Robert Oppenheimer
ロバート・オッペンハイマー
American theoretical physicist
Celebrities born in the 1900s 362 profiles
362 profiles in this database, most often actor, film actor, television actor. They include Robert Oppenheimer, Walt Disney, Chishū Ryū, Takashi Shimura, Empress Wanrong. Every profile lists birth date, background, career highlights and an honest "My Take".
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Walt Disney
ウォルト・ディズニー
American film director
Chishū Ryū
笠智衆
Quietly dignified Japanese character actor of film and television
Takashi Shimura
志村喬
Film actor from Japan
Empress Wanrong
婉容
Politician from People's Republic of China
Eijirō Tōno
東野英治郎
Actor from Japan
Salvador Dalí
サルバドール・ダリ
Painter from Spain
Lou Gehrig
ルー・ゲーリッグ
American baseball player
Yūji Koseki
古関裕而
Conductor from Japan
Ken Uehara
上原謙
Iconic prewar and postwar Japanese film leading man
Eiji Tsuburaya
円谷英二
Pioneer of Japanese special effects filmmaking
Ichikawa Utaemon
市川右太衛門
Actor from Japan
Noriko Awaya
淡谷のり子
Singer from Japan
Ichikawa Danjūrō XI
十一代目 市川團十郎
Kabuki actor from Japan
Enshō San'yūtei
三遊亭圓生 (6代目)
Rakugoka from Japan
Herbert von Karajan
ヘルベルト・フォン・カラヤン
Conductor from Austria
Haruko Sugimura
杉村春子
Actor from Japan
Leonid Brezhnev
レオニード・ブレジネフ
Politician from Ukraine
Kinuyo Tanaka
田中絹代
Pioneering actress and one of Japan's first female film directors
Kazuo Hasegawa
長谷川一夫
Iconic star of Japanese cinema's golden age
Katharine Hepburn
キャサリン・ヘプバーン
American film actor
Louis Armstrong
ルイ・アームストロング
American actor
Kanjūrō Arashi
嵐寛寿郎
Kabuki-trained actor and producer who defined Japanese period cinema
Luchino Visconti
ルキノ・ヴィスコンティ
Theatre director from Italy
Yoshiko Okada
岡田嘉子
Pioneer actress and film director of early Japanese cinema
Kamatari Fujiwara
藤原釜足
Veteran Japanese character actor of the prewar and postwar screen
Howard Hughes
ハワード・ヒューズ
American film producer
Greta Garbo
グレタ・ガルボ
Actor from Sweden
Henry Fonda
ヘンリー・フォンダ
American film actor
Dick Mine
ディック・ミネ
Pioneer of Japanese jazz and Showa-era popular song
Clark Gable
クラーク・ゲーブル
American film actor
Marlene Dietrich
マレーネ・ディートリッヒ
Film actor from Germany
Chieko Naniwa
浪花千栄子
Acclaimed Osaka-born character actress of mid-20th-century Japanese cinema
Simone de Beauvoir
シモーヌ・ド・ボーヴォワール
Political philosopher from France
Maria von Trapp
マリア・フォン・トラップ
Screenwriter from Austria
Sadayoshi Fujimoto
藤本定義
Early Japanese baseball player from Ehime
Nakamura Fukusuke V (Narikomaya)
成駒屋五代目 中村福助
Fifth-generation Kabuki actor of the Narikomaya line
Bette Davis
ベティ・デイヴィス
American autobiographer
Billy Wilder
ビリー・ワイルダー
Screenwriter from Poland
Glenn Miller
グレン・ミラー
American jazz musician
Kineya Katsutōji
杵屋勝東治
Traditional Japanese shamisen master of the Kineya school
Samuel Beckett
サミュエル・ベケット
Writer from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ryūtarō Tatsumi
辰巳柳太郎
Veteran Japanese stage and screen actor of the Showa era
Tokihiko Okada
岡田時彦
Silent-era Japanese film actor
William Wyler
ウィリアム・ワイラー
Screenwriter from France
Simon Wiesenthal
サイモン・ヴィーゼンタール
Nazis hunter from Ukraine
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
ネルソン・ロックフェラー
American politician
John Huston
ジョン・ヒューストン
American actor
Jimmie Foxx
ジミー・フォックス
American baseball player
Jessica Tandy
ジェシカ・タンディ
Stage actor from Roman Empire
Olivier Messiaen
オリヴィエ・メシアン
Composer from France
Jean Gabin
ジャン・ギャバン
Film actor from France
Sebastian Shaw
セバスチャン・ショウ
Stage actor from United Kingdom
Benny Goodman
ベニー・グッドマン
American composer
Elia Kazan
エリア・カザン
Film director from Byzantine Empire
Roberto Rossellini
ロベルト・ロッセリーニ
Film director from Italy
David Lean
デヴィッド・リーン
Film director from United Kingdom
Shinji Hamazaki
浜崎真二
Early Japanese baseball player from Hiroshima
Richard Rodgers
リチャード・ロジャース
American composer
Tomoko Makino
マキノ智子
Japanese actress who began her career as a child performer in the early film era
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
ルイ・フェルディナント・フォン・プロイセン
Composer from Germany
Sadao Yamanaka
山中貞雄
Film director from Japan
Carl Rogers
カール・ロジャーズ
American psychotherapist
Hiroshi Inagaki
稲垣浩
Versatile Showa-era Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
Count Basie
カウント・ベイシー
American pianist
Nobuaki Nidegawa
二出川延明
Pioneer Japanese baseball umpire from the early professional era
James Mason
ジェームズ・メイソン
Actor from United Kingdom
Ureo Egawa
江川宇礼雄
Versatile prewar Japanese filmmaker — director, actor, and screenwriter
Junius Richard Jayewardene
ジュニウス・リチャード・ジャヤワルダナ
Cricketer from Sri Lanka
Alice Prin
アリス・プラン
Actor from France
Teruko Kishi
岸輝子
Japanese actress active from the Meiji era through the Showa era
Robert Ryan
ロバート・ライアン
American film actor
Tadashi Manjōme
万城目正
Japanese composer from Hokkaido, trained at Musashino Academia Musicae
John Gielgud
ジョン・ギールグッド
Theatre director from United Kingdom
Fred Zinnemann
フレッド・ジンネマン
Film producer from Austria
Joseph Cotten
ジョゼフ・コットン
American film actor
Teiichi Futamura
二村定一
Taisho-era entertainer: singer, actor, and comedian
Jack Churchill
ジャック・チャーチル
Military personnel from Sri Lanka
Kensaku Hara
原健策
Veteran Japanese actor who worked across seven decades of Showa-era screen history
Rex Harrison
レックス・ハリソン
Film actor from United Kingdom
Barbara Stanwyck
バーバラ・スタンウィック
American television actor
Sadao Maruyama
丸山定夫
Japanese stage actor of the Taisho and Showa eras
Yoshio Yuasa
湯浅禎夫
Early Japanese baseball player from Tottori Prefecture
Joaquín Rodrigo
ホアキン・ロドリーゴ
Composer from Spain
Tex Avery
テックス・アヴェリー
American film director
Shizue Natsukawa
夏川静江
Veteran Japanese actress honored with the Order of the Purple Ribbon
Kikue Mōri
毛利菊枝
Veteran Japanese actress spanning four imperial eras
Cab Calloway
キャブ・キャロウェイ
American singer
Kazuo Miyagawa
宮川一夫
Master cinematographer who shaped the visual language of Japanese cinema
W. Edwards Deming
W・エドワーズ・デミング
American industrial engineer
Tadashi Hattori
服部正
Centenarian Japanese composer honored with the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Ichirō Sugai
菅井一郎
Japanese actor and film director from Kyoto
Lester Young
レスター・ヤング
American clarinetist
Karel Ančerl
カレル・アンチェル
Conductor from Czech Republic
Victor Borge
ヴィクター・ボーグ
Conductor from Denmark
Chikako Hosokawa
細川ちか子
Japanese actress of the Showa era
Margaret Hamilton
マーガレット・ハミルトン
American teacher
Shizue Kawarazaki
河原崎しづ江
Veteran Japanese actress of the Taisho and Showa eras
Lita Grey
リタ・グレイ
American actor
Margaret Mead
マーガレット・ミード
American anthropologist
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