Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on Feb 28

Leapers (2/29) celebrate their birthdays one of three ways. They celebrate on either 2/28, 3/1 or only on leap years. So 2/28 will due until leap year occurs.

1920 – Arthur Franz, actor (Invaders From Mars, King Monster, The Atomic Submarine, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, World of Giants, Men into Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Flight to Mars)

Arthur Franz in Inv.aders from Mars

1928 – Joss Ackland, actor (One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing)

1936 – Alex Rocco, actor (Small & Frye)

1940 – Harvey Jason, actor (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Alien Nation (TV), Star Trek: TNG, Man From Atlantis, Genesis II)
1948 – Patricia [Anne] McKillip, sci-fi author (Fool’s Run)
1948 – Ken Foree, actor (Zone of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead (both of them), The X-Files, Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum leap, From Beyond)

1952 – Tim[othy] Powers, sci-fi author (Last Call, Declare)

1964 – Frank Albertson, actor, d @ 55 (Tales of Tomorrow)
1968 – Eamonn Roche, actor (The Event, Babylon 5)

1972 – Antonio Sabato Jr, actor (The Outer Limits, Lois & Clark, Earth 2)

1984 – Mike Dolinsky, sci-fi author and writer, d @ 60

1992 – Johnny Mack, actor, d @ 70 (Dr Who)

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1889 – Victor Sutherland, actor (Donovan’s Brain, Them!)

1905 – Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author, d @ 73 (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides)
1908 – Billie Bird, actress (Max Headroom, Starman)
1909 – Olan Soule, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., Battlestar Galactica, Fantastic Planet, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Land of the Giants, The Bubble, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, The Lost Missile, Captain Midnight, This Island Earth, Science Fiction Theatre, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Olan Soule in Captain Midnight

1911 – Gene O’Donnell, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Devil Bat)
1914 – Jim Boles, actor (Ark II, The Reluctant Astronaut, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)
1918 – Alfred Burke, actor (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1923 – Jean Carson, actress (Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)
1923 – Charles Durning, actor (Solarbabies, The Final Countdown, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1927 – John Carson, actor (Doomsday, Doctor Who, 1990, The Plague of the Zombies, Blood Beast from Outer Space)

John Carson (left) in Blood Beast from Outer Space.

1928 – Tom Aldredge, actor (The Mind Snatchers, The American Astronaut, *batteries not included, The Mouse on the Moon)
1928 – Walter Tevis, sci-fi author d @ 56 8 August 1984 (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1931 – Gavin MacLeod, actor (Time Changer, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, Men Into Space, World of Giants)
1932 – Don Francks, actor (Johnny Mnemonic, Swamp Thing, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Earth: Final Conflict, 984: Prisoner of the Future)
1936 – Gil Peterson, actor (The Brain Machine)

1942 – Frank Bonner, actor (Man from Atlantis)
1944 – Kelly Bishop, actress (Solarbabies)
1945 – Bubba Smith, actor (Escape from DS-3)
1948 – Bernadette Peters, actress (The Martian Chronicles)

1950 – Ilene Graff, actress (Mork & Mindy)

Ilene Graff in Mork & Mindy

1955 – Gilbert Gottfried, actor (Superboy)
1957 – John Turturro, actor (Transformers)

1960 – Dorothy Stratten, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Galaxina)
1961 – Rae Dawn Chong, actress (The Outer Limits, Time Runner, Deadly Skies)
1961 – Mark Ferguson, actor (Cleopatra 2525)
1966 – Jonathan Hale, actor, d @ 74 (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)
1967 – Cecelia Specht, actress (No Ordinary Family, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, actor (Falling Skies, The Outer Limits)

1971 – Peter Stebbings, actor (Re-Generation, Stargate SG-1, Mutant X, The Outer Limits, The X-Files)
1972 – Rory Cochrane, actor (A Scanner Darkly)
1973 – Cecil Kellaway, actor, d @ 79 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Destination Space, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)
1974 – Michael Manasseri, actor (Weird Science, Quantum Leap, Sliders)
1976 – Ali Larter, actress (Heroes, Resident Evil: Extinction)
1978 – Philip Ahn, actor, d @ 72 (The Time Tunnel)
1979 – Jane Hylton, actress, d @ 51 (Manster, Journey to the Unknown, Doctor Who)

1983 – Ishiro Honda, director, d @ 71 (Godzilla 1977, Mecha Godzilla, Ultraman Returns, Godzilla’s Revenge, Yog: Monster from Space, Latitude Zero, Destroy All Monsters, The War of the Gargantuas, Invasion of the Astro Monster, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Ghidorah, Motrha vs. Godzilla, Atrtagon, Matango, Varan, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Gorath, Mothra, Battle in Outer Space, The H-Man, The Mysterians, Rodan, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Godzilla 1954)
1985 – Alex Arsenault, actress (Caprica)
1987 – Joan Greenwood, actress, d @ 65 (Barbarella)

1990 – Georgina Leonidas, actress (Wizards vs. Aliens)
1991 – Sarah Bolger, actress (Once Upon a Time, The Lazarus Effect, The Spiderwick Chronicles)
1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress, d @ 49 (Star Trek)
1993 – Joyce Carey, actress, d @ 94 (Journey into the Unknown)
1995 – Quinn Shephard, actor (Believe, From Other Worlds)

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1892 – William Demarest, actor, d @ 91 (Twilight Zone)
1899 – Ian Keith, Boston actor (It Came from Beneath the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1905 – Franchot Tone, actor (Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow)

1921 – Michael Fox, actor (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Gemini Man, Young Frankenstein, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, War of the Satellites, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Conquest of Space, The Magnetic Monster)

Michael Fox in the Twilight Zone episode, Sounds and Silences.

1927 – Lynn Cartwright, actress (The Wasp Woman, The Lucifer Complex, Far Out Space Nuts, Queen of Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre)

Lynn Cartwright in The Lucifer Complex

1930 – Joanne Woodward, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)
1930 – Lieux Dressler, actress (Kingdom of the Spiders)
1937 – Barbara Babcock, actress (Star Trek)

Barbara Babcock in the Star Trek episode, A Taste of Armageddon.

1940 – Howard Hesseman, actor (Flight of the Navigator, Martian Child, Level 9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Outer Limits, Amazon Women on the Moon)
1940 – Bill Hunter, actor (Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)
1941 – Charlotte Stewart, actress (Tremors, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1990), UFOria)
1943 – Mary Frann, actress (Lois & Clark, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Journey)
1944 – Alan Fudge, actor (Man From Atlantis, Edward Scissorhands, Brainstorm, Galaxis, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, The Twilight Zone, Chiller, Capricorn One)
1947 – Hajime Sorayama, illustrator

1951 – Stephen Leigh, sci-fi author (Dinosaur World, The Omega Egg, Wild Cards)
1951 – Mark Harrison, illustrator
1956 – Angela Aames, actress (Mork and Mindy, Automan)
1957 – Timothy Spall, actor (Red Dwarf)
1959 – First Man Into Space released

1961 – Grant Shaud, actor (Lois & Clark)
1962 – Adam Baldwin, actor (Stargate SG-1, Firefly, Control Factor, The X-Files, Hyper Sonic, The Outer Limits, Gargantua, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Visitor, Starquest II, Independence Day, Digital Man, VR.5, Predator 2)
1965 – Noah Emmerich, actor (Super 8, The Walking Dead)
1966 – Donal Logue, actor (Blade, The X-Files, Robotrix)
1969 – John Boles, actor, d @ 73 (Frankenstein)

1970 – Julia Parker, actress (A Girl a Guy a Space Helmet, Alien Armageddon)
1972 – Richard Coyle, actor (Ultra)
1973 – Bingbing Li, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution)
1975 – Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
1976 – Nikki Amuka-Bird, actress (Jupiter Ascending, Torchwood)
1977 – Allison Hayes, actress, d @ 46 (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Men into Space)

1981 – Juan Riedinger, actor (Continuum, Sanctuary, Collision Earth, Fringe, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Bionic Woman (2007))
1983 – Kate Mara, actress (The Martian, Transcendence)
1985 – David Huffman, actor, d @ 39 (Firefox)
1985 – Pat J O’Malley, actor, d @ 80 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Lights Out)
1989 – Joe Silver, actor, d @ 66 (Rabid, They Came from Within, Out There, Lights Out)

1998 – J T Walsh, actor, d @ 54 (Dark Skies, The X-Files, Outbreak, Lois & Clark)

2015 – Leonard Nimoy, actor, d @ 83 (Star Trek, Fringe, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Brave New World, The Lost World, The Outer Limits, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Twilight

Leonard Nimoy passed away today at 83. Here he is as Spock.

posted by admin on Feb 26

1893 – William Frawley, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, My Living Doll)

1905 – Arthur Brough, actor (Doomwatch)
1905 – Guy Boothby, sci-fi author, d @ 37
1907 – Dub Taylor, actor (Back to the Future III, Starman, Salvage 1, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Them!)

Dub Taylor in the My Favorite Martian episode, Poor Little Rich Cat.

1913 – Dane Clark, actor (Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)
1914 – Robert Alda, actor (Beyond Westworld, The Incredible Hulk, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)
1918 – Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, sci-fi author (It, Caviar, More Than Human, Amok Time)
1919 – Mason Adams, actor (Not of this Earth, Northstar, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

1931 – Lawrence Montaigne, actor Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

Lawrence Montaigne in Star Trek.

1935 – Jane Wagner, writer (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
1933 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Beware! The Blob)
1937 – Cliff Osmond, actor (The Invisible Man (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Land of the Giants, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)
1938 – Jack Knight, actor (Out of this World, The Powers of Matthew Star)
1938 – Tony Selby, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Doctor Who, Superman)

1943 – Bill Duke, director / actor (The Twilight Zone, Starman (TV) / Predator, Battlestar Galactica)

1945 – Marta Kristen, actress (Lost in Space, Battle Beyond the Stars, Project U.F.O.)

Marta Kristen in Lost in Space

1946 – Phyllis Eisenstein, sci-fi author (Sorcerer’s Son, Born to Exile)

1953 – Barbara Niven, actress (I Married a Monster, Humanoids from the Deep)
1956 – Jonathan Schmock, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise. They Came from Outer Space, ALF)
1958 – Greg Germann, actor (Eureka, Quarantine, The Twilight Zone)

1960 – First Spaceship on Venus released (1962 USA release)
1963 – Chase Masterson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Digital Man, Sliders)

1964 – Mark Dacascos, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, I Am Omega, Alien Agent, Solar Attack, DNA, The Island of Dr. Moreau
1966 – Minerva Urecal, actress, d @ 71 (The Ape Man)
1966 – Jennifer Grant, actress (Time Trax)
1967 – Currie Graham, actor (Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Total Recall, Fringe, Strange World
1968 – Eric Feldary, actor, d @ 55 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space)
1968 – Ross Partridge, actor (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Quantum Leap)
1968 – Ed Quinn, actor (Eureka, Behemoth)

1970 – Meeno Peluce, actor (Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, World War III)
1975 – Drew Goddard, writer (Cloverfield)
1976 – Frieda Inescort, actress, d @ 74 (The Alligator People)
1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1977 – James Wan, director (Insidious)

1986 – Teresa Palmer, actress (Parts Per Billion, I Am Number Four)

1991 – Max Lloyd-Jones, actor (iZombie)
1993 – Constance Ford, actress, d @ 69 (Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)
1997 – David Doyle, actor, d @ 67 (Capricorn One, The Invisible Woman, Starman, Out of this World)
1997 – Wende Wagner, actress, d @ 55 ( Destination Inner Space)

2002 – Lawrence Tierney, actor, d @ 82 (Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)
2009 – Wendy Richard, actress, d @ 65 (Doctor Who)

2010 – Richard Devon, actor d @ 83 (Quark, Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, War of the Satellites, Space Patrol)
2010 – Robert McCall, artist, d @ 90 (LIFE magazine, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

posted by admin on Feb 25

1887 – Leonard Carey, actor (Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1894 – Howard Wendell, actor (The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1907 – Shimen Rushkin, actor (Donovan’s Brain)
1909 – Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)

1912 – Richard Wattis, actor (Egghead’s Robot)
1913 – Jim Backus, actor (C.H.O.M.P.S., Ark II)
1917 – Anthony Burgess, sci-fi author (A Clockwork Orange)

1925 – Bert Remsen, actor (Humanoids from the Deep, TerrorVision, Star Trek: DS9, The Phoenix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Moon Pilot)

Burt Remsen in Star Trek DS9

1931 – Christopher George, actor (Day of the Animals, Project X, The Immortal)

Christopher George in The Immortal

1934 – Bernard Bresslaw, actor (Krull, Doctor Who)
1934 – Michael Fairman, actor (Firefly, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, The Powers of Matthew Star, World War III)
1937 – Tom Courtenay, actor (The Day the Fish Came Out)

1938 – Diane Baker, actress (The Invaders, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mann & Machine)

Diane Baker as Kathy Adams in The Invaders episode. Beachhead. Better known as Silence of the Lambs’ Senator Ruth Martin

1948 – Joe Mays, actor (Spontanious Combustion, Future Kick, Alien Nation, ALF)

1952 – H. L. Gold publishes The Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, highlighting that magazine’s growing prominence in satirical and social science fiction.
1954 – John Doe, actor (Zombex, Roswell, Liquid Dreams)
1955 – Leann Hunley, actress (Lois & Clark, Battlestar Galactica)
1958 – Barclay Hope, actor (Eureka, Fringe, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, War of the Worlds (TV), The Twilight Zone)
1959 – Carl Marotte, actor (TekWar)
1958 – James C. Burns, actor (Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Transformers)

1964 – Lee Evans, actor (Doctor Who, The Fifth Element)
1966 – Samantha Phillips, actress (Phantasm II)

1966 – Alexis Denisof, actor (H+, Dollhouse)
1966 – Stacey Cortez, actress (Quantum Leap, They Came from Outer Space)
1966 – Tea Leoni, actress (Deep Impact, Jurassic Park III, The X-Files)

1971 – Christien Anholt, actress (Doctor Who)
1971 – Sean Astin, actor (The Strain, Alphas, Masters of Science Fiction)
1973 – Anson Mount, actor (Dollhouse, Smallville)
1973 – Anson Mount, actor (Dollhouse, Smallville)
1973 – Daniel Boileau, actor (The Tomorrow People, Eve of Destruction, Fringe, Smallville, Eureka, Stargate: Atlantis)
1979 – David Hoflin, actor (The Lost World)
1979 – Jennifer Ferrin, actress (Falling Skies)

1982 – Tara Wilson, actress (Almost Human, V, Smallville, Tin Man)
1986 – Justin Berfield, actor (The Kid with X-ray Eyes)
1987 – James Coco, actor, d @ 58 (The Stepford Children, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1988 – Amapola Del Vando, actress, d @ 78 (The Bionic Woman)

1992 – Guy Deghy, actor, d @ 79 (The Mouse on the Moon)
1993 – Eddie Constantine, actor, d @ 79 (Frankenstein’s Aunt)
1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, actress (The Hunger Games)
1997 – Leprechaun 4: In Space released

2006 – Darren McGavin, actor, d @ 83 (The X-Files, Firebird 2015 AD, Hanger 18, The Martian Chronicles, The Six Million Dollar Man, Mission Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)
2009 – Philip Jose Farmer, sci-fi writer, d @ 91 (Riverworld)

2014 – Ed Vassallo, actor, d @ 42 (Fringe, War of the Worlds)

posted by admin on Feb 24

1885 – Bert Lytell, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1909 – August Derleth, sci-fi author (The Trail of Cthulhu, the Solar Pons series)
1909 – Milton Frome, actor (The Nutty Professor, Way…Way Out, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, My Favorite Martian, Visit to a Small Planet, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Atomic Kid)

Milton Frome in the Twilight Zone episode, The Four of Us Are Dying.

1921 – Abe Vigoda, actor (The Bionic Woman, Weird Science, Superboy)
1921 – Richard Powers, illustrator
1929 – Richard B. Shull, actor (Heartbeeps, Holmes and Yo-Yo, Ssssssss, Slither)

1930 – Barbara Lawrence, actress (Kronos)
1932 – John Vernon, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, War of the Worlds, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, 1984)
1936 – Jess Conrad, actor (Space: 1999)

1933 – Leslie Carlson, actress (Plague City: SARS in Toronto, Anonymous Rex, Odyssey 5, The X-Files, The Girl from Mars, The Twilight Zone, War of the Words (TV), The Fly (86), Videodrome, The Neptune Factor)
1938 – James Farentino, actor (The Final Countdown)

1940 – James Sloyan, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Misfits of Science, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1943 – Robert A. Silverman, actor (eXistenZ, Waterworld, 984: Prisoner of the Future, Scanners)
1944 – Sheila Larkin, actress (The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Small Wonder, The Incredible Hulk)

Sheila Larkin in The X-Files

1944 – Barry Bostwick, actor (Megaforce, Fantastic Planet)
1947 – Edward James Olmos, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashback, Blade Runner)

1951 – Helen Shaver, actress (The 4400, Tremors II: Aftershocks, The Outer Limits, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Starship Invasions)
1951 – Debra Jo Rupp, actress (The Invaders, Robots)
1958 – Mark Moses, actor (Race to Space, Star Trek: Voyager)

1959 – Beth Broderick, actress (The Bionic Woman, Under the Dome)

1961 – Emilio Rivera, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The X Files)
1964 – Frank Conroy, actor, d @ 60 (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
1966 – Billy Zane, actor (Back to the Future, Back to the Future II, Alien Agent)
1969 – Will McLaughlin, actor (Men in Black 3)

1970 – Ungela Brockman, actress (Starship Troopers, Babylon 5)
1970 – Jonathan Ward, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1972 – James Bachman, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Hyperdrive)
1974 – Bonnie Somerville, actress (The Twilight Zone)
1976 – Julian Rivero, actor, d @ 85 (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1982 – Virginia Bruce, actress, d @ 71 (Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Woman)
1984 – Winston Bethel, actor (Astronaut Wives Club)

1991 – Jean Rogers, actress, d @ 74 (Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars)
1995 – Sherry Moreland, actress, d @ 73 (Pyro… The Thing Without a Face, Adventure of Superman, Rocketship X-M)
1997 – Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress, d @ 69 (Outland)

2002 – Mel Stewart, actor, d @ 72 (Martians Go Home, The Invisible Woman, Bride of Re-Animator)
2004 – John Randolph, actor, d @ 88 (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)
2006 – Don Knotts, actor, d @ 81 (The Reluctant Astronaut)
2006 – Octavia E. Butler, sci-fi author, d @ 58 (Parable of the Talents)
2006 – Dennis Weaver, actor, d @ 81 (Way… Way Out, Twilight Zone)
2007 – Bruce Bennett, actor, d @ 100 (The Alligator People, The Cosmic Man0
2009 – Edward Judd d @76 (First Men in the Moon)

posted by admin on Feb 23

1887 – Cyril Delevanti, actor (Soylent Green, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre)

1899 – Norman Taurog, director (Visit to a Small Planet)

1904 – Terence Fisher, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Earth Dies Screaming, The Gorgon, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Curse of Frankenstein)
1915 – Jon Hall, actor (The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Invisible Agent)
1918 – Lin McCarthy, actor (The Day After, Project U.F.O., The Invaders)

1928 – Bernard Kay, actor (Space: 1999, Doctor Who, They Came from Beyond Space)

1932 – Majel Barrett, actress / producer (Star Trek, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: First Contact, Mars and Beyond, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Next Step Beyond, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Westworld, Genesis II)

Majel Barrett as Number One in the original Star Trek pilot.

1934 – Linda Cristal, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Linda Cristal in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

1940 – Peter Fonda, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Supernova, Spasms, Futureworld)

1951 – Patricia Richardson, actress (Quantum Leap, C.H.U.D.)
1954 – Rocky Jones, Space Ranger debuted

1961 – David Warshofsky, actor (The Future)
1965 – Kristin Davis, actress (Alien Nation: Body and Soul)
1966 – Marc Price, actor (Killer Tomatoes Eat France!)

1967 – Tamsin Greig, actress (Doctor Who, Shawn of the Dead)

Tamsin Greig as Nurse in the Doctor Who episode, The Long Game.

1968 – Craig Hurley, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1970 – Marie-Josee Croze, actress (Battlefield Earth)
1974 – Florence Rice, actress, d @ 63 (The Dark)
1975 – Michael Cornacchia, actor (Grey Skies)
1976 – Kelly Macdonald, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1981 – Inna Korobkina, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Dawn of the Dead)
1982 – Adam Hann-Byrd, actor (The Outer Limits)
1983 – Emily Blunt, actress (Looper, Edge of Tomorrow, The Adjustment Bureau)
1987 – Esmond Knight, actor, d @ 80 (Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Invisible Man, Doctor Who, A for Andromeda, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1994 – Dakota Fanning, actress (War of the Worlds, Taken)
1998 – Philip Abbott, actor, d @ 74 (Hanger 18, The Incredible Hulk, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Ark II, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Invisible Boy)

2003 – Titos Vandis, actor, d @ 85 (Genesis II)

posted by admin on Feb 22

1899 – Dwight Frye, actor (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein)

1908 – John Mills, actor (Frankenstein, Quatermass, The Quatermass Conclusion, The ‘Human’ Factor)

1911 – Vaughn Taylor, actor (The Outer Limits, The Power, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Tales of Tomorrow)

Vaughn Taylor in The Outer Limits episode, The Guests.

 
1915 – Dan Seymour, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Return of the Fly, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

1915 – Dan Seymour, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Return of the Fly, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

Dan Seymour in Return of the Fly.

1917 – Reed Crandall, illustrator (John Carter of Mars)

1925 – Edward Gorey, illustrator
1927 – Donald May, actor (Project U.F.O., Men Into Space)
1928 – Paul Dooley, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Millennium, Evolver, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, ALF, Monster in the Closet, Endangered Species)

1929 – James Hong, actor (Blade Runner, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Millennium, The X-Files, Cyber Bandits, Lois & Clark, The Rocket Boy, War of the Worlds, Manimal, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman, Earth II, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Bamboo Saucer, Destination Inner Space, The Satan Bug, The Outer Limits, The Human Vapor, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!)

James Hong in Blade Runner.

1936 – Elizabeth MacRae, actress (Alien Zone)
1937 – Joanna Russ, sci-fi author (Female Man, Alyx)
1938 – Barry Dennen, actor (Weird Science, They Came from Outer Space, The Munsters Today, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Superman III)
1939 – Bridget Turner, actress (Doctor Who)

1944 – E J Peaker, actress (Out of this World)
1945 – Leslie Charleson, actress (Day of the Dolphin)
1948 – John Ashton, actor (The Tommyknockers, The Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

1950 – Ellen Greene, actress (The X-Files)

1953 – Nigel Planer, actor (Brazil)
1957 – Robert Bathurst, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Red Dwarf)
1957 – Harry Sothern, actor, d @ 72 (Buck Rogers)
1958 – Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Dune, Mysterious Island, Roswell)
1958 – Gillian Barber, actress (2012, The 4400, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Mysterious Ways, The Immortal, The 6th Day, First Wave, Millennium, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, The X Files, Sliders)

1960 – Brian Anthony Wilson, actor (Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard, Apocalypse Kiss, Limitless, The Happening, The Postman)
1965 – Steve Spiers, actor (Doctor Who, Star Wars: Episode I)
1966 – Thorsten Kaye, actor (Sliders)
1962 – Jeri Ryan, actress (Helix, Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Voyager, Dark Skies, Time Trax)
1969 – Thomas Jane, actor (The Mist, Deep Blue Sea, Mutant Chronicles, Face/Off, Nemesis)

1970 – Craig Warnock, actor (Time Bandits)
1970 – Joe Holt, actor (K-PAX)
1975 – Drew Barrymore, actress (Donnie Darko, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Altered States, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1977 – Anthony Nicholls, actor, d @ 74 (Space: 1999)

1981 – Daniel Cudmore, actor (Fringe, Revolution, Stargate: SG-1)
1982 – Dichen Lachman,actor (Dollhouse, Tyrannosaurus Azteca, Aquamarine, Torchwood)
1984 – Das Arche Noah Prinzip (The Noah’s Ark Principle) released in West Germany
1985 – Alexander Scourby, actor, d @ 81 (Twilight Zone)
1986 – Josh Helman, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road)
1986 – Miko Hughes, actor (Roswell)
1988 – Colton James, actor (The X-Files, The Cell, Sliders, House of Frankenstein (TV), The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
1989 – Joan Woodbury, actress, d @ 73 (The Time Travelers)
1989 – Bryce Hodgson, actor (The Tomorrow People, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1)

1993 – Babylon 5 debuted on PTEN
1995 – Ed Flanders, actor, d @ 60 (Tomorrow’s Child)

2011 – Nicholas Courtney, actor, d @ 81 (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Doomwatch, Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, Lust in Space, Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

posted by admin on Feb 21

1880 – Frank Orth, actor (Adventures of Superman)
1889 – Felix Aylmer, actor (The Hands of Orlac, Out of the Unknown)

1896 – Charles Wagenheim, actor (Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Science Fiction Theatre)
1897 – Celia Lovsky, actress (Soylent Green, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

Celia Lovsky in Star Trek

1900 – Sydney Arnold, actor (Doctor Who)

Sydney Arnold (left) as Perkins in Doctor Who

1905 – George Mitchell, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Animal People)

1912 – Arline Judge, actress (The Crawling Hand)
1914 – Zachary Scott, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow)

1925 – Al Fann, actor (ALF, The Incredible Hulk)

1934 – Rue McClanahan, actress (Starship Troopers)

1937 – Gary Lockwood, actor (Star Trek Equinox: The Night of Time, Unbelievable!!!!!, Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century, Dark Skies, Birth of a Timeless Legacy, Superboy, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Earth II, Star Trek)

Gary Lockwood in Star Trek

1939 – Richard Beymer, actor (The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9)

1946 – Anthony Daniels, actor (C3P0 – Star Wars)
1946 – Tyne Daly, actress (Swamp Thing, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1946 – Alan Rickman, actor (Galaxy Quest, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
1949 – Frank Brunner, illustrator

1950 – Larry Drake, actor (Gryphon, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Timequest, Star Trek: Voyager, Prey)
1952 – Mimi Kuzyk, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Total Recall 2070, Seaquest 2032, Quantum Leap)
1953 – Christine Ebersole, actress (Mac and Me, My Favorite Martian)
1953 – William Petersen, actor (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Twilight Zone)
1955 – Kelsey Grammer, actor (Star Trek: TNG)
1956 – Woody Brown, actor (Roswell, Alligator II: The Mutation)
1958 – Jack Coleman, actor (Heros, Polar Storm, Trapped in Space)
1958 – Kim Coates, actress (Mutant World, Robosapien: Rebooted, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Smallville, The Dresden Files, Thoughtcrimes, Earth: Final Conflict, Battlefield Earth, Total Recall 2070, Waterworld, RoboCop (TV), War of the Worlds (TV))

1961 – Martha Hackett, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Star Trek: DS9, Carnosaur, Hard Time on Planet Earth)
1963 – William Baldwin, actor (Virus, Flatliners)
1964 – Huw Higginson, actor (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
1967 – Charles Beaumont, writer, d @ 48 (Queen of Outer Space, Twilight Zone)

1971 – Jose Solano, actor (4:44 Last Day on Earth)

1985 – Louis Hayward, actor, d @ 75 (The Son of Dr. Jekyll)
1989 – Corbin Bleu, actor (Galaxy Quest)
1987 – Ellen Page, actress (Inception, ReGenesis)
1987 – Tuppence Middleton, actress (Jupiter Ascending)
1989 – Corbin Bleu, actor (Galaxy Quest)

1996 – Sophie Turner, actress (Mary Shelley’s Monster)
1996 – H.L. Gold, editor, d @ 81 (Galaxy Science Fiction 1950-1961)

2008 – Ben Chapman, actor, d @ 82 (Creature from the Black Lagoon)

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1906 – Gale Gordon, actor (The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock)
1907 – Malcolm Atterbury, actor (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, How to Make a Monster)
1908 – Leon Lontoc, actor (Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1912 – Pierre Boulle, sci-fi author (Planet of the Apes)
1915 – Philip Friend, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Robert Altman, director (Quintet)
1926 – Richard Matheson, sci-fi author/screenwriter (I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1930 – Patricia Smith, actress (Planet Earth, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1936 – Marj Dusay, actress (Galactica 1980, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Star Trek)

Marj Dusay in Star Trek

 
1936 – Larry Hovis, actor (Holmes & Yo-Yo, My Living Doll)

1936 – Larry Hovis, actor (Holmes & Yo-Yo, My Living Doll)

1942 – Peter Strauss, actor (Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone)

Peter Strauss in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.

1945 – Brion James, actor (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills, Cyberjack, M.A.N.T.I.S., Future Shock, Time Runner, Nemesis, Mutator, Cherry 2000, Annihilator,Galactica 1980, The Incredible Hulk)
1946 – Sandy Duncan, actress (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1947 – Jennifer O’Neill, actress (Scanners, Time Changer)

1950 – John Voldstad, actor (Space: Above and Beyond)
1951 – Edward Albert, actor (Galaxy of Terror, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Invasion America, The Girl From Mars)

1953 – George Pal’s movie adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds premieres in Hollywood (though not in general release until autumn), becoming the most successful science fiction film of the year.
1954 – Anthony Stewart Head, actor (Warehouse 13, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest, Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time, Doctor Who, VR.5

1960 – Joel Hodgson, comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Honey We Shrunk Ourselves)

Joel Hodgson of MST3K fame.

1963 – William Baldwin, actor (Flatliners)
1964 – French Stewart, actor (3rd Rock From the Sun, Stargate, Rise of the Zombies, Clockstoppers, Space: Above and Beyond)
1964 – Rodney Rowland, actor (The 6th Day, Space: Above and Beyond, FlashForward, Seven Days, The X-Files)
1964 – Willie Garson, actor (Stargate SG-1, What Planet Are You From?, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Mars Attacks!, Quantum Leap, VR-5, Taken)
1965 – Ron Eldard, actor (Super 8, Deep Impact)
1966 – Kimiko Gelman, actress (The Hunger Games, Minority Report)
1966 – Cindy Crawford, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)
1967 – Lili Taylor, actress (The X-Files)
1969 – Jack Ingram, actor, d @ 66 (Superman, Atom Man vs. Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)
1969 – Angelica Lisk-Hahn, actress (Warehouse 13, Jumper, Odyssey 5, Earth: Final Conflict)

1971 – Peter James Smith, actor (Serenity)
1973 – Kimberly Davies, actress (The Invisible Man (2001))
1973 – Maurice Dallimore, actor, d @ 60 (Twilight Zone)
1974 – Ophelie Winter, actor (2001: A Space Travesty)
1975 – Robert Strauss, actor, d @ 61 (The Munsters, 4D Man, The Atomic Kid)
1978 – Jay Hernandez, actor (Quarantine)
1978 – Lauren Ambrose, actress (Torchwood)

1981 – Majandra Delfino, actress (Ultra, Roswell)
1983 – Ray Vitte, actor, d @ 33 (The Powers of Matthew Star)
1987 – Cortney Palm, actress (Zombeavers, Alien Rising)
1987 – Miles Teller, actor (Divergent, Insurgent)
1988 – Rihanna, actress (This Is The End, Battleship)

1992 – Dick York, actor, d @ 63 (Twilight Zone)

2001 – Rosemary DeCamp, actress, d @ 90 (The Time Machine, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
2005 – John Raitt, actor, d @ 88 (3rd Rock from the Sun, Out There)
2009 – Robert Quarry, actor, d @ 83 (Droid Gunner, Mind Twister, Alienator, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Lost Saucer, Far Out Space Nuts)