List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)
The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity.

List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)

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Table Section Text: The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity.

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability

George Abbott	1887–1995	107	American stage actor, director, and producer

Rosa Albach-Retty	1874–1980	105	Austrian film and stage actress

Jenny Alpha	1910–2010	100	Martinique 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

Richard L. Bare	1913–2015	101	American motion picture and television director

Etta Moten Barnett	1901–2004	102	African American stage actress and singer

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

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

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

Artur Brauner	1918–	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	English actress

John Calvert	1911–2013	102	American magician

Earl Cameron	1917–	101	Bermudian-born British actor

Anna Campori	1917–2018	100	Italian actress

Mary Carlisle	1914–2018	104	American actress

Diana Serra Cary	1918–	100	American child actress (known as "Baby Peggy"), author and cinema historian

Christian Casadesus	1912–2014	101	French actor

Gisèle Casadesus	1914–2017	103	French actress

Wally Cassell	1912–2015	103	Italian-born American actor

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

Diosa Costello	1913–2013	100	American entertainer

Louise Currie	1913–2013	100	American film actress

Leila Danette	1909–2012	103	American actress

Robert Darène	1914–2016	102	French actor, film director and screenwriter

Danielle Darrieux	1917–2017	100	French actress

Dame Olivia de Havilland	1916–	102	British–born American film actress

Suzy Delair	1917–	101	French actress and dancer

Rosine Delamare	1911–2013	101	French Academy Award-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

Kirk Douglas	1916–	102	American film actor and producer

Ellen Albertini Dow	1913–2015	101	American character actress

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–	103	American dancer

Carl Esmond	1902–2004	102	German-American actor

Irving Fein	1911–2012	101	American television and film producer

Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies	1891–1992	101	English actress

Gunnar Fischer	1910–2011	100	Swedish cinematographer

Rina Franchetti	1907–2010	102	Italian actress

Harriet Frank Jr.	1917–	102	American screenwriter and producer

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–	105	American actress and singer

Marie Glory	1905–2009	103	French actress

Dercy Gonçalves	1907–2008	101	Brazilian actress

Karl Otto Götz	1914–2017	103	German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman/printmaker, writer, and art professor

Liane Haid	1895–2000	105	Austrian actress

Stein Grieg Halvorsen	1909–2013	104	Norwegian actor

Kathleen Harrison	1892–1995	103	British actress

Johannes Heesters	1903–2011	108	Dutch actor, vocalist, and performer

Bob Hope	1903–2003	100	British-born American comedian

Shep Houghton	1914–2016	102	American actor and dancer

Yvonne Howell	1905–2010	104	American silent film actress

Marsha Hunt	1917–	101	American actress

Minoru Inuzuka	1901–2007	106	Japanese film director and screenwriter

Vilma Jamnická	1906–2008	101	Slovakian actress

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

Tatyana Karpova	1916–2018	102	Soviet-Russian actress

John Kenley	1906–2009	103	American Broadway director and producer

Barbara Kent	1907–2011	103	Canadian-born American actress

Robert Kinoshita	1914–2014	100	American art director

Hans F. Koenekamp	1891–1992	100	American cinematographer

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

Yvette Lebon	1910–2014	103	French actress

Francis Lederer	1899–2000	100	American actor

Aleen Leslie	1908–2010	101	American screenwriter

Chen Liting	1910–2013	102	Chinese playwright, drama and film director

Norman Lloyd	1914–	104	American actor

Elena Lucena	1914–2015	101	Argentine actress

Don Lusk	1913–2018	105	American animator

Ingrid Luterkort	1910–2011	101	Swedish actress

Lincoln Maazel	1903–2009	106	American actor and singer

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

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

Sherman Maxwell	1907–2008	100	American sportscaster

Fay McKenzie	1918–2019	101	American actress

Mariuccia Medici	1910–2012	102	Italian-born Swiss actress

Benjamin Melniker	1913–2018	104	American film producer

Sheila Mercier	1919–	100	English actress

Madeleine Milhaud	1902–2008	105	French actress and librettist

Moi-Yo Miller	1914–2018	104	Australian magician's assistant

Antony Mitradas	1913–2017	103	Indian film director

Igor Moiseyev	1906–2007	101	Soviet-Russian choreographer

Miguel Morayta	1907–2013	105	Mexican film director

Patricia Morison	1915–2018	103	American actress

Meg Mundy	1915–2016	101	English-born American actress

Audrey Munson	1891–1996	104	American model and actress

Randi Lindtner Næss	1905–2009	104	Norwegian actress and singer

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

Risto Orko	1899–2001	102	Finnish film producer and director

Ethel Waite Owen	1893–1997	103	American actress

Emily Perry	1907–2008	100	British actress

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	English actor

Willis Pyle	1914–2016	101	American animator

Milton Quon	1913–	105	American animator, artist and actor

Luise Rainer	1910–2014	104	German-born American-British Academy Award-winning actress

Irving Rapper	1898–1999	101	British-American film director

Red Wing	1873–1974	101	Native-American film actress

Harry Redmond Jr.	1909–2011	101	American special effects artist and film producer

Connie Douglas Reeves	1901–2003	101	American cowgirl

Georgette Rejewski	1910–2014	104	Dutch actress

Helen Reichert	1901–2011	109	American talk show personality and professor

Ted Richmond	1910–2013	103	American film producer

Leni Riefenstahl	1902–2003	101	German filmmaker

Gerda Ring	1891–1999	107	Norwegian stage actress and producer

Hal Roach	1892–1992	100	American film and television producer

Zvonimir Rogoz	1887–1988	100	Croatian actor

Jack Rollins	1915–2015	100	American film producer

Jean Rouverol	1916–2017	100	American actress and screenwriter

Frederica Sagor Maas	1900–2012	111	American screenwriter, playwright, and essayist

Sol Saks	1910–2011	100	American screenwriter and producer

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–	100	Scottish actress

Miriam Seegar	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	English actress

Helen Shaw	1897–1997	100	American actress

Jane Sherman	1908–2010	101	American dancer and writer

Kaneto Shindo	1912–2012	100	Japanese film director

Renée Simonot	1911–	107	French actress

Douglas Slocombe	1913–2016	103	British cinematographer

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

Takumi Furukawa	1917–2018	101	Japanese film director

Tang Xiaodan	1910–2012	101	Chinese film director

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

Ruthie Tompson	1910–	108	American animator

Lupita Tovar	1910–2016	106	Mexican-American actress

Doris Eaton Travis	1904–2010	106	American actress, dancer/dance instructor, writer, and rancher; last surviving Ziegfeld Girl

Roger Tréville	1902-2005	102	French actor

Mabel Trunnelle	1879–1981	101	American actress

Dame Ninette de Valois	1898–2001	102	British founder of the Royal Ballet, London

Otakar Vávra	1911–2011	100	Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue

Pauline Wagner	1910–2014	103	American actress

Bea Wain	1917–2017	100	American big band singer and radio personality

Mary Ward	1915–	104	Australian actress and radio broadcaster

Señor Wences	1896–1999	103	Spanish-American ventriloquist

Gösta Werner	1908–2009	101	Swedish film director

Murray Westgate	1918–2018	100	Canadian television and film actor

Elmo Williams	1913–2015	102	American film and television editor

Estelle Winwood	1883–1984	101	English stage and movie actress

Norrie Woodhall	1905–2011	105	English stage actress

Yan Jizhou	1917–2018	100	Chinese film director

Dorothy Young	1907–2011	103	American entertainer and assistant to 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

Adolph Zukor	1873–1976	103	Hungarian-born American founder of Paramount Pictures

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Heesters worked as an actor and was one of the oldest performing entertainers in history.

final_sentence: Heesters worked as an actor and was one of the oldest performing entertainers in history.