenny" Ireland (7 August 1945 - 31 July 2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in Victoria Wood As Seen on TV in the 1980s, and for playing Donald Stewart in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014.
Born in ...
27. Billy Postlethwaite
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Billy Postlethwaite was born in 1989 in Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), Tomb Raider (2018) and 1917 (2019).
28. Sanjeev Bhaskar
Actor | Yesterday
Sanjeev Bhaskar was born on October 31, 1963 in Ealing, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Yesterday (2019), The Kumars at No. 42 (2001) and Absolutely Anything (2015). He has been married to Meera Syal since January 21, 2005. They have one child.
29. Bill Bailey
Actor | Hot Fuzz
Bill Bailey is known for his sharp wit and classic sense of humor. he is most famous for being in Never Mind The Buzzcocks, celebrity game-show in which he is a team captain. Bill is a stand up comedian, and has also starred in cult comedies such as Spaced and of course Black Books. He was given ...
30. Jason Watkins
Actor | The Crown
Jason Watkins was born on October 28, 1966 in Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Crown (2016), Des (2020) and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014). He has been married to Clara Francis since January 2014. They have three children. He was previously married...
31. Tom Chambers
Actor | Father Brown
Tom was born in Darley Dale in Derbyshire, England. He went to Repton School and in between school and holidays was in the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), where Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller also had early training. He was approached by the Austrian Olympic skiing team but continued to pursue ...
32. Tom Conti
Actor | Oppenheimer
Preferring contemporary over classical theatre (with nary a Shakespeare stage credit in sight), one of West End theatre's most enduring and popular faces of the past four decades has been that of Tom Conti.
He was born Thomas Antonio Conti on November 22, 1941, in Paisley, Scotland, to a pair of ...
33. Mark Benton
Actor | Anna and the Apocalypse
Mark Benton was born on November 16, 1965 in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Anna and the Apocalypse (2017), Early Doors (2003) and The Second Coming (2003). He has been married to Sarah Gardner since 2002. They have three children.
34. Akira Kubo
Actor | Tsubaki Sanjûrô
Akira Kubo was born on December 1, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Sanjuro (1962), Throne of Blood (1957) and Destroy All Monsters (1968). He has been married to Maki since January 1, 1999.
35. Hiroshi Ishikawa
Actor | Chikyû kogeki meirei Gojira tai Gaigan
Hiroshi Ishikawa was born on May 5, 1937. He is an actor and writer, known for Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972). He has been married to William Dawson since March 1, 2014. He was previously married to Brandy Yung and May Smile.
36. Akihiko Hirata
Actor | Gojira
He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army, and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University (Japan's most prestigious), Hirata confounded ...
37. Yutaka Hayashi
Actor | Gojira tai Megaro
Yutaka Hayashi was born on February 24, 1947 in Nagano, Japan. He is an actor, known for Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) and Bullet Train (1975). He was previously married to Etsuko Nami.
38. Ned Beatty
Actor | Network
Stocky, genial-looking supporting actor Ned Beatty was once hailed by Daily Variety as the "busiest actor in Hollywood."
Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and working on farms. His hometown of St. Matthews, ...
39. Bert Convy
Actor | The Cannonball Run
Bert Convy was born on July 23, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Cannonball Run (1981), Hero at Large (1980) and Weekend Warriors (1986). He was married to Catherine Hall and Anne Anderson. He died on July 15, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
40. Vincent Price
Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb "Daisy" (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, who was President of the National Candy ...
41. Victor Buono
Actor | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Larger than life, Laughtonesque, and with an eloquent, king-sized appetite for maniacal merriment, a good portion of the work of actor Victor Buono was squandered on hokey villainy on both film and television. Ostensibly perceived as bizarre or demented, seldom did Hollywood give this cultivated ...
42. Lorenzo Lamas
Actor | Body Rock
Lorenzo Fernando Lamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actors Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas. His father was Argentinian and his mother was American, of Norwegian descent. Lorenzo was raised in Pacific Palisades, California. In 1968, his family moved to New York. He attended ...
43. Pat Boone
Soundtrack | Journey to the Center of the Earth
Actor, singer, author and songwriter ("Exodus") Pat Boone was educated at David Lipscombe College, North Texas State College and Columbia University (from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958). His career in entertainment began when he emceed a teenage talent show on radio and ...
44. Sam Rockwell
Actor | Moon
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...
45. Peter Falk
Actor | Columbo
Peter Michael Falk was born on September 16, 1927, in New York City, New York. At the age of 3, his right eye was surgically removed due to cancer. He graduated from Ossining High School, where he was president of his class. His early career choices involved becoming a certified public accountant, ...
46. Horst Buchholz
Actor | La vita è bella
On the cast list of The Magnificent Seven (1960), you will find several names that doubtless you know well: Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Yul Brynner. But there is one name that you will have difficulty pronouncing, let alone identifying as an actor you have seen before. That man is Horst ...
47. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
48. Steven Mackintosh
Actor | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Steven Mackintosh was born on April 30, 1967 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Rang De Basanti (2006) and Memphis Belle (1990). He has been married to Lisa Jacobs since 1989. They have two children.
49. Bob Hoskins
Actor | The Long Good Friday
Bob Hoskins was described by the director John Mackenzie as "an actor from the British tradition but with an almost American approach, an instinctive approach to acting and knowing how to work with the camera". He was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was ...
50. Gary Cady
Actor | Mona Lisa
Gary Cady was born on September 14, 1959 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Mona Lisa (1986), Erik the Viking (1989) and Leaving (1984).
51. Christopher Reeve
Actor | Superman
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City, to journalist Barbara Johnson (née Barbara Pitney Lamb) and writer/professor F.D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve). He came from an upper-class family; his paternal grandfather was CEO of Prudential Financial, and one of his ...
52. Lewis Collins
Actor | Jack the Ripper
Underrated British leading man predominantly of the Seventies and Eighties, Collins made his mark in the 1970s action drama The Professionals (1977). As hard man William Bodie, Collins became a household name worldwide. Unfortunately, since the show ended in 1983, Lewis Collins has been miscast in ...
53. Jonathan Harris
Actor | Lost in Space
An eloquent character actor who would become a celebrated TV camp icon of the late 1960s, Jonathan Harris was born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin on November 6, 1914, in the Bronx borough of New York City. The son of impoverished Russian-Jewish émigrés, his father worked in the garment industry and ...
54. Dan Stevens
Actor | Downton Abbey
Dan Stevens was born at Croydon in Surrey on 10th October 1982. His parents are teachers. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained in acting at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He studied English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Whilst he was a Cambridge undergraduate, ...
55. Matthew Goode
Actor | Stoker
Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. His films include Chasing Liberty (2004), Match Point (2005), Imagine Me and You (2006), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Watchmen (2009), A Single Man (2009), Leap Year (2010), Stoker (2013) and The Imitation Game (2014). Goode also ...
56. Ben Pullen
Actor | An Ideal Husband
Ben Pullen was born in Switzerland and was brought up in Hong Kong and the United States before his family brought him to England when he was a teenager. He read film studies at the University of Warwick and got into acting via the Bristol Old Vic Theater School. He is married with a son, Oscar, ...
57. 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), ...
58. Peter Ustinov
Actor | Spartacus
Peter Ustinov was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.
He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow on April 16, 1921 in Swiss Cottage, ...
59. Harvey Fierstein
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, screenwriter and playwright who has been in several stage productions, films, shows and games. He voiced Yao in Mulan and Huaca in Kingdom of the Sun (prototype for The Emperor's New Groove). He also acted in Hairspray, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bros, ...
60. Matthew Broderick
Actor | The Producers
A slight comic actor chiefly known for his boyish charm, Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962 in New York City, to Patricia Broderick (née Biow), a playwright and painter, and James Broderick, an actor. His father had Irish and English ancestry, and his mother was from a Jewish family (from...
61. Nick Robinson
Actor | Jurassic World
Nick Robinson made his film debut starring as Joe in CBS Films' critically-acclaimed adventure The Kings of Summer (2013), followed by shooting a lead role in the Universal action adventure sequel Jurassic World (2015), where he starred alongside Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Vincent D'Onofrio and Bryce...
62. William Conrad
Actor | Cannon
William Conrad became a television star relatively late in his career. In fact, the former Army Air Corps World War II fighter pilot began his screen career playing heavies. He was Max, one of The Killers (1946) hired to finish off Burt Lancaster in his dingy lodgings. He was the corrupt state ...
63. 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 ...
64. Josh Brener
Actor | Silicon Valley
Josh Brener was born in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Silicon Valley (2014), The Last of Us (2023) and Mythic Quest (2020). He is married to Meghan Falcone.
65. Max Brown
Actor | Nolly
Max Brown is a native of Ilkley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England but spent his childhood mostly in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. His love of acting was ignited at an early age when he performed at the Shrewsbury Music Hall. At the age of 20, the youthful face of Max Brown first appeared on ...
66. Michael Rennie
Actor | The Day the Earth Stood Still
The British actor Michael Rennie worked as a car salesman and factory manager before he turned to acting. A meeting with a Gaumont-British Studios casting director led to Rennie's first acting job - that of stand-in for Robert Young in Secret Agent (1936) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He put his ...
67. Grant Williams
Actor | The Incredible Shrinking Man
As a child, Williams acted in summer stock productions. After graduation from high school he joined the Air Force for a four-year stint. Then, returning to New York, he took acting classes with Lee Strasberg. A few minor Broadway roles followed as did parts on some live TV dramas. One of these ...
68. Ryan O'Neal
Actor | Love Story
Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal was an American actor and former boxer. He trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. It was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He ...
69. Paul Gross
Actor | Due South
Paul Gross is the elder of two brothers. He was an Army brat; his father, Bob Gross, was a Tank Commander in the Canadian Army. As a consequence Paul and his family moved around a lot: he has lived in Canada, the U.S, England and Germany. Paul was introduced to acting in his early teens, while the ...
70. Sacha Dhawan
Actor | The Great
Sacha Dhawan was born in Bramhall, Stockport to Hindu parents though he attended a Roman Catholic secondary school, Thomas Aquinas College, in nearby Stockport. There one of the authors he studied for his final exams was Alan Bennett, by whom he was very impressed. He began as a child actor at the ...
71. Samuel Anderson
Actor | The History Boys
Samuel Anderson was born on April 27, 1982 in England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The History Boys (2006), The Lady in the Van (2015) and Gunpowder Milkshake (2021).
72. Stefano Braschi
Actor | Waterloo Road
Stefano Braschi is known for Waterloo Road (2006), National Theatre Live: King Lear (2011) and My Policeman (2022).
73. 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 ...
74. Alastair Sim
Actor | Scrooge
The son of Alexander Sim JP and Isabella McIntyre, Alastair Sim was educated in Edinburgh. Always interested in language (especially the spoken word) he became the Fulton Lecturer in Elocution at New College, Edinburgh University from 1925 until 1930. He was invited back and became the Rector of ...
75. Michael Craig
Actor | G.P.
A veritable everyman of stage and screen, both big and small, but relatively unfamiliar to American audiences, Michael Craig is of Scots heritage, born in India to a father on military assignment. When he was three, the family returned to England, but by his eleventh year, they moved on to Canada -...
76. Sabu
Actor | The Thief of Bagdad
Sabu Dastagir (or Selar Shaik Sabu, depending on your resource) was born on January 27, 1924, in the little town of Mysore, India, which is nestled in the jungles of Karapur. The son of an elephant driver (mahout) in service for the Maharajah of his town, the young stable boy learned responsibility...
77. Rossano Brazzi
Actor | The Barefoot Contessa
Rossano Brazzi was an Italian stage and film actor. He was married to Lydia Brazzi until her death, and to Ilse Fischer, his second wife, until his death.
He's most familiar to English-speaking audiences for his role as Emile De Becque in South Pacific (1958), playing opposite Mitzi Gaynor.
He died ...
78. James Garner
Actor | The Notebook
Amiable and handsome James Garner had obtained success in both films and television, often playing variations of the charming anti-hero/con-man persona he first developed in Maverick, the offbeat western TV series that shot him to stardom in the late 1950s.
James Garner was born James Scott ...
79. Hart Bochner
Actor | Die Hard
Hart Matthew Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Ruth (Roher), a concert pianist, and Lloyd Bochner, an actor. He is of Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish descent. Hart made his feature film debut portraying George C. Scott's son in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (1977) and ...
80. Robert Preston
Actor | The Music Man
American leading man of vast charisma, Robert Preston was the son of a garment worker and a record store clerk and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a trained musician, playing several instruments, and in high school became interested in theatre. He joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, taking ...
81. James Franciscus
Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes
James Grover Franciscus graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1957 with a B.A. in English and theater. His father, John Allen Franciscus, was a pilot killed in action during WWII. His mother was named Loraine (nee Grover) and he had one sibling, a brother named John. Mr. Franciscus is ...
82. Robert Vaughn
Actor | The Magnificent Seven
Robert Francis Vaughn was born on November 22, 1932 at Charity Hospital in New York City, the son of show business parents, Marcella Frances (Gaudel) and Gerald Walter Vaughn. His father was a radio actor and his mother starred on stage. Robert came to the public's attention first with his ...
83. Tony Anholt
Actor | The Protectors
Tony Anholt was born on January 19, 1941 in Singapore. He was an actor, known for The Protectors (1972), Space: 1999 (1975) and Howards' Way (1985). He was married to Tracey Childs and Sheila Willet. He died on July 26, 2002 in London, England, UK.
84. Bradford Dillman
Actor | The Enforcer
Dark-haired, Ivy League-looking Bradford Dillman, whose white-collar career spanned nearly five decades, possessed charm and confident good looks that were slightly tainted by a bent smile, darting glance and edgy countenance that often provoked suspicion. Sure enough, the camera picked up on it ...
85. Stephen Fry
Actor | Gosford Park
Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 ...
86. Robert Bathurst
Actor | Cold Feet
Born West Africa. Lived in Ireland aged 3-9. Convent school. Lied in First Confession aged 6. Sent to satisfactorily brutal boarding school in County Meath. Aged 9 moved to England. Monastery school till 18. Still dodgy in Confession. Aged 13 decided he wanted to be an actor. Didn't own up to this ...
87. Philip Jackson
Actor | Brassed Off
Philip Jackson was born on June 18, 1948 in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Brassed Off (1996), The Best Offer (2013) and Scum (1979). He is married to Sally Baxter. They have two children.
88. Russell Tovey
Actor | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Russell Tovey was born on November 14, 1981 in Billericay Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012), The Good Liar (2019) and Grabbers (2012).
89. Tom Rosenthal
Actor | Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Tom Rosenthal is an English comedian, film and television actor. Rosenthal was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of Christine "Chrissy" Smith, a former Newsnight producer and son of world renowned sports presenter Jim Rosenthal.
He is an avid Arsenal F.C. fan and has appeared on Playback Media ...
90. Peter Firth
Actor | Lifeforce
Peter Firth was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1953. His parents owned the Waterloo Inn pub in Pudsey, Leeds and he attended Hanson Grammar School in Bradford. Firth took weekend classes at the Bradford Playhouse near his Pudsey home and by his mid-teens was playing in "Camelot" at the ...
91. Alexander Skarsgård
Actor | The Legend of Tarzan
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Valter Skarsgård. For most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in Europe but had not yet ...
92. Charles Gray
Actor | Diamonds Are Forever
The son of a surveyor, Charles Gray was born and raised in Queen's Park, Bournemouth. As a young actor, he received his vocal training from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Old Vic, having long abandoned his first job as clerk for a real estate agent. His voice was to...
93. Tommy Tune
Actor | Hello, Dolly!
Tommy Tune is possibly the tallest dancer in the country. He was in the New York Company of "How Now Dow Jones" when Ernest Lehman engaged him to play Ambrose Kemper in the film, "Hello, Dolly!". His father is a Texas restaurateur. Tommy acted in, directed and choreographed school productions, ...
94. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
95. Tom Riley
Actor | The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Tom Riley born 5 April 1981 is an English actor, producer and director. Riley was born in Maidstone, Kent. He became involved in drama in his hometown at the age of four, and spent his school years writing and directing plays. He attended Maidstone Grammar School. He studied English literature and ...
96. 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 ...
97. Nigel Patrick
Actor | Raintree County
This droll, urbane, dry-witted gent was born Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman in London on May 2, 1912. Coming from a family of actors, his parents were actors Charles Wemyss and Dorothy Turner.
Nigel made his stage debut in the 1932 play "The Life Machine" and continued on the stock and repertory...
98. Sterling Hayden
Actor | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Born to George & Frances Simonson Walter, and named Sterling Relyea Walter. Father died in 1925. Adopted by stepfather 'James Hayden' renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. Grew up in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine. Though very poor, attended prep school at ...
99. James Coombes
Actor | Howards' Way
James Coombes was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. He is known for Howards' Way (1985), King David (1985) and Murder with Mirrors (1985). He has been married to Cathy Finlay since June 25, 1989. They have three children.
100. John Cho
Actor | Star Trek
John Yohan Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Los Angeles, California as a child. His father was a Christian minister. Cho was educated at Herbert Hoover High School at Glendale, before moving on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied English literature. Upon ...
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