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1903 – Elisha Cook Jr, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, Adventures of Superman, Star Trek)

Elisha Cook Jr. in Star Trek.

1914 – Geoffrey Lumsden, actor (The Horror of Frankenstein, Blood Beast from Outer Space, The Lost Planet)

1914 – Richard Widmark, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Swarm, Coma)

1921 – Sean Sullivan, actor (The Starlost, Dr. Frankenstein on Campus, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

1922 – Shirley Patterson, actress (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, World Without End, The Land Unknown)

1922 – Richard Mayes, actor (Doctor Who, A for Andromeda)

1927 – Akihiko Hirata, actor (Godzilla, Rodan, The Mysterians, The H-Man, Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, Ghidorah, Ultraman, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)

1927 – Denis Quilley, actor (Undermind, Timeslip)

1930 – Donald Moffat, actor (The Thing, Logan’s Run, Monster in the Closet, The Twilight Zone, Exo-Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminal Man)

Donald Moffat in John Carpenter’s, The Thing.

1932 – Robert V. Barron, actor (Quantum Leap, Frankenstein: The College Years, Alien Nation (TV), Out of This World)

1939 – Fred Schepisi, director (Iceman)

1944 – Jane Lapotaire, actress (The Asphyx)

1950 – Victoria Racimo, actress (Day of the Dolphin, The Prophecy, Logan’s Run)

1956 – Holmes Herbert, actor, d @ 74 (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein )

1960 – Temuera Morrison, actor (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1961 – John Lynch, actor (Scintilla, Alien Hunter, Chimera)

1961 – Tahnee Welch, actress (Cocoon I & II, Johnny 2.0)

1967 – Steve Le Marquand, actor (Farscape)

1968 – Tricia Leigh Fisher, actress (No Ordinary Family, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud)

1970 – Graham Shiels, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1970 – Danielle Cormack, actress (Cleopatra 2525)

1971 – Robert Lowery, actor, d @ 57 (Adventures of Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Revenge of the Zombies)

1973 – Steven Geray, actor, d @ 69 (Time Tunnel, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Evil of Frankenstein, Adventures of Superman)

1974 – Josie Ho, actress (Contagion)

1974 – Joshua John Miller, actor (Class of 1999)

1974 – Tiffany Brissette, actress (The Ewok Adventure)

1976 – Eugene Khumbanyiwa, actor (District 9)

1977 – Howard Hawks, director, d @ 81 (The Thing from Another World)

1986 – Kit Harington, actor (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D)

1986 – Elsa Lanchester, d @ 84 (Bride of Frankenstein)

1989 – Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress, d @ 75 (Timeslip)

1991 – Dehl Berti, actor, d @ 70 (Invasion U.S.A., The Six Million Dollar Man)

1993 – Jeff Morrow, actor, d @ 80 (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

1994 – Robert Emhardt, actor, d @ 80 (Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1995 – Zach Mills, actor (Super 8)

1998 – Hurd Hatfield, actor, died @ 81 (Between Time and Timbuktu, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2000 – Leo V Gordon, actor/writer, d @ 78 (Seaquest 2032, Alienator / Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman)

2000 – Jason Robards, actor, d @ 78 (The Day After, A Boy and His Dog)

2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, actor, d @ 72 (Demolition Man)

2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, actor, d @ 57 (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Otherworld, Star Trek:TNG, M.A.N.T.I.S., The X-Files,

2012 – Gerry Anderson, writer/producer, d @ 83 (Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Space Precinct, Space; 1999, UFO, Stingray, Fireball XL5)

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1887 – Earle Foxe, actor (The Last Man on Earth)

1887 – John Davidson, actor (The Devil Bat)

1899 – Humphrey Bogart, actor (The Return of Doctor X)

1899 – Frank Fergusson, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein)

1902 – Barton MacLane, actor (The Munsters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Walking Dead)

1907 – Mike Mazurki, actor (Amazon Women on the Moon, Alligator, Land of the Giants, It’s About Time, Zotz!, Land of the Giants)

1920 – Dean Ellis, illustrator

1924 – Rod Serling, writer/producer / writer (Twilight Zone / Time Travelers, Planet of the Apes)

Rod Serling. The icon of early sci-fi and paranormal TV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Earl Brown, actor (Terminator I & II)

1928 – Dick Miller, actor ( Weird Science, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: TNG, V; The Final Battle, Twilight Zone: The Movie, X; The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, War of the Satellites, Not of this Earth, It Conquered the World)

Dick Miller (right) in It Conquered the World.

1929 – Irish McCalla, actress (She Demons, Hands of a Stranger)

1945 – Gary Sandy, actor (Lightning: Fire from the Sky)

1945 – Rick Berman, writer (Star Trek)

1945 – Paul Wilson, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The X Files, Circuitry Man I & II, The Munsters Today)

 

1946 – Stuart Wilson, actor (Dinotopia, Space: 1999, UFO)

1952 – CCH Pounder, actress (Avatar, Warehouse 13, The X-Files, RoboCop 3, Quantum Leap, NetForce, House of Frankenstein (1997 TV), White Dwarf)

 

1962 – Dean Cameron, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Deep Core, ALF)

1964 – Cheerio Meredith, actress, d @ 74 (The Three Stooges in Orbit)

1968 – Klea Scott, actress (Minority Report, UFO Kidnapped)

1976 – Frankie Darro, actor, d @ 59 (Phantom Empire, Forbidden Planet)

1979 – Joan Blondell, actress, d @ 73 (Twilight Zone)

1981 – Moneca Delain, actress (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica)

1984 – Georgia Moffett, actress (The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Doctor Who: Dreamland, Doctor Who)

1997 – Denver Pyle, actor, d @ 77 (The Flying Saucer, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Men Into Space, Twilight Zone)

1998 – Richard Paul, actor, d @ 58 (Robo Cop, Out of This World, Space Force, Holmes and Yo-Yo)

1999 – Galaxy Quest released

1999 – Peter Jeffrey, actor, d @ 70 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)

2000 – Joan Camden, actress, d @ 71 (The Outer Limits)

2007 – Alien vs. Predator: Requiem released

2008 – Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author, d @ 63 (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)

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1886 – Michael Curtiz, director (Doctor X)

1889 – Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Twilight Zone, Beyond the Time Barrier, Monster from Green Hell)

1902 – Ava Gardner, actress (On The Beach)

Ava Gardner in On The Beach.

1910 – Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre, Bigtime, Wanderer)

1926 – Thelma Pelish, actress (The Incredible Hulk)

1940 – Sharon Farrell, actress (Night of the Comet, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Man from Atlantis, Small & Frye)

1941 – David Arkin, actor (Whitney and the Robot)

 

 

 

1941 – John Levene, actor (UFO, Doctor Who, Planetfall, Automatons)

John Levene in Doctor Who.

1943 – Christiane Schmidtmer, actress (The Giant Spider Invasion)

1945 – Nicholas Meyer, director (Time After Time, Star Trek II, The Day After, Star Trek VI)

1953 – Timothy Carhart, actor (Strange World, The X Files, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap)

1955 – Grand L. Bush, actor (Demolition Man, The Visitor, The Incredible Hulk)

1956 – Stephanie Hodge, actress (Evolution)

1957 – Scott Spiegel, actor (Robot Ninja)

1961 – Wade Williams, actor (Astronauts, Star Trek: Enterprise, The X Files, What Planet Are You From?, Seven Days, Star Trek: Voyager)

1964 – Mark Valley, actor (Fringe, The 4400, The Lone Gunman)

1966 – Deidrich Bader, actor (Evil Alien Conquerors, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG)

1969 – Mark Millar , writer (Superman: Red Son)

1970 – Amuary Nolasco, actor (Transformers)

1972 – Carmen Moore, actress (Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Eureka, Flash Gordon (TV), Caprica, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis, Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 TV), Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, The 4400, The Robinsons: Lost in Space, Seven Days, First Wave)

1984 – Ian Hendry, actor, d @ 53 (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2007 – Cheeta, chimpanzee actor, d @ 79 (07 Spaceys)

2012 – Charles Durning, actor, d @ 89 (Solarbabies, The Final Countdown, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

2012 – Jack Klugman, actor, d @ 90 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

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1852 – Arthur Dudley Vinton, sci-fi author (Looking Further Backward)

1893 – Ann O’Neal, actress (Twilight Zone)

1909 – Maurice Denham, actor (Doctor Who, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of This World, Project M7)

1911 – James Gregory, actor (Twilight Zone, Star Trek)

1919 – Robert McCall, artist (LIFE magazine, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

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

1921 – Gerald S O’Loughlin, actor (Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1925 – Harry Guardino, actor (Goldengirl, The Outer Limits)

Harry Guardino (right) in The Outer Limits episode, The Human Factor.

1931 – Ronnie Schell, actor (Phil of the Future, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Mork & Mindy)

1937 – Peter Medak, director (Species II, The Twilight Zone, Otherworld, The Changeling, Space: 1999)

1943 – Harry Shearer, actor (The Visitor, Sliders, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Godzilla 1998)

1948 – Charles Herbert, actor (The Fly, Men Into Space, Twilight Zone, The Colossus of New York, The Monster That Challenged the World)

 

 

1953 – John Callahan, actor (Bone Eater, Dinocroc vs. Supergator)

1955 – Stefan Arngrim, actor (Land of the Giants, The X Files, Battlestar Galactica:Razor, V, Caprica, Fringe, Flash Gordon)

1958 – Joan Severence, actress (Max Headroom)

1958 – Nej Adamson, actor (Doctor Who)

1967 – Karen Verne, actress, d @ 49 (Twilight Zone)

1969 – Donald Foster, actor, d @ 80 (Twilight Zone)

1969 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1970 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1970 – Charlie Ruggles, actor, d @ 84 (The Munsters)

1978 – Josh Cowdery, actor (Godzilla 2014)

1978 – Estella Warren, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1982 – Jack Webb, actor, d @ 62 (Project U.F.O.)

1984 – Adnan Haskovic, actor (Snowpiercer)

1992 – Spencer Daniels, actor (Star Trek (2009))

1993 – James Ellison, actor, d @ 93 (I Walked with a Zombie, The Undying Monster)

1994 – Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor, d @ 89 (Chimera, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Out of the Unknown)

1995 – Patric Knowles, actor, d @ 84 (From the Earth to the Moon)

1998 – Conor Carroll, actor (Ender’s Game)

2000 – Billy Barty, American actor, d @ 76 (The Lost Saucer, Bride of Frankenstein, Lobster Man from Mars, Masters of the Universe)

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1902 – Noel Howlett, actor ( Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Miles to Earth)

Noel Howlett in Five Million Miles to Earth.

1906 – Fred Wilcox, director (Forbidden Planet)

1909 – Patricia Hayes, actress (The Tomorrow People, The Terrornauts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1914 – Emil Sitka, actor (My Favorite Martian, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy, Space Patrol)

Emil Sitka (second from left) in The Three Stooges in Orbit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Barbara Billingsley, actress (Mysterious Ways, Invaders from Mars, Mork & Mindy)

1917 – Frankie Darro, actor (Phantom Empire, Forbidden Planet)

Frankie Darro (right) in Forbidden Planet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1922 – Ruth Roman, actress (The Day of the Animals, The Outer Limits)

Ruth Roman in The Outer Limits episode, Moonstone.

1926 – Peggy Castle, actress (Beginning of the End, Invasion Earth, World of Giants)

1936 – Bill Saito, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

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

1948 – Lynne Thigpen, actress (Bicentennial Man)

1949 – Graham Beckel, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, The Astronaut Farmer, C.H.U.D.)

1951 – Charles de Lint, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)

1952 – Dan Stanton, actor (Lois & Clark, Mom and Dad Save the World, Eerie Indiana, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

 

1952 – Don Stanton, actor (Lois & Clark, Mom and Dad Save the World, Eerie Indiana, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1953 – Jay Brazeau, actor (Eureka, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, Seven Days, Sliders, The Odyssey, The X Files)

1953 – Gregor Fisher, actor (1984)

1954 – Hugh Quarshie, actor (The Tomorrow People, Star Wars: Episode I, Doctor Who, Wing Commander)

1958 – Lenny Von Dohlen, actor (World’s End, Red Dwarf)

1958 – David Heavener, actor (Deadly Reactor, Guns of El Chupacabra, Crimes of the Chupacabra)

1965 – David S. Goyer, actor (writer, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel, FlashForward, Threshold, Blade, Blade II, Perversions of Science)

1966 – Robert Keith, actor, d @ 68 (Twilight Zone)

1967 – Lee Krieger, actor, d @ 48 (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian)

1968 – Dina Meyer, actress (Piranha 3D, Star Trek: Nemesis, Bats, Starship Troopers, The Outer Limits, Alien Seduction, Johnny Mnemonic)

1971 – Pat Mastroianni, actor (Godzilla 1998, War of the Worlds (1990))

1971 – Deborah Twiss, actress (School of Rock: Zombie Etiquette, Fringe)

1972 – Ivan Kamaras, actor (World War Z, Hellboy II: The Golden Army)

1973 – Traci Dinwiddie, actress (Zombies VS. Ninjas: The Web Series, Target Earth)

1974 – Heather Donahue, actress (Manticore)

1980 – Chris Carmack, actor (The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations, Smallville)

1982 – Brooke Nevin, actress (Smallville)

1983 – Charles Lloyd Pack, actor, d @ 81 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Reptile, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Enemy from Space)

1984 – Greg Finley, actor (Starcrossed, Hypothermia)

1987 – Gustav Frohlich, actor, d @ 85 (Metropolis)

1989 – Logan Huffman, actor (V (2011))

1993 – Don DeFore, actor, d @ 76 (Science Fiction Theatre)

2001 – Lance Fuller, actor, d @ 73 (This Island Earth, Twilight Zone, The She-Creature, The Bride and the Beast)

2002 – Kenneth Tobey, actor, d @ 85 (The Naked Monster, The Thing from Another World, Star Trek: DS9, Innerspace, Starman, The Twilight Zone, Strange Invaders, Galactica 1980, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Science Fiction Theatre, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Flying Missile)

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1899 – Guy Wilkerson, actor (Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone)

1917 – Ivor Dean, actor (Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1928 – Ed Nelson, actor (Salvage 1, Logan’s Run (TV), Gemini Man, The Bionic Woman, The Outer Limits, The Brain Eaters, Night of the Blood Beast, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, Twilight Zone, mTeenage Cave Man, Attack of the Crab Monster)

1934 – Rudy Solari, actor (The Outer Limits, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Rudy Solari in The Outer Limits episode, Production and Decay of Strange Particles.

Ed Nelson in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1937 – Jane Fonda, actress (Barbarella)

1943 – Jack Nance, actor (Dune, The Blob)

1944 – Jared Martin, actor (Fantastic Voyage, War of the Worlds, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, Logan’s Run)

1946 – Josh Mostel, actor (Brother from Another Planet)

 

 

1948 – Barry Gordon, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Superman, Time Warp, Warp Speed, The Incredible Hulk)

1948 – Samuel L. Jackson, actor (Jurassic Park, RoboCop, Star Wars: Episode I, Star Wars: Episode II, Star Wars: Episode III, Deep Blue Sea, Sphere)

1952 – Devon Ericson, actor (Night of the Comet, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1952 – Dennis Boutsikaris, actor (*batteries not included, The X-Files, The Crawl)

1962 – Sid Saylor, actor, d @ 67 (The Crawling Hand, Adventures of Superman)

1963 – Larry Day, actor (Recon 2023: The Gaudi Prime Conspiracy, Superstorm, WW 3, Arrival II, Laserhawk, Sci-fighters)

1964 – Fabiana Udenio, actress (Babylon 5, RoboCop 2, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1966 – Karri Turner, actress (The X-Files)

1966 – Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Dark City, Flatliners)

1966 – Michelle Hurd, actress (FlashForward)

1967 – Nicola Cowper, actress (Journey to the Center of the Earth (1988), Transmutations, Dreamchild)

1968 – Khrystyne Haje, actress (Cyborg III, Scanner Cop II, Stepsister from Planet Weird)

1969 – Julie Delpy, actress (Frankenstein (2004))

1974 – Richard Long, actor, d @ 47 (Twilight Zone)

1977 – Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine, actress (Men in Black II)

1977 – AJ Bowen, actor (The Signal)

1979 – Jack Noseworthy, actor (Surrogates, Event Horizon, Encino Man)

1979 – The Black Hole released

1981 – Eve Mauro, actress (Cyborg X, The Vortex, Osombie, Torchwood)

1983 – Rod Cameron, actor, d @ 73 (Project U.F.O.)

1984 – Jackson Rathbone, actor (Zombie Hamlet, No Ordinary Family, S. Darko)

1987 – Ralph Nelson, director, d @ 71 (Twilight Zone)

1987 – Robert Paige, actor, d @ 77 (Out There)

1988 – Bob Steele, actor, d@ 81 (The Atomic Submarine, Giant from the Unknown)

1998 – Roger Avon, actor, d @ 84 (Quatermass and the Pit, Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Doctor Who)

2005 – Myron Healey, actor, d @ 82 (RoboCop, V, The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Melting Man, Land of the Giants, Varan the Unbelievable, Men Into Space, Adventures of Superman)

 

Two great Outer Limits episodes are represented today. Strange Particles and Nightmare were two great episodes featuring recognizable talent. Martin Sheen was also in Nightmare and Leonard Nimoy was in Strange Particles.

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1838 – Edwin A. Abbott, sci-fi author (Flatland)

1904 – Albert Van Dekker, actor (Dr Cyclops, She Devil, Gammera the Invincible, Lights Out: The Perfect Servant)

Albert Van Dekker as Dr. Cyclops

1906 – Lowell Gilmore, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1918 – Audrey Totter, actress (Science Fiction Theatre)

1924 – Errol John, actor (Journey to the Unknown)

1925 – Nicole Maurey, actress (Day of the Triffids)

1931 – Mala Powers, actress (The Colossus of New York, The Unknown Terror)

 

 

1939 – Kathryn Joosten, actress (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, The X-Files, Prey, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1943 – Angel Tompkins, actress (Amazon Women on the Moon, Not of this Earth, The Starlost, Probe)

1946 – John Spencer, actor, (The Outer Limits, Meteor)

1952 – Jenny Agutter, actress (Logan’s Run, Red Dwarf, The Twilight Zone, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1963 – Karen Moncrieff, actress (Xtro 3)

1970 – Nicole de Boer, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Cube, Metal Tornado, Iron Invader, Stargate: Atlantis, The Outer Limits, TekWar)

1975 – William Lundigan, actor, d @ 61 (Men into Space, Riders to the Stars, Science Fiction Theatre)

1976 – Walter Fitzgerald, actor, d @ 80 (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7)

1983 – John Vivyan, actor, d @ 68 (Men into Space)

1985 – Enemy Mine released

1989 – Christopher Bertolini, writer (Battle Los Angeles)

1991 – Helene Heigh, actress, d @ 86 (Voyagers!)

1995 – Madge Sinclair, actress, d @ 57 (Star Trek IV, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starman)

1996 – Carl Sagan, d @ 62, sci-fi author

2009 – Brittany Murphy, actress, d @ 32 (MegaFault, Seaquest 2032)

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1902 – Ralph Richardson, actor (Time Bandits, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1923 – Gordon Jackson, actor (The Quatermass Xperiment , The Quatermass Experiment, The Medusa Touch)

1924 – Edmund Purdom, actor (2019: After the Fall of New York)

1924 – Jack DeLeon, actor (The Lost Saucer)

1927 – James Booth, actor (Deep Space, Programmed to Kill, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1945 – Elaine Joyce, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O.)

1946 – Robert Urich, actor (Invasion Earth, The Ice Pirates, Endangered Species)

Robert Urich in The Ice Pirates.

1949 – Nancy Kyes, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1951 – Barton Yarbrough, actor, d @ 51 (The Ghost of Frankenstein)

1960 – Mike Lookinland, actor (The Stand)

1961 – Matthew Waterhouse, actor (Doctor Who)

1963 – Jennifer Beals, actress (The Outer Limits, The Bride, The Book of Eli)

1965 – Jessica Steen, actress (Earth II, Armageddon, Stargate: SG1, Mutant X, The Outer Limits, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Captain Power: The Beginning, The Rocket Boy)

1966 – Robert MacNaughton, actor (ET, The Electric Grandmother, Frankenstein vs. The Mummy (2014))

1968 – Ken Marino, actor (Gattaca)

1969 – Kristy Swanson, actress (Swamp Shark, The Black Hole (2006), Not Quite Human)

 

1969 – Lauren Sanchez, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Babylon 5)

1971 – Amy Locane, actress (Alien Express)

1972 – Alyssa Milano, actress (The Outer Limits)

1973 – Blake Lindsley, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Starship Troopers)

1976 – Bindu De Stoppani, actor (28 Days Later…)

1978 – Patrick Casey, actor (Smallville, Perversions of Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (Donnie Darko, Source Code, The Day after Tomorrow)

1980 – Marla Sokoloff, actress (Meteor, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Strange Frequency)

1988 – Irina Voronina, actress (Piranha 3DD, Saul of the Mole Men)

1990 – Basil Henson, actor, d @ 71 (The Final Programme, Out of the Unknown, The Frozen Dead)

1991 – Earnest K Gann, sci-fi author, d @ 81

1991 – Paul Maxwell, actor, d @ 70 (Aliens, Out of the Unknown, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds are GO, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)

1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor, d @ 85 (Doomwatch, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

2001 – Jeffrey Alan Chandler, actor, d @ 57 (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Twilight Zone)

2001 – Arkie Whiteley, actress, d @ 37 (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)

2003 – Les Tremayne, actor, d @ 90 (The War of the Worlds, The Naked Monster, Creature of Destruction, Il pianeta errante, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Slime People, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, The Angry Red Planet, From the Earth to the Moon, The Monolith Monster, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers, Forbidden Planet)

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1906 – Kam Tong, actor (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Dimension 5, Time Tunnel)

1913 – Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Hugo for The Demolished Man)

1913 – Lynn Bari, actress (Science Fiction Theatre), d @ 71

1917 – Ossie Davis, actor (The Android Affair, The Stand)

1920 – Norma McCarty, actress (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Adventures of Superman)

Norma McCarty in Plan 9 from Outer Space. Also the wife of Ed Wood.

1921 – John Myhers, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, Far Out Space Nuts)

1922 – Larry D Mann, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)

1938 – Roger E. Mosley, actor (RoboCop, Terminal Island)

1939 – Michael J Moorcock, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear)

1942 – Harvey Atkin, actor (RoboCop, Swamp Thing)

1946 – Steven Spielberg, director (War of the Worlds, Minority Report, A.I., Jurassic Park, E.T., War of the Worlds, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1950 – Su Elliot, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1951 – Candice Rialson, actress (Logan’s Run)

 

 

1953 – Jeff Kober, actor (V, Alien Nation, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Walking Dead, Seven Days, Earth 2, The X Files, The Twilight Zone)

1956 – T K Carter, actor (My Favorite Martian, The Thing (1982))

1963 – Brad Pitt, actor (World War Z, Twelve Monkies)

1964 – Robson Green, actor (Rocket Man)

1966 – Len J. Phillips, actor (Zombie #1)

1968 – Casper Van Dien, actor (Starship Troopers, Sharktopus vs. Mermantula, Dracula 3000, The Time Shifters, The Omega Code)

1970 – Victoria Pratt, actress (Mutant X, Cleopatra 2525, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1972 – Julian Arahanga, actor (The Matrix)

1976 – Erin Simms, actress (Eureka, Fringe)

1978 – Katie Holmes, actress (Muppets from Space)

1980 – Baron Vaughn, actor (Cloverfield)

1980 – Anna Walton, actress (Hellboy II, Mutant Chronicles)

1981 – Josh Dallas, actor (Doctor Who)

1989 – Ashley Benson, actress (Time Warrior)

1993 – Sam Wanamaker, actor, d @ 74 (The Day the Fish Came Out, The Outer Limits, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace)

1994 – Lilia Skala, actress, d @ 98 (Probe, Tales of Tomorrow)

1997 – Chris Farley, actor, d @ 33 (Coneheads)

2008 – Majel Barrett, actress / producer, d @ 76 (Star Trek, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: First Contact, Mars and Beyond, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Next Step Beyond, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Westworld, Genesis II)

2009 – Avatar released

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1911 – William Roerick, actor (Not of This Earth , Wasp Woman, Day of the Dolphin)

1915 – Joan Woodbury, actress (The Time Travelers)

1927 – Richard Long, actor (Twilight Zone)

Richard Long (rear) in the Twilight Zone episode, Number 12 Looks Just Like You.

1929 – Jacqueline Hill, actress (Doctor Who, Out of This World)

1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor (The X-Files, The Thirteenth Floor, Mission to Mars)

1935 – George Lindsey, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1943 – Marilyn Eastman, actress (Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead)

1944 – Jack L[aurence] Chalker, sci-fi author (Saga of Well World)

1944 – Bernard Hill, actor (Outpost 11)

1945 – Ernie Hudson, actor (Wizardream, Stasis, Meteor, Stargate SG-1, Interceptor Force, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlantis)

1946 – Eugene Levy, actor (Repli-Kate, Multiplicity, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Splash)

1946 – Jayne Eastwood, actress (Annedroids, Lost Girl, Dawn of the Dead, Code Name: Eternity, Videodrome, War of the Worlds)

1947 – Wes Studi, actor (Avitar, Ice Planet, Deep Rising)

 

 

1949 – Joel Brooks, actor (The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Babylon 5: The River of Souls, Phil of the Future, Homeboys in Outer Space, Here Come the Munsters, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1953 – Barry Livingston, actor (Terminator: The SarahConnor Chronicles, Roswell)

1953 – Bill Pullman, actor (Independence Day, SpaceBalls, Alien Autopsy)

1959 – Hattie Hayridge, actress (Lexx, Red Dwarf)

1962 – Thomas Mitchell, actor, d @ 70 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1965 – Leah Lail, actress (They Came from Outer Space)

1967 – Jack Perrin, actor, d @ 71 (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1968 – Matthew Harrison, actor (Continuum, Chupacabra vs. the Alamo, The 4400, Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville, Jake 2.0, Alienated, Stargate SG-1, Seven Days)

1969 – Laurie Holden, actress (The Walking Dead, The Mist, The X Files, TekWar: TekLab, The Martian Chronicles)

1973 – Rian Johnson, director (Looper, Star Wars Episode VIII & IX)

1974 – Sarah Paulson, actress (Serenity)

1974 – Giovonni Ribisi, actor (Avatar, The X-Files)

1975 – Steve Zissis, actor (Her, Prototype)

1975 – Milla Jovovich, actress (The Fifth Element, Resident Evil, Ultraviolet)

1976 – Kate Hewlett, actress (Debug, Stargate: Atlantis

1977 – Katheryn Winnick, actress (Biohazardous)

1978 – Douglas Tait, actor (Alien Outpost, Star Trek (2009), Zathura: A Space Adventure, Star Trek: DS9)

1985 – Brittany Gray, actress (Lost Girl)

1986 – Emma Bell, actress (Dollhouse)

1990 – Don Draper, actor, d @ 61 (Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1992 – Dana Andrews, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone, Crack in the World, The Satan Bug, The Frozen Dead)

1992 – Thomas Law, actor (The World’s End)

1993 – Janet Margolin, actress, d @ 50 (Planet Earth)

2002 – James Hazeldine, actor, d @ 55 (The Medusa Touch)

2009 – Dan O’Bannon, writer, d @ 63 17 December 2009 (writer, Alien, Aliens, Total Recall, Dark Star)

2010 – Tron Legacy released