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Leo Vincent Gordon (December 2, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American film and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. During more than 40 years in film and...
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Dino Paul Crocetti (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) known famously as Dean Martin, was an American actor, comedian, and singer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the...
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Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian- American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. He was...
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Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street in the television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959...
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Introduction Mario Lanza (born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor of Italian ancestry, and an actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the...
View ArticleKirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch December 9, 1916) is an American retired actor, filmmaker, and author. A centenarian, he is one of the last surviving stars of the film industry’s Golden Age....
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