Silver Screen Legends: The Icons of Hollywood's Golden Age

"Starring Roles: Celebrating the Stars Who Shaped Golden Age Cinema"

This tribute shines a light on the luminaries of Hollywood's Golden Age, honoring the actors, actresses, and directors whose talent and charisma defined an era of film history.

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Here's a comprehensive list of the Top 100 Golden Age of Hollywood Icons. This era, spanning from the 1920s to the early 1960s, was a period of immense creativity and transformation in the film industry, giving rise to many of the most legendary names in cinema history.

Actors

1. Humphrey Bogart
2. James Stewart
3. Cary Grant
4. Marlon Brando
5. Fred Astaire
6. Henry Fonda
7. Clark Gable
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Buster Keaton
10. Laurence Olivier
11. Spencer Tracy
12. Gregory Peck
13. John Wayne
14. Orson Welles
15. Sidney Poitier
16. Gary Cooper
17. Gene Kelly
18. William Holden
19. Burt Lancaster
20. Kirk Douglas

Actresses

1. Katharine Hepburn
2. Bette Davis
3. Audrey Hepburn
4. Ingrid Bergman
5. Greta Garbo
6. Marilyn Monroe
7. Elizabeth Taylor
8. Judy Garland
9. Vivien Leigh
10. Barbara Stanwyck
11. Joan Crawford
12. Marlene Dietrich
13. Rita Hayworth
14. Grace Kelly
15. Ginger Rogers
16. Mae West
17. Lana Turner
18. Shirley Temple
19. Jean Harlow
20. Lauren Bacall

Directors

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Billy Wilder
3. John Ford
4. Orson Welles
5. Frank Capra
6. Howard Hawks
7. Stanley Kubrick
8. George Cukor
9. David Lean
10. William Wyler
11. Michael Curtiz
12. Charlie Chaplin
13. Fritz Lang
14. Akira Kurosawa
15. Ingmar Bergman
16. Federico Fellini
17. John Huston
18. Vincente Minnelli
19. Cecil B. DeMille
20. Sergei Eisenstein

Supporting Actors and Character Actors

1. Claude Rains
2. Edward G. Robinson
3. Peter Lorre
4. Walter Brennan
5. Thelma Ritter
6. Elsa Lanchester
7. Agnes Moorehead
8. Joseph Cotten
9. James Mason
10. Charles Laughton

Cinematographers, Composers, and Others

1. Gregg Toland
2. James Wong Howe
3. Bernard Herrmann
4. Max Steiner
5. Dmitri Tiomkin
6. Edith Head (Costume Designer)
7. Jack Pierce (Makeup Artist)
8. Saul Bass (Graphic Designer and Filmmaker)
9. Ray Harryhausen (Visual Effects Creator)
10. Walt Disney

Notable Personalities and Contributors

1. Bob Hope
2. Bing Crosby
3. Lucille Ball
4. Desi Arnaz
5. Jack Benny
6. Groucho Marx
7. Judy Holliday
8. Hattie McDaniel
9. Rosalind Russell
10. Dorothy Dandridge

Later Golden Age Stars (Transitioning into Modern Cinema)

1. Steve McQueen
2. Paul Newman
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Richard Burton
5. Sophia Loren
6. Brigitte Bardot
7. Sean Connery
8. Peter Sellers
9. Audrey Hepburn
10. Marilyn Monroe

This list encompasses a broad range of individuals who made significant contributions to the film industry during the Golden Age of Hollywood, from iconic leading actors and actresses to influential directors, and from groundbreaking cinematographers to other key figures who helped shape cinema during this golden era.