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

1906 – John Carradine, actor (Lights Out, Twilight Zone, The Unearthly, Lost in Space, The Incredible Petrified World, Half Human, The Cosmic Man, Invisible Invaders, Invasion of the Animal People, The Wizard of Mars, The Astro-Zombies, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Blood of Ghastly Horror, Moodchild, Young Frankenstein, Stowaway to the Moon, Shock Waves, Young Frankenstein, Monster,The Ice Pirates, The Twilight Zone, Monster in the Closet, Evil Spawn)

John Carradine in the Lost in Space episode, The Galaxy Gift.

1912 – Willard Parker, actor (The Earth Dies Screaming)

1914 – William S. Burroughs, sci-fi author (The Soft Machine, Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead)

 

 

 

 

 

1918 – Charles J “Tim” Holt, actor (The Monster that Challenged the World, The Yesterday Machine)

Tim Holt in The Monster that Challenged the World. One of the better fifties sci-fi flicks.

1919 – Red Buttons, actor (Early Edition, C.H.O.M.P.S.)

1926 – Stefan Gierasch, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Megaville, The Twilight Zone, Holmes and Yo-Yo, The Incredible Hulk, Return to Earth)

1937 – Stuart Damon, actor (Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Space: 1999, UFO)

 

 

 

 

1940 – H.R. Giger, artist (Necromicon, Giger’s Alien, Dune)

H.R. Giger

1941 – David Selby, actor (Morphman, The Black Hole, Doctor Franken)

1945 – Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown, writer (U.F.O.)

1946 – George Arliss, actor, d @ 77 (Trans-Atlantic Tunnel)

1946 – Charlotte Rampling, actress (Zardoz)

1947 – David Ladd, actor (Beyond the Universe)

1948 – Christopher Guest, actor (Heartbeeps, Attack of the 50 foot Woman)

1948 – Barbara Hershey, actress (Insidious, The Invaders)

1951 – O’Neal Compton, actor (Deep Impact, Lois & Clark, The Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Quantum Leap, Brother Future)

1951 – Robin Sachs, actor (Resident Evil, Star Trek: Voyager, Galaxy Quest, Babylon 5, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Torchwood)

1955 – Debra Jo Fondren, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1956 – Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, based on Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers originally serialized in Collier’s in 1954, is released and is widely regarded as a political or social allegory. It will be remade in 1978, 1993, and 2007.

1959 – British novelist Kingsley Amis delivers the first of a series of lectures on science fiction at the Christian Gauss Seminars at Princeton.  Published in 1960 as New Maps of Hell, it will be instrumental in gaining general literary attention to the genre, and will be the first work of science fiction criticism to be published in a mass-market paperback (by Ballantine).

1961 – Tim Meadows, actor (Aliens in the Attic, Coneheads)

1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress (eXistenZ)

1964 – Laura Linney, actress (The Mothman Prophecies, Congo)

1965 – Arabella Field, actress (Bug, Godzilla 1998)

1966 – Eric Michael Zee, actor (How to Make a Monster, Independence Day)

1967 – Chris Parnell, actor (Eureka, Evil Alien Conquerors)

1969 – Michael Sheen, actor (Doctor Who, Tron: Legacy, Capture Anthologies: The Dimensions of Self)

1969 – Leslie Zemeckis, actress (I Married a Monster)

1969 – Michael Sheen, actor (Doctor Who, TRON: Legacy, Underworld, Mary Reilly)

1971 – Markus Redmond, actor (The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, Project: ALF)

1973 – David Meunier, actor (Revolution, Jericho)

1973 – Danielle Koenig, actress (InAlienable)

1973 – David Meunier, actor (Revolution)

1974 – Rod Roddenberry, producer (Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Trek Nation)

1975 – Myndy Crist, actress (Dark Skies, The Time Machine (2002))

1981 – Nora Zehetner, actress (Warehouse 13

1986 – Brittany Allen, actress (Warehouse 13, Extraterrestrial, Virtual Mom)

1990 – Anthony Ingruber, actor (Avatar)

1991 – Dean Jagger, actor, d @ 87 (End of the World, Alligator, X: The Unknown, Twilight Zone, On the Threshold of Space

1993 – Tip Tipping, actor, d @ 34 (Doctor Who, Aliens)

1995 – Doug Mcclure, actor, d @ 59 (Out of this World, Superboy, Automan, Manimal, Firebird 2015 AD, Humanoids from the Deep, Warlords of the Deep, At the Earth’s Core, The People that Time Forgot, The Land That Time Forgot, Satan’s Triangle, Twilight Zone)

2006 – Franklin Cover, actor, d @ 77 (The Stepford Wives, Between Time and Timbuktu)

2012 – S. William Hinzman, actor, d @ 75 (Mimesis, Night of the Living Dead)

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1912 – James Craig, actor (Doomsday Machine, Venus Flytrap, Science Fiction Theatre)

1915 – William Talman, actor (The Invaders, Science Fiction Theatre)

1918 – Ida Lupino, actress (Twilight Zone)

1922 – William Phipps, actor (Twilight Zone, Cat-Women of the Moon, War of the Worlds, Invaders from Mars, Space Force, The Munsters, The Evil of Frankenstein, Time Express, Men into Space)

William Phipps in War of the Worlds.

1923 – Conrad Bain, actor (C.H.O.M.P.S.)

1925 – Russell Hoban, sci-fi author, d @ 86 13 December 2011 (Riddley Walker)

1928 – Dave Ketchum, actor (Mork & Mindy, The Munsters)

1929 – Jerry Adler, actor (Quantum Leap)

1935 – Collin Wilcox Paxton, actor (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

 

 

 

1936 – Gary Conway, actor (I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, How to Make a Monster, Land of the Giants)

Gary Conway in Land of the Giants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Collin Wilcox Paxton, actress (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

1940 – John Schuck, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, Project: ALF, Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Time Trax, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home, Misfits of Science, Earthbound, Holmes and Yoyo)

John Schuck in Star Trek.

1940 – George A Romero, director (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Survival of the Dead, Diary of the Dead)

1943 – Cheryl Miller, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man)

1947 – Jeannie Wilson, actress (The Bionic Woman, Gemini Man)

1949 – Michael Beck, actor (Megaforce, Babylon 5)

1951 – Patrick Bergin, actor (Smallville, The Lost World, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Frankenstein, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics)

1952 – Richard Lineback, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Stand, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Max Headroom, Death Ray 2000)

1952 – Lisa Eichhorn, actress (Swamp Thing, Moon 44)

1958 – Mitchell Kosterman, actor (Stargate SG-1, Smallville, The X-Files, Sliders)

 

1959 – Una O’Connor, actress, d @ 78 (Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, Tales of Tomorrow)

1960 – Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Project U.F.O., Space Academy, Star Trek, The Reluctant Astronaut,

1960 – Jenette Goldstein, actress (Aliens, Clockstoppers, Star Trek: Generations, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1962 – Michael Riley, actor (Race to Mars, The Outer Limits)

1962 – John Gordon Sinclair, actor (World War Z)

1962 – Jim O’Heir, actor (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1965 – Stig Henrik Hoff, actor (The Thing (2011))

1968 – Ed Baker, actor, d @ 70 (Adventures of Superman)

1969 – Brandy Ledford, actress (Demolition Man, Stargate: Atlantis, Andromeda, Stargate: SG-1, Smallville, The Invisible Man, First Wave, The Outer Limits)

1970 – Gabrielle Anwar, actress (Mysterious Island, Flying Virus, Body Snatchers)

1971 – Rob Corddry, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1972 – Vincent Walsh, actor (ReGenesis, Mutant X, Space Truckers)

1976 – Dina Rosenmeir, actress (The Gene Generation)

1985 – Bug Hall, actor (Arachnoquake, The Day the Earth Stopped, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas

1992 – John Dehner, actor, d @ 76 (The Flying Missile , Twilight Zone, The Day of the Dolphin, The Immortal, Creator, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Boys from Brazil)

1996 – Willard Parker, actor, d @ 84 (The Earth Dies Screaming)

2001 – Tony Steedman, actor, d @ 73 (Babylon 5)

2002 – George Nader, actor, d @ 80 (Beyond Atlantis, The Great Space Adventure, Robot Monster)

2005 – Ossie Davis, actor, d @ 87 (The Android Affair, The Stand)

 

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1904 – Alice Martha Lightner Hopf, sci-fi author

1920 – Bibi Osterwald, actress (Out of this World)

1925 – John Fiedler, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Ark II, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

John Fiedler in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Shelley Berman, actress (The Munsters Today, Beware! The Blob, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Joan Rice, actress (The Horror of Frankenstein)

1932 – Peggy Ann Garner, actress (The Outer Limits)

Peggy Ann Garner in The Outer LImits episode, The Probe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Jeremy Kemp, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1938 – Victor Buono, actor (Man from Atlantis, Moonchild, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Victor Buono in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

1938 – Marshall Efron, actor (THX 1138)

1941 – Bridget Hanley, actress (Mad Mad Scientist)

1943 – Blythe Danner, actress (The X-Files, Futureworld)

1944 – Trisha Noble, actress (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Out of the Unknown)

1947 – Paul Auster, sci-fi author (Travels in the Scriptorium, Moon Palace)

1947 – Stephen McHattie, actor (Septic Man, 2012, Fringe, Star Trek: Enterprise, Mutant X, Star Trek: DS9, Visitors of the Night, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)

1948 – Susanne Benton, actress (A Boy and his Dog)

1950 – Morgan Fairchild, actress (Roswell, Venus Rising, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Lois & Clark, Time Express, Mork & Mindy)

1950 – Pamela Franklin, actress (Project U.F.0., Gemini Man, The Food of the Gods, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1957 – Michele Greene, actress (Lightning: Fire from the Sky, Stargate: SG-1, The Outer Limits, The Unborn II)

1958 – Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author, d @ 42 (Dark World, As You Were)

1959 – Thomas Calabro, actor (The Nest, Ice Spiders)

1959 – Frederic Lehne, actor (The X-Files, Sliders, Babylon 5)

1960 – B J Jefferson, actress (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

1961 – Keith Gordon, director (The Strain)

1970 – Warwick Davis, actor (The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!, Doctor Who, Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, The Ewok Adventure, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Star Tours)

1971 – Elisa Donovan, actor (Shark Swarm, Encino Woman)

1972 – John Litel, actor, d @ 79 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Flight to Mars)

1975 – Terry Chen, actor (Elysium, Continuum, Battlestar Galactica, V (2010), I Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Godzilla, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, Riverworld, The 4400, Jake 2.0)

1978 – Kelly Sullivan, actress (Found in Time)

1978 – Adrian R’Mante, actor (S1m0ne)

1989 – John Cassavetes, actor, d @ 59 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1991 – Nancy Kulp, actress, d @ 69 (Quantum Leap, Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone)

1999 – Abigail Hargrove, actress (World War Z)

2003 – Lana Clarkson, actress, d @ 40 (Black Scorpion, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm)

2006 – Jean Byron, actress, d @ 80 (Invisible Invaders, Science Fiction Theatre, The Magnetic Monster)

2006 – Al Lewis, actor, d @ 82 (The Munsters, Here Come the Munsters, Munster’s Revenge, Munster, Go Home!, Lost in Space)

2010 – Frances Reid, actress, d @ 95 (The Andromeda Strain, Project U.F.O.)

2012 – Ben Gazzara, actor, d @ 81 (The Neptune Factor)

2012 – Zalman King, actor, d @ 69 (Galaxy of Terror, Land of the Giants)

2012 – Christopher Samuel Youd, sci-fi author, d @ 89 (The Death of Grass, The Tripods)

2013 – Peter Gilmore, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Warlords of the Deep)

 

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1899 – Benny Rubin, actor (The Munsters, Science Friction, Space Ship Sappy)

1901 – Connie Gilchrist, actress (Twilight Zone)

1903 – Frank McGrath, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)

1905 – Ayn Rand, author (Fountainhead, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged)

1909 – Frank Albertson, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1923 – Bonita Granville, actress (Science Fiction Theatre)

1925 – Elaine Stritch, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Cocoon: The Return)

1929 – Sheila Allen, actress (Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Sheila Allen in Lost in Space.

1932 – Robert Mandan, actor (Weird Science, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Legacy of Fear, Star Trek: DS9)

1933 – Tony Jay, actor (Time Bandits, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Star Trek: TNG, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Duane Jones, actor (Night of the Living Dead)

Duane Jones in Night of the Living Dead.

1939 – Jackie Burroughs, actress (Re-Generation, Smallville, Food of the Gods II, The Twilight Zone)

1940 – Thomas M[ichael] Disch, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)

1942 – Bo Hopkins, actor (Phantoms, Tenticles)

1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, actor, (Doctor Who)

1947 – Farrah Fawcett, actress (Saturn 3, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

1949 – Brent Spiner, actor (Star Trek;TNG, Independence Day, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek : First Contact, Star Trek : Nemesis, Star Trek: Insurrection, The Outer Limits, Warehouse 13, Alphas, Threshold, The Twilight Zone)

Brent Spiner as Data. It is also the fictional birth / activation date of Data

1950 – Barbara Sukowa, actress (Johnny Mnemonic)

1951 – Kim Zimmer, actress (Babylon 5)

1955 – Michael Talbot, actor (Space)

1961 – Lauren Lane, actress (Interface)

1966 – D.C. Douglas, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Star Trek: Enterprise, Future Force)

1969 – Boris Karloff, actor, d @ 81 (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Ray, The Man Who Lived Again, Son of Frankenstein, The Man They Could Not Hang, The Man with Nine Lives, Before I Hang, The Devil Commands, House of Frankenstein, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow, Frankenstein – 1970, Monster of Terror, Alien Terror)

1969 – Brittaney Bennett, actress (Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1970 – C. Ernst Harth, actor (Fringe, Smallville, The 4400, The Outer Limits, The X-Files

1972 – Tanya Clarke, actress (Repo Men)

 

1974 – Oz Perkins, actor (Star Trek (2009))

1990 – Joel Fluellen,actor, d @ 82 (The Invaders, Gemini Man, Monster from Green Hell)

1993 – Bernard Braden, actor, d @ 76 (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1995 – Donald Pleasance, actor, d @ 75 (The Outer Limits, Escape from New York, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, The Mutations, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, THX 1138, Fantastic Voyage, Twilight Zone, The Hands of Orlac)

1996 – Aline Towne, actress, d @ 76 (The Incredible Hulk, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Gog, Adventures of Superman, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Radar Men from the Moon, The Invisible Monster)

2011 – Margaret John, actress, d @ 84 (Doctor Who, Tardisodes, Blakes 7, Doomwatch)

2013 – John Kerr, actor, d @ 81 (The Invisible Man)

2338 – Data, android character on Star Trek: TNG

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1908 – George Pal, producer/director (Conquest of Space,The War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon, The Time Machine, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

George Pal

1910 – Amapola Del Vando, actress (The Bionic Woman)

1912 – Richard Wattis, actor, d @ 62 (Egghead’s Robot)

1916 – Bruce Gordon, actor (Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann)

1919 – Andrea King, actress (Red Planet Mars, The Beast with Five Fingers)

1921 – Peter Sallis, actor (Frankenstein: The True Story, Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The Mouse on the Moon)

1926 – Stuart Whitman, actor (Superboy, Time Trax, Omega Cop, Deadly Reactor, Night of the Lepus, When Worlds Collide, Day the Earth Stood Still)

1933 – Richard Roat, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark, Hard Time on Planet Earth, ALF, Logan’s Run (TV), Holmes and Yo-Yo, Westworld)

1937 – Garrett Morris, actor (Coneheads, The Twilight Zone, The Invisible Woman)

1938 – Sherman Hemsley, actor (Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk)

1940 – Bibi Besch, actress (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tremors, The Day After, The Six Million Dollar Man, Meteor)

1940 – Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, d @ 51 (creator of Buck Rogers character)

1943 – Linda Gaye Scott, actress (Westworld, Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll)

1944 – Leo Burmester, actor (The Abyss)

1946 – Bart Braverman, actor (Alligator, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Automan)

1946 – Elisabeth Sladen, actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, SJA: Alien Files, The Sarah Jane Adventures Comic Relief Special, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend, Doomwatch)

Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1954 – Billy Mumy, actor (Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: DS9, Space Cases, Superboy, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Munsters, Space Command Redemption)

Billy Mumy in Lost in Space.

1964 – Kaitlin Hopkins, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9)

1964 – Sharon Bruneau, actress (Nemesis 2: Nebula, Nemesis 3: Time Lapse)

1964 – Linus Roache, actor (The Chronicles of Riddick)

1965 – Sherilyn Fenn, actress (The 4400, The Outer Limits, Prey)

1965 – Abdul Ayoola, actor (10.5: Apocalypse)

1966 – William Harrigan, actor, d @ 71 (Invisible Man)

1968 – Pauly Shore, actor (Encino Man)

1969 – Brian Krause, actor (2012: Supernova)

1971 – Michael C. Hall, actor (Gamer)

1974 – Jennifer Lien, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Superman)

 

1976 – Ana Alexander, actress (Land of the Lost (2009))

1976 – Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author, d @ 66 (Judgment of Eve, Davy)

1977 – Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, sci-fi author, d @ 72 (Danger Planet)

1977 – Candace Smith, actress (Heroes)

1979 – Mort Marshall, actor, d @ 60 (Target Earth, Out There)

1979 – Rachelle Lefevre, actress (Under the Dome)

1980 – Romolo Valli, actor, d @ 54 (Barbarella)

1983 – Sara Malakul Lane, actress (Sharktopus, 100 Degrees Below Zero, 12/12/12)

1984 – Lee Thompson Young, actor (Smallville, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jake 2.0)

1989 – Britanni Johnson, actress (Star Trek: ID, Zombie Break Room)

1992 – George Berkeley, actor, d @ 70 (Captain Midnight)

1994 – Olan Soule, actor, d @ 84 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., Battlestar Galactica, Fantastic Planet, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Land of the Giants, The Bubble, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, The Lost Missile, Captain Midnight, This Island Earth, Science Fiction Theatre, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

2002 – Irish McCalla, actress, d @ 72 (She Demons, Hands of a Stranger)

2005 – John Vernon, actor, d @ 72 (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)

2013 – Robin Sachs, actor, d @ 61 (Resident Evil, Star Trek: Voyager, Galaxy Quest, Babylon 5, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

2014 – Maximilian Schell, actor, d @ 83 (The Black Hole, Deep Impact)

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1894 – Percy Helton, actor (The Giant Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1911 – Eddie Willard, actor (Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope)

1911 – Eddie Byrne, actor (Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Journey to the Unknown)

1914 – Carey Lofton, actor/stuntman (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, The Invisible Monster, The Purple Monster Strikes / The Incredible Hulk, Munster, Go Home!, THX 1138, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Monsters, King of the Rocket Men, The Purple Monster Strikes)

1921 – John Agar, actor (The Naked Monster, Tarantula, The Twilight Zone, Zontar: The Thing from Venus, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Destination Space, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Invisible Invaders, Attack of the Puppet People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Daughter of Dr. Jeykll, The Mole People, The Rocket Man)

John Agar in The Brain from Planet Arous.

1922 – William Hurst, actor d @ 72 25 January 1995 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001, Gorgo)

1922 – William Sylvester, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1923 – Eddie Ryder, actor (The Munsters, Voyager to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

1927 – Jean Speegle Howard, actress (Meego, Lois & Clark, Homeboys in Outer Space, Cocoon)

 

 

 

 

1929 – Jean Simmons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

Jean Simmons in Star Trek TNG.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Lynn Carlin, actress (Battle Beyond the Stars, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman)

1934 – James Franciscus, actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Marooned, Twilight Zone, When Time Ran Out…)

James-Franciscus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Invaders)

1940 – Stuart Margolin, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Futureworld, Land of the Giants, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Strange Frequency)

1941 – Jessica Walter, actress (Doomsday Rock, Babylon 5, Ghost in the Machine, The Immortal)

1944 – Connie Booth, actress (The Tomorrow People)

1946 – Glynn Turman, actor (Manimal, The Twilight Zone, Strange World)

 

1946 – Jonathan Banks, actor (Millennium Man, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: DS9, Otherworld, The Invisible Woman)

1947 – Glynn Turman, actress (Revolution, Super 8, FlashForward, Millennium, Manimal, The Twilight Zone)

1947 – Jonathan Banks, actor (Millennium Man, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: DS9, Freejack, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Invisible Woman)

1949 – Carol Hawkins, actress (Blakes 7)

1950 – Robert Grubb, actor (Mad Max Beyond Thunder dome)

1958 – Terror from the Year 5000 released

1959 – Kelly Lynch, actress (Virtuosity)

1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1960 – Lowell Gilmore, actor, d @ 53 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1965 – Cindy Ambuehl, actress (Meteor, Weird Science (TV), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead)

1966 – Elizabeth Patterson, actress, d @ 90 (Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre)

1966 – Dexter Fletcher, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Stardust, Doom)

1970 – Eric Walker, actor (And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, The Ewok Adventure)

1970 – Minnie Driver, actress(The X-Files

1971 – Patricia Velasquez, actress (Mindhunters)

1974 – Anna Silk, actress (Earth Storm, Anonymous Rex, Mutant X)

1976 – Paul Scheer, actor (Piranha 3D)

1977 – Kevin Christy, actor (Heroes, Seven Days)

1980 – Tiffany Limos, actress (Teenage Caveman)

1981 – Justin Timberlake, actor (In Time)

1996 – Joel Courtney, actor (Super 8)

1999 – Lily Mo Sheen, actress (Underworld: Evolution)

2000 – Ralph Manza, actor, d @ 78 (I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Twilight Zone, This Is Not a Test, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Twilight Zone}

2007 – Lee Bergere, actor (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian

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1911 – Hugh Marlowe, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Hugh Marlowe in Earth vs The Flying Saucers. He was also in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

1914 – David Wayne, actor (Andromeda Strain, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, Twilight Zone)

1914 – John Ireland, actor (War of the Worlds, Salvage 1, The Shape of Things to Come, Planet of the Apes)

 

 

 

 

1918 – David Opatoshu, actor (Alien Nation, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

David Opatoshu in The Outer Limits episode A Feasiblity Study. He was also in Star Trek.

1922 – Dick Martin, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1925 – Dorothy Malone, actress (The Day Time Ended)

1930 – Gene Hackman, actor (Superman I II IV, Young Frankenstein, Marooned, The Invaders)

1951 – Charles S Dutton, actor (Alien 3, Android Cop, Threshold, Mimic)

1955 – Judith Tarr, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica)

 

 

 

 

1956 – Jeremy Gittins, actor (Doctor Who)

Jeremy Gittins in the Doctor Who episode, Warriors’ Gate as Lazlo. He was also the vicar in the popular BBC comedy, Keeping up Appearances.

1934 – Tammy Grimes, actress (The Stuff)

1935 – Richard Brautigan, sci-fi author (author, In Watermelon Sugar, The Hawkline Monster)

1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Deep Impact, The Day of the Triffids)

1941 – Gregory Benford, sci-fi writer (Nebula Timescape)

1959 – Alex Hyde-White, actor (Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica)

1965 – Julie McCullough, actress (Sharknado, 2012, The Blob, Black Scorpion)

1966 – Thomas McCarthy, actor (2012)

1966 – Daphne Ashbrook, actress (Doctor Who, Automatic, Star Trek: DS9, Intruders)

1967 – Lee Morgan, actor, d @ 64 (The Weird Ones, The Neanderthal Man, Space Patrol)

1968 – Tony Maudsley, actor (Day of the Triffids)

1973 – Jack McGowan, actor, d @ 54 (The Brain, The Giant Behemoth)

1974 – Christian Bale, actor (Terminator Salvation, Equilibrium

1983 – [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Earth War)

1985 – Ken Mayers, actor, d @ 66 (Space Patrol, Lost in Space, Adventures of Superman)

1987 – Ken Drake, actor, d @ 65 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, Science Fiction Theatre)

1987 – George Barr, illustrator

1990 – Jake Thomas, actor(A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dinocroc, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1991 – John McIntire, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone)

1994 – Pierre Boulle, sci-fi author, d @ 81 (Planet of the Apes)

1996 – Guy Doleman, actor, d @ 72 (On the Beach, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1999 – Huntz Hall, actor, d @ 79 (Cyclone)

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

2012 – Frederick Treves, actor, d @ 86 (Doctor Who, Doomwatch, The Andromeda Breakthrough, A for Andromeda)

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1917 – John Raitt, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Out There)

1918 – John Forsythe, actor (Marooned)

1918 – Donald Murphy, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter)

1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, sci-fi writer (Altered States)

1928 – Peter Byrne, actor (Blakes 7)

Peter Byrne in Blakes 7.

1930 – John Junkin, actor (Journey into the Unknown, The Brain)

1940 – Katharine Ross, actress (Donnie Darko, The Final Countdown, The Stepford Wives)

1942 – Robin Morgan, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1943 – Robert Random, actor (Time Walker, Village of the Giants)

1945 – Tom Selleck, actor (Runaway, Coma)

 

 

 

1948 – Marc Singer, actor (V, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: TV Series, Planet of the Apes (TV), Droid Gunner, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Dead Space, The Twilight Zone)

Marc Singer in V. Don’t you just love the cheesy 80s pub photos.

1950 – Ann Jillian, actress (Twilight Zone)

1953 – Paul Fusco, actor/writer (ALF)

1954 – Terry Kinney, actor (Body Snatchers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Warning from Space released

Warning from Space released. Who knew!

1958 – Judy Norton-Taylor, actress (Stargate SG-1, Millennium)

1960 – Matthew Ashford, actor (Species, Quantum Leap)

1960 – Louis Jean Heydt, actor, d @ 54 (Men Into Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1961 – Michael Ferris, writer (Terminator Salvation, Terminator 3)

1962 – Nicholas Turturro, actor (Super Cyclone, Tremors, The Twilight Zone, Cosmic Slop

1965 – John Larkin, actor, d @ 52 (The Satan Bug)

1968 – Bobbie Phillips, actress (Seven Days, TChameleon I and II, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, TC 2000, The Came from Outer Space)

1969 – Sam Trammell, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1970 – Heather Graham, actress (Lost in Space)

1973 – Ludwig Stossel, actor, d @ 89 (From the Earth to the Moon, Tales of Frankenstein, Science Fiction Theatre)

1975 – Kelly Packard, actress (And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird)

1975 – Sharif Atkins, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, The 4400)

1976 – Michael Gwynn, actor, d @ 59 (The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1977 – Justin Hartley, actor (Smallville)

1979 – Andrew Keegan, actor (Independence Day, Teenage Caveman)

1980 – Jason James Richter, actor (Laserhawk)

1985 – Isabel Lucas, actress (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1986 – Drew Tyler Bell, actor (Jake 2.0)

1986 – Leif Erickson, actor, d @ 74 (Invaders from Mars, Project U.F.O., Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1993 – Taylor McPherson, actor (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, The Walking Dead)

1994 – Nick Cravat actor, d @ 81 (Twilight Zone, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

2005 – Ron Feinberg, actor d @ 72 (A Boy and His Dog, It’s About Time)

 

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1910 – Arnold Moss, actor (The Time Tunnel, Star Trek, The 27th Day, Tales of Tomorrow)

Arnold Moss in Star Trek

1919 – John Banner, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1935 – Nicholas Pryor, actor (Brain Dead, The Powers of Matthew Star, Voyagers!)

1943 – John Beck, actor (Rollerball, Timecop: The Berlin Decision, The Invisible Man, Dark Planet, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Twilight Zone, The Time Machine, Cyborg 2087)

 

 

1943 – Susan Howard, actress (The Fantastic Journey, The Immortal, Quarantined, Star Trek)

Susan Howard in Star Trek

1957 – Harley Jane Kozak, actress (Stargate: SG-1, The Outer Limits, Dark Planet, The Android Affair)

1959 – Frank Darabont, director/writer (The Walking Dead, The Mist, Frankenstein (1994), The Fly II, The Blob (1988))

1960 – John Caliri, actor (V, The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, actor (Andromeda, The Twilight Zone, Total Recall 2070)

1965 – Lynda Boyd,actress (Sanctuary, The Twilight Zone, Mission to Mars, The Outer Limits, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invader, The X-Files, Level 9, Hot Tub Time Machine, Smallville)

1969 – Kathryn Morris, actress (Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, W.E.I.R.D. World)

 

1971 – Ashley Artus, actress (Judge Dredd)

1972 – Gillian Vigman, actress (Dragonfly)

1973 – John Banner, actor, d @ 62 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1974 – Ty Olsson, actor (Nerds and Monsters, Falling Skies, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Eureka, V, 2012, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flash Gordon [TV], Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: TV Series, The X-Files)

1974 – Melody Perkins, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1976 – Lee Ingleby, actor (The First Men in the Moon, Life on Mars)

1977 – Crystal Dawne, actress (War of the Worlds)

1977 – Burt Mustin, actor, d @ 92 (The Reluctant Astronaut, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1978 – Oscar Homolka, actor, d @ 79 (The Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1979 – Rosamund Pike, actor (The World’s End, Doom)

1981 – Calum Worthy, actor (Caprica, Stormworld, Smallville, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis)

1981 – Elijah Wood, actor (Deep Impact, Back to the Future Part II)

1988 – Alexandra Krosney, actress (iZombie)

1993 – John Steadman, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk)

1993 – Will Poulter, actor (The Maze Runner,)

1996 – Jerry Siegel d @85 (writer, Superman)

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1889 – Walter Baldwin, actor, d @ 88 (The Invaders)

Walter Baldwin in The Invaders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1901 – Willy Fritsch, actor (Women in the Moon)

1905 – Howard McNear, actor (Twilight Zone)

Howard McNear in Twilight Zone.

1912 – Mark Daniels, director, d @ 77 23 April 1989 (Man from Atlantis, Planet Earth, Star Trek, ‘Way Out)

1928 – Michael Craig, actor (Doctor Who, Escape 2000, Mysterious Island)

1936 – Troy Donohue, actor (Omega Cop, Dr. Alien, Monster on the Campus, The Monolith Monsters)

1940 – James Cromwell, actor (I Robot, Masters of Science Fiction, Star Trek: First Contact. Star Trek: Enterprise, Deep Impact, Species II, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Earthlings, The Man with Two Brains)

1942 – John Witherspoon, actor (Cosmic Slop, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!, The Incredible Hulk)

1942 – Stewart Raffill, actor (Mac and Me, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Ice Pirates)

1956 – Mimi Rogers, actress (Lost in Space, The X-Files)

1957 – Frank Miller, writer/artist (Elektra, RoboCop 2 & 3)

1958 – Susanna Thompson, actress (Arrow, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Alien Nation: Dark Horizon)

1961 – Roy Fegan, actor (Misfits of Science)

1961 – Julie Caitlin Brown, actress (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9)

1964 – Bridget Fonda, actress (Frankenstein Unbound)

1965 – Alan Cumming, actor (Riverworld, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1966 – Tamlyn Tomita, actress (Day After Tomorrow, Stargate: SG-1, Robot Stories, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Time Trax, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Quantum Leap)

1967 – Byron Mann, actor (Smallville, Time Trax)

1969 – Patton Oswalt, actor (Star Wars Cantina Karaoke, Caprica, Dollhouse, Blade: Trinity, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1969 – Charles Winninger, actor, d @ 84 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1970 – Amy Hargreaves, actress (Brainscan)

1970 – Cindy Cheung, actress (Futurestates, Robot Stories)

1972 – David McMahon, actor d @ 60 (The Deadly Mantis, It Conquered the World, The Creature Walks Among Us, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing from Another World, The Monster That Challenged the World)

1976 – Chris Gauthier, actor (Eureka, Smallville, Bionic Woman, The Butterfly Effect 2, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis, Earthsea)

1982 – Iris Korn, actress, d @ 60 (The Incredible Hulk)

1986 – Lilli Palmer, actress, d @ 71 (Boys from Brazil)

1992 – Bill Walker, actor, d @ 95 (Twilight Zone, Dimension 5, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, World of Giants)

1992 – Connor Widdows, actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Taken, Millennium)

1994 – Claude Akins, actor, d @ 67 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Monster in the Closet, Tentacles, Adventures of Superman, Twilight Zone)

1994 – Joe Mays, actor, d @ 44 (Spontanious Combustion, Future Kick, Alien Nation, ALF)

2007 – Tige Andrews, actor, d @ 86 (Misfits of Science, Star Trek)

2010 – Zelda Rubenstein, actress, d @ 66 (Timemaster)