Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on Mar 21

1891 – Jonathan Hale, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1902 – Carl Jaffe, actor (First Man in Space, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky, The Atomic Man)
1902 – Gustav Frohlich, actor (Metropolis)

1918 – Cliff Norton, actor (It’s About Time, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll)
1919 – Lois Collier, actress (Flying Disc Man from Mars)

Lois Collier in Flying Disc Man From Mars

1921 – Logan Ramsey, actor (Dr Hackenstein, ALF, Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, Star Trek)

Logan Ramsey as Claudius Marcus in the Star Trek episode, Bread and Circuses.

1923 – Peter Pratt, actor (Doctor Who)
1923 – Philip Abbott, actor (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)

Philip Abbott in The Outer Limits episode, ZZZZZ.

1924 – Roy Poole, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)
1930 – James Coco, actor (The Stepford Children, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1931 – Al Williamson, illustrator (Flash Gordon)
1936 – Roger Hammond, actor (Morons from Outer Space, Doctor Who)
1939 – Kathleen Widdoes, actress (The Invaders, ‘Way Out)

1940 – Alex Courtney, actor (Programmed to Kill, The Bionic Woman)
1944- Timothy Dalton, actor (Doctor Who, The Rocketeer, Flash Gordon)
1944 – Lorene Yarnell Jansson, actress (Spaceballs)

1955 – Jean Marie Hon, actress (Man from Atlantis, Ark II, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)
1957 – Sabrina Le Beauf, actress (Star Trek: TNG)
1958 – Cyril M Kornbluth, sci-fi author, d @ 34 (Space Merchants)
1958 – Gary Oldman, actor (Lost in Space, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, RoboCop, The Fifth Element)

1961 – Kassie Wesley DePaiva, actress (Time Trax)
1962 – Matthew Broderick, actor (WarGames, Godzilla, Project X, Stepford Wives (2004))
1962 – Kathryn Greenwood, actress (RoboCop (TV))
1964 – Phillip Troy Linger, actor (The Hunger Games)
1968 – Greg Ellis, actor (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Omega Code 2)
1968 – Karyn Kusama, director (Aeon Flux)
1968 – Jaye Davidson, actor (Stargate)

1973 – Vanessa Branch, actress (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: Voyager, The Cell)
1973 – Jerry Supiran, actor (Small Wonder, Galactica 1980)
1974 – Laura Allen, actress (The 4400)
1974 – Joseph Mawle, actor (Sense8)
1977 – Sam Troughton, actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)

1981 – Honorine Bell, actress (A Guy, A Girl, A Space Helmet)
1985 – Sonequa Martin-Green, actress (The Walking Dead)
1985 – Michael Redgrave, actor, d @ 77 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1987 – Dean Paul Martin, actor, d @ 35 (Misfits of Science)
1987 – Robert Preston, actor, d @ 68 (The Last Starfighter)
1989 – Milton Frome, actor, d @ 80 (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)

1992 – John Ireland, actor, d @ 72 (War of the Worlds, Salvage 1, The Shape of Things to Come, Planet of the Apes)
1994 – MacDonald Carey, actor, d @ 81 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, End of the World, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre)
1994 – Dack Rambo,actor, d @ 52 (Ultra Warrior)
1995 – Robert Urquhart, actor, d @ 72 (The Curse of Frankenstein, Doomwatch)

2005 – Barney Martin, actor, d @ 82 (I Married a Monster, The Twilight Zone)

2013 – Scavangers released
2014 – James Rebhorn, actor, d @ 65 (Independence Day, Coma)
2014 – Divergent released

posted by admin on Mar 20

1883 – Colin Campbell, actor (Twilight Zone, The Lost World, Adventures of Superman)

1895 – Fredric Wertham, sci-fi author (Seduction of the Innocent, The World of Fanzines)

1902 – Edgar Buchanan, actor (Twilight Zone)
1904 – B.F. Skinner, sci-fi author, d @ 86 18 August 1990 (Walden Two)
1908 – Michael Redgrave, actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1913 – Judith Evelyn, actress (The Tingler)

Judith Evelyn in The William Castle movie, The Tingler which starred Vincent Price.

1914 – Crahan Denton, actor (The Outer Limits)

Crahan Denton as Sheriff Simon Stakefield in The Outer Limits episode, The Children of Spider County.

1915 – Wendell Corey, actor (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Cyborg 2087, The Astro-Zombies)

1922 – Carl Reiner, director (The Man with Two Brains)
1922 – Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars, The Monster of Piedras Blancas)
1922 – Jack Kruschen, actor (Lois & Clark, The Time Machine, The Incredible Hulk, The Angry Red Planet, Adventures of Superman, The War of the Worlds)

1931 – Hal Linden, actor (Light Years Away, Time Changer, Starflight: The Plane that Couldn’t Land, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster, Destroy All Monsters)

1931 – Karen Steele, actress (Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Toward the Unknown)

Karen Steele in the Star Trek episode, Mudd’s Women.

1947 – Chip Zien, actor (Howard the Duck)
1948 – John de Lancie, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles, Torchwood, Gamer, My Apocalypse, Invader ZIM, Charmed, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Multiplicity, Legend, Time Trax, The Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica [1979], The Six Million Dollar Man)
1948 – Pamela Sargent, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)

1950 – William Hurt, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Lost in Space, Dark City, Frankenstein, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dune)
1950 – Tom Towles, actor (Firefly, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, VR.5, Star Trek: DS9)

1951 – Tanya Boyd, actress (The Twilight Zone)
1952 – John W. Campbell, Jr. publishes The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, the third such magazine anthology within a month, helping to cement that magazine’s reputation as the leading science fiction magazine of the 1940s.
1957 – Theresa Russell, actress (Fringe, Earth vs. the Spider)
1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway, actress (Prey
1958 – Holly Hunter, actress (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)
1959 – Steve McFadden, actor (Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time)

1961 – Karen M. Waldron, actress (Space Cowboys, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!)
1961 – John Clark Gable, actor (Beyond)
1963 – David Thewlis, actor (The Island of Dr Moreau)
1963 – Kathy Ireland, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Alien from L.A., Journey to the Center of the Earth)
1963 – Stephen Sommers, director (Deep Rising)
1964 – Leif Tilden, actor (Invader)
1967 – Bryan Genesse, actor (Terminal Virus, Cyborg Cop III)
1967 – Marc Warren, actor (Doctor Who)

1971 – Ingrid Kavelaars, actress (V (2009), ReGenesis, Stargate SG-1, Code Name: Eternity, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, Millennium, Specimen)
1971 – Liam Waite, actor (Ghosts of Mars)
1972 – Solaris released in USSR
1974 – Paula Garces, actress (Warehouse 13, Clockstoppers)
1976 – Michael Goodliffe, actor, d @ 61 (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The End Begins)
1979 – Freema Agyeman, actress (Doctor Who)
1979 – Bianca Lawson, actress (Supergator)
1979 – Georgia Craig, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Dawn of the Dead)

1980 – Talia Russo, actress (ReGenesis)
1984 – Christy Carlson Romano, actress (Infected)
1984 – Rami Malek, actor (Battleship)
1986 – Dean Geyer, actor (Terra Nova)
1989 – Alan Gifford, actor, d @ 78 (2001: A Space Odyssey, Phase IV, The Outer Limits, The Monsters, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky)

1995 – Samantha Weinstein, actress (Darknet, Swarmed)
1995 – Big John Studd, actor, d @ 47 (Hyperspace)

2007 – Battlespace released
2008 – Brian Wilde, actor, d @ 80 (Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch)

posted by admin on Mar 19

1873 – Arthur Hoyt, actor (The Lost World)

1906 – Roy Roberts, actor (The Munsters, Twilight Zone)
1907 – Kent Smith, actor (Probe, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Moon Pilot, Science Fiction Theatre)

Kent Smith in The Outer Limits episode, It Crawled Out of the Woodwork.

1909 – Louis Hayward, actor (The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1914 – Fred Clark, actor (Visit to a Small Planet, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)
1916 – Eric Christmas, actor (The X Files, Eerie Indiana, ALF, Misfits of Science, The Philadelphia Experiment, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Andromeda Strain)

1920 – Tige Andrews, actor, d @ 86 (Misfits of Science, Star Trek)
1924 – Mary Wimbush, actress (K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend)
1928 – Patrick McGoohan, actor (Hysteria, Scanners)
1928 – Jan Shepard, actress (Land of the Giants, Attack of the Giant Leeches)

1931 – Florence Rice, actress (The Dark)
1932 – Gail Kobe, actress (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Destination Space)

Gail Kobe in The Outer Limits episode, Specimen Unknown.

1933 – Philip Roth, sci-fi author (The Plot Against America)
1933 – Renée Taylor, actress (Lois & Clark)
1935 – Burt Metcalfe, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Space Children)

Burt Metcalfe in The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy Being.

1936 – Ursula Andress, actress (Manimal)

1947 – Glenn Close, actress (Mary Reilly, Mars Attacks!, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Stepford Wives (2004))
1947 – Dermot Crowley, actor (HG Wells: War with the World, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)

1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Mars Saga, John Carter)
1951 – Ron Clinton Smith, actor (Coma (2012), The Mist)
1952 – Harvey Weinstein, producer (Knight Rider, Dark Skies, Escape for Planet Earth, Piranha 3D, Apollo 18, The Mist, Planet Terror, Mimic)

1955 – Bruce Willis, actor (Armagedden, The Fifth Element, Looper, Planet Terror, The Astronaut Farmer, The Twilight Zone, Twelve Monkeys, Mecury Rising, Surrogates)
1957 – James Blish’s The Frozen Year, one of the few science fiction novels to specifically address the International Geophysical Year, is published by Ballantine.

1963 – Geoffrey Lower, actor (Quantum Leap)
1964 – Jake Weber, actor (Dawn of the Dead)
1968 – Woody Schultz, actor (Avatar, Alien Hunter)
1969 – Connor Trinneer, actor (Star Runners, Star Trek: Enterprise, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate: Atlantis, Sliders)

1971 – Dalton James, actor (Encino Man)
1973 – Simmone Jade Mackinnon, actress (Deep Shock, The Lost World)
1974 – Edward Platt, actor, d @ 58 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Men Into Space, Destination Space)
1977 – Jorma Taccone, actor (Land of the Lost)
1979 – Al Hodge, actor, d @ 65 (Captain Video)

1982 – Kelly Vint, actress (Stargate)
1987 – Emile Meyer, actor, d @ 76 (My Favorite Martian)

1992 – Cesare Danova, actor, d @ 66 (Tenticles, The Astral Factor, Gemini Man)
1993 – Munro Chambers, actor (Godsend
1999 – Tatum McCann, actress (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
1999 – Farscape debuted on Sci-Fi channel

2003 – Rick Zumwalt, actor, d @ 51 (Timecop)
2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi author, d @ 90 (2001, 2010, Childhood’s End)
2009 – Harry Harris, director, d @ 76 19 March 2009(Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

It’s an all Outer Limits day today. May all your tomorrows by happy ones!

posted by admin on Mar 18

1888 – Edward Everett Horton, actor (2000 Years Later, Down to Earth, Lost Horizon)
1888 – Alexander Leydenfrost, illustrator

1894 – Norbert Wiener, sci-fi author, d @ 69 (The Machine Age)

1926 – Peter Graves, actor (Beginning of the End, Killers from Space, Red Planet Mars, The Invaders, The Clonus Horror, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

Peter Graves in Beginning of the End

1929 – Jack B. Sowards, writer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

1929 – Jack B. Sowards, writer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

1945 – Susan Tyrell, actress (Digital Man, Forbidden Zone)
1947 – Drew Struzan, illustrator

1950 – Brad Dourif, actor (End of the World, Once Upon a Time, Fringe, Alien: Resurrection, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, The X Files, Dune)

Brad Dourif in Alien Resurrection

1950 – Jim Knobeloch, actor (Iron Sky)
1959 – Luc Besson, director (The Fifth Element, Lucy)

1960 – Richard Biggs, actor (Babylon 5, The Alien Within, Twilight Zone)
1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, actor (Timecop: The Berlin Decision)
1963 – Vanessa Williams, actress (WW 3, Futuresport, The Odyssey, Star Trek: DS9)
1968 – Tamer Hassan, actor (Robot Overlords)

1970 – Queen Latifah, actress (Sphere)
1978 – Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass],sci-fi author/screenwriter, D @ 62 (Ginger Star, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)
1979 – Jareb Dauplaise, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1980 – Sophia Myles, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction,Outlander, , Doctor Who, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution)

Sophia Myles in Doctor Who

1981 – Vanessa Evigan, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Sand Sharks)
1981 – Chris Geere, actor (After Earth)
1985 – Duane Henry, actor (Doctor Who)
1989 – Lily Collins, actress (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1996 – Madeline Carroll, actress (Resident Evil: Extinction)

2002 – R.A. Lafferty, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (b. 1914)
2006 – Michael Attwell, actor, d @ 63 (Doctor Who)

2010 – Fess Parker, actor, d @ 85 (Them!)
2014 – Lucius Shepard, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (Barnacle Bill The Spacer)

posted by admin on Mar 17

1906 – Brigitte Helm, actress (Metropolis, Queen of Atlantis, The Lost Atlantis)

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang in 1927

1910 – Frank DeKova, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Teenage Cave Man)
1913 – Charles Lampkin, actor (Cocoon, The Incredible Hulk, Gemini Man)

1927 – Patrick Allen, actor (UFO, Journey to the Unknown, Island of the Burning Damned, 1984)

1931 – Eunice Gayson, actress (The Revenge of Frankenstein)
1933 – Ken Barr, illustrator
1936 – Patty Maloney, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, A.J.’s Time Travelers, The Ice Pirates, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1945 – Tanya Lemani, actress (Star Trek)
1948 – William [Ford] Gibson, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)

1948 – William [Ford] Gibson, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1949 – Patrick Duffy, actor (Man from Atlantis)

1951 – Kurt Russell, actor (The Thing, Stargate, Escape from New York, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Lost in Space, Escape from L.A.)

Kurt Russell in the Lost in Space episode The Challenge

1954 – Lesley-Anne Down, actress (Out of the Unknown)
1955 – Bill Beyers, actor (The Incredible Hulk)
1955 – Gary Sinise, actor (Mission to Mars)

Gary Sinise in Mission to Mars

1955 – Mark Boone Jr, actor (Frankenfish, Armageddon)
1957 – Laurene Landon, actress (Marilyn: Zombie Hunter, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive, America 3000, The Stuff)
1959 – Christian Clemenson, actor (Lois & Clark, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1960 – Vicki Lewis, actress (Godzilla 1998)
1960 – Arye Gross, actor (Minority Report, Fringe, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Timelock)
1960 – Cameron Thor, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG, Jurassic Park)
1961 – Casey Siemaszko, actor (Back to the Future 1 & 2)

1961 – Andrew Paul, actor (The Day of the Triffids)
1962 – Frank Orth, actor, d @ 82 (Adventures of Superman)
1964 – Bill Marchant, actor (Chappie, Godzilla 2014, The 100, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Millennium)
1964 – Rob Lowe, actor (Apocalypse Slough, The Stand)
1967 – Richard Reeves, actor, d @ 54 (Target Earth, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superboy, Adventures of Superman)
1968 – Mathew St. Patrick, actor (Alien Raiders)

1971 – Brent Roam, actor (Deep Blue Sea)
1973 – Amelia Weatherly, actress (Earth vs. the Spider)
1974 – Willard Sage, actor, d @ 51 (The Outer Limits, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek)
1974 – Jennifer Lothrop, actress (Flatland)
1974 – Janaya Stephens, actress (Death Race, Category 7: The End of the World, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Mutant X, Lexx)
1974 – Marisa Coughlan, Space Station 76, The Twilight Zone, Weird Science)
1975 – Natalie Zea, actor (Under the Dome)
1975 – Gina Holden, actress (Avalanche Sharks, Dracano, Fringe, Mysterious Island, Smallvile, Flash Gordon, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)
1976 – Brittany Daniel, actress (Skyline)
1978 – Adam Jennings, actor (Mars Needs Moms)

1989 – Merritt Butrick, actor, d @ 29 (Star Trek II and III, Star Trek: TNG)

1992 – Jack Arnold, director, d @ 75 (Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space)
1992 – Charles Rea, actor, d @ 69 (Doomwatch)
1993 – Skip Young, actor, d @ 63 (Earth vs. the Spider, Lobster Man from Mars)
1995 – Rick Aviles, actor, d @ 42 (Waterworld, The Stand)

2005 – Andre Norton, sci-fi author, d @ 93 (Witch World, Wizard’s World, Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D.)

2011 – Michael Gough d @ 95 (Doctor Who, They Came From Beyond Space)

posted by admin on Mar 16

1876 – Charles Halton, actor (Dr Cyclops)

1904 – Clive Morton, actor (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Monsters, Out of This World)

Clive Marton in the Doctor Who episode, The Sea Devils.

1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, actress (Lost in Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

Mercedes McCambridge in Lost in Space

1920 – Leo McKern, actor (Space: 1999, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, X the Unknown)
1926 – Jerry Lewis, actor (Slapstick (of Another Kind), The Nutty Professor, Visit to a Small Planet)
1926 – Victor Maddern, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who)

1935 – Eddie Carmel, actor (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die)
1938 – Nancy Fish b. 1938 (Early Edition, The X Files, The Mask, Death Becomes Her, Tales from the Crypt, Werewolf, Howard the Duck)

1946 – Erik Estrada, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Alien Seed, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1948 – Margaret [Edith] Weis, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1949 – Victor Garber, actor (Star Trek, ReGenesis, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)
1949 – Michael MacRae, actor (Battlefield Earth, The X Files, Automan, Coma, Future Cop)

1950 – Kate Nelligan, actress (A Wrinkle in Time)
1951 – Steven Grives, actor (20,000 Leauges under the Sea, Time Trax, Horror Planet)
1952 – Irwin Keyes, actor (Professor Creepy’s Scream Party, Dead Kansas, Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong, Legend of the Phantom Rider, Black Scorpion, Here Come the Munsters, Timemaster, Tales from the Crypt, Adventures in Dinosaur City, Frankenstein General Hospital, Nice Girls Don’t Explode, Zapped!, Nocturna)
1954 – Jimmy Nail, actor (Morons from Outer Space)

1963 – Kevin Smith, actor (Riverworld)
1966 – Ted Ludzik, actor (Warehouse 13, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, RoboCop: Prime Directives)
1967 – Lauren Graham, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)
1969 – Judah Friedlander, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One)

1971 – Ashley Miller, writer (Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Andromeda)
1971 – Alan Tudyk, actor (I Robot, V, Serenity, Firefly, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Dollhouse)
1973 – Carl Benton Reid, actor, d @ 79 (The Underwater City)
1975 – Sienna Guillory, actress (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Time Machine, Virtuality
1975 – Tara Buck, actress (The X Files)
1975 – Sienna Guillory, actress (Resident Evil, The Time Machine)
1978 – Sophie Hunter, actress (Torchwood)

1984 – Shug Fisher, actor, d @ 76 (The Giant Gila Monster)
1984 – The Ice Pirates released
1986 – Alexandra Daddario, actor (The Last Man on Earth, Percy Jackson, Texas Chainsaw 3D)
1987 – Kristopher Higgins, actor (In Time)

1993 – Don Randolph, actor, d @ 87 (The Deadly Mantis)
1996 – Charlie Barnett, actor, d @ 41 (They Bite

2006 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author, d @ 61
2008 – Ivan Dixon, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

posted by admin on Mar 15

1904 – Pat J O’Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Lights Out)
1904 – George Brent, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)
1907 – Paul Maxey, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1913 – MacDonald Carey, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, End of the World, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre)

MacDonald Carey in The Outer Limits episode, The Special One.

1915 – Richard Ward, actor (The Immortal)
1915 – Joe E. Ross, actor (It’s About Time, The Lost Saucer)

Joe E. Ross in It’s About Time

1919 – Lawrence Tierney, actor (Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1924 – Walter Gotell, actor (The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Boys from Brazil, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, 1984)

1935 – Judd Hirsch, actor (Independence Day, Sharknado, Warehouse 13)

1943 – David Cronenberg, director (eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, The Fly, Videodrome, Scanners, They Came from Within)
1945 – Henry Victor, actor, d @ 52 (King of the Zombies)
1949 – John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
1949 – Brad Blaisdell, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Dark Skies, Evolver, Small Wonder, World War III)

1950 – The Mutual Radio network debuts 2000 Plus, the earliest effort at an adult-oriented science fiction anthology radio drama, which will run until January 1952.

2000 Plus radio show began

1954 – Craig Wasson, actor (The Tomorrow Man, Star Trek: DS9, Trapped in Space)
1956 – Forbidden Planet, directed by Fred Wilcox, is released, becoming one of the most popular of all science fiction films, with its elaborate special effects, unusually sophisticated plot, and pioneering use of electronic music.
1957 – Joaquim de Almeida, actor (Revolution, Robosapien: Rebooted)
1958 – Laura Carrington, actress (Max Headroom)
1959 – Renny Harlin, director (T.R.A.X., Deep Blue Sea)

1964 – Paul Cavanagh, actor, d @ 75 (Adventures of Superman, She Devil, Space Patrol, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)
1966 – Chris Bruno, actor (The Cell 2)
1969 – Kim Raver, actress (Revolution)
1969 – Miles Malleson, actor, d @ 80 (First Men in the Moon, The Brain)

1970 – J. Brennan Smith, actor (Testament)
1972 – Anne Bedian, actress (Meteor, Lost, Android Apocalypse)
1975 – Tak Sakaguchi, actor (Mutant Girls Squad, Samurai Zombie, Godzilla: Final Wars)
1977 – Brian Tee, actor (The Invisible Man, Jurassic World, Roswell FM)

1983 – Sean Biggerstaff, actor (Doctor Who)
1985 – Kellan Lutz, actor (Heroes)
1985 – Eva Amurri Martino, actress (Animals)
1986 – Jai Courtney, actor (Terminator Genisys, Insurgent, Divergent, I Frankenstein)

1996 – George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane aka George Borodin, sci-fi author, d @ 92

2003 – Thora Hird, actress, d @ 91 (The Quatermass Xperiment)
2007 – Stuart Rosenberg, director, d @ 79 (Twilight Zone)
2009 – Ron Silver, actor, d @ 62 (Timecop, The Entity, Xenophobia, The Arrival, Lifepod)

2001 – Ann Sothern, actress, d @ 92 (The Manitou)
2002 – Race to Space released

posted by admin on Mar 14

1918 – Dennis Patrick, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Lost in Space, The Time Travelers, Tales of Tomorrow)

Dennis Patrick in Lost in Space

1922 – Arch Johnson, actor (The Invisible Man (1975),Land of the Giants, The Invaders, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Skip Young, actor, (Earth vs. the Spider, Lobster Man from Mars)
1933 – Michael Caine, actor (Children of Men, Interstellar, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jekyll & Hyde, The Swarm, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

Michael Caine in Day the Earth Caught Fire as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)

1939 – Raymond J. Barry, actor (Doomed Planet, The X-Files)

1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, director (Enemy Mine, Outbreak)
1943 – Anita Morris, actress (Martians Go Home)

Anita Morris in Martians Go Home

1946 – Steve Kanaly, actor (Scorpio One, The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, The Terminal Man)

1951 – Season Hubley, actor (Humanoids From the Deep, The Twilight Zone, Escape form New York)
1954 – Adrian Zmed, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)
1959 – Tamara Tunie, actress (SeaQuest 2032)

1961 – Penny Johnson, actress (The 4400, The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)
1965 – Kiana Tom, actress (Universal Soldier: The Return, Cyber Bandits)
1965 – Catherine Dent, actress (Replicant, Sanctuary, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Lone Gunman, The Invisible Man, The X-Files)
1966 – Elise Neal, actress (SeaQuest 2032

1968 – Megan Follows, actress (The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1968 – James Frain, actor (Tron Legacy, FlashForward, Fringe, Invasion, Threshold, Loch Ness)

1974 – Grace Park, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, Jake 2.0, Stargate SG-1, The Immortal)
1975 – Ernesto Cantu, actor (Extinction, World War Z)
1976 – Corey Stoll, actor (The Strain)
1976 – Daniel Gillies, actor (Cleopatra 2525)
1979 – Chris Klein, actor (Rollerball)

1980 – Mercedes McNab, actress (Escape from Atlantis)
1982 – Kate Maberly, actress (The Langoliers)
1986 – Jamie Bell, actress (Jumper, Snowpiercer)

1992 – Ralph James, actor, d @ 67 (Mork & Mindy)
1994 – Ansel Elgort, actor (Allegiant, Insurgent, Divergent, )
1999 – Kirk Alyn, actor (Superman, When Worlds Collide, Beginning of the End, Superman 1978, Battlestar Galactica, Time Warp) d @ 88

2004 – Rene Laloux, director, d @ 74 (Gandahar, Time Masters, Fantastic Planet)
2007 – Gareth Hunt, actor, d @ 65 (Space: 1999, Doctor Who)
2010 – Peter Graves, actor, d @ 83 (Beginning of the End, Killers from Space, Red Planet Mars, The Invaders, The Clonus Horror, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

posted by admin on Mar 13

1901 – Paul Fix, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

Paul Fix as Dr. Mark Piper in the original Star Trek pilot.

1907 – Frank Wilcox, actor (It’s About Time, Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Invaders from Mars, The Flying Missile)
1908 – Paul Stewart, actor (The Invisible Man, City Beneath the Sea)

1911 – L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi author
1917 – Tessie O’Shea, actress (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1929 – Peter Breck, actor (The Outer Limits, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Outer Limits [original], The Crawling Hand)

Peter Breck’s as Senator Jeremiah Orville in The Outer Limits episode, O.B.I.T.

1932 – Grant Wood, actor, d @ 36 31 October 1968 (Star Trek)
1935 – Joseph Mascolo, actor (The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk)

1935 – Leslie Parrish, actress (The Giant Spider Invasion, Logan’s Run, The Astral Factor, Star Trek, Missile to the Moon)

Leslie Parrish as Lt. Carolyn Palamas in the Star Trek episode, Who Mourns for Adonais.

1950 – William H Macy, actor (Jurassic Park III, Evolver, WarGames)
1953 – Deborah Raffin, actress (Scanners II: The New Order, Twilight Zone)
1954 – Robin Duke, actress (Virtual Mom, Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Maniac Mansion)
1955 – Glenne Headly, actress (The X-Files)
1956 – Dana Delany, actress (Battlestar Galactica)

1960 – Arturo Gil, actor (Mole Men, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Third Rock from the Sun, Spaceballs)
1962 – John Turk, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
1965 – Steve Bacic, actor (Smallville, Stargate: Continuum, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Flash Gordon, Blade: The Series, Andromeda, The 6th Day, Earth: Final Conflict, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S.)
1965 – David Orth, actor (Fringe, 2012, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, Mutant X, The Lost World, Total Recall 2070, RoboCop (TV), The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1968 – Christopher Collett, actor (Manhattan Project, The Langoliers)
1969 – Felix Locher, actor, D @ 66 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Munsters, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Curse of the Faceless Man)

1971 – Annabeth Gish, actress (FlashForward, The X-Files)
1972 – Common, actor (Terminator Salvation)
1972 – Kiara Hunter, actress (Alien Incursion, Stargate SG-1, The X Files)
1972 – Lonnie Rashid Lynn aka Common, actor (Terminator Salvation)
1973 – Stacy Harris, actor, d @ 54 (Men into Space, The Adventures of Superboy)
1974 – Janos Prohaska d @ 54 (Star Trek, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)
1975 – Jean Del Val, actor, d @ 83 (Fantastic Voyage)
1975 – Chris Ashworth, actor (Space Warriors, Terminator Salvation)
1976 – Danny Masterson, actor (Star Kid, Face/Off)

1980 – Harlan Warde, actor, d @ 62 (The Invaders, The Monster That Challenged the World)
1981 – April Matson, actress (Kyle XY)
1984 – Rachael Bella, actress (W.E.I.R.D. World)
1984 – Noel Fisher, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Outer Limits, Andromeda)
1985 – Emile Hirsch, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Gargantua)

1992 – Kaya Scodelario, actress (Maze Runner, Moon)
1993 – Ann Way, actress, d @ 77 (Brazil)

2000 – Rex Everhart, actor, d @ 79 (Superman, ‘Way Out)
2005 – Jason Evers, actor, d @ 83 (The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, Basket Case 2, Bionic Woman, The Fantastic Journey, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Illustrated Man, Star Trek, The Invaders)
2006 – Maureen Stapleton, actress d @ 80 (Cocoon, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Electric Grandmother)

2013 – Malachi Throne, actor, d @ 84 (Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek, Project U.F.O., Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

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1879 – Alfred Abel, actor (Metropolis)

1905 – Takashi Shimura, actor (Godzilla 1954 & 1977, Kwaidan, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Mothra, The Mysterians, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Godzilla Raids Again )
1907 – Arthur Hewlett, actor (Moondial, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Quatermass and the Pit)

Arthur Hewlett in the Doctor Who episode State of Decay as Kalmar.

1918 – Frank Overton, actor, d @ 49 24 April 1967 (Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

Frank Overton in the Star Trek episode, This Side of Paradise.

1919 – Frank Campanella, actor (Salvage 1, Captain Video)

1925 – Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy, Make Room! Make Room! (Basis for Solent Green))

1947 – Laura Waterbury, actress (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Mac and Me, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)

1950 – Jon Provost, actor (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)
1951 – Caren Kaye, actress (Out of the Unknown)
1956 – Lesley Manville, actor (An Adventure in Space and Time)

1957 – Philip K. Dick’s novel Eye in the Sky is published by Ace

Philip K Dick’s novel, An Eye in the Sky was published.

1960 – Courtney B Vance, actor (FlashForward, Space Cowboys)
1960 – Jason Beghe, actor (The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation)
1961 – Titus Welliver, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Star Trek: Voyager, Total Recall 2070, The X-Files)
1963 – Julia Campbell, actress (Heroes, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics)
1966 – Estelita Rodriguez, actress, d @ 37 (Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter )
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, actor (Battle Los Angeles, I, Frankenstein)

1971 – The Andromeda Strain released

1982 – Samm Levine, actor (Warehouse 13)
1982 – Aaron Farb, actor (Powers, Revolution)
1984 – Arnold Ridley, actor, d @ 88 (Out of the Unknown)
1984 – Jaimie Alexander, actress (Ultradome, Kyle XY)
1988 – Karen Steele, actress, d @ 56 (Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1989 – Maurice Evans, actor, d @ 87 (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1992 – Barbara Morrison, actress, d @ 84 (Project Moonbase)
1994 – Tanveer K. Atwal, actress (The Matrix Revolutions)
1995 – Juanin Clay, actress, d @ 45 (Wargames, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1999 – Wing Commander released

2001 – Morton Downey, Jr., actor, d @ 67 (Predator 2)
2003 – Lynne Thigpen, actress, d @ 54 (Bicentennial Man)

2014 – Richard Coogan, actor as Captain Video, d @ 99 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)