List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)
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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
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Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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George Abbott | 1887–1995 | 107 | American stage actor, director, playwright, screenwriter and producer[1] |
Rosa Albach-Retty | 1874–1980 | 105 | Austrian film and stage actress[2] |
Jenny Alpha | 1910–2010 | 100 | French Martinican actress and singer[3] |
Lukas Ammann | 1912–2017 | 104 | Swiss actor[4] |
Nina Andrycz | 1912–2014 | 101 | Polish actress[5] |
Nikolay Annenkov | 1899–1999 | 100 | Soviet-Russian actor[6] |
Neal Arden | 1909–2014 | 104 | British actor[7] |
Svend Asmussen | 1916–2017 | 100 | Danish jazz violinist[8] |
Vincent Ball | 1923– | 100 | Australian actor[9] |
Richard L. Bare | 1913–2015 | 101 | American motion picture and television director[10] |
Etta Moten Barnett | 1901–2004 | 102 | African-American stage actress and singer[11] |
Dave Bartholomew | 1918–2019 | 100 | American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer[12] |
Norma Barzman | 1920–2023 | 103 | American screenwriter[13] |
Sam Beazley | 1916–2017 | 101 | British actor[14] |
Amelia Bence | 1914–2016 | 101 | Argentine film actress[15] |
Bruce Bennett | 1906–2007 | 100 | American actor and Olympic athlete[16] |
Irving Benson | 1914–2016 | 102 | American actor[17] |
Peter Berkos | 1922–2024 | 101 | American sound editor[18] |
Hilda Bernard | 1920–2022 | 101 | Argentine actress[19] |
Eva von Berne | 1910–2010 | 100 | Austrian film actress[20] |
Walter Bernstein | 1919–2021 | 101 | American screenwriter and film producer[21] |
Pappukutty Bhagavathar | 1913–2020 | 107 | Indian actor and singer[22] |
Stella Bloch | 1897–1999 | 101 | American dancer[23] |
Susanna Bokoyni | 1879–1984 | 105 | Hungarian circus performer[24] |
Margaret Booth | 1898–2002 | 104 | American film editor[25] |
Osmond Borradaile | 1898–1999 | 100 | Canadian cameraman and cinematographer[26] |
Anna Maria Bottini | 1916–2020 | 104 | Italian actress[27] |
Rosa Bouglione | 1910–2018 | 107 | French circus performer[28] |
Robert F. Boyle | 1909–2010 | 100 | American art director and production designer[29] |
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | 1894–1998 | 103 | Italian film director and screenwriter[30] |
José Bragato | 1915–2017 | 101 | Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist[31] |
Artur Brauner | 1918–2019 | 100 | German film producer[32] |
Renate Brausewetter | 1905–2006 | 100 | German silent film actress[33] |
Helen Bray | 1889–1990 | 100 | American actress[34] |
Oscar Brodney | 1907–2008 | 100 | American screenwriter[35] |
Mona Bruns | 1899–2000 | 100 | American actress[36] |
Zoya Bulgakova | 1914–2017 | 102 | Soviet-Russian stage actress[37] |
George Burns | 1896–1996 | 100 | American actor and comedian[38] |
Helen Burns | 1916–2018 | 101 | British actress[39] |
Bill Butler | 1921–2023 | 101 | American cinematographer[40] |
Anne Buydens | 1919–2021 | 102 | American philanthropist and film producer[41] |
John Calvert | 1911–2013 | 102 | American magician[42] |
Earl Cameron | 1917–2020 | 102 | Bermudian-born British actor[43] |
Anna Campori | 1917–2018 | 100 | Italian actress[44] |
Mary Carlisle | 1914–2018 | 104 | American actress[45] |
Diana Serra Cary | 1918–2020 | 101 | American silent film child actress (known as "Baby Peggy"), author and cinema historian[46] |
Christian Casadesus | 1912–2014 | 101 | French actor; brother of fellow actress and centenarian Gisèle Casadesus[47] |
Gisèle Casadesus | 1914–2017 | 103 | French actress; sister of fellow actor and centenarian Christian Casadesus[48] |
Wally Cassell | 1912–2015 | 103 | Italian-born American character actor and businessman[49] |
Raymond Cauchetier | 1920–2021 | 101 | French photographer (French New Wave films)[50] |
Marge Champion | 1919–2020 | 101 | American dancer, choreographer and actress[51] |
Geoffrey Chater | 1921–2021 | 100 | British actor[52] |
Chen Liting | 1910–2013 | 102 | Chinese playwright, drama and film director[53] |
Horacio Coppola | 1906–2012 | 105 | Argentine photographer and filmmaker[54] |
Irwin Corey | 1914–2017 | 102 | American comedian[55] |
Norman Corwin | 1910–2011 | 101 | American screenwriter and producer[56] |
Nelma Costa | 1922–2023 | 101 | Brazilian actress[57] |
Diosa Costello | 1913–2013 | 100 | American entertainer[58] |
Louise Currie | 1913–2013 | 100 | American film actress[59] |
Leila Danette | 1909–2012 | 103 | American actress[60] |
Henry Danton | 1919–2022 | 102 | British dancer[61] |
Robert Darène | 1914–2016 | 102 | French actor, film director and screenwriter[62] |
Danielle Darrieux | 1917–2017 | 100 | French actress[63] |
Jimmie Davis | 1899–2000 | 101 | American singer and songwriter[64] |
Gloria Dea | 1922–2023 | 100 | American actress, dancer and magician[65] |
Margia Dean | 1922–2023 | 101 | American beauty queen and stage and screen actress[66] |
Olivia de Havilland | 1916–2020 | 104 | British-born American film actress[67] |
Suzy Delair | 1917–2020 | 102 | French actress, dancer and singer[68] |
Rosine Delamare | 1911–2013 | 101 | French Oscar-nominated costume designer[69] |
Jean Delannoy | 1908–2008 | 100 | French actor and film director[70] |
Frances Dewey Wormser | 1903–2008 | 104 | American stage actress[71] |
Dorothy Dickson | 1893–1995 | 102 | American-British stage actress[72] |
Caren Marsh Doll | 1919– | 105 | American actress and dancer[73] |
Kirk Douglas | 1916–2020 | 103 | American film actor and producer[74] |
Ellen Albertini Dow | 1913–2015 | 101 | American character actress[75] |
Orlando Drummond | 1919–2021 | 101 | Brazilian stage, television and film actor[76] |
Claire Du Brey | 1892–1993 | 100 | American film actress[77] |
Paulette Dubost | 1910–2011 | 100 | French actress[78] |
Marta Eggerth | 1912–2013 | 101 | Hungarian-born American actress and singer[79] |
Mary Ellis | 1897–2003 | 105 | American-born British stage actress[80] |
Jean Erdman | 1916–2020 | 104 | American dancer[81] |
Carl Esmond | 1902–2004 | 102 | German-American actor[82] |
Irving Fein | 1911–2012 | 101 | American television and film producer[83] |
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies | 1891–1992 | 101 | British actress[84] |
Gunnar Fischer | 1910–2011 | 100 | Swedish cinematographer[85] |
Rina Franchetti | 1907–2010 | 102 | Italian actress[86] |
Elissa Minet Fuchs | 1919–2023 | 103 | American ballerina and choreographer[87] |
Takumi Furukawa | 1917–2018 | 101 | Japanese film director[88] |
Arthur Gardner | 1910–2014 | 104 | American television producer[89] |
Hal Geer | 1916–2017 | 100 | American producer and filmmaker[90] |
Pierre Gérald | 1906–2012 | 105 | French actor[91] |
Erwin Geschonneck | 1906–2008 | 101 | German actor[92] |
Julie Gibson | 1913–2019 | 106 | American actress and singer[93] |
Marie Glory | 1905–2009 | 103 | French actress[94] |
Ebrahim Golestan | 1922–2023 | 100 | Iranian-British film director and writer[95] |
Dercy Gonçalves | 1907–2008 | 101 | Brazilian actress[96] |
Coleridge Goode | 1914–2015 | 100 | Jamaican-born British jazz bassist[97] |
Bert I. Gordon | 1922–2023 | 100 | American film director[98] |
Guido Gorgatti | 1919–2023 | 103 | Italian-born Argentine film actor[99] |
Karl Otto Götz | 1914–2017 | 103 | German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman/printmaker, writer and art professor[100] |
Derek Granger | 1921–2022 | 101 | British film and television producer, and screenwriter[101] |
Alda Grimaldi | 1919–2023 | 104 | Italian television director and actress[102] |
Liane Haid | 1895–2000 | 105 | Austrian actress[103] |
Anna Halprin | 1920–2021 | 100 | American dancer and choreographer[104][105] |
Stein Grieg Halvorsen | 1909–2013 | 104 | Norwegian actor[106] |
Kathleen Harrison | 1892–1995 | 103 | British actress[107] |
Shinobu Hashimoto | 1918–2018 | 100 | Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer[108] |
Johannes Heesters | 1903–2011 | 108 | Dutch actor, vocalist and performer[109] |
Bob Hope | 1903–2003 | 100 | British-born American actor and comedian[110] |
Mieczysław Horszowski | 1892–1993 | 100 | Polish-American pianist[111] |
Shep Houghton | 1914–2016 | 102 | American actor and dancer[112][113] |
Yvonne Howell | 1905–2010 | 104 | American silent film actress[114] |
Marsha Hunt | 1917–2022 | 104 | American actress[115][116] |
Minoru Inuzuka | 1901–2007 | 106 | Japanese film director and screenwriter[117] |
Vilma Jamnická | 1906–2008 | 101 | Slovakian actress[118] |
Lucy Jarvis | 1917–2020 | 102 | American television producer[119] |
Joli Jászai | 1907–2008 | 101 | Hungarian actress[120] |
Gertrude Jeannette | 1914–2018 | 103 | American actress, theatre director and producer[121] |
Herb Jeffries | 1913–2014 | 100 | American singer and actor[122] |
Glynis Johns | 1923–2024 | 100 | British actress, dancer, musician and singer[123] |
Rolands Kalniņš | 1922–2022 | 100 | Latvian film director, screenwriter and producer[124][125] |
Tatyana Karpova | 1916–2018 | 102 | Soviet-Russian actress[126] |
Lois Kelly Miller | 1917–2020 | 102 | Jamaican actress[127] |
John Kenley | 1906–2009 | 103 | American Broadway director and producer[128] |
Barbara Kent | 1907–2011 | 103 | Canadian-born American actress[129] |
Yuriko Kikuchi | 1920–2022 | 102 | American dancer and choreographer[130] |
Robert Kinoshita | 1914–2014 | 100 | American art director[131] |
Hans F. Koenekamp | 1891–1992 | 100 | American cinematographer[132] |
Herbert Köfer | 1921–2021 | 100 | German actor[133] |
Mae Laborde | 1909–2012 | 102 | American television actress[134] |
Carla Laemmle | 1909–2014 | 104 | American film actress[135] |
Guje Lagerwall | 1918–2019 | 100 | Swedish actress[136] |
Charles Lane | 1905–2007 | 102 | American character actor[137] |
Sid Laverents | 1908–2009 | 100 | American amateur filmmaker[138] |
Norman Lear | 1922–2023 | 101 | American television writer and film and television producer[139] |
Nikolai Lebedev | 1921–2022 | 100 | Soviet and Russian actor[140][141] |
Yvette Lebon | 1910–2014 | 103 | French actress[142] |
Francis Lederer | 1899–2000 | 100 | American actor[143] |
Aleen Leslie | 1908–2010 | 101 | American screenwriter[144] |
Norman Lloyd | 1914–2021 | 106 | American actor, director, producer and writer[145] |
Elena Lucena | 1914–2015 | 101 | Argentine actress[146] |
Don Lusk | 1913–2018 | 105 | American animator[147] |
Ingrid Luterkort | 1910–2011 | 101 | Swedish actress[148] |
Dora Luz | 1918–2018 | 100 | Mexican singer and recording artist [149] |
Lincoln Maazel | 1903–2009 | 106 | American actor and singer; father of conductor Lorin Maazel[150] |
Kurt Maetzig | 1911–2012 | 101 | German film director[151] |
Maciej Maciejewski | 1914–2018 | 103 | Polish actor[152] |
Martin Magner | 1900–2002 | 101 | German-American theatre and television director and producer[153] |
Tommie Manderson | 1912–2015 | 102 | British make-up artist[154] |
Don Marion | 1917–2020 | 103 | American actor[155] |
Margery Mason | 1913–2014 | 100 | British actress[156] |
Leslie H. Martinson | 1915–2016 | 101 | American television and film director[157] |
Carmen Martínez Sierra | 1904–2012 | 108 | Spanish actress[158] |
Annabel Maule | 1922– | 101 | British actress[159] |
Sherman Maxwell | 1907–2008 | 100 | American sportscaster[160] |
Fay McKenzie | 1918–2019 | 101 | American actress[161] |
Joe McQueen | 1919–2019 | 100 | American jazz saxophonist[162] |
Mariuccia Medici | 1910–2012 | 102 | Italian-born Swiss actress[163] |
Benjamin Melniker | 1913–2018 | 104 | American film producer[164] |
Sheila Mercier | 1919–2019 | 100 | British actress[165] |
Doris Merrick | 1919–2019 | 100 | American actress and model[166] |
Madeleine Milhaud | 1902–2008 | 105 | French actress and librettist; wife of composer Darius Milhaud[167] |
Moi-Yo Miller | 1914–2018 | 104 | Australian magician's assistant[168] |
Walter Mirisch | 1921–2023 | 101 | American film producer[169] |
Antony Mitradas | 1913–2017 | 103 | Indian film director[170] |
Igor Moiseyev | 1906–2007 | 101 | Soviet-Russian choreographer[171] |
Miguel Morayta | 1907–2013 | 105 | Spanish-born Mexican film director[172] |
Patricia Morison | 1915–2018 | 103 | American actress[173] |
Meg Mundy | 1915–2016 | 101 | British-born American actress[174] |
Audrey Munson | 1891–1996 | 104 | American actress and model[175] |
Randi Lindtner Næss | 1905–2009 | 104 | Norwegian actress and singer[176] |
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair | 1916–2021 | 104 | Indian Kathakali actor[177] |
Grim Natwick | 1890–1990 | 100 | American animator[178] |
Ivan Novikoff | 1899–2002 | 102 | Russian ballet teacher[179] |
Gladys O'Connor | 1903–2012 | 108 | British-Canadian actress[180] |
Kevin O'Morrison | 1916–2016 | 100 | American actor and playwright[181] |
Kazuo Ohno | 1906–2010 | 103 | Japanese dancer[182] |
Manoel de Oliveira | 1908–2015 | 106 | Portuguese film director[183] |
Nelly Omar | 1911–2013 | 102 | Argentine actress and singer[184] |
Lia Origoni | 1919–2022 | 103 | Italian actress [185] |
Risto Orko | 1899–2001 | 102 | Finnish film producer and director[186] |
Juan Orrego-Salas | 1919–2019 | 100 | Chilean-American composer[187] |
Ethel Waite Owen | 1893–1997 | 103 | American actress[188] |
Janis Paige | 1922– | 101 | American actress[189][190][191] |
Emily Perry | 1907–2008 | 100 | British actress[192] |
Nehemiah Persoff | 1919–2022 | 102 | American actor[193] |
Fern Persons | 1910–2012 | 101 | American film and television actress[194] |
Tullio Pinelli | 1908–2009 | 100 | Italian playwright and screenwriter[195] |
Marc Platt | 1913–2014 | 100 | American actor and dancer[196] |
Olaf Pooley | 1914–2015 | 101 | British actor[197] |
Micheline Presle | 1922–2024 | 101 | French actress[198] |
Willis Pyle | 1914–2016 | 101 | American animator[199] |
Qin Yi | 1922–2022 | 100 | Chinese actress[200][201] |
Milton Quon | 1913–2019 | 105 | American animator, artist and actor[202] |
Luise Rainer | 1910–2014 | 104 | German-born British-American Oscar-winning actress[203] |
Irving Rapper | 1898–1999 | 101 | British-American film director[204] |
Harry Redmond Jr. | 1909–2011 | 101 | American special effects artist and film producer[205] |
Connie Douglas Reeves | 1901–2003 | 101 | American cowgirl[206] |
Helen Reichert | 1901–2011 | 109 | American talk show personality and professor[207] |
Georgette Rejewski | 1910–2014 | 104 | Belgian-born Dutch actress[208] |
Ted Richmond | 1910–2013 | 103 | American film producer[209] |
Leni Riefenstahl | 1902–2003 | 101 | German film director[210] |
Gerda Ring | 1891–1999 | 107 | Norwegian stage actress and producer[211] |
Hal Roach | 1892–1992 | 100 | American film and television producer[212] |
Edith Roger | 1922–2023 | 100 | Norwegian dancer and choreographer[213] |
Zvonimir Rogoz | 1887–1988 | 100 | Croatian actor[214] |
Jack Rollins | 1915–2015 | 100 | American film producer[215] |
Jean Rouverol | 1916–2017 | 100 | American actress and screenwriter[216] |
Witold Sadowy | 1920–2020 | 100 | Polish actor[217] |
Frederica Sagor Maas | 1900–2012 | 111 | American screenwriter, playwright and essayist[218] |
Sol Saks | 1910–2011 | 100 | American screenwriter and producer[219] |
Paula Salomon-Lindberg | 1897–2000 | 102 | German classical contralto singer[220] |
Connie Sawyer | 1912–2018 | 105 | American actress[221] |
Ivy Sawyer | 1898–1999 | 101 | American dancer, singer and actress[222] |
Hannes Schiel | 1914–2017 | 103 | Austrian actor[223] |
Robert C. Schnitzer | 1906–2008 | 101 | American actor, producer, educator and theater administrator[224] |
Ida Schuster | 1918–2020 | 101 | Scottish actress[225] |
Alfie Scopp | 1919–2021 | 101 | English-born Canadian actor[226] |
Miriam Seegar Whelan | 1907–2011 | 103 | American actress[227] |
Zohra Sehgal | 1912–2014 | 102 | Indian dancer and actress[228] |
Tonio Selwart | 1896–2002 | 106 | German actor and stage performer[229] |
Marina Semyonova | 1908–2010 | 101 | Soviet-Russian prima ballerina[230] |
Ramananda Sengupta | 1916–2017 | 101 | Indian cinematographer[231] |
Athene Seyler | 1889–1990 | 101 | British actress[232] |
Jane Sherman | 1908–2010 | 101 | American dancer and writer[233] |
Kaneto Shindo | 1912–2012 | 100 | Japanese film director[234] |
Helen Shingler | 1919–2019 | 100 | British film and television actress[235] |
Renée Simonot | 1911–2021 | 109 | French actress; mother of actress Catherine Deneuve[236] |
Douglas Slocombe | 1913–2016 | 103 | British cinematographer[237] |
June Spencer | 1919– | 104 | British radio actress[238] |
Norman Spencer | 1914– | 109 | British producer[239] |
Helli Stehle | 1907–2017 | 109 | Swiss actress and radio presenter[240] |
Hugh Stewart | 1910–2011 | 100 | British film editor and producer[241] |
Dorothy Stickney | 1896–1998 | 101 | American actress[242] |
Gloria Stuart | 1910–2010 | 100 | American film actress[243] |
Alan Surgal | 1916–2017 | 100 | American screenwriter[244] |
Wolfgang Suschitzky | 1912–2016 | 104 | Austrian cinematographer and photographer[245] |
Danuta Szaflarska | 1915–2017 | 102 | Polish actress[246] |
Tang Xiaodan | 1910–2012 | 101 | Chinese film director[247] |
Gianrico Tedeschi | 1920–2020 | 100 | Italian actor[248] |
Ellaline Terriss | 1871–1971 | 100 | British stage and film actress and musical performer[249] |
Nini Theilade | 1915–2018 | 102 | Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher[250] |
Frank M. Thomas | 1889–1989 | 100 | American actor [citation needed] |
Ruthie Tompson | 1910–2021 | 111 | American animator[251] |
Roman Totenberg | 1911–2012 | 101 | Polish-American violinist[252] |
Lupita Tovar | 1910–2016 | 106 | Mexican-American actress[253] |
Dorothy Toy | 1917–2019 | 102 | Asian-American dancer[254] |
Doris Eaton Travis | 1904–2010 | 106 | American actress and dance instructor; last surviving Ziegfeld Girl[255] |
Roger Tréville | 1902–2005 | 102 | French actor[256] |
Mabel Trunnelle | 1879–1981 | 101 | American actress[257] |
Morton Tubor | 1917–2019 | 102 | American film and sound editor[258] |
Franca Valeri | 1920–2020 | 100 | Italian actress[259] |
Ninette de Valois | 1898–2001 | 102 | Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet; founder of The Royal Ballet in London[260] |
Otakar Vávra | 1911–2011 | 100 | Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue[261] |
Branka Veselinović | 1918–2023 | 104 | Serbian actress[262] |
Pauline Wagner | 1910–2014 | 103 | American actress[263] |
Bea Wain | 1917–2017 | 100 | American big band singer and radio personality[264] |
Mary Ward Breheny | 1915–2021 | 106 | Australian actress and radio broadcaster[265] |
Stan Waterman | 1923–2023 | 100 | American cinematographer and film producer[266] |
Señor Wences | 1896–1999 | 103 | Spanish-American ventriloquist[267] |
Gösta Werner | 1908–2009 | 101 | Swedish film director[268] |
Frances Wessells | 1919– | 104 | American dancer and choreographer[269] |
Murray Westgate | 1918–2018 | 100 | Canadian television and film actor[270] |
Stephen Wilkinson | 1919–2021 | 102 | British choral conductor and composer[271] |
Elmo Williams | 1913–2015 | 102 | American film and television editor[272] |
Irv Williams | 1919–2019 | 100 | American jazz saxophonist and composer[273] |
Estelle Winwood | 1883–1984 | 101 | British stage and film actress[274] |
Norrie Woodhall | 1905–2011 | 105 | British stage actress[275] |
Katja Wulff | 1890–1992 | 101 | Swiss expressionist dancer[276] |
Yan Jizhou | 1917–2018 | 100 | Chinese film director[277] |
Dorothy Young | 1907–2011 | 103 | American entertainer and assistant to magician Harry Houdini[278] |
Izabella Yurieva | 1899–2000 | 100 | Russian singer[279] |
Miguel Zacarías | 1905–2006 | 101 | Mexican film director and producer[280] |
Vladimir Zeldin | 1915–2016 | 101 | Soviet-Russian actor[281] |
Hilda Žīgure | 1918–2022 | 104 | Latvian stage actress[282] |
Adolph Zukor | 1873–1976 | 103 | Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer; co-founder of Paramount Pictures[283] |
Jorge Zuloaga | 1922–2022 | 100 | Colombian television comedian[284] |
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