Kenneth Morvant's Blog, page 32

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

1898 – Lee Tracy, actor, d @ 70 (Doctor X, Lights Out)

1904 – John Gielgud, actor (Frankenstein, Frankenstein: The True Story, Probe)

1913 – John Howard, actor (Destination Inner Space, Men into Space, The Unknown Terror, Science Fiction Theatre)

1917 – Valerie Hobson, actress (The Bride of Frankenstein)

1924 – Philip Stone, actor (Flash Gordon, The Medusa Touch, Star Maidens, A Clockwork Orange, Unearthly Stranger)

1924 – Joseph Ruskin, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, The Bionic Woman, Project U.F.O, Star Trek:DS9, Star Trek:Voyager, Star Trek:Enterprise, Star Trek: Insurrection, King Cobra, Cyber Tracker, Max Headroom, The Time Tunnel)

Joseph Ruskin in The Outer LImits episode, The Production and Decay of Strange Particles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Rod Steiger, actor (Illustrated Man, Mars Attacks!, Out There, Tales of Tomorrow)

Rod Steiger in Mars Attacks!

1926 – Liz Renay, actress (Mark of the Astro-Zombies)

1929 – Gerry Anderson, writer/producer (Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Space Precinct, Space; 1999, UFO, Stingray, Fireball XL5)

1930 – Bradford Dillman, actor (Lords of the Deep, The Incredible Hulk, Bug, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Monstrosity, Piranha)

1930 – Jay Robinson, actor (Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Shrinker, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek)

1931 – John Clarke, actor (The Satan Bug, My Living Doll, Destination Space)

1932 – Bob Grant, actor (Quatermass and the Pit)

1933 – Boris Strugatski, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)

1935 – Joan Darling, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1935 – Jack Mc Devitt, sci-fi author (Seeker)

 

 

1936 – Arlene Martel, actress (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men)

Arlene Martel in The Outer Limits episode, Demon With a Glass Hand.

1941 – Julie Christie, actress (Fahrenheit 451, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1949 – John Shea, actor (Lois & Clark, Mutant X, Honey I Blew Up the Kid)

1950 – Randolph Powell, actor (Logan’s Run, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1954 – Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)

1955 – Simone Griffeth, actress (Death Race 2000, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1956 – Chris Ellis, actor (Warehouse 13, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Armageddon, Godzilla, The X-Files)

1958 – John D’Aquino, actor (SeaQuest 2032, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap

1958 – Peter Capaldi, actor (Doctor Who, World War Z, The Cloning of Joanna May)

1959 – Mark Pillow, actor (Superman IV: The Quest for Peace)

1961 – Robert Carlyle, actor (28 Weeks Later, SGU Stargate Universe)

1964 – Gina McKee, actress (MirrorMask)

1964 – Bob Clendenin, actor (Star Trek, Roswell, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1965 – Leonard Mudie, actor, d @ 82 (Magnetic Monster, Science Fiction Theatre, Star Trek, Adventures of Superman, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1966 – Lloyd Owen, actor (Apollo 18)

1967 – Tim Holmes, actor (Real Steel)

1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor (Warehouse 13, Edward Scissorhands, Weird Science, Zombie Night)

1973 – Adrien Brody, actor (Predators)

1973 – Langley Kirkwood, actor (Dredd, Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend, Dracula 3000)

1975 – Fredric March, actor, d @ 77 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1976 – Maude Prickett, actress, d @ 60 (Captain Midnight, Adventures of Superman)

1980 – Tom Fadden, actor, d @ 85 (Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Empire of the Ants, Adventures of Superman)

1987 – Jo Osmond, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Doctor Who)

1990 – Peter Dunn, actor, d @ 68 (Invaders from Mars, The Monster of Piedras Blancas)

1996 – Abigail Breslin, actress (Ender’s Game, Zombieland)

1997 – Michael Stroka, actor, d @ 58 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2001 – Jon Cedar, actor, d @ 70 (Asteroid, The Incredible Hulk, Capricorn One, The Manitou, Day of the Animals, Time Travelers, The Invisible Man (1975))

The Christian and the World of the Strange on The Write Stuff with Parker J Cole and Kenneth Morvant

Christians and the World of the Strange radio program today at 6:00 PM Central Time. We discuss the unexplainable #fortean #anomalous #strange #phenomena #paranormal #supernatural #UFO #demons #devil

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

1912 – Walt Gorney, actor (Day of the Animals)

1912 – Eric Feldary, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space)

1915 – Emil [Theodore] Petaja, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane)

1927 – Jane Withers, actress (The Munsters)

1929 – Elspet Gray, actress (Doctor Who)

Elspet Gray in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Charles Napier, actor (The 4400, Dinocroc, Roswell, Alien Species, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Future Zone, Alien from the Deep, The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Incredible Hulk, Deep Space, Star Trek, Alien Attack)

Charles Napier in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Ed O’Neill, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World)

1947 – Dan Lauria, actor (Alien Trespass, Contagion , Independence Day, Misfits of Science)

1951 – Tom Noonan, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife The X-Files, RoboCop 2, 12 Monkies (2015), Eight Legged Freaks)

1957 – The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold with a screenplay by Richard Matheson from his novel, is released.

The Incredible Shrinking Man is released.

1959 – Tracy Torme, writer (Sliders, Star Trek: TNG, Odyssey 5)

1959 – Elissa Leeds, actress (Earthbound

1961 – Magda Szubanski, actress (Farscape)

1961 – Jay Baker, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Incredible Hulk Returns)

1964 – Mark Camacho, actor (10.5: Apocalypse, Space Cases, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde)

1965 – Tom O’Brien, actor (Alien Incursion, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, The Astronaut’s Wife, Strange World, Timecop, The X-Files, Dark Skies, The Twilight Zone)

1967 – Michael Wiseman, actor (The X-Files, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: Voyager, Perversions of Science, Predator 2)

 

1968 – Alicia Coppola, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

1968 – Tracy Vilar, actress (K-PAX)

1971 – Nicholas Brendon, actor (Coherence)

1971 – Shannen Doherty, actress (Voyagers!, Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys, Category 7: The End of the World)

1973 – Amr Waked, actor (Lucy)

1974 – Marley Shelton, actress (Planet Terror)

1974 – Carl Jaffe, actor, d @ 72 (First Man in Space, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky, The Atomic Man)

1976 – Jade Calegory, actress (Alien Nation, Mac and Me)

1976 – Paul Ford, actor, d @ 74 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1978 – Riley Smith, actor (Eight Legged Freaks, Alien Arsenal)

1978 – Jared Turner, actor (30 Days of Night)

1979 – Amy Kerr, actress (Outlander, Lexx)

1979 – Claire Danes, actress (Stardust, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1979 – Jennifer Morrison, actress (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: ID, The Chronicle, The Zeros)

1980 – Diana Marshall-Green, actress (Infestation)

1987 – Brooklyn Decker, actor (Battleship)

1989 – Gerald Flood, actor, d @ 61 (Doctor Who, Secret Beneath the Sea, City Beneath the Sea, Pathfinders to Venus, Pathfinders in Space)

1994 – Saoirse Ronan, actress (The Host)

2000 – Christopher Pettiet, actor, d @ 24 (Seaquest 2032, Star Trek: TNG)

2002 – Stranded released

2003 – Peter DaCunha, actor (Alphas)

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

1883 – Leonard Mudie, actor (Magnetic Monster, Science Fiction Theatre, Star Trek, Adventures of Superman, The Son ofDr. Jekyll)

Leonard Mudie in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1898 – Lou Holtz, writer (Twilight Zone)

1907 – Paul Douglas, actor (The Gamma People)

Paul Douglas (right) in The Gamma People

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1912 – John Larkin, actor (The Satan Bug)

John Larkin in The Satan Bug

1930 – Carl Franklin, actor (Fantastic Journey, The Incredible Hulk)

1932 – Joel Grey, actor (Warehouse 13, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: Voyager)

1939 – Louise Lasser, actress (Frankenhooker, Slither)

1941 – Shirley Stelfox, actress (1984)

1944 – John Milius, director (The Twilight Zone)

1947 – Peter Riegert, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1947 – Deem Bristow, actor (Quantum Leap)

1947 – Meshach Taylor, actor (ALF, The Incredible Hulk)

1949 – Jack Betts, actor (Alien Avengers II)

1949 – Carl Franklin, actor (ALF, The Incredible Hulk)

 

1950 – Bill Irwin, actor (Interstellar, Third Rock from the Sun)

1951 – Jay Benedict, actor (Mansquito, Lexx)

1955 – Michele Scarabelli, actress (Alien Nation, 2001: A Space Travesty, Star Trek: TNG)

1957 – John Castellanos, actor (Babylon 5)

1958 – Patrick Bishop, actor (Starship Troopers)

1969 – Simon Reynolds, actor (Warehouse 13, Earth: Final Conflict, The 5th Quadrant)

1971 – Vicellous Reon Shannon, actor (M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1973 – Jennifer Esposito, actress (Dracula 2000)

1973 – Ted Decorsia, actor, d @ 69 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1974 – Tricia Helfer, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Warehouse 13)

1976 – Richard Quine, actor, d @ 59 (Young Frankenstein)

1976 – Liam Dunn, actor, d @ 59 (Young Frankenstein, The Girl with Something Extra, Genesis II)

1978 – Brett Claywell, actor (Dollhouse)

1981 – Matt Ryan, actor (Torchwood)

1984 – Monica May, actress (Battle Planet)

1987 – Kent Taylor, actor, d @ 79 (Blood of Ghastly Horror, Brain of Blood, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Crawling Hand, The Day Mars Invaded Earth, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues)

1989 – Eka Darville, actress (Terra Nova)

1992 – James Brown, actor, d @ 72 (Adventures of Superman)

2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, actor, d @ 81 (Logan’s Run, SeaQuest 2032, Swamp Thing, Moon 44, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. d @ 84 (Slaughterhouse-Five)

2013 – Jonathan Winters d @ 87 (Twilight Zone, Mork and Mindy)

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

1868 – George Arliss, actor (Trans-Atlantic Tunnel)

1915 – Harry Morgan, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Twilight Zone, Ex0-Man, The Cat from Outer Space, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers)

Harry Morgan as Prof Suter on 3rd Rock from the Sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Sheb Wooley, actor (Purple People Eater, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1921 – Chuck Connors, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, Adventures of Superman)

1924 – Lee Bergere, actor, d @ 82 31 Jan. 2007 (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters)

Lee Bergere as Abraham Lincoln on Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Max Von Sydow, actor (Minority Report, Judge Dredd, Until the End of the World, Dune, The Ice Pirates, Flash Gordon, Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens)

Max Von Sydow as Ming The Merciless in the 80s version of Flash Gordon

1930 – Lee Weaver, actor (Donnie Darko, Godzilla 1998, Sliders, Lois & Clark, Voyagers!, Mork & Mindy)

1932 – Hari Rhodes, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star, Earth II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Automan, Beyond Westworld, Salvage 1, Logan’s Run, The Bionic Woman, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Satan Bug, The Lost Missile, The Outer Limits)

1932 – Omar Sharif, actor (The Mysterious Island (1973))

1936 – Milt Kogan, actor (Quantum Leap, Solar Crisis, Alien Nation, E.T., The Invisible Man (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Jim Burns, artist

 

1954 – Peter MacNicol, actor (Battleship)

1957 – John M. Ford, sci-fi author

1961 – Olivia Brown, actress (Lois & Clark)

1961 – Jeb Stuart Adams, actor (They Live)

1962 – Michael Curtiz, director, d @ 75 (Doctor X)

1966 – Brad William Henke, actor (Pacific Rim)

1968 – Orlando Jones, actor (The Time Machine, Evolution)

1969 – Billy Jacoby, actor (Dr. Alien, Demonwarp, Galactica 1980)

1972 – Damien Puckler, actor (Starfall, Camel Spiders, The Colony)

1974 – Curt Conway, actor, d @ 58 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1980 – Charlie Hunnam, actor (Pacific Rim, Children of Men)

1982 – Chyler Leigh, actress (Supergirl (2015))

1982 – Cec Linder, actor, d @ 71 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Day of Resurrection, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Quatermass and the Pit)

1983 – Ryan Merriman, actor (Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, Smallville, Taken)

1984 – Mandy Moore, actress (Southland Tales)

1987 – Jamie Renee Smith, actress (VR.5, Dark Skies)

1988 – Haley Joel Osment, actor (A.I. Artificial Intellignce)

1990 – Alex Pettyfer, actor (In Time, I Am Number Four)

1991 – Amanda Michalka, actor (Super 8)

1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, actor, d @ 35 (Star Trek: TNG, Predator, Predator 2, Misfits of Science)

2000 – Peter Jones, actor, d @ 79 (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)

2000 – Larry Linville, actor, d @ 60 (Lois & Clark, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud, Misfits of Science)

My new novel Demien will be available 4/17/15. Here is the teaser. Full book trailer later

Demien Trailer Teaser

My novel Demien will release on 4/17/15. Here is the teaser. Full trailer later.

Demien Trailer Teaser

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

1904 – Lyle Latell, actor, (Beginning of the End, The Night The World Exploded, Not of this Earth)

Lyle Latell in Not of this Earth

1909 – Michael Ward, actor, d @ 88 8 November 1997 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell)

1917 – Brad Dexter, actor (The Incredible , Project U.F.O.)

1921 – Frankie Thomas, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

 

 

 

 

1928 – Aubrey Woods, actor (Blakes 7, Doctor Who)

Aubrey Woods as Controller in Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks.

1932 – Cheeta, chimpanzee actor (07 Spaceys)

1935 – Avery Schreiber, actor (Galaxina, The Twilight Zone)

1937 – Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, sci-fi author (Collision Course)

1937 – Marty Krofft, producer (Land of the Lost,Wonderbug, Dr, Shrinker, Far Out Space Nuts, The Lost Saucer)

 

 

 

 

1941 – Hannah Gordon, actress (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)

Hannah Gordon as Kristi McLaren in Doctor Who: The Highlander.

1942 – Brandon De Wilde, actor (Journey to the Unknown)

1950 – Nathan Cook, actor (The Astronauts)

1954 – Dennis Quaid, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, Innerspace)

1959 – Fred Dekker writer (Star Trek: Enterprise, RoboCop 3)

1965 – Mark Pellegrino, actor (The Tomorrow People, NYPD 2069, Astronauts, The X-Files, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Astronauts)

1966 – Cynthia Nixon, actress (The Outer Limits)

1968 – Jay Chandrasekhar, actor (Warehouse 13)

1968 – Matthew Bennett, actor (The Strain, Orphan Black, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Seven Days, Total Recall 2070, Earth: Final Conflict, The X-Files)

1979 – Keith Nobbs, actor (Fringe)

 

 

1981 – Arlen Escarpeta, actor (Extant)

1981 – Superman II released in UK

1982 – Jay Baruchel, actor (RoboCop, This is the End)

1984 – Lili Mirojnick, actress (Cloverfield)

1986 – Leighton Meester, actor (Surface)

1990 – Kristen Stewart b. 1990 (Jumper, Zathura: A Space Adventure)

1988 – Elle Fanning, actress (Super 8, Taken)

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

1893 – Grace Cunard, actress (The Bride of Frankenstein)

Grace Cunard in Bride of Frankenstein

1905 – George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Unknown World, Twilight Zone, She Devil, Space Patrol)

1909 – Patrick O’Moore, actor (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, The Unknown Terror, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler)

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Alfie Bass, , actor (Moonraker)

Alfie Bass in Moonraker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Edward Mulhare, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)

Edward Mulhare in The Outer Limits episode, The Sixth Finger.

1937 – Pamela Gordon, actress (The X Files, My Favorite Martian (1999), Alien Nation: Body and Soul, The Twilight Zone, Weird Science)

1942 – Douglas Trumbull, director (Brainstorm, Silent Running)

1943 – Jack O’Halloran, actor (Superman I and II)

1944 – Hywel Bennett, actor (Doctor Who)

1946 – Stuart Pankin, actor (Zenon, Babylon 5: River of Souls, The Powers of Matthew Star, Earthbound)

1946 – Tim Thomerson, actor (Trancers, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sliders, Lois & Clark, Dollman, Cherry 2000, The Twilight Zone, Zone Troopers, Metal Storm: The Destruction of Jared Syn, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Quark)

1947 – Cindy Pickett, actress (Atomic Dog, DeepStar Six)

1948 – Gerald McRaney, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Aliens Are Coming, Logan’s Run, The Fantastic Journey)

1948 – Robert Harvey, actor (Looper, Predators from Beyond Neptune, Roswell, Space Case)

1950 – Dimension X, a radio anthology series largely adapted from stories in Astounding and other magazines, debuts on NBC, dramatizing classic stories by Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and others. It will survive until September 1951.

1955 – Kane Hodder, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Jason X, Project: Metalbeast, Scanner Cop II, Alligator, Alligator II: The Mutation)

1956 – Jim Piddock, actor (Dollhouse, Epic Movie, Independence Day, Multiplicity, The Twilight Zone)

1957 – Michael Spound, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1960 – John Schneider, actor (Smallville, 10.5, Return of the Killer Shrews)

1963 – Dean Norris, actor (Under the Dome, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Tremors (TV), Millennium, Starship Troopers, Dark Skies, It Came from Outer Space II, The X Files, The Lawnmower Man, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1964 – Richard Keats, actor (Continuum, Fringe, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1964 – Biz Markie, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Men in Black II)

1966 – Robin Wright, actress (Unbreakable)

1970 – JR Bourne, actor (Fringe, Smallville, Superstorm, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Futuresport, Millennium)

1972 – Mary Randle, actress (Hollow Man)

1973 – Emma Caulfield, actress (TiMER, Weird Science (TV))

1977 – Ana de la Reguera, actress (Cowboys & Aliens)

1977 – Frank Milan, actor, d @ 71 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1978 – Rachel Roberts, actress (S1m0ne, FlashForward, Weird Science)

1980 – Katee Sackhoff, actress (Oculus, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman)

1981 – Taylor Kitsch, actor (Battleship, John Carter, Kyle XY)

1984 – Kristen Storms, actress (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century)

1989 – Gabriella Wilde, actress (Doctor Who)

1996 – John Hudson, actor, d @ 77 (Men Into Space)

1996 – Ben Johnson, actor, d @ 77 (Cherry 2000)

2003 – Kathie Browne, actress, d @ 72 (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian)

2008 – Charlton Heston, actor d @ 84 (Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, The Outer Limits, Armageddon, SeaQuest 2032, Call from Space, Solar Crisis)

2008 – Stanley Kamel, actor d @ 65 (Dark Skies, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

2013 – Annette Funicello, actress, d @ 70 (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)

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

1901 – Gavin Gordon, actor (The Bride of Frankenstein, Here Comes Tobor)

1915 – Stanley Adams, actor (Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones in the Star Trek episode, The Trouble With Tribbles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)

1916 – Anthony Caruso, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

Anthony Caruso as Bela Oxmyx, leader of a gang on planet Sigma Iotia II in the Star Trek episode,A Piece of the Action.

1917 – R G Armstrong, actor (Predator, Salvage 1, Quantum Leap, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)

1920 – Allan Cuthbertson, actor (UFO, The Body Stealers, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain, The Mouse on the Moon)

Margia Dean b. 1922 (The Quatermass Experiment, Mesa of Lost Women, Adventures of Superman)

Daniel Emilfork b. 1924 died 17 October 2006 (The City of Lost Children, The Thief of Baghdad [1978])

1928 – James White, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)

1928 – James Garner, actor (Space Cowboys, Fire in the Sky)

 

1930 – Andrew Sachs, actor (Doctor Who)

1933 – Wayne Rogers, actor (Doomsday Machine, The Invaders)

Wayne Rogers as Police Lt John Mattson in The Invaders episode, The Spores.

1934 – Ian Richardson, actor (Dark City, Brazil)

1935 – Yvonne Fedderson, actress (I Was a Teenage Werewolf)

1936 – Del Monroe, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

Gordon Kaye b. 1941 (Brazil, Jabberwocky)

Keith Buckley b. 1941 (Excalibur, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Out of the Unknown)

1942 – Gabrielle Beaumont, director (Star Trek, SeaQuest 2032)

1948 – Stan Winston, special effects artist

Clarke Peters b. 1952 (Forever, K-PAX, Outland)

1964 – Russell Crowe, actor (Virtuosity, Man of Steel)

1964 – Jace Alexander, director (The Tomorrow People, Warehouse 13)

1966 – Teri Ann Linn, actress (Fallout

1972 – Betty Blythe, actress, d @ 78 (She)

Eve Salvail b. 1973 (The Fifth Element)

Kasan Butcher b. 1973 (Solar Flare, Jeepers Creepers II, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)

Sergio Peris-Mencheta b. 1975 (Resident Evil: Afterlife)

1976 – Kevin Alejandro, actor (Heroes, Creature of Darkness, Gemini Division, Threshold

1981 – Norman Taurog, director, d @ 82 (Visit to a Small Planet)

1983 – Gavin Gordon, actor, d @ 82 (The Bride of Frankenstein, Here Comes Tobor)

1983 – Kyle Labine, actor (V, Flash Gordon)

1987 – Jack Johnson, actor (Lost in Space)

2001 – David Graf, actor, d @ 50 (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap

2002 – John Agar, actor, d @ 81 (The Naked Monster, Tarantula, The Twilight Zone, Zontar: The Thing from Venus, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Destination Space, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Invisible Invaders, Attack of the Puppet People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Daughter of Dr. Jeykll, The Mole People, The Rocket Man)

2004 – Victor Argo, actor, D @ 69 (The Terminal Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2007 – Barry Nelson, actor, d @ 89 (Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Salvage 1, Island Claws)

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

1904 – WilliamChallee, actor (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

William Challee in The Invaders episode, Nightmare.

1916 – Phil Leeds, actor (Alf, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie)

1918 – Karen Verne, actress (Twilight Zone)

1928 – Joi Lansing, actress (The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman)

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Ivan Dixon, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Ivan Dixon as Sgt James Conover in The Outer Limits Episode, The Human Factor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Billy Dee Williams, actor (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)

1938 – Roy Thinnes, actor (The Invaders, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, War of the Worlds, The Invaders TV movie, Spectropia, The X-Files)

Roy Thinnes in The Invaders

1942 – Barry Levinson, director (Sphere)

1947 – John Ratzenberger, actor (Timestalkers, Outland, Superman, Superman II, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Warlords of the Deep, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1948 – Patrika Darbo, actress (Lois & Clark, Spaced Invaders)

1949 – Jane Actman, actress (The Invisible Man, Planet of the Apes)

1949 – Janet Agren, actress (Hands of Steel, City of the Living Dead)

1952 – Judith McConnell, actress (Virus, Sliders, Alien Nation: Body and Soul, Star Trek)

1953 – Patrick Doyle, composer (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Frankenstein)

1953 – Abbott and Costello Go to Mars released

1954 – Judi Bowker, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973), Worlds Beyond)

1955 – Michael Rooker, actor (The 6th Day, Guardians of the Galaxy, Atlantis Down, Skeleton Man, Stargate SG-1, Tremors (TV), Replicant, The Outer Limits, Meteor, Repo! The Genetic Opera)

1959 – Mark Strickson, actor (Doctor Who)

1969 – Paul Rudd, actor (Ant-Man, This is the End, Gen-X Cops 2: Metal Mayhem)

1971 – Alasdair Gillis, actor (UFO Kidnapped)

1972 – Jason Hervey, actor (Back to the Future, Frankenweenie)

1974 – Paul Orban, artist, d @ 77

1975 – Zach Braff, actor (Clone High)

1978 – Cecily Fay, actress (Starhyke, Intergalactic Combat, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1980 – Matthew Thomas Carey, actor (Creature)

1982 – Sofia Boutella, actress (Monster: Dark Continent)

1982 – Bret Harrison, actor (V)

1983 – Diora Baird, actress (Brain Blockers, Star Trek, Hot Tub Time Machine)

1990 – Charlie McDermott, actor (ImagiGARY, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Village)

1992 – Isaac Asimov, sci-fi author, d @ 72

1998 – Spencer List, actor (Fringe)

2003 – Susan French, actress, d @ 91 (Star Trek: TNG, Flatliners, Quantum Leap)

2007 – Sunshine released

2010 – Corin Redgrave, actor, d @ 70 (Ultraviolet)

2014 – Mickey Rooney, actor, d @ 93 (The Atomic Kid, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Twilight Zone)