Born on this day – Richard Farnsworth:

Richard Farnsworth

Actor

Stuntman

September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000

Born on this day – G. D. Spradlin:

G. D. Spradlin

Actor

Attorney

Businessman

August 31, 1920 – July 24, 2011

Born on this day – David Lowell Rich:

David Lowell Rich

Director

Producer

August 31, 1920 – October 21, 2001

Born on this day – James Gunn:

James Gunn

Writer

Producer

August 22, 1920 – September 22, 1966

Credits:

Book:

Deadlier Than the Male (1942).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1960); 87th Precinct (1962); Affair in Trinidad (1952); Alcoa Premiere (1962); All I Desire (1953); Because They're Young (1960); Born to Kill (1947); Bronco (1959); Checkmate (1960–1961); Chevron Theatre (1953); Cheyenne (1956–1958); City Detective (1954); Colt .45 (1957–1958); Conflict (1956–1957); Corps et biens (1986); Dr. Kildare (1963); Fireside Theatre (1950–1953); Harriet Craig (1950); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Lady of Burlesque (1943); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Maverick (1960); Mike Hammer (1958); Over-Exposed (1956); Soldiers of Fortune (1956–1957); State Trooper (1957); Studio 57 (1954–1956); Sugarfoot (1957–1959); The Barefoot Mailman (1951); The Flying Missile (1950); The Forsaken Westerns (2018); The Investigators (1961); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1955); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Texan (1960); The Unfaithful (1947); The Young Philadelphians (1959); Two of a Kind (1951); Wagon Train (1959); Warner Brothers Presents (1956).

Born on this day – Ray Bradbury:

Ray Bradbury

Writer

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012

Credits:

Books:

Death is a Lonely Business (1985); A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990); Let's All Kill Constance (2003); Dandelion Wine (1957); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962); Farewell Summer (2006); Summer Morning, Summer Night (2008); Fahrenheit 451 (1953); The Halloween Tree (1972); Green Shadows, White Whale (1992); Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998); From the Dust Returned (2001); Dark Carnival (1947); The Martian Chronicles (1950); The Illustrated Man (1951); A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (1952); The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953); The October Country (1955); The Day It Rained Forever (1959); A Medicine for Melancholy (1959); The Small Assassin (1962); R Is for Rocket (1962); The Machineries of Joy (1964); The Vintage Bradbury (1965); The Autumn People (1965); Twice 22 (1966); Tomorrow Midnight (1966); S is for Space (1966); Fever Dream And Other Fantasies (1968); I Sing the Body Electric (1969); Ray Bradbury (1975); Long After Midnight (1976); Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (1979); The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980); The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980); Dinosaur Tales (1984); A Memory of Murder (1984); The Toynbee Convector (1988); Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed (1990); Classic Stories 2 (1990); Quicker Than the Eye (1996); Driving Blind (1997); One More for the Road (2002); Stories Volume 2 (2003); Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003); The Cat's Pajamas (2004); Now and Forever (2007); We'll Always Have Paris (2009); A Pleasure to Burn (2010); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 (2011); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 (2014); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 (2017); Killer, Come Back To Me (2020); Venus Remembered (2020); The Poems (1945); Skeletons (1945); The Homecoming (1946); The Black Ferris (1948); The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish (1950); There Will Come Soft Rains (By: Leonard Nimoy) (1950); The Veldt (1950); A Sound of Thunder (1951); The Fog Horn (1951); The Playground (1953); All Summer in a Day (1954); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1972); The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978); One Timeless Spring (1980); The Love Affair (1982); Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me (1987); Fever Dream (1987); The Thing at the Top of the Stairs (1988); The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007); Marionettes, Inc. (2009); Defense Mech (2021); Why Man Explores (1977); The Art of Playboy (1985); Zen in the Art of Writing (1987); Folon's Folons (1990); Yestermorrow (1991); Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (1998); Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 (2001); Conversations with Ray Bradbury (2004); Bradbury Speaks (2005); Match to Flame (2007); Listen to the Echoes (2010); When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed (1973); Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977); This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (1979); The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981); The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury (1982); Kaleidoscope (1940); The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963); Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow (1975); Nemo! (2012); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview (2011); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Ray Bradbury (2014); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Lou Reed (2015); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Philip K. Dick (2015); J. D. Salinger (2016); Oliver Sacks (2016); Jane Jacobs (2016); David Bowie (2016); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Ursula K. Le Guin (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (2009); Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories (1949); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); The Ghoul Keepers (1961); The Bedside Playboy (1963); Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers (1965); The Microcosmic God (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me (1967); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967); Time Untamed (1967); 21 Great Stories (1969); Nova 1 (1970); Young Demons (1972); The Devil's Generation (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Gooseflesh (1974); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Beyond Midnight (1976); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1976); Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1976); The Late Great Future (1976); The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1977); Weird Legacies (1977); Rod Serling's Other Worlds (1978); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Scaremongers (1981); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); 13 Horrors of Halloween (1983); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); Cutting Edge (1986); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Tales of the Occult (1989); Great Baseball Stories (1990); The Horror Hall of Fame (1991); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); The Ultimate Witch (1993); Sea-Cursed (1994); Space Movies (1995); Night Screams (1996); Mystery Stories (1996); Dark Terrors 3 (1997); Time Machines (1997); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998); Eleventh Annual Collection (1998); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); October Dreams (2000); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The Railways (2003); Dark Delicacies (2005); A Tangled Web (2005); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Masques V (2006); Selected Shorts (2008); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012); A Carnivàle of Horror (2012); Psychos (2012); Other Worlds (2013); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); Fantastic Stories Presents (2014); Field of Fantasies (2014); Darker Terrors 7 (2016); Grave Predictions (2016); Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017); Lost Mars (2018); The Science Fiction Collection #1 (2018); Flight or Fright (2018); 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories (2019); The Science Fiction Collection (2019); One Hundred (2020); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable (1996); 451 (2012); 451° Fahrenheita / Audioplay (2018); A Century of Science Fiction (1996); A Conversation with Ray Bradbury (2008); A Piece of Wood (2005); A Sound of Thunder (2005); A Very Careful Man (2010); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1986); Aliens, Dragons, Monsters and Me (1983); All Summer in a Day (1982 / 2014); All Things Shining (2012); Amargosa (2000); Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1991); American Masters (2008); American Playhouse (1982); An Unfathomable Friendship (2003); Animation Lookback (2014); Apostrophes (1978); Ararman Uterord Ory (1980); Arena (1994); Armchair Theatre (1963); Before the Night Is Gone (2012); Behind the Attraction (2021); Besuch bei Ray Bradbury (2001); Budet laskovyy dozhd (1984); Camera Three (1978); CBS Library (1982); CBS Television Workshop (1952); Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010); Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future (2018); Chrysalis (2008); Cineficción Radio (2020–2021); Clarinda y el tiempo en una botella (1985); Cock & Bull Story (2002); Comic-Con '08 Live (2008); Comic-Con '09 Live (2009); Comic-Con 2006 Live (2006); Comic-Con 2007 Live (2007); Comic-Con 2010 Live (2010); Comic-Con Begins / Podcast Series (2021); Con palos y piedras (2000); Corwin (1996); Cosmic Thoughts (2003); Curiosity Shop (1971); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Day at Night (1974); Death and the Maiden (2016); Dennis Miller (2004); Dimension X (1950–1951); Dominus (1990); Druckfrisch (2008); Dust (2019); El Marciano (1965); El que espera (2004); El umbral (2003); Elektronnaya babushka (1985); Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010); Eternos (2019); Ex Libris (1990); Fahrenheit 451 (1966 / 2018); Fahrenheit 451, the Novel: A Discussion with Author Ray Bradbury (2003); Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007); Father Electrico: Ray Bradbury Lives Forever! (2017); Fireside Theatre (1954); Flesh of the Universe (2017); Future Fantastic (1996); Good Morning America (1979); Great Books (1996–2001); Habia una vez (1985); Hardball with Chris Matthews (2004); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius / Universal Horror (1998); Here There Be Tygers (1989); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood Legenden (2004); Hooray for Horrorwood (1991); How Shakespeare Changed My Life (2016); How to Live Forever (2009); Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited (1998); Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009); Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962); Ich auf Bestellung (1968); I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005); In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross (1998); It Came from Outer Space (1953); It Came from Outer Space II (1996); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Jack in the Box (2013); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Journey to the Unknown (1968); King of Kings (1961); Komnata (1987); La botella (2023); Last Sunset (2012); Late Night Story (1978); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995); Le grand échiquier (1983); Lights Out (1951); Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989); Live Forever: The Ray Bradbury Odyssey (2013); Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000); Los Siete Locos (1997); Malls R Us (2009); Man in Space / The Optimistic Futurist (2004); Mañana puede ser verdad (1962 / 1964); Marionettes, Inc. (1965); Martanská kronika (1964); Melodrama infernal (1969); Mirrors (1978); Moby Dick (1956); Night Caller (1973); Omnibus (1980); On Camera (1955); On the Fourth (2020); Out of the Unknown (1965); Out There (1951); Písen pro Rudolfa III. (2019); Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration (1979); Playhouse 90 (1957); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling (2009); Quest (1984); Racconti di fantascienza (1979); Ray Bradbury's Kaleidoscope (2012); Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles Adventure Game (1995); Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011); Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection (2005); Rendezvous (1959); Retro Static Radio (2020); Rich and Famous (1981); Savannen (1983); Science Fiction Film Awards (1978); Sci-Fi Buzz (1995); Sneak Preview (1956); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1972 / 1983 / 2014); Spaceship Earth (1982); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Stan Freberg Federal Budget Review (1982); Star Tonight (1955); Star Trek Phase II (2007); Steve Canyon (1958); Stories to Stay Awake (2021); Story of... (1962); Studio 57 (1956); Suspense (1952); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); Tattooed Steiger (1969); TCM Guest Programmer (2008); Telescope (1969); That Regis Philbin Show (1964); The 10th Annual National CableACE Awards (1989); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The American Comic Strip (1978); The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953); The Best of Hollywood (2018); The Bob Braun Show (1982); The Cure (2011); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Disappointment of Jonathan Bender (2012); The Dream Pioneers: Visionaries of Science Fiction (2000); The Electric Grandmother (1982); The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect (2000); The Fox, the Forest (2015); The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl (2010); The Ghost of Graham Springs (2012); The Halloween Tree (1993); The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998); The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (2021); The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians Through Film (2007); The Illustrated Man (1969); The Jar (2011 / 2020); The Last Night (2016); The last night of the world (2022); The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992); The Making of 'Fahrenheit 451' (2003); The Man in the Air (1993); The Martian Chronicles (1980); The Martian Chronicles / Podcast Series (2014); The Murderer (1976); The Music of 'Fahrenheit 451' (2003); The Oscars (2013); The Pedestrian (2001 / 2008); The Picasso Summer (1969); The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 (2023); The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992); The Rocket (1952); The Sci-Fi Boys (2006); The Screaming Woman (1972); The Screen Savers (2003); The Small Assassin (2011); The Smile (1996); The Stan Freberg Commercials / Segment: Brave New Prune (1999); The Third Expedition (2012); The Tiger and the Snow (2005); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); The Tramp and the Dictator (2002); The Twilight Zone (1962–1986); The Unexplained (1956); The Veldt (1979); The Whimsical World of Oz (1985); The Whole Town's Sleeping (2014); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998); The Wonderful World of Disney (2001); The Young Set (1965); Through the Forest (2016); Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy (1985); Tin Can (2010); Today (1985–1989); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Trailer Trash (2008); Troubleshooters (1959); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Universal Horror (1998); Vampirismus (1980–1982); Veld (1987); Voyager: To the Final Frontier (2012); Walking on Air (1987); When the World Breaks (2010); Who Is Norman Lloyd? (2007); Windows (1955); Wogan (1990); X Minus One / Podcast Series (1955); You Bet Your Life (1956).

Born on this day – Shelley Winters:

Shelley Winters

Actress

August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006

Born on this day – Maureen O'Hara:

Maureen O'Hara

Actress

Singer

August 17, 1920 – October 24, 2015

Born on this day – Charles Bukowski:

Charles Bukowski

Writer

August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994

Credits:

Books:

A Bukowski Sampler (1988); Absence of the Hero (2010); All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966); At Terror Street And Agony Way (1968); Barfly (1983); Beerspit Night and Cursing (2001); Betting on the Muse (1996); Bone Palace Ballet (1997); Bring Me Your Love (1983); Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974); Cold Dogs In The Courtyard (1965); Come On In! (2006); Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965); Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981); Factotum (1975); Fire Station (1970); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Ham on Rye (1982); Hollywood (1989); Hot Water Music (1983); In the Shadow of the Rose (1991); Living On Luck (1995); Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977); Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972); Mondo Barbie (1993); Mondo Elvis (1994); Mondo James Dean (1996); Mondo Marilyn (1995); Mondo Marilyn (1995); More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011); New Poems Book Four (2003); New Poems Book One (2003); New Poems Book Three (2003); New Poems Book Two (2003); Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969); On Cats (2015); On Drinking (2019); On Love (2016); On Writing (2015); Open All Night (2000); Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979); Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window (1974); Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008); Post Office (1971); Pulp (1994); Reach for the Sun (1999); Run With the Hunted (1962); Screams from the Balcony (1993); Selected Letters Volume 1: 1958-1965 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994 (2005); Septuagenarian Stew (1990); Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 1 (2002); Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 2 (2002); Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005); South of No North (1973); Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983); The Bell Tolls for No One (2015); The Bukowski / Purdy Letters (1984); The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998); The Continual Condition (2009); The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969); The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2003); The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992); The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing (2018); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (2013); The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001); The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007); The Pleasures of the Damned (2007); The Portable Sixties Reader (2003); The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988); There's No Business (1984); War All the Time (1984); What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999); Women (1978); Writing Los Angeles (2002); You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (1986).

Movies and television:

900 Pounds (1987); A .45 to Pay The Rent (2010); A Man (2005); Alone with Everybody (2016); Amor por menos (1994); An Evil Town (1995); Apostrophes (1978); Apporte-moi ton amour (2002); Artbound (2014); Barfly (1987); Bluebird (2022); Breakfast with Bukowski (2011); Bring Me Your Love (2000); Broken-Mirror Music (2001); Bukowski (1973 / 2023); Bukowski at Bellevue (1995); Bukowski: Born into This (2003); BXLx24 (2011); Charles Bukowski's Nirvana (2013); Cinéma cinémas (1982); Code Name: Arabesque / The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985); Crazy Love (1987); Death Is Smoking My Cigars (2021); Dr Nazi (2011); Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1982); Eddie and Eve (2021); Encore une nuit de merde dans cette ville pourrie (2008); Factotum (2005); Fan des années 80 (2012); Figure (2017); Frozen Food Section (2005); Fuck the Forest (2013); Functioning on Zero: Robert Dean Live from the Lost Well (2020); Girl on the Escalator (2016); Gunnar Goes Comfortable (2003); Guts (1991); Hit Man (2014); Horseshoe (1998); Il falso bugiardo (2008); Ioana Dobroiu: The Night Kept Coming on and There Was Nothing I Could Do About It (2018); Jukebox: From Edison to Ipod (2007); Kasabanin En Güzel Kizi (2018); La pétaudière de Gontran H (2024); Lonely at the Top (1993); Loren Cass (2006); Love for $17.50 (1998); Love Is a Dog from Hell (2014); Love Lasts Three Years (2011); Love Pig (1990); Lune froide (1988 / 1991); Ma langue dans ta poche (2016); Mask (2011); Mermaid of Venice (2011); Metamorphosis (2022); My Old Man (2004); Nedgång och Fall (2009); Nice Guy Blues (2007); No Leaders Please (2021); Nothing Else to Do (2016); Opowiesc o ordynarnym szalenstwie (1987); Paradise Now, Apocalypse Later / The Laughing Heart (2017); Personenbeschreibung (1982); Pink & Tender (2007); Piss (2018); Poetry in Motion (1982 / 2020); Resiliencia (2020); Run to the Sea (2014); Sieh an, sieh an (1985); Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs (2015); Småfysen (2022); Somebody to Love (1994); Son of Satan (2003); Supervan (1977); Sve Zene Se Zovu Kiki (1991); Syn Szatana (2008); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981); The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990); The Big Pot Game (2013); The Blanket (1994); The Bottle (2019); The Crossing Guard (1995); The Devil Was Hot (2010); The Icecream People (2022); The Killers (1984); The Last Straw (2008); The Laughing Heart (2012); The Living Room Festival (1995–1999); The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (2000); The Midnight Show (2012); The Pleasures of the Damned (2024); The Strangest Thing Just Happened (2015); The Suicide (2006); The Works III (1994); There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here (2008); Vessel (2015); Warm Face/Cold Place (2015); Welcome to the Basement (2015); You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (2016).

Born on this day – Neville Brand:

Neville Brand

Actor

August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992

Credits:

5ive Minutes with Marilyn (2007); Adventures of Nick Carter (1972); Alcatraz Express (1960); Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972); All the King's Men (1958); Angels' Brigade (1979); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Arrest and Trial (1964); Backtrack! (1969); Badman's Country (1958); Barbary Coast (1975); Baretta (1977); Battleground (1949); Ben Casey (1963); Benjy (1951); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Bobby Ware Is Missing (1955); Bonanza (1960–1971); Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973); Cain's Hundred (1962); Captains and the Kings (1976); Captains Courageous (1977); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Climax! (1956–1957); Combat! (1964); Compression (2023); Cry Terror! (1958); D.O.A. (1949); Daniel Boone (1967); Death Stalk (1975); Death Valley Days (1962); Destry (1964); Eaten Alive (1976); Evils of the Night (1985); Fantasy Island (1980); Fire (1977); Five Days from Home (1978); Five Gates to Hell (1959); Flame of Araby (1951); Footlights Theater (1952); Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956); General Electric Theater (1953–1958); Gun Brothers (1956); Gun Fury (1953); Gunsmoke (1965); Halls of Montezuma (1951); Harper Valley P.T.A. (1982); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hero's Island (1962); Hi-Riders (1978); Hitched (1971); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955–1957); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Kansas City Confidential (1952); Killdozer (1974); Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950); Kojak (1975); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1958); Laredo (1965–1967); Lock, Stock and Barrel (1971); Longstreet (1972); Love Me Tender (1956); Man Crazy (1953); Man from Atlantis (1977); March of Dimes Presents: Once Upon a Dime (1963); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972); Marriage: Year One (1971); McCloud (1972–1975); Mobile One (1975); Mohawk (1956); My Foolish Heart (1949); My Name Is Buck: A Look Back at 'Eaten Alive' (2006); Naked City (1962); No Place to Run (1972); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Only the Valiant (1951); Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973); Philbin's People (1970); Playhouse 90 (1957); Police Story (1975); Police Woman (1975); Port of New York (1949); Prince Valiant (1954); Psychic Killer (1975); Pursuit (1958); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Raw Edge (1956); Rawhide (1960–1963); Red Mountain (1951); Return from the Sea (1954); Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954); Rogue for Hire (1960–1961); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Stage 7 (1955); Stalag 17 (1953); Straightaway (1961); Studio One (1955); Suspense (1964); Swiss Family Robinson (1976); Target (1958); Tarzan (1968); That Darn Cat! (1965); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The Bigelow Theatre (1950); The Charge at Feather River (1953); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Deadly Trackers (1973); The Desperados (1969); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Gator Creator with Tobe Hooper (2007); The George Raft Story (1961); The Joey Bishop Show (1962); The Last Sunset (1961); The Lieutenant (1963); The Lone Gun (1954); The Lonely Man (1957); The Mad Bomber (1973); The Magical World of Disney (1980); The Magician (1973); The Man Behind the Star (1973); The Man from the Alamo (1953); The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008); The Mob (1951); The Mouse and His Child (1977); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Prodigal (1955); The Quest (1976); The Return (1980); The Return of Jack Slade (1955); The Scarface Mob (1959); The Seekers (1979); The Smith Family (1971); The Texan (1958); The Three Outlaws (1956); The Tin Star (1957); The Turning Point (1952); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Unexpected (1952); The Untouchables (1959–1960); The Untouchables (1959–1961); The Virginian (1965–1970); The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (1985); The Way to the Gold (1957); This Is a Hijack (1973); Three Guns for Texas (1968); Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970); TV's Western Heroes (1993); Two for the Money (1972); Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010); Wagon Train (1964); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979); Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950); Without Warning (1980); Your Favorite Story (1953); Zane Grey Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Olympe Bradna:

Olympe Bradna

Actress

Dancer

August 12, 1920 – November 5, 2012

Credits:

Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); International Squadron (1941); Highway West (1941); Knockout (1941); South of Pago Pago (1940); The Night of Nights (1939); Say It in French (1938); Stolen Heaven (1938); Souls at Sea (1937); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); College Holiday (1936); Three Cheers for Love (1936); Flofloche (1934); Roger la Honte (1933).

On this day in movie history - Earthbound (1920):

Earthbound

directed by T. Hayes Hunter,

written by Edfrid A. Bingham,

based on the story by Basil King,

was released in the United States on August 11, 1920.

Cast:

Wyndham Standing, Naomi Childers, Billie Cotton, Mahlon Hamilton, Flora Revalles, Alec B. Francis, Lawson Butt, Kate Lester, Aileen Pringle.

Born on this day – Ella Raines:

Ella Raines

Actress

August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988

Credits:

A Dangerous Profession (1949); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Brute Force (1947); Corvette K-225 (1943); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Enter Arsene Lupin (1944); Fighting Coast Guard (1951); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Here's Lucy: On Location (2009); Impact (1949); Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954–1955); Lights Out (1950); Matt Houston (1984); Phantom Lady (1944); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rheingold Theatre (1956); Ride the Man Down (1952); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Singing Guns (1950); Stump the Stars (1950); Tall in the Saddle (1944); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Christophers (1955); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Laraine Day Show (1951); The Man in the Road (1956); The Runaround (1946); The Second Face (1950); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945); The Suspect (1944); The Walking Hills (1949); The Web (1947); Time Out of Mind (1947); White Tie and Tails (1946); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); Your Show of Shows (1952).

Born on this day – Dina Sassoli:

Dina Sassoli

Actress

August 5, 1920 – March 24, 2008

Credits:

A brilliant farce will follow... (1973); Alessandro, you are great! (1940); An enemy of the people (1973); Ash Wednesday (1973); Canto, ma sottovoce... / I Sing, But Softly… (1946); Capitan Tempesta (1942); Closed Circuit (1978); Colpi di timone (1942); Condannata senza colpa / Condemned without guilt (1953); Due lettere anonime (1945); Follie del secolo / Follies of the century (1939); Fratello ladro / Brother Thief (1972); Hedda Gabler (1980); History (1986); I figli non si vendono / Children are not sold (1952); I vecchi e i giovani / The old and the young (1978–1979); Il commissario De Vincenzi / Commissioner De Vincenzi (1974); Il leone di Damasco (1942); Kean (1940); Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957); La famiglia Benvenuti / The Benvenuti family (1970); La mascotte dei diavoli blu / The Blue Devils Mascot (1947); La morte civile (1942); La prigioniera di Amalfi / The prisoner of Amalfi (1954); L'Agnese va a morire / Agnes goes to die (1976); Le père Lebonnard (1939); L'envers du paradis (1953); Les Misérables (1964); Life of Donizetti (1947); Lost Happiness (1946); Loves of Don Juan (1942); L'ultima sentenza / The latest sentence (1951); Melissa / Lemon balm (1966); Misery and Nobility / Poverty and nobility (1940); Nessuno torna indietro (1945); Nucleo centrale investigativo / Central Investigative Unit (1974); Oggetti smarriti / Lost and found (1980); Perdizione (1942); Pian delle stelle (1946); Position Wanted (1951); Rosina Fumo viene in città... per farsi il corredo / Rosina Fumo comes to town... to make the trousseau (1972); Scaramouche (1965); Signorinella / Young lady (1949); Sorelle Materassi (1972); Swallows in Flight (1949); The enchanted rock (1949); The Mill on the Po (1949); The Murri case (1982); The Rat (1968); The Spirit and the Flesh (1941); Tormento di anime / Torment of souls (1953); Umanità (1946); Un giorno nella vita (1946); Valentine (1983); Voltati Eugenio (1980).

Born on this day – P. D. James:

P. D. James

Writer

August 3, 1920 – November 27, 2014

Credits:

Books:

A Certain Justice (1997); A Mind to Murder (1963); A New Omnibus of Crime (2009); A Taste for Death (1986); An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972); Bad Behavior (1995); Cover Her Face (1962); Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime (2013); Criminal Elements (1988); Death Comes to Pemberley (2011); Death in Holy Orders (2001); Death of an Expert Witness (1977); Devices and Desires (1989); Felonious Assaults (1989); Future Crimes (2021); Girl Who Loved Graveyards (1996); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Innocent Blood (1980); More Murder Most Cozy (1993); More Murders for the Fireside (1994); Murder in Triplicate (1980); Murders for the Fireside (1992); Nursing Stories (1979); Original Sin (1994); Shroud for a Nightingale (1971); Sightlines (2001); Sleep No More (2017); Sleuths of the Century (2000); Suspicious Characters (1987); Tales of Obsession (1994); Talking about Detective Fiction (2009); Taste for Death / Devices and Desires / Original Sin (2008); The Black Tower (1975); The Children of Men (1992); The Detection Collection (2005); The Lighthouse (2005); The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (1985); The Man Who... (1992); The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971); The Mistletoe Murder (2016); The Murder Room (2003); he New Mystery (1993); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Part-Time Job (2020); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Picador Book of Crime Writing (1993); The Private Patient (2008); The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982); The Verdict of Us All (2006); The Victim (2019); The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1997); The Web She Weaves (1983); Time to Be in Earnest (1999); Unnatural Causes (1967).

Movies and television:

60 Minutes / Segment: Murder She Writes (1992); A Better Read (1980); A Certain Justice (1998); A Mind to Murder (1995); A Ripe Old Age (2002); A Taste for Death (1988); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982–1999); Ànima (2009); Apostrophes (1989–1990); Bestseller (2001); Book Four (1982); Bookmark (1988–1992); Breakfast (2005); Call My Bluff (1998); CBS News Nightwatch (1990); Children of Men (2006); Close-Up (1995); Cover Her Face (1985); Crime Writers (1978); Dalgliesh (2021–2023); Daphne Du Maurier - A Loving Spirit (1997); Death Comes to Pemberley (2013); Death in Holy Orders (2003); Death of an Expert Witness (1983); Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 (1985); Devices and Desires (1991); Did You See..? (1980–1987); Dinner with Portillo (2005); Elementary My Dear Viewer (2007); Forty Years at the I.C.A. (1987); Good Afternoon! (1983); ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards (2008); Late Night with David Letterman (1990); Late Review (2003–2007); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2014); Los Siete Locos (1987); Mark Lawson Talks to... (2006); My Life in Books (2011); Omnibus (1994); Original Sin (1997); P.D. James by Michael Taylor (2002); Pebble Mill at One (1983); Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen (1995); Pride & Prejudice: From Page to Screen (1995); Prisoners of Conscience (1991); Prisoners of Gravity (1993–1994); Profiling (2008); Question Time (1994–2004); Rankin on the Staircase (2005); Read All About It (1979); Reader, I Married Him (2006); Ruby (1998); Samtaler i natten (1995); Shroud for a Nightingale (1984); Speaking Volumes (1990–1991); Stevensons Travels Part 1 (1994); Sunday AM (2006); Sunday Best (2001–2007); Talking Books (2010); The Big Questions (2009); The Black Tower (1985); The Book Programme (1975 / 1976); The Book Show (2008–2011); The Fens (1991); The Heaven and Earth Show (2005); The Media Show (1990); The Murder Room (2005); The South Bank Show (2004–2010); The Violent Highway (2009); The Write Stuff (1988); This Week (2005); Timeshift (2014); Travels with Pevsner (1998); Unnatural Causes (1993); Upon Reflection (1990); Wogan (1987); Writers and Places (1983); Writing with PD James (1998).

Born on this day – Lea Padovani:

Lea Padovani

Actress

July 28, 1920 – June 23, 1991

Born on this day – Andrew V. McLaglen:

Andrew V. McLaglen

Director

July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014

Born on this day – Beatrice Pearson:

Beatrice Pearson

Actress

July 27, 1920 – February 1986

Credits:

Movies, television and stage:

ITV Play of the Week (1957); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); The Day After Tomorrow (1950); Lost Boundaries (1949); Force of Evil (1948); The Day After Tomorrow (1950); The Mermaids Singing (1945–1946); Over 21 (1944); The Voice of the Turtle (1943–1948); Get Away Old Man (1943); Liliom (1940).

Awarded the Theatre World Award, for Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance, in the play: The Mermaids Singing (1946).

Born on this day – John Paxton:

John Paxton

Actor

Producer

July 14, 1920 – November 17, 2011

Credits:

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013); Drag Me to Hell (2009); Spider-Man 3 (2007); Medium (2005); Spider-Man 2 (2004); Boomtown (2003); Spider-Man (2002); Frailty (2001); A Simple Plan (1998); Denial (1998); Traveller (1997); Last Man Standing (1996); Barb Wire (1996); Frank & Jesse (1994); Psycho Cop Returns (1993); Brain Dead (1990); Taking Tiger Mountain (1983).

Born on this day – Yul Brynner:

Yul Brynner

Actor

Singer

Director

July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985

Born on this day – Louise Allbritton:

Louise Allbritton

Actress

July 3, 1920 – February 16, 1979

Credits:

Radio:

Men in White (1943); Phantom Lady (1944).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror (1996); Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Armchair Theatre (1959); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1952); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Coming Soon (1982); Concerning Miss Marlowe (1954–1955); Crazy House (1943); Danger in the Pacific (1942); Dracula in the Movies (1992); Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991); Felicia (1964); Fired Wife (1943); Follow the Boys (1944); Good Morning, Judge (1943); Her Primitive Man (1944); It Comes Up Love (1943); ITV Play of the Week (1958); I've Got a Secret (1952); Keeping Fit (1942); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Men in Her Diary (1945); Monsters & Maniacs (1988); Naked City (1961); NBC Presents (1949); Not a Ladies' Man (1942); Parachute Nurse (1942); Person to Person (1955); Pittsburgh (1942); Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner (1987); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); San Diego I Love You (1944); Sitting Pretty (1948); Son of Dracula (1943); Studio One (1950–1952); Tangier (1946); That Night with You (1945); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Egg and I (1947); The Invisible Man (1959); The Many Faces of Dracula (2000); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Silver Theatre (1949); The Stage Door (1950); The Way of the World (1955); The Web (1954); Theatre Night (1958); This Is the Life (1944); Walk a Crooked Mile (1948); Who Done It? (1942).