Archive for December, 2013

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)

 

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posted by admin on Dec 30

1892 – John Litel, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Flight to Mars)

1896 – Tom Keene, actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Red Planet Mars)

1920 – Jack Lord, actor (The Invaders)

1996 – Jack Nance, actor, d @ 53 (Dune, The Blob)

1996 – Lew Ayres, actor, d @ 88 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, End of the World, Battlestar Galactica, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Questor Tapes, Earth II)

1934 – Russ Tamblyn, actor (Babylon 5, Invisible Mom, The War of the Gargantuas, Quantum Leap, Dracula vs. Frankenstein)

1934 – Joseph Bologna, actor (Alligator II: The Mutation, Not Quite Human)

1911 – Jeanette Nolan, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1917 – Nancy Coleman, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author

1935 – Jack Riley, actor (Spaceballs, C.H.U.D. II, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1942 – Fred Ward, actor (Tremors I & 2, Invasion: Earth, UFOria, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, The Incredible Hulk)

1947 – Michael Burns, actor (The Bionic Woman, Twilight Zone)

1945 – Concetta Tomei, actress (Deep Impact, Star Trek: Voyager, Max Headroom)

1957 – Patricia Kalember, actress (Signs, Limitless)

1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress (V)

1972 – Maureen Flannigan, actress (Out of This World, Star Trek: DS9)

1982 – Kristin Kreuk, actress (Smallville, Space Milkshake)

1980 – Eliza Dushku, actress (Dollhouse)

1978 – Tyrese Gibson, actor (Death Race)

1977 – Lucy Punch, actress (The 10th Kingdom, Dinotopia, Ella Enchanted)

1968 – Bryan Burk, producer (Cloverfield, Star Trek, Fringe, Revolution)

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posted by admin on Dec 29

1964 – Michael Cudlitz, actor (Last Exit to Earth)

1998 – Don Taylor, director, d @ 78 (Escape from the Planet of the Apes)

1928 – Bernard Cribbins, actor (Doctor Who, Space 1999, Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

1934 – Ed Flanders, actor (Tomorrow’s Child)

1947 – Vincent Winter, actor (Superman)

1950 – Jon Polito, actor (Rock Monster, Mimic 2, The Invisible Man, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Invasion, The Invaders, The Rocketeer, C.H.U.D.)

1980 – Roy Engle, actor, d @ 67 (The Flying Saucer, The Man from Planet X, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Magnetic Monster, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Not of this Earth, The Colossus of New York, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Silent Running, Kingdom of the Spiders)

2003 – Dinsdale Landen, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Morons from Outer Space, Out of this World

1932 – Inga Swenson, actress (Earth II)

1937 – Barbara Steele, actress (The Space-Watch Murders, Piranha)

1970 – Kevin Weisman, actor (Fringe, The X-Files, Roswell)

1972 – Jude Law, actor (Contagion, Repo Men, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, eXistenZ)

1979 – Diego Luna, actor (Elysium)

2010 – Bill Erwin, actor, d @ 96 (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Voyagers!, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

2012 – Jean Topart, actor, d @ 90 (Fantastic Planet)

1964 – Kimberly Russell, actress (Roswell

1969 – Jennifer Ehle, actress (Contagion, RoboCop, The Adjustment Bureau)

1972 – Leonor Varela, actress (Blade II, Stargate:Atlantis)

1969 – Patrick Fischler, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1967 – Andy Wachowski, director (The Matrix)

1995 – Twelve Monkeys released

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posted by admin on Dec 28

2004 – Jerry Ohrbach, actor, d @ 69 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)

1991 – Cassandra Harris, actress, d @ 43 (Space: 1999)

1908 – Lew Ayres, actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, End of the World, Battlestar Galactica, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Questor Tapes, Earth II)

1916 – Noel Johnson, actor (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch, A for Andromeda, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1923 – Andrew Duggan, actor (Frankenstein Island, A Fire in the Sky, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Time Machine, The Invaders)

1931 – Martin Milner, American actor (RoboCop, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, On the Threshold of Space)

1969 – Henry Oscar, actor, d @ 78 (Out of the Unknown)

1983 – William Demarest, actor, d @ 91 (Twilight Zone)

1990 – Kiel Martin, actor, d @ 46 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1991 – Jacques Aubuchon, actor, d @ 61 (Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1999 – Clayton Moore, actor, d @ 85 (Radar Men from the Moon)

1954 – Denzel Washington, actor (The Book of Eli)

1959 – Phil Abrams, actor (The X-Files)

1960 – Chad McQueen, actor (V)

1987 – Thomas Dekker, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Kaboom, IQ-145, Heros, Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Generations)

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posted by admin on Dec 27

12/27 1901 – Irene Handl, actress, (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

12/27 1939 – John Amos, actor (The Outer Limits, Hologram Man, Future Cop)

12/27 1988 – Fox Harris, actor, d @ 52 (Alienator, Repo Man, Mutant / aka Forbidden World, Deep Space, Warlords)

12/27 2003 – Alan Bates, actor, d @ 69 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

12/27 1948 – Gérard Depardieu, actor(Glenn, the Flying Robot, Babylon A.D., The Machine

12/27 1964 – Ian Gomez, actor (Heros)

12/27 1972 – Thomas Wilson Brown, actor (Honey I Shrunk the Kids)

12/27 1973 – Wilson Cruz, actor (Supernova

12/27 1974 – Masi Oka, actor (Heros

12/27 2012 – Harry Carey, Jr., actor, d @ 91 (Back to the Future III, Cherry 2000, UFOria, Cyborg 2087, Men into Space)

12/27 1960 – Maryam D’Abo, actress (Xtro, Timelock, Space Precinct)

12/27 1966 – Eva LaRue, actress (RoboCop III)

12/27 1977 – Jacqueline Pillon, actress (Starhunter)

12/27 1981 – Emilie de Ravin, actress (Roswell)

12/27 1995 – Laurence Belcher, actor (Doctor Who)

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posted by admin on Dec 26

1986 – Elsa Lanchester, d @ 84 (Bride of Frankenstein)

1927 – Denis Quilley, actor (Undermind, Timeslip)

2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, actor, d @ 57 (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Otherworld, Star Trek:TNG, M.A.N.T.I.S., The X-Files,

2000 – Leo V Gordon, actor/writer, d @ 78 (Seaquest 2032, Alienator / Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman)

2000 – Jason Robards, actor, d @ 78 (The Day After, A Boy and His Dog)

2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, actor, d @ 72 (Demolition Man)

1903 – Elisha Cook Jr, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, Adventures of Superman, Star Trek)

1914 – Richard Widmark, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Swarm, Coma)

1922 – Richard Mayes, actor (Doctor Who, A for Andromeda)

1927 – Denis Quilley, actor (Timeslip, Undermind)

1930 – Donald Moffat, actor (The Thing, Logan’s Run, Monster in the Closet, The Twilight Zone, Exo-Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminal Man)

1956 – Holmes Herbert, actor, d @ 74 (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein )

1971 – Robert Lowery, actor, d @ 57 (Adventures of Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Revenge of the Zombies)

1973 – Steven Geray, actor, d @ 69 (Time Tunnel, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Evil of Frankenstein, Adventures of Superman)

1991 – Dehl Berti, actor, d @ 70 (Invasion U.S.A., The Six Million Dollar Man)

1993 – Jeff Morrow, actor, d @ 80 (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

1994 – Robert Emhardt, actor, d @ 80 (Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1989 – Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress, d @ 75 (Timeslip)

1960 – Temuera Morrison, actor (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1961 – John Lynch, actor (Scintilla, Alien Hunter, Chimera)

1944 – Jane Lapotaire, actress (The Asphyx)

1950 – Victoria Racimo, actress (Day of the Dolphin, The Prophecy, Logan’s Run)

1961 – Tahnee Welch, actress (Cocoon I & II, Johnny 2.0)

1974 – Tiffany Brissette, actress (The Ewok Adventure)

1927 – Akihiko Hirata, actor (Godzilla, Rodan, The Mysterians, The H-Man, Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, Ghidorah, Ultraman, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)

1922 – Shirley Patterson, actress (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, World Without End, The Land Unknown, Batman [1943])

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posted by admin on Dec 25

1887 – John Davidson, actor (The Devil Bat)

1899 – Frank Fergusson, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein)

1907 – Mike Mazurki, actor (Amazon Women on the Moon, Alligator, Land of the Giants, It’s About Time)

1976 – Frankie Darro, actor, d @ 59 (Phantom Empire, Forbidden Planet)

1887 – Earle Foxe, actor (The Last Man on Earth)

1964 – Cheerio Meredith, actress, d @ 74 (The Three Stooges in Orbit)

1979 – Joan Blondell, actress, d @ 73 (Twilight Zone)

1928 – Earl Brown, actor (Terminator I & II

1945 – Gary Sandy, actor (Lightning: Fire from the Sky)

1997 – Denver Pyle, actor, d @ 77 (The Flying Saucer, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Men Into Space, Twilight Zone)

1999 – Peter Jeffrey, actor, d @ 70 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)

1929 – Irish McCalla, actress (She Demons, Hands of a Stranger)

1962 – Dean Cameron, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Honey I Shrunk the Kids)

1984 – Georgia Moffett, actress (The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Doctor Who: Dreamland, Doctor Who)

1952 – CCH Pounder, actress (Avatar, Warehouse 13, End of Days, The X-Files, RoboCop 3, Quantum Leap)

1945 – Rick Berman, writer (Star Trek)

1928 – Dick Miller, actor ( Weird Science, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: The Next Generation, V; The Final Battle, Twilight Zone: The Movie, X; The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, War of the Satellites, Not of this Earth, It Conquered the World)

1924 – Rod Serling, writer/producer (Twilight Zone)

1920 – Dean Ellis, illustrator

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posted by admin on Dec 24

1910 – Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre, Bigtime, Wanderer)

1889 – Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Twilight Zone, Beyond the Time Barrier, Monster from Green Hell, I Was a Teenage Werewolf

1984 – Ian Hendry, actor, d @ 53 (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1941 – John Levene, actor (UFO, Doctor Who, Planetfall, Automatons)

1955 – Grand L. Bush, actor (Demolition Man, The Visitor, The Incredible Hulk)

1964 – Mark Valley, actor (Fringe, The 4400, The Lone Gunman)

1966 – Deidrich Bader, actor (Evil Alien Conquerors, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG)

2012 – Charles Durning, actor, d @ 89 (Solarbabies, The Final Countdown, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

2012 – Jack Klugman, actor, d @ 90 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1940 – Sharon Farrell, actress (Night of the Comet, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Man from Atlantis)

1943 – Christiane Schmidtmer, actress (The Giant Spider Invasion)

1956 – Stephanie Hodge, actress (Evolution

1972 – Carmen Moore, actress (Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Eureka, Flash Gordon, Caprica)

1945 – Nicholas Meyer, director (Time After Time, Star Trek II, The Day After, Star Trek VI)

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posted by admin on Dec 23

1911 – James Gregory, actor (Twilight Zone, Star Trek)

1969 – Donald Foster, actor, d @ 80 (Twilight Zone)

1909 – Maurice Denham, actor (Doctor Who, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of This World, Project M7)

1921 – Gerald S O’Loughlin, actor (Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1982 – Jack Webb, actor, d @ 62 (Project U.F.O.)

1994 – Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor, d @ 89 (Chimera, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Out of the Unknown)

1995 – Patric Knowles, actor, d @ 84 (From the Earth to the Moon)

1923 – Ruth Roman, actress (Day of the Animals, The Outer Limits)

1967 – Karen Verne, actress, d @ 49 (Twilight Zone)

1893 – Ann O’Neal, actress (Twilight Zone)

1925 – Harry Guardino, actor (Goldengirl, The Outer Limits)

1943 – Harry Shearer, actor (The Visitor, Sliders, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1953 – John Callahan, actor (Bone Eater, Dinocroc vs. Supergator)

2000 – Billy Barty, American actor, d @ 76 (The Lost Saucer, Bride of Frankenstein, Lobster Man from Mars, Masters of the Universe)

1970 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1978 – Estella Warren, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1998 – Conor Carroll, actor (Ender’s Game)

1955 – Stefan Arngrim, actor (Land of the Giants, The X Files, Battlestar Galactica:Razor, V, Caprica, Fringe, Arrow)

1948 – Charles Herbert, actor (The Fly, Men Into Space, Twilight Zone)

1919 – Robert McCall, artist (LIFE magazine, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

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posted by admin on Dec 22

2001 – Lance Fuller, actor, d @ 73 (This Island Earth, Twilight Zone, The She-Creature, The Bride and the Beast)

1967 – Lee Krieger, actor, d @ 48 (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian)

1993 – Don DeFore, actor, d @ 76 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1947 – Brian C Daley, sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)

1951 – Charles de Lint, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)

1958 – Lenny Von Dohlen, actor (World’s End, Red Dwarf)

1958 – David Heavener, actor (Deadly Reactor, Guns of El Chupacabra, Crimes of the Chupacabra)

1918 – Frankie Darro, actor (Phantom Empire, Forbidden Empire)

1909 – Patricia Hayes, actress (The Tomorrow People, The Terrornauts)

1915 – Barbara Billingsley, actress (Mysterious Ways, Invaders from Mars)

1926 – Peggy Castle, actress (Beginning of the End, Invasion Earth, World of Giants)

1948 – Lynne Thigpen, actress (Bicentennial Man)

1968 – Dina Meyer, actress (Starship Troopers, Cyborg Nemesis, Decoys 2: Alien Seduction, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Outer Limits, Bats, Johnny Mnemonic)

1971 – Pat Mastroianni, actor (Godzilla 1998, War of the Worlds)

1980 – Chris Carmack, actor (The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations, Smallville)

1982 – Brooke Nevin, actress (Smallville)

1954 – Hugh Quarshie, actor (The Tomorrow People, Star Wars: Episode I, Doctor Who)

1949 – Graham Beckel, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Heroes)

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