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

1882 – C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws, Undersea Kingdom, Mysterious Doctor Satan )

C. Montague Shaw (center) in Undersea Kingdom

1902 – Philip Ober, actor (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1904 – H. Beam Piper, sci-fi author (author, Little Fuzzy, Flight from Tomorrow, 4 Day Planet)

1906 – Joan Crawford, actress (Trog)

 

 

 

 

1917 – Kenneth Tobey, actor (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)

Kenneth Tobey in The Thing From Another World.

1917 – Patricia Burke, actress (The Day the Fish Came Out, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Monique van Vooren, actress (Flesh for Frankenstein)

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – James Ackley Maxwell, actor (The Evil of Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown)

James Ackley Maxwell in Doctor Who

 

1929 – Mark Rydell, actor (Masters of Science Fiction)

1937 – Tony Burton, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

1947 – Barbara Rhodes, actress (Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man, Far Out Space Nuts)

1947 – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, sci-fi author (The Healer’s War)

 

 

1950 – Anthony De Longis, actor (The Outer Limits, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, Masters of the Universe, Cyber-Tracker 2, The Twilight Zone, V, Battlestar Galactica, Logan’s Run)

1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, sci-fi author (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, 2312)

1957 – Amanda Plummer, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Battlestar Galactica, Mimic: Sentinel, The Outer Limits, Dark Skies)

1957 – Teresa Ganzel, actress (They Came from Outer Space, ALF, Out of this World, The Twilight Zone)

1959 – Catherine Keener, actress (S1m0ne)

1962 – Jenny Wright, actress (The Lawnmower Man)

1964 – Peter Lorre, actor, d @ 59 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1964 – Hope Davis, actress (Real Steel, Flatliners)

1965 – Richard Grieco, actor (AE: Apocalypse Earth, The Incredible Hulk)

1976 – Michelle Monaghan, actress (Source Code)

1976 – Keri Russell, actress (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dark Skies, Honey I Blew Up the Kid)

1979 – Philip Bourneuf, actor, d @ 71 (The Wide World of Mystery: Frankenstein, The Immortal)

1981 – Luciana Carro, actress (Falling Skies, The Icarus II Project, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica)

1988 – Dayton Lummis, actor, d @ 84 (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)

2001 – Sully Boyar, actor, d @ 77 (The Manhatten Project)

2012 – The Hunger Games released