William Powell

William Powell blows suave smoke rings in “The Thin Man”  (1934)

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Lon Chaney Sr

Lon Chaney, his bag of tricks and just a few of his many faces - c. 1920s,

London After Midnight (1927), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), and The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) .

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Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia (January 18, 1892 - August 7, 1957) and preferred to not stay in school but to go to the vaudeville houses and study the onstage antics of many different groups. Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.

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Turpin Ben

Turpin Ben, (September 19, 1869- July 1,1940) American silent screen film comedian. the cross-eyed comedian of silent days was not born that way. Supposedly his right eye slipped out of alignment while playing the role of the similarly afflicted Happy Hooligan in vaudeville and it never adjusted.  Ironically, it was this disability that would enhance his comic value and make him a top name.

c. 1910s

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John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison, May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979, better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa. He received his first leading film role in The Big Trail (1930). Settling in Glendale, California, Wayne received his distinctive nickname "Duke" while living there. John Wayne had a dog by that name of "Duke", and he spent so much time with his pet that the pair became known as "Little Duke" and "Big Duke," according to the official John Wayne website.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, California. One of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s.

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Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 65 years. Photogenic American child actor of the 1940s, popular due in no small measure to his air of innocence and his beautiful, cherubic face with its dimples and his sparkling eyes, topped with a crown of curls. Still an actor in demand. |  Cropped screenshot of Dean Stockwell from the trailer for the film Stars in My Crown. c. 1950,

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Robert Young

Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best, and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.

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Paul Newman

Paul Newman, one of the last of the great 20th-century stars, acted in more than 65 movies over half a century. Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts.

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Chief Thundercloud

Chief Thundercloud, (born Victor Daniels, April 12, 1899 – December 1, 1955) was an American character actor in westerns. Information about Thundercloud is vague. Most biographies state that he was a full blooded Cherokee (or Muskogee). The pressbook for The Lone Ranger Rides Again announced his parents as "Dark Cloud and Morning Star, artistocrats of the Muskogee tribe" but his death certificate lists his father as "Joseph Mahawa." He had the title role in Geronimo (1939) and played Tonto in both Republic Lone Ranger serials, The Lone Ranger (1938) and The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939).

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Jack Lord

John Joseph Patrick Ryan, (December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998) best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980.

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W. C. Fields

William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields was known for his comic persona as a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children and women.

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Lee Van Cleef

Clarence Leroy "Lee" Van Cleef, Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor. Respected for his natural style and versatility, Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Bob Keeshan

Robert James "Bob" Keeshan, (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions.

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Bob May

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Bob May was born September 4, 1939 – died January 18, 2009. May was an American actor best remembered for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space, which debuted in 1965 and ran until 1968. May appeared in all 83 episodes inside a prop costume built by Bob Stewart

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Sidney Toler

The film is also known as Charlie Chan in the Scarlet Clue (American informal title) and Charlie Chan: The Scarlet Clue in Australia.

Sidney Hooper Toler (April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. Of primarily Scottish ancestry, he was the second non-Asian actor to play the role of Charlie Chan.

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Fred MacMurray

My Three Sons is an American situation comedy.

 

Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray ( August 30, 1908 - November 5, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

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