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Peter Seamus OToole (August 2, 1932 December 14, 2013) was a British actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. In 1959 he made his West End debut in The Long and the Short and the Tall, and played the ... ... ( read more! ) Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known f ... ... ( read more! ) Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 June 3, 2001), known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, The Message, Lion of the Desert, and La Strada. He won the Academ ... ... ( read more! ) John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men in films like Angels One Five (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Ben ... ... ( read more! ) Michel Dimitri Shalhoub, known as Omar Sharif (Arabic: ), also spelled Omar El-Sherif, born April 10, 1932 in Alexandria and died July 10, 2015 in Cairo, is an Egyptian actor. The son of a precious wood merchant, he grew up in a united Christian family with his parents and his sister. Enrolled at Victoria College, a prestigious British school in A ... ... ( read more! ) Jos Ferrer (January 8, 1912 January 26, 1992), was a Puerto Rican actor and director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award. ... ... ( read more! ) Sir John Anthony Quayle CBE (7 September 1913 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director.Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Quayle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ... ... ( read more! ) Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, perhaps his most famous performance, Captain Renault in Casablanca ... ... ( read more! ) John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Pla ... ... ( read more! ) ... I.S. Johar was born on 16 February 1920 in Talagang (now Pakistan), British India. He completed MA degree in Economics and Politics before completing his LLB. In 1947, during the Partition crisis, Johar was visiting Patiala with his family for a wedding, when riots broke out back home in Lahore. He could never go back, and thereafter he worked in J ... ... ( read more! ) Born Gameel Abu-Bakr Raateb (November 1928 Cairo) is an Egyptian actor. In 1940s, Gameel first appeared in the film Al-forsaan al-thalaatha i.e. The three musketeers, his family refused the idea and his scenes were removed. Raateb traveled to Paris to study Law and Economy, yet he preferred studying Theatre and appeared in Shakespeares Much ado wi ... ... ( read more! ) ... Zia Mohyeddin (1931-2023) was a British-Pakistani polymath, actor and comedian famed for his voice.He was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), British India in a Urdu Speaking Family. He spent his early life in Karachi. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London from 1953-1956. After stage roles in Long Days Journey Into Night and ... ... ( read more! )