Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on May 23

1890 – Herbert Marshall, actor (The Fly, Gog, Riders to the Stars)

1900 – Ralph Dunn, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)
1908 – Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came)

1910 – Scatman Crothers, actor, d @ 76 22 November 1986 (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Zapped!, The Incredible Hulk)
1912 – Marius Goring, actor (Doctor Who)
1919 – Betty Garrett, actress (Trail of the Screaming Forehead)

1920 – Sid Melton, actor (The Munsters, The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman, Captain Midnight, Lost Continent)
1921 – James Blish, sci-fi author (A Case Of Conscience)
1924 – Ted Jordan, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1924 – Bill McCutcheon, actor (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Johnny Jupiter)
1928 – Nigel Davenport, actor (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Phase IV)

1931 – Laura Devon, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1931 – Barbara Barrie, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1933 – Joan Collins, actress (Star Trek, Future Cop, The Fantastic Journey, Space: 1999)

Joan Collins in the Star Trek episode, The City on the Edge of Forever.

1942 – Zalman King, actor (Galaxy of Terror, Land of the Giants)
1945 – Andrew Burt, actor (Super Gran, Doctor Who, Blakes 7)

Andrew Burt in Blakes 7

1950 – O-Lan Jones, actor (Mars Attacks!, TheX Files, Edward Scissorhands, Martians Go Home)

O-Lan Jones in Mars Attacks!

1950 – Linda Thompson, actress (RoboCop 2, Mars: Base One
1951 – Cyb Barnstable, actress (Quark)
1951 – Patricia Barnstable, actress (Quark)
1957 – Mark Arnold, actor (Alien Encounter, Trancers 4: Jack of Swords, Trancers 5: Sudden Deth
1958 – Drew Carey, actor (Lois & Clark, Coneheads)
1959 – Linden Ashby, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction

1960 – Linden Ashby, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction)
1965 – Melissa McBride, actress (The Mist, Mutant Species, The Walking Dead)
1967 – Philip Coolidge, actor, d @ 58 (Tinglerj, Twilight Zone)
1968 – John Ortiz, actor (Aliens vs. Predator:Requiem)

1970 – Nydia Westman, actress, d @ 68 (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Invisible Ray)

1972 – Sebastina Cordero, director (Europa Report)

1980 – Lane Garrison, actor (The Event)
1984 – Adam Wylie, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Species: The Awakening, Sliders, Weird Science)
1986 – Sterling Hayden, actor, d @ 70 (The Last Days of Man on Earth, The Starlost)
1989 – Devin Douglas Drewitz, actor (Smallville, Taken)

1993 – James Millhollin, actor, d @ 77 (Lost in Space, It’s About Time, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

2001 – Harry Townes, actor, d @ 86 (Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Ark II, Planet of the Apes, The Immortal, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)
2011 – Tom Hennesy, actor, d @ 87 (Revenge of the Creature)

posted by admin on May 22

1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, sci-fi author (The Lost World)

1884 – Torben Meyer, actor, d @ 90 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Fly)

1898 – Edward Bellamy, sci-fi writer, d @ 48 (Looking Backward, 2000-1887)

1907 – Laurence Olivier, actor (The Boys from Brazil)

1916 – Rupert Davies, actor, d @ 60 (Quatermass II, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1922 – Quinn Martin, producer (producer, The Aliens Are Coming, The Invaders)
1927 – Michael Constantine, actor (Probe, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Michael Constantine in The Outer Limits episode, Counterweight.

1932 – Merry Anders, actress (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, The Time Travelers)
1938 – Frank Converse, actor (VR.5, Brother Future, Solarbabies, The Starlost)
1938 – Susan Strasberg, actress (The Invaders)

Susan Strasburg in The Invaders episode, Quantity Unknown.

1938 – Richard Benjamin, actor (Westworld, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Quark)
1938 – John Nolan, actor (1990, Doomwatch)
1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (Terminator, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Damnation Alley, Mars Attacks!, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

Paul Winfield in Star Trek II

1940 – Michael Sarrazin, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, The Outer Limits, Arrival II, Star Trek: DS9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1946 – Jack Kehler, actor (Men in Black II, The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, Sliders, Babylon 5, Waterworld, Star Trek: DS9, Mann & Machine, Strange Invaders)
1949 – Cheryl Campbell, actress (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1950 – Thomas Schlamme, director (Invasion)
1952 – Mike Muscat b. 1952 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Last Action Hero, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starman [TV],
1956 – Douglas Heyes Jr, actor/writer (Twilight Zone / Farscape)

1958 – Gary Kasper, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Space, J.O.E. and the Colonel)

1961 – Ann Cusack, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, What Planet Are You From?, Multiplicity, Tank Girl)
1963 – David Schneider, actor (28 Days Later…)
1964 – James Lorinz, actor (RoboCop 3)
1964 – Mark Christopher Lawrence, actor (Heroes, K-PAX, Planet of the Apes, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
1968 – Kevin Carolan, actor (Fringe)
1969 – Michael Kelly, actor (Chronicle, The Adjustment Bureau, Fringe, Level 9)

1972 – Max Brooks, sci-fi author (World War Z)
1974 – Sean Gunn, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, H+, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1974 – A. J. Langer, actress (Escape from L.A., And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird)
1975 – Cole Hauser, actor (Pitch Black, Transcendence)
1975 – Torben Meyer, actor, d @ 90 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Fly)
1977 – Noa Tisby, actor (The 4400, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1979 – Maggie Q, actress (Divergent)

1981 – Outland released
1985 – Tao Okamoto, actor (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)
1984 – John Marley d @ 76 (Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, The Incredible Hulk)

1990 – Captain Kidd Brewer Jr., actor, d @ 41 (The Abyss, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)
1991 – Boris Sagal, actor, d @ 57 (World War III, The Omega Man, Twilight Zone)
1992 – Aliens 3 released
1994 – Jane Dulo, actress, d @ 76 (The Lost Saucer, Soylent Green)
1995 – Robert Flemyng, actor, d @ 83 (The Body Stealers)

2001 – Jack Watling, actor, d @ 78 (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
2004 – Richard Biggs, actor, d @ 44 (Babylon 5, The Alien Within, Twilight Zone)
2008 – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull released

posted by admin on May 21

1899 – Ralph Sanford, actor (Adventures of Superman)

1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil’s Planet)

1915 – Billy Williams, actor (A Fire in the Sky, Night of the Zombies, The Giant Spider Invasion, Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space, Men into Space, Space Master X-7, Science Fiction Theatre)
1917 – Raymond Burr, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, Godzilla 1985, Godzilla The Return 1977, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956)

Raymond Burr in Godzilla

1923 – Rick Jason, actor (Automan, Manimal)

1933 – Richard Libertini, actor (House of Frankenstein (1997), Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman)

1938 – Ross Hagen, actor (Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds, Dinosaur Island, Droid Gunner, Time Wars, Alienator, Night Creature, The Invaders)

Ross Hagen as Jordan in The Invaders episode, Panic.

1939 – David Groh, actor (Evilution, The X-Files, Last Exit to Earth, M.A.N.T.I.S., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1940 – Booker Bradshaw, actor (Star Trek)

1945 – Richard Hatch, actor (Battlestar Galactica, InAlienable, Prisoners of the Lost Universe)

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica

1948 – Jonathan Hyde, actor (The Strain, Dinotopia)

1951 – Al Franken, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Superman 50th Anniversary)
1957 – Judge Reinhold, actor (Betaville, Mindstorm, Big Monster on Campus, NetForce, Special Report: Journey to Mars, Vice Versa)
1957 – Kyle T. Heffner, actor (The Burning Dead, Mutant on the Bounty)
1957 – Alan Gelfant, actor (Dark Skies)
1959 – Nick Cassavetes, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife, Quantum Leap)

1966 – Pat O’Malley, actor, d @ 75 (Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1972 – Russell Durham Comegys, actor (The Walking Dead, Coma (TV))
1972 – Brett Tucker, actor (The Lost World)
1974 – Fairuza Balk, actor (The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1980 – Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back released
1986 – Deena Trudy, actress (Android Cop, Zombie Killer)
1987 – Alejandro Rey, actor, d @ 57 (Terrorvision, The Swarm, The Bionic Woman, Satan’s Triangle, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1990 – Scotty Leavenworth, actor (Donnie Darko, Meego)
1995 – Vanessa Brown, actress, d @ 71 (The Twilight Zone)
1966 – Fallon Brooking, actress (The Stepford Wives)
1998 – Douglas Fowley, actor, d @ 86 (Quark, Cat-Women of the Moon)

2000 – John Gielgud, actor, d @ 96 (Frankenstein, Frankenstein: The True Story, Probe)
2005 – Howard Morris, actor, d @ 85 (It Came from Outer Space II, The Munsters’ Revenge, Space Academy, Twilight Zone)
2009 – Terminator Salvation released
2009 – Joan Alexander, actress, d @ 94 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

2011 – Bill Hunter, actor, d @ 71 (Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)
2014 – Jane Adams, actress, d @ 95 (Adventures of Superman)

posted by admin on May 20

1901 – Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Adventures of Superman)

1905 – John Emery, actor, (Rocketship X-M, Kronos, Lights Out)

1915 – Peter Copley, actor (Doctor Who, Five Million Miles to Earth, The Cosmic Monster)

1919 – George Gobel, actor (The Invisible Woman, The Day It Came to Earth)

George Gobel in The Day It Came To Earth

1927 – David Hedison, actor (Project U.F.O., Wonder Woman, The Cat Creature, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Lost World, The Fly)

David Hedison in The Fly

1930 – James McEachin, actor (2010, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man)

1936 – Anthony Zerbe, actor (Veritas, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Total Recall 2070, Star Trek: Insurrection, Asteroid (TV), The Omega Man)

1940 – Joan Staley, actress (The Munsters)
1942 – David Proval, actor (The Relic, Quantum Leap)
1948 – Jon Amiel, director (The Core)
1949 – Dave Thomas, actor (Coneheads)

1958 – Frank Medrano, actor (Torchwood)
1958 – Matt McCoy, actor (The Apocalypse, Star Trek: TNG, DeepStar Six)
1959 – The World, the Flesh and the Devil released
1959 – Bronson Pinchot, actor (Meego, 3rd Rock From the Sun)

1960 – John Billingsley, actor (2012, The Man from Earth, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files)
1960 – Tony Goldwyn, actor (Divergent, The 6th Day)
1961 – Owen Teale, actor (Torchwood, Doctor Who)
1967 – Stephanie Niznik, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Star Trek: Insurrection, Sliders)
1968 – Timothy Olyphant, actor (I am Number Four, Dreamcatcher)

1975 – Tahmoh Penikett, actor (Continuum, Man of Steel, Riverworld, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Strange Empire)
1977 – Matt Czuchry, actor (Jake 2.0, Eight Legged Freaks)
1977 – Jason Cermak, actor (Mutant World)

1983 – Chad Connell, actor (Warehouse 13, ReGenesis)
1983 – Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone released

1989 – Anton Diffring, actor d @ 70 (Doctor Who, The Beast Must Die, Fahrenheit 451, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

1996 – Jon Pertwee, actor, d @ 76 (3rd Doctor Who)

1994 – Dorothy Newman, actress, d @ 80 (Twilight Zone, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

posted by admin on May 19

1906 – Bruce Bennett, actor (The Cosmic Man)

1915 – Renee Asherson, actress (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1922 – David McLean, actor (Deathsport, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Andromeda Strain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

David McLean The Andromeda Strain

1928 – Bruce Bilson, director (They Came from Outer Space, The Twilight Zone, The Powers of Matthew Star, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – James Greene, actor (Doctor Who, Dinotopia)
1935 – David Hartman, actor (The Island at the Top of the World)
1937 – Pat Roach, actor (Starhunter, Kull the Conqueror, Space Precinct, Unidentified Flying Oddball)
1939 – James Fox, actor (Doctor Who: Shada, The Road to 1984)

1944 – Peter Mayhew, actor (Chewy in Star Wars)

Peter Mayhew as Chewy

1946 – Grace Jones, actress (Cyber Bandits)
1946 – Andre the Giant, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)
1948 – Bruce Jarchow, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Weird Science (TV), Meego, Outbreak, Time Trax)

1951 – Robert Harper, actor (Star Trek: TNG)
1957 – Attack of the 50 ft Woman released

1964 – Sean Whalen, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Men in Black, Lois & Clark, Waterworld, Tammy and the T-Rex)
1966 – Polly Walker, actress (John Carter, Warehouse 13, Caprica)
1967 – Geraldine Somerville, actress (Automata)

1972 – Claudia Karvan, actress (Star Wars:Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Farscape, The Lost World (TV), Strange Planet)
1975 – Terence Yin, actor (Zombie Fight Club)

1982 – Erika Jordan, actress (Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Avalance Sharks, Piranhaconda )
1988 – Lily Cole, actress (Doctor Who)
1989 – Robert Webber, actor d@ 64 (Out There, Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1992 – Elinor Tomlinson, actress (Deadly Code, The Sarah Jane Adventures)
1999 – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace released

2005 – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith released
2008 – Donald Murphy, actor, d @ 90 (Frankenstein’s Daughter)

2011 – Jeff Jones, artist, d @ 67

posted by admin on May 18

1897 – Jack Raine, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1903 – George E Stone, actor (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1896 – Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7)

Walter Fitzgerald in Doctor Who

1917 – James Donald, actor (Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Miles to Earth)

1922 – Bill Macy, actor (Millennium, Starman (TV))
1923 – Liam Sullivan, actor (Misfits of Science, Logan’s Run (TV), Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

Liam Sullivan in Star Trek

1928 – Pernell Roberts, actor (Man From Atlantis)

1930 – Fred Saberhagen, sci-fi author (Berserker series, Earth’s End)
1931 – Robert Morse, actor (Here Come the Munsters, The Twilight Zone)
1934 – Dwayne Hickman, actor (Dr, Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, The Boy with Green Hair)

1941 – Diane McBain, actress (Land of the Giants)
1941 – Miriam Margolyes, actress (The Sarah Jane Adventures, Morons from Outer Space)
1946 – Andreas Katsulas, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5, Millennium, Star Trek: TNG, The Death of the Incredible Hulk, Alien Nation (TV), Communion, Max Headroom)
1947 – Hugh Keays-Byrne, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Farscape, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Badlands 2005, Mad Max)
1947 – Gail Strickland, actress (My Apocalypse, Star Trek: DS9, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Starflight: The Plane that Couldn’t Land)

1954 – Patrick St. Esprit, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Revolution, Super 8, Tremors (TV), The X Files)
1958 – War of the Satellites released

War of the Satellites released.

1960 – Thomas Byrd, actor (Alien Nation (TV), Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Powers of Matthew Star)
1962 – Karel Roden, actor (Frankenstein’s Army, Hellboy, Blade II)
1962 – Nathaniel Parker, actor (Stardust)
1968 – Cynthia Preston, actress (Andromeda, Total Recall 2070, The X-Files)

1973 – Saskia Mulder, actress (The Descent)
1979 – Jenn Gotzon, actress (Hulk)

1980 – Matt Long, actor (Helix)

1981 – Arthur O’Connell, actor, d @ 73 (Fantastic Voyage, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1981 – Allen Leech, actor (Primeval)
1982 – Emmy Robbin, actress (Planet Terror)
1982 – Eric West, actor (World War Z)

1990 – Luke Kleintank, actor (No Ordinary Family)
1990 – Jill Ireland, actress, d @ 54 (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1992 – Spencer Breslin, actor (The Happening)

1995 – Marshall Thompson, actor, d @ 66 (Bog, Science Fiction Theatre, Fiend Without a Face, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, First Man Into Space, World of Giants, Men Into Space, Ark II)
1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, d @ 62 (Twilight Zone)
1995 – Elisha Cook Jr, actor, d @ 81 (The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, Adventures of Superman, Star Trek)

2004 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, actor, d @ 73 (Fortress, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Omega Man)
2008 – Joseph Pevney, director, d @ 96 (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Munsters, Destination Space)

2012 – Battleship released
2013 – Steve Forrest, actor d @ 87 (Twilight Zone)
2013 – Arthur Malet, actor, d @ 85 (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Martian, Munster, Go Home!)

posted by admin on May 17

1906 – Horace McMahon, actor (Twilight Zone, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)

1936 – Dennis Hopper, actor (Land of the Dead, Space Truckers, Waterworld, My Science Project, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)

Dennis Hopper in The Time Tunnel episode, Rendezvous with Yesterday

1941 – Grace Zabriskie, actress (Armageddon, Galaxy of Terror)
1940 – Peter Gerety, actor (War of the Worlds, K-PAX)
1942 – Al White, actor (Back to the Future II, The Munsters’ Revenge, The Incredible Hulk)

1955 – Bill Paxton, actor (The Colony, Predator 2, Near Dark, Aliens, Weird Science, The Terminator, Edge of Tomorrow)

Bill Paxton in Aliens

1957 – Whip Hubley, actor (Babylon 5, Species)

1961 – Bruce Thomas, actor (Kyle XY, Star Trek: Enterprise, Army of Darkness)
1963 – Dawn Dunlap, actress (Forbidden World)
1964 – David Eigenberg, actor (Robosapien: Rebooted, The 4400)
1965 – Paige Turco b. 1965 (The 100)
1966 – Hill Harper, actor (Limitless (2015), Parts Per Billon, Stonehenge Apocalypse, The 4400, Steel, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1968 – Richard Leacock, actor (Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1973 – Matthew McGrory, actor (Constantine Planet of the Pitts, Men in Black II)

1986 – Tahj Mowry, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)
1986 – Amy Gumenick, actress (No Ordinary Family)
1988 – Karrueche Tran, actor (3 Headed Shark Attack)

1990 – Leven Ramblin, actor (The Tomorrow People, The Hunger Games, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1999 – Henry Jones, actor, d @ 86 (Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Girl with Something Extra, Project X, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

2005 – Frank Gorshin, actor, d @ 72 (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Black Scorpion, Twelve Monkeys, Lois & Clark, The Meteor Man, Monsters, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Star Trek, The Munsters, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

posted by admin on May 16

1878 – Taylor Holmes, actor (Tobor the Great)

1887 – Bull Montana, actor (The Lost World, Flash Gordon)

1905 – Henry Fonda, actor (Fail-Safe, Tentacles, Meteor, The Swarm)

1916 – Bernard Braden, actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
1917 – George Gaynes, actor (Sliders, Marooned, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1918 – Barry Atwater, actor (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Barry Atwater in The Outer Limits episode, Corpus Earthling.

1921 – Harry Carey, Jr., actor (Back to the Future III, Cherry 2000, UFOria, Cyborg 2087, Men into Space)

Harry Carey Jr in Back to the Future III

1931 – Jack Dodson, actor (Mork & Mindy, Munster, Go Home!)
1937 – Yvonne Craig, actress (Mars Needs Women, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Holmes and Yo-Yo)

1944 – Danny Trejo, actor (The X-Files, Eyeborgs, Predators, Rise of the Zombies, Zombie Hunter, Volcano Zombies)
1947 – Bill Smitrovich, actor (Independence Day, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: DS9)

1951 – Laurette Spang, actress(Battlestar Galactica, Man from Atlantis, Project U.F.O., Gemini Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1953 – Pierce Brosnan, actor (The Lawnmower Man, Mars Attacks!)

Pierce Brosnan in Mars Attacks!

1955 – Debra Winger, actress (E.T. the Extra-terrestrial)
1959 – Mare Winningham, actress (Under the Dome, The Twilight Zone, Threshold)

1961 – Kevin McDonald, actor (Galaxy Quest)
1961 – Solveig Dommartin, actress, (Until the End of the World)
1965 – Vincent Regan, actor (Atlantis, Invasion: Earth)
1965 – Brent Jasmer, actor (Leprechaun 4: In Space)
1966 – Scott Reeves, actor (The Munsters Today)
1967 – Ramon Tikaram, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Primeval)

1967 – Brian F. O’Byrne, actor (Flashforward)
1969 – Tracey Gold, actress (Arachnoquake, Solar Flare)

1972 – Eha Urbsalu, actor (Men in Black 3)
1973 – Tori Spelling, actress (Smallville)
1974 – Sean Carrigan, actor (John Carter, The Event, Heroes)
1977 – Melanie Lynsky, actress (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
1977 – Lynn Collins, actress (John Carter, Bug)
1978 – Vincent Larusso, actor (Dollhouse)

1983 – Tien You Chui, actor (Contagion)
1984 – Andy Kaufman, actor, d @ 35 (Heartbeeps)
1985 – Margaret Hamilton, actress, d @ 82 (The Invisible Woman)
1986 – Megan Fox, actress (Transformer’s movies)

1990 – Thomas Brodie Sangster, actor ( Doctor Who, The Maze Runner)
1990 – Jim Henson, puppetier/producer, d @ 53
1991 – Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1993 – Atticus Mitchell, actor (The Colony)
1998 – Ariel Waller, actress (ReGenesis)

2002 – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones released

2011 – Edward Hardwicke, actor, d @ 78 (Journey to the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
2013 – Star Trek Into Darkness released
2014 – Godzilla released

posted by admin on May 15

1905 – Joseph Cotten, actor (Screamers, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Lady Frankenstein, Soylent Green, City Beneath the Sea, Journey to the Unknown, From the Earth to the Moon)
1909 – James Mason, actor (The Boys from Brazil, Frankenstein: The True Story, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1911 – Leo Fuchs, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)
1915 – Ben Wright, actor (The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)

Ben Wright as General Benton in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1918 – Joseph Wiseman, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

Joseph Wiseman in the Twilight Zone episode, One More Palbearer.

1929 – David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO, Space Precinct, Blakes 7)

1936 – Ralph Steadman, illustrator

1948 – Malcolm Stewart, actor (Fringe, Moon, Eureka, Kyle XY, Bionic Woman, The 4400, Blade: The Series, The Butterfly Effect 2,, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Mysterious Ways, Andromeda, First Wave, Seven Days, Millennium, The X Files, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Timecop, The Twilight Zone)

1950 – Nicholas Hammond, actor (Stealth, Farscape, The Lost World (TV), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), The Martian Chronicles, Logan’s Run (TV), The Fantastic Journey)

1952 – Red Planet Mars released
1953 – Phantom From Space released

Phantom from Space released

1954 – John Blyth Barrymore, actor (Solar Crisis)
1959 – The Mysterians released
1959 – Invisible Invaders released

1960 – Rob Bowman, director (The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, VR.5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: TNG, Alien Nation (TV))
1961 – Larry Holden, actor (Timecop)
1963 – Grant Heslov, actor (Bug, The X-Files, Congo, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Twilight Zone)
1963 – Jamie Harris, actress (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
1963 – Brenda Bakke, actress (Dollhouse, Solar Crisis, Star Trek: TNG)
1966 – Greg Wise, actor (House of Frankenstein (1997))
1967 – Brigitte Bako, actress (Replikator)

1976 – Cyrille Thouvenin, actor (The Happening)
1978 – Caroline Dhavernas, actress (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)
1978 – David Krumholtz, actor (This is the End, Serenity)

1982 – Alexandra Breckinridge, actress (The Walking Dead)
1988 – Andrew Duggan, actor, d @ 64 (Frankenstein Island, A Fire in the Sky, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Time Machine, The Invaders)

1991 – Ronald Lacey, actor, d @ 55 (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
1994 – Royal Dano, actor, d @ 71 (Lights Out, Lost in Space, Planet of the Apes, Spaced Invaders)

1996 – Barton Heyman, actor, d @ 59 (Twilight Zone)

2002 – Bryan Pringle, actor, d @ 67 (Brazil)
2003 -The Matrix Reloaded released
2008 – Alexander Courage, composer, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Deep Rising, Congo, Jurassic Park, Superman IV, Lost In Space)
2009 – Charles Tingwell, actor, d @ 86 (UFO, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)

posted by admin on May 14

1921 – Richard Deacon, actor (Piranha, The Lost Saucer, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, This Island Earth, Invaders form Mars)

Richard Deacon as a MP in Invaders from Mars

1933 – Sian Phillips, actress (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Dune)
1933 – Laszlo Kovacs, cinematographer (Multiplicity, Slither)

1944 – George Lucas, writer/director ( Star Wars, THX-1138)
1947 – Tamara Dobson, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command)

Tamara Dobson in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1950 – Mark Blum, actor (Fringe)

1951 – Robert Zemeckis, writer/director (Back to the Future)
1955 – Robert G. Tapert, writer (Alien Apocalypse, Cleopatra 2525)
1959 – Brett Leonard, director (Man-Thing, Virtuosity, The Lawnmower Man)

1961 – Tim Roth, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Planet of the Apes, Metamorphosis)
1962 – Danny Huston, actor (Children of Men, Timecode)

1969 – Cate Blanchett, actress (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

1970 – Natasha Ryan, actress (The Day Time Ended, Kingdom of the Spiders)
1971 – Sofia Coppola, actress (Star Wars: Episode I)

1973 – Indira Varma, actress (Torchwood, Sci-Fright)
1977 – Ada Nicodemou, actress (The Matrix)

1980 – Hugh Griffith, actor, d @ 77 (The Last Days of Man on Earth)
1982 – Hugh Beaumont, actor, d @ 73 (The Mole People, The Human Duplicators, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lost Continent)

1997 – Riley Griffiths, actor (Super 8)

2003 – Robert Stack, actor, d @ 84 (Butt-Ugly Martians)

2005 – Alyce Andrece, actress, d @ 68 (Star Trek)