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Lillian Gish
Born: Oct 14, 1893 in Springfield, Ohio
Died: Feb 27, 1993 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor, Director, Active: teens-'20s, '60s, '80s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: The Night of the Hunter, The Birth of a Nation, The Wind
First Major Screen Credit: Home, Sweet Home (1914)
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Max Linder
Born: Dec 16, 1883 in Caverne, France
Died: Oct 31, 1925 in Paris, France
Occupation: Director, Actor, Writer, Active: teens-'20s Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: Three Must-Get-Theres, Seven Years Bad Luck, Max, Professeur de Tango
First Major Screen Credit: Je Voudrais un Enfant (1909)
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Lionel Barrymore
Born: Apr 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: Nov 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer, Active: teens-'40s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: It's a Wonderful Life, Grand Hotel, Key Largo
First Major Screen Credit: The Burglar's Dilemma (1912)
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Little Rascals
Occupation: Actor Active: '30s Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
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Gong Li
Born: 1965 in Shenyang, China
Occupation: Actor Active: '90s-2000s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell, My Concubine, The Story of Qiu Ju
First Major Screen Credit: Red Sorghum (1987)
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Laura Linney
Born: Feb 05, 1964 in New York, New York
Occupation: Actor Active: '90s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: The Truman Show, More Tales of the City, You Can Count On Me
First Major Screen Credit: Tales of the City (1993)
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Jet Li
Born: Apr 26, 1963 in Beijing, China
Occupation: Actor, Director, Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Action
Career Highlights: Once Upon a Time in China, Fong Sai-Yuk, Swordsman II
First Major Screen Credit: The Shaolin Temple (1982)
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Liam Neeson
Born: Jun 07, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Occupation: Actor, Active: '80s-??s Major Genres: Drama, History
Career Highlights: Schindler's List, Michael Collins, Ethan Frome
First Major Screen Credit: The Innocent (1985)
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Liza Minnelli
Born: Mar 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '60s-2000s Major Genres: Music, Comedy
Career Highlights: Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo, Charlie Bubbles
First Major Screen Credit: The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1965)
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John Lithgow
Born: Oct 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York
Occupation: Actor, Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Terms of Endearment, The Day After, Blow Out
First Major Screen Credit: Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
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Liv Ullmann
Born: Dec 16, 1939 in Tokyo, Japan
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer, Active: '60s-2000s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Autumn Sonata, Cries and Whispers, Persona
First Major Screen Credit: Tonny on the Wrong Road (1962)
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Lily Tomlin
Born: Sep 01, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan
Occupation: Actor, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: Flirting With Disaster, The Late Show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
First Major Screen Credit: Nashville (1975)
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Lina Wertmüller
Born: Aug 14, 1928 in Rome, Italy
Occupation: Writer, Director, Actor, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: 8 1/2, Seven Beauties, Love and Anarchy
First Major Screen Credit: 8 1/2 (1963)
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Linda Darnell
Born: Oct 16, 1923 in Dallas, Texas
Died: Apr 10, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois
Occupation: Actor Active: '40s-'50s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: My Darling Clementine, Unfaithfully Yours, Hangover Square
First Major Screen Credit: Day-Time Wife (1939)
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Viveca Lindfors
Born: Dec 29, 1920 in Uppsala, Sweden
Died: Oct 25, 1995
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director, Active: '50s-'90s Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: Last Summer in the Hamptons, Stargate, The Way We Were
First Major Screen Credit: Appassionata (1946)
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Lino Ventura
Born: Jul 14, 1919 in Parma, Italy
Died: Oct 23, 1987 in Saint-Cloud, France
Occupation: Actor Active: '50s-'80s Major Genres: Crime, Thriller
Career Highlights: Army of Shadows, Garde à Vue, Cadaveri Eccellenti
First Major Screen Credit: Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
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Margaret Lindsay
Born: Sep 19, 1910 in Dubuque, Iowa
Died: May 09, 1981 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor Active: '30s-'40s Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Jezebel, Her Sister's Secret, Voltaire
First Major Screen Credit: Lady Killer (1933)
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Lillian Hellman
Born: Jun 20, 1905 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: Jun 30, 1984 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Occupation: Writer, Actor, Active: '30s-'40s, '60s-'70s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Julia, Watch on the Rhine, Dead End
First Major Screen Credit: The Dark Angel (1935)
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Linwood G. Dunn
Born: 1905 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Died: May 20, 1998 in Burbank, California Active: '30s-'60s Major Genres: Musical, Horror
Career Highlights: The Thing, Citizen Kane, Bringing Up Baby
First Major Screen Credit: King Kong (1933)
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Lillie Hayward
Born: Sep 12, 1892 in St. Paul, Minnesota
Died: 1978
Occupation: Writer, Active: '30s-'50s Major Genres: Drama, Western
Career Highlights: Blood on the Moon, My Friend Flicka, Janice Meredith
First Major Screen Credit: Janice Meredith (1924)