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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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| 80- Dennis Hopper |
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Born in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1936, Dennis Hopper was discovered as a teenager and signed by Warner Bros. His first role was in Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. Hopper left Tinseltown in 1958 to work as a photographer in New York, where he studied with method guru Lee Strasberg before, depending on who you believe, he wrote and directed all, most, some or none of Easy Rider. David Lynch rescued him from cult obscurity with Blue Velvet, in which he gave the world the willies as an oxygen mask-wearing, Tourette's Syndrome-suffering psycho. Hopper is a big collector of modern art.
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| 79- Vivien Leigh |
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Born in India in 1913, Vivien Leigh would achieve stardom in one of Hollywood's most famous ever films. Having appeared on the English stage and fallen in love with Laurence Olivier, filming Fire Over England in 1937, she would follow him to America. Leigh happened to meet the Selznick brothers who asked her to audition for the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind and the rest is part of film history. She would win an Oscar for her role in the film and another in 1951 for her part in A Streetcar Named Desire alongside Marlon Brando. She appeared in few other films, before she died aged 53 of tuberculosis.
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| 78- Oliver Reed |
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Legendary drinker and rabble-rouser, Oliver Reed was born in London in 1938. He first caught the public's attention in a 1961 Hammer horror film Curse Of The Werewolf, but he refused to be typecast. Reed appeared in many good films during the 1960s, including These Are The Damned, the Oscar winning Oliver! and Ken Russell's groundbreaking hit Women In Love, in which he famously wrestled nude with Alan Bates. Thereafter, he starred in The Three Musketeers and Tommy, as well as a series of more trashy films like The Brood. Reed died in 2000 during the filming of Gladiator, having turned in a wonderful, reflective performance as an ageing former star of the amphitheatre.
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| 77- Elizabeth Taylor |
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Born in London, 1932 to American art-dealing parents. At the onset of war they returned to LA and a family friend suggested that Liz take a film test. Signed by Universal Studios and later by MGM, her illustrious acting career, which garnered four Oscar nominations and one award, has been overshadowed by her private life. Married eight times, most famously twice to Richard Burton, she has also undergone surgery over 40 times. Most famous now for her tireless fund-raising and AIDS awareness campaigning.
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| 76- Richard Gere |
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Born in Philadelphia in 1949, Gere was a keen musician as a child, playing various instruments at high school. He won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts, but switched back to music after his studies, playing bluegrass and trying to start a rock band. But he was also an actor, starring in Grease on Broadway. After a brief sojourn in Tibet, he became a sex symbol in American Gigolo, before his talent for looking good in uniform propelled him to stardom in An Officer And A Gentleman (1982). Since then he has shone in the blockbuster, Pretty Woman.
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