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The list American male silent film actors includes John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Fred Astaire. The list consists of 1,265 members.

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  • 1.

    John Wayne
    American film actor
    John Wayne
    Overview: Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker who became a popular icon through his starring roles ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1907
    Date of death: 11 June 1979
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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    Male actors of Scottish descent 224T
    Male actors of Irish descent 682T
    Male actors of English descent 380T
  • 2.

    Gary Cooper
    American actor (1901–1961)
    Gary Cooper
    Overview: Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and ...
    Date of birth: 7 May 1901
    Date of death: 13 May 1961
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)
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    Deaths from prostate cancer in California 32T
    Male actors of English descent 379T
    People from Holmby Hills, Los Angeles 45T
  • 3.

    Clark Gable
    American actor (1901–1960)
    Clark Gable
    Overview: William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1901
    Date of death: 16 November 1960
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    Pipe smokers 77T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
  • 4.

    Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908–2002)
    Milton Berle
    Overview: Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: ‏מענדעל בערלינגער‎; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first ...
    Date of birth: 12 July 1908
    Date of death: 27 March 2002
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Jewish American male comedians 179T
    American male comedy actors 146T
    Converts to Christian Science from Judaism 4T
  • 5.

    Mickey Rooney
    American, Actor
    Mickey Rooney
    Overview: Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing ...
    Date of birth: 23 September 1920
    Date of death: 6 April 2014
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    Comedians from Los Angeles 164T
    Comedians from Brooklyn 125T
    Military personnel from Brooklyn 101T
  • 6.

    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)
    Fred Astaire
    Overview: Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, and television presenter. He is widely considered the most influential dancer ...
    Date of birth: 10 May 1899
    Date of death: 22 June 1987
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    Members of The Lambs Club 87T
    20th-century American male singers 1,989T
  • 7.

    Buster Keaton
    American actor, comedian and filmmaker (1895–1966)
    Buster Keaton
    Overview: Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He is best ...
    Date of birth: 4 October 1895
    Date of death: 1 February 1966
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Columbia Pictures contract players 41T
    19th-century American comedians 14T
    Comedy film directors 154T
  • 8.
    Ramon Novarro
    Overview: José Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 ...
    Date of birth: 6 February 1899
    Date of death: 30 October 1968
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Mexican
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    LGBT actors from Mexico 25T
    American gay actors 617T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,272T
  • 9.

    William Haines
    American actor and interior designer
    William Haines
    Overview: Charles William Haines (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973) was an American actor and interior designer.
    Date of birth: 2 January 1900
    Date of death: 26 December 1973
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    American gay actors 611T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,215T
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  • 10.
    Walter Brennan
    Overview: Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He is known for his performances in Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine ...
    Date of birth: 25 July 1894
    Date of death: 21 September 1974
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Male actors of Irish descent 682T
    Catholics from Oregon 27T
    American conservative people 1,080T
  • 11.

    Brian Keith
    Actor
    Brian Keith
    Overview: Brian Keith (born Robert Alba Keith, November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television and stage actor who in his six-decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies ...
    Date of birth: 14 November 1921
    Date of death: 24 June 1997
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    1997 suicides 39T
    Catholics from New Jersey 151T
    Actors from Bayonne, New Jersey 16T
  • 12.

    Oliver Hardy
    silent film comedian
    Oliver Hardy
    Overview: Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted ...
    Date of birth: 18 January 1892
    Date of death: 7 August 1957
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Male actors of Scottish descent 224T
    Male actors of English descent 380T
    American male comedy actors 146T
  • 13.

    John Barrymore
    American actor
    John Barrymore
    Overview: John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried ...
    Date of birth: 15 February 1882
    Date of death: 29 May 1942
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Male actors of Irish descent 682T
    Male actors of English descent 380T
    Burials at Mount Vernon Cemetery (Philadelphia) 26T
  • 14.

    Jackie Coogan
    American actor
    Jackie Coogan
    Overview: John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films.
    Date of birth: 26 October 1914
    Date of death: 1 March 1984
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    American glider pilots 18T
    20th-century American comedians 1,253T
    Comedians from California 481T
  • 15.

    Harold Lloyd
    Actor
    Harold Lloyd
    Overview: Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.
    Date of birth: 20 April 1893
    Date of death: 8 March 1971
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Amputee actors 10T
    Film directors from Nebraska 11T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
  • 16.
    Gilbert Roland
    Overview: Gilbert Roland (born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s ...
    Date of birth: 11 December 1905
    Date of death: 15 May 1994
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T
    Cisco Kid 29T
    American male actors of Mexican descent 130T
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    Fredric March
    American actor (1897–1975)
    Fredric March
    Overview: Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a p ...
    Date of birth: 31 August 1897
    Date of death: 14 April 1975
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners 78T
    United States Army personnel of World War I 2,377T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T
  • 18.

    Edward G. Robinson
    Romanian-American film actor
    Edward G. Robinson
    Overview: Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; Yiddish: ײמאַנועל גאָלדענבערג‎; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Jewish American actor of stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden ...
    Date of birth: 12 December 1893
    Date of death: 26 January 1973
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: Romanian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Romanian Ashkenazi Jews 25T
    Jewish American activists 46T
    People of the United States Office of War Information 176T
  • 19.

    John Gilbert
    Actor
    John Gilbert
    Overview: John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle; July 10, 1897 – January 9, 1936) was an American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1897
    Date of death: 9 January 1936
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Film directors from Utah 17T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    Screenwriters from Utah 26T
  • 20.

    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    American actor and United States naval officer (1909–2000)
    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    Overview: Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000), was an American actor and producer, and a decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best known for starring in such films ...
    Date of birth: 9 December 1909
    Date of death: 7 May 2000
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Knights of the Order of Saint John (chartered 1888) 8T
    United States Navy captains 141T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T
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