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A. E. MATTHEWS
A E Matthews (Matty Matthews) was a British actor. He was born in 1869 at Bridlington,
Yorkshire and died in 1960.

AARON JACKSON

Aaron Jackson is an American actor and film producer. He was born in 1973 at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO

Abbott and Costello were an American comedy film partnership comprising Bud Abbott
and Lou Costello. Both men had theatrical experience before teaming up as a comedy
double act, Costello playing the clown and Abbott his straight man. They began
performing on radio in 1938, appeared on Broadway in 1939 and made a number of
successful comedy films, beginning with Buck Rivates in 1941.

ABE VIGODA

Abe Vigoda is an American actor. He was born in 1921 at New York.

ABEL GANCE

Abel Gance was a French actor and film director. He was born in 1889 and died in 1981.

ABNER BIBERMAN

Abner Biberman was an American actor. He was born in 1909 and died in 1977.

ABRAHAM SOFAER
Abraham Sofaer was a Burmese actor. He was born in 1896 at Rangoon and died in 1998
of congestive heart disease.

ADAM ANT

Adam Ant (real name Stuart Leslie Goddard) is an English actor and musician. He was
born in 1954 at London. He is best known as a singer. Leading the punk band 'Adam and
the Ants' in the early 1980's. Soon after, he began a solo career when the remainder of the
band left, with hits like 'Goody Two Shoes'. His biggest contribution to music was his
pioneering use of videos in the early eighties.

ADAM ARKIN

Adam Arkin is an American actor. He was born in 1957 at New York.

ADAM BALDWIN

Adam Baldwin is an American actor. He was born in 1962 at Chicago, Illinois.

ADAM FAITH

Adam Faith (real name Terence Nelhams) was an English actor and singer. He was born
in 1940 at Acton, London and died in 2003. First famous as a pop star during the 1960s
he moved into acting during the 1970s, appearing in the television series 'Budgie'. Later
he was a record producer, starting Leo Sayer on his career and then a financial journalist
working for the BBC among others.

ADAM ROARKE

Adam Roarke (real name Richard Jordan Gerler) was an American actor. He was born in
1937 at Brooklyn, New York and died in 1996.
ADAM WEST

Adam West is an American actor. He was born in 1929. He is best known for his
portrayal of Batman in the 1960s and 1970s.

ADAM WILLIAMS

Adam Williams is an American actor. He was born in 1929.

ADDISON RICHARDS

Addison Richards (real name Addison Whitaker Richards Junior) was an American actor.
He was born in 1887 at Zanesville, Ohio and died in 1964 of a heart attack.

ADOLFO CELI

Adolfo Celi was an Italian actor. He was born in 1922 at Messina, Sicily and died in 1986
of a heart attack.

ADOLFO SHABBA-DOO

Adolfo Shabba-doo (real name Adolfo Quinones) is an American actor, choreographer,

dancer and director. He was born in 1955.

ADOLPHE MENJOU

Adolphe Menjou was an American actor. He was born in 1890 at Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania and died in 1963 of chronic hepatitis.

ADRIAN PASDAR
Adrian Pasdar is an American actor and film director. He was born in 1967 at Pittsfield,
Massachusetts. His first acting job came at the age of 19 when he auditioned for a role in
the 1986 film 'Top Gun'. His aufition so impressed the director, Tony Scott that he wrote
the role of 'Chipper' especially for him.

ADRIAN ZMED

Adrian Zmed is an American actor. He was born in 1954 at Chicago, Illinois.

AIDAN QUINN

Aidan Quinn is an American actor and producer. He was born in 1959 at Chicago,
Illinois.

AKE GRONBERG

Ake Gronberg was a Swedish actor. He was born in 1914 and died in 1969.

AKIM TAMIROFF

Akim Tamiroff was a Russian actor. He was born in 1899 at Tiflis, Georgia and died in
1972 of cancer. Short and stocky with dark hair, thick eyebrows over intense eyes, often
with a black moustache, he was cast in a variety of ethnic roles as both a hero and 'heavy'.
He trained for acting at the Moscow Art Theatre Drama School and was touring with his
repertory company in the USA in 1923 when he decided to stay in America. With his
wife, actress Tamara Shayne, he joined Balieff's Chauvre Souris troupe and did Russian
nightclub acts. He also conducted a makeup academy in New York where he worked on
stage and on Broadway productions. With the advent of sound films he was attracted to
the screen and did many bit parts in films which led to solid career as a character actor.
He appeared in over 100 films and is best remembered for his role as Pablo in 'For Whom
the Bell Tolls' for which he received a best supporting actor nomination.

AL CLIVER

Al Cliver is an Egyptian actor. He was born in 1951 at Alexandria. He sometimes works

under the names Al Clever, Pier Luigi Conti and Pierluigi Conti.

AL FREEMAN JUNIOR

Al Freeman Junior is an American actor, director and writer. He was born in 1934 at San
Antonio, Texas.

AL JOLSON

Al Jolson (real name Asa Yoelson) was a Lithuanian actor. He was born in 1886 and died
in 1950. He went to the USA as a child, against his father's wishes, and starred in minstrel
shows before becoming a singing star. Warner Brothers decided to star him in their first
partly-talking-picture, the 1927 'The Jazz Singer' At the end of the 1930s his film career
was over. This and the divorce from Ruby Keeler had a negative influence on his health.
During the Second World War he sung for the American Military Forces like many other
entertainers.

AL LETTIERI

Al Lettieri was an American actor. He was born in 1928 at New York and died in 1975.

AL MARTINO
Al Martino (real name Alfred Cini) is an actor. He was born in 1927. He played 'Johnny
Fontane' in the 'Godfather' trilogy of films.

AL PACINO

Al Pacino (Alfredo James Pacino) is an American actor. He was born in 1939 at New
York.

AL SHEAN

Al Shean (real name Alfred Schoenberg) was a German-born American actor. He was
born in 1868 and died in 1949.

AL ST JOHN

Al St John was an American comedy actor. He was born in 1893 and died in 1963. he is
best remembered for his portrayal of 'Fuzzy Q Jones' in various second-feature westerns.

ALAIN CUNY

Alain Cuny was a French actor. He was born in 1908 at Saint-Malo and died in 1994.

ALAIN DELON
Alain Delon is a French actor. He was born in 1935 at Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. After
various odd jobs, including being a parachutist with the French marines, Delon made his
film debut in 1957.

ALAN ALDA

Alan Alda is an American actor, director and producer. He was born in 1936 at New York.
He is best known for his portrayal of 'Hawkeye' in the television series MASH.

ALAN ARKIN

Alan Wolf Arkin is an American actor, director and producer. He was born in 1934 at
New York. He is one of only a few actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for
Best Actor for his first screen appearance.

ALAN BADEL

Alan Badel was an English actor. He was born in 1923 at Rusholme and died in 1982. He
played 'Major Petrovich' in the 1978 film 'Force 10 From Navarone'.

ALAN BATES
Alan Arthur Bates was a British actor. He was born in 1934 at Allestree and died in 2003.
He decided to be an actor at the age of 11. After attending grammar school in Derbyshire,
he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following
two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal
Court Theatre, his West End debut coming in 1956. In the same year Bates appeared in
Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger', a play that gave a name to a generation of post-war
'angry young men'. The play made Bates a star, and launched a lifetime performing in
works written by great modern playwrights - Pinter, Gray, Storey, Bennett, Shaffer,
Stoppard (as well as Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shakespeare). Four years later, Alan
Bates appeared in his first film, 'The Entertainer', in which he played one of Laurence
Olivier's sons. More than fifty film roles followed, one of which, 'The Fixer' (from a
novel by Bernard Malamud) earned him an Academy Award nomination.

ALAN BAXTER

Alan Baxter was an American actor. He was born in 1908 and died in 1976.

ALAN BENNETT
Alan Bennett is a British actor and playwright. He was born in 1934.

ALAN CURTIS

Alan Curtis (real name Harold Neberoth) was an American actor. He was born in 1909
and died in 1953.

ALAN DINEHART

Alan Dinehart was an American actor. He was born in 1889 at Missoula, Montana and
died in 1944.

ALAN FREED

Alan Freed was an American actor, composer and producer. He was born in 1922 at
Johnstown, Pennsylvania and died in 1965 or uremia.

ALAN FUDGE

Alan Fudge is an American actor. He was born in 1944 at Wichita, Kansas.

ALAN HALE

Alan Hale (real name Rufus Alan McKahan) was an American actor and director. He was
born in 1892 at Washington DC and died in 1950. He decided on a film career after his
attempt at becoming an opera singer didn't work. He quickly became much in demand as
a supporting actor, and starred in several productions, as well as directing others for the
producer Cecil B DeMille. With the advent of sound, he played leads in a few films, but
settled down into a career as a character actor. He was one of the featured members of
what became known as the Warner Brothers Stock Co., a core of character actors and
actresses who appeared in scores of Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Hale's
best known role is probably in the 1939 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', one of several
films he made with his friend Errol Flynn, in which he played Little John, a role he
played on two other occasions - in the 1922 'Robin Hood' and the 1951 'Rogues of
Sherwood Forest'.

ALAN HALE JUNIOR

Alan Hale Junior (real name Alan MacKahn) was an American actor. He was born in
1918 at Los Angeles and died in 1990 of cancer of the thymus. He was the son of Alan
Hale.

ALAN KING

Alan King (real name Irwin Kniberg) is an American cabaret comedian and actor. He was
born in 1924.

ALAN LADD

Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film producer. He was born in 1913 at
Hot Springs, Arkansas and died in 1964 of cerebral edema. He played the title role in the
1953 western, 'Shane'.

ALAN MARSHAL

Alan Marshal was an Australian actor. He was born in 1909 at Sydney, New South Wales
and died in 1961 of a heart attack.

ALAN MOWBRAY

Ernest Alan Mowbray was an English born American actor. He was born in 1896 at
London and died in 1969 of a heart attack. He was of the stiff-upper lip school of British
actors. He was tall, of rigid posture, well groomed with an aristocratic air about him and
excellent diction. He was often cast as a British or European gentleman, as a butler,
doctor, aristocrat, or royalty. He started acting on the English stage and eventually toured
the USA with his company the Theater Guild from 1923 to 1929. He was an occasional
screenwriter but gave it up for acting. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1933.
He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

ALAN NAPIER

Alan Napier (Alan Napier-Clavering) was an American actor. He was born in 1903 at
Birmingham, England and died in 1988 of a stroke. He is best known for playing the
butler, Alfred, in the television series 'Batman'.

ALAN OPPENHEIMER

Alan Oppenheimer is an American actor. He was born in 1930 at New York.

ALAN PRICE

Alan Price is an English actor and composer. He was born in 1941 at Fairfield, Durham.
He was a member of the pop group 'The Animals'.

ALAN REED

Alan Reed (real name Edward Bergman) was an American actor. He was born in 1907 at
New York and died in 1977. He was also known as Falstaff Openshaw. His most famous
role is perhaps that of the voice of 'Fred Flintstone' in the cartoon series.

ALAN WEBB

Alan Webb was an English actor. He was born in 1906 at York and died in 1982.

ALAN WHEATLEY
Alan Wheatley was an English actor. He was born in 1907 at Tulworth, Surrey and died
in 1991 of a heart attack. He played the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1991 television film
'Robin Hood: The Movie'.

ALAN YOUNG

Alan Young is an English actor, director and writer. He was born in 1919 at North Shield.

ALBERT BASSERMAN

Albert Basserman was a German-born actor. He was born in 1867 and died in 1952. A
distinguished stage actor, he emigrated to the USA in 1939.

ALBERT BROOKS
Albert Brooks (real name Albert Einstein) is an American actor, writer and director. He
was born in 1947 at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

ALBERT DEKKER

Albert Dekker was an American actor. He was born in 1905 at Brooklyn, New York and
died in 1968 of asphyxia. A stage actor from 1927, Albert Dekker was already an
established Broadway star when he made his film debut in 1937. Tall and with rugged
good looks, he often played aggressive character roles, and was memorable as the
double-crossing gang leader in the 1946 film 'The Killers'. From 1945 to 1946 he served
a term in the California legislature representing the Hollywood district. As he got older,
Dekker, unlike many actors, turned to the stage rather than television, and achieved great
success there and on the college lecture circuit. Dekker's last role, in the 1969 western
'The Wild Bunch', was one of his more memorable ones.

ALBERT FINNEY

Albert Finney is an English actor. He was born in 1936 at Salford, Manchester.

ALBERT HALL

Albert P Hall is an American actor. He was born in 1937 at Boothton, Alabama.

ALBERT LIEVEN
Albert Lieven was a German actor. He was born in 1906 at Hohenstein and died in 1971.

ALBERT POPWELL

Albert Popwell was an American actor. He was born in 1926 at New York and died in
1999 following surgery. He starred in the first four Dirty Harry movies with Clint
Eastwood, playing four different characters in each. He was the bank robber in Dirty
Harry, a pimp in Magnum Force, a black militant leader in The Enforcer, and Harry's
partner in Sudden Impact.

ALBERT PREJEAN

Albert Prejean was a French actor. He was born in 1893 at Paris and died in 1979.

ALBERT SALMI

Albert Salmi (real name Alfred Salmi) was an American actor. He was born in 1928 at
Brooklyn, New York and died in 1990. After serving in the Army during the Second
World War, he used the GI Bill to study at the Dramatic Workshop of the American
Theater Wing and the prestigious Actors Studio. He became a stage actor, eventually
making it to Broadway, where his role as Bo Decker in 'Bus Stop' was his biggest stage
success. A compromise between the stage and screen was live television drama, in which
he was cast regularly. Salmi's very first film appearance was a choice role in 'The
Brothers Karamazov', for which he turned down an Oscar nomination. The National
Board of Review succeeded in presenting him with their award for the same picture,
however. Salmi came to enjoy film work and actively seeked out parts in westerns. He
then became a very familiar presence, especially on the TV screen, where he guest starred
in many of the westerns and other series of the sixties and seventies. He committed
suicide in 1990.

ALBERT SHARPE

Albert Sharpe was an Irish actor. He was born in 1885 at Belfast.

ALBERTO SORDI

Alberto Sordi is an Italian actor. He was born in 1920 at Rome. He began his career as a
dubber - notably as Oliver Hardy's voice in Italian versions. The city of Rome nominated
him honorary major for a day to celebrate his 80th birthday in June 1999.

ALDO FABRIZI

Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor, writer, director and producer. He was born in 1905 at
Rome and died in 1990 of heart failure.
ALDO RAY

Aldo Ray (Real name Aldo DaRe) was an American actor. He was born in 1926 at Pen
Argyl, Pennsylvania and died in 1991 of throat cancer.

ALEC B. FRANCIS

Alec B Francis was a British actor. He was born in 1867 at London and died in 1934
following surgery. He worked under various names including Alec Frances, Alec Francis,
Alex B Francis, Alexander Francis, and Alex Francis.

ALEC BALDWIN

Alec Baldwin (real name Alexander Rae Baldwin III) is an American actor. He was born
in 1958 at Massapequa, Long Island, New York. In 1995 he was chosen by Empire
magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history, ranking number 80.

ALEC CLUNES

Alec Clunes was a British actor. He was born in 1912 at London and died in 1970. His
most memorable film role was as 'Lord Hastings' in the 1954 film 'Richard III'.

ALEC GUINESS

See "Alec Guinness"

ALEC GUINNESS

Sir Alec Guinness (also spelled Guiness) is a British actor. He was born in 1914 at
London. He started life as an advertising copywriter before studying acting. In the 1930s,
he was in various stage productions With the Old Vic; in 1941, he joined the British navy,
in which he served as an officer. After the Second World War, he began a serious film
career. He soon became proficient in playing multiple roles in a single movie. In Kind
Hearts and Coronets in 1949, he amazed audiences by playing eight roles, but it was as a
stiff-upper-lipped British officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957 that he won an
Oscar for best actor. In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his outstanding work
on the stage and in movies.

ALEC MCCOWEN

Alexander Duncan McCowen is a British actor. He was born in 1925 at Tunbridge Wells.

ALEJANDRO REY

Alejandro Rey was an Argentine actor and director. He was born in 1930 at Buenos Aires
and died in 1987. He became an American citizen in 1967.

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