1992 Hal Roach, age 100 - Producer, director, and screenwriter (Our Gang, The Music Box, Of Mice and Men, One Million BC, Road Show) He worked with Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers, among others

He was a rather shrewd business mans that used legal ways to cheat his actors. For instance, he kept Laurel and Hardy's contracts at different dates so that they could never negotiate their salaries together.