Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Eddie Acuff |
Actor |
3-Jun-1903 |
17-Dec-1956 |
Mr. Beasley in Blondie |
Adrian |
Fashion Designer |
3-Mar-1903 |
13-Sep-1959 |
Head of wardrobe for Cecil B. DeMille |
Iris Adrian |
Actor |
29-May-1912 |
17-Sep-1994 |
Disney films |
Luis Alberni |
Actor |
4-Oct-1886 |
23-Dec-1962 |
Spanish-American character actor |
Harry Antrim |
Actor |
27-Aug-1884 |
18-Jan-1967 |
Vaudevillian, Hollywood character actor |
Roscoe Ates |
Actor |
20-Jan-1895 |
1-Mar-1962 |
The Champ |
Irving Bacon |
Actor |
6-Sep-1893 |
5-Feb-1965 |
Mr. Beazley |
Max Baer |
Boxing |
11-Feb-1909 |
21-Nov-1959 |
Beat Max Schmeling in 1933 |
Carl Ballantine |
Actor |
27-Sep-1922 |
3-Nov-2009 |
Lester Gruber on McHale's Navy |
Robert Barrat |
Actor |
10-Jul-1889 |
7-Jan-1970 |
The Kennel Murder Case |
Edgar Barrier |
Actor |
4-Mar-1907 |
20-Jun-1964 |
Macbeth |
L. Frank Baum |
Novelist |
15-May-1856 |
6-May-1919 |
The Wizard of Oz |
Vicki Baum |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1888 |
29-Aug-1960 |
Grand Hotel |
Louise Beavers |
Actor |
8-Mar-1902 |
26-Oct-1962 |
She Done Him Wrong |
Ed Begley, Sr. |
Actor |
25-Mar-1901 |
28-Apr-1970 |
Juror #10 in 12 Angry Men |
John Belushi |
Actor |
24-Jan-1949 |
5-Mar-1982 |
Animal House |
Willie Best |
Actor |
27-May-1913 |
27-Feb-1962 |
Sleep 'n' Eat |
G. W. Bitzer |
Cinematographer |
21-Apr-1872 |
29-Apr-1944 |
The Birth of a Nation |
Harry Blackstone |
Magician |
27-Sep-1885 |
16-Nov-1965 |
Vaudeville illusionist |
Clara Blandick |
Actor |
4-Jun-1880 |
15-Apr-1962 |
Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz |
Eric Blore |
Actor |
23-Dec-1887 |
2-Mar-1959 |
Sullivan's Travels |
Ben Blue |
Actor |
12-Sep-1901 |
7-Mar-1975 |
The Big Broadcast of 1938 |
Roman Bohnen |
Actor |
24-Nov-1894 |
24-Feb-1949 |
Of Mice and Men |
Richard Boleslawsky |
Film Director |
4-Feb-1889 |
17-Jan-1937 |
Les misérables |
Beulah Bondi |
Actor |
3-May-1888 |
1-Jan-1981 |
Make Way for Tomorrow |
Veda Ann Borg |
Actor |
11-Jan-1915 |
16-Aug-1973 |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer |
Frank Borzage |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1894 |
19-Jun-1962 |
A Farewell to Arms |
Egon Brecher |
Actor |
16-Feb-1880 |
12-Aug-1946 |
So Dark the Night |
El Brendel |
Actor |
25-Mar-1890 |
9-Apr-1964 |
Former vaudevillian, Wings |
Tod Browning |
Film Director |
12-Jul-1882 |
6-Oct-1962 |
Freaks |
Lenny Bruce |
Comic |
13-Oct-1925 |
3-Aug-1966 |
Multiply obscene comic |
Paul Butterfield |
Musician |
17-Dec-1942 |
4-May-1987 |
Paul Butterfield Blues Band |
Spring Byington |
Actor |
17-Oct-1886 |
7-Sep-1971 |
You Can't Take it With You |
Edward L. Cahn |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1899 |
25-Aug-1963 |
It! The Terror from Beyond Space |
Georgia Caine |
Actor |
30-Oct-1876 |
4-Apr-1964 |
Broadway musical actress |
Donald Cammell |
Film Director |
17-Jan-1934 |
24-Apr-1996 |
Performance |
Judy Canova |
Actor |
20-Nov-1913 |
5-Aug-1983 |
Comic actress, vaudevillian |
Roger C. Carmel |
Actor |
27-Sep-1932 |
11-Nov-1986 |
Harcourt Fenton Mudd |
John Carroll |
Actor |
17-Jul-1906 |
24-Apr-1979 |
Flying Tigers |
Leo G. Carroll |
Actor |
25-Oct-1892 |
16-Oct-1972 |
Waverly on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. |
Peggie Castle |
Actor |
22-Dec-1927 |
11-Aug-1973 |
Lily Merrill on Lawman |
Lon Chaney |
Actor |
1-Apr-1883 |
26-Aug-1930 |
The Phantom of the Opera |
Spencer Charters |
Actor |
25-Mar-1875 |
25-Jan-1943 |
Character actor |
Edward F. Cline |
Film Director |
4-Nov-1891 |
22-May-1961 |
The Bank Dick |
Albert Conti |
Actor |
29-Jan-1887 |
18-Jan-1967 |
American character actor |
Violet Kemble Cooper |
Actor |
12-Dec-1886 |
17-Aug-1961 |
Our Betters |
Darby Crash |
Singer |
26-Sep-1958 |
7-Dec-1980 |
The Germs |
Richard Cromwell |
Actor |
8-Jan-1920 |
11-Oct-1960 |
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
Michael Curtiz |
Film Director |
24-Dec-1886 |
10-Apr-1962 |
Casablanca |
John Dall |
Actor |
26-May-1918 |
15-Jan-1971 |
Rope |
Marion Davies |
Actor |
3-Jan-1897 |
22-Sep-1961 |
When Knighthood Was in Flower |
Albert Dekker |
Actor |
20-Dec-1905 |
5-May-1968 |
The Wild Bunch |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1881 |
21-Jan-1959 |
Pioneering film director |
Vernon Dent |
Actor |
16-Feb-1895 |
5-Nov-1963 |
Frequent foil to The Three Stooges |
Gloria Dickson |
Actor |
13-Aug-1916 |
10-Apr-1945 |
They Won't Forget |
Alan Dinehart |
Actor |
3-Oct-1889 |
17-Jul-1944 |
Born to Dance |
Paul Douglas |
Actor |
11-Apr-1907 |
11-Sep-1959 |
Angels in the Outfield |
Theodore Dreiser |
Novelist |
27-Aug-1871 |
28-Dec-1945 |
An American Tragedy |
Peter Duel |
Actor |
24-Feb-1940 |
31-Dec-1971 |
Alias Smith and Jones |
Margaret Dumont |
Actor |
20-Oct-1882 |
6-Mar-1965 |
Foil to the Marx Brothers |
William Duncan |
Actor |
16-Dec-1879 |
8-Feb-1961 |
Silent film actor |
E. A. Dupont |
Film Director |
25-Dec-1891 |
12-Dec-1956 |
Piccadilly |
Dan Duryea |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
7-Jun-1968 |
The Little Foxes |
Don Ellis |
Jazz Musician |
25-Jul-1934 |
17-Dec-1978 |
Jazz trumpeter, The Don Ellis Orchestra |
Hope Emerson |
Actor |
29-Oct-1897 |
25-Apr-1960 |
Caged |
Ray Enright |
Film Director |
25-Mar-1896 |
3-Apr-1965 |
The Spoilers |
Peg Entwistle |
Actor |
1-Jul-1908 |
18-Sep-1932 |
Starlet, suicided off Hollywood sign |
Leon Errol |
Actor |
3-Jul-1881 |
12-Oct-1951 |
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break |
Julia Faye |
Actor |
24-Sep-1893 |
6-Apr-1966 |
Silent film actress |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Author |
24-Sep-1896 |
21-Dec-1940 |
The Great Gatsby |
Lee De Forest |
Inventor |
26-Aug-1873 |
30-Jun-1961 |
Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube |
Redd Foxx |
Comic |
9-Dec-1922 |
11-Oct-1991 |
Foul-mouthed comedian, Sanford and Son |
William Frawley |
Actor |
26-Feb-1887 |
3-Mar-1966 |
Fred on I Love Lucy |
Rudolf Friml |
Composer |
7-Dec-1884 |
12-Nov-1972 |
The Vagabond King |
Dwight Frye |
Actor |
22-Feb-1899 |
7-Nov-1943 |
Renfield in 1931 Dracula |
Samuel Fuller |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1912 |
30-Oct-1997 |
Pickup on South Street |
Hamlin Garland |
Author |
14-Sep-1860 |
4-Mar-1940 |
A Son of the Middle Border |
George Gershwin |
Songwriter |
26-Sep-1898 |
11-Jul-1937 |
Rhapsody In Blue |
Billy Gilbert |
Actor |
12-Sep-1894 |
23-Sep-1971 |
Comic actor and vaudevillian |
Lowell Gilmore |
Actor |
20-Dec-1906 |
31-Jan-1960 |
King Solomon's Mines |
Gilda Gray |
Dancer |
24-Oct-1901 |
22-Dec-1959 |
The Shimmy Queen |
Alfred E. Green |
Film Director |
11-Jul-1889 |
4-Sep-1960 |
Dangerous |
Sydney Greenstreet |
Actor |
27-Dec-1879 |
18-Jan-1954 |
Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon |
D. W. Griffith |
Film Director |
22-Jan-1875 |
21-Jul-1948 |
The Birth of a Nation |
Paul Guilfoyle |
Actor |
14-Jul-1902 |
27-Jun-1961 |
Winterset |
Alan Hale, Sr. |
Actor |
10-Feb-1892 |
22-Jan-1950 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Kevin Peter Hall |
Actor |
9-May-1955 |
10-Apr-1991 |
Predator |
Tim Hardin |
Singer/Songwriter |
23-Dec-1941 |
29-Dec-1980 |
If I Were a Carpenter |
Sam Hardy |
Actor |
21-Mar-1883 |
16-Oct-1935 |
King Kong |
Curtis Harrington |
Film Director |
17-Dec-1922 |
6-May-2007 |
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet |
Henry Hathaway |
Film Director |
13-Mar-1898 |
11-Feb-1985 |
The Sons of Katie Elder |
Gayelord Hauser |
Author |
1895 |
26-Dec-1984 |
Look Younger, Live Longer |
Susan Hayward |
Actor |
30-Jun-1918 |
14-Mar-1975 |
I Want to Live! |
Van Heflin |
Actor |
13-Dec-1910 |
23-Jul-1971 |
Till the Clouds Roll By |
Percy Helton |
Actor |
31-Jan-1894 |
11-Sep-1971 |
Character actor |
Jean Hersholt |
Actor |
12-Jul-1886 |
2-Jun-1956 |
Founder, Motion Picture Relief Fund |
John Hodiak |
Actor |
14-Apr-1914 |
19-Oct-1955 |
Lifeboat |
Taylor Holmes |
Actor |
16-May-1878 |
30-Sep-1959 |
Nightmare Alley |
Darla Hood |
Actor |
8-Nov-1931 |
13-Jun-1979 |
The Little Rascals |
Hedda Hopper |
Actor |
2-May-1885 |
1-Feb-1966 |
Queen of the Quickies |
Shemp Howard |
Actor |
4-Mar-1895 |
22-Nov-1955 |
Stooge who replaced Curly |
Walter Huston |
Actor |
6-Apr-1884 |
7-Apr-1950 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
Roger Imhof |
Actor |
15-Aug-1875 |
15-Apr-1958 |
This Gun for Hire |
Frank Jenks |
Actor |
4-Nov-1902 |
13-May-1962 |
Vaudvillian, character actor |
Nunnally Johnson |
Screenwriter |
5-Dec-1897 |
25-Mar-1977 |
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit |
Janis Joplin |
Singer |
19-Jan-1943 |
4-Oct-1970 |
Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart) |
Alice Joyce |
Actor |
1-Oct-1890 |
9-Oct-1955 |
The Green Goddess |
Cecil Kellaway |
Actor |
22-Aug-1893 |
28-Feb-1973 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Charles King |
Actor |
21-Feb-1895 |
7-May-1957 |
30s and 40s cinema henchman |
Fuzzy Knight |
Actor |
9-May-1901 |
23-Feb-1976 |
American character actor |
Fred Kohler |
Actor |
20-Apr-1888 |
28-Oct-1938 |
The Iron Horse |
Zoltán Korda |
Film Director |
3-Jun-1895 |
13-Oct-1961 |
Sahara |
David Landau |
Actor |
9-Mar-1879 |
20-Sep-1935 |
Judge Priest |
Charles Laughton |
Actor |
1-Jul-1899 |
15-Dec-1962 |
Island of Lost Souls |
D. Ross Lederman |
Film Director |
12-Dec-1894 |
24-Aug-1972 |
Tarzan's Revenge |
Lucien Littlefield |
Actor |
16-Aug-1895 |
4-Jun-1960 |
American character actor |
Robert Lowery |
Actor |
17-Oct-1913 |
26-Dec-1971 |
The Mummy's Ghost |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Film Director |
28-Jan-1892 |
30-Nov-1947 |
To Be or Not To Be |
Paul Lynde |
Comic |
13-Jun-1926 |
10-Jan-1982 |
Hollywood Square |
J. Farrell MacDonald |
Actor |
14-Apr-1875 |
2-Aug-1952 |
My Darling Clementine |
Rudolph Maté |
Cinematographer |
21-Jan-1898 |
27-Oct-1964 |
When Worlds Collide |
Joe May |
Film Director |
7-Nov-1880 |
29-Apr-1954 |
The Invisible Man Returns |
Ruth McDevitt |
Actor |
13-Sep-1895 |
27-May-1976 |
Pistols 'n' Petticoats |
J. P. McGowan |
Actor |
24-Feb-1880 |
26-Mar-1952 |
Somewhere in Sonora |
Frank McGrath |
Actor |
2-Feb-1903 |
13-May-1967 |
Charlie Wooster on Wagon Train |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Film Director |
20-Sep-1898 |
27-Jan-1964 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
Matt Moore |
Actor |
8-Jan-1888 |
20-Jan-1960 |
Irish-American character actor |
Mantan Moreland |
Actor |
3-Sep-1902 |
28-Sep-1973 |
Birmingham Brown |
Howard Morris |
Actor |
4-Sep-1919 |
21-May-2005 |
Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show |
Alan Mowbray |
Actor |
18-Aug-1896 |
25-Mar-1969 |
Founding member, Screen Actors Guild |
Harry Myers |
Actor |
5-Sep-1882 |
25-Dec-1938 |
City Lights |
Anne Nagel |
Actor |
29-Sep-1915 |
6-Jul-1966 |
The Green Hornet |
Frank Nelson |
Actor |
6-May-1911 |
12-Sep-1986 |
Foil to Jack Benny |
Ozzie Nelson |
Actor |
20-Mar-1906 |
3-Jun-1975 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
Theodore Newton |
Actor |
4-Aug-1904 |
28-Feb-1963 |
The Working Man |
Barbara Nichols |
Actor |
30-Dec-1929 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
Mary Nolan |
Actor |
18-Dec-1905 |
31-Oct-1948 |
Shanghai Lady |
Henry O'Neill |
Actor |
10-Aug-1891 |
18-May-1961 |
Anchors Aweigh |
Clifford Odets |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1906 |
14-Aug-1963 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
Frank Orth |
Actor |
21-Feb-1880 |
17-Mar-1962 |
Insp. Faraday on Boston Blackie |
Nestor Paiva |
Actor |
30-Jun-1905 |
9-Sep-1966 |
Tarantula |
Joe Pasternak |
Film/TV Producer |
19-Sep-1901 |
13-Sep-1991 |
Destry Rides Again |
Alice Pearce |
Actor |
16-Oct-1917 |
3-Mar-1966 |
Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched |
Anthony Perkins |
Actor |
4-Apr-1932 |
12-Sep-1992 |
Psycho |
Irving Pichel |
Film Director |
24-Jun-1891 |
13-Jul-1954 |
Destination Moon |
Roddy Piper |
Wrestling |
17-Apr-1954 |
30-Jul-2015 |
Here to kick ass, chew bubble gum |
Zazu Pitts |
Actor |
3-Jan-1894 |
7-Jun-1963 |
The Wedding March |
Paul Porcasi |
Actor |
1879 |
8-Aug-1946 |
Character actor, Broadway and film |
Tom Powers |
Actor |
7-Jul-1890 |
9-Nov-1955 |
Double Indemnity |
Dick Purcell |
Actor |
6-Aug-1908 |
10-Apr-1944 |
The Bank Dick |
Edna Purviance |
Actor |
21-Oct-1895 |
11-Jan-1958 |
Leading lady in Chaplin films |
Dee Dee Ramone |
Bassist |
18-Sep-1952 |
5-Jun-2002 |
Former bassist, The Ramones |
John Randolph |
Actor |
1-Jun-1915 |
24-Feb-2004 |
Prizzi's Honor |
Carl Benton Reid |
Actor |
14-Aug-1893 |
16-Mar-1973 |
The Little Foxes |
Dorothy Revier |
Actor |
18-Apr-1904 |
19-Nov-1993 |
The Dance of Life |
Willard Robertson |
Actor |
1-Jan-1886 |
5-Apr-1948 |
Remember the Night |
Edward G. Robinson |
Actor |
12-Dec-1893 |
26-Jan-1973 |
Key Largo |
Phil Rosen |
Film Director |
8-May-1888 |
22-Oct-1951 |
Spooks Run Wild |
Robert Rossen |
Screenwriter |
16-Mar-1908 |
18-Feb-1966 |
The Hustler |
Charles Ruggles |
Actor |
8-Feb-1886 |
23-Dec-1970 |
Bringing Up Baby |
Basil Ruysdael |
Actor |
24-Jul-1888 |
10-Oct-1960 |
The Cocoanuts |
Mark Sandrich |
Film Director |
26-Aug-1900 |
4-Mar-1945 |
Top Hat |
Ann Savage |
Actor |
19-Feb-1921 |
25-Dec-2008 |
Detour |
Victor Schertzinger |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1890 |
26-Oct-1941 |
Road to Singapore |
Lewis Seiler |
Film Director |
30-Sep-1890 |
8-Jan-1964 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
George B. Seitz |
Film Director |
3-Jan-1888 |
8-Jul-1944 |
Andy Hardy series |
David O. Selznick |
Film/TV Producer |
10-May-1902 |
22-Jun-1965 |
Producer of A Star Is Born |
Joan Shawlee |
Actor |
5-Mar-1926 |
22-Mar-1987 |
The Adventures of Aggie |
Max Steiner |
Composer |
10-May-1888 |
28-Dec-1971 |
Gone With the Wind |
Josef von Sternberg |
Film Director |
29-May-1894 |
22-Dec-1969 |
The Last Command |
Inger Stevens |
Actor |
18-Oct-1934 |
30-Apr-1970 |
The Farmer's Daughter |
Conway Tearle |
Actor |
17-May-1878 |
1-Oct-1938 |
Stella Maris |
William Tracy |
Actor |
1-Sep-1917 |
18-Jun-1967 |
Terry and the Pirates |
Henry Travers |
Actor |
5-Mar-1874 |
18-Oct-1965 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
Frank Tuttle |
Film Director |
6-Aug-1892 |
6-Jan-1963 |
This Gun for Hire |
Diane Varsi |
Actor |
23-Feb-1938 |
19-Nov-1992 |
Peyton Place |
Henry Victor |
Actor |
2-Oct-1892 |
15-Mar-1945 |
Freaks |
Edgar Wallace |
Novelist |
1-Apr-1875 |
10-Feb-1932 |
Highly prolific English novelist |
Pierre Watkin |
Actor |
29-Dec-1887 |
3-Feb-1960 |
Adventures of Superman |
Orson Welles |
Actor |
6-May-1915 |
10-Oct-1985 |
Citizen Kane |
Mae West |
Actor |
17-Aug-1893 |
22-Nov-1980 |
Go up and see her sometime |
James Whale |
Film Director |
22-Jul-1889 |
29-May-1957 |
Frankenstein |
Warren William |
Actor |
2-Dec-1894 |
24-Sep-1948 |
Imitation of Life |
Marie Wilson |
Actor |
19-Aug-1916 |
23-Nov-1972 |
My Friend Irma |
Sam Wood |
Film Director |
10-Jul-1883 |
22-Sep-1949 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
Will Wright |
Actor |
26-Mar-1894 |
19-Jun-1962 |
Character actor |
Tony Young |
Actor |
28-Jun-1937 |
26-Feb-2002 |
Taggart |
Florenz Ziegfeld |
Theatre Producer |
21-Mar-1869 |
22-Jul-1932 |
The Ziegfeld Follies |
George Zucco |
Actor |
11-Jan-1886 |
28-May-1960 |
Fog Island |