Male Actors

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 ��" July 23, 1966) was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men".[1] Clift received four Academy Award nominations during his career, three for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor.[2] Early life Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska, a son of William Brooks Clift ��" [3] a vice-president of Omaha National Bank - and his wife, the former Ethel Fogg. Clift had a fraternal twin sister, Roberta (aka Ethel), and a brother, William Brooks Clift Jr (born 1918), who had an illegitimate son with actress Kim Stanley. Montgomery Clift later resided in Jackson Heig…

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered British actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir Ralph Richardson. He married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright. Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is generally regarded to be the greatest actor of the 20th cen…

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy 9th among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor in all, winning two. Early life Tracy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the second son of John Edward Tracy, an Irish American Catholic truck salesman, and Caroline Brown, a Protestant turned Christian Scientist. Tracy's paternal grandparents, John Tracy and Mary Guhin, were born in Ireland. His mother's ancestry dates back to Thomas Stebbins, who immigrated from England in the…

Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. His popular classic films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Suspicion (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief…

Born September 16, 1985 (1985-09-16) (age 24) Hampstead, London, United Kingdom Early life Minghella was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Academy Award-winning British director Anthony Minghella and Carolyn Choa, a Hong Kong-born Chinese[choreographer. Minghella spent time on his father's film sets while growing up, of which he has "fond memories", and has said that he felt "no pressure" by his father to succeed in the entertainment industry. Education Minghella was educated at two independent schools: at St Anthony's Preparatory School and University College School in Hampstead. He then attended Columbia University, which he considered his "first priority", a…

Barrymore was born in the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandmother on Feb. 15, 1882. His parents were Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore. His maternal grandmother was Louisa Lane Drew (aka Mrs Drew), a prominent and well-respected 19th century actress and theater manager, who instilled in him and his siblings the ways of acting and theatre life. His uncles were John Drew, Jr. and Sidney Drew. Barrymore fondly remembered the summer of 1896 in his youth, spent on his father's rambling estate on Long Island. He and Lionel lived a Robinson Crusoe-like existence, attended by a black servant named Edward. John was expelled from Georgetown Preparatory School in 18…

May 5th, 1914-November 15th, 1958 Early life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914, the only son of the English-born American stage and screen actor Tyrone Power, Sr., and Helen Emma "Patia" Reaume, Power was descended from a long theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather, the Irish-born actor and comedian Tyrone Power (1795-1841). He had French blood from both his parents, being descended from Catholic French Canadians through his mother's Reaume family, and from Protestant Huguenots through his paternal grandmother's Lavenu and Blossett ancestors. Through his paternal great grandmother, Anne Gilbert, Power was related to the actor Lord Laurence Olivier; t…

Born on Sept. 29, 1942 in Blackburn, Lancashire. Although he has done many movies, he is best known for his roles in television series such as Lovejoy, Kings and most of all for his role as Al Swearengen in Deadwood for which he won a Golden Globe in 2005 for Best Actor. He will appear in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, playing the role of Blackbeard.

Born on April 12, 1878 in Philadelphia. Lionel is best known for his role as Henry Potter in 1946's It's a Wonderful Life". He was the son of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore, elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, uncle of John Drew Barrymore and great uncle of Drew Barrymore. He began his stage career in the mid 1890's. And in his early 20's he appeared on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in 1911 and started acting in silent films.. Lionel had 2 daughters-Ethel and Mary, neither survived infancy. He bacame a father figure to Jean Harlow who was born around the same time as his daughters. When she passed away he was devestated and mourned her as his own d…

Born March 14, 1887 in Smith Center, Kansas. He was an illustrated song slide model, silent film actor, comedian, director and screenwriter. He was one of the most popluar stars of the 1910's. Fatty was a mentor to Charlie Chaplin. He also discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. When Fatty was born he weighed 13 pounds. Since both of his parents were slender, his father did not believe that Fatty was his child. His father named him after a politician that he despised, a Republican Senator named roscoe Conkling. He had a wonderful singing voice. At 8 years old he started to sing a theater. He sang until his mothers death, when he was 12. Then his father refused to support…

Born on January 17, 1897 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a Danish born Swedish actor. Asther grew up in Sweden and attended that Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm. After returning to Copenhagen, he caught the attention of Mauritz Stiller and started appearing in European films. He left for Hollywood and made his first movie in the U.S. in 1927. He took voice lessons to ease his accent, but then he was forced to work in England after an alleged breach of contract which led to a studio based blacklist. He was allowed back in 1941 but his career was dwindling. He returned to Sweden where he acted in films and television until his death in Stockholm on October 13, 19…

Born on May 10, 1899 in Omaha. Nebraska. He was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and film career lasted for 76 years. When Fred was a child he displayed a love for dancing along with his older sister Adele. So his mother planned a brother/sister act in vaudeville. Their first act was called Juvenile Artists Presenting an Electrical Musical Toe Dancing Novelty. They made their debut in Key Port, New Jersey. They were called the greatest child act in vaudeville ever. They toured for several years and when Adele was taller then Fred they took some time off. They went to Broadway in 1917 and starred in "Over the Top". T…

Born on April 21, 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, he is a Mexican American actor, film director, writer and painter. Anthony grew up in El Paso, Texas. As a young man he was a professional boxer and he studies art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright. He made his film debut in 1936's "Parole". Anthony won 2 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. The first was in 1952 for "Viva Zapata" and then in 1956's "Lust for Life". He passed away in Boston on June 3, 2001. He had pneumonia and respiratory failure while suffering from throat cancer. He was diagnosed with the cancer after completing his last film "Avenging Angels" which was released i…

Andy was born in Havana, Cuba on April , 12 1956 with a dead conjoined twin on his left shoulder that was removed. His family moved to Miami after the Bay of Pigs Invasion when he was 5. After attending Florida International University, he moved to California and started acting in small roles. His first solid supporting role was in "The Mean Season" in 1985. Although the film was a failure, Andy did get more attention. "The Untouchables" was the film that brought him stardom and then he became a popular actor. In 1989 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in "The Godfather 3". Andy has been very active for Cuban refugees and communites that h…

Ramon was born in Durango, Mexico on Feb. 6, 1899. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1913 to escape the Mexican Revolution. He was a second cousin to Dolores Del Rio and Andrea Palmer. He started in films in 1917 playing bit parts and he also worked as a singing waiter. His first success was in the film "Scaramouche" in 1923. He was then promoted as a rival to Valentino. "Ben-Hur" in 1925 was his most successful film. His contract with MGM expired in 1935 and was not renewed. Novarro kept acting in films and then went to television a few years later. He also tried unsuccessfully to be on Broadway. Novarro invested some of his money in real estate so after his acti…

Valentino was born on May 6, 1895 in Castellaneta, Italy. He is the most well known silent screen actor and was known as the Latin Lover. His death at 31 caused mass hysteria and propelled him to icon status around the world. After being unemployed in Italy and France, Valentino moved to New York City where he worked odd jobs. He eventually found work as a taxi dancer at Maxim's. He met a Chilean heiress there and after she shot her husband, Valentino feared he might end up in court and fled to California. In 1914 he made his screen debut as an extra in "My Official Wife". His first successful film was 1921's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". That film was one …

Bogie was born on Dec. 25, 1899 in New York City. He was an actor and is a cultural icon today. During his naval stint is where he may have gotten his trademark scar and developed his lisp. Although the actual circumstances are unclear. In one account, during the shelling of his ship, his lip was cut by shrapnel. Another story is he was injured on an assignment taking a prisoner to Maine. While changing trains, the prisoner asked Bogart for a cigarette and while he was looking for a match the prisoner struck him in the face with his handcuffs. Another story is from Louise Brooks who was close to Bogie in his early acting days. She claims Bogart was a heavy drinker and h…

*Born Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York on Feb. 27, 1905. *An American stage and screen actor as well as a producer and a director. *First major Broadway role was in 1929 in "The Age of Innocence" *His screen debut was in 1932 in "The Wiser Sex" *Was once married to actress Joan Crawford *He passed away on Sept. 18, 1968 of lung cancer in New York City

I saw the movie Undertow (Contracorriente) at the Chicago Latino Film Festival tonight, and was lucky enough to see this actor in action. I thought if he didn't have a thread up here, then he needed to have one. Biography for Manolo Cardona More at IMDbPro » advertisement Date of Birth 25 April 1977, Popayan, Cauca, Colombia Birth Name Manuel Julián Cardona Molano Actor: * 2000s * 1990s 1. "Sin tetas no hay paraíso" .... Martín La Roca (15 episodes, 2009) - Expiación (2009) TV episode .... Martín La Roca - El corazón de las tinieblas (2009) TV episode .... Martín La Roca - Última noche en la tierra (2009) TV episode …

Born William Brian de Lacy Aherne in King's Norton, Worcestershire on May 2, 1902. A British actor of screen and stage. First appeared on stage in Birmingham with the Pilgrims Players in "Fifinella". He made his first appearance on the London stage in 1913 in "Where the Rainbow Ends". He made his first talkie debut in the movie "Madame Guillotine" in 1931. Before going to Hollywood, he made a few more movies in the U.K. He made over 30 films in the U.S. Passed away of heart failure in Venice, Florida on Feb. 10, 1986

Spangler Arlington Brush was born in Filley, Nebraska on August 5, 1911. Film debut was in 1934 in "Handy Andy". Febuary of 1944 he helped create the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. In 1947 he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding fellow actors that he believed were communists. After this he was called The Conspirator and many refused to work him. He passed away of lung cancer on June 8, 1969 in Santa Monica, California.

Abbott and Costello, one of the greatest comedy teams of all time Abbott and Costello was a legendary comedy team, consisting of Bud Abbott, the tall, thin straight man, and Lou Costello, the short, pudgy comic. They were famous for their rapid-fire verbal exchanges, and Costello’s clownish view of the world. Like Laurel and Hardy, they were a visual contrast - the tall, debonair Bud Abbott, and the short, goofy, unkempt Lou Costello. In fact, when they were hired by Universal Studios, the studio was thinking of them as a more up-to-date version of Laurel and Hardy. Abbott and Costello initially teamed up in 1931 when Bud Abbott was working at a Brooklyn theater, and L…

Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen. He has starred in many major Hollywood films, including The Mummy film series, Crash, Dudley Do-Right, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, George of the Jungle and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The son of a Canadian travel executive who frequently moved his family, Brendan can claim affinity with Ottawa, Indianapolis, Detroit, Seattle, London and Rome. His early exposure to theatre, particularly in London, led him to Seattle's Cornish Institute. After graduation he found a minor role as Sailor #1 in River Phoenix's Dogfight (1991), then somewhat more substantial roles in Encino …

Marion Mitchell Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), born Marion Robert Morrison and better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. He was also known for his conservative political views and his support, beginning in the 1950s, for anti-communist positions. Early lifeWayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa.[2] His middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents decided to name their next son Robert.[3] (Years later, after Wayne became an actor, a publici…

Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909[1] – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. Background and early lifeErrol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but dropped the first names Lily Mary shortly after she was married and changed her name to Marelle.[2] Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk"[3] and this appears to be where his life-long interest in ships and the sea originated. Des…