This is a list of actors who were prominent during The Golden Age of Hollywood.
Notable silent movie actors
- Fatty Arbuckle note
- Dorothy Bernard
- Daisy Burrell
- Baby Peggy
- Clara Bow note
- Louise Brooks
- Charlie Chaplin
- Lon Chaney note
- Ronald Colman note
- Marion Davies
- Douglas Fairbanks note
- Greta Garbo
- Janet Gaynor
- John Gilbert note
- Lillian Gish
- Al Jolson
- Buster Keaton
- Isabel Lamon
- Laurel and Hardy
- Max Linder note
- Harold Lloyd
- Ruby Miller
- Mabel Normand
- Mary Pickford
- Larry Semon note
- Gloria Swanson
- Rudolph Valentino note
- Anna May Wong
Actors from The Pre-Code Era and/or before
- Jean Arthur
- Mary Astor
- Lionel Atwill
- C. Aubrey Smith
- Lew Ayres
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Ethel Barrymore
- John Barrymore note
- Lionel Barrymore
- Wallace Beery
- Ralph Bellamy
- Constance Bennett
- Joan Bennett
- Joan Blondell
- Humphrey Bogart note
- Mary Boland note
- Charles Boyer
- George Brent
- Nigel Bruce
- James Cagney
- Mary Carlisle
- John Carradine
- Maurice Chevalier
- Mae Clarke
- Claudette Colbert
- Ricardo Cortez
- Lon Chaney Jr.
- Gary Cooper note
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Dolores del Río
- Reginald Denny
- Marlene Dietrich
- Ann Dvorak
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Glenda Farrell
- W. C. Fields
- Kay Francis
- Dwight Frye
- Clark Gable note
- Paulette Goddard
- Cary Grant note
- Ann Harding
- Jean Harlow note
- Irene Hervey
- Miriam Hopkins
- Leslie Howard note
- Walter Huston
- Victor Jory
- Boris Karloff
- Charles Lane (1905)
- Carole Lombard note
- Myrna Loy
- Bela Lugosi
- Jeanette MacDonald
- Fredric March
- Marx Brothers
- Raymond Massey
- Joel McCrea
- Adolphe Menjou
- Una Merkel
- Ray Milland
- Robert Montgomery
- Karen Morley
- Chester Morris
- Paul Muni
- Pat O Brien
- Maureen O Sullivan
- Gail Patrick
- Walter Pidgeon
- Dick Powell
- William Powell note
- John Qualen
- George Raft
- Claude Rains
- Basil Rathbone
- Edward G. Robinson
- Ginger Rogers
- Mickey Rooney
- Norma Shearer note
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Gloria Stuart
- Robert Taylor
- The Three Stooges
- Thelma Todd
- Franchot Tone
- Spencer Tracy
- Lupe Vélez
- John Wayne
- Johnny Weissmuller
- Mae West
- Wheeler And Woolsey
- Warren William
- Fay Wray
- Ed Wynn
- Loretta Young
Actors from the 1930s
- Philip Ahn
- Don Ameche
- Eve Arden
- Fred Astaire
- Edith Atwater
- Lucille Ball
- Ingrid Bergman
- Mel Blanc
- Daws Butler
- Cab Calloway
- Madeleine Carroll
- Lee J. Cobb
- Cora Sue Collins
- Jackie Cooper
- Bing Crosby
- Olivia de Havilland
- Robert Donat
- Melvyn Douglas
- Irene Dunne
- Nelson Eddy
- Barry Fitzgerald
- Errol Flynn
- Henry Fonda
- Joan Fontaine
- Judy Garland
- Greer Garson
- Margaret Hamilton
- Sonja Henie
- Katharine Hepburn
- William Holden
- Bob Hope
- Josephine Hutchinson
- Allan Jones
- Charles Laughton
- Vivien Leigh
- June Lockhart
- Peter Lorre
- Fred MacMurray
- Hattie McDaniel
- Butterfly Mc Queen
- Burgess Meredith
- Thomas Mitchell
- Agnes Moorehead
- Michèle Morgan
- Robert Morley
- David Niven
- Donald O'Connor
- Una O Connor
- Maureen O'Hara
- Eleanor Powell
- Tyrone Power
- Anthony Quinn
- Ronald Reagan
- Cesar Romero
- Rosalind Russell
- Randolph Scott
- Ann Sheridan
- Sylvia Sidney
- Jimmy Stewart
- Peggy Stewart
- Margaret Sullavan
- Akim Tamiroff
- Shirley Temple
- Lana Turner
- Fredi Washington
- Ethel Waters
- May Whitty
- Orson Welles
- Esther Williams
- Chill Wills
- Jane Withers
- Robert Young
Actors from the 1940s
- Kirk Alyn
- Dana Andrews
- Louis Armstrong
- Lauren Bacall
- Anne Baxter
- Ed Begley
- Barbara Bel Geddes
- Ann Blyth
- Eddie Bracken
- Charles Bronson
- Raymond Burr
- Leo G. Carroll
- Cyd Charisse
- Montgomery Clift
- Charles Coburn
- Elisha Cook Jr.
- Gladys Cooper
- Wendell Corey
- Joseph Cotten
- Hazel Court
- Hume Cronyn
- Peter Cushing
- Royal Dano
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Kirk Douglas
- Gene Evans
- Tom Ewell
- June Foray
- Glenn Ford
- Anne Francis
- Jean Gabin
- Ava Gardner
- Betty Grable
- Gloria Grahame
- Farley Granger
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Alec Guinness
- Rex Harrison
- Hurd Hatfield
- Susan Hayward
- Rita Hayworth
- Celeste Holm
- Judy Holliday
- Oskar Homolka
- Kim Hunter
- Martha Hyer
- Jennifer Jones
- Louis Jourdan
- Danny Kaye
- Gene Kelly
- Deborah Kerr
- Nat King Cole
- Alan Ladd
- Veronica Lake
- Hedy Lamarr
- Burt Lancaster
- Angela Lansbury
- Janet Leigh
- Margaret Leighton
- Viveca Lindfors
- Norman Lloyd
- John Loder
- Ida Lupino
- Karl Malden
- Dorothy Malone
- E. G. Marshall
- Victor Mature
- Roddy McDowall
- Jayne Meadows
- Vera Miles
- Carmen Miranda
- Robert Mitchum
- Ricardo Montalbán
- Patricia Neal
- Jeanette Nolan
- Laurence Olivier
- Eleanor Parker
- Gregory Peck
- Jean Peters
- Eric Pohlmann
- Jane Powell
- Otto Preminger
- Vincent Price
- Donna Reed
- Thelma Ritter
- Ruth Roman
- Robert Ryan
- Sabu
- George Sanders
- Lizabeth Scott
- Martha Scott
- Zachary Scott
- Dinah Shore
- Phil Silvers
- Frank Sinatra
- Robert Stack
- Dean Stockwell
- Barry Sullivan
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Gene Tierney
- Lawrence Tierney
- Lurene Tuttlenote
- Alida Valli
- Conrad Veidt
- Helen Walker
- Robert Walker
- David Wayne
- Betty White
- Richard Widmark
- Michael Wilding
- John Williams (actor)
- Lewis Wilson
- Natalie Wood
- Teresa Wright
- Jane Wyman
- Gig Young
Actors from the 1950s
- June Allyson
- Carroll Baker
- Martin Balsam
- Anne Bancroft
- Brigitte Bardot
- Gene Barry
- Harry Belafonte
- Theodore Bikel
- Richard Boone
- Ernest Borgnine
- Stephen Boyd
- Marlon Brando
- Yul Brynner
- Richard Burton
- Diahann Carroll
- Montgomery Clift
- Joan Collins
- James Coburn
- Yvonne Craig
- Peggy Cummins
- Tony Curtis
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Bobby Darin
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Doris Day
- James Dean
- Sandra Dee
- James Doohan
- Clint Eastwood
- Barbara Eden
- Jack Elam
- Maurice Evans
- José Ferrer
- Mel Ferrer
- Eddie Fisher
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- James Garner
- John Gavin
- Mitzi Gaynor
- Betty Grable
- Stewart Granger
- Andy Griffith
- Sterling Hayden
- Audrey Hepburn
- Charlton Heston
- Wendy Hiller
- Trevor Howard
- Rock Hudson
- Tab Hunter
- Carolyn Jones
- Glynis Johns
- Brian Keith
- Grace Kelly
- Richard Kiel
- Martin Landau
- Jessie Royce Landis
- Hope Lange
- Piper Laurie
- Cloris Leachman
- Jack Lemmon
- Jerry Lewis
- Jack Lord
- Sophia Loren
- Jayne Mansfield
- Jean Marsh
- Dean Martin
- Lee Marvin
- James Mason
- Walter Matthau
- Steve McQueen
- Marilyn Monroe
- Rita Moreno
- Audie Murphy
- Paul Newman
- Kim Novak
- Anthony Perkins
- Edward Platt
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Sidney Poitier
- Debbie Reynolds
- Don Rickles
- Janice Rule
- Jane Russell
- Eva Marie Saint
- George C. Scott
- Jean Simmons
- Maggie Smith
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Rod Steiger
- Woody Strode
- Russ Tamblyn
- Jessica Tandy
- Jo Van Fleet
- Robert Vaughn
- Jack Warden
- Eli Wallach
- Adam West
- Guy Williams
Actors from the 1960s
- Ursula Andress
- Julie Andrews
- Alan Arkin
- Warren Beatty
- Sid Caesar
- Michael Caine
- Veronica Cartwright
- Ray Charles
- Sean Connery
- Noël Coward
- Judi Dench
- Faye Dunaway
- Peter Falk
- Jane Fonda
- Stan Freberg
- Buddy Hackett
- Gene Hackman
- Richard Harris
- Tippi Hedren
- Dustin Hoffman
- John Hurt
- Casey Kasem
- Bruce Lee
- Christopher Lee
- Herbert Lom
- Shirley MacLaine
- Lee Majors
- Nan Martin
- David McCallum
- Hayley Mills
- Helen Mirren
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Elizabeth Montgomery
- Jack Nicholson
- Nick Nolte
- Jerry Orbach
- Peter O'Toole
- Donald Pleasence
- Christopher Plummer
- Robert Redford
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Burt Reynolds
- Jason Robards
- Telly Savalas
- William Shatner
- Peter Sellers
- John Stephenson
- Barbra Streisand
- George Takei
- Rod Taylor
- Terry-Thomas
- Rita Tushingham
- Dick Van Dyke
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Burt Ward
- Frank Welker
- Jonathan Winters
- Billy Dee Williams
- Scott Wilson
