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1892 – Edmund Cobb, actor (The Atomic Submarine, The Amazing Colossal Man, The She-Creature)

1896 – Paul Orban, artist

1912 – Maurice Dallimore, actor (Twilight Zone)

1915 – Dennis Price, actor (Computer Killers, Drácula contra Frankenstein, The Horror of Frankenstein, The Earth Dies Screaming, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1925 – Miriam Karlin, actress (A Clockwork Orange, Jekyll & Hyde)

1925 – Larry Blyden, actor (The Twilight Zone)

Larry Blyden in Twilight Zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1942 – James Marcus, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Doctor Who, UFO)

James Marcus in Doctor Who

1946 – Jerry Ahern, sci-fi author (Survivalist)

1946 – Ted Shackleford, actor (Space Precinct, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)

1947 – Bryan Brown, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, On the Beach)

1951 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes Ray Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn,” which will provide the basis for the 1953 monster film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.

1953 – Russell Mulcahy, director (Resident Evil: Extinction, Mysterious Island, Perversions of Science)

1957 – Frances McDormand, actress, (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Æon Flux, The Twilight Zone

 

1962 – Billy Wirth, actor (Space Marines, Starlight, Body Snatchers)

1964 – Joss Whedon, writer (Dollhouse, Serenity, Firefly, Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

1967 – Terri Ivens, actor (Piranhaconda, They Came from Outer Space, The Munsters Today)

1969 – Stanley Andrews, actor, d @ 77 (Science Fiction Theatre, Superman and the Mole-Men, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

1969 – Martin Klebba, actor (Jurassic World, Men in Black II, Planet of the Apes)

1972 – Selma Blair, actress (Hellboy I & II)

1974 – Joel Edgerton, actor (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones)

1975 – William Hansen, actor, d @ 64 (The Terminal Man, Fail-Safe)

1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier,actress (Unearthed)

1980 – John Laurie, actor, d @ 83 (Devil Girl from Mars)

1994 – Connor Jessup, actor (Falling Skies)

2001 – Corinne Calvet, actress, d @ 76 (Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hype)

2011 – Peter Falk, actor, d @ 83 (The Lost World, Twilight Zone)

2013 – Richard Matheson, sci-fi author/screenwriter, d @ 87 (I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

2015 – Dick Van Patten, actor, d @ 86 (Spaceballs, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, Westworld, Beware! The Blob)

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1856 – H. Rider Haggard, sci-fi author, d @ 68 14 May 1925 (She)

1905 – Frank Milan, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1918 – Richard Eastham, actor (Conquest of the Earth, Galactica 1980, Salvage 1, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

Richard Eastham as Carl Vanders in The Invaders episode, Summit Meeting

1928 – Ralph Waite, actor (Timequest, The Outer Limits, Time Trax)

1932 – Prunella Scales, actress (The Boys from Brazil)

1936 – Kris Kristofferson, actor (Blade, Planet of the Apes, NetForce, Millennium)

 

 

 

 

 

1941 – Michael Lerner, actor (Godzilla 1998, Strange Invaders)

Michael Lerner in Godzilla 1998

1942 – Murphy Dunne, actor (Deadly Swarm, The Twilight Zone, Space)

1947 – Octavia E. Butler, sci-fi author (Parable of the Talents)

1947 – David L. Lander, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Star Trek: TNG)

1949 – Lindsay Wagner, actress (Warehouse 13, Alphas, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1952 – Graham Greene, actor (Phil the Alien)

1954 – Chris Lemmon, actor (My Dog the Space Traveler, Mindscapes Origins)

1956 – Tim Russ, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Asteroid vs. Earth, Star Trek: Generations, SeaQuest2032, Star Trek: TNG, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Eve of Destruction, Alien Nation, The Twilight Zone, Spaceballs, Timestalkers, Starman)

1958 – Bruce Campbell, actor (Alien Apocalypse, Terminal Invasion,Timequest, The X-Files, Weird Science, Escape from L.A., Lois & Clark, Congo, Mindwarp, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Moontrap)

Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

1960 – Catherine Disher, actress (War of the Worlds (TV))

1963 – Heidi Kozak, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1965 – Uwe Boll, director (House of the Dead)

1965 – J.J. Cohen, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Back to the Future, V)

1966 – James McCauley, actor (I am Legend)

1968 – Paula Irvine, actress (Phantasm I, II and III, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth)

1970 – Michael Trucco, actor (V, Meteor Storm, Battlestar Galactica)

1971 – Laila Rouass, actress (The Sarah Jane Adventures, Primeval)

1972 – Benz Antoine, actor (Death Race, Gothika, Seven Days, Strange World, Stargate SG-1, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, Millennium)

1974 – Donald Faison, actor (Skyline, Clone High)

1975 – Jeff Hephner, actor (Interstellar)

1977 – Sarah Edmonson, actress (Continuum, Fringe, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1)

1980 – Stephanie Jacobsen, actress (Star-Crossed, Quantum Apocalypse, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape)

1984 – Joseph Losey, director, d @ 75 (X the Unknown, The Boy with Green Hair )

1985 – Lindsay Ridgeway, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

1985 – Douglas Smith, actor (Antiviral, The X-Files, Terminator Genisys)

1986 – Robert F. Young, sci-fi author, d @ 71 (Jonathan and the Space Whale)

1986 – Nigel Stock, actor, d @ 66 (Lost Continent, Doctor Who)

1987 – Fred Astaire, actor, d @ 88 (Battlestar Galactica, On the Beach)

1987 – Joe Dempsie, actor (Doctor Who)

1988 – Portia Doubleday, actor (Her)

1993 – Victor Maddern, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who)

1997 – Don Henderson, actor, d @ 64 (Red Dwarf, Doctor Who, Brazil, The XYY Man, Star Wars)

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1921 – William Self, actor & TV producer (The Thing from Another World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants)

William Self (middle front) in The Thing From Another World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Carroll O’Connor, actor, d @ 76 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)

Carrol O’Connor in The Outer Limits episode, Controlled Experiment.

1925 – Maureen Stapleton, actress (Cocoon, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Electric Grandmother)

1933 – Bernie Kopell, actor (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Bug Buster, The Six Million Dollar Man, My Favorite Martian)

1938 – Monte Markham, actor (Fringe, Millennium Man, Star Trek: DS9, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Incredible Hulk, Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Project X)

1938 – Ron Ely, actor (Superboy)

1940 – Mariette Hartley, actress (Encino Man, The Incredible Hulk, Logan’s Run (TV), Genesis II, Earth II, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

 

1941 – Lyman Ward, actor (Independence Day, Weird Science (TV), Battlestar Galactica, Man from Atlantis)

1941 – Joe Flaherty, actor (Back to the Future Part II, Innerspace, Dave Thomas: The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood)

1947 – Michael Gross, actor (Tremors)

1952 – Rachel Winfree, actress (Roswell, Donnie Darko, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

1953 – Michael Bowen, actor (The X-Files, Night of the Comet)

1953 – Robyn Douglass, actress (Galactica 1980)

1954 – Robert Pastorelli, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1957 – Berkeley Breathed, writer (Mars Needs Moms)

1964 – David Morrissey, actor (The Walking Dead, Extant, Earthbound, Doctor Who)

David Morrissey in Doctor Who

1964 – Doug Savant, actor (Godzilla 1998, Firefly)

1964 – Josh Pais, actor (Star Trek: DS9)

1965 – Lana Wachowski, director (director, Sense8, Jupiter Ascending, The Matrix)

1967 – Carrie Preston, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1973 – Juliette Lewis, actress (My Stepmother Is an Alien)

1974 – Natasha Beaumont, actress (Inception, The Lost World, Farscape)

1974 – Maggie Siff, actress (The Fifth Wave)

1977 – Will Thorp, actor (Doctor Who)

1978 – Erica Durance, actress (Smallville, The Butterfly Effect 2, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, House of the Dead)

1978 – Garikayi Mutambirwa, actor (Clockstoppers, Seven Days)

1979 – Chris Pratt, actor (Jurassic World, Guardian of the Galaxy, Her, Path of Destruction)

1983 – Brian Sites, actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1985 – Lifeforce released

1997 – Charlene Polite, actress, d @ 55 (Star Trek)

2002 – Minority Report released

2007 – Carlos Romero, actor, d @ 80 (Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Invaders)

2009 – Lorena Gale, actress, d @ 51 (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, The 4400, Slither, The Chronicles of Riddick, 10.5, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Runaway Virus, Zenon; Girl of the 21st Century, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)

2013 – World War Z released

2013- Elliot Reid, actor, d @ 93 (Small Wonder, The Munsters)

1909 – Robb White, writer (The Tingler)1919 – Ronald Hin...

1909 – Robb White, writer (The Tingler)

1919 – Ronald Hines, actor (Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown)

1928 – Martin Landau, actor (Space 1999, The Outer Limits, Space 1899, Frankenweenie, The X Files, The Twilight Zone, Cosmic Princess, Meteor, Alien Attack, Journey Through the Black Sun, Twilight Zone, The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman)

1929 – Bonnie Bartlett, actress (Firefly, Stargate SG-1, SeaQuest 2032, V)

1931 – James Tolkan, actor (Back to the Future I – III, Robo Warriors, Wargames, Masters of the Universe, The X-Files, Woman)

1933 – Brett Halsey, actor (Automan, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, World of Giants, Return of the Fly

1933 – Danny Aiello, actor (The Stuff)

1934 – Wendy Craig, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1940 – John Mahoney, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1944 – Oliver Cotton, actor (Space Precinct, Space: 1999)

1944 – Terry Funk, actor (Timestalkers, Quantum Leap, Swamp Thing)

1945 – John McCook, actor (Epoch

1947 – Candy Clark, actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, The Blob, Starman)

1952 – Don Mantooth, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1952 – John Goodman, actor (What Planet Are You From?, C.H.U.D.)

1952 – Larry Riley, actor (The Twilight Zone

1957 – Butch Patrick, actor (The Munsters, Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, Here Come the Munsters, Spaced Out, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian)

1958 – Chuck Wagner, actor (Automan, America 3000)

1960 – Michael Corbett, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1963 – Ralph Sanford, actor, d @ 64 (Adventures of Superman)

1963 – Gordon Jones, actor, d @ 53 (The Monster that Challenged the World)

1964 – Edgar Barrier, actor, d @ 57 (Men into Space, World of Giants, The Giant Claw, The War of the Worlds)

1967 – Nicole Kidman, actress (The Invasion, The Golden Compass, The Stepford Wives)

1968 – Robert Rodriguez, director (Planet Terror)

1970 – Raymond Olubawale, actor (Resident Evil)

1971 – Josh Lucas, actor (Space Warriors, Hulk)

1973 – Tom Wlaschiha, actor (The Sarah Jane Chronicles)

1977 – Abner Biberman, director, d @ 68 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1977 – Ronnie Gene Blevins, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1978 – Kate Kelton, actress (Growth)

1984 – Sunny Johnson, actress, d @ 30 (Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1984 – Estelle Winwood, actress, d @ 101 (Twilight Zone)

1985 – Collings Pennie, actor (In Time)

1989 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse, actor (This is the End)

1990 – Ina Balin, actress, d @ 52 (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1998 – Jadin Gould, actor (Man of Steel, Battle Los Angeles)

2003 – Hulk released

2011 – Ryan Dunn, actor, d @ 34 (Invader)

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