Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name give to his best-selling 1988 autobiography) of Russian-Jewish ancestry to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born in Amsterdam, New York, in 1916. Although growing up in a poor ghetto, Douglas was a fine student and a keen athlete and wrestled competitively during his time at St. Lawrence University. However, he soon identified

Sam Wanamaker has 39 credits at Criticker, including: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Raw Deal, Private Benjamin and Baby Boom

Jean Seberg has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Breathless, Airport, The Mouse That Roared, Paint Your Wagon and Bonjour tristesse

John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and television since the 1960s. Vernon has been directed by some stellar filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz (1969)); George Cukor (Justine (1969)); Don Siegel (Dirty Harry (1971)) and Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976))...(imdb)

Bessie Love has 36 credits at Criticker, including: The Hunger, Reds, The Barefoot Contessa, Sunday Bloody Sunday and The Lost World