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Michael Caine

Biography He was born in Rotherhithe, South London to Maurice Micklewhite, a Catholic fish-porter and Ellen Maria, a Protestant charlady. He grew up in nearby Camberwell and during World War II was evacuated to Norfolk. When he first became an actor, he used the stage name "Michael Scott." He happened to be speaking to his...

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Nicolas Cage

Biography The Weather Man movie poster Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Born Nicholas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California to August Coppola, an Italian American writer and professor, and Joy Vogelsang, a German American dancer. In 1974 he got to meet H.B 'Toby' Halicki at the...

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Sid Caesar

Biography Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows. Caesar was born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Yonkers, New York where his father ran a lunch counter where...

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Sebastian Cabot

Biography Cabot's career began with a bit part in Foreign Affaires (1935); his first screen credit was in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936). Other British films such as Love on the Dole, Pimpernel Smith, Old Mother Riley: Detective and Old Mother Riley: Overseas followed. In 1946, he won the role of Iago in Othello. By 1947, Cabot had...

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Bruce Cabot

Biography Promotional photo for actor Bruce Cabot Bruce Cabot (born April 20, 1904; died May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. Born Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Cabot made his film debut in 1931 and during the course of his career appeared in almost one hundred feature films. His most...

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James Caan

Biography James Langston Michael Caan (born March 26, 1940, The Bronx, New York) is an American actor. Caan's parents were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. He currently stars as "Big Ed Deline" on the NBC hit series, Las Vegas. A graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse where one of his instructors was teaching...

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John C. Reilly

Biography John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor of Irish and Lithuanian descent from the South Side of Chicago. He is a graduate of Brother Rice High School and DePaul University. A proud member of the Chicago theater, Reilly credits the Windy City with helping him gain experience as he was...

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George C Scott

Biography Scott was born in Wise, Virginia, son of George Dewey Scott (1902-1987) and Helena Agnes (Slemp) Scott (1904-1935). His mother died just before his eighth birthday, and he was raised by his father, an executive at the Buick Motor Company. As a young man, Scott joined the U.S. Marine Corps and was assigned to the...

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Gabriel Byrne

Biography This article is about the Irish actor. See Gay Byrne for the Irish radio and television presenter. Gabriel Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the first of six children born to devoutly Catholic parents ("mystical" is the term Byrne used to describe his father) and educated...

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Max Bygraves

Biography Max Bygraves was the son of poor parents in London's East End docklands. His father was a professional boxer known as Battling Tom Smith, and a casual dockworker. He went to St. Joseph's Primary school in Rotherhithe. Max showed talent as a child singer and performed a solo in Westminster Cathedral. He left school at 14 and...

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Gary Busey

Biography Busey attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, where he became interested in acting. He is listed as one of the university's "outstanding alumni." He then transferred to Oklahoma State University, where he quit school one class short of graduation. In 1971, wife Judy Helkenberg gave birth to his...

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Steve Buscemi

photo: http://www.listal.com/ Biography Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York to John Buscemi, an Italian American Korean War veteran and an Irish American mother. He was a New York City firefighter from 1980 to 1984. Career His first lead role was opposite Richard Ganoug in Parting Glances (1986). He is an...

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Fred Buscaglione

photo: http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/f/Fred_Buscaglione.jpg Biography Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (Turin, 23 November 1921 - Rome, 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in late 1950s. His public persona - the character he played both in his songs and his movies - was a humorous...

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Richard Burton

photo: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_04/RichardBurton_468x465.jpg Biography This article is about the 20th-century actor. For the 19th-century explorer, scholar, and orientalist, see Richard Francis Burton. Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s through...

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Raymond Burr

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/566/000024494/ray3.jpg Biography He was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada to William Johnston Burr (a descendant of Irish immigrants) and Minerva Smith (who was of Scottish and English descent). A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Burr served in the U.S. Navy in World...

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George Burns

photo: http://www.successprinciplesonline.com/GB.jpg Biography From The Cantor's Son to the Peewee Quartet Nathan Birnbaum was the ninth of twelve children born to Louis and Dorothy Birnbaum in New York City. His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but did not work very often. During the flu...

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Edward Burns

Biography This article concerns the actor born in 1968; for the one best known starting in 1958, see Edward Byrnes. For other people named Burns, see Burns (disambiguation). Edward Burns (born 29 January 1968 as Edward J. Burns, Jr.) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. He was born in Woodside, Queens, New...

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Smiley Burnette

photo: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wioconto/Obits/SmileyBurnette.jpg Biography Smiley Burnette (born March 18, 1911 in Summum, Illinois; died February 16, 1967 in Encino, California) was an American singer and songwriter who could play as many as 100 different musical instruments as well as a highly successful comedic actor...

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Victor Buono

Biography Victor Buono (February 3, 1938 - January 1, 1982) was an American actor. He was born Victor Charles Buono in San Diego, California, a son of Victor Francis Buono (May 28, 1907-May 17, 1981) and Myrtle Belle Keller (October 19, 1909 -August 27, 1979). His maternal grandmother, Myrtle Glied (April 18, 1886-December...

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John Bunny

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/908/000091635/john-bunny-4-sized.jpg Biography John Bunny (born September 21, 1863 in New York City, United States; died April 26, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York), was the first comic star of the American silent film era. John Bunny attended High School in Brooklyn and worked as a grocery clerk...

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Yul Brynner

photo: http://www.thegoldenyears.org/brynner.jpg Biography He was born Yul Borisovich Bryner (Russian: Юл Борисович Бриннер) in Vladivostok, Russia. His mother, Marousia Blagоvidova, was the daughter of a Russian doctor of Jewish heritage (who had converted to Christianity) and his father, Boris Bryner, was an...

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Pierce Brosnan

photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b_U2WXd7_bk/TCSXkr5-iDI/AAAAAAAABAs/I0MqpxmKx_Y/s1600/Pierce-Brosnan.jpg Biography Born an only child in the Republic of Ireland in Drogheda, County Louth, Brosnan lived in nearby Navan, County Meath. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers and would later condemn their brutality. Brosnan's...

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Mel Brooks

photo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b_U2WXd7_bk/S9RHN-seKcI/AAAAAAAAAXI/ipY-Kq0udbM/s1600/mel+brooks.jpg Biography Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer director and theatrical producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, Brooks...

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Charles Bronson

Biography Early life Bronson was born as Charles Dennis Buchinskas in the notorious Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal mining neighborhood of Scooptown, near Pittsburgh, the eleventh of 15 children born to an American mother of Lithuanian extraction and a Lithuanian emigrant father. His father died when Charles was young and...

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James Brolin

Biography He was born James Kenneth Bruderlin in Los Angeles, California to an aeronautical engineer, Henry and a singer, Helen, and the family settled in Westwood, after his birth. As a teenager in the mid-1950s, he would often be fascinated with another actor James Dean, (this was due to him watching movies of his time). At the...

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Adrien Brody

Biography He was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York (a neighborhood near Jamaica, Queens) to Elliot Brody (a Jewish American retired history professor) and Sylvia Plachy (a Hungarian-born Catholic photojournalist). Brody attended New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (famously the...

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Adam Brody

photo: https://sarahdessen.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/adam-brody-400ds0621.jpg Biography Brody was born in San Diego, California as the oldest son to Jewish American parents Mark Brody and Valerie Siefman. He has younger twin brothers, Sean and Matt. He moved to Hollywood in 1999, hiring an acting coach and quickly signing with a...

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Matthew Broderick

Foto: 1 Biography Broderick was born in New York City, the son of the late Irish American Catholic actor James Broderick and his American Jewish wife, the late Patricia Biow, a playwright. Broderick attended the Walden School, a private school in Manhattan with a strong drama program. Career Broderick in Ferris...

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Jim Broadbent

photo: http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/actor/00/08/67/jim-broadbent-404422l.jpg Biography Jim Broadbent with his Oscar Award for Iris Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an English television and film actor. Born in Lincoln, the son of a furniture maker and a sculptress (his twin sister died at birth), Broadbent...

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Jeff Bridges

Biography Jeff as "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski. Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. He is the son of Dorothy Simpson and Lloyd Bridges, the brother of Beau Bridges and the uncle of Jordan Bridges. Bridges's first major role was in the 1971 movie The Last...

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