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August 12, 2014

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

1893 – Howard Smith, actor (Twilight Zone)

1898 – Oscar Homolka, actor, d @ 79 (The Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1910 – Jane Wyatt, actress, d @ 96 10/20/2006 (Star Trek, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Gemini Man)

1913 – Richard L. Bare, director (Twilight Zone)

1916 – Ralph Nelson, director (Twilight Zone)

1917 – Ken Dibbs, actor (The Immortal, Men into Space, Buck Rogers, Captain Midnight, Riders to the Stars, Space Patrol, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)


1927 – Dan Curtis, writer (Frankenstein)

1929 – John Bluthal, actor (Dark City, The Fifth Element, Superman III)

1931 – William Goldman, writer (Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Stepford Wives)

1936 – Michael Coles, actor (Doctor Who and the Daleks)

1936 – Elizabeth Shepherd, actress (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1937 – Carol Eve Rossen, actor(The Stepford Wives, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1939 – Oliver Ford Davies (Star Wars)

1941 – Jennifer Warren, actress (Mutant)

1941 – Dana Ivey, actress (Explorers)

1944 – Bruce Solomon, actor (Twilight Zone)


1950 – Jim Beaver, actor (Revolution, Tremors, Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

1954 – Sam J. Jones, actor (Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, Earth Minus Zero)

1954 – Ray Abruzzo, actor (Lois & Clark)


1956 – Bruce Greenwood, actor(Star Trek, Star Trek: ID, The Core, I, Robot)


1965 – Peter Krause, actor (Beastly, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1967 – Brett Sexton, actor (Surface, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Andras Jones, actor (Alien Nation)

1969 – Katherine Kendall, actress (Firefly)

1970 – Ellory Elkayem, director (Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, Eight Legged Freaks)

1971 – Yvette Nicole Brown b. 1971, actress (Repo Men, The Island)

1971 – Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Invasion, Sliders, Earth 2)


1975 – Casey Affleck, actor (Interstellar)


1980 – Maggie Lawson, actress (Gamer, Smallville)

1981 – Natalie Mendoza, actress (Code 46, Farscape)

1982 – Henry Fonda, actor, d @ 77 (Fail-Safe, Tentacles, Meteor, The Swarm)


1988 – Leah Pipes, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

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Published on August 12, 2014 11:49

August 11, 2014

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

1902 – Lloyd Nolan, actor (The Outer Limits)

1911 – Henry Kulky, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tobor the Great, Adventures of Superman, Red Planet Mars)

1914 – Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Timeslip)

1926 – Charles Cooper, actor (Star Trek V, Star Trek: TNG, Men into Space)


1932 – George Furth, actor, d @ 75 (Megaforce, The Man With Two Brains, Salvage 1)

1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, director (Twilight Zone)

1942 – Laurel Goodwin, actor (Star Trek)

1944 – Ian McDiarmid, actor (Star Wars)

1947 – Stuart Gordon, director (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Space Truckers, Robot Jox, Dolls, From Beyond, Re-Animator)

1950 – Adam LeFevre, actor (The Invasion)

1950 – Elya Baskin, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Heroes, The Invisible Man, VR.5, Quantum Leap, DeepStar Six, 2010)


1964 – Miguel A. Nunez, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World, Carnosaur 2, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, Twilight Zone, The Return of the Living Dead, Automan)

1965 – Viola Davis, actress (Ender’s Game, The Andromeda Strain, Threshold, Solaris)

1965 – Embeth Davidtz, actress (Bicentennial Man, Mutator, Army of Darkness)

1967 – Collin Chou, actor (The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded)

1968 – Anna Gunn, actress (NYPD 2069, Quantum Leap)

1973 – Peggy Castle, actress, d @ 45 (Beginning of the End, Invasion Earth, World of Giants)

1975 – Howard Wendell, actor, d @ 67 (The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1979 – Drew Nelson, actress (The Strain, Fringe, Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1982 – Tom Drake, actor, d @ 63 (The Cyclops)

1983 – Chris Hemsworth, actor (Star Trek & Star Trek: ID)


1994 – Peter Cushing, actor, d @ 81 (Star Wars, Dr Who)


2005 – James Booth, actor, d @ 77 (Deep Space, Programmed to Kill, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2009 – Richard Compton, director, d @ 71 (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

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Published on August 11, 2014 17:58

August 10, 2014

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

1902 – Curt Siodmak, sci-fi author (Donovan’s Brain)

1904 – Ray Walker, actor (Superman, The Atomic Kid, The Space Children)

1912 – Richard Reeves, actor (Target Earth, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superboy, Adventures of Superman)

1913 – Noah Beery Jr, actor (Rocketship X-M, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1914 – Jeff Corey, actor (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Superman & Mole Men)

1924 – Martha Hyer, actress (First Men in the Moon, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1928 – Gus Mercurio, actor (Time Trax, Badlands 2005, Escape 2000)

1933 – Lynn Cohen, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

1932 – Murray Melvin, actor (Starhunter)


1939 – Kate O’Mara, actress (Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, The Horror of Frankenstein)


1952 – Diane Venora, actress (Threshold, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2)


1954 – Rick Overton, actor (Cloverfield, The Astronaut Farmer, Eight Legged Freaks, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Lois & Clark, The Rocketeer, Earth Girls Are Easy, Traxx)


1958 – Don Swayze, actor (Tremors, The X Files, Lois & Clark)


1962 – Suzanne Collins, author (The Hunger Games)


1964 – Beverly Randolph, actress (The Return of the Living Dead)

1965 – Claudia Christian, actress (Starhyke, Babylon 5, Landelot: Guardian of Time, Space Rangers, Quantum Leap)


1973 – Rick Otto, actor (Dollhouse)


1979 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, actress (Once Upon a Time, The Astronaut Wives Club, From the Earth to the Moon, SeaQuest 2032, Superboy)

1982 – Devon Aoki, actor (Mutant Chronicles)


1990 – Lucas Till, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

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Published on August 10, 2014 11:52

August 9, 2014

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

1905 – Leo Genn, actor (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)


1918 – Robert Aldrich, director (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)


1927 – Daniel Keyes, sci-fi author (Flowers for Algernon)


1934 – Dick Anthony Williams, actor (The X Files, Edward Scissorhands, Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Brave New World, Man from Atlantis)


1938 – Burton Gilliam, actor (Sliders, Weird Science, Back to the Future Part III)

1944 – Sam Elliott, actor (Hulk, Land of the Giants, Frog)

1947 – John Varley, sci-fi author (Eight Worlds, Gaean, Slow Apocalypse)


1956 – Adam Nimoy, director (The Invisible Man, Sliders, Babylon 5, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1957 – Melanie Griffith, actress (Cherry 2000)

1958 – Amanda Bearse, actress (Here Come the Munsters)


1965 – Josh Cox, actor (Revolution, A.I. Assault, Babylon 5, Sliders, Quantum Leap)


1968 – Gillian Anderson, actress (The X Files)

1968 - Eric Bana, actor (The Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Traveler’s Wife)

1968 – McG, director (Terminator Salvation)


1972 – Liz Vassey, actress (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Superboy)

1972 – Ryan Bollman, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Small Wonder, Starman)

1976 – Jessica Capshaw, actress (Minority Report)

1976 – Rhona Mitra, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Doomsday, Hollow Man)


1983 – Ashley Johnson, actress (Dollhouse, Roswell, Lloyd in Space)


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


2006 - Philip E. High, sci-fi author d @ 92 (b. 1914)


2009 – John Quade, actor, d @ 71 (Manimal)

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Published on August 09, 2014 10:58

August 8, 2014

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

1903 – Dayton Lummis, actor (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Flight That Disappeared, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Red Planet Mars)

1908 – Ford Rainey, actor, d @ 96 25 July 2005 (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

1917 – Earl Cameron, actor (Inception, Battle Beneath the Earth, Doctor Who, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, producer (Dune, Army of Darkness)

1920 – Harry Turner, artist

1921 – William Asher, director (Twilight Zone)

1922 – Rory Calhoun, actor (Hell Comes to Frogtown, Night of the Lepus)

1926 – Richard Anderson, actor (The Stepford Children, Automan, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Astronaut, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Forbidden Planet, Captain Midnight)

1928 – Tom Reese, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Terry Nation, writer (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)

1931 – Roger Penrose, sci-fi author (White Mars)


1937 – Adam Roarke, actor (Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Frogs, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

1937 – Dustin Hoffman, actor (Sphere, Outbreak)


1949 – Keith Carradine, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise, Perversions of Science, Special Report: Journey to Mars)


1952 – Alfre Woodard (Star Trek: First Contact, True Blood)

1953 – Donnie Most, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Dark Skies, Sliders, The Munsters Today)

1955 – Branscombe Richmond, actor (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Tremors, Alien Nation, Misfits of Science, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Automan, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)


1984 – Walter Tevis, sci-fi author, d @ 56 (The Man Who Fell to Earth)


1986 – Peyton List, actress (The Tomorrow People, Smallville, FlashForward)


1988 – Alan Napier, actor, d @ 85 (Twilight Zone, The Mole People)


1993 – Harry Bellaver, actor, d @ 88 (The Stuff, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

1993 – Mickey Morton, actor, d @ 66 (The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Bionic Woman, Star Trek)


2010 – Patricia Neal, actress, d @ 84 (Day The Earth Stood Still , Stranger from Venus aka Immediate Disaster)


2013 – Karen Black, actress, d @ 74 (Light Speed, Invisible Dad, The Invisible Kid, The Invaders)

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Published on August 08, 2014 12:05

August 7, 2014

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

1918 – Jane Adams, actress (Adventures of Superman)

1924 – Adrian Ricard, actor (I, Robot, Lois & Clark, The Man with Two Brains, Gemini Man)

1932 – Edward Hardwicke, actor, (Journey to the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1933 – Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon)

1934 – Steve Ihnat, actor (Star Trek, Countdown, I Dream of Jeannie, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1936 – Richard L[ouis] Tierney,sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr)

1942 – Tobin Bell, actor (Alien Nation)

1944 – David Rasche, actor (Men in Black 3)

1944 – John Glover, actor (Smallville, Heroes, Star Trek: DS9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, RoboCop 2, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)


1952 – Caroline Aaron, actress (What Planet Are You From?, Edward Scissorhands, The Brother from Another Planet)


1952 – Alexei Sayle, actor (Solarbabies, Doctor Who, Whoops Apocalypse)

1953 – Spaceways released

1955 – Wayne Knight, actor (Jurassic Park, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1958 – Shannon Cochran, actress (Fringe, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1960 – David Duchovny, actor (X Files, Evolution, Space: Above and Beyond)

1963 – Ramon Estevez, actor (Alligator II: The Mutation)

1963 – Harold Perrineau, actor (28 Weeks Later, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded)

1968 – Paula Jean Hixson, actor (Source Code)

1972 – Greg Serano, actor (Doomed Planet, Terminator Salvation, The Postman)

1972 – Joi Lansing, actress, d @ 43 (The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman)

1974 – Michael Shannon, actor (Man of Steel, Bug, Chain Reaction)

1975 – Charlize Theron, actress (Aeon Flux, Prometheusj, The Astronaut’s Wife)

1978 – Alexandre Aja, director (Piranha 3D)

1978 – Cirroc Lofton, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Invasion)

1982 – Brit Marling, actress (I Origins, Another Earth)

1982 – Abbie Cornish, actress (RoboCop)

1992 – John Anderson, actor, d @ 69 (Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap)

1994 – Robert Hutton, actor ,d @ 74 (They Came From Beyond Space, The Slime People, Rocket)

1996 – Anne Kristen, actress, d @ 59 (Space Precinct)

1996 – Liam James, actor (Fringe, 2012, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1999 – Brion James, actor, d @ 54 (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element)

1999 – Brion James, actor d @ 54 (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Enemy Mine)

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Published on August 07, 2014 15:25

August 6, 2014

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

1904 – Helene Heigh, actress (Voyagers!)

1904 – Ballard Berkeley, actor (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)


1910 – Charles Crichton, director (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, The Day After Tomorrow)


1926 – Frank Finlay, actor (Lifeforce)

1926 – J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [aka Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)

1928 – Norman Barthold, actor (Capricorn One, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Westworld, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor, Xanth)

1937 – Barbara Windsor, actress (Doctor Who)

1938 – Paul Bartel, actor (Escape from L.A., Heartbeeps, Death Race 2000)

1940 – Louise Sorel, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek)

1943 – Michael Anderson Jr., actor (The Martian Chronicles, Logan’s Run, Land of the Giants)

1950 – Dorian Harewood, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Kyle XY, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict, Time Trax, Solar Crisis)

1951 – Catherine Hicks, actress (Star Trek IV)

1956 – Ian R. MacLeod, sci-fi author (The Great Wheel, The Summer Isles)

1962 – Michelle Yeoh, actress (Babylon A.D.)

1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, actor, d @ 71 (The Unknown, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man Returns, Things to Come

1966 – Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53

1966 – Cordwainer Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Author, The Instrumentality of Mankind)

1970 – M Night Shyamalan (Signs, Unbreakable, After Earth)

1971 – Merrin Dungey, actor (Beyond, Deep Impact, Babylon 5)

1972 – Jason O’Mara, actor (Terra Nova, Resident Evil: Extinction, Space Truckers)

1972 – Paolo Bacigalupi (2010 Hugo and Nebula for The Windup Girl)

1973 – Vera Farmiga (Source Code)


1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Piranhas)

1982 – Romola Garai, actress (The Last Days on Mars)

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Published on August 06, 2014 14:50

August 5, 2014

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

1891 – Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1914 – Parley Baer, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Roswell, Quantum Leap, Time Trackers, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, The Outer Limits)

1929 – Don Matheson, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space)

1930 – Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)

1933 – Joan Weldon, actress (Them!)


1934 – Zakes Mokae, actor (The X Files, Waterworld, Outbreak)

1935 – John Saxon, actor (Prisoners of the Lost Universe, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Strange New World, Planet Earth, The Time Tunnel, Blood Beast from Outer Space)


1940 – Natalie Trundy b. 1940 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

1948 – Larry Elmore, artist


1961 – Tawny Kitaen, actress (They Came from Outer Space)

1963 – Mark Strong, actor (John Carter, Babylon A.D., Stardust)


1970 – James Gunn, director (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1973 – Paul Kasey, actor (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Chronicles, 28 Days Later…, Blade II)


1980 – Victor Cruz, actor (Fringe)

1984 – Ryan McDonald, actor (Warehouse 13, Fringe, 2012)


1985 – Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author d @ 67 (Hugo, It, Caviar)

1988 – Ralph Meeker, actor, d @ 67 (The Outer Limits, The Food of the Gods, The Alpha Incident)

1989 – Ralph Meeker, actor d @ 68 (Outer Limits)

1997 – Don Steele, actor, d @ 61 (Death Race 2000)


1997 – Olivia Holt, actress (Girl vs. Monster)

2000 – Alec Guinness, actor, d @ 86 (Star Wars IV – VI)

2011 – Rise of the Planet of the Apes released

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Published on August 05, 2014 11:49

August 4, 2014

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

1910 – Anita Page, actress (Frankenstein Rising, The Crawling Brain)

1913 – Wesley Addy, actor (The Invaders, Out There, The Outer Limits)

1923 – Tom Hennesy, actor (Revenge of the Creature)

1939 – Frank Vincent, actor (Stargate: Atlantis)

1941 – Martin Jarvis, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, The Kid with X-ray Eyes, Space Island One, Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)

1942 – Don S. Davis, actor (Stargate, Flash Gordon, Andromeda, Atomic Train, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S

1944 – Richard Belzer, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Species II, The X-Files, The Invaders, Not of This Earth, Lois & Clark)

1950 – Marc Clement, actor (Night Shadows)

1951 – Sara Botsford, actress (Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, Three Moons Over Milford, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Total Recall 2070, Sliders)

1954 – Donald Gibb, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Breakfast of Aliens, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, They Came from Outer Space, Otherworld)

1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, actor (The Astronaut Farmer, Armageddon)

1958 – Kym Karath, actress (Lost in Space)

1961 – Lauren Tom, actress (Threshold, Quantum Leap)

1963 – Tom Keene, actor, d @ 66 (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Red Planet Mars)

1964 – Sebastian Roche, actor (Fringe, Odyssey 5)

1965 – James Tupper, actor (Resurrection, Toxic Skies)

1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: Enterprise, Hulk, Star Trek: Voyager, Brave New World)

1969 – Michael DeLuise, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032

1975 – John Baragrey, actor d @ 57 (Lights Out, The Colossus of New York, Gamera),

1976 – David Lewis, actor (Man of Steel, Fringe, Seeds of Destruction, Stonehenge Apocalypse, Zombie Punch, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Smallville, Eureka, The Butterfly Effect 2, Kyle XY, Alien Incursion, Stargate SG-1, Alienated, Level 9, Lexx, The X-Files)

1981 – Abigail Spencer, actress (Cowboys and Aliens

1981 – Meghan Markle, actress (Fringe)

1984 – Walter Burke, actor, d @ 75 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Munsters, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1984 – Howard Culver, actor, d @ 66 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Swarm, Project U.F.O., The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Space Patrol)

1991 – Lucinda Dryzek, actress (Doctor Who)

1991 – Terminator 2 released

1992 – Dylan Sprouse, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife)

1992 – Cole Sprouse, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife)

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Published on August 04, 2014 15:30

August 3, 2014

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

1904 – Clifford D. Simak died 4/25/1988 (won 1964 Hugo for Here Gather the Stars, Empire, Way Station)


1911 – Alex McCrindle, actor (Star Wars IV)


1920 – P.D. James, sci-fi author (author, Children of Men)

1923 – Jean Hagen, actress, d @ 54 (Panic in Year Zero!)

1937 – Stephen Berkoff, actor (Doctor Who, Children of Dune, Star Trek: DS9, Space Precinct, Metamorphosis, Outland, A Clockwork Orange, UFO, Prehistoric Women)

1940 – Martin Sheen (Babylon 5, The Time Shifters, Total Recall 2070, Beyond the Stars, Roswell, The Outer Limits )

1940 – Phil Rubenstein, actor (RoboCop 2, ALF, Mannequin, Star Trek IV)

1949 – Philip Casnoff, actor (Dollhouse, Message from Space)

1950 – John Landis, director (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1951 – Tales of Tomorrow, the first science fiction anthology TV series and reportedly the brainchild of Theodore Sturgeon, debuts on the ABC network with Sturgeon’s “Verdict from Space,” and will adapt classic tales by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. It will continue until 1953.

1952 - Frank Schaeffer, director (Rising Storm)

1952 – Kristoffer Tabori, actor (Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone, Small and Frye, Brave New World)


1959 – John C. McGinley, actor (Target Earth)


1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, actress (War of the Worlds)

1963 – Isaiah Washington, actor (The 100, Bionic Woman)

1969 – Anne Marie DeLuise, actress (Smallville, Sanctuary, The Thaw, Stargate SG-1, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave, Total Recall 2070, Earth: Final Conflict, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, Side Effects)

1970 – Elizabeth Berrington, actress (Doctor Who)


1972 – Melissa Ponzio, actress (The Walking Dead)

1972 – Brigid Brannagh, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1973 – Michael Ealy, actor (Underworld: Awakening, FlashForward)

1977 – Franco Castan, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Revolution, Coma)

1977 – Tomas Lemarquis, actor (Snowpiercer, Errors of the Human Body)

1979 – Evangeline Lilly, actress (Ant-Man, Real Steel, Smallville)


1984 – Kyle Schmid, actor (Smallville, Odyssey 5, My Best Friend is an Alien, Virus)


1993 – James Donald, actor d. @ 76 (Five Million Years to Earth aka Quatermass and the Pit),


1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, d @ 77 (Twilight Zone)

2012 – Total Recall released,

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