Film & Theatre

Steven Spielberg

directed Schindler's List and Jaws

b. 1946

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress

b. 1942

Woody Allen

directed Annie Hall

b. 1935

Marilyn Monroe

film star; convert to Judaism

1926 – 1962

Elizabeth Taylor

film star, early AIDS campaigner

1932 – 2011

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

president of Ukraine

b. 1978

Mel Brooks

American comedian, filmmaker, and actor

b. 1926

Paul Simon

American singer-songwriter

b. 1941

Scarlett Johansson

American actress

b. 1984

Stanley Kubrick

directed 2001 and Dr. Strangelove

1928 – 1999

Adam Sandler

American actor and comedian

b. 1966

Harrison Ford

American actor

b. 1942

Paul Newman

American actor

1925 – 2008

Stan Lee

American comic book writer, editor, publisher

1922 – 2018

William Shatner

Canadian actor

b. 1931

Robert Downey Jr.

the comeback, and Iron Man

b. 1965

Alanis Morissette

Canadian-American singer

b. 1974

Dustin Hoffman

American actor

b. 1937

Michael Douglas

American actor, producer and activist

b. 1944

Natalie Portman

actor; Harvard-trained

b. 1981

Neil Gaiman

English writer

b. 1960

Rob Reiner

American filmmaker and actor

1947 – 2025

Timothée Chalamet

French-American actor

b. 1995

Ben Stiller

American actor and comedian

b. 1965

Bette Midler

American singer and actress

b. 1945

Carole King

American singer-songwriter and musician

b. 1942

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

b. 1972

James Franco

American actor

b. 1978

Kirk Douglas

American actor

1916 – 2020

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New Y

b. 1942

Richard Rodgers

American composer of songs and Broadway musicals

1902 – 1979

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

b. 1957

Stephen Sondheim

American composer and lyricist

1930 – 2021

Sammy Davis Jr.

American entertainer

1925 – 1990

Arthur Miller

American playwright and essayist

1915 – 2005

Hailee Steinfeld

American actress and singer

b. 1996

Jack Black

American actor, comedian, and musician

b. 1969

Jake Gyllenhaal

American actor

b. 1980

Jon Stewart

American comedian, writer, producer, activist

b. 1962

Kaia Gerber

American model and actress

b. 2001

Kate Hudson

American actress and singer

b. 1979

Rachel Weisz

British actress

b. 1970

Randy Newman

American singer-songwriter and pianist

b. 1943

Sacha Baron Cohen

British comedian and actor

b. 1971

Seth Rogen

Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker

b. 1982

Winona Ryder

American actress

b. 1971

Ayn Rand

Russian-born American writer and public philosopher

1905 – 1982

Bill Maher

American stand-up comedian and television host

b. 1956

Carl Reiner

American actor

1922 – 2020

Goldie Hawn

American actress

b. 1945

Hedy Lamarr

film star; invented frequency hopping

1914 – 2000

Irving Berlin

American composer and lyricist

1888 – 1989

J. J. Abrams

American filmmaker

b. 1966

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

American actress

b. 1961

Lauren Bacall

American actress

1924 – 2014

Allen Ginsberg

American poet and writer

1926 – 1997

Billy Crystal

American actor, comedian, writer, producer

b. 1948

Calvin Klein

American fashion designer

b. 1942

Jeff Goldblum

American actor and musician

b. 1952

Patricia Arquette

American actress

b. 1968

Peter Sellers

British actor and comedian

1925 – 1980

Sam Raimi

American filmmaker

b. 1959

Sarah Jessica Parker

American actress

b. 1965

Taika Waititi

New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian

b. 1975

Tom Stoppard

Czech–English playwright

1937 – 2025

Aaron Sorkin

American filmmaker

b. 1961

Billy Wilder

Austrian and American filmmaker

1906 – 2002

Gene Simmons

Israeli-American musician and songwriter

b. 1949

Harlan Ellison

American writer

1934 – 2018

Jennifer Jason Leigh

American actress

b. 1962

Jerry Lewis

American comedian, actor and film director

1926 – 2017

Jerry Seinfeld

American comedian and actor

b. 1954

Jesse Eisenberg

American actor

b. 1983

Matthew Broderick

American actor

b. 1962

Paul Rudd

American actor

b. 1969

Paula Abdul

American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress

b. 1962

Shia LaBeouf

American actor

b. 1986

Danny Kaye

American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian

1913 – 1987

Eugene Levy

Canadian actor and comedian

b. 1946

Gloria Steinem

American feminist activist and journalist

1934 – 2026

Larry David

American comedian, writer and actor

b. 1947

Liev Schreiber

American actor

b. 1967

Maggie Gyllenhaal

American actress, singer and filmmaker

b. 1977

Maya Rudolph

American actress and comedian

b. 1972

Mila Kunis

American actress

b. 1983

Philip Glass

American composer

b. 1937

Richard Dreyfuss

American actor

b. 1947

Sarah Michelle Gellar

American actress

b. 1977

Adam Lambert

American singer

b. 1982

Alan Arkin

American actor, filmmaker

1934 – 2023

Andy Samberg

American comedian and actor

b. 1978

Cecil B. DeMille

American film director, producer and actor

1881 – 1959

Christopher Guest

British-American screenwriter, comedian, musician, director

b. 1948

Darren Aronofsky

American filmmaker

b. 1969

Harvey Keitel

American actor

b. 1939

Helen Hunt

American actress

b. 1963

Henry Winkler

American actor

b. 1945

Idina Menzel

American actress and singer

b. 1971

James Caan

American actor

1940 – 2022

James L. Brooks

American director, writer, and producer

b. 1940

Jennifer Connelly

American actress

b. 1970

Jennifer Grey

American actress

b. 1960

Joan Rivers

American comedian, actress, and television host

1933 – 2014

Jon Bernthal

American actor

b. 1976

Jon Favreau

American actor and filmmaker

b. 1966

Lena Dunham

American writer, director, actress, and producer

b. 1986

Leonard Nimoy

American actor

1931 – 2015

Mandy Moore

American actress and singer

b. 1984

Mayim Bialik

American actress, television personality

b. 1975

Mel Blanc

American voice actor

1908 – 1989

Mike Nichols

American director and comedian

1931 – 2014

Noah Wyle

American actor

b. 1971

Sarah Silverman

American comedian, actress, and writer

b. 1970

Sidney Lumet

American director, producer and screenwriter

1924 – 2011

David Benioff

American writer and producer

b. 1970

David Mamet

American playwright, filmmaker and author

b. 1947

Ed Asner

American actor

1929 – 2021

Eli Wallach

American actor

1915 – 2014

Emmy Rossum

American actress

b. 1986

George Burns

American comedian, actor, writer and singer

1896 – 1996

Hank Azaria

American actor

b. 1964

Harold Pinter

British playwright

1930 – 2008

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

American actor and filmmaker

b. 1981

Lisa Kudrow

American actress

b. 1963

Lorne Michaels

Canadian and American television producer, writer

b. 1944

Mandy Patinkin

American actor and singer

b. 1952

Natasha Lyonne

American actress

b. 1979

Paul Heyman

American professional wrestling promoter

b. 1965

Peter Falk

American actor

1927 – 2011

Rod Serling

American screenwriter

1924 – 1975

Serge Gainsbourg

French singer, songwriter, composer, writer

1928 – 1991

Tony Curtis

American actor

1925 – 2010

Walter Matthau

American actor, comedian and director

1920 – 2000

Adam Levine

American singer

b. 1979

Al Franken

American comedian and politician

b. 1951

Alison Brie

American actress and writer

b. 1982

Amy Schumer

American comedian and actress

b. 1981

Barry Levinson

American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer

b. 1942

Charlie Kaufman

American filmmaker and novelist

b. 1958

Edward G. Robinson

Romanian-American actor

1893 – 1973

Elliott Gould

American actor

b. 1938

Eric Dane

American actor

1972 – 2026

Groucho Marx

American comedian

1890 – 1977

Henry Rollins

American musician

b. 1961

Jason Alexander

American actor, comedian, director and television host

b. 1959

Jon Ossoff

American politician and filmmaker

b. 1987

Jonah Hill

American actor

b. 1983

Judd Apatow

American comedian and filmmaker

b. 1967

Marvin Hamlisch

American composer and conductor

1944 – 2012

Michael Bay

American film director and producer

b. 1965

Neil Simon

American playwright, writer, and academic

1927 – 2018

Norman Lear

American television writer and producer

1922 – 2023

Norman Mailer

American writer

1923 – 2007

Peter Bogdanovich

American film director

1939 – 2022

Ron Perlman

American actor

b. 1950

Roseanne Barr

American actress and comedian

b. 1952

Susan Sontag

American writer and filmmaker, professor

1933 – 2004

Tara Strong

Canadian-American actress

b. 1973

Zoë Kravitz

American actress, director, singer and model

b. 1988

Albert Brooks

American actor and comedian

b. 1947

Andy Kaufman

American entertainer

1949 – 1984

Carol Kane

American actress

b. 1952

Corey Feldman

American actor and musician

b. 1971

David Cross

American stand-up comedian and actor

b. 1964

Gene Wilder

American actor

1933 – 2016

Gilda Radner

American actress and comedian

1946 – 1989

Kyra Sedgwick

American actress

b. 1965

Larry King

American television and radio host

1933 – 2021

Lily Collins

British-American actress

b. 1989

Man Ray

American and French visual artist

1890 – 1976

Martin Landau

American actor

1928 – 2017

Matt Stone

American actor, animator and filmmaker

b. 1971

Mel Tormé

American recording artist

1925 – 1999

Michael Mann

American film director, screenwriter

b. 1943

Michelle Trachtenberg

American actress

1985 – 2025

Philip Roth

American novelist

1933 – 2018

Rashida Jones

American actress, writer, and producer

b. 1976

Sydney Pollack

American film director, producer and actor

1934 – 2008

Yair Lapid

leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)

b. 1963

Al Jolson

American entertainer, actor, and singer

1886 – 1950

Barbara Hershey

American actress

b. 1948

Bea Arthur

American actress and comedienne

1922 – 2009

David Arquette

American actor, director and professional wrestler

b. 1971

Dinah Shore

American singer and actress

1916 – 1994

Don Rickles

American stand-up comedian

1926 – 2017

Fran Drescher

American actress

b. 1957

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

b. 1954

Howard Stern

American radio and television personality

b. 1954

Jack Benny

American comedic entertainer

1894 – 1974

Jason Segel

American actor

b. 1980

Jeffrey Tambor

American actor

b. 1944

Jerome Kern

American composer of musical theater and popular music

1885 – 1945

Joel Grey

American actor, singer, dancer, director

b. 1932

John Landis

American film director, screenwriter and producer

b. 1950

Katey Sagal

American actress

b. 1954

Maxwell Jacob Friedman

American professional wrestler

b. 1996

Michael Landon

American actor and filmmaker

1936 – 1991

Naomi Klein

Canadian author and activist

b. 1970

Pamela Adlon

American actress

b. 1966

Ralph Bakshi

Palestinian-American animator

b. 1938

Shelley Winters

American actress

1920 – 2006

Wallace Shawn

American actor

b. 1943

William Friedkin

American director and producer

1935 – 2023

Zach Braff

American actor and filmmaker

b. 1975

Ally Sheedy

American actress

b. 1962

Ashley Tisdale

American actress and singer

b. 1985

Bebe Neuwirth

American actress

b. 1958

Bob Saget

American stand-up comedian

1956 – 2022

Cass Elliot

American singer

1941 – 1974

Dave Franco

American actor

b. 1985

David Schwimmer

American actor

b. 1966

Elaine May

American screenwriter, film director, actress

b. 1932

Ellen Barkin

American actress

b. 1954

Evan Rachel Wood

American actress

b. 1987

Harold Arlen

American composer of popular music

1905 – 1986

Harold Ramis

American actor, comedian, and filmmaker

1944 – 2014

Harry Connick Jr.

American musician and actor

b. 1967

James Remar

American actor

b. 1953

Julianna Margulies

American actress

b. 1966

Madison Beer

American singer

b. 1999

Mikey Madison

American actress

b. 1999

Paul Reubens

American actor and comedian

1952 – 2023

Peter Lorre

Hungarian and American actor

1904 – 1964

Rodney Dangerfield

American stand-up comedian

1921 – 2004

Rosanna Arquette

American actress

b. 1959

Abigail Breslin

American actress

b. 1996

Adam Brody

American actor

b. 1979

Amanda Bynes

American actress and fashion designer

b. 1986

Ben Foster

American actor

b. 1980

Brad Garrett

American actor and stand-up comedian

b. 1960

Chelsea Handler

American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

b. 1975

Debra Messing

American actress

b. 1968

Dyan Cannon

American film and television actress, director, screenwriter

b. 1937

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian

1955 – 2022

Harry Shearer

American actor

b. 1943

Jason Reitman

Canadian-American film director

b. 1977

Jenny Slate

American actress and comedian

b. 1982

Jeremy Piven

American actor

b. 1965

Jerry Springer

American television personality and politician

1944 – 2023

Josh Gad

American actor

b. 1981

Judd Hirsch

American actor

b. 1935

Julia Garner

American actress

b. 1994

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

b. 1954

Lee Grant

American actress

b. 1927

Louis B. Mayer

Canadian-American film producer

1884 – 1957

Madeline Kahn

American actress, singer

1942 – 1999

Melissa Gilbert

American actress

b. 1964

Michael Rapaport

American actor

b. 1970

Milton Berle

American comedian and actor

1908 – 2002

Nora Ephron

American film director and writer

1941 – 2012

Ryan O'Neal

American actor

1941 – 2023

Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer

1881 – 1942

Tony Goldwyn

American actor and director

b. 1960

William Wyler

Swiss-German-American director and producer

1902 – 1981

Alyson Hannigan

American actress and television presenter

b. 1974

Amanda Peet

American actress

b. 1972

Anton Yelchin

American actor

1989 – 2016

Ben Platt

American actor and singer

b. 1993

Benny Safdie

American filmmaker

b. 1986

Debra Winger

American actress

b. 1955

Doris Roberts

American actress

1925 – 2016

Eli Roth

American filmmaker and actor

b. 1972

Estelle Getty

American actress

1923 – 2008

Fred Savage

American actor and director

b. 1976

George Segal

American actor

1934 – 2021

Gina Gershon

American actress

b. 1962

Ginnifer Goodwin

American actress

b. 1978

Helen Reddy

Australian and American singer and actress

1941 – 2020

Jerry Stiller

American actor and comedian

1927 – 2020

Jessica Walter

American actress

1941 – 2021

Jon Lovitz

American actor and comedian

b. 1957

Josh Safdie

American filmmaker

b. 1984

Judith Light

American actress

b. 1949

Lisa Bonet

American actress

b. 1967

Marlee Matlin

American actress

b. 1965

Nick Kroll

American comedian and actor

b. 1978

Rhea Perlman

American actress

b. 1948

Richard Kind

American actor

b. 1956

Rick Moranis

Canadian actor, comedian and musician

b. 1953

Robert Bloch

American fiction writer

1917 – 1994

Selma Blair

American actress

b. 1972

Stephen Lang

American actor

b. 1952

William Goldman

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

1931 – 2018

Ad-Rock

American rapper, guitarist, and actor

b. 1966

Adolph Zukor

Hungarian-American film producer

1873 – 1976

Brad Falchuk

American television writer, director and producer

b. 1971

Curly Howard

American comedian as one of the Three Stooges

1903 – 1952

Daveed Diggs

American actor and rapper

b. 1982

Dorothy Parker

American poet, short story writer

1893 – 1967

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

American actor

b. 1977

Eddie Cantor

American comedian and actor

1892 – 1964

Jerry Orbach

American actor and singer

1935 – 2004

Joey King

American actress

b. 1999

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

American film director, screenwriter

1909 – 1993

Josh Peck

American actor and comedian

b. 1986

Logan Lerman

American actor

b. 1992

Marc Maron

American comedian, actor, and media personality

b. 1963

Martin Balsam

American actor

1919 – 1996

Melvyn Douglas

American actor

1901 – 1981

Michael Chabon

American novelist, short story writer, essayist

b. 1963

Michael Schur

American television producer and writer

b. 1975

Noah Schnapp

American and Canadian actor

b. 2004

Odessa A'zion

American actress and voice actress

b. 2000

Paul Reiser

American actor

b. 1956

Paul Wesley

American actor

b. 1982

Piper Laurie

American actress

1932 – 2023

R. L. Stine

American novelist

b. 1943

Samuel Goldwyn

Polish-American film producer

1882 – 1974

Sid Caesar

American comic actor and writer

1922 – 2014

Tim Blake Nelson

American actor, director and writer

b. 1964

Todd Haynes

American film director and screenwriter

b. 1961

Tom Arnold

American stand-up comedian and actor

b. 1959

Topher Grace

American actor

b. 1978

Zoey Deutch

American actress

b. 1994

Alex Borstein

American actress

b. 1971

Bill Finger

American comic strip and comic book writer

1914 – 1974

Brent Spiner

American actor

b. 1949

Chris Penn

American actor

1965 – 2006

Corey Stoll

American stage and screen actor

b. 1976

Damon Lindelof

American screenwriter and producer

b. 1973

Elmer Bernstein

American composer and conductor

1922 – 2004

Fisher Stevens

American actor, director, producer and writer

b. 1963

Harlan Coben

American writer

b. 1962

Jack Albertson

American actor

1907 – 1981

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

American actress

b. 1981

Joan Blondell

American actress

1906 – 1979

Jon Lovett

American screenwriter, speechwriter, and television producer

b. 1982

June Foray

American voice actress

1917 – 2017

June Squibb

American actress

b. 1929

Kat Dennings

American actress

b. 1986

Kenneth Lonergan

American film director, playwright, and screenwriter

b. 1962

Laraine Newman

American actress, writer and comedian

b. 1952

Lawrence Kasdan

American film director and film producer

b. 1949

Lee Strasberg

American theatre director

1901 – 1982

Lesley Gore

American singer

1946 – 2015

Linda Lavin

American actress and singer

1937 – 2024

Lizzy Caplan

American actress

b. 1982

Michael Stuhlbarg

American actor

b. 1968

Moe Howard

American comedian and actor

1897 – 1975

Norma Shearer

Canadian-American actress

1902 – 1983

Paddy Chayefsky

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist

1923 – 1981

Rachel Dratch

American actress and comedian

b. 1966

Robert Morse

American actor

1931 – 2022

Sandra Bernhard

American actress

b. 1955

Scott Glenn

American actor

b. 1941

Shemp Howard

American comedian and actor

1895 – 1955

Steve Blum

American voice actor

b. 1960

Tony Randall

American actor

1920 – 2004

Andy Cohen

American radio and television talk show host

b. 1968

Anne Meara

American comedian and actress

1929 – 2015

B. J. Novak

American actor

b. 1979

Ben Schwartz

American actor

b. 1981

Camryn Manheim

American actress

b. 1961

David Krumholtz

American actor

b. 1978

David O. Selznick

American film producer

1902 – 1965

Elizabeth Berkley

American actress

b. 1972

Garry Shandling

American comedian

1949 – 2016

Harvey Korman

American actor and comedian

1927 – 2008

Jack Klugman

American actor

1922 – 2012

Kevin Pollak

American actor, comedian

b. 1957

Larry Fine

American comedian and actor

1902 – 1975

Lewis Black

American comedian and actor

b. 1948

Mare Winningham

American actress

b. 1959

Nancy Meyers

American film director, producer and screenwriter

b. 1949

Pauly Shore

American comedian and actor

b. 1968

Peggy Lipton

American actress and singer

1946 – 2019

Peter Berg

American actor, film director

b. 1964

Phil Silvers

American entertainer, comedic actor, songwriter

1911 – 1985

Richard Belzer

American actor and comedian

1944 – 2023

Richard Schiff

American actor

b. 1955

Ruby Wax

American comedian

b. 1953

Sam Levinson

American screenwriter, director and producer

b. 1985

Sara Dylan

American actress and model

b. 1939

Sara Gilbert

American actress

b. 1975

Steve Guttenberg

American actor

b. 1958

Susanna Hoffs

American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress

b. 1959

Suzanne Pleshette

American actress

1937 – 2008

Yuri Lowenthal

American voice actor

b. 1971

Zoë Wanamaker

American-born British actress

b. 1949

Akiva Goldsman

American film producer

b. 1962

Andrew Dice Clay

American comedian and actor

b. 1957

Buck Henry

American actor

1930 – 2020

Buddy Hackett

American actor and comedian

1924 – 2003

Carolyn Jones

American actress

1930 – 1983

Cole Hauser

American actor

b. 1975

Dianna Agron

American actress

b. 1986

E. G. Daily

American actress

b. 1961

Edward Zwick

American filmmaker and producer

b. 1952

Eric Roth

American screenwriter

b. 1945

Ernst Lubitsch

German-American actor and film director

1892 – 1947

Friz Freleng

American animator, cartoonist, director

1905 – 1995

Hannah Einbinder

American comedian and actress

b. 1995

Ike Barinholtz

American comedian and actor

b. 1977

James Mangold

American film director, screenwriter

b. 1963

Jami Gertz

American actress

b. 1965

Jeff Garlin

American comedian and actor

b. 1962

John Houseman

Romanian-born British–American actor and film producer

1902 – 1988

Josh Charles

American actor

b. 1971

Julie Kavner

American actress

b. 1950

Jurnee Smollett

American actress

b. 1986

Kate Capshaw

American actress who converted to Judaism

b. 1953

Kelly Kelly

American professional wrestler, model

b. 1987

Lake Bell

American actress, director and screenwriter

b. 1979

Lisa Loeb

American musician

b. 1968

Marty Feldman

British author, actor, comedian and director

1934 – 1982

Mike Wallace

American journalist, game show host and actor

1918 – 2012

Nicholas Meyer

American screenwriter, producer, author, and director

b. 1945

Paul Auster

American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter

1947 – 2024

Paul Frees

American actor

1920 – 1986

Paul Muni

Austrian-born American stage and film actor

1895 – 1967

Rachel Bilson

American actress

b. 1981

Rachel Bloom

American actress, singer, and producer

b. 1987

Robert Towne

American screenwriter, producer

1934 – 2024

Stanley Donen

American film director and choreographer

1924 – 2019

Stephen Tobolowsky

American actor

b. 1951

Steven Weber

American actor

b. 1961

Tori Spelling

American actress

b. 1973

Vic Morrow

American actor

1929 – 1982

Will Eisner

American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur

1917 – 2005

Alan J. Pakula

American film director, writer and producer

1928 – 1998

Alden Ehrenreich

American actor

b. 1989

Alex Kurtzman

American television producer

b. 1973

Amy Sherman-Palladino

American television writer, director, and producer

b. 1966

Andrew Ross Sorkin

American journalist and author

b. 1977

Ari Aster

American film director and screenwriter

b. 1986

Bob Balaban

American actor, director and producer

b. 1945

Carl Laemmle

German-American film producer

1867 – 1939

Carroll Baker

American actress

b. 1931

Charles Grodin

American actor

1935 – 2021

Dan Fogler

American actor, musician and filmmaker

b. 1976

Daniel Stern

American actor, artist, director and screenwriter

b. 1957

David S. Goyer

American filmmaker, novelist, and comic book writer

b. 1965

Ed Wynn

American actor

1886 – 1966

Edna Ferber

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

1885 – 1968

Elfriede Jelinek

Austria's unforgiving novelist

b. 1946

Emily Ratajkowski

American model and actress

b. 1991

Ethan Slater

American actor and singer

b. 1992

Harmony Korine

American film director and screenwriter

b. 1973

Ione Skye

British-born American actress

b. 1970

Jenny Lewis

American musician and actress

b. 1976

John Forsythe

American film and television actor

1918 – 2010

Judd Nelson

American actor

b. 1959

Judy Holliday

American actress, comedian and singer

1921 – 1965

Larry Gelbart

American comedy writer and playwright

1928 – 2009

Laura Prepon

American actress and director

b. 1980

Lauren Cohan

American-British actress

b. 1982

Lee J. Cobb

American actor

1911 – 1976

Marv Wolfman

American comic book writer

b. 1946

Matthew Weiner

American screenwriter

b. 1965

Max Greenfield

American actor

b. 1979

Michael Rosenbaum

American actor

b. 1972

Nina Hartley

American pornographic film actress

b. 1959

Richard Lewis

American stand-up comedian

1947 – 2024

Richard Simmons

American fitness instructor and video producer

1948 – 2024

Sam Simon

American television producer

1955 – 2015

Scott Caan

American actor

b. 1976

Sherry Lansing

American film studio executive and actress

b. 1944

Simon Helberg

American actor and comedian

b. 1980

Simon Rex

American actor

b. 1974

Stanisław Lem

Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist

1921 – 2006

Steven Bochco

American television writer and producer

1943 – 2018

Sylvia Sidney

American actress

1910 – 1999

Ted Levine

American actor

b. 1957

Todd Phillips

American filmmaker

b. 1970

Tovah Feldshuh

American actress

b. 1952

Vicki Lawrence

American actress, comedian, and pop singer

b. 1949

Walter Koenig

American actor and screenwriter

b. 1936

Zero Mostel

American actor

1915 – 1977

Adam Arkin

American actor and director

b. 1956

Amy Pascal

American film producer and business executive

b. 1958

Arthur Schnitzler

Austrian writer

1862 – 1931

Bert Lahr

American actor

1895 – 1967

Bruce McGill

American actor

b. 1950

Cameron Boyce

American actor

1999 – 2019

Carlos Alazraqui

American actor

b. 1962

David Baddiel

British comedian

b. 1964

Eva Gabor

Hungarian-American actress and socialite

1919 – 1995

Hal Linden

American actor

b. 1931

Jackie Mason

American comedian

1928 – 2021

Jay Roach

American filmmaker

b. 1957

John Corbett

American actor and country music singer

b. 1961

Katie Lowes

American actress

b. 1982

Kyle Richards

American actress and television personality

b. 1969

Leslie Howard

British actor

1893 – 1943

Lisa Edelstein

American actress

b. 1966

Mara Wilson

American actress

b. 1987

Mark Margolis

American actor

1939 – 2023

Matisyahu

American musician

b. 1979

Max Steiner

Austrian-born American music composer and conductor

1888 – 1971

Oliver Hudson

American actor

b. 1976

Paul Mazursky

American film director, screenwriter

1930 – 2014

Philip Kaufman

American film director, screenwriter and film producer

b. 1936

Red Buttons

American comedian and actor

1919 – 2006

Richard Benjamin

American actor and film director

b. 1938

Ricki Lake

American television host and actress

b. 1968

Robert Smigel

American actor and comedian

b. 1960

Skyler Gisondo

American actor

b. 1996

Steven Bauer

Euro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer

b. 1956

Tina Louise

American actress

b. 1934

Tom Bosley

American actor

1927 – 2010

William Fox

Hungarian-American film producer

1879 – 1952

Yaphet Kotto

American actor

1939 – 2021

Arthur Penn

American producer and director

1922 – 2010

Beanie Feldstein

American actress

b. 1993

Brett Gelman

American actor and comedian

b. 1976

Carrie Brownstein

American musician and actress

b. 1974

D. B. Weiss

American writer and producer

b. 1971

Dan Futterman

American screenwriter and actor

b. 1967

Dustin Diamond

American actor, musician, director

1977 – 2021

Eddie Fisher

American singer and actor

1928 – 2010

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Moroccan-Canadian-American actress

b. 1975

Eric André

American comedian and actor

b. 1983

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director

b. 1974

Erich von Stroheim

Austrian actor and director

1885 – 1957

Fanny Brice

American actress, singer and comedian

1891 – 1951

H. Jon Benjamin

American actor

b. 1966

Harpo Marx

American comedian

1888 – 1964

Jennifer Westfeldt

American actress

b. 1970

Jeremy Jordan

American actor and singer

b. 1984

Joe Besser

American actor and comedian

1907 – 1988

John Garfield

American actor

1913 – 1952

Jules Dassin

American film director

1911 – 2008

Lainie Kazan

American actress and singer

b. 1942

Melissa Manchester

American singer and actress

b. 1951

Noah Emmerich

American actor

b. 1965

Richard Brooks

American screenwriter

1912 – 1992

Ron Leibman

American actor

1937 – 2019

Ron Silver

American actor

1946 – 2009

Sam Seder

American comedian and political progressive talk radio ho

b. 1966

Shari Lewis

American ventriloquist, puppeteer

1933 – 1998

Sidney Sheldon

American writer

1917 – 2007

Steve Lawrence

American singer and actor

1935 – 2024

Studs Terkel

American author, historian and broadcaster

1912 – 2008

Tristan Tzara

Romanian-French poet

1896 – 1963

Victor Borge

Danish comedian and pianist

1909 – 2000

Zosia Mamet

American actress, musician

b. 1988

Abbi Jacobson

American comedian and actress

b. 1984

Annie Sprinkle

American sex educator and artist

b. 1954

Ben Hecht

American writer, director, and producer

1894 – 1964

Ben Stein

American actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher

b. 1944

Bernard-Henri Lévy

French film director and philosopher

b. 1948

Billy Eichner

American comedian and actor

b. 1978

Bruce Paltrow

American film and television director

1943 – 2002

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

American actor

b. 1989

Craig Mazin

American director and producer

b. 1971

Dan Hedaya

American actor

b. 1940

Danielle Harris

American actress

b. 1977

Danny Strong

American actor and screenwriter

b. 1974

Gabriel Macht

American actor

b. 1972

Gene Barry

American stage, screen, and television actor

1919 – 2009

Harry Cohn

American film studio executive

1891 – 1958

Harry Harrison

American science fiction author

1924 – 2012

Herbert Ross

American film director

1927 – 2001

Herman Wouk

American writer

1915 – 2019

Irving Thalberg

American film producer

1899 – 1936

John Milius

American screenwriter and director

b. 1944

Josh Radnor

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

b. 1974

Justin Baldoni

American actor and director

b. 1984

Keith Silverstein

American voice actor

b. 1970

Leelee Sobieski

American actress and artist

b. 1983

Lin Shaye

American actress

b. 1943

Louise Lasser

American actress

1939 – 2026

Lyle Alzado

American professional football player and actor

1949 – 1992

Max Baer

American boxer

1909 – 1959

Mervyn LeRoy

American film director and producer

1900 – 1987

Michael Showalter

American actor, comedian, and filmmaker

b. 1970

Nikki Reed

American actress

b. 1988

Paul Lieberstein

American actor and screenwriter

b. 1967

Polly Bergen

American actress

1930 – 2014

Richard Masur

American actor

b. 1948

Ricky Jay

American magician and actor

1946 – 2018

Robby Benson

American actor and director

b. 1956

Roger Bart

American actor

b. 1962

Ron Rifkin

American actor

b. 1939

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

German-born British-American author

1927 – 2013

Sam Riegel

American voice actor

b. 1976

Sam Wanamaker

American actor

1919 – 1993

Sara Paxton

American actress

b. 1988

Theda Bara

American actress

1885 – 1955

Vanessa Bayer

American actress and comedian

b. 1981

Abe Vigoda

American actor

1921 – 2016

Adam Goldberg

American actor

b. 1970

Adam Pally

American actor and comedian

b. 1982

Alex Winter

British actor

b. 1965

Austin Abrams

American actor

b. 1996

Barbara Barrie

American actress and author

b. 1931

Bernard Malamud

American author

1914 – 1986

Brooke Burke

American television personality, fitness personality, author

b. 1971

Chloe Fineman

American actress, writer, and comedian

b. 1988

Cornel Wilde

Hungarian-American actor and film director

1912 – 1989

Daniel Keyes

American author

1927 – 2014

David Paymer

American actor and director

b. 1954

Don Adams

American actor

1923 – 2005

E. L. Doctorow

novelist, editor, professor

1931 – 2015

Eddie Deezen

American actor

b. 1958

Hans Conried

American actor

1917 – 1982

Harris Yulin

American actor

1937 – 2025

Ilana Glazer

American comedian

b. 1987

Imre Kertész

Hungarian author

1929 – 2016

James Lapine

American stage director and librettist.

b. 1949

Jane Levy

American actress

b. 1989

Jeff Ross

American stand-up comedian

b. 1965

John Francis Daley

American actor and director

b. 1985

Jonathan Tucker

American actor

b. 1982

Judith Malina

German-born American theater and film actress

1926 – 2015

Maury Chaykin

American actor

1949 – 2010

Maya Deren

Ukrainian-born American avant-garde filmmaker

1917 – 1961

Melissa Rauch

American actress

b. 1980

Michael Lerner

American actor

1941 – 2023

Molly Gordon

American actress

b. 1994

Nan Goldin

American photographer

b. 1953

Norman Fell

American actor

1924 – 1998

Patrick Modiano

French writer

b. 1945

Paul Lukas

Hungarian-American actor

1894 – 1971

Rebecca Sugar

American animator and screenwriter

b. 1987

Rob Cohen

American film director and producer

b. 1949

Rob Morrow

American actor and director

b. 1962

Ruth Handler

American businesswoman

1916 – 2002

Sarah Sherman

American comedian and actress

b. 1993

Scott Wolf

American actor

b. 1968

Seymour Cassel

American actor

1935 – 2019

Sophie Tucker

Russian-born American singer, comedian

1886 – 1966

Theodore Bikel

Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer

1924 – 2015

Vanessa Marcil

American actress

b. 1968

Willie Garson

American actor

1964 – 2021

Zach Gilford

American actor

b. 1982

Zach Woods

American actor

b. 1984

Allan Sherman

American musician and comedian

1924 – 1973

Amy Heckerling

American television writer

b. 1954

Armin Shimerman

American actor

b. 1949

Barbara Bain

American actress

b. 1931

Berry Berenson

American actress

1948 – 2001

Brian Greene

American physicist

b. 1963

Bryce Papenbrook

American voice actor and kickboxer

b. 1986

Daniel Handler

American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Sni

b. 1970

Daryl Sabara

American actor

b. 1992

Harold Gould

American actor

1923 – 2010

Helen Slater

American actress, singer-songwriter

b. 1963

Herman J. Mankiewicz

American screenwriter

1897 – 1953

Howard Morris

American actor

1919 – 2005

Iliza Shlesinger

American comedian and actress

b. 1983

Ira Levin

American novelist, playwright

1929 – 2007

Janusz Korczak

Polish-Jewish educator and physician

1878 – 1942

Jason Gould

American actor, filmmaker and singer

b. 1966

Jessica Hecht

American actress and singer

b. 1965

Joey Bishop

American entertainer

1918 – 2007

John Randolph

American actor

1915 – 2004

John Rubinstein

American actor, composer and director

b. 1946

Joseph Heller

American writer

1923 – 1999

Kim Stanley

American actress

1925 – 2001

Kitty Carlisle

American stage and screen actress, singer

1910 – 2007

Larry Charles

American television writer, director and producer

b. c. 1956

Lloyd Kaufman

American film director

b. 1945

Loren Bouchard

American director and musician

b. 1969

Mae Questel

American actress

1908 – 1998

Martin Kove

American actor

b. 1946

Martin Milner

American actor

1931 – 2015

Max Reinhardt

Austrian-American theater director and actor

1873 – 1943

Michael Ian Black

actor, comedian

b. 1971

Milana Vayntrub

American actress

b. 1987

Mindy Sterling

American actress

b. 1953

Mitchell Hurwitz

American writer and producer

b. 1963

Paul Henreid

Austrian-American actor and film director

1908 – 1992

Paul Michael Glaser

American actor and director

b. 1943

Peter Strauss

American actor

b. 1947

Renée Taylor

American actress and writer

b. 1933

Simon Kinberg

British-American screenwriter, film producer and director

b. 1973

Skylar Astin

American actor

b. 1987

Soupy Sales

American comedian, actor and radio/television personality

1926 – 2009

Stella Adler

American actress and acting teacher

1901 – 1992

Steve Schirripa

American actor

b. 1957

Steven Levitan

American television director, producer and writer

b. 1962

Stuart Margolin

American actor and director

1940 – 2022

Stuart Whitman

American actor

1928 – 2020

Tanya Roberts

American actress

1949 – 2021

Ted Raimi

American actor

b. 1965

William Asher

American film and television producer, director

1921 – 2012

Adam Shankman

American actor, director

b. 1964

Alfred Newman

American composer

1901 – 1970

Alisan Porter

American actress and singer

b. 1981

Amber Benson

American actress

b. 1977

Anthony Mann

American film director

1906 – 1967

Ariana Greenblatt

American actress

b. 2007

Ben Savage

American actor

b. 1980

Bob Einstein

American comedian, actor

1942 – 2019

Bruce Vilanch

American comedy writer, head writer for the Oscars

b. 1948

Chico Marx

American comedian

1887 – 1961

Clifford Odets

American playwright, screenwriter, and actor

1906 – 1963

Craig Bierko

American actor and singer

b. 1964

Dave Attell

American stand-up comedian

b. 1965

Debora Cahn

American television writer

b. c. 1950

Eden Sher

American actress

b. 1991

Ernest Lehman

American screenwriter

1915 – 2005

Estelle Harris

American actress

1928 – 2022

Ethan Coen

American film director, screenwriter, producer

b. 1957

Franz Werfel

Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet

1890 – 1945

Grant Heslov

American actor, producer and screenwriter

b. 1963

Greg Grunberg

American actor

b. 1966

Ian Ziering

American actor

b. 1964

James Lipton

poet, talk show host, writer, teacher

1926 – 2020

Jeff Bergman

American voice actor

b. 1960

Jerzy Kosiński

Polish-American novelist

1933 – 1991

John Magaro

American actor

b. 1983

John Marley

American actor

1907 – 1984

Jon Tenney

American actor

b. 1961

Josh Singer

American screenwriter

b. c. 1972

Joshua Malina

American actor

b. 1966

Judah Friedlander

American actor and comedian

b. 1969

Judd Winick

American writer

b. 1970

Jules Feiffer

American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright

1929 – 2025

Julius J. Epstein

American screenwriter

1909 – 2000

Klaus Mann

German writer

1906 – 1949

Larry Miller

American actor and comedian

b. 1953

Lawrence Krauss

American particle physicist and cosmologist

b. 1954

Leo Penn

American director

1921 – 1998

Lionel Stander

American actor in films, radio

1908 – 1994

Marissa Jaret Winokur

American actress

b. 1973

Martin Brest

American film director

b. 1951

Meredith Salenger

American actress

b. 1970

Michael Bell

American actor

b. 1938

Milo Manheim

American actor and singer

b. 2001

Morgan Spector

American actor

b. 1980

Natasha Leggero

American actress and comedian

b. 1974

Norman Lloyd

American actor, producer and director

1914 – 2021

Oscar Levant

American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

1906 – 1972

Paul Ben-Victor

American actor

b. 1965

Peter Riegert

American actor and director

b. 1947

Robert Downey Sr.

American filmmaker and actor

1936 – 2021

Robert Merrill

American opera singer

1917 – 2004

Sam Jaffe

American actor, teacher, musician and engineer

1891 – 1984

Shaina Taub

American singer and composer

b. c. 1986

Shelley Berman

American comedian, actor, writer, and teacher

1925 – 2017

Sholem Aleichem

Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish

1859 – 1916

Shoshana Bean

American theater actress and singer

b. 1977

Soleil Moon Frye

American actress, director, screenwriter

b. 1976

Walter Mosley

American novelist

b. 1952

William Castle

American film director, producer, screenwriter

1914 – 1977

Alona Tal

Israeli actress and singer

b. 1983

Ari Graynor

American actress

b. 1983

Aya Cash

American actress

b. 1982

Ben Feldman

American actor and producer

b. 1980

Bo Goldman

American screenwriter

1932 – 2023

Bob Rafelson

American film director

1933 – 2022

Brian Robbins

American film executive

b. 1963

Catherine Oxenberg

American actress

b. 1961

Charles Lane

American actor

1905 – 2007

Charlotte Rae

American actress

1926 – 2018

Dan Trachtenberg

American filmmaker and podcast host

b. 1981

Darren Star

American television producer, writer

b. 1961

David Frankel

American film director

b. 1959

David Lander

American actor

1947 – 2020

David Wain

American writer, director, actor and comedian

b. 1969

David Zucker

American film director, screenwriter, producer

b. 1947

Debi Derryberry

American voice actress

b. 1967

Dick Shawn

American actor

1923 – 1987

Eric Balfour

American actor and singer

b. 1977

Everett Sloane

American actor

1909 – 1965

Garson Kanin

American film and theatre director, playwright

1912 – 1999

Gene Saks

American stage and film director

1921 – 2015

Greg Cipes

American actor and voice actor

b. 1980

James Schamus

American filmmaker

b. 1959

Jeff Chandler

American actor and singer

1918 – 1961

Jenji Kohan

American television writer, producer, and director

b. 1969

Jerry Zucker

American director and producer

b. 1950

Joey Soloway

American comedian, playwright, feminist

b. 1965

Jonathan Harris

American character actor

1914 – 2002

Jonathan Lipnicki

American actor

b. 1990

Jonathan Silverman

American actor

b. 1966

Justin Bartha

American actor

b. 1978

Keith Gordon

American actor and director

b. 1961

Kevin Sussman

American actor

b. 1970

Kurt Fuller

American actor

b. 1953

Larry Storch

American actor

1923 – 2022

Lola Kirke

English-born American actress

b. 1990

Luise Rainer

German-born actress

1910 – 2014

Margarita Levieva

Russian-born American actress

b. 1980

Mark Rydell

American actor, film director, and producer

1929 – 2026

Matt Shakman

American director and actor

b. 1975

Max Casella

American actor

b. 1967

Michael Brandon

American actor

b. 1945

Michael Lembeck

American actor and director

b. 1948

Michael Vartan

French-American actor

b. 1968

Michaela Watkins

American actress

b. 1971

Nicholas Stoller

British-American filmmaker

b. 1976

Paul Adelstein

American actor and screenwriter

b. 1969

Peter Jacobson

American film and television actor, born 1965

b. 1965

Rebecca Schaeffer

actress

1967 – 1989

Rena Sofer

American actress

b. 1968

Robert Klein

American stand-up comedian

b. 1942

Robin Weigert

American actress

b. 1969

Sam Reich

American producer, director, writer, and actor

b. 1984

Sara Blakely

American businesswoman

b. 1971

Sara Rue

American actress

b. 1979

Sasha Spielberg

American actress and singer

b. 1990

Seth Gabel

American actor

b. 1981

Sherwood Schwartz

American television writer and producer

1916 – 2011

Sorrell Booke

American actor

1930 – 1994

Sosie Bacon

American actress

b. 1992

Steven Hill

American actor

1922 – 2016

Susan Strasberg

American film and stage actress

1938 – 1999

Tawny Kitaen

American actress

1961 – 2021

Todd Solondz

American filmmaker

b. 1959

Tony Martin

American actor and singer

1913 – 2012

Zachary Gordon

American actor

b. 1998

Zoe Lister-Jones

American actress, screenwriter and director

b. 1982

Adele Astaire

American dancer and entertainer

1896 – 1981

Adrienne Shelly

American actress

1966 – 2006

Alan Rosenberg

American actor

b. 1950

Alla Nazimova

Russian-American actress

1879 – 1945

Allen Covert

American actor and comedian

b. 1964

Ashley Zukerman

Australian-American actor

b. 1983

Benjamin Diskin

American actor

b. 1982

Bob Bergen

American voice actor

b. 1964

Bryan Greenberg

American actor and musician

b. 1978

Budd Schulberg

American writer

1914 – 2009

Dan Fogelman

American screenwriter and producer

b. 1976

Dave Fleischer

American animation film director and film producer

1894 – 1979

David Gerrold

American science fiction screenwriter and novelist

b. 1944

Dick Miller

American actor

1928 – 2019

Didi Conn

American actress

b. 1951

Emory Cohen

American actor

b. 1990

Etan Cohen

Israeli–American filmmaker

b. 1974

Gabrielle Carteris

American actress

b. 1961

Irwin Allen

film producer

1916 – 1991

Isabelle Fuhrman

American actress

b. 1997

Jack Gilford

American actor, comedian

1907 – 1990

Jackie Sandler

American actress

b. 1974

Jaime Ray Newman

American actress

b. 1978

James Karen

American actor

1923 – 2018

Jean-Pierre Aumont

French actor

1911 – 2001

Jeannie Berlin

American actress

b. 1949

Jeff Corey

American actor and acting teacher

1914 – 2002

Jim Abrahams

American movie director and writer

1944 – 2024

Kate Siegel

American actress and writer

b. 1982

Ken Olin

American actor

b. 1954

Lee Unkrich

American film editor

b. 1967

Liza Weil

American actress

b. 1977

Maggie Siff

American actress

b. 1974

Mark Evanier

American writer

b. 1952

Mark Linn-Baker

American actor

b. 1954

Marta Kauffman

American TV producer

b. 1956

Martha Hyer

American actress

1924 – 2014

Matt Selman

American writer and producer

b. 1971

Max Burkholder

American actor

b. 1997

Max Landis

American screenwriter

b. 1985

Max Mittelman

American voice actor

b. 1990

Max Schneider

American singer

b. 1992

Melanie Mayron

American actress and director

b. 1952

Mindy Cohn

American actress

b. 1966

Morey Amsterdam

American actor and comedian

1908 – 1996

Nehemiah Persoff

American actor and painter

1919 – 2022

Nika Futterman

American actress

b. 1969

Peter Hyams

American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer

b. 1943

Richard Edson

American actor and musician

b. 1954

Ross Martin

Polish-born American radio, stage, film and television actor

1920 – 1981

Ruth Roman

American actress

1922 – 1999

Sanford Meisner

American actor and acting teacher

1905 – 1997

Shiri Appleby

American actress and director

b. 1978

Tracy Pollan

American actress

b. 1960

Victoria Pedretti

American actress

b. 1995

William Kunstler

American lawyer and civil rights activist

1919 – 1995

Zeppo Marx

American film star; member of the Marx Brothers

1901 – 1979

Abraham Benrubi

American actor

b. 1969

Alan King

American comedian and actor

1927 – 2004

Alan Zweibel

American producer

b. 1950

Alexa Davalos

French-American actress

b. 1982

Andrea Savage

American actress

b. 1973

Andrew Bergman

American film director and screenwriter

b. 1945

Anson Williams

American actor and director

b. 1949

Barbi Benton

American former model, actress and singer

b. 1950

Billy Ray

American screenwriter, television writer and film director

b. c. 1963

Brad Silberling

American film director

b. 1963

Carl Foreman

American screenwriter and film producer

1914 – 1984

Cassandra Clare

American author

b. 1973

Charles Shyer

American film director, screenwriter

1941 – 2024

David Proval

American actor

b. 1942

Dennis Boutsikaris

American actor

b. 1952

Eddie Kaye Thomas

American actor

b. 1980

Ellen Greene

American actress and singer

b. 1951

Eugene Mirman

Russian-American actor, comedian, and writer

b. 1974

George Jessel

American actor, singer, songwriter

1898 – 1981

George Wyner

American actor

b. 1945

Gideon Adlon

American actress

b. 1997

Jack Bender

American film and television director

b. 1949

Jack Weston

American actor

1924 – 1996

Jackie Tohn

American actress

b. 1980

James Gray

American filmmaker

b. 1969

Jerry Weintraub

American film producer and former chairman and CEO of Uni

1937 – 2015

Josh Trank

film director

b. 1984

Justin Berfield

American actor

b. 1986

Kinky Friedman

American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician

1944 – 2024

Larry Hankin

American actor

b. 1937

Marc Lawrence

American actor

1910 – 2005

Marcia Strassman

American actress and singer

1948 – 2014

Mark Feuerstein

American actor

b. 1971

Marshall Brickman

American screenwriter

1939 – 2024

Martin Ritt

American film director

1914 – 1990

Monica Raymund

American actress

b. 1986

Monty Hall

Canadian radio and television show host

1921 – 2017

Norman Maurer

American writer, comic artist, and producer

1926 – 1986

Rachel Ticotin

American actress

b. 1958

Ray Danton

American actor and director

1931 – 1992

Rebecca Pidgeon

British actor and singer-songwriter

b. 1965

Richard Steven Horvitz

American actor

b. 1966

Rick Hoffman

American actor

b. 1970

Robert Wuhl

American actor, comedian and writer

b. 1951

Sarah Ramos

American actress

b. 1991

Shaun Toub

Iranian-born American actor

b. 1963

Sheldon Leonard

American actor, producer, director, and writer

1907 – 1997

Steve Gerber

American comic writer

1947 – 2008

Susan Kohner

American actress

b. 1936

Susie Essman

American stand-up comedian, actress, writer

b. 1955

Terry Zwigoff

American filmmaker

b. 1949

Tony Roberts

American actor

1939 – 2025

Winnie Holzman

American librettist, screenwriter and poet

b. 1954

Acid Betty

American drag queen

b. 1977

Allan Carr

Film, TV and theatre producer, screenwriter

1937 – 1999

Anne Spielberg

American screenwriter

b. 1949

Barry Gordon

American actor, television host, television producer, singer

b. 1948

Bess Myerson

American model, city commissioner

1924 – 2014

Bonnie Franklin

American actress

1944 – 2013

Bruce Weitz

American actor

b. 1943

Bryan Gordon

American actor and director

b. c. 1953

Bud Yorkin

American producer, director, and screenwriter

1926 – 2015

Catherine Reitman

Canadian-American actress, producer, and writer

b. 1981

Dan Bucatinsky

American actor

b. 1965

Danny Nucci

American actor

b. 1968

David Crane

American writer and producer

b. 1957

David Mazouz

American actor

b. 2001

Debra Granik

American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer

b. 1963

Destry Spielberg

American model and filmmaker

b. 1996

Ed Ames

American singer and actor

1927 – 2023

Ferenc Molnár

Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist

1878 – 1952

Fred Hechinger

American actor and director

b. 1999

Gabe Kaplan

American actor, comedian and poker player

b. 1945

Graham Moore

screenwriter

b. 1981

Gregg Berger

American actor

b. 1950

Herb Edelman

American actor

1933 – 1996

Hunter King

American actress

b. 1993

Ian Gomez

American actor

b. 1964

Jack Carter

comedian and actor

1922 – 2015

Jackie Hoffman

American actress, singer, and comedian

b. 1960

Jerry Adler

American actor

1929 – 2025

Joanna Angel

American pornographic actress and director

b. 1980

John Banner

Austrian actor

1910 – 1973

Jon Glaser

American actor

b. 1968

Josh Schwartz

American screenwriter and television producer

b. 1976

Judy Kuhn

American actress, singer and activist

b. 1958

Karl Glusman

American actor

b. 1988

Kate Berlant

American comedian, actress and writer

b. 1987

Leo Gorcey

American actor

1917 – 1969

Maggie Wheeler

American actress

b. 1961

Marc Guggenheim

writer

b. 1970

Marla Sokoloff

American actress

b. 1980

Martin Gabel

American actor

1912 – 1986

Michael Kidd

American film choreographer

1915 – 2007

Mike Reiss

American screenwriter

b. 1959

Mort Sahl

Canadian-born American comedian

1927 – 2021

Natalie Schafer

American actress

1900 – 1991

Norman Taurog

American film director

1899 – 1981

Peter Friedman

American actor

b. 1949

Rain Phoenix

American actress and musician

b. 1972

Rory Albanese

executive producer, writer

b. 1977

Scott Weinger

American actor

b. 1975

Simon Oakland

American actor

1915 – 1983

Stephen Furst

American actor

1954 – 2017

Summer Phoenix

American actress

b. 1978

Zelda Rubinstein

American actress

1933 – 2010

Alan Reed

American actor

1907 – 1977

Alex Brightman

American actor

b. 1987

Arnold Drake

American comic book writer and screenwriter

1924 – 2007

Barry Miller

American actor

b. 1958

Bruce Bilson

American film and television director

1928 – 2026

Caroline Aaron

American actress

b. 1952

Dane Clark

American film actor

1912 – 1998

Dave Annable

American actor

b. 1979

Eric Douglas

American actor and comedian

1958 – 2004

Estelle Reiner

American actress and singer

1914 – 2008

Frances Bay

Canadian actress

1919 – 2011

Frances Goodrich

American writer

1890 – 1984

Fred Melamed

American actor

b. 1956

Hari Nef

American actor, model and author

b. 1992

I. A. L. Diamond

American screenwriter

1920 – 1988

Ilya Ehrenburg

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary

1891 – 1967

Ira Sachs

American filmmaker

b. 1965

Jake Kasdan

American filmmaker

b. 1974

Jenette Goldstein

American actress and businesswoman

b. 1960

Jessica Rothe

American actress

b. 1987

Jonathan Penner

American actor

b. 1962

Joseph Wiseman

Canadian actor

1918 – 2009

Juliet Landau

American actress

b. 1965

Justin Kuritzkes

American playwright

b. 1990

Kay Thompson

American author, singer, dancer, actress

1909 – 1998

Laura Silverman

American actress

b. 1966

Lee Arenberg

American actor

b. 1962

Lori Singer

American actress and classical musician

b. 1957

Max Winkler

American film director, screenwriter, television director

b. 1983

Melissa Rivers

American actress

b. 1968

Michael Callan

American actor

1935 – 2022

Nita Talbot

American actor

b. 1930

Noah Galvin

American actor and singer

b. 1994

Noam Pitlik

actor, director, screenwriter

1932 – 1999

Philip G. Epstein

American screenwriter

1909 – 1952

Phyllis Newman

American actress and singer

1933 – 2019

Sam Lerner

American actor

b. 1992

Shifty Shellshock

American rapper, singer and actor

1974 – 2024

Stephen Macht

American actor

b. 1942

Sunny Sandler

American actress

b. 2008

Tamara Braun

American actress

b. 1971

Adam F. Goldberg

American film producer

b. 1976

Alex Karpovsky

American actor and film director

b. 1975

Allan Arbus

American actor and photographer

1918 – 2013

Andrew Barth Feldman

American actor and singer

b. 2002

Ben Shenkman

American actor

b. 1968

Betty Lou Gerson

American actress

1914 – 1999

Brandon Uranowitz

American actor

b. 1986

Broncho Billy Anderson

American actor, writer, film director

1880 – 1971

Bruce Altman

American actor

b. 1955

Carol Leifer

American comedian and producer

b. 1956

Corey Allen

American film & TV director and actor

1934 – 2010

David Brenner

American comedian and actor

1936 – 2014

Diane Neal

American actress

b. 1976

Don Most

American actor and singer

b. 1953

Evan Handler

American actor

b. 1961

Gloria Katz

screenwriter, film producer

1942 – 2018

Irwin Shaw

American writer

1913 – 1984

Jack Kruschen

Canadian actor

1922 – 2002

Jacqueline Susann

American writer and actress

1918 – 1974

Jamie Gillis

American pornographic actor and director

1943 – 2010

Jay Kogen

American screenwriter

b. 1963

Josh Brener

American actor

b. 1984

Kellen Goff

American voice actor

b. 1995

Kevin Weisman

American Theatre, Film and Television Actor

b. 1970

Leslie Grossman

American actress

b. 1971

Lindsay Sloane

American actress

b. 1977

Madlyn Rhue

American actress

1935 – 2003

Mark Damon

American film actor and producer

1933 – 2024

Mitch Gaylord

American artistic gymnast and actor

b. 1961

Necro

American rapper

b. 1976

Nicholas Guest

American actor

b. 1951

Pauline Chalamet

French–American actress

b. 1992

Ricardo Cortez

American actor

1900 – 1977

Robert Lansing

American actor

1928 – 1994

Robert Riskin

American writer

1897 – 1955

S. J. Perelman

American humorist, author, and screenwriter

1904 – 1979

Sadie Sandler

American actress

b. 2006

Scott M. Gimple

American screenwriter

b. c. 1971

Scott Neustadter

American screenwriter and film producer

b. c. 1977

Simon Rich

American humorist, novelist, and television writer

b. 1984

Sonny Landham

American actor

1941 – 2017

Stuart Damon

American actor

1937 – 2021

Sylvia Miles

American actress

1924 – 2019

Tracy Newman

American television producer and writer

b. c. 1942

Adam Richman

American television host

b. 1974

Alex D. Linz

American actor

b. 1989

Alex Ross Perry

American film director, screenwriter and actor

b. 1984

Ali Adler

television producer

b. 1967

Allen Garfield

American actor

1939 – 2020

Aron Eisenberg

American actor

1969 – 2019

Avery Schreiber

American comedian

1935 – 2002

Ben Lyon

American actor

1901 – 1979

Bill Macy

American actor

1922 – 2019

Bob Gale

American screenwriter, producer and film director

b. 1951

Bruce Joel Rubin

American screenwriter

b. 1943

Carly Chaikin

American actress

b. 1990

Cliff Gorman

American actor

1936 – 2002

Craig Zobel

American filmmaker and actor

b. 1975

David Seidler

British-American playwright, film, and television writer

1937 – 2024

David Seltzer

American screenwriter

b. 1940

Dawn M. Bennett

American voice actress

b. 1992

Erik von Detten

American actor

b. 1982

Frank Silvera

actor

1914 – 1970

Gary Gulman

American comedian

b. 1970

George Tobias

actor

1901 – 1980

Gertrude Berg

American actress, screenwriter

1899 – 1966

Glenn Fleshler

American actor

b. 1968

Gummo Marx

American comedian

1893 – 1977

Halston Sage

American actress

b. 1993

Harold J. Stone

American stage, radio, film

1913 – 2005

Harry Ruby

American composer and screenwriter

1895 – 1974

Ina Balin

American actress

1937 – 1990

James Goldman

American screenwriter, playwright, novelist

1927 – 1998

James Wolk

American actor

b. 1985

Jeff Schaffer

American screenwriter, producer and director

b. c. 1969

Joe Weisberg

American television writer

b. c. 2000

John Byner

American actor

b. 1938

Josh Weinstein

American television writer and producer

b. 1966

Julie Warner

actress

b. 1965

Lara Jill Miller

American actress

b. 1967

Larry Blyden

American game show host

1925 – 1975

Laura Ziskin

American film and television producer

1950 – 2011

Lawrence Dobkin

American television director

1919 – 2002

Lawrence Pressman

American actor

b. 1939

Lennie Weinrib

American actor, animator, composer, musician and singer

1935 – 2006

Leonard B. Stern

American screenwriter

1923 – 2011

Louise Sorel

American actress

b. 1940

Lucy DeVito

American actress

b. 1983

Lynn Cohen

American actress

1933 – 2020

Michael Berry

British physicist

b. 1941

Michael Gordon

American stage actor and stage and film director

1909 – 1993

Michael Green

American television and film writer

b. 1973

Michael Weston

American actor

b. 1973

Mischa Auer

Russian-born American actor

1905 – 1967

Mitchell Lichtenstein

American actor

b. 1956

Norman Alden

American actor

1924 – 2012

Peter Douglas

American film producer

b. 1955

Peter Marc Jacobson

American actor and director

b. 1957

Priscilla Pointer

American actress

1924 – 2025

Richard Elfman

American film director

b. 1949

Richard Kline

American actor and director

b. 1944

Richard Portnow

American actor

b. 1947

Rita Gam

American actress

1927 – 2016

Roslyn Kind

American actress, singer, and songwriter

b. 1951

Samm Levine

American actor

b. 1982

Sofia Black-D'Elia

American actress

b. 1991

Stuart Pankin

American actor

b. 1946

Suze Orman

American author, television personality

b. 1951

Wallace Wolodarsky

American screenwriter

b. 1963

Wendie Jo Sperber

American actress

1958 – 2005

Will Peltz

American actor

b. 1986

Adam Rich