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Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however,...
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| 2008 | Heath Ledger |
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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His...
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The Dark Knight | Role: The Joker | |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem |
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanish actor. He had garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.
Bardem has been awarded an Academy Award, a...
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No Country for Old Men | Role: Anton Chigurh | |
| 2006 | Alan Arkin |
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Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross;...
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Little Miss Sunshine | Role: Grandpa | |
| 2005 | George Clooney |
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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as...
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Syriana | Role: Bob Barnes | |
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman |
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Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
Freeman received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street...
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Million Dollar Baby | Role: Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris | |
| 2003 | Tim Robbins |
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Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Nuke in Bull Durham,...
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Mystic River | Role: Dave Boyle | |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper |
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Christopher Cooper may refer to:
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Adaptation | Role: John Laroche | |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent |
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James "Jim" Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, and Bridget Jones' Diary. His most recent appearance was in Harry Potter and the...
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Iris | Role: John Bayley | |
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro |
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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967), better known as Benicio del Toro, is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy...
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Traffic | Role: Javier Rodriguez | |
| 1999 | Michael Caine |
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Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr.; 14 March 1933) is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in more than 100 films, and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or...
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The Cider House Rules | Role: Dr. Wilbur Larch | |
| 1998 | James Coburn |
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James Harrison Coburn, Jr. (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor who appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances in his 45-year career. Perhaps best remembered for his natural...
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Affliction | Role: Glen Whitehouse | |
| 1997 | Robin Williams |
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Robin McLaurin 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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Good Will Hunting | Role: Sean McGuire | |
| 1996 | Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
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Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996) and his critically acclaimed performance as Tré Styles in John...
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Jerry Maguire | Role: Rod Tidwell | |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey |
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Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He...
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The Usual Suspects | Role: Roger 'Verbal' Kint | |
| 1994 | Martin Landau |
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Martin Landau (born June 20, 1928 ) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977). He received a Golden Globe Award in 1969 for...
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Ed Wood | Role: Bela Lugosi | |
| 1993 | Tommy Lee Jones |
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Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and director.
His film roles include federal marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals, the villain "Two-Face" in Batman Forever, the mysterious Agent K in the Men in Black...
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The Fugitive | Role: Samuel Gerard | |
| 1992 | Gene Hackman |
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Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and currently a novelist.
Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination. His...
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Unforgiven | Role: Little Bill Daggett | |
| 1991 | Jack Palance |
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Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was a Ukrainian American film actor. With his rugged facial features, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two City Slickers movies, the...
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City Slickers | Role: Curly | |
| 1990 | Joe Pesci |
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Joseph Frank "Joe" Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. Usually known for playing violent Mafia gangsters or grouchy but lovable funnymen, Pesci has starred in a number of high-profile films such as...
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Goodfellas | Role: Tommy DeVito | |
| 1989 | Denzel Washington |
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Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such...
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Glory | Role: Trip | |
| 1988 | Kevin Kline |
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Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American theatre and film actor. He has won one Academy Award, two Tony Awards and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009.
Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Peggy and Robert Kline....
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A Fish Called Wanda | Role: Otto | |
| 1987 | Sean Connery |
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.
He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven...
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The Untouchables | Role: Jim Malone | |
| 1986 | Michael Caine |
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Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr.; 14 March 1933) is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in more than 100 films, and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or...
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Hannah and Her Sisters | Role: Elliot | |
| 1985 | Don Ameche |
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Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor.
Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent, and Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original surname...
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Cocoon | Role: Art Selwyn | |
| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor |
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Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The...
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The Killing Fields | Role: Dith Pran | |
| 1983 | Jack Nicholson |
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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the...
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Terms of Endearment | Role: Garrett Breedlove | |
| 1982 | Louis Gossett, Jr. |
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Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor.
Gossett, Jr. was born in Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York to Hellen Rebecca (née Wray), a nurse, and Louis Gossett, Sr., a porter. His stage debut came at age 16 in...
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An Officer and a Gentleman | Role: Sgt. Emil Foley | |
| 1981 | John Gielgud |
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Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor/director/producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which...
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Arthur | Role: Hobson | |
| 1980 | Timothy Hutton |
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Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor. He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980).
Hutton...
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Ordinary People | Role: Conrad Jarrett | |
| 1979 | Melvyn Douglas |
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Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.
Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla (née Shackelford), a Protestant Tennessee-born Mayflower descendant, and...
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Being There | Role: Benjamin Rand | |
| 1978 | Christopher Walken |
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Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an American Academy Award-winning actor of stage and screen. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including Annie Hall, The Deer Hunter, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill...
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The Deer Hunter | Role: Nick | |
| 1977 | Jason Robards |
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Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), the Academy Award (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States...
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Julia | Role: Dashiell Hammett | |
| 1976 | Jason Robards |
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Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), the Academy Award (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States...
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All the President's Men | Role: Ben Bradlee | |
| 1975 | George Burns |
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George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar...
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The Sunshine Boys | Role: Al Lewis | |
| 1974 | Robert De Niro |
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Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and producer.
De Niro is well-known for what some people call method acting and portrayals of conflicted, troubled characters and for his enduring collaboration with...
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The Godfather Part II | Role: Vito Corleone | |
| 1973 | John Houseman |
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John Houseman (September 22, 1902 - October 31, 1988) was an English actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production...
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The Paper Chase | Role: Professor Kingsfield | |
| 1972 | Joel Grey |
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Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, best known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award,...
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Cabaret | Role: The Master of Ceremonies | |
| 1971 | Ben Johnson |
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Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher.
Johnson was born in Foraker, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian Reservation,...
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The Last Picture Show | Role: Sam the Lion | |
| 1970 | John Mills |
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Sir John Mills, CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an Academy Award winning English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
Lewis Ernest Watts Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk,...
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Ryan's Daughter | Role: Michael | |
| 1969 | Gig Young |
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Gig Young (November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, his parents John and Emma Barr raised him and his older siblings in Washington D.C. He developed a...
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Role: Rocky | |
| 1968 | Jack Albertson |
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Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American character actor dating to vaudeville. A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure and Grandpa Joe...
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The Subject Was Roses | Role: John Cleary | |
| 1967 | George Kennedy |
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George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (born February 18, 1925) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (for which he won an Academy Award), airline...
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Cool Hand Luke | Role: Dragline | |
| 1966 | Walter Matthau |
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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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The Fortune Cookie | Role: Willie Gingrich | |
| 1965 | Martin Balsam |
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Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor.
Balsam was born in The Bronx to Jewish parents Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, who was a manufacturer of ladies sportswear. He attended DeWitt Clinton High...
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A Thousand Clowns | Role: Arnold Burns | |
| 1964 | Peter Ustinov |
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (pronounced /ˈjuːstɪnɒf/ or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004), was a British actor, writer and dramatist.
He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer,...
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Topkapi | Role: Arthur Simpson | |
| 1963 | Melvyn Douglas |
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Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.
Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla (née Shackelford), a Protestant Tennessee-born Mayflower descendant, and...
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Hud | Role: Homer Bannon | |
| 1962 | Ed Begley |
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Edward James Begley, Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American actor.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Begley began his career as radio actor while in his teens. He later acted in roles as Sgt. O'Hara in the radio show The Fat Man. Begley...
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Sweet Bird of Youth | Role: Tom 'Boss' Finley | |
| 1961 | George Chakiris |
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George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer and film actor.
Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio to Steven and Zoe (née Anastasiadou) Chakiris, immigrants from Greece. Chakiris studied at the American School of Dance.
Chakiris made...
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West Side Story | Role: Bernardo | |
| 1960 | Peter Ustinov |
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (pronounced /ˈjuːstɪnɒf/ or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004), was a British actor, writer and dramatist.
He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer,...
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Spartacus | Role: Batiatus | |
| 1959 | Hugh Griffith |
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Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage and television actor.
Griffith was born in Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales and educated at local schools. He attempted to gain entrance to university, but failed the English...
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Ben-Hur | Role: Sheik Ilderim | |
| 1958 | Burl Ives |
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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (14 June 1909 – 14 April 1995) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer.
As an actor, Ives' work included comedies, dramas and voice work in theater, television and motion pictures. Referring to Ives' singing, the...
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The Big Country | Role: Rufus Hannassey | |
| 1957 | Red Buttons |
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Red Buttons (February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an American comedian and actor.
Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 in New York City to Jewish immigrants. At sixteen years old, Buttons got a job as an entertaining bellhop at...
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Sayonara | Role: Joe Kelly | |
| 1956 | Anthony Quinn |
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Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Irish-Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, and...
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Lust for Life | Role: Paul Gauguin | |
| 1955 | Jack Lemmon |
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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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Mister Roberts | Role: Ensign Pulver | |
| 1954 | Edmond O'Brien |
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Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950). He also co-starred with Richard Rust in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, which aired during the 1962-1963...
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The Barefoot Contessa | Role: Oscar Muldoon | |
| 1953 | Frank Sinatra |
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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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From Here to Eternity | Role: Angelo Maggio | |
| 1952 | Anthony Quinn |
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Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Irish-Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, and...
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Viva Zapata! | Role: Eufemio Zapata | |
| 1951 | Karl Malden |
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Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich, Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Ђорђе Секуловић; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he featured in classic Marlon Brando films such as A...
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A Streetcar Named Desire | Role: Mitch | |
| 1950 | George Sanders |
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George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. He was known for his height of six-feet, four inches and his deep voice.
Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia at number 6...
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All About Eve | Role: Addison De Witt | |
| 1949 | Dean Jagger |
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Dean Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) was an American film actor.
Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor, without...
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Twelve O'Clock High | Role: Major Stovall | |
