Celebrities born in the 1920s 815 profiles

815 profiles in this database, most often actor, film actor, television actor. They include Yukio Mishima, Osamu Tezuka, Rentarō Mikuni, Marilyn Monroe, Kiyoshi Atsumi. Every profile lists birth date, background, career highlights and an honest "My Take".

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Yukio Mishima

三島由紀夫

Writer from Japan

Osamu Tezuka

手塚治虫

Japanese manga artist, animator, and medical doctor

Rentarō Mikuni

三國連太郎

Actor from Japan

Marilyn Monroe

マリリン・モンロー

American film actor

Kiyoshi Atsumi

渥美清

Japanese actor and comedian best known as Tora-san

Audrey Hepburn

オードリー・ヘプバーン

Stage actor from Belgium

Chikao Ōtsuka

大塚周夫

Actor from Japan

Toshiro Mifune

三船敏郎

Japanese actor, film director, and producer

Rikidōzan

力道山

Korean-born sumo wrestler and father of Japanese pro wrestling

Tetsuharu Kawakami

川上哲治

Baseball player from Japan

Tetsurō Tamba

丹波哲郎

Actor from Japan

Kōji Tsuruta

鶴田浩二

Postwar Japanese film star and singer known for brooding charisma

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

山口淑子

Singer and television host who spanned wartime stardom, broadcast journalism, and public life across six decades

Yasushi Akutagawa

芥川也寸志

Composer from Japan

Kō Nishimura

西村晃

Japanese actor of Mito Kōmon, war survivor

Marlon Brando

マーロン・ブランド

American film actor

Grace Kelly

グレース・ケリー

American actress and Princess of Monaco

Takahiro Tamura

田村高廣

Actor from Japan

Ōkawa Hashizō II

二代目大川橋蔵

Japanese jidaigeki film star

Kōbō Abe

安部公房

Pioneering Japanese novelist and playwright known for surrealist, existential fiction

Hideko Takamine

高峰秀子

Japanese actress, singer, and essayist — icon of postwar Japanese cinema

Mitsuko Mori

森光子

Legendary Japanese stage actress and national treasure

Paul Newman

ポール・ニューマン

American actor and Newman's Own founder

Hideji Ōtaki

大滝秀治

Veteran Japanese actor renowned for his commanding stage presence

Fubuki Koshiji

越路吹雪

Japan's Queen of Chanson

George H. W. Bush

ジョージ・H・W・ブッシュ

41st President of the United States

Mariko Miyagi

宮城まり子

Japanese actress and founder of a school for disabled children

Hitoshi Ueki

植木等

Japanese comedian and singer of the Crazy Cats

Judy Garland

ジュディ・ガーランド

American actress and singer of The Wizard of Oz

Nakamura Shikan VII

七代目中村芝翫

Japanese kabuki onnagata and Living National Treasure

Shigeru Kōyama

神山繁

Actor from Japan

Kin Sugai

菅井きん

Veteran character actress and beloved screen grandmother

Akiko Nomura

野村昭子

Japanese actress of Kaseifu wa Mita!

Hiroshi Akutagawa

芥川比呂志

Japanese stage actor, son of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Eiji Funakoshi

船越英二

Japanese actor of Fires on the Plain

Junkichi Orimoto

織本順吉

Japanese character actor of Fukasaku's films

Haruo Minami

三波春夫

Japanese enka singer of the 1964 Olympic song

Ikuma Dan

團伊玖磨

Pioneering Japanese composer and conductor, celebrated for the opera Yuzuru

Charles Bronson

チャールズ・ブロンソン

American actor of The Magnificent Seven

Andy Warhol

アンディ・ウォーホル

American pop artist of Campbell's Soup Cans

Frankie Sakai

フランキー堺

Japanese comedian, actor and jazz drummer

Asao Sano

佐野浅夫

Veteran Japanese actor known for his role as Mito Komon

Machiko Kyō

京マチ子

Japanese actress of Rashomon and Ugetsu

Tomoko Naraoka

奈良岡朋子

Japanese actress, head of Gekidan Mingei

Nobuko Otowa

乙羽信子

Japanese actress of The Naked Island and Onibaba

Keiju Kobayashi

小林桂樹

Versatile veteran actor of postwar Japanese cinema

Hideyo Amamoto

天本英世

Japanese character actor of the Showa era

Kaoru Betto

別当薫

Pre- and post-war Japanese baseball player from Hyogo

John Coltrane

ジョン・コルトレーン

American bandleader

Yumeji Tsukioka

月丘夢路

Japanese film actress of the classic cinema era

Shigeru Sugishita

杉下茂

Towering Showa-era professional baseball player from Tokyo

Keiko Tsushima

津島恵子

Postwar Japanese film actress from Nagasaki

Junzo Sekine

関根潤三

Baseball Hall of Famer from Sugamo, Tokyo

Noboru Aota

青田昇

Japanese professional baseball player of the Showa era

Kanbi Fujiyama

藤山寛美

Beloved Osaka comic theater actor and comedian

Eiji Okada

岡田英次

Japanese film actor and editor of the postwar era

Isao Kimura

木村功

Japanese film actor of the postwar era

Chuck Berry

チャック・ベリー

American guitarist

Bhumibol Adulyadej

ラーマ9世

King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016

Paul Mauriat

ポール・モーリア

Conductor from France

Kazuo Kumakura

熊倉一雄

Veteran Japanese actor, voice actor, and stage director

Yukio Nishimoto

西本幸雄

Hall of Fame baseball player from Wakayama

Seijun Suzuki

鈴木清順

Avant-garde Japanese film director known for his bold, stylized cinema

Hachiro Kasuga

春日八郎

Defining voice of Showa-era Japanese popular song

Gabriel García Márquez

ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス

Novelist from Colombia

Kazue Takahashi

高橋和枝

Pioneer Japanese voice actress honored with a lifetime achievement award

Dick Van Dyke

ディック・ヴァン・ダイク

American singer

Shigeru Okada

岡田茂

Postwar Japanese film producer and University of Tokyo graduate

Shoichi Ozawa

小沢昭一

Acclaimed Japanese character actor and cultural figure

Tōru Yuri

由利徹

Showa-era comic actor and voice actor from Miyagi

Lauren Bacall

ローレン・バコール

American film actor

Fumio Watanabe

渡辺文雄

University of Tokyo-educated stage and screen actor

Stan Lee

スタン・リー

American publisher

Toshiko Akiyoshi

穐吉敏子

Bandleader from People's Republic of China

Federico Fellini

フェデリコ・フェリーニ

Film director from Italy

Hideo Takamatsu

高松英郎

Veteran Showa-era character actor from Kochi

Makoto Kozuru

小鶴誠

Postwar Japanese professional baseball player

Tatsuya Mihashi

三橋達也

Veteran Japanese actor of the Showa era

Susumu Hani

羽仁進

Pioneer Japanese documentary filmmaker and screenwriter

Hisao Dazai

太宰久雄

Showa-era character actor and voice talent from downtown Tokyo

Janet Leigh

ジャネット・リー

American character actor

Akiko Kazami

風見章子

Japanese actress who spanned the golden era of Japanese cinema

James Coburn

ジェームズ・コバーン

American actor

Charlie Parker

チャーリー・パーカー

American saxophonist

Nekohachi Edoya (3rd)

江戸家猫八 (3代目)

Rakugo-affiliated comedian and voice actor famed for animal vocal impressions

Joe Jackson

ジョセフ・ジャクソン

American boxer

Tsuzuku Sugawara

菅原都々子

Veteran Japanese singer from Aomori, rooted in the postwar enka and kayokyoku tradition

Fritz Von Erich

フリッツ・フォン・エリック

American professional wrestler

Tommy Lasorda

トミー・ラソーダ

American baseball player

Leslie Nielsen

レスリー・ニールセン

Television actor from Canada

Chet Baker

チェット・ベイカー

American singer

Michio Nishizawa

西沢道夫

Japanese baseball Hall of Famer of the Showa era

Yumiko Hasegawa

長谷川裕見子

Showa-era Japanese actress from Tokyo

Astor Piazzolla

アストル・ピアソラ

Composer from Argentina

Andy Williams

アンディ・ウィリアムズ

American singer

Imelda Marcos

イメルダ・マルコス

Model from Philippines

Jimmy Savile

ジミー・サヴィル

Disc jockey from United Kingdom

Henry Mancini

ヘンリー・マンシーニ

American composer

Herbert Blomstedt

ヘルベルト・ブロムシュテット

American conductor

Yogi Berra

ヨギ・ベラ

American baseball player

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