The World War II Generation

Peter Falk, one of the surviving actors of the Greatest Generation.

The summer of 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II, first in Europe and then in the Pacific. Before many more years have gone by everyone from this heroic generation will have passed away. Three Movie Buffs proudly salutes the surviving actors of the Greatest Generation.

Everyone on this list was born in or before 1927, before the movies learned to talk.

• Peter Falk: (78) 9/16/1927
• Gina Lollobrigida: (78) 7/04/1927
• Clint Walker: (78) 5/30/1927
• Edie Adams: (78) 4/16/1927
• Harry Belafonte: (78) 3/01/1927
• Sidney Poitier: (78) 2/20/1927
• Harvey Korman: (78) 2/15/1927
• Eartha Kitt: (78) 1/17/1927
• Harry Dean Stanton: (79) 7/14/1926
• Mel Brooks: (79) 6/28/1926
• Andy Griffith: (79) 6/01/1926
• Don Rickles: (79) 5/08/1926
• Ann B. Davis: (79) 5/051926
• Cloris Leachman: (79) 4/30/1926
• Charlotte Rae: (79) 4/22/1926
• Jane Withers: (79) 4/12/1926
• Peter Graves: (79) 3/18/1926
• Jerry Lewis: (79) 3/16/1926
• Dorothy McGuire: (79) 2/22/1926
• Leslie Nielsen: (79) 2/11/1926
• Patricia Neal: (79) 1/20/1926
• Dick Van Dyke: (80) 12/13/1925
• Julie Harris: (80) 12/02/1925
• Jonathan Winters: (80) 11/11/1925
• Angela Lansbury: (80) 10/16/1925
• Fess Parker: (80) 8/16/1925
• Maureen Stapleton: (80) 6/21/1925
• Tony Curtis: (80) 6/03/1925
• George Kennedy: (80) 2/18/1925
• Hal Holbrook: (80) 2/17/1925
• Elaine Stritch: (80) 2/02/1925
• Joan Leslie: (80) 1/26/1925
• Paul Newman: (80) 1/26/1925
• Ruby Dee: (81) 10/27/1924
• Charlton Heston: (81) 10/04/1924
• Lauren Bacall: (81) 9/16/1924
• Don Knotts: (81) 7/21/1924
• Eva Marie Saint: (81) 7/04/1924
• Doris Day: (81) 4/03/1924
• Estelle Getty: (82) 7/25/1923
• James Arness: (82) 5/26/1923
• Bea Arthur: (82) 5/13/1923
• Don Adams: (82) 4/13/1923
• Marcel Marceau: (82) 3/22/1923
• Jean Stapleton: (82) 1/19/1923
• Jackie Cooper: (83) 9/15/1922
• Sid Caesar: (83) 9/08/1922
• Yvonne De Carlo: (83) 9/01/1922
• Christopher Lee: (83) 5/27/1922
• Darren McGavin: (83) 5/07/1922
• Jack Klugman: (83) 4/27/1922
• Carl Reiner: (83) 3/20/1922
• Kathryn Grayson: (83) 2/09/1922
• Betty White: (83) 1/17/1922
• Deanna Durbin: (84) 12/04/1921
• Deborah Kerr: (84) 9/30/1921
• Esther Williams: (84) 8/08/1921
• Jane Russell: (84) 6/21/1921
• Cyd Charisse: (84) 3/08/1921
• Betty Hutton: (84) 2/26/1921
• Abe Vigoda: (84) 2/24/1921
• Carol Channing: (84) 1/31/1921
• Ricardo Montalban: (85) 11/25/1920
• Nanette Fabray: (85) 10/27/1920
• Mickey Rooney: (85) 9/23/1920
• Jack Warden: (85) 9/18/1920
• Maureen O'Hara: (85) 8/17/1920
• Louis Jourdan: (86) 6/19/1919
• Betty Garrett: (86) 5/23/1919
• Celeste Holm: (86) 4/29/1919
• Jennifer Jones: (86) 3/02/1919
• Jack Palance: (86) 2/18/1919
• Red Buttons: (86) 2/051919
• Joey Bishop: (87) 2/03/1918
• John Forsythe: (87) 1/29/1918
• Joan Fontaine: (88) 10/27/1917
• June Allyson: (88) 10/07/1917
• Mel Ferrer: (88) 8/25/1917
• Phyllis Diller: (88) 7/17/1917
• Lena Horne: (88) 6/30/1917
• Zsa Zsa Gabor: (88) 2/06/1917
• Ernest Borgnine: (88) 1/24/1917
• Kirk Douglas: (89) 12/09/1916
• Van Johnson: (89) 8/25/1916
• Olivia de Havilland: (89) 7/01/1916
• Glenn Ford: (89) 5/01/1916
• Eli Wallach: (90) 12/07/1915
• Harry Morgan: (90) 4/10/1915
• Richard Widmark: (91) 12/26/1914
• Jane Wyman: (92) 1/04/1914
• Karl Malden: (93) 3/22/1912
• Jane Wyatt: (94) 8/12/1911
• Gloria Stuart: (95) 7/04/1910
• Luise Rainer: (96) 1/12/1910
• Bruce Bennett: (96) 5/19/1909
• Charles Lane: (100) 1/26/1905
  
  
  IN MEMORIAM
   

• Geraldine Fitzgerald: (91) 11/24/1913-7/17/05

• Nipsey Russell: (80) 10/13/1924-10/02/05
• Constance Cummings: (95) 5/15/1910-11/23/05
• Shelley Winters: (85) 8/18/1920-01/14/06