| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert Altman |
Film Director |
20-Feb-1925 |
20-Nov-2006 |
M*A*S*H |
| Gilbert M. Anderson |
Actor |
21-Mar-1880 |
20-Jan-1971 |
Broncho Billy |
| Michelangelo Antonioni |
Film Director |
29-Sep-1912 |
30-Jul-2007 |
Professione: reporter |
| Fred Astaire |
Dancer |
10-May-1899 |
22-Jun-1987 |
Broadway ballroom dancer |
| Ralph Bellamy |
Actor |
17-Jun-1904 |
29-Nov-1991 |
Trading Places |
| Edgar Bergen |
Actor |
16-Feb-1903 |
30-Sep-1978 |
Radio's greatest ventriloquist |
| Pandro S. Berman |
Film/TV Producer |
28-Mar-1905 |
13-Jul-1996 |
Top RKO producer, Ivanhoe |
| Margaret Booth |
Editor |
14-Jan-1898 |
28-Oct-2002 |
Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Charles Boyer |
Actor |
28-Aug-1899 |
26-Aug-1978 |
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| Charles Brackett |
Screenwriter |
26-Nov-1892 |
9-Mar-1969 |
Billy Wilder's collaborator |
| John Calley |
Film/TV Producer |
8-Jul-1930 |
13-Sep-2011 |
CEO of Sony Pictures, 1996-2003 |
| Eddie Cantor |
Singer |
31-Jan-1892 |
10-Oct-1964 |
Banjo Eyes |
| Jack Cardiff |
Cinematographer |
18-Sep-1914 |
22-Apr-2009 |
The Long Ships |
| Charlie Chaplin |
Actor |
16-Apr-1889 |
25-Dec-1977 |
Silent film comedian |
| Gary Cooper |
Actor |
7-May-1901 |
14-May-1961 |
High Noon |
| Francis Ford Coppola |
Film Director |
7-Apr-1939 |
|
The Godfather |
| Cecil B. DeMille |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1881 |
21-Jan-1959 |
Pioneering film director |
| Walt Disney |
Business |
5-Dec-1901 |
15-Dec-1966 |
Founder of Disney empire |
| Kirk Douglas |
Actor |
9-Dec-1916 |
|
Spartacus |
| Blake Edwards |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1922 |
15-Dec-2010 |
The Pink Panther |
| Lee De Forest |
Inventor |
26-Aug-1873 |
30-Jun-1961 |
Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube |
| Sidney Franklin |
Film Director |
21-Mar-1893 |
18-May-1972 |
The Good Earth |
| Arthur Freed |
Film/TV Producer |
9-Sep-1894 |
12-Apr-1973 |
MGM producer, big budget musicals |
| Greta Garbo |
Actor |
18-Sep-1905 |
15-Apr-1990 |
Vanted to be alone |
| Lillian Gish |
Actor |
14-Oct-1893 |
27-Feb-1993 |
Silent film actress, director |
| Jean-Luc Godard |
Film Director |
3-Dec-1930 |
|
Vivre sa Vie |
| Samuel Goldwyn |
Film/TV Producer |
17-Aug-1882 |
31-Jan-1974 |
Put the G in MGM |
| Cary Grant |
Actor |
18-Jan-1904 |
29-Nov-1986 |
North by Northwest |
| D. W. Griffith |
Film Director |
22-Jan-1875 |
21-Jul-1948 |
The Birth of a Nation |
| Alec Guinness |
Actor |
2-Apr-1914 |
5-Aug-2000 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
| Jean Hersholt |
Actor |
12-Jul-1886 |
2-Jun-1956 |
Founder, Motion Picture Relief Fund |
| Alfred Hitchcock |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1899 |
29-Apr-1980 |
Master of Suspense |
| Bob Hope |
Comic |
29-May-1903 |
27-Jul-2003 |
Centenarian comic |
| George Jessel |
Actor |
3-Apr-1898 |
24-May-1981 |
Toastmaster General of the United States |
| Norman Jewison |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1926 |
|
Moonstruck |
| Danny Kaye |
Actor |
18-Jan-1913 |
3-Mar-1987 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Buster Keaton |
Actor |
4-Oct-1895 |
1-Feb-1966 |
The General |
| Gene Kelly |
Actor |
23-Aug-1912 |
2-Feb-1996 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| Deborah Kerr |
Actor |
30-Sep-1921 |
16-Oct-2007 |
From Here to Eternity |
| Michael Kidd |
Choreographer |
12-Aug-1915 |
23-Dec-2007 |
Award-winning choreographer |
| Howard W. Koch |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Apr-1916 |
16-Feb-2001 |
The Manchurian Candidate |
| Stanley Kramer |
Film Director |
29-Sep-1913 |
19-Feb-2001 |
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World |
| Akira Kurosawa |
Film Director |
23-Mar-1910 |
6-Sep-1998 |
Yojimbo |
| Sherry Lansing |
Business |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Former Paramount executive |
| John Lasseter |
Film Director |
12-Jan-1957 |
|
Toy Story |
| Stan Laurel |
Actor |
16-Jun-1890 |
23-Feb-1965 |
Laurel and Hardy |
| Jerry Lewis |
Comic |
16-Mar-1926 |
|
Muscular Dystrophy Association |
| Harold Lloyd |
Actor |
20-Apr-1893 |
8-Mar-1971 |
Prolific silent film actor |
| Sophia Loren |
Actor |
20-Sep-1934 |
|
La Ciociara |
| Myrna Loy |
Actor |
2-Aug-1905 |
14-Dec-1993 |
The Thin Man |
| Ernst Lubitsch |
Film Director |
28-Jan-1892 |
30-Nov-1947 |
To Be or Not To Be |
| George Lucas |
Film Director |
14-May-1944 |
|
Creator of Star Wars |
| Sidney Lumet |
Film Director |
25-Jun-1924 |
9-Apr-2011 |
Dog Day Afternoon |
| Groucho Marx |
Comic |
2-Oct-1890 |
19-Aug-1977 |
You Bet Your Life |
| Ralph Morgan |
Actor |
6-Jul-1883 |
11-Jun-1956 |
The Kennel Murder Case |
| Ennio Morricone |
Composer |
10-Nov-1928 |
|
Scored The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly |
| George Murphy |
Actor |
4-Jul-1902 |
3-May-1992 |
Actor and US Senator from California |
| Conrad Nagel |
Actor |
16-Mar-1897 |
24-Feb-1970 |
The Thirteenth Chair |
| Hal Needham |
Film Director |
6-Mar-1931 |
|
The Cannonball Run |
| Paul Newman |
Actor |
26-Jan-1925 |
26-Sep-2008 |
Salad dressing magnate |
| Peter O'Toole |
Actor |
2-Aug-1932 |
|
Lawrence of Arabia |
| George Pal |
Film Director |
1-Feb-1908 |
2-May-1980 |
The Time Machine |
| Mary Pickford |
Actor |
8-Apr-1892 |
29-May-1979 |
America's Sweetheart |
| Sidney Poitier |
Actor |
20-Feb-1927 |
|
In The Heat Of The Night |
| Satyajit Ray |
Film Director |
2-May-1921 |
23-Apr-1992 |
Pather Panchali |
| Edward G. Robinson |
Actor |
12-Dec-1893 |
26-Jan-1973 |
Key Largo |
| Buddy Rogers |
Actor |
13-Aug-1904 |
21-Apr-1999 |
With Mary Pickford in My Best Girl |
| Harold Russell |
Actor |
14-Jan-1914 |
29-Jan-2002 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
| George Seaton |
Screenwriter |
17-Apr-1911 |
28-Jul-1979 |
Miracle on 34th Street |
| Mack Sennett |
Film/TV Producer |
17-Jan-1880 |
5-Nov-1960 |
Founder of Keystone Studios |
| Sam Spiegel |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Nov-1901 |
31-Dec-1985 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| Andrzej Wajda |
Film Director |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
The Promised Land |
| Jerry Wald |
Film/TV Producer |
16-Sep-1911 |
13-Jul-1962 |
Peyton Place |
| Eli Wallach |
Actor |
7-Dec-1915 |
|
The Magnificent Seven |
| Hal B. Wallis |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Sep-1899 |
5-Oct-1986 |
Casablanca |
| Walter Wanger |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Jul-1894 |
18-Nov-1968 |
Joan of Arc |
| Orson Welles |
Actor |
6-May-1915 |
10-Oct-1985 |
Citizen Kane |
| David L. Wolper |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Jan-1928 |
10-Aug-2010 |
Roots |
| Saul Zaentz |
Film/TV Producer |
28-Feb-1921 |
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Richard D. Zanuck |
Film/TV Producer |
13-Dec-1934 |
13-Jul-2012 |
Driving Miss Daisy |
| Adolph Zukor |
Business |
7-Jan-1873 |
10-Jun-1976 |
Founder of Paramount Pictures |
