501 Movie Stars: An A-Z Guide to the Greatest Screen Actors

501 of the greatest, most influential, popular and iconic stars of the screen, including: Woody Allen, Fred Astaire, Mary Astor, Gene Autry, John Barrymore, Lauren Bacall, King Baggot, Antonio Banderas, Ingrid Bergman, Cate Blanchett, James Caan, Nicholas Cage, James Cagney, Jackie Chan, Julie Christie, Matt Damon, Bette Davis, Johnny Depp, Kirk Douglas, Catherine Deneuve, Faye Dunaway, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Mia Farrow, Ralph Fiennes, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Jean Gabin, John Gielgud, Cary Grant, Alec Guiness, Greta Garbo, Tom Hanks, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Burl Ives, Angelina Jolie, Raul Julia, Boris Karloff, Gene Kelly, Harvel Keitel, Nicole Kidman, Buster Keaton, Burt Lancaster, Jessica Lange, Bruce Lee, Janet Leigh, Christopher Lee, Jack Lemmon, Jet Li, Myrna Loy, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, The Marx Brothers, Liam Neeson, Paul Newman, Kim Novak, Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, Sidney Poitier, Anthony Quinn, Robert Redford, Vanessa Redgrave, Tim Robbins, Ginger Rogers, Oliver Reed, Cesar Romero, Meg Ryan, Adam Sandler, Frank Sinatra, Donald Sutherland, James Stewart, Peter Sellers, Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy, John Travolta, Peter Ustinov, Rudolph Valentino, Lupe Velez, Orson Welles, Christopher Walken, Mae West, Bruce Willis, Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington, Michelle Yeoh and many others.

Steven Jay Schneider is a film critic, scholar, and producer, with MA degrees in Philosophy and Cinema Studies from Harvard University and New York University, respectively. He is the general editor of the best-selling 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Steven Jay Schneider is also the author and editor of such books as Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe (Fab Press), New Hollywood Violence (Manchester UP), 100 European Horror Films (British Film Institute), Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmares (Cambridge UP), Traditions in World Cinema (Edinburgh UP), and The Horror Film (Taschen).