Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts, among others awards...(wikipedia)

Credits include: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Bad Girl, Bright Eyes, The Living Ghost and Hello, Sister!

After arriving in Hollywood with $12 in his pocket, he was first employed as a sweeper for $1 a day. He was an American author and actor whose career spanned three decades beginning around 1960. He was sometimes billed as Harry Rhodes and appeared in sixty-six films or television programs, such as ABC's medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. Most of his appearances were in minor roles, according to IMDB. Rhodes first television role was in a 1957 episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey

Credits include: The Killers, Sorry, Wrong Number, Body and Soul, The Return of the King and The Racket

Credits include: Bigger Than Life, Compulsion, Edge of the City, The Catered Affair and Spider-Man Strikes Back

David Janssen was born to be a TV star. The Janssen family settled in Hollywood when he was a teenager and he attended Fairfax High School, where he developed an interest in acting. His film debut was a bit part in It's a Pleasure (1945), and at the age of 18 signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox. However, the studio dropped him after allegedly becoming disenchanted with his odd hairline and big prominent ears. Janssen had better luck at Universal, where he signed on in the early 1950s and bec

Credits include: Calamity Jane, Destination Moon, The Errand Boy, Jim Thorpe -- All-American and The Fugitive

Pioneering actor who was among Hollywood's first - years ahead of Sidney Poitier - to crush the Stepin Fetchit stereotype of black males as shiftless illiterates. Although in some pictures Edwards would portray subservient characters (e.g. "General" George C. Scott's valet in Patton (1970)), he delivered true dignity in his performances. He is especially remembered for his leading role in Home of the Brave (1949).

Credits include: The Spider, Giant from the Unknown, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Space Patrol and The Impostor

Credits include: Demon Seed, Red Ball Express, Tarzan's Peril, The Challenge and The Gifted

Credits include: The Day of the Locust, The Harvey Girls, The Kentuckian, The Three Stooges in Orbit and The Luck of the Irish

Credits include: Coming Home, Decision in the Ring and The Bookie Barber