American actors

Joseph Frank Keaton Jr. (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), always known as Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent-film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face. His innovative work as a director made great contributions to the development of the art of cinema. A 2002 world-wide poll by Sight and Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. ...

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• Buster Keaton - Early life in vaudeville
• Buster Keaton - Silent film era
• Buster Keaton - Marriages
• Buster Keaton - Sound era and television
• Buster Keaton - Death
• Buster Keaton - Legacy and contribution
• Buster Keaton - Filmography
• Buster Keaton - Books
• Buster Keaton - Notes

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Burt Lancaster (November 2, 1913 - October 20, 1994) was an American film actor. Born Burton Stephen Lancaster in New York City to James Henry Lancaster (a postman) and Elizabeth Roberts, both of whom were the children of Irish Protestant immigrants. He grew up in Hells Kitchen (West side Manhattan) and spent much of his time on the streets, where he developed great interest and skill in gymnastics. Later, he worked as a circus acrobat ...

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• Burt Lancaster - Academy Awards for Best Actor
• Burt Lancaster - Filmography
• Burt Lancaster - External link

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Cathleen Roxanne Rigby (b. Los Alamitos, California, December 12, 1952) is a gymnast, actress and speaker. Rigby's participation in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, as the highest-scoring U.S. gymnast made her a favorite with U.S. television audiences, and helped to popularize the sport in the U.S. She was U.S. National Gymnastic Champion in 1970 and 1972. She also competed on the 1972 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, but was hampered by injury. Her greatest gymnastics accomplishment was winning a silver medal on the balance beam at the 1970 World Championships, being the ...

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Brad Davis (November 6, 1949 - September 8, 1991) American actor, was born in Tallahassee, Florida to Eugene Davis and Anne Creel, respected Southeners descended from Jefferson Davis. Davis moved to New York to study at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. After a role on the soap opera How to Survive a Marriage, he performed in off-Broadway plays. He played the lead role in Larry Kramer's play about AIDS, The Normal Heart (1985). His most successful film role was as the main character in Midnight E ...

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• Brad Davis actor - Filmography
• Brad Davis actor - External link

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Archibald ("Archie") Alec Leach, known by his screen name Cary Grant, (January 18, 1904 - November 29, 1986), was a British-born actor who starred in American films. He was perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, not only handsome, but witty and charming. Cary Grant - Early life. Born in Horfield, Bristol, England, he was an only child and had a confused and unhappy childhood. His mother, Elsie Leach, was placed in a mental institution when Archie was only nine. Grant's fath ...

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• Cary Grant - Early life
• Cary Grant - Hollywood
• Cary Grant - Quotations
• Cary Grant - Miscellaneous
• Cary Grant - Filmography
• Cary Grant - Outside Reading

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Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 - December 4, 1967) was a Jewish-American comic actor. Fittingly born a "Leo", he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway. Dropping out of school at the age of fifteen to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he moved to Broad ...

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Adam Ferrara is an American actor and comedian who played Detective Tommy Manetti on the television series The Job. He has performed on Comedy Central Presents and was nominated twice for the American Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up. Adam Ferrara - External link. Adam Ferrara at the Internet Movie Database Adam Ferrara's Official Site Includes tour dates and biography Categories: Actors and actresses appearing on Law &am ...

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John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), nicknamed "Duke," 1 was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. He was a major star from the 1940s to the 1970s. He is most famous for his Westerns, but he also made films of various other kinds. He epitomised a certain kind of rugged individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring icon. John Wayne - Life and Career. John Wayne was born in Marion Robert MorrisonIncluding:

• John Wayne - Life and Career
• John Wayne - Character deaths
• John Wayne - Filmography
• John Wayne - 1920s
• John Wayne - 1930s
• John Wayne - 1940s
• John Wayne - 1950s
• John Wayne - 1960s
• John Wayne - 1970s
• John Wayne - Character quotes
• John Wayne - Footnotes

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Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress best known for playing Tara Maclay, Willow's girlfriend in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson has also written and directed movies for theaters and television. Most notably, she wrote and directed 2002's Chance and 2003's Ghosts of Albion:Legacy. She has also written three comic books, two of them Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics ("WannaBlessedBe" and "Wilderness"). In 2003 she collaborated with boyfriend, director James Kerwin, t ...

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• Amber Benson - Filmography
• Amber Benson - Television
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Anita Page is an American film actress. Born Anita Pomares on August 4, 1910, in Flushing, New York, Page entered films in A Kiss For Cinderella 1925, and after a few small but well received parts, was offered a contract with MGM Studios. MGM moulded her into one of their biggest female stars of the silent era, pairing her with such popular actors as Ramon Novarro and William Haines. Her performances in Our Dancing Daughters (1928) opposite Joan Crawford, and The Broadway Melody (1929) opposite Bessi ...

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Christina Pickles (born on February 17, 1935 in Yorkshire, England) is an American actress. She has played some very high profile characters. She has appeared in such shows as Roseanne, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder and Murder, She Wrote, as well as the soaps Guiding Light and Another World. However her most famous television role is that of "Nurse Helen Rosenthal" in the long-running hospital drama St. Elsewhere (for which she was nominated for four Emmys). She also appeared as "Judy Geller", the mother of Ros ...

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Anne Helm (born September 12, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actress, author, and illustrator. Living in New York City, she began pursuing a career as an actress which eventually led to Hollywood. Beginning in the 1950s she made guest appearances on different television series and made her motion picture debut in 1960. Three films later, she received national recognition as the love interest of Elvis Presley in his 1962 film, Follow That Dream. During filming, she began a relationship with Presley and visite ...

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Blair Brown (born 23 April 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia) is an acclaimed stage actress who has also reached a broader audience with her television and film work, particularly, in the 1980s. Examples of her stage work (in alphabetical order): Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Lincoln Center At least two runs as Frau Schneider in Cabaret The Comedy of Errors for the New York Shakespeare Festival Copenhagen, for which she won a Tony Award in 2000 A revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music ...

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Irving "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959 in New York City, New York) is an American actor. Rhames grew up in Harlem, Manhattan. A good student, Ving entered the New York High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. After high school he studied at the Juilliard Drama School, and began his career in New York theater. At Juilliard, he was a roommate of fellow actor Stanley Tucci. He first appeared on Broadway in the play "The Winter Boys" in 1984. Ving continued his rise to fame through his work in ...

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David Ogden Stiers (b. October 31, 1942) is an American actor and musician, most famous for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III in the television sitcom M*A*S*H. Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois. He began his acting career in northern California and later moved to New York City, where he joined John Houseman's Acting Company. Stiers joined the cast of M*A*S*H in 1977. His character (CE3 as Hawkeye liked to call him) was not a replacement of Larry Linville's character, Frank Burns, but a comp ...

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Jonathan Winters (born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American comedic actor. His full birth name is Jonathan Harshman Winters III. He's descended from Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio, now part of JPMorgan Chase. At 17, during World War II, Jonathan enlisted in the Marines and served in the South Pacific. After his discharge he studied cartooning at Dayton Art Institute, where he met Eileen Schauder, whom he married in 1948. He began comedy routines and ac ...

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David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is an American actor and musician who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. He is the son of Irish Catholic actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward, who was of English Protestant descent. Prior to The Partridge Family, Cassidy appeared on Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironside. When he started working on The Partridge Family nobody knew that he could sing, until Cassidy himself broug ...

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• David Cassidy - Discography Solo
• David Cassidy - Discography The Partridge Family
• David Cassidy - Filmography

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Danny DeVito (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, director and producer known for being very short (he is 5 ft, or 152 cm). Born Daniel Michael DeVito in Neptune, New Jersey to Italian-American Catholic parents. He graduated from Asbury Park High School, Asbury Park, NJ. DeVito became famous in the United States for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular ABC and NBC TV series, Taxi (1978–1983). Because this sitcom was not widely distributed abroad, he is known pr ...

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William Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an Academy Award winning American actor. Born in Washington, D.C., William Hurt is the stepson of Henry Luce III (the son of the founder of Time Magazine). Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was the Vice President of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several of the school plays. His high school yearbook predicted, "With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway." Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology, but turned inste ...

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Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1946 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American actress of Italian and Filipino extraction, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the long-running CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987. She is also well-known for her line of cosmetic products. Christened Concettina Ree Principale, she was the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principale and Bertha Ree Veal. Her father, a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, moved constantly, and after being born in Japan, she grew up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Geo ...

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