08/18/1952 - 09/14/2009
Patrick Wayne Swayze (pronounced "sweɪzi" August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best-known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing...
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04/20/1893 - 03/08/1971
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (born April 20, 1893, Burchard, Neb., U.S.—died March 8, 1971, Hollywood, Calif.) U.S. motion-picture comedian who was the highest paid star of the 1920s and one of the cinema's most popular personalities.
09/15/1940 - 03/11/2010
Merlin Jay Olsen (September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010) was an American football player in the National Football League, NFL commentator, and actor.
08/31/1928 - 11/18/2002
James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of role...
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03/02/1919 - 12/17/2009
Phylis Lee Isley (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), better known by her stage name Jennifer Jones, was an American actress. A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress...
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01/21/1922 - 03/19/2008
David Paul Scofield, (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his perfo...
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12/24/1922 - 01/25/1990
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.
She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She...
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05/12/1907 - 06/29/2003
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy parents, Hepburn turned to acting after graduation. Favorable reviews of her work on stag...
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06/20/1923 - 03/05/2010
Richard Stapley, also known by the stage name Richard Wyler, (June 20, 1923 - March 5, 2010) was a British-born American actor and writer
02/18/1919 - 09/10/2006
Volodymyr Palahniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006), known professionally as Jack Palance, was an American film actor. During half a century of film and television appearances he was no...
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02/08/1931 - 09/30/1955
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied by the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as a troubled Los Ange...
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06/26/1957 - 04/27/2007
Al Hunter Ashton (26 June 1957 – 27 April 2007), born Alan Hunter, was an English actor and script writer.
05/06/1915 - 10/10/1985
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio
Gordon Parks (Gordon Roger Parks)
11/30/1912 - 03/07/2006
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director.
05/26/1907 - 06/11/1979
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring Ameri...
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