Born on this day – Rosalina Neri:

Rosalina Neri

Actress

November 12, 1927 – June 5, 2024

Credits:

Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); All the Moron’s Men (1999); Another Woman’s Face (2012); Bocche cucite (1970); Ci vuole un gran fisico (2013); Due sosia in allegria (1956); Faccione (1991); Finalmente a casa (2008); Finalmente Natale (2007); Finalmente soli (1999); I pinguini ci guardano (1955); I volontari (1998); Jack Hylton’s Monday Show (1958); L’incantatore di serpenti, la vita senza freno di Gian Carlo Fusco (2010); Maurizio Costanzo Show (1993); Mon coquin de père (1958); Olga e i suoi figli (1985); Portagli i miei saluti... avanzi di galera (1993); The Betrothed (1989); The Music Box (1957); The Predators (2020); The Rosalina Neri Show (1959); Three Men and a Leg (1997); Valeria ragazza poco seria (1958); Vivendo cantando... che male ti fò? (1957).

On this day in movie history - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927):

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

aka Sunrise,

directed by F.W. Murnau,

written by Carl Mayer, Hermann Sudermann, Katherine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell,

based on the short story The Excursion to Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann,

was released in the United States on November 4, 1927.
Music by R.H. Bassett, Carli Elinor, Erno Rapee, Hugo Riesenfeld, Willy Schmidt-Gentner.
Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod.
A minor prelude by Frédéric Chopin.

Cast:

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ralph Sipperly, Jane Winton, Arthur Housman, Eddie Boland, Herman Bing, Sidney Bracey, Gino Corrado, Vondell Darr, Sally Eilers, Gibson Gowland, Fletcher Henderson, Leon Janney, Thomas Jefferson, Bob Kortman, F.W. Murnau, Barry Norton, Robert Parrish, Sally Phipps, Tempe Pigott, Harry Semels, Phillips Smalley, Leo White, Clarence Wilson.

Born on this day – Marcel Ophuls:

Marcel Ophuls

Director

Writer

Actor

November 1, 1927 – May 24, 2025

Credits:

Book:

The Sorrow and the Pity (1975).

Movies and television:

A Deal Made in a Turkish Bath (2017); A Sense of Loss (1972); America Revisited (1971); Annie Hall (1977); Arte Journal (2025); Banana Peel (1963); Camera Three (1972–1976); Cinéastes de notre temps (1965); Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (2015); Clavigo (1970); Costa-Gavras Talks with Marcel Ophuls (1976); Darf ich mitspielen? (1958); Das Pflichtmandat (1958); Das schöne irre Judenmädchen (1984); Die Ullrich (1972); Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980); Faites vos jeux, mesdames (1965); Festspiele (1982); François Truffaut: Portraits volés (1993); Hôtel Terminus (1988); Inside Story (1990); Journeys Through French Cinema (2017); Kortnergeschichten (1980); La fille au fouet (1952); L'Art de Max Ophuls (2024); Late Night Line-Up (1971); Liberty belle (1983); Lola Montès (1955); Love at Twenty / Segment: Munich (1962); Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais (2011); Marcel Ophuls: A Course in Resistance (1992); Marianne of My Youth (1955); Masterclass: Marcel Ophuls and Kenneth Turan on Disagreeable Truths (2017); Matisse ou Le talent du bonheur (1960); Max par Marcel (2009); Moulin Rouge (1952); Munich ou la paix pour cent ans (1967); November Days (1991); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); The Harvest of My Lai (1970); The Media Show (1988); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Sorrow and the Pity (1969); Till Eulenspiegel (1967); Un voyageur (2013); Veillées d'armes (1994); Wortwechsel (1989); Yorktown: Le sens d'une Victoire (1982); Zeil um Zehn (1992); Zwei ganze Tage (1970).

Born on this day – Jane Arden:

Jane Arden

Director

Actress

Singer

Writer

October 29, 1927 – December 20, 1982

Credits:

A Gunman Has Escaped (1948); Anti-Clock (1979); Armchair Theatre (1956–1961); Black Memory (1947); Curtains for Harry (1955); Dali in New York (1965); Die Party (1963); Five More (1966); ITV Television Playhouse (1956 / 1957); New Release (1966); Separation (1968); Six (1965); The Other Side of Underneath (1972); The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1947); The Wednesday Play (1964–1965); Tuesday's Documentary (1970); Vibration (1975).

Born on this day – Philip Saville:

Philip Saville

Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

October 28, 1927 – December 22, 2016

Born on this day – Howard Zieff:

Howard Zieff

Director

Photographer

October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009

Born on this day – George C. Scott:

George C. Scott

Actor

Director

Producer

October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999

Born on this day – Eileen Ryan:

Eileen Ryan

Actress

October 16, 1927 – October 9, 2022

Born on this day – Roger Moore:

Roger Moore

Actor

October 14, 1927 – May 23, 2017

Born on this day – Dana Elcar:

Dana Elcar

Actor

October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005

Born on this day – Tom Bosley:

Tom Bosley

Actor

October 1, 1927 – October 19, 2010

Born on this day – Barbara Mertz:

Barbara Mertz

Writer

September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Gothic Treasure Trove (1987); A River in the Sky (2010); Amelia Peabody Omnibus (2012); Amelia Peabody's Egypt (2003); Ammie, Come Home (1968); AZ Murder Goes... Artful (1997); Be Buried in the Rain (1985); Black Rainbow (1982); Borrower of the Night (1973); Children of the Storm (2003); Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975); Devil May Care (1977); Die for Love (1984); Greygallows (1972); Guardian of the Horizon (2004); He Shall Thunder in the Sky (2000); Here I Stay (1983); Historical Whodunits (1993); House of Many Shadows (1974); Houses of Stone (1993); Into the Darkness (1990); Legend in Green Velvet (1976); Lion in the Valley (1986); Lord of the Silent (2001); Malice Domestic 1 (1992); Malice Domestic 14 (2019); Malice Domestic 2 (1993); More Malice Domestic (1997); Naked Once More (1989); Night Train to Memphis (1994); Other Worlds (1999); Patriot's Dream (1976); Prince of Darkness (1969); Red Land, Black Land (1967); Search the Shadows (1987); Seeing a Large Cat (1997); Shattered Silk (1986); Silhouette in Scarlet (1983); Smoke and Mirrors (1989); Someone in the House (1981); Sons of the Wolf (1967); Stitches in Time (1995); Street of the Five Moons (1978); Summer of the Dragon (1979); Tales of the Uncanny (1983); Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs (1964); The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998); The Camelot Caper (1969); The Copenhagen Connection (1982); The Crying Child (1971); The Curse of the Pharaohs (1981); The Dancing Floor (1997); The Dark on the Other Side (1970); The Dead Sea Cipher (1970); The Deeds of the Disturber (1988); The Falcon at the Portal (1999); The Golden One (2002); The Grey Beginning (1984); The Hippopotamus Pool (1996); The Jackal's Head (1968); The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991); The Laughter of Dead Kings (2008); The Locked Tomb Mystery: And Other Stories (2018); The Love Talker (1980); The Master of Blacktower (1966); The Mummy Case (1985); The Murders of Richard III (1974); The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits (1971); The Painted Queen (2014); The Sea King's Daughter (1975); The Serpent on the Crown (2005); The Seventh Sinner (1972); The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (1992); The Walker in Shadows (1979); The Wizard's Daughter (1980); Tomb of the Golden Bird (2006); Trojan Gold (1987); Vanish with the Rose (1992); Wait for What Will Come (1978); Wings of the Falcon (1977); Witch (1973).

Born on this day – Colette Deréal:

Colette Deréal

Actress

Singer

September 22, 1927 – April 12, 1988

Born on this day – William Hickey:

William Hickey

Actor

September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997

Born on this day – Naomi Chance:

Naomi Chance

Actress

September 18, 1927 – March 18, 2003

Born on this day – Phyllis Kirk:

Phyllis Kirk

Actress

September 18, 1927 – October 19, 2006

Born on this day – Peter Falk:

Peter Falk

Actor

Comedian

Artist

September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011

Born on this day – Gianna Maria Canale:

Gianna Maria Canale

Actress

September 12, 1927 – February 13, 2009

Born on this day – Rossana Rory:

Rossana Rory

Actress

September 7, 1927 – April 1, 2020

Credits:

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958); Captain Falcon (1958); Casablanca (1956); Come September (1961); El Alamein (1957); Europe '51 (1952); Hell Canyon Outlaws (1957); I cavalieri dell'illusione (1954); In amore si pecca in due (1954); Jessica (1962); La spada e la croce (1958); L'Eclisse (1962); L'eterna femmina (1954); Licenza premio (1951); Padri e figli (1958–1959); Perdonami! (1953); Piccola santa (1954); Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960); The Angel Wore Red (1960); The Big Boodle (1957); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1957); The Naked and the Wicked (1951); The River Changes (1956).

Born on this day – L. Q. Jones:

L. Q. Jones

Actor

Director

August 19, 1927 – July 9, 2022