Born on this day – Patricia Neal:

Patricia Neal

Actress

January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010

Credits:

Flying By (2009); For the Love of May (2001); Cookie's Fortune (1999); Heidi (1993); A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (1992); Murder, She Wrote (1990); Caroline? (1990); An Unremarkable Life (1989); Shattered Vows (1984); Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984); Glitter (1984); Ghost Story (1981); The Patricia Neal Story (1981); All Quiet on the Western Front (1979); The Passage (1979); The Bastard (1978); A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978); Nido de viudas (1977); Tail Gunner Joe (1977); The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (1976); Movin' On (1975); Little House on the Prairie (1975); Eric (1975); Hay que matar a B. (1974); Things in Their Season (1974); Kung Fu (1974); Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973); Baxter! (1973); Circle of Fear (1972); The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); The Night Digger (1971); The Subject Was Roses (1968); In Harm's Way (1965); Psyche 59 (1964); Espionage (1963); Hud (1963); Ben Casey (1963); Zero One (1962); Winter Journey (1962); Westinghouse Presents: That's Where the Town Is Going (1962); The Untouchables (1962); Checkmate (1962); Drama 61-67 (1962); Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); Rendezvous (1961); Special for Women: Mother and Daughter (1961); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Strindberg on Love (1960); Clash by Night (1959); Pursuit (1958); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1958); Studio One (1954–1958); Playhouse 90 (1957–1958); Suspicion (1958); A Face in the Crowd (1957); Omnibus (1955); La tua donna (1954); The Venusian (1954); Goodyear Playhouse (1954); Something for the Birds (1952); Washington Story (1952); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Week-End with Father (1951); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); Raton Pass (1951); Operation Pacific (1951); The Breaking Point (1950); Three Secrets (1950); Bright Leaf (1950); Breakdowns of 1949 (1949); The Hasty Heart (1949); It's a Great Feeling (1949); The Fountainhead (1949); John Loves Mary (1949).

Born on this day – Fritz Weaver:

Fritz Weaver

Actor

January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016

Born on this day – Michèle Philippe:

Michèle Philippe

Actress

January 17, 1926 – September 23, 1972

Credits:

Hot Hours (1959); Man and Child (1956); Paris, Palace Hotel (1956); The swords in the secret service (1956); French Cancan (1955); The Babes Make the Law (1955); The clandestine women (1954); Marriage Episodes (1954); His Father's Portrait (1953); The 400 club blows (1953); A Night in Megève (1953); Beautiful Mentality (1953); The Dream of Zorro (1952); Don Juan's Night of Love (1952) Each in turn (1951); The needle red (1951); Blonde Head (1950); The Naked Woman (1949); Wearing her heart on her sleeve (1948); The Firemen's Ball (1948); The Tragic Dolmen (1948); Crossroads of the crime (1948); The Thief Is Well (1948); Through the Window (1948); The great Maguet (1947); Thirty and Forty (1946); Hoboes in Paradise (1946) Julia (1945); The Black Rider (1945).

Born on this day – Patrice Wymore:

Patrice Wymore

Actress

December 17, 1926 – March 22, 2014

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); About Faces (1961); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Cheyenne (1961); Death Valley Days (1959); Die VII. Internationalen Filmfestspiele (1957); Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler (1983); F Troop (1965–1967); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade of the Stars (1960); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); In the Wake of the Zaca (2005); Jefferson Drum (1958); Juke Box Jury (1965); King's Rhapsody (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Mister Roberts (1966); Never Too Young (1965–1966); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Perry Mason (1963–1965); Rocky Mountain (1950); She's Back on Broadway (1953); She's Working Her Way Through College (1952); Starlift (1951); Stump the Stars (1959–1964); Tales of Wells Fargo (191); Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn (2007); Tea for Two (1950); That Regis Philbin Show (1964); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Big Trees (1952); The Deputy (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1952); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956–1957); The Lamb's Gambol (1949); The Littlest Hobo (1964); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The Mike Douglas Show (1964); The Monkees (1967); The Roaring 20's (1960); The Sad Horse (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963).

Born on this day – Sergio Corbucci:

Sergio Corbucci

Director

Writer

Producer

December 6, 1926 – December 1, 1990

Born on this day – Richard Crenna:

Richard Crenna

Actor

November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003

Born on this day – Jeffrey Hunter:

Jeffrey Hunter

Actor

Producer

November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969

Born on this day – Poul Anderson:

Poul Anderson

Writer

November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Bicycle Built for Brew (2014); A Circus of Hells (1970); A Galaxy Trilogy (2007); A Hoax in Time / Inside Earth (2011); A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows / aka Knight Flandry (1975); A Midsummer Tempest (1974); A Stone in Heaven (1979); A World Named Cleopatra (1977); Admiralty (2011); After Doomsday (1962); Agent of the Terran Empire (1965); Alight in the Void (1991); All One Universe (1996); American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960-1966 (2019); Berserker Base (1985); Beyond the Beyond (1969); Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut (2010); Brain Wave (1954); Call Me Joe (2009); Captive of the Centaurianess / A Princess of Mars (2012); Cold Victory (1982); Cold Victory: Grassy Knoll (1985); Conan the Rebel (1980); Conflict (1983); Conquests (1981); Dahut (1988); David Falkayn: Star Trader (2009); Dialogue with Darkness (1985); Door to Anywhere (2021); Duel On Syrtis (1951); Earthman's Burden (1957); Ensign Flandry (1966); Explorations (1981); Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack 2 (2018); Fantasy (1981); Fire Time (1974); Flandry of Terra (1965); For Love and Glory (2003); Fragile and Distant Suns (2010); Genesis (2000); Get Out of My Sky (1980); Giant Science-Fiction Six-Pack (2014); Going for Infinity (2002); Guardians of Time (1961); Harvest of Stars (1993); Harvest the Fire (1995); Hoka! (1983); Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1983); Hokas Pokas (2000); Homebrew (1976); Homeward and Beyond (1975); How to Build a Planet (1991); Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973); Inconstant Star (1991); Inheritors of the Earth (1974); Is There Life on Other Worlds? (1968); Kinship with the Stars (1991); Losers' Night (1991); Maurai and Kith (1982); Mercenaries of Tomorrow (1985); Mirkheim (1977); Mother of Kings (2001); Murasaki (1992); Murder Bound (1962); Murder in Black Letter (1960); Nebula Award Stories 4 (1968); New America (1982); No Man's World / Mayday Orbit (1961); No Truce with Kings (1986); Operation Chaos (1971); Operation Luna (1999); Operation Otherworld (1983); Orbit Unlimited (1961); Orion Shall Rise (1983); Past Times (1984); Perish by the Sword (1959); Planet of No Return / aka Question and Answer (1956); Question and Answer (2017); Rogue Sword (1960); Roma Mater (1986); Sargasso of Lost Starships / The Ice Queen (2013); Satan's World (1969); Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four (2012); Security (1953); Sentiment, Inc. (1953); Seven Conquests (1969); Shield (1963); Space Folk (1989); Space Wars (1988); Star Prince Charlie (1975); Star Ways / aka The Peregrine (1956); Starfarers (1998); Starship (1982); Strangers from Earth (1961); Swordsman of Lost Terra / Planet of Ghosts (2012); Tales of the Flying Mountains (1970); Tau Zero (1970); Terrorists of Tomorrow (1986); The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK (2020); The Armies of Elfland (1992); The Avatar (1978); The Best of Poul Anderson (1976); The Boat of a Million Years (1989); The Book of Poul Anderson / aka The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974); The Broken Sword (1954); The Burning Bridge (1960); The Byworlder (1971); The Chapter Ends (1954); The Corridors of Time (1965); The Dancer from Atlantis (1972); The Dark Between the Stars (1981); The Day of Their Return (1975); The Day the Sun Stood Still (1972); The Demon of Scattery (1979); The Devil's Game (1980); The Dog and the Wolf (1988); The Earth Book of Stormgate (1978); The Enemy Stars / aka We Have Fed Our Seas (1959); The Fleet of Stars (1997); The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin (1966); The Gallicenae (1987); The Game of Empire (1985); The Gods Laughed (1982); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XV (2016); The Golden Horn (1980); The Golden Slave (1960); The High Crusade (1960); The Horn of Time (1968); The Imperial Stars (2000); The Infinite Voyage (1969); The Long Night (1983); The Long Way Home / aka No World of Their Own (1955); The Longest Voyage (1960); The Longest Voyage / Slow Lightning (1991); The Makeshift Rocket (1962); The Man Who Came Early (1956); The Man who Counts / aka War of the Wing-Men (1958); The Merman's Children (1979); The Night Face (1963); The Night Fantastic (1991); The People of the Wind (1973); The Queen of Air and Darkness (1973); The Rebel Worlds / aka Commander Flandry (1966); The Rebel Worlds / Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (1982); The Road of the Sea Horse (1980); The Saturn Game (1989 / 2016); The Saturn Game / Iceborn (1989); The Sensitive Man (1954); The Shield of Time (1990); The Sign of the Raven (1980); The Snows of Ganymede (1958); The Star Fox (1965); The Stars Are Also Fire (1994); The Temple of Earth (1953); The Trouble Twisters (1966); The Unicorn Trade (1984); The Valor of Cappen Varra (1957); The Van Rijn Method (2008); The War of Two Worlds (1953); The Winter of the World (1976); The Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974); The Year of the Ransom (1988); There Will Be Time (1972); Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961); Three Tales of Time and Space (2018); Three Worlds to Conquer (1964); Tiger By the Tail! (2010); Time and Stars (1965); Time Patrolman (1983); Time Wars (1986); To Outlive Eternity (2007); To the Tombaugh Station / Earthman, Go Home! (1960); Trader to the Stars (1964); Twilight World (1961); Two Novels of Far-Future Apocalypse (2020); Two Worlds (1978); Two Worlds of Poul Anderson (2010); Un-Man (1972); Vault of the Ages (1952); Virgin Planet (1959); War of the Gods (1997); We Claim These Stars (1959); Winners (1981); World without Stars (1966); Writing and Selling Science Fiction (1977).

Movies and television:

Prisoners of Gravity (1993); The High Crusade (1994).

Born on this day – John Gardner:

John Gardner

Writer

November 20, 1926 – August 3, 2007

Credits:

Books:

The Liquidator (1964); Understrike (1965); Amber Nine (1966); Madrigal (1967); Hideaway (1968); Founder Member (1969); Traitor's Exit (1970); The Airline Pirates (1973); Air Apparent (1973); The Assassination File (1974); A Killer for a Song (1975); A Complete State of Death (1970); The Corner Men (1976); Bottled Spider (2002); Streets of Town (2003); Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004); Troubled Midnight (2005); No Human Enemy (2007); The Nostradamus Traitor (1979); The Garden of Weapons (1981); The Quiet Dogs (1988); Maestro (1993); Confessor (1995); The Return of Moriarty (1974); The Revenge of Moriarty (1975); Moriarty (2008); The Secret Generations (1985); The Secret Houses (1987); The Secret Families (1989); Colonel Sun (By: Kingsley Amis) (1968); License Renewed (1981); For Special Services (1982); Icebreaker (1983); Role of Honor (1984); Nobody Lives Forever (1986); No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987); Scorpius (1988); Licence to Kill (1989); Win, Lose or Die (1989); Brokenclaw (1990); The Man from Barbarossa (1991); Death Is Forever (1992); Never Send Flowers (1993); SeaFire (1994); GoldenEye (1995); Cold Fall (1996); Zero Minus Ten (1997); Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); The Facts of Death (1998); The World is Not Enough (1999); High Time to Kill (1999); Doubleshot (2000); Never Dream of Dying (2001); The Man With the Red Tattoo (2002); Die Another Day (2002); Devil May Care (2008); Carte Blanche (2011); Solo (2013); Trigger Mortis (2015); Forever and a Day (2018); With a Mind to Kill (2022); The Censor (1972); Every Night's a Bullfight (1973); The Director (1973); To Run a Little Faster (1976); The Werewolf Trace (1977); The Dancing Dodo (1979); Golgotha (1980); The Last Trump (1980); Blood of the Fathers (1992); Day of Absolution (2001); On Becoming a Novelist (1983); On Writers and Writing (1994); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999).

Movies and television:

Biography (2006); The Liquidator (1965); The Stone Killer (1973); Wogan (1988).

Born on this day – Bernard Fein:

Bernard Fein

Actor

Producer

Writer

Director

November 13, 1926 – September 10, 1980

Born on this day – Rossella Falk:

Rossella Falk

Actress

November 10, 1926 – May 5, 2013

Born on this day – Betsy Palmer:

Betsy Palmer

Actress

November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015

Born on this day – Margaret Sheridan:

Margaret Sheridan

Actress

October 29, 1926 – May 1, 1982

Credits:

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); City Detective (1953); Four Star Playhouse (1954); I, the Jury (1953); Man's Favorite Sport? (1964); One Minute to Zero (1952); Pride of the Blue Grass (1954); The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1952); The Diamond Wizard (1954); The Thing from Another World (1951); Wagon Train (1964).

Born on this day – Faye Marlowe:

Faye Marlowe

Actress

Writer

October 26, 1926 – May 5, 2022

Credits:

Conrad Nagel Theater (1955); Hangover Square (1945); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Junior Miss (1945); Rendezvous with Annie (1946); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); The All-Star Bond Rally (1945); The Bed (1954); The Spider (1945); The Thief of Venice (1950).

Born on this day – Leonard Rossiter:

Leonard Rossiter

Actor

Writer

October 21, 1926 – October 5, 1984

Born on this day – John Morris:

John Morris

Composer

Dance arranger

Conductor

Pianist

October 18, 1926 – January 25, 2018

Born on this day – Julie Adams:

Julie Adams

Actress

October 17, 1926 – February 3, 2019

Born on this day – Beverly Garland:

Beverly Garland

Actress

October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008

Born on this day – Ed McBain:

Ed McBain

Writer

October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005

Credits:

The 87th Precinct novel series: Cop Hater (1956); The Mugger (1956); The Pusher (1956); The Con Man (1957); Killer's Choice (1957); Lady Killer (1958); Killer's Wedge (1958); Killer's Payoff (1958); King's Ransom (1959); 'Til Death (1959); Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960); The Heckler (1960); See Them Die (1960); Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961); The Empty Hours (1962); Like Love (1962); Ten Plus One (1963); Ax (1963); He Who Hesitates (1965); Doll (1965); Eighty Million Eyes (1966); Fuzz (1968); Shotgun (1968); Jigsaw (1970); Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (1971); Sadie When She Died (1972); Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (1973); Hail to the Chief (1973); Bread (1974); Blood Relatives (1975); So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976); Long Time No See (1977); Calypso (1979); Ghosts (1980); Heat (1981); McBain Brief (1982); Ice (1983); Lightning (1984); And All Through The House (1984); Eight Black Horses (1985); Poison (1987); Lullaby (1989); Vespers (1989); Tricks (1989); Widows (1991); Kiss (1992); Mischief (1993); Romance (1995); Nocturne (1997); The Big Bad City (1998); The Last Dance (1999); Money, Money, Money (2001); Fat Ollie's Book (2002); The Frumious Bandersnatch (2003); Hark! (2004); Fiddlers (2005). The Matthew Hope novel series: Goldilocks (1976); Rumpelstiltskin (1981); Beauty And The Beast (1982); Jack and the Beanstalk (1984); Snow White and Rose Red (1985); Cinderella (1986); Puss in Boots (1987); The House That Jack Built (1988); Three Blind Mice (1990); Mary, Mary (1991); There Was A Little Girl (1994); Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996); The Last Best Hope (1998). Transgressions Books: Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions (2005); Transgressions (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006). Stand alone novels: Rocket To Luna (1953); Don't Crowd Me (1953); Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953); Cut Me In (1954); Runaway Black (1954); The Blackboard Jungle (1954); Death of a Nurse (1955); Murder in the Navy (1955); Tomorrow's World (1956); Second Ending (1956); Vanishing Ladies (1957); The Spiked Heel (1957); I'm Cannon--For Hire (1958); Strangers When We Met (1958); Even the Wicked (1958); The Gutter and the Grave (1958); Big Man (1959); A Matter of Conviction (1959); Buddwing (1964); The Sentries (1965); The Paper Dragon (1967); A Horse's Head (1967); Last Summer (1968); Sons (1969); Nobody Knew They Were There (1971); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Seven (1972); Come Winter (1973); Streets of Gold (1974); Doors (1975); Where There's Smoke (1975); Guns (1976); The Chisholms (1976); Love Dad (1981); Far from the Sea (1982); Lizzie (1984); Another Part of the City (1986); Downtown (1989); Gangs! (1989); Scimitar (1992); Criminal Conversation (1994); Privileged Conversation (1995); Driving Lessons (1998); Candyland (2000); The Moment She Was Gone (2002); Alice In Jeopardy (2004); So Nude, So Dead     (2015); Runaway (2016); Find the Feathered Serpent (1952); The Remarkable Harry (1961); The Wonderful Button (1961); Me and Mr. Stenner (1976); Let's Talk (2005); The McBain Brief (1982); Barking at Butterflies (2000); Running from Legs and Other Stories (2002); Learning to Kill (2006); Transgressions (2006); Keller's Adjustment; Forever (2006); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Jungle Kids (2016); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942); The Thursday Turkey Murders (1943); The April Robin Murders (1958); Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Crimes of Passion (1993); The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 (1995); Murder For Love (1996); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Crime After Crime (1999); The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000); Writers on Writing (2001); The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); Dangerous Women (2005); Transgressions (2005); Price of Desire (2005); Transgressions vol. 4 (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006); Masters of Noir, Volume One (2010); Masters of Noir, Volume Three (2010); Books to Die For (2012).

Movies and television:

87. revír (1970); 87th Precinct (1961–1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1959); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Blood Relatives (1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966–1967); Brokovnice (1992); Case Reopened (1999); CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1981); Climax! (1958); Columbo (1992–1994); Cop Hater (1958); Dream West (1986); Dzungle pred tabulí (1980); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Ed McBain möter Ulf Örnkloo (1988); Ed McBain: Satsui (2005); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fallen Angels (1995); Fuzz (1972); General Electric Theater (1958); High and Low (1963); I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021); Ironside (1968); Kao no nai onna: Kurushima keiji no hôkokusho yori (2007); Koho si vybral vrah (1974); Kraft Theatre (1958); La soupe aux poulets (1963); Last Summer (1969); Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971); Le Dernier Tour (2002); Living Famously (2003); Lonely Heart (1981); Midnight Journal (1990); Mike Hammer (1958); Mister Buddwing (1966); Of Men and Women (1973); Panenka (1980); Plus rien à perdre (1968); Read All About It (1979); Reputations (1999); Skládacka (1991); Spin (2012); Sposob ubiystva (1993); Strangers When We Meet (1960); Tanin no kankei (1989); Tengoku to jigoku (2007); The Birds (1963); The Bob Braun Show (1981); The Chisholms (1979–1980); The Culture Show (2005); The David Frost Show (1972); The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980); The Mugger (1958); The Pusher (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); The Write Stuff (1989); The Young Savages (1961); Three Blind Mice (2001); Walk Proud (1979); Without Apparent Motive (1971); Wogan (1986); Zabiják (1972).

Born on this day – Jean Peters:

Jean Peters

Actress

October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000