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

1906 – Bruce Bennett, actor (The Cosmic Man)

1915 – Renee Asherson, actress (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1922 – David McLean, actor (Deathsport, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Andromeda Strain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

David McLean The Andromeda Strain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Bruce Bilson, director (They Came from Outer Space, The Twilight Zone, The Powers of Matthew Star, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – James Greene, actor (Doctor Who, Dinotopia)

1935 – David Hartman, actor (The Island at the Top of the World)

1937 – Pat Roach, actor (Starhunter, Kull the Conqueror, Space Precinct, Unidentified Flying Oddball)

1939 – James Fox, actor (Doctor Who: Shada, The Road to 1984)

1944 – Peter Mayhew, actor (Chewy in Star Wars)

Peter Mayhew as Chewy

1946 – Grace Jones, actress (Cyber Bandits)

1946 – Andre the Giant, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Bruce Jarchow, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Weird Science (TV), Meego, Outbreak, Time Trax)

1951 – Robert Harper, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1957 – Attack of the 50 ft Woman released

1964 – Sean Whalen, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Men in Black, Lois & Clark, Waterworld, Tammy and the T-Rex)

1966 – Polly Walker, actress (John Carter, Warehouse 13, Caprica)

1967 – Geraldine Somerville, actress (Automata)

1972 – Claudia Karvan, actress (Star Wars:Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Farscape, The Lost World (TV), Strange Planet)

1975 – Terence Yin, actor (Zombie Fight Club)

1982 – Erika Jordan, actress (Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Avalance Sharks, Piranhaconda )

1988 – Lily Cole, actress (Doctor Who)

1989 – Robert Webber, actor d@ 64 (Out There, Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1992 – Elinor Tomlinson, actress (Deadly Code, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1999 – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace released

2005 – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith released

2008 – Donald Murphy, actor, d @ 90 (Frankenstein’s Daughter)

2011 – Jeff Jones, artist, d @ 67

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1897 – Jack Raine, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1903 – George E Stone, actor (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1896 – Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7)

Walter Fitzgerald in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 – James Donald, actor (Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Miles to Earth)

1922 – Bill Macy, actor (Millennium, Starman (TV))

1923 – Liam Sullivan, actor (Misfits of Science, Logan’s Run (TV), Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

Liam Sullivan in Star Trek

1928 – Pernell Roberts, actor (Man From Atlantis)

1930 – Fred Saberhagen, sci-fi author (Berserker series, Earth’s End)

1931 – Robert Morse, actor (Here Come the Munsters, The Twilight Zone)

1934 – Dwayne Hickman, actor (Dr, Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, The Boy with Green Hair)

1941 – Diane McBain, actress (Land of the Giants)

1941 – Miriam Margolyes, actress (The Sarah Jane Adventures, Morons from Outer Space)

1946 – Andreas Katsulas, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5, Millennium, Star Trek: TNG, The Death of the Incredible Hulk, Alien Nation (TV), Communion, Max Headroom)

1947 – Hugh Keays-Byrne, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Farscape, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Badlands 2005, Mad Max)

1947 – Gail Strickland, actress (My Apocalypse, Star Trek: DS9, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Starflight: The Plane that Couldn’t Land)

1954 – Patrick St. Esprit, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Revolution, Super 8, Tremors (TV), The X Files)

1958 – War of the Satellites released

War of the Satellites released.

1960 – Thomas Byrd, actor (Alien Nation (TV), Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1962 – Karel Roden, actor (Frankenstein’s Army, Hellboy, Blade II)

1962 – Nathaniel Parker, actor (Stardust)

1968 – Cynthia Preston, actress (Andromeda, Total Recall 2070, The X-Files)

1973 – Saskia Mulder, actress (The Descent)

1979 – Jenn Gotzon, actress (Hulk)

1980 – Matt Long, actor (Helix)

 

1981 – Arthur O’Connell, actor, d @ 73 (Fantastic Voyage, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1981 – Allen Leech, actor (Primeval)

1982 – Emmy Robbin, actress (Planet Terror)

1982 – Eric West, actor (World War Z)

1990 – Luke Kleintank, actor (No Ordinary Family)

1990 – Jill Ireland, actress, d @ 54 (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1992 – Spencer Breslin, actor (The Happening)

1995 – Marshall Thompson, actor, d @ 66 (Bog, Science Fiction Theatre, Fiend Without a Face, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, First Man Into Space, World of Giants, Men Into Space, Ark II)

1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, d @ 62 (Twilight Zone)

1995 – Elisha Cook Jr, actor, d @ 81 (The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, Adventures of Superman, Star Trek)

2004 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, actor, d @ 73 (Fortress, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Omega Man)

2008 – Joseph Pevney, director, d @ 96 (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Munsters, Destination Space)

2012 – Battleship released

2013 – Steve Forrest, actor d @ 87 (Twilight Zone)

2013 – Arthur Malet, actor, d @ 85 (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Martian, Munster, Go Home!)

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1906 – Horace McMahon, actor (Twilight Zone, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)

1936 – Dennis Hopper, actor (Land of the Dead, Space Truckers, Waterworld, My Science Project, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)

Dennis Hopper in The Time Tunnel episode, Rendezvous with Yesterday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1941 – Grace Zabriskie, actress (Armageddon, Galaxy of Terror)

1940 – Peter Gerety, actor (War of the Worlds, K-PAX)

1942 – Al White, actor (Back to the Future II, The Munsters’ Revenge, The Incredible Hulk)

1955 – Bill Paxton, actor (The Colony, Predator 2, Near Dark, Aliens, Weird Science, The Terminator, Edge of Tomorrow)

Bill Paxton in Aliens

1957 – Whip Hubley, actor (Babylon 5, Species)

1961 – Bruce Thomas, actor (Kyle XY, Star Trek: Enterprise, Army of Darkness)

1963 – Dawn Dunlap, actress (Forbidden World)

1964 – David Eigenberg, actor (Robosapien: Rebooted, The 4400)

1965 – Paige Turco b. 1965 (The 100)

1966 – Hill Harper, actor (Limitless (2015), Parts Per Billon, Stonehenge Apocalypse, The 4400, Steel, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1968 – Richard Leacock, actor (Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1973 – Matthew McGrory, actor (Constantine Planet of the Pitts, Men in Black II)

1986 – Tahj Mowry, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1986 – Amy Gumenick, actress (No Ordinary Family)

1988 – Karrueche Tran, actor (3 Headed Shark Attack)

1990 – Leven Ramblin, actor (The Tomorrow People, The Hunger Games, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1999 – Henry Jones, actor, d @ 86 (Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Girl with Something Extra, Project X, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

2005 – Frank Gorshin, actor, d @ 72 (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Black Scorpion, Twelve Monkeys, Lois & Clark, The Meteor Man, Monsters, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Star Trek, The Munsters, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

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1878 – Taylor Holmes, actor (Tobor the Great)

1887 – Bull Montana, actor (The Lost World, Flash Gordon)

1905 – Henry Fonda, actor (Fail-Safe, Tentacles, Meteor, The Swarm)

1916 – Bernard Braden, actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1917 – George Gaynes, actor (Sliders, Marooned, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1918 – Barry Atwater, actor (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Barry Atwater in The Outer Limits episode, Corpus Earthling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Harry Carey, Jr., actor (Back to the Future III, Cherry 2000, UFOria, Cyborg 2087, Men into Space)

Harry Carey Jr in Back to the Future III

1931 – Jack Dodson, actor (Mork & Mindy, Munster, Go Home!)

1937 – Yvonne Craig, actress (Mars Needs Women, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Holmes and Yo-Yo)

1944 – Danny Trejo, actor (The X-Files, Eyeborgs, Predators, Rise of the Zombies, Zombie Hunter, Volcano Zombies)

1947 – Bill Smitrovich, actor (Independence Day, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: DS9)

1951 – Laurette Spang, actress(Battlestar Galactica, Man from Atlantis, Project U.F.O., Gemini Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

 

1953 – Pierce Brosnan, actor (The Lawnmower Man, Mars Attacks!)

Pierce Brosnan in Mars Attacks!

1955 – Debra Winger, actress (E.T. the Extra-terrestrial)

1959 – Mare Winningham, actress (Under the Dome, The Twilight Zone, Threshold)

1961 – Kevin McDonald, actor (Galaxy Quest)

1961 – Solveig Dommartin, actress, (Until the End of the World)

1965 – Vincent Regan, actor (Atlantis, Invasion: Earth)

1965 – Brent Jasmer, actor (Leprechaun 4: In Space)

1966 – Scott Reeves, actor (The Munsters Today)

1967 – Ramon Tikaram, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Primeval)

1967 – Brian F. O’Byrne, actor (Flashforward)

1969 – Tracey Gold, actress (Arachnoquake, Solar Flare)

1972 – Eha Urbsalu, actor (Men in Black 3)

1973 – Tori Spelling, actress (Smallville)

1974 – Sean Carrigan, actor (John Carter, The Event, Heroes)

1977 – Melanie Lynsky, actress (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1977 – Lynn Collins, actress (John Carter, Bug)

1978 – Vincent Larusso, actor (Dollhouse)

1983 – Tien You Chui, actor (Contagion)

1984 – Andy Kaufman, actor, d @ 35 (Heartbeeps)

1985 – Margaret Hamilton, actress, d @ 82 (The Invisible Woman)

1986 – Megan Fox, actress (Transformer’s movies)

1990 – Thomas Brodie Sangster, actor ( Doctor Who, The Maze Runner)

1990 – Jim Henson, puppetier/producer, d @ 53

1991 – Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)

1993 – Atticus Mitchell, actor (The Colony)

1998 – Ariel Waller, actress (ReGenesis)

2002 – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones released

2011 – Edward Hardwicke, actor, d @ 78 (Journey to the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2013 – Star Trek Into Darkness released

2014 – Godzilla released

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1905 – Joseph Cotten, actor (Screamers, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Lady Frankenstein, Soylent Green, City Beneath the Sea, Journey to the Unknown, From the Earth to the Moon)

1909 – James Mason, actor (The Boys from Brazil, Frankenstein: The True Story, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1911 – Leo Fuchs, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1915 – Ben Wright, actor (The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)

Ben Wright as General Benton in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1918 – Joseph Wiseman, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

Joseph Wiseman in the Twilight Zone episode, One More Palbearer.

1929 – David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO, Space Precinct, Blakes 7)

1936 – Ralph Steadman, illustrator

1948 – Malcolm Stewart, actor (Fringe, Moon, Eureka, Kyle XY, Bionic Woman, The 4400, Blade: The Series, The Butterfly Effect 2,, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Mysterious Ways, Andromeda, First Wave, Seven Days, Millennium, The X Files, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Timecop, The Twilight Zone)

1950 – Nicholas Hammond, actor (Stealth, Farscape, The Lost World (TV), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), The Martian Chronicles, Logan’s Run (TV), The Fantastic Journey)

1952 – Red Planet Mars released

1953 – Phantom From Space released

Phantom from Space released

1954 – John Blyth Barrymore, actor (Solar Crisis)

1959 – The Mysterians released

1959 – Invisible Invaders released

1960 – Rob Bowman, director (The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, VR.5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: TNG, Alien Nation (TV))

1961 – Larry Holden, actor (Timecop)

1963 – Grant Heslov, actor (Bug, The X-Files, Congo, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Twilight Zone)

1963 – Jamie Harris, actress (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)

1963 – Brenda Bakke, actress (Dollhouse, Solar Crisis, Star Trek: TNG)

1966 – Greg Wise, actor (House of Frankenstein (1997))

1967 – Brigitte Bako, actress (Replikator)

1976 – Cyrille Thouvenin, actor (The Happening)

1978 – Caroline Dhavernas, actress (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1978 – David Krumholtz, actor (This is the End, Serenity)

1982 – Alexandra Breckinridge, actress (The Walking Dead)

1988 – Andrew Duggan, actor, d @ 64 (Frankenstein Island, A Fire in the Sky, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Time Machine, The Invaders)

1991 – Ronald Lacey, actor, d @ 55 (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

1994 – Royal Dano, actor, d @ 71 (Lights Out, Lost in Space, Planet of the Apes, Spaced Invaders)

1996 – Barton Heyman, actor, d @ 59 (Twilight Zone)

2002 – Bryan Pringle, actor, d @ 67 (Brazil)

2003 -The Matrix Reloaded released

2008 – Alexander Courage, composer, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Deep Rising, Congo, Jurassic Park, Superman IV, Lost In Space)

2009 – Charles Tingwell, actor, d @ 86 (UFO, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)

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1921 – Richard Deacon, actor (Piranha, The Lost Saucer, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, This Island Earth, Invaders form Mars)

Richard Deacon as a MP in Invaders from Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Sian Phillips, actress (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Dune)

1933 – Laszlo Kovacs, cinematographer (Multiplicity, Slither)

1944 – George Lucas, writer/director ( Star Wars, THX-1138)

1947 – Tamara Dobson, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command)

Tamara Dobson in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1950 – Mark Blum, actor (Fringe)

1951 – Robert Zemeckis, writer/director (Back to the Future)

1955 – Robert G. Tapert, writer (Alien Apocalypse, Cleopatra 2525)

1959 – Brett Leonard, director (Man-Thing, Virtuosity, The Lawnmower Man)

1961 – Tim Roth, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Planet of the Apes, Metamorphosis)

1962 – Danny Huston, actor (Children of Men, Timecode)

 

 

 

1969 – Cate Blanchett, actress (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

1970 – Natasha Ryan, actress (The Day Time Ended, Kingdom of the Spiders)

1971 – Sofia Coppola, actress (Star Wars: Episode I)

1973 – Indira Varma, actress (Torchwood, Sci-Fright)

1977 – Ada Nicodemou, actress (The Matrix)

1980 – Hugh Griffith, actor, d @ 77 (The Last Days of Man on Earth)

1982 – Hugh Beaumont, actor, d @ 73 (The Mole People, The Human Duplicators, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lost Continent)

1997 – Riley Griffiths, actor (Super 8)

2003 – Robert Stack, actor, d @ 84 (Butt-Ugly Martians)

 

2005 – Alyce Andrece, actress, d @ 68 (Star Trek)

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1891 – Fritz Rasp, actor (Metropolis)

Fritz Rasp in Metropolis

1922 – Bea Arthur, actress (The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1937 – Beverly Owen, actress (The Munsters)

1937 – Roger Zelazny, sci-fi author, d @ 58 (won 1966 Hugo for … And Call Me Conrad and the 1968 Hugo for Lord of Light)

1937 – Zohra Lampert, actor (The Girl with Something Extra)

1938 – Buck Taylor, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, The Mist, Starman (TV), Timestalkers, My Favorite Martian)

1938 – Milton Johns, actor (The X Files, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who)

1939 – Harvey Keitel, actor (Saturn 3)

 

1945 – Sam Anderson, actor (NetForce, The X-Files, Millennium, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Alien Nation, Star Trek: TNG, Critters 2)

1946 – Marv Wolfman, sci-fi author (Blade)

1946 – Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Doctor Who)

Tim Pigott-Smith as Derek Martin in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1947 – Mark Heap, actor (The World’s End, Stardust)

1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, actress (Doctor Who)

Zoe Wanamaker in Doctor Who

1949 – Franklyn Ajaye, actor (The Bionic Woman)

1950 – Joe Johnston, director (Jurassic Park III, Jumanji, The Rocketeer, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)

1953 – Zlatko Buric, actor (2012)

1957 – Mark Heap, actor (The World’s End, Misfits, Stardust)

1961 – Siobhan Fallon, actor (Holes, Men in Black)

1964 – Stephen Colbert, actor (Monsters vs. Aliens)

1966 – Wanda Acuna, actress (House of Frankenstein (1997), Encino Man)

1967 – Frank McGrath, actor, d @ 64 (The Reluctant Astronaut)

1967 – Shon Greenblatt, actor (Chopper Chicks in Zombietown)

1971 – Imogen Boorman, actress (The Tripods)

1971 – Fana Mokoena, actress (World War Z)

1972 – Solaris released in Cannes

1972 – Dan Blocker, actor, d @ 43 (Outer Space Jitters)

1973 – Bridgett Riley, actress (Space Truckers)

1977 – Samantha Morton, actress (John Carter, Code 46, Minority Report)

1977 – Neil Hopkins, actor (Skyline, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The 4400, The Net 2.0)

1977 – Christopher Ralph, actor (Warehouse 13)

2000 – Paul Bartel, actor, d @ 61 (Escape from L.A., Heartbeeps, Death Race 2000)

2001 – Jason Miller, actor, d @ 62 (The Henderson Monster)

2008 – John Phillip Law d @ 70 (Barbarella)

2009 – Frank Aletter, actor, d @ 83 (It’s About Time, Automan, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, My Favorite Martian, The Big Brain, Twilight Zone)

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1899 – Fred Astaire, actor (Battlestar Galactica, On the Beach)

1914 – Charles McGraw, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, A Boy and his Dog, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1922 – Margaret Field, actress (Twilight Zone, The Man from Planet X)

Margaret Field in The Man From Planet X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Mari Blanchard, actress (She Devil, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

Mari Blanchard in She Devil

1929 – George Coe, actor (Smallville, The Lone Gunmen, The Omega Code, Star Trek: TNG, Max Headroom, The Entity, The Stepford Wives)

1934 – Gary Owens, actor (The Munsters)

1937 – Jonathan Hales, screenwriter (Star Wars , Episode II: Attack of the Clones)

 

 

 

 

1943 – David Clennon, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, John Carpenter’s The Thing)

David Clennon as Palmer in John Carpenter’s The Thing

1945 – David Huffman, actor (Firefox)

1948 – Meg Foster, actress (Sliders, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, Leviathan, The Twilight Zone, Masters of the Universe, They Live, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1965 – Tracy Tweed, actress (Johnny Mnemonic)

1966 – Jason Brooks, actor (Asteroid vs Earth, Revolution, Torchwood, Super 8, No Ordinary Family, Star Trek (2009), Flying Virus)

1967 – Philippa Bevans, actress, d @ 55 (Twilight Zone)

1968 – Eric Palladino, actor (Fringe, Strange Frequency)

1969 – John Scalzi, sci-fi author (won 2013 Hugo for Redshirts)

 

1970 – Gina Philips, actress (Seven Days, Sliders, Dark Skies, Star Trek: DS9)

1970 – Dallas Roberts, actor (The Walking Dead)

1971 – Leslie Stefanson, actor (Unbreakable, Flubber (1997), Alien Hunter)

1972 – Cary Guffy, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1975 – Andrea Anders, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1977 – Joan Crawford, actress, d @ 71 (Trog)

1985 – Odette Annable, actor (Astronaut Wives Club, The Unborn, Cloverfield, Transformers)

1986 – Erika Fong, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

1990 – Susan Oliver, actress, d @ 58 (Star Trek, Tomorrow’s Child, Death in Space, The Invaders, Death in Space, Twilight Zone)

1993 – Halston Sage, actor (Scouts vs Zombies)

1996 – Cold Comfort Farm debuts

2000 – Craig Stevens, actor, d @ 81(The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Invisible Man, The Deadly Mantis, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

2005 – Val Guest, director, d @ 94 (Space: 1999, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Enemy from Space, The Quatermass Xperiment)

2010 – Frank Frazetta, illustrator, d @ 82

 

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1930 – Joan Sims, actress (Super Gran, Doctor Who, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing)

1938 – Michael Stroka, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1943 – Virginia Wetherell, actress (A Clockwork Orange, Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Doctor Who)

Virginia Wetherell in Doctor Who The Daleks The Escape as Dyoni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Candice Bergen, actress (The Day the Fish Came Out)

1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Predator, Predator 2, Misfits of Science)

Kevin Peter Hall as the Predator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Wendy Crewson, actress (Antiviral, ReGenesis, The Sixth Day, Bicentennial Man, Murder in Space)

1957 – Tessa Peake-Jones, actress (Doctor Who, The Lost World)

Tessa Peake-Jones in Doctor Who The Time of the Doctor

1958 – Chuck Russell, director (The Blob)

1958 – Lorena Gale, actress (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)

1961 – John Corbett, actor (The Sky’s on Fire, The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Visitor)

 

1972 – Megumi Odaka, actress (Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mecagodzilla, Gojira vs. Mosura, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Princess from the Moon)

1977 – Karl Thanning, actor (Dredd, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Doomsday, The Triangle, Supernova)

1979 – Rosario Dawson, actress (Parts Per Billion, Men in Black 2)

1985 – Chris Zylka, actor (Piranha 3DD, Shark Night 3D)

1985 – Edmond O’Brien d @69 (1984, Fantastic Voyage)

1986 – Grace Gummer, actress (Extant)

1997 – Hoke Howell, actor, d @ 67 (Alien Species, Alienator, Humanoids from the Deep, Project U.F.O., Kingdom of the Spiders, Lost in Space, The Munsters, My Living Doll)