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Nicholas Clay

Biography Nicholas Clay as Lancelot in Excalibur. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (September 18, 1946 - May 25 - 2000) was a British actor. Born in London, Clay studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and began his acting career in the early 1970s with small parts in film and television. He and also appeared in...

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Berton Churchill

Biography Berton Churchill (December 9, 1876 – October 10, 1940) was a Canadian actor. Born in Toronto, Ontario. As a young man interested in the theater, he headed to New York City where he began an acting career that soon put him on the Broadway stage. There, he was one of the earliest members of Actors Equity and sat on...

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Michael Chiklis

photo: https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/chiklis.jpg Biography Michael Chiklis was born on August 30, 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in Andover, Massachusetts. Also known as Chick or Chicky, he is an American actor. Chiklis' family hailed from the Greek island of Lesbos and he is fluent in Greek,...

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Maurice Chevalier

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PlrXXfn9_Cg/SwQaQT1CapI/AAAAAAAACps/n5X9VjusCPg/s1600/171005.jpg Biography French singer Maurice Chevalier with stars of Helizapoppin at Expo 67, in Montreal, Quebec. Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor and popular entertainer. He was born in Paris,...

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Don Cheadle

Biography Don Cheadle (born November 29, 1964 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an Academy Award-nominated actor. He attended high school in Denver, Colorado, at East High School. He first became well-known for playing the district attorney on the television series Picket Fences. Since then he has appeared in films including...

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Charlie Chaplin

photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M_N1vqPdw3I/S_fy8oGrn-I/AAAAAAAAAKg/HzzsBG0gTJM/s1600/Charlie+Chaplin.jpg Biography Born: April 16, 1889 Walworth, London, England Died: December 25, 1977 Vevey, Switzerland Occupation: Actor, writer, director, producer, composer Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill in...

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Lon Chaney

Biography Lon Chaney, Sr. (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor during the age of silent films. Lon Chaney was born Leonidas Frank Chaney in Colorado Springs, Colorado to deaf parents Frank Chaney (who was of English and French descent) and Emma Kennedy (an Irish-American). He was skilled...

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Lon Chaney Jr.

photo: http://classicscreams.com/Celeb_Pages/Celeb_Pics/Chaney_Jr_Portrait_1930.jpg Biography Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973) was an American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of his better-known father, Lon Chaney. He was born Creighton Tull Chaney, began...

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Jeff Chandler

photo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0O2CPGcOPk0/SjQiZ_xmfcI/AAAAAAAAEUI/wGsOaQdLd0g/s400/Jeff+chandler.jpg Biography Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918 - June 17, 1961) was a popular American film actor in the 1950s. Born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Chandler attended Erasmus Hall High School, the nucleus of...

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Jackie Chan

photo: http://www.informal.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/JackieChan.jpg Biography Jackie Chan is the son of Lee-Lee and Charles Chan who migrated to Canberra, Australia in 1960 as a refugee from the Chinese civil war and who had previously worked as a maid and butler for the French ambassador to Hong Kong. His Chinese name at birth...

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Richard Chamberlain

Biography George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934 in Beverly Hills, California to parents Chuck and Elsa Chamberlain) is an American actor who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare. Coinciding with his rise to fame on Kildare, Chamberlain also had a brief but moderately successful career as...

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George Chakiris

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/119/000063927/chakris-face.jpg Biography George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934 in Norwood, Ohio) is a Greek-American dancer and Academy Award winning film actor. Chakiris made his film debut in 1947 and for several years he appeared in small roles, usually as a dancer or a member of the...

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James Caviezel

Biography Caviezel is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and is also a Minnesota Vikings fan. He prays the Rosary daily and has a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was originally cast to play Cyclops/Scott Summers in X-Men (2000) but dropped out due to a scheduling conflict with his other film, Frequency. In...

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Walter Catlett

photo: http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/walter_catlett.jpg Biography Walter Catlett (February 4, 1889 - November 14, 1960) was an American actor. Catlett was born in San Francisco, California. He spread out a career out for himself playing excitable, offcious blowhards, but some other actors...

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John Cassavetes

Biography Cassavetes was born in New York City to Nicholas John Cassavetes and Katherine Demetri, both of whom were Greek immigrants. He grew up on Long Island, New York and attended high school at Blair Academy in New Jersey before moving to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. On graduation in 1950, he continued acting in the...

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David Caruso

photo: http://premierguidemiami.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/david-caruso-.jpg Biography David Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American actor. Caruso was born in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens. The child of an Italian American father and an Irish American mother, he attended attended Elementary and...

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Jim Carroll

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-lz729rhGPA/SYsZE6JVbtI/AAAAAAAAB6A/TnG-OwzdY9k/s400/800px-Jim_Carroll_by_David_Shankbone.jpg Biography Poetry Organic Trains (1967) 4 Ups and 1 Down (1970) Living at the Movies (1972) The Book of Nods (1986) Fear of Dreaming (1993) Void of Course: Poems 1994-1997 (1998) ISBN...

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Leo Carrillo

Biography Leo Carrillo, born August 6, 1880 in Los Angeles, California - died September 10, 1961 in Santa Monica, California, was an actor and conservationist. Although he played stereotypical Latinos, Leo Carrillo was part of an old and respected Californio family who could trace his roots back to the conquistadores. His...

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Jim Carrey

photo: https://topnews.in/light/files/Jim-Carrey_0.jpg Biography Early life Carrey was born in the Toronto suburb of Newmarket, Ontario to Percy Carrey and Kathleen; he has three older siblings, John, Patricia and Rita. His family was Catholic and had distant French Canadian roots (the original surname was Carré).[ A...

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Keith Carradine

Biography Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an Oscar winning actor born into a family of actors. His father, John Carradine, appeared in dozens of horror films. His half-brother, David Carradine is best known for his role as Kwai Chang in the Kung Fu TV series and more recently as the title character in...

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John Carradine

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7UHICy8Etfo/S65KHvHzdqI/AAAAAAAAJVg/a1us2A7HUQo/s400/JohnCarradine.jpg Biography Carradine (center) in Stagecoach (1939) John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was an American actor. Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), portrayed...

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David Carradine

photo: http://www.sliceofscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/davidcarradine.jpg Biography Carradine is best known for his roles as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu (as well as the sequels in the 1980s and 1990s), 'Big' Bill Shelly in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972), folksinger Woody Guthrie in Bound...

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Alan Carney

Biography Alan Carney (Born David Boughal) (born December 22, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York; died May 2, 1973 in Van Nuys, California) was an American actor and comedian. Alan Carney has performed in vaudeville for years as a comic dialectican. After making his first film, 1941's Convoy, Carney signed a contract at RKO, in choice...

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Harry Carey Jr

Biography Nicknamed "Dobe," Harry Carey, Jr. (born May 16, 1921 in Saugus, California) is an American film actor. Harry Carey Jr. appeared in over 90 films. He is mostly remembered for appearing in western films and television programs. He is the son of acclaimed actor, Harry Carey (1878-1947) and actress Olive Fuller...

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Macdonald Carey

photo: http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/27/2770/PMXTD00Z.jpg Biography Macdonald Carey (born March 15, 1913 in Sioux City, Iowa; died March 21, 1994 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives. For almost three decades, he...

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Yakima Canutt

Biography Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1896 - May 24, 1986) was an American actor and stuntman in Hollywood movies of the 1920s through the 1950s. Born Enos Edward Canutt in the rough ranchlands near Colfax, Washington, many people think that "Yak" Canutt moved as a young man to Yakima, Washington and that the town...

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Eddie Cantor

photo: http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img0995.jpg Biography Cantor was born as Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Meta and Mechel Iskowitz. His mother died of lung cancer two years after his birth and he was abandonded by his father, left to be raised by his grandmother, Esther...

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John Candy

Biography John Candy in the motion picture Brewster's Millions John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Candy was of three-quarters Scottish and one-quarter Polish descent. He played a featured supporting role (together with Rick...

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Bruce Campbell

Biography Bruce Campbell lectures on his life as a B Movie actor. Bruce Campbell (born June 22, 1958, Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American actor of Scottish descent. Campbell is very well-known for his starring role as Ash in the Evil Dead trilogy of horror/slapstick movies. Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began...

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Rory Calhoun

Biography Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown Durgin on August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was born in Los Angeles, California. As an actor he starred in more than eighty motion pictures and a large number of television episodes. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Calhoun has a star on the Hollywood...

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