Film

45 profiles

Charlie Chaplin

FilmPioneers

The Tramp, pioneer of silent screen comedy

Mary Pickford

FilmPioneers

Silent era superstar and United Artists co founder

Buster Keaton

FilmPioneers

The Great Stone Face of silent physical comedy

Humphrey Bogart

FilmPioneers

Rick Blaine in Casablanca

Fred Astaire

FilmPioneers

Hollywood dancing legend of the screen musical

Alfred Hitchcock

FilmPioneers

The Master of Suspense

Marlene Dietrich

FilmGolden Age

The Blue Angel and Shanghai Express star

Clark Gable

FilmGolden Age

Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind

Cary Grant

FilmGolden Age

Epitome of the debonair leading man

Henry Fonda

FilmGolden Age

Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath

Greta Garbo

FilmGolden Age

Screen legend of the silent and early sound era

Katharine Hepburn

FilmGolden Age

Record four Best Actress Academy Awards

James Stewart

FilmGolden Age

Everyman star of Its a Wonderful Life

Bette Davis

FilmGolden Age

Ten time Oscar nominated screen force

Ginger Rogers

FilmGolden Age

Astaire dance partner and Oscar winner

Gene Kelly

FilmGolden Age

Singin in the Rain dancer and choreographer

Vivien Leigh

FilmGolden Age

Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Ingrid Bergman

FilmGolden Age

Casablanca star and three time Oscar winner

Orson Welles

FilmGolden Age

Citizen Kane director at twenty five

Judy Garland

FilmGolden Age

Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

Marlon Brando

FilmGolden Age

Stanley Kowalski and the new screen naturalism

Audrey Hepburn

FilmGolden Age

Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys

Paul Newman

FilmGolden Age

Cool Hand Luke and The Hustler star

Marilyn Monroe

FilmGolden Age

Some Like It Hot and 1950s stardom

Sidney Poitier

FilmGolden Age

First Black winner of the Best Actor Oscar

James Dean

FilmTelevision Age

Rebel Without a Cause screen legend

Clint Eastwood

FilmTelevision Age

Dollars trilogy gunfighter turned director

Sean Connery

FilmTelevision Age

The original James Bond

Elizabeth Taylor

FilmTelevision Age

Two time Best Actress winner and Cleopatra star

Robert Redford

FilmTelevision Age

Sundance founder and Butch Cassidy star

Dustin Hoffman

FilmTelevision Age

The Graduate and Rain Man star

Jack Nicholson

FilmTelevision Age

Twelve nominations and three Oscars

Anthony Hopkins

FilmTelevision Age

Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

Al Pacino

FilmTelevision Age

Michael Corleone in The Godfather

Robert De Niro

FilmTelevision Age

Raging Bull and The Godfather Part II

Meryl Streep

FilmTelevision Age

Record twenty one Academy Award nominations

Denzel Washington

FilmModern Era

Two Oscars and a Tony

Tom Hanks

FilmModern Era

Back to back Best Actor Oscars

Daniel Day-Lewis

FilmModern Era

Three time Best Actor Oscar winner

Sophia Loren

FilmTelevision Age

First acting Oscar for a foreign language performance

Brigitte Bardot

FilmTelevision Age

And God Created Woman and French screen icon

Jane Fonda

FilmTelevision Age

Two Oscars, activism, and the workout video

Morgan Freeman

FilmTelevision Age

Shawshank narrator and Million Dollar Baby Oscar

Harrison Ford

FilmTelevision Age

Han Solo and Indiana Jones

Leonardo DiCaprio

FilmContemporary

Titanic star and The Revenant Oscar winner