The Screen Actors Guild's National Honors and Tributes Committee bestows an annual Life Achievement Award "for outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession." The award was not given in 1964 or 1981. ^[1]

Award Receipients

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• 1962: Eddie Cantor
• 1963: Stan Laurel
• 1965: Bob Hope
• 1966: Barbara Stanwyck
• 1967: William Gargan
• 1968: James Stewart
• 1969: Edward G. Robinson
• 1970: Gregory Peck
• 1971: Charlton Heston
• 1972: Frank Sinatra
• 1973: Martha Raye
• 1974: Walter Pidgeon
• 1975: Rosalind Russell
• 1976: Pearl Bailey
• 1977: James Cagney
• 1978: Edgar Bergen
• 1979: Katharine Hepburn
• 1980: Leon Ames
• 1982: Danny Kaye
• 1983: Ralph Bellamy
• 1984: Iggie Wolfington
• 1985: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
• 1986: Nanette Fabray
• 1987: Red Skelton
• 1988: Gene Kelly
• 1989: Jack Lemmon
• 1990: Brock Peters
• 1991: Burt Lancaster
• 1992: Audrey Hepburn
• 1993: Ricardo Montalban
• 1994: George Burns
• 1995: Robert Redford
• 1996: Angela Lansbury
• 1997: Elizabeth Taylor
• 1998: Kirk Douglas
• 1999: Sidney Poitier
• 2000: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
• 2001: Edward Asner
• 2002: Clint Eastwood
• 2003: Karl Malden
• 2004: James Garner
• 2005: Shirley Temple Black
• 2006: Julie Andrews

1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... One of 12 Eddie Cantor caricatures by Frederick J. Garner for a 1933 Brown & Bigelow advertising card set. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th Century until post-World War II. // Stan Laurel... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American film/television actress. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... William Gargan (July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) is an actor. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... James Stewart is the name of: // Actors James Stewart (actor) (1908–1997), Hollywood movie star, widely known as Jimmy Stewart. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, Yiddish: עמנואל גולדנברג; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American stage and film actor of Romanian origin. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1924) is an iconic Academy Award-winning American film actor, best known for playing larger-than-life heroic roles such as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Walter Pidgeon Walter Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film, stage actress. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Pearl Bailey in “St. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... James Francis Cagney, Jr. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Sam Bermans caricature of Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen for 1947 NBC promotion book Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was a four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Leon Ames (born January 20, 1902 in Portland, Indiana; died October 12, 1993 in Los Angeles, California), born Leon Waycoff to a Russian family, was an American film actor. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award winning American iconic actor and film director. ... Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Emmy Award and Academy Award-winning American actress. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nanette Fabray (born October 27, 1920 in San Diego, California) is an American actress. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian whose greatest impact — in a career which began as a teen circus clown and graduated to vaudeville, Broadway, MGM films, and radio — began when he reached television stardom with The Red Skelton Show (NBC, 1951–1952... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jack Lemmon at Expo 1967. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Brock Peters delivering the eulogy at Gregory Pecks funeral Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005), born George Fisher in New York City, was an African American actor probably best known for the role in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird of Tom Robinson, the black man... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Ricardo Montalban (born November 25, 1920 in Mexico City) is a television and film actor. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... George Burns[1], born Nathan Birnbaum (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), was an American comedian and actor. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Angela Lansbury CBE (born 16 October 1925) is a Tony-winning, Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated, and Emmy-nominated English actress, best-known for playing mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other persons named Elizabeth Taylor, see Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as sons of bitches. He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian-American actor, film director, and activist. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ossie Davis in The Green Pastures, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African American film actor, director and social activist. ... Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an African American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Karl Malden portraying Gen. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Garner (born James Scott Baumgarner on April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shirley Temple Black was a former child actress and United States diplomat. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

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