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Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
Sep 24
, 1905
Houston, TX
Apr 5
, 1976
Houston, TX
Howard Hughes
John Marcellus Huston
Aug 5
, 1906
Nevada, MO
Aug 28
, 1987
Middletown, RI
John Huston
Elias Kazanjoglou
Sep 7
, 1909
Constantinople [now Istanbul], Turkey
Sep 28
, 2003
Manhattan, New York City
Elia Kazan
Joseph Frank Keaton VI
Oct 4
, 1895
Piqua, KS
Feb 1
, 1966
Los Angeles, CA
Buster Keaton
Eugene Curran Kelly
Aug 23
, 1912
Pittsburgh, PA
Feb 2
, 1996
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Gene Kelly
Stanley Earl Kramer
Sep 29
, 1913
Brooklyn, New York City
Feb 19
, 2001
Woodland Hills, CA
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kubrick
Jul 26
, 1928
New York City, NY
Mar 7
, 1999
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
Stanley Kubrick
Burton Stephen Lancaster
Nov 2
, 1913
New York City, NY
Oct 20
, 1994
Century City, CA
Burt Lancaster
Charles Laughton
Jul 1
, 1899
Scarborough, Yorkshire
Dec 15
, 1962
Hollywood, CA
Charles Laughton
David Lean
Mar 25
, 1908
Croydon, England
Apr 16
, 1991
London, England
David Lean
Joseph Levitch
Mar 16
, 1926
Newark, NJ
Aug 20
, 2017
Las Vegas, NV
Jerry Lewis
Ernst Lubitsch
Jan 29
, 1892
Berlin, Germany
Nov 30
, 1947
Hollywood, CA
Ernst Lubitsch
Ida Lupino
Feb 4
, 1918
London, England
Aug 3
, 1995
Los Angeles, CA
Ida Lupino
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
Feb 11
, 1909
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Feb 5
, 1993
Bedford, NY
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Walter John Matthow
Oct 1
, 1920
New York City, NY
Jul 1
, 2000
Santa Monica, CA
Walter Matthau
Thomas Leo McCarey
Oct 3
, 1896
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 5
, 1969
Santa Monica, CA
Leo McCarey
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux
Jan 2
, 1884
Metropolis, IL
Mar 25
, 1951
Charlotte, NC
Oscar Micheaux
Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones
Jan 3
, 1905
Neath, Glamorgan
Mar 10
, 1986
Torrance, CA
Ray Milland
Lester Anthony Minnelli
Feb 28
, 1903
Chicago, IL
Jul 25
, 1986
Beverly Hills, CA
Vincente Minnelli
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum
Aug 6
, 1917
Bridgeport, CT
Jul 1
, 1997
Santa Barbara, CA
Robert Mitchum
Henry Montgomery Jr.
May 21
, 1904
Beacon, NY
Sep 27
, 1981
New York City, NY
Robert Montgomery
Paul Leonard Newman
Jan 26
, 1925
Shaker Heights, OH
Sep 26
, 2008
Westport, CT
Paul Newman
Laurence Kerr Olivier
May 22
, 1907
Surrey, England
Jul 11
, 1989
West Sussex, England
Laurence Olivier
Otto Ludwig Preminger
Dec 5
, 1905
Wiznitz, Bukovina
Apr 23
, 1986
New York City, NY
Otto Preminger
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca
Apr 21
, 1915
Chihuahua, Mexico
Jun 3
, 2001
Boston, MA
Anthony Quinn
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