Male Actors

Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 …quot; April 5, 2008)[1][2] was an American actor of film, theatre and television.[3] Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, El Cid in El Cid, and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. Early years Heston w…

Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He is known for his often biting comedic style and his chain smoking. Leary is the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me, which began its sixth season in June 2010. Early life Leary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants His mother, Nora, was a maid, and his late father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic. As both of his parents are from Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, Leary holds both Irish and American citizenship. Through marriage, Leary is a third cousin of talk show host Conan O'Brien and has jokingly said on Late Night w…

Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, She's Out of My League, and How to Train Your Dragon. Personal lifeBaruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the son of Robyne (née Ropell), a freelance writer, and Serge Baruchel, an antiques dealer.[1][2] He grew up and still lives in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec,[3] and has a younger sister, Taylor.[4] His father was of half Sephardic Jewish and half French Canadian ancestry, and his mother is of Irish Catholic back…

Carlos Bernard (born October 12, 1962) is an American actor, best known[1] for his role as Tony Almeida in 24. Carlos Bernard was born and raised in Chicago. Like most Chicagoans, he’s a bit of a sports fanatic, and yes, a major Cubs fan. The arts, however, have always played an important part in his life as Carlos began drawing and painting at an early age. After graduating from New Trier High School, he attended Illinois State University as a fine arts major with the thought of becoming an animator. Carlos switched course after college and decided to pursue his life long dream of being a professional actor. He started out studying and performing at various theater co…

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live and for his roles in the films National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers. He was the older brother of James Belushi. Early life John Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Agnes Belushi, a first generation Albanian-American, and Adam Belushi (b. 1918), an Albanian immigrant and restaurant operator who left his native village, Qytezë, in 1934 at the age of sixteen. The family's name at the time of immigration was Bellios, or Belliors. Belushi was raised i…

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 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). Childhood Powell, an only child, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Nettie Manila (née Brady) and Horatio Warren Powell. He showed an early aptitude for performing. In 1907, he moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri where he graduat…

Adam Rodriguez (born April 2, 1975 in Yonkers, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. He grew up in New City, the county seat of Rockland County, New York. Rodriguez auditioned for The Cosby Show when he was 10 years old. He dreamed of being a professional baseball player, but was injured in high school. He then turned his attention to acting and performed in a children's theater in New York. Later he appeared on Brooklyn South, Felicity, and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in Jennifer Lopez's 1999 video, "If You Had My Love". His best known role is as Eric Delko in CSI Miami. He currently appears in Lionel Richie's new music video, "Call it Love"…

Volodymyr Palahniuk (born February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006), known professionally as Jack Palance, was a Ukrainian American film actor. During half a century of film and television appearances he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers. Early life Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr Palahniuk in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna and Ivan Palahniuk, who was an anthracite coal miner. Palance's parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in Southwestern Ukraine and his mother from the Lviv region. He…

Date of Birth - 22 March 1975, Santa Barbara, California, USA Birth Name - Cole Kenneth Hauser Height - 6' 1" (1.85 m) Facts - Cole Hauser grew up in Santa Barbara, California. He became friends with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon during shooting of School Ties (1992). Son of actor Wings Hauser He is the grandson of a former police commissioner. The son of Cassie Warner, founder of Warner Sisters He's got three siblings: an older sister called Tao, a younger sister called Vanessa and a younger brother called Jesse. Has a half sister called Bright Hauser Cole's great-grandfather is Harry M. Warner, founder of Warner Bros. Studios. Grandson of writer Dwight Hauser. Nephew of…

Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe; October 14, 1944) is a German actor, known primarily for his work in horror and exploitation movies. Early life Kier was born in Cologne. The hospital where he was born was bombed moments after his birth. His father was absent during most of his childhood. Kier moved to Britain at the age of eighteen, in 1962. Career Udo Kier began his acting career as a protégé of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has starred in many vampire movies, such as Blood for Dracula, produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey (1974), Blade (1998), Modern Vampire and Shadow of the Vampire (2000), both as vampire and human. He has also been in…

Thomas Brodie Sangster Born: 16 May, 1990(age 20) in Southwark, London, England Occupation: Actor, Bassist Years Active: 2001 – present Personal life Sangster lives with his sister, Ava, and his parents, actors Anastasia A. "Tasha" (née Bertram) and Mark Ernest Sangster. His father, who is also a musician, starred in the musical adaptation of The Lion King in Germany. Sangster is the second cousin once removed of actor Hugh Grant, alongside whom he appeared in Love Actually; his great-grandmother, Barbara Bertram, and Grant's grandmother were sisters. Sangster's great-grandfather, Anthony Bertram, was a novelist. Sangster plays the guitar, and he learned to pl…

Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on the The Honeymooners, a situation-comedy television series. His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in the drama film The Hustler (1961) starring Paul Newman, and as Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit movie series. Life Early years Gleason was born at 364 Chauncey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York Originally named Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., he was baptized as John Herbert Gleason His parents, both from Faranree, County Cork, Ireland, …

The Marx Brothers were a Jewish-American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950. Five of the Marx Brothers’ thirteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them (Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera) in the top twelve. The core of the act was the three elder brothers, Chico, Harpo and Groucho; each developed a highly distinctive stage persona. The two younger brothers, Gummo and Zeppo, did not develop their stage characters to the same extent, and eventually left the act to pursue other careers. …

Yul Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Julij Borisovič Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985)[1] was a Russian-born actor of stage and film, best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I on both stage and screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his deep, rich voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a personal trademark after adopting it for his role in The King and I. He was also a photographer and the author of two books. Early lifeYul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Bryner in …

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor born in Romania. Although he played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar. Early years and education Born as Emanuel Goldenberg to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1903. He had his Bar Mitzvah at First Romanian-American congregation and attended Townsend Harris High School and then the City College of New York. An interest in acting led to him winning an American Academy of Dramatic Arts scholarship, after which he …

Powers Allen Boothe (born June 1, 1948) is an American television and film actor. Some of his most notable roles include his Emmy-winning 1980 portrayal of Jim Jones and his turn as Cy Tolliver on Deadwood. Personal life Boothe was born on a farm in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas, to Emily Kathryn Reeves and Merrill Vestal Boothe. Boothe is the father of actress Parisse Boothe. He resides in Los Angeles, where he raises racing quarter horses. He attended Texas State University (then Southwest Texas State College) in San Marcos as an undergraduate, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and received his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist Universi…

Michael Connell Biehn (born July 31, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in James Cameron's science fiction action films The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss. He has also acted in other genres in such films as Tombstone, The Rock, and Planet Terror. On television, Biehn appeared in the cast of the Emmy Award-winning 1980s television series Hill Street Blues. Personal life Biehn was born in Anniston, Alabama, the son of Marcia and Don Biehn, a lawyer, and grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska.He has three siblings: Brooks Ann, Jonathon and Steven. Biehn attended high school in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and was a member of the high school drama club. He t…

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as "The King of Hollywood". Early life Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman (spelled "Ulman" by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in his …

I can't be the only one who thinks he's hot, at least I hope not! Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American stand-up comedian and screen actor. Cook grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, and attended Arlington High School. He was raised Roman Catholic with Irish and Italian heritage. His comedy material is mostly observational humor. His recent routines include such diverse topics as car accident mayhem, Cook's time spent working at Burger King and assorted geek humor. Cook often refers to specific places or things using his own slang terms. For instance: Burger King is the "BK Lounge" (a phrase first used by De La Soul), Walgre…

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking philosophical idealists. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident,…

Omar Sharif (born Michael Demitri Shalhoub; April 10, 1932) is an Arab Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films, most famously in Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl and Lawrence of Arabia. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won three Golden Globe Awards. Personal life Omar Sharif was born Michael Shalhoub in Alexandria, into a wealthy Egyptian Catholic family. Sharif's family has widely been reported to be Egyptian-Lebanese, though Sharif has said that he is Egyptian and the reports to the contrary are incorrect. Sharif graduated from Alexandria’s Victoria College, then from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics. In 1955, Omar El…

Robert Montgomery (May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American actor and director. Early life Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr. His early childhood was one of privilege, since his father was president of the New York Rubber Company. When his father committed suicide in 1922 by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, the family's fortune was gone. Career Montgomery went to New York City to try his hand at writing and acting. He established a stage career, and became popular enough to turn down an offer to appear opposite Vilma Bánky in the film This Is Heaven…

Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930), nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. He is best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with film makeup. Early life Lon Chaney was born Leonidas Frank Chaney in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Frank H. Chaney and Emma Alice Kennedy; his father had mostly English and some French ancestry, and his mother was of Irish descent.[2] Both of Chaney's parents were deaf, and as a child of deaf adults Chaney became skilled in p…

Luke Pasqualino (born Luca Giuseppe Pasqualino on February 19th 1989 in Peterborough, England) is a British actor, known for his portrayal of Freddie Mclair in the television series, Skins. Pasqualino was born in Peterborough, England. He attended Walton Community School, in Walton, Peterborough. He is of Sicillian heritage on his father's side and his mother is Neapolitan.He attended the drama classes held by Martin Tempest at Stamford Art Centre. He auditioned for the part of Tony Stonem in Series 1 but unluckly he did not get the part, instead Nick Holt beat him to it. Before landing a part in Skins he done numerous plays and modeling. Pasqualino also worked in his si…

Vincent Paul Kartheiser[1] (born May 5, 1979) is an American actor. Personal lifeKartheiser was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Janet Marie (née Gruyé) and James Ralph Kartheiser.[2] The youngest of six children, he has four sisters, Andrea, Colette, Elise and Theresa, and a brother, Nathan.[3] Kartheiser lives ascetically: he eschews car ownership, instead walking or taking mass transit; he currently lives in a bungalow he describes as a "wooden box" with no mirror or toilet; and he has been selling or giving away everything he owns.[4] Career Kartheiser made his screen debut with a bit role in the 1993 film Untamed Heart, opposite Marisa Tomei and Christian S…