List of living actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood
This is a list of living actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. These are actors who are still living and had a credited role in at least one Hollywood film between the end of the silent era in 1929 and 1959, the acknowledged end of the Golden Age. Entries are from oldest to youngest. Actors are listed with the year of their Hollywood debut, along with any films they had credited roles in (a maximum of ten) which are now considered classics. Films listed include those produced after United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., the 1948 federal case considered the first "nail in the coffin" of the studio system, up to the near-bankruptcy of many major studios in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Second row from left: Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, Ann Blyth and Jane Powell
Third row from left: Sophia Loren, Claude Jarman Jr., Dean Stockwell and Margaret O'Brien.
Summary
A total of 445 actors are listed.
Actors born in the 1910s
5 actors
Actors born in the 1920s
61 actors
Actors born in the 1930s
44 actors
Actors born in the 1940s
13 actors
Actors who debuted in the 1950s
322 actors
See also
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