Archive for April, 2015

posted by admin on Apr 30

1916 – Phil Brown, actor, d @ 99 9 February 2006 (Superman, Star Wars: A New Hope, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Journey to the Unknown)

1923 – Al Lewis, actor (The Munsters, Here Come the Munsters, Munster’s Revenge, Munster, Go Home!, Lost in Space)

Al Lewis in The Munsters

Al Lewis in The Munsters

1925 – Corinne Calvet, actress (Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hype)
1926 – Edmund Cooper, sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came)
1926 – Cloris Leachman, actress (Young Frankenstein, Twilight Zone)

1938 – Larry Niven, sci-fi author (Ringworld)
1938 – Gary Collins, actor (The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, King Kong vs. Godzilla)
1940 – Burt Young, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

 

 

 

1944 – Jill Clayburgh, actress (The Terminal Man)

Jill Clayburgh in The Terminal Man

Jill Clayburgh in The Terminal Man

 

 

 

 

 

 
1944 – Antonia Ellis, actor (UFO)

1944 – Antonia Ellis, actor (UFO)
1947 – Leslie Grantham, actor (Morons from Outer Space, Doctor Who)

Leslie Grantham as Kiston in Doctor Who

Leslie Grantham as Kiston in Doctor Who

1948 – Perry King, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, Slaughterhouse-Five)
1948 – Bertrand Cadart, actor (Mad Max)
1948 – Allan Arkush, director (Defiance, Heroes, Timecop, Mann & Machine, The Twilight Zone, Heartbeeps)

1954 – The Rocket Man released
1954 – Thom Bray, actor (DeepStar Six)
1955 – Rudolf Klein-Rogge, actor, d @ 69 (Metropolis)
1957 – Kronos released
1959 – Paul Gross, actor (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 TV), The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

 

1965 – Adrian Pasdar, actor (Heroes, Near Dark, House of Frankenstein (1997 TV), Near Dark, Solarbabies)
1967 – Steven Mackintosh, actor (Doctor Who, Robot Overlords)

1970 – Inger Stevens, actress, d @ 36 (Twilight Zone)
1972 – Kevin Sizemore, actor (Under the Dome, Dollhouse, Supernova, Resurrection, Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
1974 – Agnes Moorehead, actress, d @ 73 (Twilight Zone, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1975 – Michael Chaturantabut, actor (The Time Machine)
1975 – Johnny Galecki, actor (In Time)
1978 – Inga Cadranel, actress (Orphan Black, ReGenesis, The Strain)

1980 – Sam Heughan, actor (Outlander)
1982 – Kirsten Dunst, actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1985 – Gal Gadot, actor (Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice)
1986 – Dianna Agron, actress (I am Number Four, Heroes)
1986 – Robert Stevenson, director, d @ 81 (One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, The Island at the Top of the World, Son of Flubber, The Absent-Minded Professor)
1989 – Guy Williams, actor, d @ 65 (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Lost in Space)

1996 – David Opatoshu, actor, d @ 78 (Alien Nation, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

posted by admin on Apr 29

1894 – Ken Tyrell, actor (Master of the World, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Brain from Planet Arous, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Indestructible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, The Invisible Monster)

1908 – Jack Williamson, actor (author, The Legion of Time, Starchild, The Man from Outside)

1912 – Richard Carlson, actor (The Magnetic Monster, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space, Riders to the Stars, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush in It Came from Outer Space

Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush in It Came from Outer Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Irvin Kershner, director (SeaQuest 2032, RoboCop 2, The Empire Strikes Back)

1934 – Akira Takarada, actor (Godzilla vs. Mothra, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, King Kong Escapes, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla 1977, Godzilla 1954], Invasion of Astro-Monster)

Akira Takarada acted in many of the Godzilla movies

Akira Takarada acted in many of the Godzilla movies

1936 – Lane Smith, actor, d @ 69 13 June 2005 (Lois & Clark, Duplicates, V)

1946 – Wayne Robson, actor (The Timekeeper, The Incredible Hulk, Lexx, Cube, RoboCop, The Twilight Zone)
1948 – Reb Brown, actor (Space Mutiny, Robowar, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, Brave New World, Strange New World, The Six Million Dollar Man, Ssssss)

 

 

 

 

1951 – The Thing from Another World, based on a story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and directed by Christian Nyby (with uncredited direction by Howard Hawks), opens in the U.S., helping to initiate a cycle of popular science fiction monster movies. It will later be remade in 1982 and in 2011.

The Thing from Another World released in US

The Thing from Another World released in US

1951 – Ellen Crawford, actress (The Man From Earth, Soldier, The Invisible Kid)
1952 – Robert Towers, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Masters of the Universe)
1952 – Nora Dunn, actress (What Planet Are You From?, The X Files)
1954 – Gavin O’Herlihy, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Superman III, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1955 – Kate Mulgrew, actress (Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Voyager)
1955 – Leslie Jordan, actress (Undead or Alive: A Zombedy, Weird Science, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, JasonFrankenstein General Hospital)
1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, actress (Stardust)
1958 – Eve Plumb, actress (Lois & Clark)

1960 – Robert J. Sawyer, sci-fi author (The Terminal Experiment, Hugo for Homonids)

 

 

1963 – Bruce Harwoord, actor (The X-Files, Alienated, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The Lone Gunmen, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Fly II, Earth Star Voyager)
1966 – Vincent Ventresca, actor (Dollhouse, Mammoth, The Invisible Man [TV])

1970 – Uma Thurman, actress (Gattaca)
1972 – Derek Mears, actor (Predators, Star Trek: Enterprise, Men in Black II)
1973 – David Belle, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Babylon A.D.)
1975 – April Telek, actress (Strange Empire, Tin Man, Stargate SG-1, Replicant, First Wave, Millennium, Sliders)
1977 – David Sullivan, actor (The Astronaut Farmer)
1978 – Tyler Labine, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Invasion, Jake 2.0, Evil Alien Conquerors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The X-Files)

1984 – Firass Dirani, actor (Pitch Black)
1984 – Taylor Cole, actor (Heroes, Surrogates)

1992 – Mae Clarke, actress, d @ 81 (Frankenstein)

2005 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe released
2008 – Julie Ege, actress, d @ 64 (The Last Days of Man on Earth, Creatures the World Forgot)

2011 – Joanna Russ, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Female Man, Alyx)
2014 – Bob Hoskins, actor, d @ 71 (Brazil, The Lost World, Doomsday)

posted by admin on Apr 28

1914 – Philip E. High, sci-fi author
1917 – Robert Cornthwaite, actor (The Thing, War of the Worlds, The Naked Monster, Time Trackers, Futureworld, The Six Million Dollar Man, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Destination Space, Men into Space)

1924 – Donatas Banionis, actor (Solaris)

Donatas Banionis in Solaris

Donatas Banionis in Solaris

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Carolyn Jones, actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The War of the Worlds)

Carolyn Jones in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Carolyn Jones in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starman)

Madge Sinclair in Star Trek IV

Madge Sinclair in Star Trek IV

1939 – Emily Yancy, actress (The Abyss)

1948 – Terry Pratchett, sci-fi autor (Discworld, Hogfather)
1948 – Marcia Strassman, actress (Tremors, Earth Minus Zero, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, Brave New World, Time Express)
1949 – Paul Guilfoyle, actor (M.A.N.T.I.S., Howard the Duck)

1950 – Stuart Gillard, director (RocketMan, Creature)
1953 – Bob Rumnock, actor (Divergent, World’s End)
1952 – Mary McDonnell, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Donnie Darko, Independence Day)

1967 – Kari Wuhrer, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Stargate: Atlantis, King of the Ants, Eight Legged Freaks, Sliders, Swamp Thing)

 

1970 – Ed Begley, actor, d @ 69 (The Invaders)
1971 – Bridget Moynahan, actress (Battle Los Angeles, I Robot)
1973 – Jorge Garcia, actor (Fringe)
1973 – Elisabeth Röhm, actress (Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark, Heroes, The Invisible Man)
1974 – Penélope Cruz, actress (The Butterfly Effect)
1978 – Robert Oliveri, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Edward Scissorhands, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
1978 – Drew Scott, actor (Smallville)
1978 – Jonathan Silver Scott, actor (Atomic Train, Millennium, The X Files)

1981 – Jessica Alba, actress (Venus Rising)
1982 – Samantha Lockwood, actress (Star Trek Equinox: The Night of Time, Sci-Fighter)

1991 – Taylor Anne Reid, actress (Taken, The 6th Day, Resurrection, The X Files, Millennium)
1998 – Jerome Bixby, writer, d @ 75 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Fantastic Voyage, It! The Terror from Beyond Space)
1999 – Rory Calhoun, actor, d @ 76 (Hell Comes to Frogtown, Night of the Lepus)

2007 – Dabbs Greer, actor, d @ 90 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

posted by admin on Apr 27

1863 – Cleveland [Langston] Moffett, sci-fi author

1911 – Colin Gordon, actor (UFO, Doctor Who, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Man in the White Suit)

1922 – Jack Klugman, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1931 – Robert Donner, actor (Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, Starman, Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Damnation Alley, Six Million Dollar Man)
1932 – Casey Kasem, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Battle of the Planets, Doomsday Machine, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, 2000 Years Later)

1941 – Ned Wynn, actor (The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber)
1942 – John Shrapnel, actor (Alien Autopsy, Invasion: Earth, Space: 1999)

1951 – The Man From Planet X released

The Man from Planet X is released

The Man from Planet X is released

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1955 – Devil Girl from Mars aka Devil Woman from Mars (German name) released in US

Devil Girl from Mars released in US

Devil Girl from Mars released in US

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Godzilla, King of the Monsters is released. Considerably re-edited from Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Japanese original Gojira, and with new material added, it begins a new spate ofgiant-monster films.

Godzilla 1956 released

Godzilla 1956 released

1956 – Kevin McNally, actor (Doctor Who)
1959 – Sheena Easton, actress (TekWar)

1961 – Eugenie Bondurant, actress (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Space Truckers, Star Trek: TNG)
1962 – James Le Gros, actor (Phantasm II, *batteries not included, Solarbabies)
1962 – Victoria Price, actress (Edward Scissorhands)
1962 – Min-sik Choi b. 1962, actor (Lucy)
1963 – Russell T. Davies, showrunner (Wizards vs. Aliens, Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures)
1964 – Lisa Wilcox, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Something is Out There)
1965 – Anna Chancellor, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Jupiter Moon)
1966 – Matt Reeves, writer / director(Future Shock / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1970 – Arthur Shields, actor, d @ 74 (Daughter of Dr Jekyll)
1972 – Mehmet Kurtulus b. 1972, actor (Equilibrium)

 

1973 – Elle Downs, actress (Cybergeddon, Earth: Final Conflict)
1973 – Andre Gower, actor (10.0 Earthquake, The Monster Squad, The Twilight Zone)
1976 – Sally Hawkins, actress (Godzilla 2014)
1977 – Stanley Adams, actor, d @ 62 (Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1983 – Francis Capra, actor (The Strain, Clear Skies 3, Heroes)
1983 – Ari Graynor, actor (Fringe)
1985 – Janet Lopez, actress (Attack of the 30 Foot Chola, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
1986 – Jenna Coleman, actress (Doctor Who)
1986 – Jasmine Lowe, actress (The Hunger Games)
1987 – Laura Ortiz, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy)
1988 – Jane Hancock, actress (Fringe)

1994 – Lynne Frederick, actress, d @ 49 (Space: 1999, Phase IV, Vampire Circus, No Blade of Grass)
1996 – Adam Roarke, actor, d @ 55 (Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Frogs, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)
1997 – Paul Lambert, actor, d @ 74 (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Planet of the Apes, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)
1998 – Godfrey Kenton, actor, d @ 96 (Out of the Unknown)

2002 – George Alec Effinger, sci-fi author, d @ 55 (Nick of Time)

2011 – Yvette Vickers, actress, body found, d @ 82 (Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches)

posted by admin on Apr 26

1878 – Ethel Griffies, actress (It Happened Tomorrow)

1883 – Harry Sothern, actor (Buck Rogers)

1912 – A.E. van Vogt, sci-fi author (The World of Null-A, The Book of Ptath, The Voyage of the Space Beagle)
1916 – Vic Perrin, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Star Trek, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Twonky)

Vic Perrin in Star Trek. Better known as the "Control Voice" for the original Outer Limits.

Vic Perrin in Star Trek. Better known as the “Control Voice” for the original Outer Limits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1914 – H.L. Gold, editor (Galaxy Science Fiction 1950-1961)
1918 – Stafford Repp, actor (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

Stafford Repp as the pawnbroker in the Twilight Zone episode ,Caesar and Me.

Stafford Repp as the pawnbroker in the Twilight Zone episode ,Caesar and Me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Carol Burnett, actress (Twilight Zone)

1947 – Warren Clarke, actor (Firefox, A Clockwork Orange)

Warren Clarke in Firefox

Warren Clarke in Firefox

1951 – Erwin Stoff, producer (The Day the Earth Stood Still, A Scanner Darkly, The Matrix)
1953 – Andy Secombe, actor (Star Wars I & II, Star Cops)
1956 – Ron Donachie, actor (Atlantis, Doctor Who, Starhunter)
1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, actor (NYPD 2069, Stardust, Creature, The Hunger, The Brother from Another Planet)

1961 – Joan Chen, actress (Fringe, Cyber Wars, The Outer Limits, Judge Dredd)
1962 – Debra Wilson, actor (Avatar,The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek: DS9)
1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, actress (Edge of Tomorrow, RoboCop (2014))
1968 – Anthony Boucher, editor, d @ 56 (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

1974 – Ivana Milicevic, actress (Frankenstein (TV)
1976 – Emily Booth, actress (Grindhouse, Evil Aliens, Event Horizon)
1976 – Sidney James, actor, D @ 62 (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)
1977 – McKenzie Westmore, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Insurrection, Weird Science, Star Trek: TNG)
1977 – Tom Welling, actor (Smallville, The Fog)
1977 – Brandon Slagle, actor (Dead Sea, Entity, Biohazard: Patient Zero, Area 51 Confidential)
1977 – Jason Earles, actor (Phil of the Future)
1977 – Tom Welling, actor (Smallville, The Fog)
1978 – Stana Katic, actor (Heroes)
1979 – Klara Issova, actress (Children of Dune, Dune)

1980 – Marnette Patterson, actress (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1980 – Channing Tatum, actor (Jupiter Ascending, War of the Worlds, This is the End)
1981 – Jim Davis, actor, d @ 71 (The Day Time Ended, Project U.F.O., Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Time Tunnel, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Monster from Green Hell)
1983 – Vaughn Taylor, actor, d @ 72 (The Outer Limits, The Power, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Tales of Tomorrow)
1986 – Bessie Love, actress, d @ 87 (The Hunger, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Lost World)
1986 – Broderick Crawford, actor, d @ 74(Land of the Giants)

1991 – Emily McLaughlin, actress, d @ 60 (Twilight Zone)

2002 – Jason X released
2005 – Michael Coles, actor, d @ 68 (Doctor Who and the Daleks)
2005 – Maria Schell, actress, d @ 79 (Space 1999, Superman)
2005 – Mason Adams, actor, d @ 86 (Not of this Earth, Northstar, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

posted by admin on Apr 25

1913 – Russ Conway, actor (The Space-Watch Murders, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, The Munsters, The War of the Worlds, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Flight to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1925 – Kay E. Kuter, actress (The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, V, The Twilight Zone, The Last Starfighter, Far Out Space Nuts, The Outer Limits, The Mole People)

Kay E. Kuter as the Limbo Being in The Outer Limits episode, The Premonition.

Kay E. Kuter as the Limbo Being in The Outer Limits episode, The Premonition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Paul Mazursky, actor (Twilight Zone)

Paul Mazursky right in the Twilight Zone episode, He's Alive.

Paul Mazursky right in the Twilight Zone episode, He’s Alive.

1934 – Denny Miller, actor (V, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Beyond Westworld, Battlestar Galactica, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man, Doomsday Machine)
1940 – Al Pacino, actor (S1m0ne)
1946 – Talia Shire, actress (Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star)
1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn, actor (The X-Files, The Blob (1988), Twilight Zone)

1950 – Peter Jurasik, actor (Quantum Apocalypse, Sliders, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5, TRON)

 

 

1951 – Five released

Five Released

Five Released

1954 – George Spartels, actor (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
1959 – Daniel Kash, actor (RoboCop, Alphas, Repo Men, The Dresden Files, Mutant X, Total Recall 2070, Virus, RoboCop, War of the Worlds, Aliens)

1964 – Hank Azaria, actor (Godzilla 1998)
1966 – Jay Overholts, actor, d @ 45 (Twilight Zone)
1969 – Gina Torres, actress (FlashForward, Serenity, Firefly, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1970 – Jason Lee, actor (Dreamcatcher, Perversions of Science)
1975 – Emily Bergl, actress (Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Enterprise, Taken)
1977 – Marguerite Moreau, actress (Smallville, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1978 – Ben Uttley, actor (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
1978 – Rik Young, actor (Children of Dune)

 

1985 – Richard Haydn, actor, d @ 80 (Young Frankenstein, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)
1985 – Kent Smith, actor, d @ 78 (Probe,the Invaders, The Outer Limits, Moon Pilot, Science Fiction Theatre)
1987 – Heather Sossaman, actress (10.0 The Big One)
1988 – Clifford D. Simak d @ 83 (won 1964 Hugo for Here Gather the Stars)
1988 – Jonathan Bailey, actor (Doctor Who)
1988 – Sara Paxton, actress (Shark Night 3D, Soldier)

1994 – David Langton, actor, d @ 82 (Out of the Unknown, Electrode 93)
1995 – Alexander Knox, actor, d @ 88 (Crack in the World, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)
1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, actress (Meet Dave)

2004 – Albert Paulsen, actor, d @ 78 (Automan, Manimal, Galactica 1980, Search for the Gods)

2010 – Dorothy Provine, actress, d @ 75 (The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)

posted by admin on Apr 24

1731 – Daniel Defoe, sci-fi writer. D @ 60 (Memoirs of Sundry Tranactions from the World of the Moon)

1914 – Ruth White, actress (Lights Out, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)
1914 – William Castle, director (Zotz!, 13 Ghosts, The Tingler)

William Castle and The Tingler

William Castle and The Tingler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Bruce Kirby, actor (Holmes and Yo-Yo)

1930 – Richard Donner, director (Timeline, Superman, Twilight Zone)
1933 – Claire Davenport, actress (Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Doctor Who)

Claire Davenport in Doctor Who

Claire Davenport in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Jill Ireland, actress (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Jill Ireland as Leila Kalomi in the Star Trek episode, This Side of Paradise.

Jill Ireland as Leila Kalomi in the Star Trek episode, This Side of Paradise.

1940 – Michael Parks, actor (Planet Terror, 13 Moons, SeaQuest 2032, War of the Worlds)

1951 – Steven Lisberger, writer (TRON)
1955 – NBC radio series X Minus One debuts with mostly original scripts, but will begin adapting stories exclusively from Galaxy magazine in February 1956, and will eventually run to 125 episodes, ending in January 1958.

1953 – Eric Bogosian, actor (Blade: Trinity, TheTwilight Zone)
1959 – Glenn Morshower, actor (Revolution, After Earth, Transformers, Dollhouse, The Island, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Star Trek: Enterprise, Strange World, Godzilla 1998, Millennium, The X-Files, Dark Skies, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap)

 

1962 – Jason Salkey, actor (The Fifth Element)
1964 – Djimon Hounsou, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Island, Stargate)
1967 – Frank Overton, actor, d @ 49 (Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1968 – Stacy Haiduk, actress (Heroes, The Attack of the Sabertooth, The X-Files, SeaQuest 2032, Superboy)
1968 – Aiden Gillen, actor (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials)
1969 – Melinda Clarke, actress (Firefly, Tremors (TV), Star Trek: Enterprise, Sliders)

1973 – Dean Armstrong, actor (Alphas, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Earth: Final Conflict)
1973 – Damon Lindelof, writer (World War Z, Star Trek: ID)
1974 – Bud Abbott, actor, d @ 78 (Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein)
1974 – Noah Danby, actor (Riddick, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Alien Incursion, Smallville, The 4400, Andromeda, Mutant X)
1974 – Eric Kripke, writer (Revolution)
1977 – Eric Balfour, actor (No Ordinary Family, Skyline, Dinoshark)
1977 – Rebecca Mader, actress (Warehouse 13, Fringe, Alphas, No Ordinary Family)

1980 – Austin Nichols, actor (Surface, The Day After Tomorrow, Sliders)
1985 – Courtney Draper, actress (Stepsister from Planet Weird)

1992 – Larramie Doc Shaw, actor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
1992 – Jack Quaid, actor (The Hunger Games)

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posted by admin on Apr 23

1894 – Georges Renevant, actor (The Invisible Ray)
1894 – Basil Sydney, actor (The Hands of Orlac)
1897 – John Wengraf, actor (12 to the Moon, The Time Tunnel, Gog)

1921 – Janet Blair, actress (The Outer Limits, One Touch of Venus (TV), Once Upon a Time)

Janet Blair in The Outer Limits epiaode, Tourist Attraction.

Janet Blair in The Outer Limits epiaode, Tourist Attraction.

1930 – Alan Oppenheimer, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, The Six Million Dollar Man, Westworld, Gammera the Invincible)

 

 

 

 

1932 – William Douglas, actor (The Outer Limits)

William O. Douglas Jr. in  'The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy Being.

William O. Douglas Jr. in ‘The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy Being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Lee Majors, actor (Lightspeed, Jake 2.0, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man

Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man

1943 – Herve Villechaize, actor (Forbidden Zone)
1946 – Blair Brown, actress (Fringe, Falling Skies, Smallville, The Astronaut’s Wife, Space, Altered States)

1956 – Caroline Thompson, writer (Edward Scissorhands)
1957 – Jan Hooks, actress(3rd Rock from the Sun, Coneheads)
1959 – Tim Blaney, actor (Men in Black, Short Circuit)

1960 – Mark Caven, actor (Red Dwarf, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace)
1960 – Valerie Bertinelli, actress (C.H.O.M.P.S.)
1962 – John Hannah, actor (Atlantis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1969 – Byron Thames, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Powers of Matthew Star)

 

1970 – Scott Bairstow, actor (Android Apocalypse, Harsh Realm, The Postman. The X Files)
1971 – Andrew Kreisberg, writer (Supergirl, Warehouse 13, Fringe)
1972 – Sonya Smith, actress (Cyxork 7)
Barry Watson b. 1974 (My Future Boyfriend, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993))
1975 – William Hartnell, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who)
1976 – Shimen Rushkin, actor, d @ 69 (Donovan’s Brain)
1976 – Gabriel Damon, actor (Eerie Indiana, RoboCop II, Star Trek: TNG)
1977 – Kal Penn, actor (Superman Returns)
1979 – Joanna Krupa, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1983 – Aaron Hill, actor (Creature, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
1983 – Clarence “Buster” Crabbe, actor, d @ 75 (Flash Gordon , Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Buck Rogers, The Alien Dead, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1984 – Jesse Lee Sofer, actor (In Time)
1989 – Aanastasia Baranova, actress (Z Nation, Apocalypse CA)
1989 – Mark Daniels, director, d @ 77 (Man from Atlantis, Planet Earth, Star Trek, ‘Way Out)

1991 – William Dozier, producer, d @ 83 (Red Brown of the Rocket Rangers)
1991 – Rudy Solari, actor, d @ 56 (The Outer Limits, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1997 – Alex Ferris, actor (Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Smallville, Stargate SG-1)

2005 – John Mills, actor, d @ 97 (Frankenstein, Quatermass, The Quatermass Conclusion, The ‘Human’ Factor)

posted by admin on Apr 22

1894 – Rondo Hatton, actor (The Spider Woman Strikes Back)
1899 – Byron Haskin, director (The Outer Limits, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Conquest of Space, The War of the Worlds)

1906 – Eddie Albert, actor (The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Girl from Mars, Time Trax)

Eddie Albert in The Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence.

Eddie Albert in The Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Hal March, actor (The Atomic Kid)
1923 – Hugh Lloyd, actor (Doctor Who)

Hugh Lloyd in Doctor Who: South of Watford

Hugh Lloyd in Doctor Who: South of Watford

1925 – George Cole, actor (UFO, Mary Reilly)
1926 – Charlotte Rae, Actress (‘Way Out)

1934 – Peter Ronson, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth)
1935 – Mario Machado, actor (RoboCop 1, 2, & 3)
1937 – Jack Nicholson, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mars Attacks!)
1938 – Richard Marquand, director (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)
1939 – Jason Miller, actor (The Henderson Monster)

1942 – Denis Lill, actor (Red Dwarf, Doctor Who)
1943 – Madison Mason, actress (Transformers, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The X Files, Dark Skies, The Day After)

1946 – Lionel Atwill, actor, d @ 61 (House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Night Monster, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Man Made Monster, The Son of Frankenstein, Doctor X)
1948 – Carole Drinkwater, actress (A Clockwork Orange)
1949 – Charles Middleton d @ 74 (Flash Gordon)

1953 – Invaders From Mars released

Invaders from Mars released

Invaders from Mars released

1953 – Steve Bond, actor (Epoch, My Favorite Martian, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
1954 – Joseph Bottoms, actor (The Black Hole
1956 – Bruce A. Young, actor (Star Trek: Renegades, Jurassic Park III, The X Files, Quantum Leap)
1958 – Ken Olandt, actor (Super Force, Darkdrive, Total Reality, Digital Man, Star Trek: TNG, V)
1959 – Ryan Stiles, actor (Weird Science, L.A.X. 2194
1959 – Catherine Mary Stewart, actress (Night of the Comet, The Last Starfighter)

1963 – Brooke McCarter, actress (The Twilight Zone)
1964 – Chris Makepeace, actor (Why on Earth?
1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Sliders, Extant, Jonah Hex)

1966 – Dana Barron, actress (Babylon 5)
1967 – Tom Conway, actor, d @ 62 (12 to the Moon, The Atomic Submarine, The She-Creature)
1969 – Alix Koromzay, actor (Mimic, Ghost in the Machine)

1971 – Eric Mabius, actor(Resident Evil, Millennium)
1978 – Will Geer, actor, d @ 76 (The Invaders)

1981 – Michael William Freeman, actor (In Time)
1981 – Henry Scott, actor, d @ 59 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)
1981 – Gemma Whelan, actress (The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!)
1982 – Sarah French, actress (Zombie Dolls, Insectula!, Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead, Tales of the Dead)
1982 – Cassidy Freeman, actress (Smallville)
1983 – Francis Capra, actor (The Strain, Clear Skies 3, Heroes)
1984 – Michelle Ryan, actress (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Bionic Woman, Jekyll)
1986 – Amber Heard, actress (Zombieland)

1990 – Albert Salmi, actor, d @ 62 (Empire of the Ants, Future Cop, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1999 – Bert Remsen, actor, d @ 74 (Humanoids from the Deep, TerrorVision, Star Trek: DS9, The Phoenix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Moon Pilot)

2003 – Andrea King, actress d @ 84 (Red Planet Mars, The Beast with Five Fingers)
2005 – Norman Bird, actor, d @ 84 (First Men in the Moon)

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1914 – Gilbert Taylor, cinematographer (Flash Gordon, Star Wars)
1915 – Anthony Quinn, actor (Treasure Island in Outer Space)

1920 – Christopher Dark, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Men Into Space, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants)

Christopher Dark (left) in Time Tunnel

Christopher Dark (left) in Time Tunnel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Jack Fletcher, actor (Small Wonder, Starman, The Munsters Today)
1927 – Gerald Flood, actor (Doctor Who, Secret Beneath the Sea, City Beneath the Sea, Pathfinders to Venus, Pathfinders in Space)

Gerald Flood as bad King John in Doctor Who

Gerald Flood as bad King John in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Dee Hartford, actress (Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Dee Hartford in The Outer Limits episode, The Invisibles.

Dee Hartford in The Outer Limits episode, The Invisibles.

1930 – Silvana Mangano (Dune, The Flying Saucer)
1932 – Ray Stewart, actor (Space Raiders)
1935 – Charles Grodin, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
1939 – Reni Santoni, actor (Quantum Leap, Manimal)

1940 – George DiCenzo, actor (M.A.N.T.I.S., Back to the Future, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Space Academy)
1942 – Rod Loomis, actor (Stargate SG-1, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Jason of Star Command)

1954 – James Morrison, actor (The X-Files, Seven Days, Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, White Dwarf, Quantum Leap, Automan)

1958 – Andie MacDowell, actress (Muppets from Space, Multiplicity)

1961 – Kate Vernon, actress (Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Voyager)
1963 – Roy Dupuis, actor (Hemoglobin, Screamers)
1963 – John Cameron Mitchell, actor (The Stepford Children, The Twilight Zone)
1966 – Michelle Gomez, actress (Doctor Who)
1968 – Christian Hoff, actor (Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, Encino Man, Quantum Leap)
1969 – Toby Stephens, actor (The Machine, Space Cowboys)
1969 – Joel de la Fuente, actor (The Adjustment Bureau, From Other Worlds, Space: Above and Beyond)

1972 – Sandy Jobin-Bevans, actress (Run Robot Run, ReGenesis)
1974 – Jennifer Blanc, actress (Malignant, Zombie Family, My Apocalypse)
1975 – Charlie O’Connell, actor (Zombie Family, DateaHuman.com, Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, Sliders)
1979 – James McAvoy, actor (Children of Dune, Victor Frankenstein)
1979 – Dominic Zamprogna, actor (2012, Smallville, Flash Gordon, Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica, Blade: The Series, Stargate: Atlantis, Odyssey 5)

1980 – Dylan Bruce, actor (Orphan Black)
1985 – John Welsh, actor, d @ 70 (Krull, The Revenge of Frankenstein)
1988 – Robbie Amell, actor (The Tomorrow People)

1995 – Tessie O’Shea, actress, D @ 82 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

 

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