Actors

James Doohan

photo: http://www.attivissimo.net/nl/nl2005/2005_10_01_attivissimo_archive_files/James_Doohan_1980s.jpg Biography Life and career Doohan (pronounced DOO-en) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, youngest of four children of William and Sarah Doohan, recent Catholic refugees from mainly Protestant Belfast during the Anglo-Irish...

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Robert Donat

Biography Robert Donat in The 39 Steps Friedrich Robert Donath (March 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958) was a distinguished English film and stage actor of English, Polish and German descent. He was born in Withington, Manchester and died in London, England. Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921 and his film debut in 1932...

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Joe Don

photo: http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/happygirl90/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxNDY1NjQ5/?ref= Biography Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936 in Groesbeck, Texas) is an American film actor perhaps best known for his three appearances in the James Bond series. Baker got his start in acting as an uncredited character in the 1967 film Cool...

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Taye Diggs

photo: http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/thecityhp/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxMDE4OTUxNA==/?ref= Biography Taye Diggs (born Scott Diggs January 2, 1972) is an African-American actor. He hails from Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Rochester, New York. In Rochester he attended School of The Arts better known as SOTA. He is the oldest of...

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Lou Diamond

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E5cSkRNNzuk/R4BCEUwapwI/AAAAAAAABRE/zr2bGe1uPz4/s200/Melvyn+Douglas.jpg Biography Phillips from a promo poster for La Bamba Lou Diamond Phillips (born Louis Upchurch on February 17, 1962, at Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines), named for Marine legend Lou Diamond, is an American actor. His...

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Biography DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of George DiCaprio, a half Italian-half German distributor of comic books, and Irmelin Indenbirken, a former legal secretary who was born in Germany. His name allegedly came about because his pregnant mother was standing in front of a Leonardo da Vinci painting at a...

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Andy Devine

Biography Andy Devine (October 7, 1905 - February 18, 1977) was a rotund, raspy-voiced American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. His movie career started in silent films and extended until his death. He was not named Jeremiah Schwartz at birth, this was a pseudonym during his college football years. Devine...

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Bruce Dern

photo: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzMDE0MzAzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODQxMDQ1._V1._SX279_SY400_.jpg Biography Dern in After Dark, My Sweet Bruce MacLeish Dern (born Chicago, Illinois, June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He is the father of actress Laura Dern and was formerly married to actress Diane Ladd. He is...

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Johnny Depp

Foto: 1 Biography Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, to John Christopher Depp, Sr. and Betty Sue Palmer. The family moved to Miramar, Florida, in 1970 where he was primarily raised. He has one brother, Danny, and two sisters, Debbie and Christie (who is Depp's personal manager). The Depp family is mostly of French, Irish, German...

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Gérard Depardieu

photo: http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/gerard-depardieu/gerard-depardieu-20060902-157778.jpg Biography Awards He has been nominated a record-setting 14 times for the César Award as Best Actor. After his first win in 1981, he won a second time in 1991 for Cyrano de Bergerac for which he was also nominated for the 1990...

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Bob Denver

Biography Robert "Bob" Denver (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005) was a comedic actor best known for his role as "Gilligan" on the television series Gilligan's Island. Earlier, Denver played beatnik wannabe Maynard G. Krebs on the (1959-1963) TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, a characterization...

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Brian Dennehy

Biography Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman Brian Dennehy (not to be confused as a real actor) parodied in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is an Irish-American actor who has appeared in movies, television shows, and stage productions. He is best...

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Alexis Denisof

Biography Alexis Denisof Alexis Denisof (born February 25, 1966) is an American actor best known for playing Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel. Wesley's character was first introduced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3 as Buffy Summers' replacement...

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Patrick Dempsey

Biography Early life and education Patrick Dempsey grew up in Buckfield, Maine, and graduated from Buckfield High School. He was also an adept juggler, placing third in a National Juggling Competition. Acting debut In 1985, he debuted as an actor in the movie Heaven Help Us. In 1987, he participated in...

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William Demarest

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/975/000078741/demarest03.jpg Biography William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 28, 1983) was an American character actor. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a very prolific film and TV actor, having worked on over 140 films. He started in show business working in vaudeville,...

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Alain Delon

photo: http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/actor/00/23/02/alain-delon-964445l.jpg Biography Alain Delon (born November 8, 1935) is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. Delon was born in Sceaux, France, and at 17 he enlisted in the French Marines, serving in Indochina as a parachutist. His...

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James Dean

Foto: 1 Biography Childhood and education Born in a Fairmount, Indiana, apartment to Winton and Mildred Wilson Dean, James Dean and his family moved to Santa Monica, California six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician. Dean was enrolled in Brentwood Public School until his mother died...

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Harry Dean

photo: http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/harry-dean-stanton-as-roman-grant.jpg Biography Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926 in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA) is an American actor. Although he has not achieved star status through lead roles, he is one of the most reliable, consistent and sought-after character actors in...

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Sam De Grasse

Biography Sam De Grasse Samuel Alfred De Grasse (born June 12, 1875; died November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he trained to be a dentist. After his older brother Joe had gone into the fledgling movie business, Samuel decided to also give it a try. He traveled to New York City and in...

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Robert De Niro

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b_U2WXd7_bk/S9HGITRVcEI/AAAAAAAAAU4/-itgIAzZ1tM/s1600/robert%2Bde%2Bniro.jpg Biography Early career De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet of Irish and Italian descent (De Niro's great-grandparents were...

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Eduardo De Filippo

Biography Eduardo De Filippo was an actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet born May 24, 1900 in Naples, Italy and passed away on October 31, 1984 in Rome. He is most well-known for his work in Neapolitan like Filumena Marturano though he wrote many, many plays and films in Italian as well such as Napoli Milionaria!. He...

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Daniel Day-Lewis

photo: http://cdn.collider.com/uploads/imagegallery/daniel_day_lewis/daniel_day_lewis__5_.jpg Biography Early life Day-Lewis is the son of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England. His mother, who comes from a Jewish family, is actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, former head of Ealing Studios. Two years after...

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Ossie Davis

photo: http://www.mahoganycafe.com/oimages/ossiedavis.jpg Biography Ossie Davis in The Green Pastures, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African-American film actor, director and social activist. Davis was born Raiford Chatman Davis in Cogdell, Georgia....

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Henry Darrow

Henry Darrow (born Enrique Tomas Delgado, Jr. on September 15, 1933 in New York City) - actor Darrow is probably best remembered for his role of "Manolito" in the popular 1960's television western series called "The High Chaparral". Henry was the first born son of Gloria and Enrique Delgado Sr., who migrated...

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Bobby Darin

Biography As Long as I'm Singin (1936–1956): Early Years Darin was born to a poor, working-class family in The Bronx, New York, and his Italian American father disappeared a few months before he was born at the height of the Great Depression. As a result, his mother (a Mayflower descendant) had to accept social...

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Ted Danson

Biography Ted Danson in the TV sitcom Becker Ted Danson (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor, most notable for his television work. He was born Edward Bridge Danson III in San Diego, California, the son of Jessica MacMaster and Edward B. Danson, an archaeologist. He was raised outside of Flagstaff, Arizona. In 1961...

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Jeff Daniels

photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_337VLNYe7kY/SMc7bmtbUYI/AAAAAAAAD8Q/IE8bh5lr-pE/s400/244_daniels_jeff_092706.jpg Biography Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton in a scene from the TNT cable network remake of The Goodbye Girl Jeff Daniels (born February 19, 1955 in Athens, Georgia) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for...

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Karl Dane

Biography Used by permission of silent-movies.org Karl Dane (born October 12, 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died April 15, 1934 in Los Angeles, California) was a comedian and actor of the silent film era, and a sad example of the fate that befell many silent movie stars who were unable to make the transition to talkies. Born...

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Matt Damon

Biography Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts the son of an investment banker and realtor, Kent T. Damon, and an early-childhood education professor, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, who are both American born but of British, Finnish and German ancestry. Although he spent his early years growing up in Newton, Massachusetts living with his mother,...

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Roger Daltrey

Biography Daltrey was born in the Shepherd's Bush area of London, the same working class neighbourhood that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He showed academic promise as a child in the English state school system, ranking at the top of his class on examinations that led to his enrolment at the Acton...

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