Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on Jan 31

1894 – Percy Helton, actor (The Giant Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1911 – Eddie Willard, actor (Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope)
1911 – Eddie Byrne, actor (Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Journey to the Unknown)
1914 – Carey Lofton, actor/stuntman (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, The Invisible Monster, The Purple Monster Strikes / The Incredible Hulk, Munster, Go Home!, THX 1138, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Monsters, King of the Rocket Men, The Purple Monster Strikes)

1921 – John Agar, actor (The Naked Monster, Tarantula, The Twilight Zone, Zontar: The Thing from Venus, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Destination Space, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Invisible Invaders, Attack of the Puppet People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Daughter of Dr. Jeykll, The Mole People, The Rocket Man)

John Agar in The Brain from Planet Arous.

1922 – William Hurst, actor d @ 72 25 January 1995 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001, Gorgo)
1922 – William Sylvester, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1923 – Eddie Ryder, actor (The Munsters, Voyager to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)
1927 – Jean Speegle Howard, actress (Meego, Lois & Clark, Homeboys in Outer Space, Cocoon)

1929 – Jean Simmons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

Jean Simmons in Star Trek TNG.

1930 – Lynn Carlin, actress (Battle Beyond the Stars, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman)
1934 – James Franciscus, actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Marooned, Twilight Zone, When Time Ran Out…)

James-Franciscus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Invaders)

1940 – Stuart Margolin, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Futureworld, Land of the Giants, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Strange Frequency)
1941 – Jessica Walter, actress (Doomsday Rock, Babylon 5, Ghost in the Machine, The Immortal)
1944 – Connie Booth, actress (The Tomorrow People)
1946 – Glynn Turman, actor (Manimal, The Twilight Zone, Strange World)

1946 – Jonathan Banks, actor (Millennium Man, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: DS9, Otherworld, The Invisible Woman)
1947 – Glynn Turman, actress (Revolution, Super 8, FlashForward, Millennium, Manimal, The Twilight Zone)
1947 – Jonathan Banks, actor (Millennium Man, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: DS9, Freejack, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Invisible Woman)
1949 – Carol Hawkins, actress (Blakes 7)

1950 – Robert Grubb, actor (Mad Max Beyond Thunder dome)
1958 – Terror from the Year 5000 released
1959 – Kelly Lynch, actress (Virtuosity)
1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1960 – Lowell Gilmore, actor, d @ 53 (Science Fiction Theatre)
1965 – Cindy Ambuehl, actress (Meteor, Weird Science (TV), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead)
1966 – Elizabeth Patterson, actress, d @ 90 (Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre)
1966 – Dexter Fletcher, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Stardust, Doom)

1970 – Eric Walker, actor (And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, The Ewok Adventure)
1970 – Minnie Driver, actress(The X-Files
1971 – Patricia Velasquez, actress (Mindhunters)
1974 – Anna Silk, actress (Earth Storm, Anonymous Rex, Mutant X)
1976 – Paul Scheer, actor (Piranha 3D)
1977 – Kevin Christy, actor (Heroes, Seven Days)

1980 – Tiffany Limos, actress (Teenage Caveman)
1981 – Justin Timberlake, actor (In Time)

1996 – Joel Courtney, actor (Super 8)
1999 – Lily Mo Sheen, actress (Underworld: Evolution)

2000 – Ralph Manza, actor, d @ 78 (I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Twilight Zone, This Is Not a Test, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Twilight Zone}
2007 – Lee Bergere, actor (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian

posted by admin on Jan 30

1911 – Hugh Marlowe, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Hugh Marlowe in Earth vs The Flying Saucers. He was also in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

1914 – David Wayne, actor (Andromeda Strain, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, Twilight Zone)
1914 – John Ireland, actor (War of the Worlds, Salvage 1, The Shape of Things to Come, Planet of the Apes)

1918 – David Opatoshu, actor (Alien Nation, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

David Opatoshu in The Outer Limits episode A Feasiblity Study. He was also in Star Trek.

1922 – Dick Martin, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)
1925 – Dorothy Malone, actress (The Day Time Ended)

1930 – Gene Hackman, actor (Superman I II IV, Young Frankenstein, Marooned, The Invaders)

1951 – Charles S Dutton, actor (Alien 3, Android Cop, Threshold, Mimic)
1955 – Judith Tarr, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica)

1956 – Jeremy Gittins, actor (Doctor Who)

Jeremy Gittins in the Doctor Who episode, Warriors’ Gate as Lazlo. He was also the vicar in the popular BBC comedy, Keeping up Appearances.

1934 – Tammy Grimes, actress (The Stuff)
1935 – Richard Brautigan, sci-fi author (author, In Watermelon Sugar, The Hawkline Monster)
1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Deep Impact, The Day of the Triffids)

1941 – Gregory Benford, sci-fi writer (Nebula Timescape)

1959 – Alex Hyde-White, actor (Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica)

1965 – Julie McCullough, actress (Sharknado, 2012, The Blob, Black Scorpion)
1966 – Thomas McCarthy, actor (2012)
1966 – Daphne Ashbrook, actress (Doctor Who, Automatic, Star Trek: DS9, Intruders)

1967 – Lee Morgan, actor, d @ 64 (The Weird Ones, The Neanderthal Man, Space Patrol)

1968 – Tony Maudsley, actor (Day of the Triffids)

1973 – Jack McGowan, actor, d @ 54 (The Brain, The Giant Behemoth)
1974 – Christian Bale, actor (Terminator Salvation, Equilibrium

1983 – [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Earth War)
1985 – Ken Mayers, actor, d @ 66 (Space Patrol, Lost in Space, Adventures of Superman)
1987 – Ken Drake, actor, d @ 65 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, Science Fiction Theatre)
1987 – George Barr, illustrator

1990 – Jake Thomas, actor(A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dinocroc, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1991 – John McIntire, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone)
1994 – Pierre Boulle, sci-fi author, d @ 81 (Planet of the Apes)

1996 – Guy Doleman, actor, d @ 72 (On the Beach, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1999 – Huntz Hall, actor, d @ 79 (Cyclone)

2007 – Sidney Sheldon, writer, d @ 89 (The Twilight Zone)
2012 – Frederick Treves, actor, d @ 86 (Doctor Who, Doomwatch, The Andromeda Breakthrough, A for Andromeda)

And may all your futures be happy ones!

posted by admin on Jan 29

1917 – John Raitt, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Out There)
1918 – John Forsythe, actor (Marooned)
1918 – Donald Murphy, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter)

1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, sci-fi writer (Altered States)
1928 – Peter Byrne, actor (Blakes 7)

Peter Byrne in Blakes 7.

1930 – John Junkin, actor (Journey into the Unknown, The Brain)

1940 – Katharine Ross, actress (Donnie Darko, The Final Countdown, The Stepford Wives)
1942 – Robin Morgan, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)
1943 – Robert Random, actor (Time Walker, Village of the Giants)

1945 – Tom Selleck, actor (Runaway, Coma)

1948 – Marc Singer, actor (V, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: TV Series, Planet of the Apes (TV), Droid Gunner, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Dead Space, The Twilight Zone)

Marc Singer in V. Don’t you just love the cheesy 80s pub photos.

1950 – Ann Jillian, actress (Twilight Zone)
1953 – Paul Fusco, actor/writer (ALF)
1954 – Terry Kinney, actor (Body Snatchers)

1956 – Warning from Space released

Warning from Space released. Who knew!

1958 – Judy Norton-Taylor, actress (Stargate SG-1, Millennium)
1960 – Matthew Ashford, actor (Species, Quantum Leap)

1960 – Louis Jean Heydt, actor, d @ 54 (Men Into Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)
1961 – Michael Ferris, writer (Terminator Salvation, Terminator 3)
1962 – Nicholas Turturro, actor (Super Cyclone, Tremors, The Twilight Zone, Cosmic Slop
1965 – John Larkin, actor, d @ 52 (The Satan Bug)
1968 – Bobbie Phillips, actress (Seven Days, TChameleon I and II, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, TC 2000, The Came from Outer Space)

1969 – Sam Trammell, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1970 – Heather Graham, actress (Lost in Space)
1973 – Ludwig Stossel, actor, d @ 89 (From the Earth to the Moon, Tales of Frankenstein, Science Fiction Theatre)
1975 – Kelly Packard, actress (And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird)
1975 – Sharif Atkins, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, The 4400)
1976 – Michael Gwynn, actor, d @ 59 (The Revenge of Frankenstein)
1977 – Justin Hartley, actor (Smallville)
1979 – Andrew Keegan, actor (Independence Day, Teenage Caveman)

1980 – Jason James Richter, actor (Laserhawk)
1985 – Isabel Lucas, actress (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
1986 – Drew Tyler Bell, actor (Jake 2.0)
1986 – Leif Erickson, actor, d @ 74 (Invaders from Mars, Project U.F.O., Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1993 – Taylor McPherson, actor (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, The Walking Dead)
1994 – Nick Cravat actor, d @ 81 (Twilight Zone, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

2005 – Ron Feinberg, actor d @ 72 (A Boy and His Dog, It’s About Time)

And may all your futures be happy ones!

posted by admin on Jan 28

1910 – Arnold Moss, actor (The Time Tunnel, Star Trek, The 27th Day, Tales of Tomorrow)

Arnold Moss in Star Trek

1919 – John Banner, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1935 – Nicholas Pryor, actor (Brain Dead, The Powers of Matthew Star, Voyagers!)

1943 – John Beck, actor (Rollerball, Timecop: The Berlin Decision, The Invisible Man, Dark Planet, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Twilight Zone, The Time Machine, Cyborg 2087)

1943 – Susan Howard, actress (The Fantastic Journey, The Immortal, Quarantined, Star Trek)

Susan Howard in Star Trek

1957 – Harley Jane Kozak, actress (Stargate: SG-1, The Outer Limits, Dark Planet, The Android Affair)
1959 – Frank Darabont, director/writer (The Walking Dead, The Mist, Frankenstein (1994), The Fly II, The Blob (1988))

1960 – John Caliri, actor (V, The Twilight Zone)
1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, actor (Andromeda, The Twilight Zone, Total Recall 2070)
1965 – Lynda Boyd,actress (Sanctuary, The Twilight Zone, Mission to Mars, The Outer Limits, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invader, The X-Files, Level 9, Hot Tub Time Machine, Smallville)
1969 – Kathryn Morris, actress (Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, W.E.I.R.D. World)

1971 – Ashley Artus, actress (Judge Dredd)
1972 – Gillian Vigman, actress (Dragonfly)
1973 – John Banner, actor, d @ 62 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)
1974 – Ty Olsson, actor (Nerds and Monsters, Falling Skies, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Eureka, V, 2012, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flash Gordon [TV], Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: TV Series, The X-Files)
1974 – Melody Perkins, actress (Planet of the Apes)
1976 – Lee Ingleby, actor (The First Men in the Moon, Life on Mars)
1977 – Crystal Dawne, actress (War of the Worlds)
1977 – Burt Mustin, actor, d @ 92 (The Reluctant Astronaut, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)
1978 – Oscar Homolka, actor, d @ 79 (The Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1979 – Rosamund Pike, actor (The World’s End, Doom)

1981 – Calum Worthy, actor (Caprica, Stormworld, Smallville, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis)
1981 – Elijah Wood, actor (Deep Impact, Back to the Future Part II)
1988 – Alexandra Krosney, actress (iZombie)

1993 – John Steadman, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk)
1993 – Will Poulter, actor (The Maze Runner,)
1996 – Jerry Siegel d @85 (writer, Superman)

posted by admin on Jan 27

1889 – Walter Baldwin, actor, d @ 88 (The Invaders)

Walter Baldwin in The Invaders.

1901 – Willy Fritsch, actor (Women in the Moon)
1905 – Howard McNear, actor (Twilight Zone)

Howard McNear in Twilight Zone.

1912 – Mark Daniels, director, d @ 77 23 April 1989 (Man from Atlantis, Planet Earth, Star Trek, ‘Way Out)

1928 – Michael Craig, actor (Doctor Who, Escape 2000, Mysterious Island)

1936 – Troy Donohue, actor (Omega Cop, Dr. Alien, Monster on the Campus, The Monolith Monsters)

1940 – James Cromwell, actor (I Robot, Masters of Science Fiction, Star Trek: First Contact. Star Trek: Enterprise, Deep Impact, Species II, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Earthlings, The Man with Two Brains)
1942 – John Witherspoon, actor (Cosmic Slop, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!, The Incredible Hulk)
1942 – Stewart Raffill, actor (Mac and Me, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Ice Pirates)

1956 – Mimi Rogers, actress (Lost in Space, The X-Files)
1957 – Frank Miller, writer/artist (Elektra, RoboCop 2 & 3)
1958 – Susanna Thompson, actress (Arrow, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Alien Nation: Dark Horizon)

1961 – Roy Fegan, actor (Misfits of Science)
1961 – Julie Caitlin Brown, actress (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9)

1964 – Bridget Fonda, actress (Frankenstein Unbound)
1965 – Alan Cumming, actor (Riverworld, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1966 – Tamlyn Tomita, actress (Day After Tomorrow, Stargate: SG-1, Robot Stories, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Time Trax, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Quantum Leap)
1967 – Byron Mann, actor (Smallville, Time Trax)
1969 – Patton Oswalt, actor (Star Wars Cantina Karaoke, Caprica, Dollhouse, Blade: Trinity, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
1969 – Charles Winninger, actor, d @ 84 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1970 – Amy Hargreaves, actress (Brainscan)
1970 – Cindy Cheung, actress (Futurestates, Robot Stories)
1972 – David McMahon, actor d @ 60 (The Deadly Mantis, It Conquered the World, The Creature Walks Among Us, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing from Another World, The Monster That Challenged the World)
1976 – Chris Gauthier, actor (Eureka, Smallville, Bionic Woman, The Butterfly Effect 2, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis, Earthsea)

1982 – Iris Korn, actress, d @ 60 (The Incredible Hulk)
1986 – Lilli Palmer, actress, d @ 71 (Boys from Brazil)

1992 – Bill Walker, actor, d @ 95 (Twilight Zone, Dimension 5, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, World of Giants)
1992 – Connor Widdows, actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Taken, Millennium)
1994 – Claude Akins, actor, d @ 67 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Monster in the Closet, Tentacles, Adventures of Superman, Twilight Zone)
1994 – Joe Mays, actor, d @ 44 (Spontanious Combustion, Future Kick, Alien Nation, ALF)

2007 – Tige Andrews, actor, d @ 86 (Misfits of Science, Star Trek)

2010 – Zelda Rubenstein, actress, d @ 66 (Timemaster)

posted by admin on Jan 26

1904 – Douglas Evans, actor (King of the Rocket Men, Beginning of the End, The Munsters, Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone, The Magnetic Monster, The Invisible Monster)
1905 – Charles Lane, actor (Otherworld, Strange Invaders, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1913 – William Prince, actor (Spontaneous Combustion, The Cat from Outer Space, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)
1914 – Dorothy Newman, actress (Twilight Zone, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
1915 – William Hopper, actor (20 Million Miles to Earth, The Deadly Mantis, Conquest of Space)

William Hopper in 20 Million Miles to Earth.

 
1918 – Vito Scotti, actor (Ark II, The Lost Saucer, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Conquest of Space)

Vito Scotti in Conquest of Space.

1920 – Derek Bond, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1923 – Anne Jeffreys, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica)
1925 – Paul Newman, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)
1925 – Joan Leslie, actress (The Incredible Hulk)

1927 – William Redfield, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Tales of Tomorrow, Conquest of Space)
1928 – Philip Jose Farmer, sci-fi writer (Riverworld)
1928 – Roger Vadim, director (Barbarella)

1931 – Mary Murphy, actress (The Outer Limits, The Electronic Monster)

Mary Murphy in The Outer Limits Episode, The Premonition.

1943 – Kathryn Leigh Scott, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Space: 1999)
1946 – Michael McManus, actor (The Munsters’ Revenge, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1949 – David Strathairn, actor (Godzilla 2014, Alphas, Iceman, The Brother from Another Planet)

1952 – Mimi Leder, director (Deep Impact)
1952 – The John C. Winston publishing company announces the first five titles in its new series of juvenile science fiction novels which, later under the imprint Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, will extend to 35 novels before ending in 1961, including titles by Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Donald A. Wollheim, and others.
1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, actress (Coneheads)

1964 – Paul Johansson, actor (Andromeda, First Wave, Earth: Final Conflict, They Came from Outer Space)
1965 – Allison Hossack, actress (The Philadelphia Experiment, Fringe, Sanctuary, Eureka, Masters of Science Fiction, Stargate: Atlantis, The Twilight Zone, Stargate: SG-1, Anthrax, First Wave, Escape from Mars, The Outer Limits, Sliders)

1971 – Bryan Callen, actor (Scary Movie 4)
1971 – Dorian Gregory, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Apocalypse
1973 – Edward G Robinson, actor, d @ 79 (Soylent Green)
1977 – Hae-il Park, actor (The Host)
1978 – Leo Genn, actor, d @ 72 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1984 – Jacob Blair, actor (Underworld: Awakening, SGU Stargate Universe, V (2011), Hot Tub Time Machine, Fringe, 2012, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain (2008), Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Bionic Woman)
1986 – Leif Erickson, actor, d @ 74 (Invaders from Mars, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, Project U.F.O.)

1991 – Glenn Langan, actor, d @ 73 (The Return of Doctor X, Mutiny in Outer Space, Women of the Prehistoric Planet , The Andromeda Strain, The Amazing Colossal Man)
1992 – José Ferrer, actor, d @ 80 (Dune, The Being, The Swarm, Exo-Man)
1993 – Cameron Bright, actor (Earth’s Final Hour, Stargate SG-1, The 4400

2000 – A.E. van Vogt, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (The World of Null-A, The Book of Ptath, The Voyage of the Space Beagle)
2002 – Dimitra Arliss, actress, d @ 79 (Firefox)
2006 – Len Carlson, actor, d @ 68 (Cypher)

2012 – Ian Abercrombie, actor, d @ 77 (Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes)

posted by admin on Jan 25

1900 – Mildred Dunnock, actress (‘Way Out, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1918 – King Donovan, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956], The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Magnetic Monster)

King Donovan in The Magnetic Monster.

1927 – Gregg Palmer, actor (Star Trek, From Hell It Came, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

Gregg Palmer in Star Trek.

1931 – Dean Jones, actor (Special Report: Journey to Mars, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)

1931 – Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Mutiny in Outer Space)
1934 – Elizabeth Allen, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)
1936 – Diana Hyland, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1941 – Gregory Sierra, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids,Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Clones, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
1942 – John Owens, actor (Dinotopia, Doctor Who)
1943 – Tobe Hooper, director (Taken, Dark Skies, Invaders From Mars, Perversions of Science)
1944 – Anita Pallenberg, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Barbarella)
1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Soylent Green)
1946 – Richard Poe, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager)

1951 – Diane Salinger, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Mann & Machine, Creature)
1958 – Dinah Manoff, actress (Mork & Mindy)
1959 – Eugene Osment, actor (Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1965 – Alex Nevil, actor (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark)

1972 – Johnny Green, actor (Monster Man, The Twilight Zone, Back to the Future)
1974 – Kurt Evans, actor (Arrow, Fringe, Watchmen, The Andromeda Strain, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, The X-Files)
1974 – William Fawcett, actor, d @ 79 (The Munsters, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Commando Cody, Captain Video, Atom Man vs. Superman)
1975 – Mia Kirshner, actress (War of the Worlds)
1977 – Donald Kerr, actor, d @ 85 (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1979 – Christine Lakin, actress (The Frankenstein Theory, Big Monster on Campus, 3rd Rock from the Sun

1980 – Queenie Watts, actress, d @ 53 (Doomwatch)
1981 – Richard Talmadge, actor, d @ 88 (The Phantom Empire)
1981 – Charlie Bewley, actor (Extant)
1985 – Tom Hopper, actor (Doctor Who)
1986 – L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi author, d @ 74

1990 – Ava Gardner, actress, d @ 67 (On The Beach)
1990 – Alexander Lockwood, actor, d @ 87 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Monster on the Campus, The Invisible Boy, Tales of Tomorrow)
1991 – Stanley Brock, actor, d @ 59 (Out of this World, Quantum Leap, Amazon Women on the Moon, Night of the Comet, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman)
1995 – William Sylvester, actor, d @ 72 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1995 – William Hurst, actor, d @ 72 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space, Gorgo)
1995 – John Smith, actor, d @ 63 (Project U.F.O.)

2008 – Christopher Allport, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Invaders from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

posted by admin on Jan 24

1883 – Estelle Winwood, actress (Twilight Zone)

1911 – C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, sci-fi author (Judgment Night, Northwest Smith, Cthulhu Mythos)
1917 – Ernest Borgnine, actor (Escape from New York, Gattaca, Future Cop, The Black Hole, The Neptune Factor, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Laser Mission, Future Cop)
1918 – John McLiam, actor (Star Trek: TNG, V, Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, The Food of the Gods, The Invisible Man, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

John McLiam in The Outer Limits episode, Second Chance.

1919 – John Hudson, actor (Men Into Space)
1919 – William Hudson, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Moon Pilot, Men Into Space, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Amazing Colossal Man, The She-Creature, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger)

1920 – Jerry Maren, actor (Frankenstein Rising, Spaceballs, The Twilight Zone, The Being, TRON, Planet of the Apes, Superman and the Mole-Men)
1924 – Marvin Kaplan, actor (The Came from Outer Space, The Lost Saucer)

1931 – John Hollis, actor (Superman I, II and IV, The Day of the Triffids (TV), Flash Gordon, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Blakes 7, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, Creatures the World Forgot, A for Andromeda)

John Hollis in Star Wars.

1937 – Barton Heyman, actor (Twilight Zone)

1944 – David Gerrold, writer (The Trouble With Tribbles)
1946 – Michael Ontkean, actor (The Outer Limits, The Stepford Husbands)
1948 – Michael Des Barres, actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Superboy, Super Force, ALF, I Monster)

1950 – Bull Montana, actor, d @ 62 (The Lost World, Flash Gordon)
1954 – William Allen Young, actor (District 9, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)
1956 – Peter Woodward, actor (Fringe, Stargate: Atlantis, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms)

1961 – Nastassja Kinski, actress (Day the World Ended)
1962 – Tom Shirley, actor, d @ 62 (‘Way Out)
1967 – Phil Lamarr, actor (Real Steel, Evil Alien Conquerors)
1969 – Stephanie Romanov, actress (Menno’s Mind, Seven Days)

1970 – Matthew Lillard, actor (Area 57, Wing Commander)
1972 – Jerome Cowan, actor, d @ 74 (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, Have Rocket — Will Travel)
1973 – J Carrol Naish, actor, d @ 77 (Dracula vs Frankenstein)
1975 – Larry Fine, actor, d @ 72 (The Three Stooges in Orbit, Have Rocket – Will Travel, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy)
1978 – Kristen Schaal, actress (Last Man on Earth)

1980 – Nicole Marie Lenz, actress (First Strike)
1983 – Craig Horner, actor (Cyber Girl)
1984 – Remy Ryan, actor (RoboCop 3)
1984 – Justin Baldoni, actor (Heroes, The Helix… Loaded)
1985 – Karis Page Bryant, actress (Universal Soldier: The Return)
1986 – Mischa Barton, actress (Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard)

1991 – Lawrence Lott, actor, d @ 40 (Philadelphia Experiment)
1992 – John Bleifer, actor, d @ 90 (Men Into Space, Queen of Outer Space, The 27th Day)

2006 – Chris Penn, actor, d @ 40 (Future Kick)

2010 – Pernell Roberts, actor, d @ 81 (Man From Atlantis)
2012 – James Farentino, actor, d @ 73 (The Final Countdown)

posted by admin on Jan 23

1906 – Bob Steele, actor (The Atomic Submarine, Giant from the Unknown)
1907 – Dan Duryea, actor (The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone)

1912 – Susan French, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Flatliners, Quantum Leap)
1919 – Frances Bay, actress (Repo Chick, The X Files, Quantum Leap, Critters, ALF, Alien Nation)

1923 – Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars, A Canticle for Leibowitz)
1923 – Florence Halop, actress (Gemini Man)

1933 – Arlene Golonka, actress (Dr. Alien)
1933 – Chita Rivera, actress (The Outer Limits)

Chita Rivera in The Outer Limits episode, The Bellero Shield.

 
1934 – Lou Antonio, actor (Dark Skies, Star Trek)

Lou Antonio in the Star Trek episode, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.

1939 – Sonny Chiba, actor (Invasion of the Neptune Men, Message from Space)
1939 – Greg Hildebrandt, illustrator
1939 – Tim Hildebrandt, Illustrator

1943 – Gil Gerard, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Nuclear Hurricane, E.A.R.T.H. Force)
1944 – Rutger Hauer, actor (Blade Runner, Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Flying Virus)

1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, actor (Stargate: SG1, SGU Stargate Universe, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut, Stargate: Continuum, Stargate: Atlantis)
1950 – Richard Gilliland, actor (Star Kid, Bug, Dark Skies, Torchwood)
1951 – David Patrick Kelly, actor (K-PAX)
1954 – Killers from Space released
1955 – John H. Tobin, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, UFO: Target Earth)

1963 – Gail O’Grady, actress (Time Trax, Superboy)

1972 – Ewen Bremner, actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Snowpiercer)
1973 – Lanei Chapman, actress (Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek: TNG)
1974 – Tiffani-Amber Theissen, actress (Cyborg Soldier)
1977 – Sonita Henry, actress (Doctor Who, Star Trek [2009], The Fifth Element)

1988 – Hollingworth Morse, director, d @ 77 (Ark II, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Crash of Moons, Duel in Space)

1992 – Jack Reynor, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Dollhouse)
1992 – Ian Wolfe, actor, d@ 95 (THX-1138, Creator, The Terminal Man, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1993 – Keith Laumer, sci-fi author, d @ 67 (Imperium, Retief)
1999 – Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century debuted on Disney Channel

2000 – David Knoll, actor (The Strain)
2009 – Moon released

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1906 – Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author
1909 – Ann Sothern, actress (The Manitou,)

1920 – George Breakston, writer (The Manster)
1922 – Robert Halmi Sr., producer (Riverworld, Flash Gordon, Dinotopia, )
1923 – Diana Douglas, actress (A Fire in the Sky, Science Fiction Theatre)

1931 – Jon Cedar, actor (Asteroid, The Incredible Hulk, Capricorn One, The Manitou, Day of the Animals, Time Travelers, The Invisible Man (1975))
1932 – Piper Laurie, actress (The Twilight Zone)
1934 – Bill Bixby, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Incredible Hulk)

Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk

1935 – Seymour Cassel, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

John Hurt (when he is not incubating aliens) as Doctor Who.

1940 – John Hurt, actor (Alien, Doctor Who, Masters of Science Fiction, Contact, Frankenstein Unbound, Spaceballs)

1955 – John Wesley Shipp, actor (The Sector, Sensory Perception, The Outer Limits)
1956 – Michael Kospa, actor (Fringe, Apollo 18, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Watchmen, Eureka, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, The X-Files)
1959 – Tyrone Power Jr., actor (Cocoon, Cocoon: The Return)

1965 – Diane Lane, actress (Batman vs Superman, Man of Steel, Judge Dredd)
1966 – Herbert Marshall, actor, d @ 75 (The Fly, Gog, Riders to the Stars)
1969 – Qing Xu, actor (Looper)
1969 – Olivia d’Abo, actress (Nuclear Family, Eureka, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone)

1971 – Karen Finneran, actress (Night of the Living Dead (1990))
1974 – Rebekah Elmalogou, actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
1974 – Leon Lontoc, actor, d @ 64 (Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)
1975 – Balthazar Getty, actor (Judge Dredd)
1977 – Jennifer Spence, actress (Continuum, SGU Stargate Universe, Eureka, The 4400, The Core)
1977 – Matthew Newton, actor (Farscape)

1980 – Christopher Masterson, actor (Electric Sleep, Strange Frequency, Millennium)
1981 – Beverley Mitchell, actress (Quantum Leap, White Dwarf)
1988 – Parker Fennelly, actor, d @ 96 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1994 – Telly Savalas, actor, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone, Capricorn One)

2007 – Liz Renay, actress, d @ 80 (Mark of the Astro-Zombies)

2010 – Jean Simmons, actress, d @ 80 (Star Trek: TNG)
2012 – Richard Tufeld, California, voice actor, d @ 85 (Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)