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Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat

1889 – James Whale, director (The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein)

1924 – Joseph Sargent, director/actor (Tomorrow’s Child, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Immortal, Star Trek / Twilight Zone)

1926 – Brian Forbes, actor (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, Satellite in the Sky)

Brian Forbes (left) in Quatermass 2

1928 – Orson Bean, actor (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Alien Autopsy, Being John Malkovich, Monsters, Innerspace, Twilight Zone)

1931 – Perry Lopez, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, Time Tunnel, The Creature From the Black Lagoon)

1930 – Marcia Henderson, actress (Men Into Space)

 

 

 

 

1934 – Louise Fletcher, actress (The Genesis Code, Strange Invaders, Brainstorm, Invaders From Mars, Star Trek: DS9, VR.5, Frankenstein and Me, The Stepford Husbands, Virtuosity, The Ray Bradbury Theater)

Louise Fletcher in Invaders from Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Terence Stamp, actor (Smallville, Elektra, Red Planet, Star Wars: Episode I, Alien Nation, Superman I and II, HU-Man)

1944 – Nick Brimble, actor (Frankenstein Unbound, Cosmic Princess, Blakes 7, Space: 1999)

Nick Brimble having a bad time in Blakes 7

1944 – Peter Jason, actor (Robosapien: Rebooted, Planet Raptor, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [2006], Alien Apocalypse, Raptor Island, Carnivale, Ghosts of Mars, Perversions of Science, Escape from L.A., Mortal Kombat, Congo, Village of the Damned, Quantum Leap, Arachnophobia, They Live, Alien Nation, Prince of Darkness, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Amazing Stories, Dreamscape, The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Captain Nemo, Shadow on the Land, Land of the Giants)

1946 – Danny Glover, actor (Toxin, 2047 – Sights of Death, Space Warriors, 2012, Earthsea, Predator 2)

 

1947 – J. Kenneth Campbell, actor (Mars Attacks!, The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, The Abyss)

1947 – Albert Brooks, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1951 – Tisa Farrow, actress (Anthropophagus, Hunter of the Apocalypse, Zombie)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1955 – Willem Dafoe, actor (John Carter, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, eXistenZ)

1964 – David Spade, actor (ALF)

1964 – John Leguizamo, actor (Repo Men)

1964 – Adam Godley, actor (Battleship, Dollhouse, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1972 – Colin Ferguson, actor (Eureka, Primeval: New World, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray)

1977 – Jaime Murray, actress (Warehouse 13)

1978 – Candace Kroslak, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1988 – Duane Jones, actor, d @ 52 (Night of the Living Dead)

2000 – Eric Christmas, actor, d @ 84 (The X Files, Eerie Indiana, ALF, Misfits of Science, The Philadelphia Experiment, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Andromeda Strain)

2005 – George Wallace, actor, d @ 88 (Minority Report, The X-Files, Multiplicity, Star Trek: TNG, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet)

2007 – Laszlo Kovacs, cinematographer, d @ 74 (Multiplicity, Slither)

2011 – Tom Aldredge, actor, d @ 83 (The Mind Snatchers, The American Astronaut, *batteries not included, The Mouse on the Moon)

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1924 – Don Knotts, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)

Don Knotts in The Reluctant Astronaut

1925 – Al Checco, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, The Terminal Man, The Reluctant Astronaut, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1925 – Anne Meacham, actress (Way Out)

1926 – Queenie Watts, actress (Doomwatch)

1926 – Norman Jewison, producer (Rollerball)

1926 – Paul Burke, actor (Adventures of Superman, Men Into Space)

 

 

1929 – John Woodvine, actor (Doctor Who)

John Woodvine in Doctor Who

1943 – Edward Herrmann, actor (Day of the Dolphin, The Electric Grandmother, Here Comes the Munsters)

1944 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author

1948 – Art Hindle, actor (The Clone Master, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mutant X, Total Recall 2070)

1951 – Robin Williams, actor (Mork & Mindy, Bicentennial Man)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1964 – Rory Stevens, actor (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1956 – Satellite in the Sky released

1957 – Jon Lovitz, actor (The Stepford Wives, Coneheads, Mom and Dad Save the World, My Stepmother is an Alien)

1960 – Plan 9 from Outer Space released

1960 – Lance Guest, actor (The Last Starfighter, Stepsister from Planet Weird, The X-Files)

Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter

1962 – Ike Eisenmann, actor (Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II; The Wrath of Khan)

1965 – Trevor Etienne, actor (Falling Skies, Terminator Salvation)

1967 – Basil Rathbone, actor, d @ 75 (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Science Fiction Theatre)

1967 – Reed Diamond (Dollhouse)

1973 – Ali Landry, actress (Repli-Kate)

1974 – Ray Galletti, actor (Smallville, The Core, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda)

1978 – Josh Hartnett, actor (30 Days of Night)

1980 – Sprague Grayden, actor (Biohazardous)

1985 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor d. @ 65 (Conquest of Space)

1986 – Virginia Hewitt, actress, d @ 60 (Space Patrol, The Flying Saucer, The Guardians)

1989 – Rory Culkin, actor (Signs)

1993 – Robert J Glass, film producer, killed @ 53 (ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor d. @ 71 (Microbes and Men, Doctor Who, Return to the Lost Planet)

1996 – Herb Edelman, actor, d @ 62 (Out of This World, It’s About Time)

1996 – Luana Anders, actress, d @ 58 (The Outer Limits)

2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director d. @ 81 (Star Trek)

2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer d @ 75 (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Congo)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Return to the Lost Planet)

2006 – Mako, actor, d @ 72 (Salvage 1, The Incredible Hulk)

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1909 – John Steadman, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk)

1917 – Paul Christian, actor, d @ 84 31 December 2001 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

1925 – Lola Albright, actress (The Monolith Monsters, The Incredible Hulk)

1926 – Patricia Cutts, actress (The Tingler)

1938 – Natalie Wood, actress (Meteor, Brainstorm, Altered States)

1938 – Diana Rigg, actress (Doctor Who)

Dianna Rigg in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1941 – Kurt Raab, actor (Why The UFOs Steal Our Lettuce)

Wendy Richard in Doctor Who -Dimensions in Time: Part One as Pauline Fowler.

1943 – Wendy Richard, actress (Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time)

1948 – Muse Watson, actress (TIMER, Frankenfish)

1951 – Jeff Rawle, actor (Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1957 – Donna Dixon, actress (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1960 – Jonathon Morris, writer of Doctor Who fiction (Doctor Who)

1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, actor (Saul of the Molemen)

1963 – Frank Whaley, actor (Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1964 – Dean Winters, actor (Outer Limits, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1967 – Reed Diamond, actor (Stargate SG-1, Twilight Zone, Dollhouse)

1969 – 1st men land on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. on Apollo 11 (fullfilling sci-fi visions) and Armstrong took the first steps on the moon at 10:56 PM Eastern.

Eagle lands on the moon

1973 – Roberto Orci, writer (Star Trek 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, Fringe, Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers)

1975 – Judy Greer, actress (Jurassic World, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1986 – Osric Chau, actor (Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, 2012)

1983 – Rory Jennings, actor (Doctor Who, Frankenstein)

1989 – Mary Treen, actress, d @ 82 (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1996 – Randy Stuart d @ 72 (The Incredible Shrinking Man)

1997 – Linda Stirling, actress d. @ 75 (The Purple Monster Strikes)

1999 – Sandra Gould, actress, d @ 82 (Twilight Zone)

2000 – Max Showalter, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, The Monster That Challenged the World, Indestructible Man)

2005 – James Doohan, actor, d @ 85 (Tales of Tomorrow, Space Command, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Satan Bug, Star Trek series & 1-5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Generations, Homeboys in Outer Space)

2006 – Robert Cornthwaite, actor, d @ 89 (The Thing, War of the Worlds, The Naked Monster, Time Trackers, Futureworld, The Six Million Dollar Man, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Destination Space, Men into Space)

2012 – Simon Ward, actor, d. @ 70 (Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Supergirl)

2014 – James Garner, actor, d @ 86 (Fire in the Sky, Space Cowboys)

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1924 – Pat Hingle (Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Muppets from Space, The Six Million Dollar Man

1935 – Peter Birrel, actor (Doctor Who)

Peter Birrel as Draconian Prince in Doctor Who: Frontier in Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Richard Jordan (Dune, Logan’s Run, Solarbabies)

Richard Jordan in Logan’s Run

1944 – Tim McIntire, actor (A Boy and His Dog, The Invaders)

1945 – George Dzundza, actor (Stargate: SG-1, The Twilight Zone)

1949 – Ivar Kants, actor (Escape From Jupiter, Farscape)

1950 – Simon Cadell, actor (1990, Meteor)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1956 – Peter Barton, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1956 – K.A. Applegate, sci-fi author (Animorphs, The One and Only Ivan)

 

1957 – Terri Treas, actress (Alien Nation)

Terri Treas in Alien Nation

1961 – Campbell Scott, actor (Final Days of Planet Earth, Top of the Food Chain)

1962 – Anthony Edwards, actor (Zero Hour)

1966 – Nancy Carell, actress (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1969 – Bodhi Elfman, actor (Armageddon, Sliders, Godzilla, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1974 – Joe Flynn, actor, d @ 49 (Indestrutible Man, Men into Space)

1976 – Gene Roth, actor, d @ 73 (She Demons, Earth vs. the Spider , Attack of the Giant Leeches, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Outer Space Jitters, Science Fiction Theatre, Captain Midnight, Space Patrol, The Lost Planet, Red Planet Mars, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)

1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, actor (Star Trek: ID)

1977 – Erin Cummings, actor (Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise)

 

2005 – Edward Bunker, actor, d @ 71 (The Running Man)

2007 – Laura Devon, actress, d @ 76 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

2006 – Jack Warden, actor, d. @ 86 (Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, The Invaders)

2013 – Mel Smith, actor, d @ 60 (Morons From Outer Space)

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1891 – Gene Lockhart, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out)

1898 – John Stuart, actor (Space School, Quatermass II: Enemy From Space)

1911 – Hume Cronyn, actor (Cocoon, *batteries not included)

1913 – Marvin Miller, actor (Empire of the Ants, Fantastic Planet, Fantastic Voyage, Invasion of Astro-Monster, The Phantom Planet, The Invisible Boy, The Deadly Mantis, Forbidden Planet, King Dinosaur, Godzilla Raids Again, Space Patrol, Red Planet Mars)

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Dolph Sweet, actor (Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1926 – Robert Sloman, writer (Doctor Who)

Robert Sloman, writer for Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Michael Medwin, actor (Spaceways)

1930 – Burt Kwouk, actor (Space Precinct, Doctor Who, The Tomorrow People, Curse of the Fly)

Burt Kwouk left in Curse of the Fly

1933 – Syd Mead sci-fi illustrator

1938 – Paul Verhoeven, director (Hollow Man, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, RoboCop)

1938 – Hampton Fancher, writer (Blade Runner)

1938 – Britt Leach, actor (The Last Starfighter, Quantum Leap, Weird Science)

1940 – James Brolin, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Terminal Virus, Capricorn One, Westworld, Fantastic Voyage, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1948 – James Faulkner, actor (The Martian Chronicles)

1951 – Margo Martindale (The Rocketeer)

 

1955 – Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California. One of its principal themed areas, “Tomorrowland,” features corporate-sponsored exhibits such as the TWA Moonliner, a simulated voyage to the moon, and the Monsanto House of the Future. Another exhibit, “Autopia,” offers a preview of the planned Interstate Highway system.

1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson, actress (The X Files, Asteroid, Babylon 5, Robot Jox)

1960 – Travis McKenna, actor (Meego, Quantum Leap)

1962 – Lee Arenberg, actor (Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Enterprise & Voyager, Waterworld, The Apocalypse, Robocop 3, Martians Go Home)

1967 – Vin Diesel, actor (Pitch Black, Babylon A.D.)

1968 – Andre Royo, actor (Fringe, Heroes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1968 – Grant Bowler, actor (Defiance, The Lost World, On the Beach, Farscape)

1975 – Jed Whedon, writer (Dollhouse)

1976 – Valerie Cruz, actor (Alphas, Dollhouse, The Dresden Files, Invasion)

1977 – Kelly Reilly, actress(A for Andromeda)

1980 – Kristen Bell, actress (Heroes)

1981 – Michael Huisman, actor (World War Z)

1984 – Rosalind Halstead, actress(The Day of the Triffids)

1986 – Aliens released

1986 – Buddy Baer, actor, d @ 71 (Giant from the Unknown, Adventures of Superman)

1993 – Davis Roberts, actor, d @ 76 (Westworld, Demon Seed, Ark II, Star Trek)

1997 – Brody Nicholas Lee, actor (Cloud Atlas)

1997 – Cody Benjamin Lee, actor (Cloud Atlas, Invasion)

2003 – Jurassic Park III released

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1912 – Donald Barry, actor, d @ 68 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970)

1935 – Donald Sutherland, actor (The Hunger Games, Frankenstein (2004), Space Cowboys, Virus, The Lifeforce Experiment, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Catherine Schell, actress (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Moon Zero Two)

Catherine Schell in Doctor Who episode City of Death as Countess Scarlioni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – P.J. Soles, actress (Alienator)

P. J. Soles in Alienator

1952 – David Hasselhoff, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Starcrash, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!)

1952 – Robert R[ick] McCammon, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)

1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, writer (World War Z, Thor, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)

1956 – Tim Rose, actor (voice of General Ackbar & Howard the Duck, Wizards vs. Aliens)

1956 – Margot Rose, actress (Hollow Man, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Bill Sage, actor (Shockwave Darkside)

1963 – John Ventimiglia, actor (Level 9)

1964 – Heather Langenkamp, actress (Star Trek: ID, Perversions of Science)

1965 – Santiago Segura, actor (Pacific Rim, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hellboy, Blade II)

1965 – Alex Winter, actor (Ben 10, Saul of the Molemen)

1968 – Bitty Schram, actress (Roswell)

1969 – Jason Clarke, actor (Terminator: Genesis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Death Race, Farscape)

1979 – Mike Vogel, actor (Under the Dome, Cloverfield)

1981 – Melanie Thierry, actress (The Zero Theorem, Babylon A.D.)

1985 – Tom Cullen, actor (Last Days on Mars)

1988 – Thayer David, actor, d @ 51 (The Invisible Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1992 – Billie Lourd, actress (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens)

1993 – Cazi Greene, actress (The Maze Runner)

1994 – Jessica Amlee b. 1994 (Absolute Zero, Stargate: Atlantis, Andromeda, Smallville)

1995 – Harry Guardino, actor, d @ 69 (Goldengirl, The Outer Limits)

1995 – Austin Macdonald, actor (ReGenesis)

2004 – Pat Roach, actor, d @ 64 (Starhunter, Kull the Conqueror, Space Precinct, Unidentified Flying Oddball)

2008 – Paul Sorensen, actor, d @ 82 (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Salvage 1, Westworld, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

2012 – Morgan Paull, actor, d @ 67 (Blade Runner, Beyond Westworld, The Swarm, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

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1882 – Edward Earle, actor, (The She-Creature, Science Fiction Theatre, Flight to Mars)

Edward Earle in Flight to Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1911 – Sonny Tufts, actor (Cat-Women of the Moon)

1916 – Barnard Hughes, actor (TRON, The UFO Incident, ‘Way Out)

1921 – Jane Hylton, actress (Manster, Journey to the Unknown, Doctor Who)

Jane Hylton in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Robert Sheckley, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap)

1939 – Corin Redgrave, actor (Ultraviolet)

1946 – Ann Turkel, actress (RoboCop (TV), Deep Space, Worlds Beyond, Death Ray 2000, Humanoids from the Deep)

Ann Turkel in Deep Space

1946 – Richard LeParmentier, actor (Alligator, Superman II, Space: 1999, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Stardust)

1956 – Jerry Doyle (Babylon 5)

1957 – Faye Grant, actress (TV, Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)

1965 – Daryl Mitchell, actor (Galaxy Quest)

1967 – Will Ferrell, actor (Land of the Lost (2009))

1969 – Felix Locher, actor, D @ 66 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Munsters, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Curse of the Faceless Man)

1971 – Corey Feldman, actor (Zombex, The Zombie King, The Toxic Avenger IV, Sliders, Time After Time)

1979 – Jayma Mays, actress (Heroes)

1981 – Michelle Morgan, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Diary of the Dead)

2004 – I, Robot released

2010 – Inception released

2010 – James Gammon, actor, d @ 70 (Altered, The Invaders)

2012 – William Asher, director, d @ 88 (Twilight Zone)

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