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| x Hugh Jackman |
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81st Academy Awards |
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre and television.
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and...
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| x Jon Stewart |
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80th Academy Awards |
Jonathan "Jon" Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He is best known as the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news...
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| x Ellen DeGeneres |
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79th Academy Awards |
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth...
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| x Chris Rock |
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77th Academy Awards |
Christopher Julius Rock III is a comedian, actor, writer, director and producer best known for his television work in Saturday Night Live and Everybody Hates Chris. Comedy Central named him the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time in...
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| x Billy Crystal |
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76th Academy Awards |
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, film director, and baseball player. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film...
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| x Steve Martin |
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75th Academy Awards |
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland...
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| x Whoopi Goldberg |
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74th Academy Awards |
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality. She is one of a select few people in history to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe and...
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| x David Letterman |
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67th Academy Awards |
David Letterman is an American Television Host and Comedian. He is an Emmy Award Winner and known for hosting his own show: Late Show with David Letterman.
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| x Chevy Chase |
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60th Academy Awards |
Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase worked as a professional musician as well as other jobs before moving towards...
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| x Goldie Hawn |
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59th Academy Awards |
Goldie Jean Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director and producer, whose career has spanned more than four decades. Hawn is perhaps best known for her roles in Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Wildcats, Overboard, Bird on a...
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| x Paul Hogan |
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59th Academy Awards |
Paul Hogan, AM (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor and comedian most famous for his role as Crocodile Dundee, for which he won a Golden Globe award.
Hogan was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales and went on to become a painter working...
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| x Alan Alda |
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58th Academy Awards |
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent...
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| x Jane Fonda |
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58th Academy Awards |
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, excluding a 15 year hiatus, has appeared...
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| x Robin Williams |
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58th Academy Awards |
Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
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| x Jack Lemmon |
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57th Academy Awards |
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple,...
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| x Johnny Carson |
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56th Academy Awards |
John William “Johnny” Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years (1962-92). Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor...
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| x Liza Minnelli |
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55th Academy Awards |
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American singer and actress of film, stage and television. She is the daughter of entertainer Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.
After studying at the New York High School of Performing...
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| x Dudley Moore |
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55th Academy Awards |
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as...
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| x Richard Pryor |
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55th Academy Awards |
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful,...
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| x Walter Matthau |
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55th Academy Awards |
Walter John Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the...
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| x Bob Hope |
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50th Academy Awards |
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG (born Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an 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...
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| x Warren Beatty |
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49th Academy Awards |
Henry Warren Beatty (pronounced /ˈbeɪti/, BAY-tee , born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's Bellevue neighborhood. His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née...
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| x Ellen Burstyn |
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49th Academy Awards |
Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American stage and film actress.
Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie (née Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly, who was a building contractor. She describes...
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| x George Segal |
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48th Academy Awards |
George Segal, Jr. (born February 13, 1934) is an American actor.
Segal was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, the son of Fannie and George Segal, Sr. He was educated at George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown...
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| x Robert Shaw |
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48th Academy Awards |
Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ...
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| x Sammy Davis, Jr. |
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47th Academy Awards |
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer.
Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis was a childhood vaudevillian, and became internationally famous for his performances on Broadway and Las Vegas, as a...
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| x Shirley MacLaine |
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47th Academy Awards |
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many...
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| x Frank Sinatra |
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47th Academy Awards |
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s,...
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| x Douglas Fairbanks |
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1st Academy Awards |
Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman Fairbanks, Sr., (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark...
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| x William C. DeMille | 1st Academy Awards |
Willam C. deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 8, 1955) was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent movie era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film.
DeMille was born in Washington, North...
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| x Conrad Nagel |
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3rd Academy Awards |
Conrad Nagel (16 March 1897(1897-03-16)–24 February 1970) was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well known television actor and radio performer.
Born in Keokuk, Iowa, into an upper middle...
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| x Lawrence Grant | 4th Academy Awards |
Percy Reginald Lawrence-Grant (October 30, 1870, Bournemouth, Dorset, England – February 19, 1952, Santa Barbara, California) was an English actor known for his supporting roles in films such as The Living Ghost, I'll Tell the World, The Mask of Fu...
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| x Lionel Barrymore |
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5th Academy Awards |
Lionel Barrymore (April 12, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, radio and film. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931).
Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia,...
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| x Will Rogers |
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6th Academy Awards |
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Representative and WWII veteran Will Rogers, Jr....
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| x Irvin S. Cobb |
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7th Academy Awards |
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.
Cobb was the second of four children born to Kentucky natives in...
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| x Frank Capra |
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8th Academy Awards |
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost...
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| x George Jessel |
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9th Academy Awards |
George Jessel (3 April 1898 – 23 May 1981) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning movie producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended...
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| x Bob Burns |
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10th Academy Awards |
Bob Burns (August 2, 1890 – February 2, 1956) was an American radio and film comedian during the 1930s and 1940s. Early in his career he was billed as Robert Burns.
Born Robin Burn in Greenwood, Arkansas, he was three years old when the Burn family...
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| x Jack Benny |
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16th Academy Awards |
Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film. Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny...
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| x John Cromwell | 17th Academy Awards |
Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1887 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film actor, director and producer.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Cromwell made his New York City stage debut in Marian De Forest's adaptation of Little...
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| x James Stewart |
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18th Academy Awards |
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for...
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| x Robert Montgomery |
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21st Academy Awards |
Robert Montgomery (May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American actor and director.
Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed (née Barney) and Henry Montgomery, Sr. His...
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| x Paul Douglas |
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22nd Academy Awards |
Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 – September 24, 1976) was an American politician and University of Chicago economist. He served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1949 to 1967.
Douglas was born on March 26, 1892 in the small town of...
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| x Fred Astaire |
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23rd Academy Awards |
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31...
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| x Danny Kaye |
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24th Academy Awards |
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian.
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early youth attending...
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| x Donald O'Connor |
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26th Academy Awards |
Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
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| x Fredric March |
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26th Academy Awards |
Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.
March was born Ernest Frederick McIntyre...
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| x Thelma Ritter |
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27th Academy Awards |
Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969) was an American supporting and character actress from the 1940s until her death in 1969.
Ritter was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1902. After appearing in high school plays and stock companies,...
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| x Jerry Lewis |
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28th Academy Awards |
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, recording and is also known for his...
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| x Claudette Colbert |
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28th Academy Awards |
Claudette Colbert (pronounced /koʊlˈbɛr/; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress.
Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the...
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| x Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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29th Academy Awards |
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (11 February 1909 – 5 February 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Franz Mankiewicz (?–1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish immigrants from Germany...
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| x Celeste Holm |
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29th Academy Awards |
Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917) is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve (1950).
Born in...
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| x David Niven |
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30th Academy Awards |
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, was an English actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Litton, a.k.a. "the Phantom," in The Pink...
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| x Rosalind Russell |
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30th Academy Awards |
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Auntie...
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| x Tony Randall |
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31st Academy Awards |
Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor , comic, producer and director.
Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg, who was an art and antiques...
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| x Mort Sahl |
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31st Academy Awards |
Morton Lyon Sahl (born May 11, 1927) is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, and Dick Gregory. He also occasionally wrote jokes...
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| x Laurence Olivier |
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31st Academy Awards |
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (pronounced /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvieɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries...
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| x Helen Hayes |
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44th Academy Awards |
Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of only twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy,...
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| x Alan King |
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44th Academy Awards |
Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of...
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