Film
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Adolphe Menjou
American actor, a byword for suave elegance on screen from …
Agnes Moorehead
American actress of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, famous …
Alec Guinness
English actor who moved from the Ealing comedies to The Bri…
Alice Faye
American actress and singer, 20th Century Fox's top musical…
Alla Nazimova
Russian-born actress and producer, a star of Ibsen on Broad…
Angela Lansbury
British-American actress whose career spanned eight decades…
Ann Miller
American dancer and actress, famous for her machine-gun tap…
Ann Sheridan
American actress, Warner Bros.' Oomph Girl, known for Kings…
Ann Sothern
American actress, MGM's Maisie and star of TV's Private Sec…
Anna May Wong
American actress, the first Chinese American film star, who…
Anna Neagle
English actress, Britain's top film star of the 1940s, famo…
Anne Baxter
American actress, granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Osca…
Arthur Kennedy
American actor with five Oscar nominations, the original Bi…
Barbara Bel Geddes
American actress, Broadway's first Maggie the Cat, Midge in…
Barbara Hale
American actress, Della Street in Perry Mason.
Barry Fitzgerald
Irish actor from Dublin's Abbey Theatre who won an Oscar fo…
Bebe Daniels
American actress, Harold Lloyd's first leading lady, who la…
Ben Johnson
American rodeo champion and actor, a John Ford regular who …
Bert Lahr
American comedian of burlesque and Broadway, the Cowardly L…
Betty Hutton
American actress and singer, Paramount's high-energy musica…
Beulah Bondi
American actress who played James Stewart's mother four tim…
Bill Robinson
American tap dancer known as Bojangles, famous for his stai…
Billie Burke
American actress, wife of Florenz Ziegfeld and Glinda the G…
Boris Karloff
English actor, born William Henry Pratt, whose Frankenstein…
Brian Aherne
English actor of stage and film, Oscar-nominated as Emperor…
Brian Donlevy
American actor of tough-guy roles, from Beau Geste to The G…
Brigitte Bardot
From ballet student to the most famous French film star of …
Broderick Crawford
American actor, Oscar winner for All the King's Men and sta…
Bruce Lee
The life and legacy of the greatest martial artist of the 2…
Bryan Cranston
The life and career of Bryan Cranston, from Seinfeld and Ma…
Buddy Ebsen
American dancer and actor, the first Tin Man and later Jed …
Burgess Meredith
American actor whose career ran from Broadway's Winterset t…
Buster Crabbe
American Olympic swimmer turned actor, the screen's Flash G…
Butterfly McQueen
American actress, Prissy in Gone with the Wind, who left Ho…
Celeste Holm
American actress, Ado Annie in the original Oklahoma! and O…
Cesar Romero
American actor and dancer, the Cisco Kid and the Joker in B…
Charles Coburn
American stage actor who became one of Hollywood's favourit…
Claire Bloom
English actress of stage and screen, discovered by Charlie …
Claire Trevor
American actress known as the Queen of Film Noir, Oscar win…
Clifton Webb
American actor and dancer, the acid-tongued Waldo Lydecker …
Colleen Moore
American actress, the bobbed-haired flapper of the 1920s an…
Constance Bennett
American actress, the best-paid star of the early 1930s, kn…
Cornel Wilde
American actor and director, Chopin in A Song to Remember.
Curly Howard
American comedian, the most popular of the Three Stooges.
Cyd Charisse
American dancer and actress, partner of Fred Astaire and Ge…
Dan Dailey
American dancer and actor, Betty Grable's partner in 1940s …
Dana Andrews
American actor, a leading man of 1940s film noir and war fi…
Danielle Darrieux
French actress with a career of eight decades, from Mayerli…
Dean Stockwell
American actor with a career of seven decades, from child s…
Deanna Durbin
Canadian singer and actress whose musicals saved Universal …
Deborah Kerr
Scottish actress known for refined roles in Black Narcissus…
Dick Powell
American singer, actor, director and producer, from Warner …
Dinah Shore
American singer and television host, known for See the USA …
Dolores del Río
Mexican actress, a Hollywood star of the 1920s and 1930s an…
Donna Reed
American actress, Mary Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life and …
Doris Day
American actress and singer, one of the biggest box-office …
Dorothy Dandridge
American actress and singer, the first African American wom…
Dorothy Gish
American actress of silent film, sister of Lillian Gish and…
Dorothy Lamour
American actress and singer, the sarong-clad star of the Ro…
Dorothy Malone
American actress, Oscar winner for Written on the Wind and …
Dorothy McGuire
American actress, star of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Disn…
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
American actor, son of Douglas Fairbanks, a swashbuckling s…
Eddie Anderson
American comedian and actor, famous as Rochester on The Jac…
Eddie Bracken
American actor, the everyman hero of Preston Sturges's wart…
Eddie Cantor
American comedian, singer and actor, a star of Ziegfeld's F…
Edgar Bergen
American ventriloquist whose dummy Charlie McCarthy made hi…
Edmond O'Brien
American actor of film noir, Oscar winner for The Barefoot …
Edmund Gwenn
English actor, the Santa Claus of Miracle on 34th Street.
Edward Everett Horton
American character actor, the flustered sidekick of the Ast…
Eleanor Parker
American actress with three Oscar nominations, remembered a…
Eleanor Powell
American dancer and actress, considered the greatest female…
Elsa Lanchester
English actress, the Bride of Frankenstein and wife of Char…
Elvis Presley
The life of Elvis Presley, from Tupelo and Sun Records to H…
Emil Jannings
Swiss-born German actor, winner of the first Academy Award …
Ethel Waters
American singer and actress who broke barriers on record, o…
Eve Arden
American actress famous for wisecracking roles and as the t…
Farley Granger
American actor known for two Hitchcock films, Rope and Stra…
Fayard Nicholas
American dancer, one of the Nicholas Brothers, famous for a…
Flora Robson
English actress, twice Queen Elizabeth I on film and a Dame…
Frances Farmer
American actress of the 1930s whose troubled life became th…
Franchot Tone
American actor from the Group Theatre, known for Mutiny on …
Frank Morgan
American actor, the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz.
Fred MacMurray
American actor, the doomed insurance man in Double Indemnit…
Freddie Bartholomew
English-American child star of the 1930s, famous as David C…
Fredric March
American actor, winner of two Oscars and two Tonys, from Dr…
Gale Sondergaard
American actress, the first winner of the Oscar for Best Su…
Gareth Edwards
A curated timeline tracing Gareth Edwards' path from self-t…
Gene Tierney
American actress celebrated for her beauty and for Laura an…
George Arliss
English actor, the first British winner of the Oscar for Be…
George Hayes
American actor, the whiskered sidekick Gabby of countless w…
George Peppard
American actor, star of Breakfast at Tiffany's and leader o…
George Raft
American actor and dancer, the coin-flipping gangster of Sc…
George Sanders
British actor known for suave villains and cads, winner of …
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Irish actress, Isabella in Wuthering Heights, with a career…
Geraldine Page
American actress with eight Oscar nominations, winning for …
Gig Young
American actor, Oscar winner for They Shoot Horses, Don't T…
Gilbert Roland
Mexican-born actor with a film career of six decades, from …
Gina Lollobrigida
Italian actress, one of the great European stars of the 195…
Glenn Ford
Canadian-born American actor, a leading man in Gilda, The B…
Gloria Grahame
American actress, the film noir femme fatale who won an Osc…
Gloria Stuart
American actress of 1930s horror films who returned at 87 a…
Gordon MacRae
American baritone and actor, Curly in Oklahoma! and Billy B…
Gracie Allen
American comedian, the scatterbrained half of Burns and All…
Gracie Fields
English singer and comedian from Rochdale, the biggest Brit…
Greer Garson
British-born actress who became MGM's leading lady of the w…
Harold Nicholas
American dancer, one of the Nicholas Brothers, famous for a…
Harry Langdon
American silent comedian, briefly ranked with Chaplin, Keat…
Helen Hayes
American actress known as the First Lady of the American Th…
Herbert Marshall
English actor with a celebrated voice, the suave star of Tr…
Hermione Gingold
English actress of revue and film, famous for singing I Rem…
Howard Keel
American actor and baritone, star of MGM musicals and later…
Hume Cronyn
Canadian actor who with his wife Jessica Tandy formed one o…
Ida Lupino
English-American actress and pioneering director, one of th…
Irene Dunne
American actress and singer, equally at home in musicals, m…
Jack Carson
Canadian-American actor, the brash comic foil of Warner Bro…
Jack Haley
American vaudevillian and actor, the Tin Man in The Wizard …
Jackie Coogan
American actor, the first major child star, whose lost earn…
Jackie Cooper
American actor and director, the youngest Best Actor nomine…
James Bond — The Films
From Ian Fleming's 1953 novel to 25 official Eon Production…
James Mason
English actor with a famous voice, who moved from British m…
Jane Darwell
American actress, Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and the Bi…
Jane Powell
American singer and actress, a star of MGM musicals, includ…
Jane Russell
American actress and sex symbol, discovered by Howard Hughe…
Jane Withers
American child star of the 1930s, later Josephine the Plumb…
Jane Wyatt
American actress, the mother in Father Knows Best and Spock…
Jane Wyman
American actress who won an Oscar for Johnny Belinda, starr…
Janet Gaynor
American actress, winner of the first Academy Award for Bes…
Janet Leigh
American actress best remembered for the shower scene in Hi…
Jayne Mansfield
American actress and sex symbol of the 1950s, star of The G…
Jean Arthur
American actress, Frank Capra's favourite comic heroine in …
Jean Hagen
American actress, the squeaky-voiced Lina Lamont in Singin'…
Jean Simmons
British actress who went from Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet t…
Jeanette MacDonald
American soprano and actress, star of operetta films with N…
Jeanne Crain
American actress, 20th Century Fox's girl next door, Oscar-…
Jennifer Jones
American actress, Oscar winner for The Song of Bernadette, …
Joan Bennett
American actress, a blonde ingenue turned film noir star in…
Joan Blondell
American actress, the wisecracking blonde of Warner Bros. p…
Joan Fontaine
British-American actress, star of Rebecca and the only acto…
Joe E. Brown
American comedian with a famously wide mouth, remembered fo…
Joel McCrea
American actor, a leading man of comedies and westerns, fro…
John Cassavetes
American actor and director, a pioneer of American independ…
John Garfield
American actor, a rebel hero of 1940s film whose career was…
John Gielgud
English actor and director, one of the great Shakespearean …
Joseph Cotten
American actor from Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, star of…
Judith Anderson
Australian-born actress of stage and film, famous as Mrs. D…
June Allyson
American actress and singer, MGM's girl next door of the 19…
Kathryn Grayson
American soprano and actress, the leading lady of MGM's ope…
Kay Francis
American actress, a glamorous star of pre-Code melodramas a…
Keye Luke
Chinese-American actor, Charlie Chan's Number One Son and l…
Kim Hunter
American actress, the original Stella in A Streetcar Named …
Lana Turner
American actress, one of MGM's biggest stars, known for The…
Laurence Harvey
Lithuanian-born British actor, star of Room at the Top and …
Lee J. Cobb
American actor, the original Willy Loman in Death of a Sale…
Lee Remick
American actress, star of Anatomy of a Murder, Days of Wine…
Lena Horne
American singer, actress and civil rights activist, star of…
Leo G. Carroll
English actor in six Hitchcock films, later Mr. Waverly in …
Lew Ayres
American actor, star of All Quiet on the Western Front and …
Lilli Palmer
German actress who fled the Nazis, worked in Britain and Ho…
Linda Darnell
American actress, a 20th Century Fox star of the 1940s, kno…
Lloyd Bridges
American actor, star of Sea Hunt and later of the Airplane!…
Lon Chaney Jr.
American actor, son of Lon Chaney, who played the Wolf Man …
Lord of the Rings: The Peter Jackson Films
From Peter Jackson pitching three simultaneous films to a s…
Loretta Young
American actress with a career from silent films to her own…
Louis Jourdan
French actor, the romantic lead of Gigi and later a Bond vi…
Louise Brooks
American dancer and actress, icon of the bob haircut, whose…
Luise Rainer
German-born actress, the first to win two consecutive Oscar…
Madeleine Carroll
English actress, Hitchcock's first great blonde in The 39 S…
Margaret Dumont
American actress, the dignified straight woman in seven Mar…
Margaret Hamilton
American actress and former kindergarten teacher, forever t…
Margaret O'Brien
American actress, the most celebrated child star of the 194…
Margaret Sullavan
American actress with a distinctive husky voice, star of Th…
Maria Montez
Dominican actress known as the Queen of Technicolor, star o…
Marion Davies
American actress and comedian, a star of silent film and th…
Marjorie Main
American character actress, Ma Kettle in The Egg and I and …
Martha Raye
American comedian and singer, famous for her big mouth and …
Mary Astor
American actress, a silent-film beauty who became famous as…
Mary Martin
American actress and singer, Broadway's first Nellie Forbus…
Maureen O'Sullivan
Irish actress, Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan and moth…
Mercedes McCambridge
American actress, a radio star who won an Oscar in her film…
Miriam Hopkins
American actress, a sharp star of pre-Code comedies and the…
Mitzi Gaynor
American actress, singer and dancer, star of South Pacific.
Moe Howard
American comedian, the bossy leader of the Three Stooges.
Nelson Eddy
American baritone and actor, Jeanette MacDonald's partner i…
Norma Shearer
Canadian-American actress, MGM's first lady in the late 192…
Norma Talmadge
American actress, one of the biggest stars of silent film.
Oscar Best Picture Winners 2001–2025
Every Academy Award for Best Picture from the last 25 years…
Oscar Levant
American pianist, composer and wit, known from Information …
Pat O'Brien
American actor, the Irish priest, cop and coach of Warner B…
Patricia Neal
American actress, Oscar winner for Hud and wife of Roald Da…
Paul Henreid
Austrian-American actor, Victor Laszlo in Casablanca, and l…
Paul Muni
Austro-Hungarian-born American actor from the Yiddish theat…
Paulette Goddard
American actress, Charlie Chaplin's co-star in Modern Times…
Pearl Bailey
American singer and actress, star of the all-Black Hello, D…
Peter Lawford
English-born American actor, member of the Rat Pack and bro…
Piper Laurie
American actress with Oscar nominations for The Hustler, Ca…
Pola Negri
Polish actress, a star of German silent film under Ernst Lu…
Ralph Bellamy
American actor with a career of six decades, from The Awful…
Ralph Richardson
English actor, one of the great stage actors of his generat…
Ramon Novarro
Mexican-born actor, the silent-era Ben-Hur and one of Holly…
Randolph Scott
American actor, the stoic hero of westerns, including a cel…
Raul Julia
Puerto Rican actor of stage and screen, known for Kiss of t…
Ray Bolger
American dancer and actor, the Scarecrow in The Wizard of O…
Ray Milland
Welsh actor who won the Oscar for The Lost Weekend and star…
Raymond Massey
Canadian-American actor, famous as Abraham Lincoln on stage…
Rex Ingram
American actor, De Lawd in The Green Pastures and the Djinn…
Richard Barthelmess
American actor, D. W. Griffith's leading man and a nominee …
Rita Moreno
Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, the first Latina t…
Robert Cummings
American actor, star of Saboteur and Dial M for Murder and …
Robert Montgomery
American actor and director, an MGM star, war veteran and t…
Robert Preston
American actor who became Harold Hill in The Music Man on B…
Robert Ryan
American actor, a Dartmouth boxing champion who excelled as…
Robert Walker
American actor, MGM's shy young soldier who became Hitchcoc…
Robert Young
American actor, the father in Father Knows Best and the doc…
Roddy McDowall
English-American actor, a child star of How Green Was My Va…
Ronald Colman
English actor with a celebrated voice, star of Lost Horizon…
Rosalind Russell
American actress known for fast-talking comedy in His Girl …
Ruby Keeler
Canadian-born American dancer and actress, star of 42nd Str…
Rudy Vallée
American singer, bandleader and actor, one of the first pop…
Ruth Gordon
American actress and writer, co-author of Adam's Rib, Oscar…
Sabu
Indian actor who became an international star as a boy in E…
Sessue Hayakawa
Japanese actor, one of the first Asian film stars in Hollyw…
Shelley Winters
American actress with a career of six decades, winner of tw…
Sonja Henie
Norwegian figure skater, three-time Olympic champion and te…
Spring Byington
American actress, Marmee in Little Women and star of Decemb…
Star Trek — The Complete Franchise
From Gene Roddenberry's rejected 1964 pilot to fifteen TV s…
Sterling Hayden
American actor, sailor and author, known for The Asphalt Ju…
Stewart Granger
English actor, a swashbuckling star of MGM adventure films …
Susan Hayward
American actress known for intense dramatic roles and five …
Sydney Greenstreet
English actor who made his film debut at 61 in The Maltese …
Sylvia Sidney
American actress, a star of 1930s dramas for Lang and Hitch…
Tab Hunter
American actor and singer, a teen idol of the 1950s who lat…
Teresa Wright
American actress, nominated for an Oscar for each of her fi…
Thelma Ritter
American character actress with six Oscar nominations, from…
Thelma Todd
American comedian, a foil for the Marx Brothers and Laurel …
Thomas Mitchell
American actor, the first to win an Oscar, an Emmy and a To…
Van Heflin
American actor, Oscar winner for Johnny Eager and the homes…
Van Johnson
American actor, MGM's boy next door of the war years.
Vera-Ellen
American dancer and actress, partner of Gene Kelly, Fred As…
Victor Mature
American actor, the muscular star of Samson and Delilah and…
Victor McLaglen
English boxer turned actor, a John Ford regular who won an …
Virginia Mayo
American actress, Danny Kaye's leading lady and James Cagne…
Walter Pidgeon
Canadian-American actor, Greer Garson's partner in Mrs. Min…
Ward Bond
American actor, part of John Ford's stock company and star …
Warner Baxter
American actor, the second Best Actor Oscar winner, for In …
William Bendix
American actor known for tough-guy roles and as Chester A. …
William Boyd
American actor who became Hopalong Cassidy in films and on …
William S. Hart
American actor and director, the first great cowboy star of…
Woody Strode
American football player and actor, one of the players who …
Yvonne De Carlo
Canadian-American actress, star of exotic 1940s adventures …
ZaSu Pitts
American actress, the tragic heroine of Greed who became a …