Their Greatest Roles

101. Hank Azaria

Hank Azaria is an American comedian and actor from Queens, New York. He is known for voicing several characters in The Simpsons including Apu, Chief Wiggum, Moe, Bumblebee Man, Lou and Superintendent Chalmers. The latter became well-known due to the "Steamed Hams" scene. He also acted in Godzilla, ...

1. Anastasia (1997) 2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

102. Lauren Bacall

Actress | To Have and Have Not

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a ...

1. Written on the Wind (1956) 2. The Big Sleep (1946) 3. To Have and Have Not (1944) 4. How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) 5. Key Largo (1948) 6. Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 7. Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999) 8. Patterns (1956)

103. Brian Backer

Actor | Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Brian Backer was born on December 5, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Loser (2000) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987).

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

104. Jim Backus

Actor | Rebel Without a Cause

Jim Backus was born James Gilmore Backus on February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was one of the few actors to do it all: radio, Broadway, movies, television and cartoons. After attending preparatory school in his hometown Cleveland, Backus enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, to ...

1. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 3. The Opposite Sex (1956) 4. Pat and Mike (1952)

105. Olga Baclanova

Actress | Freaks

Born Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova, one of six children of Vladimir Baklanoff and his wife Alexandra, later billed as the Russian Tigress in her early talking films, was born August 19, 1893. She graduated from the Cherniavsky Institute in Moscow prior to her selection in 1912 at age 19 to apprentice...

Freaks (1932)

106. Kevin Bacon

Actor | Footloose

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.

Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...

1. Apollo 13 (1995) 2. A Few Good Men (1992) 3. Balto (1995) 4. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

107. Hermione Baddeley

Actress | The Secret of NIMH

A brash character actress who specialized in cinema, television, and theater, Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley was born on November 13, 1906 in Broseley, Shropshire. She was the youngest of four sisters - including Angela Baddeley, also an actress - and her half-brother, Very Rev William ...

1. A Christmas Carol (1951) 2. The Arisocats (1970) 3. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 4. Mary Poppins (1964) 5. Midnight Lace (1960)

108. Mary Badham

Actress | To Kill a Mockingbird

Mary Badham was born on October 7, 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Let's Kill Uncle (1966) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She has been married to Richard Wilt since 1975. They have two children.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

109. Pearl Bailey

Soundtrack | The Fox and the Hound

Her father Joseph was a minister and her mother was named Ella Mae. Her birth name was Pearly Mae but her parents anticipated she would be a boy and when a girl was born she was nicknamed "Dickie". Her brother was entertainer Bill Bailey (1912-1978). She spent her early life in Washington DC where ...

1. The Fox and the Hound (1981) 2. Carmen Jones (1954)

110. Adrienne Houghton

Actress | Coach Carter

Adrienne Eliza Bailon was born on October 24, 1983 in New York City, New York to Nilda Felix & Freddy Bailon. She was raised by her parents & her stepfather Joe Felix. She has a sister named Claudette, who's 3 years older. When they were younger, they would sing for family & friends at home. They ...

1. The Cheetah Girls (2003) 2. The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006) 3. The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008)

111. Fay Bainter

Actress | Jezebel

Fay Bainter's career began as a child performer in 1898. For some time, she was a member of the traveling cast of the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles. In 1912, she made her Broadway debut in 'The Rose of Panama', but this and her subsequent play 'The Bridal Path' (1913), were conspicuous ...

1. Jezebel (1938) 2. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) 3. The Children's Hour (1961) 4. Close to My Heart (1951) 5. Woman of the Year (1942) 6. Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

112. Brandon Baker

Actor | One World

At 12 years old, Brandon landed his first big break with the starring role of "Mowgli" in Walt Disney's "Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story." It went straight to video and is still being shown domestically as well as foreign. That same year, 1997, he filmed the Disney Channel movie "P.U.N.K.S." where he ...

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)

113. Carroll Baker

Actress | Baby Doll

Carroll Baker was born on May 28, 1931 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a traveling salesman, William W. Baker. She attended community college for a year and then worked as a dancer and magician's assistant. After a brief marriage, she had a small part in Easy to Love (1953), did TV ...

1. Baby Doll (1956) 2. The Big Country (1958) 3. How the West Was Won (1962) 4. Giant (1956) 5. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

114. Dee Bradley Baker

Actor | American Dad!

Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor from Indiana. He first became known for voicing Olmec in Legends of the Hidden Temple before voicing Daffy Duck in Space Jam. He is well-known for voicing Klaus in American Dad, the Clone Troopers in several Star Wars media, Ra's al Ghul in Batman: ...

1. Space Jam (1996) 2. The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) 3. Stitch! The Movie (2003) 4. The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour (2004) 5. Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001) 6. Happy Feet (2006) 7. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) 8. The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998) 9. Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) 10. Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (2005) 11. The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide (2006) 12. Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999) 13. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) 14. Astro Boy (2009)

115. Kenny Baker

Actor | Time Bandits

Kenny Baker was born on August 24, 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Elephant Man (1980). He was married to Eileen Baker. He died on August 13, 2016 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.

1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 2. Star Wars (1977) 3. Return of the Jedi (1983) 4. Revenge of the Sith (2005) 5. The Phantom Menace (1999) 6. Attack of the Clones (2002)

116. Stanley Baker

Actor | Zulu

Stanley Baker was unusual star material to emerge during the Fifties - when impossibly handsome and engagingly romantic leading men were almost de rigueur. Baker was forged from a rougher mould. His was good-looking, but his features were angular, taut, austere and unwelcoming. His screen persona ...

1. Knights of the Round Table (1953) 2. Campbell's Kingdom (1957)

117. Tom Baker

Actor | Doctor Who

One of Britain's most recognizable (and most larger-than-life) character actors, Tom Baker is best known for his record-setting seven-year stint as the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He was born in 1934 in Liverpool, to Mary Jane (Fleming) and John Stewart Baker. His father was of English and ...

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

118. Troy Baker

Actor | The Last of Us

Troy Baker is an American voice actor and musician. He voiced Batman, Two-Face, Jason Todd and the Joker in several Batman productions including Arkham Origins, Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Arkham Knight. He also voiced Joel Miller in The Last of Us, Talion in The Lord of the Rings ...

1. Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006) 2. One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta (2007)

119. Adam Baldwin

Actor | Serenity

Adam Baldwin is an American actor who is from Illinois. He is known for playing Jayne Cobb from Firefly and Serenity, Hal Jordan in various DC cartoons and games and Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket. He also acted in Independence Day, The Patriot, Predator 2, American Underdog, Superman: ...

1. The Patriot (2000) 2. Ordinary People (1980)

120. Alec Baldwin

Actor | The Departed

Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...

1. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) 2. Rules Don't Apply (2016) 3. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)

121. Stephen Baldwin

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Stephen Baldwin was born on May 12, 1966 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Usual Suspects (1995), Bio-Dome (1996) and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000). He has been married to Kennya Baldwin since June 10, 1990. They have two children.

Threesome (1994)

122. Christian Bale

Actor | The Dark Knight

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...

1. Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 2. The Big Short (2015) 3. Swing Kids (1993) 4. Pocahontas (1995) 5. Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)

123. Ina Balin

Actress | From the Terrace

Brooklyn-native actress Ina Balin (née Rosenberg) was born on November 12, 1937, into a Jewish family of entertainers. Her parents were Betty (nee Friedman) and Sam Rosenberg, who divorced when she was 9 years old. Her father was a dancer/singer/comedian who worked the Borscht Belt. He later quit ...

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

124. Lucille Ball

Actress | I Love Lucy

The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York, the daughter of Desiree Evelyn "DeDe" (Hunt) and Henry Durrell "Had" Ball. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked ...

1. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) 2. Broadway Bill (1933)

125. Michael Ball

Actor | Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary

Michael Ball has enjoyed a very successful and varied career over the last 20 years, both in the West End and on the Concert Stage, working with some of the 20th century's most prolific musical theatre composers.

After graduating from the Guildford School of Acting, his professional debut was in "...

1. Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert (1995) 2. Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010)

126. Juan José Ballesta

Actor | El Bola

Juan José Ballesta was only nine when he debuted in the TV series Querido maestro (1997) but his real break came when director Achero Mañas gave him the title role in his sensitive Truffaut-like tale of two youths Pellet (2000). The film garnered lots of awards, of which young Juan José got a ...

Carol's Journey (2002)

127. Martin Balsam

Actor | All the President's Men

Martin Henry Balsam was born on November 4, 1919 in the Bronx, New York City, to Lillian (Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, a manufacturer of women's sportswear. He was the first-born child. His father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and his mother was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents. ...

1. 12 Angry Men (1957) 2. Psycho (1960) 3. Middle of the Night (1959) 4. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) 5. On the Waterfront (1954)

128. Eric Bana

Actor | Dirty John

Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family ...

1. Troy (2004) 2. Star Trek (2009) 3. Finding Nemo (2003)

129. Anne Bancroft

Actress | The Graduate

Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...

1. The Miracle Worker (1962) 2. Jesus of Nazareth (1977) 3. Blazing Saddles (1974)

130. George Bancroft

Actor | Stagecoach

George Bancroft was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school at Tomes Institute (Philadelphia). He won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated as a commissioned officer. He served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no...

1. Stagecoach (1939) 2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

131. Antonio Banderas

Actor | The Mask of Zorro

Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.

He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...

1. The Mask of Zorro (1998) 2. Shrek 2 (2004) 3. Femme Fatale (2002) 4. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

132. Tallulah Bankhead

Actress | Lifeboat

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born on January 31, 1902 in Huntsville, Alabama. Her father was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from June 4, 1936, to September 16, 1940. Tallulah had been interested in acting and, at age ...

Lifeboat (1944)

133. Elizabeth Banks

Actress | The Hunger Games

Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Elizabeth describes ...

1. The Lego Movie (2014) 2. The Hunger Games (2012) 3. Spider-Man (2002)

134. Tyra Banks

Actress | Coyote Ugly

Tyra Banks was born on December 4, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Coyote Ugly (2000), Tropic Thunder (2008) and America's Next Top Model (2003).

Life-Size (2000)

135. Ian Bannen

Actor | Waking Ned

Scottish character actor and occasional leading man who enlivened scores of fine films in Britain and America. His father was a lawyer in a small town in Lanarkshire. Bannen served in the army and attended Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire. His first acting role came in a 1947 Dublin production of ...

1. Jesus of Nazareth (1977) 2. Braveheart (1995) 3. Gandhi (1982)

136. Theda Bara

Actress | A Fool There Was

Theda Bara was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as Theodosia Goodman, on July 29, 1885. She was the daughter of a local tailor and his wife. As a teenager Theda was interested in the theatrical arts and once she finished high school, she dyed her blond hair black and went in pursuit of her dream. By 1908 ...

Cleopatra (1917)

137. Brigitte Bardot

Actress | Le mépris

Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was ...

...And God Created Woman (1956)

138. Samantha Barks

Actress | Les Misérables

Samantha Barks was born in Laxey, Isle of Man (British Isles) in 1990. She is a British actress best known for the role of Éponine in Les Misérables. In 2008, Samantha competed in I'd Do Anything in which she was one of the finalists in a search for a new, unknown lead to play Nancy in a West End ...

Les Misérables (2012) Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010)

139. Binnie Barnes

Actress | The Time of Their Lives

British-born actress who appeared in both British and American films, but who found her greatest success in Hollywood second leads. After a variety of jobs, including nurse, chorus girl and milkmaid, Barnes entered vaudeville. She appeared in more than a score of short comedies with comedian ...

1. The Private Lives of Henry VIII (1933) 2. Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) 3. If Winter Comes (1947)

140. Christopher Daniel Barnes

Actor | The Little Mermaid

Christopher Daniel Barnes was born on November 7, 1972 in Portland, Maine, USA. He is an actor, known for The Little Mermaid (1989), Spider-Man (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996). Barnes moved to New York when he was eight years old, where he began his acting career...

1. Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007) 2. The Little Mermaid (1989) 3. Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)

141. Sacha Baron Cohen

Actor | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London. He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. His father, born in England and raised in Wales, was of Eastern European Jewish descent, while his mother was born...

1. Madagascar (2005) 2. Les Misérables (2012)

142. Roseanne Barr

Producer | Roseanne

Firebrand Roseanne Barr has long been one of America's funniest and most controversial comedians.

She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Helen (Davis), a cashier and bookkeeper, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, a salesman. Her family was Jewish, and had moved to the U.S. from Russia, Lithuania, ...

Home on the Range (2005)

143. Barbara Barrie

Actress | Breaking Away

After endless stage and television work, Barrie received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the ground-breaking racial drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964), as Julie, a young, white mother who marries a black man after she and her daughter are abandoned by her ...

1. Hercules (1997) 2. Giant (1956)

144. John Barrowman

Actor | Torchwood

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, and raised in Joliet, Illinois. He returned to the UK, for a 6 month Shakespeare semester with the United States International University of San Diego, but left to star in the musical production of "Anything Goes," with Elaine Paige. He went on to star in "Miss Saigon," "...

The Untouchables (1987)

145. Drew Barrymore

Producer | Charlie's Angels

Since melting audiences' hearts at the tender age of six - in Steven Spielberg's beloved sci-fi blockbuster, E.T. (1982) - Drew Barrymore has emerged as one of the most endearing and singularly talented actresses of her generation. Born in Culver City, California to actors John Drew Barrymore and ...

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 2. Curious George (2006) 3. Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999)

146. Ethel Barrymore

Actress | The Spiral Staircase

Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of ...

1. Kind Lady (1951) 2. Portrait of Jennie (1948)

147. John Barrymore

Actor | Twentieth Century

John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical ...

1. Dinner at Eight (1933) 2. Twentieth Century (1934) 3. Grand Hotel (1932) 4. Maytime (1937) 5. Marie Antoinette (1938) 6. Night Flight (1933) 7. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

148. Lionel Barrymore

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon...

1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 2. You Can't Take It With You (1938) 3. Key Largo (1948) 4. Captains Courageous (1937) 5. A Free Soul (1931) 6. The Valley of Decision (1945) 7. Duel in the Sun (1946) 8. Grand Hotel (1932) 9. Dinner at Eight (1933) 10. A Guy Named Joe (1943) 11. A Yank at Oxford (1938) 12. The Show (1927) 13. Camille (1936) 14. Since You Went Away (1944) 15. Redemption (1930) 16. Night Flight (1933) 17. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

149. Judith Barsi

Actress | The Land Before Time

The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat 10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old. Her first commercial was for Donald Duck Orange Juice and she went on to appear in anywhere ...

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

150. Justin Bartha

Actor | National Treasure

Justin Bartha was born on July 21, 1978 in West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for National Treasure (2004), The Hangover (2009) and Gigli (2003). He has been married to Lia Smith since January 4, 2014. They have one child.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

151. Richard Barthelmess

Actor | Only Angels Have Wings

Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and ...

Broken Blossoms (1919)

152. Freddie Bartholomew

Actor | Captains Courageous

One of the most popular child actors in film history, Child superstar Freddie Bartholomew was born Frederick Cecil Bartholomew in Harlesden, London, the son of Lilian May (Clarke) and Cecil Llewellyn Bartholomew. From age three, he grew up in the town of Warminster under the care of his father's ...

1. Captains Courageous (1937) 2. Listen, Darling (1938)

153. Jay Baruchel

Actor | Goon

Jay Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the son of Robyne (Ropell), a freelance writer, and Serge Victor Baruchel, an antiques dealer. He has a younger sister who also acts. He started acting in 1995 when he made his first of three appearances on ...

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

154. Richard Basehart

Actor | Moby Dick

Despite many a powerful performance, this actor's actor never quite achieved the stardom he deserved. Ultimately, Richard Basehart became best-known to television audiences as Admiral Harriman Nelson, commander of the glass-nosed nuclear submarine 'S.S.R.N Seaview' in Irwin Allen's Voyage to the ...

1. Tension (1949) 2. Portrait in Black (1960)

155. Kim Basinger

Actress | L.A. Confidential

Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a ...

The Natural (1984)

156. Albert Bassermann

Actor | Foreign Correspondent

Classically-trained actor, former chemist, whose formative years on the stage were spent in Bern (Switzerland) and, from 1909, the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Max Reinhardt's direction. Specialised in Shakespearean roles ('Richard III', 'Hamlet') and was a famous interpreter of the plays of ...

1. Knute Rockne All American (1940) 2. The Red Shoes (1948) 3. Since You Went Away (1944) 4. Madame Curie (1943)

157. Angela Bassett

Actress | Strange Days

Captivating, gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters and on stages and television screens throughout the world. Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City, to Betty Jane (Gilbert), a social worker, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a ...

1. Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 2. Meet the Robinsons (2007) 3. Our Friend, Martin (1999) 4. Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000)

158. Jason Bateman

Actor | Arrested Development

Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).

He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director...

1. Zootopia (2016) 2. Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

159. Alan Bates

Actor | Gosford Park

Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End debut in 1956, at 22...

Hamlet (1990)

160. Barbara Bates

Actress | All About Eve

Born in Denver, Co, 6 August, 1925 and originally named Barbara Jane Bates, Barbara was the eldest of 3 daughters born to a postal clerk and RN.

Rather shy, her mother initially sent Barbara to study ballet. By her late teens, the young beauty began to model clothes as a teen out of high school.

...

1. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) 2. All About Eve (1950) 3. Rhapsody (1954) 4. Johnny Belinda (1948) 5. Adventures of Don Juan (1948) 6. A Scandal in Paris (1946) 7. Romance on the High Seas (1948)

161. Kathy Bates

Actress | Misery

Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...

1. Titanic (1997) 2. The Blind Side (2009)

162. Steven Bauer

Actor | Scarface

Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson) is a Cuban-born American actor. Bauer began his career on PBS, portraying Joe Peña, the son of Cuban immigrants on Qué Pasa, USA (1977-1980) and is perhaps most famous for his role as the Cuban drug lord Manny Rivera in the 1983 crime drama ...

1. Scarface (1983) 2. Body Double (1984)

163. Anne Baxter

Actress | All About Eve

Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman, Kenneth Stuart Baxter, and his wife, Catherine Dorothy (Wright), who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. Anne was a young girl of 11 when her parents moved ...

1. The Ten Commandments (1956) 2. All About Eve (1950) 3. The Razor's Edge (1946) 4. The Blue Gardenia (1953) 5. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 6. I Confess (1953) 7. Cimarron (1960) 8. Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

164. Meredith Baxter

Actress | All the President's Men

Meredith Baxter is an American actress from California, better known for television roles. Her most famous roles include Catholic teacher Bridget Fitzgerald in the sitcom "Bridget Loves Bernie" (1972-1973), divorced mother Nancy Lawrence in the family-themed drama "Family" (1976-1980), and ...

The Night That Panicked America (1975)

165. Warner Baxter

Actor | Penthouse

Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent." When he was age 9, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco where, following ...

1. 42nd Street (1933) 2. Broadway Bill (1934)

166. Brigid Bazlen

Actress | How the West Was Won

Brigid Bazlen was born on June 9, 1944 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for How the West Was Won (1962), King of Kings (1961) and The Honeymoon Machine (1961). She was married to Marlin Greene and Jean-Paul Vignon. She died on May 25, 1989 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1. King of Kings (1961) 2. The Honeymoon Machine (1961) 2. How the West Was Won (1962)

167. John Beal

Actor | The Firm

John Beal was born James Andrew Bliedung on August 13, 1909, in Joplin, Missouri. The son of a department store owner and concert pianist, he began acting in school and church plays and decided to pursue it as a career following his B.S. degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. The ...

1. The Cat and the Canary (1939) 2. Edge of Darkness (1943) 3. Les Misérables (1935)

168. Sean Bean

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sean Bean's career since the eighties spans theatre, radio, television and movies. Bean was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to Rita (Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. He worked for his father's welding firm before he decided to become an actor. He attended RADA in London and appeared in a ...

1. Troy (2004) 2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

169. Ned Beatty

Actor | Network

Stocky, genial-looking supporting actor Ned Beatty was once hailed by Daily Variety as the "busiest actor in Hollywood."

Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and working on farms. His hometown of St. Matthews, ...

Toy Story 3 (2010)

170. Warren Beatty

Actor | Heaven Can Wait

Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...

1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 2. Splendor in the Grass (1961) 3. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) 4. Rules Don't Apply (2016)

171. Kathryn Beaumont

Actress | Alice in Wonderland

Kathryn Beaumont was just ten years old when she was chosen for the voice of Alice, in Disney's animated version of the classic children's tale, Alice in Wonderland (1951). Walt Disney was so impressed with Kathryn's long curly blonde hair, sparkling eyes and acting ability, that he chose her as ...

1. Alice in Wonderland (1951) 2. Peter Pan (1953)

172. Louise Beavers

Actress | Imitation of Life

1930s and 1940s film actress Louise Beavers was merely one of a dominant gallery of plus-sized and plus-talented African-American character actresses forced to endure blatant, discouraging and demeaning stereotypes during Depression-era and WWII Hollywood.

It wasn't until Louise's triumphant role in ...

1. Imitation of Life (1934) 2. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) 3. Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) 4. She Done Him Wrong (1933) 5. Coquette (1929) 6. Midnight Mary (1933) 7. Primrose Path (1940)

173. Irene Bedard

Actress | Pocahontas

Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an Alaska Native actress enrolled in the Native Village of Koyuk who has played many American Indian characters in a variety of television shows and films. She is best known for her voice role as the title character in the Disney animated film "Pocahontas," and ...

Pocahontas (1995)

174. Barbara Bedford

Actress | The Last of the Mohicans

Barbara Bedford was born on July 19, 1903 in Eastman, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for The Last of the Mohicans (1920), Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926) and The Spoilers (1923). She was married to Terry Spencer, Alan Roscoe and Irvin Willat. She died on October 25, 1981 in ...

1. Mockery (1927) 2. Three Comrades (1938) 3. I Love You Again (1940) 4. The Clock (1945) 5. The Toy Wife (1938) 6. Dancing Co-Ed (1939) 7. Whistling in the Dark (1941) 8. Presenting Lily Mars (1943) 9. Boys Town (1938)

175. Brian Bedford

Actor | Nixon

Brian Bedford was born on February 16, 1935 in Morley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Nixon (1995), Robin Hood (1973) and Grand Prix (1966). He was married to Tim MacDonald. He died on January 13, 2016 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Robin Hood (1973)

176. Alfonso Bedoya

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Mexican character actor who achieved his greatest success in U.S. films. He was born in Mexico city, living in numerous places throughout the country. He received a private education in Houston, Texas as a teenager, but dropped out and roamed about doing an assortment of jobs. His family, however, ...

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 2. The Big Country (1958)

177. Noah Beery

Actor | Beau Geste

Respected character actor of the silent and early sound period, specializing in cruel villains. The son of Kansas City policeman Noah Webster Beery and Frances Margaret Fitzgerald Beery, Noah Nicholas Beery and his younger brother Wallace Beery both left home in their teens, each seeking a career ...

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

178. Noah Beery Jr.

Actor | The Rockford Files

Familiar and well-liked character actor of very different persona than either his father, Noah Beery, or his uncle, Wallace Beery. He attended Harvard Military Academy but managed to make a number of appearances on film and on stage with his father before adulthood. At age 19, he began playing ...

1. Red River (1948) 2. Of Mice and Men (1939) 3. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) 4. Sergeant York (1941)

179. Wallace Beery

Actor | A Date with Judy

In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows. He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on ...

1. Dinner at Eight (1933) 2. Grand Hotel (1932) 3. Way for a Sailor (1930)

180. Ed Begley

Actor | 12 Angry Men

Charismatic character star Edward James Begley was born in Hartford, Connecticut of Irish parents and educated at St.Patrick's school. His interest in acting first surfaced at the age of nine, when he performed amateur theatricals at the Hartford Globe Theatre. Determined to make his own way, he ...

1. Patterns (1956) 2. 12 Angry Men (1957) 3. On Dangerous Ground (1951) 4. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

181. Barbara Bel Geddes

Actress | Vertigo

Arguably best remembered for her role as Miss Ellie, the Ewing family matriarch on the long-running TV series Dallas (1978), Barbara Bel Geddes had earlier scored success on stage and screen long before gaining more lasting fame on television. She was born in New York City on Halloween Day 1922, ...

1. Vertigo (1958) 2. I Remember Mama (1948)

182. Harry Belafonte

Actor | Bobby

Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also,...

1. Carmen Jones (1954) 2. Bright Road (1953)

183. Drake Bell

Actor | Drake & Josh

Drake Bell was born on June 27, 1986, in Santa Ana, California, USA as Jared Drake Bell. He is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also known as Drake Campana, under which name he records Spanish-language songs. In December 2005, Bell was driving a vehicle that was stopped at...

1. Drake and Josh Go Hollywood (2006) 2. Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)

184. Kristen Bell

Actress | Frozen

Kristen Anne Bell (born 1980) is an American actress and singer. She was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and is the daughter of Lorelei (Frygier), a nurse, and Tom Bell, a television news director. Her ancestry is Polish (mother) and German, English, Irish, and Scottish (father). ...

1. Frozen (2013) 2. Astro Boy (2009) 3. Zootopia (2016) 4. The Cat Returns (2002)

185. Ralph Bellamy

Actor | His Girl Friday

Ralph Bellamy was a veteran actor who was so well-liked and respected by his peers that he was the recipient of an honorary Oscar in 1987 for his contributions to the acting profession.

Ralph Rexford Bellamy was born June 17, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise (Smith), originally ...

1. Footsteps in the Dark (1941) 2. The Awful Truth (1937) 3. His Girl Friday (1940) 4. The Fourth Wiseman (1985)

186. Jean-Paul Belmondo

Actor | Pierrot le fou

The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before ...

Two Women (1960)

187. Jim Belushi

Actor | Red Heat

James Adam Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Chicago, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. The third of four children - his brother was comedian John Belushi - he ...

1. My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) 2. Jingle All the Way (1996) 3. The Wild (2006) 4. Hoodwinked! (2005) 5. Snow Buddies (2008) 6. Snow Dogs (2002)

188. Robert Benchley

Actor | Foreign Correspondent

Although by his own account Benchley was not quite a writer and not quite an actor, he managed to become one of the best-known humorists and comedians of his time. As a Harvard undergraduate, Benchley gave his first comic performance, impersonating a befuddled after-dinner speaker. The act made him...

1. The Major and the Minor (1942) 2. Janie (1944) 3. Janie Gets Married (1946) 4. The Reluctant Dragon (1941) 5. You'll Never Get Rich (1941) 6. Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

189. William Bendix

Actor | Lifeboat

William Bendix was not a son of Brooklyn, New York, although because of his stereotypical "Brooklyn accent" it has been widely supposed that he was. Bendix was actually born in the Borough of Manhattan (New York City proper), in a midtown flat hard by the tracks of the long-since defunct ...

1. Lifeboat (1944) 2. Detective Story (1951) 3. Woman of the Year (1942)

190. Bruce Bennett

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Herman Brix was a star shot-putter in the 1928 Olympics. After losing the lead in MGM's Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) due to a shoulder injury, he was contracted by Ashton Dearholt for his independent production of The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), a serial and the only Tarzan film between the ...

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 2. Mildred Pierce (1945) 3. Angels in the Outfield (1951) 4. Sudden Fear (1952) 5. A Stolen Life (1946)

191. Jimmy Bennett

Actor | Star Trek

James 'Jimmy' Bennett was born on February 9, 1996 in Seal Beach, California. He has appeared in guest starring roles on The Guardian (2001), Judging Amy (1999), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and recently Everwood (2002), and has been cast in some of the most successful productions in that ...

1. I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (2003) 2. Snow Buddies (2008) 3. The Polar Express (2004) 4. Daddy Care (2003) 5. Star Trek (2009) 6. The Jungle Book 2 (2003)

192. Constance Bennett

Actress | Topper

Independent, outspoken Constance Bennett, the first of the Bennett sisters to enter films, appeared in New York-produced silents before a chance meeting with Samuel Goldwyn led to her Hollywood debut in Cytherea (1924). She abandoned a burgeoning career in silents for marriage to Philip Plant in ...

1. Topper (1937) 2. Madame X (1966) 3. After Office Hours (1935)

193. Haley Bennett

Actress | Swallow

A natural talent with a striking presence, Haley Bennett continues to establish herself as one of Hollywood's most dynamic actresses.

Upcoming, Bennett will star opposite Austin Stowell in Carlo Mirabella-Davis's SWALLOW, on which she also serves as an executive producer. Bennett plays 'Hunter,' a ...

Rules Don't Apply (2016)

194. Jeff Bennett

Actor | Enchanted

Jeff Bennett is an American voice actor who is well-known for voicing Johnny Bravo (based on Elvis Presley's voice), Dr. Hamsterviel from Lilo & Stitch, Kowalski from The Penguins of Madagascar, Petrie in The Land Before Time, Ted Shackleford (The Man in the Yellow Hat) from Curious George, ...

1. Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure (2001) 2. Return to Neverland (2002) 2. An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) 3. Tarzan & Jane (2002) 4. Stitch! The Movie (2003) 5. Enchanted (2007) 6. Joseph King of Dreams (2000) 7. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 8. Bolt (2007) 9. Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000) 10. The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001) 11. The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) 12. Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2003) 13. Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) 14. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) 15. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) 16. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) 17. Curious George (2006) 18. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) 19. Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 20. An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999) 21. Balto: Wolf Quest (2002)

Provides the singing voice of Centipede in James and the Giant Peach

195. Joan Bennett

Actress | Suspiria

Joan Geraldine Bennett was born on February 27, 1910, in Palisades, New Jersey. Her parents were both successful stage actors, especially her father, Richard Bennett, and often toured the country for weeks at a time. In fact, Joan came from a long line of actors, dating back to the 18th century. ...

1. The Woman in the Window (1944) 2. Little Women (1933) 3. Father of the Bride (1950) 4. Father's Little Dividend (1951) 5. Scarlet Street (1945) 6. The Woman on the Beach (1947) 7. We're No Angels (1955)

196. Jonathan Bennett

Actor | Mean Girls

Jonathan David Bennett was born in Rossford, Ohio, to RuthAnne (Mason) and Dr. David Paul Bennett. He headed straight to New York to pursue acting after graduating from the theater program at Otterbein. He was actually discovered by an agent while sitting on a train. Six months later he signed on ...

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)

197. Annette Bening

Actress | American Beauty

Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, ...

1. Rules Don't Apply (2016) 2. Mars Attacks! (1996)

198. Jack Benny

Actor | The Jack Benny Program

The son of a saloon keeper, Jack Benny (born Benny Kubelsky) began to study the violin at the age six, and his "ineptness" at it, would later become his trademark (in reality, he was a very accomplished player). When given the opportunity to play in live theatre professionally, Benny quit school ...

1. To Be or Not to Be (1942) 2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 3. Gypsy (1962)

199. Jodi Benson

Actress | Toy Story 3

Jodi Benson was born on October 10, 1961 in Rockford, Illinois as Jodi Marie Marzorati. She has received worldwide recognition & critical acclaim as the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989), Tour Guide Barbie in Toy Story 2 (1999), Weebo in Flubber (1997) as well as Thumbelina in Thumbelina ...

1. The Little Mermaid (1989) 2. Toy Story 3 (2010) 3. Balto: Wolf Quest (2002) 4. Toy Story 2 (1999) 5. Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001) 6. Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) 7. Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 8. Enchanted (2007) 9. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) 10. Flubber (1997)

200. Robby Benson

Actor | Beauty and the Beast

Robby Benson is an American writer, director, composer, lyricist, actor, professor of film, filmmaker and novelist. He began his career in the theater, (Oliver, The King and I); on Broadway (co-starring in Zelda, The Rothschilds and Joseph Papp's The Pirates of Penzance, where he met and fell in ...

1. Beauty and the Beast (1991) 2. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) 3. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001)