Career: Wagner's first movie was The Happy Years in 1950. After a handful of blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearances in other films, his big break came in 1952's With a Song in My Heart. Wagner became one of Hollywood's most sought after young actors, appearing in such productions as Titanic, Broken Lance, Prince Valiant, The Pink Panther and The Longest Day. His career dipped a little in the 1960s, but a decade later he was a TV regular with roles in The Streets of San Francisco, Switch and Hart to Hart. The Austin Powers movies and cameos on Two and a Half Men and NCIS have since introduced him to a whole new audience.

Career: Widmark was performing in a stage production in Chicago when 20th Century Fox signed him to a seven-year film contract. His first movie role was Kiss of Death (1947), a part that earned him a Golden Globe and his only Academy Award nomination. His early films were The Street with No Name (1948), Road House (1948) and Yellow Sky (1948) and he quickly developed a reputation for playing movie villains. After demanding more diverse roles, he went on play a wide range of parts in the likes of Panic in the Streets (1950), No Way Out (1950), Night and the City (1950), Broken Lance (1954), The Alamo (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Madigan (1968). He made the transition to the small screen in 1971 with the TV movie Vanished, and he reprised his detective role from Madigan in six TV movies. After a career that had seen him star in more than 60 films, he retired from acting in 2001. After a long illness, he died in 2008 at the age of 93.