Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on Jan 21

1897 – J Carrol Naish, actor (Dracula vs Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, The Monster Maker)

1915 – Alan Hewitt, actor (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

1921 – John Doucette, actor (The Time Machine, The Time Tunnel, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)
1922 – Telly Savalas, actor (Twilight Zone, Capricorn One)
1923 – Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer
1924 – Dean Fredericks, actor (The Phantom Planet, Them!)
1925 – Charles Aidman, actor (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Alien Zone, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)

1934 – Audrey Dalton, actress (The Monster that Challenged the World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1934 – Ann Wedgeworth, actress (The Twilight Zone, My Science Project)
1938 – John Savident, actor (Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Doomwatch)

John Savident in Bla.kes 7

1938 – Georges Méliès, director, d @ 76(A Trip to the Moon, The Hallucinated Alchemist, Under The Sea)

1942 – Mac Davis, songwriter / actor (Smallville / Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

1950 – George Orwell, whose 1984 established a new standard in dystopian fiction only two years earlier, dies.
1957 – Geena Davis, actress (The Fly, Coma (2012), Earth Girls are Easy)
1958 – Michael Wincott, actor (Alien: Resurrection)

1964 – Joseph Schildkraut, actor, d @ 67 (Twilight Zone)
1969 – John Ducey, actor (Deep Impact)

1969 – Karina Lombard, actress (The 4400)

1970 – Ken Leung, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
1971 – Luigia Zucaro, actor (Dawn of the Dead)
1975 – Paul Anthony, actor (Tomorrowland, Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: Trinity, Jake 2.0, Stargate SG-1, Strange Frequency)
1977 – Jerry Trainor, actor (Evolution, Donnie Darko)

1981 – Izabella Miko, actress (Mr. Blob in the Universe)
1987 – Jeff Ballard, actor (nowmageddon, Kyle XY, Smallville, Zolar, A Wrinkle in Time, Mission to Mars)
1988 – Abraham Sofaer, actor, d @ 91 (Star Trek, Journey to the Center of Time, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1990 – Jacob Smith, actor (Evolution’s Child, Meego)
1992 – Keely Purvis, actor (The Time Tunnel (2006), Taken)
1994 – Chanelle Peloso, actress (Zapped (2014))
1994 – Booboo Stewart, actor (Space Warriors)

1997 – Owen Best, actor (TRON: Legacy, Smallville, Impact)
1998 – Jack Lord, actor, d @ 77 (The Invaders)
1999 – Susan Strasberg, actress, d @ 60 (The Invaders)

posted by admin on Jan 19

1919 – Anthony Dexter, actor (The Phantom Planet, Fire Maidens of Outer Space, 12 to the Moon)

1920 – Alan North, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)
1922 – Guy Madison, actor (On the Threshold of Space, The Beast of Hollow Mountain)
1923 – Jean Stapleton, actress (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor (My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1926 – Fritz Weaver, actor (Twilight Zone, Day of the Dolphin, The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone, The Martian Chronicles, Demon Seed, The Invaders, ‘Way Out)

Fritz Weaver in the Twilight Zone episode, Third from the Sun.

1930 – Tippi Hedren, actress (The 4400, The Bionic Woman)
1932 – Richard Lester, director (Superman II and III, The Mouse on the Moon)
1934 – John Richardson, actor (Battle of the Stars, War of the Planets, Frankenstein ’80, She)
1935 – Bryan Pringle, actor (Brazil)

1941 – Tony Anholt, actor (Space: 1999, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Cosmic Princess)
1942 – Shelly Fabares, actress (Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, Captain Midnight)
1942 – Reiner Schone, actor (Ice Planet, Sliders, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1950 – Isaac Asimov’s first novel, Pebble in the Sky, is published.
1953 – Linda Hayden, actress (The Boys from Brazil)

1953 – Desi Arnaz Jr, actor (Automan)
1954 – Katey Sagal, actress (Space Cases, Smart house)
1955 – Paul Rodriguez, actor (The Twilight Zone, Time Changer)
1955 – Tracy Stratford, actor (Twilight Zone, The Evil of Frankenstein)
1957 – Roger Ashton-Griffiths, actor (Doctor Who, Mutant Chronicles, Torchwood, Brazil)
1958 – Allen Steele, sci-fi author (Orbital Decay, The Death of Captain Future)
1959 – Lock Martin, actor, d @ 42 (Invaders from Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1961 – Paul McCrane, actor (RoboCop, The X-Files, Superboy, The Blob (1988))
1961 – William Ragsdale, actor (Frankenstein: The College Years)
1962 – Snub Pollard, actor, d @ 72 (Master of the World, The Day the Earth Stood Still )
1965 – Frank Reicher, actor, d @ 89 (Superman and the Molemen)
1967 – Grace Cunard, actress, d @ 73 (The Bride of Frankenstein)
1968 – Matt Hill, actor (Taken, The X Files)
1969 – Charles Winninger, actor, d @ 84 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1970 – Hal March, actor, d @ 49 (The Atomic Kid)
1971 – Rachel Luttrell, actress (Stargate: Atlantis)
1973 – Max Adrian, actor, d @ 69 (Terrornauts, Doctor Who)
1974 – Natassia Malthe, actress (Fringe, Andromeda, Seven Days, First Wave, Millennium)

1976 – Kevin Coughlin, actor, d @ 30 (The Invaders)
1977 – Benjamin Ayres, actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1)
1977 – Candice Hillebrand, actress (Tekken)

1991 – John Russell, actor, d @ 70 (Jason of Star Command)

2004 – Sidney Miller, director, d @ 87 (My Favorite Martian, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)
2006 – Anthony Franciosa, actor, d @ 77 (The Twilight Zone, Earth II)
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, actress, d @ 70 (The Invaders)

posted by admin on Jan 18

1911 – Danny Kaye, actor (The Twilight Zone)

Danny Kaye (left) in one of his last roles in The Twilight Zone episode, Paladin of the Lost Hour.

1916 – Orville Sherman, actor, d @ 68 1 October 1984 (Westworld, The Twilight Zone, The Brain Eaters, The Adventures of Superman)

Orville Sherman (left) in The Brain Eaters.

1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Schrodinger’s Cat)

1933 – John Boorman, director (Zardoz)
1938 – Basil Hoffman, actor (Eerie Indiana, Small Wonder, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1948 – M.C. Gainey, actor (Revolution, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Starman, Time After Time)

1950 – John Hughes, director (Weird Science)
1955 – Kevin Costner, actor (Waterworld, The Postman, Man of Steel, Testament)

1961 – Jeff Yagher, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Mysterious Ways, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Twilight Zone, V)
1963 – Jane Horrocks, actress (Red Dwarf)
1969 – Dave Bautista, actor (Riddick, Guardians of the Galaxy)
1969 – Jesse L. Martin, actor (The X-files)

1972 – George Mitchell, actor, d @ 66 (The Andromeda Strain, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Animal People)
1978 – Carl Betz, actor, d @ 56 (Killdozer)
1979 – Rebakah Jean Morgan, actress (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1980 – Jason Segel, actor (This is the End)
1981 – Antje Traue, actress (Man of Steel, Pandorum)
1983 – Samantha Mumba, singer / actress (Evolution / The Time Machine)
1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, actor, d @ 72 (The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II)

1991 – Matt Kane, actor (The Dinosaur Project)

2000 – Nancy Coleman, actress, d @ 87 (Tales of Tomorrow)
2001 – Al Waxman, actor, d @ 65 (Millennium, Spasms)
2008 – Lois Nettleton, actress, d @ 78 (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today, The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone, Captain Video)
2009 – Kathleen Byron, actress, d @ 88 (Blakes 7)
2009 – Bob May, actor, d @ 69 (The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

2014 – Sarah Marshall, actress, d @ 80 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Small Wonder)

posted by admin on Jan 17

1899 – Nevil Shute, sci-fi author (On the Beach)

1921 – Dehl Berti, actor (Operation Neptune, One Step Beyond, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – James Earl Jones, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)
1933 – Sheree North, actress (Future Cop, Destination Inner Space)

Sheree North in Destination Inner Space.

1934 – Stuart Nisbet, actor (They Came from Outer Space (TV), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)
1935 – Paul O[sborne] Williams, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
1938 – John Bellairs, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)

1941 – Tom Lowell, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, The Twilight Zone)
1942 – Nancy Parsons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)
1942 – Randy Boone, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

Geoffrey Deuel in The Invaders episode, The Condemned.

1947 – Todd Susman, actor (The Invaders, Weird Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Coneheads, ALF, The Twilight Zone)
1949 – Andy Kaufman, actor (Heartbeeps)

1950 – Sharon Duce, actress (The Tomorrow People (TV), Doctor Who, Outland)
1956 – Mitch Vogel, actor (Ark II, The Immortal)

1962 – Jim Carrey, actor (Earth Girls are Easy)
1963 – Chris Casamassa, actor (Sci-Fighter)
1965 – D.J. Caruso, director (I Am Number Four, Smallville, Tin Man (2014), VR.5)
1966 – Joshua Malina, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1, Sliders)
1967 – Kang-ho Song, actor (Snowpiercer)
1968 – Jeff Chase, actor (Star Trek: ID, Revolution, Looper, Star Trek (2009), Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)
1969 – Naveen Andrews, actor (Planet Terror, Future Tense, Rollerball (2000))

1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, artist (Star Wars: Clone Wars)
1973 – Fred Essler, actor, d @ 77 (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)
1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, actor (Planet Terror)
1976 – Anne Stedman, actress (Space Cowboys)
1977 – Leigh Whannell, actress (Insidious, The Matrix Reloaded)

1980 – Zooey Deschanel, actress (Tin Man, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
1981 – Ray J, actor (Mars Attacks!, Steel)
1983 – Doodles Weaver, actor, d @ 71 (Earthbound, Land of the Giants, Superman)
1988 – Earth Star Voyager debuted on the Wonderful World of Disney

1992 – Dorothy Alison, actress, d @ 66 (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

2003 – Richard Crenna, actor, d @ 76 (Intruders, Marooned, Leviathan)
2004 – Noble Willingham, actor, d @ 72 (Fire in the Sky, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Man from Atlantis)
2008 – Allan Melvin, actor, d @ 84 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

posted by admin on Jan 16

1887 – John Hamilton, actor (Adventures of Superman, Donovan’s Brain, The Flying Missile, The Invisible Monster, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe)

1890 – Karl Freund, cinematographer (Metropolis, The Golem)

1907 – Jason Johnson, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man (1975), The Andromeda Strain, The Cape Canaveral Monsters, Twilight Zone, Adventure of Superman, Invasion of the Saucer Men)
1907 – Alexander Knox, actor (Crack in the World, The Son of Dr. Jekyll,Holocaust 2000)

1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, director (Small Wonder, Manimal, Small & Frye, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Immortal, The Atomic Kid)

1918 – Stirling Silliphant, writer, died 1996 (Space)

1920 – Elliot Reid, actor (Small Wonder, The Munsters)
1920 – Steve Conte, actor, died 1997 (Teenage Zombies)
1922 – Henry Scott, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Henry Scott in The Outer Limits episode, Hundred Years of the Dragon.

1922 – Sherry Moreland, actress (Pyro… The Thing Without a Face, Adventure of Superman, Rocketship X-M)

1938 – Michael Pataki, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1943 – Fred Coffin, actor (The Invisible Man (TV), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, The X-Files, Something is Out There, The Twilight Zone)
1943 – Michael Attwell (Doctor Who)
1945 – Keith Wayne, actor (Night of the Living Dead)
1948 – John Carpenter, director/writer (Starman, They Live, The Thing, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., Ghosts of Mars / Dark Star)

1950 – Debbie Allen, actress (Quantum Leap)
1950 – Caroline Munro, actress (Space: 1999, At the Earth’s Core)
1956 – Jennifer Dale, actress (Mutant X, TekWar, RoboCop, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Beyond Reality, The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Mark Steger, actor (Heroes: Going Postal, I Am Legend, Men in Black II)
1963 – Kathy Evison, actress (Highlander [TV], SeaQuest 2032)
1968 – Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, actress (Perversions of Science)
1968 – David Chokachi, actor (Crimson Force, 10.0 Earthquake, Abner the Invisible Dog)
1968 – John Davidson, actor, d @ 81 (The Devil Bat)

1971 – Kermit Maynard, actor, d @ 68 (It Came From Outer Space)
1972 – Annika Peterson, actress (The Man from Earth)
1972 – Richard T. Jones, actor (Event Horizon, Godzilla 2014, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, M.A.N.T.I.S.)
1972 – Dameon Clarke, actor (A Scanner Darkly)
1973 – Eriko Tamura, actor (Heroes, Nuclear Hurricane)
1974 – Nick Dash, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
1979 – Ted Cassidy, actor, d @ 46 (Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Genesis II, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Angry Red Planet)

1981 – Bernard Lee, actor, d @ 73 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain)
1982 – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, actress (Automata)
1988 – Ballard Berkeley, actor, d @ 83 (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1986 – Mason Gamble, actor (Gattica)
1987 – Joyce Jameson, actress, d @ 59 (Project U.F.O., Death Race 2000, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1993 – Glenn Corbett, actor, d @ 59 (Automan, Manimal, The Immortal, City Beneath the Sea, Star Trek)
1998 – Emil Sitka, actor, d @ 82 (My Favorite Martian, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy, Space Patrol)

2002 – Ron Taylor, actor, d @ 49 (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, The Ice Pirates)
2014 – Russell Johnson, actor, d @ 89 (This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, The Twilight Zone)

posted by admin on Jan 15

1879 – Ernest Thesiger, actor (Bride of Frankenstein)

1896 – Marjorie Bennett, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, Have Rocket – Will Travel)

1901 – Harry Ellerbe, actor (The Magnetic Monster, The Outer Limits, Men Into Space)

Harry Ellerbe in The Outer Limits episode, The Man With the Power.

1904 – Ray Bolger, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1905 – Torin Thatcher, actor (Land of the Giants, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1913 – Lloyd Bridges, actor (The Outer Limits, Battlestar Galactica, Stowaway to the Moon, Rocketship X-M)

1926 – Maria Schell, actress (Space 1999, Superman, The Martian Chronicles)
1927 – Phyllis Coates, actress (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lois & Clark, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Invasion U.S.A.)
1928 – Joanne Linville, actress (Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1932 – Dean Smith, stuntman / actor (Westworld / Timestalkers, The Astral Factor, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1935 – Robert Silverberg, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan’s Planet)
1937 – Margaret O’Brien, actress (Frankenstein Rising, Death in Space)

1947 – Andrea Martin, actress (Meego, Star Trek: DS9, Innerspace)
1948 – Tommy Nolan, actor (Out of this World, Voyage of the Rock Aliens)

1957 – Mario Van Peebles, actor (The Outer Limits)
1958 – Julian Sands, actor (Smallville, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: SG1)

1965 – James Nesbitt, actor (Jekyll, The Deep)
1968 – Chad Lowe, actor (Target Earth)

1971 – Regina King, actress (The Strain)
1972 – Ernie Reyes Jr., actor (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
1978 – Eddie Cahill, actor (Under the Dome)
1979 – Aubree Miller, actor (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor)

1981 – Zachary Bostrom, actor (Aliens for Breakfast, The Twilight Zone)
1983 – Shepperd Strudwick, actor, d @ 75 (The Monitors, Twilight Zone)
1984 – Victor Rasuk, actor (Godzilla 2014)
1986 – Jessy Schram, actress (Falling Skies)
1987 – Michael Seater, actor (ReGenesis, Future Fear)
1989 – Trent Ford, actor (Smallville)

1990 – Gordon Jackson, actor, d @ 66 (The Quatermass Xperiment , The Quatermass Experiment, The Medusa Touch)
1994 – Martin Kosleck, actor, d @ 86 (The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2000 – Fran Ryan, actress, d @ 83 (Salvage 1, Manimal, Quantum Leap)
2005 – Deem Bristow, actor, d @ 57 (Quantum Leap)

2011 – Susannah York, actress, d @ 72 (Superman I, II & IV, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

posted by admin on Jan 14

1908 – Carl Esmond, actor (From the Earth to the Moon)
1909 – Joseph Losey, director (X the Unknown, The Boy with Green Hair )

1919 – Douglas Henderson, actor (King Dinosaur, The Outer Limits, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The War of the Worlds, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Invaders)

Douglas Henderson in The Outer Limits episode, The Architects of Fear.

 
1919 – Joe Seneca, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The Blob (1988))

1924 – Guy Williams, actor (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Lost in Space)

Guy Williams in Lost in Space.

1926 – Frank Aletter, actor (It’s About Time, Automan, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, My Favorite Martian, The Big Brain, Twilight Zone)
1926 – Tom Tryon, actor (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)
1926 – Warren Mitchell, actor (Moon Zero Two, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of the Unknown, The Crawling Eye)

1934 – Richard Briers, actor (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)

1940 – John Castle, actor (RoboCop 3)
1941 – Faye Dunaway, actress (Supergirl, The Gene Generation)
1941 – Marjoe Gortner, actor (Starcrash, Food of the Gods, Otherworld
1943 – Ronald Hunter, actor (Man Without a Head)
1943 – Holland Taylor, actor (Strange Frequency)
1945 – Vonetta McGee, actress (Brother Future, Repo Man)
1947 – Stuart Baird, director (Star Trek: Nemesis)
1948 – Carl Weathers, actor (Predator, Alien Siege, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1949 – Christine Belford, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Beyond Westworld, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1949 – Lawrence Kasdan, writer (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)

1954 – Riders to the Stars released
1957 – Suzanne Danielle, actress (Flash Gordon, Doctor Who)
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, actor, d @ 57 (The Return of Doctor X)

1961 – Ernest Thesiger, actor, d @ 81 (Bride of Frankenstein)
1963 – Steven Soderbergh, director (Solaris, Contagion)
1964 – Mark Addy, actor (The Time Machine)
1965 – Jemma Redgrave, actress (Doctor Who)
1967 – Emily Watson, actress (Equilibrium)
1968 – LL Cool J, actor (Rollerball (2002), Deep Blue Sea)
1969 – Jason Bateman, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1973 – Katie Griffin, actress (Annedroids, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070, RoboCop)
1974 – Kevin Durand, actor (Real Steel, I Am Number Four, Resident Evil: Retribution, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits)
1974 – Davis S. Hogan, actor (Z Nation)
1977 – Peter Finch, actor, d @ 60 (First Men in the Moon)
1978 – Blossom Rock, actress, d @ 81 (She Devil)

1990 – David Arkin, actor, d @ 49 (Whitney and the Robot)
1992 – Hari Rhodes, actor, d @ 59 (Earth II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Automan, Beyond Westworld, Salvage 1, Logan’s Run, The Bionic Woman, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Satan Bug, The Lost Missile, The Outer Limits)
1994 – Esther Ralston, actress, d @ 91 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2000 – Supernova released
2004 – Ron O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (The Final Countdown, Hyper Space)
2004 – Uta Hagen, actress, d @ 84 (The Boys From Brazil, The Twilight Zone)
2007 – Barbara Kelly, computer voice d @ 82 (Space 1999, Alien Attack)
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape From the Planet of the Apes )

posted by admin on Jan 13

1893 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)

1907 – Jeff Morrow, actor (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth.

1916 – Osa Massen, actress (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)
1918 – Steve Dunne, actor (Quatermass II)
1919 – Robert Stack, actor (Butt-Ugly Martians)

1923 – Jack Watling, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1925 – Gwen Verdon, actress (Cocoon I & II)
1925 – Rosemary Murphy, actress (‘Way Out)
1928 – David Sheiner, actor (Automan, Manimal, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
1928 – Gregory Walcott, actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

1930 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (Outland, The Mist, The Outer Limits, Prototype, Independence Day, Communion)
1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly (Millennium, The X Files)
1932 – Ian Hendry, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1932 – Jon Cypher, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invaders (1995), RoboCop (TV), Spontaneous Combustion, Probe, Masters of the Universe, The Food of the Gods)
1933 – Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, sci-fi author / writer (Deadwalk, Plunder / Flash Gordon, TekWar)
1935 – Rip Taylor, actor (Virtual Combat)
1938 – Billy Gray, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Adventures of Superman)
1938 – William B. Davis, actor (Continuum, Caprica, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Smallville, Andromeda, Singularity Principle, Sliders)

1942 – Carol Cleveland, actress (Moon Zero Two)
1943 – Richard Moll, actor (Smallville, Galaxis, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Evolution, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Weird Science, The Munsters Today, Mork & Mindy, Ragewar, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Richard Moll in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.

1945 – [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], sci-fi author (High Kings)
1948 – Malcolm Story, actor (New Worlds, Jekyll, Star Trap)

1956 – Dwight H. Little, director (Tekken, Dollhouse, The X Files, Strange World, Millennium)

1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Robosapien: Rebooted)
1965 – Bill Bailey, actor (Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaced)
1966 – Patrick Dempsey, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Outbreak, The Stuff)

1970 – Keith Coogan, actor (Python, Starman)
1971 – John Asher, actor (Space Cowboys, Weird Science (TV))
1972 – Nicole Eggert, actress (Amanda and the Alien, Annihilator)
1976 – Michael Peña, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone, Roswell, Ant-Man)
1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress, d @ 53 (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1979 – Jill Wagner, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series)

1983 – Arthur Space, actor, d @ 74 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)
1989 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)
1989 – Beau Mirchoff, actor (I Am Number Four)

1990 – Liam Hemsworth, actor (The Hunger Games)

2009 – Patrick McGoohan, actor, d @ 80 (Hysteria, Scanners)

posted by admin on Jan 12

1876 – Jack London, author (author, The Iron Heel)

The Iron Heel by Jack London is regarded as the first dystopian novel.

1902 – Ray Teal, actor (Twilight Zone)

1916 – House Peters, actor (Twilight Zone, Target Earth, Red Planet Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon)

1930 – Bruce Lansbury, writer (Swamp Thing, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1934 – Bob Dishy, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1935 – Ron Harper, actor (Planet of the Apes)
1938 – Lewis Fiander, actor (Doctor Who, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1942 – Geoffrey Hoyle, sci-fi author (2010: Living in the Future)
1944 – Luke Bromley, actor (The World’s End, Torchwood)
1948 – Anthony Andrews, actor (Doomwatch)
1949 – Haruki Murakami, sci-fi author (1Q84, Sputnik Sweetheart)

1951 – Kirstie Alley, actress (Star Trek II, Runaway, Quark)

Kristie Alley in Star Trek II

1955 – Rockne S. O’Bannon, writer (Farscape, V, Alien Nation, Revolution, The Twilight Zone, SeaQuest 2032, Creature, Invasion)
1959 – Ralf Moller, actor (Mutant X, Andromeda, Universal Soldier)

1960 – Wanda Cannon, actress (Andromeda, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, My Secret Identity)
1960 – Oliver Platt, actor (2012, Bicentennial Man, Martian Child, Flatliners)
1966 – Barbara Scolaro, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)
1966 – Olivier Martinez, actor (Cybergeddon, Cybergeddon Zips)
1967 – Farrah Forke, actress (Bionic Ever After?, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Brain Twisters)
1968 – Rachel Harris, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032)
1968 – Chris Gartin, actor (Transcendence, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1980 – Vanessa Johansson, actress (Day of the Dead)
1987 – Naya Rivera, actress (Frankenhood)
1987 – Will Rothhaar, actor (Battle Los Angeles, Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1989 – Tiler Peck, actor (Donnie Darko)

1991 – Keye Luke, actor, d @ 86 (Superboy, Star Trek, Project X)
1998 – Nathan Gamble, actor (The Mist)
1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, actress, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone, The Fly)

2001 – Zenon: The Zequel debuted on Disney Channel

2010 – Ann Prentiss, actress, d @ 70 (My Stepmother Is an Alien, Quark)
2011 – Paul Picerni, actor, d @ 88 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Men Into Space, The Immortal, Capricorn One, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk, The Powers of Matthew Star)
2014 – Frank Marth, actor, d @ 91 (The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marooned, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)

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1888 – Chester Conklin, actor (The Beast with a Million Eyes)

Chester Conklin (dead on ground) in The Beast With a Million Eyes.

1909 – Robert Douglas, director, Man from Atlantis, Future Cop, The Immortal, The Invaders, Lost in Space)

1912 – Nick Cravat actor (Twilight Zone, The Island of Dr. Moreau)
1912 – Donald Barry, actor (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970, Project U.F.O., The Munsters)

1922 – Kathleen Byron, actress (Blakes 7)

Kathleen Byron in Blakes 7.

1923 – Jerome Bixby, writer (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Fantastic Voyage, It! The Terror from Beyond Space)
1928 – Mitchell Ryan, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Dark Skys, Judge Dredd, Mann & Machine, ‘Way Out)

1930 – Angela Paton, actress (The X Files, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap, Flatliners)

1930 – Rod Taylor, actor (The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Time Machine, World Without End, Twilight Zone)

Rod Taylor in The Time Machine. He died a few days ago on Thursday.

1935 – Melvyn Hayes, actor (The Curse of Frankenstein, Quatermass II)
1937 – Felix Silla, actor (Spaceballs, Star Trek, Return of the Jedi, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Demon Seed, Planet of the Apes)

1947 – Anna Calder-Marshall, actress (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)
1947 – Sondra Currie, actress (Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, RoboCop (TV), They Came from Outer Space, Misfits of Science, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk)

1953 – John Sessions, actor (Whoops Apocalypse)
1953 – John Sessions, actor (Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time)

1954 – Saskia ten Batenburg, actress (Supergirl)
1956 – Phyllis Logan, actress (Invasion: Earth, 1984)
1958 – Alyson Reed, actress (The X-Files)

1962 – Melanie Hill, Actress (Stardust)
1963 – Jason Connery, actor (Lightspeed, Smallville, Doctor Who, Alien Strain)
1965 – Loredana Romito, actress (Transformations)
1965 – Olivia Barash, actress (Repo Chick, Repo Man, Dr. Alien, The Incredible Hulk
1966 – Shelly Sweeney, actress (Godzilla: Final Wars, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
1967 – Derek Riddell, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Doctor Who)
1969 – Kyle Richards, actor (Time Express)

1972 – Amanda Peet, actress (2012, The X Files)
1972 – Konstantin Khabenskiy, actor (World War Z)
1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, actor (Alien Raiders, Earth 2)
1977 – Devin Ratray, actor (Surrogates)
1977 – James Huang, actor (Skyline)
1978 – Michael Bates, actor, d @ 57 (A Clockwork Orange)

1995 – Peter Pratt, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who)

2000 – Helena Carter, actress, d @ 79 (Invaders from Mars)
2003 – Richard Simmons, actor, d @ 89 (The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The Munsters)
2007 – Solveig Dommartin, actress, d @ 45 (Until the End of the World)
2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Trick Top Hat)

2009 – Harry Turner, artist, d @ 88
2013 – Mariangela Melato, actress, d @ 71 (Flash Gordon)

2015 – Anita Ekberg, actress, d @ 83 (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)