posted by admin on Dec 31
1945 – Vernon Wells, actor (Innerspace, Alien Hunger, Cowboys vs Dinosaurs, Jurassic Block, The Sector, Rise of the Dinosaurs, 100,000 Zombie Heads, The Dead Undead, World’s End, Silent Night, Zombie Night, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Saurian, The Man with No Eyes, Starforce, Space Truckers, Manosaurus, T-Force, Circuitry Man, Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, Weird Science)
1958 – The Crawling Eye released
1955 – Day the World Ended released
1957 – The Monolith Monsters released
1958 – Fiend Without a Face released
1958 – The Lost Missile released
1958 – The Strange World of Planet X released
1965 – Gaston Glass, production manager, d @ 65 (Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
2003 – Paula Raymond, actress, d @ 79 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Flight That Disappeared)
1953 – Jane Badler, actress (V, Sky Trackers, The Lost World)
1987 – G Randall P D Garrett, sci-fi author, d @ 60 (Lord Darcy, Takeoff 1 & II)
1931 – Bob Shaw, sci-fi author (Light of Other Days, The Ragged Astronauts)
1896 – Ronald Adam, actor (The Man Who Could Cheat Death)
1897 – Rhys Williams, actor (The Invaders, Adventures of Superman)
1910 – Dick Kollmar, actor (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man)
1933 – Edward Bunker, actor (The Running Man)
1977 – Nora Marlowe, actress, d @ 62 (Westworld, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)
1990 – Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1943 – Ben Kingsley, actor (Our Robot Overlords, Ender’s Game, What Planet Are You From?, Species, Slipstream)
1948 – Joe Dallesandro, actor (Flesh For Frankenstein
1953 – James Remar, actor (FlashForward, Battlestar Galactica, Blade: Trinity, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Robo Warriors, Judge Dredd)
1959 – Val Kilmer, actor (Red Planet, Hardwired, The Thaw, The Island of Dr. Moreau)
1964 – Michael McDonald, actor (The Unborn II, Carnosaur 2, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
1986 – Lloyd Haynes, actor, d @ 54 (Star Trek)
1994 – Leo Fuchs, actor, d @ 83 (The Six Million Dollar Man)
1994 – Woody Strode, actor, d @ 80 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
2007 – Bill Idelson, writer / actor, d @ 88 (The Crawling Hand, Twilight Zone / My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)
1938 – Rosalind Cash, actress (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Omega Man, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde)
1946 – Barbara Carrera, actress (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Embryo)
1959 – Bebe Neuwirth, actress (Star Trek: TNG)
1961 – Joanna Johnson, actress (The Twilight Zone)
1969 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)
2001 – Eileen Heckart, actress, d @ 82 (Out There)
1986 – Bronson Pelletier, actor (Dinosapien)
1976 – Steve Byers, actor (Alphas, Total Recall, Immortals, Smallville, The Dresden Files)
1966 – Bruce Ramsay, actor (Continuum, Riverworld, Babylon 5: The Lost Tales)
1945 – Connie Willis, sci-fi author (Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of a Dog, Blackout/All Clear)