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| The voting's over. Now it's time to find out who the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of all time are, as voted by you. Watch Channel 4's 100 Greatest Movie Stars to find out if these nominees made it onto the final list. |
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| Gary Cooper |
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Born Frank James Cooper in Montana, 1901. Cooper briefly attended school in England before returning to Montana, later studying at Grinnell College in Iowa. Before taking up acting he was a guide at Yellowstone National Park, a failed political cartoonist and a door-to-door salesman. He then spent over a year as an extra in numerous Westerns, and subsequently had minor roles in minor films before The Winning Of Barbara Worth (1926), in which Cooper was a last-minute replacement for the second lead. As his star rose he became the archetypal American hero of the era: strong, tall, handsome, and taciturn. He won two Oscars, for Sergeant York and High Noon, plus a special award shortly before his death in 1961. |
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| Gary Oldman |
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Born Leonard Gary Oldham in New Cross, south London, in 1958. The sudden departure of his father, a welder, when Oldman was 7 was the start of an unhappy childhood - he left his brutal boys' school to become a sales clerk, performing at the Greenwich Young People's Theatre in his spare time. He won a scholarship to the Rose Buford College of Speech and Drama and got his film break starring alongside Phil Daniels and Tim Roth in Mike Leigh's Meantime. Since then he has played everyone from Sid Vicious to Ludwig van Beethoven, has dated Isabella Rossellini and divorced Uma Thurman. In 1997 he unexpectedly established himself as an accomplished director with the harrowing Nil By Mouth, winner of the 1998 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. |
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| Gene Hackman |
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Eugene Hackman was born in California in 1930 and was a marine for six years. Menial jobs and a journalism degree followed before taking up acting at 30. Along with fellow student Dustin Hoffman he was voted the least likely to succeed by his classmates at the Pasadena Playhouse. After moving to New York he won a role in the Warren Beatty vehicle Lilith, and Beatty remembered him when casting for Bonnie And Clyde. Hackman was Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of Buck Barrow and, despite being sixth choice for the part, won the best actor Oscar for his role as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection. Has always been renowned for putting in good performances even when the films have fared less well. |
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| Gene Kelly |
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Born in Pittsburgh in 1912, Gene Kelly was a dance instructor and appeared in the hit Broadway Musical Pal Joey. While Fred Astaire was dancing in a top hat and tails, Gene Kelly would don the work clothes of the everyman to match his more physical style. His Hollywood debut was the 1942 musical For Me And My Girl, followed by a long series of musicals in which he was often the co-director and choreographer, such as An American In Paris and Singin' In The Rain. Gene Kelly received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1985. |
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