He dropped out of Westside High school at... Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the Waterfront, The Harder They Fall, Doctor Zhivago, and Jesus of Nazareth.Steiger appeared in over 100 motion pictures. Clooney ... Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Olivier played more than 120 stage roles: Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo, Hamlet, Othello, Uncle Vanya, and Archie Rice in The Entertainer. He was trained ... Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)... Bill Nighy is an award-winning British character actor. A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was 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. His height is 1.8 meter. Jamie Lee Curtis Paul was educated in New York and Cleveland public schools. Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. After rave reviews for his acting, Warners signed him for an initial $500 a week, three-week contract to reprise his role; this was quickly extended to a seven year contract.Cagney's seventh film, The Public Enemy, became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. Susan Sarandon turns 70 on Oct. 4, 2016. Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. He did ... William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical portrayals.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in fourteen films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles. He also starred in 1967's Doctor Dolittle. James David Graham Niven was born on the feast day of St David. ... Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 – December 15, 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and one-time director.Laughton won the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Mutiny on the Bounty and Ruggles of Red Gap in 1935.Academy Awards * 1933 Won Best Actor in a Leading Role, The Private Life of Henry VIII He was nominated again, this time for Best Actor, for the gritty The Pawnbroker (1965), a Sidney Lumet film in which Steiger portrays an emotionally withdrawn Holocaust survivor living in New York City. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in ... Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally, until a short time before his death in 1998.Sinatra also forged a successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate. 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 Angeles teenager, Jim Stark. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He won back-to-back Academy Awards for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).In 1942, he co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year. 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. His popular films include Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12. Spencer Tracy. His father, Francisco Quinn, an Irish Mexican, was also born in Mexico. Starting out on his theater career at age 18, his first job at the ... Sir Reginald “Rex” Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954), in which he played Marlon Brando's character's brother. In the early years of the Academy Awards, extras were given the right to vote. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon... Walter Pidgeon, a handsome, tall and dark-haired man, began his career studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. 4. He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was appointed a Companion of Honour (CH) in the 2001 New Year Honours. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He was described as 5 feet 10 inches, with black hair and ... Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films—To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner—making him the top box office star of that year. Both Burton and O'Toole were nominated for the film Becket. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.Gable's most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. Like many actors of the 70s, Vincent got his start making small appearances on popular 60s shows as the decade changed, his resume continued to increase in size. The fifth of seven children, he was born in the first minute of 1891. Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ... Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ... Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. The son of an insurance underwriter who represented Lloyd's of London in Ceylon, Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Margate, Kent. His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco. February 15, 2021 April 5, 2021 Admin. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. He is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other ... Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor, director, and producer. Tom grew up in what he has ... Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, American, German, as well as British regional accents), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. In 1924 he went to Paramount Pictures, where he was employed for the next seven years. Then you'll always have something." He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for Viva Zapata! James Stewart. He won the Best Actor Oscar in 1948 for A Double Life. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X (1939).His breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I. After grade school, he moved to ... James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won his Academy Award.President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. Bollywood’s Old Actors And Actress Who Crossed 70+ Age. ... John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. Be able to build a house, every bit of it. While the roles he was adept at playing were extremely diverse, he is probably best remembered for his portrayals in movie Westerns, such as trail hand Nadine Groot in Red River and Deputy Stumpy in Rio Bravo both directed by Howard Hawks. This was followed by a series of critical successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981).Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996), A Family Thing (1996), The Apostle (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Gods and Generals (2003) and Broken Trail (2006). Here is list of those Bollywood’s alive stars who crossed age of 70 year . In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he featured in classic Marlon Brando films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks. While not all have aged as well as others, in many cases, these older actors are still Hollywood greats. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936) and Life with Father (1947). He studied acting in New York and appeared in a number of Broadway plays, finally achieving success in the 1930 hit The Last Mile. * 2000 Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award for Unexpected Man Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ... Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was a popular American movie actor. With drive, enthusiasm, and of course, talent, the world of fame and fortune can be yours, even at a young age. 1. See more ideas about character actor, actors, movie stars. In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: "Chaplin was not just 'big', he was gigantic. He grew up in the Houston suburban city of Bellaire. Brennan was extremely popular with the Union of Film Extras and since their numbers were overwhelming, each time he was nominated, he won. 1. He spent several years in vaudeville as a hoofer and comedian until his first major acting role in 1925. Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich.He was appointed a Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1960. As of 2007, ten of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry.Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including westerns, suspense thrillers, family films, biographies and screwball comedies. Fred Astaire. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Best living actors over 80 years old. Apr 20, 2019 - Explore Ann Legg's board "Old Western Actors", followed by 145 people on Pinterest. Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. Although he had at first no intentions to pursue a career at the movies (his first movie was L'homme du large (1920) by Marcel L'Herbier) he used his chance in Hollywood after several filming stations ... Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. Another famous role was in the 1944 mystery-thriller Gaslight. Actor Jack Nicholson once said, "When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one. He was raised in a Catholic household. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (pronounced /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He also preserved his Othello on film, with its stage cast virtually intact. Theatrical accolades include a 1962 Tony Award for A Man for All Seasons.In 1969, Scofield became the sixth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Male of the Species.He was also one of only eight actors to win both the Tony and the Oscar for the same role on stage and film. He died on May 2, 1999 in Valletta, Malta. Early in his career Widmark specialized in similar villainous or anti-hero roles in films noir, but he later branched out into more heroic leading and support roles in westerns, mainstream dramas and horror films, among others.At his death, Widmark was the earliest surviving Oscar nominee in the Supporting Actor category, and one of only two left from the 1940s (the other having been James Whitmore). He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's ... Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor.Ronald Colman had first appeared in films in England in 1917 and 1919 for Cecil Hepworth, and subsequently with the old Broadwest Film Company in The Snow of the Desert. Through his father, Glenn Ford was a great-nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.