Jack Kost: 05/27/24

Monday, May 27, 2024

On this day in movie history - Dead Man (1995):

Dead Man,

directed and written by Jim Jarmusch,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 27, 1995.
Music by Neil Young.

Cast:
Johnny Depp, Mili Avital, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Jared Harris, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Mark Bringelson, John North, Peter Schrum, Mike Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle Thrush, Gibby Haynes, Richard Boes, George Duckworth, Thomas Bettles, Alfred Molina, Daniel Chas Stacy, Todd Pfeiffer, Leonard Bowechop, Cecil Cheeka, Michael McCarty, Steve Buscemi, John C. Carlucci.

Born on this day – Antonia Bird:

Antonia Bird

Director

Producer

May 27, 1951 – October 24, 2013

Born on this day – Lewis Collins:

Lewis Collins

Actor

May 27, 1946 – November 27, 2013

Born on this day – Zack Norman:

Zack Norman

Actor

Comedian

Painter

Film producer

Art collector

May 27, 1940 – April 28, 2024

Credits:

America (1986); Baywatch (1993); Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971); Bullit: The Documentary (2013); Cadillac Man (1990); Chief Zabu (1988); Christmas Evil (1980); Crosscut (1995); Hollywood Dreams (2006); Daughters of Darkness (1971); Déjà Vu (1997); Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015); E.N.T.E.R. (2018); Emma Blue (2008); Face to Face with David (2020); Festival in Cannes (2001); Fingers (1978); Get a Job (1998); Gone (2014); Gums (1976); Has-Been (1998); Irene in Time (2009); La tele de tu vida (2007); Le moine (1972); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Lucky Ducks (1993); Lush Life (1993); Mojave Moon (1996); Ovation (2015); Overnight (2012); Queen of the Lot (2010); And the Bombs Keep Falling (1974); At Home with the Webbers (1993); Az áldozat (1994); Az aranyifjú (1987); Sitting Ducks (1980); Skeeter Hammond: Handles, Hops and the Fourth Dimension (2003); Ragtime (1981); Romancing the Stone (1984); Terror of Frankenstein (1977); The A-Team (1985); The David Frost Show (1969); The Flash (1991); The Hunted (1972); The M Word (2014); The Nanny (1993–1995); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969); To Kill the King (1974); Tracks (1976); Venice/Venice (1992); Weekend Retreat (2020); Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1995); Zenabel (1969).

Born on this day – Louis Gossett Jr.:

Louis Gossett Jr.

Actor

May 27, 1936 – March 28, 2024

Credits:

10 Minutes (2014); 17th Annual Trumpet Awards (2009); 1997 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (1997); 2003 Trumpet Awards (2003); 20th NAACP Image Awards (1988); 22nd NAACP Image Awards (1990); 25th Anniversary Essence Awards (1995); 25th Annual Trumpet Awards (2017); 26th NAACP Image Awards (1994); 38th NAACP Image Awards (2007); 42nd NAACP Image Awards (2011); 43rd NAACP Image Awards (2012); 45th NAACP Image Awards (2014); 4th Annual Young Entertainer Awards Red Carpet Interviews 2019 (2016); 4TH NAFCA: African Oscar (2014); 78th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2009); 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (1990); 7th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards (1992); 80th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2011); 81st Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2012); A Celebration of Life: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. (1984); A Father for Charlie (1995); A Fighting Man (2014); A Gathering of Old Men (1987); A Good Man in Africa (1994); A Love Story of Today (2008); A Party for Richard Pryor (1991); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); A Special Kind of Love (2008); ABFF Awards a Celebration of Hollywood (2016); ABFF Honors (2020); AC Green: Iron Virgin (2016); Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992); ADHDtv: With Lew Marklin (2008–2009); AFI Life Achievement Award (1992–2006); AFI Movie Club (2020); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006); African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey (2022); Afternoon Delight Live on Hollywood and Vine (2015); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); All In (2006); Amazing Racer (2009); American Experience (1992); American Masters (2017); American Playhouse (1990); An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence (1998); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); An Officer and a Gentleman: 25 Years Later (2007); Asthma: Fighting to Breathe (2003); Backstairs at the White House (1979); Benny's Place (1982); BET Awards 2014 (2014); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Big Fish, Little Fish (1971); Bitte umblättern (1985); Black Bart (1975); Black in the 80s (2005); Blue Chips (1994); Boardwalk Empire (2013); Boiling Pot (2015); Bonanza (1971); Breaking at the Edge (2013); Breaking Brooklyn (2018); Bring Your 'A' Game (2009); Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush (2007); Canaan Land (2020); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1991–1992); Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996); Caribbean Cool (1991); Caribe (1975); Carolina Skeletons (1991); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2020); Celebrity Close Calls (2011); Celebrity Ghost Stories (2014); Celebrity Page (2018–2020); Cinerockom (2014–2015); Circus of the Stars #8 (1983); Club Soda (2006); Come to the Garden (2016); Companions in Nightmare (1968); Cover (2007); Cover-Up (1991); Cowboy in Africa (1967–1968); Crimes of Violence (1988); Curse of the Starving Class (1994); Daddy's Little Girls (2007); Daktari (1968); Deceived (2002); Delancey Street: The Crisis Within (1975); Delgo (2008); Diggstown (1992); Dish Nation (2014); Dog Jack (2010); Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981); Double Play (2017); Dr Lucille: The Lucille Teasdale Story (2001); E! Live from the Red Carpet (2016); Early Edition (1997); East Side/West Side (1964); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1983–1990); Ein Aufstand alter Männer (1987); El Diablo (1990); Ellen (1997); Enemy Mine (1985); Entertainment Tonight (1989–2022); ER (2009); Essence Awards (2003); Extant (2014–2015); Eyes on Kenya (2008); Family Guy (2006); Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993); Finders Keepers (1984); Firewalker (1986); Flashfire (1994); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010); For Love of Olivia (2001); Foster Boy (2019); Freeman (1977); Golden Globe Awards (1992); Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (1994); Golf: The Greatest Game (1994); Good (2020); Good Times (1974–1975); Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988); Great Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Gridiron Gang (1992); Gylne tider (2006); Hal (2018); Half & Half (2004); Half in the Bag (2011); Half-Life 2 (2004); Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006); Hap and Leonard (2018); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Harry O (1975); Hawaii Five-0 (2018); Hercules (1998); High Flying Bird (2019); Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors (2016); Home & Family (2020); I Love Liberty (1982); IF (2024); In His Father's Shoes (1997); In His Father's Shoes (1997); In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber (2010); Inside (1996); Insight (1975); Iron Eagle (1986); Iron Eagle II (1988); Iron Eagle on the Attack (1995); It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980); It's Good to Be Alive (1974); J.D.'s Revenge (1976); Jasper, Texas (2003); Jaws 3-D (1983); Jewtholic (2013); Johnny Staccato (1989); Keeper of the City (1991); Ken Boxer Live (2015); King Kobra: Iron Eagle (Never Say Die) (1986); King of the Dancehall (2016); Kingdom Business (2022–2023); KNEKT on the Carpet: Live from the 27th Annual 100 Stars Oscars Red Carpet (2017); Lackawanna Blues (2005); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–1996); Later with Bob Costas (1990); Lawman Without a Gun (1978); Left Behind III: World at War (2005); Legend of the Mummy (1998); Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement (2009); Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992); Life After (2013); Lifestyle Magazine (2013); Little House on the Prairie (1976); Little Ladies of the Night (1977); Loft (1993); Longstreet (1971); Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (1989); Love Songs / A Love Song for Champ (1999); Love Songs / A Love Song for Dad (1999); Love, American Style / Love and the Mystic (1972); Lucas Tanner (1975); Madam Secretary (2014); Managua (1997); Marines of Montford Point, Fighting for Freedom (2007); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); McCloud (1974); Miracle at Gate 213 (2013); Miracle in East Texas (2019); Mod Squad (1968–1972); Momentum (2003); Monolith (1993); Nightlife (1987); Not to Forget (2021); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Opening Ceremony Salt Lake Paralympic Winter Games (2002); Outlaw Johnny Black (2023); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1981); Petrocelli (1974–1975); Picket Fences (1994); Pioneers of Television (2013); Police Story (1975–1976); Pride Against Prejudice: The Larry Doby Story (2007); Pride of Lions (2014); Promised Land (1997); Psych (2012); Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995); Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (1994); ReNew Orleans (2007); Resurrection Blvd. (2002); Return to Lonesome Dove (1993); Roots (1977); Roots Remembered (2007); Roots: One Year Later (1978); Roots: The Gift (1988); Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story (1996); Rwanda Rising (2007); Sadat (1983); SAG Foundation Conversations (2015); Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988); Saturday Night Live (1982); Screen Nation Film and Television Awards 2007 (2007); Sidekicks (1974); Sidney (2022); Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017); Sister Circle Live (2019); Skin Game (1971); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Smitty (2012); Solar Attack (2006); Stadium of Fire: 25th Anniversary (2005); Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth (2008); Stargate SG-1 (2005–2006); Stories USA / Club Soda (2007); Story of a People (1993–2002); Straight Up (1988); Strange Justice (1999); Sudie and Simpson (1990); Supervized (2019); Taking Woodstock (2009); Tavis Smiley (2006–2010); TCM Guest Programmer (2016); Thalians 55th Anniversary Gala (2012); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 13th Annual Satellite Awards (2008); The 14th Annual People's Choice Awards (1988); The 15th Annual NAACP Image Awards (1983); The 16th Annual Shelby Awards (1986); The 18th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards Preshow (2003); The 1983 Annual American Image Awards (1983); The 1994 Annual Diversity Awards (1994); The 19th Annual People's Choice Awards (1993); The 1th Annual Minority Motion Picture Awards (1993); The 21st Annual People's Choice Awards (1995); The 21th Annual Friends of Tel Hashomer Gala (1992); The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977); The 2nd Annual Black Achievement Awards (1979); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1987); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 3rd Annual Soul Train Music Awards (1989); The 40th NAACP Image Awards (2009); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 (1986); The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1991); The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992); The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1993); The 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards (2015); The 47th NAACP Image Awards (2016); The 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1996); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007); The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 5th Annual TV Land Awards (2007); The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988); The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 (2005); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2006 (2006); The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2020); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005); The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009); The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011); The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012); The 85th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2016); The 8th Annual Cable ACE Awards (1987); The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards (1983); The Annual Artists Rights Foundation Gala (1991); The Annual Daily Variety Honors. A Salutes to Army Archerd (1993); The Arsenio Hall Show (1989–1992); The Batman (2007); The Big Story (1957–1958); The Black List: Volume One (2008); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Book of Negroes (2015); The Bushbaby (1969); The Choirboys (1977); The Color of Love: Jacey's Story (2000); The Color Purple (2023); The Critical List (1978); The Cuban (2019); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Dead Zone (2003); The Deep (1977); The Distance (2005); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1964); The Father Clements Story (1987); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Fuzz Brothers (1973); The Good Fight (2017); The Grace Card (2010); The Grave Before the Chains (2001); The Great War: 1914-1918 (1996); The Guardian (1984); The Happeners (1967); The Highwayman (2000); The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995); The Inspectors (1998); The Inspectors (1998); The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence (2000); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2018); The Invaders (1968); The Jeffersons (1975); The John Kerwin Show (2010); The Josephine Baker Story (1991); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1995); The Lamp (2010); The Landlord (1970); The Last Plane from Coramaya (1989); The Laughing Policeman (1973); The Lazarus Syndrome (1978); The Least Among You (2009); The Living End (1972); The Making of 'Jaws 3-D': Sharks Don't Die (1983); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Miracle of Tony Davis (2014); The Mo'Nique Show (2010); The New Girl (1960); The Nicole Barrett Show (2014); The Orange Box (2007); The Oscars (2014); The Oscars (2016); The Partridge Family (1971); The Pat Sajak Show (1989); The Perfect Game (2009); The Powers of Matthew Star (1982–1983); The Principal (1987); The Punisher (1989); The Punisher: Gag Reel (2013); The Queen Latifah Show (2014); The Reason (2020); The Red Booth (2016); The Red Buttons Show (1954); The River Niger (1976); The Rockford Files (1976–1977); The Rookies (1972); The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen: His Roots (1978); The Seven Liveliest ... but who's counting (1979); The Six Million Dollar Man (1975); The Spoils Before Dying (2015); The Toni Tennille Show (1981); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1983–1991); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1994); The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2009); The Ultimate Athlete: Pushing the Limit (1996); The Undershepherd (2012); The View (2015); The Wall That Heals (1997); The Wendy Williams Show (2013); The White Dawn (1974); The Young Rebels (1970–1971); There Really Is a Santa Claus (1989); Three Months (2022); To Dance with Olivia (1997); To Kill a Cop (1978); Today (1982–2016); Touched by an Angel (1997); Toy Soldiers (1991); Travels with My Aunt (1972); TV Land Confidential (2007); Undercover Grandpa (2017); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2008); Visions (1977); Walking After Midnight (1999); Watchmen (2019); WEDU Arts Plus (2015); What About Me? I'm Only 3! (1992); What About Your Friends: Weekend Getaway (2002); What's Up Orange County (2018); Wheel of Fortune (1995); When Animals Attack 4 (1997); Where Have All the Fathers Gone (2015); Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010); Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009); Window (2005); Woodstock (1970); Y2K (1999); Zooman (1995).

Born on this day – Harlan Ellison:

Harlan Ellison

Writer

May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018

Credits:

Books:

A Boy and His Dog (1969); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Piece of the Action (1978); A Taste of Armageddon (1978); A Touch of Infinity (1959); Again, Dangerous Visions (1972); Again, Dangerous Visions 2 (1973); Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014); Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014); Alien Sex (1990); All Our Yesterdays (1978); All the Lies That Are My Life (1980); All the Sounds of Fear (1973); Alone Against Tomorrow (1972); Amok Time (1978); An Edge in My Voice (1985); Andromeda 1 (1976); Andromeda 2 (1977); Andromeda 3 (1978); Angry Candy (1988); Approaching Oblivion (1974); Balm in Gilead - Salves from the Souk of Imagination (2007); Best New Horror 2 (1991); Best New Horror 5 (1994); Best New Horror 6 (1995); Blood Is Not Enough (2019); Blood's a Rover (2019); Borderlands 1 (1990); Brain Movies, Volume 1 (2011); Brain Movies, Volume 2 (2011); Brain Movies, Volume 3 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 4 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 5 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 6 (2013); Brain Movies, Volume 7 (2019); Brain Movies, Volume 8 (2019); Can & Can'tankerous (2015); Chatting with Anubis (1995); Children of the Streets / The Juvies (1961); Chrysalis 1 (1977); Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 (1977); Crucified Dreams (2011); Cthulhu 2000 (1995); Dangerous Visions (1967); Dangerous Visions 3 (1967); Dante's Disciples (1991); Dark Destiny (1994); Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate (1991); Dark Terrors 2 (1996); Darker Terrors 7 (2016); Day of the Dove (1978); Deathbird Stories (1975); Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 (1988); Dimensions of Harlan Ellison (2019); Doomsman (1972); Dream Corridor 1 (1996); Dream Corridor 2 (2007); Dream Corridor Quarterly (1996); Dream Corridor Special (1995); Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2009); Ellison Wonderland (1962); Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (2012); Fear the Abyss (2012); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); First Annual Collection (1988); Footsteps (1989); Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet (2001); From the Land of Fear (1967); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Gentleman Junkie (1961); Getting in the Wind (1959); Great Fantasy (1983); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Greatest Hits (2024); Hanukkah Lights of Stories and Narrative About Hanukkah (1995); Harlan 101 (2011); Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos (2013); Harlan Ellison's Movie (2010); Harlan Ellison's Watching (1988); Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town (1997); Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013); Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror (1989); I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967); I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay (1987); In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998); Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 (1990); Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper (1975); Jeffty Is Five (1977); Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King (1986); Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land (2013); Lone Star Universe (1976); Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories (2011); Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968); Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers, Vol. 11 (2011); Medea (1985); Mefisto in Onyx (1987); Memos From Purgatory (1961); Metamorphosis (1978); More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 (1973); Murder Plus (1992); Nebula Awards 13 (1980); Nebula Awards 41 2007 (2007); Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007); Night and the Enemy (1987); No Doors, No Windows (1975); None of the Above (2012); Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014); Over the Edge (1970); Paingod and Other Delusions (1965); Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985); Partners in Wonder (1971); Phoenix Without Ashes (1975); Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967); Pulling a Train (2012); "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965); Rough Beasts (2012); Run for the Stars (2006); Season of Wonder (2012); Seventh Annual Collection (1994); Sex Gang (1959); Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012); Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2015); Shatterday (1980); Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores (2002); She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother (2003); Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016); Six Science Fiction Plays (1975); Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (1984); Slippage (1997); Soft Monkey (1987); Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009); Spider Kiss (1961); Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare (1996); Stalking the Nightmare (1982); Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980); Strange Wine (1978); Study War No More (1977); Summer Chills (2007); Ten Tales (1994); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1968); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series (1973); The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others (2003); The City on the Edge of Forever (1977); The Dark Void (1987); The Deadly Streets (1958); The Deathbird (1973); The Ellison Treatment (2019); The Ephemeral Ellison (2019); The Essential Ellison (1985); The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979); The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983); The Function of Dream Sleep (1988); The Galileo 7 (1978); The Giant Book of Best New Horror (1993); The Glass Teat (1970); The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990); The Horror Hall of Fame (1991); The Illustrated Harlan Ellison (1978); The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem (1994); The Last Dangerous Visions (2024); The Living Dead (2008); The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 (1988); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2001 (2001); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1985 (1985); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 (1989); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 (1999); The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006); The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1988); The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories (2019); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); The Man with 9 Lives (1959); The Other Glass Teat (1975); The Outer Limits, Volume One (1996); The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 (2009); The Region Between (1970); The Thinking Machine (1905); The Time of the Eye (1971); The Top of the Volcano (2014); The Trouble with Tribbles (1977); The Ultimate Undead (1993); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986); The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (1977); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Troublemakers (2001); Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 (1985); Vic and Blood (1988); Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1973); Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s (2013); Web of the City (1958); Weird Heroes Volume 2 (1975); Working Without a Net (2020).

Movies and television:

2065 (2018); 40 Years of Star Trek (2006); 90 Minutes Live (1977–1978); A Boy and His Dog (1975); A Boy and His Dog; All Things Shining (2012); An Evening with Sharp Teeth (2009); Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023); Babylon 5 (1993–1998); Babylon 5 (1996–1998); Babylon 5 (1998); Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999); Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998); Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998); Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998); Back on Earth? (2013); Biography (1995); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (1994); Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010); Cimarron Strip (1968); Circle of Fear (1973); Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams (2018); Dark Dreamers (2011); Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008); Fantasy Film Festival (1980); Historias para no dormir (1966); History's Mysteries (1999); I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995); In Conversation: Director L.Q. Jones & Writer Harlan Ellison (2013); Jackpot (1980); Kobresia: Fragments (2011); Last Sunset (2012); Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman (2005); Logan's Run (1977); Love, Death & Robots (2021); Masters of Fantasy (1998); Masters of Science Fiction (2007); Naked Hollywood (1991); NPRmageddon (2023); Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike (2014); Pizza with Mr. Harlan Ellison and Mr. Neil Gaiman (2009); Politically Incorrect (1999); Prisoners of Gravity (1990–1993); Prophets of Science Fiction (2012); PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1999); Ripcord (1963); Route 66 (1963); Science Future Science Fiction (2002); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013); Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005); Silver Surfer (1998); Since '45 - In the Extraordinary House of History (2017); Since '45 (1979); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek Phase II (2004–2007); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); Tales from the Darkside (1985); Television: The Enchanted Mirror (1981); Television: The Ultimate Drug (1981); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Anti Gravity Room (1995–1997); The Comet Chronicles (2011); The Delivery (2008); The Flying Nun (1968); The Godson (1971); The History of the SF Film (1982); The Hunger (1998); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2013); The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (1998); The Late Show (1989); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966–1967); The Masters of Comic Book Art (1987); The Mike Douglas Show (1962); The Oscar (1966); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outer Limits / The Human Operators (1999–2002); The Overstreet World of Comic Books (1993); The Pirates of Dark Water (1992–1993); The Simpsons (2014); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Starlost (1973–1974); The Starlost: Deception (1980); The Starlost: The Beginning (1980); The Terminator (1984); The Twilight Zone (1985–1989); The Young Lawyers (1971); 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (2006); To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1976); Try a Dull Knife (1992); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010).

Born on this day – John Barth:

John Barth

Writer

May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024

Credits:

Chimera (1972); Collected Stories (2015); Coming Soon! (2001); Every Third Thought (2011); Floating Opera and the End of the Road (1988); Giles Goat-Boy (1966); Letters (1979); Lost in the Fun-House (1968); On With the Story (1996); Once Upon a Time (1994); Sabbatical (1982); The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (2004); The Development (2008); The End of the Road (1958); The Floating Opera (1956); The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991); The Sot-Weed Factor (1960); The Tidewater Tales (1987); Where Three Roads Meet (2005).

Movie and video:

BTNA: The Early Years (2010); End of the Road (1970).

Born on this day – Tony Hillerman:

Tony Hillerman

Writer

May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008

Credits:

2nd Culprit (1993); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A New Omnibus of Crime (2005); A Thief of Time (1988); Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band (2001); Cave of Bones (2018); Coyote Waits (1990); Dance Hall of the Dead (1973); Finding Moon (1995); First Cases, Volume 3 (1999); Hillerman Country (1991); Hunting Badger (1999); Indian Country (1987); Kilroy Was There (2004); Listening Woman (1978); Lost Birds (2024); New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays (1975); People of Darkness (1980); Rock with Wings (2015); Sacred Clowns (1992); Seldom Disappointed (2001); Skeleton Man (2004); Skinwalkers (1986); Song of the Lion (2017); Spider Woman's Daughter (2013); Stargazer (2021); The Sacred Bridge (2022); Talking God (1989); Talking Mysteries: A Conversation With Tony Hillerman (1991); The Best of the West (1991); The Blessing Way (1970); The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (1972); The Dark Wind (1982); The Fallen Man (1996); The First Eagle (1998); The Fly on the Wall (1971); The Ghostway (1984); The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs (1973); The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories (2023); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mysterious West (1994); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Perfect Murder (1991); The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos (1997); The Shape Shifter (2006); The Sinister Pig (2003); The Spell of New Mexico (1976); The Tale Teller (2019); The Wailing Wind (2002); The Way of the Bear (2023); Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map and Guide (1987).

Movies and television:

A Thief of Time (2003); Coyote Waits (2003); Dark Winds (2022–2023); Ex Libris (1989); Skinwalkers (2002); Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries (2002); The Dark Wind (1991); The Silence of Cricket Coogler (2000); Two Grey Hills (2001).

Born on this day – Nicole Stéphane:

Nicole Stéphane

Director

Producer

Actress

May 27, 1923 – March 13, 2007

Born on this day – Linden Travers:

Linden Travers

Actress

May 27, 1913 – October 23, 2001

Born on this day – Frank Nugent:

Frank Nugent

Writer

May 27, 1908 – December 29, 1965

Born on this day – Jacqueline Delubac:

Jacqueline Delubac

Actress

May 27, 1907 – October 14, 1997

Born on this day – Lee Garmes:

Lee Garmes

Cinematographer

May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978

Born on this day – Dashiell Hammett:

Dashiell Hammett

Writer

May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961

Credits:

Books:

A Man Called Spade (1944); Books to Die For (2012); Breakdown and Other Thrillers (1968); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Creeping Siamese and Other Stories (1950); Creeps by Night (2020); Dashiell Hammett: A Retrospective Anthology (2004); Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings (2001); Dead Yellow Woman (1947); Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1992); Hammett Homicides (1946); Lost Stories (2005); Murder Plus (1992); Nightmare Town and Other Stories (1950); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Brain and Other Thrillers (1961); Red Harvest (1929); Return of the Thin Man (2012); San Francisco Noir 2 (2009); Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 (2002); Tales of Mystery (1986); The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Knockover (1966); The Continental Op (1974); The Crime Wave (2007); The Dain Curse (1929); The Glass Key (1931); The Hunter (2013); The Hunter and Other Stories (2013); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Maltese Falcon (1930); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Thin Man (1934); They Can Only Hang You Once (1944); Vintage Hammett (2005); Woman In The Dark (1933).

Movies and television:

Monsieur Spade (2024); Cineficción Radio (2021); No Good Deed (2002); Fallen Angels (1995); Miller's Crossing (1990); Sam Spade jagt den Malteser Falken (1986); Bande (1986); When the Raven Flies (1984); The Wizard of Malta (1981); La ciudad maldita (1978); The Dain Curse (1978); The Last Round (1976); The Black Bird (1975); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); Maltézský sokol (1968); Der Steckbrief (1967); The Thin Man (1957–1959); Teledrama (1956–1959); The Fat Man (1951); Studio One (1949); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Secret Agent X-9 (1945); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); Watch on the Rhine (1943); The Glass Key (1942); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); The Maltese Falcon (1941); Another Thin Man (1939); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); After the Thin Man (1936); Satan Met a Lady (1936); The Glass Key (1935); Mister Dynamite (1935); Woman in the Dark (1934); The Thin Man (1934); The Maltese Falcon (1931); City Streets (1931); Roadhouse Nights (1930).