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Actors Born on May 6

  • 1890 Claire Whitney, American silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine), born in New York City (d. 1969)

Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926)

Italian actor and silent movie idol (The Sheik, Eagle), born in Castellaneta, Italy

  • 1904 Catherine Lacey, British actress (Sorcerors), born in London, England (d. 1979)
  • 1904 Raymond Bailey, American actor (Vertigo, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Incredible Shrinking Man), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1980)
  • 1912 William "Bill" Quinn, American actor (Star Trek, The Birds, Rifleman, All in the Family), born in New York City (d. 1994)
  • 1913 Carmen Cavallaro, American actor and pianist (Hollywood Canteen; Diamond Horseshoe), born in New York City (d. 1989)
  • 1913 Stewart Granger, English actor (Prisoner of Zenda, King Solomon's Mines), born in London, England (d. 1993)

Orson Welles (1915-1985)

American actor and director (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), born in Kenosha, Wisconsin

  • 1918 Sydney Chatton, English actress (Once Upon a Horse), born in Bolton, Lancashire, England (d. 1966)
  • 1921 Alan Dewitt, American actor (It's About Time), born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1976)
  • 1921 Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress ("Chalk Garden"; "A Voyage Round My Father"), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2019) [1]
  • 1922 Vladimir Etush, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR, born in Moscow, RSFSR (d. 2019)
  • 1927 Ettore Manni, Italian actor (Street People, Divine Nymph, Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1979)
  • 1936 Joanna Dunham, English actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood), born in Luton, Bedfordshire (d. 2014)
  • 1939 Chet Allen, American child actor (Amahl and the Night Visitors), born in Chickasha Oklahoma (d. 1984)
  • 1944 Anton Furst, American production designer (Batman), born in London (d. 1991)
  • 1945 Richard Eyers, American actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1946 Susan Brown, English actress (The Iron Lady, Game of Thrones), born in Bristol, England
  • 1947 Alan Dale, New Zealand born actor (Neighbours), born in Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 1947 Ben Masters, American actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right), born in Corvalis, Oregon
  • 1948 Richard Cox, American actor (Mark-Executive Suite), born in New York City
  • 1952 Christian Clavier, French actor (Les Visiteurs (The Visitors)), and film maker, born in Paris France
  • 1952 Michael O'Hare, American actor
  • 1953 Lynn Whitfield, American actress (Josephine Baker; Equal Justice), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • 1958 (María) "Lolita" Flores, Spanish-Gypsy singer ("Sarandonga"). and actress, born in Madrid, Spain
  • 1959 Kate Collins, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children), born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1960 Julianne Phillips, American actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters), born in Lake Oswego, Oregon
  • 1961 Clay O'Brien, American actor (Weedy-Cowboys), born in Ray, Arizona

George Clooney (63 years old)

1961 American actor (ER; Batman; The Descendants; Oceans 11), born in Lexington, Kentucky

  • 1961 Roma Downey, Irish actress (One Life to Live; Touched by an Angel), born in Derry, Northern Ireland
  • 1964 Dana Hill [Goetz], American actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon), born in Van Nuys California,
  • 1970 Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
  • 1980 Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
  • 1980 Scott Colton, American professional wrestler

Xie Na (43 years old)

1981 Chinese television host and actress (Happy Camp), born in Deyang, Sichuan

  • 1983 Adrianne Palicki, American actress (Friday Night Lights, Agents of Shield), born in Toledo, Ohio
  • 1986 Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor, born in Toronto, Canada
  • 1987 Adrienne Warren, American Tony Award-winning actress and singer (Tina), born in Chesapeake, Virginia
  • 1987 Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
  • 1993 Naomi Scott, English actress (Aladdin, Charlie's Angels), born in London, England