Classic Stars - Male

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Dana Andrews

Birth: January 1, 1909

Death: December 17, 1992

Movie: Ball of Fire (1941), Laura (1944), The Best Year of Our Lives (1946)

 

Fred Astaire OOO

Birth: May 10, 1899

Death: June 22, 1987

Movie: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), Easter Parade (1948), The Band Wagon (1953), Funny Face (1957)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in 1949.

 

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John Barrymore

Movie: Grand Hotel (1931)

 

Lionel Barrymore

Movie: A Free Soul (1930)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1931)

 

Humphrey Bogart OOO

Nickname: Bogie

Birth: January 23, 1899

Death: January 14, 1957

Movie: Dead End (1937), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), The Big Sleep (1946), The African Queen (1951), Sabrina (1954)

Remark: Lauren Bacall's husband; one-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1951)

 

Marlon Brando

Birth: April 3, 1924

Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Wild One (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955), The Godfather (1972)

Remark: Two-times Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1954, 1972)

 

Yul Brynner O

Real Name: Taidje Khan

Born: July 11, 1915

Death: October 10, 1985

Movie: Anastasia (1956), The King and I (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956)

Remark: He is half Mongolian and half Romanian; he was living in Beijing, China until 10; one-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1956)

 

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Charlie Chaplin OO

Birth: April 16, 1889

Death: December 25, 1977

Movie: The Circus (1928), Modern Times (1936)

Remark: Received two Honourary Oscars in 1928 and 1971.

 

Maurice Chevalier

Movie: The Big Pond (1929), The Love Parade (1929), The Merry Widow (1934)

 

Montgomery Clift O

Birth: October 17, 1920

Death: July 23, 1966

Movie: Red River (1948), A Place in the Sun (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953)

 

Gary Cooper OO

Birth: May 7, 1901

Death: May 13, 1961

Movie: Morocco (1930), Ball of Fire (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), High Noon (1952), Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Remark: Two-times Academy Award Best Actor Winner; also received Honourary Award in 1960

 

Bing Crosby OO

Birth: May 2, 1904

Death: October 14, 1977

Movie: Going My Way (1944), The Bell's of St. Mary's (1945), The Country Girl (1954), White Christmas (1954), High Society (1956)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner

 

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James Dean OO

Birth: February 8, 1931

Death: September 30, 1955

Movie: East of Eden (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Giant (1956)

 

Kirk Douglas

Movie: A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Young Man with a Horn (1950), The Bad and the Beautiful (1951), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Remarl: Received Honrary Oscar in 1995.

 

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Clint Eastwood

Birth: May 31, 1930

Movie: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Director Winner (1992)

 

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Henry Fonda O

Movie: You Only Live Once (1937), Jezebel (1938), The Lady Eve (1941), War and Peace (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), 12 Angry Men (1957), The Longest Day (1962), Once Upon A Time In The West (1968), On Golden Pond (1981)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in ; one-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1981)

 

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Clark Gable

Real name: William Clark Gable

Nickname: King

Birth: February 1, 1901

Death: November 16, 1960

Movie: It Happened One Night (1934), Gone with the Wind (1939)

 

Cary Grant OOO

Real Name: Archibald Leach

Birth: January 18, 1904

Death: November 29, 1986

Movie: Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Charade (1963)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in 1969

 

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Rex Harrison

Movie: Cleopatra (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), Dr. Dolittle (1967)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner

 

Charlton Heston O

Born:

Movie: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner; received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1977.

 

Dustin Hoffman

Born: 1937

Movie: The Graduate (1967), Marathon Man (1976), Kramer V.S. Kramer (1979)

 

Bob Hope

Remark: Received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1959; also received Honourary Oscars in 1940, 1944, 1952, and 1965.

 

William Holden OOO

Birth: April 17, 1918

Death: November 16, 1981

Movie: Golden Boy (1940), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalog 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Country Girl (1954)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner

 

Rock Hudson

Death: 1985

Movie: Giant (1956), Pillow Talk (1959)

 

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Louis Jourdan OO

Birth: 1919

Movie: Madame Bovary (1949), The Swan (1956), Gigi (1958)

 

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Danny Kaye

Movie: White Christmas (1954), The Court Jester (1956)

Remark: Received Honouary Award in 1954 and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1981.

 

Gene Kelly OOO

Birth: August 23, 1912

Death: February 2, 1996

Movie: For Me and My Gal (1942), Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), Summer Stock (1950), An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in 1951; he made six films with actress Judy Garland between 1942 and 1950.

 

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Burt Lancaster

Movie: From Here to Eternity (1953), Elmer Gantry(1960) 

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1960)

 

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Walter Matthau

Birth: October 1, 1920

Death: July 1, 2000

Movie: Charade (1963), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Odd Couple (1968), JFK (1991)

 

Robert Mitchum

Nickname: Sleeping Eye

Birth: August 6, 1917

Death: July 1, 1997

Movie: Pursued (1947), Crossfire (1947), Out of the Past (1947), Cape Fear (1962), The Longest Day (1962)

 

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Paul Newman OOO

Birth: January 26, 1925

Movie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Long, Hot Summer (1958), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Sting (1973), Nobody's Fool (1994)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in 1985; One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1986); received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993.  Beside making films, Newman now has a line of food times, named "Newman's Own". (can be found in Loblaws© ^^)  He also supports the Scott Newman Foundation for drugs and alcohol abuse education. 

 

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Donald O'Connor OO

Death: September, 2003

Movie: Francis the Talking Mule  films (1950, 1951, 1952, 1952, 1954, 1955), Singin' in the Rain (1952), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

 

Laurence Olivier O

Death: 1989

Movie: Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), Pride and Prejudice (1940), Hamlet (1946), Marathon Man (1976)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1948); received two Honourary Oscars in 1946 and 1978; actress Vivien Leigh's then husband.

 

Peter O'Toole O

Movie: Lawrence of Arabia, How to Steal a Million, Last Emperor of China (1986), Troy (2004)

 

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Gregory Peck OOO

Birth: April 5, 1916

Death: June 12, 2003

Movie: Spellground (1945), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Roman Holiday (1953), On the Beach (1959), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962), To Kill Mockingbird (1962)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner (1962); received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1967

 

Anthony Perkins

Birth: April, 1932

Death: September 12, 1992

Movie: Friendly Persuasion (1956), On the Beach (1959), Psycho (1960), Catch-22 (1970)

Remark: Perkins' wife was a passenger on one of the terrorist-hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center a day before the nine-year anniversary of Perkins' death.

 

Christopher Plummer

Movie: The Sound of Music (1965), The Return of Pink Panther (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Remark: Canadian actor

 

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Anthony Quinn

Birth: 1915

Death: 2001

Movie: Funs of Navarone (1961),  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

 

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Claude Rains O

Movie: The Invisible Man (1933), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Now Voyager (1942), Casablanca (1943), Phantom of the Opera (1943), Notorious (1946), Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

 

Ronald Reagan

Movie: Kings Row (1942), Storm Warning (1951), Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

Remark: 40th President of U.S.A.

 

Robert Redford

Real name: Charles Robert Redford Jr.

Birth: August 17, 1937

Movie: This Property is Condemned (1966), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Director Winner (1980)

 

Mickey Rooney OO

Birth: September 23, 1920

Movie: Babes in Arms (1939), Strike Up The Band (1940), Babes in Broadway (1942), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in 1982; he made ten films with Judy Garland between 1938 and 1948.

 

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Frank Sinatra O

Nickname: The Voice, Ol' Blue Eyes, The Chairman of the Board

Birth: December 12, 1915

Death: May 14, 1998

Movie: Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), From Here to Eternity (1953), High Society (1956), Pal Joey (1957)

Remark: Received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1970; he married four times included actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow.

 

James Stewart OOO

Birth: May 20, 1908

Death: July 2, 1997

Movie: You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), It's A Wonderful Life (1946), Rope (1948), Harvey (1950), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner; also received Honorary Oscar in 1984.

 

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Spencer Tracy

Birth: April 5, 1900

Death: June 10, 1957

Movie: Northwest Passage (1940), Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Woman of the Year (1942), Pat and Mike (1952)

Remark: Two-times Academy Award Winner (1937, 1938)

 

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Dick Van Dyke O

Movie: Bye Bye Bride (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

 

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John Wayne

Nickname: The Duke

Birth: May 26, 1907

Death: June 11, 1979

Movie: The Quiet Man (1952), The Alamo (1960), The Longest Day (1962), True Grit (1969)

Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actor Winner

 

Orson Welles O

Birth: May 6, 1915

Death: October 10, 1985

Movie: Citizen Kane (1941), The Lady From Shanghai (1948)

Remark: Won Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Oscar in 1941; Received Honourary Oscar in 1970

 

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