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American male film actors

  • Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans on the 4th of August 1901. He grew up in a rough neighborhood known as The Battlefield on Rampart Street.
  • Rob PaulsenRobert Frederick Paulsen III was born on the 11th of March 1956 in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in Grand Blanc, Michigan, where he graduated from high…
  • Christopher WalkenRonald Walken was born on the 31st of March 1943 in Astoria, Queens. His parents were Rosalie Russell and Paul Wälken. They owned a bakery called Walken's…
  • Fred TatascioreFred Tatasciore was born on the 15th of June 1967 to Fred Sr and Marianne Ryan Tatasciore. As a child, he used his father's recorder to capture voice…
  • Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
  • Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was born on the 8th of January 1935, in a small two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi. His twin brother Jesse Garon had been stillborn…
  • Michael Patrick McGillMichael Patrick McGill was born on the 2nd of July 1973. He began his professional acting career in 2001 with small parts on television shows like Touched by…
  • Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra entered the world on the 12th of December 1915 inside a tenement building at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
  • Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
  • LeBron JamesLeBron Raymone James entered the world on the 30th of December 1984, inside Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. His mother Gloria Marie James was only…
  • Humphrey BogartHumphrey DeForest Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City. His father Belmont worked as a cardiopulmonary surgeon while his mother Maud earned…
  • Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was born on the 6th of February 1911, in an apartment located in Tampico, Illinois. His mother Nelle Clyde Wilson led prayer meetings at…
  • Al PacinoAlfredo James Pacino was born on the 25th of April, 1940, in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. His parents divorced when he was two years old.
  • Travis WillinghamTravis Willingham was born in Dallas, Texas. He grew up with a brother named Carson. His interest in acting began during fifth grade.
  • Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was born the 6th of May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father Richard Head Welles made a fortune inventing a bicycle lamp before…
  • Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
  • Clark GableWilliam Clark Gable arrived in the world on the 1st of February 1901, inside a small house in Cadiz, Ohio. His father worked as an oil-well driller while his…
  • James StewartJames Maitland Stewart was born on the 20th of May 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the eldest child and only son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and…
  • Kevin SmithKevin Patrick Smith was born on the 2nd of August 1970, in Red Bank, New Jersey. He grew up in the nearby clamming town of Highlands as the son of Grace and…
  • Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson entered the world at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 7th of June 1958. His father John Lewis Nelson was a pianist…
  • Samuel L. JacksonSamuel L. Jackson was born on the 21st of December 1948 in Washington, D.C., but his true origin story begins with a speech impediment that nearly silenced…
  • Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha Nebraska as the only son of Marlon Brando Sr and Dorothy Pennebaker.
  • Kirk DouglasKirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch on the 9th of December 1916, in Amsterdam, New York. He grew up as the fourth of seven children and the only son of…
  • Harrison FordHarrison Ford was born on the 13th of July 1942 at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago. His father worked as an advertising executive and his mother had…
  • William HurtWilliam McChord Hurt was born on the 20th of March 1950 in Washington D.C. His father worked for the United States Agency for International Development and…
  • Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
  • Jack NicholsonJohn Joseph Nicholson entered the world on the 22nd of April 1937 in Neptune City, New Jersey. His mother June Frances Nicholson was a showgirl who performed…
  • Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
  • Elia KazanElias Kazantzoglou entered the world on the 7th of September 1909 in the Kadıköy district of Constantinople. His parents were Cappadocian Greeks originally…
  • John WayneMarion Robert Morrison entered the world on the 26th of May 1907 at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local newspaper reported his birth weight…
  • Jim MorrisonJames Douglas Morrison was born on the 8th of December 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and…
  • Michael DouglasMichael Kirk Douglas entered the world on the 25th of September 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was the first child of actors Kirk Douglas and Diana…
  • Tom HanksThomas Jeffrey Hanks arrived in the world on the 9th of July 1956 inside a hospital in Concord, California. His mother Janet Marylyn worked as a hospital…
  • Bing CrosbyHarry Lillis Crosby Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of May 1903, in Tacoma, Washington. He grew up at a house his father built at 1112 North J Street before…
  • Bruce Leethe 27th of November 1940 marked the arrival of Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco. His parents traveled to California for an international opera tour when he was…
  • Johnny CashJohnny Cash was born J. R. Cash on the 26th of February 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. His family moved to Dyess, Arkansas, in March 1935 when he was three…
  • William WylerWilli Wyler was born on the 1st of July, 1902, in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine. His father Leopold ran a thriving haberdashery business there.
  • Will SmithWillard Carroll Smith II arrived in the world on the 25th of September 1968. He grew up in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia with his mother…
  • Sean CombsSean John Combs was born on the 4th of November 1969, in Harlem, New York City. His father Melvin Earl Combs worked at a hair salon and served in the U.S.
  • Ryan ReynoldsRyan Rodney Reynolds was born on the 23rd of October 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father James Chester Reynolds worked as a Royal Canadian…
  • Sam RockwellSam Rockwell was born on the 5th of November 1968 in Daly City, California. He grew up as an only child after his parents divorced when he turned five years…
  • Buster KeatonJoseph Frank Keaton arrived in Piqua, Kansas on the 4th of October 1895. His father Joe ran a traveling medicine show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine…
  • Jerry Lee LewisJerry Lee Lewis was born on the 29th of September 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana. He grew up in an impoverished farming family where his parents mortgaged…
  • Snoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. arrived in Long Beach, California on the 20th of October 1971. His biological father left the family three months after his…
  • Bradley CooperBradley Charles Cooper was born on the 5th of January 1975, in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. He grew up near Philadelphia in the communities of Jenkintown…
  • Robert Downey Jr.Robert John Downey Jr. was born in Manhattan, New York City, on the 4th of April 1965. His father Robert Downey Sr. worked as a filmmaker while his mother…
  • David LettermanDavid Michael Letterman was born on the 12th of April 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father worked as a florist and his mother served as a church…
  • Tupac ShakurTupac Amaru Shakur was born on the 16th of June 1971, in East Harlem, Manhattan. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks until he was renamed at age one.
  • 50 CentCurtis James Jackson III was born on the 6th of July 1975 in Queens, New York City. He grew up in the South Jamaica neighborhood after his mother died in a…