List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)
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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity
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Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....
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| Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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| George Abbott George Abbott George Francis Abbott was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.-Early years:... |
1887–1995 | 107 | American theatre Theatre Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance... producer |
| Rosa Albach-Retty Rosa Albach-Retty Rosa Albach-Retty was an Austrian movie and stage actress. Her birth name was Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty.... |
1874–1980 | 105 | Austrian movie Film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects... and stage actress |
| Jenny Alpha Jenny Alpha Jenny Alpha was a Martinique-born French actress and singer, who appeared in more than a hundred theatre productions and movies.... |
1910–2010 | 100 | Martinique Martinique Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados... actress and singer |
| Nikolay Annenkov Nikolay Annenkov Nikolay Aleksandrovich Annenkov was the longest-lived People's Artist of the USSR. He worked in the Maly Theatre from 1924 until his centenary and was awarded three Stalin Prizes... |
1899–1999 | 100 | Russian actor |
| Etta Moten Barnett Etta Moten Barnett Etta Moten Barnett was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in Porgy and Bess. She created new roles for African-American women on stage and screen... |
1901–2004 | 102 | African American stage actress and singer |
| Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. During the 1930s, he went by his real name, Herman Brix .-Early life and Olympics:... |
1906–2007 | 100 | American actor and Olympic Olympic Games The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate... athlete |
| Susanna Bokoyni Susanna Bokoyni Susanna Bokoyni , also known as "Princess Susanna," was a Hungarian centenarian and circus performer who was listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-lived little person on record.... |
1879-1984 | 105 | Hungarian circus performer |
| Margaret Booth Margaret Booth Margaret Booth was an American film editor.Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Later she worked for Louis B... |
1898–2002 | 104 | American film editor Film editing Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling... |
| Osmond Borradaile Osmond Borradaile Osmond H. Borradaile was a Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War.Osmond Borradaile grew up in Alberta, moving often during his childhood... |
1898–1999 | 100 | Canadian cameraman and cinematographer Cinematographer A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image... |
| Robert F. Boyle Robert F. Boyle Robert Francis Boyle was an American film art director and production designer.Born in Los Angeles, Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California . When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra... |
1909–2010 | 100 | American art director Art director The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games.... and production designer Production designer In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the... |
| Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid 1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò... |
1894–1998 | 103 | Italian film director Film director A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:... and screenwriter Screenwriter Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:... |
| Renate Brausewetter Renate Brausewetter Renate Brausewetter was a Spanish-born German silent film actress. She was the younger sister of German actor Hans Brausewetter.... |
1905–2006 | 100 | German silent film Silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards... actress |
| Helen Bray Helen Bray Helen Bray was an American actress that appeared in several silent films during the early 20th century.Bray is the great-grandmother of actress Michelle Pierce, who appears now in the TV show NCIS.... |
1889–1990 | 100 | American actress |
| Don Brodie Don Brodie Don Brodie was an American actor and director.A veteran of more than 250 film and television productions, Brodie appeared as a callow, mustachioed actor in a variety of utility roles in films from the early 1930s... |
1899–2001 | 101 | American character actor Character actor A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or... |
| Oscar Brodney Oscar Brodney Oscar Brodney was an American lawyer-turned-screenwriter. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of an immigrant fisherman... |
1907–2008 | 100 | American screenwriter |
| Mona Bruns Mona Bruns Mona Bruns was an American actress on the stage, films, radio, and television.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Bruns appeared on Broadway with her husband, Frank M. Thomas. They moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s, where she acted in several films. She played the role of Aunt Emily on the CBS soap... |
1899–2000 | 100 | American actress |
| George Burns George Burns George Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, television and movies, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became... |
1896–1996 | 100 | American actor and comedian Comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy... |
| John Calvert John Calvert (magician) Madren Elbern "John" Calvert is an American magician who has performed on stage for eight decades both in the United States and worldwide. He is also a film actor who appeared in numerous movies... |
1911– | American magician | |
| Jean Delannoy Jean Delannoy Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France... |
1908–2008 | 100 | French actor and film director |
| Leila Danette Leila Danette Leila Danette is an American stage, film and television actress. She is noted for her stage work and for her role as Helen on the short-lived sitcom You Take the Kids.-Early life and career:... |
1909– | American actress | |
| Frances Dewey Wormser Frances Dewey Wormser Frances Dewey Wormser was an American stage actress, entertainer and vaudeville performer.-Personal life:... |
1903–2008 | 104 | American stage actress |
| Dorothy Dickson Dorothy Dickson Dorothy Dickson , was an American-born, London-based theater actress and singer.-Biography:Dickson is known mostly for her rendition of the Jerome Kern song "Look for the Silver Lining". She was also a member of the Ziegfeld Follies and made many appearances in New York and abroad... |
1893–1995 | 102 | British-American stage actress |
| Paulette Dubost Paulette Dubost Paulette Dubost was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera.She appeared in over 250 films and worked with such directors as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tourneur, Marcel Carné, Julien Duvivier, Preston Sturges and Max Ophüls. One of her most famous roles was as Lisette in... |
1910–2011 | 101 | French actress |
| Claire Du Brey Claire Du Brey Claire Du Brey was an American actress. She appeared in over 200 films between 1916 and 1959.She was born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho and died in Los Angeles, California, aged 100 years, 11 months.... |
1892–1993 | 100 | American film actress |
| Mary Ellis Mary Ellis Mary Ellis was a long-lived star of the British stage best known for her roles in the genre of musical theatre. After appearing with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1918, later appearing opposite Enrico Caruso, she acted on Broadway, creating the title role in Rose Marie... |
1897–2003 | 105 | British stage actress |
| Carl Esmond Carl Esmond Carl Esmond was an Austrian stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria. His birth name was Willy Eichberger which he later changed to Charles Esmond and finally to Carl Esmond. Like many of his fellow actors, Esmond fled Nazi Germany to England during World War II. Esmond continued to appear on the... |
1902–2004 | 102 | German-American actor |
| Irving Fein Irving Fein Irving Fein is an American television and film producer, and was the longtime manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns.-Early life:... |
1911 – | American television and film producer | |
| Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Dame Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies, DBE was a British actress and centenarian. She was born in London of a Welsh family; the name "Ffrangcon" originates from a valley in Snowdonia... |
1891–1992 | 101 | English actress |
| Gunnar Fischer Gunnar Fischer Gunnar Fischer was a Swedish cinematographer who worked with director Ingmar Bergman on several of the director's best-known films, including Smiles of a Summer Night and The Seventh Seal .... |
1910–2011 | 100 | Swedish cinematographer |
| Rina Franchetti | 1907–2010 | 102 | Italian actress |
| Arthur Gardner Arthur Gardner (producer) Arthur Gardner is an American actor and film producer.Gardner was born Arthur Goldberg in Marinette, Wisconsin. He started his show business career as an actor. One of his first roles was as a student in 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front... |
1910 – | American television producer Television producer The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking... |
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| Erwin Geschonneck Erwin Geschonneck Erwin Geschonneck was a German actor. His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time.-Early life:... |
1906–2008 | 101 | German actor |
| Marie Glory Marie Glory Marie Glory , was a French actress.She was born Raymonde Louise Marcelle Toully in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy. At the time of her death, only Miriam Seegar and Barbara Kent had outlived her as the last known living silent film actors who had lead roles as an adult... |
1905–2009 | 103 | French actress |
| Dercy Gonçalves Dercy Gonçalves Dercy Gonçalves, stage name of Dolores Gonçalves Costa, was a Brazilian comedienne. She stood 4' 11" tall. In her 80-year long career, Dercy Gonçalves worked in the theater, revues, film, radio and television, becoming famous by her humorous use of vulgar language... |
1907–2008 | 101 | Brazilian actress |
| Liane Haid Liane Haid Liane Haid was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s... |
1895–2000 | 105 | Austrian actress |
| Stein Grieg Halvorsen Stein Grieg Halvorsen Halvor Bernt Stein Grieg Halvorsen is a Norwegian actor.He was born in Kristiania as a son of composer Johan Halvorsen and Annie Grieg . He was married to Elizabeth Inga Else Margrethe Thaulow from 1940, then after her death to Vibeke Laura Mowinckel Falk from 1971... |
1909– | Norwegian actor | |
| Rose Hamburger Rose Hamburger Rose Hamburger was a racetrack fixture and handicapper for the New York Post for seven months. This stint at the Post earned her a cameo on The Late Show with David Letterman and the monikers "Gamblin' Rose" and "Gambling Rose".-Background:Born as Rose Rosenbaum in Manhattan on December 29, 1890,... |
1890–1996 | 105 | American race track Race track A race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or athletes. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.A racetrack is a permanent facility or building... fixture known as "Gamblin' Rose" |
| Kathleen Harrison Kathleen Harrison Kathleen Harrison was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working class family's misadventures. To modern viewers she is better remembered as Mrs... |
1892–1995 | 103 | British actress |
| Johannes Heesters Johannes Heesters Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters is a Dutch actor, singer and entertainer with a -year career, almost exclusively in the German-speaking world. In Germany and Austria, Heesters is mainly known for his acting career... |
1903– | Dutch-German actor | |
| Bob Hope Bob Hope Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel... |
1903–2003 | 100 | British-born American comedian |
| Yvonne Howell Yvonne Howell Yvonne Howell was an actress whose career began in silent films. Her mother was vaudeville performer and silent actress Alice Howell .... |
1905–2010 | 104 | American silent film actress |
| Vilma Jamnická Vilma Jamnická Vilma Jamnická, née Vilma Březinová was an Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress, astrologer and astrological writer.... |
1906–2008 | 101 | Slovakian actress |
| Joli Jászai Joli Jászai Joli Jászai was a Hungarian actress and entertainer. She began her film career relatively late in life.Jászai was born in Rábatamási, Austria-Hungary, in what is now the present day nation of Hungary, on May 21, 1907... |
1907–2008 | 101 | Hungarian actress |
| John Kenley John Kenley John Kenley was an American theatrical producer.-1906–1920s:Born John Kremchek, in the winter of 1906, his early childhood was spent in Denver. His father, a Slovakian saloon owner, baptized him as Russian Orthodox and by age 4 he was singing in church, in both Russian and English... |
1906–2009 | 103 | American Broadway Broadway theatre Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City... director and producer |
| Barbara Kent Barbara Kent Barbara Kent was a Canadian-born U.S.-based silent film actress. Following the death of Miriam Seegar, she was the last North American actor still alive to have achieved substantial fame during the silent film era as an adult.-Career:Born as Barbara Cloutman in Gadsby, Alberta, to Jullion Curtis... |
1907–2011 | 103 | Canadian actress |
| Mae Laborde Mae Laborde Mae Laborde is an American television and film actress, who began her career at the age of 93 and who is, as of 2010 at age 101, still active .-Background:... |
1909– | American television actress | |
| Carla Laemmle Carla Laemmle Rebecca Isabelle "Carla" Laemmle is an American actress and the niece of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle. She was a movie actress in the 1920s and 1930s, and is, along with Lupita Tovar, one of the very few surviving actors of the silent film era.-Career:Laemmle entered films in 1925... |
1909– | American silent film actress | |
| Charles Lane Charles Lane (actor) Charles Gerstle Levison , better known as Charles Lane, was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death may have been the oldest living professional American actor. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You , Mr... |
1905–2007 | 102 | American character actor |
| Sid Laverents Sid Laverents Sidney Nicklas "Sid" Laverents was an American amateur filmmaker, who started making films at home when he was 50... |
1908–2009 | 100 | American amateur filmmaker |
| Erna Lazarus Erna Lazarus Erna Lazarus was a screen and television writer from the 1930s through the 1960s.Lazarus, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the founding members of the Screen Writers Guild... |
1903–2006 | 102 | American screenwriter |
| Francis Lederer Francis Lederer Francis Lederer was a film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States.-Europe:... |
1899–2000 | 100 | American actor |
| Florence Lee Florence Lee Florence Lee was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 99 films between 1911 and 1931.She was born in Jamaica, Vermont and died in Hollywood, California at the age of 104.-Selected filmography:... |
1858–1962 | 104 | American silent film actress |
| Aleen Leslie Aleen Leslie Aleen Leslie was a screenwriter, playwright and novelist. She died in 2010, three days before her 102nd birthday.-Writing credits:The movies she wrote or co-wrote include the following:... |
1908–2010 | 101 | American screenwriter |
| Ingrid Luterkort | 1910–2011 | 101 | Swedish actress |
| Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig is an East German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in the GDR. He is one of the most respected filmmakers of East Germany. He currently lives in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg, and has three children.... |
1911– | German film director | |
| Sherman Maxwell Sherman Maxwell Sherman Leander Maxwell was an American sportscaster and chronicler of the Negro league baseball league. Many believe that Maxwell was the first African American sports broadcaster in history. He was known by the nickname of Jocko... |
1907–2008 | 100 | American sportscaster |
| Madeleine Milhaud Madeleine Milhaud Madeleine Milhaud was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French composer.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels... |
1902–2008 | 105 | French actress and widow of Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality... |
| Igor Moiseyev Igor Moiseyev Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics.... |
1906–2007 | 101 | Russian choreographer Choreography Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ... |
| Miguel Morayta Miguel Morayta Miguel Morayta is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 74 films between 1944 and 1978. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Moryata was a Spanish artillery officer who joined the Republican side... |
1907– | Mexican film director | |
| Audrey Munson Audrey Munson Audrey Munson was an American artist's model and film actress, known variously as "Miss Manhattan," "the Exposition Girl," and "American Venus." She was the model or inspiration for more than 15 statues in New York City and appeared in four silent films.-Life and career:Audrey Marie Munson was... |
1891–1996 | 104 | American model Model (person) A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art.... and actress |
| Randi Lindtner Næss Randi Lindtner Næss Randi Lindtner Næss was a Norwegian actress and singer.Næss made her stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in 1928, and was employed there until 1974 and then continued as a freelancer. Her last stage job was in 1991.... |
1905–2009 | 104 | Norwegian actress and singer |
| Grim Natwick Grim Natwick Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American artist, animator and film director. Natwick is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studio's most popular character, Betty Boop.-Background:... |
1890–1990 | 100 | American animator Animator An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an... |
| Ivan Novikoff Ivan Novikoff Ivan Novikoff was a ballet master.Born in Kazan, Russia, Novikoff studied at the Imperial Ballet School. He fled to China because of the Russian Revolution of 1917 at age 17, where he taught dance to the children of Russian soldiers.In 1923, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued... |
1899–2002 | 102 | Russian ballet Ballet Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with... teacher |
| Manoel de Oliveira Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and... |
1908– | Portuguese film director | |
| Risto Orko Risto Orko Risto Eliel William Orko was a Finnish film producer and director.... |
1899–2001 | 102 | Finnish film producer Film producer A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The... and director |
| Emily Perry Emily Perry (English actress) Patricia Emily Perry was an English actress and dancer. Born in Torquay, Devon, England, she was best known for her recurring role as Madge Allsop, Dame Edna Everage's long-suffering, silent "bridesmaid" from Palmerston North, New Zealand-Early life and career:According to one obituary, Perry... |
1907–2008 | 100 | British actress |
| Tullio Pinelli Tullio Pinelli Tullio Pinelli was an Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I Vitelloni, La strada, La Dolce Vita and 8½.-Biography:... |
1908–2009 | 100 | Italian playwright and screenwriter |
| Luise Rainer Luise Rainer Luise Rainer is a former German film actress. Known as The "Viennese Teardrop", she was the first woman to win two Academy Awards, and the first person to win them consecutively. She was discovered by MGM talent scouts while acting on stage in Austria and Germany and after appearing in Austrian... |
1910– | German-American Academy Award-winning actress | |
| Irving Rapper Irving Rapper Irving Rapper was a British film director. His most successful body of work is 10 films he made while under contract with Warner Brothers.... |
1898–1999 | 101 | British-American film director |
| Red Wing Red Wing (actress) -External links:... |
1873–1974 | 101 | Native-American film actress |
| Connie Douglas Reeves Connie Douglas Reeves Connie Douglas Reeves was the oldest member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and one of the first women to study law at a Texas law school.... |
1901–2003 | 101 | American cowgirl |
| Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party... |
1902–2003 | 101 | German filmmaker |
| Gerda Ring Gerda Ring Gerda Ring was a Norwegian stage actor and stage producer. She was the daughter of writer Barbra Ring, and married actor and theatre director Halfdan Christensen in 1922... |
1891–1999 | 107 | Norwegian stage actress and producer |
| Hal Roach Hal Roach Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York... |
1892–1992 | 100 | American film and television producer |
| Zvonimir Rogoz Zvonimir Rogoz Zvonimir Rogoz was a Croatian actor.A native of Zagreb, Zvonimir Rogoz became famous in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars... |
1887–1988 | 100 | Croatian actor |
| Frederica Sagor Maas Frederica Sagor Maas Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas is an American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Maas is best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other... |
1900– | American playwright Playwright A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder... , essayist and author |
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| Sol Saks Sol Saks Sol Saks was an American screenwriter best known as the creator of television sitcom Bewitched.-Career:... |
1910–2011 | 100 | American screenwriter and producer |
| Ivy Sawyer Ivy Sawyer Ivy Sawyer was an American cabaret and ballroom dancer, singer, and stage actress.Ivy Sawyer danced professionally with John Jarrot until she met and married fellow dancer/actor Joseph Santley. The two would dance and perform on stage together primarily in musical comedies for nearly two decades... |
1898–1999 | 101 | American singer, actress and dancer |
| Robert C. Schnitzer Robert C. Schnitzer Robert C. Schnitzer was an American actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator. Schnitzer, a former Weston, Connecticut resident, was active in the Westport-Weston Arts Council and later the Westport Arts Center... |
1906–2008 | 101 | American actor, producer, educator and theater administrator |
| Miriam Seegar Miriam Seegar Miriam Seegar Whelan , was an American silent film actress.-Early Life:Born in Greentown, Indiana, Her parents were teachers. She was one of four daughters. Her father later opened up a hardware store but died when Miriam was 14. The third of four talented sisters: Dr... |
1907–2011 | 103 | American actress |
| Tonio Selwart Tonio Selwart Tonio Selwart was a Bavarian actor and stage performer.-Biography:Named Antonio Franz Theus Selmair-Selwart at birth, Tonio Selwart was born in Wartenberg, Bavaria, Germany, and raised in Munich. After studying medicine like his father , he decided instead to become an actor, following a life-long... |
1896–2002 | 106 | German actor and stage performer |
| Marina Semyonova | 1908–2010 | 101 | Russian prima ballerina |
| Athene Seyler Athene Seyler Athene Seyler, CBE was an English actress.Although better known as a stage actress, she first appeared on the stage in 1909 and made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies.... |
1889–1990 | 101 | English actress |
| Jane Sherman Jane Sherman Jane Sherman was an American writer, performer, composer, and one-time dancer and member of the Rockettes the famed in-house dance troupe of Radio City Music Hall. She was a former member and authority of Denishawn, the eclectic company, founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in 1915... |
1908–2010 | 101 | American dancer and writer |
| Hugh Stewart | 1910–2011 | 100 | British film editor and producer |
| Dorothy Stickney Dorothy Stickney Dorothy Stickney was a Broadway actress best known for appearing in the long running Life with Father.Born in Dickinson, North Dakota, Stickney attended the North Western Dramatic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota... |
1896–1998 | 101 | American actress |
| Gloria Stuart Gloria Stuart Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, activist, painter, bonsai artist and fine printer. Over a Hollywood career which spanned, with a long break in the middle, from 1932 until 2004, she appeared on stage, television, and film, for which she was best-known... |
1910–2010 | 100 | American actress |
| Frank M. Thomas Frank M. Thomas Frank Marion Thomas , was an American actor on the stage, screen and television.Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Jesse and Virginia Thomas, he first appeared on Broadway in 1914. Thomas also played many supporting roles in films from the 1930s through the 1970s... |
1889–1989 | 100 | American supporting actor |
| Lupita Tovar Lupita Tovar Lupita Tovar is a Mexican actress, best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director.Born as Guadalupe Tovar , in Matías... |
1910/1911– | / | Mexican silent film actress |
| Doris Eaton Travis Doris Eaton Travis Doris Eaton Travis was a Broadway and film performer, dance instructor, and author. She was also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl.Travis began performing onstage as a young child, and made her Broadway debut at the age of 13... |
1904–2010 | 106 | American Ziegfeld girl Ziegfeld girl Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls from Florenz Ziegfeld's theatrical spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies , which were based on the Folies Bergère of Paris.... |
| Ninette de Valois Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet... |
1898–2001 | 102 | British founder of The Royal Ballet, London |
| Otakar Vávra | 1911–2011 | 100 | Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue |
| Señor Wences Señor Wences Wenceslao Moreno , better known as Señor Wences, was a Spanish ventriloquist. His popularity grew with his frequent appearances on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s and 1960s.-Early life:... |
1896–1999 | 103 | Spanish-American ventriloquist Ventriloquism Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy"... |
| Gösta Werner | 1908–2009 | 101 | Swedish film director |
| Estelle Winwood Estelle Winwood Estelle Winwood was an English stage and film actress who moved to the United States in mid-career and became celebrated for her longevity.-Early life and early career:... |
1883–1984 | 101 | English stage and movie actress |
| Norrie Woodhall Norrie Woodhall Norrie Woodhall was an English stage actress and the last surviving member of the Hardy Players, a theatrical group based around the work of poet Thomas Hardy, whom Woodhall knew personally after an encounter in 1924... |
1905–2011 | 106 | English stage actress |
| Dorothy Young Dorothy Young Dorothy Lena Young was an American entertainer who worked as a stage assistant to magician Harry Houdini from 1925 to 1926. She left the act two months prior to his death on October 31, 1926... |
1907–2011 | 103 | American entertainer and assistant to Harry Houdini Harry Houdini Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts... |
| Miguel Zacarías | 1905–2006 | 101 | Mexican director |
| Adolph Zukor Adolph Zukor Adolph Zukor , born Adolph Cukor, was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.-Early life:... |
1873–1976 | 103 | Hungarian-American founder of Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still... |