Notable people who are/were at least 100 years old
by mushbewcupinhere | created - 27 May 2022 | updated - 6 hours ago | Public
1. 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 ...
2. 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, ...
3. 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...
4. Margia Dean
Actress | The Quatermass Xperiment
Stunning, dark-haired '40s and '50s leading lady Margia Dean was the daughter of a Greek lawyer. Her parents moved from Athens to the US in 1913, a number of years before her birth on April 7, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois. The youngest of three girls, she was christened Marguerite Louise Skliris. Her...
5. 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...
6. 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.
7. 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. ...
8. 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.
9. 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 ...
10. 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 ...
11. 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...
12. 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....
13. 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 ...
14. 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...
15. Bob Hope
Actor | The Ghost Breakers
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...
16. 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 ...
17. Jack Rader
Actor | The Blob
Jack Rader was born on February 23, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Blob (1988), Outbreak (1995) and Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).
18. 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.
19. Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Actress | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies was born on January 25, 1891 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991), Nine Days a Queen (1936) and Paul Krüger (1956). She died on January 27, 1992 in Stambourne, Essex, England, UK.
20. 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 ...
21. Kathleen Harrison
Actress | Scrooge
Although British actress Kathleen Harrison was born in 1892 in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, she was fondly known for her cockney characters throughout her career. Trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she first married and lived overseas in Argentina for nearly eight years...
22. 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 ...
23. Renée Simonot
Self | Avis de recherche
Renée Simonot was born on September 10, 1911 in Le Havre, France. She was married to Maurice Dorléac. She died on July 11, 2021 in Paris, France.
24. Frederica Sagor Maas
Writer | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Frederica Sagor Maas was born in America, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Feeling no great desire to complete her course in journalism at Columbia University, New York, she found film an exciting new artistic medium, and was hired by Universal Studios as a story editor, and later MGM ...
25. 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.
26. 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, ...
27. 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 ...
28. 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 ...
29. 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.
30. Elisabeth Waldo
Actress | Song of Mexico
Elisabeth Waldo was born on June 18, 1918 in Yakima, Washington, USA. She is a composer and actress, known for Song of Mexico (1945), Lost on Paradise Island (1975) and Chac (1975). She was previously married to Carl Schaefer Dentzel.
31. 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.
32. Bruce Bennett
Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Herman Brix was a star shot-putter in the 1928 Olympics. After losing the lead in MGM's Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) due to a shoulder injury, he was contracted by Ashton Dearholt for his independent production of The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), a serial and the only Tarzan film between the ...
33. 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, ...
34. Albert Hofmann
Writer | A Bicycle Trip
Albert Hofmann was born on January 10, 1906 in Baden, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for A Bicycle Trip (2008), Hofmann's Potion (2002) and Il Cibo degli Dei (2014). He was married to Anita Hofmann. He died on April 29, 2008 in Burg im Leimental, Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland.
35. Betty Rowland
Actress | Love & Kisses
Burlesque dancer and stripper Betty Jane Rowland was born on January 23, 1916 in Columbus, Ohio. Her father was an accountant who lost his job during the Great Depression. Betty and her sisters Dian and Roz Elle all started out as dancers in vaudeville before making the transition into burlesque. ...
36. Rosa Albach-Retty
Actress | Geld auf der Straße
Rosa Albach-Retty was born on December 26, 1874 in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress, known for Geld auf der Straße (1930), Dreimal Hochzeit (1941) and Der Kongreß tanzt (1955). She was married to Karl Albach. She died on August 26, 1980 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austria.
37. Neal Arden
Actor | Life of St. Paul
Neal Arden was born on December 27, 1909 in Fulham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Life of St. Paul (1938), The Best House in London (1969) and Department S (1969). He was married to Julia Byfield and Dorothy Brown. He died on June 4, 2014 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
38. Hilda Bernard
Actress | Antonella
Hilda Bernard was involved in show business for 60 years. Characterized for playing wealthy and evil characters in many soap operas, she was also active in radio performances as a leading actress. She appeared with Faye Dunaway in Jennifer's Shadow (2004) in 2004. She stood out for her evil ...
39. Walter Bernstein
Writer | The Front
Blacklisted writer in the 1950s, a victim of the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), he still continued to write under pseudonyms as did many other blacklisted writers such as Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, and his biggest contribution during that time was probably his writing work ...
40. 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.
41. Danielle Darrieux
Actress | 8 femmes
Danielle Darrieux was born in 1917 in Bordeaux, France, to Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Germain Jean Darrieux, a physician. She was raised in Paris. She was only fourteen when she auditioned for a secondary role in Le bal (1931): she got the part, and the producer offered her a five-year contract. ...
42. Dorothy Dickson
Actress | The Ringer
Dorothy Dickson was an American-born London theater star, who popularized the song, "Look for the Silver Lining", in Britain when she introduced it in London in 1921 in the Jerome Kern musical "Sally". She appeared on the New York stage and in the Ziegfield Follies before World War II.
In 1914, she ...
43. 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 ...
44. Marie Glory
Actress | Monte Cristo
Marie Glory was born on March 3, 1905 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France. She was an actress, known for Monte Cristo (1929), La femme idéale (1934) and ...And God Created Woman (1956). She died on January 24, 2009 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
45. Ninette de Valois
Actress | The Female Swindler
It has been rightly suggested that Dame Ninette de Valois is one of the most important women of the century. It was due to her drive and ambition that the modern English ballet was created. In that respect she changed history single handed. Born in Ireland, young Ninette (her stage name was her ...
46. Ellaline Terriss
Actress | David Garrick
Ellaline Terriss was a leading musical comedy star in the late Victorian Era, throughout the Edwardian Era, and into the Modern Era. She was the daughter of one famous actor, William Terriss (born William Lewin, in 1847; murdered by a disgruntled actor, in 1897), and the wife of an even more famous...
47. 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 ...
48. Kaneto Shindô
Writer | Ichimai no hagaki
Kaneto Shindô was born on April 22, 1912 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Postcard (2010), The Naked Island (1960) and A Last Note (1995). He was married to Nobuko Otowa and Miyo Shindo. He died on May 29, 2012 in Hiroshima, Japan.
49. Ivy Sawyer
Actress | Booklovers
Ivy Sawyer was born on February 13, 1898 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Booklovers (1929) and Hearst-International News Pictorial, No. 85 (1916). She was married to Joseph Santley. She died on November 16, 1999 in California, USA.
50. Yi Qin
Actress | Shanghai wu yan xia
Yi Qin was born on January 31, 1922 in Shanghai, China. She was an actress and writer, known for Shanghai wu yan xia (1982), The Beautiful Kokonor Lake (2017) and A Japanese Spy (1943). She was married to Yan Jin and Tianguo Chen. She died on May 9, 2022 in Shanghai, China.
51. Audrey Munson
Actress | Purity
Audrey Munson was a model and actress who achieved fame in the early part of the 20th Century in the United States. Born on June 8, 1891, in Rochester, New York, Munson was the only child produced by the marriage of Edgar Munson and Katherine Mahoney Munson. After her parents divorced, Munson was ...
52. 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.
53. Walter Mirisch
Producer | In the Heat of the Night
Walter Mirisch and brothers Marvin Mirisch and Harold Mirisch were one of the most successful producing teams in Hollywood history. Their Mirisch Company produced such diverse hits as Some Like It Hot (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963), The Pink ...
54. 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 "...
55. Don Lusk
Animation_department | Lady and the Tramp
Don Lusk was born on October 28, 1913 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He was married to Marjorie Gummerson. He died on December 30, 2018 in San Clemente, ...
56. Nikolay Lebedev
Actor | Chelovek v prokhodnom dvore
Nikolay Lebedev was born on December 15, 1921 in Moscow, RSFSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Chelovek v prokhodnom dvore (1972), Rovesnik veka (1960) and Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya (1975). He died on August 21, 2022 in Russia.
57. 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...
58. 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.
59. 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 ...
60. Coleridge Goode
Actor | When the Boat Comes In
Coleridge Goode was born on November 29, 1914 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was an actor, known for When the Boat Comes In (1976), Walking on Air (1946) and The Flamingo Affair (1948). He was married to Gertrude. He died on October 2, 2015 in London, England, UK.
61. Rosa Bouglione
Self | Signé Mireille Dumas
Rosa Bouglione was born on December 21, 1910 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She was married to Joseph Bouglione. She died on August 26, 2018 in Paris, France.
62. Helen Burns
Actress | The Changeling
Helen Burns was born on December 22, 1916 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Changeling (1980), If You Could See What I Hear (1982) and Scarlett (1994). She was married to Michael Langham. She died on July 23, 2018 in London, England, UK.
63. 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 ...
64. 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.
65. 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 ...
66. Geoffrey Chater
Actor | Gandhi
Geoffrey Chater was a much in-demand character actor whose unforced poise and lightly worn haughtiness made him a natural for figures of privilege and authority - from a British consul in Brideshead Revisited and school chaplain in Lindsay Anderson's If... to doctors, military officers and peers of...
67. Norman Corwin
Writer | Lust for Life
Author, director, composer and producer, educated in public schools. He was a newspaperman for ten years, and then a writer, director and producer for CBS in New York. He served as chief of Special Projects for United Nations Radio, and was presented with a One World Award. Joining ASCAP in 1952, ...
68. Paulette Dubost
Actress | La règle du jeu
Paulette Dubost was born on October 8, 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette (1933) and Les mystères de Paris (1962). She was married to André Ostertag. She died on September 21, 2011 in Longjumeau, Essonne, ...
69. Señor Wences
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 ...
70. Run Run Shaw
Run Run Shaw was born in Shanghai, China on October 4, 1907. He went into the filming industry with his brother, Runme Shaw, and established the Shaw Organization in 1926 and the Shaw Studios (formerly South Seas Film studio) in 1930. In 1967, Shaw established the famous Television Broadcasts ...
71. David Rockefeller
Self | Empire City
David Rockefeller is an American banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from August 2004 until his death in March 2017. Rockefeller was the youngest ...
72. Caren Marsh
Actress | Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Caren Marsh was born in Los Angeles. Her sister, actress Dorothy Morris, was born Feb. 23, 1922. Getting into show business in 1937, Caren changed her name to Marsh because "there were too many people named Morris at the time." Caren's parents wanted her to go to college but she wanted to be a ...
73. 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,...
74. 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.
75. June Spencer
Actress | Doctors
June Spencer was born on June 14, 1919 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctors (2000), The Archers (2007) and Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965). She was previously married to Roger Brocksom.
76. 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 ...
77. Anton Coppola
Music_department | Bram Stoker's Dracula
Anton Coppola was born on March 21, 1917 in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Godfather Part III (1990) and NET Opera Theater (1967). He was married to Almerinda Drago and Marion Jane Miller. He died on March 9, 2020 in ...
78. 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.
79. Buddy Moreno
Buddy Moreno was born on July 14, 1912 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Audrey Perri Mitchell. He died on November 29, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
80. 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...
81. 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 ...
82. Elliott Carter
Composer | Tiny Galaxy Concert @ Haw Par
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American Western-classical-music composer who was born in and lived in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, ...
83. Jenny Alpha
Actress | Une femme, une époque
Jenny Alpha was born on April 22, 1910 in Fort de France, Martinique. She was an actress, known for Une femme, une époque (1978), La vieille quimboiseuse et le majordome (1987) and Noir comme le souvenir (1995). She died on September 8, 2010 in Paris, France.
84. Henry Danton
Self | Dancing in the Blitz: How World War 2 Made British Ballet
Henry Danton was born on March 30, 1919 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He died on February 10, 2022 in London, England, UK.
85. 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 (...
86. Irving Fein
Producer | The George Burns One-Man Show
Born in Brooklyn, New York on June 21, 1911, Irving Ashley Fein was found to be an excellent student and skipped several elementary school grades. His interest in acting and writing was developed during the summer months between college terms at various summer camps. After working in the publicity ...
87. Rina Franchetti
Actress | Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby
Rina Franchetti was born on December 23, 1907 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958), David Copperfield (1965) and The Mean Machine (1973). She died on August 18, 2010 in Formello, Lazio, Italy.
88. Erwin Geschonneck
Actor | Leute mit Flügeln
Erwin Geschonneck was born on 27 December 1906 in Bartenstein/East Prussia (now Poland). In the Twenties, he became a member of the Communistic Party of Germany. After rise of Nazism, he emigrated to Poland, later to Latvia and Czechoslovakia. In the Soviet Union he became a member of a German ...
89. Carl Esmond
Actor | From the Earth to the Moon
Born Willy Eichberger in Vienna, Austria, he changed his name to the ethnically nondescript Carl Esmond and went on to become a well-regarded actor both here and in Europe, a career that sustained itself for nearly 50 years. He initially studied drama in Vienna at the State Academy of Dramatic Arts...
90. Liane Haid
Actress | Marquis d'Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Liane Haid was a prima ballerina, dancer, singer, stage and film actress. As a child, she studied voice and dancing and played at the Viennese Open Ballet. She worked in Budapest and Vienna as a dancer. On stage, she was in Berlin and Vienna. She also made close to a hundred movies - silents and ...
91. Rolands Kalnins
Director | Saruna ar karalieni
He was born in civil servants family. As child went to Riga where 1937-1940 attended 1st gymnasium. In 1947 started work in Rigas Kinostudija as director's assistant working with directors Yuli Raizman', Pavel Armand' and Leonids Leimanis.First work as director dates from 1959. In Soviet regime ...
92. Dora Luz
Actress | The Three Caballeros
Strikingly beautiful and immensely talented, Mexican singer Dora Luz was a popular radio and stage performer from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. She recorded her hits (more than 20 songs, including "Falsa" and "Prisionero del mar") for the Victor label and, after performing at nightclubs in ...
93. Lincoln Maazel
Actor | Martin
Lincoln Maazel was born on February 12, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Martin (1977), The Amusement Park (1975) and NET Playhouse (1964). He died on September 15, 2009 in Castleton, Virginia, USA.
94. Carmen Martínez Sierra
Actress | Historias para no dormir
Carmen Martínez Sierra was born on May 3, 1904 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Historias para no dormir (1966), Las ibéricas F.C. (1971) and Curro Jiménez (1976). She died on November 6, 2012 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.
95. Grim Natwick
Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Myron "Grim" Natwick was born in 1890 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, where he is still considered a favorite son and, throughout his lifetime, displayed exhibitions of his work there. He is best known as the creator of the animated character, "Betty Boop", which often in the past was credited to ...
96. 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 ...
97. Mabel Trunnelle
Actress | The Master Passion
Mabel Trunnelle was born in Dwight, Illinois on November 8, 1879. A stage actress from the East Coast, Mabel was 32 when she appeared on the silver screen. In 1911 she was in A MODERN CINDERELLA, IN THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY, and THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, the latter being the most notable. Her last film...
98. Franca Valeri
Actress | Tosca e altre due
Franca Valeri was born on July 31, 1920 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Tosca e altre due (2003), The Sign of Venus (1955) and Parigi o cara (1962). She was married to Vittorio Caprioli. She died on August 9, 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
99. Elmo Williams
Editor | High Noon
Elmo Williams was born James Elmo Williams in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Orphaned at 16, he attended schools in Oklahoma and New Mexico before moving to Los Angeles. In 1933 he struck up a relationship with film editor Merrill G. White, who hired Williams as his assistant on a business trip to England. ...
100. Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor was a poor Hungarian immigrant when he arrived in the United States in 1889. He tried his hand in the fur trade (starting as a sweeper for $2 a week pay) and proved his entrepreneurial acumen by steady advancement, eventually setting up successful businesses in New York and Chicago. By...
Tell Your Friends