Archive for June, 2014

posted by admin on Jun 10

1889 – Cliff Clark, actor (War of the Worlds)
1908 – Robert Eddison, actor (Out of the Unknown)
1919 – Robert Cummings, actor (My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Lionel Jeffries, actor, d @ 83 19 February 2010 (Lexx, First Men in the Moon, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Quatermass Xperiment)
1929 – Lou Frizzell, actor, d @ 50 17 June 1979 (Project U.F.O.)
1941 – Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Wing Commander, Judge Dredd, Terminus, Dune)
1941 – Mickey Jones, actor (It Came From Outer Space II, Total Recall, Misfits of Science, V, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980)

1949 – Frankie Faison, actor (Prey, The Langoliers, Freejack, Maximum Overdrive, C.H.U.D.)
1953 – The Twonky released
1957 – Robert Clohessy, actor (Lois & Clark)

1962 – Carolyn Hennesy, actress (Once Upon a Time, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare)
1963 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress (Timecode, Waterworld)
1964 – Ben Daniels, actor (Doom)
1964 – Andrew Niccol, director (The Host, In Time, S1m0ne, Gattaca)
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, actress (My Favorite Martian [1999])
1968 – Mike Dopud, actor (Continuum, Man of Steel, Battlestar Galactica, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Warehouse 13, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Stargate, Smallville, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Blade: The Series, Kraken: Tentatcles of the Deep, Rollerball, Millennium, Futuresport, Welcome to Paradox)

1978 – Shane West, actor (Sliders)
1978 – DJ Qualls, actor (The Core)
1989 – Richard Quine, actor/director, d @ 68 (The Flying Missile, Project U.F.O.)

posted by admin on Jun 8

1910 – John W. Campbell, sci-fi author / editor (Who Goes There? / Astounding Science Fiction, Analog)
1915 – Robert F. Young, sci-fi author (Jonathan and the Space Whale)

1917 – George Wallace, actor, (Minority Report, The X-Files, Multiplicity, Star Trek: TNG, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet)
1918 – Robert Preston, actor (The Last Starfighter)
1921 – Sheila Ryan, actress, (Captain Midnight)
1923 – Myron Healey, actor (RoboCop, V, The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Melting Man, Land of the Giants, Varan the Unbelievable, Men Into Space, Adventures of Superman)
1928 -Kate Wilhelm, sci-fi author (Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang)
1930 – Henry Brandon, actor (War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits, The Land Unknown, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Buck Rogers)
1931 – Dana Wynter, actor (The Questor Tapes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1936 – James Darren, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Man from the 25th Century, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1939 – Bernie Casey, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Time Trax, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Martian Chronicles, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
1941 – Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, actor (Swamp Thing, Star Trek: TNG, Buckaroo Banzai, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1943 – Colin Baker, actor (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)
1945 – Jack Sholder, actor (Tremors)

1950 – Cathy Baker, actress (Edward Scissorhands)
1950 – Sonia Braga, actress (Warehouse 13)
1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor (The Android Affair, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1957 – Scott Adams, actor (Babylon 5)

1959 – Bernard White, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded, The X-Files)

1966 – Juliana Margulies, actress (The Lost Room)

1973 – Lexa Doig, actress (Continuum, Primeval: New World, Smallville, V, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Andromeda, Jason X, Earth: Final Conflict, TekWar)

1976 – Eion Bailey, actor (Mindhunters)

1991 – James Franciscus, actor, d @ 57 (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Marooned, Twilight Zone)

2012 – Prometheus released

posted by admin on Jun 6

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1898 – Walter Abel, actor (The Human Duplicators, Tales of Tomorrow)
1918 – Richard Crane, actor (Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Men Into Space, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, The Neanderthal Man, Mysterious Island)

1932 – Billie Whitelaw, actor (The Cloning of Joanna May, Space: 1999, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1940 – Richard Paul, actor (Robo Cop, Out of This World, Space Force, Holmes and Yo-Yo)
1945 – David Dukes, actor (Space, Sliders, The Twilight Zone, Time Trax)
1947 – Robert Englund, actor (Zombie Mutation, Sliders, Babylon 5, V, Manimal, Galaxy of Terror)

1950 – Gary Graham, actor (Star Trek: Axanar, InAlienable, Star Trek: Enterprise, Alien Nation, Star Trek: Voyager, M.A.N.T.I.S.,, Robot Jox, The Incredible Hulk)
1955 – Cheryl Smith, actress (Independence Day, Parasite, Laserblast, The Incredible Melting Man, Phantom of the Paradise, Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural)
1958 – Danny Webb, actor (Doctor Who, Space Precinct, Alien³)
1959 – Amanda Pays, actress (Spacejacked, The X-Files, Leviathan, Max Headroom)

1963 – Jason Isaacs, actress (Elektra, Resident Evil, Soldier, Armageddon, Event Horizon)
1967 – Paul Giamatti, actor (Planet of the Apes)
1964 – Jay Lake, sci-fi author, d @ 49 1 June 2014 (Green, City Imperishable, Mainspring)

1974 – Danny Strong, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)
1974 – Sonya Walger, actress (FlashForward, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1977 – Sophie Stewart, actress, d @ 69 (Things to Come, Devil Girl from Mars)

1981 – Philip McGinley, actor (Prometheus)

1984 – A[rthur] Bertram Chandler,sci-fi author, d @ 72 (Empress of Outer Space)

1987 – Daniel Logan, actor (Star Wars: Attack of the Clones)

2005 – Dana Elcar, actor, d @ 77 (Way Out, The Invaders, The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980, Voyagers)

2006 – Kasey Rogers, actress, d @ 80 (The Invisible Man, When Worlds Collide)