American Theater Hall of Fame inductees

The list American Theater Hall of Fame inductees includes Tyne Daly, Lauren Bacall, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn and Julie Andrews. The list consists of 560 members.

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Hall of Fame in New York City founded in 1972

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Tyne Daly

American actress (born 1946)

Overview: Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

Date of birth: 21 February 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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American Musical and Dramatic Academy alumni 36T

Actors from Madison, Wisconsin 34T

Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners 38T
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Lauren Bacall

American actress (1924–2014)

Overview: Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1924

Date of death: 12 August 2014

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Actors from the Upper West Side 25T

Stroke-related deaths in New York (state) 79T

United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
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Mae West

American actress (1893–1980)

Overview: Mae West (born Mary Jane West; August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, playwright, screenwriter, singer, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned over seven ...

Date of birth: 17 August 1893

Date of death: 22 November 1980

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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Illeists 45T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,308T

Actresses of Irish descent 598T
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Katharine Hepburn

American actress (1907–2003)

Overview: Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1907

Date of death: 29 June 2003

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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People from Turtle Bay, Manhattan 11T

20th-century American memoirists 507T

Childfree 46T
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Julie Andrews

British actress, singer and author (born 1935)

Overview: Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, in ...

Date of birth: 1 October 1935

Age: 89

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients 95T

21st-century English memoirists 135T

British women memoirists 181T
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Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer (born 1948)

Overview: Bernadette Peters (née Lazzara; born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children's book author. Over a career spanning more than six decades, she has starred in musical theatre, te ...

Date of birth: 28 February 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Actresses from Queens, New York 70T

Broadway actors 482T

People from Ozone Park, Queens 35T
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Tallulah Bankhead

American actress (1902–1968)

Overview: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was a member of the Brockman Bankhead family, a prominent Alabama political ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1902

Date of death: 12 December 1968

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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American women autobiographers 29T

20th-century American LGBT people 1,654T

Deaths from pneumonia in New York City 280T
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Phylicia Rashad

American actress (born 1948)

Overview: Phylicia Rashad ( fih-li-shə rə-shahd) (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and producer. She is dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University and best known for ...

Date of birth: 19 June 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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20th-century African-American women singers 855T

African-American history of Westchester County, New York 43T

American women television producers 831T
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Patricia Neal

American stage and film actress

Overview: Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal, January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1926

Date of death: 8 August 2010

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Catholics from Tennessee 28T

Catholics from Kentucky 48T

Catholics from Massachusetts 241T
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Henry Fonda

American actor (1905–1982)

Overview: Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned five decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several ...

Date of birth: 16 May 1905

Date of death: 12 August 1982

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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United Service Organizations entertainers 148T

Special Tony Award recipients 132T

University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni 48T
11.

Gene Kelly

American actor, dancer, singer, and producer (1912–1996)

Overview: Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, comedian and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1912

Date of death: 2 February 1996

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Directors of Golden Bear winners 82T

Broadway actors 482T
12.

Fred Astaire

American dancer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)

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
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Fanny Brice

American actress, singer, and comedian (1891–1951)

Overview: Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and theater and film actress who made many ...

Date of birth: 29 October 1891

Date of death: 29 May 1951

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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20th-century American Jews 4,800T

Jewish American female comedians 85T

People from Holmby Hills, Los Angeles 45T
14.

Danny Kaye

Actor

Overview: Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דאַװיד דאַניעל קאַמינסקי‎; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. His p ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1911

Date of death: 3 March 1987

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Jewish American male comedians 179T

Male actors of Ukrainian descent 19T

People from East New York, Brooklyn 36T
15.

Angela Lansbury

British, Actress

Overview: Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer. In a career spanning eighty years, she played various roles across film, stage ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1925

Date of death: 11 October 2022

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Actors from the London Borough of Camden 210T

Musicians from Hampstead 30T

Actors from Hampstead 77T
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Vanessa Redgrave

English actress

Overview: Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Proclaimed as the "Greatest Actress of our Time" by Tennessee Williams, Redgrave is the recipient of the Triple Crown of ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Franco Nero (Married)

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Best Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners 52T

Volpi Cup for Best Actress winners 68T

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners 96T
17.

Sam Shepard

American playwright and actor (1943–2017)

Overview: Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won ten Obie Awards for writing ...

Date of birth: 5 November 1943

Date of death: 27 July 2017

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Neurological disease deaths in Kentucky 11T

The Holy Modal Rounders members 5T

20th-century American male writers 9,850T
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Laurence Olivier

English actor and director (1907–1989)

Overview: Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors ...

Date of birth: 22 May 1907

Date of death: 11 July 1989

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Fleet Air Arm personnel of World War II 88T

Directors of Golden Lion winners 63T

20th-century theatre managers 40T
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Cicely Tyson

American actress (1924–2021)

Overview: Cicely Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress and fashion model. In a career spanning more than seven decades, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American ...

Date of birth: 19 December 1924

Date of death: 28 January 2021

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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2021 deaths 6,887T

American women memoirists 660T

African-American memoirists 21T
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Richard Burton

Welsh actor

Overview: Richard Burton, CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Sh ...

Date of birth: 10 November 1925

Date of death: 5 August 1984

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Stroke-related deaths in Switzerland 10T

Special Tony Award recipients 132T

20th-century diarists 190T