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

1868 – George Arliss, actor (Trans-Atlantic Tunnel)

1915 – Harry Morgan, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Twilight Zone, Ex0-Man, The Cat from Outer Space, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers)

Harry Morgan as Prof Suter on 3rd Rock from the Sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Sheb Wooley, actor (Purple People Eater, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1921 – Chuck Connors, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, Adventures of Superman)

1924 – Lee Bergere, actor, d @ 82 31 Jan. 2007 (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters)

Lee Bergere as Abraham Lincoln on Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Max Von Sydow, actor (Minority Report, Judge Dredd, Until the End of the World, Dune, The Ice Pirates, Flash Gordon, Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens)

Max Von Sydow as Ming The Merciless in the 80s version of Flash Gordon

1930 – Lee Weaver, actor (Donnie Darko, Godzilla 1998, Sliders, Lois & Clark, Voyagers!, Mork & Mindy)

1932 – Hari Rhodes, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star, Earth II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Automan, Beyond Westworld, Salvage 1, Logan’s Run, The Bionic Woman, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Satan Bug, The Lost Missile, The Outer Limits)

1932 – Omar Sharif, actor (The Mysterious Island (1973))

1936 – Milt Kogan, actor (Quantum Leap, Solar Crisis, Alien Nation, E.T., The Invisible Man (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Jim Burns, artist

 

1954 – Peter MacNicol, actor (Battleship)

1957 – John M. Ford, sci-fi author

1961 – Olivia Brown, actress (Lois & Clark)

1961 – Jeb Stuart Adams, actor (They Live)

1962 – Michael Curtiz, director, d @ 75 (Doctor X)

1966 – Brad William Henke, actor (Pacific Rim)

1968 – Orlando Jones, actor (The Time Machine, Evolution)

1969 – Billy Jacoby, actor (Dr. Alien, Demonwarp, Galactica 1980)

1972 – Damien Puckler, actor (Starfall, Camel Spiders, The Colony)

1974 – Curt Conway, actor, d @ 58 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1980 – Charlie Hunnam, actor (Pacific Rim, Children of Men)

1982 – Chyler Leigh, actress (Supergirl (2015))

1982 – Cec Linder, actor, d @ 71 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Day of Resurrection, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Quatermass and the Pit)

1983 – Ryan Merriman, actor (Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, Smallville, Taken)

1984 – Mandy Moore, actress (Southland Tales)

1987 – Jamie Renee Smith, actress (VR.5, Dark Skies)

1988 – Haley Joel Osment, actor (A.I. Artificial Intellignce)

1990 – Alex Pettyfer, actor (In Time, I Am Number Four)

1991 – Amanda Michalka, actor (Super 8)

1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, actor, d @ 35 (Star Trek: TNG, Predator, Predator 2, Misfits of Science)

2000 – Peter Jones, actor, d @ 79 (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)

2000 – Larry Linville, actor, d @ 60 (Lois & Clark, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud, Misfits of Science)

My new novel Demien will be available 4/17/15. Here is the teaser. Full book trailer later

Demien Trailer Teaser