Famous Actor Name Changes

Nick Adams (his birth name was Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock)
Alan Alda (his birth name was Alphonso D'Abruzzo)
Fred Allen (his birth name was John Sullivan)
Woody Allen (his birth name was Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Fred Astaire (his birth name was Frederick Austerlitz)
Jack Benny (his birth name was Benjamin Kubelsky)
Joey Bishop (his birth name was Joseph Abraham Gottlieb)
Robert Blake (his birth name was Mickey Gubitosi)
George Burns (his birth name was Nathan Birnbaum)
Richard Burton (his birth name was Walter Jenkins)
Red Buttons (his birth name was Aaron Chwatt)
Michael Caine (his birth name was Maurice Mickelhite)
Eddie Cantor (his birth name was Edward Israel Iskowitz)
Lee J. Cobb (his birth name was Leo Jacoby)
Mike Connors (his birth name was Krekor Ohanian)
Ricardo Cortez (his birth name was Jacob Krantz)
Tom Cruise (his birth name was Thomas Mapothier IV)
Danny Devito (his birth name was Daniel Michaeli)
Troy Donahue (his birth name was Merle Johnson Jr.)
Kirk Douglas (his birth name was Issur Danielovich)
Stepin Fetchit (his birth name was Lincoln Perry)
John Ford (his birth name was Sean O'Fierna)
Jamie Foxx (his birth name was Eric Marlon Bishop)
John Garfield (his birth name was Juliuis Garfinkle)
Cary Grant (his birth name was Archibald Leach)
Rex Harrison (his birth name was Reginald Carey)
Charlton Heston (his birth name was John Charles Carter)
Bob Hope (his birth name was Leslie Townes Hope)
William Holden (his birth name was William Beedle Jr.)
Harry Houdini (his birth name was Erich Weiss)
Rock Hudson (his birth name was Leroy Scherer Jr.)
Tab Hunter (his birth name was Arthur Andrew Gelien)
Boris Karloff (his birth name was William Henry Pratt)
Ben Kingsley (his birth name was Krishna Banji)
Mario Lanza (his birth name was Alfred Cocozza)
Stan Laurel (his birth name was Arthur Jefferson)
Jerry Lewis (his birth name was Joseph Levich)
Hal Linden (his birth name was Harold Lipshitz)
Dean Martin (his birth name was Dino Crocetti)
Ray Milland (his birth name was Reginald Truscott Jones)
Slim Pickens (his birth name was Louis Lindly)
Tony Randall (his birth name was Leonard Rosenberg)
Edward G. Robinson (his birth name was Emmanuel Goldenberg)
Roy Rogers (his birth name was Leonard Slye)
Mickey Rooney (his birth name was Joe Yule Jr.)
Martin Sheen (his birth name was Ramon Estevez)
Mister T (his birth name was Lawrence Tureaud)
Robert Taylor (his birth name was Spangler Arlington Brugh)
Rudolph Valentino (his birth name was Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaelo D'Antonguolla)
John Wayne (his birth name was Marion Michael Morrison)
Clifton Webb (his birth name was Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck)
Gig Young (his birth name was Byron Barr)