Kenneth Morvant's Blog, page 33

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

1901 – Melvyn Douglas, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1908 – Kurt Neumann, director (The Fly, Rocketship X-M)

1911 – Gordon Jones, actor (The Monster that Challenged the World)

1912 – John Le Mesurier, actor (Unidentified Flying Oddball, The Mouse on the Moon)

1916 – Gregory Peck, actor (Marooned, The Boys from Brazil, On the Beach)

Gregory Peck in The Boys From Brazil

1917 – Robert [Albert] Bloch, sci-fi author (Cthulhu Mythos, Star Trek)

1921 – Robert Q. Lewis, actor (C.H.O.M.P.S.)

1923 – Michael Vincent Gazzo, actor (Automan, Alligator, Future Cop)

1926 – Roger Corman, producer/director

1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Demolition Man, Firefox)

 

 

1933 – Frank Gorshin, actor (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)

Frank Gorshin in Invasion of the Saucer Men

1939 – Virginia Kiser, actress (Max Headroom, The Twilight Zone, Space Raiders)

1939 – Roger Davis, actor (Galactica 1980, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Twilight Zone)

1941 – Michael Moriarty, actor (The 4400, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Stuff, Island of the Alive, Deadly Skies)

1943 – Max Gail, actor (Quantum Leap, The Aliens Are Coming)

1944 – Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)

 

 

 

 

1946 – Jane Asher, actress (A for Andromeda, Journey to the Unknown, Out of This World, The Quatermass Xperiment)

Jane Asher in The Quatermass Xperiment

1949 – John Berg actor (Star Trek: Nemesis)

1949 – Larry Franco, producer (2012, Hulk, Jurassic Park III, Mars Attacks!, The Rocketeer, They Live, Starman, The Thing, Escape from New York)

1952 – Mitch Pileggi, actor (The X-Files, Shocker, Mega Cyclone, Stargate: Atlantis, The Lone Gunmen, Alien Nation)

1954 – Christopher S Nelson, actor (Without Warning, Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1960 – Von Flores, actor (ReGenesis, Starhunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Johnny 2.0, Johnny Mnemonic, TekWar, War of the Worlds)

1961 – Lisa Zane, actress (The Outer Limits, The Incredible Hulk)

1961 – Greg Anderson, actor (Stargate, The 4400, The Outer Limits, Millennium, The X-Files)

1962 – Lana Clarkson, actress (Black Scorpion, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm)

1963 – Charles Edwin Powell, actor (The 8th Plague, Frankenstein and Me)

 

1970 – Thea Gill, actress (Riverworld)

1970 – Wendy Braun, actress (Children of the X Files, Evolution)

1971 – Krista Allen, actress (Alien Presence, Andromeda, Smallville, Mutant X, The X-Files, Avalon: Beyond the Abyss, Weird Science)

1972 – Brian Donlevy, actor, d @ 71 (The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1974 – William Hudson, actor, d @ 55 (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Moon Pilot, Men Into Space, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Man Who Turned to Stone, Science Fiction Theatre, The She-Creature, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1978 – Douglas Henderson, actor, d @ 59 (King Dinosaur, The Outer Limits, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The War of the Worlds, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Invaders)

1981 – Tom Riley, actor (Doctor Who)

1986 – Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author, d @ 82 (Devil’s Planet)

1989 – Lily James, actress (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

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)

2010 – Maggie Pierce, actress, d @ 78 (My Favorite Martian)

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1902 – Stanley G Weinbaum, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey)

1914 – Richard Coogan, actor as Captain Video, d @ 99 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

Richard Coogan as Captain Video

1916 – David White, actor (Lights Out, One Step Beyond, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1921 – Peter Burton, actor (A Clockwork Orange)

1924 – Peter Vaughan, actor (Time Bandits)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Elizabeth Wilson, actress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

Elizabeth Wilson in The Incredible Shrinking Woman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Dorothy Alison, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

1926 – Cloris Leachman, actress (Young Frankenstein, The Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow)

Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein

1932 – Anthony Perkins, actor (The Black Hole, On the Beach)

1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, director (Solaris)

1935 – Kenneth Mars, actor (Weird Science, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science, Project U.F.O., Young Frankenstein)

1944 – Craig T. Nelson, actor (Creature)

1945 – Caroline McWilliams, actress (Lois & Clark, The Aliens are Coming, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk)

1947 – James Hazeldine, actor (The Medusa Touch)

1948 – Dan Simmons, sci-fi author (1990 Hugo for Hyperion)

 

1950 – Simone Griffeth, actress (The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Death Race 2000)

1950 – Christine Lahti, actress (The Henderson Monster)

1952 – Tim White artist

1952 – Cherie Lunghi, actress (Wizards vs. Aliens, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

1954 – Julie Carmen, actress (The Twilight Zone

1954 – Mary-Margaret Humes, actress (Time Trax, Eerie Indiana, Manimal)

1955 – Armin Rohde, actor (Contagion)

1959 – Phil Morris, actor (Smallville, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dark Planet, Babylon 5, Star Trek III; The Search for Spock, Star Trek)

1960 – Hugo Weaving, actor (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)

1960 – Lorraine Toussaint, actress (Forever)

1962 – Ava Fabian, actress (Lobster Man from Mars)

1963 – A. Michael Baldwin, actor (Phantasm I through IV, Voyagers!)

1964 – Robbie Rist, actor (Sharknado, The Munsters Today, Galactica 1980, The Bionic Woman)

1964 – David Cross, actor (Men in Black II)

1965 – Robert Downey Jr, actor (Incredible Hulk, A Scanner Darkly, Weird Science)

1967 – Lisa Hammer, actress (Frankenstein and the Creature from the Blood Cove)

1968 – Xenia Seeburg, actress (Lexx, Total Recall 2070)

1970 – Byron Foulger, actor, d @ 70 (Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Captain Midnight, The Rocket Man, Space Patrol, Superman and the Mole-Men)

1970 – Barry Pepper, actor (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Battlefield Earth, Sliders)

1971 – Claudette Mink, actress (Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Sliders, Welcome to Paradox, Earth: Final Conflict)

1976 – James Roday, actor (Gamer, Repli-Kate)

1979 – Jessica Napier, actress (The Lost World)

1978 – Matthew MacCaull, actor (Tomorrowland, iZombie, Fringe, Riverworld)

1979 – Edgar Buchanan, actor, d @ 76 (Twilight Zone)

1979 – Natasha Lyonne, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Blade: Trinity)

1980 – Collette Wolfe, actress (Interstellar, Hot Tub Time Machine 2)

1981 – Benjamin Ciaramello, actor (War of the Worlds)

1982 – Kett Turton, actor (he 100, Fringe, Primeval: New World, Blade: Trinity, Smallville, Strange Frequency, So Weird, First Wave, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X Files, Millennium)

1987 – Sarah Gadon, actress (Antiviral, Mutant X)

1987 – C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, sci-fi author, d @ 76 (Judgment Night)

1995 – Shirley Patterson, actress, d @ 72 (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, World Without End, The Land Unknown, Batman [1943])

1999 – Faith Domergue, actress, d @ 74 (This Island Earth, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, The Atomic Man, It Came from Beneath the Sea)

1999 – Bob Peck, actor, d @ 54 (Jurassic Park, Slipstream)

2003 – Anthony Caruso, actor, d @ 86 (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

2011 – The Adjustment Bureau released

2011 – Wayne Robson, actor, d @ 64 (The Timekeeper, The Incredible Hulk, Lexx, Cube, RoboCop, The Twilight Zone)

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1921 – Jan Sterling, actress, d @ 82 (The Incredible Hulk, 1984)

1921 – Harry Landers, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, Phantom of Space, Star Trek, World of Giants)

Harry Landers in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Marlon Brando, actor (Superman, The Island of Doctor Moreau)

1926 – Andrew Keir, actor (Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Andrew Keir as Quatermass in Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Timothy Bateson, actor (Doctor Who, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1928 – Kevin Hagen, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

Kevin Hagen in the Lost in Space episode, His Majesty Smith.

1937 – William Gaunt, actor (Doctor Who, Out of this World)

1937 – Lawrence Dane, actor (Stargate SG-1, The Time Shifters, Millenium, Bionic Showdown, Scanners, The Invaders)

1940 – Wolf Kahler, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Space, The Boys from Brazil)

1941 – Eric Braeden, actor (The Aliens Are Coming, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1947 – Pat Proft, writer (The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1955 – Robin Mossley, actress (Sanctuary, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The 4400, Alienated, The X Files)

 

1958 – Vanna Bonta, actress (Time Walker)

1959 – David Hyde Pierce, actor (The Terminator)

1961 – Elizabeth Gracen, actress (Coherence, Time Trax, The Death of the Incredible Hulk)

1962 – Jennifer Rubin, actress (Screamers, The Outer Limits, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, The Wasp Woman, The Twilight Zone)

1966 – Shelley Michelle, actress (Galaxy Hunter

1969 – Ben Mendelsohn, actor (Farscape)

1969 – Rex Evans, actor, d @ 65 (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman)

1972 – Catherine McCormack, actress (28 Weeks Later)

1973 – Jamie Bamber, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Star Trek Continues, Dollhouse, Pulse 2: Afterlife

1973 – Matthew Ferguson, actor (Cube²: Hypercube, Earth: Final Conflict

1973 – Adam Scott,a ctor (Piranha 3D, Star Trek: First Contact)

1975 – Philip Brodie, actor (Zombie Diaries 2)

1978 – Alessandro Juliani, actor (Man of Steel, Continuum, Eve of Destruction, Fringe, Smallville, Riverworld, Battlestar Galactica, The Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, Earthsea)

1982 – Warren Oates, actor, d @ 53 (Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1982 – Cobie Smulders, actor (Andromeda, Smallville)

1996 – Jackson Bond, actor (The Invasion)

1998 – Lost in Space released

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1908 – Buddy Ebsen, actor (Twilight Zone)

1914 – Alec Guinness, actor (Star Wars IV – VI)

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan

1917 – Dabbs Greer, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

1920 – Jack Webb, actor (Project U.F.O.)

1925 – H. B. Haggerty, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Far Out Space Nuts)

1923 – Gloria Henry, actress (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth)

1926 – Elena Verdugo, actress (House of Frankenstein)

1928 – Rita Gam, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

 

1934 – Brian Glover, actor (Alien 3, Doctor Who)

Brian Glover as Griffiths in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Sharon Acker, actress (Threshold, The Powers of Matthew Star, Galactica 1980, Star Trek)

Sharon Acker in the Star Trek episode, The Mark of Gideon.

1936 – Cynthia Lynn, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1945 – Linda Hunt, actress (Dune, Space Rangers)

1948 – Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, US, sci-fi author

1949 – Ron Palillo, actor (The Invisible Woman)

1961 – Christopher Meloni, actor (Man of Steel, Target Earth, Twelve Monkeys)

1961 – Kevin Bernhardt, actor (Superboy)

1962 – Clark Gregg, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence

1964 – Jana Marie Hupp, actress (Independence Day, Star Trek: TNG)

1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey released

 

1970 – Jamison Newlander, actor (The Blob)

1974 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone)

1975 – Adam Rodriguez, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Roswell

1975 – Pedro Pascal, actor (The Adjustment Bureau, Earth vs. the Spider (2001) (TV))

1976 – Ray Teal, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone)

1976 – Jenn MacLean-Angus, actress (Continuum)

1976 – Adam Goldberg, writer (Aliens in the Attic, Area 52)

1977 – Michael Fassbender, Actor (Prometheus, Jonah Hex, Hex (TV))

1979 – Lindy Booth, actress (Warehouse 13, Category 7: The End of the World, The 4400, Star Hunter, Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1984 – Shawn Roberts, actor (Resident Evil, The Tomorrow People, A Little Bit Zombie, Flash Gordon (TV), Jumper, Diary of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Starhunter, Earth: Final Conflict)

1988 – Jesse Plemons, actor (Battleship, Paul)

2002 – Jack Kruschen, actor, d @ 80 (Lois & Clark, The Time Machine, The Incredible Hulk, The Angry Red Planet, Adventures of Superman, The War of the Worlds)

2002 – Henry Slesar, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (20 Million Miles to Earth)

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1906 – Ned Glass, actor (Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds)

1909 – Abner Biberman, director (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1917 – Leon Janney, actor (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet)

1920 – Joan Frances, actress, d @ 75 (Fahrenheit 451)

1926 – Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, 1990, Who?)

1926 – Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums)

1928 – George Grizzard, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Twilight Zone)

1928 – Michael O’Herlihy, director, d @ 69 16 June 1997 (Logan’s Run (TV), Star Trek)

1929 – Jonathan Haze, actor (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Not of this Earth, It Conquered the World, The Day the World Ended, Monster from the Ocean Floor)

1930 – Betsy Jones-Moreland, actress (The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Creature from the Haunted Sea)

Betsy Jones-Moreland in The Outer Limits episode, The Mutant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, actress (The Outer Limits, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Voyager,Sci Fi Visionaries, Kiss ‘N’ Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century)

1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, actress (The Outer Limits, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Voyager,Sci Fi Visionaries, Kiss ‘N’ Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century)

Grace Lee Whitney in The Outer Limits episode, Controlled Experiment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – George Baker, actor (Curse of the Fly, Doomwatch, Doctor Who)

George Baker as Martin Delambre in Curse of the Fly

1932 – Gordon Jump, actor (Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Lost Saucer, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1934 – Don Hastings, actor (Captain Video and His Video Rangers, The Secret Files of Captain Video)

1936 – Don Steele, actor (Death Race 2000)

1938 – John Quade, actor (Manimal)

1942 – Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryona)

 

 

1945 – Heather Young, actress (Land of the Giants, Galactica 1980, The Time Tunnel)

Heather Young in Land of the Giants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1952 – Annette O’Toole, actress (The Outer Limits, Superman III, Smallville)

1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, director (Men in Black)

1957 – The Incredible Shrinking Man released

1959 – Ivan G’Vera, actor (Terminator: Salvation Alien Nation (TV))

1960 – Michael Praed, actor (Nightflyers, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1960 – Jennifer Runyon, actress (Carnosaur, Quantum Leap, Terminator: Salvation, Alien Nation)

1962 – Tony Guma, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness, Super 8, Star Trek)

1963 – James Robinson, writer (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Cyber Bandits)

1969 – Traci Lin-Tavi, actress (Class of 1999)

1971 – Jessica Collins, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1971 – Lachy Hulme, actor (The Matrix Revolutions)

1972 – Allen Hughes, director (The Book of Eli)

1972 – Albert Hughes, director (The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3, The Book of Eli)

1976 – David Oyelowo, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Interstellar)

1978 – Anamaria Marinca, actress (Europa Report, Doctor Who)

1080 – Bijou Phillips, actor (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, It’s Alive(2008))

1981 – Hannah Spearritt, actress (Primeval)

1981 – D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Colossus)

1982 – Sam Huntington, actor (Superman Returns, Fanboys, Warehouse 13)

1982 – Taran Killam, actor (Roswell)

1983 – Matt Lanter, actor (Astronaut’s Wives Club, Star Crossed, Heroes)

1985 – Josh Zuckerman, actor (Kyle XY)

1997 – Asa Butterfield, actor (Ender’s Game)

1998 – Gene Evans, actor, d @ 75 (The Incredible Hulk, The Giant Behemoth, Science Fiction Theatre, Donovan’s Brain)

2004 – Carrie Snodgress, actress, d @ 58 (The X-Files)

2005 – John Forsythe, actor, d@ 92 (Marooned)

2014 – Darrell Zwerling, actor, d @ ?, birth date unknown 1928 or ’29 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

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1905 – Robert Stevenson, director (One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, The Island at the Top of the World, Son of Flubber, The Absent-Minded Professor)

1915 – John Vivyan, actor (Men into Space)

1918 – Ted Post, director (Ark II, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

1921 – Peggy Rea, actress (Meego, The Immortal)

1922 – Patrick McGee, actor (The Last Days of Man on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, Monster of Terror)

1922 – Richard Kiley, actor (Jurassic Park, Star Trek: DS9, Howard the Duck, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)

Richard Kiley in Star Trek

1927 – William Daniels, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980)

1929 – Menahem Golan, producer of numerous sci-fi movies

1929 – Lee Patterson, actor (The Immortal, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1934 – Richard Chamberlain, actor (The Swarm)

 

 

 

 

1934 – Shirley Jones, actress (Zombie Night, Out of the Blue)

Shirley Jones in Zombie Night

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Christopher Walken, actor (Brainstorm, Communion, The Stepford Wives)

Christopher Walken in Communion

1946 – Ian McDonald, sci-fi author (Desolation Road, The Chaga Saga, Brasyl)

1950 – Ed Marinaro, actor (The Twilight Zone, Doomsday Rock)

1957 – Marc McClure, actor (Back to the Future I & III, Superman I – IV)

1957 – Gene Lockhart, actor, d @ 65 (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out)

1957 – Mary Cadorette, actress (The Munsters Today)

1958 – Tony Cox, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World, Invaders from Mars, Spaced Invaders, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Spaceballs, The Ewok Adventure, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1960 – Anne Marie Howard, actress (Solar Flare)

1963 – Paul Mercurio, actor (Dark Planet)

1964 – Deborah Kara Unger, actress (Silent Hill)

1965 – William McNamara, actor (The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science)

1965 – Jacqueline Kim, actress (Futurestates, Threshold, Star Trek: Generations)

1965 – Johnny Timko, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run, The Lost Saucer)

1971 – Ewan McGregor, actor (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones , Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith)

1972 – Andrew Bowen, actor (Evolution, Jedi Camp)

1973 – George Woodbridge, actor, d @ 66 (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1974 – Carol Ann Plante, actress (Amanda and the Alien)

1974 – Adrian Holmes, actor (Continuum, Elysium, Primeval: New World, Battlestar Galactica, V, Smallville, The Andromeda Strain, Kyle XY, Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Josh Saviano, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1978 – Daniel Mays, actor (Doctor Who)

1982 – Judith Shekon, actress (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1983 – Melissa Ordway, actress (In Time)

1985 – Jessica Szohr, actress (Piranha 3D)

2003 – Candice Rialson, actress, d @ 54 (Logan’s Run)

2003 – Anne Gwynne, actress, d @ 84(Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, House of Frankenstein, Teenage Monster)

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1898 – Joyce Carey, actress (Journey into the Unknown)

1918 – Joseph Allen Jr, actor (Lights Out)

1922 – Turhan Bey, actor (Babylon 5, VR.5, SeaQuest 2032)

1929 – Richard Dysart, actor (The Thing, Gemini Man, The Terminal Man, Back to the Future III)

Richard Dysart as Dr Copper in The Thing

1929 – Shirley Stoler, actress (The Powers of Matthew Star, Frankenhooker)

1930 – John Astin, actor (Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses, Homeboys from Outer Space, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!, They Came from Outer Space, The Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Otherworld, Twilight Zone)

1937 – Jay W Macintosh, actress (Logan’s Run)

1942 – Kenneth Welsh, actor (Bionic Woman, Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville, Category 7: The End of the World, The Fog, The Day After Tomorrow, The X-Files, The Twilight Zone)

1944 – Gabrielle Drake, actress (UFO)

 

1950 – Robbie Coltrane, actor (Krull, Flash Gordon)

Robbie Coltrane in Flash Gordon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Lisa Harrison, actress (Superman Returns, Invasion)

1957 – Paul Reiser, actor (Aliens)

Paul Reiser in Aliens

1962 – Bil Dwyer, actor (Re-Animated, What Planet are You From)

1964 – Ian Ziering, actor (Sharknado, Lava Storm, Tyrannosaurus Azteca)

1965 – Juliet Landau, actress (Millennium)

1968 – Roland Kickinger, actor (Terminator Salvation)

1971 – Selmer Jackson, actor, d @ 82 (The Lost Missile, Adverntures of Superman, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere)

1972 – Peter Whitney, actor, d @ 55 (Adventures of Superman)

1972 – Mili Avatal, actress (Minotaur, Stargate)

1976 – Matt Doran, actor (Star Wars II: The Attack of the Clones, Farscape, The Matrix)

1977 – Rupert Evans, actor (Hellboy, Lexx)

1979 – Jose Pablo Cantillo, actor (The Walking Dead, Elysium)

1980 – Lindsay Parker, actress (Critters 2)

1982 – Jason Dohring, actor (Deep Impact, The Tomorrow People, Roswell)

1984 – Helena Mattson, actress (Surrogates)

1986 – Tessa Ferrer, actress (Extant)

1986 – Simon Baker, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth, I, Robot)

1987 – Marley McClean, actress (Serenity, Star Trek: Voyager)

1989 – Dort Clark, actor, d @ 71 (Time Travelers, The Invaders, The Munsters)

1990 – Cassie Scerbo, actress (Sharknado, Bering Sea Beast)

1999 – Terry Wilson, actor, d @ 75 (Westworld)

2003 – Michael Jeter, actor (Waterworld, Jurassic Park III)

2014 – Kate O’Mara, actress, d @ 74 (Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, The Horror of Frankenstein)

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1902 – Onslow Stevens, actor (Them!, The Creeper)

Onslow Stevens in Them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 – Philip Ahn, actor (The Time Tunnel)

Philip Ahn in The Time Tunnel

1908 – Arthur O’Connell, actor (Fantastic Voyage, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1913 – Niall MacGinnis, actor (Island of Terror)

1914 – Phil Foster, actor (Conquest of Space)

1919 – Eileen Heckart, actress (Out There)

1924 – Jackie Vernon, actress (The Monitors)

1935 – Frederick Treves, actor (Doctor Who, Doomwatch, The Andromeda Breakthrough, A for Andromeda)

 

1942 – Scott Wilson, actor (Radio Free Ablemuth, The Host, The X-Files, Judge Dredd, The Twilight Zone)

1948 – Bud Cort, actor (The Twilight Zone, Brave New World, Invaders from Mars)

Bud Cort as Mark Weinstein in Invaders from Mars

1955 – Brendan Gleeson, actor (28 Days Later…, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Edge of Tomorrow)

1955 – Christopher Lawford, actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The 6th Day

1955 – Marina Sirtis, actress (Star Trek: TNG series & movies, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, InAlienable, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict, The Outer Limits)

1957 – Christopher Lambert, actor (Fortress)

1960 – Annabella Sciorra, actress (Asteroid)

1961 – Michael Winterbottom, director (Time Riders)

1968 – Lucy Lawless, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files)

1971 – Frank Gilhooley, actor (Outlander, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1972 – Ed Vassallo, actor (Fringe, War of the Worlds)

1982 – Chad Rook, actor (iZombie, Dreamcatcher)

1986 – Luke Eberl, actor (Eyeborgs, Planet of the Apes)

1994 – Bill Travers, actor, d @ 72 (Gorgo)

1995 – Anthony Hamilton, actor, d @ 42 (The Twilight Zone)

1997 – Eddie Ryder, actor, d @ 74 (The Munsters, Voyager to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

2007 – Calvin Lockhart, actor (Predator 2)

2009 – Maurice Jarre, composer, d @ 84 (Solar Crisis, Solarbabies, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Firefox)

2012 – Luke Askew, actor, d @ 80 (The 4400, Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Six Million Dollar Man)

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1906 – Robert (Bob) Allen, actor (Raiders of the Living Dead, Out There, Tales of Tomorrow)

Robert Allen (center) in Raiders of the Living Dead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1912 – A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space)

1924 – Jeff Burton, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1943 – Conchata Ferrell, actor (Edward Scissorhands, K-PAX)

1948 – Dianne Wiest, actress (Edward Scissorhands, Category 6: Day of Destruction)

1948 – Matthew Corbett, actor (Doctor Who)

Matthew Corbett in Doctor Who

1949 – Jason Robards III, actor (They Live)

1955 – Reba McEntire, actress (Tremors)

1960 – Chris Barrie, actor (Red Dwarf)

1961 – Orla Brady, actor (Doctor Who, Fringe, The Deep)

1966 – Darcy Laurie, actress (Continuum, Fringe, V, Battlestar Galactica, Kyle XY, Stargate SG-1, The Chronicles of Riddick, Twilight Zone, The Chronicle, The X-Files)

1968 – Max Perlich, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1970 – Vince Vaughn, actor (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

1972 – Nick Frost, actor (The World’s End, Paul, Hyperdrive, Doctor Who, Shawn of the Dead)

 

1975 – Richard Kelly, director/writer (The Box, Donnie Darko)

1975 – Shanna Moakler, actress (Timecop, Lois & Clark)

1976 – Richard Arlen, actor, d @ 76 (The Human Duplicators, The Crawling Hand, Science Fiction Theatre, The Lady and the Monster)

1977 – Annie Wersching, actress (Extant, Revolution, No Ordinary Family, Star Trek: Enterprise)

1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Actor (Red Faction, Warehouse 13, Doctor Who)

Gareth David-Lloyd in Doctor Who

1986 – Victor J Lopez, actor, d @ 39 (Man From Atlantis, Tomorrow’s Child, Megaforce)

1986 – Virginia Gilmore, actress, d @ 66 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1988 – Lacey Turner, actress (Frankenstein’s Wedding… Live in Leeds)

1990 – Jenna Berman, actor (iZombie, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn)

1991 – Amy Bruckner, actor (Phil of the Future, They Are Among Us)

1996 – Ken Dibbs, actor, d @ 78 (The Immortal, Men into Space, Buck Rogers, Captain Midnight, Riders to the Stars, Space Patrol, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1987 – Patrick Troughton, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1996 – Ken Dibbs, actor, d @ 78 (The Immortal, Men into Space, Buck Rogers, Captain Midnight, Riders to the Stars, Space Patrol, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

2004 – Peter Ustinov, actor, d @ 82 (Logan’s Run)

 

2010 – June Havoc, actress, d @ 97 (The Outer Limits)

2013 – Richard Griffiths, actor, d @ 65 (Superman II)

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1886 – William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man)

1907 – Mary Treen, actress (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1914 – Richard Denning, actor (Target Earth, Creature With the Atom Brain, Day the World Ended, The Black Scorpion, Creature from the Black Lagoon)

Richard Denning in Creature With the Atomic Brain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Lorenzo Semple Jr., writer (Flash Gordon)

1931 – David Janssen, actor (Marooned)

1935 – Julian Glover, actor (Alien Uprising, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Space: 1999, Five Million Years to Earth, Out of this World)

Julian Glover as Avon in Blakes 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Austin Pendleton, actor (Short Circuit, Simon)

1940 – June Wilkinson, actress (Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie)

1942 – Michael York, actor (Logan’s Run, Sliders, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, TekWar: TekLab, Spaceballs, The Omega Code, Dark Planet, Not of this Earth, Space, The Island of Dr Moreau)

Michael York in Logan’s Run

1953 – Bairbre Dowling, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Zardoz)

1953 – Pamela Roylance, actress (Starman)

1957 – Caroline Williams, actress (Seed 2, They Came from Outer Space)

1958 – Adrian Rawlins, actor (Doctor Who)

1963 – Jeff Griggs, actor (Time Force, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Babylon 5)

1967 – Talisa Soto, actress (Elysium, Island of the Dead)

1968 – Sandra Hess, actress (Sliders, Lois & Clark, SeaQuest 2032)

1969 – Kevin Corrigan, actor (Fringe, Superboy)

1969 – Pauley Perrette, actor (The Singularity Is Near)

1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, actress (Frequency, V)

1971 – Nathan Fillion, actor (Firefly, Serenity, Slither, The Outer Limits)

1977 – Diana Hyland, actress, d @ 41 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1979 – Ronald Adam, actor, d @ 82 (The Man Who Could Cheat Death)

1983 – James Hayter, actor, d @ 75 (The Horror of Frankenstein)

1984 – Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Lois & Clark)

1988 – Brenda Song, actress (Phil of the Future)

1991 – Aldo Ray, actor, d @ 64 (Biohazard, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, Death Dimension)

1991 – Ralph Bates, actor, d @ 51 (Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Moonbase 3, The Horror of Frankenstein)

1993 – Kate Reid, actress, d @ 62 (The Andromeda Strain, Plague)

2001 – Anthony Dexter, actor, d @ 88 (The Phantom Planet, Fire Maidens of Outer Space, 12 to the Moon)

2006 – Dan Curtis, writer, d @ 78 (Frankenstein)

2011 – Farley Granger, actor, d @ 85 (The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2012 – Warren Stevens, actor, d @ 92 (Forbidden Planet, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, On the Threshold of Space, Men in Space, Science Fiction Theatre)