Beyond The Threshold

1904 – Clifford D. Simak, sci-fi author (won 1964 Hugo for Here Gather the Stars, Empire, Way Station)

1911 – Alex McCrindle, actor (Star Wars IV)

1920 – P.D. James, sci-fi author (author, Children of Men)
1923 – Jean Hagen, actress, d @ 54 (Panic in Year Zero!)

1937 – Stephen Berkoff, actor (Doctor Who, Children of Dune, Star Trek: DS9, Space Precinct, Metamorphosis, Outland, A Clockwork Orange, UFO, Prehistoric Women)

1940 – Martin Sheen (Babylon 5, The Time Shifters, Total Recall 2070, Beyond the Stars, Roswell, The Outer Limits )

Martin Sheen in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1940 – Phil Rubenstein, actor (RoboCop 2, ALF, Mannequin, Star Trek IV)
1949 – Philip Casnoff, actor (Dollhouse, Message from Space)

1950 – John Landis, director (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1951 – Tales of Tomorrow, the first science fiction anthology TV series and reportedly the brainchild of Theodore Sturgeon, debuts on the ABC network with Sturgeon’s “Verdict from Space,” and will adapt classic tales by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. It will continue until 1953.

Tales of Tomorrow debuted

1952 – Frank Schaeffer, director (Rising Storm)
1952 – Kristoffer Tabori, actor (Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone, Small and Frye, Brave New World)
1959 – John C. McGinley, actor (Target Earth)

1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, actress (War of the Worlds)
1963 – Isaiah Washington, actor (The 100, Bionic Woman)
1969 – Anne Marie DeLuise, actress (Smallville, Sanctuary, The Thaw, Stargate SG-1, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave, Total Recall 2070, Earth: Final Conflict, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, Side Effects)

1970 – Elizabeth Berrington, actress (Doctor Who)

Elizabeth Berrington in Doctor Who

1972 – Melissa Ponzio, actress (The Walking Dead)
1972 – Brigid Brannagh, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)
1973 – Michael Ealy, actor (Underworld: Awakening, FlashForward)
1977 – Franco Castan, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Revolution, Coma)
1977 – Tomas Lemarquis, actor (Snowpiercer, Errors of the Human Body)
1979 – Evangeline Lilly, actress (Ant-Man, Real Steel, Smallville)

1983 – Carolyn Jones, actress, d @ 53 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The War of the Worlds)

1984 – Kyle Schmid, actor (Smallville, Odyssey 5, My Best Friend is an Alien, Virus)

1993 – James Donald, actor d. @ 76 (Five Million Years to Earth aka Quatermass and the Pit),
1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, d @ 77 (Twilight Zone)

2007 – James T. Callahan, actor, d @ 76 (Return of the Living Dead III, Automan, Holmes and Yo-Yo, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

2011 – Bubba Smith, actor, d @ 66 (Escape from DS-3)
2012 – Total Recall released