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| Check out the Results pages to find out who you voted as the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. Click on any star's name to be taken to in-depth information about their work. |
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| 70- Richard Burton |
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Born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales in 1925. Jenkins, the 12th child of a coal miner, won a scholarship to Oxford thanks to his tutor Philip Burton, who also gave him his stage name. Initially Burton split himself between stage and screen, making his film debut in 1948 in The Last Days Of Dolwyn, and blowing John Gielgud off stage a year later in The Lady's Not For Burning. He hit the headlines when he married Cleopatra co-star Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. By the time of his sudden death in 1984 he had been nominated for Oscars seven times.
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| 69- River Phoenix |
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River Phoenix was a hugely talented, seriously cool actor, who proved the phrase "only the good die young". Born in California to religious parents, who encouraged their children into acting, Phoenix was performing in television by the time he was ten. He made his film debut in the kids fantasy adventure Explorers in 1985, before getting rave reviews and box office success in Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Phoenix also earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as Danny Pope in Running On Empty in 1988. His best work however, came in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho in 1991. Phoenix was excellent in the film, playing a narcoleptic rent boy searching for the mother who abandoned him. Phoenix died aged 23 of a drug overdose outside Johnny Depp's LA club The Viper Room.
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| 68- Ingrid Bergman |
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Born in Stockholm in 1915, Ingrid Bergman was orphaned at 12 and took up acting to escape her loneliness and shyness. After leaving drama school she quickly became Sweden's leading film star, transferred to Hollywood, and starred in such classics as Casablanca, For Whom The Bell Tolls and Gaslight. Bergman had a strong, wholesome, radiant image – an image which disappeared in 1949 when she dumped her husband and ran off with director Roberto Rossellini. They married and had three children, including Isabella Rossellini, but Bergman's public disapproved and didn't go to see the experimental films they made together. Eventually America forgave her, awarding her Oscars for Anastasia and Murder on the Orient Express.
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| 67- Eddie Murphy |
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Eddie Murphy was born in Brooklyn in 1961 and by 15 was writing and performing his own stand-up routines in bars. He shot to stardom after winning a part on Saturday Night Live and was soon cashing in on his smart-ass persona in film, on comedy records and even on pop albums. His most famous role, that of Axel Foley, had originally been intended for either Sly Stallone or Clint Eastwood. He was called upon by Spike Lee and others to help break down the barriers that were preventing Afro-Americans being hired by studios. After a run of dire movies in the early 90s he bounced back, literally, in The Nutty Professor and its sequel.
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| 66- 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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