Stage and screen

ACTORS

Character actor who starred in the 1960s situation comedies "Bringing Up Buddy" and "It's About Time."

"Amazing" comedy magician and character actor who appeared in the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy."

Rugged leading man on television and on Broadway.

Actor who starred in TV's "Naked City" and "Twelve O'Clock High."

Actor who played bigger-than-life Texas tycoon Asa Buchanan on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live."

Who became a TV icon in the 1970s starring as an enigmatic Buddhist monk with a flair for martial arts in "Kung Fu" and more recently played the head of a group of assassins in the "Kill Bill" movies.

One of the last surviving Munchkins from the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."

Oldest surviving child of film legend Charlie Chaplin who had his own acting career, earning a Tony Award for starring in the 1950s musical "Bells Are Ringing."

Actor played in Captain Marvel series, the first to bring a comic book superhero to the big screen.

Actor was a popular guest star on TV from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Character actor made a career of one-man Winnie the Pooh shows.

Flamboyant chef who became a TV star in Britain.

Actor appeared in television program "Ironside" and in several major films including "The Big Chill."

Singer-actor starred in first gay version of Sondheim's "Marry Me a Little."

Character actor played Ellen DeGeneres' dad in sitcom.

Star of the 1980 film "The Exterminator" who built a varied career as a producer, director and actor in film, in television and on stage.

One of the last of Hollywood's celluloid cowboys and a founder of what is now the Autry National Center of the American West.

Singer and actor who portrayed Lorne on the TV series "Angel."

Actor who replaced Clayton Moore in "The Lone Ranger" TV series for 52 episodes beginning in 1952.

Character actor perhaps best known for his roles in "Batman" films in the 1990s.

Character actor in the theater and movies, including Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" and Barry Levinson's "Avalon."

Veteran Hong Kong actor played Bruce Lee's archrival in "Enter the Dragon."

Character actor who was well known in the Alcoholics Anonymous movement in Los Angeles.

Actor and eldest son of "Little House on the Prairie" star Michael Landon.

One of Hollywood's strongest and most versatile supporting actors, who won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Character actor who appeared in "Othello" on Broadway, in dozens of TV guest spots and in films including "The Owl and the Pussycat."

Character actor whose film and television career spanned the 1950s to the 1980s.

Actor played robot in "Lost in Space."

Actor son of Joel McCrea who appeared in westerns and was a regular cast member of the popular "Beach Party" movies.

Actor who starred as a British spy in the 1960s TV series "Secret Agent" and gained cult status later in the decade as the star of the enigmatic series "The Prisoner."

Tony-winning South African actor best known for his work with playwright Athol Fugard.

Suave leading man best known for his role as Mr. Roarke on TV's "Fantasy Island."

Believed to Japan's oldest Kabuki actor.

Actor and singer who appeared in hit Broadway musical "Where's Charley?" and co-starred on the TV show "This Is Your Music."

Commanding baritone who starred in such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," and later appeared in the movie "Fargo."

Chinese soprano's affair was inspiration for "M Butterfly."

British actor starred in "The Egyptian" and "The Prodigal."

Character actor who played heavies in several Clint Eastwood movies, including "Every Which Way But Loose" and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can."

Actor best known for horror movie roles in Count Yorga and the Deathmaster.

Actor played Clint Buchanan in soap opera "One Life to Live."

Czech character actor and opera singer who played the Amish grandfather in the 1985 film "Witness."

Tony Award-winning actor who amassed an impressive list of roles based on real-life figures in movies including "Reversal of Fortune" and "Ali."

Actor whose role in "Dirty Dancing" made him a movie star.

One of the Munchkin soldiers in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz."

Actor who starred in more than 100 films and television programs in his native Australia and in Britain.

Character actor whose roles included Ted Adamson on "Search for Tomorrow" and Palmer Woodward on "Melrose Place."

British actor was Ian Fleming's choice to play James Bond.

Israeli TV star, apparently hanged himself in jail.

Eldest member of family of nine child actors who was later a news photographer.

Actor who brought American icons Will Rogers, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt to life in one-man shows.

Villain in "Dr. No," first James Bond movie starring Sean Connery

British actor starred in "The Equalizer" and "Breaker Morant"

Gay porn star from the 1970s was also Broadway producer.

Versatile Russian actor.

Actor who used the stage name Russ Conway and was perhaps best known for playing Fenton Hardy on "The Hardy Boys."

ACTRESSES

Comedic actress best known for her television roles on "The Golden Girls" and "Maude."

Blacklisted actress was married to Gene Kelly and starred with Ernest Borgnine in "Marty."

B-movie actress in action serials

Movie character actress and B-western leading lady.

Adult movie actress in the X-rated classic "Behind the Green Door."

Broadway actress was best known for Tony-winning performance in the musical "Woman of the Year."

Actress who gave up her career (her professional name was Jane Bryan) to marry Justin Dart, the kingmaker who helped persuade Ronald Reagan to enter politics.

Former child actor who starred in the first 13 "Alice Comedies" produced by Walt Disney.

Actress and pop icon starred in "Charlie's Angels" and was famous for swimsuit poster.

Actress was member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre civil rights activist in L.A.

Singer and 1940s leading lady whose most famous role was the terrorized prima donna in the first talking version of "The Phantom of the Opera."

Actress best known for playing the secretary in the 1955 film noir classic "Kiss Me Deadly."

British actress who appeared in "Spider-Man 3," found dead after apparently committing suicide.

Singer and actress who played Olivia Robinson on "Sesame Street

Played Carol Post on the 1960s television show "Mister Ed"

Blond actress who first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s.

Actress who won an Academy Award for "The Song of Bernadette" and who was married to two legendary men -- producer David O. Selznick and industrialist and art collector Norton Simon.

Actress portrayed Jane opposite two different Tarzans -- in five films in the 1940s.

Actress dubbed the "Puerto Rican Pepperpot" for singing and dancing roles alongside such stars as Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.

Actress who played nurse Zoe Lawton on the popular 1960s TV medical series "Dr. Kildare."

Leading Irish actress who won a Tony Award in 1998 for her performance in "The Beauty Queen of Leenane."

Actress who had a regular role on the 1960s prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place."

Actress in teen comedy "Clueless" and the hip-hop drama "8 Mile," of apparent heart attack

Actress famous for role as Mayella in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

B film actress was best known for her role in "Cat People."

British actress had four-decade career and appeared on soap opera "EastEnders."

Actress daughter of Vanessa Redgrave dies in New York hospital two days after suffering brain injuries in ski accident.

Actress who co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1936 film "Two Against the World."

Actress starred in 1950s sitcom "My Little Margie."

British actress best known for her role as Mrs. Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?"

BEHIND THE SCENES

TV historian wrote The 'I Love Lucy Book, an early definitive appreciation of the classic sitcom.

Garment industry executive who was one of the Holocaust survivors whose stories were told in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Last Days."

Newspaper publisher created television's Weather Channel.

Country singer who was a teenage star on TV's "Hometown Jamboree" and "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show."

Pioneering camera effects artist for Walt Disney productions.

British cinematographer won an Oscar for "Black Narcissus."

Former CBS news anchor whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s.

Photograph curator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Margaret Herrick Library.

Professor and associate dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts who filmed football games from the roof of the Coliseum press box and oversaw the school's film archives.

Boxing hall of famer who became a referee and ring judge and had small roles in the "Rocky" movies.

USC professor who broadened the study of cinema by emphasizing its relationship to other visually oriented fields.

Chicago woman whose dramatic escape from a New York hotel during the 9/11 attacks was told in a television documentary, leading to a poignant reunion with her rescuers.

British reality TV star's battle with cancer captivated viewers.

Co-founder of KCET in Los Angeles.

Composer won three Academy Awards writing film scores for David Lean.

Unit production manager and assistant director who received the Frank Capra Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America.

Award-winning amateur filmmaker whose technically impressive and infectiously humorous 1970 musical short film "Multiple SIDosis" earned a spot in the National Film Registry.

Sportscaster whose extensive use of game highlights from across the country on his nationally syndicated show has now become the norm in the industry.

Emmy-winning editor of the sitcom "Taxi."

Academy Awards "keeper of the Oscars"

Cinematographer was co-founder of Panavision.

Educator who launched the nonprofit Youth Theatre Productions in Santa Barbara in the early 1960s and later founded and was artistic director of the Hollywood-based California Youth Theatre and YouTHeatre-America!

Longtime CBS executive was one of first women to get through entertainment industry's glass ceiling.

Syndicated columnist and television commentator who was the first journalist to disclose the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Savant who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man."

Photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot to death in El Salvador

Argentine filmmaker and former UCLA professor respected for his ethnographic cinema works.

Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most recognizable televangelists.

Slapstick comic was TV star in the 1960s.

TV critic for Daily Variety from 1967 to 1997.

Los Angeles Times television critic who covered the TV and entertainment scene for the newspaper from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Theater operator brought foreign art films to Chicago.

Trailblazing African American cinematographer whose credits include the landmark 1970s TV miniseries Roots.

COMICS

Comic film and television actor appeared in films with Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds.

Character actor who came to fame in the late 1960s as the flower-holding poet on TV's landmark satirical comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."

L.A. attorney had a side career as a stand-up comic.

Comedian was fixture in Denver clubs and helped boost career of Steve Martin.

Slapstick comic was TV star in the 1960s.

Comic character actor who was part of the ensemble cast of the classic movie comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."

DANCERS

One of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s.

German choreographer and dancer whose work transcended traditional barriers between dance and theater.

Legendary tap dancer who was part of the Cook and Brown duo and the traveling Copasetics dance troupe.

Arguably the greatest, most pioneering and widely influential contemporary choreographer of the past half-century.

Dancer and actress who was the widow of Rat Pack singer and dancer Sammy Davis Jr.

Danish dancer and choreographer who brought elements of modern dance to the Royal Danish Ballet.

Hungarian ballerina who defected to the West in 1953.

Dancer, choreographer and a major champion of the work of Martha Graham.

Dancer-choreographer popularized Lindy Hop.

Legendary Russian ballerina graced Bolshoi stage for 30 years.

Principal dancer with England's Royal Ballet before she became a ballet mistress and coach at American Ballet Theater.

Russian opera director who staged many of the Bolshoi Theatre's biggest productions during the Soviet era.

Actress and Busby Berkeley dancer.

International ballet star who had a successful second career as a teacher.

DIRECTORS

British director whose films included "Swiss Family Robinson," "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" and the World War II epic "The Longest Day."

French filmmaker best known for "Jean de Florette."

Theater designer and director was emeritus professor at USC School of Theatre and founder of Festival Theatre USC-USA.

Director of such TV series as "Police Woman," "Route 66" and "Hawaiian Eye" from the 1950s through the '70s.

Had a five-decade career directing TV series and made-for-TV movies.

Casting director whose credits in film, TV and stage include the Oscar best picture winner "Rocky."

Tony award-winning lighting director of more than 100 Broadway shows.

Leader in New York's experimental theater scene in the 1960s who went on to direct the exuberant, often freewheeling Broadway productions of "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar."

Film writer, director and producer whose credits included "Murder in the First" and "Where the Day Takes You."

TV director who was nominated for an Emmy Award for an episode of the comedy series "Archie Bunker's Place" in 1981.

Director whose more than 100 film and television credits included the 1959 movie "Gidget" and its two sequels.

German theater director

Director of comic hits including "Private Benjamin."

EXECUTIVES AND AGENTS

Daily Variety reporter covered Hollywood and announced in 1985 that actor Rock Hudson was suffering from AIDS.

Powerful talent agent who dominated New York's talent business during his heyday.

Longtime head of distribution for Paramount Pictures.

Hollywood publicist who represented stars such as Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller and Robert Goulet during his more than 50 years in the business.

NBC Universal program executive working on the series "Parenthood," collapsed while on location in Northern California.

President of domestic releasing for Lions Gate.

Longtime publicist who worked with some of the biggest names of Broadway and Hollywood.

Former president of Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures in the 1970s and '80s.

OTHER ENTERTAINERS

Professional wrestler who appeared in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video.

TV host and a founding member of the singing group the Four Aces

Radio actress in the 1940s best known for playing Lois Lane.

Walt Disney Studios voice-over artist who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for more than three decades.

Comedy writer and radio personality on several L.A. stations in the 1960s.

Illusionist who wrote a 2007 book on pickpocketing.

Roller Derby star shaped and guided the sport.

TV host who popularized quiz shows for generations of Italians.

Nationally known Texas sharpshooter who could blast an aspirin to powder at 30 paces and split a playing card edgewise at 20.

One of the singing King Sisters in swing vocal group and TV variety show.

Father of the Grammy Awards telecast, he convinced network bosses to air the annual ceremony.

Actress, singer and dancer best known for her role on TV series "The Flying Nun."

His celebrity impressions made him a popular mainstay on the Las Vegas Strip.

Performed in the musical comedy duo the Hager Twins on "Hee-Haw."

One of the top spokesmodels on television in the 1950s who was best known for touting "long-lasting" Hazel Bishop lipstick during commercial breaks on "This Is Your Life."

Singer who played the role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather."

Infomercial pitchman became cultural phenomenon.

Actor who provided voices for Gumby, Archie Andrews and Buzz Buzzard and also played Cincinnatus on 1960s TV series "Daniel Boone."

Johnny Carson's longtime second banana on "The Tonight Show."

Puppeteer ran one-man theater and museum.

Nashville TV news anchor who was briefly Pat Sajak's sidekick on a late-night talk show.

Dodger Stadium organist and one of the last surviving working accompanists from the silent-film era.

Hosted MTV game show "Remote Control"

Face on Allstate Insurance on "good hands" commercials

Child star of "Our Gang" films who was a burlesque dancer later in life.

Played Lester the lab rat on "Beakman's World" and operated and voiced the puppet co-host Kino on the PBS show "Storytime."

Announcer who introduced the long-running TV soap operas "Love of Life" and "The Secret Storm" and parodied his delivery on the 1970s children's show "The Electric Company."

Hostess and co-owner elevated the striptease house Pink Puzzycat into an L.A. landmark.

Master of shadow puppet theater kept alive dying art form in Greece.

Acrobat who learned to perform handstands on Santa Monica's Muscle Beach in the 1930s and went on to help form USA Gymnastics.

Voice of "Red Light, Green Light" for TV's Engineer Bill.

Popular L.A. wrestler played villain in bouts with archrival Freddie Blassie.

Impressionist was a favorite in Las Vegas.

Actress and former model who was the subject of the 2008 documentary "Hats Off."

Acrobat whose somersaults from one horse to another helped him earn a place in the circus world's Ring of Fame.

PRODUCERS

Writer and producer helped pioneer the made-for-TV format and launch a generation of young directors.

Producer and literary agent who with humorist Art Buchwald sued Paramount Pictures for using their concept for the 1988 film "Coming to America."

CBS News producer

President of Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers

Wrote finale for 'The Fugitive' and produced 'Duel," TV movie directed by a young Steven Spielberg.

Producer for Tavis Smiley's programs on Public Radio International and National Public Radio.

Producer of "Battlestar Galactica" and other shows

Creator and executive producer of TV newsmagazine "60 Minutes."

Theater producer ran summer stock circuit in Ohio that attracted stars.

Gag writer for Bob Hope and producer of leading sitcoms including "All in the Family."

Producer-director's production company produced "The Rifleman" and "The Big Valley."

Executive with Lutheran Film Associates and executive producer of "A Time for Burning," key civil rights film.

TV producer who brought to the small screen such 1950s series as "Wagon Train" and "M Squad."

Producer and former head of production at MGM and Columbia studios.

Producer whose credits include the movie "Patch Adams" and David Frost's broadcast interviews with former President Nixon.

Founder of first Korean-language TV broadcasting firm in the U.S.

TV producer best known for his work with "Good Morning America" and "Entertainment Tonight."

Producer who collaborated with director Ray Harryhausen on such films as "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Clash of the Titans."

British film producer who made a string of acclaimed movies with director Mike Leigh.

WRITERS

Author of Broadway hit "Tea and Sympathy."

Former CIA operative who became a syndicated newspaper columnist, liberal co-host of the CNN talk show "Crossfire" and author of "Eight Is Enough," a 1975 memoir that spawned the popular television series.

Playwright and screenwriter whose 1985 film "Smooth Talk" won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Playwright and screenwriter whose credits included the 1970s films "The All-American Boy" and "Little Fauss and Big Halsy."

Playwright whose bittersweet stories of heartbreak and regret set in small Southern towns earned him wide popular acclaim as well as two Academy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Comedy writer best known for TV's "Mash" and the movie "Tootsie."

Writer of screenplays, TV scripts and novels, mostly in the western genre.

Writer-diector of teen flicks in the 1980s

Writer who started his long career crafting articles for newspapers and magazines and moved on to television scripts and novels.

Co-wrote screenplays for "The Wanderers" and "Henry & June" with her writer-director husband, Philip.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter was co-creator of Mr. Magoo.

One of the few women to write screenplays for B-Westerns.

Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer who wrote the classic "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

Award-winning playwright and a film and television writer who launched her TV career on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times" and co-wrote the 1993 movie comedy "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit."

Screenwriter of "Alien" wrote and directed "The Return of the Living Dead" and co-wrote "Blue Thunder" and "Total Recall."

Italian screenwriter best known for his frequent collaborations with Federico Fellini.

Co-wrote the film 'The Harder They Come,' which helped introduce reggae music to international audiences.

Film writer, director and producer whose credits included "Murder in the First" and "Where the Day Takes You."

Writer-producer who worked on TV sitcoms "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company."

Writer and producer best known for work on "Barnaby Jones".

Wrote "What Makes Sammy Run?" and Academy Award winner for "On the Waterfront"

TV comedy writer whose credits included "Three's Company" and "Married ... With Children."