Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on Jul 18

1891 – Gene Lockhart, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out)
1895 – Sidney Blackmer, actor (The Lady and the Monster, Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits)
1898 – John Stuart, actor (Space School, Quatermass II: Enemy From Space)
1911 – Hume Cronyn, actor (Cocoon, *batteries not included)
1913 – Marvin Miller, actor (Empire of the Ants, Fantastic Planet, Fantastic Voyage, Invasion of Astro-Monster, The Phantom Planet, The Invisible Boy, The Deadly Mantis, Forbidden Planet, King Dinosaur, Godzilla Raids Again, Space Patrol, Red Planet Mars)
1920 – Dolph Sweet, actor (Colossus: The Forbin Project)
1926 – Robert Sloman, writer (Doctor Who)
1929 – Michael Medwin, actor (Spaceways)
1930 – Burt Kwouk, actor (Space Precinct, Doctor Who, The Tomorrow People, Curse of the Fly)
1933 – Syd Mead sci-fi illustrator
1938 – Paul Verhoeven, director (Hollow Man, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, RoboCop)
1938 – Hampton Fancher, writer (Blade Runner)

1938 – Britt Leach, actor (The Last Starfighter, Quantum Leap, Weird Science)
1938 – Paul Verhoeven, director (Total Recall)
1940 – James Brolin, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Terminal Virus, Capricorn One, Westworld, Fantastic Voyage, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1948 – James Faulkner, actor (The Martian Chronicles)

1951 – Margo Martindale (The Rocketeer)
1955 – Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California. One of its principal themed areas, “Tomorrowland,” features corporate-sponsored exhibits such as the TWA Moonliner, a simulated voyage to the moon, and the Monsanto House of the Future. Another exhibit, “Autopia,” offers a preview of the planned Interstate Highway system.
1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson, actress (The X Files, Asteroid, Babylon 5, Robot Jox)
1960 – Travis McKenna, actor (Meego, Quantum Leap)
1962 – Lee Arenberg, actor (Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Enterprise & Voyager, Waterworld, The Apocalypse, Robocop 3, Martians Go Home)

1967 – Vin Diesel, actor (Pitch Black, Babylon A.D.)
1968 – Andre Royo, actor (Fringe, Heroes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1968 – Grant Bowler, actor (Defiance, The Lost World, On the Beach, Farscape)
1975 – Jed Whedon, writer (Dollhouse)
1976 – Valerie Cruz, actor (Alphas, Dollhouse, The Dresden Files, Invasion)
1977 – Kelly Reilly, actress(A for Andromeda)
1980 – Kristen Bell, actress (Heroes)
1981 – Michael Huisman, actor (World War Z)

1984 – Rosalind Halstead, actress(The Day of the Triffids)

1986 – Buddy Baer, actor, d @ 71 (Giant from the Unknown, Adventures of Superman)

1993 – Davis Roberts, actor, d @ 76 (Westworld, Demon Seed, Ark II, Star Trek)
1997 – Brody Nicholas Lee, actor (Cloud Atlas)
1997 – Cody Benjamin Lee, actor (Cloud Atlas, Invasion)

2003 – Jurassic Park III released

posted by admin on Jul 17

1912 – Donald Barry, actor, d @ 68 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970)
1935 – Donald Sutherland, actor (The Hunger Games, Frankenstein, Space Cowboys, Virus, Fallen, The Puppet Masters, The Lifeforce Experiment, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1944 – Catherine Schell, actress (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Moon Zero Two)
1950 – P.J. Soles, actor (Alienator)
1952 – David Hasselhoff, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Starcrash)
1952 – Robert R[ick] McCammon, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, writer (World War Z, Thor, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)
1956 – Tim Rose, actor (voice of General Ackbar & Howard the Duck, Wizards vs. Aliens)

1962 – Bill Sage, American actor (Shockwave Darkside)

1963 – John Ventimiglia, actor (Level 9)
1964 – Heather Langenkamp, actress (Star Trek: Into Darkness, Perversions of Science)
1965 – Santiago Segura, actor (Pacific Rim, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hellboy, Blade II)

1965 – Alex Winter, actor (Ben 10, Saul of the Molemen)
1968 – Bitty Schram, actress (Roswell)
1969 – Jason Clarke, actor (Terminator: Genesis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Death Race, Farscape)

1979 – Mike Vogel, actor (Under the Dome, Cloverfield)

1981 – Melanie Thierry, actress (The Zero Theorem, Babylon A.D.)
1985 – Tom Cullen, actor (Last Days on Mars)
1988 – Thayer David, actor, d @ 51 (The Invisible Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth)
1994 – Jessica Amlee b. 1994 (Absolute Zero, Stargate: Atlantis, Andromeda, Smallville)

1995 – Harry Guardino, actor, d @ 69 (Goldengirl, The Outer Limits)

posted by admin on Jul 15

1910 – Ken Lynch, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Munsters, Men into Space, Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)
1911 – Robert H Harris, actor, (Tales of Tomorrow, How to Make a Monster, Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Boy, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, Land of the Giants, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1918 – D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus)
1925 – Philip Carey, actor, d @ 83 6 February 2009 (Monster, The Bionic Woman)
1927 – Nan Martin, actress (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1927 – Joe Turkel, actor (The Dark Side of the Moon, Blade Runner, Land of the Giants, Village of the Giants, Visit to a Small Planet)
1936 – Steven Gilborn, actor (Evolution, Lois & Clark)

1939 – Patrick Wayne (They Came from Outer Space, Beyond Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent (Damnation Alley, Jurassic Women, Lethal Orbit, Xtro II, Alienator)

1951 – Jesse Ventura (Predator, Running Man, The X-Files, Demolition Man, Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe)
1952 – Terry O’Quinn (The X-files, Lost, Star Trek, Falling Skys, Roswell, Earth 2, The Rocketeer, SpaceCamp, The Twilight Zone)
1952 – Celia Imrie, actress (Doctor Who, Star Wars Episode I, Frankenstein)

1956 – It Conquered the World released

1960 – Willie Aames, actor (Zapped!)

1961 – Forest Whitaker, actor (Repo Men, The Twilight Zone, Battlefield Earth)
1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, actress (Galaxis)
1966 – Amanda Foreman, actress (Star Trek Into Darkness, Super 8, Star Trek, Future Shock)
1968 – Stan Kirsch, actor (Invincible)

1971 – Guy Wilkerson, actor, d @ 71 (Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone)
1973 – Brian Austin Green, actress (Smallville, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Small Wonder)
1976 – Diane Kruger, actress (The Host, Fringe)
1977 – Lana Parilla, actress (Once Upon a Time, Spiders)
1979 – James Devoti, actor (White Space, Heroes)

1986 – Benny Rubin, actor, d @ 87 (The Munsters, Science Friction, Space Ship Sappy)

1987 – Alfie Bass, actor, d @ 71 (Moonraker)

1990 – Alison Leggatt, actress, d @ 86 (The Day of Triffids)

posted by admin on Jul 13

1895 – Sidney Blackmer, actor (The Outer Limits)
1928 – Sudie Bond, actress (Way Out)
1929 – Rene Laloux, director, d @ 74 14 March 2004 (Gandahar, Time Masters, Fantastic Planet)
1929 – Bob Crane, actor (Twilight Zone)
1940 – Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: TNG, Dune, Lifeforce)
1940 – David Westburg, actor (Logan’s Run, Genesis II)
1940 – Patrick Stewart, actor (Star Trek, Lifeforce, Dune)
1941 – Robert Forster, actor (Heroes, Alligator, The Black Hole)
1942 – Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars, Ender’s Game, Cowboys & Aliens, Blade Runner)
1946 – Cheech Marin, actor (Planet Terror)
1946 – Michael Shea, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus)
1952 – Rosemary Dunsmore, actress (ReGenesis, Last Exit to Earth, RoboCop, Total Recall, Twilight Zone)

1955 – Lance E. Nichols, actor (Creature, Swamp Shark, The Invisible Man, K-PAX, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Alien Nation, Project X, Twilight Zone)

1962 – Michael Jace, actor (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: DS9)

1963 – Kenny Johnson, actor (Smallville, Blade, Sliders)
1968 – Robert Gant, actor (The Tomorrow People)
Ken Jeong b. 1969 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1973 – Willy Fritsch, actor, d @ 72 (Women in the Moon)
1977 – Ashley Scott, actress (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)

1981 – Fran Kranz (Dollhouse, Donnie Darko)
1988 – Chris Sheffield, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
1988 – Steven R. McQueen, actor (Piranha 3D, Minutemen, Threshold)

2012 – Richard Darryl Zanuck,film producer, dies @ 77 (Cocoon 1 & 2, Deep Impact)

2305 – Jean Luc Picard, fictional capt on Star Trek TNG

posted by admin on Jul 11

1913 – Cordwainer Smith, sci-fi author (Author, The Instrumentality of Mankind)
1920 – Yul Brynner (Westworld, Futureworld)
1920 – Patrick Wymark, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)
1922 – Gene Evans, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Giant Behemoth, Science Fiction Theatre, Donovan’s Brain)
1929 – David Kelly, actor (Stardust, Whoops Apocalypse)
1945 – Adrienne Barbeau (Swamp Thing)
1950 – Bruce McGill, actor ( Deep Core., Area 57, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Timecop, Quantum Leap, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
1952 – Tim De Zarn, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap)
1952 – Stephen Lang, actor (Avatar, Project X)
1956 – Sela Ward (The Day After Tomorrow)

1962 – Thomas Mitchell, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1963 – Lisa Rinna, actress (Robot Wars)
1964 – Greg Mottola, director (Paul)

1966 – Greg Grunberg, actor (Big Ass Spider!, End of the World, Super 8, Heroes, Hollow Man, Frankenstein: The College Years)
1971 – John W. Campbell, sci-fi author / editor, d @ 61 (Space Beyond, Who Goes There? / Astounding Science Fiction, Analog)
1972 – Michael Rosenbaum, actor (Smallville)
1965 – Ray Collins, actor, d @ 75 (Science Fiction Theatre)
1984 – Rachael Taylor, actress (Transformers, Man-Thing)
1984 – Serinda Swan, actress (The Tomorrow People, Creature, TRON: Legacy, Smallville)

1989 – Laurence Olivier, actor, d @ 82 (The Boys from Brazil)

1990 – Kelsey Sanders, actor (10,000 Days)

2008 – Journey to the Center of the Earth released

posted by admin on Jul 9

1906 – Walter Sande, actor, d @ 65 (Red Planet Mars, The War of the Worlds, Invaders from Mars, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)
1927 – Susan Cabot, actress (The Wasp Woman, The War of the Satellites)
1928 – Vince Edwards, actor, d @ 67 (Space Raiders)
1936 – James Hampton, (Superboy, Otherworld, World War III, The Cat from Outer Space)
1938 – Brian Dennehy, Ct, actor (The 4400, Category 6: Day of Destruction, NetForce, Cocoon)
1942 – Edy Williams, actress (Bad Girls from Mars, Dr. Alien, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)
1945 – Dean R[ay] Koontz, US, sci-fi author (Star Quest, Beastchild)
1948 – Ray Baker, actor (Heroes, Path of Destruction, Alien Siege, Holes, Area 52, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Tomorrow Man, Freaked, Total Recall, C.H.U.D.)

1953 – Kim Hector, actress (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)
1955 – Jimmy Smits (Star Wars, The Tommyknockers)
1956 – Tom Hanks, actor (Cloud Atlas)
1957 – Tim Kring, producer/writer (Touch, Heroes)

1965 – David O’Hara, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, Doomsday)

1971 – Scott Grimes, actor (Frogs!, Star Trek: TNG, Twilight Zone)

1976 – Fred Savage, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1978 – Linda Park, actress (Infestation, Star Trek: Enterprise, Jurassic Park III)

1982 – Toby Kebbell, actor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1996 – Melvin Mouron Belli, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek)

1996 – Christopher Casson, actor, d @ 84 (Zardoz)
2002 – Rod Steiger, actor, d @ 77 (Illustrated Man, Mars Attacks!, Out There, Tales of Tomorrow)
2005- Kevin Hagen, actor, d @ 77 (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)
2007 – Charles Lane, actor, d @ 102 (Otherworld, Strange Invaders, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)
2010 – Predators released

posted by admin on Jul 8

1917 – Glenn Langan, actor (The Return of Doctor X, Mutiny in Outer Space, Women of the Prehistoric Planet , The Andromeda Strain, The Amazing Colossal Man)
1918 – Craig Stevens, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Invisible Man, The Deadly Mantis, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1933 – Marty Feldman, actor (Slapstick (Of Another Kind), Young Frankenstein)
1936 – William Cort, actor, d @ 47 23 September 1993 (Quantum Leap, Small Wonder, Galactica 1980)
1944 – Jeffrey Tambor, actor (Paul, Hellboy, Muppets From Space, Max Headroom, The Twilight Zone)
1947 – Kim Darby, actress (The X-Files, Star Trek)
1949 – Keith Carradine Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1951 – Angelica Huston, actress (The Ice Pirates)

1958 – Kevin Bacon, actor (Hollow Man, Flatliners, Tremors)
1959 – Robert Knepper, actor (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, SGU Stargate Universe, Heroes, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Species III, Seven Days, E.A.R.T.H. Force, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone)
1960 – Battle In Outer Space released

1963 – Rocky Carroll, actor (Invasion)
1965 – Lee Tergesen, actor (The 4400, Weird Science, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)
1967 – Michael B. Silver, actor (Heroes, The X-Files, Virtuosity, Star Trek: DS9)
1969 – Marcus Chong, actor (The Matrix, Hard Time on Planet Earth)
1968 – Michael Weatherly, actor (Asteroid)
1971 – Amy O’Neill, actress (Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Twilight Zone)
1971 – Amanda Peterson, actress (Explorers)
1973 – Kathleen Robertson, actress (Tin Man)
1973 – Gene L. Coon, writer, d @ 49 (Star Trek)
1977 – Milo Ventimiglia, actor (Heroes)

1978 – Eve Myles, actress (Doctor Who)
1984 – Alexis Dziena, actor (Invasion)
1985 – Phil Foster, actor, d @ 71 (Conquest of Space)

1990 – Howard Duff, actor, d @ 76 (Spaceways, Science Fiction Theatre, Twilight Zone, Monster in the Closet)

1998 – Jaden Smith, actor (After Earth, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

2007 – Jack B. Sowards, writer, d @ 78 (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
2011 – Roberts Blossom, actor, d @ 87 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Twilight Zone, Slaughterhouse-Five, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

2012 – Ernest Borgnine, actor, d @ 95 (Escape from New York, Gattaca, Future Cop, The Neptune Factor, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

posted by admin on Jul 7

1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, sci-fi author, d @ 71 (The Lost World)
1890 – Tom Powers, actor (Donovan’s Brain, Destination Moon)
1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, sci-fi author (Red Planet, Destination Moon, Starship Troopers, Stranger In A Strange Land, Double Star, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress)
1914 – Lucille Benson, actress (Slaughterhouse-Five)
1919 – Jon Pertwee, actor (3rd Doctor Who)
1924 – Mary Ford, [Colleen Summer], vocalist/actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1927 – Richard Garland, actor (Mutiny in Outer Space, Panic in Year Zero!, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Adventures of Superman)
1931 – Stanley Brock, actor (Out of this World, Quantum Leap, Amazon Women on the Moon, Night of the Comet, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman)
1931 – David Eddings, US, sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
1946 – Joe Spano, actor (The Invisible Man, The X-Files, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
1947 – Roswell Crash
1949 – Shelley Duvall, actress (Frogs!, The Twilight Zone, Time Bandits)
1959 – Billy Campbell, actor (Helix, Revolution, Eureka, Meteor, The 4400, The Rocketeer, Star Trek: TNG)
1962 – Akiva Goldsman, writer (I Robot, I Am Legend)
1962 – Akiva Goldsman, writer ( Allegiant: Part 1, Insurgent, Fringe, I am Legend, I Robot, Lost in Space)
1967 – Steven Schub, actor (Brave New World)
1971 – Tanya Newbould, actress (Skyline)
1972 – Kirsten Vangsness, actress (Shelf Life, Phil of the Future)
1970 – Robia LaMorte, actor (Earth Girls Are Easy)
1973 – Veronica Lake, actress, d @ 50 (Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow)
1976 – Hamish Linklater, actor(Battleship, The Future)
1981 – Keefe Brasselle, actor, d @ 58 (Science Fiction Theatre)
1983 – Herman Kahn, sci-fi author, d @ 61 (The Next 200 Years)

posted by admin on Jul 1

1896 – Bill Walker, actor (Twilight Zone, Dimension 5, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, World of Giants)
1899 – Charles Laughton, actor (Island of Lost Souls)
1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)
1920 – Harold Sakata, actor (Death Dimension, Dimension 5)
1923 – Constance Ford, actress (Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)
1925 – Farley Granger, actor (The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1931 – Tab Hunter, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)
1934 – Jean Marsh, actress (An Adventure in Space and Time, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, UFO, Unearthly Stranger, Twilight Zone)
1934 – Jamie Farr, actor (Out of this World, My Favorite Martian)
1935 – David Prowse, actor (Star Wars, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Space: 1999, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, A Clockwork Orange, The Horror of Frankenstein)
1939 – Karen Black, actress (Light Speed, Invisible Dad, The Invisible Kid, The Invaders)
1906 – Frank Parker, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man
1942 – Genevieve Bujold, actress (Coma)
1945 – Deborah Harry, actress (Anamorph, Videodrome)
1951 – Daryl Anderson, actor (The Phoenix
1951 – Trevor Eve, actor (Doomwatch: Winter Angel)
1951 – Terrence Mann, actor (Solarbabies)
1952 – Brian George, actor (The 4400, Andromeda, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: DS9, Weird Science, Here Come the Munsters, Quantum Leap, Martians Go Home)
1952 – Dan Aykroyd, actor (Evolution, Coneheads, My Stepmother Is and Alien, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
1955 – Robby the Robot built (Lost in Space, Earth Girls are Easy, Mork & Mindy, Project U.F.O., Space Academy, Ark II, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Invasion of the Neptune Men, The Invisible Boy, Forbidden Planet)
1956 – Earth vs the Flying Saucers released
1956 – Alan Ruck, actor (Zombie Night, Fringe, Eureka, The Happening, InAlienable, Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek: Generations)
1959 – Dale Midkiff, actor (Flight of the Living Dead, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion, Time Trax)
1962 – Andre Braugher, actor (The Andromeda Strain, The Mist, Frequency)
1962 – Dominic Keating, actor (Enterprise, Heroes)
1968 – Colin Patrick Lynch, actor (Serenity, Firefly, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
1977 – Liv Tyler, actress (Space Station 76, The Incredible Hulk, Armageddon)
1979 – Elizabeth Thai, actress (Man of Steel, Eureka, Fringe, The Dresden Files, The 4400, Smallville, Andromeda)
1979 – Richard Ward, actor, d @ 64 (The Immortal)
1986 – Roy Poole, actor, d @ 62 (The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)
1989 – Hannah Murray, actress (Clone)
1990 – Anna Palk, actress, d @ 48 (Frozen Dead, Fahrenheit 451)
2004 – Marlon Brando, actor, d @ 80 (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Superman)
2009 – Karl Malden, actor, d @ 97 (Meteor)