Celebrities that fought in World War I (The Great War)

The list Celebrities that fought in World War I (The Great War) includes Humphrey Bogart, Walt Disney, Bela Lugosi, Adolphe Menjou and Ronald Colman. The list consists of 20 members.

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Humphrey Bogart

American actor (1899–1957)

Overview: Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogey, was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural ...

Date of birth: 25 December 1899

Date of death: 14 January 1957

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Actors from the Upper West Side 25T

United Service Organizations entertainers 148T

Male actors of English descent 380T
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Walt Disney

American animator and producer (1901–1966)

Overview: Walter Elias Disney (DIZ-nee; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced ...

Date of birth: 5 December 1901

Date of death: 15 December 1966

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Creator

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Tobacco-related deaths 46T

20th-century American illustrators 446T

Deaths from circulatory collapse 10T
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Bela Lugosi

Hungarian-American actor (1882–1956)

Overview: Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi (), was a Hungarian-American actor best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for ...

Date of birth: 20 October 1882

Date of death: 16 August 1956

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Bela Lugosi 10T

Universal Pictures contract players 53T

Broadway actors 482T
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Adolphe Menjou

American actor (1890–1963)

Overview: Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where ...

Date of birth: 18 February 1890

Date of death: 29 October 1963

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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American conservative people 1,080T

United States Army personnel of World War I 2,096T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T
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Ronald Colman

Actor

Overview: Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating to the United States and having a ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1891

Date of death: 19 May 1958

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Burials at Santa Barbara Cemetery 44T

British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T

English male silent film actors 308T
6.

Herbert Marshall

Actor

Overview: Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who, despite losing a leg during the First World War, starred in many popular and well ...

Date of birth: 23 May 1890

Date of death: 22 January 1966

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T

Male actors from London 1,398T

20th-century English male actors 2,151T
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Claude Rains

English-born actor

Overview: William Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was a British-American film and stage actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. After his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in The ...

Date of birth: 10 November 1889

Date of death: 30 May 1967

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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English acting coaches 4T

British acting coaches 2T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T
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Basil Rathbone

British actor

Overview: Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an English actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1892

Date of death: 21 July 1967

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Male actors of English descent 380T

Broadway actors 482T

English male Shakespearean actors 251T
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Cedric Hardwicke

English actor

Overview: Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of ...

Date of birth: 19 February 1893

Date of death: 6 August 1964

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Male actors from Worcestershire 27T

British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T

20th-century English male actors 2,151T
10.

George O'Brien

Actor

Overview: George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's ...

Date of birth: 19 April 1899

Date of death: 4 September 1985

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

RKO Pictures contract players 87T

American male silent film actors 1,200T
11.

George M. Cohan

American, Writer

Overview: George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.

Date of birth: 3 July 1878

Date of death: 5 December 1942

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Male actors from Providence, Rhode Island 38T

Members of The Lambs Club 91T

Male musical theatre composers 105T
12.

Victor McLaglen

Actor

Overview: Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was an English film actor who held both British and American citizenship. He was known as a character actor, particularly in ...

Date of birth: 10 December 1886

Date of death: 7 November 1959

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

English male boxers 818T

Male boxers 4,800T
13.

Richard Arlen

Actor

Overview: Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore, September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor of film and television.

Date of birth: 1 September 1899

Date of death: 28 March 1976

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

Male actors from Saint Paul, Minnesota 41T

American male silent film actors 1,200T
14.

Richard Dix

Actor

Overview: Richard Dix (born Ernst Carlton Brimmer; July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949) was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film. His standard on-screen image was ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1893

Date of death: 20 September 1949

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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RKO Pictures contract players 87T

Male actors from Saint Paul, Minnesota 41T

American male silent film actors 1,200T
15.

Pat O'Brien

American actor (1899–1983)

Overview: William Joseph Patrick O'Brien (November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters ...

Date of birth: 11 November 1899

Date of death: 15 October 1983

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Columbia Pictures contract players 42T

Marquette University High School alumni 42T

Male actors of Irish descent 682T
16.

Jack Pickford

Actor

Overview: Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1896

Date of death: 3 January 1933

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

Male actors from Toronto 475T

Canadian male silent film actors 35T
17.

Ken Maynard

American Actor and stunt performer

Overview: Kenneth Olin "Ken" Maynard (July 21, 1895 – March 23, 1973) was an American actor and producer. He was mostly active from the 1920s to the 1940s and considered one of the biggest Western stars in Hollywood ...

Date of birth: 21 July 1895

Date of death: 23 March 1973

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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People from Vevay, Indiana 10T

Male actors from Indiana 194T

Male Western (genre) film actors 419T
18.

Clive Brook

English film actor (1887–1974)

Overview: Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.

Date of birth: 1 June 1887

Date of death: 17 November 1974

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T

Male actors from London 1,398T

English male silent film actors 308T
19.

William Desmond Taylor

Irish-American film director, actor, and murder victim (1872–1922)

Overview: William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion ...

Date of birth: 26 April 1872

Date of death: 1 February 1922

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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1922 murders in the United States 7T

Murdered American actors 46T

Irish male silent film actors 19T
20.

John Monk Saunders

American novelist, screenwriter, film director, Oscar winner

Overview: John Monk Saunders (November 22, 1897 – March 11, 1940) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.

Date of birth: 22 November 1895

Date of death: 11 March 1940

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Broadway High School (Seattle) alumni 1T

1940 suicides 50T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,183T