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Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Maria Kristel was a Dutch erotic actress who acted in many movies. She was most notable for her role in the Emmanuelle movies from the 1970s through to the early 1990s. The most successful film in her career was Private Lessons 1981. She p ...

Jack Kruschen

Jack Joseph Kruschen was a Canadian-American movie, television, stage, voice, and radio actor who is known for his role as Dr. Dreyfuss in The Apartment. Kruschen was born on March 20, 1922 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was married to Marjori ...

Vijaya Kumaranatunga

Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaranatunga was a popular Sri Lankan movie actor and politician. He was married to former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga from 1978 until his assassination in 1988.

Kazimierz Kutz

Kazimierz Julian Kutz was a Polish movie director, author, journalist and politician. He was born in Katowice, Poland. His best known director works were Salt of the Black Earth, Pearl in the Crown and Reverted. From 1997 to 2009, Kutz was a Depu ...

Burt Kwouk

Herbert W. "Burt" Kwouk, OBE was a British actor. Kwouk was born in Warrington to Chinese parents. He was raised in Shanghai. Kwouk was known for his role as Cato spelled "Kato" in the 1964 release A Shot in the Dark in the Pink Panther movies. H ...

Machiko Kyō

Machiko Kyō was a Japanese actress who was mainly active in the 1950s. She was born in Osaka, Japan. She was known for her roles in Kenji Mizoguchis Ugetsu and Kon Ichikawas Odd Obsession. She also starred in The Teahouse of the August Moon oppos ...

Andre S. Labarthe

Andre S. Labarthe was a French actor, movie producer and director. He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 movie Vivre sa vie. He was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France. He appeared in many movies directed by Jean-Luc ...

Marian Labuda

Marian Labuda was a Slovak actor. He was born in Hontianske Nemce, Slovakia. In 1964, he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava VSMU. He became a member of the Slovak National Theatre SND in Bratislava. In 1967, he moved to t ...

Ronald Lacey

Ronald William Lacey was an English actor. He was known for his role as Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lacey was born on 28 September 1935 in Harrow, London, England. He studied at the Harrow Weald Grammar School and at the London Academ ...

Bernadette Lafont

Bernadette Lafont was a French actress. Lafont won the Cesar Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in An Impudent Girl LEffrontee in 1985. For her long service to the French motion picture industry, in 2003 she was awarded an H ...

Reema Lagoo

Reema Lagoo was an Indian theater and screen actress. She was known for her work in Hindi and Marathi cinema. She began her acting career in the Marathi theatre. She was born in Bombay, Bombay State. Lagoo starred in Rihaee 1988. She then starred ...

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was an English actress in theatre, movies, and television. After World War I, she began performing in theatre and nightclubs. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927. They were married two years later. She began playin ...

Jacques Languirand

Jacques Languirand was a Canadian radio host, writer, and actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He hosted the same radio show, Par 4 chemins on Radio-Canada, for 42 years. He was awarded the C.M. Member of the Order of Canada on December 21, 19 ...

Eddie Large

Eddie Large was the stage name of Edward Hugh McGinnis, a British comedian. He was best known as a part of the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little. They starred in the very popular British comedy series The Little and Large Show.

Lars Andreas Larssen

Lars Andreas Larssen was a Norwegian stage, movie and television actor. His career began in 1957 when he starred in the movie Nine Lives. In 1959, Larssen starred in a bigger role in the movie The Master and His Servants. Larssen was born on 27 M ...

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton was an Anglo-American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire. He is known for playing Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty. ...

Jorge Lavat

Jorge Lavat Bayona was a Mexican movie and television actor. He is mostly known for his last role as Don Julio in the soap opera Eva Luna. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico on August 3, 1933. He was married first to Ana Maria Torres until they d ...

Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical theater performer. She appeared on stage in Broadway, New York City and West End, London. Lawrence was in the childrens play Where the Rainbow Ends. She also acted in The King a ...

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier was an English actor and comedian. He is best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dads Army. Le Mesurier was born on 5 April 1912 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. He ...

Rosemary Leach

Rosemary Leach was an English stage, television and movie actress. Leach won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for 84, Charing Cross Road and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role ...

Walter Learning

Walter John Learning was a Canadian theatre director, playwright and actor. He was known as the founder of Theatre New Brunswick. He was born in Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland. He wrote a play based on the Christmas television special A Gift to Last. L ...

Yvette Lebon

Simone Yvette Lebon was a French actress. She appeared in 39 movies between 1931 and 1972. Lebon was born in Paris. During World War II, she was the mistress of Jean Luchaire, a French journalist and politician. After moving to Hollywood, Califor ...

Elaine Lee (actress)

Elaine Lee was a South African-Australian actress. She was best known for her role as Vera Collins in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96. She also appeared in the drama series Heartbreak High and Home and Away. Lee was born in Springs, Tra ...

Dave Legeno

David Dave Legeno was an English actor, boxer, and mixed martial artist. He was best known for his role as the werewolf Fenrir Greyback in three Harry Potter movies; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – P ...

Suzanna Leigh

Suzanna Leigh was a British actress. She was known for her movie and television roles in the 1960s and 1970s. She was born in Berkshire, England. She was known for her role as the love interest of Elvis Presley in Paradise, Hawaiian Style. Leigh ...

Virna Lisi

Virna Pieralisi, better known as Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress. She was known for her roles in How to Murder Your Wife and in La Reine Margot. Lisi died in Ancona, Italy. On December 18, 2014, Lisi died of cancer in Rome, Italy at age 78.

Chic Littlewood

Cecil "Chic" Littlewood was a New Zealand television entertainer and actor. He appeared as a regular on Shortland Street in the role of Laurie Brasch from 1993 to 1996, and had occasional roles in such series as Mercy Peak. In 2007 he played Isaa ...

Lionel Logue

Lionel George Logue was an Australian speech therapist, scientist, and stage actor who successfully treated King George VI, who had a pronounced stammer. Lionel George Logue was born in College Town, Adelaide, South Australia on 26 February 1880. ...

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom was a Czech-English movie, stage, and television actor who was based London, England in the United Kingdom since 1939 until his retirement in 2009. In a career lasting more than 60 years he appeared in character roles, usually playing ...

Ulli Lommel

Ulli Lommel was a German actor and director. He was known for his works with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement. Lommel was well known for the time which he spent at The Factory and as a creative asso ...

Tom Long

Tom Long was an American-born Australian actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Australian parents. He was raised in Benalla, Victoria. Long is best known for his roles in the ABC hit SeaChange 1998–2000 and the Nine Network police drama ...

Michael Lonsdale

Michael Lonsdale, also billed sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French actor. He has appeared in over 180 movies and television shows. He was born in Paris and he was raised by a French mother and English father. He first appeared on stage as a ...

Lenke Loran

Lenke Loran was a Hungarian actress. She was born in Gyor, Hungary. Her career began in 1935. Loran played mostly comedies, but he also had memorable shots in more serious characters. Her best known roles were in Nyari jatek, Entanglement, and in ...

Ray Lovelock

Ray Lovelock was an Italian actor and rock musician. He was born in Rome, Italy. He performed in a rock band with longtime friend and actor Tomas Milian, where he was discovered by a talent agent. Lovelock appeared in many movies such as: Fiddler ...

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi born in what is now Lugoj, Romania, was a Hungarian-American actor of the theatre and movies. He is best known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and the movie version. He was a character actor who played many different ki ...

Maria Felix

Maria de los Angeles Felix Guereña was a Mexican actress and singer. She was known for the title role of Doña Barbara. She appeared in almost 50 movies made in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina. Felix died on 8 April 2002 in Mexico City ...

Gustaw Lutkiewicz

Gustaw Lutkiewicz was a Polish actor and singer. He started his career in 1948. He was awarded the Knights Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1970, the Officers Cross in 1985 and later the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012 ...

Kenny Lynch

Kenneth Lynch, OBE was an English rock singer-songwriter, entertainer and actor. He appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s. His best known single was "You Can Never Stop Me Loving You". An actor, his best known role were in Carry On Loving a ...

Gillian Lynne

Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, was a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director. She was known for her popular choreography with Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. She was made a DBE in the 2014 New Year Honou ...

Sheila MacRae

Sheila Margaret MacRae was an English actress, dancer, producer and singer. She was best known on television for her role as Alice Kramden in the 1960s version of The Honeymooners. She also appeared in movies such as Pretty Baby, Caged, Backfire ...

Eloisa Mafalda

Mafalda Theotto, known professionally as Eloisa Mafalda, was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Jundiai, Brazil. Throughout her career, she starred in O Ebrio 1965, Pigmalião 70 1970, A Proxima Atração 1971, Gabriela, Cravo e Canela 1975, Saram ...

Miguel Magno

Miguel Magno was a Brazilian actor, director and author. Was known for playing female roles. Magno came to the role of 11 different women characters in the play Quem tem medo de Italia Fausta. The actor had consistent theatrical career as an acto ...

Joseph Maher

Joseph Maher was an Irish-American movie, television, voice, and stage actor. He is best known from his acting in the television series Goode Behavior and the movies Heaven Can Wait, Mars Attacks and Sister Act. He played the character Mr. Chambe ...

Inna Makarova

Inna Vladimirovna Makarova was a Russian actress. She is best known for her role as Lyubov Shevtsova in The Young Guard. Her other movie credits include It Happened in the Donbass, The Return of Vasili Bortnikov, The Rumyantsev Case, The Height, ...

Jeanne Manet

Jeanne Manet was a French movie actress. After appearing in some French movies, Manet moved to Hollywood. Originally called there as a rising starlet, her roles were generally supporting ones. She was born in Houilles, France.

Nino Manfredi

Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor. He was born in Lazio, Italy. He was also a movie and stage director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio and television presenter. During his career he won many awards, includi ...

Kalabhavan Mani

Mani Raman, commonly referred to by his stage name Kalabhavan Mani, was an Indian movie actor and singer. Mani started his career as a mimicry artist with the Kalabhavan troupe. Mani was in over 200 movies. He was known for his character and vill ...

Spanky Manikan

Spanky Manikan was a Filipino actor for theater, movie and television. He was born in Manila. Manikan was known for his roles as Orly in Himala 1981 and as NAVA in the 1986 movie Behind Enemy Lines, co-starring David Carradine. He won the Metro M ...

John Mann (musician)

John Fraser Mann was a Canadian folk rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and actor. He was best known as the frontman of the folk rock band Spirit of the West. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. His best known acting role was as Slade Craven in Turbu ...

Manoj Kumar (actor)

Manoj Kumar is an Indian actor and director in Bollywood. He is remembered for his movies Hariyali Aur Raasta, Woh Kaun Thi?, Himalaya Ki God Mein, Do Badan, Upkar, Patthar Ke Sanam, Neel Kamal, Purab Aur Paschim, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, and Krant ...