Born on this day – Maya Angelou:

Maya Angelou

Writer

April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014

Credits:

Including titles with Steven Spielberg, Langston Hughes and Mary Ellen Mark:

Angelina of Italy (2004); Izak of Lapland (2004); Mikale of Hawaii (2004); Renee Marie of France (2004); Cedric of Jamaica (2005); Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971); Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975); And Still I Rise (1978); Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987); I Shall Not Be Moved (1990); On the Pulse of Morning (1993); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994); The Complete Collected Poems (1994); Maya Angelou: Poems (1994); Phenomenal Woman (1995); A Brave and Startling Truth (1995); Black Pearls (1998); Van Gogh's Ear (2005); Amazing Peace (2005); Celebrations (2006); Poetry for Young People (2007); Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011); Mrs. Flowers (1986); Life Doesn't Frighten Me (1993); My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me (1994); Kofi and His Magic (1996); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); Gather Together in My Name (1974); Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976); The Heart of a Woman (1981); All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986); A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002); Mom & Me & Mom (2013); Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983); Letter to My Daughter (1987); Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993); Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1996); The Voyage of the Amistad (1997); Making Magic in the World (1998); Amistad (1998); Mary Ellen Mark (1999); Graduation (2000); Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004); Mother (2006); Great Food, All Day Long (2010); His Day Is Done (2014); Rainbow in the Cloud (2014); Understanding Aspergers (2014); Strategies of Abundance (2014); The Weary Blues (1926); The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932); The Ways of White Folks (1934); Selected Poems (1959); Ask Your Mama (1961); Poems from Black Africa (1963); The Panther and the Lash (1967); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Poems 1921-1940 (2001); The Poems: 1941-1950 (2001); The Poems: 1951-1967 (2001); Let America Be America Again (2004); Poetry for Young People (2006); Jim Crow's Last Stand (2007); The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (2022); Fine Clothes to the Jew: Poems of Black America in the 1920s (2023); An Earth Song (2023); I Am the Darker Brother (1968); Growing Up in the South (1991); Quartet Of Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female (2006); What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self (2006); Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World (2019).

Born on this day – Byron Janis:

Byron Janis

Pianist

March 24, 1928 – March 14, 2024

Credits:

Movies and television:

Discorama (1965); Great Music from Chicago (1959); Hannibal Rising (2007); Harmoniques (1998); Les vendredis d'Apostrophes (2015); Prestige de la musique (1965); Pro Musicis: The Spirit of Music (1992); Six Pianos on One Disc (1966); The Bell Telephone Hour (1962–1963); The Byron Janis Story (2010); The Byron Janis Story (2010); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Tonight Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1984).

Born on this day – Vanessa Brown:

Vanessa Brown

Actress

March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999

Credits:

Movies, television and radio:

20 Questions (1952); All That Glitters (1977); Arnie (1971); Big Jack (1949); Bill Slater Show (1950); Bless the Beasts & Children (1971); Call to Glory (1985); Charleston (1979); Climax! (1955–1957); Dallas (1985); Eight Steps to Peace: Membership in the U.N. (1958); Eight Steps to Peace: The Answer Now (1958); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); General Electric Theater (1959); General Hospital (1980); Good Heavens (1976); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Goosehill Gang and the Vanishing Schoolmate (1980); Hollywood Screen Test (1952); Hollywood Star Time / The Song of Bernadette (1946); Hollywood Theatre Time (1951); I’ll Buy That (1953–1954); I’ve Always Loved You (1946); Justice (1955); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1952); Leave It to the Girls (1949–1953); Lights Out (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Margie (1946); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mother Wore Tights (1947); Murder, She Wrote (1989); My Favorite Husband (1955); One Step Beyond (1960); Österreicher in Hollywood (1994); Perry Mason (1959); Police Story (1975); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Rosie! (1967); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Stage 7 (1955); Suspense / Episode 107: The Vanishing Lady (1957); Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); The Basketball Fix (1951); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Ezio Pinza Show (1952); The Fighter (1952); The Foxes of Harrow (1947); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); The Girl of the Limberlost (1945); The Heiress (1949); The Kate Smith Hour (1953); The Late George Apley (1947); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Millionaire (1956); The Red Skelton Hour (1958); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Secret of St. Ives (1949); The Twilight Zone / A Message from Charity (1985); The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976); The Wonder Years (1990); Three Husbands (1950); True Colors (1991); Wagon Train (1958); We, the People (1949); Youth Runs Wild (1944).

Born on this day – Fred Rogers:

Fred Rogers

Minister

Television host

Writer

Producer

March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003

Credits:

Books:

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers Neighborhood (2009); A Trolley Visit to Make-Believe (1987); Adoption (1993); Dear Mister Rogers (1996); Divorce (1994); Everyone is Special (1975); Extraordinary Friends (2000); Going on an Airplane (1989); Going to Day Care (1985); Going to the Dentist (1989); Going to the Doctor (1986); Going to the Hospital (1977); Going to the Hospital (1988); Going to the Potty (1986); Good Weather or Not (2005); Having an Operation (1977); Henrietta Meets Someone New (1974); If We Were All the Same (1987); Josephine the Short Neck-Giraffe (2006); Life’s Journeys According to Mister Rogers (2005); Making Friends (1987); Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom For Parents And Children (2019); Mister Rogers’ How Families Grow (1988); Mister Rogers’ Playbook (1986); Mister Rogers’ Playtime (2001); Mister Rogers’ Songbook (1970); Mister Rogers Talks About (1974); Mister Rogers Talks to Parents (1983); Mister Rogers Talks with Families About Divorce (1987); Moving (1987); No One Can Ever Take Your Place (1988); Our Small World (1954); Planet Purple (1986); So Many Things To See! (1977); Speedy Delivery (1973); Stepfamilies (2001); Tell Me, Mister Rogers (1975); The Costume Party (1976); The Elves, the Shoemaker, & the Shoemaker’s Wife (1973); The Giving Box (2000); The Matter of the Mittens (1973); The Mister Rogers Parenting Book (2002); The Mister Rogers Parenting Resource Book (2005); The New Baby (1985); The World According to Mister Rogers (2003); Time to Be Friends (1974); Tomorrow on the Children’s Corner (1960); Wearing a Cast (1977); When a Pet Dies (1988); When Monsters Seem Real (1988); Wishes Don’t Make Things Come True (1987); You are special: Neighborly Wisdom from Mister Rogers (2002); You Are Special: Words of Wisdom from America’s Most Beloved Neighbor (1994); You Can Never Go Down the Drain (1988).

Discography:

A Place of Our Own (1970); Around the Children’s Corner (with Josey Carey) (1958); Bedtime (1992); Come On and Wake Up (1972); Coming and Going (1997); Growing (1992); It’s Such A Good Feeling: The Best Of Mister Rogers (2019); Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe (1969); King Friday XIII Celebrates (1964); Let’s Be Together Today (1968); Tomorrow on the Children’s Corner (with Josie Carey) (1959); Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (1967); Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (1994); You Are Special (1969).

Movies and television:

114th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade (2003); A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019); A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (1999); Arthur (1997–2002); Atop the Fourth Wall (2008); Being There (1979); Bowling for Columbine (2002); Butternut Square (1964); CBS Tournament of Roses Parade (2003); Christmastime with Mister Rogers (1977); Cop Land (1997); Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (2012–2018); Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life (1997); Donahue (1972); Donkey Hodie (2021); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1996); Entertainment USA (1988); Family Ties (1989); Good Morning America (1979–1985); Haack: The King of Techno (2004); Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992); Hour Magazine (1986); In Living Color (1993); Jimmy Valentine (1985); Junior Magazine (1955); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Life and Times (2001); Medicine for Melancholy (2008); Mike & Mike (2016); Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001); MisteRogers (1961–1967); Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (2023); Mr. Dressup’s 25th Anniversary (1994); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1993); NET Playhouse (1970); Northern Exposure (1994); Old Friends... New Friends (1978–1980); Olive Kitteridge (2014); Pastor Mike Online (2011–2014); Paternity (1981); Perfect Strangers (1987); Presidential Inaugural Celebration for Children (1993); Saturday Night Live (2003); Saturday Night Live in the ‘80s: Lost & Found (2005); Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy (1998); Sesame Street (1981); Tattletales (1976); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 14th TV Academy Hall of Fame (1999); The 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1997); The Addams Family (2019); The Arsenio Hall Show (1993); The ‘Burbs (1989); The Children’s Corner (1955); The Creative Person (1966); The Drew Barrymore Show (2020); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The Magic of David Copperfield: China (1986); The Rosie O’Donnell Show (1996–2000); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2016–2018); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1980–1989); Today (1969); Wheel of Fortune (1998); Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991); Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018); Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (2021).

Born on this day – Patrick McGoohan:

Patrick McGoohan

Actor

Director

Writer

Producer

March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009

Credits:

15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009); A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975); A Time to Kill (1996); Aggie (1956–1957); All Night Long (1962); American Cowslip (2009); American Playhouse (1985); Armchair Theatre (1958–1961); Ashes to Ashes (1998); Assignment Foreign Legion (1957); Astley's Way (2001); Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1955); Between Ourselves (1993); Brand (1959); Brass Target (1978); Braveheart (1995); Braveheart: A Look Back (2009); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); Catch My Soul (1974); CBS Galaxy (1977); Columbo (1974–1990); Columbo: Agenda for Murder (1990); Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes (2001); Danger Man (1960–1966); Derrick contre Superman (1992); Disney's Beautiful Witch (2004); Don't Knock Yourself Out (2007); Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963); Elephant Gun (1958); Escape from Alcatraz (1979); Folio (1959); Hell Drivers (1957); High Tide at Noon (1957); Hysteria (1997); I Am a Camera (1955); Ice Station Zebra (1968); In My Mind (2017); In Search of the Prisoner (2001); Interviews with the Cast of 'Braveheart' (2007); ITV Play of the Week (1958–1961); ITV Television Playhouse (1958); Jamaica Inn (1983); Journey Into Darkness (1968); Kings and Desperate Men (1981); Koroshi (1968); Kreating Karloff (2006); Lionpower from MGM (1967); Many Happy Returns: 50 Years On (2017); Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Of Pure Blood (1986); Passage Home (1955); Que le meilleur gagne! (1993); Rafferty (1977–1979); Rendezvous (1957–1961); Scanners (1980); Secret Agent (1964–1967); Shooting the Moonshine War (1970); Silver Streak (1976); Six Into One: The Prisoner File (1984); Tales of the Vikings (1960); Tales of William Wallace (2007); TCM Remembers 2009 (2009); Television Playwright (1958); Terminus (1955); The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009); The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956); The Best of Friends (1991); The Cars That Made Britain Great (2016); The Dam Busters (1955); The Greatest (2001); The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958); The Hard Way (1980); The Laughing Prisoner (1987); The Magical World of Disney (1963 / 1965); The Man in the Iron Mask (1977); The Man Who Makes the Difference (1968); The Moonshine War (1970); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2009); The Persuader: The TV Times of Lord Lew Grade (1994); The Phantom (1996); The Prisoner (1967–1968); The Prisoner Puzzle (1977); The Prisoner Video Companion (1990); The Prisoner: 35 Years of a Television Phenomenon (2003); The Quare Fellow (1962); The Simpsons (2000); The Sixties (2014); The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963); The Tube / Segment: The Laughing Prisoner (1987); The Vise (1955–1956); The Warriors (1955); Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985); Timeshift (2004); Treasure Planet (2002); Treasure Planet Read-Along DVD (2003); Trespasses (1984); Two Living, One Dead (1961); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1965 (1966); Walk in the Shadow (1962); World Theatre (1959); You Are There (1954); Zarak (1956).

Born on this day – Valerie French:

Valerie French

Actress

March 11, 1928 – November 3, 1990

Credits:

One of the Boys (1982); One Life to Live (1977); The Adams Chronicles (1976); All My Children (1977); Shalako (1968); Armchair Theatre (1968); Champion House (1967); ITV Playhouse (1968); The Prisoner (1967); Love Story (1967); The Nurses (1965); A Flame in the Wind (1964); The Best of the Post (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1960); Alcoa Theatre (1958–1960); The Alaskans (1960); Goodyear Theatre (1958–1960); Bold Venture (1959); The Story on Page One (1959); The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959); The Third Man (1959); Ten Little Indians (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Hard Man (1957); Trackdown (1957); Decision at Sundown (1957); The 27th Day (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956); The Edge of Night (1965); Jubal (1956); Marriage a la Mode (1955); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Tonight's the Night (1954); Maddalena (1954); Strictly Personal (1953).

Born on this day – Lore Segal:

Lore Segal

Writer

Translator

Teacher

Actress

March 8, 1928 – October 7, 2024

Credits:

Books:

All the Way Home (1973); An Absence of Cousins (2024); Half the Kingdom (2013); Her First American (1985); Ladies' Lunch (2023); Lucinella (1976); More Mole Stories and Little Gopher, Too (2005); Morris the Artist (2003); Mrs. Lovewright & Purrless Her Cat (1993); Other People's Houses (1973); Shakespeare's Kitchen (2007); Tell Me a Mitzi (1977); Tell Me a Trudy (1977); The Best American Short Stories 1990 (1990); The Book Of Adam To Moses (1987); The Journal I Never Kept (2019); The Story of King Saul and King David (1991); The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck (1981); Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories (2004).

Movies and television:

Crossing Delancey (1988); Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000); My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996); Vielleicht habe ich Glück gehabt / Maybe I was lucky (2003).

Born on this day – Daphne Slater:

Daphne Slater

Actress

March 3, 1928 – October 4, 2012

Credits:

A Man of our Times (1968); Armchair Theatre (1962); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951–1959); Callan (1969); Don't Do It Dempsey (1960); Elizabeth R (1971); Emergency-Ward 10 (1967); Emma (1948); Happy Ever After (1969); I Want to Be an Actor (1946); ITV Play of the Week (1960); ITV Playhouse (1974); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1973); Jackanory (1967); Jane Eyre (1956); Katy's Love Affair (1947); Less Than Kind (1959); Love Story (1966); Our Man at St. Mark's (1966); Out of the Unknown (1965); Persuasion (1960–1961); Play for Today (1970); Precious Bane (1957); Pride and Prejudice (1952); Shadows (1975); Sunday Story (1965); Television World Theatre (1958); The Affair at Assino (1953); The Brontes at the BBC (2016); The Father (1962); The First Freedom (1967); The Gold Robbers (1969); The Jazz Age (1968); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); The Man in the Iron Mask (1968); The Respectful Prostitute (1963); The Wednesday Play (1964); Theatre 625 (1966–1967); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965); Village Hall (1975); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); World Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Katharine Whitehorn:

Katharine Whitehorn

Writer

Radio presenter

March 2, 1928 – January 8, 2021

Credits:

Cooking in a Bedsitter (aka Kitchen in the Corner: A Complete Guide to Bedsitter Cookery) (1961); Observations (1970); Only on Sundays (1966); Roundabout (1962); Selective Memory by Katharine Whitehorn (2007); Sunday Best (1976); View from a Column (1981).

Born on this day – David Ketchum:

David Ketchum

Actor

Comedian

February 4, 1928 – August 10, 2025

Credits:

Accidental Family (1967); Alice (1977); Angel (1961); Arnie (1970); Barefoot in the Park (1970); Blansky's Beauties (1977); Bless the Beasts & Children (1971); Call Holme (1972); Camp Runamuck (1965–1966); Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977); Captain Nice (1967); Co-ed Fever (1979); Down to Earth (1985); Full House (1990); Get Smart (1966–1995); Get Smart, Again! (1989); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1968); Good Morning World (1967); Good Neighbor Sam (1964); Goodnight Jackie (1974); Green Acres (1967–1971); Happy Days (1974–1984); Harold and His Amazing Green Plants (1984); Here's Lucy (1969–1970); Hey, Landlord (1966–1967); Highway to Heaven (1989); Honeymoon Suite (1972); How to Break Up a Happy Divorce (1976); I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962–1963); Inside TV Land (2001); Jeannie (1973); Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp (1970); Laverne & Shirley (1980–1982); Lottery! (1983); Love at First Bite (1979); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Vertical Romance / Love and the Check / Love and the Optimist (1969–1973); Lucas Tanner (1975); M*A*S*H (1973); MacGyver (1986); Mad TV (1996); Maude (1974); Mayberry R.F.D. (1969); Me and the Chimp (1972); Mod Squad (1969); Mork & Mindy (1978); My Three Sons (1971); On Our Own (1977); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Perfect Strangers (1986 / 1987); Petticoat Junction (1968); Roger Ramjet (1965); Safe at Home (1985); Sledge Hammer! (1987–1988); Stanley vs. The System (1968); Switch (1975–1976); T.J. Hooker (1984); That Girl (1968–1970); The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972–1973); The Andy Griffith Show (1967); The Bionic Woman (1976); The Carol Burnett Show (1967); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969–1970); The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse (1977); The Elevator (1974); The Fireman's Ball (1974 / 1975); The Funky Phantom (1971–1972); The Grasshopper (1970); The Jack Benny Program (1964); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Joey Bishop Show (1964); The Little People (1973–1974); The Love Boat (1977–1986); The Main Event (1979); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mike Douglas Show (1967); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1980); The Munsters (1965); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971); The New Steve Allen Show (1961); The New Temperatures Rising Show (1973–1974); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); The Odd Couple (1971); The Other Sister (1999); The Partridge Family (1972); The Real McCoys (1963); The Roman Holidays (1972); The Rookies (1974–1975); The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1978); The Six Million Dollar Man (1974); The Spike Jones Show (1960–1961); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tycoon (1964); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); Thicker Than Water (1973); Too Close for Comfort (1984); Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1973); Who's Watching the Kids (1978); Wonder Woman (1976–1977); Young Doctors in Love (1982); Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973).

Born on this day – Hilary Masters:

Hilary Masters

Writer

February 3, 1928 – June 14, 2015

Credits:

An American Marriage (1969); Clemmons (1985); Cooper (1987); Elegy for Sam Emerson (2006); Hammertown Tales (1986); Home Is the Exile (1996); How the Indians Buried Their Dead (2009); In Montaigne's Tower (2000); Last Stands: Notes from Memory (1982); Manuscript for Murder (1987); Palace of Strangers (1971); Post: A Fable (2011); Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro (2005); Strickland (1989); Success: New and Selected Short Stories (1992); The Common Pasture (1967).

Born on this day – Dorian Gray:

Dorian Gray

Actress

February 2, 1928 – February 16, 2011

Credits:

The criminals of the metropolis (1967); Thrilling (1965); Motel Adventure (1963); Commando (1962); Peccati d'estate (1962); Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1962); The Attendants (1961); Destination Fury (1961); ... And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960); The tank of 8 September (1960); Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960); Love and Larceny (1960); The Surprises of Love (1959); Short loves in Palma di Majorca (1959); Winter Holidays (1959); Love on the Riviera (1958); Wives dangerous (1958); Sunday is always Sunday (1958); The Scream (1957); Nights of Cabiria (1957); Totò, Peppino and the Outlaws (1956); Guaglione (1956); Totò, Peppino and the... Malafemmina (1956); Toto Double or Nothing (1956); They like me (1955); Poppy (1952); The Queen of Sheba (1952); Revenge... Sarda (1952); My Heart Sings (1951); Appointment for Murder (1951); The Magician by Strength (1951); Gosh to taxes!! (1951).

Born on this day – Stuart Whitman:

Stuart Whitman

Actor

February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020

Born on this day – Roger Vadim:

Roger Vadim

Writer

Director

Producer

Artist

Actor

January 26, 1928 – February 11, 2000

Born on this day – Jeanne Moreau:

Jeanne Moreau

Actress

Singer

Writer

Director

January 23, 1928 – July 31, 2017

Born on this day – Joanne Linville:

Joanne Linville

Actress

January 15, 1928 – June 20, 2021

Credits:

A Star Is Born (1976); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958); Barnaby Jones (1973–1979); Behind the Screen (1981); Ben Casey (1962); Beyond Lovely (2005); Bonanza (1966); Bringing Up Buddy (1960); Bus Stop (1962); CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960); Charlie's Angels (1979); heckmate (1961); CHiPs (1977); Columbo (1973); Copper Canyon (1950); Coronado 9 (1960); Deadline (1959); Decoy (1957); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Dr. Kildare (1962); Dynasty (1982–1983); Empire (1962); From the Dead of Night (1989); Gable and Lombard (1976); Going My Way (1962); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Guiding Light (1952–2009); Gunsmoke (1961–1968); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960); Hawaii Five-O (1969–1970); Hotel de Paree (1960); House on Greenapple Road (1970); I Spy (1965); James Dean (2001); Judd for the Defense (1969); Kojak (1974); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1958); L.A. Law (1988); Lancer (1969); Laramie (1961); Matinee Theatre (1957–1958); Medical Center (1971); Mrs. Columbo (1979); Naked City (1962–1963); Nakia (1974); One Step Beyond (1959–1960); Our American Heritage (1961); Playhouse 90 (1959); Prime Times (1983); Robert Montgomery Presents (1957); Route 66 (1962); Sam Benedict (1962); Scorpio (1973); ecrets (1977); Shane (1966); Star Trek (1968); Starship Excelsior (2016); Studio One (1954–1958); Suspicion (1958); Switch (1977); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Ascent of Mt. Fuji (1978); The Blue Knight (1976); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1970–1972); The Critical List (1978); The Defenders (1961–1963); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The F.B.I. (1967–1969); The Felony Squad (1968); The Fugitive (1966); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); The Goddess (1958); The Invaders (1967–1968); The Investigator (1958); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Law and Mr. Jones (1960); The New Breed (1962); The Right of the People (1986); The Seduction (1982); The Streets of San Francisco (1973–1974); The Third Man (1959); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Users (1978).

Born on this day – Gregory Walcott:

Gregory Walcott

Actor

January 13, 1928 – March 20, 2015

Born on this day – William Peter Blatty:

William Peter Blatty

Writer

Director

Actor

Producer

January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017

Credits:

Books:

Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1963); I, Billy Shakespeare (1965); Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane (1966); The Exorcist (1971); The Ninth Configuration (aka Twinkle, Twinkle "Killer" Kane) (1978); Legion (1983); Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable (1996); Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Hollywood Christmas Carol (2013); Elsewhere (2009); Dimiter (aka The Redemption) (2010 & 2013); Crazy (2010); The Exorcist for the 21st Century (2016); I'll Tell Them I Remember You (autobiography) (1974); William Peter Blatty on 'The Exorcist': From Novel to Screen (1974); If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty's Own Story of the Exorcist (2001); Finding Peter: A True Story of The Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life After Death (2015).

Movies:

The Exorcist III (1990); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Exorcist (1973); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965); No Place to Land (1958); Ficción sonora (2006); Mastermind (1976); Insight (1960); Darling Lili (1970); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Gunn (1967); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); Promise Her Anything (1966); A Shot in the Dark (1964); The Man from the Diners' Club (1963).

Recommended reading:

The Exorcist

By William Peter Blatty.

Published by Harper Paperbacks.

First published in 1971.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006209436X

ISBN-13: 978-0062094360

Description:

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

Legion

By William Peter Blatty.

Published by Tor Books.

First published in 1983.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0765327139

ISBN-13: 978-0765327130

Description:

“Jesus asked the man his name, and he answered, ‘Legion, for we are many.’” – Mark 5:9.

A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?

Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting new enigmas at every turn, even as more murders occur. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two priests among the dead? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago – one that supposedly ended with the death of the killer?

Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition.

The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty.

Born on this day – Beverly Michaels:

Beverly Michaels

Actress

December 28, 1928 – June 9, 2007

Credits:

Adventures of the Falcon (1955); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Betrayed Women (1955); Blonde Bait (1956); Cheyenne (1956); Crashout (1955); East Side, West Side (1949); No Holds Barred (1952); Pickup (1951); The Girl on the Bridge (1951); The Marrying Kind (1952); Three Little Words (1950); Wicked Woman (1953); Women Without Men (1956).

Born on this day – Dick Miller:

Dick Miller

Actor

December 25, 1928 – January 30, 2019