Archive for September, 2014

posted by admin on Sep 30

1904 – Frank Lawton, actor (Invisible Ray)

1912 – Kenny Baker, actor (R2D2 from Star Wars series)
1932 – Antoinette Bower, actress (Time Walker, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Starlost, Superbeast, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1939 – Len Cariou, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1943 – Ian Ogilvy, actor (Babylon 5, The Day the Fish Came Out, She Beast)
1946 – Dan O’Bannon, writer (Hemoglobin, The Return of the Living Dead, Alien, Aliens, Total Recall, Dark Star)
1947 – Rula Lenska, actress (Doctor Who, Space:1999)
1950 – Victoria Tennant, actress (Twilight Zone, Horror Planet)
1951 – Nicholas Yermakov, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique)
1952 – Jack Wild, actor (Out of the Unknown)
1952 – Al Leong, actor (Escape from L.A., The Shadow, They Live, The Twilight Zone, My Science Project, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
1952 – John Finn, actor (The X Files, Strange World, Invasion, SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap, The Incredible Hulk)
1953 – S.M. Stirling, sci-fi author
1953 – Donovan’s Brain released

Donovan's Brain released

Donovan’s Brain released

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1954 – Barry Williams, actor (Mega Piranha, Perversions of Science, The Invaders)
1956 – 1984 released
1957 – Quatermass II: Enemy from Space released
1957 – Fran Drescher, actress (ALF)
1958 – The Brain Eaters released
1959 – Taylor Holmes, actor, d @ 81 (Tobor the Great)
1959 – Debrah Farentino, actress (Eureka, Earth 2)
1960 – Nicola Griffith, sci-fi author (Slow River)
1961 – Eric Stoltz, actor (The Fly 2, Caprica, The Triangle, The Butterfly Effect)
1964 – Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions)
1965 – E[dward] E[lmer] “Doc” Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 75 (Triplanetary)
1965 – Omid Djalili, actor (Alien Autopsy)
1967 – Andrea Roth, actress (The Time Tunnel, Earth: Final Conflict, Robocop)
1969 – Mark Rhino Smith, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
1970 – Patrick Aherne, actor, d @ 69 (Rocketship X-M, The Son of Jekyll, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
1970 – Tony Hale, actor (Ctrl)

1974 – Daniel Wu, actor (Europa Report)
1975 – Marion Cotillard, actress (Inception, Contagion)
1977 – Maia Brewton, actress (Back to the Future)
1977 – Sean Rogerson, actor (Continuum, Extraterrestrial, Sanctuary, Smallville, Fringe, Stargate: Atlantis, Underworld: Evolution)
1978 – Stark Sands, actor (Day of the Dead)
1980 – Toni Trucks, actress (Star Runners)
1982 – Lacey Chabert, actress (Lost in Space)
1982 – Teal Redmann, actress (Chameleon 3: Dark Angel)
1985 – Greyston Holt, actor (Sanctuary, SGU Stargate Universe, Fringe, Flash Gordon, The 4400, Smallville)
1987 – Alfred Bester, sci-fi author, d @ 73 (Dark Side of Earth, Demolished Man)

1994 – Raphael Coleman, actor (The Fourth Kind, It’s Alive)
1998 – Marius Goring, actor, d @ 86 (Doctor Who)

2012 – Turhan Bey, actor, d @90 (Babylon 5, VR.5, SeaQuest 2032)

posted by admin on Sep 29

1905 – Ted Decorsia, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea)
1910 – Virginia Bruce, actress (Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Woman)
1913 – Trevor Howard, actor (Superman, Who?)
1931 – Anita Ekberg, actress (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)
1939 – Larry Linville, actor (Lois & Clark, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud, Misfits of Science)

1942 – Madeline Kahn, actress (Young Frankenstein, Slapstick [of Another Kind}, Simon)
1942 – Ian McShane, actor (Babylon 5: The River of Souls, The Fantastic Journey, Space: 1999)
1944 – Isla Blair, actress (The Quatermass Experiment, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Alien Attack, Space: 1999)

Isla Blair in Space: 1999

Isla Blair in Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1945 – Reggie Bannister, actor (Phantasm, Zombie Family)
1946 – Patricia Hodge, actress (The Cloning of Joanna May)
1946 – Donovan Scott, actor (Babylon 5, Homeboys in Outer Space, Back to the Future Part III, The Lost Satellite, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
1947 – Martin Ferrero, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Mark and Mindy, Jurasic Park, X Files)

1953 – Drake Hogestyn, actor (Otherworld)
1954 – Cindy Morgan, actress (Tron, Amanda and the Alien, Galaxis)
1955 – Mark Mitchell, actor (On The Beach (2000), Farscape)

1961 – Nicholas Briggs, actor (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood)
1962 – Roger Bart, actor (The Event, The Stepford Wives)

1967 – Ludwig Donath, actor, d @ 67 (Twilight Zone, Space Patrol)
1968 – Luke Goss, actor (Lost Time, Tekken, Annihilation Earth, Fringe, Frankenstein, Blade II)
1969 – Erika Eleniak, actress (Absolute Zero, The Blob, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
1970 – Russell Peters, actor (Source Code)
1970 – Emily Lloyd, actress (Riverworld)
1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (The 4400)

1974 – Alexis Cruz, actor (Stargate)

1981 – Shay Astar, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG)

2001 – Gloria Foster d @ 67 (The Matrix)

posted by admin on Sep 28

1916 – Peter Finch, actor (First Men in the Moon)
1922 – Joe Silver, actor (Rabid, They Came from Within, Out There, Lights Out)
1923 – William Windom, actor (Star Trek, The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Space Rage, Automan, The Bionic Woman, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1926 – Ralph Ahn, actor (Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace)
1932 – Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author (Cat Karina)
1934 – Janet Munro, actress (The Crawling Eye, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
1935 – Ronald Lacey, actor (Buckaroo Banzai)
1936 – Robert Hogan, actor (Twilight Zone, Tales of the Unexpected, 6 Million Dollar Man, Westworld)
1939 – Diane Aubrey, actress (Village of the Damned, Invasion)
1942 – Marshall Bell, actor (Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Stargate: Atlantis, The Astronaut Farmer, Sliders, Virus, W.E.I.R.D. World, The X Files)
1943 – J T Walsh, actor (Dark Skies, The X-Files, Outbreak, Lois & Clark)
1946 – Herbert Jefferson Jr, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Renegades, Outbreak, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, World War III, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal)
1946 – Fiona Lewis, actress (Innerspace, Strange Invaders)
1946 – Jeffrey Jones, actor (Twilight Zone, Howard the Duck,)
1947 – Michael Flynn, actor (Lightspeed, Asteroid)
1950 – John Sayles, writer (Piranha, Brother From Another Planet, Battle Beyond the Stars, Alligator)
1951 – Robert Wise’s film The Day the Earth Stood Still, based on an Astounding Science Fiction story by Harry Bates, is released, and is received as one of the first mature efforts to represent science fiction in film.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1952 – Superman, based on the long-running comic book created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, debuts as a syndicated television show, and will continue until April 1958.
1954 – Bert Lytell, actor, d @ 69 (Tales of Tomorrow)
1956 – The Quatermass Xperiment initial release

1963 – Susan Walters, actress (Star-Crossed, I Married a Monster)
1965 – Christopher Evan Welch, actor (War of the Worlds, The Stepford Wives)
1966 – Eric Fleming, actor, d @ 41 (Conquest of Space, Queen of Outer Space)
1967 – Mira Sorvino, actress (Mimic, Intruders, Falling Skies, Space Warriors, The Stuff)
1969 – J. Trevor Edmund, actor (Return of the Living Dead III, Frogs!, Alien Nation)

1978 – Lucas Bryant, actor (Odyssey 5)

1987 – Star Trek: TNG debuted

1990 – Kirsten Prout, actress (Kyle XY, Meteor Storm, Stargate SG-1, Mindstorm, First Wave)
1992 – Keir Gilchrist, actor (Delete, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, ReGenesis)

2012 – Looper released

posted by admin on Sep 27

1892 – John Mylong, actor (Robot Monsters)
1932 – Roger C Carmel, actor (Star Trek, My Living Doll, The Munsters)

Roger C. Carmel in Star Trek

Roger C. Carmel in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1933 – Greg Morris, actor (Superboy, War of the Worlds, The Six Million Dollar Man, Twilight Zone)
1934 – Wilford Brimley, actor (The Thing, Cocoon, Progeny, Mutant Species, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor)

1947 – Liz Torres, actress (Futurestates, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation [TV])
1947 – Denis Lawson, actor (Jekyll, Star Wars: Episodes IV, V and VI)
1948 – Tom Braidwood, actor (The X-Files)
1948 – A Martinez, actor (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, Welcome to Paradox, Not of This World, The Incredible Hulk, Exo-Man)
1948 – David Kagen, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)
1948 – Tom Braidwood, actor (Alien Trespass, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen)

1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor(Tekken, Heroes, Star Trek: TNG, Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Space Rangers, Alien Nation, Superboy)
1951 – Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt is given command of Project Grudge, the Air Force’s ongoing investigation of myriad UFO reports dating back to 1947, and attempts to systematize the reporting. Eventually reconstituted as Project Blue Book, the investigations will continue until 1969.
1961 – The Day the Sky Exploded released
1952 – Shaun Cassidy, producer (Invasion)
1960 – Christopher Cousins, actor (2 Earth vs. the Spider, The Invisible Man, Stargate SG-1)
1963 – Scott Lawrence, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness, The Host, Avatar, Them, Star Trek: Voyager, Timecop, Quantum Leap)
1968 – Patrick Muldoon, actor (Spiders, Ice Spiders, Arrival II, Starship Troopers)

1970 – Tamara Taylor, actor (Serenity)

1972 – John Patrick White, actor (Galaxy Quest, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1975 – Travis Aaron Wade, actor (Torchwood: Web of Lies, Jekyll, War of the Worlds)

1980 – Kristopher Turner, actor (A Little Bit Zombie, 2030 CE)

1985 – Lloyd Nolan, actor, d @ 83 27 September 1985 (The Outer Limits)

2003 – Donald O’Connor, actor, d @ 78 (The Bionic Woman)
2012 – Herbert Lom, actor, d @ 95 (Whoops Apocalypse, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)
2013 – Jay Robinson, actor, d @ 83 (Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Shrinker, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek)

posted by admin on Sep 26

1875 – Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Science Fiction Theatre)

Edmund Gwenn in Them!

Edmund Gwenn in Them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1907 – Ralph Michael, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Doctor Who)
1907 – Shug Fisher, actor (The Giant Gila Monster)
1927 – Patrick O’Neal, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Stuff, The Stepford Wives)
1927 – Charles Macaulay, actor (V, The Munster’s Revenge, Star Trek)
1927 – Joyce Jameson, actress (Project U.F.O., Death Race 2000, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)
1932 – Richard Herd, actor (V, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG & Voyager, Quantum Leap, I Married a Monster, Star Trek: Renegades, InAlienable, Trancers, The Powers of Matthew Star)
1933 – Donna Douglas, actress (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O.)

1938 – Jonathan Goldsmith, actor (Space, Manimal, The Invaders)
1941 – Martine Beswick, actor (Trancers II, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Six Million Dollar Man, Strange New World, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)
1942 – Kent McCord, actor (Galactica 1980, Predator 2, SeaQuest 2013, Dark Skys, Farscape)
1944 – Victoria Vetri b. (Star Trek, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Land of the Giants)
1944 – Helmut Bakaitis (Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)
1946 – Togo Igawa, actor (Torchwood, Lexx)
1948 – Mary Beth Hurt, actress (D.A.R.Y.L.)

1956 – Linda Hamilton, actress (Terminator 1 & 2, Bermuda Tentacles)

1962 – Patrick Bristow, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction)
1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (10.5:Apocalypse)
1963 – Lysette Anthony, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Krull)
1966 – Marc Gilpin, actor (Earthbound)
1968 – Jim Caviezel, actor (Frequency)

1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, actor, d @ 69 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)
1979 – Mark Famiglietti, actor (FlashForward, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
1981 – Christina Milian, actress (Smallville)
1985 – Talulah Riley, actress (Inception, Doctor Who)
1986 – Ashley Leggat, actress (My Best Friend Is an Alien)
2000 – Richard Mulligan, actor D @ 67 (The Twilight Zone)
2009 – Paul Newman, actor, d @ 83 (Tales of Tomorrow)
2012 – Johnny Lewis, actor d @ 28 (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

posted by admin on Sep 25

1919 – Betty Ballantine, editor and publisher, Science Fiction Hall of Fame
1925 – Steve Forrest, actor (Twilight Zone, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Six Million Dollar Man)

Steve Forrest in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Parallel"

Steve Forrest in the Twilight Zone episode, “The Parallel”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1926 – Aldo Ray, actor (Biohazard, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, Death Dimension)
1929 – Don Draper, actor (Hard Time on Planet Earth)
1943 – Robert Walden, actor (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Capricorn One)
1944 – Michael Douglas, actor (Coma)
1946 – Felicity Kendal, actress (Doctor Who)
1946 – Louisa Moritz, actress (Galaxis, The Incredible Hulk, Death Race 2000)
1948 – Mimi Kennedy, actress (No Ordinary Family, Twilight Zone)
1949 – Jack Bender, director (Under the Dome, Alphas)

1951 – Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars, 3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032, Time Runner)
1952 – Colin Friels, actor (Space: Above and Beyond)
1952 – Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman, Smallville)
1957 – Michael Madsen, actor (Quantum Leap, 2047 – Sights of Death, Infected, Frankenstein, Species 1 & 2)
1957 – Ian Reddington, actor (Doctor Who)

1962 – Beth Toussaint, actress (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)
1962 – Aida Turturro, actress (Deep Blue Sea)
1963 – Tate Donovan, actor (No Ordinary Family, SpaceCamp)
1965 – Gordon Currie, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave)
1966 – Jason Fleming, actor (Primeval, The Quatermass Experiment, Deep Rising)
1966 – Simon Barry, writer (Continuum)
1968 – Will Smith, actor (Men in Black, I Robot, I am Legend, Independence Day, After Earth)
1969 – Hal Sparks, actor (Lab Rats, Lois & Clark, Frog)

1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, actress (Weird Science)
1977 – Clea DuVall, actor (The Event, Virtuality, Heroes, Ghosts of Mars, How to Make a Monster, The Astronaut’s Wife)
1977 – Joel David Moore, actor (Shark Night 3D, Avatar)
1978 – Rossif Sutherland, actor (Timeline)

1984 – Walter Pidgeon, actor d @ 87 (Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2006 – John M. Ford, sci-fi author, d @ 49

posted by admin on Sep 24

1912 – Don Porter, actor (Bionic Woman ,The Six Million Dollar Man)
1915 – Larry Gates, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1922 – Bert I. Gordon, director (Earth vs. the Spider, War of the Colossal Beast, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Cyclops, Beginning of the End, Empire of the Ants, The Food of the Gods, Village of the Giants)
1927 – Arthur Malet, actor (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Martian, Munster, Go Home!)

1934 – John Brunner, sci-fi author (100th Millennium, Stand on Zanzibar)
1936 – Jim Henson, puppetier/producer/writer, d @ 53

1942 – Kenneth Tigar, actor (Fringe, The X Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, ALF, Phantasm II, Star Trek: TNG, Project U.F.O., Man from Atlantis)
1944 – Sven-Ole Thorsen, actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, The Running Man, Predator)
1945 – David A[llen] Drake, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot)
1945 – Ian Stewart, writer (The Science of Discworld)
1948 – Phil Hartman, actor (Coneheads, Amazon Women on the Moon, Extra Terrorestrial Alien Encounter, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1951 – Rick Zumwalt, actor (Timecop)
1956 – Following the World Science Fiction Convention in New York, the first Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference convenes in Milford, Pennsylvania. Organized by Damon Knight, James Blish, and Judith Merril, it attracts many of the leading writers in the field and will become the forerunner of many later professional science fiction workshops, including the long-running Clarion program.
1957 – Brad Bird, director (Tomorrowland)
1958 – Kevin Sorbo, actor (Andromeda)
1961 – John Logan, writer (Star Trek:Nemesis)
1965 – Kieran Mulroney, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Seven Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Star Trek: TNG)
1968 – Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author d @ 47(Telepath, Power of X)
1969 – Megan Ward, actress (Dark Skies, Encino Man, Trancers II)
1970 – Marc Guggenheim, writer (FlashForward)

1975 – Clive Morton, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Monsters, Out of This World)
1976 – Bruno VeSota, actor, d @ 54 (The Wasp Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Creature of the Walking Dead, Invasion of the Star Creatures, War of the Satellites)
1976 – Ian Bohen, actor (Weird Science)

1984 – Lara Jean Chorostecki, actress (Antiviral)
1984 – Neil Hamilton, actor, d @ 85 (The Outer Limits)

Neil Hamilton in The Outer Limits episode "The Invisibles."

Neil Hamilton in The Outer Limits episode “The Invisibles.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1985 – Jessica Lucas, actress (Cloverfield, 2030 CE, Seven Days)

1987 – Spencer Treat Clark, actor (Unbreakable)

1999 – Nicole Leduc, actress (Kyle XY)
2003 – Lyle Betther, actor, d @ 88 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

2004 – Tim Choate, actor, d @ 49 (Babylon 5)

posted by admin on Sep 23

1897 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Walter Pidgeon in Forbidden Planet

Walter Pidgeon in Forbidden Planet

Walter Pidgeon in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Walter Pidgeon in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Mickey Rooney, actor (The Atomic Kid, Twilight Zone, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1922 – Louise Latham, actress (The X-Files, Earth 2, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders)

1925 – Barry Linehan, actor (The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Tomorrow People)

1945 – Paul Petersen, actor (In the Year 2889, The Monolith Monsters)
1946 – John Woo, director (The Robinsons: Lost in Space)
1952 – David Jensen, actor (This is the End, Looper, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Battleship, Creature, Battle Los Angeles, The Mist, Frankenstein)
1956 – Maren Jensen, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1956 – Peter David, actor (Star Trek, Babylon 5)
1956 – Maren Jensen, actress (Battlestar Galactica)
1959 – Rosalind Chao, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Incredible Hulk)
1959 – Jason Alexander, actor (Meteor, Star Trek: Voyager, Coneheads)
1960 – Jason Carter (Babylon 5, Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark)
1961 – Elizabeth Pena, actress (It Came from Outer Space II, The Invaders, *batteries not included)
1961 – Chi McBride, actor (I Robot)
1962 – Janelle Brady, actress (Class of Nuke ‘Em High)
1963 – Alex Proyas, director (I Robot)
1965 – Beatrice Ring, actress (Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, Interzone)
1968 – Christopher Peters, actor (Zombie High)

1978 – Anthony Mackie, actor (The Adjustment Bureau)
1978 – Keri Lynn Pratt, actor (Smallville)

1993 – William Cort, actor d @ 53 (Galactica 1980, Quantum Leap)

1998 – Mary Frann, actress, d @ 55 (Lois & Clark, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Journey)

posted by admin on Sep 22

1894 – Minerva Urecal, actress (The Ape Man)
1902 – John Houseman, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Rollerball, Mork & Mindy)
1907 – Shepperd Strudwick, actor (The Monitors, Twilight Zone)
1912 – Martha Scott, actress (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman)
1915 – Emrys Jones, actor (Out of the Unknown)
1917 – Peter Adams, actor (Donovan’s Brain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space, Project Moon Base, The War of the Worlds)
1917 – Samuel A. Peeples, writer (Star Trek III: The Wrath of Khan)

1925 – Virginia Capers, actress (Starman)
1928 – Eugene Roche, actor (Slaughterhouse Five, Rosewell: The UFO Coverup, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Star Trek: Voyager, Roswell)
1931 – Fay Weldon, sci-fi author (The Cloning of Joanna May, Wolf: The Mechanical Dog)
1936 – Art Metrano, actor (The Incredible Hulk)
1936 – Asa Maynor, actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Man Beast)
1943 – Toni Basil, actress (Village of the Giants)
1944 – Frazer Hines (Doctor Who, Z: The Unknown)
1945 – Paul LeMat, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theater)
1948 – Jim Byrnes, actor (Stargate: Infinity, Invader, Starlight, Robocop: Alpha Command, War Planets, First Wave, Level 9, The Outer Limits, Stargate: SG1, Andromeda, V TV series)

1952 – Larry Anderson, actor (Star Trek: Insurrection, Martians Go Home, Dr. Strange, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1954 – Shari Belafonte, actress (Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Mars, Beyond Reality, Time Walker)

1958 – Robert Keith, actor (Babylon 5, They Came from Outer Space)
1960 – Scott Baio b. 1960 (Out of this World, Zapped!)
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, actress (K-9000, The Omega Code, The Time Shifters, The Vector File, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Higher Mission, Sharktopus vs. Mermantula)
1962 – Rob Stone, actor (V)
1963 – Stuart Fratkin, actor (Godzilla 1998, Tremors, , Dr. Alien, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, They Came from Outer Space, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation)
1966 – Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster released
1966 – Ira Heiden, actor (Timelock, Lois & Clark)
1968 – Land of the Giants Debuted on ABC

Land of the Giants debuted

Land of the Giants debuted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1971 – Elizabeth Bear, sci-fi author (The Promethean Age, New Amsterdam)
1971 – Lawrence Gilliard Jr, actor (The Walking Dead)
1975 – Mireille Enos (World War Z)
1976 – Chad Todhunter, actor (Sliders)
1978 – Daniella Alonso, actress (Revolution, Stargate: Atlantis)
1979 – MyAnna Buring, actress (Doctor Who)
1980 – Lou Holtz, actor, d @ 87 (Twilight Zone)
1982 – Billie Piper (Doctor Who)
1984 – Laura Vandervoort (V, Riverworld, Mutant X, Smallville)
1985 – Tatiana Maslany, actress (Alphas, 2030 CE)
1987 – Tom Felton, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Bugs)
1996 – Star Trek: First Contact released
1999 – George C. Scott, actor d @ 71 (Day of the Dolphin)

2003 – Gordon Jump, actor, d @ 71 (Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Lost Saucer, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
2006 – Edward Albert, actor d @ 55 (Galaxy of Terror, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Invasion America, The Girl From Mars)
2006 – Children of Men released

posted by admin on Sep 21

1866 – H. G. Wells, sci-fi author (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine)
1906 – Derrick De Marney, actor (Projected Man, Things to Come)

1907 – Lloyd Gough, actor (The Invaders, The Outer Limits)

1918 – Rand Brooks, actor (The Munsters, Men into Space, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Space Patrol
1919 – Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Doctor Who)

1930 – Dawn Addams, actress (Riders to the Stars, Star Maidens)
1931 – Larry Hagman, actor (Fail-Safe, Beware! the Blob, Superman)

Larry Hagman in Failsafe

Larry Hagman in Failsafe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1943 – Jerry Bruckheimer, director (Armageddon)
1947 – Stephen King, sci-fi/horror author
1950 – Bill Murray, actor (Zombieland

1953 – Sunny Johnson, actress (Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)
1955 – Rebecca Balding, actress (The Bionic Woman)
1959 – David Coulier, actor (Lois & Clark)
1963 – Angus Macfadyen, actor (Equilibrium)
1971 – Luke Wilson, actor (The X-Files)
1973 – Diana Sands, actress, d @ 39 (The Outer Limits)
1979 – John McQuade, actor, d @ 67 (Tales of Tomorrow)
1980 – Robert Hoffman, actor (Aliens in the Attic)
1980 – Aleksa Palladino, actress (Spectropia
1981 – Maggie Grace (Lost)
1983 – Joseph Mazzello, actor (Coma, Star Kid, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park)

1991 – Angelo Rossitto, actor, d @ 83 (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Galaxina, Jason of Star Command, Invasion of the Saucer Men)
1990 – Allison Scagliotti, actress (Warehouse 13)
1990 – Christian Serratos, actress (The Walking Dead)
1992 – Billy Williams, actor, d @ 77 (A Fire in the Sky, Night of the Zombies, The Giant Spider Invasion, Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space, Men into Space, Space Master X-7, Science Fiction Theatre)

2007 – Alice Ghostley, actress, d @ 83 (Small Wonder)
2009 – Robert Ginty, actor, d @ 60 (Project U.F.O., Programmed to Kill)