Born on this day – George Roy Hill:

George Roy Hill

Director

December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002

Born on this day – Elsie Albiin:

Elsie Albiin

Actress

December 17, 1921 – April 3, 2009

Born on this day – Piero Piccioni:

Piero Piccioni

Composer

December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004

Born on this day – Deanna Durbin:

Deanna Durbin

Actress

Singer

December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013

Born on this day – Rodney Dangerfield:

Rodney Dangerfield

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Producer

November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004

Born on this day – Vivian Blaine:

Vivian Blaine

Actress

Singer

November 21, 1921 – December 9, 1995

Born on this day – Brian Keith:

Brian Keith

Actor

November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997

Born on this day – Gene Saks:

Gene Saks

Director

Actor

November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015

Born on this day – James Jones:

James Jones

Writer

November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977

Credits:

From Here to Eternity (1951); The Thin Red Line (1962); Whistle (1978); Some Came Running (1957); The Pistol (1960); Go to the Widow-Maker (1967); The Merry Month of May (1971); A Touch of Danger (1973); To the End of the War (2011); The Ice-Cream Headache & Other Stories (1983); Viet Journal (1974); WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering (1975); Ten Modern American Short Stories (1965); Great World War II Stories (1989).

Born on this day – Charles Bronson:

Charles Bronson

Actor

November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003

Credits:

10 to Midnight (1983); 100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 4 for Texas (1963); 6 Bullets to Hell (2016); A Thunder of Drums (1961); Act of Vengeance (1986); Adventures in Paradise (1961); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1978); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); All-Star Party for Joan Collins (1987); America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1989); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); An All-Star Tribute to John Wayne (1976); Apache (1954); Assassination (1987); Backstage in Hollywood (1975); Bad Men of the West (1974); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Battle Zone (1952); Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1952); Big House, U.S.A. (1955); Biography (2002); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Bonanza (1964); Borderline (1980); Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II (1997); Breakheart Pass (1975); Breakout (1975); Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018); Bronson: St. Ives (1976); Cabo Blanco (1980); Caboblanco: Introduction and Tony Curtis' Parting Words (1998); Cain's Hundred (1961); Cannes Film Festival (1991); Captain Eo Grand Opening (1986); Catastrophe: No Safe Place (1980); Cavalcade of America (1955); CBS Mornings (1993); Charles Bronson, Hollywood's Lone Wolf (2020); Chato's Land (1972); Chevron Theatre (1953); Chino (1973); Ciao! John Crowther (2023); Cinema mil (2005); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Cinescope aujourd hui... (1975); Classified X (2007); Cold Sweat (1970); Colt .45 (1957); Combat! (1965); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Crime Wave (1953); Crusader (1955–1956); Death Hunt (1981); Death Wish (1974); Death Wish 3 (1986); Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987); Death Wish II (1982); Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Donato and Daughter (1993); Donny B: The Original King of Daytime (2010); Downtown Crackdown: Mask of Death (2011); Dr. Kildare (1963); Drum Beat (1954); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014); Empire (1962–1963); Ennio (2021); Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012); Evocator (2009); Family of Cops (1995); Family of Cops II: Breach of Faith (1997); Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999); Farewell, Friend (1968); Film '76 (1976); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Fireside Theatre (1949); Four Star Playhouse (1953); From Noon Till Three (1976); Gang War (1958); General Electric Theater (1955–1961); Good Morning America (1979); Guns for San Sebastian (1968); Guns of Diablo (1964); Gunsmoke (1956–1958); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Times (1975); Have Camera Will Travel (1956); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963); Hennesey (1960–1961); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hey, Jeannie! (1957); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); House of Wax (1953); How the West Was Lost (2008); I Am Steve McQueen (2014); Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills (2007); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1995); Jubal (1956); Kain's Quest (2015–2017); Kid Galahad (1962); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989); La classe américaine (1993); La Marató 2005 (2005); La nuit des Césars (1984); Laramie (1960–1961); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Live & Kicking (1996); London Affair (1970); Love and Bullets (1979); Luke and the Tenderfoot (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1955); M Squad (1958); Machine-Gun Kelly (1958); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Man with a Camera (1958–1960); Master of the World (1961); Medic (1954–1956); Messenger of Death (1988); Miss Sadie Thompson (1953); Mr. Majestyk (1974); Murphy's Law (1986); My Six Convicts (1952); Never So Few (1959); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Ninja the Mission Force (2012); Off Limits (1952); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); One Step Beyond (1961); Operation Dirty Dozen (1967); Pancho Villa: Myth or Man? (1968); Pat and Mike (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Public Defender (1955); Quickies, les questions brèves d'e-penser (2015); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Rawhide (1965); Real Heroes (1981); Red Skies of Montana (1952); Red Sun (1971); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Rider on the Rain (1970); Riding Shotgun (1954); Riverboat (1960); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Run of the Arrow (1957); San Sebastian 1746 in 1968 (1968); Sauna (2008); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Shooting Violent City (2001); Showdown at Boot Hill (1958); Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990); Someone Behind the Door (1971); Spanish Western (2014); St. Ives (1976); Stage 7 (1955); Strange Stories (1956); Studio 57 (1957); Studio One (1957); Sugarfoot (1958); Suspicion (1957); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Target Zero (1955); Telecinema (1976); Telefon (1977); Telephone Time (1956); Tennessee Champ (1954); Terror Island Overkill: Blutgericht in Todeszone 13 (2013); The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1978); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The American Ireland Fund Annual Tribute a Salute to Gene Kelly (1990); The Aquanauts (1960); The Big Sur (1965); The Big Valley (1965); The Bob Newhart Show (1962); The Bull of the West (1972); The City of Gods (1968); The Clown (1953); The Court of Last Resort (1958); The Cowboy (2016); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Dirty Dozen (1967); The Doctor (1952–1953); The Evil That Men Do (1984); The F.B.I. (1966); The Fugitive (1967); The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014); The Great Escape (1963); The Indian Runner (1991); The Islanders (1960); The Joe Palooka Story (1954); The Legend of Jesse James (1966); The Loretta Young Show (1961); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Making of Cabo Blanco (1980); The Making of 'Death Wish 3' (1985); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Mechanic (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Millionaire (1957); The Mob (1951); The New Breed (1961); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The People Against O'Hara (1951); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Red Skelton Hour (1952); The Roy Rogers Show (1952); The Sandpiper (1965); The Sea Wolf (1993); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Stone Killer (1973); The Suppressor (2011); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Untouchables (1962); The Valachi Papers (1972); The Virginian (1965–1967); The Walter Winchell File (1958); The White Buffalo (1977); The Wild West (1979); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Those Whiting Girls (1957); Today (1985); Torpedo Alley (1952); Treasury Men in Action (1954–1955); U.S. Marshal (1959); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Valachi: The Violent Era (1972); Vera Cruz (1954); Villa Rides (1968); Violent City (1970); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Waterfront (1954–1956); When Hell Broke Loose (1958); Wire Service (1956); X-15 (1961); Yancy Derringer (1959); Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991); You Can't Win 'Em All (1970); You Don't Say (1964); Your First Impression (1962); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Born on this day – Yves Montand:

Yves Montand

Actor

Singer

October 13, 1921 – November 9, 1991

Born on this day – Linda Stirling:

Linda Stirling

Actress

Showgirl

Model

October 11, 1921 – July 20, 1997

Born on this day – Micheline Bourday:

Micheline Bourday

Actress

October 6, 1921 – November 26, 1988

Born on this day – James Whitmore:

James Whitmore

Actor

October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009

Born on this day – Deborah Kerr:

Deborah Kerr

Actress

September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 20 heures le journal (2007); 20 to 1 (2007); A Woman of Substance (1985); A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002); All Eyes on Sharon Tate (1966); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2004); An Affair to Remember (1957); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Ann and Debbie (1986); Arena (1981); Backstory (2001); BBC2 Playhouse (1982); Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023); Beloved Infidel (1959); Best of British (1987); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2000); Birthday (1954); Black Narcissus (1947); Blackout (1940); Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Casino Royale (1967); CBS Early Morning News (1982); Cinema mil (2005); Cinépanorama (1957); Compression (2024); Costa del Sol malaguena (1972); Count Your Blessings (1959); Courageous Mr. Penn (1942); Deborah Kerr, not just an English Rose (1986); Dinah! (1975–1977); Dream Wife (1953); Edward, My Son (1949); Empire of the Censors (1995); Entertainment Tonight (1987); Everything Is Copy (2015); Eye of the Devil (1966); Film '85 (1985); Film Preview (1966); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); From Here to Eternity (1953); Getaway (2005); Good Morning America (1978); Greatest Movie Love Scenes (2006); Grosse Fische, kleine Fische (1973); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957); Hold the Dream (1987); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Greats (1985); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); I See a Dark Stranger (1946); If Winter Comes (1947); ITV Play of the Week (1963); Jimmy Fund, Deborah Kerr (1956); John Huston, une âme libre (2021); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Julius Caesar (1953); Jungle Safari (1950); King Solomon's Mines (1950); L.A. Confidential (1997); Le Louvre, le plus grand musée du monde (1985–1988); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Love on the Dole (1941); Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024); Major Barbara (1941); Marriage on the Rocks (1965); Monty and the Movies (2024); My Name Is Lopez (2021); Nearest to Heaven (2002); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); On the Trail of the Iguana (1964); Out of My Dreams: Oscar Hammerstein II (2012); Pam & Tommy (2022); Parkinson (1972); Person to Person (1954); Picture Parade (1956); Pierrot le fou (1965) / Cannes Film Festival (1984); Please Believe Me (1950); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Prudence and the Pill (1968); Quo Vadis (1951); Reflets de Cannes (1962); Reunion at Fairborough (1985); Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (2018); Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991); Rome, the Eternal City (1951); Scope (2017); Screen Goddesses (2005); Secret Voices of Hollywood (2013); Separate Tables (1958); Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000); Small World (1960); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Starman (1984); Talking Pictures (2014–2016); Tea and Sympathy (1956); The 1990 European Film Awards (1990); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 5th Annual People's Choice Awards (1979); The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Arrangement (1969); The Assam Garden (1985); The Avengers (1942); The Best of the Don Lane Show (1994); The Chalk Garden (1964); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1970–1972); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The End of the Affair (1955); The Grass Is Greener (1960); The Gypsy Moths (1969); The Hucksters (1947); The Innocents (1961); The Journey (1959); The King and I (1956); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); The Lords of Flatbush (1974); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1971–1975); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1973–1975); The Naked Edge (1961); The Night of the Iguana (1964); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2008); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Second Annual West End Theatre Awards (1977); The Sky Divers (1969); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Sundowners (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964–1975); This Is Scotland (1957); This Is Your Life (1963–1985); Thunder in the East (1952); Too Young to Die (2012); Trumbo (2015); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971 / 1974); Vacation from Marriage (1945); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1961 (1962); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); What's My Line? (1953–1954); Witness for the Prosecution (1982); Young Bess (1953); Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King (1995).

Born on this day – Lizabeth Scott:

Lizabeth Scott

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1921 – January 31, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); Adventures in Paradise (1960); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Bad for Each Other (1953); Burke's Law (1963); Century of Cinema (1995); Dark City (1950); Dead Reckoning (1946); Desert Fury (1947); Easy Living (1949); Empire State Building Murders (2008); Family Theatre (1949); Hit So Hard (2011); Home Stories (1990); I Walk Alone (1947); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); I've Got a Secret (1952); Loving You (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1952–1953); Mansfield 66/67 (2017); Paid in Full (1950); Pitfall (1948); Presley (1987); Pulp (1972); Red Mountain (1951); Scared Stiff (1953); Silver Lode (1954); Stolen Face (1952); Studio 57 (1955); Stump the Stars (1963); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Big Record (1958); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Company She Keeps (1951); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999); The Juke Box Jury (1958–1959); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Movie Game (1970); The Oscars (2016); The Racket (1951); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Third Man (1965); The Weapon (1956); The World of Hammer (1994); Too Late for Tears (1949); Two of a Kind (1951); Variety Girl (1947); You Came Along (1945); You Don't Say (1963).

Born on this day – Virginia Belmont:

Virginia Belmont

Actress

September 20, 1921 – May 6, 2014

Credits:

A-Hunting They Did Go (1948); Bellezze in moto-scooter (1952); Betrayal from the East (1945); Black Arrow (1944); Conrad Nagel Theater (1955); Courtin' Trouble (1948); Crabbin' in the Cabin (1948); Cuore di spia (1953); Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948); Dead Woman's Kiss (1949); Ding Dong Williams (1946); George White's Scandals (1945); Girl Rush (1944); Having Wonderful Crime (1945); Ho pianto per te! (1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952); I misteri di Venezia (1951); I peggiori anni della nostra vita (1949); Il grande addio (1954); Il tiranno del Garda (1957); Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948); Johnny Angel (1945); Licenza premio (1951); Nessuno ha tradito (1952); Nevada (1944); Oklahoma Blues (1948); Overland Trails (1948); Pan-Americana (1945); Prairie Express (1947); R.C.M.P. and the Treasure of Genghis Khan (1966); Silent Conflict (1948); Sing Your Way Home (1945); Sweet Genevieve (1947); Taxi di notte (1950); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Falcon in Hollywood (1944); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The Pirates of Capri (1949); The Rangers Ride (1948); Vivere a sbafo (1950); What a Blonde (1945).

Born on this day – Laura Alves:

Laura Alves

Actress

September 8, 1921 – May 6, 1986

Born on this day – Ruth Orkin:

Ruth Orkin

Photographer

Writer

Director

September 3, 1921 – January 16, 1985

Credits:

Books:

A Photo Journal (1981); A World Through My Window (1978); More Pictures from My Window (1983); Outside-Morris Engel Ruth Orkin, From Street Photography to Filmmaking (2014); Ruth Orkin (2023); Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (2021); Ruth Orkin: Above and Beyond (1999); Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy The Making of a Classic (2005); Ruth Orkin: Bike Trip (2023); Ruth Orkin: ICP Exhibition (1995); Ruth Orkin: Photo Posch (2023); Ruth Orkin: Women (2023).

Movies and television:

Little Fugitive (1953 / 2006); Lovers and Lollipops (1956); Lunch Money (2010); Morris Engel Home Movies (2021); Morris Engel: The Independent (2008); Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life (1996); Something's Gotta Give (2003); The Dog Lover (1962).

Born on this day – Gene Roddenberry:

Gene Roddenberry

Writer

Producer

Creator of Star Trek

August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991