Dean Martin was known as the "King of Cool." Suave and raffish, the actor played a monumental role in American entertainment for decades, starring in movies and cutting records, with a drink in one unsteady hand, a cigarette in the other, and a sly joke on the tip of his tongue.

He slouched and winked his way through a number of hit movies, as Biography notes — not only Rat Pack comedies like the original "Ocean's Eleven" but war dramas, like "The Young Lions" (where he costarred with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift), and even a John Wayne western, "Rio Bravo," for which Martin's deeply tanned face made up for his lack of a tuxedo.