Beyond The Threshold

posted by admin on Jul 21

1924 – Don Knotts, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)

Don Knotts in The Reluctant Astronaut

1925 – Al Checco, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, The Terminal Man, The Reluctant Astronaut, The 6 Million Dollar Man)
1925 – Anne Meacham, actress (Way Out)
1926 – Queenie Watts, actress (Doomwatch)
1926 – Norman Jewison, producer (Rollerball)
1926 – Paul Burke, actor (Adventures of Superman, Men Into Space)

1929 – John Woodvine, actor (Doctor Who)

John Woodvine in Doctor Who

1943 – Edward Herrmann, actor (Day of the Dolphin, The Electric Grandmother, Here Comes the Munsters)
1944 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author

1948 – Art Hindle, actor (The Clone Master, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mutant X, Total Recall 2070)

1951 – Robin Williams, actor (Mork & Mindy, Bicentennial Man)
1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.
1964 – Rory Stevens, actor (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)
1956 – Satellite in the Sky released
1957 – Jon Lovitz, actor (The Stepford Wives, Coneheads, Mom and Dad Save the World, My Stepmother is an Alien)

1960 – Plan 9 from Outer Space released
1960 – Lance Guest, actor (The Last Starfighter, Stepsister from Planet Weird, The X-Files)

Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter

1962 – Ike Eisenmann, actor (Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II; The Wrath of Khan)
1965 – Trevor Etienne, actor (Falling Skies, Terminator Salvation)
1967 – Basil Rathbone, actor, d @ 75 (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Science Fiction Theatre)
1967 – Reed Diamond (Dollhouse)

1973 – Ali Landry, actress (Repli-Kate)

1974 – Ray Galletti, actor (Smallville, The Core, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda)
1978 – Josh Hartnett, actor (30 Days of Night)
1980 – Sprague Grayden, actor (Biohazardous)

1985 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor d. @ 65 (Conquest of Space)

1986 – Virginia Hewitt, actress, d @ 60 (Space Patrol, The Flying Saucer, The Guardians)
1989 – Rory Culkin, actor (Signs)

1993 – Robert J Glass, film producer, killed @ 53 (ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
1996 – Wolf Morris, actor d. @ 71 (Microbes and Men, Doctor Who, Return to the Lost Planet)
1996 – Herb Edelman, actor, d @ 62 (Out of This World, It’s About Time)
1996 – Luana Anders, actress, d @ 58 (The Outer Limits)

2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director d. @ 81 (Star Trek)
2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer d @ 75 (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Congo)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Return to the Lost Planet)
2006 – Mako, actor, d @ 72 (Salvage 1, The Incredible Hulk)

posted by admin on Jul 20

1909 – John Steadman, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk)

1917 – Paul Christian, actor, d @ 84 31 December 2001 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

1925 – Lola Albright, actress (The Monolith Monsters, The Incredible Hulk)

1926 – Patricia Cutts, actress (The Tingler)

1938 – Natalie Wood, actress (Meteor, Brainstorm, Altered States)
1938 – Diana Rigg, actress (Doctor Who)

Dianna Rigg in Doctor Who

1941 – Kurt Raab, actor (Why The UFOs Steal Our Lettuce)

Wendy Richard in Doctor Who -Dimensions in Time: Part One as Pauline Fowler.

1943 – Wendy Richard, actress (Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time)
1948 – Muse Watson, actress (TIMER, Frankenfish)

1951 – Jeff Rawle, actor (Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time)
1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.
1957 – Donna Dixon, actress (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1960 – Jonathon Morris, writer of Doctor Who fiction (Doctor Who)

1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, actor (Saul of the Molemen)

1963 – Frank Whaley, actor (Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)
1964 – Dean Winters, actor (Outer Limits, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1967 – Reed Diamond, actor (Stargate SG-1, Twilight Zone, Dollhouse)

1969 – 1st men land on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. on Apollo 11 (fullfilling sci-fi visions) and Armstrong took the first steps on the moon at 10:56 PM Eastern.

Eagle lands on the moon

1973 – Roberto Orci, writer (Star Trek 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, Fringe, Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers)
1975 – Judy Greer, actress (Jurassic World, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1986 – Osric Chau, actor (Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, 2012)

1983 – Rory Jennings, actor (Doctor Who, Frankenstein)

1989 – Mary Treen, actress, d @ 82 (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1996 – Randy Stuart d @ 72 (The Incredible Shrinking Man)
1997 – Linda Stirling, actress d. @ 75 (The Purple Monster Strikes)
1999 – Sandra Gould, actress, d @ 82 (Twilight Zone)

2000 – Max Showalter, actor, d @ 83 (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, The Monster That Challenged the World, Indestructible Man)
2005 – James Doohan, actor, d @ 85 (Tales of Tomorrow, Space Command, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Satan Bug, Star Trek series & 1-5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Generations, Homeboys in Outer Space)
2006 – Robert Cornthwaite, actor, d @ 89 (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)

2012 – Simon Ward, actor, d. @ 70 (Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Supergirl)
2014 – James Garner, actor, d @ 86 (Fire in the Sky, Space Cowboys)

posted by admin on Jul 19

1924 – Pat Hingle (Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Muppets from Space, The Six Million Dollar Man

1935 – Peter Birrel, actor (Doctor Who)

Peter Birrel as Draconian Prince in Doctor Who: Frontier in Space.

1937 – Richard Jordan (Dune, Logan’s Run, Solarbabies)

Richard Jordan in Logan’s Run

1944 – Tim McIntire, actor (A Boy and His Dog, The Invaders)
1945 – George Dzundza, actor (Stargate: SG-1, The Twilight Zone)
1949 – Ivar Kants, actor (Escape From Jupiter, Farscape)
1950 – Simon Cadell, actor (1990, Meteor)
1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.
1956 – Peter Barton, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)
1956 – K.A. Applegate, sci-fi author (Animorphs, The One and Only Ivan)

1957 – Terri Treas, actress (Alien Nation)

Terri Treas in Alien Nation

1961 – Campbell Scott, actor (Final Days of Planet Earth, Top of the Food Chain)
1962 – Anthony Edwards, actor (Zero Hour)
1966 – Nancy Carell, actress (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
1969 – Bodhi Elfman, actor (Armageddon, Sliders, Godzilla, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1974 – Joe Flynn, actor, d @ 49 (Indestrutible Man, Men into Space)
1976 – Gene Roth, actor, d @ 73 (She Demons, Earth vs. the Spider , Attack of the Giant Leeches, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Outer Space Jitters, Science Fiction Theatre, Captain Midnight, Space Patrol, The Lost Planet, Red Planet Mars, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)
1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, actor (Star Trek: ID)
1977 – Erin Cummings, actor (Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise)

2005 – Edward Bunker, actor, d @ 71 (The Running Man)
2007 – Laura Devon, actress, d @ 76 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
2006 – Jack Warden, actor, d. @ 86 (Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, The Invaders)
2013 – Mel Smith, actor, d @ 60 (Morons From Outer Space)

posted by admin on Jul 18

1891 – Gene Lockhart, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out)

1898 – John Stuart, actor (Space School, Quatermass II: Enemy From Space)

1911 – Hume Cronyn, actor (Cocoon, *batteries not included)
1913 – Marvin Miller, actor (Empire of the Ants, Fantastic Planet, Fantastic Voyage, Invasion of Astro-Monster, The Phantom Planet, The Invisible Boy, The Deadly Mantis, Forbidden Planet, King Dinosaur, Godzilla Raids Again, Space Patrol, Red Planet Mars)

1920 – Dolph Sweet, actor (Colossus: The Forbin Project)
1926 – Robert Sloman, writer (Doctor Who)

Robert Sloman, writer for Doctor Who

1929 – Michael Medwin, actor (Spaceways)

1930 – Burt Kwouk, actor (Space Precinct, Doctor Who, The Tomorrow People, Curse of the Fly)

Burt Kwouk left in Curse of the Fly

1933 – Syd Mead sci-fi illustrator
1938 – Paul Verhoeven, director (Hollow Man, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, RoboCop)
1938 – Hampton Fancher, writer (Blade Runner)

1938 – Britt Leach, actor (The Last Starfighter, Quantum Leap, Weird Science)
1940 – James Brolin, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Terminal Virus, Capricorn One, Westworld, Fantastic Voyage, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1948 – James Faulkner, actor (The Martian Chronicles)

1951 – Margo Martindale (The Rocketeer)

1955 – Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California. One of its principal themed areas, “Tomorrowland,” features corporate-sponsored exhibits such as the TWA Moonliner, a simulated voyage to the moon, and the Monsanto House of the Future. Another exhibit, “Autopia,” offers a preview of the planned Interstate Highway system.
1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson, actress (The X Files, Asteroid, Babylon 5, Robot Jox)
1960 – Travis McKenna, actor (Meego, Quantum Leap)
1962 – Lee Arenberg, actor (Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Enterprise & Voyager, Waterworld, The Apocalypse, Robocop 3, Martians Go Home)

1967 – Vin Diesel, actor (Pitch Black, Babylon A.D.)
1968 – Andre Royo, actor (Fringe, Heroes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1968 – Grant Bowler, actor (Defiance, The Lost World, On the Beach, Farscape)
1975 – Jed Whedon, writer (Dollhouse)
1976 – Valerie Cruz, actor (Alphas, Dollhouse, The Dresden Files, Invasion)
1977 – Kelly Reilly, actress(A for Andromeda)
1980 – Kristen Bell, actress (Heroes)
1981 – Michael Huisman, actor (World War Z)

1984 – Rosalind Halstead, actress(The Day of the Triffids)

1986 – Aliens released
1986 – Buddy Baer, actor, d @ 71 (Giant from the Unknown, Adventures of Superman)

1993 – Davis Roberts, actor, d @ 76 (Westworld, Demon Seed, Ark II, Star Trek)
1997 – Brody Nicholas Lee, actor (Cloud Atlas)
1997 – Cody Benjamin Lee, actor (Cloud Atlas, Invasion)
2003 – Jurassic Park III released

posted by admin on Jul 17

1912 – Donald Barry, actor, d @ 68 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970)

1935 – Donald Sutherland, actor (The Hunger Games, Frankenstein (2004), Space Cowboys, Virus, The Lifeforce Experiment, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1944 – Catherine Schell, actress (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Moon Zero Two)

Catherine Schell in Doctor Who episode City of Death as Countess Scarlioni

1950 – P.J. Soles, actress (Alienator)

P. J. Soles in Alienator

1952 – David Hasselhoff, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Starcrash, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!)
1952 – Robert R[ick] McCammon, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, writer (World War Z, Thor, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)
1956 – Tim Rose, actor (voice of General Ackbar & Howard the Duck, Wizards vs. Aliens)
1956 – Margot Rose, actress (Hollow Man, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Bill Sage, actor (Shockwave Darkside)
1963 – John Ventimiglia, actor (Level 9)

1964 – Heather Langenkamp, actress (Star Trek: ID, Perversions of Science)
1965 – Santiago Segura, actor (Pacific Rim, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hellboy, Blade II)
1965 – Alex Winter, actor (Ben 10, Saul of the Molemen)
1968 – Bitty Schram, actress (Roswell)
1969 – Jason Clarke, actor (Terminator: Genesis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Death Race, Farscape)

1979 – Mike Vogel, actor (Under the Dome, Cloverfield)

1981 – Melanie Thierry, actress (The Zero Theorem, Babylon A.D.)
1985 – Tom Cullen, actor (Last Days on Mars)
1988 – Thayer David, actor, d @ 51 (The Invisible Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1992 – Billie Lourd, actress (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens)
1993 – Cazi Greene, actress (The Maze Runner)
1994 – Jessica Amlee b. 1994 (Absolute Zero, Stargate: Atlantis, Andromeda, Smallville)
1995 – Harry Guardino, actor, d @ 69 (Goldengirl, The Outer Limits)
1995 – Austin Macdonald, actor (ReGenesis)

2004 – Pat Roach, actor, d @ 64 (Starhunter, Kull the Conqueror, Space Precinct, Unidentified Flying Oddball)
2008 – Paul Sorensen, actor, d @ 82 (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Salvage 1, Westworld, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

2012 – Morgan Paull, actor, d @ 67 (Blade Runner, Beyond Westworld, The Swarm, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

posted by admin on Jul 16

1882 – Edward Earle, actor, (The She-Creature, Science Fiction Theatre, Flight to Mars)

Edward Earle in Flight to Mars

1911 – Sonny Tufts, actor (Cat-Women of the Moon)
1916 – Barnard Hughes, actor (TRON, The UFO Incident, ‘Way Out)

1921 – Jane Hylton, actress (Manster, Journey to the Unknown, Doctor Who)

Jane Hylton in Doctor Who

1928 – Robert Sheckley, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap)

1939 – Corin Redgrave, actor (Ultraviolet)

1946 – Ann Turkel, actress (RoboCop (TV), Deep Space, Worlds Beyond, Death Ray 2000, Humanoids from the Deep)

Ann Turkel in Deep Space

1946 – Richard LeParmentier, actor (Alligator, Superman II, Space: 1999, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Stardust)

1956 – Jerry Doyle (Babylon 5)
1957 – Faye Grant, actress (TV, Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)

1965 – Daryl Mitchell, actor (Galaxy Quest)
1967 – Will Ferrell, actor (Land of the Lost (2009))
1969 – Felix Locher, actor, D @ 66 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Munsters, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Curse of the Faceless Man)

1971 – Corey Feldman, actor (Zombex, The Zombie King, The Toxic Avenger IV, Sliders, Time After Time)
1979 – Jayma Mays, actress (Heroes)

1981 – Michelle Morgan, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Diary of the Dead)

2004 – I, Robot released

2010 – Inception released
2010 – James Gammon, actor, d @ 70 (Altered, The Invaders)
2012 – William Asher, director, d @ 88 (Twilight Zone)

posted by admin on Jul 15

1910 – Ken Lynch, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Munsters, Men into Space, Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1911 – Robert H Harris, actor, (Tales of Tomorrow, How to Make a Monster, Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Boy, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, Land of the Giants, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1918 – D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus)

1925 – Philip Carey, actor, d @ 83 6 February 2009 (Monster, The Bionic Woman)
1927 – Nan Martin, actress (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)
1927 – Joe Turkel, actor (The Dark Side of the Moon, Blade Runner, Land of the Giants, Village of the Giants, Visit to a Small Planet)

1936 – Steven Gilborn, actor (Evolution, Lois & Clark)
1939 – Patrick Wayne (They Came from Outer Space, Beyond Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Patrick Wayne (left) in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode Killers of the Deep

1942 – Gregory Casparian, sci-fi author, d @ 65

1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent (Damnation Alley, Jurassic Women, Lethal Orbit, Xtro II, Alienator)

1951 – Jesse Ventura (Predator, Running Man, The X-Files, Demolition Man, Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe)
1952 – Terry O’Quinn (The X-files, Lost, Star Trek, Falling Skys, Roswell, Earth 2, The Rocketeer, SpaceCamp, The Twilight Zone)

1952 – Celia Imrie, actress (Doctor Who, Star Wars Episode I, Frankenstein)

Celia Imrie in Doctor Who

1956 – It Conquered the World released

1960 – Willie Aames, actor (Zapped!)
1961 – Forest Whitaker, actor (Repo Men, The Twilight Zone, Battlefield Earth)

Forest Whitaker in Repo Men

1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, actress (Galaxis)
1966 – Amanda Foreman, actress (Star Trek ID, Super 8, Star Trek, Future Shock)
1968 – Stan Kirsch, actor (Invincible)

1971 – Guy Wilkerson, actor, d @ 71 (Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone)
1973 – Brian Austin Green, actress (Smallville, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Small Wonder)

1976 – Diane Kruger, actress (The Host, Fringe)
1977 – Lana Parilla, actress (Once Upon a Time, Spiders)
1979 – James Devoti, actor (White Space, Heroes)

1986 – Benny Rubin, actor, d @ 87 (The Munsters, Science Friction, Space Ship Sappy)
1987 – Alfie Bass, actor, d @ 71 (Moonraker)

1990 – Alison Leggatt, actress, d @ 86 (The Day of Triffids)
1996 – Dana Hill, actress, d @ 32 (Mork & Mindy)

posted by admin on Jul 14

1891 – Henry Oscar, actor (Out of the Unknown)
1898 – Ivan Triesault, actor (The Amazing Transparent Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, World of Giants, Journey to the Center of the Earth)
1899 – Martha Mansfield, actress (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920))

1910 – William Hanna, animator (Space Ghost)
1911 – Terry-Thomas, actor (2000 Years Later, Munster, Go Home!)

1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, actor (Alien, Alien Autopsy, UFOria, Repo Man, Escape from New York)

Harry Dean Stanton in Alien

1928 – Laurie Mitchell, actress (Missile to the Moon, Queen of Outer Space, Adventures of Superman, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1932 – Roosevelt Grier, actor (The Thing with Two Heads)
1939 – Sid Haig, (Star Trek, Beyond Atlantis, Mimesis, Creature, Night of the Living Dead 3D, Misfits of Science, Automan, Galaxy of Terror, Zombex, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command, The Six Million Dollar Man, Beware! The Blob, THX 1138)

1939 – Peter Duryea, actor (Star Trek, The Outer Limits)

Peter Duryea in The Outer Limits episode Expanding Human

1952 – Stan Shaw, actor (The X-Files)
1952 – The Toy Guidance Council, an industry watchdog group, announces a “trend toward toys dealing with space travel and atomic energy” among toys being prepared for the Christmas season. “Television has always influenced the demand for toys, and now, with many science fiction programs on the air, the western types are waning slightly.”
1956 – Vladimir Kulich, actor ( The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1960 – Jane Lynch, actress (Paul, The X-Files, What Planet Are You From?, 3rd Rock from the Sun)
1961 – Jackie Earle Haley, actress (RoboCop (2014), Planet of the Apes (TV))

1964 – Jane Espenson, producer/writer (Torchwood, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse)
1966 – Matthew Fox (World War Z, Speed Racer)

1974 – David Mitchell b. 1974 (Doctor Who)

David Mitchell in Doctor Who

1978 – Kristy Wright, actress (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Lost World)

1980 – Solar Crisis released
1987 – Sarah Canning, actress (Primeval: New World, Kyle XY, Smallville)
1989 – Sean Flynn, actor (Return of the Killer Shrews, Sliders)

2000 – Meredith MacRae, actress, d @ 56 (Earthbound)

2007 – I Am Legend released

2008 – Hugh Lloyd, actor, d @ 85 (Doctor Who)

posted by admin on Jul 13

1895 – Sidney Blackmer, actor (The Outer Limits)

Sidney Blackmer in The Outer Limits episode, The Hundred Days of the Dragon.

1928 – Sudie Bond, actress (Way Out)
1929 – Rene Laloux, director, d @ 74 14 March 2004 (Gandahar, Time Masters, Fantastic Planet)
1929 – Bob Crane, actor (Twilight Zone)

1940 – David Westburg, actor (Logan’s Run, Genesis II)
1940 – Patrick Stewart, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Lifeforce, Dune)
1941 – Robert Forster, actor (Heroes, Alligator, The Black Hole)

1942 – Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars, Ender’s Game, Cowboys & Aliens, Blade Runner)

Harrison Ford as Han Solo

 
1946 – Cheech Marin, actor (Planet Terror)
1946 – Michael Shea, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus)

1952 – Rosemary Dunsmore, actress (ReGenesis, Last Exit to Earth, RoboCop, Total Recall, Twilight Zone)

Rosemary Dunsmore in Total Recall

1955 – Lance E. Nichols, actor (Creature, Swamp Shark, The Invisible Man, K-PAX, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Alien Nation, Project X, Twilight Zone)

1962 – Michael Jace, actor (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: DS9)
1963 – Kenny Johnson, actor (Smallville, Blade, Sliders)
1968 – Robert Gant, actor (The Tomorrow People)
1969 – Ken Jeong, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1973 – Willy Fritsch, actor, d @ 72 (Women in the Moon)
1977 – Ashley Scott, actress (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)

1981 – Michael Mando, actor (Orphan Black, The Colony, Elysium)
1981 – Fran Kranz (Dollhouse, Donnie Darko)
1984 – The Last Starfighter released

1988 – Chris Sheffield, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
1988 – Steven R. McQueen, actor (Piranha 3D, Minutemen, Threshold)

2001 – Eleanor Summerfield, actress, d @ 80 (UFO)
2006 – Red Buttons, actor, d @ 87 (Early Edition, C.H.O.M.P.S.)

2012 – Richard Darryl Zanuck,film producer, dies @ 77 (Cocoon 1 & 2, Deep Impact, Planet of the Apes (2001))
2013 – Cory Monteith, actor, d @ 31 (Flash Gordon (TV)), Kyle XY (TV), Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, Stargate SG-1, Smallville)

2305 – Jean Luc Picard, fictional capt on Star Trek TNG

posted by admin on Jul 12

1884 – Edgar Stehli, actor (Atlantis the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone, 4D Man)

1890 – Cheerio Meredith, actress (The Three Stooges in Orbit)

1906 – Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told, The Alligator People, The Cyclops, Indestrutible Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Man Made Monster)
1909 – Curly JoeDeRita, actor (Three Stooges in Orbit, Have Rocket — Will Travel)

Curley Joe DeRita in The Three Stooges in Orbit

1923 – James E[dwin]Gunn, writer/sci-fi author (The Immortal, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: Man in Orbit aka The Cave of Night, A History of Science Fiction from 1938 / This Fortress World, Station in Space)
1928 – Kathy Staff, actress (Mary Reilly)

1930 – Gordon Pinsent, actor (Ray Bradbury Theatre, Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1945 – Edwin Neal, actor (Future-Kill)
1948 – Jay Thomas, actor (C.H.U.D.)

1951 – Jamey Sheridan, actress (The Stand)
1951 – Cheryl Ladd, actress (Millennium, The Fantastic Journey)

1956 – Mel Harris, actress (Stargate SG-1)
1959 – Charlie Murphy, actor (Frankenhood, Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe)

1966 – Tamsin Greig, actor (Doctor Who, Shaun of the Dead)

Tamsin Greig as Nurse in the Doctor Who episode, The Long Game.

1970 – Byung-hun Lee, actor (Terminator: Genisys)
1970 – Jaason Simmons, actor (Sharknado, Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Frankenstein Reborn!)
1973 – Topher Grace, actor (Predators, Interstellar)
1975 – Phil Lord, director/writer (Clone High)
1976 – Anna Friel, actress (Land of the Lost (2009))
1978 – Michelle Rodriguez, actress (Avatar, Battle Los Angeles, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Retribution)

1980 – Kristen Connolly, actress (The Happening)
1984 – Mikaela Hoover, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Mikaela Hoover Nova Prime’s Assistant in Guardians of the Galaxy

1984 – Natalie Martinez, actress (Under the Dome, Death Race)
1985 – Explorers released
1988 – Melissa O’Neil, actress (Dark Matter)

1991 – Erik Per Sullivan, actor (Armageddon)

2002 – Fred D Scott, actor (Weird Science, Manimal, Galaxina, The First Black Superman)

2013 – Pacific Rim released