Founded 1875, incorporated 1886.
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Frank Albertson |
Actor |
2-Feb-1909 |
29-Feb-1964 |
American character actor |
Mabel Albertson |
Actor |
24-Jul-1901 |
28-Sep-1982 |
Darrin's mother on Bewitched |
Irwin Allen |
Film/TV Producer |
12-Jun-1916 |
2-Nov-1991 |
The Master of Disaster |
Lewis Allen |
Film Director |
25-Dec-1905 |
3-May-2000 |
The Uninvited |
Warner Anderson |
Actor |
10-Mar-1911 |
26-Aug-1976 |
Matthew Swain on Peyton Place |
Edward Andrews |
Actor |
9-Oct-1914 |
8-Mar-1985 |
Sixteen Candles |
Robert Armstrong |
Actor |
20-Nov-1890 |
20-Apr-1973 |
King Kong |
Paul Atkinson |
Guitarist |
19-Mar-1946 |
2-Apr-2004 |
Guitarist for The Zombies |
Walter Baldwin |
Actor |
2-Jan-1889 |
27-Jan-1977 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
George Bancroft |
Actor |
30-Sep-1882 |
2-Oct-1956 |
Thunderbolt |
Harry Beaumont |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1888 |
22-Dec-1966 |
The Broadway Melody |
Alphonzo Bell |
Politician |
19-Sep-1914 |
25-Apr-2004 |
Congressman from California, 1961-77 |
Bruce Bennett |
Actor |
19-May-1906 |
24-Feb-2007 |
Played Tarzan in 1930s movie serials |
Barbara Billingsley |
Actor |
22-Dec-1915 |
16-Oct-2010 |
June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver |
Janet Blair |
Actor |
23-Apr-1921 |
19-Feb-2007 |
Night of the Eagle |
Joan Blondell |
Actor |
30-Aug-1906 |
25-Dec-1979 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Roberts Blossom |
Actor |
25-Mar-1924 |
8-Jul-2011 |
Deranged |
Lloyd Bochner |
Actor |
29-Jul-1924 |
29-Oct-2005 |
It's a cookbook |
Jimmy Boyd |
Singer |
9-Jan-1939 |
7-Mar-2009 |
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus |
Clarence Brown |
Film Director |
10-May-1890 |
17-Aug-1987 |
National Velvet |
Nigel Bruce |
Actor |
14-Feb-1895 |
8-Oct-1953 |
Played Rathbone's Dr. Watson |
Tim Buckley |
Singer/Songwriter |
14-Feb-1947 |
29-Jun-1975 |
Experimental singer/songwriter |
W. R. Burnett |
Novelist |
25-Nov-1899 |
25-Apr-1982 |
Little Caesar |
George Carlin |
Comic |
12-May-1937 |
22-Jun-2008 |
Seven Dirty Words |
Rudolf Carnap |
Philosopher |
18-May-1891 |
14-Sep-1970 |
The Logical Syntax of Language |
Leo Carrillo |
Actor |
6-Aug-1881 |
10-Sep-1961 |
Pancho on The Cisco Kid |
Dane Clark |
Actor |
26-Feb-1912 |
11-Sep-1998 |
Moonrise |
Dick Clark |
TV Personality |
30-Nov-1929 |
18-Apr-2012 |
American Bandstand |
Fred Clark |
Actor |
19-Mar-1914 |
5-Dec-1968 |
A Place in the Sun |
George Coe |
Actor |
10-May-1929 |
18-Jul-2015 |
Woodhouse on Archer |
Nat King Cole |
Singer |
17-Mar-1917 |
15-Feb-1965 |
Unforgettable |
Ray Collins |
Actor |
10-Dec-1889 |
11-Jul-1965 |
Lt. Tragg on Perry Mason |
Jackie Coogan |
Actor |
26-Oct-1914 |
1-Mar-1984 |
Uncle Fester in The Addams Family |
Nathan Cook |
Actor |
9-Apr-1950 |
11-Jun-1988 |
Billy Griffin on Hotel |
Jackie Cooper |
Actor |
15-Sep-1922 |
3-May-2011 |
Jackie in Our Gang |
Jeff Corey |
Actor |
10-Aug-1914 |
16-Aug-2002 |
Little Big Man |
Henry Daniell |
Actor |
5-Mar-1894 |
31-Oct-1963 |
British-American character actor |
Mildred Davis |
Actor |
22-Feb-1901 |
18-Aug-1969 |
Silent film actress |
Miles Davis |
Jazz Musician |
26-May-1926 |
28-Sep-1991 |
Jazz trumpeter, Kind of Blue |
Don DeFore |
Actor |
25-Aug-1913 |
22-Dec-1993 |
Mr. B. on Hazel |
Ted Demme |
Film Director |
26-Oct-1963 |
13-Jan-2002 |
Blow |
Richard Derr |
Actor |
15-Jun-1918 |
8-May-1992 |
When Worlds Collide |
Troy Donahue |
Actor |
27-Jan-1936 |
2-Sep-2001 |
A Summer Place |
Walter Donaldson |
Songwriter |
15-Feb-1893 |
15-Jul-1947 |
Yes, Sir, That's My Baby |
Vernon Duke |
Composer |
10-Oct-1903 |
16-Jan-1969 |
April in Paris |
James Dunn |
Actor |
2-Nov-1901 |
1-Sep-1967 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Jimmy Durante |
Comic |
10-Feb-1893 |
20-Jan-1980 |
Everybody wants ta get inta da act |
Richard Dysart |
Actor |
30-Mar-1929 |
5-Apr-2015 |
Leland McKenzie on L.A. Law |
Blake Edwards |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1922 |
15-Dec-2010 |
The Pink Panther |
Keith Emerson |
Musician |
2-Nov-1944 |
11-Mar-2016 |
Keyboardist for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer |
Myrna Fahey |
Actor |
12-Mar-1933 |
6-May-1973 |
Kay Banks on Father of the Bride |
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. |
Actor |
23-May-1883 |
12-Dec-1939 |
The Thief of Baghdad |
Farrah Fawcett |
Actor |
2-Feb-1947 |
25-Jun-2009 |
Original blonde on Charlie's Angels |
Robert Florey |
Film Director |
14-Sep-1900 |
16-May-1979 |
Tarzan and the Mermaids |
Norman Foster |
Film Director |
13-Dec-1900 |
7-Jul-1976 |
Journey Into Fear |
Sam Francis |
Painter |
25-Jun-1923 |
4-Nov-1994 |
Abstract expressionist |
Sidney Franklin |
Film Director |
21-Mar-1893 |
18-May-1972 |
The Good Earth |
Stan Freberg |
Comic |
7-Aug-1926 |
7-Apr-2015 |
Radio's The Stan Freberg Show |
George Furth |
Playwright |
14-Dec-1932 |
11-Aug-2008 |
Company |
Skeets Gallagher |
Actor |
28-Jul-1891 |
22-May-1955 |
Possessed |
Minna Gombell |
Actor |
28-May-1892 |
14-Apr-1973 |
Block-Heads |
Thomas Gomez |
Actor |
10-Jul-1905 |
18-Jun-1971 |
Ride the Pink Horse |
Betty Grable |
Actor |
18-Dec-1916 |
2-Jul-1973 |
The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs |
Stewart Granger |
Actor |
6-May-1913 |
16-Aug-1993 |
King Solomon's Mines |
Bonita Granville |
Actor |
2-Feb-1923 |
11-Oct-1988 |
These Three |
Lorne Greene |
Actor |
12-Feb-1915 |
11-Sep-1987 |
Ben Cartwright on Bonanza |
William Haines |
Actor |
2-Jan-1900 |
26-Dec-1973 |
Hollywood's first openly gay leading man |
Alaina Reed Hall |
Actor |
10-Nov-1946 |
17-Dec-2009 |
Sesame Street |
Tom Hayden |
Activist |
11-Dec-1939 |
23-Oct-2016 |
Jane Fonda's ex |
Margaux Hemingway |
Actor |
16-Feb-1955 |
2-Jul-1996 |
Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin |
Paul Henreid |
Actor |
10-Jan-1908 |
29-Mar-1992 |
Casablanca |
Conrad Hilton |
Business |
25-Dec-1887 |
3-Jan-1979 |
Founder, Hilton Hotels |
Halliwell Hobbes |
Actor |
16-Nov-1877 |
20-Feb-1962 |
British-American character actor |
William Holden |
Actor |
17-Apr-1918 |
16-Nov-1981 |
Stalag 17 |
Beth Howland |
Actor |
28-May-1941 |
31-Dec-2015 |
Vera Louise Gorman on Alice |
Virginia Huston |
Actor |
24-Apr-1925 |
28-Feb-1981 |
Tarzan's Peril |
John Ireland |
Actor |
30-Jan-1914 |
21-Mar-1992 |
All the King's Men |
Christopher Isherwood |
Author |
26-Aug-1904 |
4-Jan-1986 |
The Berlin Stories |
Dean Jagger |
Actor |
7-Nov-1903 |
5-Feb-1991 |
Twelve O'Clock High |
Allen Jenkins |
Actor |
9-Apr-1900 |
20-Jul-1974 |
American character actor |
Victor Jory |
Actor |
23-Nov-1902 |
12-Feb-1982 |
Cat-Women of the Moon |
Brenda Joyce |
Actor |
25-Feb-1912 |
4-Jul-2009 |
Tarzan's Jane |
Joseph Kane |
Film Director |
19-Mar-1894 |
25-Aug-1975 |
Flame of Barbary Coast |
Kurt Kasznar |
Actor |
13-Aug-1913 |
6-Aug-1979 |
Fitzhugh on Land of the Giants |
Zalman King |
Film Director |
23-May-1942 |
3-Feb-2012 |
9 1/2 Weeks |
Martin Kosleck |
Actor |
24-Mar-1904 |
15-Jan-1994 |
German-American character actor |
Hope Lange |
Actor |
28-Nov-1931 |
19-Dec-2003 |
Peyton Place |
Joi Lansing |
Actor |
6-Apr-1929 |
7-Aug-1972 |
Gladys Flatt on The Beverly Hillbillies |
Stan Laurel |
Actor |
16-Jun-1890 |
23-Feb-1965 |
Laurel and Hardy |
Joseph H. Lewis |
Film Director |
6-Apr-1907 |
30-Aug-2000 |
Gun Crazy |
Frank Lloyd |
Film Director |
2-Feb-1886 |
10-Aug-1960 |
Mutiny on the Bounty |
Gene Lockhart |
Actor |
18-Jul-1891 |
31-Mar-1957 |
Algiers |
Edward Ludwig |
Film Director |
7-Oct-1898 |
20-Aug-1982 |
The Fighting Seabees |
Sidney Luft |
Film/TV Producer |
2-Nov-1915 |
15-Sep-2005 |
Ex-Husband of Judy Garland |
Barton MacLane |
Actor |
25-Dec-1902 |
1-Jan-1969 |
Gen. Peterson on I Dream of Jeannie |
Fred MacMurray |
Actor |
30-Aug-1908 |
6-Nov-1991 |
The Absent-Minded Professor |
Arthur Malet |
Actor |
24-Sep-1927 |
18-May-2013 |
The Secret of NIMH |
Dick Martin |
Comic |
30-Jan-1922 |
24-May-2008 |
Laugh-In |
Marion Martin |
Actor |
7-Jun-1908 |
13-Aug-1985 |
Boom Town |
Andrew Marton |
Film Director |
26-Jan-1904 |
7-Jan-1992 |
Directed chariot race in Ben-Hur |
Walter Matthau |
Actor |
1-Oct-1920 |
1-Jul-2000 |
Messy half of the Odd Couple |
Frank Maxwell |
Actor |
17-Nov-1916 |
4-Aug-2004 |
Dan Rooney on General Hospital |
Leo McCarey |
Film Director |
3-Oct-1898 |
5-Jul-1969 |
The Awful Truth |
Patrick McGoohan |
Actor |
19-Mar-1928 |
13-Jan-2009 |
Number Six on The Prisoner |
Dorothy McGuire |
Actor |
14-Jun-1916 |
13-Sep-2001 |
A Summer Place |
Kenneth McMillan |
Actor |
2-Jul-1932 |
8-Jan-1989 |
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen |
Lauritz Melchior |
Singer |
20-Mar-1890 |
18-Mar-1973 |
Wagnerian operatic tenor |
Bill Melendez |
Cartoonist |
15-Nov-1916 |
2-Sep-2008 |
A Charlie Brown Christmas |
Mary Miles Minter |
Actor |
1-Apr-1902 |
4-Aug-1984 |
Anne of Green Gables |
Millard Mitchell |
Actor |
14-Aug-1903 |
13-Oct-1953 |
My Six Convicts |
Tom Moore |
Actor |
1-May-1883 |
12-Feb-1955 |
Irish-American character actor |
Bess Myerson |
Model |
16-Jul-1924 |
14-Dec-2014 |
First Jewish Miss America |
Patrick Nagel |
Artist |
25-Nov-1945 |
4-Feb-1984 |
The Nagel Woman |
Alan Napier |
Actor |
7-Jan-1903 |
8-Aug-1988 |
Alfred on Batman |
Ralph Nelson |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1916 |
21-Dec-1987 |
Father Goose |
Red Norvo |
Jazz Musician |
31-Mar-1908 |
6-Apr-1999 |
Jazz xylophonist |
Dan O'Bannon |
Screenwriter |
30-Sep-1946 |
17-Dec-2009 |
Alien, Total Recall |
Pat O'Brien |
Actor |
11-Nov-1899 |
15-Oct-1983 |
Angels with Dirty Faces |
Dennis O'Keefe |
Actor |
29-Mar-1908 |
31-Aug-1968 |
Brewster's Millions |
Dick O'Neill |
Actor |
29-Aug-1928 |
17-Nov-1998 |
Charlie Cagney on Cagney and Lacey |
Ken Ober |
Game Show Host |
3-Jul-1957 |
15-Nov-2009 |
Remote Control, Ober and Olsen |
Johnny Olson |
Game Show Host |
22-May-1910 |
12-Oct-1985 |
Announcer for What's My Line, etc. |
Lynne Overman |
Actor |
19-Sep-1887 |
19-Feb-1943 |
Reap the Wild Wind |
Gale Page |
Actor |
23-Jul-1913 |
8-Jan-1983 |
Four Daughters |
Franklin Pangborn |
Actor |
23-Jan-1888 |
20-Jul-1958 |
Character actor, 1920s to 1950s |
Louella Parsons |
Columnist |
6-Aug-1881 |
9-Dec-1972 |
Hollywood queen of gossip |
Chris Penn |
Actor |
10-Oct-1965 |
24-Jan-2006 |
Nice Guy Eddie in Reservoir Dogs |
Mary Pickford |
Actor |
8-Apr-1892 |
29-May-1979 |
America's Sweetheart |
Walter Pidgeon |
Actor |
23-Sep-1897 |
25-Sep-1984 |
How Green Was My Valley |
Edward Platt |
Actor |
14-Feb-1916 |
19-Mar-1974 |
Chief on Get Smart |
June Pointer |
Musician |
30-Nov-1953 |
11-Apr-2006 |
The Pointer Sisters |
Richard H. Popkin |
Philosopher |
27-Dec-1923 |
14-Apr-2005 |
The History of Scepticism |
Cole Porter |
Composer |
9-Jun-1891 |
15-Oct-1964 |
I've Got You Under My Skin |
Ted Post |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1918 |
20-Aug-2013 |
Hang 'Em High |
Harve Presnell |
Actor |
14-Sep-1933 |
30-Jun-2009 |
When the Boys Meet the Girls |
Fred Quimby |
Film/TV Producer |
31-Jul-1886 |
16-Sep-1965 |
Producer of Tom and Jerry |
Ford Rainey |
Actor |
8-Aug-1908 |
25-Jul-2005 |
Window on Main Street |
Elisabeth Risdon |
Actor |
26-Apr-1887 |
20-Dec-1958 |
The Roaring Twenties |
Martin Ritt |
Film Director |
2-Mar-1914 |
8-Dec-1990 |
The Long Hot Summer |
Richard Rober |
Actor |
14-May-1910 |
26-May-1952 |
Jet Pilot |
Gene Roddenberry |
Screenwriter |
19-Aug-1921 |
24-Oct-1991 |
Creator of Star Trek |
Cesar Romero |
Actor |
15-Feb-1907 |
1-Jan-1994 |
The Joker on Batman |
Russell Rouse |
Screenwriter |
20-Nov-1913 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Pillow Talk |
Wesley Ruggles |
Film Director |
11-Jun-1889 |
8-Jan-1972 |
Cimarron |
Irene Ryan |
Actor |
17-Oct-1902 |
26-Apr-1973 |
Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies |
Joe Santos |
Actor |
9-Jun-1931 |
18-Mar-2016 |
Det. Becker on Rockford Files |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Film Director |
28-Apr-1930 |
18-Sep-2013 |
Vanishing Point |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Film Director |
30-May-1920 |
2-Jul-1989 |
Patton and Planet of the Apes |
Dan Seymour |
Actor |
22-Feb-1915 |
25-May-1993 |
Return of the Fly |
Clark Shaughnessy |
Football |
6-Mar-1892 |
15-May-1970 |
Invented football T-Formation |
Jean Simmons |
Actor |
31-Jan-1929 |
22-Jan-2010 |
Guys and Dolls |
Barbara Stanwyck |
Actor |
16-Jul-1907 |
20-Jan-1990 |
Double Indemnity |
Robert Taylor |
Actor |
5-Aug-1911 |
8-Jun-1969 |
Quo Vadis |
Sam Taylor |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1895 |
6-Mar-1958 |
Safety Last! |
Ray Teal |
Actor |
12-Jan-1902 |
2-Apr-1976 |
Sheriff Roy Coffee on Bonanza |
Irving Thalberg |
Film/TV Producer |
30-May-1899 |
14-Sep-1936 |
De-facto boss of MGM Studios |
Peter Tomarken |
Game Show Host |
7-Dec-1942 |
13-Mar-2006 |
Host of Press Your Luck |
Lee Tracy |
Actor |
14-Apr-1898 |
18-Oct-1968 |
Crashing Hollywood |
Helen Traubel |
Singer |
16-Jun-1899 |
28-Jul-1972 |
Wagnerian soprano |
Les Tremayne |
Radio Personality |
16-Apr-1913 |
19-Dec-2003 |
Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts |
Sonny Tufts |
Actor |
16-Jul-1911 |
4-Jun-1970 |
Cat-Women of the Moon |
Ben Turpin |
Actor |
19-Sep-1869 |
1-Jul-1940 |
Cross-eyed comic actor |
Kenneth Tynan |
Critic |
2-Apr-1927 |
26-Jul-1980 |
British theatre critic |
Dick Van Patten |
Actor |
9-Dec-1928 |
23-Jun-2015 |
Dad on Eight is Enough |
John Vivyan |
Actor |
31-May-1915 |
20-Dec-1983 |
Mr. Lucky |
David Wayne |
Actor |
30-Jan-1914 |
9-Feb-1995 |
The Andromeda Strain |
Roy Webb |
Composer |
3-Oct-1888 |
10-Dec-1982 |
Music Director at RKO, 1929-55 |
Lawrence Welk |
Conductor |
11-Mar-1903 |
17-May-1992 |
Big band leader, TV champagne music host |
Roland West |
Film Director |
20-Feb-1885 |
31-Mar-1952 |
The Bat Whispers |
Haskell Wexler |
Cinematographer |
6-Feb-1922 |
27-Dec-2015 |
Medium Cool |
Rhys Williams |
Actor |
31-Dec-1897 |
28-May-1969 |
The Bells of St. Mary's |
Meredith Willson |
Composer |
18-May-1902 |
15-Jun-1984 |
The Music Man |
Anna May Wong |
Actor |
3-Jan-1905 |
3-Feb-1961 |
Shanghai Express |
Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |