List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)


This is a list of centenarians notable as actors, filmmakers and entertainers. These individuals are notable for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Names indicated in bold face are living individuals.

List

NameLifespanAgeNotability
George Abbott1887–1995107American stage actor, director, playwright, screenwriter and producer
Rosa Albach-Retty1874–1980105Austrian film and stage actress
Jenny Alpha1910–2010100French Martinican actress and singer
Lukas Ammann1912–2017104Swiss actor
Nina Andrycz1912–2014101Polish actress
Nikolay Annenkov1899–1999100Soviet-Russian actor
Neal Arden1909–2014104British actor
Svend Asmussen1916–2017100Danish jazz violinist
Richard L. Bare1913–2015101American motion picture and television director
Etta Moten Barnett1901–2004102African American stage actress and singer
Dave Bartholomew1918–2019100American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer
Sam Beazley1916–2017101British actor
Amelia Bence1914–2016101Argentine film actress
Bruce Bennett1906–2007100American actor and Olympic athlete
Irving Benson1914–2016102American actor
Irving Berlin1888–1989101American composer and lyricist
Walter Bernstein1919–American screenwriter and film producer
Stella Bloch1897–1999101American dancer
Susanna Bokoyni1879–1984105Hungarian circus performer
Margaret Booth1898–2002104American film editor
Osmond Borradaile1898–1999100Canadian cameraman and cinematographer
Rosa Bouglione1910–2018107French circus performer
Robert F. Boyle1909–2010100American art director and production designer
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia1894–1998103Italian film director and screenwriter
José Bragato1915–2017101Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist
Artur Brauner1918–2019100German film producer
Renate Brausewetter1905–2006100German silent film actress
Helen Bray1889–1990100American actress
Oscar Brodney1907–2008100American screenwriter
Mona Bruns1899–2000100American actress
Zoya Bulgakova1914–2017102Soviet-Russian stage actress
George Burns1896–1996100American Oscar-winning actor and comedian
Helen Burns1916–2018101British actress
Anne Buydens 1919–German-born Belgian-American philanthropist, producer and occasional actress; widow of fellow actor and centenarian Kirk Douglas
Irving Caesar1895–1996101American lyricist and theater composer
John Calvert1911–2013102American magician
Earl Cameron1917–2020102Bermudian-born British actor
Anna Campori1917–2018100Italian actress
Mary Carlisle1914–2018104American actress
Diana Serra Cary 1918–2020101American silent film child actress, author and cinema historian
Christian Casadesus1912–2014101French actor
Gisèle Casadesus1914–2017103French actress
Wally Cassell1912–2015103Italian-born American actor
Marge Champion1919–American dancer, choreographer and actress
Horacio Coppola1906–2012105Argentine photographer and filmmaker
Irwin Corey1914–2017102American comedian
Norman Corwin1910–2011101American screenwriter and producer
Diosa Costello1913–2013100American entertainer
Louise Currie1913–2013100American film actress
Leila Danette1909–2012103American actress
Henry Danton1919–British dancer
Robert Darène1914–2016102French actor, film director and screenwriter
Danielle Darrieux1917–2017100French actress
Jimmie Davis1899–2000101American singer and songwriter
Dame Olivia de Havilland1916–2020104British-born American film actress
Suzy Delair 1917–2020102French actress, dancer and singer
Rosine Delamare1911–2013101French Oscar-nominated costume designer
Jean Delannoy1908–2008100French actor and film director
Frances Dewey Wormser1903–2008104American stage actress
Dorothy Dickson1893–1995102American-British stage actress
Caren Marsh Doll1919–American actress and dancer
Kirk Douglas1916–2020103American film actor and producer
Ellen Albertini Dow1913–2015101American character actress
Orlando Drummond1919–Brazilian stage, television and film actor
Claire Du Brey1892–1993100American film actress
Paulette Dubost1910–2011100French actress
Marta Eggerth1912–2013101Hungarian-born American actress and singer
Mary Ellis1897–2003105American-born British stage actress
Jean Erdman1916–2020104American dancer
Carl Esmond1902–2004102German-American actor
Irving Fein1911–2012101American television and film producer
Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies1891–1992101British actress
Gunnar Fischer1910–2011100Swedish cinematographer
Rina Franchetti1907–2010102Italian actress
Arthur Gardner1910–2014104American television producer
Hal Geer1916–2017100American producer and filmmaker
Pierre Gérald 1906–2012105French actor
Erwin Geschonneck1906–2008101German actor
Julie Gibson1913–2019106American actress and singer
Marie Glory1905–2009103French actress
Dercy Gonçalves1907–2008101Brazilian actress
Coleridge Goode1914–2015100Jamaican-born British jazz bassist
Guido Gorgatti1919–Italian-born Argentine film actor
Karl Otto Götz1914–2017103German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman/printmaker, writer and art professor
Liane Haid1895–2000105Austrian actress
Anna Halprin1920–American dancer
Stein Grieg Halvorsen1909–2013104Norwegian actor
Kathleen Harrison1892–1995103British actress
Johannes Heesters1903–2011108Dutch actor, vocalist and performer
Bob Hope1903–2003100British-born American actor and comedian
Mieczysław Horszowski1892–1993100Polish-American pianist
Shep Houghton1914–2016102American actor and dancer
Yvonne Howell1905–2010104American silent film actress
Marsha Hunt1917–American actress
Minoru Inuzuka1901–2007106Japanese film director and screenwriter
Vilma Jamnická1906–2008101Slovakian actress
Lucy Jarvis1917–2020102American television producer
Joli Jászai1907–2008101Hungarian actress
Gertrude Jeannette1914–2018103American actress, theatre director and producer
Herb Jeffries1913–2014100American singer and actor
Tatyana Karpova1916–2018102Soviet-Russian actress
John Kenley1906–2009103American Broadway director and producer
Barbara Kent1907–2011103Canadian-born American actress
Robert Kinoshita1914–2014100American art director
Hans F. Koenekamp1891–1992100American cinematographer
Mae Laborde1909–2012102American television actress
Carla Laemmle1909–2014104American film actress
Guje Lagerwall1918–2019100Swedish actress
Charles Lane1905–2007102American character actor
Sid Laverents1908–2009100American amateur filmmaker
Yvette Lebon1910–2014103French actress
Francis Lederer1899–2000100American actor
Aleen Leslie1908–2010101American screenwriter
Chen Liting1910–2013102Chinese playwright, drama and film director
Norman Lloyd1914–American actor
Elena Lucena1914–2015101Argentine actress
Don Lusk1913–2018105American animator
Ingrid Luterkort1910–2011101Swedish actress
Lincoln Maazel1903–2009106American actor and singer; father of conductor Lorin Maazel
Kurt Maetzig1911–2012101German film director
Maciej Maciejewski1914–2018103Polish actor
Martin Magner1900–2002101German-American theatre and television director and producer
Tommie Manderson1912–2015102British make-up artist
Margery Mason1913–2014100British actress
Leslie H. Martinson1915–2016101American television and film director
Carmen Martínez Sierra1904–2012108Spanish actress
Sherman Maxwell1907–2008100American sportscaster
Fay McKenzie1918–2019101American actress
Joe McQueen1919–2019100American jazz saxophonist
Mariuccia Medici1910–2012102Italian-born Swiss actress
Benjamin Melniker1913–2018104American film producer
Sheila Mercier1919–2019100British actress
Doris Merrick1919–2019100American actress and model
Madeleine Milhaud1902–2008105French actress and librettist; wife of composer Darius Milhaud
Moi-Yo Miller1914–2018104Australian magician's assistant
Antony Mitradas1913–2017103Indian film director
Igor Moiseyev1906–2007101Soviet-Russian choreographer
Miguel Morayta1907–2013105Spanish-born Mexican film director
Patricia Morison1915–2018103American actress
Meg Mundy1915–2016101British-born American actress
Audrey Munson1891–1996104American actress and model
Randi Lindtner Næss1905–2009104Norwegian actress and singer
Grim Natwick1890–1990100American animator
Ivan Novikoff1899–2002102Russian ballet teacher
Gladys O'Connor1903–2012108British-Canadian actress
Kevin O'Morrison1916–2016100American actor and playwright
Kazuo Ohno1906–2010103Japanese dancer
Manoel de Oliveira1908–2015106Portuguese film director
Nelly Omar1911–2013102Argentine actress and singer
Juan Orrego-Salas1919–2019100Chilean-American composer
Risto Orko1899–2001102Finnish film producer and director
Ethel Waite Owen1893–1997103American actress
Emily Perry1907–2008100British actress
Nehemiah Persoff1919–American actor
Fern Persons1910–2012101American film and television actress
Tullio Pinelli1908–2009100Italian playwright and screenwriter
Marc Platt1913–2014100American actor and dancer
Olaf Pooley1914–2015101British actor
Willis Pyle1914–2016101American animator
Milton Quon1913–2019105American animator, artist and actor
Luise Rainer1910–2014104German-born British-American Oscar-winning actress
Irving Rapper1898–1999101British-American film director
Harry Redmond Jr.1909–2011101American special effects artist and film producer
Connie Douglas Reeves1901–2003101American cowgirl
Helen Reichert1901–2011109American talk show personality and professor
Georgette Rejewski1910–2014104Belgian-born Dutch actress
Ted Richmond1910–2013103American film producer
Leni Riefenstahl1902–2003101German filmmaker
Gerda Ring1891–1999107Norwegian stage actress and producer
Hal Roach1892–1992100American film and television producer
Zvonimir Rogoz1887–1988100Croatian actor
Jack Rollins1915–2015100American film producer
Jean Rouverol1916–2017100American actress and screenwriter
Witold Sadowy1920–100Polish actor
Frederica Sagor Maas1900–2012111American screenwriter, playwright and essayist
Sol Saks1910–2011100American screenwriter and producer
Connie Sawyer1912–2018105American actress
Ivy Sawyer1898–1999101American dancer, singer and actress
Hannes Schiel1914–2017103Austrian actor
Robert C. Schnitzer1906–2008101American actor, producer, educator and theater administrator
Ida Schuster1918–2020101Scottish actress
Miriam Seegar Whelan1907–2011103American actress
Zohra Sehgal1912–2014102Indian dancer and actress
Tonio Selwart1896–2002106German actor and stage performer
Marina Semyonova1908–2010101Soviet-Russian prima ballerina
Ramananda Sengupta1916–2017101Indian cinematographer
Athene Seyler1889–1990101British actress
Helen Shaw1897–1997100American actress
Jane Sherman1908–2010101American dancer and writer
Helen Shingler1919–2019100British film and television actress
Kaneto Shindo1912–2012100Japanese film director
Renée Simonot1911–French actress; mother of actress Catherine Deneuve
Douglas Slocombe1913–2016103British cinematographer
June Spencer1919–British actress
Helli Stehle1907–2016109Swiss actress and radio presenter
Hugh Stewart1910–2011100British film editor and producer
Dorothy Stickney1896–1998101American actress
Gloria Stuart1910–2010100American film actress
Alan Surgal1916–2017100American screenwriter
Wolfgang Suschitzky1912–2016104Austrian cinematographer and photographer
Danuta Szaflarska1915–2017102Polish actress
Takumi Furukawa1917–2018101Japanese film director
Tang Xiaodan1910–2012101Chinese film director
Gianrico Tedeschi1920–2020100Italian actor
Ellaline Terriss1871–1971100British stage and film actress and musical performer
Katsumi Tezuka1912–Japanese monster movie actor
Nini Theilade1915–2018102Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
Frank M. Thomas1889–1989100American actor
Ruthie Tompson1910–American animator
Roman Totenberg1911–2012101Polish-American violinist
Lupita Tovar1910–2016106Mexican-American actress
Dorothy Toy1917–2019102Asian-American dancer
Doris Eaton Travis1904–2010106American actress, dance r, writer and rancher; last surviving Ziegfeld Girl
Roger Tréville1902–2005102French actor
Mabel Trunnelle1879–1981101American actress
Morton Tubor1917–2019102American film and sound editor
Dame Ninette de Valois 1898–2001102Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet; founder of The Royal Ballet in London
Otakar Vávra1911–2011100Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
Pauline Wagner1910–2014103American actress
Bea Wain1917–2017100American big band singer and radio personality
Mary Ward Breheny1915–Australian actress and radio broadcaster
Señor Wences1896–1999103Spanish-American ventriloquist
Gösta Werner1908–2009101Swedish film director
Frances Wessells1919–American dancer and choreographer
Murray Westgate1918–2018100Canadian television and film actor
Stephen Wilkinson1919–British choral conductor and composer
Elmo Williams1913–2015102American film and television editor
Irv Williams1919–2019100American jazz saxophonist and composer
Estelle Winwood1883–1984101British stage and movie actress
Norrie Woodhall1905–2011105British stage actress
Katja Wulff1890–1992101Swiss expressionist dancer
Yan Jizhou1917–2018100Chinese film director
Dorothy Young1907–2011103American entertainer and assistant to magician Harry Houdini
Izabella Yurieva1899–2000100Russian singer
Yuriko Kikuchi1920–American dancer and choreographer
Miguel Zacarías1905–2006101Mexican film director and producer
Vladimir Zeldin1915–2016101Soviet-Russian actor
Adolph Zukor1873–1976103Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer; co-founder of Paramount Pictures