{"id":2366382,"date":"2026-04-10T03:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2366382"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:17:41","slug":"12-stars-of-the-1960s-who-are-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/12-stars-of-the-1960s-who-are-still-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Stars of the 1960s Who Are Still Going Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These 12 stars of the 1960s are still going strong after all these decades.<\/p>\n

From comic icons to action stars , all have proven enduring across generations.<\/p>\n

What do you think is the secret to their staying power? <\/p>\n

Sally Field<\/h2>\n

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Sally Field broke out in the 1965 with her starring role on Gidget (above), which she followed up with The Flying Nun, making her one of the biggest \u2014 and youngest \u2014 TV stars of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Since then, she\u2019s won two Best Actress Oscars \u2014 for 1979\u2019s Norma Rae and 1984\u2019s Places in the Heart \u2014 and demonstrates empathy and vast range in films from Sybil to Smokey and the Bandit to Mrs. Doubtfire to Forrest Gump to Lincoln. And of course her \u201cYou like me, right now, you like me\u201d Oscars speech for Places in the Heart is the gold standard of award speeches.<\/p>\n

Last year she stood out in 80 for Brady, proving she\u2019s still got comic chops \u2014 though the film note that she\u2019s still several years off from 80. She\u2019ll next appear in the upcoming Netflix film Remarkably Bright Creatures.<\/p>\n

Shirley MacLaine<\/h2>\n

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Shirley MacLaine appeared in Broadway musicals as a teenager in the 1950s before making her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s 1955The Trouble With Harry. She also starred in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958) and Ask Any Girl (1959) before delivering a heartbreaking, unforgettable performance in the knowing 1960 comedy The Apartment, opposite Jack Lemmon. \u00a0<\/p>\n

She further established herself as one of the greatest stars of the 1960s with roles in The Children\u2019s Hour (1961), Irma la Douce (1963) and Sweet Charity (1969). <\/p>\n

She would go one to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1983\u2019s Terms of Endearment, and to earn endless accolades for films like Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards From the Edge (1990), and Bernie (2011). <\/p>\n

Most recently, the now-91-year-old was a standout in the second season of Only Murders in the Building. She\u2019ll next appear in the upcoming People Not Places.<\/p>\n

Warren Beatty<\/h2>\n

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Good genes: Shirley MacLaine\u2019s little brother Warren Beatty broke out with several guest appearances on the endearing 1959-63 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and quickly became a matinee idol with 1960\u2019s Splendor in the Grass (above), opposite Natalie Wood, which made them both huge stars of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

In the next decades he went on a legendary run that includes Bonnie and Clyde (1967), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), The Parallax View (1974), and Shampoo (1975), then turned to directing and starring with Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), and the fabulously weird Bulworth (1998). He won the Best Director Oscar for Reds. He co-starred with Annette Bening in 1991\u2019s Bugsy, and the two have been married for more than three decades. <\/p>\n

Warren Beatty hasn\u2019t done much since directing and starring in 2016\u2019s Rules Don\u2019t Apply, but he\u2019s still going strong: He was in charming form when he surprisingly popped up recently in the TCM special Tracy Zooms In.<\/p>\n

Dustin Hoffman<\/h2>\n

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A breakout star in 1967\u2019s The Graduate (above), Dustin Hoffman has been consistently great since. His memorable 1960s films included Midnight Cowboy, and he\u2019s since gone on to star in films from Straw Dogs (1971) to All the President\u2019s Men (1976) to Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) to Tootsie (1982) to Rain Man (1988). He won his two Best Acting Oscars for Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man.<\/p>\n

In more recent decades, his choices have remained consistently interesting and surprising: We especially liked his turns in Wag the Dog (1997), Runaway Jury (2003), I Heart Huckabees (2004) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). <\/p>\n

He\u2019s still going strong with a slate of projects that recently included Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s ambitious latest, Megalopolis.<\/p>\n

Ron Howard<\/h2>\n

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Ron Howard broke out as young Opie on the 1960s classic The Andy Griffith Show (above) and appeared in The Music Man (1962) before going on to movie stardom in the next decade with American Graffiti (1973) \u2014 and of course further TV stardom for his role on Happy Days. <\/p>\n

But at 69, he may be even better known for his achievements behind the camera. He\u2019s one of Hollywood\u2019s most in-demand directors and producers, known for Night Shift (1982), Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Backdraft (a 1991 hit starring another star of the 1960s who comes up later on this list), Apollo 13 (1995), and Frost\/Nixon. (2008) And of course he won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director for A Beautiful Mind (2001). <\/p>\n

He\u2019s one of Hollywood\u2019s most prolific producers, and one of his current projects is a recent documentary about composer John Williams, with whom he collaborated on 2018\u2019s Solo: A Star Wars Story. And he just had a hilarious appearance as himself on Apple TV+\u2019s The Studio.<\/p>\n

Jodie Foster<\/h2>\n

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Jodie Foster, seen above in a 1970 episode of Kung Fu, broke into the industry with a Coppertone ad at age three, and became one of the fastest-rising stars of the 1960s by earning roles on shows like Mayberry RFD, which starred her brother, Buddy, as well as The Doris Day Show, Gunsmoke and The Courtship of Eddie\u2019s Father.<\/p>\n

She quickly proved herself a powerhouse with astonishing range, starring in Freaky Friday and Taxi Driver in 1976, when she was barely a teenager, making her one of the youngest stars of the 1970s.<\/p>\n

In the ensuing decades, she earned the Best Actress Oscar for 1998\u2019s The Accused and 1991\u2019s Silence of the Lambs, starred in films including Nell (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2004), Elysium (2013) and The Mauritanian (2021). She\u2019s also made her mark as a director with films like Little Man Tate (1991), The Beaver (2011) and Money Monster (2016). <\/p>\n

She was just nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Nyad, and she was also our favorite part of HBO\u2019s True Detective: Night Country<\/i>, for which she won a Golden Globe.<\/p>\n

Anthony Hopkins<\/h2>\n

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Foster\u2019s Silence of the Lambs co-star, Anthony Hopkins, was doing grown-up roles when she was a child star, but they\u2019re both thriving now. Hopkins\u2019 1960s roles include The Lion in Winter (1968, as seen above) and Hamlet (1969).<\/p>\n

His very busy subsequent decades included Magic (1978), The Elephant Man (1980), Silence of the Lambs (1991) \u2014 for which he won a Best Actor Oscar with just 16 minutes of screen time \u2014 Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997), Hannibal (2001), The Human Stain (2003), Alexander (2004) and Hitchcock (2012). Along the way he\u2019s also dropped into the Thor, Transformers and Mission: Impossible Franchises.<\/p>\n

But perhaps his best work of all was for 2020\u2019s The Father, in which he earned his second Best Actor Oscar for his role as an octogenarian losing his faculties. He does almost everything in a role that an actor can do. <\/p>\n

The 87-year-old\u2019s long list of awards includes four BAFTA Awards and an Olivier Award, as well as being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He recently played King Herod in the Biblical epic Mary, and his latest is the thriller Locked.<\/p>\n

Rita Moreno<\/h2>\n

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Rita Moreno had roles in the 1950s classics Singin\u2019 in the Rain and The King and I before breaking out in 1961\u2019s West Side Story (above), and becoming one of the most beloved stars of the 1960s \u2014 and today.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s gone on to rarefied EGOT prestige by winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, one of many accomplishments in a career that also includes receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Kennedy Center Honor, and a Peabody Award. <\/p>\n

Her long list of credits includes 1969\u2019s Popi, 1981\u2019s The Four Seasons, 1998\u2019s The Slums of Beverly Hills, and Steven Spielberg\u2019s 2021 remake of West Side Story.<\/p>\n

in 2023, she earned laughs alongside Sally Field and the final person on this list in 80 for Brady, and turned up in Fast X. She never slows down. Her next film is the upcoming Theirs.<\/p>\n

Kurt Russell<\/h2>\n

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There\u2019s a (false) urban myth that Walt Disney\u2019s last words were \u201cKurt Russell.\u201d Disney rightly saw a bright future for Russell, who became one of the fastest-rising stars of the 1960s with The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (above). He soon signed a contract with Disney, starring in films like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969).<\/p>\n

He soon because the tough guy we all know and love in films like Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Tango & Cash (1989), but proved his serious acting chops in Silkwood (1983), Backdraft (1991) and Vanilla Sky (2001). He may have been most endearing in 1993\u2019s Tombstone.<\/p>\n

The 72-year-old\u2019s best roles lately have been in Quentin Tarantino films, including Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also stood out in the Fast and Guardians of the Galaxy franchises. <\/p>\n

He recently starred in the Apple+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters alongside his son, Wyatt Russell, and he\u2019s in the brand-new Smurfs.<\/p>\n

Clint Eastwood<\/h2>\n

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Clint Eastwood, who turns 95 at the end of this month, appeared on the TV show Rawhide at the dawn of the 1960s, and quickly established himself as one of the most iconic stars of the decade in Sergio Leone\u2019s \u201cMan With No Name\u201d trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars\u00a0(1964), For a Few Dollars More\u00a0(1965) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly\u00a0(1966) (above).<\/p>\n

He loomed large over the next two decades with his Dirty Harry franchise, but his greatest contribution to cinema may be his work as a director: He has four Oscars, two each for directing and producing The Unforgiven (1993) and Million Dollar Baby (2005). His other outstanding films include Mystic River (2003), Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) and American Sniper (2014). <\/p>\n

His latest film was last year\u2019s Juror #2.<\/p>\n

Jane Fonda<\/h2>\n

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Jane Fonda became one of the biggest stars of the 1960s thanks to hits like Cat Ballou, and buoyed her reputation with films like Barefoot and the Park and They Shoot Horses, Don\u2019t They? (above) before the decade was over. She also ended up on a lot of dorm walls thanks to 1968\u2019s Barbarella.<\/p>\n

But she owned the 1970s: In 1971, she won her first Best Actress Oscar for a daring turn in Klute, and won her second for 1978\u2019s Coming Home. She has also been nominated for four additional Oscars.<\/p>\n

At 86, Jane Fonda seems busier than ever. Last year alone she starred with Sally Field in the aforementioned 80 for Brady and with Diane Keaton in Book Club: The Next Chapter, and will is providing voice acting for Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. She also recently wrapped up a long TV run on Grace and Frankie.<\/p>\n

If you like this list, you might also like this list of Gen X Movie Stars Gone Too Soon.<\/a><\/p>\n

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