Archive for February, 2015

posted by admin on Feb 19

1893 – Cedric Hardwicke, actor (The Unknown, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man Returns, Things to Come)

Cedric Hardwicke in The Outer Limits episode, The Forms of Things Unknown.

Cedric Hardwicke in The Outer Limits episode, The Forms of Things Unknown.

1902 – Nydia Westman, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Invisible Ray)

1920 – George Rose, actor (The Andromeda Breakthrough)

 

 

 

 

1924 – Lee Marvin, actor (Twilight Zone)

Lee Marvin in the Twilight Zone episode, Steel.

Lee Marvin in the Twilight Zone episode, Steel.

1930 – John Frankenheimer, director (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
1939 – Gwen Taylor, actress (Space: 1999)

1944 – John Bloom, actor (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant)
1948 – Big John Studd, actor (Hyperspace)

1952 – Lawrence Grant, actor, d @ 82 (Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer, actor (Mork & Mindy)

 

1955 – Jeff Daniels, actor (Looper, My Favorite Martian)

Jeff Daniels in Looper

Jeff Daniels in Looper

1957 – Ray Winstone, actor (Space Precinct)

1963 – Jessica Tuck, actress (Super 8, FlashForward, The Outer Limits, Millennium, Lois and Clark, Lifepod)
1965 – Forrest Taylor, actor, d @ 81 (The Lost Planet)
1965 – Kathleen Beller, actress (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1966 – Justine Bateman, actress (Hybrid, Lois & Clark)
1967 – Benicio Del Toro, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)
1968 – Ralph Dunn, actor, d @ 65 (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)
1969 – Madge Blake, actress, d @ 69 (My Favorite Martian

 

1970 – Bellamy Young, actor (Last Day on Earth, The X Files)
1974 – Caroline Chikezie, actress (AEon Flux)
1979 – Daniel Spink, actor (The Butterfly Effect I & III)

1983 – Mika Nakashima, actor (Resident Evil)
1983 – Brian Kubach, actor (Piranha 3D)
1986 – Ophelia Lovibond, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1989 – Luke Pasqualino, actor (Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Snowpiercer)

1995 – John Howard, actor, d @ 81 (Destination Inner Space, Men into Space, The Unknown Terror, Science Fiction Theatre)

2010 – Lionel Jeffries, actor, d @ 83 (Lexx, First Men in the Moon, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Quatermass Xperiment)

May all your tomorrows be happy ones!

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posted by admin on Feb 18

1890 – Adolphe Menjou, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1908 – Angelo Rossitto, actor (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Galaxina, Jason of Star Command, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

Angelo Rossitto in Invasion of the Saucer men.

Angelo Rossitto in Invasion of the Saucer men.

1919 – Jack Palance, actor (Lights Out, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Shape of Things to Come, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, Solar Crisis)

1920 – Jack Palance, actor (Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, Cyborg 2, Solar Crisis, Gor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Shape of Things to Come, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

 

 

 

 

1923 – Allan Melvin, actor (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

Allan Melvin (left) in Lost in Space.

Allan Melvin (left) in Lost in Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – George Kennedy, actor (Brain Dead, Demonwarp, The Terror Within, Day of Resurrection, Radioactive Dreams, Death Ship, The ‘Human’ Factor)

1941 – Andrea Dromm, actress (Star Trek)

Andrea Dromm as Yeoman Smith in Star Trek.

Andrea Dromm as Yeoman Smith in Star Trek.

1948 – Sinead Cusack, actress (The Deep (TV))
1949 – Jess Walton, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1950 – Cybill Shepherd, actress (No Ordinary Family)
1950 – John Hughes, writer (Weird Science)
1953 – The Magnetic Monster released
1954 – John Travolta, actor (Face/Off, Battlefield Earth)

1957 – Vanna White, actress (Looker)

1968 – Molly Ringwald, actress (The Outer Limits, The Stand, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone)

1970 – Susan Egan, actress (Galaxy Quest)

1970 – Tammy Macintosh, actress (Farscape)

1972 – Leigh Scott, director (Piranha Sharks, Frankenstein Reborn)
1977 – Kristoffer Polaha, actor (Dollhouse, Roswell)
1978 – Derrick De Marney, actor, d @ 71 (Projected Man, Things to Come)
1978 – Maggie McNamara, actress, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone)

1981 – Neil Fingleton, actor (Jupiter Ascending)
1982 – Tina Carver, actress, d @ 59 (The Man Who Turned to Stone, From Hell It Came)
1984 – Genelle Williams, actress (Warehouse 13, The Incredible Hulk)
1984 – Chelsea Hobbs, actress (Seven Days, Mysterious Ways)
1988 – Maiara Walsh, actress (Zombieland (TV])

1993 – Jacqueline Hill, actress, d @ 63 (Doctor Who, Out of This World)
1999 – Noam Pitlik, actor, d @ 66 (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

2000 – Pitch Black released
2013 – Elspet Gray, actress, d @ 83 (Doctor Who)

May all your tomorrows by happy ones!

posted by admin on Feb 17

1910 – Marc Lawrence, actor, (Doctor Who, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)
1911 – Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Arthur Hunnicutt in The Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence.

Arthur Hunnicutt in The Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence.

1912 – Andre Norton, sci-fi author (Witch World, Wizard’s World, Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D.)
1914 – Wayne Morris, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, The Return of Doctor X)
1914 – Arthur Kennedy, actor (Fantastic Voyage)
1919 – Kathleen Freeman, actress (Out of this World, The Munsters Today, ALF, The Fly)

1923 – Bill Kearns, actor, (Mutant)
1925 – Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (The Outer Limits, Capricorn One)

1934 – Alan Bates, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

 

1935 – Christina Pickles, actress (Masters of the Universe)
1936 – Jim Brown, actor (The Running Man, Mars Attacks!)

Jim Brown in Mars Attacks!

Jim Brown in Mars Attacks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Mary Ann Mobley, actress (The Fantastic Journey)

1945 – Brenda Fricker, actress (Quatermass, The Quatermass Conclusion)

Brenda Fricker in Quatermass.

Brenda Fricker in Quatermass.

1945 – Zina Bethune, actress (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)
1947 – Dallas Adams, actor (Doctor Who, Space 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1951 – Diane Chambers, actress (The Coed and the Zombie Stoner, Sharknado, Zombie Night)
1952 – Garry Chalk, actor (Tomorrowland, Monster Beach, Seven Days, Millennium, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)
1954 – Rene Russo, actress (Outbreak, Freejack)
1954 – Don Coscarelli, director (Phantasm I – IV)
1952 – Garry Chalk, actor (Godzilla 2014, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, M.A.N.T.I.S., Tomorrowland, Origins, Flash Gordon, Eureka)

 

1958 – Carole Davis, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)
1959 – The Cosmic Man released

1961 – Nita Naldi, actress, d @ 63 (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (SGU Stargate Universe, Termination Point, Sci Fi Inside: ‘The Triangle’, The Triangle, Alien Express, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Supernova)
1965 – Michael Bay, director (Transformers, Armageddon)
1965 – Jonathan Breck, actor (Evilution, Spiders, Star Trek: Voyager)
1967 – Michelle Forbes, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)
1968 – Donald Wolfit, actor, d @ 65 (The Hands of Orlac, Satellite in the Sky)
1969 – Tuesday Knight, actress (The X-Files, They Came from Outer Space)

1970 – Dominic Purcell, actor (Equilibrium, Blade: Trinity, The Lost World, Ice Soldiers, Primeval)
1971 – Denise Richards,actress (Scary Movie 3, Starship Troopers, Weird Science, Lois and Clark)
1974 – Jerry O’Connell, actor (Sliders, Space Station 76, Scary Movie 5, Mission to Mars, Piranha 3D)
1978 – Rory Kinnear, actor (First Men in the Moon)
1979 – Jackson Hurst, actor (The Mist)

1980 – Zachary Bennett, actor (Cube Zero, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)
1980 – Jason Ritter, actor (The Labyrinth, The Event)
1982 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (3rd Rock From the Sun, Looper, Quantum Leap, Inception)
1984 – Lucille Benson, actress, d @ 69 (Slaughterhouse-Five)
1986 – Paul Stewart, actor, d @ 77 (The Invisible Man, City Beneath the Sea)
1986 – Ahna O’Reilly, actress (DinoCroc)
1987 – Hal K Dawson, actor, d @ 90 (Superman and the Mole-Men, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, Science Fiction Theatre)
1989 – Chord Overstreet, actress (The Hole)

1990 – Marc Clement, actor, d @ 39 (Night Shadows)
1996 – Sasha Pieterse,a ctress (Heroes, Stargate SG-1)
1965 – Michael Bay, director (Transformers, Armageddon)
1999 – Shirley Stoler, actress, d @ 69 (The Powers of Matthew Star, Frankenhooker)

2003 – Peter Schrum, actor, d @ 68 (Quantum Leap, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Trancers, Galaxina)
2005 – F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, sci-fi author, d @ 83 (Star Rebel)
2005 – Dan O’Herlihy, actor, d @ 85 (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, VR.5, The Last Starfighter, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Death Ray 2000, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Invasion U.S.A.)
2013 – Richard Briers, actor, d @ 79 (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)

posted by admin on Feb 16

1901 – Chester Morris, actor (The She-Creature)
1907 – George Woodbridge, actor (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Revenge of Frankenstein)
1909 – Hugh Beaumont, actor (The Mole People, The Human Duplicators, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lost Continent)

Hugh Beaumont (right) in The Mole People

Hugh Beaumont (right) in The Mole People

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1926 – Paul Sorensen, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Salvage 1, Westworld, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

1927 – June Brown, actress (Doctor Who, Doomwatch)

June Brown in Doctor Who

June Brown in Doctor Who

1930 – Ricou Browning, actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us)
1932 – Gretchen Wyler, actress (Probe)
1933 – Don Knight, actor (Automan, Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Star, Small & Frye, Voyagers, Swamp Thing, Death in Space, The Immortal, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Munster Go Home! )

 

 

 

1936 – David Frankham, actor (The Outer Limits, Return of the Fly, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, Men Into Space)

David Frankham in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

David Frankham in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1938 – Barry Primus, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The X-Files)

1945 – Jeremy Bulloch, actor (Starhyke, Star Wars, Doctor Who)

1951 – William Katt, actor (The Man from Earth, Earthling, Heros, Bone Eater, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, Cyborg 3: The Recycler, Andromeda, Moon)
1954 – Iain [Menzies] Banks, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory, The State of the Art, The Hydrogen Sonata, Against a Dark Background)
1955 – Hunt Block, actor (Project: Tinman, Otherworld)
1956 – Vincent Ward, writer (Alien³)
1957 – LeVar Burton, actor (Star Trek)

 

1957 – Ardwight Chamberlain, actor (Babylon 5)
1958 – Ice-T, actor (Johnny Mnemonic)

1963 – Faran Tahir, actor (Elysium, Warehouse 13, Star Trek (2009))
1964 – Christopher Eccleston, actor (Heroes, Doctor Who, eXistenZ)
1967 – Faran Tahir, actor (Elysium. Warehouse 13,, Star Trek)
1967 – Pasha D. Lychnikoff, actress (Star Trek, Cloverfield)
1969 – Elisabeth Olsen, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1972 – Sarah Clarke, actress (The Tomorrow People)
1974 – Mahershala Ali, actress (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Alphas, Predators, The 4400)
1976 – Janet Varney, actress (Warehouse 13)
1978 – Eric Ladin, actor (Surface)
1979 – Louise Allbritton, actress, d @ 58 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1982 – Rolfe Sedan, actor, d @ 86 (Young Frankenstein, Adventures of Superman)
1985 – Larry Ward, actor, d @ 60 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)
1986 – Howard Da Silva, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits)
1986 – Howard Da Silva, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits)
1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1994 – Mackintosh Muggleton, actor (28 Weeks Later)
1996 – Jimmy Pinchak, actor (Ender’s Game)
1997 – Arthur Hewlett, actor, d @ 89 (Moondial, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Quatermass and the Pit)

2011 – Len Lesser, actor, d @ 88 (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Outer Limits)
2011 – Alfred Burke, actor, d @ 92 (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
2012 – Dick Anthony Williams, actor, d @ 77 (The X Files, Edward Scissorhands, Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Brave New World, Man from Atlantis)

posted by admin on Feb 15

1882 – John Barrymore, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)

1896 – Arthur Shields, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll)
1899 – Gale Sondergard, actress (The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1907 – Cesar Romero, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Latitude Zero, Lost Continent)

1914 – Kevin McCarthy, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers (1958 & 1978), Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)
1916 – Ian Ballentine, publisher (Ballentine Books)
1917 – Meg Wyllie, actress (Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

Meg Wyllie in Star Trek

Meg Wyllie in Star Trek

 

1918 – Alan Arbus, actor (Salvage 1)

1922 – Herman Kahn,sci-fi author (The Next 200 Years)
1923 – Keene Curtis, actor (Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek: Voyager, Logan’s Run, Strange New World, Stowaway to the Moon)
1927 – Harvey Korman, actor (Perversions of Science, The Invisible Woman, The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Munsters)
1927 – Carlos Romero, actor (Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Invaders)

 

 

1930 – Nico Minardos, actor (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

Nico Minardos in the Twilight Zone, episode The Gift.

Nico Minardos in the Twilight Zone, episode The Gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Claire Bloom, actress (Doctor Who, The Illustrated Man)

Claire Bloom as Doctor Who's mum.

Claire Bloom as Doctor Who’s mum.

1934 – Graham Kennedy, actor (On the Beach)
1939 – Jo Clayton, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)

1942 – Francis X. McCarthy, actor (Interstellar, CAT. 8, Smallville, Race to Mars, 10.5 Apocalypse, Odyssey 5, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, M.A.N.T.I.S., Alien Nation, ALF, The Man with Two Brains, Altered States)
1942 – Sherry Jackson, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1951 – Jane Seymour, actress (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1951 – The Stars Like Dust, Isaac Asimov’s second science fiction novel, is published
1955 – Christopher McDonald, actor (SGU Stargate Universe, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Renee Props, actress (Weird Science)
1962 – Vladimir Sokoloff, actor, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone, Beyond the Time Barrier, Monster from Green Hell, I Was a Teenage Werewolf)
1964 – Chris Farley, actor (Coneheads)
1966 – Kim Meyers, actress (Perversions of Science, Hellraiser: Bloodline)
1967 – Michael Easton, actor, (Total Recall: 2070, Mutant X)

1971 – Renee O’Connor, actress, (Ark, Monster Ark, Alien Apocalypse)
1973 – Charles J “Tim” Holt, actor, d @ 54 (The Monster that Challenged the World)
1973 – Wally Cox, actor, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone, Lost in Space)
1973 – Sara Wynter, actress (The 6th Day, Species II)
1979 – Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor (Quarantine, Ice Twisters, The 4400, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Outer Limits, The Girl From Mars)

1980 – Saturn 3 released in US
1983 – Ashley Tesoro, actress (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Mystery Monsters)
1988 – Jessica de Gouw, actress (These Final Hours)

1990 – Henry Brandon, actor, d @ 77 (War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits, The Land Unknown, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Buck Rogers)
1990 – Jack Fletcher, actor, d @ 68 (Small Wonder, Starman, The Munsters Today)
1990 – Moon 44 released
1996 – McLean Stevenson, actor, d @ 68 (The Astronauts)

2002 – Kevin Smith, actor, d @ 38 (Riverworld)
2007 – Walker Edmiston, actor.d @ 82 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Lost, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Lost Saucer, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek)

2014 – Christopher Malcolm, actor, d @ 67 (Whoops Apocalypse, Superman III, The Empire Strikes Back)
2014 – Cliff Bole, director, d @ 76 (The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, M.A.N.T.I.S., V, The Six Million Dollar Man)

May all your tomorrows be happy ones!

posted by admin on Feb 14

1902 – Ray Corrigan, actor (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, The Monster and the Ape, The Monster Maker, Undersea Kingdom, Flash Gordon, The Phantom Empire)

1916 – Edward Platt, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Men Into Space, Destination Space)

Edward Platt in 'The Outer Limits episode, The Man With the Power.

Edward Platt in ‘The Outer Limits episode, The Man With the Power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Lois Maxwell, actress (UFO)

Lois Maxwell in UFO

Lois Maxwell in UFO

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Vic Morrow, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Humanoids from the Deep, The Man with the Power, The Immortal)

Vic Morrow in Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Vic Morrow in Twilight Zone: The Movie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Jonathan Adams, actor (Star Cops, 1990, The Invisible Man)
1934 – Florence Henderson, actress (Out of This World)
1936 – Andrew Prine, actor (V, The Shadow Men, Star Trek: DS9, The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes, Weird Science, V: The Final Battle, The Bionic Woman, Gemini Man, The Invaders)
1942 – Andrew Robinson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Trancers III, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk)
1946 – Tina Aumont, actress (Dinosaur from the Deep)
1946 – Gregory Hines, actor, d @ 57 9 August 2003 (Eve of Destruction)

1950 – Frank Collison, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, K-PAX, Star Trek: TNG, The Lawnmower Man, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, The Blob (1988), Ghosts/Aliens, The Happening, Invasion, Star trek: DS9)
1952 – Anton Lesser, actor (Atlantis, Primeval, Invasion: Earth)
1955 – James Eckhouse, actor (Futurestates)
1959 – Matthias Hues, actor (Legion of the Dead, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

1960 – Meg Tilly, actress (Body Snatchers, Caprica)
1961 – Wallis Clark, actress, d @ 78 (The Lady and the Monster, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
1962 – Michael Higgs, actor (Wizards vs. Aliens, Frankenstein’s Wedding… Live in Leeds)
1963 – Zach Galligan, actor (Nightbeasts, Star Trek: Voyager, The Tomorrow Man, Cyborg 3: The Recycler)
1963 – Enrico Colantoni, actor (Galaxy Quest, Warehouse 13, Stargate: SG-1, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Outer Limits, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cloned)
1967 – Sig Ruman, actor, d @ 82 (Way… Way Out)
1969 – Wolfe Barzell, actor, d @ 72 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

1970 – Mark Lutz, actor (Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict, Specimen)
1970 – Simon Pegg, actor (Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Doctor Who)

1983 – Sebastian Pigott, actor (Darknet, Pacific Rim)
1984 – Stephanie Leonidas, actress (Defiance, Atlantis: End of the World)
1985 – Karima Adebibe, actress (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)
1987 – Joseph Pichler, actor (Lois and Clark)

1990 – Brett Dier, actor (Mega Cyclone, V, Meteor Storm, Smallville)
1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress, d @ 48 (Biohazard, Repo Man, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Star Trek, The Phantom Planet)
1993 – Shane Harper, actor (Re-Animated)
1994 – Allie Grant, actress (Zombie Basement)
1995 – Michael Vincent Gazzo, actor, d @ 71 (Automan, Alligator, Future Cop)
1996 – Mark Venturini, actor, d @ 35 (Space Rangers, Return of the Living Dead)

2007 – Lee Patterson, actor, d @ 77 (The Immortal, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
2010 – Andrew Koenig, actor, d @ 41 (InAlienable, Deep Space Nine)

May all your tomorrows be happy ones!

posted by admin on Feb 13

1895 – Fred Essler, actor, (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)

Fred Essler

Fred Essler

1908 – William Dozier, producer (Red Brown of the Rocket Rangers)

1912 – Margaretta Scott, actress (Things to Come)
1915 – Lyle Bettger, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)
1916 – James Griffith, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Amazing Transparent Man)

1932 – Susan Oliver, actress (Star Trek, Tomorrow’s Child, Death in Space, The Invaders, Death in Space, Twilight Zone)
1933 – Caroline Blakiston, actress (The War of the Starfighters, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Out of the Unknown, City Beneath the Sea)
1933 – Kim Novak, actress (Satan’s Triangle)

 

 

1933 – Barbara Shelley, actor (Doctor Who, Five Million Miles to Earth, The Gorgon, Village of the Damned, Blakes 7)

Barbara Shelley in Quatermass The Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.

Barbara Shelley in Quatermass The Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – George Segal, actor (2012, The Terminal Man)

George Segal in The Terminal Man.

George Segal in The Terminal Man.

1938 – Oliver Reed, actor (Spasms, The Brood, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Doctor Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1941 – Bo Svenson, actor (Deep Space)
1942 – Carol Lynley, actress (The Shape of Things to Come, The Immortal, Journey to the Unknown, The Invaders, Beware! The Blob)
1943 – Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
1943 – Donald Sumpter, actor (The Sarah Jane Chronicles, Doctor Who, Jekyll & Hyde, Atlantis (2013), The Lost Continent)
1944 – Michael Ensign, actor (The Drone Virus, Star Trek: Enterprise, Solaris, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Doctor Hackenstein, Voyagers!, WarGames, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Superman)
1946 – Joe Estevez, actor(Attack of the 30 Foot Chola, Zombie Farm, Rollergator, Cyber Seeker, Starman (TV), The Invisible Woman)

1951 – David Naughton, actor (Flying Virus, The Twilight Zone, Planet of the Apes)
1956 – Richard Eden, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070)
1957 – Leslie Bevis, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Alien Nation, Spaceballs, V)
1958 – Tip Tipping, actor (Doctor Who, Aliens)
1958 – Pernilla August, actress (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones)

1961 – Richard Tyson, actor (Flight of the Living Dead, Battlefield Earth)
1961 – Henry Rollins, actor (Johnny Mnemonic)
1963 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (The Relic, Robosapien: Rebooted)
1964 – Mark Patton, actor (Anna to the Infinite Power)
1965 – Stephen Manley, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
1966 – Tally Chanel, actress (Alien Warrier)
1966 – Neal McDonough, actor (Tin Man, The X-Files, Star Trek: First Contact, VR.5, Quantum Leap)
1968 – Kelly Hu, actress (Age of Tomorrow, Warehouse 13, Area 57, Strange Days)
1969 – Andrew Bryniarski, actor (Firefly, Lois & Clark, Cyborg 3)

1971 – Scott Levy, actress (The Helix… Loaded)
1974 – Michael DeMello, actor (Surrogates)
1979 – Mena Suvari, actress (Day of the Dead)

1980 – David Janssen, actor, d @ 49 (Marooned)
1989 – Carly McKillip, actress (Bionic Woman, The X-Files)

1990 – Ken Lynch, actor, d @ 79 (Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Munsters, Men into Space, Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)
1996 – Martin Balsam, actor, d @ 76 (Way Out, Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man, Space, Murder in Space, The Brother from Space)
1998 – Jo Clayton, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)

2014 – Ralph Waite, actor, d @ 85 (Timequest, The Outer Limits, Time Trax)

May all your tomorrows be happy ones!

posted by admin on Feb 12

1883 – Ludwig Stossel, actor (From the Earth to the Moon, Tales of Frankenstein, Science Fiction Theatre)

1905 – Harry Bellaver, actor (The Stuff, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)
1912 – Ernest Clark, actor (It!, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1919 – Forrest Tucker, actor (The Crawling Eye, The Strange World of Planet X, The Bionic Woman, Timestalkers)
1919 – Lorne Greene, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica.

Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica.

1927 – Anne Gillis, actress (2001: A Space Odyssey, Out There)
1927 – H.M. Wynant, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Solar Crisis, Earthbound, Future Cop, The Six Million Dollar Man, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1931 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, actor (Fortress, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Omega Man)
1933 – Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)

 

 

1934 – Annette Crosbie, actress (Doctor Who)

Annette Crosbie in the Doctor Who episode, The Eleventh Hour.

Annette Crosbie in the Doctor Who episode, The Eleventh Hour.

1936 – Joe Don Baker, actor (Mars Attacks!, Congo)
1936 – Paul Shenar, actor, d @ 53 (The Invisible Man (TV), Gemini Man, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run (TV))
1939 – John D Hancock, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1940 – Richard Lynch, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Super Force, Alligator II: the Mutation, Invasion Force, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman)
1940 – Ralph Bates, actor (Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Moonbase 3, The Horror of Frankenstein)
1945 – Cliff De Young, actor (Flight of the Navagator, Threshold, Timecop, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Lois & Clark, Carnasaur 2, Terminal Voyage, RoboCop, Time Trax, The X-Files, The Tommyknockers, Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone)
1945 – Maud Adams, actress (Rollerball)
1948 – Ray Kurzwei, sci-fi author (The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity is Near)
1949 – Robin Thomas Grossman, actress (Pacific Rim, Clockstoppers)

1950 – Michael Ironside, actor (Ice Soldiers, Meltdown on the Ice Planet, Smallville, Terminator Salvation, Mutants, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Ignition, Mindstorm, Starship Troopers, SeaQuest 2032, Total Recall, V, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Scanners)

Michael Ironside in Starship Troopers

Michael Ironside in Starship Troopers

1952 – Larry Joshua, actor (The X Files, War of the Worlds (TV))
1952 – Simon MacCorkindale, actor (Manimal, Wing Commander, Earth: Final Conflict, Quatermass (TV), The Quatermass Conclusion)
1953 – Nabil Shaban, actor (Children of Men, Doctor Who)
1953 – Robin Thomas, actor (Pacific Rim, Clockstoppers, Misfits of Science)
1953 – Joanna Kerns, actress (V, Ape)
1954 – Zach Grenier, actor (RoboCop, Star Trek: Enterprise, The X Files)
1959 – Sigrid Thornton, actress (Trapped in Space)

 

1963 – John Michael Higgins, actor (Blade: Trinity, Bicentennial Man, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Weird Science)
1964 – Raphael Sbarge, actor (Once Upon a Time, Heroes, Dollhouse, Dark Skies, Independence Day, Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032, Carnosaur, Quantum Leap, My Science Project)
1965 – Christine Elise, actress (Escape from Mars, Body Snatchers)
1965 – Henry Kulky, actor, d @ 53 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tobor the Great, Adventures of Superman, Red Planet Mars, )
1965 – Alex Meneses, actor (Amanda and the Alien)
1966 – Lochlyn Munro, actor (Tomorrowland, Mysterious Island (2012), Infection: The Invasion Begins, Xtinction: Predator X, Smallville, Andromeda, Dracula 2000, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, The Girl from Mars)
1968 – Josh Brolin, actor (Men in Black 3, Jonah Hex, Planet Terror, Hollow Man, Mimic, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1975 – Michael Bower, actor (Evolution, The X Files, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Weird Science (TV))
1976 – Sal Mineo, actor, d @ 37 (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal)
1976 – Christopher Pettiet, actor (Seaquest 2032, Star Trek: TNG)
1979 – Jesse Spencer, actor (Time Trax)

1980 – Enver Gjokaj, actor (Dollhouse, The Walking Dead)
1982 – Victor Jory, actor, d @ 79 (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Science Fiction Theatre, Cat-Women of the Moon)

1985 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor, d @ 61 (My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1987 – Clare-Hope Ashitey, actress (Children of Men)
1987 – Lang Jeffries, actor, d @ 56 ( …4 …3 …2 …1 …morte)

1997 – Sam Webb, actor (Transcendence)

2007 – Randy Stone, actor, d @ 48 (Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium)

2011 – Kenneth Mars, actor d @ 75 (Weird Science, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science, Project U.F.O., Young Frankenstein)
2011 – Betty Garrett, actress, d @ 91 (Trail of the Screaming Forehead)
2012 – David Kelly, actor, d @ 82 (Stardust, Whoops Apocalypse)
2012 – Zina Bethune, actress, d @ 66 (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

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1903 – Rex Lease, actor (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1915 – Pat Welsh, actor (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, E.T.)
1917 – Sidney Sheldon, writer, d @ 89 30 January 2007 (The Twilight Zone)
1919 – Eva Gabor, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1920 – Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)
1920 – Billy Halop, actor (Land of the Giants)
1926 – Leslie Nielsen, actor (Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Travesty, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tales of Tommorow, Lights Out, Out There)

Leslie Neilsen in 2001, A Space Travesty.

Leslie Neilsen in 2001, A Space Travesty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Conrad Janis, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, V, The Invisible Man, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Tina Louise, actress (The Stepford Wives)
1936 – Burt Reynolds, actor (Twilight Zone, Out of This World, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, The X-Files, Frankenstein and Me)

Burt Reynolds in Frankenstein and Me

Burt Reynolds in Frankenstein and Me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart’s Blood)
1939 – D’Urville Martin, actor (The Invaders)
1940 – John Fink, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)
1941 – Sonny Landham, actor (2090, Predator)

Sonny Landham in Predator

Sonny Landham in Predator

1947 – Brian C Daley, sci-fi author, d @ 48 (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)

1952 – Philip Anglim, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Millennium)
1954 – Wesley Strick, writer (Arachnophobia, Doom)
1956 – Kathleen Beller, actress (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1956 – Catherine Hickland, actress (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Robowar – Robot da Guerra)

1962 – Becky LeBeau, actress (Dinosaur Island, Not of This Earth)

 

1962 – Scott Kolden, actor (The Day Time Ended)
1966 – Stephen Gregory, actor (Star Trek: TNG)
1969 – Jennifer Aniston, actress (Quantum Leap)
1969 – James Lanphier, actor, d @ 48 (The Time Tunnel, The Deadly Mantis)
1969 – Michael Reeves, director, d @ 25 (She Beast, Castle of the Living Dead)

1971 – Damian Lewis, actor (Life Force)
1976 – Lee J Cobb, actor, d @ 64 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1980 – Matthew Lawrence, actor (Big Monster on Campus, Pulse)
1981 – Dru Viergever, actor (The Colony, Survival of the Dead)
1982 – Natalie Dormer, actress (The Hunger Games – Mockingjay,)
1983 – Nicki Clyne, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Twilight Zone, Smallville, Level 9)
1985 – Sarah Butler, actress (Moontrap: Target Earth)
1985 – Harris Allan, actor (The 4400, Smallville)
1986 – Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Dune)
1989 – George O’Hanlon, actor, d @ 76 (The Jetsons, Kronos)

1992 – Blair Dunlop, actor (Rocket Man)
1993 – Joy Garrett, actress, d @ 47 (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Robo Man)
1994 – Sorrell Booke, actor, d @ 64 (Slaughterhouse-Five, The Cat from Outer Space)
1996 – William F. Claxton, director, d @ 81 (The Night of the Lepus, Twilight Zone)
1996 – Bob Shaw, sci-fi author, d @ 64
1997 – Don Porter, actor, d @ 84 (Bionic Woman ,The Six Million Dollar Man)
1997 – Barry Evans, actor, d @ 53 (Journey to the Unknown)

2000 – Roger Vadim, director, d @ 72 (Barbarella)
2002 – Barry Foster, actor, d @ 74 (Doomwatch)
2005 – Jack L[aurence] Chalker, sci-fi author, d @ 64 (Saga of Well World)
2012 – Iron Sky released

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1890 – Robert Keith, actor (Twilight Zone)
1896 – Olin Howlin, actor (Them!, The Blob)
1897 – Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

Judith Anderson in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Judith Anderson in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

1905 – John Dierkes, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Omega Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Thing from Another World)
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told, The Alligator People, The Cyclops, Indestrutible Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Man Made Monster)

 

 

 

1910 – Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing from Another World, This Island Earth, Twilight Zone)

Douglas Spencer in the Twilight Zone episode, Mr Dingle the Strong.

Douglas Spencer in the Twilight Zone episode, Mr Dingle the Strong.

1913 – Philippa Bevans, actress (Twilight Zone)
1916 – Walter Reedm actor (The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, World of Giants, How to Make a Monster, Adventures of Superman, Flying Disc Man from Mars)

1920 – Neva Patterson, actress (V, V: The Final Battle, Logan’s Run)
1926 – Hazel Courtd,actress (Twilight Zone, The Curse of Frankenstein, Devil Girl From Mars)
1928 – John Ringham, actor (Doctor Who)
1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer (Star Trek, Congo, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Robert Wagner, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, City Beneath the Sea)

 

1939 – Peter Purves, actor (Doctor Who)

1949 – Harold Sylvester, actor (Innerspace, Space Rage)

1953 – John Shirley, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)
1957 – Not of This Earth released
1958 – Bess Motta, actress (The Terminator)

1960 – Robert Addie, actor (Red Dwarf, Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups , Red Dwarf Smeg Outs)
1967 – Laura Dern, actress (Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III)
1967 – Vince Gilligan, writer (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen)

1970 – Paul Kersey, actor (Hulk, Lois & Clark)
1973 – Rob Carpenter, actor (iZombie, V (2010), Condition Human, Flash Gordon (2007))
1974 – Elizabeth Banks, actress (The Hunger Games)
1976 – Keeley Hawes, actress (Doctor Who)

1986 – Brian Aherne, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone)
1988 – Jade Ramsey, actress (Gamer)
1988 – Nikita Ramsey, actress (Gamer)

1997 – Chloe Grace Moretz, actress (The Fifth Wave)
1999 – Tiffany Espensen, actress (Earth to Echo, Repo Men)

2000 – Jim Varney, actor, d @ 50 (Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam)

Jim Varney as Dr Otto.

Jim Varney as Dr Otto.

2001 – Lewis Arquette, actor, d @ 65 (FreakyLinks, Hypernauts, Babylon 5, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Seaquest 2032, Quantum Leap, Syngenor, Down To Earth, The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlanta)
2008 – Roy Scheider, actor, d @ 75 (2010, SeaQuest 2032)
2008 – Steve Gerber, writer, d @ 60 (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck)

2012 – Journey 2: The Mysterious Island released

 

 

 

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