* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

* NBC ran two popular TV series about truck drivers in the 1970s featuring actor Claude Akins in major roles:

Toledo is the hometown of Corporal Maxwell Klinger in the long-running 1970s television series M * A * S * H, an association that sprang from actor Jamie Farr being from there.

The term " artificial reality ", coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s ; however, the origin of the term " virtual reality " can be traced back to the French playwright, poet, actor, and director Antonin Artaud.

His fame as a comedy film actor was later heightened by success in hit Hollywood films such as Foul Play, 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively.

While his best-known roles have spanned three decades from 1981, he started his television career in 1964 as Bert Bradshaw in the soap-opera Crossroads, and after several appearances as Captain Fantastic on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set, by the 1970s Jason was already an established screen comedy actor with recurring appearances in television series.

In addition to being an actor, Villechaize became an active member of a movement in 1970s and 1980s California to deal with child abuse and neglect, often going to crime scenes himself to help comfort abuse victims.

Actress Birgitta Tolksdorf, who made a name for herself in American television in the 1970s, as well as German stage and screen actor Mathias Wieman ( 1958 recipient of the Justus-Möser-Medaille ) ( see German article Justus-Möser-Medaille ) were born in the city.

In the late 1970s, Mason became a mentor to up-and-coming actor Sam Neill.

Frederick Martin " Fred " MacMurray ( August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991 ) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

1970s glam rock singer Marc Bolan and actor Ray Winstone were born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street.

* Frank Bonner, born in Little Rock and raised in Malvern, an actor and director best known for playing Herb Tarlek on the classic 1970s and 1980s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati

* Robert L. Gibson, actor who appeared in TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including Amazing Stories, Welcome to My Nightmare, Otherworld, Highway to Heaven, etc.

* Robert Hegyes ( 1951-2012 ), actor who played the character " Epstein " in the 1970s TV series Welcome Back, Kotter.

After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s.

* Gary Sandy-Professional actor ; star of 1970s CBS television comedy series WKRP in Cincinnati

Charytín moved to Puerto Rico in the 1970s, where she met her husband, television actor and producer Elin Ortiz.

In the 1970s Foodmaker led the Jack in the Box chain toward its most prolific growth ( television commercials in the early 1970s featured child actor Rodney Allen Rippy ), and locations began to be franchised.

Throughout the rest of the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking occasional parts in movies.

The younger Bonaduce became famous as a child actor of the 1970s on the sitcom / television series The Partridge Family.

Stephen Rea's friendship with American playwright and actor Sam Shepard dates back to the early 1970s, and he starred in Shepard's directorial debut of his play " Geography of a Horse Dreamer " at the Royal Court Theatre in 1974.

* Sir Felix Aylmer, ( 1889 – 1979 ), actor, lived at Painshill House, Cobham in the 1970s.

Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s.

) The tall, muscular actor won significant acclaim and appeared in two more films the following year.

Griffith decided to become an actor, and appeared in many plays as an extra.

Cronenberg has also appeared as an actor in other directors ' films.

Leary has appeared as an actor in over 40 movies, including The Sandlot, as Scott's stepfather Bill, Monument Ave., The Matchmaker, The Ref, Suicide Kings, Dawg, Wag the Dog, Demolition Man, Judgment Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop.

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Veteran Godzilla actor Akihiko Hirata, who appeared in several past Godzilla films ( best known of his role of Professor Serizawa from Godzilla ) was slated to play Professor Hayashida ; however, he had died from throat cancer before production began.

Gene Kelly appeared as actor and dancer in the following musical films.

In 1975 he also appeared in the highly regarded -- but little viewed -- film Night Moves, receiving a BAFTA nomination for lead actor.

The problem was perhaps that he was a successful, worldly author who played polo, moved in fashionable circles and even appeared as an actor in Warren Beatty's Reds.

Lemmon often appeared in films partnered with actor Walter Matthau.

After Matthau's death in 2000, Lemmon appeared with friends and relatives of the actor on a Larry King Live show in tribute.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune.

Clarence Leroy " Lee " Van Cleef, Jr. ( January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989 ) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures.

In an article that appeared on July 1, 1923, Valentino Declares He Isn't a Sheik, she interviewed celebrity actor Rudolph Valentino, referring to him as " Sheik " from his film role.

* Nemo, screen name of actor who appeared in Bollywood films from the 1930s through 1950s

Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as best actor and seven nominations in the same category.

* Spring, Mark Adley, actor who appeared in the 1987 film The Last of England

Jeff East, who played Bruce Gallatin, was a local Kansas City actor who had appeared in Superman as the young Clark Kent.

He appeared in the series more than any other actor.

At the time, Ray was an up-and-coming Anglo-Brazilian actor, who had previously appeared in several films, including Irving Rapper's The Brave One and Anthony Mann's The Tin Star.

Johar was a well-known Bollywood actor who occasionally appeared in international productions.

* If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom X has appeared in a movie is N, X's Bacon number is N + 1.

While he is not the most linkable actor, this still signifies being a better center than more than 99 % of the people who have ever appeared in a film.

He was an actor in the 1950s, studying his craft with acting teacher Stella Adler, and appeared on television and in summer stock.