Archive for June, 2014

posted by admin on Jun 30

1905 – Nestor Paiva, actor, d @ 61 9 September 1966 (They Saved Hitler’s Brain, Jesse James Meet Frankenstein’s Daughter, My Living Doll, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, World of Giants, The Mole People, Tarantula, Revenge of the Creature, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Creature from the Black Lagoon)
1919 – Lee Krieger, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian)

1927 – Harvey Vernon, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone)
1938 – Jeri Taylor, producer / writer (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager)

1943 – Charlene Polite, actress (Star Trek)
1950 – Leonard Whiting, actor (Frankenstein: The True Story)

1955 – David Alan Grier, actor (The X-Files, ALF)
1957 – Invasion of the Saucer Men released
1958 – The Space Children released
1958 – Space Master X-7 released
1958 – War of the Colossal Beast released
1958 – Teanagers from Outer Space released
1959 – Vincent D’Onofrio, actor (Jurassic World, The Cell, Men in Black, Strange Days)

1960 – Rebecca Tilney, actress(Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1962 – Predrag Bjelac, actor (Children of Dune, The Immortal)
1963 – Rupert Graves, actor (Doctor Who)

1966 – Marton Csokas, actor (AEon Flux, Cleopatra 2525, The Lost World, Farscape)
1971 – Megan Fahlenblock, actress (Warehouse 13, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Mutant X, The Fifth Quadrant)

1979 – Rick Gonzalez, actor (War of the Worlds)
1981 – Desi Lydic, actor (Invasion Iowa)
1981 – Aaron Perilo, actor (In Time)
1982 – Lizzy Caplan, actress (Hot Tub Time Machine, Cloverfield, Smallville)

1987 – King Donovan, actor, d @ 69 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956], The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Magnetic Monster)
1995 – Gale Gordon, actor, d @ 89 (Visit to a Small Planet, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)

posted by admin on Jun 23

1892 – Edmund Cobb, actor (The Atomic Submarine, The Amazing Colossal Man, The She-Creature)
1896 – Paul Orban, artist
1912 – Maurice Dallimore, actor (Twilight Zone)
1915 – Dennis Price, actor (Computer Killers, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, Drácula contra Frankenstein, The Horror of Frankenstein, The Earth Dies Screaming, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1925 – Miriam Karlin, actress (A Clockwork Orange, Jekyll & Hyde)
1925 – Larry Blyden, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1942 – James Marcus, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Doctor Who, UFO)
1946 – Jerry Ahern, sci-fi author (Survivalist)
1946 – Ted Shackleford, actor (Space Precinct, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)
1947 – Bryan Brown, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, On the Beach)
1951 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes Ray Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn,” which will provide the basis for the 1953 monster film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
1953 – Russell Mulcahy, director (Resident Evil: Extinction, Mysterious Island, Perversions of Science)
1957 – Frances McDormand, actress, (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Æon Flux, The Twilight Zone
1962 – Billy Wirth, actor (Space Marines, Starlight, Body Snatchers)
1964 – Joss Whedon, writer (Dollhouse, Serenity, Firefly, Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
1969 – Stanley Andrews, actor, d @ 77 (Science Fiction Theatre, Superman and the Mole-Men, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)
1969 – Martin Klebba, actor (Jurassic World, Men in Black II, Planet of the Apes)
1972 – Selma Blair, actress (Hellboy I & II)
1974 – Joel Edgerton, actor (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones)
1975 – William Hansen, actor, d @ 64 (The Terminal Man, Fail-Safe)
1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier,actress (Unearthed)
1980 – John Laurie, actor, d @ 83 (Devil Girl from Mars)
1994 – Connor Jessup, actor (Falling Skies)
2001 – Corinne Calvet, actress, d @ 76 (Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hype)
2011 – Peter Falk, actor, d @ 83 (The Lost World, Twilight Zone)
2013 – Richard Matheson, sci-fi author/screenwriter, d @ 87 (I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

posted by admin on Jun 22

1905 – Frank Milan, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)
1918 – Richard Eastham, actor (Conquest of the Earth, Galactica 1980, Salvage 1, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

1928 – Ralph Waite, actor (Timequest, The Outer Limits, Time Trax)

1936 – Kris Kristofferson, actor (Blade, Planet of the Apes, NetForce, Millennium)
1941 – Michael Lerner, actor (Godzilla 1998, Strange Invaders)

1947 – Octavia E. Butler, sci-fi author (Parable of the Talents)
1947 – David L. Lander, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Star Trek: TNG)

1949 – Lindsay Wagner, actress (Warehouse 13, Alphas, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1952 – Graham Greene, actor (Phil the Alien)

1954 – Chris Lemmon, actor (My Dog the Space Traveler, Mindscapes Origins)

1956 – Tim Russ, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Asteroid vs. Earth, Star Trek: Generations, SeaQuest2032, Star Trek: TNG, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Eve of Destruction, Alien Nation, The Twilight Zone, Spaceballs, Timestalkers, Starman)

1958 – Bruce Campbell, actor (Alien Apocalypse, Terminal Invasion, Timequest, The X-Files, Weird Science, Escape from L.A., Lois & Clark, Congo, Mindwarp, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Moontrap)

1965 – J.J. Cohen, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Back to the Future, V)
1966 – James McCauley, actor (I am Legend)

1970 – Michael Trucco, actor (V, Meteor Storm, Battlestar Galactica)
1974 – Donald Faison, actor (Skyline, Clone High)
1980 – Stephanie Jacobsen, actress (Star-Crossed, Quantum Apocalypse, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape)

1985 – Lindsay Ridgeway, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1985 – Douglas Smith, actor (Antiviral, The X-Files)
1986 – Robert F. Young, sci-fi author, d @ 71 (Jonathan and the Space Whale)
1987 – Joe Dempsie, actor (Doctor Who)
1988 – Portia Doubleday, actor (Her)

posted by admin on Jun 20

1909 – Robb White, writer (Thirteen Ghosts, The Tingler)
1919 – Ronald Hines, actor (Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown
1928 – Martin Landau, actor (Space 1999, The Outer Limits, Space 1899, Frankenweenie, The X Files, The Twilight Zone, Cosmic Princess, Meteor, Alien Attack, Journey Through the Black Sun, Twilight Zone, The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman)
1931 – James Tolkan, actor (Back to the Future I – III, Robo Warriors, Wargames, Masters of the Universe, The X-Files, Woman)
1933 – Brett Halsey, actor (Automan, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, World of Giants, Return of the Fly
1934 – Wendy Craig, actress (Out of the Unknown)
1944 – Oliver Cotton, actor (Space Precinct, Space: 1999)
1944 – Terry Funk, actor (Timestalkers, Quantum Leap, Swamp Thing)
1945 – John McCook, actor (Epoch
1947 – Candy Clark, actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, The Blob, Starman)
1952 – John Goodman, actor (What Planet Are You From?, C.H.U.D.)
1952 – Larry Riley, actor (The Twilight Zone
1957 – Butch Patrick, actor (The Munsters, Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, Here Come the Munsters, Spaced Out, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian)
1958 – Chuck Wagner, actor (Automan)
1960 – Michael Corbett, actor (Star Trek: TNG
1963 – Ralph Sanford, actor, d @ 64 (Adventures of Superman)
1963 – Gordon Jones, actor, d @ 53 (The Monster that Challenged the World)
1964 – Edgar Barrier, actor, d @ 57 (Men into Space, World of Giants, The Giant Claw, The War of the Worlds)
1967 – Nicole Kidman, actress (The Invasion, The Golden Compass, The Stepford Wives)
1968 – Robert Rodriguez, director (Planet Terror)
1971 – Josh Lucas, actor (Space Warriors, Hulk)
1977 – Abner Biberman, director, d @ 68 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)
1977 – Ronnie Gene Blevins, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
1984 – Sunny Johnson, actress, d @ 30 (Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)
1984 – Estelle Winwood, actress, d @ 101 (Twilight Zone)
1990 – Ina Balin, actress, d @ 52 (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1998 – Jadin Gould, actor (Man of Steel, Battle Los Angeles)
2003 – Hulk released
2011 – Ryan Dunn, actor, d @ 34 (Invader)

posted by admin on Jun 18

1904 – Keye Luke, actor (Superboy, Star Trek, Project X)

1908 – Nedra Volz, actress (ALF, Earth Girls Are Easy)

1914 – E.G. Marshall, actor (The Tommyknockers, Superman II, The Phoenix)

1917 – Richard Boone, actor (The Last Dinosaur)

1929 – Maggie McNamara (Twilight Zone)

1934 – George Hearn, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1938 – Michael Sheard, actor (Doctor Who, Space, The Invisible Man, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Blakes 7, The Tomorrow People, Space: 1999)

1943 – Barry Evans, actor (Journey to the Unknown)

1949 – Mac McDonald, actor (Red Dwarf, The Fifth Element, The Tomorrow People, Superman IV, The Empire Strikes Back, Rollerball)

1951 – Steve Miner, director (Eureka, Day of the Dead, Smallville)

1952 – Miriam Flynn, actress (Evolution, Star Trek: DS9)

1952 – Isabella Rossellini, actr (Infected, Earthsea)

1957 – Ralph Brown, actor (Star Wars: Epidsode I, Alien³)

1965 – Kim Dickens, actress (FlashForward, Hollow Man)

1973 – Roger Delgado, actor, d @ 55 (Doctor Who, First Man into Space, Quatermass II)

1976 – Alana De La Garza, actress (Smallville)

1982 – Curt Jurgens, actor, d @ 66 (Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen, Goldengirl)

1986 – Meaghan Rath, actress (10.5: Apocalypse)

1980 – Terence Fisher, actor, d @ 76 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Earth Dies Screaming, The Gorgon, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Curse of Frankenstein)

2005 – Richard Stahl, actor, d @ 74 (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Terminal Island, Beware! The Blob, Slaughterhouse-Five)

posted by admin on Jun 17

1904 – Ralph Bellamy, actor (The Invaders, The Immortal, The Clone Master, The Twilight Zone, Amazon Women on the Moon)
1919 – Beryl Reid, actress (Doctor Who)

1927 – Wally Wood, artist
1933 – James Shigeta, actor (Space Marines, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, The Outer Limits)
1947 – Christopher Allport, actor (The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Invaders from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

1951 – Joe Piscopo, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1957 – Jon Gries, actor (The Astronaut Farmer, Men in Black, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1960 – Thomas Haden Church, actor (John Carter, Zombie Roadkill)
1963 – Greg Kinnear, actor (What Planet Are You From?)
1966 – Jason Patric, actor (Frankenstein Unbound, Solarbabies)

1973 – Louis Leterrier, director (The Incredible Hulk)
1973 – Luis Van Rooten, actor, d @ 66 (Tales of Tomorrow, One Step Beyond, Curse of the Faceless Man)
1975 – Joshua Leonard, actor (Shark Night 3D)
1976 – Scott Adkins, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Mutant X)
1979 – Lou Frizzell, actor, d @ 50 (Project U.F.O.)

1982 – Arthur Darvill, actor (Doctor Who)

posted by admin on Jun 14

1919 – Gene Barry, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, The Twilight Zone, War of the Worlds, War of the Worlds (2005))
1919 – Sam Wanamaker, actor (The Day the Fish Came Out, The Outer Limits, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace)

1949 – Harry Turtledove, sci-fi author (The Guns of the South, Agent of Byzantium)
1950 – Jeremy Sinden, actor (Star Wars)

1954 – Will Patton, actor (Falling Skies, The Fourth Kind, Armageddon, The Postman, VR.5)

1958 – James Gurney, sci-fi author (Dinotopia)

1966 – Traylor Howard, actor (Lois & Clark)
1971 – Alexandra Castillo, actress (Warehouse 13, Fringe, 2012, Mutant X)

1978 – David Kopp, actor (Blade: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Mysterious Ways, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)
1979 – Pascale Hutton, actor (Continuum, Fringe, Sanctuary, Behemoth, The 4400, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis)

1981 – Daniel Newman, actor (Heroes, Surface)

1989 – Lucy Hale, actress (Bionic Woman)

1992 – Daryl Sabara, actor (John Carter, Roswell)

1997 – Richard Jaeckel, actor d @ 70 (The Outer Limits, Time Tunnel, Starman, The Green Slime, Latitude Zero, Gemini Man, Day of the Animals, The Fantastic Journey, The Dark, Salvage 1)

2013 – Man of Steel released

posted by admin on Jun 13

1892 – Basil Rathbone, actor (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Science Fiction Theatre)
1896 – Larry Keating, actor (When Worlds Collide)
1910 – Mary Wickes, actress (ALF Loves a Mystery)
1918 – Ben Johnson, actor (Cherry 2000)
1920 – Rex Everhart, actor (Superman, ‘Way Out)
1921 – George Berkeley, actor (Captain Midnight)
1924 – Percy Rodrigues, actor (Brainwaves, Genesis II, Galaxina, The Astral Factor, The Gemini Man, Planet of the Apes, The Starlost, Star Trek)
1926 – Paul Lynde, actor (The Munsters)
1927 – Brian Wilde, actor (Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch)
1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, production designer (Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, E.T., Coccoon, Star Trek)
1936 – Lane Smith, actor, d @ 69 (Lois & Clark, Duplicates, V)
1941 – Robert Forester, actor (Automata, Supernova, Scanner Cop II, Alligator, The Black Hole)
1941 – Tom Hallick, actor (The Last Man on Planet Earth, My Favorite Martian, Hangar 18, Time Travelers
1943 – Malcolm McDowell, actor (Clockwork Orange, Time After Time, Star Trek: Generations, Zombex, Doomsday, Masters of Science Fiction, The Outer Limits, Lexx, Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories, 2103: The Deadly Wake, Cyborg 3: The Recycler, Class of 1999, Moon 44)
1945 – Whitley Strieber, sci-fi author (Hunger, War Day, Communion)
1949 – Simon Callow, actor (Doctor Who, Chemical Wedding)
1950 – Belinda Bauer, actress (RoboCop 2, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann)
1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, actor (Deep Blue Sea)
1951 – Richard Thomas, actor (Battle Beyond the Stars, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, ‘Way Out)
1951 – Jonathan Hogan, actor (Quantum Leap)
1953 – Tim Allen, actor (Galaxy Quest)
1953 – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is released, the second film this year based on a Ray Bradbury treatment, in this case drawn from his short story “The Fog Horn.”
1958 – Dennis C Ott, actor (Star Trek)
1962 – Ally Sheedy, actress (Kyle XY, Strange Frequency, Short Circuit, WarGames)
1965 – Lisa Vidal, actress (Star Trek)
1966 – Thyme Lewis, actor (Robot Jox)
1969 – Jamie Walters, actor (Quantum Leap
1971 – David Mendenhall, actor (Space Raiders)
1978 – Ethan Embry, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1990 – Aaron Johnson, actor (Godzilla 2014)
2005 – Jonathan Adams, actor, d @ 74 (Star Cops, 1990, The Invisible Man)
2008 – The Incredible Hulk released

posted by admin on Jun 12

1902 – Lee Morgan, actor (The Weird Ones, The Neanderthal Man, Space Patrol)
1914 – William Lundigan, actor (Men into Space, Riders to the Stars, Science Fiction Theatre)
1916 – Irwin Allen, producer / director / writer (Aliens from Another Planet, The Swarm, City Beneath the Sea, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Lost World)
1919 – Uta Hagen, actress (The Boys From Brazil, The Twilight Zone)

1920 – Peter Jones, actor (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)
1927 – Henry Slesar, sci-fi author (20 Million Miles to Earth)
1928 – Lew Gallo, actor (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1948 – Len Wein, writer (Swamp Thing)
1949 – Roger Aaron Brown b. 1949 (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Supernatural, Dark Skies, Galaxis, RoboCop 2, Alien Nation, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Near Dark, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Incredible Hulk)

1953 – Gary Farmer, actor (Mutant X)

1957 – Timothy Busfield, actor (Revolution, Lois and Clark)

1959 – Scott Thompson, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Millennium)

1962 – Eamonn Walker, actor (Unbreakable)

1962 – Paul Schulze, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Roswell)

1967 – Frances O’Connor, actress (Timeline, A.i. Artificial Intelligence)

1970 – Gordon Michael Woolvert, actor (Andromeda, Sliders, Mysterious Island)
1970 – Rick Hoffman, actor (Battleship, The Day After Tomorrow, What Planet Are You From?)

1987 – Abbey Lee, actress (Mad Max: Fury Road)

2003 – Gregory Peck, actor, d @ 87 (Marooned, The Boys from Brazil, On the Beach)

2010 – Al Williamson, illustrator, d @ 79 (Flash Gordon)
2013 – This is the End released

posted by admin on Jun 11

1914 – Dudley Manlove, actor, d @ 81 17 April 1996 (The Creation of the Humanoids, Plan 9 from Outer Space)
1914 – Gerald Mohr, actor (Invasion U.S.A., The Angry Red Planet, Men into Space, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1915 – Buddy Baer, actor (Giant from the Unknown, Adventures of Superman)
1919 – Richard Todd, actor (Doctor Who)
1920 – Robert Hutton, actor (Trog, They Came from Beyond Space, The Slime People, Invisible Invaders, The Colossus of New York)

1922 – John Bromfield, actor (Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, Revenge of the Creature)

1932 – Ed Bishop, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Saturn 3, 1990, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Day After Tomorrow, UFO, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Mouse on the Moon)
1933 – Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein)

1937 – Chad Everett, actor, d @ 75 24 July 2012 (When Time Expires)

1939 – Jordan Rhodes, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Terminal Man)

1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, actress (The Chronicle, Deep Space Nine, Sliders, Weird Science, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, Swamp Thing, Escape from New York, The Fog)

1949 – Sherman Howard, actor ( Star Trek: Voyager, Retroactive, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, The Stand, Space Rangers, Superboy, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, ALF, Max Headroom, Day of the Dead)

1959 – Hugh Laurie, actor (Tomorrowland)

1965 – Pamela Gidley, actress (Cherry 2000)

1966 – Malcolm Smith d @ 65 (sci-fi artist)

1978 – Joshua Jackson, actor (Fringe)

1979 – Jane Goldman, writer (Stardust)
1986 – Shia LeBeouf, actor (Transformers, I, Robot, The X-Files)

1999 – DeForest Kelley, actor, d @ 79 (Science Fiction Theatre, Night of the Lepus , Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG)
2006 – Tim Hildebrandt, Illustrator, d @ 67

2007 – Mala Powers, actress, d @ 75 (The Colossus of New York, The Unknown Terror)

2000 – Lew Gallo, actor, d @ 71 (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1993 – Bernard Bresslaw, actor, d @ 59 (Krull, Doctor Who)
1988 – Nathan Cook, actor, d @ 38 (The Astronauts)