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February 5, 2014

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1947 – David Ladd, actor (Beyond the Universe)


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


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


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


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


1946 – Charlotte Rampling, actress (Zardoz)


1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress (eXistenZ)


1981 – Nora Zehetner, actress (Warehouse 13


1973 – David Meunier, actor (Revolution, Jericho)


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


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


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


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


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


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Published on February 05, 2014 12:00

February 4, 2014

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


1914 – Ida Lupino, actress (Twilight Zone)


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


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


1929 – Jerry Adler, actor (Quantum Leap)


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


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


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


1940 – George A Romero, director (Night of the Living Dead)


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1922 – William Phipps, actor (Twilight Zone, Cat-Women of the Moon, War of the Worlds, Invaders from Mars)


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Published on February 04, 2014 16:26

February 3, 2014

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

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


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


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


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


1934 – Jeremy Kemp, actor (Star Trek: TNG


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


1938 – Marshall Efron, actor (THX 1138)


1941 – Bridget Hanley, actress (Mad Mad Scientist,


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1975 – Terry Chen, actor (Elysium, Continuum, Battlestar Galactica, V, I Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Smallville, Stargate SG-1)


1978 – Adrian R’Mante, actor (S1m0ne)


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Published on February 03, 2014 12:00

February 2, 2014

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

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


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


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


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


1903 – Frank McGrath, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)


1908 – Clarence “Buster” Crabbe, actor (Flash Gordon , Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Buck Rogers, The Alien Dead, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century


1909 – Frank Albertson, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)


1901 – Connie Gilchrist, actress (Twilight Zone)


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


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


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


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


1942 – Bo Hopkins, actor (Phantoms)


1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, actor, (Doctor Who)


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


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


1923 – Bonita Granville, actress (Science Fiction Theatre)


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


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


1950 – Barbara Sukowa, actress (Johnny Mnemonic)


1951 – Kim Zimmer, actress (Babylon 5


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


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


2338 – Data, android character on Star Trek: TNG


1961 – Lauren Lane, actress (Interface)


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Published on February 02, 2014 12:00

February 1, 2014

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1944 – Leo Burmester, actor (The Abyss


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


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


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


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


2005 – John Vernon, actor, d @ 72 (The Incredible Hulk, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, War of the Worlds, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, 1984)


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


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


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


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


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


1969 – Brian Krause, actor (2012: Supernova)


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


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


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


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


1979 – Rachelle Lefevre, actress (Under the Dome)


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


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


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


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Published on February 01, 2014 11:58

January 31, 2014

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

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


1958 – Terror from the Year 5000 released


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1934 – James Franciscus, actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Marooned, Twilight Zone)


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


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


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


1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, actor (The Twilight Zone)


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


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


1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Invaders)


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


1949 – Carol Hawkins, actress (Blakes 7)


1959 – Kelly Lynch, actress (Virtuosity)


1970 – Minnie Driver, actress(The X-Files


1980 – Tiffany Limos, actress (Teenage Caveman)


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


1911 – Eddie Willard, actor d @ 70 21 August 1981 (Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope)


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Published on January 31, 2014 12:00

January 30, 2014

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1956 – Jeremy Gittins, actor (Doctor Who)


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


1925 – Dorothy Malone, actress (The Day Time Ended


1934 – Tammy Grimes, actress (The Stuff)


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


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


1974 – Christian Bale, actor (Terminator Salvation, Equilibrium


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


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


1966 – Thomas McCarthy, actor (2012)


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


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


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


1987 – George Barr, illustrator


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


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Published on January 30, 2014 12:00

January 29, 2014

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

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


1918 – John Forsythe, actor (Marooned)


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


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


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


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


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


1928 – Peter Byrne, actor (Blakes 7)


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


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


1956 – Warning from Space released


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


1977 – Justin Hartley, actor (Smallville)


1970 – Heather Graham, actress (Lost in Space)


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


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


1950 – Ann Jillian, actress (Twilight Zone)


1948 – Marc Singer, actor (V, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: TV Series, Planet of the Apes)


1945 – Tom Selleck, actor (Runaway)


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


1959 – Paul McGann, actor (Dr Who, Alien 3)


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


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


1942 – Robin Morgan, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)


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


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


1986 – Drew Tyler Bell, actor (Jake 2.0)


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Published on January 29, 2014 12:00

January 28, 2014

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

1910 – John Banner, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Published on January 28, 2014 10:08

January 27, 2014

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


1905 – Howard McNear, actor (Twilight Zone)


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


1927 – Michael Craig, actor (Doctor Who, Escape 2000, Mysterious Island)


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


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


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


2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, actress, d @ 76 (Timemaster)


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


1964 – Bridget Fonda, actress (Frankenstein Unbound)


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


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


1969 – Patton Oswalt, actor (Star Wars Cantina Karaoke, Caprica, Dollhouse, Blade: Trinity


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


1961 – Julie Caitlin Brown, actress (Babylon 5, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)


1958 – Susanna Thompson, actress (Arrow, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Next Generation, Alien Nation: Dark Horizon)


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