People from showbusiness born before 1920 that are still alive
by Rooney_Mara_Lover | created - 25 Jul 2015 | updated - 26 Mar 2021 | PublicR.I.P. Carla Laemmle, October 20, 1909 - June 12, 2014 Eli Wallach, December 7, 1915 - June 24, 2014 Louis Zamperini, January 26, 1917 - July 2, 2014 Zohra Segal, April 27, 1912 - July 10, 2014 Don Pardo, February 22, 1918 - August 18, 2014 Don Keefer, August 18, 1916 - September 7, 2014 Renée Asherson, May 19, 1915 - October 30, 2014 Grace Albertson, August 4, 1919 - November 3, 2014 Phil Stern, September 3, 1919 - December 13, 2014 Arthur Gardner, June 7, 1910 - December 19, 2014 Luise Rainer, January 12, 1910 - December 30, 2014 Robert Boon, October 26, 1916 - January 13, 2015 Ed Sabol, September 11, 1916 - February 9, 2015 Movita, April 12, 1916 - February 12, 2015 Rico Alaniz, October 25, 1919 - March 9, 2015 Richard L. Bare, August 12, 1913 - March 28, 2015 Manoel de Oliveira, December 11, 1908 - April 2, 2015 Wally Cassell, March 3, 1912 - April 2, 2015 Jayne Meadows, September 27, 1919 - April 26, 2015 Philip Perlman, August 15, 1919 - April 29, 2015 Patachou, June 10, 1918 - April 30, 2015 Ellen Albertini Dow, November 16, 1913 - May 4, 2015 Mary Brodel, September 27, 1916 - June 3, 2015 Edward Burnham, December 25, 1916 - June 30, 2015 Olaf Pooley, March 13, 1914 - July 14, 2015 Nova Pilbeam, November 15, 1919 - July 16, 2015 Prince C. Spencer, October 3, 1917 - October 29, 2015 Al Molirano, June 24, 1919 - October 30, 2015 Elmo Williams, April 30, 1913 - November 25, 2015 Marjorie Lord, July 26, 1918 - November 28, 2015 Elaine Riley, January 15, 1917 - December 7, 2015 Meg Mundy, January 4, 1915 - January 12, 2016 Amelia Bence, November 13, 1914 - February 8, 2016 George Gaynes, May 16, 1917 - February 15, 2016 Douglas Slocombe, February 10, 1913 - February 22, 2016 Shannon Bolin, January 1, 1917, March 25, 2016 Daniel Aaron, August 4, 1912 - April 30, 2016 Alan Young, November 19, 1919 - May 19, 2016 Irving Benson, January 31, 1914 - May 19, 2016 Leslie H. Martinson, January 16, 1915 - September 3, 2016 Wolfgang Suschitzky, August 29, 1912 - October 7, 2016 Yvette Chauviré, April 22, 1917 - October 19, 2016 John Zacherle, September 26, 1918 - October 27, 2016 Vladimir Zeldin, February 10, 1915 - October 31, 2016 Lupita Tovar, July 27, 1910 - November 12, 2016 Kevin O'Morrison, May 25, 1916 - December 11, 2016 Shep Houghton, June 4, 1914 - December 15, 2016 Zsa Zsa Gabor, February 6, 1917 - December 18, 2016 Alan Surgal, November 12, 1916 - January 3, 2017 Eléonore Hirt, December 19, 1919 - January 27, 2017 Irwin Corey, July 29, 1914 - February 6, 2017 Alice Ludes, December 20, 1912 - February 12, 2017 Danuta Szaflarska, February 6, 2015 - February 19, 2017 William Woodson, July 16, 1917 - February 22, 2017 Joseph Wapner, November 15, 1919 - February 26, 2017 Jack H. Harris, November 28, 1918 - March 14, 2017 Harvey Pierce, June 24, 1917 - March 22, 2017 Diana Ingro, October 26, 1917 - March 23, 2017 Jean Rouverol, July 8, 1916 - March 24, 2017 Lorna Gray, July 26, 1917 - April 30, 2017 Pierre Gaspard-Huit, November 29, 1917 - May 1, 2017 Lukas Ammann, September 29, 1912 - May 3, 2017 Jacque Fresco, March 13, 1916 - May 18, 2017 Eloise Hardt, September 17, 1917 - June 25, 2017 June Foray, September 18, 1917 - July 26, 2017 Kira Golovko, March 11, 1919 - August 16, 2017 Bea Wain, April 30, 1917 - August 19, 2017 Margot Hielscher, September 29, 1919 - August 20, 2017 Bernie Styles, May 1, 1918 - August 23, 2017 Gisele Casadesus, June 14, 1914 - September 24, 2017 Bob Schiller, November 8, 1918 - October 10, 2017 Danielle Darrieux, May 1, 1917 - October 17, 2017 Dorothy Morrison, January 3, 1919 - October 18, 2017 George Avakian, March 15, 1919 - November 22, 2017 Anna Campori, September 22, 1917 - January 19, 2018 Connie Sawyer, November 27, 1912 - January 22, 2018 Nini Theilade, June 15, 1915 - February 13, 2018 Billy Graham, November 7, 1918 - February 21, 2018 Benjamin Melniker, May 25, 1913 - February 26, 2018 Gillo Dorfles, April12, 1910 - March 2, 2018 Ralph Woolsey, January 1, 1914 - March 23, 2018 Gertrude Jeannette, November 28, 1914 - April 4, 2018 Eugene Francis, August 28, 1917 - April 10, 2018 Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, April 11, 1918 - April 11, 2018 Lester James Peries, April 5, 1919 - April 29, 2018 Patricia Morrison, March 19, 1915 - May 20, 2018 Paulette Coquatrix, April 28, 1916 - May 28, 2018 Louise Watson, November 22, 1919 - June 5, 2018 Nancy Barbato Sinatra, March 25, 1917 - July 13, 2018 Shinobu Hashimoto, April 18, 1918 - July 19, 2018 Mary Carlisle, February 3, 1914 - August 1, 2018 Murray Westgate, April 16, 1918 - August 27, 2018 Sono Osato, August 29, 1919 - December 26, 2018 Don Lusk, October 28, 1913 - December 30, 2018 Babs Simpson, April 9, 1913 - January 7, 2019 Guje Lagerwall, January 13, 1918 - January 8, 2019 Joachim Tomaschewsky, April 1, 1919 - February 8, 2019 Mario Bernardo, February 22, 1919 - February 10, 2019 Kathryn Kane, March 3, 1919 - March 10, 2019 Leopold Kozlowski, November 26, 1918 - March 12, 2019 Mushrafa Kasymova, December 19, 1918 - April 1, 2019 Fay McKenzie, February 19, 1918 - April 16, 2019 Norma Miller, December 2, 1919 - May 5, 2019 Herman Wouk, May 27, 1915 - May 17, 2019 Grace Jones, September 16, 1906 - June 7, 2019 Renée Le Calm, September 18, 1918 - June 9, 2019 David Bartholomew, December 24, 1918 - June 23, 2019 Sid Ramin, January 22, 1919 - July 1, 2019 Arthur Brauner, August 1, 1918 - July 7, 2019 Natalia Rolleczek, February 16, 1919 - July 8, 2019 Mona Malden, May 9, 1917 - July 13, 2019 Ivy Bethune, June 1, 1918 - July 19, 2019 Julie Gibson, September 6, 1913 - October 2, 2019 Sheila Mercier, January 1, 1919 - December 13, 2019 Lucy Jarvis, June 24, 1917 - January 26, 2020 Konstantin Titov, March 22, 1919 - January 30, 2020 Kirk Douglas, December 9, 1916 - February 5, 2020 A.E. Hotchner, June 28, 1917 - February 15, 2020 Jessica Spencer, May 24, 1919 - February 18, 2020 Tao Porchon, August 13, 1918 - February 21, 2020 Baby Peggy, October 29, 1918 - February 24, 2020 Tom Kobayashi, September 4, 1916 - March 3, 2020 Anton Coppola, March 21, 1917 - March 9, 2020 Suzy Delair, December 31, 1917 - March 15, 2020 Aldo Rossi, June 6, 1913 - April 9, 2020 Ida Schuster, Septemebr 28, 1918 - April 9, 2020 Armando Francioli, October 21, 1919 - April 10, 2020 Jean Erdman, February 20, 1916 - May 4, 2020 Vera Lynn, March 20, 1917 - June 18, 2020 Pappukutty Bhagavathar, March 29, 1913 - June 22, 2020 Earl Cameron, August 8, 1917 - July 3, 2020 Amala Shankar, June 27, 1919 - July 24, 2020 Olivia de Havilland, July 1, 1916 - July 26, 2020 Anna Maria Bottini, March 24, 1916 - August 9, 2020 Marge Champion, September 2, 1919 - October 21, 2020 Don Marion, October 9, 1917 - December 10, 2020 Walter Bernstein, August 20, 1919 - January 22, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, March 24, 1919 - February 22, 2021 Georges Bonnet, June 9, 1919 - February 22, 2021 Toko Shinoda, March 28, 1913 - March 1, 2021 Julien-Francois Zbinden, November 11, 1917 - March 8, 2021 Beverly Cleary, April 12, 1916 - March 25, 2021
1. Ruth Tompson
Animation_department | The Lord of the Rings
Ruth Tompson was born on July 22, 1910 in Portland, Maine, USA. She is known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Popeye the Sailor (1960) and Metamorphoses (1978). She died on October 10, 2021 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
July 22, 1910
2. Renée Simonot
Self | Avis de recherche
Renée Simonot was born on September 10, 1911 in Le Havre, France. She was married to Maurice Dorléac. She died on July 11, 2021 in Paris, France.
September 10, 1911
3. Urho Harkola
Actor | Huijarien huvittavat huiputtajat
Urho Harkola was born on September 13, 1911 in Tampere, Finland. He is an actor, known for Huijarien huvittavat huiputtajat (1945), Katariina kaunis leski (1961) and Rakas Wenander (1966).
September 13, 1911
4. Katsumi Tezuka
Actor | Gojira
Katsumi Tezuka was born on August 31, 1912. He is an actor, known for Godzilla (1954), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964).
August 31, 1912
5. Norman Lloyd
Actor | Dead Poets Society
Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne...
November 8, 1914
6. Mary Ward
Actress | Blue Heelers
Mary Ward was born on March 6, 1915 in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. She was an actress, known for Blue Heelers (1994), If This Be Sin (1949) and Homicide (1964). She died on July 19, 2021 in Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
March 6, 1915
7. Marsha Hunt
Actress | Pride and Prejudice
Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or ...
October 17, 1917
8. Caren Marsh
Actress | Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Caren Marsh was born in Los Angeles. Her sister, actress Dorothy Morris, was born Feb. 23, 1922. Getting into show business in 1937, Caren changed her name to Marsh because "there were too many people named Morris at the time." Caren's parents wanted her to go to college but she wanted to be a ...
April 6, 1919
9. Anne Douglas
Producer | Scalawag
Anne Douglas was born on April 23, 1919 in Hanover, Germany. She was a producer and actress, known for Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973), Deep River (2009) and Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009). She was married to Kirk Douglas and Albert Buydens. She died on April 29, 2021 in Beverly Hills, ...
April 23, 1919
10. Nehemiah Persoff
Actor | An American Tail
Born in 1919 in Jerusalem, Nehemiah Persoff emigrated with his family to America in 1929.
Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction of his life.
He joined ...
August 2, 1919
11. Orlando Drummond
Actor | Mahha GoGoGo
Orlando Drummond was born on October 18, 1919 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Speed Racer (1967), Bonga, O Vagabundo (1971) and Rei do Movimento (1954). He was married to Glória Drummond. He died on July 27, 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
October 18, 1919
12. Betty Brodel
Actress | Swing Hostess
Elizabeth (Betty) Ann Brodel Franzalia, older sister to actress, Joan Leslie, turned 100 years old on February 5, 2020. Betty along with sisters Mary and Joan were actresses in Hollywood and Betty was in the following movies: 'Swing Hostess' (1944), 'Too Young to Know' (1945), 'Cinderella Jones' (...
November 25, 1919
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