Television Age
45 profiles
James Dean
Rebel Without a Cause screen legend
Elvis Presley
King of Rock and Roll
Clint Eastwood
Dollars trilogy gunfighter turned director
Sean Connery
The original James Bond
Elizabeth Taylor
Two time Best Actress winner and Cleopatra star
Johnny Cash
The Man in Black
Carol Burnett
The Carol Burnett Show variety landmark
Joan Rivers
Standup pioneer and late night first
Julie Andrews
Eliza on stage, Mary Poppins on screen
Luciano Pavarotti
The King of the High Cs
Robert Redford
Sundance founder and Butch Cassidy star
Mary Tyler Moore
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate and Rain Man star
Jack Nicholson
Twelve nominations and three Oscars
Anthony Hopkins
Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs
George Carlin
Counterculture satirist of language
Tina Turner
Queen of Rock and Roll
Al Pacino
Michael Corleone in The Godfather
Richard Pryor
Standup as personal narrative
John Lennon
Beatles co founder
Patrick Stewart
Captain Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation
Bob Dylan
Songwriting Nobel laureate
Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul
Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl from Broadway to film
Robert De Niro
Raging Bull and The Godfather Part II
Bob Marley
Global ambassador of reggae
Dolly Parton
Jolene and I Will Always Love You songwriter
Freddie Mercury
Queen frontman and Bohemian Rhapsody
David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust and permanent reinvention
Elton John
Rocket Man across six decades
Meryl Streep
Record twenty one Academy Award nominations
Ray Charles
The Genius who helped invent soul music
James Brown
The Godfather of Soul
Sophia Loren
First acting Oscar for a foreign language performance
Brigitte Bardot
And God Created Woman and French screen icon
Jane Fonda
Two Oscars, activism, and the workout video
Morgan Freeman
Shawshank narrator and Million Dollar Baby Oscar
Paul McCartney
Beatle and record setting songwriter
Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones frontman for six decades
Diana Ross
Supremes lead singer and Motown solo star
Cher
Number one hits across six decades
Steve Martin
Wild and crazy guy and banjo virtuoso
Harrison Ford
Han Solo and Indiana Jones
Bruce Springsteen
The Boss and voice of working America
Ian McKellen
Shakespearean actor, Gandalf and Magneto