Columbia Pictures contract players

The list Columbia Pictures contract players includes Kim Novak, Rita Hayworth, Lucille Ball, Barbara Hale and Cary Grant. The list consists of 56 members.

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Columbia Pictures

American film studio

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Lucille Ball

American actress (1911–1989)

Overview: Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, model, entertainment studio executive and producer. She was the star of the self-produced sitcoms I Love Lucy ...

Date of birth: 6 August 1911

Date of death: 26 April 1989

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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American comedians of English descent 83T

American sitcom actresses 542T

Comedians from Los Angeles 238T
2.

Kim Novak

American actress

Overview: Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American retired film and television actress and painter.

Date of birth: 13 February 1933

Age: 92

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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People from Big Sur, California 11T

Farragut Career Academy alumni 18T

Honorary Golden Bear recipients 41T
3.

Rita Hayworth

American, Actress

Overview: Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1918

Date of death: 14 May 1987

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Film producers from New York City 105T

Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in New York (state) 55T

American pin-up models 106T
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Jean Arthur

Actress

Overview: Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1900

Date of death: 19 June 1991

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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WAMPAS Baby Stars 141T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

Actresses of British descent 497T
5.

Barbara Hale

American actress (1922–2017)

Overview: Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street in the television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy ...

Date of birth: 18 April 1922

Date of death: 26 January 2017

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 597T

2017 deaths 9,371T

Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners 47T
6.

William Holden

American actor

Overview: William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for ...

Date of birth: 17 April 1918

Date of death: 12 November 1981

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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United Service Organizations entertainers 148T

Male actors of English descent 380T

Keepers of animal sanctuaries 29T
7.

Cary Grant

Actor

Overview: Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor, who was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was known for his transa ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1904

Date of death: 29 November 1986

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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English vaudeville performers 7T

American vaudeville performers 117T

English expatriate male actors in the United States 272T
8.

Rosalind Russell

Actress

Overview: Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His ...

Date of birth: 4 June 1907

Date of death: 28 November 1976

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 597T

Writers from Waterbury, Connecticut 19T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T
9.

Glenn Ford

Canadian actor (1916–2006)

Overview: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Ford was most prominent during Hollywood's ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1916

Date of death: 30 August 2006

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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People with acquired American citizenship 1,034T

Male actors from Quebec 194T

United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II 1,198T
10.

Gene Autry

American entertainer

Overview: Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed The Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, and rodeo performer who gained fame largely by singing ...

Date of birth: 29 September 1907

Date of death: 2 October 1998

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Melotone Records (US) artists 5T

Golden Boot Awards recipients 6T

Members of The Lambs Club 86T
11.

Eva Marie Saint

American actress (born 1924)

Overview: Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American actress of film, theatre, radio and television. In a career spanning over 70 years, she has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, alongside ...

Date of birth: 4 July 1924

Age: 100

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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People from Bethlehem, New York 25T

Actresses from Newark, New Jersey 29T

Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners 47T
12.

Curly Howard

American actor and comedian

Overview: Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American vaudevillian comedian and actor. He was best known as a member of the American farce comedy ...

Date of birth: 22 October 1903

Date of death: 18 January 1952

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Burials at Home of Peace Cemetery 15T

American male comedy actors 146T

20th-century American comedians 1,226T
13.

Buster Keaton

American, Actor

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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American comedy film directors 193T

American silent film directors 137T

American vaudeville performers 1,289T
14.

Ann Sothern

Actress

Overview: Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake; January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Sothern ...

Date of birth: 22 January 1909

Date of death: 15 March 2001

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Central High School (Minneapolis, Minnesota) alumni 17T

20th-century American businesswomen 393T

Catholics from Idaho 11T
15.

Ann Miller

American actress and dancer (1923–2004)

Overview: Ann Miller (born Johnnie Lucille Collier; April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American actress, dancer and singer. She is best remembered for her work in the Classical Hollywood cinema musicals of ...

Date of birth: 12 April 1923

Date of death: 22 January 2004

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Broadway actors 482T

20th-century American women singers 2,155T

Catholics from Texas 175T
16.

Evelyn Keyes

Actress

Overview: Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Date of birth: 20 November 1916

Date of death: 4 July 2008

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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People from Montecito, California 21T

Huston family 12T

Actresses from Atlanta, Georgia 101T
17.

Michael Callan

American actor (1935–2022)

Overview: Michael Callan (born Martin Harris Calinieff; November 22, 1935 – October 10, 2022) was an American actor best known for originating the role of Riff in West Side Story on Broadway, and for his film roles ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1935

Date of death: 10 October 2022

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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2022 deaths 6,844T

Male actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 286T

American male stage actors 3,505T
18.

The Three Stooges

Actor

Overview: The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television ...

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American vaudeville performers 1,286T

Jewish American male comedians 263T

Mass media franchises introduced in 1925 2T
19.

Penny Singleton

American actress

Overview: Penny Singleton (born Mariana Dorothy McNulty, September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American actress and labor leader. During her 60-year career, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1908

Date of death: 12 November 2003

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Nightclub performers 80T

21st-century American women 6,707T

Hanna-Barbera people 228T
20.

Cleo Moore

American actress (1920s – 1973)

Overview: Cleouna Moore (October 31, 1929 – October 25, 1973) was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1924

Date of death: 25 October 1973

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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People from Gonzales, Louisiana 20T

Actresses from Baton Rouge, Louisiana 18T

Actors from Baton Rouge, Louisiana 26T