Kenneth Morvant's Blog, page 48

November 7, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction|#startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #sci-fi

1903 – Dean Jagger, actor (End of the World, Alligator, X: The Unknown, Twilight Zone, On the Threshold of Space)


Dean Jagger (right) in On the Threshold of Space. A veteran of mostly dramas such as Twelve O' Clock High and Elmer Gantry he ventures into the sci-fi world with this film.

Dean Jagger (right) in On the Threshold of Space. A veteran of mostly dramas such as Twelve O’ Clock High and Elmer Gantry he ventures into the sci-fi world with this film.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1907 – Thomas Browne Henry, actor (How to Make a Monster, Space Master X-7, The Brain from Planet Arous, Beginning of the End, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Space Patrol, The Next Voice You Hear…)


1914 – John Welsh, actor (Krull, The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1914 – R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)

1917 – Titos Vandis, actor (Genesis II)

1919 – Aline Towne, actress (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)


1927 – Melissa Stribling, actress (Journey to the Unknown)

1929 – Lila Kaye, actress (Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, The Invisible Man)


1931 – Paul Mantee, actor d @ 82 7 November 2013 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Robinson Crusoe on Mars)

1933 – Jackie Joseph, actor (My Living Doll)

1935 – Billy Green Bush, actor (Misfits of Science, The Incredible Hulk)

1936 – Barry Newman, actor (‘Way Out)


1940 – Dakin Matthews, actor (Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Voyager, Virus, Child’s Play 3, Eve of Destruction, Ghost Dad)

1943 – Dwight Frye, actor, d @ 44 (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein) )

1943 – Michael Byrne, actor (Battlefield Earth, Outpost: Black Sun, Dinotopia)

1944 – Julian Christopher, actor (Elysium, Continuum, Fringe, Bionic Woman, Smallville, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: TNG)

1944 – Jim Watkins, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1945 – Earl Boen, actor (Lois & Clark, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Alien Nation, ALF, Annihilator, Otherworld, The Man with Two Brains, Voyagers!, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Terminator 1 -3, )

1946 – John Aylward, actor (Fringe, Stargate SG-1, Surface, The X-Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Armageddon, Creature)

1947 – Holmes Osbourne, actor (Invasion, Star Trek: Enterprise, Seven Days, Roswell, Donnie Darko, The X-Files, Nice Girls Don’t Explode)

1948 – Garrett M. Brown, actor (I Am Number Four, Supernova, Roswell)


1950 – Lindsay Duncan, actress (Doctor Who, Frankenstein)

1950 – Robert A. Heinlein’s story collection The Man Who Sold the Moon is published, outlining his ongoing “Future History” series of stories and novels.

1954 – Target Earth released

1957 – Christopher Knight, actor (Light Years Away, The Bionic Woman)

1964 – Michael Papajohn, actor (Revolution, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Threshold, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Hulk, Predator 2)

1964 – Shannon Whirry, actress (Omega Doom)

1964 – Dana Plato, actress (Beyond the Bermuda Triangle, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1969 – Michelle Clunie, actress (Solar Flare, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Space: Above and Beyond)


1972 – Tod Andrews, actor, d @ 52 (Return of the Ape Man, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, From Hell It Came, Twilight Zone)

1972 – Clive B Barnes, actor (Starman)

1972 – Jason London, actor (Showdown at Area 51, Alien Cargo)

1972 – Jeremy London, actor (Alien Opponent, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Perversions of Science)

1974 – Carl Steven (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Out of This World, Weird Science)

1978 – Oliver Chris, actor (Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster)


1980 – Steve McQueen, actor, d @ 50 (The Blob)

1982 – Rick Malambri, actor (Surrogates, Universal Soldiers)

1986 – Alan Hewitt, actor, d @ 71 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)


1992 – Jack Kelly d @ 65 (Forbidden Planet, She Devil, The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Spawn of the Slithis)

1993 – Charles Aidman, actor, d @ 68 (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)

1994 – Carleton Young, actor, d @ 89 (Twilight Zone, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Flying Missile)


2004 – Howard Keel, actor, d @ 85 (Day of the Triffids)

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Published on November 07, 2014 07:35

November 6, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction|#startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #sci-fi

1914 – Jonathan Harris, actor, (Lights Out, Twilight Zone, Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martians, Space Academy, Battlestar Galactica)

1917 – Harlan Warde, actor (The Invaders, The Monster That Challenged the World)


Harlan Warde in The Monster That Challenged the World. This was one of the better sci-fi movies to come out of the fifties despite the hokey title.

Harlan Warde in The Monster That Challenged the World. This was one of the better sci-fi movies to come out of the fifties despite the hokey title.


The Monster That Challenged the World. Note the obligatory monster abducting girl common for the genre in those days.

The Monster That Challenged the World. Note the obligatory monster abducting girl common for the genre in those days.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1918 – Ronnie Brody, actor (Superman III, Cosmo and Thingy)


1946 – Sally Field, actress (The Girl with Something Extra, Moon Pilot)

1947 – Carolyn Seymour, actress (Space:1999, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek:TNG, Quantum Leap)

1949 – Brad Davis, actor (Twilight Zone)

1949 – Nigel Havers, actor (The Sarah Jane Chronicles)

1953 – Ron Underwood, director (Tremors, Heroes)

1955 – Catherine Asaro, sci-fi author (2002 Nebula for The Quantum Rose)

1957 – Lori Singer, actress (VR.5)

1958 – Trace Beaulieu, actor (MST3K)


1960 – Lance Kerwin, actor (Outbreak, Enemy Mine, The Bionic Woman)

1960 – Michael Cerveris, actor (Quantum Leap, Fringe)

1964 – Arkie Whiteley, actress (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)

1964 – Brad Grunberg, actor (Future Shock)

1964 – H[enry] Beam Piper, sci-fi author, d @ 60 (4 Day Planet, Little Fuzzy, Flight from Tomorrow)

1966 – Peter DeLuise, actor (Seaquest 2032, Stargate: SG1, SGU Stargate Universe, Sanctuary, The Outer Limits, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Vidal Peterson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Mork & Mindy)


1970 – Ethan Hawke, actor (Gattica, Predestination, Total Recal)

1972 – Rebecca Romijn, actress (S1m0ne, Rollerball)

1972 – Thandie Newton, actress (Westworld, 2012, The Chronicles of Riddick)

1972 – George Hertzberg, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1973 – Susan Levin Downey, producer (The Book of Eli, Gothika)

1974 – Zoe McLellan, actress (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: Voyager, Sliders)

1978 – Flora Campbell, actress, d @ 67 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1978 – Casey Nelson, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1978 – Taryn Marring, actress (Zombie Apocalypse, The Speed of Thought)


1984 – Patina Miller, actress (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay)


1990 – Will Kuluva, actor, d @ 73 (Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, Johnny Quest, Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!)

1995 – Aneta Corsaut, actress, d @ 62 (The Blob)


2000 – L[yon] Sprague de Camp, sci-fi author, d @ 92 (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei)

2001 – Gray Morrow, illustrator, d @ 67

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Published on November 06, 2014 11:00

November 5, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction|#startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #sci-fi

1899 – Forrest Lewis, actor (Monster of Piedras Blancas)

1900 – Philip MacDonald, sci-fi author (Forbidden Planet)


1913 – John McGiver,actor (Way Out, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)


John McGiver in the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.

John McGiver in the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1933 – Herb Edelman, actor (Out of This World, It’s About Time)

1934 – Victor Argo, actor (The Terminal Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1935 – Dick Davalos, actor (Battle Beyond the Stars)

1937 – Harris Yulin, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files)

1938 – Chris Robinson, actor (Beast from Haunted Cave, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1940 – Elke Summer, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Astral Factor)

1943 – Sam Shepard, actor (Stealth)

1949 – Armin Shimerman, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Warehouse 13, Invasion, Tremors, The Invisible Man, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG)


1957 – Jon Eric Hexum, actor (Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!)

1958 – Robert Patrick, actor (Terminator II, Stargate: Atlantis, The X-Files, The Outer Limits)

1960 – Tilda Swinton, actress (The Zero Theorum, Possible Worlds

1962 – Michael Gaston, actor (Inception, Fringe)

1964 – Famke Janssen, actress (Star Trek: TNG)


1967 – Judy Reyes, actress (Godzilla 1997)

1968 – Robert Ayres, actor, d @ 54 (Time Slip, First Man Into Space, Battle Beneath the Earth)

1968 – J.D. Evermore, actor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Mysterious Island, Hell Swarm)

1968 – Seth Gilliam, actor (Starship Troopers)

1968 – Estelle Hemsley, actress, d @ 81 (Leech Woman)

1968 – Sam Rockwell, actor (Galaxy Quest, Moon,Hithchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Cowboys and Aliens)

1969 – David Mattey, actor (The Toxic Avenger IV)

1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, actress (Doctor Who

1971 – Corin Nemec, actor (Star Trek: Renegades, Robocroc, Nuclear Family, RoboDoc, The Sea Beast, My Apocalypse, S. S. Doomtrooper, Mansquito, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, The Stand, Solar Crisis)

1975 – Stafford Repp, actor, d @ 56 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1984 – Mario Yedidia, actor (The Invaders)

1990 – Herbert Berghof, actor, d @ 81 (Out There, Red Planet Mars)

1991 – Fred MacMurray, actor, d @ 83 (The Swarm, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle)


1995 – Madison McLaughlin, actress (Meteor Apocalypse


2003 – The Matrix Revolutions released 2003


2008 – Michael Higgins, actor, d @ 88 (The Outer Limits)

2010 – Jill Clayburgh, actress, d @ 66 (The Terminal Man)

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Published on November 05, 2014 13:48

November 4, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction|#startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #sci-fi

1896 – Ian Wolfe, actor (THX-1138, Creator, The Terminal Man, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)


1908 – Anthony Warde, actor (Buck Rogers, The War of the Worlds, Mysterious Island)


1913 – Gig Young, actor (Twilight Zone)

1917 – Virginia Field, actress (The Earth Dies Screaming)

1917 – Leonardo Cimino, actor (V, Dune, Waterworld, M.A.N.T.I.S., ‘Way Out)

1918 – Cameron Mitchell, actor (Autopsia de un fantasma, Death in Space, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk, Frankenstein Island, Space Mutiny , Flight to Mars)


Cameron Mitchell (upper left) in Flight to Mars

Cameron Mitchell (upper left) in Flight to Mars


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1919 – Martin Balsam, actor (‘Way Out, Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man, Space, Murder in Space, The Brother from Space)


1925 – Doris Roberts, actress (Aliens in the Attic, ‘Way Out)

1929 – Shaike Ophir, actor (America 3000)


1930 – Kate Reid, actress (The Andromeda Strain, Plague)

1932 – Noam Pitlik, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

1937 – Loretta Swit, actress (Whoops Apocalypse, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman)


1950 – Markie Post, actress (VR.5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Incredible Hulk)

1959 – Ken Kirzinger, actor (Fringe, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stargate, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Andromeda, Futuresport, The X Files)


1961 – Annabelle Gurwitch, actress (Encino Woman, Alien Nation)

1965 – Kiersten Warren, actress (Fringe, The Astronaut Farmer, Bicentennial Man, Independence Day)

1969 – Samantha Smith, actress (Transformers, Dragonfly, What Planet Are You From?)

1969 – Matthew McConaughey, actor (Contact, Interstellar, Star Trek: TNG)


1975 – Sheila Ryan, actress, d @ 54 (Captain Midnight)

1975 – Warren Christie, actor (Alphas, Apollo 18, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, 10.5)


1982 – Travis Van Winkle, actor (The Last Ship, Transformers)

1986 – Alexz Johnson, actor (Smallville, So Weird)


1990 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau, actor (Piranha 3DD, No Ordinary Family, Kyle XY)

1992 – Regina Carrol, actress, d @ 49 (Brain of Blood, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Blood of Ghastly Horror)


2002 – Jerry Sohl, screenwriter, d @ 89 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

2005 – Sheree North, actress, d @ 73 (Future Cop)

2008 – Michael Crichton, novelist, d @ 66 (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)

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Published on November 04, 2014 12:00

November 3, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction | #startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #ASMSG

1831 – Ignatius Donnelly, sci-fi author (Caesar’s Column, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World)


1919 – Bert Freed, actor ( Invaders from Mars, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea


Bert Freed in Invaders from Mars

Bert Freed in Invaders from Mars


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1921 – Charles Bronson, actor (Twilight Zone)

1923 – Leonard Stone, actor (Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Soylent Green)

1925 – Robert Quarry, actor (Droid Gunner, Mind Twister, Alienator, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Lost Saucer, Far Out Space Nuts)

1928 – Osamu Tezuka, writer (Astro Boy, Metropolis)


1930 – Lois Smith, actress (Minority Report, Way Out!)

1930 – Larry Gelman, actor (Weird Science, Mork & Mindy)

1933 – Aneta Corsaut, actress (The Blob)

1933 – Ken Berry, actor (Small Wonder, The Cat from Outer Space, Hello Down There)

1933 – Jeremy Brett, actor (Galactica 1980, The Incredible Hulk)


1946 – Tom Savini, actor (The Monster Man, Planet Terror,Unearthed, Dawn of the Dead, Heartstopper)

1949 – Mike Evans, actor (Far Out Space Nuts)


1952 – Roseanne Barr, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1953 – Kate Capshaw, actress (Spacecamp)

1954 – Kathy Kinney, actress (Lois & Clark)

1956 – Kevin Murphy, actor (MST3K)

1956 – Gary Ross, director (The Hunger Games)

1959 – Dolph Lundgren, actor (Universal Soldier, Johnny Mnemonic)

1959 – Claudia Barrett, actress (Robot Monster)


1964 – Marjean Holden, actress (Ghosts of Mars, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, Star Trek: DS9, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Philadelphia Experiment II)


1971 – Dylan Moran, actor (Shaun of the Dead)

1977 – Adam Faraizl, actor (RoboCop 2)


1980 – Gino Anthony Pesi, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

1986 – Antonia Thomas, actor (The Hybrid)


1993 – William Lanteau, actor, d @ 70 (Twilight Zone, Hard Time on Planet Earth, They Came from Outer Space) November 12, 1922

1994 – Dennis C Ott, actor, d @ 36 (Star Trek)


2002 – Jonathan Harris, actor, d @ 87 (Lights Out, Twilight Zone, Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martians, Space Academy, Battlestar Galactica)


2011 – Sid Melton, actor, d @ 94 (The Munsters, The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman, Captain Midnight, Lost Continent)

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Published on November 03, 2014 11:44

November 2, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction | #startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #ASMSG

1901 – Paul Ford, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1913 – Burt Lancaster, actor (Island of Dr. Moreau, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1919 – Warren Stevens, actor (Forbidden Planet, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, On the Threshold of Space, Men in Space, Science Fiction Theatre)


“Monsters from the Id” Warren Stevens in Forbidden Planet.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1920 – Lewis Charles, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1929 – Rachel Ames, actress (When Worlds Collide, Science Fiction Theatre)

1932 – Terry Richards, actor (Space Precinct, Flash Gordon, Blakes 7)


1945 – Jerry Wasserman, actor (I Robot, The X-Files, Alien Trespass, Battlestar Galactica, The Butterfly Effect 2, Final Days of Planet Earth, Smallville, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14, Cyberjack, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)

1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, Sci-fi author (Falling Free, The Vor Game, Barrayar, Mirror Dance, Paladin of Souls)

1952 – David Andrews, actor (World War Z, Revolution, Stargate SG-1, Surface, Star Trek: Enterprise, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, From the Earth to the Moon, Mann & Machine, Cherry 2000)

1956 – Dale Brown, writer (Sky Masters, Day of the Cheetah, Shadow Command)

1957 – Michael Bailey Smith, actor (Men in Black II, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, The Hills Have Eyes I and II, Monster Man, Roswell, Seven Days, My Favorite Martian, Space Marines, Babylon 5)

1959 – Peter Mulanactor (Children of Men)


1961 – Janet Gunn, actress (Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, Space: Above and Beyond, Super Force)

1966 – David Schwimmer, actor (John Carter)

1968 – Jaume Balaguero, writer ([Rec], Quarantine, Fragile)


1971 – Martha Vickers, actress, d @ 49 (Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman)

1972 – Gabe Khouth, actor (Fringe, Andromeda, It)

1975 – Danny Cooksey, actor (Mom and Dad Save the World, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mac and Me, Twilight Zone)

1977 – Jason Cerbone, actor (Cloverfield)

1978 – Whit Hertford, actor (Twilight Zone, Jurassic Park, The Munsters Today)


1981 – Katharine Isabelle, actress (Eve of Destruction, Stargate SG-1, Earthsea, Smallville, Meteors, First Wave, The X Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1981 – Wally Wood, artist, d @ 54

1983 – Christopher Fennell, actor (The X Files)

1988 – Lindze Letherman, actress (Clockstoppers, Bicentennial Man, Seven Days)

1989 – Katelyn Tarver, actress (No Ordinary Family)


1991 – Irwin Allen, producer / director / writer, d @ 75 (Aliens from Another Planet, The Swarm, City Beneath the Sea, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Lost World)

1994 – Noah Beery Jr, actor, d @ 81 (Rocketship X-M, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1995 – Brandon Soo Hoo (Ender’s Game)

1998 – Vincent Winter, actor, d @ 50 (Superman)


2011 – Leonard Stone, actor, d @ 87 (Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Soylent Green)

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Published on November 02, 2014 10:26

November 1, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction | #startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #ASMSG

1882 – Edward Van Sloan, actor (Frankenstein)

1910 – Malcolm Smith, artist

1917 – Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, sci-fi author (Anything Box)

1923 – Gordon R[upert] Dickson, sci-fi author (Genetic General)

1926 – Betsy Palmer, actress (Out of This World)

1928 – Emmaline Henry, actress (The Munsters)

1939 – Barbara Bosson, actress (The Last Starfighter, Star Trek: DS9, Capricorn One)

1941 – Robert Foxworth, actor (Frankenstein, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Enterprise,, Stargate: SG-1, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, Beyond the Stars,The Questor Tapes)

1942 – Marcia Wallace, actress (Small Wonder, ALF)

1946 – Dennis Muren, special effects artist (Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, E.T., Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, Super 8, The Abyss, Innerspace, Hulk, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Flesh Gordon, Rocketship X-M)

1953 – Michael Zaslow, actor (Star Trek, Meteor, Star Trek: First Contact)

1958 – Rachel Ticotin, actress (Total Recall, )

1959 – Susanna Clarke, sci-fi author (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

1959 – Jaymes Butler, actor (Night of the Living Dorks, Resident Evil, Ice Planet)


1973 – Max Adrian, actor (Terrornauts, Doctor Who)

1976 – Logan Marshall-Green b. 1976 (Prometheus)


Logan Marshall-Green in Prometheus

Logan Marshall-Green in Prometheus


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1976 – Oscar Beregi Jr, actor, d @ 58 (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Young Frankenstein)

1976 – Chad Lindberg, actor (Rise of the Zombies, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The X Files)

1977 – Martin Copping, actor (Zombie Hunter)

1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, actress (Infection: The Invasion Begins)

1979 – Jordan Johnson-Hinds, actor (Robocop)


1982 – James Broderick, actor, d @ 55 (Twilight Zone)


1986 – Penn Badgley, actur (Parts Per Billion)

1999 – Noel Johnson, actor, d @ 82 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch, A for Andromeda, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

2005 – Michael Piller, writer, d @ 57 (Star Trek, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

2013 – Ender’s Game released

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Published on November 01, 2014 12:35

October 31, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction | #startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #ASMSG

1925 – Lee Grant, actress (Marooned)

1931 – Richard Gauthier, actor (The Munsters Today, Man from Atlantis)

1935 – Charles Cioffi, actor (The X Files, Lois & Clark, Time After Time, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Return to Earth)

1939 – Ron Rifkin, actor (The Outer Limits, Silent Running, Salvage 1)

1941 – Sally Kirkland, actress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Visitor from Planet Omicron, The Incredible Hulk)

1942 – David Ogden Stiers, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek: TNG, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, ALF)


David Ogden Stiers in Star Trek: TNG

David Ogden Stiers in Star Trek: TNG


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

1945 – Brian Doyle-Murray, actor (Multiplicity, Lois & Clark)

1946 – Stephen Rea, actor (Underworld: Awakening)

1946 – Norman Lovett, actor (Evil Aliens, Red Dwarf)

1950 – John Candy, actor (Spaceballs, The Rocket Boy)

1953 – Michael J. Anderson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, This is How the World Ends, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1957 – The Invisible Boy released

1959 – Neal Stephenson, sci-fi author (The Diamond Age)


1963 – Rob Schneider, actor (The Animal, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Martians Go Home)

1963 – Dermot Mulroney, actor (Space Warriors)

1963 – Henry Daniell, actor, d @ 69 (Lights Out, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon)

1968 – Grant Wood, actor, d @ 36 (Star Trek)


1970 – Nolan North, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness)

1975 – Johnny Whitworth, actor (Gamer)

1975 – Keith Jardine, actor (Gamer)

1976 – Piper Perabo, actress (Looper, Carriers)

1976 – Linda Watkins, actress, d @ 68 (From Hell it Came)

1978 – Brian Hallisay, actor (Awakening, Eastwick, Bionic Woman)

1979 – Erica Cerra, actress (Eureka, Blade:Trinity, Smallville, Under the Dome, Battlestar Galactica, The 4400, Warehouse 13)


1980 – Samaire Armstrong, actor (Resurrection, The X-Files)

1980 – Eddie Kaye Thomas, actor (The X-Files)

1982 – Justin Chatwin b. 1982 (War of the Worlds, Smallville)

1988 – John Houseman, actor, d @ 86(The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Rollerball, Mork & Mindy)


1996 – Arthur Peterson, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)

1995 – Rosalind Cash, actress, d @ 56 (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Omega Man, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde)


2000 – Willow Smith, actress (I am Legend)

2005 – Mary Wimbush, actress, d @ 81 (K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend)

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Published on October 31, 2014 15:35

October 29, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction | #startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #ASMSG

1906 – Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)

1913 – Eddie Constantine, actor (Frankenstein’s Aunt)

1925 – Ben Chapman, actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1925 – Geraldine Brooks, actress (The Outer Limits)

1925 – Robert Hardy, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Frankenstein)

1926 – Margaret Sheridan, actress (The Thing from Another World)

1935 – Michael Jayston, actor (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Doctor Who, UFO)


Michael Jayston in Doctor Who

Michael Jayston in Doctor Who


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Coma, Piranha 3D, Tin Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)


1957 – Dan Castellaneta, actor (Super 8, Stargate: SG-1, ALF)


1963 – Adolphe Menjou, actor, d @ 73(Science Fiction Theatre)

1963 – Tim Minear, producer & writer (Dollhouse, Firefly, The X-Files, Lois and Clark)

1967 – Joely Fisher, actress (Something is Out There)

1968 – Grayson McCouch, actor (Armageddon)


1970 – Michael Daingerfield, actor (Smallville, The 4400, The Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict)

1971 – Winona Ryder, actress (Edward Scissorhands, Star Trek, Alien Resurrection, S1m0ne)

1972 – Gabrielle Union, actress (Star Trek: DS9, FlashForward)

1977 – Brendan Fehr, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Roswell)


1980 – Ben Foster, actor (30 Days of Night, FlashForward)

1982 – Chelan Simmons, actor (Kyle XY, Ogre, Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville)

1983 – Johnny Lewis, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)


1990 – Carlson Young, actor (Heroes)

1993 – India Eisley, actress (Underworld: Awakening)

1998 – Ted Hughes, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (The Iron Giant)


2005 – Lloyd Bochner, actor, d @ 80 (Superboy, Millennium, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Starlost, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

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October 27, 2014

Today in #Science #Fiction | #startrek #starwars #doctorwho #scifiactress #scifiactor #scifi #twilightzone #ASMSG

1910 – Jack Carson, actor (Twilight Zone)

1911 – Leif Erickson, actor (Invaders from Mars, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, Project U.F.O.)


Leif Erickson in Invaders from Mars.

Leif Erickson in Invaders from Mars.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1923 – Ned Wertimer, actor (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Mork & Mindy)

1924 – Ruby Dee, actress (The Stand)


1937 – Lara Parker, actress (The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk)

1939 – John Cleese, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still)


1945 – Carrie Snodgress, actress (The X-Files)

1946 – Ivan Reitman, director (Evolution)

1947 – Angus MacInness (Star Wars, Space:1999, Hellboy, Space Island One, Judge Dredd, Rollerball)


1951 – Jayne Kennedy, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1953 – Peter Firth, actor (Lifeforce, Total Recall 2070)

1953 – Robert Picardo, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Age of Tomorrow, Time Machine: The Rise of the Morlocks, SGU Stargate Universe, No Ordinary Family, Smallville, The 4400)

1957 – Jeff East, actor (The Day After, Superman)


1969 – Peter O’Meara, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction)


1970 – James Logan, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, No Ordinary Family, The X Files)


1980 – Tom Nagel, actor (Volcano Zombies, Man of Steel)

1983 – Monica Louwerens, actress (Heroes, Phil of the Future, The Invisible Man)

1981 – Andrea Riseborough, actress (Oblivion)

1982 – Patrick Fugit, actor (Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!)

1984 – Emilie Ullerup, actress (The Philadelphia Experiment, A Little Bit Zombie, Sanctuary, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica)

1984 – Sebastian Gacki, actor (The Thaw, Flash Gordon, Smallville, Kyle XY)


1994 – Hunter Ansley Wryn, actress (Serenity)

1996 – Morey Amsterdam, actor, d @ 87 (Project U.F.O.)

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