Born on this day – Roy Ward Baker:

Roy Ward Baker

Director

December 19, 1916 – October 5, 2010

Born on this day – Betty Grable:

Betty Grable

Actress

Model

Dancer

Singer

December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973

Born on this day – Birgitta Valberg:

Birgitta Valberg

Actress

Director

December 16, 1916 – March 29, 2014

Born on this day – Ruth Johnson Colvin:

Ruth Johnson Colvin

Literacy Advocate

Writer

Teacher

Philanthropist

December 16, 1916 – August 18, 2024

Credits:

Founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America / renamed ProLiteracy Worldwide.

Awarded the Volunteer Action Award by President Ronald Reagan in 1987,

and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006 by President George W. Bush.

Books and educational videos:

Basic Reading Workshop (video); English as a Second Language Tutor Training Workshop; Great Traveling After 55 (1989); How to Add Family Literacy to Your Program; I Speak English (1962); LVA Works: A Guide to Workplace Education; Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50/50 Management; My Travels Through Life, Love, and Literacy: A Memoir (2020); Off the Beaten Path: Stories of People Around the World (2011); Reading to Children (video); Student Involvement Guidelines; Tutor (1962); Tutoring Small Groups Handbook.

Born on this day – Mark Stevens:

Mark Stevens

Actor

Director

Producer

December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994

Credits:

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Big Town (1954–1956); Bronk (1975); Bus Stop (1962); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cry Vengeance (1954); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Decision (1958); Destination Tokyo (1943); Es usted mi padre (1971); Escape from Hell Island (1963); España otra vez (1968); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); Food and Magic (1943); Footlights Theater (1953); From This Day Forward (1946); Frontier Justice (1958); Frozen Alive (1964); General Electric Theater (1953); Ghost Train (1991); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gun Fever (1958); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); Jack Slade (1953); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Katie Did It (1950); Kojak (1975); La Lola, dicen que no vive sola (1970); Little Egypt (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1954 / 1955); Magnum, P.I. (1987); Martin Kane (1953–1954); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Mutiny (1952); News Gal (1957); Objective, Burma! (1945); Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949); Our American Heritage (1959); Passage to Marseille (1944); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Place the Face (1953); Please Believe Me (1950); Police Story (1975); Pride of the Marines (1945); Rawhide (1962); Reunion in Reno (1951); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Roaring Guns (1944); S.W.A.T. (1976); Sand (1949); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1957); September Storm (1960); Simon & Simon (1987); Strike It Rich (1953); Studio 57 (1957); Sunday Showcase (1959); Sunscorched (1965); Target Unknown (1951); The Big Frame (1952); The Dark Corner (1946); The Doughgirls (1944); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1953); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1958); The Law and Harry McGraw (1987); The Loretta Young Show (1957–1958); The Snake Pit (1948); The Street with No Name (1948); Time Table (1956); Torpedo Alley (1952); Wagon Train (1957–1958); Within These Walls (1945); Your Show Time (1949); Zane Grey Theatre (1957–1960).

Born on this day – Kirk Douglas:

Kirk Douglas

Actor

Director

December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020

Born on this day – Margaret Hayes:

Margaret Hayes

Actress

December 5, 1916 – January 26, 1977

Born on this day – Fran Ryan:

Fran Ryan

Actress

November 29, 1916 – January 15, 2000

Born on this day – Evelyn Keyes:

Evelyn Keyes

Actress

November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008

Credits:

15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009); 20 to 1 (2007); 99 River Street (1953); A Return to Salem's Lot (1987); A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Tribute to Rudy Wissler (2007); All Star Revue (1950); Amazing Stories (1986); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985); Artist and Models (1937); Before I Hang (1940); Beyond the Sacramento (1940); Biography (2003); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Climax! (1955); Dangerous Blondes (1943); Dangerous to Know (1938); Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Enchantment (1948); Flight Lieutenant (1942); From a Bird's Eye View (1971); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988); Gone with the Wind (1939); Good Morning America (1983); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Iron Man (1951); It Happened in Paris (1952); ITV Playhouse (1968); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Johnny O'Clock (1947); Ladies in Retirement (1941); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Men with Wings (1938); Missing Links (1964); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Mrs. Mike (1949); Murder, She Wrote (1985–1993); Nine Girls (1944); One Big Affair (1952); Our World (1987); Paris Honeymoon (1938); Renegades (1946); Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1991); Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (1948); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Shoot First (1953); Slightly Honorable (1939); Smuggler's Island (1951); Sons of the Legion (1938); Strange Affair (1944); Sudden Money (1939); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Buccaneer (1938); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Desperadoes (1943); The Face Behind the Mask (1941); The Jolson Story (1946); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady in Question (1940); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Love Boat (1983); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Mating of Millie (1948); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Prowler (1951); The Seven Year Itch (1955); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1977–1991); The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968); The Ultimate Film (2004); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Top of the World (1955); Union Pacific (1939); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (1990); Wicked Stepmother (1989).

On this day in movie history - The Ocean Waif (1916):

The Ocean Waif

directed by Alice Guy,

written by Frederick Chapin,

was released in the United States on November 2, 1916.

Cast:

Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz, William Morris, Augusta Burmeister, Lyn Donelson.

Born on this day – Vivian Nathan:

Vivian Nathan

Actress

October 26, 1916 – April 3, 2015

Founding member of the Actors Studio in 1947.

Credits:

The Equalizer (1989); Kojak (1976); Klute (1971); Breaking Point (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1963); Arrest and Trial (1963); The Outsider (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1961); The Young Savages (1961); Play of the Week (1961); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Pursuit (1958); Studio One (1956–1958); Encounter (1957–1958); Teacher's Pet (1958); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); Look Up and Live (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956–1957); Playwrights '56 (1956); The Stranger (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953).

Born on this day – Jack Arnold:

Jack Arnold

Actor

Director

October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992

Born on this day – Mary Delgado:

Mary Delgado

Actress

October 8, 1916 – April 13, 1984

Born on this day – Denise Bosc:

Denise Bosc

Actress

Writer

July 19, 1916 – March 9, 2002

Credits:

Attila (1954); Tramp (1938); Daisy Town (1971); Désiré Lafarge (1979); Helen of Troy (1956) Joan of Arc (1973); The Girls' Cage (1949); The Fortress (1959); The Rose of the Sea (1946); Chair 47 (1937); The Majestic Cellars (1945); The daughters of the Rhône (1938); Masters of Mystery (2023); The Mohicans of Paris (1975); The scrambled eggs (1976); History Exceeds Fiction (1961); Hummingbird Mama (1937); Night Doctors (1986); Nans the Shepherd (1976); Saturnin de Marseille (1941); Sign of the Gladiator (1959); The Lovers of Toledo (1953) The World Condemns Them (1953); Theodora, Slave Empress (1954); Trubadúri z pendloviek (1988) One delitto (1984); A Night in Tabarin (1947); Yamilé under the cedars (1939).

Born on this day – George Sidney:

George Sidney

Director

Producer

October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002

Born on this day – James Herriot:

James Herriot

Veterinary surgeon

Writer

October 3, 1916 – February 23, 1995

Credits:

If Only They Could Talk (1970); All Creatures Great and Small (1972); It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972); Vet in Harness (1974); All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974); Vets Might Fly (1976); All Things Wise and Wonderful (1976); The Lord God Made Them All (1981); The Best of James Herriot (1983); Vet in a Spin (1984); Smudge, The Little Lost Lamb (1991); Smudge's Day Out (1991); Horse & Pony Stories (1986); Bonny's Big Day (1972); Moses the Kitten (1984); Only One Woof (1985); The Christmas Day Kitten (1986); Blossom Comes Home (1988); The Market Square Dog (1989); Oscar, Cat-About-Town (1990); The Animals at Diamond Woods (2009); Animal Stories, Tame & Wild (1979); James Herriot's Yorkshire (1979); All Creatures Great and Small Annual 1982 (1981); James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories (1986); James Herriot's Dog Stories (1986); Greatest Cat Stories (1989); James Herriot Story Book (1992); Every Living Thing (1992); James Herriot's Treasury for Children (1992); James Herriot's Cat Stories (1994); Seven Yorkshire tales (1995); James Herriot's Yorkshire Stories (1995); James Herriot's Yorkshire Village (1995); James Herriot's Animal Stories (1997); Yorkshire Stories (1998); James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited (1999).

Movies and television:

All Creatures Great and Small (1975 / 2024); All Creatures Great and Small / TV Series (1978–1990); All Creatures Great and Small / TV Series (2020–2024); It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976); James Herriot's Yorkshire (1993); Pebble Mill at One (1975); Read All About It (1976); The Lively Arts (1976–1977); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); To Tell the Truth (1973); Young James Herriot (2011).

Born on this day – Peter Finch:

Peter Finch

Actor

September 28, 1916 – January 14, 1977

Credits:

Raid on Entebbe (1976); Network (1976); The Abdication (1974); England Made Me (1973); The Nelson Affair (1973); Lost Horizon (1973); Something to Hide (1972); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); The Greatest Mother of Them All (1969); The Red Tent (1969); The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967); Come Spy with Me (1967); 10:30 P.M. Summer (1966); Judith (1966); The Flight of the Phoenix (1965); First Men in the Moon (1964); Girl with Green Eyes (1964); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); In the Cool of the Day (1963); I Thank a Fool (1962); No Love for Johnnie (1961); The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961); The Day (1960); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); Kidnapped (1960); The Nun's Story (1959); Operation Amsterdam (1959); Windom's Way (1957); Robbery Under Arms (1957); The Shiralee (1957); Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956); A Town Like Alice (1956); Simon and Laura (1955); Josephine and Men (1955); Make Me an Offer! (1955); Passage Home (1955); The Warriors (1955); The Detective (1954); Elephant Walk (1954); The Heart of the Matter (1953); Gilbert and Sullivan (1953); The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952); Captain Carvallo (1951); The Miniver Story (1950); The Wooden Horse (1950); Train of Events (1949); Eureka Stockade (1949); A Son Is Born (1946); Red Sky at Morning (1944); The Rats of Tobruk (1944); These Stars Are Mine (1943); South West Pacific (1943); The Power and the Glory (1941); Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939); The Farmer Goes to Town (1938); The Magic Shoes (1935).

Born on this day – Rossano Brazzi:

Rossano Brazzi

Actor

September 18, 1916 – December 24, 1994

Born on this day – Roald Dahl:

Roald Dahl

Writer

September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990

Born on this day – Arleen Whelan:

Arleen Whelan

Actress

September 1, 1916 – April 7, 1993

Credits:

Bill Slater Show (1950); Boy Friend (1939); Casablanca (1955); Castle in the Desert (1942); Charley's Aunt (1941); Charter Pilot (1940); Compression (2019); Dear Wife (1949); Flaming Feather (1952); Gateway (1938); General Electric Theater (1962); Kidnapped (1938); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1955); Matinee Theatre (1958); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); On Again-Off Again (1937); Passage West (1951); Playwrights '56 (1955); Raiders of Old California (1957); Ramrod (1947); Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939); Sabotage (1939); San Antone (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Sundown Jim (1942); Thanks for Everything (1938); That Wonderful Urge (1948); The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Sun Shines Bright (1953); The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956); Variety Girl (1947); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Young People (1940); Your Show of Shows (1953).