Archive for July, 2015

posted by admin on Jul 31

1889 – Donald Foster, actor (Twilight Zone)

1914 – Mario Bava, director, (Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Planet of the Vampires, The Immortal Monster)
1918 – Basil Henson, actor (The Final Programme, Out of the Unknown, The Frozen Dead)
1919 – Primo Levi, sci-fi author (The Periodic Table)

1925 – Gore Vidal, author / actor, d @ 86 (Visit to a Small Planet / Gattaca)
1929 – Don Murray, actor (The Stepford Children, Radioactive Dreams, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1932 – Ted Cassidy, actor (Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Genesis II, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Angry Red Planet)

Ted Cassidy as the slave in the Lost in Space episode, The Thief of Outer Space.

Ted Cassidy as the slave in the Lost in Space episode, The Thief of Outer Space.

1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, actor (Odyssey 5, The X-Files, The Lawnmower Man, Annihilator, Amazing Stories, Night of the Comet, Mork & Mindy, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1939 – France Nuyen, actor (Automan, The Six Million Dollar Man, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Dimension 5)

1943 – Sab Shimono, actor (Waterworld, The X-Files, Max Headroom)
1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, actress ( Z.P.G.)
1947 – Richard Griffiths, actor (Superman II)

1950 – Lane Davies, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Lois & Clark)
1951 – Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)

1953 – James Read, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark)
1955 – Creature with the Atomic Brain released
1956 – Michael Biehn, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Planet Terror, Clockstoppers, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, Asteroid, The Abyss, The Seventh Sign, Aliens, The Terminator, Logan’s Run (TV), Alien 5)

Michael Biehn in Aliens

Michael Biehn in Aliens

1957 – Dirk Blocker, actor (The X Files, Quantum Leap, Starman, Beyond Westworld)
1957 – The 27th Day released
1958 – Greg Travis, actor (Night of the Living Dead 3D, Starship Troopers, Humanoids from the Deep)

 

 

 

1959 – Return of the Fly released

Return of the Fly

Return of the Fly

1962 – Wesley Snipes, actor (Blade, Futuresport, Demolition Man)
1965 – Ian Roberts, actor (Infected, Superman Returns)
1965 – Pat Finn, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)
1966 – Jim True-Frost, actor (Fringe, W.E.I.R.D. World)
1966 – Dean Cain b. 1966 (Smallville, 10.5: Apocalypse, Lost, Futuresport, Lois & Clark)

1971 – Christina Cox, actress (Elysium, Stargate: Atlantis, The Chronicles of Riddick, Andromeda, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, First Wave)

1975 – Annie Parisse, actress (Fringe, NYPD 2069)

 

1978 – James Harvey Ward, actor (No Ordinary Family)
1979 – Beatrix Lehmann, actress, d @ 76 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)
1981 – Eric Lively, actor (The Butterfly Effect 2)

1992 – Percy Herbert, actor (The Tomorrow People, Doomwatch, Mysterious Island, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

2001 – Poul Anderson, sci-fi author d @ 75 (The Technic History series, Hoka, Tales of Known Space)
2003 – Fred Coffin, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man (TV), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, The X-Files, Something is Out There, The Twilight Zone)
2004 – Virginia Grey, actress, d @ 87 (Science Fiction Theatre)

2011 – Carl Steven d @ 36 (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
2013 – Michael Ansara, actor, d @ 91 (The Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, It’s Alive, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

posted by admin on Jul 30

1882 – Holmes Herbert, actor (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein )

1916 – Dick Wilson, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian)

1927 – Richard Johnson, actor (Zombie, Space: 1999)

Richard Johnson in Space: 1999

Richard Johnson in Space: 1999

1936 – John P. Ryan, actor (Class of 1999, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Futureworld, It’s Alive, It Lives Again)

1944 – Frances de la Tour, actor (Hugo, The Book of Eli)
1947 – William Atherton, actor (Defiance, Stargate SG-1, Headspace, Race to Space, The Twilight Zone)
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor (Terminator, Terminator II, Terminator: Rise of the Machines, Terminator: Genisys, The 6th Day, Total Recall, The Running Man, Predator)
1948 – Carel Struycken, actress (Men in Black, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV), Star Trek: TNG, Ewoks: The Battle of Endor)

 

1948 – Jean Reno, actress (Rollerball (2002), Godzilla 1998, Le Dernier Combat)
1953 – Philip Davis, actor (Doctor Who, Alien³)

Philip Davis in the Doctor Who episode, The Fires of Pompeii.

Philip Davis in the Doctor Who episode, The Fires of Pompeii.

1958 – Richard Burgi, actor (The Green Inferno, Firefly, Mann & Machine)

1960 – Richard Linklater, director (A Scanner Darkly)

1961 – Laurence Fishburne, actor (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel, The Signal, The Colony, Predators, The Matrix, Cherry 2000, Repo Men)
1962 – Myron McCormick, actor, d @ 54 (‘Way Out)
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, actress (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Tremors (TV), Independence Day)

 

1966 – Jason Watkins, actor (Atlantis, Doctor Who)

Jason Watkins in Doctor Who

Jason Watkins in Doctor Who

1968 – Terry Crews, actor (Gamer, Terminator Salvation, The 6th Day)
1969 – Simon Baker, actor (Land of the Dead, Red Planet)

1970 – Christopher Nolan, director (Interstellar, Inception)
1972 – Eddie Carmel, actor, d @ 37 (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die)
1973 – Guy Middleton, actor, d @ 66 (Doctor Who)
1974 – Hilary Swank, actress (The Core)

1980 – Charles McGraw, actor, d @ 66 (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, A Boy and his Dog, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, actress (I Frankenstein)

1992 – Joe Shuster, artist/writer, d @ 78 (Superman)
1999 – Joey King, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

2010 – Lorene Yarnell Jansson, actress, d @ 66 (Spaceballs)
2012 – Jonathan Hardy, actor, d @ 71 (Farscape, Mad Max)
2014 – Robert Halmi Sr., producer, d @ 90 (Riverworld, Flash Gordon, Dinotopia, )
2014 – Dennis Lipscomb, actor, d @ 72 (Roswell, The Invisible Man, Lois & Clark, The X Files, SeaQuest 2032, WarGames, The Day After, The Powers of Matthew Star)
2014 – Dick Smith, make-up artist, d @ 92 (Starman, Scanners, Altered States, Stepford Wives, ‘Way Out, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV), The Alligator People)

posted by admin on Jul 29

1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)
1907 – Melvin Mouron Belli, actor (Star Trek)
1922 – Frank Marth, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marooned, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)
1925 – Lloyd Bochner, actor (Superboy, Millennium, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Starlost, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
1933 – Robert Fuller, actor (The Brain from Planet Arous)
1941 – David Warner, actor (Doctor Who, Cyber Wars, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Planet of the Apes, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Total Recall 2070, Wing Commander, Perversions of Science, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, The Lost World, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Frankenstein, TRON, Time Bandits, Time After Time)

David Warner in Doctor Who

David Warner in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1952 – Wendy Hughes, actress (Star Trek: TNG)
1953 – Charles Hallahan actor (Roswell, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Thing, The Visitor)

Charles Hallahan in John Carpenter's The Thing

Charles Hallahan in John Carpenter’s The Thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 – Marcus Gilbert, actor (Army of Darkness, Doctor Who)

Marcus Gilbert (left) in Doctor Who

Marcus Gilbert (left) in Doctor Who

1960 – Brian Peck, actor (Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, Return of the Living Dead I, II and III)

1963 – Alexandra Paul, actor (A.I. Assault, Cyber Bandits)
1965 – Dean Haglund, actor (The Icarus II Project, Atlantis Down, The X Files, The Lone Gunmen)
1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, actor (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today)
1969 – Timothy Omundson, actor (Warehouse 13, Starship Troopers, Dark Skies, SeaQuest 2032)
1971 – Graham McGrath, actor (Krull, Frankenstein)
1972 – Wil Wheaton, actor (Eureka, T, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Invisible Man, Deep Core, Perversions of Science, Star Trek: TNG, The Last Starfighter)
1973 – Stephen Dorff, actor (Immortals, Blade, Space Truckers)
1973 – Dileep Rao, actor (Inception, Avatar)
1975 – James Blish, sci-fi author, d @ 54 (A Case Of Conscience)

1980 – Megan Hayes, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
1982 – Allison Mack, actress (Smallville)
1982 – Dominic Burgess, actor (Doctor Who)
1982 – Harold Sakata, actor, d @ 62 (Death Dimension, Dimension 5)
1984 – Woodrow Parfrey, actor, d @ 61 (Time Express, Planet of the Apes, The Girl with Something Extra, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, ‘Way Out)

1990 – Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies

2001 – Alex Nicol, actor, d @ 85 (Ape, The Clones, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

2008 – Stargate: Continuum released
2011 – Cowboys & Aliens released

posted by admin on Jul 28

1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, sci-fi author, d @ 36 (Empires of the Moon and Sun)

1909 – Brenda De Banzie, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1911 – Ann Doran, actress (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O., It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman)

1931 – Darryl Hickman, actor (The Tingler, Space Stars, Sky Commanders)

Darryl Hickman (left) in The Tingler

Darryl Hickman (left) in The Tingler

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Charles Cyphers, actor (Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, Lois & Clark, Escape from New York, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1940 – Phil Proctor, actor (Lobster Man from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

Phil Proctor in Lobsterman From Mars

Phil Proctor in Lobsterman From Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Frances Lee McCain, actor (Back to the Future)
1946 – Gwynne Gilford, actress (Masters of the Universe, Beware the Blob)

1950 – Tony Carroll, actor (Masters of the Universe, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1954 – Bruce Abbott, actor (Black Scorpion, Bride of Re-Animator, Re-Animator, Interzone, The Last Starfighter)

Bruce Abbott in Reanimator

Bruce Abbott in Re-Animator

1955 – Nina Axelrod, actress (Brainstorm, Time Walker)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock, actor (Super 8, Serenity, Bug)

1967 – Carlos Jacott, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Firefly, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Rachel Blakely, actress (The Lost World)
1969 – Alexis Arquette, actress (Alien Nation)

1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, actress (S. Darko, Threshold, Control Factor, Perversions of Science)

 

1973 – Royal Butler, actor, d @ 80 (Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Mysterious Island)
1974 – Truman Bradley, TV host, d @69 (Science Fiction Theater)

1979 – Gabriel Pimentel, actor (InAlienable)

1985 – Grant Williams, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters) dies of toxic poisoning at 54
1993 – Hannah Lochner, actress (Dawn of the Dead, Terminal Invasion)

1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, actress, d @ 77 (The Gamma People)

2004 – Sam Edwards, actor, d @ 89 (Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Space Patrol)
2006 – Patrick Allen, actor, d @ 79 (UFO, Journey to the Unknown, Island of the Burning Damned, 1984)
2014 – James Shigeta, actor, d @ 85 (Space Marines, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, The Outer Limits)

posted by admin on Jul 27

1916 – Keenan Wynn, actor (Twilight Zone, The Dark, Manimal, Hyper Sapien: People from Another StarManimal, The Clonus Horror, The Lucifer Complex, Piranha, The Bionic Woman, Laserblast, The Girl with Something Extra)

Keenan Wynn in the Twilight Zone episode, A World of His Own.

Keenan Wynn in the Twilight Zone episode, A World of His Own.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Robert Gunner, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1942 – John Pleshette, actor (Lois & Clark)
1942 – Lanny Flaherty, actor (Men in Black 3, Signs, Waterworld)
1946 – Rade Serbedzija, actor (Surface, Space Cowboys)

Rade Serbedzija in Space Cowboys

Rade Serbedzija in Space Cowboys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Maury Chaykin, actor (Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Lexx, Twilight Zone, Def-Con 4, WarGames)

1950 – Simon Jones, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil)
1950 – Destination Moon released

Destination Moon released

Destination Moon released

1952 – Roxanne Hart, actress (Meteorites)
1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1968 – Cliff Curtis, actor (Mysterious Island)
1969 – Bryan Fuller, writer (Heroes, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9)
1969 – Paul Levesque, actor (Blade: Trinity)

1970 – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, actor (Oblivion)
1972 – Maya Rudolph, actress (Gattaca)

1983 – Blair Redford, actress (FlashForward, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
1984 – James Mason, actor, d @ 75 (The Boys from Brazil, Frankenstein: The True Story, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, actor (Carriers)

 

1996 – Ashlyn Sanchez, actress (The Happening)

2001 – Planet of the Apes released
2009 – Pearl Shear, actor, d @ 81 (Doctor Mordrid, Max Headroom, The Invisible Man (1975))

2010 – Maury Chaykin, actor, d @ 61 (Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Lexx, Twilight Zone, Def-Con 4, WarGames)
2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, actor, d @ 68 (Doctor Who)
2012 – R G Armstrong, actor, d @ 95 (Predator, Salvage 1, Quantum Leap, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)

posted by admin on Jul 26

1894 – Aldous L Huxley, author (Brave New World)

1901 – John Bleifer, actor (Men Into Space, Queen of Outer Space, The 27th Day)

1918 – Stacy Harris, actor, (Men into Space, The Adventures of Superboy)
1919 – Virginia Gilmore, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1922 – Jason Robards, actor (The Day After, A Boy and His Dog)
1926 – James Best, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Killer Shrews, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, director (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

1931 – Robert Colbert, actor (Disaster in Time, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, My Favorite Martian, Have Rocket – Will Travel)
1933 – Chino Williams, actor (Weird Science, The Terminator, The Incredible Hulk)

1943 – Peter Hyams, director (Threshold, End of Days, Timecop, 2010, Outland, Capricorn One)
1943 – Mick Jagger, actor (Freejack)
1944 – Kiel Martin, actor, d @ 46 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1944 – Celeste Yarnall, actress (Land of the Giants, Star Trek)

Celeste Yarnall as Yeoman Martha Landon in Star Trek

Celeste Yarnall as Yeoman Martha Landon in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1945 – Helen Mirren, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Twilight Zone, 2010)

Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk in 2010

Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk in 2010

1945 – Linda Harrison, actress (Planet of Apes + Beneath and 2001), Cocoon (1 and Return)

1950 – Susan George, actress (Computercide, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.
1954 – Lawrence Watt-Evans, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu)
1956 – Danny Bilson, writer (The Rocketeer, Zone Troopers, Trancers)

1957 – Nana Visitor, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Battlestar Galatica, The Twilight Zone)
1959 – Kevin Spacey (Superman Returns, Moon, K-Pax)

1964 – Sandra Bullock, actress (Gravity, Demolition Man, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman)
1964 – Danny Woodburn, actor (Lois & Clark)
1965 – Jeremy Piven, actor (Edge of Tomorrow, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde)

 

1965 – Eugene Burdick, sci-fi author, d @ 46 (Fail-Safe, The 480)
1967 – Jason Statham, actor (Death Race, Ghosts of Mars)
1968 – Olivia Williams, actress (The Last Days on Mars, Dollhouse, The Postman)

1972 – Spencer Wilding, actor (Victor Frankenstein, Jupiter Ascending, Guardians of the Galaxy, Atlantis, Doctor Who, Stardust, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Spencer Wilding as the Wooden King in Doctor Who.

Spencer Wilding as the Wooden King in Doctor Who.

1973 – Kate Beckinsale, actress (Total Recall (2012), Underworld)
1973 – Susse Budde, actress (Cloverfield)
1975 – Ben Cotton, actor (Defiance, The 100, Continuum, Battlestar Galactica, The Tomorrow People, Fringe, Seeds of Destruction, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, The 4400, The Chronicles of Riddick, , Smallville, Strange Frequency, The Immortal)

 

 

1978 – Eve Myles, actress (Doctor Who, Torchwood)

Eve Myles in Torchwood

Eve Myles in Torchwood

1987 – Miriam McDonald, actress (The Sea Beast, Orphan Black)

2002 – Tony Anholt, actor, d @ 61 (Space: 1999, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Cosmic Princess)
2012 – Mary Tamm, actress, d @ 62 (Doctor Who)
2013 – Stranded released

posted by admin on Jul 25

1899 – Ralph Dumke, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1908 – Jack Gilford, actor (Cocoon)

1914 – Woody Strode, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Kingdom of the Spiders)
1933 – Ken Swofford, actor (Max Headroom, The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Andromeda Strain, The Intruders)
1943 – Janet Margolin, actress, (Planet Earth)

Janet Margolin in Planet Earth

Janet Margolin in Planet Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1948 – Brian M[ichael] Stableford, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)

1952 – Nina Thomas, actress (Doctor Who)

Nina Thomas as Thalira in Doctor Who

Nina Thomas as Thalira in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1954 – Lynne Frederick, actress (Space: 1999, Phase IV, No Blade of Grass)

Lynne Frederick in Space: 1999

Lynne Frederick in Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1955 – Iman, actress (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

1959 – The Head released

The Head Released

The Head Released

1965 – Illeana Douglas, actress (Strange Frequency)

1967 – Matt LeBlanc, actor (Lost in Space)
1967 – Jack Perrin, actor (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1973 – Edgar Stehli, actor, d @ 89 (Atlantis the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone, 4D Man)
1973 – David Denman, actor (After Earth, The X-Files)
1974 – Aaron Craven, actor (100,000 Zombie Heads, Continuum, Fringe, Smallville, Alien Trespass, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stargate: Atlantis, Kyle XY, The 4400)
1974 – Jason Marin, actor (Back to the Future)
1974 – Jay R. Ferguson, actor (Surface)

1984 – Akihiko Hirata, actor, d @ 56(Godzilla, Rodan, The Mysterians, The H-Man, Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, Ghidorah, Ultraman, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
1985 – James Lafferty, actor (Oculus, S. Darko)
1987 – Michael Welch, actor (Day of the Dead, Stargate SG-1, The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Star Trek: Insurrection)
1988 – Douglas Hickox, director, d @ 59 (The Giant Behemoth)
1988 – Judith Barsi, actress, d @ 10 (The Twilight Zone)

1990 – Julian Rivero, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)
1995 – Janice Elliott, sci-fi author, d @ 63
2000 – Preston Bailey, actor (Children of the Corn)

2005 – Ford Rainey, actor, d @ 96 (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

posted by admin on Jul 24

1914 – Robert Emhardt, actor (Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1909 – Sydney Bromley, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Prehistoric Women, Night Creatures, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass II, 1984)

Sydney Bromley in Quatermass and the Pit

Sydney Bromley in Quatermass and the Pit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Mark Goddard, actor (Lost in Space, Strange Invaders)

Mark Goddard in Lost in Space

Mark Goddard in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Dan Hedaya, actor (Alien Resurrection, Twilight Zone, BuckarooBanzie, Earthlings)

Dan Hedaya doing a brain examination in Alien Resurrection. Too bad it was his own.

Dan Hedaya doing a brain examination in Alien Resurrection. Too bad it was his own.

1942 – Chris Sarandon, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science, Frankenstein)
1945 – Linda Harrison, actress (Planet of the Apes, Cocoon, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
1947 – Robert Hays, actor (Starman, Deadly Invasion)
1949 – Michael Richards, actor (Coneheads, Whoops Apocalypse)
1951 – Lynda Carter, actress (Smallville)

 

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1957 – Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is published in the U.S. It later provides the basis for Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film.

1965 – Paul Ben-Victor, actor (The Invisible Man, Red Scorpion 2, The X-Files)
1968 – Laura Leighton, actress (The Outer Limits)
1969 – Jennifer Lopez, actress (The Cell)
1969 – Rick Fox, actor (Dollhouse, Holes)
1979 – Archie Duncan, actor, d @ 79 (R3, The Mouse on the Moon, X: The Unknown, Devil’s Plot)
1979 – Rose Byrne, actress (28 Weeks Later, Star Wars II)
1981 – Summer Glau, actress ( Dollhouse, Firefly/Serenity, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1982 – Elisabeth Moss, actress(Invasion)

1990 – Daveigh Chase, actor (S. Darko, Donnie Darko)
1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer sci-fi author, d @ 88 (The Golem)
1991 – Emily Bett Rickards, actress (Soldiers of the Apocalypse)
1996 – Virginia Christine, actress, d @ 76 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)
1997 – Brian Glover, actor, d @ 63 (Alien 3, Doctor Who)

2002 – Maurice Denham, actor, d @ 92 (Doctor Who, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of This World, Project M7)
2012 – Sherman Hemsley, actor, d @ 74 (Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk)
2012 – Chad Everett, actor, d @ 75 (When Time Expires)

posted by admin on Jul 23

1901 – Hank Worden, actor (Ice Pirates, UFOria, Space Rage)
1909 – Helen Martin, actress (Repo Man)

1912 – Michael Wilding, actor (Frankenstein: The True Story)
1913 – Coral Browne, actress (Time Express)
1914 – Virgil Finlay, artist
1916 – Sandra Gould, actress (Twilight Zone)

1923 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, sci-fi author (The Space Merchants)
1925 – Donna Anderson, actress (On the Beach)

Donna Anderson (second from right) in On the Beach

Donna Anderson (second from right) in On the Beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Ronny Cox, actor (Age of Dinosaurs, Stargate SG-1, Deep Blue Sea, Time Trax, Star Trek: TNG, Total Recall, Martians Go Home, RoboCop)

Ronny Cox in RoboCop

Ronny Cox in RoboCop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Marianne Gordon, actress (The Being)

1950 – Belinda J Montgomery, actress (Man From Atlantis, Tron: Legacy)

Belinda J Montgomery in Man From Atlantis

Belinda J Montgomery in Man From Atlantis

1951 – Edie McClurg, actress (Homeboys in Outer Space, A.J.’s Time Travelers, Small Wonder, The Incredible Hulk)
1958 – Lydia Cornell, actress (Quantum Leap)
1961 – Woody Harrelson, actor (The Hunger Games, 2012, Zombieland, A Scanner Darkly)
1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor (The Hunger Games)

1969 – Bill Chott, actor (Invader ZIM, Galaxy Quest, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1970 – Charisma Carpenter, actress (Strange Frequency)
1974 – Kathryn Hahn, actress (Tomorrowland)

1982 – Vic Morrow, actor, d @ 53 (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Humanoids from the Deep, The Man with the Power, The Immortal)

1984 – Lloyd Gough, actor, d @ 76 (The Invaders, The Outer Limits)
1986 – Reece Ritchie, actor (Atlantis: End of the World)

1988 – Pippa Bennett-Warner, actress (Doctor Who)

Pippa Bennett-Warner in Doctor Who

Pippa Bennett-Warner in Doctor Who

1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, actor (Frankenstein (2015))

2002 – Leo McKern, actor, d @ 82 (Space: 1999, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, X the Unknown)

posted by admin on Jul 21

1889 – James Whale, director (The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein)

1924 – Joseph Sargent, director/actor (Tomorrow’s Child, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Immortal, Star Trek / Twilight Zone)
1926 – Brian Forbes, actor (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, Satellite in the Sky)

Brian Forbes (left) in Quatermass 2

Brian Forbes (left) in Quatermass 2

1928 – Orson Bean, actor (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Alien Autopsy, Being John Malkovich, Monsters, Innerspace, Twilight Zone)

1931 – Perry Lopez, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, Time Tunnel, The Creature From the Black Lagoon)
1930 – Marcia Henderson, actress (Men Into Space)

 

 

 

 

1934 – Louise Fletcher, actress (The Genesis Code, Strange Invaders, Brainstorm, Invaders From Mars, Star Trek: DS9, VR.5, Frankenstein and Me, The Stepford Husbands, Virtuosity, The Ray Bradbury Theater)

Louise Fletcher in Invaders from Mars

Louise Fletcher in Invaders from Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Terence Stamp, actor (Smallville, Elektra, Red Planet, Star Wars: Episode I, Alien Nation, Superman I and II, HU-Man)

1944 – Nick Brimble, actor (Frankenstein Unbound, Cosmic Princess, Blakes 7, Space: 1999)

Nick Brimble having a bad time in Blakes 7

Nick Brimble having a bad time in Blakes 7

1944 – Peter Jason, actor (Robosapien: Rebooted, Planet Raptor, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [2006], Alien Apocalypse, Raptor Island, Carnivale, Ghosts of Mars, Perversions of Science, Escape from L.A., Mortal Kombat, Congo, Village of the Damned, Quantum Leap, Arachnophobia, They Live, Alien Nation, Prince of Darkness, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Amazing Stories, Dreamscape, The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Captain Nemo, Shadow on the Land, Land of the Giants)

1946 – Danny Glover, actor (Toxin, 2047 – Sights of Death, Space Warriors, 2012, Earthsea, Predator 2)

 

1947 – J. Kenneth Campbell, actor (Mars Attacks!, The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, The Abyss)
1947 – Albert Brooks, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1951 – Tisa Farrow, actress (Anthropophagus, Hunter of the Apocalypse, Zombie)
1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1955 – Willem Dafoe, actor (John Carter, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, eXistenZ)

1964 – David Spade, actor (ALF)
1964 – John Leguizamo, actor (Repo Men)
1964 – Adam Godley, actor (Battleship, Dollhouse, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1972 – Colin Ferguson, actor (Eureka, Primeval: New World, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray)

1977 – Jaime Murray, actress (Warehouse 13)
1978 – Candace Kroslak, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1988 – Duane Jones, actor, d @ 52 (Night of the Living Dead)

2000 – Eric Christmas, actor, d @ 84 (The X Files, Eerie Indiana, ALF, Misfits of Science, The Philadelphia Experiment, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Andromeda Strain)
2005 – George Wallace, actor, d @ 88 (Minority Report, The X-Files, Multiplicity, Star Trek: TNG, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet)
2007 – Laszlo Kovacs, cinematographer, d @ 74 (Multiplicity, Slither)

2011 – Tom Aldredge, actor, d @ 83 (The Mind Snatchers, The American Astronaut, *batteries not included, The Mouse on the Moon)