Actors

Born: Nov 20, 1915 in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan Died: Feb 13, 2008
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: '50s-'80s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Tokyo Olympiad, Fires on the Plain, Enjo
First Major Screen Credit: Musume Dojoji (1946)

Born: Jun 22, 1936 in Brownsville, Texas
Occupation: Actor, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Music
Career Highlights: Lone Star, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Something Wild
First Major Screen Credit: The Last Movie (1971)

Born: 1960 in Dorset, England
Occupation: Actor Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The English Patient, A Handful of Dust, Angels & Insects
First Major Screen Credit: Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

Born: Jun 17, 1939 in Warsaw, Poland
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: A Year of the Quiet Sun, Barwy Ochronne, Iluminacja
First Major Screen Credit: The Death of a Provincial (1966)

Born: Mar 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Active: '60s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy, Action
Career Highlights: The Thing, Elvis, Escape from New York
First Major Screen Credit: Gilligan's Island: Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy (1965)

Born: 1909 Died: Jan 31, 2000 in Bombay, India
Occupation: Actor Active: '50s-'60s Major Genres: Thriller, Drama
Career Highlights: Baaz, Do Chor, Woh Kuan Thi?
First Major Screen Credit: Baaz (1953)

Born: Dec 23, 1906 in Minneapolis, Minnesota Died: Mar 22, 1973
Occupation: Actor Active: '30s-'40s Major Genres: Crime, Drama
Career Highlights: Charlie Chan in Reno, Black Gold, Behind the Mask
First Major Screen Credit: The Lost City (1934)

Born: Apr 28, 1912 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Occupation: Writer, Director, Active: '50s-'90s Major Genres: Drama, Horror
Career Highlights: The Fighting Elegy, Onibaba, Hadaka no Shima
First Major Screen Credit: Josei No Shori (1946)

Born: May 01, 1924 Died: Mar 12, 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: '60s-'90s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Krava, Uz Zase Skacu Pres Kaluze, Ucho
First Major Screen Credit: Dnes Vecer Vsechno Skonci (1954)

Born: Jul 21, 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia Died: Nov 25, 2002 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Director, Active: '60s-'80s Major Genres: Drama, Crime
Career Highlights: This Sporting Life, Who'll Stop the Rain?, Morgan!
First Major Screen Credit: We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)

Born: Oct 05, 1951 in Carrollton, Illinois
Occupation: Actor Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman, Sweet Talker
First Major Screen Credit: The Wanderers (1979)

Born: Jul 01, 1942 in Park Ridge, Illinois
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Mr. Horn
First Major Screen Credit: Easy Rider (1969)

Born: Jun 05, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York
Occupation: Actor Active: '90s Major Genres: Comedy Drama, Drama
Career Highlights: What Happened Was..., Simple Men, Female Perversions
First Major Screen Credit: Simple Men (1992)

Born: Jun 20, 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota Died: 1992
Occupation: Actor Active: '40s-'50s Major Genres: Comedy, Musical
Career Highlights: Badman's Country, Top Gun, The Cariboo Trail
First Major Screen Credit: The Unfinished Dance (1947)

Born: Feb 22, 1936 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Occupation: Actor Active: '50s-'70s Major Genres: Mystery, Horror
Career Highlights: You Only Live Twice, The Invisible Dr. Mabuse, Die Antwort Kennt Nur der Wind
First Major Screen Credit: Solange du Lebst (1955)

Born: 1886 Died: 1934
Occupation: Actor Active: '20s-'30s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Scarlet Letter, The Son of the Sheik, The Trail of '98
First Major Screen Credit: His Secretary (1925)

Born: 1891 in New York City, New York Died: Dec 16, 1981 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Cinematographer Active: '20s-'50s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Great Dictator, Sunrise, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
First Major Screen Credit: Something to Think About (1920)

Born: 1908 Died: Oct 08, 1978
Occupation: Actor Active: '60s-'70s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Flaming Star, Kings Go Forth, Little House on the Prairie: The Richest Man in Walnut Grove
First Major Screen Credit: Leave It to Beaver: Voodoo Magic (1957)

Born: 1911
Occupation: Writer, Actor, Active: '30s-'60s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Orchestra Wives, Life Begins in College, Beau Brummell
First Major Screen Credit: Life Begins in College (1937)