Famous People

Some noted people in the Movie industry who come from the Rochester/Finger Lakes area or who have lived here:

Actors / Actresses

Kim Alexis
Harold Arlen
Alec Baldwin & Baldwin brothers (Syracuse)
Michael Bennett (Broadway)
Humphrey Bogart (lived in the area, Canandaigua, as a child)
Ingrid Bergman (lived here a few years with 1st husband, a professor at the UR)
Amanda Blake
Foster Brooks
Louise Brooks
Jimmy Cagney (lived many years at his farm home in Upstate NY, where he died).
Cab Calloway
Tom Cruise (Syracuse)
George Cukor
Taye Diggs
Peter Duel (TV series in the `70s)
George Eastman
Dave English (Murphy Brown)
Tom Fantana (Buffalo)
Robert Forster
Richard Gere (Syracuse)
Audrey Hepburn (spent time in Rochester with a long-time companion who lives in Irondequoit, a Rochester suburb)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lauren Holly
Rick James
Beverly Johnson (Buffalo)
Garson Kanin
Mimi Kennedy
John Lithgow
Bobby Lovenheim (Producer)
Chris McDonald
David Milch (Buffalo)
Hugh O'Brian
John Shuck
Stu Silver (writer, Soap, Throw Momma From The Train)
Danny Thomas (lived here)
Mark Twain
James Whitmore
Tony Yerkovitch