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

1850 – Edward Bellamy, sci-fi writer, d @ 48 22 May 1898 (Looking Backward, 2000-1887)

1894 – Will Wright, actor (The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)

1916 – Sterling Hayden, actor (The Last Days of Man on Earth, The Starlost)

Sterling Hayden in The Starlost

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 – Ed Peck, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders)

Ed Peck in the Star Trek episode, Tomorrow is Yesterday.

1919 – Ed Hinton, actor, (Lost Continent, Red Planet Mars, Space Patrol, Captain Midnight, Adventures of Superman)

1919 – Strother Martin, actor (The Invaders, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Magnetic Monster, Worlds without End)

 

 

 

 

1931 – Leonard Nimoy, actor (Star Trek, Fringe, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Brave New World, The Lost World, The Outer Limits, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Twilight Zone, Them!, Zombies of the Stratosphere)

Leonard Nimoy in The Outer Limits episode, I Robot

1932 – Luke Askew, actor (The 4400, Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1934 – Alan Arkin, actor (Gattaca, The Rocketeer)

1939 – Phillip R Allen, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Probe, Mork & Mindy)

1940 – James Caan, actor (The Lathe of Heaven, Alien Nation, Rollerball)

1946 – Johnny Crawford, actor (Village of the Giants, The Space Children)

1950 – Martin Short, actor (Mars Attacks!, Innerspace)

 

1959 – Deke Anderson, actor (Doll Factory, Army of Darkness, The Bite)

1960 – Jennifer Grey, actress (In Your Eyes)

1960 – Ian Keith, Boston actor, d @ 61 (It Came from Beneath the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1960 – Billy Warlock, actor (The Thing Below)

1962 – Marita Geraghty, actress (Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1964 – Ed Wasser, actor (Babylon 5, Sliders, Quantum Leap)

1985 – Jonathan Glazer, director (Under the Skin)

1970 – Evan Richards, actor (Altered States, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1971 – Francis Lawrence, director (The Hunger Games:Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, I Am Legend)

1972 – Leslie Mann, actor (Timecode)

1976 – Amy Smart, actress (Starship Troopers, The Butterfly Effect)

1985 – Keira Knightley, actress (Star Wars: Episode I, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1986 – Bartlett Robinson, actor, d @ 73 (Sleeper, The Invaders, The Munsters, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, Men into Space, Toward the Unknown)

1987 – Walter Abel, actor, d @ 88 (The Human Duplicators, Tales of Tomorrow)

2004 – Jan Sterling, actress, d @ 82 (The Incredible Hulk, 1984)

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1897 – John Laurie, actor (Devil Girl from Mars)

It’s Pavel Chekov’s birthday

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1895 – Sid Saylor, actor (The Crawling Hand, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Adventures of Superman, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1901 – Ub Iwerks, visual effects, d @ 70 7 July 1971 (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1904 – Martin Kosleck, actor, d @ 64 (The Flesh Eaters, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1905 – Jules Verne, sci-fi author, d @ 77 (From the Earth to the Moon)

1910 – Richard Conte, actor (Stay Tuned for Terror, Twilight Zone)

1914 – Lilli Palmer, actress (Boys From Brazil)

1920 – Gene Nelson, actor/director (Star Trek, Men Into Space, The Atomic Man, The Invisible Man TV series, Starlift,, Salvage 1)

1922 – Tina Carver, actress (The Man Who Turned to Stone, From Hell It Came)

1923 – Murray Hamilton, actor (Damnation Alley, ‘Way Out, Men into Space, Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Toward the Unknown)

1928 – Vanessa Brown, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1930 – Steve McQueen, actor (The Blob)

1930 – Kenneth Nelson, actor (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1932 – William Smith, actor (Zombiegedden, Interview with a Zombie, Manosaurus, Cybernator, The Twilight Zone, Logan’s Run, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Invasion of the Bee Girls, The Thing with Two Heads, The Nutty Professor, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

1939 – Lynn Borden, actress (Frogs, The Fantastic Journey)

1944 – R. Lee Ermey, actor (Starship Troopers, The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond, Body Snatchers)

1952 – Nicholas Campbell, actor (The Outer Limits, The Shape of Things to Come, Space: 1999)

1954 – Donna Pescow, actress (Out of this World)

1954 – Robert Carradine, actor (Timecop: The Berlin Decision, Ghosts of Mars, The Kid with X-Ray Eyes, Scorpio One, Dark Skies, Humanoids from the Deep, Escape from L.A., Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, Wavelength, Sharktopus vs. Petracuda, The Terror Experiment)

1955 – Kim Johnston Ulrich, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois and Clark)

1960 – Kelly LeBrock, actress (Weird Science)

1965 – Peter Jacobson, actor (Transformers)

1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (Men in Black II)

1971 – Megyn Price, actress (Quantum Leap)

1972 – Gabriel Olds, actor (The Event, Surrogates, Heroes)

1972 – Charlie Creed-Miles, actor (The Frankenstein Chronicles, The Fifth Element)

1973 – Jim Parsons, actor (Eureka, iCarly)

1974 – Alyson Hannigan, actress (My Stepmother is an Alien)

1975 – Michelle Harrison, actress (Continuum, SGU Stargate Universe, Eureka, V, Fringe, The Invisible, Andromeda, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1977 – Olivia Burnette, actress (Quantum Leap, Disaster at Silo 7, Jekyll Island)

1977 – Jessica Chastain, actress (Interstellar, The Martian)

1978 – Amanda Brugel, actress (Orphan Black, Dark Matter, Warehouse 13, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Jason X)

1979 – Jud Tylor, actor (Smallville, Andromeda)

1979 – Lake Bell, actress (Tron: Uprising, Surface)

1980 – Alison MacInnis, actress (Tremors (TV))

1980 – Luke Edwards, actor (Not of this Earth)

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

1981 – Philip Winchester, actor (Fringe, Warehouse 13)

1984 – Sam Jaffe, actor, d @ 93 (Battle Beyond the Stars, The Bionic Woman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Lost Horizon)

1984 – Sam Daly, actor (Astronaut Wives Club)

1985 – Jeremy James Kissner, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1988 – Nick Lashaway, actor (In Time, The X Files)

1988 – Finn Jones, actor (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Walking Dead)

1998 – Norman Fell, actor (C.H.U.D. II, Out of This World, The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)

2008 – Richard Widmark, actor, d @ 93 (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Swarm, Coma)

2010 – Robert Culp, actor, d @ 79 (The Outer Limits, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, Lois & Clark, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

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1882 – C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws, Undersea Kingdom, Mysterious Doctor Satan )

C. Montague Shaw (center) in Undersea Kingdom

1902 – Philip Ober, actor (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1904 – H. Beam Piper, sci-fi author (author, Little Fuzzy, Flight from Tomorrow, 4 Day Planet)

1906 – Joan Crawford, actress (Trog)

 

 

 

 

1917 – Kenneth Tobey, actor (The Naked Monster, The Thing from Another World, Star Trek: DS9, Innerspace, Starman, The Twilight Zone, Strange Invaders, Galactica 1980, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Science Fiction Theatre, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Flying Missile)

Kenneth Tobey in The Thing From Another World.

1917 – Patricia Burke, actress (The Day the Fish Came Out, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Monique van Vooren, actress (Flesh for Frankenstein)

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – James Ackley Maxwell, actor (The Evil of Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown)

James Ackley Maxwell in Doctor Who

 

1929 – Mark Rydell, actor (Masters of Science Fiction)

1937 – Tony Burton, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

1947 – Barbara Rhodes, actress (Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man, Far Out Space Nuts)

1947 – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, sci-fi author (The Healer’s War)

 

 

1950 – Anthony De Longis, actor (The Outer Limits, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, Masters of the Universe, Cyber-Tracker 2, The Twilight Zone, V, Battlestar Galactica, Logan’s Run)

1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, sci-fi author (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, 2312)

1957 – Amanda Plummer, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Battlestar Galactica, Mimic: Sentinel, The Outer Limits, Dark Skies)

1957 – Teresa Ganzel, actress (They Came from Outer Space, ALF, Out of this World, The Twilight Zone)

1959 – Catherine Keener, actress (S1m0ne)

1962 – Jenny Wright, actress (The Lawnmower Man)

1964 – Peter Lorre, actor, d @ 59 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1964 – Hope Davis, actress (Real Steel, Flatliners)

1965 – Richard Grieco, actor (AE: Apocalypse Earth, The Incredible Hulk)

1976 – Michelle Monaghan, actress (Source Code)

1976 – Keri Russell, actress (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dark Skies, Honey I Blew Up the Kid)

1979 – Philip Bourneuf, actor, d @ 71 (The Wide World of Mystery: Frankenstein, The Immortal)

1981 – Luciana Carro, actress (Falling Skies, The Icarus II Project, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica)

1988 – Dayton Lummis, actor, d @ 84 (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Flight That Disappeared, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Red Planet Mars)

2001 – Sully Boyar, actor, d @ 77 (The Manhatten Project)

2012 – The Hunger Games released

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

1896 – Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Twilight Zone)

1912 – Wilfrid Brambell, actor (The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II)

1912 – Karl Malden, actor (Meteor)

1913 – James Westerfield, actor (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

James Westerfield as Dr Marvello in the Lost in Space episode, Space Circus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 – Virginia Grey, actress (Science Fiction Theatre)

1920 – Werner Klemperer, actor (The Secret Files of Captain Video, Men Into Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space)

Werner Klemperer in the Lost in Space episode, All That Glitters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Ross Martin, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man, The Immortal, Twilight Zone, The Colossus of New York, Conquest of Space)

1920 – James Brown, actor (Adventures of Superman)

1931 – William Shatner, actor (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Invasion Iowa, Space Command, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, TekWar, The First Men in the Moon, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Free Enterprise)

William Shatner in The Outer Limits episode, Cold Hands Warm Heart.

1935 – M[ichael] Emmet Walsh, actor (Blade Runner, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)

1936 – May Britt, actress (Probe)

1946 – Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, sci-fi author (Wetware)

1959 – Matthew Modine, actor (CAT.8)

1964 – Addison Richards, actor, d @ 76 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1971 – Will Yun Lee, actor (Total Recall, Bionic Woman)

1973 – Dax Griffin, actor (Firefly)

1975 – Anne Dudek, actress (Invasion)

1980 – Kandyse McClure, actress (Alphas, Children of the Corn, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Andromeda, Jake 2.0, Level 9)

1985 – Katie Stuart, actress (A Wrinkle in Time, Stargate SG-1)

1986 – Derek Farr, actor, d @ 84 (Blakes 7, The Projected Man)

1987 – Joan Shawlee, actress, d @ 58 (The Reluctant Astronaut, Conquest of Space)

2006 – Kurt von Trojan, sci-fi author, died (b. 1937 (month and day unknown))

2233 – James T Kirk, Captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)

It’s Captain Kirk’s birthday!

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1891 – Jonathan Hale, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1902 – Carl Jaffe, actor (First Man in Space, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky, The Atomic Man)

1902 – Gustav Frohlich, actor (Metropolis)

1918 – Cliff Norton, actor (It’s About Time, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll)

1919 – Lois Collier, actress (Flying Disc Man from Mars)

Lois Collier in Flying Disc Man From Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Logan Ramsey, actor (Dr Hackenstein, ALF, Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, Star Trek)

Logan Ramsey as Claudius Marcus in the Star Trek episode, Bread and Circuses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Peter Pratt, actor (Doctor Who)

1923 – Philip Abbott, actor (Hanger 18, The Incredible Hulk, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Ark II, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Invisible Boy)

Philip Abbott in The Outer Limits episode, ZZZZZ.

1924 – Roy Poole, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)

1930 – James Coco, actor (The Stepford Children, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1931 – Al Williamson, illustrator (Flash Gordon)

1936 – Roger Hammond, actor (Morons from Outer Space, Doctor Who)

1939 – Kathleen Widdoes, actress (The Invaders, ‘Way Out)

1940 – Alex Courtney, actor (Programmed to Kill, The Bionic Woman)

1944- Timothy Dalton, actor (Doctor Who, The Rocketeer, Flash Gordon)

1944 – Lorene Yarnell Jansson, actress (Spaceballs)

 

1955 – Jean Marie Hon, actress (Man from Atlantis, Ark II, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1957 – Sabrina Le Beauf, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1958 – Cyril M Kornbluth, sci-fi author, d @ 34 (Space Merchants)

1958 – Gary Oldman, actor (Lost in Space, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, RoboCop, The Fifth Element)

1961 – Kassie Wesley DePaiva, actress (Time Trax)

1962 – Matthew Broderick, actor (WarGames, Godzilla, Project X, Stepford Wives (2004))

1962 – Kathryn Greenwood, actress (RoboCop (TV))

1964 – Phillip Troy Linger, actor (The Hunger Games)

1968 – Greg Ellis, actor (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Omega Code 2)

1968 – Karyn Kusama, director (Aeon Flux)

1968 – Jaye Davidson, actor (Stargate)

1973 – Vanessa Branch, actress (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: Voyager, The Cell)

1973 – Jerry Supiran, actor (Small Wonder, Galactica 1980)

1974 – Laura Allen, actress (The 4400)

1974 – Joseph Mawle, actor (Sense8)

1977 – Sam Troughton, actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)

1981 – Honorine Bell, actress (A Guy, A Girl, A Space Helmet)

1985 – Sonequa Martin-Green, actress (The Walking Dead)

1985 – Michael Redgrave, actor, d @ 77 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1987 – Dean Paul Martin, actor, d @ 35 (Misfits of Science)

1987 – Robert Preston, actor, d @ 68 (The Last Starfighter)

1989 – Milton Frome, actor, d @ 80 (The Nutty Professor, Way…Way Out, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, My Favorite Martian, Visit to a Small Planet, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Atomic Kid)

1992 – John Ireland, actor, d @ 72 (War of the Worlds, Salvage 1, The Shape of Things to Come, Planet of the Apes)

1994 – MacDonald Carey, actor, d @ 81 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, End of the World, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre)

1994 – Dack Rambo,actor, d @ 52 (Ultra Warrior)

1995 – Robert Urquhart, actor, d @ 72 (The Curse of Frankenstein, Doomwatch)

2005 – Barney Martin, actor, d @ 82 (I Married a Monster, The Twilight Zone)

2013 – Scavangers released

2014 – James Rebhorn, actor, d @ 65 (Independence Day, Coma)

2014 – Divergent released

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1883 – Colin Campbell, actor (Twilight Zone, The Lost World, Adventures of Superman)

1895 – Fredric Wertham, sci-fi author (Seduction of the Innocent, The World of Fanzines)

1902 – Edgar Buchanan, actor (Twilight Zone)

1904 – B.F. Skinner, sci-fi author, d @ 86 18 August 1990 (Walden Two)

1908 – Michael Redgrave, actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1913 – Judith Evelyn, actress (The Tingler)

Judith Evelyn in The William Castle movie, The Tingler which starred Vincent Price.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1914 – Crahan Denton, actor (The Outer Limits)

Crahan Denton as Sheriff Simon Stakefield in The Outer Limits episode, The Children of Spider County.

1915 – Wendell Corey, actor (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Cyborg 2087, The Astro-Zombies)

1922 – Carl Reiner, director (The Man with Two Brains)

1922 – Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars, The Monster of Piedras Blancas)

1922 – Jack Kruschen, actor (Lois & Clark, The Time Machine, The Incredible Hulk, The Angry Red Planet, Adventures of Superman, The War of the Worlds)

1931 – Hal Linden, actor (Light Years Away, Time Changer, Starflight: The Plane that Couldn’t Land, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster, Destroy All Monsters)

1931 – Karen Steele, actress (Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Toward the Unknown)

Karen Steele in the Star Trek episode, Mudd’s Women.

1947 – Chip Zien, actor (Howard the Duck)

1948 – John de Lancie, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles, Torchwood, Gamer, My Apocalypse, Invader ZIM, Charmed, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Multiplicity, Legend, Time Trax, The Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica [1979], The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Pamela Sargent, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)

1950 – William Hurt, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Lost in Space, Dark City, Frankenstein, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dune)

1950 – Tom Towles, actor (Firefly, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, VR.5, Star Trek: DS9)

 

1951 – Tanya Boyd, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1952 – John W. Campbell, Jr. publishes The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, the third such magazine anthology within a month, helping to cement that magazine’s reputation as the leading science fiction magazine of the 1940s.

1957 – Theresa Russell, actress (Fringe, Earth vs. the Spider)

1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway, actress (Prey

1958 – Holly Hunter, actress (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)

1959 – Steve McFadden, actor (Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time)

1961 – Karen M. Waldron, actress (Space Cowboys, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1961 – John Clark Gable, actor (Beyond)

1963 – David Thewlis, actor (The Island of Dr Moreau)

1963 – Kathy Ireland, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Alien from L.A., Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1963 – Stephen Sommers, director (Deep Rising)

1964 – Leif Tilden, actor (Invader)

1967 – Bryan Genesse, actor (Terminal Virus, Cyborg Cop III)

1967 – Marc Warren, actor (Doctor Who)

1971 – Ingrid Kavelaars, actress (V (2009), ReGenesis, Stargate SG-1, Code Name: Eternity, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, Millennium, Specimen)

1971 – Liam Waite, actor (Ghosts of Mars)

1972 – Solaris released in USSR

1974 – Paula Garces, actress (Warehouse 13, Clockstoppers)

1976 – Michael Goodliffe, actor, d @ 61 (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The End Begins)

1979 – Freema Agyeman, actress (Doctor Who)

1979 – Bianca Lawson, actress (Supergator)

1979 – Georgia Craig, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Dawn of the Dead)

1980 – Talia Russo, actress (ReGenesis)

1984 – Christy Carlson Romano, actress (Infected)

1984 – Rami Malek, actor (Battleship)

1986 – Dean Geyer, actor (Terra Nova)

1989 – Alan Gifford, actor, d @ 78 (2001: A Space Odyssey, Phase IV, The Outer Limits, The Monsters, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky)

1995 – Samantha Weinstein, actress (Darknet, Swarmed)

1995 – Big John Studd, actor, d @ 47 (Hyperspace)

2007 – Battlespace released

2008 – Brian Wilde, actor, d @ 80 (Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch)

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1873 – Arthur Hoyt, actor (The Lost World)

1906 – Roy Roberts, actor (The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1907 – Kent Smith, actor (Probe, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Moon Pilot, Science Fiction Theatre)

Kent Smith in The Outer Limits episode, It Crawled Out of the Woodwork.

1909 – Louis Hayward, actor (The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1914 – Fred Clark, actor (Visit to a Small Planet, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)

1916 – Eric Christmas, actor (The X Files, Eerie Indiana, ALF, Misfits of Science, The Philadelphia Experiment, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Andromeda Strain)

1920 – Tige Andrews, actor, d @ 86 (Misfits of Science, Star Trek)

1924 – Mary Wimbush, actress (K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend)

1928 – Patrick McGoohan, actor (Hysteria, Scanners)

1928 – Jan Shepard, actress (Land of the Giants, Attack of the Giant Leeches)

 

1931 – Florence Rice, actress (The Dark)

1932 – Gail Kobe, actress (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Destination Space)

Gail Kobe in The Outer Limits episode, Specimen Unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Philip Roth, sci-fi author (The Plot Against America)

1933 – Renée Taylor, actress (Lois & Clark)

1935 – Burt Metcalfe, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Space Children)

Burt Metcalfe in The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy Being.

1936 – Ursula Andress, actress (Manimal)

1947 – Glenn Close, actress (Mary Reilly, Mars Attacks!, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Stepford Wives (2004))

1947 – Dermot Crowley, actor (HG Wells: War with the World, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)

1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Mars Saga, John Carter)

1951 – Ron Clinton Smith, actor (Coma (2012), The Mist)

1952 – Harvey Weinstein, producer (Knight Rider, Dark Skies, Escape for Planet Earth, Piranha 3D, Apollo 18, The Mist, Planet Terror, Mimic)

 

1955 – Bruce Willis, actor (Armagedden, The Fifth Element, Looper, Planet Terror, The Astronaut Farmer, The Twilight Zone, Twelve Monkeys, Mecury Rising, Surrogates)

1957 – James Blish’s The Frozen Year, one of the few science fiction novels to specifically address the International Geophysical Year, is published by Ballantine.

1963 – Geoffrey Lower, actor (Quantum Leap)

1964 – Jake Weber, actor (Dawn of the Dead)

1968 – Woody Schultz, actor (Avatar, Alien Hunter)

1969 – Connor Trinneer, actor (Star Runners, Star Trek: Enterprise, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate: Atlantis, Sliders)

1971 – Dalton James, actor (Encino Man)

1973 – Simmone Jade Mackinnon, actress (Deep Shock, The Lost World)

1974 – Edward Platt, actor, d @ 58 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Men Into Space, Destination Space)

1977 – Jorma Taccone, actor (Land of the Lost)

1979 – Al Hodge, actor, d @ 65 (Captain Video)

1982 – Kelly Vint, actress (Stargate)

1987 – Emile Meyer, actor, d @ 76 (My Favorite Martian)

1992 – Cesare Danova, actor, d @ 66 (Tenticles, The Astral Factor, Gemini Man)

1993 – Munro Chambers, actor (Godsend

1999 – Tatum McCann, actress (The Time Traveler’s Wife)

1999 – Farscape debuted on Sci-Fi channel

2003 – Rick Zumwalt, actor, d @ 51 (Timecop)

2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi author, d @ 90 (2001, 2010, Childhood’s End)

2009 – Harry Harris, director, d @ 76 19 March 2009(Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

It’s an all Outer Limits day today. May all your tomorrows by happy ones!

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1888 – Edward Everett Horton, actor (2000 Years Later, Down to Earth, Lost Horizon)

1888 – Alexander Leydenfrost, illustrator

1894 – Norbert Wiener, sci-fi author, d @ 69 (The Machine Age)

1926 – Peter Graves, actor (Beginning of the End, Killers from Space, Red Planet Mars, The Invaders, The Clonus Horror, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

Peter Graves in Beginning of the End

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Jack B. Sowards, writer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

1929 – Jack B. Sowards, writer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

1945 – Susan Tyrell, actress (Digital Man, Forbidden Zone)

1947 – Drew Struzan, illustrator

1950 – Brad Dourif, actor (End of the World, Once Upon a Time, Fringe, Alien: Resurrection, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, The X Files, Dune)

Brad Dourif in Alien Resurrection

1950 – Jim Knobeloch, actor (Iron Sky)

1959 – Luc Besson, director (The Fifth Element, Lucy)

1960 – Richard Biggs, actor (Babylon 5, The Alien Within, Twilight Zone)

1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, actor (Timecop: The Berlin Decision)

1963 – Vanessa Williams, actress (WW 3, Futuresport, The Odyssey, Star Trek: DS9)

1968 – Tamer Hassan, actor (Robot Overlords)

1970 – Queen Latifah, actress (Sphere)

1978 – Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass],sci-fi author/screenwriter, D @ 62 (Ginger Star, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)

1979 – Jareb Dauplaise, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1980 – Sophia Myles, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction,Outlander, , Doctor Who, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution)

Sophia Myles in Doctor Who

1981 – Vanessa Evigan, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Sand Sharks)

1981 – Chris Geere, actor (After Earth)

1985 – Duane Henry, actor (Doctor Who)

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

1996 – Madeline Carroll, actress (Resident Evil: Extinction)

2002 – R.A. Lafferty, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (b. 1914)

2006 – Michael Attwell, actor, d @ 63 (Doctor Who)

2010 – Fess Parker, actor, d @ 85 (Them!)

2014 – Lucius Shepard, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (Barnacle Bill The Spacer)

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1906 – Brigitte Helm, actress (Metropolis, Queen of Atlantis, The Lost Atlantis)

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang in 1927

1910 – Frank DeKova, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Teenage Cave Man)

1913 – Charles Lampkin, actor (Cocoon, The Incredible Hulk, Gemini Man)

1927 – Patrick Allen, actor (UFO, Journey to the Unknown, Island of the Burning Damned, 1984)

1931 – Eunice Gayson, actress (The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1933 – Ken Barr, illustrator

1936 – Patty Maloney, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, A.J.’s Time Travelers, The Ice Pirates, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1945 – Tanya Lemani, actress (Star Trek)

1948 – William [Ford] Gibson, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)

1948 – William [Ford] Gibson, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)

1949 – Patrick Duffy, actor (Man from Atlantis)

1951 – Kurt Russell, actor (The Thing, Stargate, Escape from New York, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Lost in Space, Escape from L.A.)

Kurt Russell in the Lost in Space episode The Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1954 – Lesley-Anne Down, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1955 – Bill Beyers, actor (The Incredible Hulk)

1955 – Gary Sinise, actor (Mission to Mars)

Gary Sinise in Mission to Mars

1955 – Mark Boone Jr, actor (Frankenfish, Armageddon)

1957 – Laurene Landon, actress (Marilyn: Zombie Hunter, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive, America 3000, The Stuff)

1959 – Christian Clemenson, actor (Lois & Clark, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1960 – Vicki Lewis, actress (Godzilla 1998)

1960 – Arye Gross, actor (Minority Report, Fringe, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Timelock)

1960 – Cameron Thor, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG, Jurassic Park)

1961 – Casey Siemaszko, actor (Back to the Future 1 & 2)

1961 – Andrew Paul, actor (The Day of the Triffids)

1962 – Frank Orth, actor, d @ 82 (Adventures of Superman)

1964 – Bill Marchant, actor (Chappie, Godzilla 2014, The 100, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Millennium)

1964 – Rob Lowe, actor (Apocalypse Slough, The Stand)

1967 – Richard Reeves, actor, d @ 54 (Target Earth, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superboy, Adventures of Superman)

1968 – Mathew St. Patrick, actor (Alien Raiders)

1971 – Brent Roam, actor (Deep Blue Sea)

1973 – Amelia Weatherly, actress (Earth vs. the Spider)

1974 – Willard Sage, actor, d @ 51 (The Outer Limits, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek)

1974 – Jennifer Lothrop, actress (Flatland)

1974 – Janaya Stephens, actress (Death Race, Category 7: The End of the World, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Mutant X, Lexx)

1974 – Marisa Coughlan, Space Station 76, The Twilight Zone, Weird Science)

1975 – Natalie Zea, actor (Under the Dome)

1975 – Gina Holden, actress (Avalanche Sharks, Dracano, Fringe, Mysterious Island, Smallvile, Flash Gordon, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1976 – Brittany Daniel, actress (Skyline)

1978 – Adam Jennings, actor (Mars Needs Moms)

1989 – Merritt Butrick, actor, d @ 29 (Star Trek II and III, Star Trek: TNG)

1992 – Jack Arnold, director, d @ 75 (Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space)

1992 – Charles Rea, actor, d @ 69 (Doomwatch)

1993 – Skip Young, actor, d @ 63 (Earth vs. the Spider, Lobster Man from Mars)

1995 – Rick Aviles, actor, d @ 42 (Waterworld, The Stand)

2005 – Andre Norton, sci-fi author, d @ 93 (Witch World, Wizard’s World, Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D.)

2011 – Michael Gough d @ 95 (Doctor Who, They Came From Beyond Space)