Born on this day – Audrey Totter:

Audrey Totter

Actress

December 20, 1917 – December 12, 2013

Born on this day – Ossie Davis:

Ossie Davis

Actor

Writer

Director

December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005

Credits:

The L Word (2004–2005); Proud (2004); She Hate Me (2004); JAG (2003); Baadasssss! (2003); Deacons for Defense (2003); Touched by an Angel (1996–2002); Presidio Med (2002); Bubba Ho-Tep (2002); Philly (2002); The Feast of All Saints (2001); Legend of the Candy Cane (2001); Between the Lions (2001); J.C. Leyendecker: The Great American Illustrator (2000); Here's to Life! (2000); Dinosaur (2000); Finding Buck McHenry (2000); Third Watch (1999–2000); City of Angels (2000); A Vow to Cherish (1999); Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (1999); The Soul Collector (1999); The Secret Path (1999); Alyson's Closet (1998); Promised Land (1996–1998); Doctor Dolittle (1998); The Protector (1997); 12 Angry Men (1997); Miss Evers' Boys (1997); Home of the Brave (1996); Ripper (1996); I'm Not Rappaport (1996); Get on the Bus (1996); The Client (1995–1996); The Android Affair (1995); Sesame Street (1995); Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995); The Great Battles of the Civil War (1994); The Client (1994); Evening Shade (1990–1994); Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (1994); The Stand (1994); Grumpy Old Men (1993); Cop & ½ (1993); American Experience (1993); Queen (1993); The Ernest Green Story (1993); Lincoln (1992); Malcolm X (1992); Gladiator (1992); Hands Upon the Heart (1991); Jungle Fever (1991); We'll Take Manhattan (1990); B.L. Stryker (1989–1990); Joe Versus the Volcano (1990); The Red Shoes (1990); Do the Right Thing (1989); School Daze (1988); Crown Dick (1987); Avenging Angel (1985); The House of God (1984); Harry & Son (1984); American Playhouse (1983); Purlie (1981); Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981); Ossie and Ruby! (1980–1981); All God's Children (1980); Freedom Road (1979); Hot Stuff (1979); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); King (1978); NBC Special Treat (1977); Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977); The Tenth Level (1976); Cool Red (1976); Let's Do It Again (1975); Hawaii Five-O (1974); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1974); Gordon's War (1973); Love, American Style (1973); Black Girl (1972); The Sheriff (1971); Kongi's Harvest (1970); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); Night Gallery (1969); Slaves (1969); Sam Whiskey (1969); Bonanza (1959); The Name of the Game (1969); Teacher, Teacher (1969); N.Y.P.D. (1968); The Scalphunters (1968); The Outsider (1967); Run for Your Life (1966–1967); 12 O'Clock High (1966); The Fugitive (1966); A Man Called Adam (1966); History of the Negro People (1965); Slattery's People (1965); The Hill (1965); The Defenders (1961–1965); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); Shock Treatment (1964); The Cardinal (1963); East Side/West Side (1963); The Great Adventure (1963); Gone Are the Days! (1963); Car 54, Where Are You? (1962–1963); Seven Times Monday (1962); Play of the Week (1960–1961); John Brown's Raid (1960); CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960); Playhouse 90 (1960); Kraft Theatre (1955); The Emperor Jones (1955); The Joe Louis Story (1953); Fourteen Hours (1951); No Way Out (1950).

Born on this day – Arthur C. Clarke:

Arthur C. Clarke

Writer

Inventor

Undersea explorer

Television series host

December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008

Credits:

Books:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2010: Odyssey Two (1982); 2061: Odyssey Three (1987); 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997); 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1963); A Fall of Moondust (1961); A Meeting With Medusa (1988); Against the Fall of Night (1948); Aliens: 3 Novellas (1977); Alpha 3 (1972); Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century (1986); Astounding Days (1990); Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World (1999); Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (1987); Beyond the Fall of Night (1990); Boy Beneath the Sea (1958); Bright Messengers (1995); Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos (2011); Childhood's End (1953); City and the Stars (1956); Cradle (1987); Dolphin Island (1963); Double Full Moon Night (1999); Drabble II: Double Century (1990); Earthlight (1955); Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology (2006); Expedition to Earth (1968); Firstborn (2007); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); From Narnia To Space Odyssey (2003); From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul (2009); Futures Unlimited (1969); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958 (1958); Galileo's Children (2005); Glide Path (1963); Grave Predictions (2016); Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists (1985); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (1999); How the World Was One (1992); Imperial Earth (1975); In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2013); Infinite Stars (2019); Interplanetary Flight (1950); Into Space (1971); Isaac Asimov's Aliens (1991); Isaac Asimov's Camelot (1998); Isaac Asimov's Christmas (1997); Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (1994); Isaac Asimov's Detectives (1998); Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1985); Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1989); Isaac Asimov's Father Day (2001); Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (1995); Isaac Asimov's Halloween (2001); Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981); Isaac Asimov's Robots (1991); Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993); Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (1995); Isaac Asimov's Solar System (1999); Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own (1983); Isaac Asimov's Utopias (2000); Isaac Asimov's War (1993); Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (1999); Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (1980); Islands in the Sky (1952); Man And Space (1964); 1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures (1984); Novelets of Science Fiction (1963); Of Time and Stars (1972); Other Dimensions (1974); Prelude to Space (1950); Profiles of the Future (1962); Rama II (1989); Rama Revealed (1993); Reach for Tomorrow (1956); Rendezvous with Rama (1973); Richter 10 (1996); Science Fiction A to Z (1982); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Space Odyssey (1983); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Sunstorm (2005); Tales From The White Hart (1957); Tales of Ten Worlds (1962); Tales of Time and Space (1969); The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Baen Big Book of Monsters (2014); The Bedside Playboy (1963); The Best of British SF 1 (1977); The Best of British SF 2 (1977); The Body (1964); The Coast of the Coral (1956); The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals (2004); The Deep Range (1957); The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse (2010); The Exploration of Space (1951); The Exploration of the Moon (2020); The Fountains of Paradise (1979); The Futurists (1972); The Garden of Rama (1991); The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990); The Hammer of God (1993); The Hard SF Renaissance (2003); The Last Theorem (2008); The Light of Other Days (2000); The Lion Of Comarre (1968); The Lost Worlds Of 2001 (1971); The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009); The Nine Billion Names of God (1967); The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack (2014); The Promise of Space (1968); The Reefs of Taprobane (1956); The Sands of Mars (1951); The Sentinel (1951); The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack (2013); The Songs of Distant Earth (1986); The Tranquility Wars (2000); The Treasure of the Great Reef (1964); The Trigger (1999); The Ultimate Alien (1995); The View from Serendip (1977); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Wind From The Sun (1972); The World Turned Upside Down (2005); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Time's Eye (2003); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Voice Across The Sea (1958); Voices from the Sky (1966); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967).

Movies, television, video games and audio plays:

2001 and Beyond (2001); 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future (1966); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2001: HAL's Legacy (2001); 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2016); 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001); 2010: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2017); 2010: The Odyssey Continues (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2061: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2021); 3001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2021); 50 Terrible Predictions (2005); 50th Anniversary Brunch Noreascon Three Videotape (1989); A Failed Recluse (1993); Adventure (1964); Adventure (1964); Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993); Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993); Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who Saw the Future (1997); Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (1980); Baddegama (1980); Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Breaking Strain (2019); Camera Three (1970–1972); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949); Childhood's End (2015); Cold Fusion: Fire from Water (1998); Contact: The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (1995); Esther (1996); Future Fantastic (1996); God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988); Jännitysnäytelmä (1968); La Estrella (2020); Letadlo (2001); L'odyssée de la survie (1999); Masters of Fantasy (1997); Mysterious Universe (1994); Nova (1978); Odyssey of Survival (1999); People to Watch (1966); Phenomenon: The Lost Archives (1998); Planetary Defense (2007); Rama (1997); Rama (1997); Rendezvous with Rama (2003); Sci-Fi Entertainment (1998); Sightings / The Sci-Fi Prophet (1996); Siskel & Ebert (1997); Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Television (1985); Television (1988); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The City in the Image of Man: Ideas and Work of Paolo Soleri (1972); The Colours of Infinity (1995); The Colours of Infinity (1995); The David Frost Show (1969–1972); The Day of Five Billion (1987); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (2021); The Martians and Us (2006); The Sky at Night (1963–2003); The Twilight Zone (1985); The Unexplained (1970); The Works (1997); This Is Your Life (1995); Time Out of Mind (1979); To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (2003); Trapped in Space / Breaking Strain (1994); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); We Love 'The Sky at Night' (2007); Without Warning (1994); Wogan (1985); World of Strange Powers (1985).

Born on this day – Elyse Knox:

Elyse Knox

Actress

December 14, 1917 – February 15, 2012

Credits:

There's a Girl in My Heart (1949); Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949); Forgotten Women (1949); Winner Take All (1948); I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948); Fighting Mad (1948); Linda, Be Good (1947); Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947); Black Gold (1947); Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946); Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946); Joe Palooka, Champ (1946); Army Wives (1944); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); Moonlight and Cactus (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Hi Ya, Sailor (1943); So's Your Uncle (1943); Hit the Ice (1943); Mister Big (1943); Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Arabian Nights (1942); The Mummy's Tomb (1942); Top Sergeant (1942); Hay Foot (1942); Miss Polly (1941); All-American Co-Ed (1941); Tanks a Million (1941); Sheriff of Tombstone (1941); Footlight Fever (1941); Youth Will Be Served (1940); Yesterday's Heroes (1940); Girl from Avenue A (1940); Girl in 313 (1940); Lillian Russell (1940); Star Dust (1940); Free, Blonde and 21 (1940); Wake Up and Live (1937).

Born on this day – Ann Richards:

Ann Richards

Actress

Writer

Artist

December 13, 1917 – August 24, 2006

Credits:

Writing:

Helen of Troy (play written in the 1970s – exact date unknown); The Grieving Senses (poetry) (1971); Odyssey for Edmond (poetry) (1991).

Movies and television:

Don't Call Me Girlie (1984); General Electric Theater (1960); Breakdown (1952); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); Love from a Stranger (1947); Lost Honeymoon (1947); The Searching Wind (1946); Badman's Territory (1946); Love Letters (1945); An American Romance (1944); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); 100,000 Cobbers (1942); Random Harvest (1942); Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942); The Woman in the House (1942); Come Up Smiling (1939); The Farmer Goes to Town (1938); Vengeance of the Deep (1938); Timberland Terror (1937); It Isn't Done (1937).

Born on this day – Robert Youngson:

Robert Youngson

Director

Writer

Producer

November 27, 1917 – April 8, 1974

Born on this day – Adele Jergens:

Adele Jergens

Actress

November 26, 1917 – November 22, 2002

Born on this day – Dorothy Arnold:

Dorothy Arnold

Actress

November 21, 1917 – November 13, 1984

Born on this day – Madeleine Robinson:

Madeleine Robinson

Actress

November 5, 1917 – August 1, 2004

Born on this day – Virginia Field:

Virginia Field

Actress

November 4, 1917 – January 2, 1992

Born on this day – Ann Rutherford:

Ann Rutherford

Actress

November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012

Credits:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2013); 20 Questions (1952); A Christmas Carol (1938); ABC Late Night (1974); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939); Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940); Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics - And Other Things (1940); Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Angel of Mercy (1939); Annie Laurie (1936); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Bedside Manner (1945); Bermuda Mystery (1944); Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time (2011); Bill Slater Show (1950); California's Gold (2012); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Carnival in Paris (1937); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Climax! (1955–1958); Comin' 'Round the Mountain (1936); Corazón de... (2006); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Danger (1953); Doughnuts and Society (1936); Down to the Sea (1936); Dramatic School (1938); Easter Parade in New York (1953); Easter Parade of Stars Auto Show (1954); Espionage (1937); Flag of Mercy (1942); Four Girls in White (1939); Gene Autry, Melody of the West (1994); General Electric Theater (1953); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gone with the Wind: The Legend Lives On (2009); Good Morning America (1983); Gruen Guild Theater (1951); Happy Land (1943); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Inside Job (1946); I've Got a Secret (1953); Judge Hardy and Son (1939); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); Keeping Company (1940); Kraft Theatre (1957); Land of Liberty (1939); Leave It to the Girls (1949); Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Love Find Andy Hardy Intro (2004); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Impossible Gift / Love and the Positive Man (1969–1973); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Melody Trail (1935); MGM Parade (1955); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Of Human Hearts (1938); Operation Haylift (1950); Orchestra Wives (1942); Out West with the Hardys (1938); Panic! (1958); Perry Mason (1959–1964); Place the Face (1955); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937); Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook (1981); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940); Show-Business at War (1943); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); Student Tour (1934); Suspense (1953); Take It or Leave It (1944); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen (1994); The 12th Annual Golden Boot Awards (1993); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Bob Newhart Show (1973–1974); The Bride Wore Red (1937); The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942); The Devil Is Driving (1937); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Fighting Marines (1935); The Ghost Comes Home (1940); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Harvester (1936); The James Melton Show (1951); The Judy Garland Show (1964); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Lawless Nineties (1936); The Linkletter Show (1952); The Lonely Trail (1936); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Oregon Trail (1936); The Red Skelton Hour (1958); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Singing Vagabond (1935); These Glamour Girls (1939); They Only Kill Their Masters (1972); This Is Your Life (1984 / 1988); This Time for Keeps (1942); Two O'Clock Courage (1945); U.S. Marshal (1959); Unusual Occupations (1947); Visiting... with Huell Howser (2010); Washington Melodrama (1941); Waterfront Lady (1935); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Whistling in Dixie (1942); Whistling in the Dark (1941); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Wyoming (1940); You're Only Young Once (1937).

Born on this day – Joan Fontaine:

Joan Fontaine

Actress

October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013

Born on this day – Jean-Pierre Melville:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Director

Writer

Actor

October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973

Born on this day – Marsha Hunt:

Marsha Hunt

Actress

October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022

Born on this day – June Allyson:

June Allyson

Actress

Dancer

Singer

October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006

Born on this day – Mila Parély:

Mila Parély

Actress

October 7, 1917 – January 14, 2012

Born on this day – Don Castle:

Don Castle

Producer

Actor

Writer

September 29, 1917 – May 26, 1966

Born on this day – Herbert Lom:

Herbert Lom

Actor

September 11, 1917 – September 27, 2012

Born on this day – William Brinkley:

William Brinkley

Writer

September 10, 1917 – November 22, 1993

When William Brinkley was a reporter for The Washington Post, he wrote the article covering the exorcism of a 14-year-old boy who lived in Mt. Rainier, Washington.

This case later became the inspiration for the novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, published in 1971, and the movie of the same title, directed by William Friedkin and released in 1973.

Article dated: Friday, August 20, 1949.

Born on this day – Lana Marconi:

Lana Marconi

Actress

September 8, 1917 – December 8, 1990