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Sam Jaffe

photo: http://www.seligman.org.il/Sam%20Jaffe.jpg Biography Sam Jaffe (1891-1984) Sam Jaffe (born March 8, 1891 - March 24, 1984) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. Born to a Jewish family in New York City, New York, as a child, he appeared in Yiddish theater...

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Richard Jaeckel

photo: http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Richard%20Jaeckel.jpg Biography Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June 14, 1997) was an American actor. Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters in his 50 years in movies and television and became one of Hollywood's...

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Hugh Jackman

Biography Actor Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in a promotional picture from X-Men 3 Hugh Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor who portrayed Wolverine in X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). His other works include Swordfish (2001), Kate and Leopold (2001), Someone Like You (2001), and...

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Michael J. Fox

Biography Michael J. Fox on the cover of his book, Lucky Man Michael J. Fox (born June 9, 1961) is a Canadian-born actor, made famous by his roles as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy and as Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties. Born Michael Andrew Fox in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, he adopted the J as a homage...

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Lee J. Cobb

Biography Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He was born Leo Jacoby to a Jewish family in New York City. Cobb had studied at New York University when he joined the left wing Group Theatre in 1935 and appeared in its production of Clifford Odets' play Waiting for Lefty. In 1937 he made...

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Jeremy Irons

photo: https://www.newwoman.ru/pic28/110105_jeremy_irons7.jpg Biography Early life Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight to Paul Dugan Irons and Barbara Anne. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, (c. 1962-1966), a member of Abbey House, where he rose to the modest rank of Hallkeeper - a disciplinary role he performed...

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Henry Ian Cusick

photo: http://www.scifipulse.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/lost-henry-ian-cusick_14ouv4e.jpg Biography Henry Ian Cusick, actor of stage, television and motion pictures, was born in Trujillo, Peru on April 17, 1969. The son of a Peruvian mother and an Irish-Scots father, Henry Ian Cusick is fluent in both English and Spanish....

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David Hyde

Biography Born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York, he is the youngest child of George and Laura Pierce and has two older sisters (Barbara and Nancy) and an older brother (Thomas). As a child he became very interested in the piano and frequently played lead organ at the local Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga Springs. He...

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Suad Husni

photo: http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/83/Suad_Husni.jpg Biography Suad Husni, Souad Hosni, or Soad Hosny (Arabic: سعاد حسنى) (b. January 26, 1942,d. June 22, 2001 in Ataba, Cairo, Egypt) was an Egyptian actress of Syrian descent. She was the 10th sibiling from 17 brothers and sisters. Husni was known as the...

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John Hurt

photo: http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john-hurt.jpg Biography (Mississippi John Hurt is an early American folk and country blues singer, 1893–1966) John Vincent Hurt CBE (born January 22, 1940) is an Academy Award nominated English actor. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Hurt studied art at the St....

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Jeffrey Hunter

Biography Jeffrey Hunter (November 25, 1926 - May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor. He was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, and began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. He served stateside in the...

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Tom Hulce

Biography Tom Hulce starring as Mozart in Amadeus. Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor. Born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, he was raised in Plymouth, Michigan. He wanted to be a singer as a small child, but switched to acting when his voice changed. Within a month of moving to New York City, he became...

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Rock Hudson

Biography Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois. He was later adopted and acquired the name Roy Fitzgerald. He served in the United States Navy during World War II as an airplane mechanic. His good looks and strapping size got him a Hollywood audition; capped teeth and a name change got him a small part in the 1948...

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Trevor Howard

photo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9lT1u9wfU1I/Su169A9odoI/AAAAAAAAAk0/UVtnwJNvOtg/s320/Trevor_Howard.jpg Biography Early life Born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith in Cliftonville, Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and acted on the London stage for several years...

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Ron Howard

photo: http://www.topnews.in/files/Ron_Howard.jpg Biography Life and career Ron Howard first earned recognition as the child with the lisp in the film version of The Music Man with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. His younger brother, Clint Howard, is a popular character actor. Ron's parents, Rance Howard and the late Jean F....

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Bob Hoskins

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/429/000024357/bhoskins2.jpg Biography Robert William "Bob" Hoskins (born October 26, 1942) is a British actor best known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, for family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Eddie Valiant). Early life Born in Bury...

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Dennis Hopper

Biography Born in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper was voted most likely to succeed by his high school class (Helix High School, La Mesa, California) and it was there he developed an interest in acting. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. Hopper made his acting debut on an episode of the Richard Boone television...

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Anthony Hopkins

Foto: 1 Biography For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs Sir Anthony Hopkins (IPA: /'æntəni 'hɒpkɪnz/) KBE (born December 31, 1937) is an Oscar winning Welsh-born actor. He was born Philip Anthony Hopkins in Margam, near Port Talbot, Wales. His...

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Bob Hope

image: http://stylemens.typepad.com/details__privileges/images/2009/03/16/bob_hope.jpg Biography English origins Hope was born in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons. His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer but later...

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Tim Holt

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/589/000102283/tim-holt-1-sized.jpg Biography Tim Holt (February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973) was an American film actor. Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills, California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. He was sent to study at Culver Military Academy in...

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Ian Holm

photo: http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/10/1062/FGUL000Z.jpg Biography Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September 1931), born as Ian Holm Cuthbert, is an English actor. Holm was born in Goodmayes, Essex, and was educated at Chigwell School and then the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Holm was an established star of the Royal...

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William Holden

Biography Early life and career Born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois on April 17, 1918, he was the eldest of three sons of William Franklin Beedle, Sr., an industrial chemist and Mary Blanche Ball, a teacher. The family, who moved to Pasadena, California when he was three, was of English descent; Holden's...

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Paul Hogan

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvgfrBxVxjw/THtSIIfYgBI/AAAAAAAABu0/ZwxffQAv83Q/s1600/paul-hogan-crocodile-dundee.jpg Biography Paul Hogan and "The Paul Hogan Show" (VHS) Paul Hogan starring as Crocodile Dundee. Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and...

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Dustin Hoffman

photo: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200711/r200422_767218.jpg Biography Hoffman with Ben Stiller in 2004's Meet the Fockers. Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is one of the dominant American film actors of the late twentieth century. Widely considered one of the greatest actors of his time (and sometimes, usually...

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Gregory Hines

photo: http://www.theatredance.com/legends/gh001.jpg Biography Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American actor, singer and dancer, regarded by many as the greatest tap dancer of his generation, and one who transcended the stage. Born in New York City, Hines learned tap dancing as a toddler...

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Terence Hill

Biography Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti March 29, 1939 in Venice) is an Italian-born actor. As a child he lived in the small village Lommatzsch, Germany where he survived World War II. His mother was German, his father an Italian chemist. After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col gangster (1951)...

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Charlton Heston

Biography Early career Heston was born John Charles Carter in Evanston, Illinois to Lilla Charlton and Russell Whitford Carter. When he was 10 his parents divorced. Some years later, his mother married Chester Heston. The new family moved to well-off Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where young Heston...

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Edward Herrmann

photo: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/movies/filmography/3/WireImage_3982259.jpg Biography Edward Herrmann on the set of Gilmore Girls Edward Herrmann, (born July 21, 1943 in Washington, D.C.), is one of the most recognizable character actors in American television and movies. Best known for his uncanny...

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Lance Henriksen

photo: http://www.xfilesuniverse.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/lance-henriksen.jpg Biography Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940 in New York City) is an American actor and potter. His trademarks as an actor are his deep, gravelly voice and chiseled, weathered face. Henriksen first appeared in the film It Ain't Easy in...

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John Heard

photo: http://fotos0.mundofotos.net/2009/21_03_2009/cinemastars1237623221/john-heard.jpg Biography John Heard (born March 7, 1945 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor. He finished high school at Gonzaga College High School in Washington DC, then went on to graduate from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. It...

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