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

1882 – John Barrymore, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)

1896 – Arthur Shields, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll)

1899 – Gale Sondergard, actress (The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1907 – Cesar Romero, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Latitude Zero, Lost Continent)

1914 – Kevin McCarthy, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers (1958 & 1978), Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)

1916 – Ian Ballentine, publisher (Ballentine Books)

1917 – Meg Wyllie, actress (Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

Meg Wyllie in Star Trek

 

1918 – Alan Arbus, actor (Salvage 1)

1922 – Herman Kahn,sci-fi author (The Next 200 Years)

1923 – Keene Curtis, actor (Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek: Voyager, Logan’s Run, Strange New World, Stowaway to the Moon)

1927 – Harvey Korman, actor (Perversions of Science, The Invisible Woman, The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Munsters)

1927 – Carlos Romero, actor (Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Invaders)

 

 

1930 – Nico Minardos, actor (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

Nico Minardos in the Twilight Zone, episode The Gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Claire Bloom, actress (Doctor Who, The Illustrated Man)

Claire Bloom as Doctor Who’s mum.

1934 – Graham Kennedy, actor (On the Beach)

1939 – Jo Clayton, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)

1942 – Francis X. McCarthy, actor (Interstellar, CAT. 8, Smallville, Race to Mars, 10.5 Apocalypse, Odyssey 5, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, M.A.N.T.I.S., Alien Nation, ALF, The Man with Two Brains, Altered States)

1942 – Sherry Jackson, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1951 – Jane Seymour, actress (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1951 – The Stars Like Dust, Isaac Asimov’s second science fiction novel, is published

1955 – Christopher McDonald, actor (SGU Stargate Universe, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Renee Props, actress (Weird Science)

1962 – Vladimir Sokoloff, actor, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone, Beyond the Time Barrier, Monster from Green Hell, I Was a Teenage Werewolf)

1964 – Chris Farley, actor (Coneheads)

1966 – Kim Meyers, actress (Perversions of Science, Hellraiser: Bloodline)

1967 – Michael Easton, actor, (Total Recall: 2070, Mutant X)

1971 – Renee O’Connor, actress, (Ark, Monster Ark, Alien Apocalypse)

1973 – Charles J “Tim” Holt, actor, d @ 54 (The Monster that Challenged the World)

1973 – Wally Cox, actor, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone, Lost in Space)

1973 – Sara Wynter, actress (The 6th Day, Species II)

1979 – Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor (Quarantine, Ice Twisters, The 4400, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Outer Limits, The Girl From Mars)

1980 – Saturn 3 released in US

1983 – Ashley Tesoro, actress (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Mystery Monsters)

1988 – Jessica de Gouw, actress (These Final Hours)

1990 – Henry Brandon, actor, d @ 77 (War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits, The Land Unknown, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Buck Rogers)

1990 – Jack Fletcher, actor, d @ 68 (Small Wonder, Starman, The Munsters Today)

1990 – Moon 44 released

1996 – McLean Stevenson, actor, d @ 68 (The Astronauts)

2002 – Kevin Smith, actor, d @ 38 (Riverworld)

2007 – Walker Edmiston, actor.d @ 82 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Lost, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Lost Saucer, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek)

2014 – Christopher Malcolm, actor, d @ 67 (Whoops Apocalypse, Superman III, The Empire Strikes Back)

2014 – Cliff Bole, director, d @ 76 (The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, M.A.N.T.I.S., V, The Six Million Dollar Man)

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1902 – Ray Corrigan, actor (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, The Monster and the Ape, The Monster Maker, Undersea Kingdom, Flash Gordon, The Phantom Empire)

1916 – Edward Platt, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Men Into Space, Destination Space)

Edward Platt in ‘The Outer Limits episode, The Man With the Power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Lois Maxwell, actress (UFO)

Lois Maxwell in UFO

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Vic Morrow, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Humanoids from the Deep, The Man with the Power, The Immortal)

Vic Morrow in Twilight Zone: The Movie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Jonathan Adams, actor (Star Cops, 1990, The Invisible Man)

1934 – Florence Henderson, actress (Out of This World)

1936 – Andrew Prine, actor (V, The Shadow Men, Star Trek: DS9, The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes, Weird Science, V: The Final Battle, The Bionic Woman, Gemini Man, The Invaders)

1942 – Andrew Robinson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Trancers III, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk)

1946 – Tina Aumont, actress (Dinosaur from the Deep)

1946 – Gregory Hines, actor, d @ 57 9 August 2003 (Eve of Destruction)

1950 – Frank Collison, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, K-PAX, Star Trek: TNG, The Lawnmower Man, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, The Blob (1988), Ghosts/Aliens, The Happening, Invasion, Star trek: DS9)

1952 – Anton Lesser, actor (Atlantis, Primeval, Invasion: Earth)

1955 – James Eckhouse, actor (Futurestates)

1959 – Matthias Hues, actor (Legion of the Dead, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

1960 – Meg Tilly, actress (Body Snatchers, Caprica)

1961 – Wallis Clark, actress, d @ 78 (The Lady and the Monster, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1962 – Michael Higgs, actor (Wizards vs. Aliens, Frankenstein’s Wedding… Live in Leeds)

1963 – Zach Galligan, actor (Nightbeasts, Star Trek: Voyager, The Tomorrow Man, Cyborg 3: The Recycler)

1963 – Enrico Colantoni, actor (Galaxy Quest, Warehouse 13, Stargate: SG-1, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Outer Limits, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cloned)

1967 – Sig Ruman, actor, d @ 82 (Way… Way Out)

1969 – Wolfe Barzell, actor, d @ 72 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

1970 – Mark Lutz, actor (Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict, Specimen)

1970 – Simon Pegg, actor (Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Doctor Who)

1983 – Sebastian Pigott, actor (Darknet, Pacific Rim)

1984 – Stephanie Leonidas, actress (Defiance, Atlantis: End of the World)

1985 – Karima Adebibe, actress (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)

1987 – Joseph Pichler, actor (Lois and Clark)

1990 – Brett Dier, actor (Mega Cyclone, V, Meteor Storm, Smallville)

1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress, d @ 48 (Biohazard, Repo Man, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Star Trek, The Phantom Planet)

1993 – Shane Harper, actor (Re-Animated)

1994 – Allie Grant, actress (Zombie Basement)

1995 – Michael Vincent Gazzo, actor, d @ 71 (Automan, Alligator, Future Cop)

1996 – Mark Venturini, actor, d @ 35 (Space Rangers, Return of the Living Dead)

2007 – Lee Patterson, actor, d @ 77 (The Immortal, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2010 – Andrew Koenig, actor, d @ 41 (InAlienable, Deep Space Nine)

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1895 – Fred Essler, actor, (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)

Fred Essler

1908 – William Dozier, producer (Red Brown of the Rocket Rangers)

1912 – Margaretta Scott, actress (Things to Come)

1915 – Lyle Bettger, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

1916 – James Griffith, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Amazing Transparent Man)

1932 – Susan Oliver, actress (Star Trek, Tomorrow’s Child, Death in Space, The Invaders, Death in Space, Twilight Zone)

1933 – Caroline Blakiston, actress (The War of the Starfighters, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Out of the Unknown, City Beneath the Sea)

1933 – Kim Novak, actress (Satan’s Triangle)

 

 

1933 – Barbara Shelley, actor (Doctor Who, Five Million Miles to Earth, The Gorgon, Village of the Damned, Blakes 7)

Barbara Shelley in Quatermass The Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – George Segal, actor (2012, The Terminal Man)

George Segal in The Terminal Man.

1938 – Oliver Reed, actor (Spasms, The Brood, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Doctor Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1941 – Bo Svenson, actor (Deep Space)

1942 – Carol Lynley, actress (The Shape of Things to Come, The Immortal, Journey to the Unknown, The Invaders, Beware! The Blob)

1943 – Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)

1943 – Donald Sumpter, actor (The Sarah Jane Chronicles, Doctor Who, Jekyll & Hyde, Atlantis (2013), The Lost Continent)

1944 – Michael Ensign, actor (The Drone Virus, Star Trek: Enterprise, Solaris, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Doctor Hackenstein, Voyagers!, WarGames, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Superman)

1946 – Joe Estevez, actor(Attack of the 30 Foot Chola, Zombie Farm, Rollergator, Cyber Seeker, Starman (TV), The Invisible Woman)

1951 – David Naughton, actor (Flying Virus, The Twilight Zone, Planet of the Apes)

1956 – Richard Eden, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070)

1957 – Leslie Bevis, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Alien Nation, Spaceballs, V)

1958 – Tip Tipping, actor (Doctor Who, Aliens)

1958 – Pernilla August, actress (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones)

1961 – Richard Tyson, actor (Flight of the Living Dead, Battlefield Earth)

1961 – Henry Rollins, actor (Johnny Mnemonic)

1963 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (The Relic, Robosapien: Rebooted)

1964 – Mark Patton, actor (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1965 – Stephen Manley, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

1966 – Tally Chanel, actress (Alien Warrier)

1966 – Neal McDonough, actor (Tin Man, The X-Files, Star Trek: First Contact, VR.5, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Kelly Hu, actress (Age of Tomorrow, Warehouse 13, Area 57, Strange Days)

1969 – Andrew Bryniarski, actor (Firefly, Lois & Clark, Cyborg 3)

1971 – Scott Levy, actress (The Helix… Loaded)

1974 – Michael DeMello, actor (Surrogates)

1979 – Mena Suvari, actress (Day of the Dead)

1980 – David Janssen, actor, d @ 49 (Marooned)

1989 – Carly McKillip, actress (Bionic Woman, The X-Files)

1990 – Ken Lynch, actor, d @ 79 (Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Munsters, Men into Space, Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1996 – Martin Balsam, actor, d @ 76 (Way Out, Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man, Space, Murder in Space, The Brother from Space)

1998 – Jo Clayton, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)

2014 – Ralph Waite, actor, d @ 85 (Timequest, The Outer Limits, Time Trax)

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1883 – Ludwig Stossel, actor (From the Earth to the Moon, Tales of Frankenstein, Science Fiction Theatre)

1905 – Harry Bellaver, actor (The Stuff, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

1912 – Ernest Clark, actor (It!, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1919 – Forrest Tucker, actor (The Crawling Eye, The Strange World of Planet X, The Bionic Woman, Timestalkers)

1919 – Lorne Greene, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica.

1927 – Anne Gillis, actress (2001: A Space Odyssey, Out There)

1927 – H.M. Wynant, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Solar Crisis, Earthbound, Future Cop, The Six Million Dollar Man, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1931 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, actor (Fortress, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Omega Man)

1933 – Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)

 

 

1934 – Annette Crosbie, actress (Doctor Who)

Annette Crosbie in the Doctor Who episode, The Eleventh Hour.

1936 – Joe Don Baker, actor (Mars Attacks!, Congo)

1936 – Paul Shenar, actor, d @ 53 (The Invisible Man (TV), Gemini Man, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run (TV))

1939 – John D Hancock, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1940 – Richard Lynch, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Super Force, Alligator II: the Mutation, Invasion Force, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman)

1940 – Ralph Bates, actor (Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Moonbase 3, The Horror of Frankenstein)

1945 – Cliff De Young, actor (Flight of the Navagator, Threshold, Timecop, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Lois & Clark, Carnasaur 2, Terminal Voyage, RoboCop, Time Trax, The X-Files, The Tommyknockers, Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone)

1945 – Maud Adams, actress (Rollerball)

1948 – Ray Kurzwei, sci-fi author (The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity is Near)

1949 – Robin Thomas Grossman, actress (Pacific Rim, Clockstoppers)

1950 – Michael Ironside, actor (Ice Soldiers, Meltdown on the Ice Planet, Smallville, Terminator Salvation, Mutants, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Ignition, Mindstorm, Starship Troopers, SeaQuest 2032, Total Recall, V, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Scanners)

Michael Ironside in Starship Troopers

1952 – Larry Joshua, actor (The X Files, War of the Worlds (TV))

1952 – Simon MacCorkindale, actor (Manimal, Wing Commander, Earth: Final Conflict, Quatermass (TV), The Quatermass Conclusion)

1953 – Nabil Shaban, actor (Children of Men, Doctor Who)

1953 – Robin Thomas, actor (Pacific Rim, Clockstoppers, Misfits of Science)

1953 – Joanna Kerns, actress (V, Ape)

1954 – Zach Grenier, actor (RoboCop, Star Trek: Enterprise, The X Files)

1959 – Sigrid Thornton, actress (Trapped in Space)

 

1963 – John Michael Higgins, actor (Blade: Trinity, Bicentennial Man, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Weird Science)

1964 – Raphael Sbarge, actor (Once Upon a Time, Heroes, Dollhouse, Dark Skies, Independence Day, Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032, Carnosaur, Quantum Leap, My Science Project)

1965 – Christine Elise, actress (Escape from Mars, Body Snatchers)

1965 – Henry Kulky, actor, d @ 53 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tobor the Great, Adventures of Superman, Red Planet Mars, )

1965 – Alex Meneses, actor (Amanda and the Alien)

1966 – Lochlyn Munro, actor (Tomorrowland, Mysterious Island (2012), Infection: The Invasion Begins, Xtinction: Predator X, Smallville, Andromeda, Dracula 2000, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, The Girl from Mars)

1968 – Josh Brolin, actor (Men in Black 3, Jonah Hex, Planet Terror, Hollow Man, Mimic, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1975 – Michael Bower, actor (Evolution, The X Files, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Weird Science (TV))

1976 – Sal Mineo, actor, d @ 37 (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal)

1976 – Christopher Pettiet, actor (Seaquest 2032, Star Trek: TNG)

1979 – Jesse Spencer, actor (Time Trax)

1980 – Enver Gjokaj, actor (Dollhouse, The Walking Dead)

1982 – Victor Jory, actor, d @ 79 (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Science Fiction Theatre, Cat-Women of the Moon)

1985 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor, d @ 61 (My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1987 – Clare-Hope Ashitey, actress (Children of Men)

1987 – Lang Jeffries, actor, d @ 56 ( …4 …3 …2 …1 …morte)

1997 – Sam Webb, actor (Transcendence)

2007 – Randy Stone, actor, d @ 48 (Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium)

2011 – Kenneth Mars, actor d @ 75 (Weird Science, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science, Project U.F.O., Young Frankenstein)

2011 – Betty Garrett, actress, d @ 91 (Trail of the Screaming Forehead)

2012 – David Kelly, actor, d @ 82 (Stardust, Whoops Apocalypse)

2012 – Zina Bethune, actress, d @ 66 (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

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1903 – Rex Lease, actor (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1915 – Pat Welsh, actor (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, E.T.)

1917 – Sidney Sheldon, writer, d @ 89 30 January 2007 (The Twilight Zone)

1919 – Eva Gabor, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1920 – Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)

1920 – Billy Halop, actor (Land of the Giants)

1926 – Leslie Nielsen, actor (Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Travesty, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tales of Tommorow, Lights Out, Out There)

Leslie Neilsen in 2001, A Space Travesty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Conrad Janis, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, V, The Invisible Man, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Tina Louise, actress (The Stepford Wives)

1936 – Burt Reynolds, actor (Twilight Zone, Out of This World, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, The X-Files, Frankenstein and Me)

Burt Reynolds in Frankenstein and Me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart’s Blood)

1939 – D’Urville Martin, actor (The Invaders)

1940 – John Fink, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)

1941 – Sonny Landham, actor (2090, Predator)

Sonny Landham in Predator

1947 – Brian C Daley, sci-fi author, d @ 48 (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)

1952 – Philip Anglim, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Millennium)

1954 – Wesley Strick, writer (Arachnophobia, Doom)

1956 – Kathleen Beller, actress (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1956 – Catherine Hickland, actress (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Robowar – Robot da Guerra)

1962 – Becky LeBeau, actress (Dinosaur Island, Not of This Earth)

 

1962 – Scott Kolden, actor (The Day Time Ended)

1966 – Stephen Gregory, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1969 – Jennifer Aniston, actress (Quantum Leap)

1969 – James Lanphier, actor, d @ 48 (The Time Tunnel, The Deadly Mantis)

1969 – Michael Reeves, director, d @ 25 (She Beast, Castle of the Living Dead)

1971 – Damian Lewis, actor (Life Force)

1976 – Lee J Cobb, actor, d @ 64 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1980 – Matthew Lawrence, actor (Big Monster on Campus, Pulse)

1981 – Dru Viergever, actor (The Colony, Survival of the Dead)

1982 – Natalie Dormer, actress (The Hunger Games – Mockingjay,)

1983 – Nicki Clyne, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Twilight Zone, Smallville, Level 9)

1985 – Sarah Butler, actress (Moontrap: Target Earth)

1985 – Harris Allan, actor (The 4400, Smallville)

1986 – Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Dune)

1989 – George O’Hanlon, actor, d @ 76 (The Jetsons, Kronos)

1992 – Blair Dunlop, actor (Rocket Man)

1993 – Joy Garrett, actress, d @ 47 (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Robo Man)

1994 – Sorrell Booke, actor, d @ 64 (Slaughterhouse-Five, The Cat from Outer Space)

1996 – William F. Claxton, director, d @ 81 (The Night of the Lepus, Twilight Zone)

1996 – Bob Shaw, sci-fi author, d @ 64

1997 – Don Porter, actor, d @ 84 (Bionic Woman ,The Six Million Dollar Man)

1997 – Barry Evans, actor, d @ 53 (Journey to the Unknown)

2000 – Roger Vadim, director, d @ 72 (Barbarella)

2002 – Barry Foster, actor, d @ 74 (Doomwatch)

2005 – Jack L[aurence] Chalker, sci-fi author, d @ 64 (Saga of Well World)

2012 – Iron Sky released

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1890 – Robert Keith, actor (Twilight Zone)

1896 – Olin Howlin, actor (Them!, The Blob)

1897 – Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

Judith Anderson in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

1905 – John Dierkes, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Omega Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Thing from Another World)

1906 – Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told, The Alligator People, The Cyclops, Indestrutible Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Man Made Monster)

 

 

 

1910 – Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing from Another World, This Island Earth, Twilight Zone)

Douglas Spencer in the Twilight Zone episode, Mr Dingle the Strong.

1913 – Philippa Bevans, actress (Twilight Zone)

1916 – Walter Reedm actor (The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, World of Giants, How to Make a Monster, Adventures of Superman, Flying Disc Man from Mars)

1920 – Neva Patterson, actress (V, V: The Final Battle, Logan’s Run)

1926 – Hazel Courtd,actress (Twilight Zone, The Curse of Frankenstein, Devil Girl From Mars)

1928 – John Ringham, actor (Doctor Who)

1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer (Star Trek, Congo, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Robert Wagner, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, City Beneath the Sea)

 

1939 – Peter Purves, actor (Doctor Who)

1949 – Harold Sylvester, actor (Innerspace, Space Rage)

1953 – John Shirley, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)

1957 – Not of This Earth released

1958 – Bess Motta, actress (The Terminator)

1960 – Robert Addie, actor (Red Dwarf, Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups , Red Dwarf Smeg Outs)

1967 – Laura Dern, actress (Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III)

1967 – Vince Gilligan, writer (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen)

1970 – Paul Kersey, actor (Hulk, Lois & Clark)

1973 – Rob Carpenter, actor (iZombie, V (2010), Condition Human, Flash Gordon (2007))

1974 – Elizabeth Banks, actress (The Hunger Games)

1976 – Keeley Hawes, actress (Doctor Who)

1986 – Brian Aherne, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone)

1988 – Jade Ramsey, actress (Gamer)

1988 – Nikita Ramsey, actress (Gamer)

1997 – Chloe Grace Moretz, actress (The Fifth Wave)

1999 – Tiffany Espensen, actress (Earth to Echo, Repo Men)

2000 – Jim Varney, actor, d @ 50 (Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam)

Jim Varney as Dr Otto.

2001 – Lewis Arquette, actor, d @ 65 (FreakyLinks, Hypernauts, Babylon 5, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Seaquest 2032, Quantum Leap, Syngenor, Down To Earth, The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlanta)

2008 – Roy Scheider, actor, d @ 75 (2010, SeaQuest 2032)

2008 – Steve Gerber, writer, d @ 60 (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck)

2012 – Journey 2: The Mysterious Island released

 

 

 

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1901 – Brian Donlevy, actor (The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, Gammera the Invincible, Curse of the Fly)

Brian Donlevy in The Quatermass Xperiment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Frank Frazetta, illustrator

1936 – Clive Swift, actor (Doctor Who, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Clive Swift in Doctor Who. He is better known as Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Squire Fridell, actor (Village of the Damned)

1945 – Mia Farrow,actress (Supergirl)

1951 – Sally Knyvette, actress (Blakes 7)

Sally Knyvette in Blakes 7.

1951 – Penny Peyser, actress (Quantum Leap, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Incredible Hulk)

1952 – Brooke Palance, actress (Empire of the Ants)

1953 – Ciarán Hinds, actor (John Carter, Mary Reilly)

1955 – Charles Shaughnessy, actor (Stargate: SG-1, Moontrap: Target Earth)

 

 

 

 

1955 – Jm J Bullock, actor (Spaceballs, ALF)

Jm J Bullock as Prince Valium in Spaceballs.

1965 – Julie Warner, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1965 – Darren Dalton, actor (Quantum Leap, Alien Nation (TV))

1972 – Jason George, actor (Stargate: SG-1, Roswell, Clockstoppers)

1973 – Shaun Parkes, actor (Doctor Who, No Ordinary Family)

1974 – Amber Valletta, actress (Gamer)

1976 – Charlie Day, actor (Pacific Rim)

1980 – Margarita Levieva, actress (The Invisible)

 

1984 – Geng Han, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

1985 – David Gallagher, actor (Super 8, Smallville, Bermuda Triangle)

1985 – Rachel Melvin, actress (Zombeavers, Heroes)

1987 – Michael B. Jordan, actor (Chronicle)

1989 – Osamu Tezuka, writer, d @ 60 (Astro Boy, Metropolis)

1992 – Avan Jogia, actor (Caprica)

1995 – David Wayne, actor, d @ 81 (Andromeda Strain, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, Twilight Zone)

1996 – Jimmy Bennett, actor (Star Trek (2009), No Ordinary Family)

1996 – Gerald Savory, writer, d @ 86 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1999 – Bryan Mosley, actor, d @ 67 (Out of the Unknown, Doctor Who)

2006 – Phil Brown, actor, d @ 99 (Superman, Star Wars: A New Hope, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Journey to the Unknown)

2007 – Ian Richardson, actor, d @ 72 (Dark City, Brazil)

2008 – Robert DoQui, actor, d @ 73 (Deep Space Nine, RoboCop 1, 2, and 3, Starman, My Science Project, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Outer Limits)

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1828 – Jules Verne, sci-fi author (From the Earth to the Moon)

1884 – Burt Mustin, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

Burt Mustin in The Outer LImits episode, The Guests.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1886 – Charlie Ruggles, actor (The Munsters)

1902 – Lyle Talbot, actor (Amazon Women on the Moon, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Tobor the Great, Mesa of Lost Women, Space Patrol, Atom Man vs. Superman)

Lyle Talbot in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 – Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)

Truman Bradley narrator on Science Fiction Theatre

1908 – Myron McCormick, actor (‘Way Out)

1914 – Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay released

1921 – Lana Turner, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1928 – Jack Larson, actor (Superman Returns, Lois & Clark, Superboy, Advnetures of Superman)

1930 – Alejandro Rey, actor (Terrorvision, The Swarm, The Bionic Woman, Satan’s Triangle, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

 

1932 – John Williams, composer (Star Wars, Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, E.T., Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

1934 – Nick Nolte, actor (Hulk)

1942 – Robert Klein, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1944 – Roger Lloyd Pack, actor (Doctor Who, U.F.O.)

1946 – Alex Diakun, actor (The X Files, Eureka, Andromeda, EarthSea, Stargate SG-1, Millennium, Firebird 2015 AD)

1949 – Brooke Adams, actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Shock Waves)

1953 – Cliff Clark, actor, d @ 63 (War of the Worlds)

1953 – Mary Steenburgen, actress (Time After Time, Back to the Future, Back to the Future III)

1955 – Ethan Phillips, actor (Star Trek Voyager, The Island, The Adventures of RoboRex, Cerebral Print: The Secret Files, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Lost World, Star Trek: First Contact, Homeboys in Outer Space, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: TNG, Space Command Redemption)

1964 – Larry Clarke, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1965 – Mathilda May, actress (Lifeforce)

1967 – Ladislav Beran, actor (Hellboy, Blade II)

1968 – Gary Coleman, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1969 – Mary McCormack, actress (K-Pax, Deep Impact)

1971 – Susan Misner, actress (Fringe)

1972 – Brendan Wayne, actor (Cowboys and Aliens)

1974 – Seth Green, actor (Seaquest 2032, The X Files, My Stepmother Is an Alien)

1975 – Marc Wooton, actor (Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel)

1981 – Dawn Olivieri, actress (Heroes, Stargate:Atlantis)

1981 – Jim Parrack, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

1982 – Danny Tamberelli, actor (Space Cases)

1985 – Marvin Miller, actor, d @ 71 (Empire of the Ants, Fantastic Planet, Fantastic Voyage, Invasion of Astro-Monster, The Phantom Planet, The Invisible Boy, The Deadly Mantis, Forbidden Planet, King Dinosaur, Godzilla Raids Again, Space Patrol, Red Planet Mars)

1985 – Tom Greenway, actor, d @ 75 (The Deadly Mantis)

1988 – Allan Cuthbertson, actor, d @ 67 (UFO, The Body Stealers, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain, The Mouse on the Moon)

1992 – Baruch Lumet, actor, d @ 93 (Killer Shrews)

2004 – Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor, d @ 88

2012 – Phil Bruns, actor, d @ 80 (Digital Man, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man)

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1891 – L. F. Hay, sci-fi author, d @ 55

1908 – Clarence “Buster” Crabbe, actor (Flash Gordon , Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Buck Rogers, The Alien Dead, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

Buster Crabb.e as Flash Gordon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1912 – Derek Farr, actor (Blakes 7, The Projected Man)

Derek Farr (left) n The Projected Man.

1919 – Jock Mahoney, actor (The Land Unknown)

1921 – Fiona Hale, actress (Toxin, Minority Report)

1923 – Keefe Brasselle, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1925 – Romolo Valli, actor, d @ 54 (Barbarella)

1929 – Alejandro Jodorowsky, himself (Jodorowsky’s Dune)

1929 – King Moody,actor, d @ 71 (Teenagers from Outer Space, Quantum Leap)

 

 

 

1942 – Gareth Hunt, actor (Space: 1999, Doctor Who)

Gareth Hunt in the Space 1999 episode, Catacombs.

1946 – Pete Postlethwaite, actor (Jurassic Park, Inception, Æon Flux, Alien 3)

1948 – Michael McGreevey, actor(The Invaders)

1955 – Miguel Ferrer, actor (Bionic Woman, The Stand, DeepStar Six, RoboCop, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

1956 – Emo Phillips, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth (1998))

1956 – Bhasker Patel, actor (Doctor Who)

1956 – John Posey, actor (Seven Days, RoboCop 3)

1958 – Walter Kingsford, actor, d @ 76 (Science Fiction Theatre)

 

1960 – Robert Smigel, writer (Superman 50th Anniversary)

1960 – James Spader, actor (Stargate, Alien Hunter, Supernova)

1962 – Eddie Izzard, actor (The Day of the Triffids (2009))

1964 – Dona Speir, actor (Automan)

1965 – Jason Gedrick, actor (The Outer Limits, Strange Frequency)

1965 – Chris Rock, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dogma, Down to Earth)

1968 – Nick Adams, actor, d @ 36 (The Outer Limits, Mission Mars, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Monster of Terror, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1972 – Robyn Lively, actress (The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Not Quite Human II)

1973 – Victor Webster, actor (Continuum, Surrogates, Mutant X)

1974 – Arline Judge, actress, d @ 61 (The Crawling Hand)

1975 – Brent Chalem, actor (Quantum Leap, Small Wonder)

1978 – Ashton Kutcher, actor (The Butterfly Effect)

1979 – Cerina Vincent, actress (The Walking Dead, Zombie Family,)

1985 – Tina Majorino, actress, (Waterworld)

1985 – Clara Bryant, actress (Star Trek: DS9)

1986 – Deanna Casaluce, actress (My Best Friend is an Alien)

1988 – Linwood V Carter, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Lost World of Time), dies at 57

1990 – Alison Leggatt, actress (The Day of Triffids)

1991 – Dick Winslow, actor, d @ 75 (The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlantis, Embryo, My Favorite Martian, The Atomic Kid)

1993 – David Dorfman, actor (Galaxy Quest)

1994 – Jerrad Vunovich, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Walking Dead)

2014 – Christopher Barry, director, d @ 88 (Doctor Who, Tripods)

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1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor,actress (Queen of Outer Space, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie)

1922 – Patrick MacNee, actor (Super Force, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Lobster Man from Mars, War of the Worlds, Transformations, Automan, The Creature Wasn’t Nice, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1926 – Walker Edmiston, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Lost, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Lost Saucer, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek)

1930 – Pamela Curran, actress (The Invaders, Mutiny in Outer Space, My Favorite Martian, The Blob)

Pamela Curran in The Invaders episode, Counter Attack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Mamie Van Doren, actress (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)

1931 – Rip Torn, actor (Coma, Men in Black I II III, Android, RoboCop III)

Rip Torn in MiB

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Mike Farrell, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Questor Tapes, Doomsday Machine)

1941 – Gigi Perreau, , actress (Journey to Center of Time, Time Again)

1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt, actress (The Martian Chronicles)

Gayle Hunnicutt in The Martian Chronicles.

1945 – Steven Keats, actor (The Twilight Zone, Automan, Voyagers!, Hanger 18, The Lost Dinosaur)

1947 – Tiffany Bolling, actress (Kingdom of the Spiders, Man from Atlantis)

1957 – Kathy Najimy, actress (Wall-E, Extra Terrorestrial Alien Encounter)

1958 – Cecily Adams, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Total Recall 2070)

1958 – Barry Miller, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1960 – Megan Gallagher, actress (Millennium, Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Voyager, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: DS9)

 

1962 – Adam Simon, writer (Carnosaur, Brain Dead)

1968 – C Montague Shaw, actor, d @ 85 (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws, Undersea Kingdom, Mysterious Doctor Satan )

1969 – David Hayter, writer (World War III (2015))

1971 – Brian Stepanek, actor (Dark Skies, Monster Mutt)

1977 – Josh Stewart, actor (Interstellar, Transcendence, The Walking Dead, No Ordinary Family, Jekyll)

1980 – Ben Lawson, actor (Time Trax)

1980 – Kim Poirier, actress (05 Spacies, The Program (SSR-7), Awaken, Eureka, Decoys 2: Alien Seduction)

1982 – Alice Eve, actress (Star Trek: ID, Men in Black III)

1984 – Brandon Hammond, actor (Mars Attacks!)

1985 – Charles Briggs, actor, d @ 53 (Brainstorm, Land of the Giants)

1985 – Crystal Reed, actress (Skyline)

1986 – Alice Greczyn, actress (Phil of the Future)

1987 – Dane DeHaan, actor (Chronicle)

1989 – Sophie Bennett, actress (Odyssey 5, Code Name: Eternity, Universal Soldier: Brothers in Arms)

1990 – John Merivale, actor, d @ 72(Caltiki the Undying Monster, The Invisible Man)

1994 – Gwen Watford, actress, d @ 63 (Doomwatch)

1994 – Joseph Cotten, actor, d @ 88 (Screamers, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Lady Frankenstein, City Beneath the Sea, Journey to the Unknown, From the Earth to the Moon)

1996 – Guy Madison, actor, d @ 74 (On the Threshold of Space, The Beast of Hollow Mountain)

2002 – Guy Stockwell, actor, d @ 67 (Men into Space, Land of the Giants, The Disappearance of Flight 412, Arc II, Voyagers!, Quantum Leap)

2009 – Philip Carey, actor, d @ 83 (Monster, The Bionic Woman)

2012 – Peter Breck, actor, d @ 82 (The Outer Limits, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Outer Limits [original], The Crawling Hand)

 

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