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Peter Coyote

photo: http://www.petercoyote.com/peter2.jpg Biography Coyote was born to Morris Cohon (a businessman of Sephardic Jewish descent) and Ruth Fidler (who came from a middle-class Jewish family). After graduating from Grinnell College with a BA in English Literature in 1964, and despite having been accepted at the prestigious...

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Brian Cox

photo: http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_arts_john/Brian%20Cox_phixr.jpg Biography Brian Cox as Henry II in The Devil's Crown. Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor (at least partially of Irish Catholic extraction), notable for being the first person to play Hannibal Lecter, a role he took in the...

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George Coulouris

photo: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:p2K2sqegb-LYkM:http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/stage_theatrepreview6-11.jpg&t=1 Biography George Coulouris (October 1, 1903- April 25, 1989) was a prominent British film and stage actor. He was born in Salford, Manchester. He was the son of a Greek...

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Joseph Cotten

Foto: 1 Biography Early life and career Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Washington, D.C., Hickman School, where he studied acting. His work as a journalist, specifically a theatre critic, inspired him to become more involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia,...

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Kevin Costner

photo: http://www.astrocafe.ro/photos/celebritati_kevin-costner.jpg Biography Born in Lynwood, California to William Costner (an electrician of German and 1/4 Native American descent) and Sharon Tedrick (of Irish descent). Costner spent his teenage years and pre-actor adulthood in Orange County, California, graduating from Villa...

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Wendell Corey

photo: http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/wendell_corey.jpg Biography Actor Wendell Corey in a prisoner uniform from the 1956 film The Killer Is Loose Wendell Corey (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) was an American actor. He was born Wendell Reid Corey in Dracut, Massachusetts, the son of...

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Jackie Cooper

photo: http://gfx.filmweb.pl/p/30/28/83028/245534.1.jpg?l=1256029516000 Biography Jackie Cooper as a child actor Jackie Cooper (born John Cooperman, Jr. on September 15, 1922) is an American actor, TV director, and TV Producer one of the few child actors who managed to transition into an adult career. Born in Los Angeles,...

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Gary Cooper

Foto: 1 Biography Gary Cooper and Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1950 Gary Cooper (May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961) was an American film actor of British heritage, whose career spanned from the 1920s up until the year of his death. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained,...

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Peter Cook

photo: https://ximesolischavez.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/peter-cook.jpg Biography Early career Cook was born in Torquay, Devon. He was himself 'establishment' educated, at Radley and Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he read French and German. It was at Pembroke that he performed and wrote comedy sketches...

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Elisha Cook

Biography Diminutive character actor Elisha Cook Jr. (born December 26, 1903 in San Francisco, California, USA, died May 18, 1995 in Big Pine, California) made a career playing cowardly villains and neurotics earning the nickname "Hollywood's lightest heavy". Cook started out in vaudeville and then became a Broadway actor. In...

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Donald Cook

photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iNLtcc6dW9Q/S9JMUVIDvEI/AAAAAAAAEpI/kiLlb9FaTJQ/s1600/Donald+Cook+042232.jpg Biography August 9, 1934 - December 8, 1967 Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York Place of death: Republic of Vietnam Allegiance: USMC Years of service: 1957-1967...

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Jackie Coogan

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/341/000044209/coogan1-sized.jpg Biography Coogan was born in Los Angeles, California and began his acting career as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film Skinner's Baby. Charlie Chaplin discovered him in a vaudeville house, doing the "shimmy," a...

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Tom Conway

photo: http://www.saint.org/images/actors/tom-conway-1948-checked-coat_3x4.jpg Biography Tom Conway in Cat People (1942) Tom Conway (September 15, 1904 – April 22, 1967) was an actor. Conway was born to English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. They eventually moved back to England. He was the brother of actor...

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Tim Conway

Biography Tim Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedic actor. Conway was born Thomas Daniel Conway, but changed his first name to "Tim" to avoid confusion with actor Tom Conway. Conway was born in the Cleveland suburb of Willoughby, and grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls. He attended Bowling Green State...

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Richard Conte

photo: http://www.famouswhy.com/pictures/people/richard_conte.jpg Biography Conte in Cry of the City (1948) Richard Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in films such as I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather. He was born Nicholas Conte in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of a...

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Hans Conreid

photo: http://voicechasers.com/images/actors/1244.jpg Biography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Hans Conreid) Jump to: navigation, search Hans Conried in 1974 television appearance Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 - January 5, 1982) was a comic character actor and voice actor born in...

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William Conrad

Biography Conrad in Cannon William Conrad (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994), born William Cann, was an American actor and narrator in radio, film and television noted for his gifted use of a marvelous baritone voice, as well as for his sizable girth. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Starting work in radio in...

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Robert Conrad

photo: http://images.starpulse.com/Photos Biography Robert Conrad (born Konrad Robert Falkowski on March 1, 1935 in Chicago, although some sources believe he was born before 1935) is a director and actor of Polish and Jewish descent. He is primarily known for the 1965-1970 television series The Wild Wild West, in which he played...

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Chuck Connors

Biography Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors, better known by his professional name of Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992), was an American actor and professional basketball and baseball player. Of Irish heritage, Connors was the son of Allan and Marcella (nee Lundrigan) Connors of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland who...

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Harry Connick

Biography Early history Harry Connick, Jr., was born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 11, 1967. His father, Harry Connick, Sr., was of Irish Catholic descent and the district attorney of New Orleans for 27 years; his New York-born Jewish mother was a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice. His parents also owned...

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Sean Connery

Biography Connery was born in Fountainbridge (Edinburgh) Scotland on 25 August 1930 to Joseph Connery and Euphamia 'Effie' MacLean. He claims he was called by his middle name Sean long before he became an actor, explaining he had an Irish friend named Seamus and those who knew them decided to call him by his middle name whenever he was with...

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Robbie Coltrane

Biography Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid Robbie Coltrane OBE, born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, is a Scottish actor. The son of a doctor, he was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire and educated (sporadically) at Glenalmond College in Perth and Kinross, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of...

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Gary Coleman

Biography Coleman is most famous for the role of Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes, an American sitcom which ran on NBC from 1978 to 1985 and then switched to ABC. He was particularly famous for his catch phrase, "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?", delivered to his character's older brother Willis Jackson (Todd Bridges)....

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Dabney Coleman

Biography Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. He was born in Austin, Texas. Coleman entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1949, but wound up studying law at the University of Texas before turning to acting. Though a capable character actor with a wide range, Coleman is usually typecast as a...

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Gary Cole

Biography Gary Cole as Bob Russell Gary Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor, known for numerous roles, including the television series Fatal Vision, Midnight Caller, American Gothic , Crusade and the films In the Line of Fire, Kiss the Sky, Office Space, Dodgeball, The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo and a small...

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James Coburn

photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qskaSRkns8A/TM-nhVwlWUI/AAAAAAAASJE/tS5F3S73ukM/s1600/james-coburn-001.jpg Biography James Coburn in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (1977). James Coburn (born August 31, 1928 in Laurel, Nebraska – November 18, 2002) was an Oscar winning American movie actor. Coburn became famous as the...

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Charles Coburn

photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4iB9RenE0XI/S8ZSiCsA8jI/AAAAAAAAA9U/8oVGlnu2XKY/s1600/CharlesCoburn.jpg Biography To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. See rationale on the talk page, or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. This article has been...

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George Clooney

Biography Family life Born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney is the son of Nina Bruce Warren and Cincinnati news anchor and TV host Nick Clooney. His paternal aunt is actress and singer Rosemary Clooney, and the cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer; another cousin, Gabriel Ferrer (married to Debby...

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Montgomery Clift

photo: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/2469.jpg Biography Born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Ethel (Fogg) and William Brooks Clift, a banker with roots in the south. He had a twin sister Roberta and an older brother Brooks, who was a husband of Eleanor Clift the columnist and political commentator and Brooks had a...

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John Cleese

photo: https://prayingtodarwin.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/john_cleese_372x280.jpg Biography John Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England to Reginald Francis Cleese and Muriel Cross. His family's surname was previously "Cheese", but his father, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to...

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