| NAME | BORN - DIED | COUNTRY (at birth) | SOME MOVIES |
| Lionel Barrymore | 1878-1954 | US | Mysterious Island (29) It's a Wonderful Life (46) |
| John Barrymore | 1882-1942 | US | Beau Brummel (24) Twentieth Century (34) |
| Bela Lugosi | 1882-1956 | Austria-Hungary | Dracula (1931) |
| Douglas Fairbanks | 1883-1939 | US | Mark of Zorro (20) Thief of Bagdad (24) |
| Lon Chaney | 1883-1930 | US | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (23) The Phantom of the Opera (25) |
| Boris Karloff | 1887-1969 | UK | Frankenstein (31) |
| Claude Rains | 1889-1967 | UK | The Invisible Man (33) Casablanca (42) |
| Charles Chaplin | 1889-1987 | UK | The Gold Rush (25) Modern Times (36) |
| W.C. Fields | 1889-1946 | | The Bank Detective (40)
My Little Chickadee (40) |
| Ronald Colman | 1891-1958 | UK | Lost Horizon (37) Prisoner of Zenda (42) |
| Basil Rathbone | 1892-1967 | South Africa | The Adventures of Robin Hood (38) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (39) |
| William Powell | 1892-1984 | US | The Thin Man (33) My Man Godfrey (36) |
| Conrad Veidt | 1893-1943 | Germany | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (19) The Man Who Laughs (28) Casablanca (42) |
| Edward G. Robinson | 1893-1973 | Romania | Double Indemnity (44) Soylent Green (73) |
| Rudolph Valentino | 1895-1926 | Italy | The Sheik (21) |
| Buster Keaton | 1895-1966 | US | The General (27) |
| Paul Muni | 1895-1967 | Austria | Scarface (32) |
| Michel Simon | 1895-1975 | France | La beauté du diable (1950) |
| George Raft | 1895-1980 | US | They drive by night (1940) |
| Fredrich March | 1897-1975 | US | Death Takes a Holiday (35) Desperate Hours (55) |
| Humphrey Bogart | 1899-1957 | US | Casablanca (41) African Queen (52) |
| Charles Laughton | 1899-1962 | UK | Mutiny on the Bounty (35) Spartacus (60) |
| Charles Boyer | 1899-1978 | France | Gaslight (44) |
| James Cagney | 1899-1986 | US | The Public Enemy (31) White Heat (49) |
| Fred Astaire | 1899-1987 | US | Top Hat (35) The Band Wagon (53) |
| Spencer Tracy | 1900-1967 | US | Father of the Bride (50) Bad Day at Black Rock (55) Guess Who's Comming to Dinner (67) |
| Clark Gable | 1901-1960 | US | Gone With the Wind (39) Mogambo (53) |
| Gary Cooper | 1901-1961 | US | Meet John Doe (41) High Noon (52) |
| Bing Crosby | 1903-1977 | US | The Country Girl (54) White Christmas (54) |
| Cary Grant | 1904-1986 | UK | Only Angels Have Wings (39) North by Northwest (59) |
| Peter Lorre | 1904-1964 | Austria-Hungary | M (1931) The Maltese Falcon (41) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) |
| Jean Gabin | 1904-1976 | France | La grande illusion (37) Pépé le Moko (37) Quai des brumes (38) |
| Henry Fonda | 1905-1982 | US | The Grapes of Wrath (40) Twelve Angry Men (57) |
| Ray Milland | 1905-1986 | UK | Dial M for Murder (54) Man with the X-Ray Eyes (63) |
| Joseph Cotten | 1905-1994 | US | Citizen Kane (41) Shadow of a doubt (43) |
| Lon Chaney Jr. | 1906-1973 | US | The Wolf Man (41) |
| John Carradine | 1906-1988 | US | Stagecoach (1939) House of Frankenstein (1944) |
| John Wayne | 1907-1979 | US | Stagecoach (39) The Searchers (56) The Longest Day (62) |
| Laurence Olivier | 1907-1989 | UK | Hamlet (48) The Marathon Man (76) |
| Rex Harrisson | 1908-1990 | UK | The Ghost and Mrs Muir (47) My Fair Lady (64) |
| Fred MacMurray | 1908-1991 | US | Double Indemnity (41) The Shaggy Dog (59) |
| James Stewart | 1908-1997 | US | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (39) It's a Wonderful Life (46) Vertigo (58) |
| Errol Flynn | 1909-1959 | Australia | Captain Blood (35) Adventures of Robin Hood (38) |
| Jacques Tati | 1909-1982 | France | Les vacances de M. Hulot (53) |
| James Mason | 1909-1984 | UK | 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea (54) Lolita (62) |