Beyond The Threshold

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1906 – Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)
1913 – Eddie Constantine, actor (Frankenstein’s Aunt)
1925 – Ben Chapman, actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
1925 – Geraldine Brooks, actress (The Outer Limits)

Geraldine Brooks in The Outer Limits: Architects of Fear

Geraldine Brooks in The Outer Limits: Cold Hands Warm Heart

1925 – Robert Hardy, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Frankenstein)
1926 – Margaret Sheridan, actress (The Thing from Another World)

Margaret Sheridan in The Thing From Another World

1935 – Michael Jayston, actor (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Doctor Who, UFO)

1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Coma, Piranha 3D, Tin Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1957 – Dan Castellaneta, actor (Super 8, Stargate: SG-1, ALF)

Dan Castellaneta in Super 8

1963 – Adolphe Menjou, actor, d @ 73(Science Fiction Theatre)
1963 – Tim Minear, producer & writer (Dollhouse, Firefly, The X-Files, Lois and Clark)
1967 – Joely Fisher, actress (Something is Out There)
1968 – Grayson McCouch, actor (Armageddon)

1970 – Michael Daingerfield, actor (Smallville, The 4400, The Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict)

1971 – Winona Ryder, actress (Edward Scissorhands, Star Trek, Alien Resurrection, S1m0ne)

Winona Ryder in Alien Resurrection

1972 – Gabrielle Union, actress (Star Trek: DS9, FlashForward)
1977 – Brendan Fehr, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Roswell)

1980 – Ben Foster, actor (30 Days of Night, FlashForward)
1982 – Chelan Simmons, actor (Kyle XY, Ogre, Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville)
1983 – Johnny Lewis, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1990 – Carlson Young, actor (Heroes)
1993 – India Eisley, actress (Underworld: Awakening)
1995 – Terry Southern, writer, d @ 71 (Barbarella)
1998 – Ted Hughes, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (The Iron Giant)

2005 – Lloyd Bochner, actor, d @ 80 (Superboy, Millennium, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Starlost, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
2006 – Nigel Kneale, sci-fi author, d @ 84 (Quatermass)

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1895 – John Boles, actor (Frankenstein)
1902 – Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein)

Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein

1932 – Suzy Parker, actress died 3 May 2003 (Twilight Zone)

Suzy Parker (right) in The Twilight Zone: Number 12 Looks Just Like You

1936 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)
1937 – George ‘Buck’ Flower, actor, d @ 66 (Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, They Came from Outer Space (TV), Back to the Future Parts I & II, They Live, Mac and Me, Sorority Babes in the Starman, Escape from New York, The Fog, The Time Machine (TV), The Invisible Man (1975 TV))
1939 – Jane Alexander, actress (Terminator Salvation)
1941 – John Hallam, actor (Moonbase 3, The People That Time Forgot, Flash Gordon, Lifeforce, Doctor Who) d. November 14, 2006 (age 65)

1944 – Ian Marter, actor (Doctor Who)

Ian Marter in Doctor Who

1951 – Joe R. Lansdale, writer (Jonah Hex)
1952 – Annie Potts, actress (The Man Who Fell to Earth (TV), Twilight Zone (85))

1961 – Jonathan Mostow, director (Terminator 3)
1962 – Daphne Zuniga, actress (Spaceballs, The Fly II)

Daphne Zuniga in Spaceballs

1963 – Lauren Holly, actress (Alphas)
1965 – Jami Gertz, actress (Solarbabies)
1966 – Chris Bauer, actor (Tomorrowland, Fringe)
1967 – Julia Roberts, actress (Mart Reilly, Flatliners)

1970 – Greg Eagles, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1974 – Michael Dougherty, writer (Superman Returns, X2)
1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, actor (Space Camp, Signs, Superboy)

1980 – Leon Janney, actor, d @ 63 (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet)

1982 – Matt Smith, actor (Doctor Who, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Terminator: Genisys, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Clone)

Matt Smith as The Doctor

1982 – Michael Stahl-David, actor (Cloverfield)
1986 – Ian Marter, actor, d @ 48 (Doctor Who)
1994 – Stargate released
2006 – Tina Aumont, actress, d @ 60 (Diosaur from the Deep)
2010 – James MacArthur, actor, d @ 72 (Time Express, Superboy)
2011 – In Time released
2012 – Merry Anders, actress, d @ 80 (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, The Time Travelers)

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1891 – Parker Fennelly, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)
1908 – John Sutton, actor (Return of the Fly, Men Into Space)

John Sutton in Return of the Fly

1908 – John Zaremba, actor (Earth vs. Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, The Time Machine)

John Zaremba in The Time Tunnel

1914 – William F. Claxton, director (The Night of the Lepus, Twilight Zone)
1916 – Sidney Miller, director (My Favorite Martian, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)
1917 – Joan Fontaine, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1919 – Doris Lessing, sci-fi author (Children of Violence, Canopus in Argos)

1927 – James Grout, actor (Cyberzone)
1932 – Barboura Morris, actress (Wasp Woman, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes)
1936 – Gary Vinson, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Munsters’ Revenge, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Boy)

1938 – Derek Jacobi, actor (Doctor Who)

Derek Jacobi in Doctor Who

1938 – Christopher Lloyd, actor (Back to the Future 1, 2, 3, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Piranha 3DD, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future

1942 – Annette Funicello, actress (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)
1943 – Jim Baen, founder, publisher and editor (Baen Books)
1948 – Christopher Curry, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek: Voyager, Starship Troopers, Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, C.H.U.D.)

1952 – Jeff Goldblum, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Earth Girls are Easy, The Fly, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Threshold, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Jeff Goldblum in The Fly

1952 – John Howard, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Girl from Tomorrow)

1962 – Suzanne Snyder, actress (Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Return of the Living Dead II, Weird Science, The Last Starfighter)
1965 – Valeria Golino, actress (Escape from L.A.)
1968 – Jay Johnston, actor (Men in Black II, Bicentennial Man)
1972 – Saffron Burrows, actress (Deep Blue Sea, Perfect Creature, Wing Commander)

1974 – Layla Roberts , actress (Armageddon)

1981 – Michael Fishman, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
1981 – Michael Granger, actor, d @ 58 (Creature with Atom Brain, Science Fiction Theatre)
1981 – John Boyd, actor (Fringe)
1986 – Kyle Gallner, actor (The Walking Dead, Smallville)

1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, actor (Meego)
1992 – Cleavon Little, actor, d @ 53 (ALF)
1995 – Mary Wickes, actress, d @ 85 (ALF Loves a Mystery)
1918 – Ivor Francis, actor, d @ 77 (Alien Zone, Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man)
2006 – Arthur Hill, actor d @ 84 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Andromeda Strain, Futureworld, Murder in Space, Prototype)
2006 – Richard Mayes, actor, d @ 83 (Doctor Who, A for Andromeda)

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1904 – Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, sci-fi author (Danger Planet)

1926 – Leonard Rossiter (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1929 – Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan)
1933 – Georgia Brown, actress (Star Trek: TNG)
1936 – Jack Taylor, actor (Horror of the Zombies, Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Loco)

1940 – Julie Parrish, actress (Star Trek, The Next Step Beyond, The Time Machine)

Julie Parrish in Star Trek

1943 – Paula Kelly, actress (Soylent Green, The Andromeda Strain)
1945 – Everett McGill, actor (Dune, Jekyll Island)
1948 – Tom Everett, actor (Automan, Quantum Leap, Eerie Indiana, Space: Above and Beyond, Journeyman, FlashForward, Max Headroom)

1956 – Carrie Fisher, actress (Star Wars, Smallville, The Time Guardian, Frankenstein)

Carrie Fisher in Star Wars

1959 – Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET)
1959 – Ken Watanabe, actor (Godzilla, Inception, Space Travelers)

Ken Watanabe in Godzilla

1960 – Melora Walters, actress (The Butterfly Effect, Twice Upon a Time)

1971 – Raymond Hatton, actor, d @ 84 (Day the World Ended)
1973 – Sasha Roiz, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Warehouse 13, Caprica, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Land of the Dead, Mutant X)
1978 – Will Estes, actor (Meego)

1982 – Matt Dallas, actor (Life Tracker, Kyle XY)
1983 – Charlotte Sullivan, actress (The Colony, Smallville)
1986 – Alex Kew, actor (My Parents are Aliens)
1988 – Mark Rendall, actor (30 Days of Night, Time Warp Trio, ReGenesis)
1992 – Bob Todd, actor, died @ 70 (Superman III)
2001 – Robert Winley, actor, d @ 48 (Sliders, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
2005 – Doom released
2007 – Don Fellows, actor, d @ 84 (Superman II, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Alien Attack, Space: 1999)

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1882 – Bela Lugosi, actor (The Invisible Ray, Son of Frankenstein, The Phantom Creeps, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Ape Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Return of the Ape Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space)

Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 From Outer Space

1887 – Addison Richards, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1913 – Barney Phillips, actor (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)
1918 – Anton Diffring, actor (Doctor Who, The Beast Must Die, Fahrenheit 451, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

Anton Diffring in Doctor Who

1922 – John Anderson, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Starman, Project U.F.O, The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Voyagers!, The Satan Bug)

John Anderson as Ebonite Interrogator in The Outer Limits episode, “Nightmare.”

1934 – Michael Dunn, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, The Mutations)
1935 – Jerry Ohrbach, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Universal Soldier)

1941 – Anneke Wills, actress (Doctor Who)

Anneke Wills in Doctor Who

1945 – George Wyner, actor (Spaceballs, Stargate SG-1, Quantum Leap)

1948 – Alan Ackles, actor (Benji Zax & the Alien Prince)
1949 – George Harris, actor (Flash Gordon)
1949 – George Harris, actor (Starhunter, Flash Gordon)
1950 – William Russ, actor (Stargate SG-1, SeaQuest 2032, V)
1956 – Danny Boyle, director (28 Days Later)

1965 – William Zabka, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine, Mindstorm, Interceptor Force, To the Ends of Time)

1970 – Patrick Wymark, actor, d @ 44 (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)
1971 – Kenneth Choi, actor (Heroes, Roswell, Deep Core)
1977 – Sam Witwer, actor (Battlestar Galatica, Star Trek:Enterprise, Smallville, The Mist, The Walking Dead)

1980 – Niall Matter, actor (Primeval: New World, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Stargate: Atlantis)
1983 – Alona Tal, actor (Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D)
1987 – Rose McIver, actress (iZombie)
1988 – Adam Butcher, actor (ReGenesis)
1990 – Freda Jackson, actress, d @ 82 (Blakes 7, The Valley of Gwangi, Monster of Terror)
1994 – Burt Lancaster, actor, d @ 80 (Island of Dr. Moreau, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)
1995 – Christopher Stone, actor, d @ 53 (Manimal, Galactica 1980, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run)
2003 – Jack Elam, actor, d @ 82 (Twilight Zone, The Aurora Encounter)
2006 – Jane Wyatt, actress, d @ 96 (Star Trek, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Gemini Man)
2008 – John Ringham, actor, d @ 80 (Doctor Who)
2009 – John Hart, actor, d @ 91 (Blackenstein, The Astral Factor, World of Giants)
2014 – Ox Baker, actor, d @ 80 (Escape from New York)

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1903 – Tor Johnson, actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Unearthly, The Beast From Yucca Flats, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

Tor Johnson (center) in Plan 9

1909 – Robert Beatty, actor (Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Martian Chronicles, Unidentified Flying Oddball, Blakes 7, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Doctor Who, Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7, Devil’s Plot, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

Robert Beatty in Blake’s 7 The Way Back

1910 – Dan Tobin, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian)

1916 – David Lewis, actor (The Wide World of Mystery: Alien Lover, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lights Out: The Martian Eyes, The Girl with Something Extra)
1918 – Bob Sweeney, director (Starman, Misfits of Science)
1921 – George Nader, actor (Beyond Atlantis, The Great Space Adventure, Robot Monster, The Human Duplicators)
1932 – Robert Reed, actor (Galactica 1980)
1936 – Shelby Grant, actress (Fantastic Voyage)
1936 – Tony Lo Bianco, actor (Endangered Species, Twilight Zone)

1940 – Michael Gambon, actor (Doctor Who, Mary Reilly)

1941 – Simon Ward, actor (Supergirl, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)

Simon Ward (left) in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

1945 – John Lithgow (Third Rock from the Sun, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Day After, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2010, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Interstellar)

John Lithgow in Buckaroo Banzai

1946 – Kenneth Washington, actor (Westworld, Star Trek)

Kenneth Washington (left) in Star Trek

1949 – Jim Starlin, artist (Guardians of the Galaxy)
1951 – Annie Golden, actress (The American Astronaut, Twelve Monkeys)
1955 – John Hodiak, actor, d @ 41 (On the Threshold of Space)
1958 – Tiriel Mora, actor (Stepsister from Planet Weird, Farscape, Time Trax, Future Schlock)

1966 – Roger R. Cross, actor (Continuum, Eureka, The X-Files, The Strain, Fringe, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bionic Woman, The 4400, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Trek: Enterprise, Taken, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1966 – Jon Favreau, director / actor (Revolution, Cowboys & Aliens, Zathura: A Space Adventure / John Carter, Deep Impact)
1966 – Amy Linker, actress (D.A.R.Y.L.)
1969 – Anna Galvin, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Caprica, Smallville, Kyle XY, The Andromeda Strain, Tin Man, Eureka, Timecop)

1970 – Chris Kattan, actor (Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)
1972 – Tony Crane, actor (S1m0ne, Out of This World)
1976 – Desmond Harrington, actor (Taken)
1978 – Gig Young, actor, d @ 64 (Twilight Zone)
1980 – Benjamin Salisbury, actor (S1m0ne)

1982 – Gillian Jacobs, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Fringe)

1991 – Kevin Alves, actor (How to Build a Better Boy, Warehouse 13)

2003 – Guy Rolfe, actor, d @ 91 (The Bride, Space: 1999)
2006 – Phyllis Kirk, actress, d @ 78 (Twilight Zone)
2009 – Joseph Wiseman, actor, d @ 91 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)
2010 – Tom Bosley, actor, d @ 73 (Out of This World)
2014 – Lynda Bellingham, actress, d @ 66 (Doctor Who, Blakes 7)

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1915 – Victor Sen Yung, (Captain Midnight)
1923 – Boris Sagal, director (World War III, The Omega Man, Twilight Zone)
1926 – Klaus Kinski, actor (Timestalkers, Creature, Android, Lifespan)
1927 – George C. Scott, actor (Day of the Dolphin)
1934 – Inger Stevens, actress (Twilight Zone)

Inger Stevens in The Twilight Zone: The Hitchhiker

1934 – Calvin Lockhart, actor (Predator 2)

Calvin Lockhart losing his head in Predator 2

1935 – Peter Boyle, actor (Young Frankenstein, Outland, Species II, The X-Files, Los & Clark, Solar Crisis)

Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein.

1938 – Dawn Wells, actress (Meego, ALF, The Invaders)

Dawn Wells in The Invaders: Dark Outpost

1944 – Katherine Kurtz, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber)
1946 – Howard Shore, composer (eXistenZ)
1947 – Joe Morton, actor (Brother from Another Planet, Terminator 2, Eureka, Coma, Warehouse 13, Thoughtcrimes, Smallville, Dragonfly, The X-Files, The Astronaut’s Wife)

1951 – Pam Dawber, actress (Mork and Mindy, The Twilight Zone)
1954 – Arliss Howard, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Twilight Zone, The Day After)
1955 – David Twohy, director (Riddick, The Chronicles of Riddick, Pitch Black, Disaster in Time)

1958 – Corinne Bohrer, actress (Star Kid, The Powers of Matthew Star, Zapped!)
1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor (Universal Soldier, U.F.O., Cyborg, Timecop)
1960 – Erin Moran, actress (Galaxy of Terror)
1968 – Lee Tracy, actor, d @ 70 (Doctor X, Lights Out)

1974 – Joy Bryant, actress (Virtuality)
1984 – Tod Fennell, actor (The 4400, Brainscan)
1984 – Frieda Pinto, actress (Rise from the Planet of the Apes)
1984 – Jon Eric Hexum, actor, d @ 26 (Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!)

1987 – Zac Efron, actor (Firefly)

Zac Efron in Firefly

1991 – Tyler Posey, actor (Smallville)

2000 – Gwen Verdon, actress, d @ 75 (Cocoon I & II)
2002 – Kam Fong, actor, d @ 84 (The Lost Missile)
2005 – John Hollis, actor, d @ 74 (Superman I, II and IV, The Day of the Triffids (TV), Flash Gordon, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Blakes 7, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, Creatures the World Forgot, A for Andromeda)

2013 – Mary Carver, actress, d @ 89 (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Visitor, Beyond Westworld, Twilight Zone)