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Lew Ayres

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/636/000043507/lew-ayres-sized.jpg Biography publicity photo for Ayres Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor. Born Lewis Frederick Ayre III in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California, Ayres began acting in bit player roles in...

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Dan Aykroyd

Biography Aykroyd grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. His father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, was a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Gougeon, is French-Canadian. Aykroyd was born with syndactyly (webbed toes) and heterochromia (the condition of having two differently-colored eyes)....

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Frankie Avalon

Biography Francis Thomas Avallone (born September 18, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an Italian-American actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s. By the time he was 12, Avalon began making appearances on U.S. television for his trumpet prowess, as a teenager, played with Bobby Rydell in a band known as Rocco and...

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Gene Autry

Biography Christened Orvon Gene Autry, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, near Tioga, Texas, his parents, Delbert Autry and Elnora Ozmont, moved to Ravia, Oklahoma in the 1920s. After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. Career Radio An...

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Alan Autry

photo: http://www.blujay.com/1/322/2735483_s1_i2.jpg Biography Autry was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of Carl Autry and Verna Brown. His name was changed to Carlos Brown when he was a year old, after his parents divorced. He worked alongside his mother and stepfather Joe Duty in the fields of California's San Joaquin...

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Richard Attenborough

photo: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/20/article-0-0279206C000005DC-967_468x521.jpg Biography Born in Cambridge, he was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He is the elder brother of the naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. His film...

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Rowan Atkinson

Biography Atkinson was born to Eric Atkinson and Ella May, Anglican farmers in the town of Consett, near Newcastle Upon Tyne. He was educated at Durham Choristers School, followed by St Bees School and studied electrical engineering at Newcastle University. He continued with an MSc at Oxford (Queen's College), starting his comedy...

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Sean Astin

photo: https://pacejmiller.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/sean-astin.jpg Biography Early life He is the son of actors Patty Duke and John Astin (although his biological father is Michael Tell, a Jewish-American writer who divorced Patty Duke shortly before her marriage to Astin). At the time of his birth, it...

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John Astin

photo: http://the-coa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/johnastinisgreatasgomezaddams.jpg Biography John Astin starring as Gomez Addams in The Addams Family. John Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family television series and similarly eccentric comedic characters....

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Fred Astaire

photo: http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/3/Celebrity-Image-Fred-Astaire-238370.jpg Biography Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers,...

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Armand Assante

Biography Armand Assante (born October 4, 1949, New York City, New York) is an American actor born to an Italian American father and an Irish American mother. Assante is an accomplished character actor, with his big break coming in 1974 in "The Lords of Flatbush". His sometimes sinister look has made him a...

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Ed Asner

Biography An autographed portrait of Ed Asner Yitzhak Edward "Ed" Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a Jewish-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. The series was the longest lasting show...

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Arthur Askey

photo: https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw66560/mw66560.jpg Biography Arthur Askey (June 6, 1900 - November 16, 1982) was a prominent British comedian. Arthur Bowden Askey was born in Liverpool. He was very small at 5' 2" (1.6m) and wore distinctive horn rimmed glasses, with a breezy, smiling personality. He...

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David Arquette

photo: http://images.buddytv.com/articles/in-case-of-emergency/images/david-arquette.jpg Biography Arquette was born in Winchester, Virginia. His father was the late actor Lewis Arquette, and his grandfather was the late comic actor Cliff Arquette, best remembered for his "Charley Weaver" character, a fixture on the...

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Tom Arnold

photo: http://celebritycellphonenumber.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Tom-Arnold.jpg Biography Tom Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. He was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. Tom Arnold was a writer who appeared regularly as the character "Arnie Thomas" in the popular television sitcom Roseanne (which...

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Edward Arnold

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/927/000068723/edward-arnold-7.jpg Biography Arnold in City That Never Sleeps Edward Arnold (February 18, 1890 - April 26, 1956) was an American character actor. He was born on the Lower East Side of New York City as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, the son of Christian German immigrants Carl...

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James Arness

photo: http://www.gbeach4.org/James_Arness.jpg Biography James Arness (originally Aurness) (born May 26, 1923 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for 20 years, a record length for prime time shows that is shared with Kelsey Grammer’s portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane....

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Louis Armstrong

Biography Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 to a poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana. His youth was spent in poverty in a rough neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, as his father, William Armstrong, abandoned the family when Louis was an infant. He first learned to play the cornet (his first of which was bought with money loaned to him...

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Pedro Armendariz

photo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KETk_nJdn6M/SsBQrto_31I/AAAAAAAAAGs/1W37PXkE4eM/s400/pedro+armendariz.jpg When Pedro finished his studies, he moved to Mexico where he worked in trains, as a tour guide and as a journalist for the biligual magazine México Real. He was discovered by film director Miguel Zacarías when...

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Richard Arlen

photo: http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/richard_arlen.jpg Biography Richard Arlen (born September 1, 1898 - died March 28, 1976) was an American actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. At war's end, he...

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Alan Arkin

Biography Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor. Born in New York City to a Jewish family, Arkin is one of only five actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance (for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming) in 1966. Two years later, he was again...

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Roscoe Arbuckle

Biography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Roscoe Arbuckle) Jump to: navigation, search Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (1887-1933) in 1919 Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. He was given the nickname "Fatty" (a name he hated and...

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Michael Ansara

photo: https://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/law-plainsman.jpg Biography William Shatner (left) and Michael Ansara (right) in the Star Trek episode Day of the Dove. Michael Ansara (born April 15, 1922) is a stage, screen and voice actor. Born in Syria, his family immigrated to the United States when he was two years old. He...

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Harry Andrews

Biography Harry Andrews (November 10, 1911 - March 6, 1989) was a British actor. He was born Harry Fleetwood Andrews in Tonbridge, Kent. After a stage career as a Shakespearean actor, he became one of Britain's most prolific character actors in films of the 1950s and 1960s, often playing army officers, sergeant majors and other...

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Dana Andrews

Biography Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 - December 17, 1992) was an American actor. He was born Carver Dana Andrews on a farm just outside of Collins, Covington County, Mississippi, the third of nine children of Anice and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, his given names being the last names of two of the minister's...

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Anthony Andrews

Biography Television roles Robert, The Marquis of Stockbridge in Upstairs Downstairs (1971-1975) Reg Hogg in A War of Children (1972) Stephen Kelno in QB VII (1974) Lord Silverbridge in The Pallisers (1974) Lieutenant Brian Ash in Danger UXB (1979) Wilfred of Ivanhoe in Ivanhoe (1982) Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet...

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Richard Anderson

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/440/000049293/richard-anderson.jpg Biography Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman in The Six Million Dollar Man Richard Anderson, born Richard Norman Anderson (8 August 1926) Long Branch, New Jersey, USA is an actor in film and television. He is probably best know for his role as Oscar Goldman in...

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Kevin Anderson

Biography Star Wars books Jedi Search (1994) Dark Apprentice (1994) Champions of the Force (1994) Darksaber (1996) with Rebecca Moesta: Heirs of Force (1995) Shadow Academy (1995) The Lost Ones (1995) Lightsabers (1996) Darkest Knight (1996) Jedi Under Siege (1996) Delusions of Grandeur (1997) Diversity...

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Eddie Anderson

Biography There is also a basketball coach named Eddie Anderson. Eddie Anderson (September 18, 1905 - February 28, 1977), often known as Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, was an African-American comic actor who became famous playing "Rochester van Jones" (usually known simply as "Rochester"), the valet to Jack Benny's...

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Don Ameche

Biography Dominic Felix Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor. Ameche was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original surname was "Amici", and Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent. Ameche began his career in vaudeville with Texas Guinan until...

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