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

1887 – Hank Mann, actor (Space Master X-7 , Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1910 – Rachel Kempson, actress (Curse of the Fly)

1911 – Thora Hird, actress (The Quatermass Xperiment)

1917 – Marshall Reed, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Night the World Exploded, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Captain Midnight, Adventures of Superman, Mysterious Island, The Invisible Monster)

1919 – Frank Middlemass, actor (The Invisible Man, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)

1925 – Martha Vickers, actress (Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman)

1931 – Carroll Baker, actress (Roswell, Cyber Eden)

1932 – Shane Rimmer, actor (Alien Autopsy, The War of the Starfighters, Space Truckers, Year of the Comet, Space Police, Morons from Outer Space, Space, Superman II, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Space: 1999, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Rollerball, UFO, Doctor Who)

1938 – Robert Biheller b. 1938 (Fire in the Sky, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1943 – Zelda Rubenstein, actress (Timemaster)

1944 – Patricia Quinn, actress (Doctor Who)

Patricia Quinn in Doctor Who

1944 – Faith Brown, actress (Doctor Who)

1944 – Sondra Locke, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1949 – Sandy Helberg, actress (Spaceballs)

1953 – Kevin Van Hentenryck, actor (Basket Case)

 

 

 

1959 – The H-Man released

The H-Man released

1961 – Julie T. Wallace, actress (The Fifth Element, Time Riders)

1962 – Brandon Cruz, actor (The Incredible Hulk)

1964 – Christa Miller, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Clone High)

1965 – Alon Aboutboul, actor (Fringe)

1967 – Kari Wuhrer, actress (Eight Legged Freaks, Sharknado 2: The Second One, Stargate: Atlantis, Sliders, Swamp Thing)

 

 

 

 

 

1968 – Kylie Minogue, actress (Doctor Who)

Kylie Minogue in Doctor Who

1969 – Rhys Williams, actor, d @ 71 (The Invaders, Adventures of Superman)

1970 – Ian Cashmore, actor (Lifeforce)

1972 – Kate Ashfield, actress (Shaun of the Dead)

1975 – Roy Roberts, actor, d @ 69 (The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1978 – Jake Johnson, actor (Jurassic World, Safety Not Guaranteed, Flashforward)

1978 – Arthur Brough, actor, d @ 73 (Doomwatch

1979 – Jesse Bradford, actress (Clockstoppers)

1982 – Alexa Davalos, actress (The Mist, The Chronicles of Riddick)

1983 – Megalyn Echikunwoke, actress (The 4400, Creature)

1939 – D’Urville Martin, actor, d @ 45 28 May 1984 (The Invaders)

1985 – Carey Mulligan, actress (Doctor Who)

1986 – Joseph Cross, actor (Smallville)

1986 – Lurene Tuttle, actress, d @ 78 (Voyagers!, My Favorite Martian, The Clonus Horror, My Living Doll, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1994 – Norman Barthold, actor, d @ 65 (Capricorn One, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Westworld, My Favorite Martian)

1995 – Jacob Kogan, actor (The Tomorrow People, Star Trek)

1998 – Phil Hartman, actor, d @ 49 (Coneheads, Amazon Women on the Moon, Extra Terrorestrial Alien Encounter, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

2003 – Martha Scott, actress, md @ 90 (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman)

2004 – The Day After Tomorrow released

2009 – Terry Alexander, actor, d @ 86 (Doctor Who, Frankenstein, Star Maidens)

2010 – Gary Coleman, actor, d @ 42 (Homeboys in Outer Space, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

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

1911 – Vincent Price, actor, (The Invisible Man Returns, Lights Out, Science Fiction Theatre, The Tingler, The Fly, Return of the Fly, The Last Man on Earth, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot, Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bomb, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Edward Scissorhands)

Vincent Price in The Tingler

 

 

 

 

 

 

1919 – Kam Fong, actor (The Lost Missile)

1922 – Wilfred Greatorex, writer (1990)

1922 – Christopher Lee, actor (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith , Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, The Tomorrow People, Cyber Eden, Starship Invasions, End of the World, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, She, I Monster, Space: 1999)

Christopher Lee in Star Wars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – John Miranda, actor (The Invisible Kid, ALF, Innerspace, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Mork & Mindy)

1934 – Harlan [Jay] Ellison, sci-fi author (Doomsman, Babylon 5, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Starlost)

1935 – Lee Meriwether, actress (The Munsters Today, Time Express, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, 4D Man)

Lee Meriwether in Star Trek

1936 – Louis Gossett Jr, actor (Half-Life 2, Enemy Mine, Extant, Solar Attack, Stargate SG-1, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders)

1943 – Bruce Weitz, actor (Deep Impact, Dinocroc, The X-Files, Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone)

1948 – Ken Lerner, actor (They Crawl, Godzilla 1998, RoboCop2, Project X, Twilight Zone)

1949 – Michelan Sisti, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1953 – Greg Hicks, actor (Bugs)

1955 – Richard Schiff, actor (Man of Steel, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Roswell, Deep Impact, Special Report: Journey to Mars, Tank Girl, Ghost in the Machine )

 

1958 – Linnea Quigley, actress (The Naked Monster, The Monster Man, Horrorvision, The Killer Eye, Creepozoids, Dr. Alien)

1961 – Cathy Silvers, actress (Encino Woman)

1961 – Candice Silvers, actress (My Science Project)

1962 – Steven Brill, actor (Edward Scissorhands)

1967 – Eddie McClintock, actor (Warehouse 13)

1969 – Dondre Whitfield, actor (The X-Files, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)

1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, actor, d @ 42 (Star Trek, Dimension 5)

1970 – Joseph Fiennes, actor (FlashForward)

1971 – Monika Schnarre, actress (Andromeda, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave, Total Recall 2070, Earth: Final Conflict

1971 – Paul Bettany, actor (Transcendence, Legion)

1980 – Ben Feldman, actor (Cloverfield, Them (2007))

1987 – Bella Heathcote, actress (In Time, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1992 – John Myhers, actor, d @ 70 (The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, Far Out Space Nuts)

1995 – Severn Darden, actor, d @ 65 (Conquest Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Beyond Westworld, Probe)

2001 – Ramon Bieri, actor, d @ 71 (The Andromeda Strain, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2006 – Paul Gleason, actor, d @ 67 (Dark Skies, Digital Man, Lois & Clark, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, The Invaders, Panic in Year Zero!)

2007 – Gretchen Wyler, actress, d @ 75 (Probe)

2011 – Jeff Conaway d @ 60 (Babylon 5)

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

1884 – Charles Winninger, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1895 – Paul Lukas, actor (20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tales of Tomorrow)

1907 – Carleton Young, actor (Twilight Zone, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Flying Missile)

1908 – Robert Morley, actor (Way…Way Out)

1913 – Peter Cushing, actor (The Mystery on Monster Island, Star Wars, At the Earth’s Core, Space: 1999, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Beast Must Die, The Creeping Flesh, I, Monster, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Blood Beast Terror, Frankenstein Created Woman, Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Island of Terror, Dr. Who and the Daleks, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Man Who Finally Died, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Curse of Frankenstein)

Peter Cushing as Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1914 – Archie Duncan, actor (R3, The Mouse on the Moon, X: The Unknown, Devil’s Plot)

1915 – Sam Edwards, actor (Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Space Patrol)

1923 – Roy Dotrice, actor (Hellboy II, Alien Hunter, Sliders, Babylon 5, Earth 2, Alien Attack, Space: 1999)

1923 – James Arness, actor (Them!, The Thing from Another World, Two Lost Worlds)

James Arness as The Thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Sheila Steafel, actress (Five Million Years to Earth, Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

Sheila Steafel as Quatermass and the Pit reporter

1937 – Ingrid Goude, actress (The Killer Shrews)

1946 – Janet Morris, sci-fi author (Thieves’ World)

1949 – Pam Grier, actress (Mars Attacks!, Smallville, Ghosts of Mars, Escape from L.A.)

1949 – Dayle Haddon, actress (Cyborg, Max Headroom)

1949 – Philip Michael Thomas, actor (Swamp Thing, Superboy)

1951 – Donald Losby, actor (Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1956 – Lisa Niemi, actress (Super Force, Steel Dawn, Max Headroom)

1958 – Margaret Colin, actress (Independence Day)

1960 – Doug Hutchinson, actor (Space: Above and Beyond, The X-Files, The Lawnmower Man)

1962 – Genie Francis, actress (Roswell, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Incredible Hulk, Lois & Clark

1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, actor (Encino Woman)

1963 – Musette Vander, actress (Planet Raptor, Forbidden Warrior, Mansquito, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, The Dark Mist, Oblivion, Monolith, Super Force)

1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, actress (Terminator Salvation, Planet of the Apes, Frankenstein)

1967 – George E Stone, actor, d @ 64 (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1971 – John Longden, actor, d @ 70 (Frozen Alive, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1975 – Nicki Aycox, actress (BlackBoxTV, The X Files: I Want to Believe, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Weird Science)

1976 – Benji Gregory, actor (ALF, The Twilight Zone)

1977 – Jim Boles, actor, d @ 63 (Ark II, The Reluctant Astronaut, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1980 – Will Sanderson, actor (House of the Dead, Smallville, First Wave)

1986 – Ashley Bell, actress(The Walking Dead)

1989 – George Brent, actor, d @ 80 (Science Fiction Theatre)

2001 – Anne Haney, actress, d @ 67 (Quantum Leap, K-9000, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, The Invisible Woman)

2005 – Eddie Albert, actor, d @ 99 (The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Girl from Mars, Time Trax)

2013 – Jack Vance, sci-fi author, d @ 96 (The Dying Earth)

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

1888 – Miles Malleson, actor (First Men in the Moon, The Brain)

1922 – Syd Heylen, actor (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)

1926 – Claude Akins, actor (Eerie, Indiana, Monster in the Closet, Tentacles, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1929 – Warren Frost, actor (The Stand, Quantum Leap, Slaughterhouse-Five)

1931 – John Gabriel, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek)

1932 – Roger Bowen, actor (Zapped!)

1933 – Sarah Marshall, actor (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Small Wonder)

Sarah Marshall in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – David Burke, actor (Space Precinct)

1935 – Ann Robinson, actress (War of the Worlds remake, War of the Worlds (TV), Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, The War of the Worlds, The Naked Monster)

Ann Robinson in War of the Worlds

1935 – Victoria Shaw, actress (Westworld)

1939 – Sir Ian McKellen, actor (The Five(ish) Doctors, Doctor Who, Stardust)

1944 – Frank Oz, actor (Star Wars, Zathura: A Space Adventure, Muppets from Space, The Stepford Wives)

1945 – Hersha Parady, actress (Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star)

1946 – Janet E[llen] Morris, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus)

1947 – Karen Valentine, actress (It’s About Time, Twilight Zone)

1949 – Barry Windsor-Smith, artist (Dr. Strange)

1949 – Joe Unger, actor (The Twilight Zone, UFOria)

 

1951 – Bob Gale, writer (Back to the Future)

1953 – It Came From Outer Space released

It Came From Outer Space released

1955 – Connie Selleca, actress (The Doomsday Rock, Beyond Westworld, The Bermuda Depths)

1964 – Ray Stevenson, actor (Divergent, The Book of Eli)

1966 – Andrew Fiscella, actor (Quarantine)

1969 – Anne Heche, actress (Toxic Skies)

1969 – Matt Borlenghi, actor (Camel Spiders, Dinocroc)

1970 – Michael Benyaer, actor (Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen, Bionic Woman (2007), Eureka, Smallville)

1970 – Jamie Kennedy, actor (Bermuda Tentacles, Eureka, Strange Frequency, Perversions of Science, V. R. Troopers)

1970 – Olivia Spencer, actress (Dollhouse, What Planet Are You From?, The X-Files)

1970 – Neil Marshall, director (Doomsday)

1971 – Terence De Marney, actor, d @ 63 (Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, Die Monster Die!)

1972 – Eli Craig, director (Zombieland)

1973 – Molly Sims, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Cillian Murphy, actor (Transcendence, In Time, TRON: Legacy, Inception, 28 Days Later…)

1976 – Ethan Suplee, actor (Rise of the Zombies, Evolution)

1977 – Star Wars IV: A New Hope released

1978 – Kick Gurry, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Edge of Tomorrow, Cybergeddon)

1979 – Alien released

1982 – Esme Bianco, actor(Chemical Wedding)

1982 – Brandy Kopp, actress (Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, The 4400, Strange Frequency)

1982 – Larry J Blake, actor, d @ 68 (Earth vs the Flying Saucers, Time After Time, Project U.F.O., Demon Seed, The Immortal, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Beginning of the End , Creature with the Atomic Brain)

1983 – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi released

1986 – Markiss McFadden, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1990 – Back to the Future: Part III released

1990 – Vic Tayback, actor, d @ 60 (Land of the Giants, Star Trek)

1993 – Dan Seymour, actor, d @ 78 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Return of the Fly, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

2000 – Nicholas Clay, actor, d @ 53 (Bugs, Terror of Frankenstein)

2005 – Graham Kennedy, actor, d @ 71 (On the Beach)

2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, d @ 76 (Millennium, The X Files)

2012 – MIB 3 released

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

1907 – Willis Bouchey, actor (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Panic in Year Zero!, Them!, Red Planet Mars)

1912 – Joseph Anthony, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1914 – Lilli Palmer, actress (Boys from Brazil)

1916 – Peter Whitney, actor (Adventures of Superman)

1925 – Mai Zetterling, actress (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

1927 – Richard Garland, actor (Mutiny in Outer Space, Panic in Year Zero!, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Adventures of Superman)

1938 – Tommy Chong, actor (Sliders)

1948 – James Cosmo, actor (Flashforward, Super Gran)

1949 – Jim Broadbent, actor (Cloud Atlas, Harry Potter, Comic Relief: Doctor Who – The Curse of Fatal Death, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Brazil, Time Bandits)

1952 – Sybill Danning, actress (Virus X, Superboy, The Phantom Empire, Amazon Women on the Moon, V, Battle Beyond the Stars, Meteor)

1953 – Alfred Molina, actor (Species)

1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, actress (Code 46)

1960 – Doug Jones, actor (Hellboy, The Strain, Falling Skies, Fallout: Nuka Break, Quarantine, Doom, Men in Black II, The Time Machine, Side Effects, Alien Hunter, Monkeybone, Bug Buster, Mimic, Galgameth)

1963 – Michael Chabon, sci-fi author (The Yiddish Policeman’s Union)

1965 – John C. Reilly, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

John C. Reilly in Guardians of the Galaxy

 

 

 

 

 

 

1967 – Dana Ashbrook, actress (Welcome to Paradox, W.E.I.R.D. World, Return of the Living Dead II, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1967 – Dana Ashbrook, actress (Welcome to Paradox, W.E.I.R.D. World, Return of the Living Dead II, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1972 – Greg Berlanti, writer (The Tomorrow People, No Ordinary Family)

1974 – Dash Mihok, actor (I Am Legend, The Day After Tomorrow)

1975 – Will Sasso, actor (TheX Files, Sliders, Doctor Who)

Will Sasso as Leslie Stokes in The X-Files

 

 

 

 

 

 

1977 – Naomi Ryan, actress (Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy)

Naomi Ryan as Nova Centurion in Guardians of the Galaxy

1978 – Barry Atwater, actor, d @ 60 (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1983 – Ricky Mabe, actor (This Is the End, Frankenstein and Me)

1997- Edward Mulhare, actor, d @ 74 (Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)

2003 – Rachel Kempson, actress, d @ 92 (Curse of the Fly)

2008 – Dick Martin, actor, d @ 86 (3rd Rock from the Sun)

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

1890 – Herbert Marshall, actor (The Fly, Gog, Riders to the Stars)

1900 – Ralph Dunn, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1908 – Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came)

1910 – Scatman Crothers, actor, d @ 76 22 November 1986 (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Zapped!, The Incredible Hulk)

1912 – Marius Goring, actor (Doctor Who)

1919 – Betty Garrett, actress (Trail of the Screaming Forehead)

1920 – Sid Melton, actor (The Munsters, The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman, Captain Midnight, Lost Continent)

1921 – James Blish, sci-fi author (A Case Of Conscience)

1924 – Ted Jordan, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1924 – Bill McCutcheon, actor (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Johnny Jupiter)

1928 – Nigel Davenport, actor (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Phase IV)

1931 – Laura Devon, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1931 – Barbara Barrie, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1933 – Joan Collins, actress (Star Trek, Future Cop, The Fantastic Journey, Space: 1999)

Joan Collins in the Star Trek episode, The City on the Edge of Forever.

 

 

 

 

 

1942 – Zalman King, actor (Galaxy of Terror, Land of the Giants)

1945 – Andrew Burt, actor (Super Gran, Doctor Who, Blakes 7)

Andrew Burt in Blakes 7

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – O-Lan Jones, actor (Mars Attacks!, TheX Files, Edward Scissorhands, Martians Go Home)

O-Lan Jones in Mars Attacks!

1950 – Linda Thompson, actress (RoboCop 2, Mars: Base One

1951 – Cyb Barnstable, actress (Quark)

1951 – Patricia Barnstable, actress (Quark)

1957 – Mark Arnold, actor (Alien Encounter, Trancers 4: Jack of Swords, Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

1958 – Drew Carey, actor (Lois & Clark, Coneheads)

1959 – Linden Ashby, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction

1960 – Linden Ashby, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction)

1965 – Melissa McBride, actress (The Mist, Mutant Species, The Walking Dead)

1967 – Philip Coolidge, actor, d @ 58 (Tinglerj, Twilight Zone)

1968 – John Ortiz, actor (Aliens vs. Predator:Requiem)

1970 – Nydia Westman, actress, d @ 68 (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Invisible Ray)

1972 – Sebastina Cordero, director (Europa Report)

1980 – Lane Garrison, actor (The Event)

1984 – Adam Wylie, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Species: The Awakening, Sliders, Weird Science)

1986 – Sterling Hayden, actor, d @ 70 (The Last Days of Man on Earth, The Starlost)

1989 – Devin Douglas Drewitz, actor (Smallville, Taken)

1993 – James Millhollin, actor, d @ 77 (Lost in Space, It’s About Time, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

2001 – Harry Townes, actor, d @ 86 (Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Ark II, Planet of the Apes, The Immortal, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

2011 – Tom Hennesy, actor, d @ 87 (Revenge of the Creature)

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

1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, sci-fi author (The Lost World)

1884 – Torben Meyer, actor, d @ 90 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Fly)

1898 – Edward Bellamy, sci-fi writer, d @ 48 (Looking Backward, 2000-1887)

1907 – Laurence Olivier, actor (The Boys from Brazil)

1916 – Rupert Davies, actor, d @ 60 (Quatermass II, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1922 – Quinn Martin, producer (producer, The Aliens Are Coming, The Invaders)

1927 – Michael Constantine, actor (Probe, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Michael Constantine in The Outer Limits episode, Counterweight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1932 – Merry Anders, actress (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, The Time Travelers)

1938 – Frank Converse, actor (VR.5, Brother Future, Solarbabies, The Starlost)

1938 – Susan Strasberg, actress (The Invaders)

Susan Strasburg in The Invaders episode, Quantity Unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Richard Benjamin, actor (Westworld, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Quark)

1938 – John Nolan, actor (1990, Doomwatch)

1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (Terminator, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Damnation Alley, Mars Attacks!, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

Paul Winfield in Star Trek II

1940 – Michael Sarrazin, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, The Outer Limits, Arrival II, Star Trek: DS9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1946 – Jack Kehler, actor (Men in Black II, The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, Sliders, Babylon 5, Waterworld, Star Trek: DS9, Mann & Machine, Strange Invaders)

1949 – Cheryl Campbell, actress (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1950 – Thomas Schlamme, director (Invasion)

1952 – Mike Muscat b. 1952 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Last Action Hero, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starman [TV],

1956 – Douglas Heyes Jr, actor/writer (Twilight Zone / Farscape)

1958 – Gary Kasper, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Space, J.O.E. and the Colonel)

1961 – Ann Cusack, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, What Planet Are You From?, Multiplicity, Tank Girl)

1963 – David Schneider, actor (28 Days Later…)

1964 – James Lorinz, actor (RoboCop 3)

1964 – Mark Christopher Lawrence, actor (Heroes, K-PAX, Planet of the Apes, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1968 – Kevin Carolan, actor (Fringe)

1969 – Michael Kelly, actor (Chronicle, The Adjustment Bureau, Fringe, Level 9)

1972 – Max Brooks, sci-fi author (World War Z)

1974 – Sean Gunn, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, H+, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1974 – A. J. Langer, actress (Escape from L.A., And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird)

1975 – Cole Hauser, actor (Pitch Black, Transcendence)

1975 – Torben Meyer, actor, d @ 90 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Fly)

1977 – Noa Tisby, actor (The 4400, Star Trek: Enterprise)

1979 – Maggie Q, actress (Divergent)

1981 – Outland released

1985 – Tao Okamoto, actor (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)

1984 – John Marley d @ 76 (Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, The Incredible Hulk)

1990 – Captain Kidd Brewer Jr., actor, d @ 41 (The Abyss, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1991 – Boris Sagal, actor, d @ 57 (World War III, The Omega Man, Twilight Zone)

1992 – Aliens 3 released

1994 – Jane Dulo, actress, d @ 76 (The Lost Saucer, Soylent Green)

1995 – Robert Flemyng, actor, d @ 83 (The Body Stealers)

2001 – Jack Watling, actor, d @ 78 (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2004 – Richard Biggs, actor, d @ 44 (Babylon 5, The Alien Within, Twilight Zone)

2008 – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull released

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

1899 – Ralph Sanford, actor (Adventures of Superman)

1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil’s Planet)

1915 – Billy Williams, actor (A Fire in the Sky, Night of the Zombies, The Giant Spider Invasion, Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space, Men into Space, Space Master X-7, Science Fiction Theatre)

1917 – Raymond Burr, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, Godzilla 1985, Godzilla The Return 1977, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956)

Raymond Burr in Godzilla

1923 – Rick Jason, actor (Automan, Manimal)

1933 – Richard Libertini, actor (House of Frankenstein (1997), Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman)

 

 

 

1938 – Ross Hagen, actor (Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds, Dinosaur Island, Droid Gunner, Time Wars, Alienator, Night Creature, The Invaders)

Ross Hagen as Jordan in The Invaders episode, Panic.

1939 – David Groh, actor (Evilution, The X-Files, Last Exit to Earth, M.A.N.T.I.S., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1940 – Booker Bradshaw, actor (Star Trek)

 

 

 

 

 

1945 – Richard Hatch, actor (Battlestar Galactica, InAlienable, Prisoners of the Lost Universe)

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica

1948 – Jonathan Hyde, actor (The Strain, Dinotopia)

1951 – Al Franken, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Superman 50th Anniversary)

1957 – Judge Reinhold, actor (Betaville, Mindstorm, Big Monster on Campus, NetForce, Special Report: Journey to Mars, Vice Versa)

1957 – Kyle T. Heffner, actor (The Burning Dead, Mutant on the Bounty)

1957 – Alan Gelfant, actor (Dark Skies)

1959 – Nick Cassavetes, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife, Quantum Leap)

1966 – Pat O’Malley, actor, d @ 75 (Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1972 – Russell Durham Comegys, actor (The Walking Dead, Coma (TV))

1972 – Brett Tucker, actor (The Lost World)

1974 – Fairuza Balk, actor (The Island of Dr. Moreau)

 

 

1980 – Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back released

1986 – Deena Trudy, actress (Android Cop, Zombie Killer)

1987 – Alejandro Rey, actor, d @ 57 (Terrorvision, The Swarm, The Bionic Woman, Satan’s Triangle, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1990 – Scotty Leavenworth, actor (Donnie Darko, Meego)

1995 – Vanessa Brown, actress, d @ 71 (The Twilight Zone)

1966 – Fallon Brooking, actress (The Stepford Wives)

1998 – Douglas Fowley, actor, d @ 86 (Quark, Cat-Women of the Moon)

2000 – John Gielgud, actor, d @ 96 (Frankenstein, Frankenstein: The True Story, Probe)

2005 – Howard Morris, actor, d @ 85 (It Came from Outer Space II, The Munsters’ Revenge, Space Academy, Twilight Zone)

2009 – Terminator Salvation released

2009 – Joan Alexander, actress, d @ 94 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

2011 – Bill Hunter, actor, d @ 71 (Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)

2014 – Jane Adams, actress, d @ 95 (Adventures of Superman)

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1901 – Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Adventures of Superman)

1905 – John Emery, actor, (Rocketship X-M, Kronos, Lights Out)

1915 – Peter Copley, actor (Doctor Who, Five Million Miles to Earth, The Cosmic Monster)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1919 – George Gobel, actor (The Invisible Woman, The Day It Came to Earth)

George Gobel in The Day It Came To Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – David Hedison, actor (Project U.F.O., Wonder Woman, The Cat Creature, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Lost World, The Fly)

David Hedison in The Fly

1930 – James McEachin, actor (2010, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man)

1936 – Anthony Zerbe, actor (Veritas, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Total Recall 2070, Star Trek: Insurrection, Asteroid (TV), The Omega Man)

1940 – Joan Staley, actress (The Munsters)

1942 – David Proval, actor (The Relic, Quantum Leap)

1948 – Jon Amiel, director (The Core)

1949 – Dave Thomas, actor (Coneheads)

 

1958 – Frank Medrano, actor (Torchwood)

1958 – Matt McCoy, actor (The Apocalypse, Star Trek: TNG, DeepStar Six)

1959 – The World, the Flesh and the Devil released

1959 – Bronson Pinchot, actor (Meego, 3rd Rock From the Sun)

1960 – John Billingsley, actor (2012, The Man from Earth, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files)

1960 – Tony Goldwyn, actor (Divergent, The 6th Day)

1961 – Owen Teale, actor (Torchwood, Doctor Who)

1967 – Stephanie Niznik, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Star Trek: Insurrection, Sliders)

1968 – Timothy Olyphant, actor (I am Number Four, Dreamcatcher)

1975 – Tahmoh Penikett, actor (Continuum, Man of Steel, Riverworld, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Strange Empire)

1977 – Matt Czuchry, actor (Jake 2.0, Eight Legged Freaks)

1977 – Jason Cermak, actor (Mutant World)

1983 – Chad Connell, actor (Warehouse 13, ReGenesis)

1983 – Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone released

1989 – Anton Diffring, actor d @ 70 (Doctor Who, The Beast Must Die, Fahrenheit 451, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

1996 – Jon Pertwee, actor, d @ 76 (3rd Doctor Who)

1994 – Dorothy Newman, actress, d @ 80 (Twilight Zone, The Day the Earth Stood Still)