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William Atherton
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1947 -
William Atherton is an American actor known for playing heavies in films like Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
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(1947-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Lauren Bacall
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up / 1924 -
Lauren Bacall is an Academy Award-nominated actress known for roles in films like The Big Sleep, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Fan and The Mirror Has Two Faces.
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(1924-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Theater Actor / 1852 - 1917
Sir Herbert Beerbohm was a stage actor and well-known figure in English theater. He both managed and produced several plays in London including Charles Dickens and Shakespearean classics.
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(1852-1917)
Theater Actor
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Peter Bogdanovich
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Film Critic, Director, Producer, Journalist, Screenwriter / 1939 -
American film historian, author and director Peter Bogdanovich is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed film, The Last Picture Show (1971).
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(1939-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Film Critic, Director, Producer, Journalist, Screenwriter
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Roscoe Lee Browne
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1925 - 2007
Since the end of the 1960s, Actor Roscoe Lee Browne made steady television appearances, including on Barney Miller, The Cosby Show, ER and Will & Grace.
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(1925-2007)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Steve Buscemi
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director, Screenwriter / 1957 -
Steve Buscemi is a popular character actor, director and screenwriter. He's known for his role on the critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire.
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(1957-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director, Screenwriter
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Art Carney
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Comedian / 1918 - 2003
Art Carney was an Oscar-winning actor and comedian best known for his role as Jackie Gleason's best friend, Ed Norton, on the pioneering sitcom The Honeymooners.
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(1918-2003)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Comedian
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Stockard Channing
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1944 -
Stockard Channing is an award-winning American actress best known for her roles in Grease (1978), Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and The West Wing (2002).
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(1944-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Glenn Close
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1947 -
Actress Glenn Close is best known for her many Oscar-nominated roles, like the psychotic mistress in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction.
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(1947-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Ronald Colman
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Warrior / 1891 - 1958
Ronald Colman was an Academy Award-winning British actor.
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(1891-1958)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Warrior
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Sean Connery
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Producer / 1930 -
Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery played "007" in the first James Bond spy movies. He also played the Indiane Jones's father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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(1930-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Producer
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Shannen Doherty
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Television Producer, Writer / 1971 -
Shannen Doherty is best known for her roles as Heather Duke in the film Heathers and on TV as Brenda in Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Prue in Charmed.
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(1971-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Television Producer, Writer
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Paul Dooley
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Comedian / 1928 -
Paul Dooley drew comic strips for his local newspaper before he turned to the big screen, taking roles in films such as Sixteen Candles and Breaking Away.
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(1928-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Comedian
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Ruth Draper
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Playwright / 1884 - 1956
Ruth Draper was an American monologist whose best known pieces include The Italian Lesson and Doctors and Diets.
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(1884-1956)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Playwright
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Samantha Eggar
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1939 -
Samantha Eggar is a British film and television actress. She recently performed as Hera in the Disney film Hercules.
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(1939-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Tina Fey
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Comedian, Television Producer, Screenwriter / 1970 -
Tina Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer best known for her roles on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock.
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(1970-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Comedian, Television Producer, Screenwriter
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Geraldine Fitzgerald
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1913 - 2005
Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald became adept at playing nearly every kind of supporting role in her fifty year acting career.
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(1913-2005)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Paulette Goddard
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Model / 1910 - 1990
Paulette Goddard was an American actress best known for her film performances and her marriage to Charlie Chaplin and Burgess Meredith.
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(1910-1990)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Model
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Rachel Griffiths
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1968 -
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths made her movie debut in the hit Oz comedy Muriel's Wedding (1994), marking the beginning of a successful film career.
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(1968-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Charles Grodin
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Radio Talk Show Host, Talk Show Host / 1935 -
Charles Grodin is an actor, comedian and talk show host known for his roles in The Heartbreak Kid and Beethoven.
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(1935-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Radio Talk Show Host, Talk Show Host
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Ioan Gruffudd
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1973 -
Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor best known for playing Horatio Hornblower in the Emmy Award-winning A&E miniseries.
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(1973-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Richard Harris
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1930 - 2002
Irish actor Richard Harris is best known for his performances as King Arthur in Broadway's Camelot and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.
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(1930-2002)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Rex Harrison
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1908 - 1990
Rex Harrison was a Tony- and an Oscar-winning English actor known for his film and stage performances. His most famous role is that of Henry Higgins in the film musical My Fair Lady.
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(1908-1990)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Audrey Hepburn
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Philanthropist / 1929 - 1993
Actress Audrey Hepburn, star of Breakfast at Tiffany's, remains one of Hollywood's greatest style icons and one of the world's most successful actresses.
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(1929-1993)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Philanthropist
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Steven Hill
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1922 -
Steven Hill is a Jewish-American actor known for his roles in Mission Impossible and on Law & Order.
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(1922-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director / 1967 -
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has gained recognition for his work in a series of successful films including Capote and Doubt.
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(1967-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director
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Rinko Kikuchi
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1981 -
Actress Rinko Kikuchi is an acclaimed screen and stage performer best known for her role in Babel as a fiercely defiant deaf mute.
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(1981-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Penny Singleton
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Singer / 1908 - 2003
Penny Singleton is an actress and singer who had a long career in show business and best known for her role as the legendary comic strip character Blondie.
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(1908-2003)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Singer
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Zero Mostel
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1915 - 1977
Stage, television and screen actor Zero Mostel won a Tony Award playing Tevye in Jerome Robbins' Fiddler on the Roof, and starred in Mel Brooks' film The Producers.
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(1915-1977)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Peter O'Toole
Anti-War Activist, Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1932 -
Irish born Peter O'Toole is one of Hollywood's most highly-honored actors. He is best known for playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
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(1932-)
Anti-War Activist, Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Pearl Bailey
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Singer, Journalist / 1918 - 1990
Pearl Bailey was a Tony Award-winning singer and actress known for her roles in works like Carmen Jones, House of Flowers, Hello, Dolly! and Porgy and Bess.
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(1918-1990)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Singer, Journalist
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Suzanne Pleshette
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1937 - 2008
Suzanne Pleshette was an Emmy Award-nominated actress known for roles in films like The Geisha Boy and The Birds, as well as the television series The Bob Newhart Show.
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(1937-2008)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Robert Preston
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1918 - 1987
Actor Robert Preston was best known for his portrayal of the charismatic huckster in The Music Man - a role he played on Broadway and in the film adaptation.
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(1918-1987)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Phylicia Rashad
Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1948 -
Phylicia Rashad is an Toby-winning African American actress who is best known as Clair Huxtable on NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
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(1948-)
Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Tom Selleck
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1945 -
Tom Selleck is an actor best known for portraying Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television series Magnum, P.I., and for films including Three Men and a Baby.
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(1945-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Paul Sorvino
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1939 -
Brooklyn born actor Paul Sorvino has acted on stage, on television and in film and is best known for his role as Henry Kissinger in Nixon (1995).
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(1939-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Patrick Stewart
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1940 -
English film, television and stage actor Patrick Stewart is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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(1940-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Jessica Tandy
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1909 - 1994
Jessica Tandy was an English-born U.S. actress well known for her role in Broadway's Foxfire and her Oscar-winning performance in the film Driving Miss Daisy.
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(1909-1994)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Rip Taylor
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Comedian, Television Personality / 1934 -
Comedian Rip Taylor is best known for his tacky costumes, handlebar mustache, wacky wigs and manic confetti tossing in his stage and film appearances.
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(1934-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Comedian, Television Personality
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Spencer Tracy
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1900 - 1967
Spencer Tracy was one of Hollywood's greatest film stars. He appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967 and was nominated for five Academy Awards, two of which he won.
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(1900-1967)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Stanley Tucci
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director / 1960 -
Stanley Tucci is an actor, perhaps best known for playing Julia Child's husband in Julie & Julia, as well as his Oscar-winning performance in The Lovely Bones.
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(1960-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director
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Sophie Tucker
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Singer / 1886 - 1966
Sophie Tucker, also known as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas," was a Russian-American singer, comedian, actress and Vaudeville performer.
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(1886-1966)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Singer
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Peter Ustinov
Academic, Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director, Radio Personality, Television Personality, Journalist, Playwright / 1921 - 2004
Peter Ustinov was an English actor, writer and director who is known for his Oscar-winning performances in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964).
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(1921-2004)
Academic, Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Director, Radio Personality, Television Personality, Journalist, Playwright
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Sam Waterston
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1940 -
Sam Waterston is an acclaimed actor known for his film, TV and stage work, including roles in Law & Order and Gore Vidal's Lincoln.
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(1940-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Rutina Wesley
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1979 -
Rutina Wesley is an African-American actress known for her role as Tara Thornton on the HBO vampire series True Blood.
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(1979-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Mae West
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Pin-up / 1893 - 1980
Mae West started in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York, and later moved to Hollywood to star in films known for their blunt sexuality and steamy settings.
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(1893-1980)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Pin-up
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Shelley Winters
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Pin-up / 1920 - 2006
Shelley Winters was a popular American actress who is perhaps most remembered for her starring role in the 1951 film A Place in the Sun, for which won an Oscar.
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(1920-2006)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Pin-up