List Of Popular Actors Born In The Year 1901

Chester Morris

Chester Morris was an American stage, film, television and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and was nominated for an Oscar. But he is best remembered today for portraying Boston Blackie, a criminalturneddetective, in the modestly budgeted Boston Blackie film series of the 1940s.....
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Harry Sweet

Harry Sweet was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 57 films between 1919 and 1932. He also directed 54 films between 1920 and 1933, including one Harry Langdon short, two of the Tay Garnett penned comedies Stan Laurel made for Joe Rock, and fifteen of the earliest entries in the Edgar Kennedy Average Man series. ....
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George Raft

George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface , Each Dawn I Die , and Billy Wilders 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot, as a dancer in Bolero , and a truck driver in They Drive by Night .....
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Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an American film actor, often referred to as The King of Hollywood or just simply as The King. Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1931. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role and became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures over the next three decades.....
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Igor Ilyinsky

Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian film and stage actor, director and comedian.....
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Nelson Eddy

Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first crossover stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers as well as opera purists, and in his heyday, he was the highest paid singer i....
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Lee Strasberg

Lee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher born in a part of Galicia, Austrian Poland in what is now Ukraine. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as Americas first true theatrical collective. In 1951, he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered the nations most prestigious acting school, and in 1966, was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.....
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Paul Fix

Peter Paul Fix was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than a hundred movies and dozens of television shows over a 56year career spanning from 1925 to 1981. Fix was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance alongside Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford in The Rifleman from 19581963. Fix later appeared with Chuck Connors in the 1966 western film Ride Beyond Vengeance.....
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Brian Donlevy

Waldo Brian Donlevy , later known as Brian Donlevy, was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his bestknown films are Beau Geste and The Great McGinty . For his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.....
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