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Henry
Fonda |
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Leading Player |
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(1905-1982) Born May 16, Grand Island, Nebraska, USA |
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"One
of the cinema's most enduring actors, Henry Fonda enjoyed a highly
successful career spanning close to a half century. Most often in
association with director
John Ford,
he starred in many of the finest films of Hollywood's golden era...
Fonda majored in journalism in college, and worked as an office boy
before pursuing an interest in acting."
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Key Films The Grapes of Wrath (1940),
The Lady Eve (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), 12
Angry Men (1957), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Key Directors
John Ford,
Sidney Lumet,
Otto Preminger
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1,000 Greatest Films |
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Jane
Fonda |
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Leading Player |
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(1937- ) Born December 21, New York, New York, USA |
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"A
child of privilege, the young Jane Fonda exhibited the imperious,
headstrong attitude and ruthlessness that would distinguish both her
film work and her private life... Fonda's film stardom ascended in the
early '70s; in 1971, she won the first of two Oscars for her portrayal
of a high-priced prostitute in Klute, and Fonda's career
flourished despite a sub-rosa Hollywood campaign to discredit the
actress and spread idiotic rumors about her subversive behavior."
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Key Films
Cat Ballou (1965), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
(1969), Klute (1971), Tout va bien (1972), Coming Home (1978)
Key Directors
Roger Vadim
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Harrison Ford |
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Leading Player |
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(1942- ) Born July
13, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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"If
Harrison Ford had listened to the advice of studio heads early in his
career, he would have remained a carpenter and never gone on to star in
some of Hollywood's biggest films and become one of the industry's most
bankable stars... The early '80s elevated Ford to major stardom with the
combined impact of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and his
portrayal of action-adventure hero Indiana Jones in Raiders of the
Lost Ark (1981)."
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Films
Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of
the Lost Ark (1981), Blade Runner (1982), Witness (1985)
Key Directors
Steven Spielberg,
George
Lucas,
Francis Ford
Coppola
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Jean
Gabin |
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Leading Player |
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Born May 17, Paris, France |
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"The
most popular French actor of the prewar era, Jean Gabin was the essence
of world-weary stoicism; a classic antihero, his characters ran the
gamut of society's victims and losers, outsiders damaged by life and
with no hope of survival. Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé on May 17, 1904, in
Mériel, France, he was the son of professional cabaret performers, and
raised by relatives in the country."
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Films
Pépé le Moko (1936), La Grande illusion (1937), La Bête
humaine (1938), Le
Jour se lève (1939), French Cancan (1955)
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Directors
Jean Renoir,
Julien Duvivier,
Marcel Carné Links
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John
Gielgud |
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& Character Player |
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April 14, South Kensington, London, England |
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"One
of the theatre's greatest legends, Sir John Gielgud spent almost 80 of
the 96 years of his life appearing in countless plays that saw him
portray every major Shakespearean role. The last surviving member of a
generation of classical actors that included
Laurence Olivier,
Peggy Ashcroft, and Ralph Richardson, Gielgud worked up to a month
before his death, performing in over 50 films and numerous television
productions when he wasn't busy with his stage work."
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Chimes at Midnight (1966), Providence
(1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Gandhi (1982), Prospero's Books
(1991)
Key
Directors
Otto Preminger
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Lillian
Gish |
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October 14, Springfield, Ohio, USA |
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"The
First Lady of the Silent Screen, Lillian Gish was the movie
industry's first true actress. A pioneer of fundamental film performing
techniques, she was the first star to recognize the many crucial
differences between acting for the stage and acting for the screen, and
while her contemporaries painted their performances in broad, dramatic
strokes, Gish delivered finely etched, nuanced turns carrying a stunning
emotional impact."
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The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms
(1919), The Wind (1928), The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Key Directors
D.W. Griffith,
King Vidor Links
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Cary
Grant |
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Leading Player |
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(1904-1986) Born
January 18, Bristol, England |
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"After
acting in Broadway musicals, Grant was signed in 1932 by Paramount
Pictures to be built into leading-man material... A bit stiff-necked but
undeniably sexy, Grant vaulted to stardom, though Paramount continued
wasting his potential in second rate films... Seemingly growing
handsomer and more charming as he got older, Grant retained his stardom
into the 1960s."
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Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940),
Notorious (1946), North by Northwest (1959)
Key Directors
Howard Hawks,
Alfred
Hitchcock,
Stanley Donen
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Alec
Guinness |
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April 2, Marylebone, London, England |
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"A
member of a generation of British actors that included
Sir Laurence Olivier and Ralph
Richardson, Sir Alec Guinness possessed an astonishing versatility that
was amply displayed over the course of his 66-year career. Dubbed "the
outstanding poet of anonymity" by fellow actor Peter Ustinov, Guinness
was a consummate performer, effortlessly portraying characters that
ranged from eight members of the same family to an aging Jedi master."
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Star Wars (1977)
Key Directors
David Lean,
Alexander
Mackendrick,
Robert Hamer
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Gene
Hackman |
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Leading Player |
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January 30, San Bernardino, California, USA |
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"A
remarkably prolific and versatile talent, Gene Hackman was a successful
character actor whose uncommon abilities and smart career choices
ultimately made him a most unlikely leading man. In the tradition of
Spencer Tracy, he excelled as an Everyman, consistently delivering
intelligent, natural performances which established him among the most
respected and well-liked stars of his era."
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The French Connection (1971), The
Conversation (1974), Unforgiven (1992), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Key Directors
Arthur Penn,
John
Frankenheimer
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Alan Hale |
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Leading Character Player |
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February 10, Washington, DC, USA |
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"Bolstering
his acting income with odd jobs as a newspaperman and itinerant inventor
(at one point he considered becoming an osteopath!), Hale finally
enjoyed a measure of security as a much-in-demand character actor in the
1920s, usually as hard-hearted villains... Talkies made Hale more
popular than ever, especially in his many roles as Irishmen, blusterers
and "best pals" for Warner Bros."
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Happened One Night (1934), The Adventures
of Robin Hood (1938), Gentleman Jim (1942), Pursued (1947),
Stars in My Crown (1950)
Key Directors
Michael Curtiz,
Raoul Walsh
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Leading Player |
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March 26, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA |
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"The
archetypal B-movie actor, Sterling Hayden was never the superstar many
projected him to be; a handsome, gritty performer, at first glance he
enjoyed an erratic career, yet on closer inspection his lengthy list of
credits contains a number of classic films made with many of the most
celebrated filmmakers in cinema history."
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Asphalt Jungle (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Killing (1956),
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964), The Godfather (1972)
Key Directors
Stanley
Kubrick
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Hepburn |
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Leading Player |
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May 4, Brussels, Belgium |
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"Magical
screen presence, fashion arbiter, shrine to good taste, and tireless
crusader for children's rights, Audrey Hepburn has become one of the
most enduring screen icons of the twentieth century. Best-known for her
film roles in Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady,
Roman Holiday and Charade, Hepburn epitomized a
waif-like glamour, combining charm, effervescence, and grace."
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Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast
at Tiffany's (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), Two for the Road
(1967)
Key Directors
Stanley
Donen,
William
Wyler,
Billy Wilder Links
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Hepburn |
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Leading Player |
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12, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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"I'm a personality as well
as an actress," Katharine Hepburn once declared. "Show me an actress who
isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star."
Hepburn's bold, distinctive personality was apparent almost from birth.
She inherited from her doctor father and suffragette mother her three
most pronounced traits: an open and ever-expanding mind, a healthy body,
and an inability to tell anything less than the truth."
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Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), The
Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam's Rib (1949), The African Queen (1951)
Key Directors
George Cukor,
George Stevens Links
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Heston |
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Leading Player |
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October 4, Evanston, Illinois, USA |
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"Steely
jawed, hard bodied, terse in speech, Charlton Heston was an American
man's man, an epic unto himself. While he played modern men, he was at
his best when portraying larger-than-life figures from world history,
preferably with his shirt off... Heston began developing his persona of
an unflinching hero with a piercing blue-eyed stare and unbending,
self-righteous Middle American ethics."
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The Ten Commandments (1956), Touch of Evil (1958), Ben-Hur
(1959), El Cid (1961), Planet of the Apes (1968)
Key Directors
Franklin
J. Schaffner,
Cecil B. DeMille,
William Wyler Links
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Hoffman |
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Leading Player |
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8, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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"The
emergence of Dustin Hoffman in 1967 heralded the arrival of a new era of
Hollywood stardom. Diminutive, wiry and unassuming, he was anything but
the usual matinee idol, yet he quickly distinguished himself among the
most popular and celebrated screen performers of his generation. A
notoriously difficult talent famous for his battles with directors as
well as his total immersion in his performances, Hoffman further battled
against stereotypes by accepting roles which cast him firmly as an
antihero"
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Key Films The Graduate (1967),
Midnight Cowboy (1969), Straw Dogs (1971), All the President's
Men (1976), Tootsie (1982)
Key Directors
Barry Levinson,
John Schlesinger Links
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Holden |
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Leading Player |
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April 17, O'Fallon, Illinois, USA |
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"Spotted
by a talent scout during a stage production at Pasadena Junior College,
Holden was signed by both Paramount and Columbia, who would share his
contract for the next two decades. After one bit role, Holden was thrust
into the demanding leading part of boxer Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy
(1939)."
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Key Films Sunset Blvd. (1950), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957), The Wild Bunch (1969), Network (1976)
Key Directors
Billy Wilder Links
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& Character Player |
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17, Dodge City, Kansas, USA |
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"The
odyssey of
Dennis Hopper
has been one of Hollywood's longest, strangest trips. A onetime teen
performer, he went through a series of career metamorphoses — studio
pariah, rebel filmmaker, drug casualty, and comeback kid — before
finally settling comfortably into the role of character actor par
excellence, with a rogues' gallery of killers and freaks unmatched in
psychotic intensity and demented glee."
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Apocalypse Now (1979), Blue Velvet (1986),
Speed (1994) Key Directors
Himself,
Henry Hathaway,
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Player |
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Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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"Few
actors were more beloved of audiences across multiple generations — and
from more different fields of entertainment — than Edward Everett
Horton. For almost 70 years, his work delighted theatergoers on two
coasts (and a lot of the real estate in between) and movie audiences,
first in the silents and then in the talkies, where he quickly became a
familiar supporting player and then a second lead, often essaying
comically nervous "fuddy-duddy" parts."
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Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933), Top Hat (1935),
The Devil is a Woman (1935), Angel (1937)
Key Directors
Ernst Lubitsch,
Frank Capra,
Mark Sandrich
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November 17, Winnetka, Illinois, USA |
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"A
favorite of teen-oriented fan magazines, Hudson ascended to stardom, his
films gradually reaching the A-list category with such important
releases as Magnificent Obsession (1954) and Battle Hymn
(1957)... Hudson's career took a giant leap forward in 1959 when he was
cast in Pillow Talk, the first of several profitable
co-starring gigs with Doris Day."
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Bend of the River (1952), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Written
on the Wind (1956), The Tarnished Angels (1958), Seconds (1966)
Key Directors
Douglas Sirk,
Anthony Mann
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Player |
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15, Stockholm, Sweden |
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"A
longtime friend of Swedish filmmaker
Ingmar Bergman,
actor Erland Josephson starred in six of
the director's best films, including
The Passion of Anna (1970),
Cries and Whispers
(1972), Scenes From a Marriage
(1973), and Fanny and Alexander
(1982). In these films and others, the aristocratic Josephson came to
embody one type of Bergman protagonist: the modern neurotic man, aloof,
introspective, and thoroughly self-centered."
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Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Nostalghia (1983), The Sacrifice (1986)
Key Directors
Ingmar Bergman,
Andrei
Tarkovsky Links
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1,000 Greatest Films |
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October 4, Piqua, Kansas, USA |
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"Although
his career lacked the resilience of
Charlie Chaplin
and Laurel and Hardy,
Buster Keaton may well have been the
most gifted comedian to emerge from the cinema's silent era. And while
his skills as a gag writer and physical comic were remarkable,
Keaton
was one clown whose understanding of the film medium was just as great
as his talent for taking a pratfall."
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Our Hospitality (1923),
Sherlock Jr. (1924), The Navigator (1924), The General (1926),
The Cameraman (1928)
Key Directors
Himself,
Eddie
Cline Links
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January 5, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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"After
rising to fame in a series of hit
Woody
Allen comedies, Diane
Keaton went on to enjoy a successful film career both as an actress and
as a director. Born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946, in Los Angeles, she
studied acting at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the
Theater and in 1968 understudied in Hair."
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The Godfather (1972),
The Godfather Part II (1974), Annie Hall (1977),
Manhattan (1979), Reds (1981)
Key Directors
Woody Allen,
Francis
Ford Coppola Links
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13, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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"Sporting
a Brooklyn accent and bulldog features,
Harvey Keitel first gained recognition with a
series of gritty roles in the early films of
Martin Scorsese,
and he was for a long time cast as one lowlife thug after another. His
career experienced a renaissance in the 1990s, when roles in such films
as Thelma & Louise, Bad Lieutenant, and The Piano
demonstrated his versatility and his willingness to let it all hang out
(literally) in the service of an authentic characterization."
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Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Reservoir
Dogs (1991), The Piano (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994)
Key Directors
Martin Scorsese,
Quentin
Tarantino,
Ridley Scott Links
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Gene Kelly |
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Leading Player |
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August 23, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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"Along
with Fred Astaire,
Gene Kelly
was the most successful song-and-dance man in film history, a towering
figure in the development and enduring success of the movie musical...
Kelly left
Broadway for Hollywood when David O. Selznick offered him a contract,
immediately loaning him to MGM to star opposite Judy Garland in 1942's
For Me and My Gal."
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On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the
Rain (1952), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), Les Girls (1957)
Key Directors
Stanley
Donen/Himself,
Vincente
Minnelli,
George Cukor Links
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November 2, New York, New York, USA |
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"Rugged,
athletic, and handsome, Burt Lancaster enjoyed phenomenal success from
his first film, The Killers, to his last, Field of Dreams
— over a career spanning more than four decades. Boasting an
impressively wide range, he delivered thoughtful, sensitive performances
across a spectrum of genres: from film noir to Westerns to melodrama, he
commanded the screen with a presence and power matched by only a handful
of stars."
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Leopard (1963), 1900 (1976), Atlantic
City (1980), Local Hero (1983) Key Directors
John Frankenheimer,
Robert Siodmak,
Robert Aldrich
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Leading Player |
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July 1, Victoria Hotel, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England |
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"Tortured
but brilliant British actor
Charles Laughton's
unique performances made him a compelling performer both on stage and in
film. After starting his career as an hotel manager, Laughton switched
to acting. His performances in London's West End plays brought him early
acclaim, which eventually led him to the Old Vic, Broadway and
Hollywood."
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933),
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), This Land is Mine (1943),
Spartacus (1960) Key Directors
Alexander
Korda Links
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Leading &
Character Player |
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5, Paris, France |
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"In
addition to his many
Truffaut assignments, Léaud was also a
regular in the films of
Jean-Luc Godard,
including Masculin/Feminin (1966), for which he won the Berlin
Festival award for Best Actor. In addition, he co-starred in
Bernardo Bertolucci's
Last Tango in Paris (1972) with Marlon Brando and Maria
Schneider. On occasion, Léaud has functioned as assistant director for
his starring films."
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The 400 Blows (1959), Masculin Feminin (1966), Week-End (1967), Two
English Girls (1972), The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Key Directors
Jean-Luc Godard,
François
Truffaut,
Jacques Rivette
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1,000 Greatest Films |
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Leading
Player |
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February 18, Newton, Massachusetts, USA |
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"A
private school-educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and
wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s
Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in
2001. Whether through humor or pathos, he excelled at illuminating the
struggles of average men against a callous world; as director
Billy Wilder
once noted, "There was a little bit of genius in everything he did."
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Some Like it Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Avanti! (1972), The Front Page
(1974), Missing (1982) Key Directors
Billy Wilder,
Blake Edwards,
Richard Quine Links
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Tony
Leung |
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Leading Player |
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(1962- ) Born June
27, Hong Kong |
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"Leung's
relaxed charm and matinee-idol looks make it easy to overlook the
complexity of his performances. His most memorable ones are the result
of working with directors attuned to his talent for suggesting the
conflicted inner lives of his characters through introspective silences
and subtle gestures. In
Hou's
Flowers of Shanghai and Anh Hung Tran's Cyclo, entire
scenes seem to revolve around his melancholy, nearly wordless
performances."
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A City of Sadness (1989), Chungking Express (1994),
Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004)
Key Directors
Wong Kar-Wai,
Hou Hsiao-Hsien,
John Woo Links
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Fredric March |
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August 31, Racine, Wisconsin, USA |
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"Fredric
March was both a major star and an imposing acting talent, and in many
ways the quintessential actor's actor from the 1930s through the
1960s... March came along as a leading man just as Hollywood was
switching to sound and scrambling for stage actors. In addition to being
incredibly handsome, he could read lines and had an imposing (and
burgeoning) talent."
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Design for Living (1933), Death
Takes a Holiday (1934), I Married a Witch (1942), The Best Years
of Our Lives (1946)
Key Directors
William Wyler,
William
Wellman,
Dorothy Arzner Links
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Lee Marvin |
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Leading Player |
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(1924-1987) Born
February 19, New York, New York, USA |
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"Much
like Humphrey Bogart before him, Lee Marvin rose through the ranks of
movie stardom as a character actor, delivering expertly nasty and
villainous turns in a series of B-movies before finally graduating to
more heroic performances. Regardless of which side of the law he
traveled, however, he projected a tough-as-nails intensity and a
two-fisted integrity which elevated even the slightest material."
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Key Films
The Big Heat (1953), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962),
The Dirty Dozen (1967), Point Blank (1967), The Big Red One (1980)
Key Directors
John Boorman,
John Ford,
Robert Aldrich
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James Mason |
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May 15, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England |
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"Lending
his mellifluous voice and regal mien to more than 100 films, British
actor James Mason built a long career playing assorted villains,
military men, and rather dubious romantic leads. Though the quality of
his films ranged from the superb A Star Is Born (1954) and
The Reckless Moment (1949) to the ultra-trashy Bloodline
(1979), Mason always left an indelible impression."
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Key Films
Odd Man Out (1947), A Star is Born (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956),
North by Northwest (1959), Lolita (1962) Key
Directors
Max Ophüls,
Sidney Lumet,
Joseph L.
Mankiewicz Links
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Marcello
Mastroianni |
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Leading
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September 28, Fontana Liri, Italy |
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"The
premier Italian actor of the postwar era, Marcello Mastroianni was among
the most popular international stars in movie history. A speculative,
almost introverted screen presence, he was the perfect foil for the
arid, often puzzling films of directors like
Michelangelo Antonioni
and
Federico Fellini,
with whom he achieved some of his greatest success."
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Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958),
La Dolce vita (1960), La Notte (1961), 8½ (1963),
The Organiser (1963) Key Directors
Federico Fellini,
Ettore Scola,
Marco Ferreri
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