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

1904 – Douglas Evans, actor (King of the Rocket Men, Beginning of the End, The Munsters, Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone, The Magnetic Monster, The Invisible Monster)

1905 – Charles Lane, actor (Otherworld, Strange Invaders, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1913 – William Prince, actor (Spontaneous Combustion, The Cat from Outer Space, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)

1914 – Dorothy Newman, actress (Twilight Zone, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1915 – William Hopper, actor (20 Million Miles to Earth, The Deadly Mantis, Conquest of Space)

William Hopper in 20 Million Miles to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

1918 – Vito Scotti, actor (Ark II, The Lost Saucer, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Conquest of Space)

Vito Scotti in Conquest of Space.

1920 – Derek Bond, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1923 – Anne Jeffreys, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica)

1925 – Paul Newman, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1925 – Joan Leslie, actress (The Incredible Hulk)

1927 – William Redfield, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Tales of Tomorrow, Conquest of Space)

1928 – Philip Jose Farmer, sci-fi writer (Riverworld)

1928 – Roger Vadim, director (Barbarella)

 

 

 

 

1931 – Mary Murphy, actress (The Outer Limits, The Electronic Monster)

Mary Murphy in The Outer Limits Episode, The Premonition.

1943 – Kathryn Leigh Scott, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Space: 1999)

1946 – Michael McManus, actor (The Munsters’ Revenge, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1949 – David Strathairn, actor (Godzilla 2014, Alphas, Iceman, The Brother from Another Planet)

1952 – Mimi Leder, director (Deep Impact)

1952 – The John C. Winston publishing company announces the first five titles in its new series of juvenile science fiction novels which, later under the imprint Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, will extend to 35 novels before ending in 1961, including titles by Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Donald A. Wollheim, and others.

1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, actress (Coneheads)

 

1964 – Paul Johansson, actor (Andromeda, First Wave, Earth: Final Conflict, They Came from Outer Space)

1965 – Allison Hossack, actress (The Philadelphia Experiment, Fringe, Sanctuary, Eureka, Masters of Science Fiction, Stargate: Atlantis, The Twilight Zone, Stargate: SG-1, Anthrax, First Wave, Escape from Mars, The Outer Limits, Sliders)

1971 – Bryan Callen, actor (Scary Movie 4)

1971 – Dorian Gregory, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Apocalypse

1973 – Edward G Robinson, actor, d @ 79 (Soylent Green)

1977 – Hae-il Park, actor (The Host)

1978 – Leo Genn, actor, d @ 72 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1984 – Jacob Blair, actor (Underworld: Awakening, SGU Stargate Universe, V (2011), Hot Tub Time Machine, Fringe, 2012, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain (2008), Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Bionic Woman)

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

1991 – Glenn Langan, actor, d @ 73 (The Return of Doctor X, Mutiny in Outer Space, Women of the Prehistoric Planet , The Andromeda Strain, The Amazing Colossal Man)

1992 – José Ferrer, actor, d @ 80 (Dune, The Being, The Swarm, Exo-Man)

1993 – Cameron Bright, actor (Earth’s Final Hour, Stargate SG-1, The 4400

2000 – A.E. van Vogt, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (The World of Null-A, The Book of Ptath, The Voyage of the Space Beagle)

2002 – Dimitra Arliss, actress, d @ 79 (Firefox)

2006 – Len Carlson, actor, d @ 68 (Cypher)

2012 – Ian Abercrombie, actor, d @ 77 (Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes)

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1900 – Mildred Dunnock, actress (‘Way Out, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1918 – King Donovan, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956], The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Magnetic Monster)

King Donovan in The Magnetic Monster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Gregg Palmer, actor (Star Trek, From Hell It Came, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

Gregg Palmer in Star Trek.

1931 – Dean Jones, actor (Special Report: Journey to Mars, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)

1931 – Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Mutiny in Outer Space)

1934 – Elizabeth Allen, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

1936 – Diana Hyland, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1941 – Gregory Sierra, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids,Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Clones, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

1942 – John Owens, actor (Dinotopia, Doctor Who)

1943 – Tobe Hooper, director (Taken, Dark Skies, Invaders From Mars, Perversions of Science)

1944 – Anita Pallenberg, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Barbarella)

1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Soylent Green)

1946 – Richard Poe, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager)

1951 – Diane Salinger, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Mann & Machine, Creature)

1958 – Dinah Manoff, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1959 – Eugene Osment, actor (Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1965 – Alex Nevil, actor (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark)

1972 – Johnny Green, actor (Monster Man, The Twilight Zone, Back to the Future)

1974 – Kurt Evans, actor (Arrow, Fringe, Watchmen, The Andromeda Strain, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, The X-Files)

1974 – William Fawcett, actor, d @ 79 (The Munsters, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Commando Cody, Captain Video, Atom Man vs. Superman)

1975 – Mia Kirshner, actress (War of the Worlds)

1977 – Donald Kerr, actor, d @ 85 (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1979 – Christine Lakin, actress (The Frankenstein Theory, Big Monster on Campus, 3rd Rock from the Sun

1980 – Queenie Watts, actress, d @ 53 (Doomwatch)

1981 – Richard Talmadge, actor, d @ 88 (The Phantom Empire)

1981 – Charlie Bewley, actor (Extant)

1985 – Tom Hopper, actor (Doctor Who)

1986 – L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi author, d @ 74

1990 – Ava Gardner, actress, d @ 67 (On The Beach)

1990 – Alexander Lockwood, actor, d @ 87 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Monster on the Campus, The Invisible Boy, Tales of Tomorrow)

1991 – Stanley Brock, actor, d @ 59 (Out of this World, Quantum Leap, Amazon Women on the Moon, Night of the Comet, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman)

1995 – William Sylvester, actor, d @ 72 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

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

1995 – John Smith, actor, d @ 63 (Project U.F.O.)

2008 – Christopher Allport, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Invaders from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

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1883 – Estelle Winwood, actress (Twilight Zone)

1911 – C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, sci-fi author (Judgment Night, Northwest Smith, Cthulhu Mythos)

1917 – Ernest Borgnine, actor (Escape from New York, Gattaca, Future Cop, The Black Hole, The Neptune Factor, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Laser Mission, Future Cop)

1918 – John McLiam, actor (Star Trek: TNG, V, Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, The Food of the Gods, The Invisible Man, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

John McLiam in The Outer Limits episode, Second Chance.

1919 – John Hudson, actor (Men Into Space)

1919 – William Hudson, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Moon Pilot, Men Into Space, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Amazing Colossal Man, The She-Creature, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger)

1920 – Jerry Maren, actor (Frankenstein Rising, Spaceballs, The Twilight Zone, The Being, TRON, Planet of the Apes, Superman and the Mole-Men)

1924 – Marvin Kaplan, actor (The Came from Outer Space, The Lost Saucer)

 

 

1931 – John Hollis, actor (Superman I, II and IV, The Day of the Triffids (TV), Flash Gordon, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Blakes 7, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, Creatures the World Forgot, A for Andromeda)

John Hollis in Star Wars.

1937 – Barton Heyman, actor (Twilight Zone)

1944 – David Gerrold, writer (The Trouble With Tribbles)

1946 – Michael Ontkean, actor (The Outer Limits, The Stepford Husbands)

1948 – Michael Des Barres, actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Superboy, Super Force, ALF, I Monster)

1950 – Bull Montana, actor, d @ 62 (The Lost World, Flash Gordon)

1954 – William Allen Young, actor (District 9, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)

1956 – Peter Woodward, actor (Fringe, Stargate: Atlantis, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms)

 

1961 – Nastassja Kinski, actress (Day the World Ended)

1962 – Tom Shirley, actor, d @ 62 (‘Way Out)

1967 – Phil Lamarr, actor (Real Steel, Evil Alien Conquerors)

1969 – Stephanie Romanov, actress (Menno’s Mind, Seven Days)

1970 – Matthew Lillard, actor (Area 57, Wing Commander)

1972 – Jerome Cowan, actor, d @ 74 (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, Have Rocket — Will Travel)

1973 – J Carrol Naish, actor, d @ 77 (Dracula vs Frankenstein)

1975 – Larry Fine, actor, d @ 72 (The Three Stooges in Orbit, Have Rocket – Will Travel, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy)

1978 – Kristen Schaal, actress (Last Man on Earth)

1980 – Nicole Marie Lenz, actress (First Strike)

1983 – Craig Horner, actor (Cyber Girl)

1984 – Remy Ryan, actor (RoboCop 3)

1984 – Justin Baldoni, actor (Heroes, The Helix… Loaded)

1985 – Karis Page Bryant, actress (Universal Soldier: The Return)

1986 – Mischa Barton, actress (Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard)

1991 – Lawrence Lott, actor, d @ 40 (Philadelphia Experiment)

1992 – John Bleifer, actor, d @ 90 (Men Into Space, Queen of Outer Space, The 27th Day)

2006 – Chris Penn, actor, d @ 40 (Future Kick)

2010 – Pernell Roberts, actor, d @ 81 (Man From Atlantis)

2012 – James Farentino, actor, d @ 73 (The Final Countdown)

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1906 – Bob Steele, actor (The Atomic Submarine, Giant from the Unknown)

1907 – Dan Duryea, actor (The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone)

1912 – Susan French, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Flatliners, Quantum Leap)

1919 – Frances Bay, actress (Repo Chick, The X Files, Quantum Leap, Critters, ALF, Alien Nation)

1923 – Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars, A Canticle for Leibowitz)

1923 – Florence Halop, actress (Gemini Man)

1933 – Arlene Golonka, actress (Dr. Alien)

1933 – Chita Rivera, actress (The Outer Limits)

Chita Rivera in The Outer Limits episode, The Bellero Shield.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Lou Antonio, actor (Dark Skies, Star Trek)

Lou Antonio in the Star Trek episode, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.

1939 – Sonny Chiba, actor (Invasion of the Neptune Men, Message from Space)

1939 – Greg Hildebrandt, illustrator

1939 – Tim Hildebrandt, Illustrator

1943 – Gil Gerard, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Nuclear Hurricane, E.A.R.T.H. Force)

1944 – Rutger Hauer, actor (Blade Runner, Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Flying Virus)

1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, actor (Stargate: SG1, SGU Stargate Universe, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut, Stargate: Continuum, Stargate: Atlantis)

1950 – Richard Gilliland, actor (Star Kid, Bug, Dark Skies, Torchwood)

1951 – David Patrick Kelly, actor (K-PAX)

1954 – Killers from Space released

1955 – John H. Tobin, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, UFO: Target Earth)

1963 – Gail O’Grady, actress (Time Trax, Superboy)

1972 – Ewen Bremner, actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Snowpiercer)

1973 – Lanei Chapman, actress (Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek: TNG)

1974 – Tiffani-Amber Theissen, actress (Cyborg Soldier)

1977 – Sonita Henry, actress (Doctor Who, Star Trek [2009], The Fifth Element)

1988 – Hollingworth Morse, director, d @ 77 (Ark II, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Crash of Moons, Duel in Space)

1992 – Jack Reynor, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Dollhouse)

1992 – Ian Wolfe, actor, d@ 95 (THX-1138, Creator, The Terminal Man, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1993 – Keith Laumer, sci-fi author, d @ 67 (Imperium, Retief)

1999 – Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century debuted on Disney Channel

2000 – David Knoll, actor (The Strain)

2009 – Moon released

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1906 – Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author

1909 – Ann Sothern, actress (The Manitou,)

1920 – George Breakston, writer (The Manster)

1922 – Robert Halmi Sr., producer (Riverworld, Flash Gordon, Dinotopia, )

1923 – Diana Douglas, actress (A Fire in the Sky, Science Fiction Theatre)

1931 – Jon Cedar, actor (Asteroid, The Incredible Hulk, Capricorn One, The Manitou, Day of the Animals, Time Travelers, The Invisible Man (1975))

1932 – Piper Laurie, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1934 – Bill Bixby, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Incredible Hulk)

Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk

1935 – Seymour Cassel, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Hurt (when he is not incubating aliens) as Doctor Who.

1940 – John Hurt, actor (Alien, Doctor Who, Masters of Science Fiction, Contact, Frankenstein Unbound, Spaceballs)

1955 – John Wesley Shipp, actor (The Sector, Sensory Perception, The Outer Limits)

1956 – Michael Kospa, actor (Fringe, Apollo 18, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Watchmen, Eureka, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, The X-Files)

1959 – Tyrone Power Jr., actor (Cocoon, Cocoon: The Return)

1965 – Diane Lane, actress (Batman vs Superman, Man of Steel, Judge Dredd)

1966 – Herbert Marshall, actor, d @ 75 (The Fly, Gog, Riders to the Stars)

1969 – Qing Xu, actor (Looper)

1969 – Olivia d’Abo, actress (Nuclear Family, Eureka, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone)

1971 – Karen Finneran, actress (Night of the Living Dead (1990))

1974 – Rebekah Elmalogou, actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)

1974 – Leon Lontoc, actor, d @ 64 (Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1975 – Balthazar Getty, actor (Judge Dredd)

1977 – Jennifer Spence, actress (Continuum, SGU Stargate Universe, Eureka, The 4400, The Core)

1977 – Matthew Newton, actor (Farscape)

1980 – Christopher Masterson, actor (Electric Sleep, Strange Frequency, Millennium)

1981 – Beverley Mitchell, actress (Quantum Leap, White Dwarf)

1988 – Parker Fennelly, actor, d @ 96 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1994 – Telly Savalas, actor, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone, Capricorn One)

2007 – Liz Renay, actress, d @ 80 (Mark of the Astro-Zombies)

2010 – Jean Simmons, actress, d @ 80 (Star Trek: TNG)

2012 – Richard Tufeld, California, voice actor, d @ 85 (Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

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1897 – J Carrol Naish, actor (Dracula vs Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, The Monster Maker)

1915 – Alan Hewitt, actor (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

1921 – John Doucette, actor (The Time Machine, The Time Tunnel, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1922 – Telly Savalas, actor (Twilight Zone, Capricorn One)

1923 – Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer

1924 – Dean Fredericks, actor (The Phantom Planet, Them!)

1925 – Charles Aidman, actor (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Alien Zone, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)

1934 – Audrey Dalton, actress (The Monster that Challenged the World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1934 – Ann Wedgeworth, actress (The Twilight Zone, My Science Project)

1938 – John Savident, actor (Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Doomwatch)

John Savident in Bla.kes 7

1938 – Georges Méliès, director, d @ 76(A Trip to the Moon, The Hallucinated Alchemist, Under The Sea)

1942 – Mac Davis, songwriter / actor (Smallville / Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

1950 – George Orwell, whose 1984 established a new standard in dystopian fiction only two years earlier, dies.

1957 – Geena Davis, actress (The Fly, Coma (2012), Earth Girls are Easy)

1958 – Michael Wincott, actor (Alien: Resurrection)

1964 – Joseph Schildkraut, actor, d @ 67 (Twilight Zone)

1969 – John Ducey, actor (Deep Impact)

1969 – Karina Lombard, actress (The 4400)

1970 – Ken Leung, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1971 – Luigia Zucaro, actor (Dawn of the Dead)

1975 – Paul Anthony, actor (Tomorrowland, Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: Trinity, Jake 2.0, Stargate SG-1, Strange Frequency)

1977 – Jerry Trainor, actor (Evolution, Donnie Darko)

1981 – Izabella Miko, actress (Mr. Blob in the Universe)

1987 – Jeff Ballard, actor (nowmageddon, Kyle XY, Smallville, Zolar, A Wrinkle in Time, Mission to Mars)

1988 – Abraham Sofaer, actor, d @ 91 (Star Trek, Journey to the Center of Time, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1990 – Jacob Smith, actor (Evolution’s Child, Meego)

1992 – Keely Purvis, actor (The Time Tunnel (2006), Taken)

1994 – Chanelle Peloso, actress (Zapped (2014))

1994 – Booboo Stewart, actor (Space Warriors)

1997 – Owen Best, actor (TRON: Legacy, Smallville, Impact)

1998 – Jack Lord, actor, d @ 77 (The Invaders)

1999 – Susan Strasberg, actress, d @ 60 (The Invaders)

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1919 – Anthony Dexter, actor (The Phantom Planet, Fire Maidens of Outer Space, 12 to the Moon)

1920 – Alan North, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1922 – Guy Madison, actor (On the Threshold of Space, The Beast of Hollow Mountain)

1923 – Jean Stapleton, actress (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor (My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1926 – Fritz Weaver, actor (Twilight Zone, Day of the Dolphin, The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone, The Martian Chronicles, Demon Seed, The Invaders, ‘Way Out)

Fritz Weaver in the Twilight Zone episode, Third from the Sun.

1930 – Tippi Hedren, actress (The 4400, The Bionic Woman)

1932 – Richard Lester, director (Superman II and III, The Mouse on the Moon)

1934 – John Richardson, actor (Battle of the Stars, War of the Planets, Frankenstein ’80, She)

1935 – Bryan Pringle, actor (Brazil)

1941 – Tony Anholt, actor (Space: 1999, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Cosmic Princess)

1942 – Shelly Fabares, actress (Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, Captain Midnight)

1942 – Reiner Schone, actor (Ice Planet, Sliders, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1950 – Isaac Asimov’s first novel, Pebble in the Sky, is published.

1953 – Linda Hayden, actress (The Boys from Brazil)

 

1953 – Desi Arnaz Jr, actor (Automan)

1954 – Katey Sagal, actress (Space Cases, Smart house)

1955 – Paul Rodriguez, actor (The Twilight Zone, Time Changer)

1955 – Tracy Stratford, actor (Twilight Zone, The Evil of Frankenstein)

1957 – Roger Ashton-Griffiths, actor (Doctor Who, Mutant Chronicles, Torchwood, Brazil)

1958 – Allen Steele, sci-fi author (Orbital Decay, The Death of Captain Future)

1959 – Lock Martin, actor, d @ 42 (Invaders from Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1961 – Paul McCrane, actor (RoboCop, The X-Files, Superboy, The Blob (1988))

1961 – William Ragsdale, actor (Frankenstein: The College Years)

1962 – Snub Pollard, actor, d @ 72 (Master of the World, The Day the Earth Stood Still )

1965 – Frank Reicher, actor, d @ 89 (Superman and the Molemen)

1967 – Grace Cunard, actress, d @ 73 (The Bride of Frankenstein)

1968 – Matt Hill, actor (Taken, The X Files)

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

1970 – Hal March, actor, d @ 49 (The Atomic Kid)

1971 – Rachel Luttrell, actress (Stargate: Atlantis)

1973 – Max Adrian, actor, d @ 69 (Terrornauts, Doctor Who)

1974 – Natassia Malthe, actress (Fringe, Andromeda, Seven Days, First Wave, Millennium)

1976 – Kevin Coughlin, actor, d @ 30 (The Invaders)

1977 – Benjamin Ayres, actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1)

1977 – Candice Hillebrand, actress (Tekken)

1991 – John Russell, actor, d @ 70 (Jason of Star Command)

2004 – Sidney Miller, director, d @ 87 (My Favorite Martian, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)

2006 – Anthony Franciosa, actor, d @ 77 (The Twilight Zone, Earth II)

2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, actress, d @ 70 (The Invaders)

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1911 – Danny Kaye, actor (The Twilight Zone)

Danny Kaye (left) in one of his last roles in The Twilight Zone episode, Paladin of the Lost Hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Orville Sherman, actor, d @ 68 1 October 1984 (Westworld, The Twilight Zone, The Brain Eaters, The Adventures of Superman)

Orville Sherman (left) in The Brain Eaters.

1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Schrodinger’s Cat)

1933 – John Boorman, director (Zardoz)

1938 – Basil Hoffman, actor (Eerie Indiana, Small Wonder, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1948 – M.C. Gainey, actor (Revolution, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Starman, Time After Time)

1950 – John Hughes, director (Weird Science)

1955 – Kevin Costner, actor (Waterworld, The Postman, Man of Steel, Testament)

1961 – Jeff Yagher, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Mysterious Ways, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Twilight Zone, V)

1963 – Jane Horrocks, actress (Red Dwarf)

1969 – Dave Bautista, actor (Riddick, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1969 – Jesse L. Martin, actor (The X-files)

1972 – George Mitchell, actor, d @ 66 (The Andromeda Strain, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Animal People)

1978 – Carl Betz, actor, d @ 56 (Killdozer)

1979 – Rebakah Jean Morgan, actress (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1980 – Jason Segel, actor (This is the End)

1981 – Antje Traue, actress (Man of Steel, Pandorum)

1983 – Samantha Mumba, singer / actress (Evolution / The Time Machine)

1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, actor, d @ 72 (The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II)

1991 – Matt Kane, actor (The Dinosaur Project)

2000 – Nancy Coleman, actress, d @ 87 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2001 – Al Waxman, actor, d @ 65 (Millennium, Spasms)

2008 – Lois Nettleton, actress, d @ 78 (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today, The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone, Captain Video)

2009 – Kathleen Byron, actress, d @ 88 (Blakes 7)

2009 – Bob May, actor, d @ 69 (The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

2014 – Sarah Marshall, actress, d @ 80 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Small Wonder)

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1899 – Nevil Shute, sci-fi author (On the Beach)

1921 – Dehl Berti, actor (Operation Neptune, One Step Beyond, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – James Earl Jones, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

1933 – Sheree North, actress (Future Cop, Destination Inner Space)

Sheree North in Destination Inner Space.

1934 – Stuart Nisbet, actor (They Came from Outer Space (TV), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1935 – Paul O[sborne] Williams, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)

1938 – John Bellairs, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)

1941 – Tom Lowell, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, The Twilight Zone)

1942 – Nancy Parsons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1942 – Randy Boone, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

 

 

1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

Geoffrey Deuel in The Invaders episode, The Condemned.

1947 – Todd Susman, actor (The Invaders, Weird Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Coneheads, ALF, The Twilight Zone)

1949 – Andy Kaufman, actor (Heartbeeps)

1950 – Sharon Duce, actress (The Tomorrow People (TV), Doctor Who, Outland)

1956 – Mitch Vogel, actor (Ark II, The Immortal)

1962 – Jim Carrey, actor (Earth Girls are Easy)

1963 – Chris Casamassa, actor (Sci-Fighter)

1965 – D.J. Caruso, director (I Am Number Four, Smallville, Tin Man (2014), VR.5)

1966 – Joshua Malina, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1, Sliders)

1967 – Kang-ho Song, actor (Snowpiercer)

1968 – Jeff Chase, actor (Star Trek: ID, Revolution, Looper, Star Trek (2009), Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)

1969 – Naveen Andrews, actor (Planet Terror, Future Tense, Rollerball (2000))

1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, artist (Star Wars: Clone Wars)

1973 – Fred Essler, actor, d @ 77 (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)

1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, actor (Planet Terror)

1976 – Anne Stedman, actress (Space Cowboys)

1977 – Leigh Whannell, actress (Insidious, The Matrix Reloaded)

1980 – Zooey Deschanel, actress (Tin Man, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1981 – Ray J, actor (Mars Attacks!, Steel)

1983 – Doodles Weaver, actor, d @ 71 (Earthbound, Land of the Giants, Superman)

1988 – Earth Star Voyager debuted on the Wonderful World of Disney

1992 – Dorothy Alison, actress, d @ 66 (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

2003 – Richard Crenna, actor, d @ 76 (Intruders, Marooned, Leviathan)

2004 – Noble Willingham, actor, d @ 72 (Fire in the Sky, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Man from Atlantis)

2008 – Allan Melvin, actor, d @ 84 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

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1887 – John Hamilton, actor (Adventures of Superman, Donovan’s Brain, The Flying Missile, The Invisible Monster, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe)

1890 – Karl Freund, cinematographer (Metropolis, The Golem)

1907 – Jason Johnson, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man (1975), The Andromeda Strain, The Cape Canaveral Monsters, Twilight Zone, Adventure of Superman, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

1907 – Alexander Knox, actor (Crack in the World, The Son of Dr. Jekyll,Holocaust 2000)

1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, director (Small Wonder, Manimal, Small & Frye, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Immortal, The Atomic Kid)

1918 – Stirling Silliphant, writer, died 1996 (Space)

1920 – Elliot Reid, actor (Small Wonder, The Munsters)

1920 – Steve Conte, actor, died 1997 (Teenage Zombies)

1922 – Henry Scott, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Henry Scott in The Outer Limits episode, Hundred Years of the Dragon.

1922 – Sherry Moreland, actress (Pyro… The Thing Without a Face, Adventure of Superman, Rocketship X-M)

1938 – Michael Pataki, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1943 – Fred Coffin, actor (The Invisible Man (TV), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, The X-Files, Something is Out There, The Twilight Zone)

1943 – Michael Attwell (Doctor Who)

1945 – Keith Wayne, actor (Night of the Living Dead)

1948 – John Carpenter, director/writer (Starman, They Live, The Thing, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., Ghosts of Mars / Dark Star)

1950 – Debbie Allen, actress (Quantum Leap)

1950 – Caroline Munro, actress (Space: 1999, At the Earth’s Core)

1956 – Jennifer Dale, actress (Mutant X, TekWar, RoboCop, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Beyond Reality, The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Mark Steger, actor (Heroes: Going Postal, I Am Legend, Men in Black II)

1963 – Kathy Evison, actress (Highlander [TV], SeaQuest 2032)

1968 – Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, actress (Perversions of Science)

1968 – David Chokachi, actor (Crimson Force, 10.0 Earthquake, Abner the Invisible Dog)

1968 – John Davidson, actor, d @ 81 (The Devil Bat)

1971 – Kermit Maynard, actor, d @ 68 (It Came From Outer Space)

1972 – Annika Peterson, actress (The Man from Earth)

1972 – Richard T. Jones, actor (Event Horizon, Godzilla 2014, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1972 – Dameon Clarke, actor (A Scanner Darkly)

1973 – Eriko Tamura, actor (Heroes, Nuclear Hurricane)

1974 – Nick Dash, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1979 – Ted Cassidy, actor, d @ 46 (Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Genesis II, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Angry Red Planet)

1981 – Bernard Lee, actor, d @ 73 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain)

1982 – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, actress (Automata)

1988 – Ballard Berkeley, actor, d @ 83 (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1986 – Mason Gamble, actor (Gattica)

1987 – Joyce Jameson, actress, d @ 59 (Project U.F.O., Death Race 2000, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1993 – Glenn Corbett, actor, d @ 59 (Automan, Manimal, The Immortal, City Beneath the Sea, Star Trek)

1998 – Emil Sitka, actor, d @ 82 (My Favorite Martian, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy, Space Patrol)

2002 – Ron Taylor, actor, d @ 49 (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, The Ice Pirates)

2014 – Russell Johnson, actor, d @ 89 (This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, The Twilight Zone)