The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity.
For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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George Abbott | 1887–1995 | 107 | American stage actor, director, playwright, screenwriter and producer |
Rosa Albach-Retty | 1874–1980 | 105 | Austrian film and stage actress |
Jenny Alpha | 1910–2010 | 100 | French Martinican actress and singer |
Lukas Ammann | 1912–2017 | 104 | Swiss actor |
Nina Andrycz | 1912–2014 | 101 | Polish actress |
Nikolay Annenkov | 1899–1999 | 100 | Soviet-Russian actor |
Neal Arden | 1909–2014 | 104 | British actor |
Svend Asmussen | 1916–2017 | 100 | Danish jazz violinist |
Vincent Ball | 1923– | 100 | Australianactor |
Richard L. Bare | 1913–2015 | 101 | American motion picture and television director |
Etta Moten Barnett | 1901–2004 | 102 | African-American stage actress and singer |
Dave Bartholomew | 1918–2019 | 100 | American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer |
Norma Barzman | 1920–2023 | 103 | American screenwriter |
Sam Beazley | 1916–2017 | 101 | British actor |
Amelia Bence | 1914–2016 | 101 | Argentine film actress |
Bruce Bennett | 1906–2007 | 100 | American actor and Olympic athlete |
Irving Benson | 1914–2016 | 102 | American actor |
Peter Berkos | 1922–2024 | 101 | American sound editor |
Hilda Bernard | 1920–2022 | 101 | Argentine actress |
Eva von Berne | 1910–2010 | 100 | Austrian film actress |
Walter Bernstein | 1919–2021 | 101 | American screenwriter and film producer |
Pappukutty Bhagavathar | 1913–2020 | 107 | Indian actor and singer |
Stella Bloch | 1897–1999 | 101 | American dancer |
Susanna Bokoyni | 1879–1984 | 105 | Hungarian circus performer |
Margaret Booth | 1898–2002 | 104 | American film editor |
Osmond Borradaile | 1898–1999 | 100 | Canadian cameraman and cinematographer |
Anna Maria Bottini | 1916–2020 | 104 | Italian actress |
Rosa Bouglione | 1910–2018 | 107 | French circus performer |
Robert F. Boyle | 1909–2010 | 100 | American art director and production designer |
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | 1894–1998 | 103 | Italian film director and screenwriter |
José Bragato | 1915–2017 | 101 | Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist |
Artur Brauner | 1918–2019 | 100 | German film producer |
Renate Brausewetter | 1905–2006 | 100 | German silent film actress |
Helen Bray | 1889–1990 | 100 | American actress |
Oscar Brodney | 1907–2008 | 100 | American screenwriter |
Mona Bruns | 1899–2000 | 100 | American actress |
Zoya Bulgakova | 1914–2017 | 102 | Soviet-Russian stage actress |
George Burns | 1896–1996 | 100 | American actor and comedian |
Helen Burns | 1916–2018 | 101 | British actress |
Bill Butler | 1921–2023 | 101 | American cinematographer |
Anne Buydens | 1919–2021 | 102 | American philanthropist and film producer |
John Calvert | 1911–2013 | 102 | American magician |
Earl Cameron | 1917–2020 | 102 | Bermudian-born British actor |
Anna Campori | 1917–2018 | 100 | Italian actress |
Mary Carlisle | 1914–2018 | 104 | American actress |
Diana Serra Cary | 1918–2020 | 101 | American silent film child actress (known as "Baby Peggy"), author and cinema historian |
Christian Casadesus | 1912–2014 | 101 | French actor; brother of fellow actress and centenarian Gisèle Casadesus |
Gisèle Casadesus | 1914–2017 | 103 | French actress; sister of fellow actor and centenarian Christian Casadesus |
Wally Cassell | 1912–2015 | 103 | Italian-born American character actor and businessman |
Raymond Cauchetier | 1920–2021 | 101 | French photographer (French New Wave films) |
Marge Champion | 1919–2020 | 101 | American dancer, choreographer and actress |
Geoffrey Chater | 1921–2021 | 100 | British actor |
Chen Liting | 1910–2013 | 102 | Chinese playwright, drama and film director |
Horacio Coppola | 1906–2012 | 105 | Argentine photographer and filmmaker |
Irwin Corey | 1914–2017 | 102 | American comedian |
Norman Corwin | 1910–2011 | 101 | American screenwriter and producer |
Nelma Costa | 1922–2023 | 101 | Brazilian actress |
Diosa Costello | 1913–2013 | 100 | American entertainer |
Louise Currie | 1913–2013 | 100 | American film actress |
Leila Danette | 1909–2012 | 103 | American actress |
Henry Danton | 1919–2022 | 102 | British dancer |
Robert Darène | 1914–2016 | 102 | French actor, film director and screenwriter |
Danielle Darrieux | 1917–2017 | 100 | French actress |
Jimmie Davis | 1899–2000 | 101 | American singer and songwriter |
Gloria Dea | 1922–2023 | 100 | American actress, dancer and magician |
Margia Dean | 1922–2023 | 101 | American beauty queen and stage and screen actress |
Olivia de Havilland | 1916–2020 | 104 | British-born American film actress |
Suzy Delair | 1917–2020 | 102 | French actress, dancer and singer |
Rosine Delamare | 1911–2013 | 101 | French Oscar-nominated costume designer |
Jean Delannoy | 1908–2008 | 100 | French actor and film director |
Frances Dewey Wormser | 1903–2008 | 104 | American stage actress |
Dorothy Dickson | 1893–1995 | 102 | American-British stage actress |
Caren Marsh Doll | 1919– | 105 | American actress and dancer |
Kirk Douglas | 1916–2020 | 103 | American film actor and producer |
Ellen Albertini Dow | 1913–2015 | 101 | American character actress |
Orlando Drummond | 1919–2021 | 101 | Brazilian stage, television and film actor |
Claire Du Brey | 1892–1993 | 100 | American film actress |
Paulette Dubost | 1910–2011 | 100 | French actress |
Marta Eggerth | 1912–2013 | 101 | Hungarian-born American actress and singer |
Mary Ellis | 1897–2003 | 105 | American-born British stage actress |
Jean Erdman | 1916–2020 | 104 | American dancer |
Carl Esmond | 1902–2004 | 102 | German-American actor |
Irving Fein | 1911–2012 | 101 | American television and film producer |
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies | 1891–1992 | 101 | British actress |
Gunnar Fischer | 1910–2011 | 100 | Swedish cinematographer |
Rina Franchetti | 1907–2010 | 102 | Italian actress |
Elissa Minet Fuchs | 1919–2023 | 103 | American ballerina and choreographer |
Takumi Furukawa | 1917–2018 | 101 | Japanese film director |
Arthur Gardner | 1910–2014 | 104 | American television producer |
Hal Geer | 1916–2017 | 100 | American producer and filmmaker |
Pierre Gérald | 1906–2012 | 105 | French actor |
Erwin Geschonneck | 1906–2008 | 101 | German actor |
Julie Gibson | 1913–2019 | 106 | American actress and singer |
Marie Glory | 1905–2009 | 103 | French actress |
Ebrahim Golestan | 1922–2023 | 100 | Iranian-British film director and writer |
Dercy Gonçalves | 1907–2008 | 101 | Brazilian actress |
Coleridge Goode | 1914–2015 | 100 | Jamaican-born British jazz bassist |
Bert I. Gordon | 1922–2023 | 100 | American film director |
Guido Gorgatti | 1919–2023 | 103 | Italian-born Argentine film actor |
Karl Otto Götz | 1914–2017 | 103 | German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman/printmaker, writer and art professor |
Derek Granger | 1921–2022 | 101 | British film and television producer, and screenwriter |
Alda Grimaldi | 1919–2023 | 104 | Italian television director and actress |
Liane Haid | 1895–2000 | 105 | Austrian actress |
Anna Halprin | 1920–2021 | 100 | American dancer and choreographer |
Stein Grieg Halvorsen | 1909–2013 | 104 | Norwegian actor |
Kathleen Harrison | 1892–1995 | 103 | British actress |
Shinobu Hashimoto | 1918–2018 | 100 | Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer |
Johannes Heesters | 1903–2011 | 108 | Dutch actor, vocalist and performer |
Bob Hope | 1903–2003 | 100 | British-born American actor and comedian |
Mieczysław Horszowski | 1892–1993 | 100 | Polish-American pianist |
Shep Houghton | 1914–2016 | 102 | American actor and dancer |
Yvonne Howell | 1905–2010 | 104 | American silent film actress |
Marsha Hunt | 1917–2022 | 104 | American actress |
Minoru Inuzuka | 1901–2007 | 106 | Japanese film director and screenwriter |
Vilma Jamnická | 1906–2008 | 101 | Slovakian actress |
Lucy Jarvis | 1917–2020 | 102 | American television producer |
Joli Jászai | 1907–2008 | 101 | Hungarian actress |
Gertrude Jeannette | 1914–2018 | 103 | American actress, theatre director and producer |
Herb Jeffries | 1913–2014 | 100 | American singer and actor |
Glynis Johns | 1923–2024 | 100 | British actress, dancer, musician and singer |
Rolands Kalniņš | 1922–2022 | 100 | Latvian film director, screenwriter and producer |
Tatyana Karpova | 1916–2018 | 102 | Soviet-Russian actress |
Lois Kelly Miller | 1917–2020 | 102 | Jamaican actress |
John Kenley | 1906–2009 | 103 | American Broadway director and producer |
Barbara Kent | 1907–2011 | 103 | Canadian-born American actress |
Yuriko Kikuchi | 1920–2022 | 102 | American dancer and choreographer |
Robert Kinoshita | 1914–2014 | 100 | American art director |
Hans F. Koenekamp | 1891–1992 | 100 | American cinematographer |
Herbert Köfer | 1921–2021 | 100 | German actor |
Mae Laborde | 1909–2012 | 102 | American television actress |
Carla Laemmle | 1909–2014 | 104 | American film actress |
Guje Lagerwall | 1918–2019 | 100 | Swedish actress |
Charles Lane | 1905–2007 | 102 | American character actor |
Sid Laverents | 1908–2009 | 100 | American amateur filmmaker |
Norman Lear | 1922–2023 | 101 | American television writer and film and television producer |
Nikolai Lebedev | 1921–2022 | 100 | Soviet and Russian actor |
Yvette Lebon | 1910–2014 | 103 | French actress |
Francis Lederer | 1899–2000 | 100 | American actor |
Aleen Leslie | 1908–2010 | 101 | American screenwriter |
Norman Lloyd | 1914–2021 | 106 | American actor, director, producer and writer |
Elena Lucena | 1914–2015 | 101 | Argentine actress |
Don Lusk | 1913–2018 | 105 | American animator |
Ingrid Luterkort | 1910–2011 | 101 | Swedish actress |
Dora Luz | 1918–2018 | 100 | Mexican singer and recording artist |
Lincoln Maazel | 1903–2009 | 106 | American actor and singer; father of conductor Lorin Maazel |
Kurt Maetzig | 1911–2012 | 101 | German film director |
Maciej Maciejewski | 1914–2018 | 103 | Polish actor |
Martin Magner | 1900–2002 | 101 | German-American theatre and television director and producer |
Tommie Manderson | 1912–2015 | 102 | British make-up artist |
Don Marion | 1917–2020 | 103 | American actor |
Margery Mason | 1913–2014 | 100 | British actress |
Leslie H. Martinson | 1915–2016 | 101 | American television and film director |
Carmen Martínez Sierra | 1904–2012 | 108 | Spanish actress |
Annabel Maule | 1922– | 101 | British actress |
Sherman Maxwell | 1907–2008 | 100 | American sportscaster |
Fay McKenzie | 1918–2019 | 101 | American actress |
Joe McQueen | 1919–2019 | 100 | American jazz saxophonist |
Mariuccia Medici | 1910–2012 | 102 | Italian-born Swiss actress |
Benjamin Melniker | 1913–2018 | 104 | American film producer |
Sheila Mercier | 1919–2019 | 100 | British actress |
Doris Merrick | 1919–2019 | 100 | American actress and model |
Madeleine Milhaud | 1902–2008 | 105 | French actress and librettist; wife of composer Darius Milhaud |
Moi-Yo Miller | 1914–2018 | 104 | Australian magician's assistant |
Walter Mirisch | 1921–2023 | 101 | American film producer |
Antony Mitradas | 1913–2017 | 103 | Indian film director |
Igor Moiseyev | 1906–2007 | 101 | Soviet-Russian choreographer |
Miguel Morayta | 1907–2013 | 105 | Spanish-born Mexican film director |
Patricia Morison | 1915–2018 | 103 | American actress |
Meg Mundy | 1915–2016 | 101 | British-born American actress |
Audrey Munson | 1891–1996 | 104 | American actress and model |
Randi Lindtner Næss | 1905–2009 | 104 | Norwegian actress and singer |
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair | 1916–2021 | 104 | Indian Kathakali actor |
Grim Natwick | 1890–1990 | 100 | American animator |
Ivan Novikoff | 1899–2002 | 102 | Russian ballet teacher |
Gladys O'Connor | 1903–2012 | 108 | British-Canadian actress |
Kevin O'Morrison | 1916–2016 | 100 | American actor and playwright |
Kazuo Ohno | 1906–2010 | 103 | Japanese dancer |
Manoel de Oliveira | 1908–2015 | 106 | Portuguese film director |
Nelly Omar | 1911–2013 | 102 | Argentine actress and singer |
Lia Origoni | 1919–2022 | 103 | Italian actress |
Risto Orko | 1899–2001 | 102 | Finnish film producer and director |
Juan Orrego-Salas | 1919–2019 | 100 | Chilean-American composer |
Ethel Waite Owen | 1893–1997 | 103 | American actress |
Janis Paige | 1922– | 101 | American actress |
Emily Perry | 1907–2008 | 100 | British actress |
Nehemiah Persoff | 1919–2022 | 102 | American actor |
Fern Persons | 1910–2012 | 101 | American film and television actress |
Tullio Pinelli | 1908–2009 | 100 | Italian playwright and screenwriter |
Marc Platt | 1913–2014 | 100 | American actor and dancer |
Olaf Pooley | 1914–2015 | 101 | British actor |
Micheline Presle | 1922–2024 | 101 | French actress |
Willis Pyle | 1914–2016 | 101 | American animator |
Qin Yi | 1922–2022 | 100 | Chinese actress |
Milton Quon | 1913–2019 | 105 | American animator, artist and actor |
Luise Rainer | 1910–2014 | 104 | German-born British-American Oscar-winning actress |
Irving Rapper | 1898–1999 | 101 | British-American film director |
Harry Redmond Jr. | 1909–2011 | 101 | American special effects artist and film producer |
Connie Douglas Reeves | 1901–2003 | 101 | American cowgirl |
Helen Reichert | 1901–2011 | 109 | American talk show personality and professor |
Georgette Rejewski | 1910–2014 | 104 | Belgian-born Dutch actress |
Ted Richmond | 1910–2013 | 103 | American film producer |
Leni Riefenstahl | 1902–2003 | 101 | German film director |
Gerda Ring | 1891–1999 | 107 | Norwegian stage actress and producer |
Hal Roach | 1892–1992 | 100 | American film and television producer |
Edith Roger | 1922–2023 | 100 | Norwegian dancer and choreographer |
Zvonimir Rogoz | 1887–1988 | 100 | Croatian actor |
Jack Rollins | 1915–2015 | 100 | American film producer |
Jean Rouverol | 1916–2017 | 100 | American actress and screenwriter |
Witold Sadowy | 1920–2020 | 100 | Polish actor |
Frederica Sagor Maas | 1900–2012 | 111 | American screenwriter, playwright and essayist |
Sol Saks | 1910–2011 | 100 | American screenwriter and producer |
Paula Salomon-Lindberg | 1897–2000 | 102 | German classical contralto singer |
Connie Sawyer | 1912–2018 | 105 | American actress |
Ivy Sawyer | 1898–1999 | 101 | American dancer, singer and actress |
Hannes Schiel | 1914–2017 | 103 | Austrian actor |
Robert C. Schnitzer | 1906–2008 | 101 | American actor, producer, educator and theater administrator |
Ida Schuster | 1918–2020 | 101 | Scottish actress |
Alfie Scopp | 1919–2021 | 101 | English-born Canadian actor |
Miriam Seegar Whelan | 1907–2011 | 103 | American actress |
Zohra Sehgal | 1912–2014 | 102 | Indian dancer and actress |
Tonio Selwart | 1896–2002 | 106 | German actor and stage performer |
Marina Semyonova | 1908–2010 | 101 | Soviet-Russian prima ballerina |
Ramananda Sengupta | 1916–2017 | 101 | Indian cinematographer |
Athene Seyler | 1889–1990 | 101 | British actress |
Jane Sherman | 1908–2010 | 101 | American dancer and writer |
Kaneto Shindo | 1912–2012 | 100 | Japanese film director |
Helen Shingler | 1919–2019 | 100 | British film and television actress |
Renée Simonot | 1911–2021 | 109 | French actress; mother of actress Catherine Deneuve |
Douglas Slocombe | 1913–2016 | 103 | British cinematographer |
June Spencer | 1919– | 104 | British radio actress |
Norman Spencer | 1914– | 109 | British producer |
Helli Stehle | 1907–2017 | 109 | Swiss actress and radio presenter |
Hugh Stewart | 1910–2011 | 100 | British film editor and producer |
Dorothy Stickney | 1896–1998 | 101 | American actress |
Gloria Stuart | 1910–2010 | 100 | American film actress |
Alan Surgal | 1916–2017 | 100 | American screenwriter |
Wolfgang Suschitzky | 1912–2016 | 104 | Austrian cinematographer and photographer |
Danuta Szaflarska | 1915–2017 | 102 | Polish actress |
Tang Xiaodan | 1910–2012 | 101 | Chinese film director |
Gianrico Tedeschi | 1920–2020 | 100 | Italian actor |
Ellaline Terriss | 1871–1971 | 100 | British stage and film actress and musical performer |
Nini Theilade | 1915–2018 | 102 | Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher |
Frank M. Thomas | 1889–1989 | 100 | American actor [citation needed] |
Ruthie Tompson | 1910–2021 | 111 | American animator |
Roman Totenberg | 1911–2012 | 101 | Polish-American violinist |
Lupita Tovar | 1910–2016 | 106 | Mexican-American actress |
Dorothy Toy | 1917–2019 | 102 | Asian-American dancer |
Doris Eaton Travis | 1904–2010 | 106 | American actress and dance instructor; last surviving Ziegfeld Girl |
Roger Tréville | 1902–2005 | 102 | French actor |
Mabel Trunnelle | 1879–1981 | 101 | American actress |
Morton Tubor | 1917–2019 | 102 | American film and sound editor |
Franca Valeri | 1920–2020 | 100 | Italian actress |
Ninette de Valois | 1898–2001 | 102 | Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet; founder of The Royal Ballet in London |
Otakar Vávra | 1911–2011 | 100 | Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue |
Branka Veselinović | 1918–2023 | 104 | Serbian actress |
Pauline Wagner | 1910–2014 | 103 | American actress |
Bea Wain | 1917–2017 | 100 | American big band singer and radio personality |
Mary Ward Breheny | 1915–2021 | 106 | Australian actress and radio broadcaster |
Stan Waterman | 1923–2023 | 100 | American cinematographer and film producer |
Señor Wences | 1896–1999 | 103 | Spanish-American ventriloquist |
Gösta Werner | 1908–2009 | 101 | Swedish film director |
Frances Wessells | 1919– | 104 | American dancer and choreographer |
Murray Westgate | 1918–2018 | 100 | Canadian television and film actor |
Stephen Wilkinson | 1919–2021 | 102 | British choral conductor and composer |
Elmo Williams | 1913–2015 | 102 | American film and television editor |
Irv Williams | 1919–2019 | 100 | American jazz saxophonist and composer |
Estelle Winwood | 1883–1984 | 101 | British stage and film actress |
Norrie Woodhall | 1905–2011 | 105 | British stage actress |
Katja Wulff | 1890–1992 | 101 | Swiss expressionist dancer |
Yan Jizhou | 1917–2018 | 100 | Chinese film director |
Dorothy Young | 1907–2011 | 103 | American entertainer and assistant to magician Harry Houdini |
Izabella Yurieva | 1899–2000 | 100 | Russian singer |
Miguel Zacarías | 1905–2006 | 101 | Mexican film director and producer |
Vladimir Zeldin | 1915–2016 | 101 | Soviet-Russian actor |
Hilda Žīgure | 1918–2022 | 104 | Latvian stage actress |
Adolph Zukor | 1873–1976 | 103 | Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer; co-founder of Paramount Pictures |
Jorge Zuloaga | 1922–2022 | 100 | Colombian television comedian |
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