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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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Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz.
Born as Francis Phillip Wuppermann in New York City, the youngest of eleven children (six boys...
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Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was an English actor, boxer and World War I veteran.
McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His father, a bishop, moved the family to South Africa when...
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Walter Huston
Walter Huston (pronounced /ˈwɔːltər ˈhjuːstən/; April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.
Born Walter Houghston...
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Mischa Auer
Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was an American actor of Russian origin.
He was born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky (Михаил Семёнович Унсковский) in St. Petersburg, Russia. His name is usually seen as Mischa Ounskowsky, Mischa being the...
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Stuart Erwin
Stuart Erwin (14 February 1903, Squaw Valley, California — 21 December 1967, Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor. Erwin began acting in college in the 1920s, first appearing on the stage, then breaking into films in 1928 in Mother Knows...
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Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor with a career that spanned sixty-two years.
Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise Smith, a native of Canada, and her husband Charles Rexford...
Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut (March 22, 1896 – January 21, 1964) was an Austrian stage and film actor.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Schildkraut was the son of stage (and later motion picture) actor Rudolf Schildkraut. The younger Schildkraut moved to the United...
H. B. Warner
H. B. Warner (26 October 1875 – 21 December 1958) was an English actor.
He was born Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner-Lickford in St John's Wood, London, England in 1875. His father, Charles Warner, was an actor, and, although young Henry had...
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Roland Young
Roland Young (11 November 1887 - 5 June 1953) was an English actor.
Born in London, England, Young was educated at Sherborne College, Dorset, and the University of London before being accepted into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his first...
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Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone, MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African–born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, and The Adventures of...
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Robert Morley
Robert Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as ...
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Gene Lockhart
Eugene "Gene" Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian Academy Award-nominated character actor, singer, playwright and popular composer.
Born in London, Ontario, Lockhart made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared...
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Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful...
Harry Carey
Harry Carey (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars.
Carey was born Henry DeWitt Carey II in The Bronx, New York, the son of Ella J. Ludlum and Henry DeWitt Carey, a prominent lawyer...
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Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1889—April 5, 1972) was an Irish-born American character actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He mainly appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste (1939) and The...
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Brian Aherne
Brian Aherne (May 2, 1902 – February 10, 1986) was a British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.
He was born William Brian de Lacy Aherne in King's Norton, Worcestershire, the son of William de Lacy Aherne by his spouse...
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William Gargan
William Gargan (July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for...
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Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.
Oakie was born as Lewis Delaney Offield in Sedalia, Missouri. However, he grew up in Muskogee,...
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James Stephenson
James Stephenson (14 April 1889 – 29 July 1941) was a British actor.
British stage actor James Stephenson made his film debut in 1937 at the age of 48 with parts in four films. Warner Brothers signed him the following year, and he began playing...
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Albert Bassermann
Albert Bassermann (born 7 September 1867, Mannheim, Germany; died 15 May 1952, Zurich, Switzerland) was a German stage and screen actor.
Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in Mannheim. He then spent four years at the Hoftheater in Meiningen....
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Sydney Greenstreet
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was an English actor, best known for his work with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre in the 1940s.
Greenstreet was born in Sandwich, Kent, England, the son of a leather merchant, and had...
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Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor. Highly regarded as a film character actor, Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times. He is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins...
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Donald Crisp
Donald George Crisp (July 27, 1882 – May 25, 1974) was an English film actor. He was also an early motion picture producer, director and screenwriter. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in How Green Was My Valley....
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James Gleason
James Gleason (May 23, 1882 – April 12, 1959) was an American actor born in New York City. He was also a playwright and screenwriter.
Balding and slender with a craggy voice and a master of the double-take, Gleason portrayed tough but warm-hearted...
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Monty Woolley
Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888 - May 6, 1963) was an American actor.
He was born Edgar Montillion Woolley in New York City to a wealthy family (his father owned the Bristol Hotel) and grew up in the highest social circles. Woolley attended Yale...
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William Bendix
William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film actor.
Bendix, named for his paternal grandfather, was born in Manhattan, New York City, the only son of Cleveland-born Oscar and London-born Hilda (née Carnell) Bendix. As a...
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Van Heflin
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. (December 13, 1910 – July 23, 1971) was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the...
Henry Travers
Henry Travers (5 March 1874 – 18 October 1965) was an English actor.
Travers was born Travers John Heagerty in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, the son of Daniel Heagerty, an Irish doctor from Cork. The family were only in Prudhoe for a...
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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy...
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Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff (29 October 1899 – 17 September 1972) was a Russian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was born of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the US in 1923...
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Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald (10 March 1888 – 14 January 1961) was an Irish stage, film and television actor.
He was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland. He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He went to...
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Hume Cronyn
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.
Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London,...
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner...
James Dunn
James Howard Dunn (November 2, 1901 - September 3, 1967) was an American Academy Award-winning film actor.
Born in New York, New York, of Irish descent, Dunn was the son of a Wall Street stockbroker who, according to Dunn, "either had a million or...
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J. Carrol Naish
Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1897 – January 24, 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi,...
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John Dall
John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971, Hollywood, California) was an American actor.
Dall is best remembered today for the parts of the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 noir...
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Michael Chekhov
Michael Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was an Academy Award-nominated Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Clint...
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Claude Rains
Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them The Invisible Man, the corrupt senator in...
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Harold Russell
Harold John Russell (January 14, 1914 - January 29, 2002) was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting (the other being Haing S. Ngor). Russell also holds the...
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Charles Coburn
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theater actor.
Coburn was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Scots-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman and Moses Douville Coburn. He started out doing odd jobs at...
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William Demarest
William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 28, 1983) was an American character actor.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a prolific film and television actor, having worked on over 140 films. He started in show business working in vaudeville,...
John Garfield
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando,...
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Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death. Early in his career...
Robert Ryan
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains.
Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Timothy Ryan and his wife Mabel Bushnell Ryan . He graduated...
Thomas Gomez
Thomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 – June 18, 1971) was an American actor.
Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York, New York, Gomez began his acting career in theater during the 1920s and was a student of the actor Walter Hampden. He made his first film...
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Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive working-class character roles. He received four Academy Award nominations during his career.
Clift was born in Omaha,...
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Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer and singer.
Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in a rural part of Marion County, Indiana, which would, in 1906, become Beech Grove, a self-governing city entirely...
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Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter ...
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Oscar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor. Homolka's strong accent, stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and Slavic-sounding name led many to believe he was Eastern European or Russian, but he was born in...
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Dean Jagger
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...
John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland (30 January 1914–21 March 1992) was an actor and film director.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in New York City. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway. A tall, lean former Canadian...
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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (pronounced /ˈdʒɒn mɑrˈsɛləs ˈhjuːstən/; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He was known for directing the films The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...
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Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-born star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him...
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George Sanders
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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Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (September 26, 1877 – September 6, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning English theatre and film actor.
Born Edmund Kellaway in Wandsworth, London, (though some references suggest he was born in the Vale of Glamorgan), and educated at St....
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Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and appeared in other classic films...
Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961) was an American film actor and singer in the 1950s.
Chandler was born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Anna (née Shapiro) and Phillip Grossel. He attended...
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Arthur Kennedy
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Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy (born February 15, 1914) is an American actor.
In 1949, McCarthy was cast as Biff Loman in the London company production of Death of a Salesman, starring Paul Muni. He reprised his role in the 1951 film version, and was nominated for...
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Leo Genn
Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor on stage and in films.
He was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, England. His father, Woolfe (William) Genn, was a jewellery salesman and the maiden name...
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