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

1895 – Fred Essler, actor, (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)

Fred Essler

1908 – William Dozier, producer (Red Brown of the Rocket Rangers)

1912 – Margaretta Scott, actress (Things to Come)

1915 – Lyle Bettger, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

1916 – James Griffith, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Amazing Transparent Man)

1932 – Susan Oliver, actress (Star Trek, Tomorrow’s Child, Death in Space, The Invaders, Death in Space, Twilight Zone)

1933 – Caroline Blakiston, actress (The War of the Starfighters, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Out of the Unknown, City Beneath the Sea)

1933 – Kim Novak, actress (Satan’s Triangle)

 

 

1933 – Barbara Shelley, actor (Doctor Who, Five Million Miles to Earth, The Gorgon, Village of the Damned, Blakes 7)

Barbara Shelley in Quatermass The Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – George Segal, actor (2012, The Terminal Man)

George Segal in The Terminal Man.

1938 – Oliver Reed, actor (Spasms, The Brood, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Doctor Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1941 – Bo Svenson, actor (Deep Space)

1942 – Carol Lynley, actress (The Shape of Things to Come, The Immortal, Journey to the Unknown, The Invaders, Beware! The Blob)

1943 – Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)

1943 – Donald Sumpter, actor (The Sarah Jane Chronicles, Doctor Who, Jekyll & Hyde, Atlantis (2013), The Lost Continent)

1944 – Michael Ensign, actor (The Drone Virus, Star Trek: Enterprise, Solaris, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Doctor Hackenstein, Voyagers!, WarGames, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Superman)

1946 – Joe Estevez, actor(Attack of the 30 Foot Chola, Zombie Farm, Rollergator, Cyber Seeker, Starman (TV), The Invisible Woman)

1951 – David Naughton, actor (Flying Virus, The Twilight Zone, Planet of the Apes)

1956 – Richard Eden, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070)

1957 – Leslie Bevis, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Alien Nation, Spaceballs, V)

1958 – Tip Tipping, actor (Doctor Who, Aliens)

1958 – Pernilla August, actress (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones)

1961 – Richard Tyson, actor (Flight of the Living Dead, Battlefield Earth)

1961 – Henry Rollins, actor (Johnny Mnemonic)

1963 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (The Relic, Robosapien: Rebooted)

1964 – Mark Patton, actor (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1965 – Stephen Manley, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

1966 – Tally Chanel, actress (Alien Warrier)

1966 – Neal McDonough, actor (Tin Man, The X-Files, Star Trek: First Contact, VR.5, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Kelly Hu, actress (Age of Tomorrow, Warehouse 13, Area 57, Strange Days)

1969 – Andrew Bryniarski, actor (Firefly, Lois & Clark, Cyborg 3)

1971 – Scott Levy, actress (The Helix… Loaded)

1974 – Michael DeMello, actor (Surrogates)

1979 – Mena Suvari, actress (Day of the Dead)

1980 – David Janssen, actor, d @ 49 (Marooned)

1989 – Carly McKillip, actress (Bionic Woman, The X-Files)

1990 – Ken Lynch, actor, d @ 79 (Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Munsters, Men into Space, Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1996 – Martin Balsam, actor, d @ 76 (Way Out, Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man, Space, Murder in Space, The Brother from Space)

1998 – Jo Clayton, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)

2014 – Ralph Waite, actor, d @ 85 (Timequest, The Outer Limits, Time Trax)

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