Born on this day – Andrée Clément:

Andrée Clément

Actress

August 7, 1918 – May 31, 1954

Credits:

Angels of Sin (1943); Bethsabée (1947); Coïncidences (1947); Daughters of Destiny / Segment: Jeanne (1954); Devil's Daughter (1946); God Needs Men (1950); Jeanne (1952); Just a Big Simple Girl (1948); La vierge du Rhin (1953); Macadam (1946); Pastoral Symphony (1946); Premier de cordée (1944); Premier prix du conservatoire (1943); Suivez cet homme (1953); The Thirst of Men (1950).

Born on this day – Jacqueline Laurent:

Jacqueline Laurent

Actress

August 6, 1918 – December 18, 2009

Credits:

Addio, amore! (1943); Dawn Over France (1935); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); The abito Nero da Sposa (1945); The Coup de Grace, 1965; The Day Rises (1939); Life del peccato (1946); The Two Timid (1943); The Man Who Plays with Fire (1942); Sarati, the Terrible (1937); A Straw Hat from Italy (1941); A Frenchman named Gabin (2017).

Born on this day – Joseph Hayes:

Joseph Hayes

Writer

August 2, 1918 – September 11, 2006

Credits:

Books and plays:

Bon Voyage!; Calculated Risk; Come into my Parlor; Don't Go Away Mad; Impolite Comedy; Is Anyone Listening?; Island on Fire; Leaf and Bough; Like Any Other Fugitive; Missing and Presumed Dead; No Escape; Summer in Copenhagen; The Deep End; The Desperate Hours; The Happiest Millionaire; The Hours After Midnight; The Long Dark Night; The Midnight Sun; The Third Day; The Ways of Darkness; Winner's Circle.

Movies and television:

Bon Voyage! (1962); Desperate Hours (1990); Ich melde einen Selbstmord (1989); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Pour cent millions (1994); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stolen Hours (1963); Stunden der Angst (1964); Suspense (1949); Terror After Midnight (1962); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Desperate Hours (1955 / 1967); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Magical World of Disney (1970); The Third Day (1965); The Web (1951); The Young Doctors (1961).

Born on this day – Helen Chapman:

Helen Chapman

Actress

July 29, 1918 – November 1, 1986

Credits:

Alias Nick Beal (1949); All-American Co-Ed (1941); Bells Are Ringing (1960); Blaze of Noon (1947); Borrowed Trouble (1948); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Call Me Mister (1951); Chicago Deadline (1949); Confidence Girl (1952); Cowboy G-Men (1953); Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952–1953); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Double Diving (1939); Easy to Wed (1946); Girl Crazy (1943); Give a Girl a Break (1953); Good News (1947); High Tension (1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952); I Dood It (1943); Jackson and Jill (1949); Knock on Wood (1954); Lillian Russell (1940); Man About Town (1939); Man Against Crime (1954); Man with a Camera (1959); Martin Kane (1954); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); My Dog Shep (1946); My Favorite Spy (1951); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); O.S.S. (1946); Outlaw Roundup (1944); Panic! (1957); Prairie Chickens (1943); Racket Squad (1953); Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Rocky King, Detective (1954); Show Boat (1951); Sing Another Chorus (1941); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Smooth as Silk (1946); So Goes My Love (1946); Somewhat Secret (1939); Son of Sinbad (1955); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); The Belle of New York (1952); The Box Brothers (1956); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Files of Jeffrey Jones (1952); The French Line (1953); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Last Angry Man (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); You're a Sweetheart (1937).

Born on this day – Ingmar Bergman:

Ingmar Bergman

Director

Producer

Writer

July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007

Born on this day – Richard L. Breen:

Richard L. Breen

Writer

Director

June 26, 1918 – February 1, 1967

Born on this day – Ben Johnson:

Ben Johnson

Actor

Stuntman

Rodeo cowboy

June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996

Born on this day – Jane Bryan:

Jane Bryan

Actress

Philanthropist

Arts patron

June 11, 1918 – April 8, 2009

Credits:

A Slight Case of Murder (1938); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Breakdowns of 1937 (1937); Brother Rat (1938); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Confession (1937); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Girls on Probation (1938); Invisible Stripes (1939); Kid Galahad (1937); Marked Woman (1937); Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen: Fatal Females (1992); TCM Remembers 2009 (2009); The Captain's Kid (1936); The Case of the Black Cat (1936); The Cherokee Strip (1937); The Man Who Dared (1939); The Old Maid (1939); The Sisters (1938); These Glamour Girls (1939); Under Southern Stars (1937); We Are Not Alone (1939).

Born on this day – Jeanne Bates:

Jeanne Bates

Actress

May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960); ABC Afterschool Specials (1979); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Bachelor Father (1959–1961); Back from the Dead (1957); Barnaby Jones (1974–1978); Ben Casey (1961–1966); Benson (1979); Big Town (1955–1956); Blood Arrow (1958); Bonanza (1959); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Buckskin (1958); Cannon (1972); Charlie's Angels (1976); Checkmate (1961); Chevron Theatre (1953); Cimarron City (1959); Compression (2024–2025); Dallas (1981); Dan August (1970); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Days of Our Lives (1966–1975); Death of a Salesman (1951); Death Valley Days (1959–1961); Die Hard 2 (1990); Dr. Christian (1957); Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1957); Dream Lover (1994); Eraserhead (1977); Family Affair (1970); Family Theatre (1953); From the Dead of Night (1989); Gang Busters (1952); General Electric Theater (1955–1959); General Hospital (1983); Getting Married (1978); Grand Canyon (1991); Great Directors (2009); Griff (1973); Guns Don't Argue (1957); Gunsmoke (1955); Gus (1976); Hard Time on Planet Earth (1989); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959); Hawaii Five-O (1968); Hey, Rookie (1944); Hi, Grandma! (1958); I Led 3 Lives (1955–1956); It's Murder (1944); Joyful Hour (1960); Judd for the Defense (1969); Kodiak (1974); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Laramie (1960); Lassie (1958); Lock Up (1960–1961); Lucas Tanner (1974); M Squad (1958–1959); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Man with a Camera (1960); Mannix (1968–1974); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970–1972); Mayberry R.F.D. (1969–1970); Medic (1956); Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005); Mod Squad (1971–1972); Mom (1990); Mulholland Drive (1999 / 2001); My Friend Flicka (1956); My Three Sons (1971); Needles and Pins (1973); One Night Stand (1991); One Step Beyond (1959–1960); Outlaws (1960); Paula (1952); Perry Mason (1958); Peter Gunn (1959); Poco... Little Dog Lost (1977); Public Enemy #2 (1991); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Racket Squad (1952); Rawhide (1959–1960); Rescue 8 (1958); Riverboat (1959); Room 222 (1971–1972); Sabaka (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Sergeant Mike (1944); Shadows in the Night (1944); She's a Soldier Too (1944); Shotgun Slade (1961); Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990); Sister, Sister (1996); Sky King (1959); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); State Trooper (1957–1958); Studio 57 (1955); Sundown Valley (1944); Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970); Suspicion (1958); Switch (1976); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958–1959); Tension at Table Rock (1956); That '70s Show (2002); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Black Parachute (1944); The Chance of a Lifetime (1943); The Chisholms (1980); The Commish (1991); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The Donna Reed Show (1960); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Halls of Ivy (1954); The Jack Benny Program (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960); The Lineup (1958); The Living Christ Series (1951); The Lone Ranger (1956); The Magical World of Disney (1977); The Mask of Diijon (1946); The Millionaire (1955); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Oval Portrait (1997); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Phantom (1943); The Racket Man (1944); The Range Rider (1953); The Restless Gun (1957–1959); The Return of the Vampire (1943); The Rockford Files (1975); The Rookies (1972); The Schaefer Century Theatre (1952); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Slowest Gun in the West (1960); The Smith Family (1971); The Soul of a Monster (1944); The Stranger (1973); The Strangler (1964); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Unexpected (1952); The Young and the Restless (1973); The Young Lawyers (1970); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); This Is the Life (1970); Three's Company (1979); Tonight and Every Night (1945); Topper Returns (1973); Touch and Go (1986); Trooper Hook (1957); Trouble in-Laws (1951); Two Faces West (1961); Vice Raid (1959); Wagon Train (1958–1962); What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1978); Whirlybirds (1957–1959); Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991); Wings (1996); Wonder Woman (1978); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Maryesther Denver:

Maryesther Denver

Actress

May 10, 1918 – June 3, 1980

Credits:

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966); Ben Casey (1964); Bewitched (1971); Born to Be Loved (1959); Columbo (1974); Diamond Jim: Skulduggery in Samantha (1965); Frasier, the Sensuous Lion (1973); Nightmare (1974); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Project X (1968); Star Trek (1967); Strange Homecoming (1974); The Danny Thomas Hour (1967); The Fortune Cookie (1966); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Interns (1962); The New Interns (1964); The Wild Wild West (1968); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); Wicked, Wicked (1973).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

William Jay Smith

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – William Holden:

William Holden

Actor

April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981

Credits:

Adventures at the Jade Sea (1969); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Arizona (1940); Ashanti (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978); Blaze of Noon (1947); Boots Malone (1952); Born Yesterday (1950); Breezy (1973); Casino Royale (1967); Ciné regards (1979); Damien: Omen II (1978); Dear Ruth (1947); Dear Wife (1949); Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953); Donahue (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Escape to Athena (1979); Et par ord om Danmark (1960); Executive Suite (1954); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Fedora (1978); Force of Arms (1951); Forever Female (1953); Golden Boy (1939); Good Morning America (1977–1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Today (1955); I Love Lucy (1955); I Wanted Wings (1941); Invisible Stripes (1939); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Million Dollar Legs (1939); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Mysteries of the Sea (1980); Network (1976); Once Upon a Time.... is Now Grace Kelly (1977); Open Season (1974); Our Town (1940); Paris When It Sizzles (1964); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1955); Picnic (1955); Prison Farm (1938); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); Reconnaissance Pilot (1943); Report on Hong Kong (1961); S.O.B. (1981); Sabrina (1954); Salute to Show Business (1957); Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); Satan Never Sleeps (1962); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Shooting Stars (1961); Stalag 17 (1953); Streets of Laredo (1949); Submarine Command (1951); Sunset Blvd. (1950); Texas (1941); World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson Heavyweight Champion of the World versus Ingemar Johansson Heavyweight Champion of Europe (1959); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 7th Dawn (1964); The American Movie Awards (1980); The Annual National Sports Awards (1974); The Blue Knight (1973); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Christmas Tree (1969); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954–1955); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); The Country Girl (1954); The Dark Past (1948); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1973); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Earthling (1980); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Fleet's In (1942); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Jack Benny Program (1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Key (1958); The Lion (1962); The Man from Colorado (1948); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1977); The Moon Is Blue (1953); The Moviemakers (1971); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); The Revengers (1972); The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1981); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Turning Point (1952); The Wild Bunch (1969); The World of Suzie Wong (1960); Those Were the Days! (1940); Toward the Unknown (1956); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); Union Station (1950); Variety Girl (1947); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 (1954); What's My Line? (1956); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Wild Rovers (1971); Wild Rovers (1971); Wings Up (1943); You Can Change the World (1950); Young and Willing (1943).

Born on this day – Anne Shirley:

Anne Shirley

Actress

April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993

Credits:

4 Devils (1928); A Man to Remember (1938); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); Alice's Egg Plant (1925); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Anne of Green Gables (1934); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Bachelor Bait (1934); Bombardier (1943); Boy Slaves (1939); Career (1939); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chatterbox (1936); City Girl (1930); Condemned Women (1938); Emma (1932); Finishing School (1934); Four Jacks and a Jill (1942); Girls' School (1938); Government Girl (1943); Gun Smoke (1931); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hello Napoleon (1931); His Wooden Wedding (1925); Howdy Mate (1931); Lady Bodyguard (1943); Law of the Underworld (1938); Liliom (1930); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Man from Frisco (1944); Meet the Missus (1937); M'Liss (1936); Moonshine Valley (1922); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Mother Knows Best (1928); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); Night Life (1927); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Riders of the Purple Sage (1925); Saturday's Children (1940); School for Girls (1934); Sins of the Fathers (1928); So and Sew (1936); So Big! (1932); Sorority House (1939); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Stella Dallas (1937); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Fast Set (1924); The Hidden Woman (1922); The History Chicks (2018); The Key (1934); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Man Who Fights Alone (1924); The Mayor of 44th Street (1942); The Powers Girl (1943); The Purchase Price (1932); The Rich Pup (1924); The Rustle of Silk (1923); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The World Is Ours (1938); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three on a Match (1932); Too Many Wives (1937); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Vigil in the Night (1940); West Point Widow (1941); Young America (1932).

Born on this day – Spike Milligan:

Spike Milligan

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Musician

Writer

April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002

Credits:

Books:

A Book of Milliganimals (1968); A Children's Treasury of Milligan (1999); A Dustbin of Milligan (1961); A Mad Medley Of Milligan (1999); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971); Bad Jelly the Witch: A Fairy Story (1973); Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (1996); Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book (1974); Box 18 (2006); Chill Air (1981); Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan (2002); Condensed Animals (1991); D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas And Lady Jane According to Spike Milligan (1995); Dear Robert, Dear Spike (1991); Depression And How To Survive It (1993); Dip the puppy (1974); Fleas, Knees And Hidden Elephants (1995); Floored Masterpieces with Worse Verse (1985); Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan (1997); Get in the Q annual (1980); Goblins (1978); Goodbye Soldier (1986); Goon Again (2001); Goon Cartoons (1982); Gunner Milligan, 954024 (1995); Hidden Words (1993); If Only I Were Bald (1981); Indefinite Articles and Scunthorpe (1983); It Ends With Magic (1990); Lady Chatterly's Lover According to Spike Milligan (1994); Milligan's Meaning of Life (1994); Milligan's War (1988); Monty, His Part In My Victory (1976); More Goon Cartoons (1983); More Goon Show Scripts (1973); More Nation's Favourite Poems (2004); More Spike Milligan Letters (1984); Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978); My Mother (1991); Nothing Solemn (1973); Open Heart University (1979); Peace Work (1991); Poems (1997); Potboiling Dustbin Full Of Bits (1984); Puckoon (1963); Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (1998); 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' (1974); Scunthorpe Revisited - Added Articles and Instant Relatives (1989); Silly Verse For Kids (1959); Sir Nobonk And The Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon (1982); Small Dreams Of A Scorpion (1972); Spike Milligan (2013); Spike Milligan: A Celebration (1995); Spike Milligan's Further Transports Of Delight (1985); Spike Milligan's Transports of Delight (1974); Startling Verse For All The Family (1987); Sunday-midnight (1990); That's Amazing (1989); The 101 Best And Only Limericks Of Spike Milligan (1984); The Bald Twit Lion (1968); The Bedside Milligan (1960); The Bedsitting Room (1972); The Bible According to Spike Milligan (1993); The Book of the Goons (1974); The Compulsive Spike Milligan (2004); The Essential Spike Milligan (2002); The Family Album (1999); The Goon Show (2017); The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography (1976); The Goon Show Scripts (1972); The Goons (1997); The Great MaGonagall Scrap Book (1975); The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan (1998); The Little Pot Boiler (1963); The Looney (1987); The Lost Goon Shows (1988); The Magical World of Milligan (2009); Milligan's Ark (1973); The Melting Pot (1983); The Mirror Running (1987); The Murphy (2000); The Nation's Favourite Animal Poems (2001); The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (2001); The Nation's Favourite Love Poems (1997); The Nation's Favourite Poems (1998); The Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance (2003); The Nation's Favourite Poems: Book 1 (1996); The Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems (1998); The Q Annual (1979); The Spike Milligan Letters (1977); There's A Lot Of It About! (1983); Treasure Island According To Spike Milligan (2001); Unspun Socks From A Chicken's Laundry (1982); Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (1985); William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin (1988); William McGonagall: Freefall (1992); William McGonagall: The Truth at Last (1976); Wuthering Heights According To Spike Milligan (1995).

Movies and television:

2Gs and the Pop People (1972); 90 Minutes Live (1977); A Big Hand for Sooty (1998); A Christmas Cracker (1956); A Current Affair (2011); A Kid for Two Farthings (1955); A Royal Birthday Celebration (1998); A Short History of Man and Music: Part 2 (1957); A Show Called Fred (1956); A Tribute to Johnny Speight: For Richer, for Poorer (1998); A Whole Scene Going (1966); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973); Alfred Marks Time (1959); Alice Through the Looking Box (1960); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972); All Star Secrets (1985–1986); All the Best from Denis Norden (2007); An Apple a Day (1971); An Evening with Spike Milligan (1996); Aquarius (1972–1973); Arena (1993–2011); Australia (1987); Badjelly (2025); Badjelly the Witch (2000); Barry Humphries Gives Us the Good Oil (2003); Behind the Scenes of 'the Last Remake of Beau Geste' (1977); Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009); Bernard Miles on the Halls (1986); Between Two Women (2003); Billy Cotton Band Show (1964–1966); Blankety Blank (1981–1984); Bob Hope's Happy Birthday Homecoming (London Royal Gala) (1985); Breakfast (2010); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Burke's Backyard (1995); Call My Bluff (1987); Call the Midwife (2013); Calling All Cars (1954); Carrott Confidential (1987–1988); Carry on Spike in Australia (1972); Celebrity Squares (1975–1979); Chaos Supersedes E.N.S.A.. (1980); Children in Need (1984); Cilla (1968–1969); Clapper Board (1980); Clive Anderson Talks Back (1995); Come Here Often (1967–1968); Comedy Connections (2008); Comedy Playhouse (1975); Comic Roots (1983); Cucumber Castle (1970); Curry & Chips (1969); Das Auto: The Germans, Their Cars and Us (2013); Decidedly Dusty (1969); Dee Time (1967–1969); Demob Happy: How TV Conquered Britain (2007); Des O'Connor Tonight (1988–1996); Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World (1973); Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS (1993); Don't Miss Wax (1987); Don't Say a Word (1963–1964); Don't Spare the Horses (1952); Dot and the Kangaroo (1977); Down Among the Z Men (1952); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Earth Patrol (1979); EMI: The Inside Story (2016); Emmy the Robot (2026); Every Night Something Atrocious (1980); Everyman (1977–1999); Face Your Image (1975); Fantastic Animation Festival (1977); Festival of Entertainment (1972); Film Night (1970); Fish and Milligan (1966); Friday Night (1993); Full House (1973); Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974); Give Us a Clue (1979–1988); Going a Bundle (1974); Goonreel (1952); Gormenghast (2000); Group Madness (1983); Hancock's Half Hour (1956); Have I Got News for You (1995); Hawkins' Rivers (1982); Here Comes Channel 8 (1980); Heroes of Comedy (1995–2002); Highway (1991); History of the World: Part I (1981); Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007); Home and Dry (1955); Home Movie Roadshow (2010); Home on Sunday (1984); Hullabaloo (1968); I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (2005); In Sickness and in Health (1987); In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett (1995); Invasion Quartet (1961); It's Patently Obvious (1980); Jackanory (1971–1979); Jeremy Taylor (1980); John Nettles Applauds (2008); Jools Holland's Happening (1991); Juke Box Jury (1960–1966); Kazuko's Karaoke Klub (1989); Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol (1985); Labour's Old Romantic (1997); Late Night Line-Up (1965 / 1969); Laugh Line (1960–1961); Lena (1981); Let's Go Crazy (1951); Living Famously (2003); London Entertains (1951); Looks Familiar (1976–1986); Loose Talk (1983); Lost in the Wild (1976); Man About the House (1974); Mary: Rhymes and Reasons (1972); Milligan in... (1972–1973); Milligan's Wake (1964–1965); M'Lords... Ladies and Gentlemen... (1978–1979); Monitor (1959); Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut (2009); Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979); Moonshadow (1972); Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1978); Muses with Milligan (1964–1965); Nelson's Column Big Band (1984); New Faces (1988); No 73 (1985); oel Edmonds: The Rise & Fall of Mr Saturday Night (2022); Noel's House Party (1992); Not Only... But Also (1966–1970); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Now and Then (1967–1968); Off the Record (1956–1958); Oh in Colour (1970); Omnibus (1974–1996); Once More with Felix (1967–1968); One Foot in the Past (1995); One Man's Week (1975); One Pair of Eyes (1973); Open Door (1977); Pantomania, or Dick Whittington (1956); Parkinson (1971–1982); Parkinson in Australia (1981); Parkinson One to One (1987); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Penny Points to Paradise (1951); Perspectives (2012); Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy (2020); Plunder (1990); Pob's Programme (1985–1990); Pop Gold (2015); Postman's Knock (1962); Private Eye TV (1971); Puckoon (2002); Q5 (1969–1980); Quiz of the Year (1970); Rentadick (1972); Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980); Right to Work March (1972); Rita and Wally (1968); Room 101 (1999); Rugby Special (1973); Sad/Happy Ending Story of the Bald Twit Lion (1967); Saturday Live (1986); Saturday Night at the Mill (1977–1981); Score with the Scaffold (1970); Secombe and Friends (1959 / 1966); Secombe Here! (1955); Sellers' Best? (1992); Sing a Song of Secombe (1974); Six Dates with Barker (1971); Six-Five Special (1957); Some Jerk with a Camera (2012); Some You Win (1984); Something to Sing About (1975); Son of Fred (1956); Spike (1996); Spike Milligan Meets Joe Brown (1961); Spike Milligan on Treasure Island WC2 (1961); Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value (1961); Spike Milligan: Assorted Q (2014); Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (2002); Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace (2014); Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive (2022); Spike Night (1998); Steve Wright's People Show (1994); Studio 9: The Home of Australian Television (2004); Super Gran (1985); Surprise! Surprise! (1984); Sykes and A... (1960); Takin' Over the Asylum (1994); Telescope (1963); Television (1985); Tell Me Another (1977); That Was the Year That Was (2023); That's Life! (1985); The 11 O'Clock Show (2000); The ABC of ABC - A Souvenir with Music (1966); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: A Conversation with Barry Humphries (2002); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: Introduction by Dame Edna Everage (2007); The Adventures of Bazza in Chunderland: The Making of 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie' (2007); The Bed Sitting Room (1969 / 2016); The Big Freeze (1993); The Big Time (1976); The Bob Monkhouse Show (1983); The British Comedy Awards 1992 (1992); The British Comedy Awards 1994 (1994); The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956); The Cherry Picker (1974); The Climber (1983); The Comedians' Comedian (2005); The Comedy Map of Britain (2008); The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story (1999); The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau (2002); The Daryl Somers Show (1983); The Des O'Connor Show (1968); The Diana Dors Show (1981); The Diane Solomon Show (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Don Lane Show (1980); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1957–1968); The Frankie Howerd Show (1953); The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018); The Gladys Half-Hour (1958); The Good Old Days (1964); The Goon Show (1968); The Great Bong (1993); The Great McGonagall (1975); The Happening (1991); The Heart of Show Business (1967); The Hippodrome Show (1989); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978); The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956); The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956); The James Whale Radio Show (1992); 'The Jewel in the Crown' Southall, Middx (1985); The Jo Stafford Show (1961); The Last Goon Show of All (1972); The Last Impresario (2013); The Last Laugh Before TV-am (1985); The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977); The Last Turkey in the Shop Show (1974); The Lively Arts (1976–1977); The Magic Christian (1969); The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins / Segment; Sloth (1971); The Marti Caine Show (1984); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–1972); The Melting Pot (1975–1976); The Muppet Show (1979–1981); The Nations' Favourite Children's Poem (2001); The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow (1988–1990); The Other Spike (1970); The Paranormal Peter Sellers (2002); The Pythons (1979); The Ratties (1988); The Risk (1960); The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1987); The Rolf Harris Show (1974); The Roy Castle Show (1969); The Royal Variety Performance 1965 (1965); The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959); The Saturday Show (1982); The Secret Life of Brian (2007); The Sooty Show (1986); The Super Secret Service (1953); The Sweepstakes Game (1976); The Telegoons (1963–1964); The Three Musketeers (1973); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Two Ronnies (1976); The Two Ronnies at the Movies (1999); The Two Ronnies Sketchbook (2005); The Undertakers (1969); The Undiscovered Peter Cook (2016); The Unforgettable Harry Secombe (2010); The Unforgettable Spike Milligan (2010); The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000); The Unseen Spike Milligan (2005); The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' (2002); The World of Beachcomber (1968–1969); Them and Us (1990); There's a Lot of It About (1982); This Is Your Life (1958–1999); Through the Keyhole (1987); Till Death Us Do Part (1970–1974); Timeshift (2007–2012); Tiswas (1980); To See Such Fun (1977); Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990–1993); Tonight with Jonathan Ross (1991); TV Heroes (1993); Under the Volcano (2021); Up Yer Festival (1990); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1957); Variety Parade (1955); Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story (2001); Village (1996); Walk Across Britain: Right to Work (1973); Watch Your Stern (1960); Wham! Bam! Strawberry Jam! (1995); What a Performance! (2000); What a Whopper (1961); What We Were Watching (2025); Whatever Next? (1968–1970); When the Sun Goes In... (1999); Where Do I Sit? (1971); Wild About Harry: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe (2001); Wildlife Spectacular (1971); Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (1969); 'Wiltons' - The Handsomest Hall in Town (1970); With a Little Help from My Friends (1969); Without Walls (1991); Wogan (1983–1989); Wolves, Witches and Giants (1995–1998); World in Action (1992); Yellowbeard (1983); Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972); You Bet! (1988–1991).

Born on this day – Dolores Muñoz Ledo:

Dolores Muñoz Ledo

Voice actress

April 14, 1918 – February 13, 2026

Credits:

Anita Louise in Marie Antoinette (1938); Bea Arthur in The Golden Girls (1989–1992); Chip in Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers; Donna Reed in They Were Expendable (1945); Sorceress in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Born on this day – Marguerite Chapman:

Marguerite Chapman

Actress

March 9, 1918 – August 31, 1999

Credits:

Barnaby Jones (1977); Police Story (1973); Hawaii Five-O (1975); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Frontier Circus (1962); Here's Hollywood (1961); Laramie (1961); Perry Mason (1960); The Amazing Transparent Man (1960); The Lineup (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); Rawhide (1959); Pursuit (1958); The Millionaire (1958); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1958); Studio One (1958); Climax! (1955–1957); The Eve Arden Show (1957); Studio 57 (1954–1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957); Strange Stories (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1955–1956); TV Reader's Digest (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Shower of Stars (1955); The Star and the Story (1955); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); The Seven Year Itch (1955); City Detective (1953–1955); The Whistler (1955); Private Secretary (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1954); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954); Your Play Time (1954); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Fireside Theatre (1953); Chevron Theatre (1952–1953); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Sea Tiger (1952); Man Bait (1952); Your Show of Shows (1951–1953); Flight to Mars (1951); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); Kansas Raiders (1950); The Green Promise (1949); The Gallant Blade (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Relentless (1948); Mr. District Attorney (1947); Rough But Hopeful (1946); The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946); One Way to Love (1946); Pardon My Past (1945); Counter-Attack (1945); Strange Affair (1944); My Kingdom for a Cook (1943); Destroyer (1943); Appointment in Berlin (1943); Times Square (1943); One Dangerous Night (1942); The Daring Young Man (1942); The Spirit of Stanford (1942); A Man's World (1942); Parachute Nurse (1942); Submarine Raider (1942); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Spy Smasher (1942); The Playgirls (1942); You're in the Army Now (1941); West of the Rockies (1941); The Body Disappears (1941); Navy Blues (1941); The Great Lie (1941); A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941); Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940); Four Sons (1940); On Their Own (1940).

Born on this day – Mickey Spillane:

Mickey Spillane

Writer

Actor

March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Century of Noir (2002); A Dangerous Cat (2017); A Long Time Dead (2016); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012); Black Alley (1996); Bloody Sunrise (1965); Book Club (2014); Book Club (2014); Citadel (2016); Citadel (2016); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Complex 90 (2013); Condor in the Stacks (2015); Condor in the Stacks (2015); Crimes by Moonlight (2010); Day of the Guns (1964); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016); Dead Street (2007); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012); Dig Two Graves (2023); Every Seven Years (2015); Every Seven Years (2015); From the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); Hoodoo Harry (2017); Hoodoo Harry (2017); Hot Lead, Cold Justice (2020); I, the Jury (1947); It's in the Book (2014); It's in the Book (2014); Kill Me If You Can (2022); Kill Me, Darling (2015); Killer Mine (1965); Killing Town (2018); King of the Weeds (2014); Kiss Her Goodbye (2009); Kiss Me, Deadly (1952); Lady, Go Die! (2012); Last Stage to Hell Junction (2019); Masquerade for Murder (2020); Masters of Noir, Volume One (2010); Me, Hood! (1963); Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #1 (2018); Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #2 (2018); Murder Never Knocks (2016); Murder, My Love (2019); My Gun Is Quick (1950); Mystery, Inc. (2015); Mystery, Inc. (2015); One Lonely Night (1951); Private Eyes (1998); Pronghorns of the Third Reich (2012); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Reconciliation Day (2016); Reconciliation Day (2016); Remaindered (2014); Remaindered (2014); Return of the Hood (1964); Rides a Stranger (2013); Rides a Stranger (2013); Seven Years (2018); Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek (2021); Skin (2012); So Long, Chief (2013); Something's Down There (2003); Stand Up and Die! (2022); Survival... Zero (1970); The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 (2011); The Big Bang (2010); The Big Kill (1951); The Big Showdown (2016); The Bloody Spur (2018); The Body Lovers (1967); The Book Case (2012); The Book of Ghosts (2013); The Book of the Lion (2015); The Book of Virtue (2012); The Book Thing (2012); The By-Pass Control (1966); The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (2018); The Compendium of Srem (2014); The Consummata (2011); The Dark Door (2022); The Day the Sea Rolled Back (1979); The Death Dealers (1966); The Deep (1961); The Delta Factor (1968); The Erection Set (1972); The Final Testament (2013); The Flier (1964); The Girl Hunters (1962); The Girl Who Did Say No (2020); The Goliath Bone (2008); The Gospel of Sheba (2014); The Haze (2016); The Hemingway Valise (2018); The Honeymoon Trap (2022); The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction (2012); The Killing Man (1989); The Last Cop Out (1973); The Last Honest Horse Thief (2018); The Last Stand (2018); The Legend of Caleb York (2015); The Little Men (2015); The Long Sonata of the Dead (2013); The Long Wait (1951); The Menace (2022); The Nature of My Inheritance (2014); The Pretty Little Box (2018); The Scroll (2014); The Sequel (2014); The Ship That Never Was (1982); The Snake (1964); The Tough Guys (1969); The Traitor (2022); The Travelling Companion (2016); The Twisted Thing (1966); The Will to Kill (2017); Tomorrow I Die (1984); Vengeance is Mine (1950); Vintage Spillane (1974).

Movies and television:

Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998); Mommy's Day (1997); Fallen Angels (1995); Mommy (1995); Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery (1994); Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (1989); The New Mike Hammer (1984–1987); More Than Murder (1984); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); I, the Jury (1982); Margin for Murder (1981); Miller Lite: Tastes Great, Less Filling (1976–1986); Columbo (1974); The Delta Factor (1970); The Girl Hunters (1963); Mike Hammer (1958–1959); My Gun Is Quick (1957); Kiss Me Deadly (1955); Mickey Spillane's 'Mike Hammer!' (1954); Ring of Fear (1954); The Long Wait (1954); I, the Jury (1953).

Born on this day – Ida Lupino:

Ida Lupino

Actress

Singer

Director

Writer

Producer

February 4, 1918 – August 3, 1995

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); Alias Smith and Jones (1972); Anything Goes (1936); Artist and Models (1937); Barnaby Jones (1974); Batman (1968); Beware, My Lovely (1952); Bewitched (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1959); Bracken's World (1970); Breaking Point (1963); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Charlie's Angels (1977); Climax! (1956); Columbo (1972–1974); Come On, Marines! (1934); Daniel Boone (1967); Dante (1960); Deadhead Miles (1972); Death Valley Days (1960); Deep Valley (1947); Devotion (1946); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Ellery Queen (1975); Escape Me Never (1947); Family Affair (1969–1970); Female Artillery (1973); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Forever and a Day (1943); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1956); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Gilligan's Island (1964–1966); Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1961); Her First Affaire (1932); High Finance (1933); High Sierra (1940); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Honey West (1965); Hong Kong (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); I Lived with You (1933); I Love a Mystery (1973); In Our Time (1944); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); Jennifer (1953); Judd for the Defense (1968); Junior Bonner (1972); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1964); Ladies in Retirement (1941); Let's Get Married (1937); Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942); Lust for Gold (1949); Lux Playhouse (1959); Medical Center (1972); Mod Squad (1969); Money for Speed (1933); Moontide (1942); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957–1958); Mr. Novak (1963–1965); My Boys Are Good Boys (1979); Nanny and the Professor (1971); Never Fear (1950); Not Wanted (1949); On Dangerous Ground (1951); On the Loose (1951); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Out of the Fog (1941); Outrage (1950); Paris in Spring (1935); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Pillow to Post (1945); Police Woman (1975); Prince of Arcadia (1933); Private Hell 36 (1954); Ready for Love (1934); Road House (1948); Sam Benedict (1962–1963); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sea Devils (1937); Search for Beauty (1934); Smart Girl (1935); Strange Intruder (1956); Switch (1975); Tate (1960); Teenage Idol (1958); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); The Big Knife (1955); The Bigamist (1953); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1973); The Devil's Rain (1975); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Food of the Gods (1976); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Fugitive (1963–1964); The Gay Desperado (1936); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968); The Ghost Camera (1933); The Green Peacock (1958); The Hard Way (1943); The Hitch-Hiker (1953); The Investigators (1961); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956); The Lady and the Mob (1939); The Letters (1973); The Light That Failed (1939); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Love Race (1931); The Man I Love (1946); The Manhunter (1974); The Name of the Game (1969); The Outcasts (1969); The Rifleman (1961); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Strangers in 7A (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Trouble with Angels (1966); The Twilight Zone (1959–1964); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1963–1965); The Wild Wild West (1966); They Drive by Night (1940); Thriller (1961–1962); Virginian (1966); While the City Sleeps (1956); Woman in Hiding (1950); Women in Chains (1972); Women's Prison (1955); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zane Grey Theatre (1956).

Born on this day – Claudia Drake:

Claudia Drake

Actress

Singer

January 30, 1918 – October 19, 1997

Credits:

Wagon Train (1958); Calypso Joe (1957); Your Favorite Story (1954–1955); Cavalcade of America (1955); Day of Triumph (1954); Northern Patrol (1953); Racket Squad (1950); The Pace That Thrills (1952); The Cisco Kid (1951); The Cowboy and the Indians (1949); Indian Agent (1948); Lady at Midnight (1948); The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947); Renegade Girl (1946); Lone Star Moonlight (1946); Lawless Breed (1946); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Face of Marble (1946); Live Wires (1946); Detour (1945); The Crimson Canary (1945); Why Girls Leave Home (1945); Bedside Manner (1945); The Lady Confesses (1945); Enemy of Women (1944); Campus Rhythm (1943); False Colors (1943); Border Patrol (1943); Reunion in France (1942); Flying with Music (1942); No Greater Sin (1941); Footlight Parade (1933); Old King Cole (1933).

Born on this day – John Forsythe:

John Forsythe

Actor

Producer

Narrator

Drama teacher

Philanthropist

January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010