Born on this day – Ingrid Bergman:

Ingrid Bergman

Actress

August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982

Born on this day – Simon Oakland:

Simon Oakland

Actor

August 28, 1915 – August 29, 1983

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962); Alexander the Great (1963); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1957–1960); Ben Casey (1962); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Big Town (1951); Black Saddle (1959); Black Sheep Squadron (1976–1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Bonanza (1963–1969); Brenner (1959); Bret Maverick (1982); Bronco (1960); Bullitt (1968); Bus Stop (1962); Cade's County (1972); Cain's Hundred (1962); Captain David Grief (1960); Captain Nice (1967); Car 54, Where Are You? (1962); Celebrity Bowling (1973); Charlie's Angels (1980); Chato's Land (1972); Checkmate (1961); CHiPs (1979–1982); Chubasco (1968); Cimarron Strip (1967); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Combat! (1963–1965); Crosscurrent (1971); Dan August (1971); Daniel Boone (1965–1969); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978–1979); Deadline (1959–1961); Decoy (1957–1958); Directions (1964); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); East Side/West Side (1963); Ellery Queen (1975); Emperor of the North (1973); Evening in Byzantium (1978); Follow That Dream (1962); Follow the Sun (1961); General Electric Theater (1961); Gentle Ben (1967); Get Smart (1965); Gibbsville (1976); Good Morning World (1968); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Gunsmoke (1956–1965); Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1975); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); I Spy (1956); I Want to Live! (1958); Ironside (1969–1973); It Takes a Thief (1968); Judd for the Defense (1968); Key West (1973); Kojak (1976); Kolchak: Crackle of Death (1974); Kolchak: Demon and the Mummy (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975); Kraft Theatre (1956–1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961–1962); Laramie (1960); Lou Grant (1982); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1976); Matt and Jenny (1980); Medical Center (1970–1972); Men Into Space (1959); Mission: Impossible (1967); Mod Squad (1969); Mr. Broadway (1964); Mr. Novak (1964); Murder, Inc. (1960); My Favorite Martian (1963); Naked City (1959); Off to See the Wizard (1968); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970); Outlaws (1961); Perry Mason (1960–1961); Police Story (1976); Producers' Showcase (1957); Profiles in Courage (1965); Psycho (1960); Purex Summer Specials (1962); Quincy, M.E. (1978–1982); Rawhide (1963–1965); Ready for the People (1964); Red Light (1949); Route 66 (1962); S.W.A.T. (1975); Saints and Sinners (1962); Scandalous John (1971); Slattery's People (1965); Stoney Burke (1963); Suspense (1950); Switch (1978); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Tarzan (1967); The Alaskans (1959); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Big Story (1956); The Big Valley (1969); The Bill Dana Show (1963); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Buccaneer (1958); The Defenders (1961–1965); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Desperate Hours (1955); The Detectives (1960); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1965); The F.B.I. (1969); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Felony Squad (1967); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1978); The Hunting Party (1971); The Law and Mr. Jones (1961); The Littlest Hobo (1982); The Man and the City (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1967); The Name of the Game (1968–1970); The New Breed (1961); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Night Stalker (1972); The Night Strangler (1973); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outsider (1968); The Plainsman (1966); The Raiders (1963); The Reporter (1964); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Rockford Files (1977–1979); The Rogues (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Satan Bug (1965); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); The Silent Force (1970); The Silent Service (1958); The Starlost (1973); The Ten Commandments (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Third Man (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); The Twilight Zone (1961–1963); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1965); The Web (1953); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); The Wild Wild West (1968); The Young Lawyers (1970); Third of a Man (1962); Tightrope (1959); Toma (1973–1974); Tony Rome (1967); Tucker's Witch (1983); Unsolved (1960); Vega$ (1981); Wagon Train (1960–1962); Wall of Noise (1963); West Side Story (1961); Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965); Who Was That Lady? (1960); You Are There (1953–1955); Young Dr. Kildare (1973); Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977); Zane Grey Theatre (1959–1960).

Born on this day – Signe Hasso:

Signe Hasso

Actress

Writer

Composer, August 15, 1915 – June 7, 2002

Born on this day – Jean Parker:

Jean Parker

Actress

August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005

Born on this day – Louise Platt:

Louise Platt

Actress

August 3, 1915 – September 6, 2003

Credits:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1958); Captain Caution (1940); Forgotten Girls (1940); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Guiding Light (1958-1959); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); I Met My Love Again (1938); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Kraft Theatre (1956); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1957); Lamp Unto My Feet (1959); Look Up and Live (1959); Naked City (1963); New York Confidential (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Spawn of the North (1938); Stagecoach (1939); Star Tonight (1956); Street of Chance (1942); Tell No Tales (1939).

Born on this day – Gary Merrill:

Gary Merrill

Actor

August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990

Born on this day – Jane Frazee:

Jane Frazee

Actress

July 18, 1915 – September 6, 1985

Credits:

A Guy Could Change (1946); Adventures of Superman (1953); Almost Married (1942); Angels with Broken Wings (1941); Arcade Varieties (1939); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Beulah (1952); Buck Privates (1941); Calendar Girl (1947); Captain Blue Blood (1937); Cowboy Canteen (1944); Death Valley Days (1953); Don't Get Personal (1942); George White's Scandals (1945); Get Hep to Love (1942); Grand Canyon Trail (1948); Hellzapoppin' (1941); Hi'Ya Chum (1943); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Incident (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Last of the Wild Horses (1948); Melody and Moonlight (1940); Moonlight in Havana (1942); Moonlight in Hawaii (1941); Moonlight Masquerade (1942); Music in the Morgan Manner (1941); On the Old Spanish Trail (1947); Pharmacy Frolics (1939); Practically Yours (1944); Public Prosecutor (1947); Racket Squad (1952); Rhythm Inn (1951); Rhythm of the Islands (1943); Rollin' in Rhythm (1939); Rosie the Riveter (1944); San Antonio Rose (1941); She's a Sweetheart (1944); Sing Another Chorus (1941); So You Don't Trust Your Wife (1955); So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956); So You Want a Model Railroad (1955); So You Want to Be a Gladiator (1955); So You Want to Be Your Own Boss (1954); So You Want to Go to a Night Club (1954); So You Want to Know Your Relatives (1954); So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954); Sound Defects (1937); Springtime in the Sierras (1947); Stage 7 (1955); Study and Understudy (1936); Superman and Scotland Yard (1954); Swing in the Saddle (1944); Swing Styles (1939); Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945); Ten Cents a Dance (1945); The Abbott and Costello Show (1953); The Big Bonanza (1944); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Gay Ranchero (1948); The Gene Autry Show (1952); The Lineup (1955); The Lone Ranger (1950); The Range Rider (1952); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); Under Californian Stars (1948); Up in Lights (1938); What's Cookin' (1942); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).

Born on this day – Phyllis Brooks:

Phyllis Brooks

Actress

July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995

Credits:

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Another Face (1935); Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); City Girl (1938); Dangerous Passage (1944); Dangerously Yours (1937); Follow the Fleet (1936); Foolish Hearts (1935); Hi Ya, Sailor (1943); High Powered (1945); In Old Chicago (1938); I've Been Around (1935); Lady in the Dark (1944); Lady Tubbs (1935); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Lucky to Me (1939); McFadden's Flats (1935); No Place for a Lady (1943); One Exciting Adventure (1934); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Silver Spurs (1943); Slightly Honorable (1939); Straight Place and Show (1938); Strange Wives (1934); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); Suspense (1952); The Flying Squad (1940); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Unseen (1945); To Beat the Band (1935); Up the River (1938); Walking Down Broadway (1938); Wilson (1944); You Can't Have Everything (1937).

Born on this day – Yvonne Mitchell:

Yvonne Mitchell

Actress

Writer

July 7, 1915 – March 24, 1979

Credits:

Books:

But Answer Came There None a Novel (date?); But Wednesday Cried (1974); Cathy Away Mitchell Nw 115 (1967); Colette (1975); Colette a Taste for Life (date?); Fables (date?); Martha on Sunday a Novel (date?).

Movies and television:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1990 (1978); Afternoon Film Festival (1956); Appointment with Drama (1955); Armchair Theatre (1956); Armchair Theatre (1956–1968); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1957); Cheri (1973); Children of Chance (1949); Conspiracy of Hearts (1960); Crucible of Horror (1971); Demons of the Mind (1972); Double Bill: Pariah and the Stronger (1958); Escapade (1955); Genghis Khan (1965); Interpol Calling (1959); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Playhouse (1969); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Johnny Nobody (1961); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Let's Imagine (1963); Love on the Dole (1941); Love Story (1965); Nido de viudas (1977); One Pair of Eyes (1970); Out of the Unknown (1966); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Sapphire (1959); Something to Read (1959); Storm Over Jamaica (1958); Suspicion (1972); The Book Programme (1975); The Divided Heart (1954); The Dybbuk (1952); The Great Waltz (1972); The Incredible Sarah (1976); The Infinite Shoeblack (1952); The Jazz Age (1968); The Legend of Robin Hood (1975); The Main Attraction (1962); The Mask (1952); The Queen of Spades (1949); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); This Is Show Business (1954); Thursday Theatre (1964); Tiger Bay (1959); Turn the Key Softly (1953); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1957 (1958); Who Said That? (1958); Whose Baby? (1973); Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957); Words and Music (1959); Yield to the Night (1956).

Born on this day – Willie Dixon:

Willie Dixon

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

Arranger

Producer

July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992

Born on this day – Jean Stafford:

Jean Stafford

Writer

July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979

Born on this day – Wanda McKay:

Wanda McKay

Actress

June 22, 1915 – April 11, 1996

Born on this day – Priscilla Lane:

Priscilla Lane

Actress

June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995

Credits:

3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Blues in the Night (1941); Bodyguard (1948); Brother Rat (1938); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Daughters Courageous (1939); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Four Daughters (1938); Four Mothers (1941); Four Wives (1939); Fun on a Weekend (1947); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); La case du siècle (2022); Love, Honor and Behave (1938); Men Are Such Fools (1938); Million Dollar Baby (1941); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Play Your Part (1941); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Saboteur (1942); Silver Queen (1942); Stars on Horseback (1943); Swingtime in the Movies (1938); The John Garfield Story (2003); The Meanest Man in the World (1943); The Roaring Twenties (1939); Varsity Show (1937); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939).

Born on this day – Saul Bellow:

Saul Bellow

Writer

June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005

Credits:

Books:

A Theft (1989); Collected Stories (1992); Conversations with Saul Bellow (1994); Dangling Man (1944); Granta 10 (1984); Great Jewish Short Stories (1985); Henderson the Rain King (1959); Herzog (1964); Him With His Foot in His Mouth (1984); Humboldt's Gift (1975); It All Adds Up (1994); Leaving the Yellow House (2018); Letters (2010); More Die of Heartbreak (1987); Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968); Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970); Novels 1944–1953 (2003); Novels 1956–1964 (2007); Novels 1970–1982 (2010); Novels 1984–2000 (2015); Ravelstein (2000); Recent American Fiction (1963); Seize the Day (1956); Settling My Accounts Before I Go Away (2013); Something to Remember Me By (1990); Summations (1987); Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge (1974); The Actual (1997); The Adventures of Augie March (1953); The Bellarosa Connection (1989); The Dean's December (1982); The Good Parts (2000); The Last Analysis (1965); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Portable Saul Bellow (1974); The Victim (1947); There Is Simply Too Much to Think about (2015); To Jerusalem and Back (1976); Wonderful Town (2000); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers on Writing (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); American Masters (2022); Apostrophes (1982); Arena (1993); Bookmark (1998); Das Mal - Orangen-Soufflé (1969); Hanly's People (1991); I klemme (1968); In Search of Identity (1980); Izvlacenje (1967); Life Itself (2014); Money (2016); New Release (1966); Orange soufflé (1968); Personal Reflections (1969); Puerto Rico / Q for Quest (1961); Release (1969); Seize the Day (1986); The Adventures of Saul Bellow (2021); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); Ut av klemmen (1968); Von unten hervor (1969); Zelig (1983).

Born on this day – John Randolph:

John Randolph

Actor

June 1, 1915 – February 24, 2004

Born on this day – Janice Logan:

Janice Logan

Actress

May 30, 1915 – October 23, 1965

Credits:

Hotel de verano (1944); Opened by Mistake (1940); Dr. Cyclops (1940); The Black Ace (1944); What a Life (1939); Undercover Doctor (1939).

Born on this day – Herman Wouk:

Herman Wouk

Writer

May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019

Credits:

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952, for The Caine Mutiny.

Books:

A Hole in Texas (2004); Agnon in Jerusalem (1998); Aurora Dawn (1947); Don't Stop the Carnival (1965); Inside, Outside (1985); Marjorie Morningstar (1955); Modern Primitive (1951); Natures Way (1958); Rough Water (1998); Sailor and Fiddler (2016); Slattery's Hurricane (1956); The Ballad of Wake Island (1941); The Caine Mutiny (1951); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1953); The City Boy (1951); The Glory (1994); The Hope (1993); The Language God Talks (2010); The Lawgiver (2012); The Lomokome Papers (1968); The Man in the Trench Coat (1941); The Traitor (1949); The Will to Live on (2000); The Winds of War (1971); This Is My God (1959); War and Remembrance (1978); Winds of War / War and Remembrance (1985); Youngblood Hawke (1962).

Movies and television:

60 Minutes / Segment: Jimmy Buffett (1997); Au théâtre ce soir (1973); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1958); Confidentially Connie (1953); Der Verräter (1956 / 1959); Die Caine war ihr Schicksal (1959); Estudio 1 (1974); Ford Star Jubilee (1955); Her First Romance (1951); Marjorie Morningstar (1958); Master of Dark Shadows (2019); Meuterei auf der Caine (1954); Muiterij op de Caine (1957 / 1968); Myteriet på Caine (1960); Mytteriet på Caine (1964); Ouragan sur le Caine (1967); Remembering 2019: In Memoriam (2019); Slattery's Hurricane (1949); The Caine Mutiny (1954); The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1959 / 1988 / 2023); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Winds of War (1983); The Winds of War: Making 'The Winds of War' (2004); War and Remembrance / TV Mini Series (1988–1989); What's My Line? (1955–1956); Youngblood Hawke (1964).

Born on this day – Cathleen Cordell:

Cathleen Cordell

Actress

May 21, 1915 – August 19, 1997

Credits:

5 Weeks in a Balloon (1977); Adam-12 (1970); Airport (1970); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950); Bachelor Father (1961); Banyon (1971); Barnaby Jones (1974); Batman (1967); Black Beauty (1978); Blind Ambition (1979); Cannon (1973); Dark Mirror (1984); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1969); Family Affair (1966–1967); Gaslight (1940); Glynis (1963); Great Catherine (1948); Grindl (1963); Hey! Hey! U.S.A! (1938); Hong Kong (1960); I Dream of Jeannie (1967); Ironside (1968); Kraft Theatre (1947); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); M*A*S*H (1970); Major Barbara (1941); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972); Mission: Impossible (1972); My Favorite Martian (1964); My Three Sons (1969); Night Gallery / The Housekeeper (1970–1972); Oliver Twist (1974); Perry Mason (1964–1966); Pleasure Palace (1980); Producers' Showcase (1956); QB VII (1974); Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1977); Route 66 (1962); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1983); Stage 13 (1950); Star! (1968); Studio One (1949); Tammy (1966); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1972); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Edge of Night (1957–1958); The F.B.I. (1971); The Facts of Life (1985); The Gong Show Movie (1980); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The Letter (1982); The Most Deadly Game (1970); The Puppy's Further Adventures (1982); The Return of the Living Dead (1985); The Smith Family (1972); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964); This Is the Life (1969); Trapper John, M.D. (1983); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Villa for Sale (1938); Wagon Train (1963); Who Killed Cock Robin? (1938).

Born on this day – Renée Ascherson:

Renée Ascherson

Actress

May 19, 1915 – October 30, 2014

Credits:

A Man Called Intrepid (1980); Armchair Thriller (1978); At Home (1960); Away from It All (1973); Bookmark (1993); Brighton Belles (1994); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); Chain (1990); Clayhanger (1976); Country Matters (1973); Crown Court (1984); Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic (1978); Edwin (1984); Flesh and Blood (1980); Goodbye Darling (1981); Grey Owl (1999); Happy and Glorious (1952); Harnessing Peacocks (1993); Henry V (1944); ITV Play of the Week (1960–1962); ITV Television Playhouse (1960–1961); Johnny in the Clouds (1945); Jubilee (1977); Kate (1971); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Life After Life (1990); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Love and Marriage (1984); Love Story (1963); Lovejoy (1993); Malta Story (1953); Maniacs on Wheels (1949); Midsomer Murders (1997); Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem (2022); Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985); Miss Nightingale (1974); Performance (1995); Pool of London (1951); Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966); Rheingold Theatre (1953–1956); Romance on the Orient Express (1985); School for Unclaimed Girls (1969); Screen One (1992); Sir Norbert Smith, a Life (1989); Smiling at Grief (1939); Somerset Maugham Hour (1961); Strange Report (1969); Tenko (1981); Tenko: An Introduction (1981); The British Greats (1980); The Cure for Love (1949); The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1962); The Magic Box (1951); The Others (2001); The Pursuers (1961); The Red Dress / Segment: Red Dress' story (1954); The Rivals (1948); The Small Back Room (1949); The Way Ahead (1944); Theater of Blood (1973); Thirty Minute Theatre (1963 / 1966); Time for Murder (1985); Time Is My Enemy (1954); Tom's Midnight Garden (1989); Turner Classic Movies Remembers 2014 (2014); Two's Company (1979); Victorian Scandals (1976).

Born on this day – Mario Monicelli:

Mario Monicelli

Director

Writer

May 16, 1915 – November 29, 2010