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June 18, 2015

End of the world. Who can save it? http://buff.ly/1LM4pN6 #dccomics #aliens #marvel #Roswell #superhero

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Published on June 18, 2015 12:30

A new hero is born. Maybe he’s not too late. http://buff.ly/1Fb2VIc #action #scifi #marvel #superhero #asmsg #iartg #bookplugs #itrtg

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Published on June 18, 2015 12:15

Awesome #scifi #movie Vote for its creation http://www.iflist.com/stories/Demien #Masterminds #doctorwho #indianajones #action #bookboost #retweeett

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June 11, 2015

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

1889 – Cliff Clark, actor (War of the Worlds)


1908 – Robert Eddison, actor (Out of the Unknown)


1918 – Barry Morse, actor (TekWar, The Twilight Zone, Whoops Apocalypse, The Shape of Things to Come, Space: 1999, The Starlost, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)


Barry Morse in The Outer Limits episode Contolled Experiment

Barry Morse in The Outer Limits episode Contolled Experiment


1921 – Garry Walberg, actor (The Andromeda Strain, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Lionel Jeffries, actor, d @ 83 19 February 2010 (Lexx, First Men in the Moon, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Quatermass Xperiment)

1927 – Sunshine Parker, actor (Tremors)

1929 – Lou Frizzell, actor, d @ 50 17 June 1979 (Project U.F.O.)


1937 – Luciana Paluzzi, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, The Green Slime)


1941 – Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Wing Commander, Judge Dredd, Terminus, Dune)

1941 – Mickey Jones, actor (It Came From Outer Space II, Total Recall, Misfits of Science, V, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980)

1947 – Randee Heller b. 1947 (ALF)

1949 – Frankie Faison, actor (Prey, The Langoliers, Freejack, Maximum Overdrive, C.H.U.D.)


1953 – The Twonky released

1954 – Rich Hall, actor (C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud)

1957 – Robert Clohessy, actor (Lois & Clark)


1962 – Gina Gershon, actress (Category 7: The End of the World, The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Carolyn Hennesy, actress (Once Upon a Time, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare)

1963 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress (Timecode, Waterworld)

1964 – Ben Daniels, actor (Doom)

1964 – Andrew Niccol, director (The Host, In Time, S1m0ne, Gattaca)

1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, actress (My Favorite Martian (1999), The Tomorrow People)

1968 – Mike Dopud, actor (Continuum, Man of Steel, Battlestar Galactica, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Warehouse 13, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Stargate, Smallville, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Blade: The Series, Kraken: Tentatcles of the Deep, Rollerball, Millennium, Futuresport, Welcome to Paradox)


1971 – Michael Rennie, actor, d @ 61 (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Lost World)

1978 – Shane West, actor (Sliders)

1978 – DJ Qualls, actor (The Core)


1981 – Jonathan Bennett, actor (Smallville)

1981 – Toby Levins, actor (The 100, Fear the Walking Dead, Falling Skies, Godzilla 2014 , The Tomorrow People, Battlestar Galactica, Fringe)

1983 – Shanna Collins, actress (War of the Worlds)

1985 – Susannah Fielding, actress (Doctor Who)


Susannah Fielding in Doctor Who

Susannah Fielding in Doctor Who


 


 


 


 


 


 

1989 – Richard Quine, actor/director, d @ 68 (The Flying Missile, Project U.F.O.)

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Published on June 11, 2015 13:03

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

1914 – Dudley Manlove, actor (The Creation of the Humanoids, Plan 9 from Outer Space)

1914 – Gerald Mohr, actor (Invasion U.S.A., The Angry Red Planet, Men into Space, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)


Gerald Mohr in the Lost in Space episode, A Visit to Hades.

Gerald Mohr in the Lost in Space episode, A Visit to Hades.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1915 – Buddy Baer, actor (Giant from the Unknown, Adventures of Superman)

1919 – Richard Todd, actor (Doctor Who)


Richard Todd in Doctor Who

Richard Todd in Doctor Who


1920 – Robert Hutton, actor (Trog, They Came from Beyond Space, The Slime People, Invisible Invaders, The Colossus of New York)

1922 – John Bromfield, actor (Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, Revenge of the Creature)


1932 – Ed Bishop, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Saturn 3, 1990, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Day After Tomorrow, UFO, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Mouse on the Moon)


 


 


1933 – Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein)


Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein

Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein


1937 – Chad Everett, actor, d @ 75 24 July 2012 (When Time Expires)

1939 – Jordan Rhodes, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Terminal Man)


1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, actress (The Chronicle, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, Weird Science, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, Swamp Thing, Escape from New York, The Fog)

1946 – Paul Lynch, director (So Weird, Sliders, RoboCop (TV), Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!)

1949 – Nicholas Young, actor (The Tomorrow People (79 & 13), Space: 1999)


 


1949 – Sherman Howard, actor ( Star Trek: Voyager, Retroactive, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, The Stand, Space Rangers, Superboy, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, ALF, Max Headroom, Day of the Dead)


1959 – Hugh Laurie, actor (Tomorrowland)


1965 – Pamela Gidley, actress (Cherry 2000)

1966 – Malcolm Smith d @ 65 (sci-fi artist)

1967 – Clare Carey, actress (Stargate SG-1, The Invisible Man (TV), Them, Zombie High)

1969 – Peter Dinklage, actor (Pixels, Ultra)


1977 – Ryan Dunn, actor (Invader)

1978 – Joshua Jackson, actor (Fringe)

1979 – Jane Goldman, writer (Stardust)


1982 – E.T. the Extra-terrestral released

1986 – Shia LeBeouf, actor (Transformers, I, Robot, The X-Files, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1988 – Nathan Cook, actor, d @ 38 (The Astronauts)


1993 – Bernard Bresslaw, actor, d @ 59 (Krull, Doctor Who)

1996 – Brigitte Helm, actress, d @ 90 (Metropolis, Queen of Atlantis, The Lost Atlantis)

1999 – DeForest Kelley, actor, d @ 79 (Science Fiction Theatre, Night of the Lepus , Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG)


2000 – Lew Gallo, actor, d @ 71 (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

2003 – William Marshall, actor, d @ 78 (Dinosaur Valley Girls, Amazon Women on the Moon, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Star Trek)

2004 – Zenon: Z3 debuted on the Disney Channel

2004 – The Chronicles of Riddick released

2006 – Tim Hildebrandt, Illustrator, d @ 67

2007 – Mala Powers, actress, d @ 75 (The Colossus of New York, The Unknown Terror)

2008 – Outlander released


2014 – Ruby Dee, actress, d @ 89 (The Stand)

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June 9, 2015

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

1903 – Rosa Turich, actress (Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter)


1919 – Gerd Oswald, director (The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)


Gerd Oswald, director

Gerd Oswald, director


 


 


 


 


 


 


1919 – Robert Cummings, actor (My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)


Robert Cummings in My Living Doll

Robert Cummings in My Living Doll


1925 – Keith Laumer, sci-fi author (Imperium, Retief)

1925 – Leo Summers, artist


1930 – Linwood V Carter, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Lost World of Time)

1931 – Joan Marshall, actress (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1931 – Joe Santos, actor (The Postman, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)


1943 – Joe Haldeman, sci-fi author (The Forever War, The Hemingway Hoax, Graves, Forever Peace, Camouflage)


 


 


1950 – David Troughton, actor (The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Doctor Who)


David Troughton in Doctor Who

David Troughton in Doctor Who


1951 – James Newton Howard, composer (Signs, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Unbreakable, Waterworld, Outbreak, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1953 – Mark Jeffrey Miller, actor (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Revolution)

1956 – Kelly Connell, actress (K-PAX, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Eerie Indiana)


1961 – Michael J. Fox, actor (Mars Attacks!, Back to the Future)

1962 – Rodman Flender, director (Millennium, Dark Skies)

1963 – David Koepp , writer (Zathura: A Space Adventure, War of the Worlds, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park)

1963 – Johnny Depp, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife, Edward Scissorhands)


 


1964 – Gloria Reuben, actress (Mr. Robot, Falling Skies, Timecop)

1968 – Haley Peterson, actress (Cyborg)


1971 – Harold Lloyd Jr, actor, d @ 40 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Mutiny in Outer Space)

1975 – Katharine Cullen, actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Girl from Tomorrow)


1981 – Natalie Portman, actress (Star Wars: Episodes I – III, Mars Attacks!)

1985 – Colin Theys, director (Alien Opponent)

1988 – Mae Whitman, actress (Bionic Woman, Phil of the Future, Independence Day)

1989 – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier released


2008 – Algi Budrys, sci-fi author, d @ 77 (Man of Earth)


2013 – Iain [Menzies] Banks, sci-fi author, d @ 69 (Wasp Factory)

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Published on June 09, 2015 11:28

June 8, 2015

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

1910 – John W. Campbell, sci-fi author / editor (Who Goes There? / Astounding Science Fiction, Analog)

1915 – Robert F. Young, sci-fi author (Jonathan and the Space Whale)

1917 – George Wallace, actor, (Minority Report, The X-Files, Multiplicity, Star Trek: TNG, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet)


George Wallace in Forbidden Planet

George Wallace in Forbidden Planet


1918 – Robert Preston, actor (The Last Starfighter)


1921 – Sheila Ryan, actress, (Captain Midnight)

1923 – Myron Healey, actor (RoboCop, V, The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Melting Man, Land of the Giants, Varan the Unbelievable, Men Into Space, Adventures of Superman)

1925 – Charles Tyner, actor (Space, The Incredible Hulk)

1928 – Kate Wilhelm, sci-fi author (Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang)


1930 – Henry Brandon, actor (War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits, The Land Unknown, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Buck Rogers)


1931 – Dana Wynter, actor (The Questor Tapes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1933 – Joan Rivers, actress (Spaceballs)

1934 – Millicent Martin, actress (Max Headroom)

1936 – James Darren, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Man from the 25th Century, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)


James Darren in The Turtleneck,, I mean The Time Tunnel

James Darren in The Turtleneck,, I mean The Time Tunnel


1939 – Bernie Casey, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Time Trax, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Martian Chronicles, The Man Who Fell to Earth)


1941 – Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, actor (Swamp Thing, Star Trek: TNG, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)


 


 


 


 


1943 – Colin Baker, actor (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)


Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.

Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.


1945 – Jack Sholder, director (Tremors)


1950 – Cathy Baker, actress (Edward Scissorhands)

1950 – Sonia Braga, actress (Warehouse 13)

1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor (The Android Affair, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1957 – Scott Adams, actor (Babylon 5)

1959 – Bernard White, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded, The X-Files)


1960 – Gary Trousdale, director (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

1963 – Frank Grillo, actor (A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island, Minority Report)

1965 – Kevin P. Farley, actor (Roswell FM, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1969 – David Sutcliffe, actor (Mega Cyclone, Mutant X)


1970 – Kelli Williams, actress (Earth 2, Quantum Leap)


 


1971 – Matt Kaminsky, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1973 – Lexa Doig, actress (Continuum, Primeval: New World, Smallville, V, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Andromeda, Jason X, Earth: Final Conflict, TekWar)

1976 – Eion Bailey, actor (Mindhunters)

1977 – Nate Dushku, actor (Dollhouse)


1989 – Moontrap released in West Germany


1991 – James Franciscus, actor, d @ 57 (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Marooned, Twilight Zone)

1992 – Melanie Tonello, actress (Resident Evil: Apocalypse)


2005 – Ed Bishop, actor, d @ 72 (Whoops Apocalypse, Saturn 3, 1990, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Day After Tomorrow, UFO, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Mouse on the Moon)


2012 – Prometheus released

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Published on June 08, 2015 11:56

June 7, 2015

Fan of Doctor Who or Indiana Jones? You might like http://buff.ly/1LEVyxb #archaeology #aliens #action #Bookboost #DoctorWho #IndianaJones

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Published on June 07, 2015 16:30

Fan of Doctor Who or Indiana Jones? You might like http://buff.ly/1LEVyxb #archaeology #aliens #action #Bookboost #DoctorWho #IndianaJones

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Published on June 07, 2015 12:00

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