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

1876 – Charles Halton, actor (Dr Cyclops)

1904 – Clive Morton, actor (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Monsters, Out of This World)

Clive Marton in the Doctor Who episode, The Sea Devils.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, actress (Lost in Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

Mercedes McCambridge in Lost in Space

1920 – Leo McKern, actor (Space: 1999, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, X the Unknown)

1926 – Jerry Lewis, actor (Slapstick (of Another Kind), The Nutty Professor, Visit to a Small Planet)

1926 – Victor Maddern, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who)

1935 – Eddie Carmel, actor (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die)

1938 – Nancy Fish b. 1938 (Early Edition, The X Files, The Mask, Death Becomes Her, Tales from the Crypt, Werewolf, Howard the Duck)

 

1946 – Erik Estrada, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Alien Seed, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Margaret [Edith] Weis, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)

1949 – Victor Garber, actor (Star Trek, ReGenesis, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)

1949 – Michael MacRae, actor (Battlefield Earth, The X Files, Automan, Coma, Future Cop)

1950 – Kate Nelligan, actress (A Wrinkle in Time)

1951 – Steven Grives, actor (20,000 Leauges under the Sea, Time Trax, Horror Planet)

1952 – Irwin Keyes, actor (Professor Creepy’s Scream Party, Dead Kansas, Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong, Legend of the Phantom Rider, Black Scorpion, Here Come the Munsters, Timemaster, Tales from the Crypt, Adventures in Dinosaur City, Frankenstein General Hospital, Nice Girls Don’t Explode, Zapped!, Nocturna)

1954 – Jimmy Nail, actor (Morons from Outer Space)

1963 – Kevin Smith, actor (Riverworld)

1966 – Ted Ludzik, actor (Warehouse 13, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, RoboCop: Prime Directives)

1967 – Lauren Graham, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1969 – Judah Friedlander, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One)

1971 – Ashley Miller, writer (Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Andromeda)

1971 – Alan Tudyk, actor (I Robot, V, Serenity, Firefly, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Dollhouse)

1973 – Carl Benton Reid, actor, d @ 79 (The Underwater City)

1975 – Sienna Guillory, actress (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Time Machine, Virtuality

1975 – Tara Buck, actress (The X Files)

1975 – Sienna Guillory, actress (Resident Evil, The Time Machine)

1978 – Sophie Hunter, actress (Torchwood)

1984 – Shug Fisher, actor, d @ 76 (The Giant Gila Monster)

1984 – The Ice Pirates released

1986 – Alexandra Daddario, actor (The Last Man on Earth, Percy Jackson, Texas Chainsaw 3D)

1987 – Kristopher Higgins, actor (In Time)

1993 – Don Randolph, actor, d @ 87 (The Deadly Mantis)

1996 – Charlie Barnett, actor, d @ 41 (They Bite

2006 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author, d @ 61

2008 – Ivan Dixon, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

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1904 – Pat J O’Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Lights Out)

1904 – George Brent, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1907 – Paul Maxey, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1913 – MacDonald Carey, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, End of the World, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre)

MacDonald Carey in The Outer Limits episode, The Special One.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Richard Ward, actor (The Immortal)

1915 – Joe E. Ross, actor (It’s About Time, The Lost Saucer)

Joe E. Ross in It’s About Time

1919 – Lawrence Tierney, actor (Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1924 – Walter Gotell, actor (The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Boys from Brazil, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, 1984)

1935 – Judd Hirsch, actor (Independence Day, Sharknado, Warehouse 13)

1943 – David Cronenberg, director (eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, The Fly, Videodrome, Scanners, They Came from Within)

1945 – Henry Victor, actor, d @ 52 (King of the Zombies)

1949 – John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)

1949 – Brad Blaisdell, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Dark Skies, Evolver, Small Wonder, World War III)

1950 – The Mutual Radio network debuts 2000 Plus, the earliest effort at an adult-oriented science fiction anthology radio drama, which will run until January 1952.

2000 Plus radio show began

1954 – Craig Wasson, actor (The Tomorrow Man, Star Trek: DS9, Trapped in Space)

1956 – Forbidden Planet, directed by Fred Wilcox, is released, becoming one of the most popular of all science fiction films, with its elaborate special effects, unusually sophisticated plot, and pioneering use of electronic music.

1957 – Joaquim de Almeida, actor (Revolution, Robosapien: Rebooted)

1958 – Laura Carrington, actress (Max Headroom)

1959 – Renny Harlin, director (T.R.A.X., Deep Blue Sea)

1964 – Paul Cavanagh, actor, d @ 75 (Adventures of Superman, She Devil, Space Patrol, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1966 – Chris Bruno, actor (The Cell 2)

1969 – Kim Raver, actress (Revolution)

1969 – Miles Malleson, actor, d @ 80 (First Men in the Moon, The Brain)

1970 – J. Brennan Smith, actor (Testament)

1972 – Anne Bedian, actress (Meteor, Lost, Android Apocalypse)

1975 – Tak Sakaguchi, actor (Mutant Girls Squad, Samurai Zombie, Godzilla: Final Wars)

1977 – Brian Tee, actor (The Invisible Man, Jurassic World, Roswell FM)

1983 – Sean Biggerstaff, actor (Doctor Who)

1985 – Kellan Lutz, actor (Heroes)

1985 – Eva Amurri Martino, actress (Animals)

1986 – Jai Courtney, actor (Terminator Genisys, Insurgent, Divergent, I Frankenstein)

1996 – George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane aka George Borodin, sci-fi author, d @ 92

2003 – Thora Hird, actress, d @ 91 (The Quatermass Xperiment)

2007 – Stuart Rosenberg, director, d @ 79 (Twilight Zone)

2009 – Ron Silver, actor, d @ 62 (Timecop, The Entity, Xenophobia, The Arrival, Lifepod)

2001 – Ann Sothern, actress, d @ 92 (The Manitou)

2002 – Race to Space released

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1918 – Dennis Patrick, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Lost in Space, The Time Travelers, Tales of Tomorrow)

Dennis Patrick in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1922 – Arch Johnson, actor (The Invisible Man (1975),Land of the Giants, The Invaders, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Skip Young, actor, (Earth vs. the Spider, Lobster Man from Mars)

1933 – Michael Caine, actor (Children of Men, Interstellar, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jekyll & Hyde, The Swarm, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

Michael Caine in Day the Earth Caught Fire as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Raymond J. Barry, actor (Doomed Planet, The X-Files)

1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, director (Enemy Mine, Outbreak)

1943 – Anita Morris, actress (Martians Go Home)

Anita Morris in Martians Go Home

1946 – Steve Kanaly, actor (Scorpio One, The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, The Terminal Man)

1951 – Season Hubley, actor (Humanoids From the Deep, The Twilight Zone, Escape form New York)

1954 – Adrian Zmed, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1959 – Tamara Tunie, actress (SeaQuest 2032)

1961 – Penny Johnson, actress (The 4400, The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1965 – Kiana Tom, actress (Universal Soldier: The Return, Cyber Bandits)

1965 – Catherine Dent, actress (Replicant, Sanctuary, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Lone Gunman, The Invisible Man, The X-Files)

1966 – Elise Neal, actress (SeaQuest 2032

 

1968 – Megan Follows, actress (The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1968 – James Frain, actor (Tron Legacy, FlashForward, Fringe, Invasion, Threshold, Loch Ness)

1974 – Grace Park, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, Jake 2.0, Stargate SG-1, The Immortal)

1975 – Ernesto Cantu, actor (Extinction, World War Z)

1976 – Corey Stoll, actor (The Strain)

1976 – Daniel Gillies, actor (Cleopatra 2525)

1979 – Chris Klein, actor (Rollerball)

1980 – Mercedes McNab, actress (Escape from Atlantis)

1982 – Kate Maberly, actress (The Langoliers)

1986 – Jamie Bell, actress (Jumper, Snowpiercer)

1992 – Ralph James, actor, d @ 67 (Mork & Mindy)

1994 – Ansel Elgort, actor (Allegiant, Insurgent, Divergent, )

1999 – Kirk Alyn, actor (Superman, When Worlds Collide, Beginning of the End, Superman 1978, Battlestar Galactica, Time Warp) d @ 88

2004 – Rene Laloux, director, d @ 74 (Gandahar, Time Masters, Fantastic Planet)

2007 – Gareth Hunt, actor, d @ 65 (Space: 1999, Doctor Who)

2010 – Peter Graves, actor, d @ 83 (Beginning of the End, Killers from Space, Red Planet Mars, The Invaders, The Clonus Horror, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

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1901 – Paul Fix, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

Paul Fix as Dr. Mark Piper in the original Star Trek pilot.

1907 – Frank Wilcox, actor (It’s About Time, Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Invaders from Mars, The Flying Missile)

1908 – Paul Stewart, actor (The Invisible Man, City Beneath the Sea)

1911 – L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi author

1917 – Tessie O’Shea, actress (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Peter Breck, actor (The Outer Limits, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Outer Limits [original], The Crawling Hand)

Peter Breck’s as Senator Jeremiah Orville in The Outer Limits episode, O.B.I.T.

1932 – Grant Wood, actor, d @ 36 31 October 1968 (Star Trek)

1935 – Joseph Mascolo, actor (The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Leslie Parrish, actress (The Giant Spider Invasion, Logan’s Run, The Astral Factor, Star Trek, Missile to the Moon)

Leslie Parrish as Lt. Carolyn Palamas in the Star Trek episode, Who Mourns for Adonais.

1950 – William H Macy, actor (Jurassic Park III, Evolver, WarGames)

1953 – Deborah Raffin, actress (Scanners II: The New Order, Twilight Zone)

1954 – Robin Duke, actress (Virtual Mom, Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Maniac Mansion)

1955 – Glenne Headly, actress (The X-Files)

1956 – Dana Delany, actress (Battlestar Galactica)

1960 – Arturo Gil, actor (Mole Men, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Third Rock from the Sun, Spaceballs)

1962 – John Turk, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1965 – Steve Bacic, actor (Smallville, Stargate: Continuum, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Flash Gordon, Blade: The Series, Andromeda, The 6th Day, Earth: Final Conflict, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1965 – David Orth, actor (Fringe, 2012, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, Mutant X, The Lost World, Total Recall 2070, RoboCop (TV), The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1968 – Christopher Collett, actor (Manhattan Project, The Langoliers)

1969 – Felix Locher, actor, D @ 66 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Munsters, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Curse of the Faceless Man)

1971 – Annabeth Gish, actress (FlashForward, The X-Files)

1972 – Common, actor (Terminator Salvation)

1972 – Kiara Hunter, actress (Alien Incursion, Stargate SG-1, The X Files)

1972 – Lonnie Rashid Lynn aka Common, actor (Terminator Salvation)

1973 – Stacy Harris, actor, d @ 54 (Men into Space, The Adventures of Superboy)

1974 – Janos Prohaska d @ 54 (Star Trek, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)

1975 – Jean Del Val, actor, d @ 83 (Fantastic Voyage)

1975 – Chris Ashworth, actor (Space Warriors, Terminator Salvation)

1976 – Danny Masterson, actor (Star Kid, Face/Off)

1980 – Harlan Warde, actor, d @ 62 (The Invaders, The Monster That Challenged the World)

1981 – April Matson, actress (Kyle XY)

1984 – Rachael Bella, actress (W.E.I.R.D. World)

1984 – Noel Fisher, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Outer Limits, Andromeda)

1985 – Emile Hirsch, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Gargantua)

1992 – Kaya Scodelario, actress (Maze Runner, Moon)

1993 – Ann Way, actress, d @ 77 (Brazil)

2000 – Rex Everhart, actor, d @ 79 (Superman, ‘Way Out)

2005 – Jason Evers, actor, d @ 83 (The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, Basket Case 2, Bionic Woman, The Fantastic Journey, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Illustrated Man, Star Trek, The Invaders)

2006 – Maureen Stapleton, actress d @ 80 (Cocoon, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Electric Grandmother)

2013 – Malachi Throne, actor, d @ 84 (Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek, Project U.F.O., Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

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1879 – Alfred Abel, actor (Metropolis)

1905 – Takashi Shimura, actor (Godzilla 1954 & 1977, Kwaidan, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Mothra, The Mysterians, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Godzilla Raids Again )

1907 – Arthur Hewlett, actor (Moondial, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Quatermass and the Pit)

Arthur Hewlett in the Doctor Who episode State of Decay as Kalmar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1918 – Frank Overton, actor, d @ 49 24 April 1967 (Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

Frank Overton in the Star Trek episode, This Side of Paradise.

1919 – Frank Campanella, actor (Salvage 1, Captain Video)

1925 – Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy, Make Room! Make Room! (Basis for Solent Green))

1947 – Laura Waterbury, actress (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Mac and Me, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)

1950 – Jon Provost, actor (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)

1951 – Caren Kaye, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1956 – Lesley Manville, actor (An Adventure in Space and Time)

 

1957 – Philip K. Dick’s novel Eye in the Sky is published by Ace

Philip K Dick’s novel, An Eye in the Sky was published.

1960 – Courtney B Vance, actor (FlashForward, Space Cowboys)

1960 – Jason Beghe, actor (The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation)

1961 – Titus Welliver, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Star Trek: Voyager, Total Recall 2070, The X-Files)

1963 – Julia Campbell, actress (Heroes, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics)

1966 – Estelita Rodriguez, actress, d @ 37 (Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter )

1968 – Aaron Eckhart, actor (Battle Los Angeles, I, Frankenstein)

1971 – The Andromeda Strain released

1982 – Samm Levine, actor (Warehouse 13)

1982 – Aaron Farb, actor (Powers, Revolution)

1984 – Arnold Ridley, actor, d @ 88 (Out of the Unknown)

1984 – Jaimie Alexander, actress (Ultradome, Kyle XY)

1988 – Karen Steele, actress, d @ 56 (Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1989 – Maurice Evans, actor, d @ 87 (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1992 – Barbara Morrison, actress, d @ 84 (Project Moonbase)

1994 – Tanveer K. Atwal, actress (The Matrix Revolutions)

1995 – Juanin Clay, actress, d @ 45 (Wargames, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1999 – Wing Commander released

2001 – Morton Downey, Jr., actor, d @ 67 (Predator 2)

2003 – Lynne Thigpen, actress, d @ 54 (Bicentennial Man)

2014 – Richard Coogan, actor as Captain Video, d @ 99 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

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1895 – Shemp Howard, actor (The Invisible Woman)

1911 – Alan Gifford, actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Phase IV, The Outer Limits, The Monsters, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky)

1916 – Ferdy Mayne, actor (Frankenstein’s Aunt, Masters of Venus)

1921 – F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)

1923 – Terry Alexander, actor (Doctor Who, Frankenstein, Star Maidens)

1925 – Christopher Anvil, sci-fi author (Federation of Humanity, The Day the Machines Stopped)

1928 – Valerie French, actress (The 27th Day)

1928 – Albert Salmi, actor (Empire of the Ants, Future Cop, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Albert Salmi in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Diane Brewster, actress (The Invisible Boy)

1935 – Nancy Kovack, actress (The Invisible Man, Marooned, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders)

Nancy Kovack in the Star Trek episode, A Private Little War.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard, Repo Man, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Star Trek, The Phantom Planet)

Angelique Pettyjohn in Star Trek

1945 – Tricia O’Neal, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Star Trek: TNG, Voyagers!, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1946 – Mark Metcalf, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1952 – Douglas Adams, sci-fi author (author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, writer, Doctor Who)

1952 – Diane Sherry Case, actress (Superman)

1958 – Stephen R. Hart, actor (Space Janitors, Resident Evil: Apocalypse)

 

 

 

1960 – Fulvio Cecere, actor (Continuum, The 100, The Tomorrow People, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Blade: The Series, Odyssey 5, Taken, Smallville, Earth; Final Conflict, Strange World, Millennium, Cloned, The X-Files)

1960 – Robert Glenister, actor (Doctor Who)

1960 – Fulvio Cecere, actor (The Tomorrow People, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Odyssey 5, Smallville, Earth; Final Conflict, Millennium, The X-Files)

1961 – Elias Koteas, actor (Gattica, The Last Days on Mars, S1m0ne, Cyborg 2, The Fourth Kind)

1962 – Jeffrey Nordling,a ctor (TRON: Legacy, Time Trax, Star Trek: DS9, Alien Nation)

1963 – Alex Kingston, actress (Doctor Who, FlashForward, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Viruality)

1964 – Peter Berg, actor (Battleship, Fire in the Sky)

1965 – Wallace Langham, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: Voyager, Martians Go Home, The Invisible Kid, Weird Science)

1967 – John Barrowman, actor (The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Doctor Who in America, Doctor Who)

1971 – Johnny Knoxville, actor (Men in Black II)

1972 – Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Martians Go Home)

1979 – Victor Kilian, actor, d @ 88 (Planet of the Apes, Unknown World, Doctor Cyclops, Planet of the Apes)

1981 – David Anders, actor (Warehouse 13, Heroes, The Source, iZombie)

1982 – Edmund Cooper, sci-fi writer, d @ 55 (Tomorrow Came)

1982 – Thora Birch, actress (Purple People Eater)

1982 – Lindsey McKeon, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1989 – Anton Yelchin, actor (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Terminator Salvation

1989 – William Challee, actor, d @ 84 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1989 – Daniella Kertesz, actress (World War Z)

1996 – Vince Edwards, actor, d @ 67 (Space Raiders)

2005 – Robots released

2006 – Brian Morrow, actor, d @ 94 (The Bionic Woman, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone)

2008 – Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident released

2008 – Stargate: The Ark of Truth released

2010 – Merlin Olsen, actor, d @ 69 (A Fire in the Sky)

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1884 – Stuart Holmes, actor (The Nutty Professor, Twilight Zone, The Lost World, Adventures of Superman, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Rocketship X-M, The Creeper)

1891 – Sam Jaffe, actor (Battle Beyond the Stars, The Bionic Woman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Lost Horizon)

1905 – Richard Haydn, actor (Young Frankenstein, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)

1911 – Warner Anderson, actor (Destination Moon, The Immortal)

Warner Anderson in Destination Moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Cec Linder, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Day of Resurrection, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Quatermass and the Pit)

1922 – Pamela Mason, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)

Pamela Mason in The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Venetia Stevenson, actress (The City of the Dead)

1940 – David Watson, actor (Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Time Tunnel)

1943 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Star Trek)

Angelique Pettyjohn in Star Trek

1943 – Bruce Joel Rubin, writer (The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Last Mimzy, Deep Impact, Jacob’s Ladder, Brainstorm)

1944 – Richard Gant, actor (Smallville, Godzilla 1998, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark)

1947 – Victor J Lopez, actor (Man From Atlantis, Tomorrow’s Child, Megaforce)

1956 – Robert Llewellyn, actor (Red Dwarf)

1957 – Shannon Tweed, actress (Homeboys in Outer Space)

1958 – Sharon Stone, actress (Total Recall, Sphere, Beyond the Stars)

 

 

1960 – Scott Frank, writer (Minority Report)

1961 – Andre Johnson, actor (Age of Dinosaurs, 100 Degrees Below Zero, Blade)

1962 – Journey to the Seventh Planet released

1962 – Jasmine Guy, actress (The Outer Limits, Lois & Clark)

1969 – Paget Brewster, actress (Cyxork 7, Star Patrol)

1971 – Jon Hamm, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Space Cowboys)

1972 – Silent Running released

1977 – Bree Turner, actress (Duel on Planet Z)

1978 – Tara Cardinal, actress (Relatively Super, Alien Rising, Apocalypse Z, Robodoc)

1981 – Holly Winnard b. 1981 (The Battle for Earth, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, Hoodoo for Voodoo)

1982 – Katharine Isabelle, actress (Santuary, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, First Wave, The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1983 – Rafe Spall, actor (Prometheus, Earthbound, The World’s End, Shawn of the Dead)

1984 – Olivia Wilde, actress (Cowboys & Aliens, In Time, Tron: Legacy, Lazarus)

1986 – Ray Milland, actor, d @ 8 (Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, The Darker Side of Terror, Battlestar Galactia, The Thing with Two Heads, Frogs, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes)

1992 – Emily Osment, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1998 – Lloyd Bridges, actor, d @ 85 (The Outer Limits, Battlestar Galactica, Stowaway to the Moon, Rocketship X-M)

2000 – Mission to Mars released

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1892 – Frank Puglia, actor (The Outer Limits, 20 Million Miles to Earth)

Frank Puglia in The Outer Limits episode, A Feasibility Study.

1902 – Will Geer, actor (The Invaders)

1918 – Marguerite Chapman, actress (Flight to Mars , The Amazing Transparent Man, Science Fiction Theatre)

1921 – Carl Betz, actor (Killdozer)

1934 – Joyce Van Patten, actress (The Martian Chronicles, Twilight Zone)

1934 – Del Close, actor (The Blob, Beware! The Blob)

1936 – Marty Ingels, actor (The Munsters Today)

1938 – Charles Siebert, actor (The Incredible Hulk)

1940 – Raul Julia, actor (Frankenstein Unbound)

1943 – Trish Van Devere, actress (The Day of the Dolphin)

1946 – Alexandra Bastedo, actress (The Starlost)

1950 – Space Patrol, a TV series featuring Commander Buzz Corry, debuts on a local TV station in Los Angeles, and eventually becomes a network series that will survive until 1955.

Space Patrol debuted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1952 – William Kirby Cullen, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1955 – Pat Murphy, actor (1988 Nebula for The Falling Woman)

1955 – The television program Disneyland airs a popular episode entitled “Man in Space,” discussing the history of rocketry and potential problems posed by spaceflight. The episode, narrated in part by Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley, will later be re-edited as a theatrical short and provide the basis for both a comic book, a classroom text, and a popular ride at Disneyland. It will be followed by other episodes “Man in the Moon” (December 28, 1955) and “Mars and Beyond” (December 4, 1957).

Man in Space debuted

1955 – Ornella Muti, actress (Flash Gordon)

1958 – Linda Fiorentino, actress (Men in Black, What Planet Are You From?)

1959 – Rodney A. Grant, actor (Ghosts of Mars, Stargate SG-1)

1960 – Finn Carter, actor (Tremors)

1962 – Kirk B.R. Woller, actor (Extant, The Event, Resident Evil: Extinction, Hulk, Minority Report, The X-Files, Sliders, Mercury Rising, Dark Skies)

1964 – Juliette Binoche, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1969 – Richard Crane, actor, d @ 50 (Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Men Into Space, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, The Neanderthal Man, Mysterious Island)

1972 – Kerr Smith, actor (The Outer Limits)

1977 – Terry Nation, writer, d @ 46 (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)

1977 – Kirk B.R. Woller, actor (The Event, Resident Evil: Extinction, Hulk, Minority Report, The X-Files, Sliders, Mercury Rising, Dark Skies)

1978 – Starcrash released

1980 – Oscar Isaac, actor (Ex Machina, Celestina, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens)

1986 – Brittany Snow, actress (SeaQuest 2032)

1987 – Shad Moss, actor (Smallville)

1991 – Brenna O’Brien, actor (Kyle XY, Tin Man, Stargate SG-1)

1992 – Felipe Turich, actor, d @ 93 (The Immortal, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter)

1995 – Ian Ballentine, publisher, d @ 79 (Ballentine Books)

1996 – Richard Powers, illustrator, d @ 75

1997 – Niamh Wilson, actress (Warehouse 13, Falling Skies)

2012 – John Carter released

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1914 – Priscilla Lawson, actress (Flash Gordon)

Priscilla Lawson as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., actor (ALF, The Giant Spider Invasion, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, The Crawling Hand, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, TheDisastro-nauts)

Alan Hale Jr (right) in the My Favorite Martian episode The Disastro-nauts

1923 – Booth Colman, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Galactica 1980, Project U.F.O., Time Travelers, Planet of the Apes (TV), The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Moonfleet, Them!)

1927 – Mickey Morton, actor (The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Bionic Woman, Star Trek)

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Sean McClory, actor (Them!, Battlestar Galactica, Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian, The Outer Limits)

Sean McClory as Karl Emmett in The Outer Limits episode, The Duplicate Man

1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, actress (Zapped!, Zapped Again!)

1938 – George Innes, actor (Stardust, Morons from Outer Space, Voyagers!)

1938 – Lewis Teague, director (Time Trax, Alligator)

1940 – Susan Clark, actress (The Astronaut, Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1953 – Kathy Shower, actress (Cyber-C.H.I.C., Frankenstein General Hospital)

1956 – John Kapelos, actor (Weird Science, Star Trek Equinox: The Night of Time, Category 7: The End of the World, Phil the Alien, The X-Files, First Wave, Timecop, The Relic, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap)

1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, actress (Sci-Fighter)

1959 – Aidan Quinn, actor (Frankenstein)

1959 – Barbara Eve Harris, actress (Forever, Eureka, 10.5 Apocalypse, TekWar: TekJustice)

 

1961 – Camryn Manheim, actress (Extant, Slipstream, What Planet Are You From?)

1963 – Robert Stanton, actor (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1970 – Jed Ress, actor (Galaxy Quest, The X-Files)

1971 – Al Vicente, actor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Under the Dome, The Walking Dead, American Zombie)

1972 – Matt Nable, actor (Riddick)

1973 – Boris Kodjoe, actor (Resident Evil, Surrogates, Starship Trooper 3: Marauder)

1974 – Danny Corkill, actor (D.A.R.Y.L., Dune)

1976 – Freddie Prinze Jr, actor (Wing Commander)

1977 – James Van Der Beek, actor (The Storm, Aliens in the Family)

1985 – Edward Andrews, actor, d @ 70 (The Starlost, Twilight Zone, The Invaders)

1996 – Hellraiser: Bloodline released

2001 – Edward Winter, actor, d @ 63 (Weird Science, Project U.F.O., Superboy, Misfits of Science, Salvage 1)

2004 – Robert Pastorelli, actor, d @ 49 (The Twilight Zone)

2014 – Wendy Hughes, actress, d @ 61 (Star Trek: TNG)

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1917 – Davis Roberts, actor (Westworld, Demon Seed, Ark II, Star Trek)

Davis Roberts in Star Trek, The Empath

1921 – Eleanor Summerfield, actress (UFO)

1925 – Richard Vernon, actor (Journey to the Unknown, UFO, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

1926 – Alan Sues, actor (Time Express, Twilight Zone)

1927 – James Broderick, actor (Twilight Zone)

1934 – Gray Morrow, illustrator, d @ 67

 

 

 

1940 – Daniel J Travanti, actor (The Wasp Woman, The Outer Limits, Millennium, Lost in Space)

Daniel J. Travanti in the Lost in Space episode, Collision of the Planets

1942 – Paul Preuss, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)

1945 – Elizabeth Moon, sci-fi author (2004 Nebula for The Speed of Dark)

1945 – John Heard, actor (C.H.U.D., Sharknado, Battlestar Galactica, Locusts, The Outer Limits)

1947 – Richard Lawson, actor (Mars and Beyond, V, The Fantastic Journey)

1950 – Mark Pinter, actor (Futurestates

1955 – Tom Dugan, actor, d @ 66 (Hypernauts)

 

 

 

1956 – Bryan Cranston, actor (Godzilla 2014, Total Recall, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, Babylon 5, Amazon Women on the Moon, Dead Space)

Bryan Cranston in Godzilla 2014

1958 – Rik Mayall, actor (Errors of the Human Body, Whoops Apocalypse)

1959 – Donna Murphy, actress (The Fountain, The Edison Death Machine, Star Trek: Insurrection, The Astronaut’s Wife)

1959 – Nick Searcy, actor (Seven Days, Roswell)

1963 – Bill Brochtrup, actor (Space Marines, ALF)

1965 – Cameron Daddo, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Riverworld, Anthrax, The Outer Limits, Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda,

1966 – Joy Tanner, actress (ReGenesis, Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1966 – Jonathan Del Arco, actor (Dollhouse, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG)

 

1970 – Rachel Weisz, actress (The Fountain, The Lobster, Chain Reaction, Death Machine)

Rachel Weisz as Dr Lily Sinclair in Chain Reaction

1971 – Matthew Vaughn, director (Stardust)

1971 – Josh Stolberg, writer (Piranha 3D, Piranha 3DD, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1972 – Maxim Roy, actress (ReGenesis, CAT. 8, Infected, WarGames: The Dead Code)

1974 – Larry Bagby, actor (L.I.N.X., Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here)

1974 – Tobias Menzies, actor (Doctor Who, The Deep)

1974 – Jolie Jenkins, actor (The X-Files)

1974 – Jenna Fischer, actress (Apocalypse Slough, Slither [2006])

 

1975 – Ben Blue, actor, d @ 73 (Land of the Giants)

1975 – Audrey Marie Anderson, actress (The Walking Dead)

1982 – Aaron Diaz, actor (Dinoshark)

1983 – Robert Bray, actor, d @ 65 (Twilight Zone, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, The Thing from Another World)

1984 – Brandon T. Jackson, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1992 – Justin Kelly, actor (Warehouse 13)

1999 – Stanley Kubrick, director, d @ 76 (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

2000 – Charles Gray, actor, d @ 71 (Out of this World, Man in the Moon, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2004 – Paul Winfield, actor, d @ 64 (Terminator, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Damnation Alley, Mars Attacks!, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

2006 – John Junkin, actor, d @ 76 (Journey into the Unknown, The Brain)

2009 – Jimmy Boyd, actor, d @ 70 (Brainstorm, Space Force, Space Patrol)