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
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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
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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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