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Thursday, October 1, 2026

Born on this day – Walter Matthau:


Walter Matthau


Actor

Director

Producer

October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000

Credits:

101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments (2004); 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond (2018); 5th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1955); 60/90 (2008); 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (1990); A Beverly Hills Christmas with James Stewart (1987); A Face in the Crowd (1957); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (2009); A Menace Named Dennis (1993); A New Leaf (1971); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); A Tribute to Neil Simon (1978); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1992); Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992); Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1961); All-Star Party for Jack Lemmon (1980); American Masters (1989–1998); American Masters (2007); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1952–1954); Awake and Sing (1972); Backstory (2000); Barbra: The Concert (1994); Battleground (2005); Becoming Mike Nichols (2016); Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992); Bigger Than Life (1956); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Billy Wilder, artiste (ou: Ne réveillez pas le cinéaste qui dort) (1993); Biography (1998); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Buddy Buddy (1981); Cactus Flower (1969); California Suite (1978); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1953); Candy (1968); Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean (2017); Carol Channing and 101 Men (1968); Casey's Shadow (1978); Center Stage (1954); Change of Heart (1987); Chaplin (1992); Charade (1963); Charley Varrick (1973); Cinema (1967); Clapper Board (1980); Climax! (1957); Compression (2024); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Danger (1952–1954); De qué te ríes (2006); Dennis the Menace (1993); Dinah! (1975–1976); Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988); Dolemite Is My Name (2019); Dr. Kildare (1964); Earthquake (1974); Elvis at the Movies (2002); Elvis: His Life and Times (1993); Ensign Pulver (1964); Entertainment Tonight (1991–1997); Everything Is Copy (2015); Fact Hunt (2016); Fail Safe (1964); Fail Safe and the Cold War (2020); Famous Nathan (2014); Film '79 (1979); First Monday in October (1981); Funny Business (1978); Gangster Story (1959); General Bradley (1963); General Eisenhower (1963); General Electric Theater (1956–1962); General MacArthur (1963); George Burns' 90th Birthday Party: A Very Special Special (1986); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Goodyear Television Playhouse (1952–1957); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Great Performances (1987); Grumpier Old Men (1995); Grumpy Old Men (1993); Hanging Up (2000); Harry Belafonte - Zwischen Calypso und Gerechtigkeit (2022); Hello, Dolly! (1969); Here's Hal: Hal Riddle (2001); Hitchcock Confidential (2019); Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade of the Stars (1969); Hollywood Remembers Walter Matthau (2001); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014); Hopscotch (1980); House Calls (1978); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1992); I Love Liberty (1982); I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982); I.Q. (1994); I'm Not Rappaport (1996); Incident in a Small Town (1994); Inside Edition (2023); Insight (1977); Intimate Portrait (1998); Island of Love (1963); Jack Benny's Bag (1968); Jack Lemmon (1996); Jack Lemmon: A Twist of Lemmon (1976); Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman (1996); JFK (1991); Juno and the Paycock (1960); Justice (1955); King Creole (1958); King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969); Kotch (1971); Kraft Theatre (1952–1958); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1952–1955); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1957); Larry King Live (2000); Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick' (2015); Laurel & Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys (1992); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Les Fonda, une dynastie de cinéma (2023); Little Miss Marker (1980); Live from Lincoln Center (1982); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1952); Making Life Beautiful (1999); Midnight's Edge (2025); Mirage (1965); Mister Peepers (1952–1955); Movers & Shakers (1985); Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love (1991); Naked City (1960–1962); Omnibus (1953–1956); One Voice (1986); Onionhead (1958); Oops I Changed the World (2022); Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist (1974); Our American Heritage (1960); Out to Sea (1997); Parkinson (1976); Parkinson One to One (1987); Parkinson: The Interviews (1997); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask (2006); Pirates (1986); Play of the Week (1960); Plaza Suite (1971); Ponds Theater (1954); Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980); Presley (1987); Private Screenings (1998); Profiles in Courage (1964–1965); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1992); Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000); Ride a Crooked Trail (1958); obert Montgomery Presents (1954–1955); Route 66 (1961); Saturday Night Live (1978); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Shadow of the Cloak (1951); Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957); Spoofsters (2019); Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025); Strangers When We Meet (1960); Studio One (1950–1953); Suspense (1953); Talking Film (1978); Tallahassee 7000 (1961); Target: The Corruptors (1961–1962); TCM Remembers 2000 (2000); Television (1988); The 11th Annual American Comedy Awards (1997); The 13th Annual Tony Awards (1959); The 15th Annual Publicists Guild Awards (1978); The 16th Annual People's Choice Awards (1990); The 16th Annual Tony Awards (1962); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 1st Annual American Comedy Awards (1987); The 20th Annual People's Choice Awards (1994); The 21st Annual People's Choice Awards (1995); The 22nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1996); The 24th Annual Tony Awards (1970); The 29th Annual Tony Awards (1975); The 2nd Annual American Comedy Awards (1988); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 30th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1973); The 32nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1975); The 33rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1976); The 38th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1981); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 3rd Annual American Comedy Awards (1989); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1991 (1991); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The 52th Annual Golden Apple Awards (1992); The 54th Annual Academy Awards (1982); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990); The 6th Annual Genesis Awards (1992); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards (1983); The Alcoa Hour (1956–1957); The Annual 1995 ShoWest Awards (1995); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Milton Berle (1980); The Annual Tel Aviv Gala Presents a Salute to Goldie Hawn (1987); The Annual Variety Club's Big Heart Awards (1986); The ANTA Awards Honoring James Stewart (1981); The Bad News Bears (1976); The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1978); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Best of the Don Lane Show (1994); The Big Story (1950); The Couch Trip (1988); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002); The Dick Cavett Show (1981 / 1985); The Don Lane Show (1980); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962–1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Factor (2014); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The Fortune Cookie (1966); The Front Page (1974); The Gentleman Tramp (1975); The George Burns Special (1976); The Grass Harp (1995); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The History of Comedy (2018); The Hollywood Squares (Primetime/Nighttime) (1968); The Incident (1990); The Indian Fighter (1955); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1990 / 1998); The Kentuckian (1955); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Mogul (2005); The Laughing Policeman (1973); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Lion Roars Again (1975); The Little Devil (1988); The Making of 'Casey's Shadow' (1978); The Making of the Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993); The Marriage Fool (1998); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1975–1980); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); The Movie Awards (1991); The Odd Couple (1968); The Odd Couple II (1998); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2001); The Orson Bean Show (2026); The Project (2024); The Rogues (1964); The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968); The Secrets of Dick Smith (1991); The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team (1984); The Stingiest Man in Town (1978); The Sunshine Boys (1975); The Survivors (1983); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1986); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1996–1998); The Vin Scully Show (1973); The World of Walther Matthau (1976); Today (1967–1980); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Voice in the Mirror (1958); Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough (1997); We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala (1987); Who's Got the Action? (1962); Wogan (1989); Your All-American College Show (1968).

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Born on this day – William Conrad:


William Conrad


Actor

Producer

Director

September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994

Credits:

-30- (1959); 5 Against the House (1955); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Acapulco (1961); Any Number Can Play (1949); Arch of Triumph (1948); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Barnaby Jones (1973); Bat Masterson (1958); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980); Body and Soul (1947); Bold Venture (1959); Brainstorm (1965); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); Cannon (1971); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Chisum (1970); Countdown (1967); Cry Danger (1951); Cry of the Hunted (1953); D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill (1971); Dial 1119 (1950); East Side, West Side (1949); Escape (1950); F Troop (1965); First to Fight (1967); Four Faces West (1948); G.E. True (1962); Geronimo (1962); Gorath (1962); Gunsmoke (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962); Highway Patrol (1959); Hoppity Hooper (1965); Hotel (1986); How the West Was Won (1976); Hudson Hawk (1991); In Like Flynn (1985); It Takes a Thief (1970); Jake and the Fatman (1987); Joan of Arc (1948); Johnny Concho (1956); Keefer (1978); Keep America Beautiful: The Crying Indian (1971); Killing Cars (1986); King of Diamonds (1961); Klondike (1960); Lock Up (1960); Lone Star (1952); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Manimal (1983); Matlock (1986); Men Into Space (1960); Moonshine County Express (1977); Motor Scouts (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1984); My Blood Runs Cold (1965); Naked City (1961); Nero Wolfe (1981); Night Cries (1978); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); One Way Street (1950); Pillow to Post (1945); Police Squad! (1982); Ripcord (1961); Route 66 (1961); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); Saints and Sinners (1962); Shocktrauma (1982); Side Show (1981); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); Storefront Lawyers (1970); Tales of the Unexpected (1977); Target (1958); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Temple Houston (1963); Tension (1949); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Aquanauts (1961); The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (1959); The Bob Mathias Story (1954); The Brady Kids (1972); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Bullwinkle Show (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960); The City (1977); The Conqueror (1956); The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service (1982); The Desert Song (1953); The Dudley Do-Right Show (1959); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Fall Guy (1984); The Force of Evil (1977); The Fugitive (1963); The High Chaparral (1970); The Highwayman (1987); The Killers (1946); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man from Galveston (1963); The Mikado (1982); The Milkman (1950); The Naked Jungle (1954); The Name of the Game (1969); The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger (1980); The Racket (1951); The Rebels (1979); The Return of Frank Cannon (1980); The Return of the King (1980); The Ride Back (1957); The Rifleman (1959); The Rough Riders (1958); The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951); This Man Dawson (1959); To the Victor (1948); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trauma Center (1983); Turnover Smith (1980); Two on a Guillotine (1965); Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986); Zero Hour! (1957).

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Born on this day – Mickey Rooney:


Mickey Rooney


Actor

September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014

Credits:

24 Hours to Kill (1965); 80 Steps to Jonah (1969); A Christmas Too Many (2006); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008); A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958); A Slight Case of Larceny (1953); A Yank at Eton (1942); A Year at the Top (1976); Ace of Hearts (1975); Ah Wilderness! (1935); All Ashore (1953); Ambush Bay (1966); American Dad! (2015); Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958); Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939); Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940); Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944); Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics - And Other Things (1940); Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998); Arabian Adventure (1979); Babe: Pig in the City (1998); Babes on Broadway (1941); Baby Face Nelson (1957); Bamboo Shark (2011); Beloved (1934); Bill (1981); Blind Date (1934); Bluegrass (1988); Bons baisers de Hong-Kong (1975); Boys Town (1938); Boys Will Be Boys (1998); Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); Broadway to Hollywood (1933); Brothers' Destiny (1995); Captains Courageous (1937); Chained (1934); Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999); Conan: The Adventurer (1997); Creole (1981); Death on the Diamond (1934); Donovan's Kid (1979); Down the Stretch (1936); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2017); Drive a Crooked Road (1954); Driving Me Crazy: Proof of Concept (2012); Empire State Building Murders (2008); ER (1998); Erik the Viking (1989); Everything's Ducky (1961); Evil Roy Slade (1972); Fast Companions (1932); Find the Lady (1976); Fol-de-Rol (1972); Francis in the Haunted House (1956); Full House (1994); Girl Crazy (1943); Half a Sinner (1934); He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950); Hide-Out (1934); High Speed (1932); Hold That Kiss (1938); Holy Hollywood (2004); Home for Christmas (1990); Hoosier Schoolboy (1937); Hot Feet (1931); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); I Like It That Way (1934); Illusion Infinity (1999); Internet Love (1998); It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984); It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963); Jack's Place (1992); Journey Back to Oz (1972); Judge Hardy and Son (1939); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); Killer McCoy (1947); Killing Midnight (1998); King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961); Kleo the Misfit Unicorn (1997); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1996); Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001); Leave 'em Laughing (1981); Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941); Lightning, the White Stallion (1986); Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989); Live, Love and Learn (1937); Lord Jeff (1938); Lost Stallions: The Journey Home (2008); Love Birds (1934); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Love Is a Headache (1938); Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946); Magnificent Roughnecks (1956); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Maximum Force (1992); Men of Boys Town (1941); Mickey (1964); Mickey in Love (1928); Mickey in School (1928); Mickey the Detective (1928); Mickey the Romeo (1930); Mickey's Ape Man (1933); Mickey's Athletes (1928); Mickey's Babies (1928); Mickey's Bargain (1930); Mickey's Battle (1927); Mickey's Big Broadcast (1933); Mickey's Big Business (1932); Mickey's Big Game Hunt (1928); Mickey's Big Moment (1929); Mickey's Brown Derby (1929); Mickey's Busy Day (1932); Mickey's Champs (1930); Mickey's Charity (1932); Mickey's Circus (1927); Mickey's Covered Wagon (1933); Mickey's Crusaders (1931); Mickey's Diplomacy (1931); Mickey's Disguises (1933); Mickey's Eleven (1927); Mickey's Explorers (1929); Mickey's Golden Rule (1932); Mickey's Great Idea (1929); Mickey's Helping Hand (1931); Mickey's Holiday (1932); Mickey's Initiation (1929); Mickey's Last Chance (1929); Mickey's Little Eva (1928); Mickey's Luck (1930); Mickey's Master Mind (1930); Mickey's Medicine Man (1934); Mickey's Menagerie (1929); Mickey's Merry Men (1930); Mickey's Midnite Follies (1929); Mickey's Minstrels (1934); Mickey's Mix-Up (1929); Mickey's Movies (1928); Mickey's Musketeers (1930); Mickey's Nine (1928); Mickey's Northwest Mounted (1929); Mickey's Pals (1927); Mickey's Parade (1928); Mickey's Race (1933); Mickey's Rebellion (1931); Mickey's Rescue (1934); Mickey's Rivals (1928); Mickey's Sideline (1931); Mickey's Stampede (1931); Mickey's Strategy (1929); Mickey's Surprise (1929); Mickey's Tent Show (1933); Mickey's Thrill Hunters (1931); Mickey's Touchdown (1933); Mickey's Travels (1932); Mickey's Triumph (1928); Mickey's Warriors (1930); Mickey's Whirlwinds (1930); Mickey's Wild West (1928); Mickey's Wildcats (1931); Mickey's Winners (1930); Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1998); Mooch (1974); Mr. Broadway (1957); My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991); My Kidnapper, My Love (1980); My Outlaw Brother (1951); My Pal, the King (1932); National Velvet (1944); Night at the Museum (2006); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014); Night Club (2011); Not to Be Trusted (1926); Now Here (2010); Odyssey of the Pacific (1982); Off Limits (1952); Officer Thirteen (1932); O'Malley (1983); One of the Boys (1982); Operation Mad Ball (1957); Orchids and Ermine (1927); Out West with the Hardys (1938); Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart (1995); Personalities (1942); Pete's Dragon (1977); Phantom of the Megaplex (2000); Pinocchio (1957); Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935); Platinum High School (1960); Pulp (1972); Quicksand (1950); Rachel's Man (1975); Radio Rhythm (1931); Ready and Willing (1967); Reckless (1935); Remember WENN (1998); Rendezvous (1935); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962); Revenge of the Red Baron (1994); Richard (1972); Riffraff (1935); Rodeo Dough (1940); Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979); Saddle Up with Dick Wrangler & Injun Joe (2009); Safe Harbor (1999); Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970); Senior Trip (1981); Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991); Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998); Sin's Pay Day (1932); Skidoo (1968); Slave Ship (1937); Sound Off (1952); Stablemates (1938); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Summer Holiday (1948); Sweet Justice (1991); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939); The Atomic Kid (1954); The Beast of the City (1932); The Big Cage (1933); The Big Chance (1933); The Big Operator (1959); The Big Wheel (1949); The Black Stallion (1979); The Bold and the Brave (1956); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Care Bears Movie (1985); The Chief (1933); The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970); The Comic (1969); The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942); The Devil in Love (1966); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Domino Principle / aka The Domino Killings (1977); The Extraordinary Seaman (1969); The Fireball (1950); The First of May (1999); The Fisherman (1931); The Fox and the Hound (1981); The Fugitive (1966); The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991); The Godmothers (1973); The Greatest Show Ever (2007); The Happy Elf (2005); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Hare Mail (1931); The Healer (1935); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunter (1931); The Intruder (1975); The Investigators (1961); The Jean Arthur Show (1966); The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005); The Last Mile (1959); The Legend of Wolf Mountain (1992); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Lost Jungle (1934); The Lucy Show (1966); The Magic of Lassie (1978); The Magic Voyage (1992); The Manipulator (1971); The Mickey Rooney Show (1954); The Milky Life (1993); The Muppets (2011); The New Adventures of the Black Stallion (1990); The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960); The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986); The Secret Invasion (1964); The Strip (1951); The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970); The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955); The Woods (2012); The World Changes (1933); The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974); The Yesterday Pool (2007); There Must Be a Pony (1986); Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937); Thousands Cheer (1943); Thunder County (1974); To Kill a Mockumentary (2004); Topa Topa Bluffs (2002); Upperworld (1934); Words and Music (1948); Wreck the Halls (2008); Young Tom Edison (1940); You're Only Young Once (1937).

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Friday, September 18, 2026

Born on this day – Jack Warden:


Jack Warden


Actor

September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); A Dog of Flanders (1999); A Private Battle (1980); A.D. (1985); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alice in Wonderland (1985); All the President's Men (1976); And Justice for All (1979); Being There (1979); Ben Casey (1962); Bewitched (1964); Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979); Billy Two Hats (1974); Blindfold (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bonanza (1959); Breaking Point (1964); Brian's Song (1971); Broadway Television Theatre (1952); Bullets Over Broadway (1994); Bulworth (1998); Bus Stop (1961); Bye Bye Braverman (1968); Campbell Playhouse (1953); Carbon Copy (1981); Center Stage (1954); Chairman of the Board (1997); Checkmate (1961); Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981); Climax! (1956–1957); Crackers (1984); Crazy Like a Fox (1984–1986); Danger (1951–1955); Darby's Rangers (1958); Dead Solid Perfect (1988); Death on the Nile (1978); Dig (1972); Dirty Work (1998); Donovan's Reef (1963); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dreamer (1979); Ed (1996); Edge of the City (1957); Escape from Zahrain (1962); Everybody Wins (1990); Five Fingers (1959); From Here to Eternity (1953); Gifts of Greatness (1985); Going My Way (1962); Goodyear Television Playhouse (1954–1955); Great Performances (1974); Guilty as Sin (1993); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984); Hobson's Choice (1983); Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War (1987); Ink (1997); Inner Sanctum (1954); Jigsaw John (1976); Journey from Darkness (1975); Judgment (1990); Justice (1955); Knight & Daye (1989); Kraft Mystery Theatre (1953–1954); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950–1955); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956–1957); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Television Theatre (1955); Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1953); Man Against Crime (1953–1954); Man on a String (1972); Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949–1954); Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Mister Peepers (1952–1954); N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969); Naked City (1962); Night and the City (1992); Norby (1955); Omnibus (1953–1955); Outlaws (1960); Passed Away (1992); Playhouse 90 (1958–1959); Police Story: The Watch Commander (1988); Problem Child (1990); Problem Child 2 (1991); Problem Child 3: Junior in Love (1995); Producers' Showcase (1955); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Remember When (1974); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Route 66 (1961–1963); Run Silent Run Deep (1958); September (1987); Shampoo (1975); Slattery's People (1964); So Fine (1981); Stagecoach West (1960); Still Crazy Like a Fox (1987); Studio One (1952–1955); Summertree (1971); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Suspense (1950); Suspicion (1957); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Target: The Corruptors (1962); That Kind of Woman (1959); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974); The Asphalt Jungle (1961); The Aviator (1985); The Bachelor Party (1957); The Bad News Bears (1979–1980); The Big Story (1953–1954); The Challenge (1955); The Champ (1979); The Cosmic Eye (1986); The Face of Fear (1971); The Frogmen (1951); The Fugitive (1967); The Godchild (1974); The Great Adventure (1964); The Great Muppet Caper (1981); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Invaders (1967); The Island on Bird Street (1997); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Lark (1957); The Magical World of Disney (1965); The Man Behind the Badge (1953); The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973); The Man with My Face (1951); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); The New Recruits (1955); The Norm Show (1999); The Presidio (1988); The Renegade (1960); The Replacements (2000); The Sound and the Fury (1959); The Sporting Club (1971); The Thin Red Line (1964); The Three Kings (1987); The Twilight Zone (1959–1960); The Untouchables (1959–1960); The Verdict (1982); The Virginian (1962–1965); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965–1966); The Web (1950–1954); The White Buffalo (1977); They Only Come Out at Night (1975); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Three Wishes for Jamie (1987); Topper (1979); Toys (1992); Used Cars (1980); Wagon Train (1962–1965); Wake Me When It's Over (1960); Welcome to the Club (1971); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960); What's a Nice Girl Like You...? (1971); Wheeler and Murdoch (1972); While You Were Sleeping (1995); Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971); You Are There (1954); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Born on this day – Richard Farnsworth:


Richard Farnsworth


Actor

Stuntman

September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000

Credits:

A Day at the Races (1937); A Few Days in Weasel Creek (1981); A Lawless Street (1955); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1958); Anne of Green Gables (1985); Another Man, Another Chance (1977); Arena (1953); Arrowhead (1953); Best Friends for Life (1998); Blazing Saddles (1974); Bonanza (1971–1972); CBS Summer Playhouse (1987); Chase (1985); Cimarron City (1958); Cimarron Strip (1967); Comes a Horseman (1978); Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989); Duel at Diablo (1966); Ghost Dancing (1983); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gunga Din (1939); Havana (1990); Highway to Heaven (1987); Highway to Hell (1991); Honky Tonk (1974); Independence Day (1983); Into the Night (1985); Laramie (1960–1961); Lassie (1994); Little House on the Prairie (1977); Maverick (1959–1960); Mighty Joe Young (1949); Misery (1990); Monte Walsh (1970); Nichols (1972); Paint Your Wagon (1969); Papillon (1973); Pocket Money (1972); Red Earth, White Earth (1989); Red River (1948); Resurrection (1980); Rhinestone (1984); Roots (1977); Ruckus (1980); Skin Game (1971); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Space Rage (1985); Spartacus (1960); State Trooper (1959); Strange New World (1975); Sylvester (1985); Territorial Men (1976); Texas Across the River (1966); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1954); The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); The Big Valley (1965–1967); The Boys of Twilight (1992); The Cowboys (1972); The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976); The Fire Next Time (1993); The Flame and the Arrow (1950); The Getaway (1994); The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969); The Grey Fox (1982); The Hard Man (1957); The High Chaparral (1967–1970); The Jolly Genie (1963); The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981); The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972); The Magical World of Disney (1972–1981); The Natural (1984); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); The Paleface (1948); The Rebel (1959); The River Pirates (1988); The Stalking Moon (1968); The Straight Story (1999); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Texas Rangers (1981); The Tin Star (1957); The Two Jakes (1990); The Violent Men (1955); The Wild One (1953); The Wild West (1993); This Is the Army (1943); Tom Horn (1980); Travis McGee (1983); Ulzana's Raid (1972); Waltz Across Texas (1982); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Wild Horses (1985); Zane Grey Theatre (1956).

Saturday, August 22, 2026

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

Recommended reading:


The Illustrated Man

By Ray Bradbury.

Published by Panther.
First published 1951.
1977 edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0586043594
ISBN-13: 978-0586043592

Description:

Anthology of 18 science fiction short stories.

Contents:

Prologue: The Illustrated Man; The Veldt; Kaleidoscope; The Other Foot; The Highway; The Man; The Long Rain; The Rocket Man; The Fire Balloons; The Last Night of the World; The Exiles; No Particular Night or Morning; The Fox and the Forest; The Visitor; The Concrete Mixer; Main article: Marionettes, Inc.; The City; Zero Hour; The Rocket; Epilogue.

Sample:

It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. I didn’t know he was Illustrated then. …
He took his shirt off. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people. There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest.
“You see,” said the Illustrated Man, “the Illustrations predict the future. It’s all right in sunlight. But at night the pictures move. The pictures change. Don’t you look at them, I warn you. Turn the other way when you sleep.”
The night was serene. I lay back a few feet from him. He didn’t seem violent, and the pictures were beautiful. I let my eyes fill up on them.
Sixteen illustrations, sixteen tales. I counted them one by one.
Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene, a large house with two people in it. I saw a flight of vultures on a blazing flesh sky, I saw yellow lions, and I heard voices.
The first Illustrations quivered and came to life. …

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).

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Born on this day – Charles Bukowski:


Charles Bukowski


Writer

August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994


Post Office

By Charles Bukowski.

Paperback.
Published in 1971.
ISBN-10: 0753518163
ISBN-13: 978-0753518168

Description:

It began as a mistake. By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and race-track betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel – the one that catapulted its author to national fame – is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (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).

Thursday, August 13, 2026

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).