Most actors from the silent film era are deceased, but a few still survive. This article deals with the surviving silent film actors or living actors whose first work was in silent films. This list does not include actors from "experimental" attempts at silent films that have been made since the 1950s. As might be expected many, but not all, of the surviving silent film actors were child actors.

Living

Name	Date of birth	Notes
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...	December 5, 1903	Dutch-Austrian actor, singer and entertainer with an 89-year career. Appeared in the 1924 film Cirque hollandais Cirque hollandais Cirque hollandais is a 1924 Dutch silent film directed by Theo Frenkel.-Cast:* Louis Bouwmeester - circusowner Hendrik van Dalen / cattle farmer Willem van Dalen* Esther De Boer-van Rijk - Willem van Dalens' wife... .
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...	October 20, 1909	American actress and the niece of Universal Pictures Universal Pictures -1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...  founder Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle , born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal... ; played a few small roles in the 1920s and 1930s.
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...	July 27, 1911	Mexican actress who appeared in The Veiled Woman in 1929.
Michael D. Moore Michael D. Moore Michael D. Moore is a Canadian-born American film actor and director.Born Michael Sheffield in Victoria, British Columbia, both he and his brother Patrick were Hollywood child actors. At the age of five he appeared in his first film under the stage name "Mickey Moore". He appeared in two dozen...	October 16, 1914	Canadian-born American child actor turned assistant director.
Isuzu Yamada Isuzu Yamada is a Japanese actress on stage and screen whose career has spanned eight decades.-Career:Yamada was born in Osaka with the name Mitsu Yamada. Her father, Kusuo Yamada, was a shinpa stage actor specializing in onnagata roles and her mother, Ritsu, was a geisha...	February 5, 1917	Japanese actress who appeared in a number of silent films in the early 1930s.
Diana Serra Cary Diana Serra Cary Diana Serra Cary , best known as Baby Peggy, was one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent movie era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie....	October 26, 1918	American child actor who was also referred to as "Baby Peggy Montgomery"
Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...	September 23, 1920	American actor who is best known for his roles in sound film, but made his debut in the in silent short film Not to Be Trusted (1926). From 1928 to 1934, Rooney starred in the series Toonerville Folks Toonerville Folks Toonerville Folks was a popular newspaper cartoon feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally by the Wheeler Syndicate... as Mickey McGuire. Made his feature film debut in the 1927 Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...  film Orchids and Ermine Orchids and Ermine Orchids and Ermine is a 1927 silent film comedy starring Colleen Moore, filmed partly on location in New York. The film still exists.- Story :... .
Jean Darling Jean Darling Jean Darling is a former American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. She remains the last surviving cast member from the silent era.-Career:...	August 23, 1922	American child actress who appeared in the Our Gang Our Gang Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively... series of films from 1927 until 1929.
Hanna Maron Hanna Maron - See also :* List of Israel Prize recipients...	November 22, 1923	Israeli actress who appeared as a child in German silent films, before appearing in talkies.

Possibly Living

These actors and actresses from the silent era may still be living but there are no sources which either confirm their deaths or suggest that they are still living:

• Vondell Darr
  Vondell Darr
  Vondell Darr is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles. She achieved success in the late 1920s as a child actor and later played bit parts in her adult years...
  
   (born 1919) — Child actress
• Pola Illéry
  Pola Illéry
  Pola Illéry, born Paula Iliescu is a Romanian silent and early talking film actress. She was born in Corabia, Romania....
  
  (born 1908) — Romanian silent film actress

External links

• Living Silent Film Stars (Last updated 20 March, 2009)