Showing posts with label 1916. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1916. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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.

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Born on this day – Shirley Jackson:


Shirley Jackson


Writer

December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965

Credits:

Books:

9 Magic Wishes (1963); A Fabulous, Formless Darkness (1992); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Moment on the Edge (2002); A Science Fiction Argosy (1972); A Visit (1950); American Christmas Stories (2021); American Gothic Tales (1996); American Midnight (2019); And Baby Makes Three (1960); Best Horror Stories 3 (1972); Brave New Worlds (2010); Chapter and Hearse (1985); Charles (1990); Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Come along with Me (1968); Dark (2000); Dark Lessons (1985); Dark Tales (2016); Deadlier (2017); Famous Sally (1966); Fifty Great Short Stories (1952); Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s (2020); From Our Porch Swing / poems (1992); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1992); Hangsaman (1951); Haunting Women (1988); Just an Ordinary Day (1996); Let Me Tell You (2015); Life among the Savages (1953); London Tales of Terror (1972); Loss (2013); Masters of Fantasy (1992); Men with Their Big Shoes (1947); Mistresses of the Dark (1998); More Stories Strange and Sinister (1967); Murderous Schemes (1996); Nightshade (2000); One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts (1979); Open at Your Own Risk (1975); Points of View (1966); Raising Demons (1959); Realms of Darkness (1985); Seasons of Terror (2022); Shirley Jackson Collected Short Stories (2001); Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (2010); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); Stories for Winter (2023); Stories of Suspense (1963); Strangeness (1977); Stranger (2002); The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966); The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1970); The American Fantasy Tradition (2002); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964); The Best American Short Stories 1966 (1966); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 4th Series (1955); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 8th Series (1959); The Bird's Nest / aka Lizzie (1954); The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 1 (1976); The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume One (2004); The Cold Embrace (1966); The Colour of Evil (1987); The Daemon Lover (1948); The Dark Descent (1997); The Evil People (1968); The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1998); The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992); The Haunting of Hill House / aka The Haunting (1959); The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021); The Lottery (1949); The Magic of Shirley Jackson (1966); The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson (1996); The Missing Girl (1957); The Mists From Beyond (1989); The Other Dimension (1972); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Road through the Wall / aka The Other Side of the Street (1948); The Shirley Jackson Collection (2020); The Short Story (1992); The Summer People (1950); The Sundial (1958); The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2009); The Vintage Book of Amnesia (2000); The Web She Weaves (1983); The Weird (2011); The Witchcraft of Salem Village (1956); Three Stories (1991); Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952); Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008); Urban Horrors (1990); We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962); Witches' Brew (1984); Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979).

Movies and television:

American Playhouse (1982); Cameo Theatre (1950); Cineficción Radio (2020); Curtain Call (1952); Danger (1955); Fireside Theatre (1951); Histoires insolites (1974); June (2012); Lizzie (1957); Long Twilight (1997); Loteria (2022); Lux Playhouse (1959); Nothing Important (2018); Shoestring Theatre (1959); The Haunting (1963 / 1999); The Haunting of Hill House (2018); The Lottery (1969 / 1996 / 2007 / 2008 / 2015); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); Videotape (2017); We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018); Witch (2024); Zizi (1982).

Saturday, December 13, 2025

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).

Thursday, November 20, 2025

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).

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Born on this day – Daws Butler:


Daws Butler


Voice actor

November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988


Credits:

A Bird in a Bonnet (1958); A Case of Hypnosis (1952); A Chilly Reception (1958); A Christmas Story (1972); A Fallible Fable (1963); A Gooney Is Born (1970); A Lad in Baghdad (1968); A Mutt in a Rut (1959); A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958); A Very Merry Cricket (1973); A Waggily Tale (1958); A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration!: 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera (1989); Aesop & Son (1976); After the Ball (1956); Airlift a la Carte (1971); Albert in Blunderland (1950); Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966); All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978); Alphabet Roll Call (1974); Animal Follies (1988); Around the World in 79 Days (1969); Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy (1959–1961); B.C.: The First Thanksgiving (1973); Backwoods Bunny (1959); Bailey's Comets (1973); Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956); Barbecue Brawl (1956); Barnaby and Me (1979); Bear Hug (1964); Bear Knuckles (1964); Bear Up! (1963); Bearly Able (1962); Bedtime Bedlam (1955); Bee Bopped (1959); Beef for and After (1962); Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go Hollywood (2004); Big Mouse-Take (1965); Bill Scott: The Portrait of a Moose (2021); Billy Boy (1954); Blackboard Jumble (1957); Blast-Off Buzzard (1977); Bows and Errors (1974); Boyhood Daze (1957); Brown & Haley Mountain Bar (1958); Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes (1991); Bungle Uncle (1962); Bunnies Abundant (1962); Busman's Holiday (1961); Buster's Last Stand (1970); Busy Buddies (1956); Bwana Magoo (1959); C B Bears (1977); Calling Doctor Magoo (1956); Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977–1980); Careless Caretaker (1962); Cars 3 (2017); Casper's First Christmas (1979); Catch Meow (1961); Cattanooga Cats (1969); Cheese It, the Cat! (1957); Chicken Fracas-See (1962); Chicken Hearted Wolf (1963); Child Sock-Cology (1961); Chiller Dillers (1967); Chilly and the Looney Gooney (1969); Chilly and the Woodchopper (1967); Chilly Chums (1967); Chilly Willy (1953); Chilly's Cold War (1970); Chilly's Hide-a-Way (1971); Chilly's Ice Folly (1970); Common Scents (1962); Convict Concerto (1954); Coo Coo Nuts (1970); Count Down Clown (1961); Coy Decoy (1963); Crazy Mixed Up Pup (1954); Creepy Time Pal (1960); Crook Who Cried Wolf (1963); Crowin' Pains (1962); Crow's Fete (1965); Crunch Commercials (2017); Daredevil Droopy (1951); Daws Butler: Voice Magician (1987); Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls (1983); Deep Freeze Squeeze (1964); Deputy Droopy (1955); Down Beat Bear (1956); Drafty, Isn't It? (1957); Droopy's Double Trouble (1951); Droopy's Good Deed (1951); Drum-Sticked (1963); Dumb Like a Fox (1964); Elephantastic (1964); Everglade Raid (1958); Fee Fie Foes (1961); Fish and Chips (1962); Fish Hooked (1960); Fodder and Son (1957); Fowled-Up Birthday (1962); Fowled-Up Party (1957); Fractured Fairy Tales (1959–1962); Fractured Friendship (1965); Franken-Stymied (1961); Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977); Freeway Fracas (1964); Fresh Laid Plans (1951); From Nags to Riches (1975); Gabby's Diner (1961); Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978); George of the Jungle (1967); Gift Wrapped (1952); Give and Tyke (1957); Go Fly a Kit (1957); Goldilox & the Three Hoods (1975); Good Will to Men (1955); Gooney's Goofy Landings (1970); Gopher Broke (1958); Greedy Gabby Gator (1963); Guest Who? (1965); Habit Rabbit (1963); Habit Troubles (1964); Half Baked Alaska (1965); Half-Fare Hare (1956); Happy Go Loopy (1961); Harlem Globe Trotters (1970–1973); Hassle in a Castle (1966); Heir-Conditioned (1955); Heist and Seek (1974); Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (1971); Helter Shelter (1955); Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959); Here, Kiddie, Kiddie (1960); Hey Folks, It's Intermission Time (1993); Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964); Heyyy, It's the King! (1977); Hic-cup Pup (1954); Highway Hecklers (1968); Hokey Wolf (1961); Hold That Rock (1956); Hong Kong Phooey (1974); Hook, Line, and Stinker (1968); Horse Play (1967); Horse Shoo (1965); Hot and Cold Penguin (1955); Hot Time on Ice (1967); House of Mouse (2003); How to Trap a Woodpecker (1971); Hunger Strife (1960); I'm Cold (1954); In the Bag (1956); Indian Corn (1972); Inside India (1959); Inside the Actors Studio (2003); International Woodpecker (1957); It's the Wolf (1969–1970); Jerry and the Goldfish (1951); Jonny Quest (1964); Just a Wolf at Heart (1963); Kitty from the City (1971); Kooky Loopy (1961); KTLA at 40: A Celebration of Los Angeles Television (1987); Life with Loopy (1960); Lighthouse-keeping Blues (1964); Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har (1962–1963); Little Bo Bopped (1959); Little Johnny Jet (1953); Little Runaway (1952); Little Rural Riding Hood (1949); Little Skeeter (1969); Little Televillain (1958); Little Woody Riding Hood (1962); Log Jammed (1959); Loopy de Loop (1959–1975); Loopy's Hare-Do (1961); Love Comes to Magoo (1958); Magic Boy (1959); Magical Maestro (1952); Magoo Beats the Heat (1956); Magoo Goes Overboard (1957); Magoo Saves the Bank (1957); Magoo Slept Here (1953); Magoo's Glorious Fourth (1957); Magoo's Homecoming (1959); Magoo's Lodge Brother (1959); Magoo's Masquerade (1957); Magoo's Private War (1957); Magoo's Problem Child (1956); Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956); Magoo's Three-Point Landing (1958); Magoo's Young Manhood (1958); Mary Poppins (1964); Mary Poppins: Sing a Long - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (1994); Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967); Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990–1993); Merry Minstrel Magoo (1959); Mexican Boarders (1962); Mice Follies (1960); Mister Magoo (1960); Mouse and Garden (1960); Mouse for Sale (1955); Mouse-Placed Kitten (1959); Mucho Mouse (1957); Musical Chairs (1954); Natural Vision 3-Dimension (1952); Never Too Late (1965); No Biz Like Shoe Biz (1960); Not in Nottingham (1963); 90 Day Wondering (1956); Off to See the Wizard (1967–1968); One Cab's Family (1952); One Horse Town (1968); 1001 Arabian Nights (1959); Operation Cold Feet (1956); Operation Shanghai (1966); Out-Foxed (1949); Papoose on the Loose (1961); Pecking Holes in Poles (1972); Pecos Pest (1955); People Are Bunny (1959); Person to Bunny (1960); Pesty Guest (1965); Pet Peeve (1954); Pink and Blue Blues (1952); Pioneers of Television (2011); Plastic Man (1979–1980); Polar Fright (1966); Polar Pests (1958); Pork Chop Phooey (1965); Posse Impossible (1977); Practical Yolk (1966); Prehistoric Super Salesman (1969); Project Reject (1969); Punchy de Leon (1950); Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse (1964); Pup on a Picnic (1955); Quick Draw McGraw (1959–1961); Raggedy Ann and Andy in the Great Santa Claus Caper (1978); Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979); Raggedy Rug (1964); Rah Rah Woozy (1980); Rancid Ransom (1962); Raw! Raw! Rooster! (1956); Return to Mocha (1986); Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long (1964–1965); Roamin' Roman (1964); Robin Hoody Woody (1962); Robinson Gruesome (1959); Rock-a-Bye Gator (1962); Rock-a-Bye Maybe (1975); Rocket Racket (1962); Rocket-bye Baby (1956); Rockin' with Judy Jetson (1988); Romp in a Swamp (1959); Room and Bored (1962); Room and Wrath (1956); Rough Riding Hood (1966); Salmon Loafer (1963); Salmon Yeggs (1958); Saltwater Tuffy (1975); Scat Cats (1957); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1982–1983); Scooby's Laff-A Lympics (1977–1978); Scoutmaster Magoo (1958); Seal on the Loose (1970); Secret Agent Woody Woodpecker (1967); Sesame Street (1975–1990); Sesame Street (1994–1997); Shanghai Woody (1971); Sheep Stealers Anonymous (1963); Sheep Wrecked (1958); Sh-h-h-h-h-h (1955); Short Snorts on Sports (1948); Sioux Me (1965); Ski-napper (1964); Sleepy Time Bear (1969); Sleepy Time Chimes (1971); Slippery Slippers (1962); Smarty Cat (1955); Snooper and Blabber (1959–1962); Snoopy Loopy (1960); Snow Place Like Home (1966); South Pole Pals (1966); Southern Fried Hospitality (1960); Spook-A-Nanny (1964); St. Moritz Blitz (1961); Stupor Duck (1956); Stu's Show (2024); Super Chicken (1967); Susan Slept Here (1954); Swash Buckled (1962); T.V. of Tomorrow (1953); Tabasco Road (1957); Tale of a Wolf (1960); Teeny Weeny Meany (1966); Tepee for Two (1963); Terror Faces Magoo (1959); The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972); The All-New Popeye Hour (1979); The Alphabet Conspiracy (1959); The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968–1970); The Beary Family (1962–1972); The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (1959); The Big House Ain't a Home (1974); The Big Snooze (1957); The Bigger Bubble (2025); The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986–2000); The Bugs Bunny Show (1961–1962); The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968–1978); The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963); The Cat in the Hat (1971); The Chump Champ (1950); The Dixie Fryer (1960); The Dogfather (1974); The Do-Good Wolf (1960); The Explosive Mr. Magoo (1958); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964–1965); The Flea Circus (1954); The Flintstones (1960–1965); The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986); The Flintstones: Wacky Inventions (1994); The Funky Phantom (1971–1972); The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956–1957); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound (1988); The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg (1974); The Great Rights (1963); The Hanna-Barbera Hall of Fame: Yabba Dabba Doo II (1979); The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978); The Honey-Mousers (1956); The Houndcats (1972); The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958–1961); The Jetsons (1962–1987); The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987); The Legend of Rockabye Point (1955); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Nautical Nut (1967); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series (1962–1963); The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972); The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999); The Ostrich Egg and I (1956); The Peachy Cobbler (1950); The Peter Potamus Show (1964–1966); The Phantom Tollbooth (1970); The Pink Panther (1969–1978); The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea (1979); The Reluctant Recruit (1971); The Roman Holidays (1972); The Rude Intruder (1972); The Ruff & Reddy Show (1957–1960); The Sailor and the Seagull (1949); The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1977); The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1977); The Secret Squirrel Show (1965); The Space Kidettes (1966–1967); The Spike Jones Show (1954); The Story of Creative Capital (1957); The Super 6 (1966); The Sylvester & Tweety Show (1976); The Talking Dog (1956); The Tenant's Racket (1963); The Three Little Pups (1953); The Tree Medic (1955); The Unbearable Salesman (1957); The Yogi Bear Show (1961); There Auto Be a Law (1953); This Is Hawthorne (1950–1952); This Is My Ducky Day (1961); Three Little Woodpeckers (1965); Three-Ring Fling (1958); Time for Beany (1949–1954); Time for Beany (1951); To Catch a Woodpecker (1957); To Tell the Truth (1975); Tom and Chérie (1955); Tom and Jerry World Champions (2010); Tom Slick (1967); Tomcat Combat (1959); Tom's Photo Finish (1957); ToonHeads (2000); Top Cat (1961); Tops with Pops (1957); Touché Turtle and Dum Dum (1962–1963); Tree's a Crowd (1958); Trick or Tweet (1959); Trouble Bruin (1964); Trouble Indemnity (1950); Truant Student (1959); Two Faced Wolf (1961); Under Sea Dogs (1968); Under the Counter Spy (1954); Undercover Elephant (1977); Understanding Alcohol Use and Abuse (1979); Unnatural History (1959); Vicious Viking (1967); Voo-Doo Boo-Boo (1961); Wacky Races (1968–1969); Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972); Wally Gator (1962–1963); Watch the Birdie (1958); Weasel Stop (1956); Whatcha Watchin' (1963); When Magoo Flew (1954); Wideo Wabbit (1956); Wild Wild World (1960); Wolf Hounded (1959); Wolf in Sheep Dog's Clothing (1963); Woody and the Beanstalk (1966); Woody Meets Davy Crewcut (1956); Woody Woodpecker and His Friends (1982); Woody's Knightmare (1969); Woody's Kook-Out (1961); Yankee Dood It (1956); Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey (1964–1966); Yogi & the Invasion of the Space Bears (1988); Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987); Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982); Yogi's First Christmas (1980); Yogi's Gang (1973); Yogi's Great Escape (1987); Yogi's Space Race (1978); Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985–1988); You Bet Your Life (1960); Your First Impression (1964); Yukon Have It (1959); Zoo Is Company (1961).

Sunday, November 2, 2025

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.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

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).

Friday, October 3, 2025

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).

Sunday, September 28, 2025

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).