Actors
by cyranoks | created - 04 Mar 2019 | updated - 23 Feb 2023 | Public1. Klaus Dahlen
Actor | Madame Bovary
Klaus Dahlen was born on May 23, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Madame Bovary (1968), Ein Sommer mit Nicole (1969) and Der Held meiner Träume (1960). He was married to Gunhild. He died on May 16, 2006 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
2. Hans Nielsen
Actor | Titanic
Hans Nielsen was born on November 30, 1911 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Titanic (1943), Mistress of the World (1960) and Treasure of the Aztecs (1965). He was married to Anna Katharina Elisabeth Novian and Annemarie Giersch. He died on October 11, 1965 in ...
3. Götz George
Actor | Der Totmacher
Götz George, born in Berlin in 1938, is the son of the famous actor Heinrich George and his wife, the actress Berta Drews. After first appearances on the stage of Berlin's Hebbel Theater during his childhood, Götz George was trained as an actor by the recognized teacher Else Bongers. At the age of ...
4. Rudolf Platte
Actor | Tante Wanda aus Uganda
Rudolf Platte was born on February 12, 1904 in Hörde [now Dortmund], Germany. He was an actor, known for Tante Wanda aus Uganda (1957), Veronika Voss (1982) and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1960). He was married to Georgia Lind, Marina Ried and Vally Hager. He died on December 18, 1984 in West ...
5. Gert Fröbe
Actor | Goldfinger
Tall, portly built German born actor (and talented violinist) who notched up over 100 film appearances, predominantly in German-language productions. He will forever be remembered by Western audiences as the bombastic megalomaniac "Auric Goldfinger" trying to kill Sean Connery and irradiate the ...
6. Walter Giller
Actor | Zwei unter Millionen
Walter Giller was born on August 23, 1927 in Recklinghausen, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Zwei unter Millionen (1961), Roses for the Prosecutor (1959) and Charleys Tante (1956). He was married to Nadja Tiller. He died on December 15, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.
7. Hans Christian Blech
Actor | The Longest Day
Hans Christian Blech was born on February 20, 1915 in Darmstadt, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), Battle of the Bulge (1965) and Wer zu spät kommt - Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990). He was married to Erni Wilhelmi. He died on March 5, 1993 in...
8. Hans Albers
Soundtrack | Soul Kitchen
Life companion was the actress Hansi Burg. Their relationship started in 1925. They separated in 1935 due to the pressure of the German Nazi government. In 1938 she went into exile in Switzerland (later London). Shortly after this she married the Norwegian Erich Blydt. Burg returned to Germany and ...
9. Mario Adorf
Actor | Die Blechtrommel
Mario Adorf, a tell-tale name indeed. Mario calls to mind the actor's Italian roots (his father was a Calabrian surgeon) whereas Adorf reveals his German origins (his mother was a radiologist from the German region Eifel). As for the full name Mario Adorf it echoes to perfection the international ...
10. Gustav Knuth
Actor | Sissi
Gustav Knuth was born on 7 July 1901 in Brunswick, Germany. After he received acting lessons from Casimir Paris, a well known actor at that time, he made his stage debut at the Stadttheater Heidelberg in 1918. Later, he played in Hamburg and also in Basel, Switzerland, but finally returned to ...
11. Paul Henckels
Actor | Schneider Wibbel
Distinctive German star character actor, specialising in quaint or dyed-in-the-wool eccentrics, grumpy civil servants, pedantic school principals, doctors, head waiters and stuffy accountants. He studied under Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann and cut his acting teeth at the Düsseldorfer ...
12. Harald Krassnitzer
Actor | Tatort
Harald Krassnitzer was born on September 10, 1960 in Grödig, Salzburg, Austria. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Der Bergdoktor (1992) and Mutig in die neuen Zeiten (2005).
13. Werner Peters
Actor | Battle of the Bulge
Corpulent German character actor, often seen in menacing or unpleasant roles. Trained under Lina Carstens (1935-1937), Peters initially started out as a comedian. After military service in World War II, he reinvented himself as a serious dramatic actor, resident for some time at the Munich ...
14. David Niven
Actor | Murder by Death
His mother was the French Lady Comynyplatt Henrietta de Gacher, his father was the British Lieutenant William Graham Niven, who died in the war when David was six years old. Niven was considered a difficult child to educate and had to change schools often until he finally went to Sandhurst Military...
15. Josef Meinrad
Actor | Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin
Josef Meinrad was born on April 21, 1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956), Die Fledermaus (1983) and Dulcinea del Toboso (1964). He was married to Germaine Renée Clement. He died on February 18, 1996 in Großgmain bei...
16. Peter Fricke
Actor | Das blaue Palais
Peter Fricke was born on August 26, 1939 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor, known for Das blaue Palais (1974), Zwei Väter einer Tochter (2003) and Die rote Kapelle (1972). He has been married to Patrizia Orlando since 2006.
17. Axel Milberg
Actor | Tatort
Axel Milberg was born on August 1, 1956 in Kiel, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Doktor Martin (2007) and Hannah Arendt (2012). He has been married to Judith Betzler since January 2004. They have one child.
18. Mickey Rooney
Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He first took the stage as a toddler in his parents vaudeville act at 17 months old. He made his first film appearance in 1926. The following year, he played the lead character in the first Mickey McGuire short film. ...
19. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
20. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
21. Glenn Ford
Actor | Gilda
Legendary actor Glenn Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada, to Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, a railroad executive. His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school...
22. Van Heflin
Actor | Shane
Craggy-faced, dependable star character actor Van Heflin never quite made the Hollywood "A" list, but made up for what he lacked in appearance with hard work, charisma and solid acting performances. He was born Emmett Evan Heflin in Oklahoma in December 1908, the son of Fanny Bleecker (Shippey) and...
23. Oskar Werner
Actor | Jules et Jim
Remote, somewhat morose and, as a result, intriguing, Viennese talent Oskar Werner was born in 1922, not far from the birthplace of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, and christened Oskar Josef Bschließmayer. His parents divorced when he was fairly young.
While growing up, Oskar found performing in school...
24. Lee Marvin
Actor | The Dirty Dozen
American actor Lee Marvin was born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. in New York City. After leaving school aged 18, Marvin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and after being wounded in action ...
25. Peter Carsten
Actor | A Study in Terror
Peter Carsten was born on April 30, 1928 in Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for A Study in Terror (1965), Dark of the Sun (1968) and 11 Uhr 20 (1970). He was married to Lilijana, ??? and Divna. He died on April 20, 2012 in Lucija, Slovenia.
26. Simon Schwarz
Actor | Die Siebtelbauern
Simon Schwarz was born on January 10, 1971 in Vienna, Austria. He is an actor and producer, known for The Inheritors (1998), Crush My Heart (2018) and Everything Will Be Okay (2015).
27. Josef Hader
Actor | Der Knochenmann
Josef Hader was born on February 14, 1962 in Waldhausen, Austria. After attending grammar school in Melk (Lower Austria) he started studying Germany and History in 1981, but actually he focused on his talent as a comedian. In 1982 he wrote his first cabaret play called "Fort Geschritten". For his ...
28. Paul Dahlke
Actor | Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
Paul Dahlke was born on April 12, 1904 in Groß-Streitz, Pomerania, Germany [now Strzezenice, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Confessions of Felix Krull (1957), Flying Classroom (1954) and Die Heiden von Kummerow und ihre lustigen Streiche (1967). He was married to Elfe ...
29. Robert Ryan
Actor | The Wild Bunch
Distinguished U.S. actor and longtime civil rights campaigner Robert Bushnell Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, whose wealthy family owned a real estate firm. His father was of Irish ancestry, and his mother was of English and ...
30. Gustaf Gründgens
Actor | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
After his school education, Gustaf Gründgens volunteered for the Western Front in 1916. The following year he joined the Saarlouis front theater group, which he led two years later. After the war, he trained from 1919 to 1920 at the Düsseldorf Theater School of Stage Arts. He took on his first ...
31. Charly Hübner
Actor | Polizeiruf 110
Charly Hübner was born on December 4, 1972 in Neustrelitz, East Germany [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany]. He is an actor and writer, known for Police Call 110 (1971), Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017) and The Good Neighbour (2011). He is married to Lina Beckmann. They have ...
32. Erich Ponto
Actor | The Third Man
Erich Ponto was born on December 14, 1884 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Third Man (1949), Sky Without Stars (1955) and Schneider Wibbel (1939). He was married to Tony Kresse. He died on February 4, 1957 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, ...
33. Robert Mitchum
Actor | Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. His father died in a ...
34. Michel Piccoli
Actor | Le mépris
This suave, elegant character star was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades. His distinguished career extended to both stage and screen and his versatility was such that he could take on just about any persona (in his own words: "I do not put on an act... I slip away ...
35. Jean Rochefort
Actor | L'homme du train
French character star Jean Rochefort expressed an interest in acting early in life. Born in 1930, he trained at the Paris Conservatoire but had to halt his studies due to military service. Relocating to Paris, he developed a minor name for himself in cabaret and stage plays. He also worked with the...
36. Robert Morley
Actor | The African Queen
Bushy-browed, triple-chinned and plummy-voiced English actor and raconteur of wide girth and larger-than-life personality. The son of a career army officer, Morley was expected to join the diplomatic corps. As a 'compromise', he tried his hand as a beer salesman. However, bitten by the acting bug ...
37. Claude Brasseur
Actor | Bande à part
Claude Brasseur was born on June 15, 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for Band of Outsiders (1964), Pardon Mon Affaire (1976) and O Fio do Horizonte (1993). He was married to Michèle Cambon and Peggy Roche. He died on December 22, 2020 in Paris, France.
38. Carl Raddatz
Actor | Opfergang
Carl Raddatz was born on March 13, 1912 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Opfergang (1944), Everyone Dies Alone (1976) and Rosen im Herbst (1955). He was married to Helga Cartsburg, Hildegard Matschke and Hannelore Schroth. He died on May 19, 2004 in Berlin, Germany.
39. Ernst Schröder
Actor | Stresemann
Ernst Schröder was born on January 27, 1915 in Wanne-Eickel, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Stresemann (1957), The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955) and The Counterfeit Traitor (1962). He was married to Gesa Ferck and Inge Thiesfeld. He died on July 26, 1994 in Berlin, Germany.
40. Alain Delon
Actor | Le Samouraï
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being ...
41. Jean Gabin
Actor | La grande illusion
Jean-Alexis Moncorgé started his career with 15 years at the theatre and debuted at the "Moulin Rouge" in Paris in 1929. Despite of his rude aspect he knew to be the gentleman of the French cinema in the time between the two World Wars. One of his most popular personalities was inspector Maigret. ...
42. Gert Haucke
Actor | Krankensaal 6
Gert Haucke was born on March 13, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Krankensaal 6 (1974), The Country Doctor (1987) and Ein Mann will nach oben (1978). He was married to Ute Blaich. He died on May 30, 2008 in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
43. Günter Meisner
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Günter Meisner was born on April 18, 1926 in Bremen, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and In a Glass Cage (1986). He was married to Gisela Albrecht Meisner. He died on December 5, 1994 in Berlin, Germany.
44. Wolfgang Preiss
Actor | A Bridge Too Far
Born in Nuremberg on February 27, 1910, the son of a school teacher, well-known German actor Wolfgang Preiss started studying philosophy and theatre sciences alternately (including dance training) and made his stage debut in 1932 in Munich. He appeared in many theatres throughout his country in the...
45. John Cleese
Actor | A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he ...
46. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
47. Peter O'Toole
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a...
48. Ben Kingsley
Actor | Sexy Beast
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...
49. Horst Bollmann
Actor | Das ausgefüllte Leben des Alexander Dubronski
Horst Bollmann was born on February 11, 1925 in Dessau, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das ausgefüllte Leben des Alexander Dubronski (1967), Wie ein Blitz (1970) and Tatort (1970). He was married to Hetty Jockenhöfer. He died on July 7, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
50. Montgomery Clift
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Edward Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire life) was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, just after his twin sister Roberta (1920-2014) and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. He was the son of Ethel "Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift (1886-...
51. Paul Klinger
Actor | Tim Frazer
Paul Klinger was born on June 14, 1907 in Essen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tim Frazer (1963), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and Rommel ruft Kairo (1959). He was married to Karin Andersen and Hildegard Wolf. He died on November 14, 1971 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
52. Charles Denner
Actor | Z
Mr. Denner began studying in Paris with Charles Dullin in 1945. Four years later, he joined the National Popular Theater. In 1962, he was offered his first big film role, in Bluebeard (1963). He made thirty films after that, notably with Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut. Over the years, he ...
53. Adrian Hoven
Producer | Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal
Adrian Hoven was born on May 18, 1922 in Wöllersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria. He was an actor and producer, known for Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal (1966), World on a Wire (1973) and Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968). He died on April 8, 1981 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany.
54. Peter van Eyck
Actor | The Longest Day
With his whitish blond crew-cut, slow, menacing drawl and Germanic manner, Van Eyck was destined to be typecast as stereotypically scowling, arrogant Nazi officers. This was ironic, because he was an avowed anti-fascist who had left Germany in 1931 -- two years before Adolf Hitler came to power. ...
55. Harry Andrews
Actor | The Hill
British character actor Harry Andrews had the sort of massive granite face and square jaw that would stamp that career, but he set himself apart with brilliant stage and screen work. He had graduated from Wrekin College in Shropshire and then moved on to the stage, appearing with Liverpool ...
56. Sean Connery
Actor | The Rock
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...
57. Wolfgang Kieling
Actor | Torn Curtain
Wolfgang Kieling was born on March 16, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Torn Curtain (1966), Polizeirevier Davidswache (1964) and Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1970). He was married to Monika Gabriel, Gisela Uhlen, Jola Jobst and Johanna Kieling. He ...
58. Anthony Quinn
Actor | Alexis Zorbas
Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...
59. Harry Dean Stanton
Actor | Lucky
Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Ersel (Moberly), a cook, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a barber and tobacco farmer. He lived in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Lafayette Senior High School with the class of 1944. Drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during ...
60. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
61. Klaus Schwarzkopf
Actor | Einer von uns beiden
Klaus Schwarzkopf was born on December 18, 1922 in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for One or the Other (1974), Alle Menschen werden Brüder (1973) and The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982). He died on June 21, 1991 in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
62. Heinz Reincke
Actor | Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein
Heinz Reincke was born on May 28, 1925 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977), The Country Doctor (1987) and Geschichten aus der Heimat (1983). He was married to Elfi Petsch, Erni Mangold and Herta Maria Gessulat. He died on July 13, 2011 in Vienna,...
63. Günter Lamprecht
Actor | Das Boot
Günter Lamprecht was born on January 21, 1930 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Das Boot (1981), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and Das Brot des Bäckers (1976). He was married to Gisela Zülch and Claudia Amm. He died on October 4, 2022 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, ...
64. Steve Pemberton
Actor | Inside No. 9
Steve Pemberton is a BAFTA winning actor and writer born in Blackburn, UK. He graduated from Bretton Hall in Yorkshire with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Arts in 1989. After leaving college Steve spent time producing and starring in small-scale theatre productions in London and working part-time for ...
65. Sieghardt Rupp
Actor | Per un pugno di dollari
Sieghardt Rupp was born on June 14, 1931 in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. He was an actor, known for A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Weininger's Last Night (1990) and Das Feuerschiff (1963). He was married to Gotlinde Rupp. He died on July 20, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.
66. Arthur Brauss
Actor | Cross of Iron
Arthur Brauss has accumulated an impressive tally of acting credits, both on the domestic front and internationally. He has been directed by the likes of John Huston, Sam Peckinpah, Jack Arnold, Richard Brooks and Mark Robson. His co-stars have included Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, ...
67. Hubert von Meyerinck
Actor | Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Complete with waxed moustache and monocle, bald, straight-backed Hubert von Meyerinck looked every inch a poster boy for Prussian militarism. A practised condescension and raspy, sometimes shrill delivery further added to this image. In fact, his grandfather had been a commanding general and his ...
68. Willy Harlander
Actor | Tatort
Willy Harlander was born on April 30, 1931 in Regensburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht (1969) and Isar 12 (1961). He was married to Erika Blumberger and Christl Höck. He died on April 20, 2000 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
69. Telly Savalas
Actor | Kojak
Of Greek descent on both sides, the son of immigrants, Savalas was a soldier during World War II, although most of his enlistment records were destroyed in a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973. He later studied psychology at Columbia University under the ...
70. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
71. Gregory Peck
Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child...
72. John Williams
Actor | Dial M for Murder
John Williams was a tall, urbane Anglo-American actor best known for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Dial M for Murder (1954), a role he played on Broadway, in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film, and on television in 1958. Playing Hubbard on the Great White Way brought him the 1953 Tony ...
73. Klaus Maria Brandauer
Actor | Out of Africa
Klaus Maria Brandauer was a music student and studied drama at Stuttgarter Hochschule. He was a true stage actor and therefore didn't like to work in movies except for two small parts in The Salzburg Connection (1972) and Októberi vasárnap (1979). This changed when Hungarian director ...
74. Curd Jürgens
Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me
Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the 20th Century. He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany, a subject of Kaiser ...
75. Logan Lerman
Actor | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
One of today's leading talents across both independent and mainstream film, Logan Lerman is an immensely talented actor who takes on challenging roles and brings dynamic characters to life on screen.
Logan was born in Beverly Hills, to a Jewish family. His parents are Lisa (Goldman), who worked as ...
76. Vadim Glowna
Actor | Cross of Iron
Vadim Glowna was born on September 26, 1941 in Eutin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Cross of Iron (1977), Desperado City (1981) and Dies rigorose Leben (1983). He was married to Vera Tschechowa. He died on January 24, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.
77. Yves Montand
Actor | Jean de Florette
Yves Montand was born on October 13, 1921 in Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Jean de Florette (1986), Z (1969) and The Wages of Fear (1953). He was married to Simone Signoret. He died on November 9, 1991 in Senlis, Oise, France.
78. Richard Burton
Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in ...
79. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
80. Udo Thomer
Actor | Buddenbrooks
Udo Thomer was born on October 3, 1945 in Regensburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Buddenbrooks (1979), Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) and Waldhaus (1987). He was married to Edeltraud Thomer. He died on January 12, 2006 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
81. Otto Gebühr
Actor | Der große König
Otto Gebühr was born on May 29, 1877 in Kettwig, Essen, Rhine Province, Prussia [now Northrhine-Westphalia], Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Der große König (1942), Fridericus (1937) and Pretty Miss Schragg (1937). He was married to Doris Krüger and Cornelia Bertha ...
82. Friedrich Schütter
Actor | Das Erbe der Guldenburgs
Friedrich Schütter was born on January 4, 1921 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987), Bürgerkrieg in Russland (1967) and Maximilian von Mexiko (1970). He was married to Isabella Vértes and Angélique Duvier. He died on September 17, 1995...
83. Maurice Risch
Actor | Le dernier métro
Maurice Risch was born on January 25, 1943 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for The Last Metro (1980), The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979) and Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (1975).
84. Gene Wilder
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...
85. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
86. Fritz Straßner
Actor | Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht
Fritz Straßner was born on November 23, 1919 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht (1969), Bongo Boy (1965) and Isar 12 (1961). He died on February 7, 1993 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
87. Willy Semmelrogge
Actor | Tatort
Willy Semmelrogge was born on March 15, 1923 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Lady Audleys Geheimnis (1978) and Woyzeck (1979). He died on April 10, 1984 in West Berlin, West Germany.
88. E.O. Fuhrmann
Actor | Melissa
E.O. Fuhrmann was born on December 31, 1924 in Siegen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Melissa (1966), Emilia Galotti (1958) and The Castle (1968). He died on June 10, 1986 in West Berlin, West Germany.
89. Yul Brynner
Actor | The King and I
Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible. It was not until the publication of the books "Yul: The Man Who Would Be King" ...
90. Edward G. Robinson
Actor | Double Indemnity
Emanuel Goldenberg arrived in the United States from Romania at age ten, and his family moved into New York's Lower East Side. He took up acting while attending City College, abandoning plans to become a rabbi or lawyer. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts awarded him a scholarship, and he began ...
91. Vladimír Mensík
Actor | Nahá pastýrka
Vladimír Mensík was born on October 9, 1929 in Ivancice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Nahá pastýrka (1966), Slamený klobouk (1972) and The Cremator (1969). He was married to Olga and Vera. He died on May 29, 1988 in Brno, ...
92. Alec Baldwin
Actor | The Departed
Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...
93. Siegfried Lowitz
Actor | Der Alte
Siegfried Lowitz was born on September 22, 1914 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Old Fox (1977), The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972) and Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1967). He was married to Marianne Probst and Elisabeth Felber. He died on June 27, 1999 in Munich, Bavaria, ...
94. Horst Buchholz
Actor | La vita è bella
On the cast list of The Magnificent Seven (1960), you will find several names that doubtless you know well: Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Yul Brynner. But there is one name that you will have difficulty pronouncing, let alone identifying as an actor you have seen before. That man is Horst ...
95. Peter Falk
Actor | Columbo
Peter Michael Falk was born on September 16, 1927, in New York City, New York. At the age of 3, his right eye was surgically removed due to cancer. He graduated from Ossining High School, where he was president of his class. His early career choices involved becoming a certified public accountant, ...
96. Jean-Paul Belmondo
Actor | Pierrot le fou
The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before ...
97. Robert Naegele
Actor | Der Idiot
Robert Naegele was born on June 23, 1925 in Nattenhausen, Krumbach, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Idiot (1968), The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) and Tatort (1970). He died on January 9, 2016 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
98. Karlheinz Böhm
Actor | Peeping Tom
The son of conductor Karl Böhm began his acting career on stage in Germany. In Europe, he is still best known for his role in the Sissi (1955) series, although he later starred in several movies of cult director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After 1981, he was exclusively involved in charitable work in...
99. Gianni Rizzo
Actor | Der Name der Rose
Gianni Rizzo was born on April 5, 1924 in Brindisi, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Name of the Rose (1986), Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963) and The Ten Gladiators (1963). He died on February 4, 1992 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
100. Dave Johns
Actor | I, Daniel Blake
Dave Johns is an actor, stand up comedian and talented improviser who played the lead role in Ken Loach's feature film 'I, Daniel Blake' for which he won the 2016 BIFA for Best Actor. 'I, Daniel Blake' won the 2016 Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. He is a regular guest with the Comedy Store ...
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