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AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female legends list ...
100: Soviet-Russian actor [6] Neal Arden: 1909–2014: 104: British actor [7] Svend Asmussen: 1916–2017: 100: Danish jazz violinist [8] Vincent Ball: 1923– 101: Australian actor [9] Richard L. Bare: 1913–2015: 101: American motion picture and television director [10] Etta Moten Barnett: 1901–2004: 102: African-American stage actress and ...
Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942.
Tamblyn was born December 30, 1934, in Los Angeles, California, [1] to actors Sally Aileen (Triplett) and Edward Francis "Eddie" Tamblyn. [2] His younger brother, Larry Tamblyn, was the organist for the 1960s band the Standells.
On the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Movies" list—both the original and the tenth anniversary edition— Bond appears in the casts more often than any other actor, albeit always in a supporting role: It Happened One Night (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Maltese Falcon ...
Charles William Mumy Jr. (/ ˈ m uː m i /; born February 1, 1954 [2]) is an American actor, writer, producer, and musician.He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor whose work included television appearances on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and a role in the film Dear Brigitte, followed by a three-season role as Will Robinson in the ...
David Selznick, the producer of Gone With the Wind, omitted the faces of all the Black actors on the posters advertising the movie in the South. None of the Black cast members were allowed to attend the premiere for the film. [67] Gone with the Wind won eight Academy Awards. It was later named by the American Film Institute (AFI) as number four ...
In 1984, Presnell appeared as Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha in Darien, Connecticut, an appearance well received by The New York Times critic Alvin Klein, who wrote that Presnell was "a winning leading man", and wrote: As an actor, Mr. Presnell promises much, and as a singer, he delivers. Here is one of the shiniest vocal accounts of the role yet.