Born on this day – Rock Hudson:

Rock Hudson

Actor

November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985

Born on this day – John Guillermin:

John Guillermin

Director

Writer

Producer

November 11, 1925 – September 27, 2015

Born on this day – Richard Burton:

Richard Burton

Actor

November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984

Born on this day – William Wharton:

William Wharton

Writer

November 7, 1925 – October 29, 2008

Credits:

Birdy (1978); Ever after (1981); Dad (1981); A Midnight Clear (1982); Scumbler (1984); Pride (1985); Tidings (1987); Franky Furbo (1989); Last Lovers (1991); Wrongful Deaths (1994); Houseboat on the Seine (1996); Shrapnel (2012).

Awards:

In 1980, William Wharton was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction / Best Book, for his 1978 novel: Birdy.

Born on this day – Doris Roberts:

Doris Roberts

Actress

November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016

Born on this day – Robert Hardy:

Robert Hardy

Actor

October 29, 1925 – August 3, 2017

Born on this day – Geraldine Brooks:

Geraldine Brooks

Actress

October 29, 1925 – June 19, 1977

Credits:

4th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1954); 5th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1955); A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Alcoa Premiere (1963); An Act of Murder (1948); Appointment with Adventure (1955–1956); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1953); Baretta (1976); Barnaby Jones (1973); Ben Casey (1964–1966); Bill Slater Show (1950); Bonanza (1961–1966); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Bus Stop (1961); Cain's Hundred (1962); Cannon (1973); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1976); Challenge to Lassie (1949); Climax! (1955); Combat! (1963); Cry Wolf (1947); Dan August (1971); Danger (1951); Daniel Boone (1965); Dr. Kildare (1964); Ellery Queen (1975); Embraceable You (1948); Executive Suite (1976); Faraday and Company (1973–1974); General Electric Theater (1962); Get Smart (1966); Girl Talk (1963); Gunsmoke (1966); Gypsy (1967); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960); Hawk (1966); Here's Hollywood (1962); I Spy (1956); Insight (1967–1969); Ironside (1967 / 1972); It Takes a Thief (1969); Johnny Staccato (1960); Johnny Tiger (1966); Judd for the Defense (1969); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1961); Kung Fu (1973); Laramie (1963); Lights Out (1951); Love of Life (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1952); Mannix (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); McMillan & Wife (1975); Medallion Theatre (1954); Medical Story (1975); Modern Romances (1957); Mr. Novak (1964); Mr. Ricco (1975); My Friend Tony (1969); Naked City (1960); Orient Express (1952); Perry Mason (1962); Possessed (1947); Rhyme and Reason (1976); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1960); Run for Your Life (1967); Sam Benedict (1962); Starlight Theatre (1951); Stoney Burke (1963); Street of Sinners (1957); Streets of Sorrow (1950); Studio One (1954–1956); Stump the Stars (1950); Stu's Show (2023); The 24th Annual Tony Awards (1970); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973); The Bull of the West (1972); The Danny Thomas Hour (1967); The David Frost Show (1970); The Defenders (1963); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Dumplings (1976); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Freddy Martin Show (1951); The Fugitive (1963–1967); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Green Glove (1952); The High Chaparral (1967); The Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Name of the Game (1968); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Outsider (1969); The Reckless Moment (1949); The Silver Theatre (1950); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Virginian (1963–1968); The Younger Brothers (1949); To Rome with Love (1969); Vulcano (1950); Woman with a Past (1954); You Are There (1971).

Born on this day – Boogie Woogie Red:

Boogie Woogie Red

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

October 18, 1925 – July 2, 1992

Credits:

Albums:

Live at the Blind Pig (1974); Red Hot (1977).

Songs:

After Hours; Blues for My Baby; Bumble Bee Blues; Got to Find My Baby; Mean Ol' Frisco; Old Time Shuffle; Prison Bound; Red's Boogie; Red's Rhumba; Red's Rumba; Relaxin; Showtime; Sisterly Love; Step Down on It; Take Five; The Reefer Song; Viper Song; When I Was Young; You Put a Spell on Me.

Born on this day – Angela Lansbury:

Angela Lansbury

Actress

Singer

October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022

Born on this day – Tony Hart:

Tony Hart

Artist

Television presenter

October 15, 1925 – January 18, 2009

Born on this day – Virginia Leith:

Virginia Leith

Actress

October 15, 1925 – November 4, 2019

Born on this day – Elmore Leonard:

Elmore Leonard

Writer

October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013

Credits:

Books:

The Big Bounce (1969); Unknown Man #89 (1977); Swag (aka Ryan's Rules) (1976); Stick (1982); Get Shorty (1990); Be Cool (1999); Pronto (1993); Riding the Rap (1995); Fire in the Hole (2001); Raylan (2011); Raylan Goes to Detroit (2018); Out Of Sight (1996); Road Dogs (2009); The Hot Kid (2005); Up in Honey's Room (2007); Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories (2009); The Switch (1978); Rum Punch (1992); Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1 (1998); Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 (1998); Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3 (1998); The Bounty Hunters (1953); The Law at Randado (1954); Escape from Five Shadows (1956); Last Stand at Saber River (1959); Hombre (1961); The Moonshine War (1969); Valdez Is Coming (1970); Forty Lashes Less One (1972); 52 Pick Up (1974); Mr Majestyk (1974); The Hunted (1977); Gunsights (1979); Gold Coast (1980); City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1980); Split Images (1981); Cat Chaser (1982); LaBrava (1983); Glitz (1985); Bandits (1987); Touch (1987); Freaky Deaky (1988); Killshot (1989); Maximum Bob (1991); Cuba Libre (1998); Pagan Babies (2000); Tishomingo Blues (2002); Mr. Paradise (2004); A Coyote's in the House (2004); Djibouti (2010); The Trespassers (2013); Confession (2013); Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories (1953); The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories (1975); Dutch Treat (1985); When the Women Come Out to Dance (2001); The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard (2004); The Complete Western Stories (2004); Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories (2006); Blood Money and Other Stories (2006); Trail of the Apache and Other Stories (2007); Charlie Martz and Other Stories (2015); Notebooks (1990); Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing (2006); New Orleans Stories (1992); Chicago Stories (1993); Southwest Stories (1993); Florida Stories (1993); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Alaska Stories (1995); Texas Stories (1995); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Florida Stories (1993); New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories (1994); Murder For Love (1996); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Naked Came the Manatee (1997); Western Movies (1997); The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997); Murder On The Railways (2003); The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003); Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing (2010); Books to Die For (2012); Long Night (2014); The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (2016); Miami Noir (2020).

Movies and television:

3:10 to Yuma (1957 / 2007); 52 Pick-Up (1986); A Conversation with Elmore Leonard (2007); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); American Cinema (1995); Arena (1991); Be Cool (2005); Border Shootout (1990); Byline Showtime (1988); Cat Chaser (1989); Charlie Rose (1995–2000); Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013); Desperado (1987); Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (1988); Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989); Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989); Días de cine (2013); Elmore Leonard - But Don't Try to Write (2021); Elmore Leonard: A Detroit Classic (2010); Freaky Deaky (2012); Get Shorty (1995); Get Shorty / TV Series (2017–2019); Get Shorty: Look at Me (2005); Get Shorty: Wiseguys and Dolls (2005); Glitz (1988); Gold Coast (1997); High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980); Hombre (1967); Jackie Brown (1997); Jackie Brown: How It Went Down (2002); Joe Kidd (1972); Justified (2010–2015); Justified: City Primeval (2023); Justified: Sneak Peek (2013); Karen Sisco (2003–2004); Killshot (2008); Last Stand at Saber River (1997); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2012); Life of Crime (2013); Maximum Bob (1998); Michigan & Trumbull (1999); Mr. Majestyk (1974); Out of Sight (1998); Pronto (1997); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); Sparks (2009); Split Images (1992); Squzz Corn N' Ole Scratch (2012); Stick (1985); The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Live Action (2008); The Ambassador (1984); The Arrangement (2013); The Big Bounce (1969 / 2004); The Daily Show (2002); The Media Show (1988–1989); The Moonshine War (1970); The Oscars (2014); The Return of Desperado (1988); The Rosary Murders (1987); The Tall T (1957); The Tonto Woman (2008); Touch (1997); Valdez Is Coming (1971).

Born on this day – Nancy Guild:

Nancy Guild

Actress

October 11, 1925 – August 16, 1999

Born on this day – Micheline Gary:

Micheline Gary

Actress

October 1, 1925 – December 25, 2022

Born on this day – Steve Forrest:

Steve Forrest

Actor

September 29, 1925 – May 18, 2013

Born on this day – Marty Robbins:

Marty Robbins

Singer

Songwriter

Actor

Instrumentalist

NASCAR racing driver

September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982

Born on this day – Eleonora Rossi Drago:

Eleonora Rossi Drago

Actress

September 23, 1925 – December 2, 2007

Born on this day – Paul Wendkos:

Paul Wendkos

Director

September 20, 1925 – November 12, 2009

Credits:

A Cry for Love (1980); A Death of Innocence (1971); A Little Game (1971); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); A Match Made in Heaven (1997); A Tattered Web (1971); A Wing and a Prayer (1998); A Woman Called Moses (1978); Act of Violence (1979); Alcoa Theatre (1958–1960); Angel Baby (1961); Archer (1975); Attack on the Iron Coast (1968); Battle of the Coral Sea (1959); Because They're Young (1960); Behind Closed Doors (1958); Ben Casey (1963–1964); Betrayal (1978); Biography (2004); Bitter Heritage (1958); Blind Faith (1990); Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987); Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993); Boone (1983); Breaking Point (1963–1964); Burke's Law (1965); Cannon for Cordoba (1970); Celebrity (1984); Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983); Cross Fire (1989); Death Among Friends (1975); Different (1999); Dr. Kildare (1962–1964); Face of a Fugitive (1959); Farrell for the People (1982); Fear No Evil (1969); Five Fingers (1959); Footsteps (1972); From the Dead of Night (1989); Gidget (1959); Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961); Gidget Goes to Rome (1963); Golden Gate (1981); Good Against Evil (1977); Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990); Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991); Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969); Hagen (1980); Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977); Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977); Harry O (1974); Haunts of the Very Rich (1972); Hawaii Five-O (1968); Hawkins (1973–1974); Hell Boats (1970); Honey West (1965); Honor Thy Father (1973); I Spy (1965–1966); Intimate Agony (1983); Johnny Tiger (1966); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); Law of the Plainsman (1960); Medical Story (1975); Message from Nam (1993); Mr. Novak (1964–1965); Naked City (1960–1961); Nobody Lives Forever (1998); Picking Up the Pieces (1985); Playhouse 90 (1957–1958); Police Story (1973); Premiere (1968); Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986); Right to Die (1987); Route 66 (1961); Saints and Sinners (1962–1963); Scorned and Swindled (1984); Secrets (1977); Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies (1987); Six Against the Rock (1987); Special Delivery (1976); Stalk the Wild Child (1976); Tarawa Beachhead (1958); Terror on the Beach (1973); The Awakening of Candra (1983); The Bad Seed (1985); The Big Valley (1965); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Burglar (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); The Chase (1991); The Death of Richie (1977); The Delphi Bureau (1972); The Detectives (1960–1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1962); The Execution (1985); The F.B.I. (1966); The Family Rico (1972); The Five of Me (1981); The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Invaders (1967–1968); The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975); The Mephisto Waltz (1971); The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980); The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979); The Rifleman (1961–1962); The Strangers in 7A (1972); The Survivors (1969); The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988); The Underground Man (1974); The Untouchables (1961–1963); The Wild Wild West (1965); The Woman I Love (1972); Tightrope (1960); Travis Logan, D.A. (1971); Trial: The Price of Passion (1992); Two Faces West (1960); White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991).

Born on this day – Felice Orlandi:

Felice Orlandi

Actor

September 18, 1925 – May 21, 2003

Born on this day – B.B. King:

B.B. King

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

Producer

September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015