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Walter Murch
Born: Jul 12, 1943 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Writer, Actor, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, War
Career Highlights: The Godfather Part II, American Graffiti, The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
First Major Screen Credit: The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (1970)
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Walter Pidgeon
Born: Sep 23, 1898 in East St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: Sep 25, 1984 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '20s-'70s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Mrs. Miniver, How Green Was My Valley, Advise and Consent
First Major Screen Credit: Miss Nobody (1926)
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Walter Slezak
Born: May 03, 1902 in Vienna, Austria
Died: Apr 22, 1983 in Beverly Hills, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '40s-'60s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Pirate, Lifeboat, The Yellow Cab Man
First Major Screen Credit: Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
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Walter Wanger
Born: Jul 11, 1894 in San Francisco, California
Died: Nov 18, 1968 Active: '30s-'50s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Stagecoach, I Want to Live!
First Major Screen Credit: The Cocoanuts (1929)
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Warner Oland
Born: Oct 03, 1880 in Umea, Sweden
Died: Aug 06, 1938 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '20s-'30s Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Don Juan, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, The Jazz Singer
First Major Screen Credit: East Is West (1922)
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Warren William
Born: Dec 02, 1895 in Aitkin, Minnesota
Died: Sep 24, 1948 in Hollywood, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '30s-'40s Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Gold Diggers of 1933, The Wolf Man, Cleopatra
First Major Screen Credit: Plunder (1923)
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Wendy Hiller
Born: Aug 15, 1912 in Bramshall, Cheshire, England, UK
Died: May 14, 2003 in Beaconsfield, England, UK
Occupation: Actor Active: '30s, '50s-'80s Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: I Know Where I'm Going!, Richard II, Separate Tables
First Major Screen Credit: Pygmalion (1938)
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Werner Herzog
Born: Sep 05, 1942 in Munich, Germany
Occupation: Director, Writer, Actor, Active: '60s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Culture & Society
Career Highlights: Burden of Dreams, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Aguirre, the Wrath of God
First Major Screen Credit: Herakles (1962)
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Werner Klemperer
Born: Mar 22, 1920 in Cologne, Germany
Died: Dec 06, 2000 in New York, New York
Occupation: Actor Active: '60s-'70s Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: Judgment at Nuremberg, Youngblood Hawke, Operation Eichmann
First Major Screen Credit: Five Steps to Danger (1957)
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Wes Anderson
Born: May 01, 1969 in Houston, Texas
Occupation: Writer, Director, Actor, Active: '90s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox
First Major Screen Credit: Bottle Rocket (1996)
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Wes Craven
Born: Aug 02, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation: Director, Writer, Actor, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Horror, Thriller
Career Highlights: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Scream 2
First Major Screen Credit: You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
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Whoopi Goldberg
Born: Nov 13, 1955 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor, Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
Career Highlights: Ghost, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Soapdish
First Major Screen Credit: The Color Purple (1985)
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Wilfrid Brambell
Born: Mar 22, 1912 in Dublin, Ireland
Died: Jan 18, 1985 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Actor Active: '60s-'80s Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: A Hard Day's Night, The Terence Davies Trilogy, The Small World of Sammy Lee
First Major Screen Credit: The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
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Will Hay
Born: 1888 in Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK
Died: Apr 18, 1949 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director, Active: '30s-'40s Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: My Learned Friend, Good Morning, Boys, Oh, Mr. Porter!
First Major Screen Credit: Dandy Dick (1935)
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Will Smith
Born: Sep 25, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director, Active: '90s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Six Degrees of Separation, Enemy of the State, Men in Black
First Major Screen Credit: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 01 (1990)
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Willem Dafoe
Born: Jul 22, 1955 in Appleton, Wisconsin
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Thriller
Career Highlights: Platoon, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ
First Major Screen Credit: White Lies (1981)
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William A. Fraker
Born: Sep 29, 1923 in Los Angeles, California
Died: May 31, 2010
Occupation: Cinematographer, Director, Writer, Actor, Active: '60s-'90s Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: WarGames, American Hot Wax, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
First Major Screen Credit: Forbid Them Not (1961)
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William Bendix
Born: Jan 04, 1906 in New York City, New York
Died: Dec 14, 1964 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '40s-'50s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Detective Story, Lifeboat, The Life of Riley
First Major Screen Credit: The Glass Key (1942)
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William C. DeMille
Born: Jul 25, 1878 in Washington, North Carolina
Died: Mar 18, 1955 in Playa Del Rey, California
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: teens-'20s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: The Emperor Jones, Why Change Your Wife?, The Night Club
First Major Screen Credit: The Master Mind (1914)
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William Cameron Menzies
Born: Jul 29, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut
Died: Mar 05, 1957
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: '20s-'40s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: The Thief of Bagdad, Gone With the Wind, Around the World in 80 Days
First Major Screen Credit: Serenade (1921)