20世纪著名的英国喜剧演员，现代喜剧电影的奠基者，在世界范围内享有盛誉。卓别林幼年丧父，曾在游艺场和巡回剧团卖艺或打杂。1913年，随卡尔诺哑剧团去美国演出，被美国导演M.塞纳特看中，从此开始了他的电影生涯。1914年2月7日，头戴圆顶礼帽、手持竹手杖、足登大皮靴、走路像鸭子的流浪...
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney. His paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, while his mother was from an Anglo family from the South. He was raised by his mother, who had separated from his father when he was five. He began amateur theater at age 12 and continued while attending the Colorado School of Mines. In 1900 they moved to New York. He attended Harvard, traveled to Europe, worked on a cattle freighter, in a hardware store and as a clerk on Wall Street. He made his Broadway debut in 1902 and five years later left theater to marry an industrialist's daughter. He returned when his father-in-law went broke the next year. In 1915 he went to Hollywood and worked under a reluctant D.W. Griffith. The following year he formed his own production company. During a Liberty Bond tour with Charles Chaplin he fell in love with Mary Pickford with whom he, Chaplin and Griffith had formed United Artists in 1919. He made very successful early social comedies, then highly popular swashbucklers during the 'twenties. The owners of Hollywood's Pickfair Mansion separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936. In March of that year he married an ex-chorus girl and retired from acting.
生于纽约市，其父为电影明星道格拉斯·范朋克。9岁时随离婚的母亲生活，直到14岁。1923年首登银幕，出演《史蒂芬失足记》。小费尔班克斯靠自己的努力在电影打拼，出演各类角色，甚至群众演员。1928年与琼·克劳馥结婚。除了电影表演外，他在英、美两国的社交和政治关系上更负盛名，二战时期作为美国海军上尉军官，曾参加过一些英美联合军事行动，曾获得多枚英国勋章，1949年被封为爵士。次年退出电影界，定居伦敦。60年代参加电视片集《道格拉斯·范朋克》的演出。之后和第二任妻子定居佛罗里达州的棕榈滩。2000年5月去世。
丽莲·吉许，美国电影女演员，其演艺生涯跨越了四分之三个世纪，堪称美国电影历史的见证人。父亲是个不顾家的酒鬼，母亲是舞台剧演员，带着她和妹妹Dorothy出走，演戏为生。Lillian自幼便有着丰富的登台经验。 1912年，丽莲·吉许遇上格里菲斯，蒙他赏识，成为他旗下最重要的演员...
生于美国肯塔基州的拉格兰治，是电影历史中的杰出革新者。他在1907年到爱迪生摄影场谋职时，是一位默默无闻的演员与并不成功的作家。当进入传记公司担任电影剧本作家后，在1908年执导第一部电影《多莉历险记》。在后来五年中，他为传记公司拍了五百部左右短片，建立起美国一流导演的名...
美国电影演员，制片人。 1893年4月9日生于加拿大多伦多，1979年5月28日卒于美国加利福尼亚圣莫尼卡。5岁开始在加拿大演出话剧，16岁进入美国电影界，逐渐在D.W.格里菲斯等人的影片中成为美国默片时代最受欢迎的女演员之一。1916年她自己组建璧克馥制片公司。1919年与卓别林等人的公...
查尔斯·巴迪·罗杰斯，1904年8月13日出生于美国堪萨斯州。毕业于堪萨斯大学。他自幼爱好音乐，体育。二战期间，他曾任职于美国海军作为一个飞行训练教员。1920年他毕业于派拉蒙电影学校，使之培养为明星。起初开始出现在无声电影中，1926年《有趣的青年》是他的第一部电影，接下来，1927年...
Michael York was born in Fulmer, England, 27 March 1942. He performed on stage with the National Youth Theatre in London's East End and on international tour. Other early acting experience came through the Oxford University Dramatic Society (he graduated Oxford 1964), the Dundee Repertory, and Laurence Olivier's National Theater Company - where he worked with Franco Zeffirelli, who gave him his film debut as Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and his breakthrough role as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet(1968).
