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

1887 – Leonard Carey, actor (Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1894 – Howard Wendell, actor (The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1907 – Shimen Rushkin, actor (Donovan’s Brain)

1909 – Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)

1912 – Richard Wattis, actor (Egghead’s Robot)

1913 – Jim Backus, actor (C.H.O.M.P.S., Ark II)

1917 – Anthony Burgess, sci-fi author (A Clockwork Orange)

1925 – Bert Remsen, actor (Humanoids from the Deep, TerrorVision, Star Trek: DS9, The Phoenix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Moon Pilot)

Burt Remsen in Star Trek DS9

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Christopher George, actor (Day of the Animals, Project X, The Immortal)

Christopher George in The Immortal

1934 – Bernard Bresslaw, actor (Krull, Doctor Who)

1934 – Michael Fairman, actor (Firefly, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, The Powers of Matthew Star, World War III)

1937 – Tom Courtenay, actor (The Day the Fish Came Out)

 

 

 

 

1938 – Diane Baker, actress (The Invaders, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mann & Machine)

Diane Baker as Kathy Adams in The Invaders episode. Beachhead. Better known as Silence of the Lambs’ Senator Ruth Martin

1948 – Joe Mays, actor (Spontanious Combustion, Future Kick, Alien Nation, ALF)

1952 – H. L. Gold publishes The Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, highlighting that magazine’s growing prominence in satirical and social science fiction.

1954 – John Doe, actor (Zombex, Roswell, Liquid Dreams)

1955 – Leann Hunley, actress (Lois & Clark, Battlestar Galactica)

1958 – Barclay Hope, actor (Eureka, Fringe, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, War of the Worlds (TV), The Twilight Zone)

1959 – Carl Marotte, actor (TekWar)

1958 – James C. Burns, actor (Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Transformers)

1964 – Lee Evans, actor (Doctor Who, The Fifth Element)

1966 – Samantha Phillips, actress (Phantasm II)

 

1966 – Alexis Denisof, actor (H+, Dollhouse)

1966 – Stacey Cortez, actress (Quantum Leap, They Came from Outer Space)

1966 – Tea Leoni, actress (Deep Impact, Jurassic Park III, The X-Files)

1971 – Christien Anholt, actress (Doctor Who)

1971 – Sean Astin, actor (The Strain, Alphas, Masters of Science Fiction)

1973 – Anson Mount, actor (Dollhouse, Smallville)

1973 – Anson Mount, actor (Dollhouse, Smallville)

1973 – Daniel Boileau, actor (The Tomorrow People, Eve of Destruction, Fringe, Smallville, Eureka, Stargate: Atlantis)

1979 – David Hoflin, actor (The Lost World)

1979 – Jennifer Ferrin, actress (Falling Skies)

1982 – Tara Wilson, actress (Almost Human, V, Smallville, Tin Man)

1986 – Justin Berfield, actor (The Kid with X-ray Eyes)

1987 – James Coco, actor, d @ 58 (The Stepford Children, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1988 – Amapola Del Vando, actress, d @ 78 (The Bionic Woman)

1992 – Guy Deghy, actor, d @ 79 (The Mouse on the Moon)

1993 – Eddie Constantine, actor, d @ 79 (Frankenstein’s Aunt)

1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, actress (The Hunger Games)

1997 – Leprechaun 4: In Space released

2006 – Darren McGavin, actor, d @ 83 (The X-Files, Firebird 2015 AD, Hanger 18, The Martian Chronicles, The Six Million Dollar Man, Mission Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)

2009 – Philip Jose Farmer, sci-fi writer, d @ 91 (Riverworld)

2014 – Ed Vassallo, actor, d @ 42 (Fringe, War of the Worlds)

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1885 – Bert Lytell, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1909 – August Derleth, sci-fi author (The Trail of Cthulhu, the Solar Pons series)

1909 – Milton Frome, actor (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)

Milton Frome in the Twilight Zone episode, The Four of Us Are Dying.

1921 – Abe Vigoda, actor (The Bionic Woman, Weird Science, Superboy)

1921 – Richard Powers, illustrator

1929 – Richard B. Shull, actor (Heartbeeps, Holmes and Yo-Yo, Ssssssss, Slither)

1930 – Barbara Lawrence, actress (Kronos)

1932 – John Vernon, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, War of the Worlds, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, 1984)

1936 – Jess Conrad, actor (Space: 1999)

 

1933 – Leslie Carlson, actress (Plague City: SARS in Toronto, Anonymous Rex, Odyssey 5, The X-Files, The Girl from Mars, The Twilight Zone, War of the Words (TV), The Fly (86), Videodrome, The Neptune Factor)

1938 – James Farentino, actor (The Final Countdown)

1940 – James Sloyan, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Misfits of Science, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1943 – Robert A. Silverman, actor (eXistenZ, Waterworld, 984: Prisoner of the Future, Scanners)

1944 – Sheila Larkin, actress (The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Small Wonder, The Incredible Hulk)

Sheila Larkin in The X-Files

1944 – Barry Bostwick, actor (Megaforce, Fantastic Planet)

1947 – Edward James Olmos, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashback, Blade Runner)

1951 – Helen Shaver, actress (The 4400, Tremors II: Aftershocks, The Outer Limits, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Starship Invasions)

1951 – Debra Jo Rupp, actress (The Invaders, Robots)

1958 – Mark Moses, actor (Race to Space, Star Trek: Voyager)

 

1959 – Beth Broderick, actress (The Bionic Woman, Under the Dome)

1961 – Emilio Rivera, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The X Files)

1964 – Frank Conroy, actor, d @ 60 (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1966 – Billy Zane, actor (Back to the Future, Back to the Future II, Alien Agent)

1969 – Will McLaughlin, actor (Men in Black 3)

1970 – Ungela Brockman, actress (Starship Troopers, Babylon 5)

1970 – Jonathan Ward, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1972 – James Bachman, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Hyperdrive)

1974 – Bonnie Somerville, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Julian Rivero, actor, d @ 85 (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1982 – Virginia Bruce, actress, d @ 71 (Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Woman)

1984 – Winston Bethel, actor (Astronaut Wives Club)

1991 – Jean Rogers, actress, d @ 74 (Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars)

1995 – Sherry Moreland, actress, d @ 73 (Pyro… The Thing Without a Face, Adventure of Superman, Rocketship X-M)

1997 – Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress, d @ 69 (Outland)

2002 – Mel Stewart, actor, d @ 72 (Martians Go Home, The Invisible Woman, Bride of Re-Animator)

2004 – John Randolph, actor, d @ 88 (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

2006 – Don Knotts, actor, d @ 81 (The Reluctant Astronaut)

2006 – Octavia E. Butler, sci-fi author, d @ 58 (Parable of the Talents)

2006 – Dennis Weaver, actor, d @ 81 (Way… Way Out, Twilight Zone)

2007 – Bruce Bennett, actor, d @ 100 (The Alligator People, The Cosmic Man0

2009 – Edward Judd d @76 (First Men in the Moon)

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1887 – Cyril Delevanti, actor (Soylent Green, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre)

1899 – Norman Taurog, director (Visit to a Small Planet)

1904 – Terence Fisher, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Earth Dies Screaming, The Gorgon, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Curse of Frankenstein)

1915 – Jon Hall, actor (The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Invisible Agent)

1918 – Lin McCarthy, actor (The Day After, Project U.F.O., The Invaders)

1928 – Bernard Kay, actor (Space: 1999, Doctor Who, They Came from Beyond Space)

1932 – Majel Barrett, actress / producer (Star Trek, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: First Contact, Mars and Beyond, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Next Step Beyond, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Westworld, Genesis II)

Majel Barrett as Number One in the original Star Trek pilot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Linda Cristal, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Linda Cristal in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

1940 – Peter Fonda, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Supernova, Spasms, Futureworld)

1951 – Patricia Richardson, actress (Quantum Leap, C.H.U.D.)

1954 – Rocky Jones, Space Ranger debuted

1961 – David Warshofsky, actor (The Future)

1965 – Kristin Davis, actress (Alien Nation: Body and Soul)

1966 – Marc Price, actor (Killer Tomatoes Eat France!)

 

 

 

 

 

1967 – Tamsin Greig, actress (Doctor Who, Shawn of the Dead)

Tamsin Greig as Nurse in the Doctor Who episode, The Long Game.

1968 – Craig Hurley, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1970 – Marie-Josee Croze, actress (Battlefield Earth)

1974 – Florence Rice, actress, d @ 63 (The Dark)

1975 – Michael Cornacchia, actor (Grey Skies)

1976 – Kelly Macdonald, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1981 – Inna Korobkina, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Dawn of the Dead)

1982 – Adam Hann-Byrd, actor (The Outer Limits)

1983 – Emily Blunt, actress (Looper, Edge of Tomorrow, The Adjustment Bureau)

1987 – Esmond Knight, actor, d @ 80 (Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Invisible Man, Doctor Who, A for Andromeda, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1994 – Dakota Fanning, actress (War of the Worlds, Taken)

1998 – Philip Abbott, actor, d @ 74 (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)

2003 – Titos Vandis, actor, d @ 85 (Genesis II)

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1899 – Dwight Frye, actor (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein)

1908 – John Mills, actor (Frankenstein, Quatermass, The Quatermass Conclusion, The ‘Human’ Factor)

1911 – Vaughn Taylor, actor (The Outer Limits, The Power, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Tales of Tomorrow)

Vaughn Taylor in The Outer Limits episode, The Guests.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Dan Seymour, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Return of the Fly, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

1915 – Dan Seymour, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Return of the Fly, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

Dan Seymour in Return of the Fly.

1917 – Reed Crandall, illustrator (John Carter of Mars)

1925 – Edward Gorey, illustrator

1927 – Donald May, actor (Project U.F.O., Men Into Space)

1928 – Paul Dooley, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Millennium, Evolver, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, ALF, Monster in the Closet, Endangered Species)

 

 

 

 

1929 – James Hong, actor (Blade Runner, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Millennium, The X-Files, Cyber Bandits, Lois & Clark, The Rocket Boy, War of the Worlds, Manimal, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman, Earth II, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Bamboo Saucer, Destination Inner Space, The Satan Bug, The Outer Limits, The Human Vapor, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!)

James Hong in Blade Runner.

1936 – Elizabeth MacRae, actress (Alien Zone)

1937 – Joanna Russ, sci-fi author (Female Man, Alyx)

1938 – Barry Dennen, actor (Weird Science, They Came from Outer Space, The Munsters Today, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Superman III)

1939 – Bridget Turner, actress (Doctor Who)

1944 – E J Peaker, actress (Out of this World)

1945 – Leslie Charleson, actress (Day of the Dolphin)

1948 – John Ashton, actor (The Tommyknockers, The Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

1950 – Ellen Greene, actress (The X-Files)

1953 – Nigel Planer, actor (Brazil)

1957 – Robert Bathurst, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Red Dwarf)

1957 – Harry Sothern, actor, d @ 72 (Buck Rogers)

1958 – Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Dune, Mysterious Island, Roswell)

1958 – Gillian Barber, actress (2012, The 4400, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Mysterious Ways, The Immortal, The 6th Day, First Wave, Millennium, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, The X Files, Sliders)

1960 – Brian Anthony Wilson, actor (Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard, Apocalypse Kiss, Limitless, The Happening, The Postman)

1965 – Steve Spiers, actor (Doctor Who, Star Wars: Episode I)

1966 – Thorsten Kaye, actor (Sliders)

1962 – Jeri Ryan, actress (Helix, Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Voyager, Dark Skies, Time Trax)

1969 – Thomas Jane, actor (The Mist, Deep Blue Sea, Mutant Chronicles, Face/Off, Nemesis)

1970 – Craig Warnock, actor (Time Bandits)

1970 – Joe Holt, actor (K-PAX)

1975 – Drew Barrymore, actress (Donnie Darko, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Altered States, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1977 – Anthony Nicholls, actor, d @ 74 (Space: 1999)

1981 – Daniel Cudmore, actor (Fringe, Revolution, Stargate: SG-1)

1982 – Dichen Lachman,actor (Dollhouse, Tyrannosaurus Azteca, Aquamarine, Torchwood)

1984 – Das Arche Noah Prinzip (The Noah’s Ark Principle) released in West Germany

1985 – Alexander Scourby, actor, d @ 81 (Twilight Zone)

1986 – Josh Helman, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road)

1986 – Miko Hughes, actor (Roswell)

1988 – Colton James, actor (The X-Files, The Cell, Sliders, House of Frankenstein (TV), The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

1989 – Joan Woodbury, actress, d @ 73 (The Time Travelers)

1989 – Bryce Hodgson, actor (The Tomorrow People, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1)

1993 – Babylon 5 debuted on PTEN

1995 – Ed Flanders, actor, d @ 60 (Tomorrow’s Child)

2011 – Nicholas Courtney, actor, d @ 81 (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Doomwatch, Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, Lust in Space, Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

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1880 – Frank Orth, actor (Adventures of Superman)

1889 – Felix Aylmer, actor (The Hands of Orlac, Out of the Unknown)

1896 – Charles Wagenheim, actor (Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Science Fiction Theatre)

1897 – Celia Lovsky, actress (Soylent Green, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

Celia Lovsky in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900 – Sydney Arnold, actor (Doctor Who)

Sydney Arnold (left) as Perkins in Doctor Who

1905 – George Mitchell, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Animal People)

1912 – Arline Judge, actress (The Crawling Hand)

1914 – Zachary Scott, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow)

1925 – Al Fann, actor (ALF, The Incredible Hulk)

1934 – Rue McClanahan, actress (Starship Troopers)

 

 

1937 – Gary Lockwood, actor (Star Trek Equinox: The Night of Time, Unbelievable!!!!!, Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century, Dark Skies, Birth of a Timeless Legacy, Superboy, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Earth II, Star Trek)

Gary Lockwood in Star Trek

1939 – Richard Beymer, actor (The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9)

1946 – Anthony Daniels, actor (C3P0 – Star Wars)

1946 – Tyne Daly, actress (Swamp Thing, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1946 – Alan Rickman, actor (Galaxy Quest, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1949 – Frank Brunner, illustrator

1950 – Larry Drake, actor (Gryphon, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Timequest, Star Trek: Voyager, Prey)

1952 – Mimi Kuzyk, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Total Recall 2070, Seaquest 2032, Quantum Leap)

1953 – Christine Ebersole, actress (Mac and Me, My Favorite Martian)

1953 – William Petersen, actor (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Twilight Zone)

1955 – Kelsey Grammer, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1956 – Woody Brown, actor (Roswell, Alligator II: The Mutation)

1958 – Jack Coleman, actor (Heros, Polar Storm, Trapped in Space)

1958 – Kim Coates, actress (Mutant World, Robosapien: Rebooted, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Smallville, The Dresden Files, Thoughtcrimes, Earth: Final Conflict, Battlefield Earth, Total Recall 2070, Waterworld, RoboCop (TV), War of the Worlds (TV))

1961 – Martha Hackett, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Star Trek: DS9, Carnosaur, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1963 – William Baldwin, actor (Virus, Flatliners)

1964 – Huw Higginson, actor (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1967 – Charles Beaumont, writer, d @ 48 (Queen of Outer Space, Twilight Zone)

1971 – Jose Solano, actor (4:44 Last Day on Earth)

1985 – Louis Hayward, actor, d @ 75 (The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1989 – Corbin Bleu, actor (Galaxy Quest)

1987 – Ellen Page, actress (Inception, ReGenesis)

1987 – Tuppence Middleton, actress (Jupiter Ascending)

1989 – Corbin Bleu, actor (Galaxy Quest)

1996 – Sophie Turner, actress (Mary Shelley’s Monster)

1996 – H.L. Gold, editor, d @ 81 (Galaxy Science Fiction 1950-1961)

2008 – Ben Chapman, actor, d @ 82 (Creature from the Black Lagoon)

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1906 – Gale Gordon, actor (The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock)

1907 – Malcolm Atterbury, actor (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, How to Make a Monster)

1908 – Leon Lontoc, actor (Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1912 – Pierre Boulle, sci-fi author (Planet of the Apes)

1915 – Philip Friend, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Robert Altman, director (Quintet)

1926 – Richard Matheson, sci-fi author/screenwriter (I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1930 – Patricia Smith, actress (Planet Earth, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1936 – Marj Dusay, actress (Galactica 1980, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Star Trek)

Marj Dusay in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Larry Hovis, actor (Holmes & Yo-Yo, My Living Doll)

1936 – Larry Hovis, actor (Holmes & Yo-Yo, My Living Doll)

1942 – Peter Strauss, actor (Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone)

Peter Strauss in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.

1945 – Brion James, actor (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills, Cyberjack, M.A.N.T.I.S., Future Shock, Time Runner, Nemesis, Mutator, Cherry 2000, Annihilator,Galactica 1980, The Incredible Hulk)

1946 – Sandy Duncan, actress (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1947 – Jennifer O’Neill, actress (Scanners, Time Changer)

1950 – John Voldstad, actor (Space: Above and Beyond)

1951 – Edward Albert, actor (Galaxy of Terror, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Invasion America, The Girl From Mars)

 

 

1953 – George Pal’s movie adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds premieres in Hollywood (though not in general release until autumn), becoming the most successful science fiction film of the year.

1954 – Anthony Stewart Head, actor (Warehouse 13, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest, Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time, Doctor Who, VR.5

1960 – Joel Hodgson, comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Honey We Shrunk Ourselves)

Joel Hodgson of MST3K fame.

1963 – William Baldwin, actor (Flatliners)

1964 – French Stewart, actor (3rd Rock From the Sun, Stargate, Rise of the Zombies, Clockstoppers, Space: Above and Beyond)

1964 – Rodney Rowland, actor (The 6th Day, Space: Above and Beyond, FlashForward, Seven Days, The X-Files)

1964 – Willie Garson, actor (Stargate SG-1, What Planet Are You From?, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Mars Attacks!, Quantum Leap, VR-5, Taken)

1965 – Ron Eldard, actor (Super 8, Deep Impact)

1966 – Kimiko Gelman, actress (The Hunger Games, Minority Report)

1966 – Cindy Crawford, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1967 – Lili Taylor, actress (The X-Files)

1969 – Jack Ingram, actor, d @ 66 (Superman, Atom Man vs. Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)

1969 – Angelica Lisk-Hahn, actress (Warehouse 13, Jumper, Odyssey 5, Earth: Final Conflict)

1971 – Peter James Smith, actor (Serenity)

1973 – Kimberly Davies, actress (The Invisible Man (2001))

1973 – Maurice Dallimore, actor, d @ 60 (Twilight Zone)

1974 – Ophelie Winter, actor (2001: A Space Travesty)

1975 – Robert Strauss, actor, d @ 61 (The Munsters, 4D Man, The Atomic Kid)

1978 – Jay Hernandez, actor (Quarantine)

1978 – Lauren Ambrose, actress (Torchwood)

1981 – Majandra Delfino, actress (Ultra, Roswell)

1983 – Ray Vitte, actor, d @ 33 (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1987 – Cortney Palm, actress (Zombeavers, Alien Rising)

1987 – Miles Teller, actor (Divergent, Insurgent)

1988 – Rihanna, actress (This Is The End, Battleship)

1992 – Dick York, actor, d @ 63 (Twilight Zone)

2001 – Rosemary DeCamp, actress, d @ 90 (The Time Machine, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2005 – John Raitt, actor, d @ 88 (3rd Rock from the Sun, Out There)

2009 – Robert Quarry, actor, d @ 83 (Droid Gunner, Mind Twister, Alienator, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Lost Saucer, Far Out Space Nuts)

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1893 – Cedric Hardwicke, actor (The Unknown, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man Returns, Things to Come)

Cedric Hardwicke in The Outer Limits episode, The Forms of Things Unknown.

1902 – Nydia Westman, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Invisible Ray)

1920 – George Rose, actor (The Andromeda Breakthrough)

 

 

 

 

1924 – Lee Marvin, actor (Twilight Zone)

Lee Marvin in the Twilight Zone episode, Steel.

1930 – John Frankenheimer, director (The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1939 – Gwen Taylor, actress (Space: 1999)

1944 – John Bloom, actor (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant)

1948 – Big John Studd, actor (Hyperspace)

1952 – Lawrence Grant, actor, d @ 82 (Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer, actor (Mork & Mindy)

 

1955 – Jeff Daniels, actor (Looper, My Favorite Martian)

Jeff Daniels in Looper

1957 – Ray Winstone, actor (Space Precinct)

1963 – Jessica Tuck, actress (Super 8, FlashForward, The Outer Limits, Millennium, Lois and Clark, Lifepod)

1965 – Forrest Taylor, actor, d @ 81 (The Lost Planet)

1965 – Kathleen Beller, actress (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1966 – Justine Bateman, actress (Hybrid, Lois & Clark)

1967 – Benicio Del Toro, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1968 – Ralph Dunn, actor, d @ 65 (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1969 – Madge Blake, actress, d @ 69 (My Favorite Martian

 

1970 – Bellamy Young, actor (Last Day on Earth, The X Files)

1974 – Caroline Chikezie, actress (AEon Flux)

1979 – Daniel Spink, actor (The Butterfly Effect I & III)

1983 – Mika Nakashima, actor (Resident Evil)

1983 – Brian Kubach, actor (Piranha 3D)

1986 – Ophelia Lovibond, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1989 – Luke Pasqualino, actor (Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Snowpiercer)

1995 – John Howard, actor, d @ 81 (Destination Inner Space, Men into Space, The Unknown Terror, Science Fiction Theatre)

2010 – Lionel Jeffries, actor, d @ 83 (Lexx, First Men in the Moon, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Quatermass Xperiment)

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1890 – Adolphe Menjou, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1908 – Angelo Rossitto, actor (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Galaxina, Jason of Star Command, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

Angelo Rossitto in Invasion of the Saucer men.

1919 – Jack Palance, actor (Lights Out, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Shape of Things to Come, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, Solar Crisis)

1920 – Jack Palance, actor (Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, Cyborg 2, Solar Crisis, Gor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Shape of Things to Come, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

 

 

 

 

1923 – Allan Melvin, actor (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

Allan Melvin (left) in Lost in Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – George Kennedy, actor (Brain Dead, Demonwarp, The Terror Within, Day of Resurrection, Radioactive Dreams, Death Ship, The ‘Human’ Factor)

1941 – Andrea Dromm, actress (Star Trek)

Andrea Dromm as Yeoman Smith in Star Trek.

1948 – Sinead Cusack, actress (The Deep (TV))

1949 – Jess Walton, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1950 – Cybill Shepherd, actress (No Ordinary Family)

1950 – John Hughes, writer (Weird Science)

1953 – The Magnetic Monster released

1954 – John Travolta, actor (Face/Off, Battlefield Earth)

1957 – Vanna White, actress (Looker)

1968 – Molly Ringwald, actress (The Outer Limits, The Stand, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone)

1970 – Susan Egan, actress (Galaxy Quest)

1970 – Tammy Macintosh, actress (Farscape)

1972 – Leigh Scott, director (Piranha Sharks, Frankenstein Reborn)

1977 – Kristoffer Polaha, actor (Dollhouse, Roswell)

1978 – Derrick De Marney, actor, d @ 71 (Projected Man, Things to Come)

1978 – Maggie McNamara, actress, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone)

1981 – Neil Fingleton, actor (Jupiter Ascending)

1982 – Tina Carver, actress, d @ 59 (The Man Who Turned to Stone, From Hell It Came)

1984 – Genelle Williams, actress (Warehouse 13, The Incredible Hulk)

1984 – Chelsea Hobbs, actress (Seven Days, Mysterious Ways)

1988 – Maiara Walsh, actress (Zombieland (TV])

1993 – Jacqueline Hill, actress, d @ 63 (Doctor Who, Out of This World)

1999 – Noam Pitlik, actor, d @ 66 (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

2000 – Pitch Black released

2013 – Elspet Gray, actress, d @ 83 (Doctor Who)

May all your tomorrows by happy ones!

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1910 – Marc Lawrence, actor, (Doctor Who, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1911 – Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Arthur Hunnicutt in The Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence.

1912 – Andre Norton, sci-fi author (Witch World, Wizard’s World, Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D.)

1914 – Wayne Morris, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, The Return of Doctor X)

1914 – Arthur Kennedy, actor (Fantastic Voyage)

1919 – Kathleen Freeman, actress (Out of this World, The Munsters Today, ALF, The Fly)

1923 – Bill Kearns, actor, (Mutant)

1925 – Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (The Outer Limits, Capricorn One)

1934 – Alan Bates, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

 

1935 – Christina Pickles, actress (Masters of the Universe)

1936 – Jim Brown, actor (The Running Man, Mars Attacks!)

Jim Brown in Mars Attacks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Mary Ann Mobley, actress (The Fantastic Journey)

1945 – Brenda Fricker, actress (Quatermass, The Quatermass Conclusion)

Brenda Fricker in Quatermass.

1945 – Zina Bethune, actress (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

1947 – Dallas Adams, actor (Doctor Who, Space 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1951 – Diane Chambers, actress (The Coed and the Zombie Stoner, Sharknado, Zombie Night)

1952 – Garry Chalk, actor (Tomorrowland, Monster Beach, Seven Days, Millennium, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)

1954 – Rene Russo, actress (Outbreak, Freejack)

1954 – Don Coscarelli, director (Phantasm I – IV)

1952 – Garry Chalk, actor (Godzilla 2014, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, M.A.N.T.I.S., Tomorrowland, Origins, Flash Gordon, Eureka)

 

1958 – Carole Davis, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1959 – The Cosmic Man released

1961 – Nita Naldi, actress, d @ 63 (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)

1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (SGU Stargate Universe, Termination Point, Sci Fi Inside: ‘The Triangle’, The Triangle, Alien Express, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Supernova)

1965 – Michael Bay, director (Transformers, Armageddon)

1965 – Jonathan Breck, actor (Evilution, Spiders, Star Trek: Voyager)

1967 – Michelle Forbes, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)

1968 – Donald Wolfit, actor, d @ 65 (The Hands of Orlac, Satellite in the Sky)

1969 – Tuesday Knight, actress (The X-Files, They Came from Outer Space)

1970 – Dominic Purcell, actor (Equilibrium, Blade: Trinity, The Lost World, Ice Soldiers, Primeval)

1971 – Denise Richards,actress (Scary Movie 3, Starship Troopers, Weird Science, Lois and Clark)

1974 – Jerry O’Connell, actor (Sliders, Space Station 76, Scary Movie 5, Mission to Mars, Piranha 3D)

1978 – Rory Kinnear, actor (First Men in the Moon)

1979 – Jackson Hurst, actor (The Mist)

1980 – Zachary Bennett, actor (Cube Zero, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)

1980 – Jason Ritter, actor (The Labyrinth, The Event)

1982 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (3rd Rock From the Sun, Looper, Quantum Leap, Inception)

1984 – Lucille Benson, actress, d @ 69 (Slaughterhouse-Five)

1986 – Paul Stewart, actor, d @ 77 (The Invisible Man, City Beneath the Sea)

1986 – Ahna O’Reilly, actress (DinoCroc)

1987 – Hal K Dawson, actor, d @ 90 (Superman and the Mole-Men, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, Science Fiction Theatre)

1989 – Chord Overstreet, actress (The Hole)

1990 – Marc Clement, actor, d @ 39 (Night Shadows)

1996 – Sasha Pieterse,a ctress (Heroes, Stargate SG-1)

1965 – Michael Bay, director (Transformers, Armageddon)

1999 – Shirley Stoler, actress, d @ 69 (The Powers of Matthew Star, Frankenhooker)

2003 – Peter Schrum, actor, d @ 68 (Quantum Leap, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Trancers, Galaxina)

2005 – F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, sci-fi author, d @ 83 (Star Rebel)

2005 – Dan O’Herlihy, actor, d @ 85 (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, VR.5, The Last Starfighter, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Death Ray 2000, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Invasion U.S.A.)

2013 – Richard Briers, actor, d @ 79 (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)

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1901 – Chester Morris, actor (The She-Creature)

1907 – George Woodbridge, actor (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1909 – Hugh Beaumont, actor (The Mole People, The Human Duplicators, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lost Continent)

Hugh Beaumont (right) in The Mole People

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1926 – Paul Sorensen, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Salvage 1, Westworld, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

1927 – June Brown, actress (Doctor Who, Doomwatch)

June Brown in Doctor Who

1930 – Ricou Browning, actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us)

1932 – Gretchen Wyler, actress (Probe)

1933 – Don Knight, actor (Automan, Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Star, Small & Frye, Voyagers, Swamp Thing, Death in Space, The Immortal, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Munster Go Home! )

 

 

 

1936 – David Frankham, actor (The Outer Limits, Return of the Fly, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, Men Into Space)

David Frankham in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1938 – Barry Primus, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The X-Files)

1945 – Jeremy Bulloch, actor (Starhyke, Star Wars, Doctor Who)

1951 – William Katt, actor (The Man from Earth, Earthling, Heros, Bone Eater, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, Cyborg 3: The Recycler, Andromeda, Moon)

1954 – Iain [Menzies] Banks, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory, The State of the Art, The Hydrogen Sonata, Against a Dark Background)

1955 – Hunt Block, actor (Project: Tinman, Otherworld)

1956 – Vincent Ward, writer (Alien³)

1957 – LeVar Burton, actor (Star Trek)

 

1957 – Ardwight Chamberlain, actor (Babylon 5)

1958 – Ice-T, actor (Johnny Mnemonic)

1963 – Faran Tahir, actor (Elysium, Warehouse 13, Star Trek (2009))

1964 – Christopher Eccleston, actor (Heroes, Doctor Who, eXistenZ)

1967 – Faran Tahir, actor (Elysium. Warehouse 13,, Star Trek)

1967 – Pasha D. Lychnikoff, actress (Star Trek, Cloverfield)

1969 – Elisabeth Olsen, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1972 – Sarah Clarke, actress (The Tomorrow People)

1974 – Mahershala Ali, actress (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Alphas, Predators, The 4400)

1976 – Janet Varney, actress (Warehouse 13)

1978 – Eric Ladin, actor (Surface)

1979 – Louise Allbritton, actress, d @ 58 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1982 – Rolfe Sedan, actor, d @ 86 (Young Frankenstein, Adventures of Superman)

1985 – Larry Ward, actor, d @ 60 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

1986 – Howard Da Silva, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits)

1986 – Howard Da Silva, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits)

1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1994 – Mackintosh Muggleton, actor (28 Weeks Later)

1996 – Jimmy Pinchak, actor (Ender’s Game)

1997 – Arthur Hewlett, actor, d @ 89 (Moondial, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Quatermass and the Pit)

2011 – Len Lesser, actor, d @ 88 (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Outer Limits)

2011 – Alfred Burke, actor, d @ 92 (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2012 – Dick Anthony Williams, actor, d @ 77 (The X Files, Edward Scissorhands, Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Brave New World, Man from Atlantis)