People: Famous People born in 1914

People in chronological context: 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. ()

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Alec Guinness(† 86)

Actor | Marylebone, London, England (GB)

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His is known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Known for: Star Wars, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Horse's Mouth

* 04/02/1914

Richard Widmark(† 93)

Actor | Sunrise Township, Minnesota (US)

Richard Weedt Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death (1947), for which he also won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Early in his career, Widmark was typecast in similar villainous or anti-hero roles in films noir, but he later branched out into more heroic leading and supporting roles in Westerns, mainstream dramas, and horror films among others. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Known for: Kiss of Death, The Alamo, Murder on the Orient Express, Judgment at Nuremberg

* 12/26/1914

Jeff Corey(† 88)

Actor | Brooklyn, New York (US)

Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling; August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s.

Known for: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, True Grit, Little Big Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

* 08/10/1914

Woody Strode(† 80)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American actor, football player and author. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. After football, he went on to become a film actor, where he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960. Strode also served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.

Known for: Spartacus, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Professionals, The Ten Commandments

* 07/25/1914

Louis de Funès(† 68)

Actor | Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine (FR)

Louis de Funès, born Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza, was a popular French actor of Spanish origin and one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel.

Known for: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, The Wing or the Thigh?, The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space, Hibernatus

* 07/31/1914

Harry Lauter(† 76)

Actor | White Plains, New York (US)

American character actor specializing in villainous roles. Born in White Plains, New York to Herman E. and Franceska Lauter, he was raised in Denver, Colorado. Although it has been suggested that he appeared briefly in a couple of films during the Thirties, his real movie career began in 1946. He came to be a familiar presence in low-budget films, serials, and television programs in the 1950s, though he only once really came close to stardom, as one of the leads in the television series "Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955)". Most of his career was spent as a serviceable second lead or heavy, though he continued to play bit parts in larger pictures. The son of an artist, he devoted much of his energy late in life to his own painting and running an art gallery. He died in 1990.

Known for: Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Creature with the Atom Brain, Incident, Mr And Mrs North

* 06/19/1914

Richard Basehart(† 70)

Actor | Zanesville, Ohio (US)

John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson in the television science-fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–68). He also portrayed Wilton Knight in the pilot episode of the TV series Knight Rider (1982), and provided the narration that was heard during the opening credits throughout the entire series. Basehart was equally active in cinema, receiving National Board of Review Awards for his performances in Fourteen Hours (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He was further nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in Time Limit (1957), the only film directed by Karl Malden.

Known for: Moby Dick, La Strada, Fourteen Hours, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

* 08/13/1914

Clayton Moore(† 85)

Actor | West Hills, Los Angeles, California (US)

Clayton Moore (born Jack Carlton Moore, September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1952 and 1953 to 1957 on the television series of the same name and two related films from the same producers.

Known for: Jesse James Rides Again, The Lone Ranger, G-Men Never Forget, The Lone Ranger

* 09/14/1914

Beatrice Straight(† 86)

Actress | Old Westbury, New York (US)

Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner as well as an Emmy Award nominee. Straight made her Broadway debut in The Possessed (1939). Her other Broadway roles included Viola in Twelfth Night (1941), Catherine Sloper in The Heiress (1947) and Lady Macduff in Macbeth (1948). For her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the production of The Crucible (1953), she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For the satirical film Network (1976), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her performance is the shortest ever to win an Academy Award for acting, at five minutes and two seconds of screen time. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978). Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nun's Story (1959) and Dr. Martha Lesh in Poltergeist (1982).

Known for: Network, Poltergeist, The Nun's Story, The Dain Curse

* 08/02/1914

Jonathan Harris(† 87)

Actor | The Bronx, New York City, New York (US)

Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 - November 3, 2002) was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and movie appearances, as well as voiceovers. Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of The Third Man and the fussy villain, Dr. Zachary Smith, of the 1960s science-fiction series Lost in Space. Near the end of his career, he provided voices for the animated features A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2.Acting was Harris's first love. At age 24, he prepared a fake résumé and tried out for a repertory company at the Millpond Playhouse in Long Island, New York and appeared in several of this troupe's plays, prior to landing a spot in the company. In 1942, Harris won the leading role of a Polish officer in the Broadway play The Heart of a City. Adopting a Polish accent, he advised the producers that his parents were originally from Poland. In 1946, he starred in A Flag Is Born, opposite Quentin Reynolds and Marlon Brando.In 1990, Harris reunited with the cast of Lost in Space in a filmed celebration of the 25th anniversary of the series' debut, at an event attended by more than 30,000 fans. Harris made a number of other convention appearances with other cast members of Lost in Space, including a 1996 appearance at Disney World.

Known for: A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Lost in Space, Space Academy

* 11/06/1914

John Ireland(† 78)

Actor | Vancouver, British Columbia (CA)

John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination.Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry.

Known for: All the King's Men, Red River, Spartacus, My Darling Clementine

* 01/31/1914

Bill Erwin(† 96)

Actor | Honey Grove, Texas (US)

William Lindsey Erwin (December 2, 1914 – December 29, 2010) was an American film, stage and television actor and cartoonist with over 250 television and film credits. A veteran character actor, he is widely known for his 1993 Emmy Award-nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields. He also made notable appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In cinema, his most recognized role is that of Arthur Biehl, a kindly bellman at the Grand Hotel, in Somewhere in Time (1980). Erwin was a self-taught cartoonist, published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Los Angeles. He won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, four Drama-Logue Awards, Gilmore Brown Award for Career Achievement, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters' Diamond Circle Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University.

Known for: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Somewhere in Time, Home Alone, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

* 12/02/1914

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Michael Grant(† 89)

Actor | London (GB)

Michael Grant, who hails from Kingsport, Tennessee, moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to steadily build his acting career. The soulful and talented Grant booked roles on Criminal Minds with Joe Mantegna, Childrens Hospital with comedy vets Megan Mullally, Rob Corddry & Malin Ackerman, Disney Channel's Shake It Up and on Nickelodeon's Victorious. His work extended to national commercials for Lexus, the web's Funny or Die (Flowers and Eviction Notice). In 2011, Michael generated critical acclaim on ABC's Shonda Rhimes hit Private Practice where he played a young classical pianist stricken with brain tumor.The television community quickly became aware of Michael's ability and range when he was cast by Seventh Heaven creator Brenda Hampton as Ethan, the troubled teen on ABC Family's hit show The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Michael's role, which was initially just for one episode, was quickly expanded and he became a series regular in the series' final season (2013) opposite Shailene Woodley. After the show's conclusion, Michael landed the role of Connor, opposite Lucy Hale, in ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars. This fall he can be seen on the FOX comedy series Brooklyn Nine Nine opposite Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher as Trevor, the vandal son of the deputy police commissioner.Michael's movie credits include a starring role in The Hallmark Channel's Reading, Writing and Romance (2013) as tech whiz kid J.D. Forester alongside Meredith Baxter and Brenda Strong. In addition, MIchael just returned from shooting the indie dramatic feature, Zoe Gone, from acclaimed director Conor Allyn, due for release in 2014. He will be seen as Randy Chambers, a young teen who gets on the wrong side of the law.A gifted concert pianist who won The Tennessee State Piano Competition at age 6, Michael went on to win first place in the solo and concerto divisions in 2006. He is still a Tennessean at heart and remains a huge fan of the Tennessee Titans but in deference to his new California home is fully committed to becoming an accomplished skateboarder.He is proud to call himself a rabid fantasy football fanatic.

Known for: Where Hope Grows, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

* 11/21/1914

Norman Lloyd(† 106)

Actor | Jersey City, New Jersey (US)

Norman Nathan Lloyd (né Perlmutter; November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021) was an American actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the industry including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923. Lloyd's final film, Trainwreck, was released in 2015, after he had attained 100 years of age.

Known for: Dead Poets Society, Saboteur, The Age of Innocence, Alfred Hitchcock Presents

* 11/08/1914

Harry Townes(† 86)

Actor | Huntsville, Alabama (US)

Harry Rhett Townes (September 18, 1914 – May 23, 2001) was an American actor who later became an Episcopalian minister.

Known for: Operation Manhunt, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk

* 09/18/1914

Parley Baer(† 88)

Actor | Salt Lake City, Utah (US)

Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio version of Gunsmoke, and as the Mayor of Mayberry (Roy Stoner) in The Andy Griffith Show.

Known for: License to Drive, A Fever in the Blood, Dave, The Brass Bottle

* 08/05/1914

Dorothy Neumann(† 80)

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Known for: The Ten Commandments, The Undead, Hot Rod Gang, Private Parts

* 01/26/1914

E.G. Marshall(† 84)

Actor | Owatonna, Minnesota (US)

E. G. Marshall (born Everett Eugene Grunz; June 18, 1914 – August 24, 1998) was an American actor. One of the first group selected for the new Actors Studio, by 1948 Marshall had performed in major plays on Broadway. Among his film roles Marshall is perhaps best known as the unflappable and analytical Juror 4 in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957). He played the President of the United States in Superman II (1980), and Nazi collaborator Henri Denault on the CBS prime-time drama Falcon Crest in 1982. Marshall was also known as the host of the radio drama series, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–1982).

Known for: 12 Angry Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Superman II

* 06/18/1914

Hedy Lamarr(† 85)

Actress | Vienna (AT)

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Lamarr became a film star with her performance in the romantic drama Algiers (1938). She achieved further success with the Western Boom Town (1940) and the drama White Cargo (1942). Lamarr's most successful film was the religious epic Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film in 1958. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. At the beginning of World War II, along with George Antheil, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers. However, the technology was never adopted.

Known for: Samson and Delilah, The Strange Woman, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Tortilla Flat

* 11/09/1914

David Wayne(† 81)

Actor | Traverse City, Michigan (US)

David Wayne (born Wayne James McMeekan, January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American stage and screen actor with a career spanning over 50 years.

Known for: The Andromeda Strain, Adam's Rib, The Front Page, How to Marry a Millionaire

* 01/30/1914

Hillary Brooke(† 84)

Actress | Astoria, New York (US)

Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson) was an American screen and television actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films.

Known for: The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Enchanted Cottage, The Strange Woman, Bodyhold

* 09/08/1914

Jackie Coogan(† 69)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

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. Coogan's role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood. He later sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, the California Child Actor's Bill, widely known as the "Coogan Act". Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series The Addams Family.

Known for: Oliver Twist, A Boy of Flanders, The Kid, Tom Sawyer, The Addams Family

* 10/26/1914

Walter Brooke(† 71)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Walter Brooke (born Gustav William Tweer Jr., October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor.

Known for: The Graduate, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Bloodlust!, Lawman

* 10/13/1914

Danny Thomas(† 77)

Actor | Deerfield (US)

Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912– February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor and producer, whose career spanned five decades. Thomas was best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy (also known as The Danny Thomas Show). He was also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is the father of Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas, and Tony Thomas.

Known for: The Jazz Singer, The Danny Thomas Show, Make Room for Granddaddy, That Girl

* 01/06/1914

Wendell Corey(† 54)

Actor | Dracut, Massachusetts (US)

Wendell Reid Corey (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served on the Santa Monica City Council.

Known for: Rear Window, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Agent for H.A.R.M., The Search

* 03/20/1914

John Larch(† 91)

Actor | Salem, Massachusetts (US)

John Larch (born Harold Aronin; October 4, 1914 – October 16, 2005; also credited Harry Larch) was an American radio, film, and television actor.

Known for: Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, Airplane II: The Sequel, The Wrecking Crew

* 10/04/1914

John Hodiak(† 41)

Actor | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US)

John Hodiak ( HOH-dee-ak; April 16, 1914 – October 19, 1955) was an American actor who worked in radio, stage and film.

Known for: Lifeboat, Somewhere in the Night, Battleground, The Harvey Girls

* 04/16/1914

Harriet Medin(† 91)

Actress | Somerville, Massachusetts (US)

Harriet White Medin (March 14, 1914 – May 20, 2005) was an American actress and dialogue coach who worked in Italian and American films. She appeared in the cult film Death Race 2000.

Known for: The Terminator, Death Race 2000, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, The Witches of Eastwick

* 03/14/1914

Gerald Mohr(† 54)

Actor | New York City, New York USA

Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. Born in New York City, he was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in New York City, where he learned to speak fluent French and German. At Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, before being discovered as promising voice talent by a radio producer. Mohr was hired by the radio station and became a junior reporter. In the mid-1930s, Orson Welles invited him to join his formative Mercury Theatre and appeared on Broadway. Mohr began appearing in films in the late 1930s, playing his first villain role in the 15-part cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl (1941). After three years' service in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, starring and appearing in numerous movies until 1949 when he joined Fred Foy has co-announcer for the first series of The Lone Ranger. From the 1950s on, he appeared as a guest star in more than one hundred television series, mostly westerns, though several comedy, variety, crime, and early science fiction serials. Mohr is remembered for his performance as "Ricky's friend" psychiatrist 'Dr. Henry Molin' (real life name of the assistant film editor on the show) in the classic February 1953 I Love Lucy episode, "The Inferiority Complex". Mohr's repeated line was, "Treatment, Ricky. Treatment". .

Known for: Gilda, The Angry Red Planet, The Sniper, The Lone Wolf in Mexico

* 06/11/1914

Kevin McCarthy(† 96)

Actor | Seattle, Washington (US)

Kevin McCarthy (February 15, 1914 – September 11, 2010) was an American stage, film and television actor, remembered as the male lead in the horror science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Following several television guest roles, McCarthy gave his first credited film performance in Death of a Salesman (1951), portraying Biff Loman to Fredric March's Willy Loman. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Known for: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, UHF, Innerspace, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

* 02/15/1914