Born on this day – Ed Nelson:

Ed Nelson

Actor

December 21, 1928 – August 9, 2014

Born on this day – Jean Adamson:

Jean Adamson

Writer

Illustrator

February 29, 1928 – December 15, 2024

Credits:

Books:

ABC: A Picture Alphabet (1962); Animal bounce (1969); Busy Builders (1997); Chestnut Tree (1974); Family Tree (1968); Hop Like Me (1972); Neighbours in the Park (1962); People who Help Us Stories (1999); Red Boots, Yellow Boots (1997); Surprises for Topsy & Tim (1971); Topsy & Tim Have Their Hair Cut (1989); Topsy & Tim's Safety Book (1973); Topsy + Tim Meet the Ambulance Crew (1996); Topsy and Tim and the Bully (1994); Topsy and Tim and the New Puppy (1992); Topsy and Tim at Granny and Grandpa's (1996); Topsy and Tim at School (1968); Topsy and Tim at the Bank (1985); Topsy and Tim at the Farm (1970); Topsy and Tim at the Seaside (1965); Topsy and Tim at the Supermarket (1996); Topsy and Tim Can Play Party Games (1981); Topsy and Tim Go for Gold (1977); Topsy and Tim Go Shopping (1977); Topsy And Tim Go Swimming (1973); Topsy and Tim Go to London (2014); Topsy and Tim go to the Hospital (1971); Topsy and Tim go to the zoo (1968); Topsy and Tim move house (1979); Topsy and Tim Stay with a Friend (1987); Topsy and Tim Visit the Tower of London (1976); Topsy and Tim: First Sleepover (2016); Topsy and Tim: Go Camping (1977); Topsy and Tim: Go on a Train (1990); Topsy and Tim: Go on an Aeroplane (1979); Topsy and Tim: Go to the Doctor (1982); Topsy and Tim: Halloween Party; Topsy and Tim: Have a Birthday Party (1971 / 2010); Topsy and Tim: Have Itchy Heads (1996); Topsy and Tim: Have Their Eyes Tested (1982); Topsy and Tim: Help a Friend (2005); Topsy and Tim: Learn to Swim (1973); Topsy and Tim: Meet Father Christmas (2013); Topsy and Tim: Meet the Firefighters (1989); Topsy and Tim: Meet the Police (1989); Topsy and Tim: Our Day Clock Book; Topsy and Tim: Play Football (1991); Topsy and Tim: Start School (2003); Topsy and Tim: the Complete Audio Collection (2017); Topsy and Tim: Visit London (2012); Topsy and Tim's ABC (1982); Topsy and Tim's Big Fun Book; Topsy and Tim's Friday Book (1961); Village Green (1972).

Television:

Topsy and Tim / 64-episode TV series (2013–2015).

Born on this day – Philip K. Dick:

Philip K. Dick

Writer

December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982

Credits:

Books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / aka Blade Runner (1968); The Edge of Human (By: K.W. Jeter) (1995); Replicant Night (By: K.W. Jeter) (1996); Eye and Talon (By: K.W. Jeter) (2000); 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); A Handful of Darkness (1955); A Maze of Death (1970); A Scanner Darkly (1977); A Scanner Darkly (1977); Alien Worlds (1964); Alpha 3 (1972); Alpha 5 (1974); Angels! (1995); Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V19 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V24 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1 (2013); Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World (1999); Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (1987); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Beyond Lies the Wub (1951); Beyond the Door (1954); Beyond Tomorrow (1976); Cantata-140 aka The Crack in Space (1964); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964); Confessions of a Crap Artist (1975); Contact: Stories of the New World (2013); Counter-Clock World (1967); Dangerous Visions (1967); Dangerous Visions 2 (1967); David Bowie (2016); Deus Irae (1976); Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965); Dr. Futurity (1960); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Eye in the Sky (1957); Fantastic Stories Presents (2014); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Galactic Pot-Healer (1969); Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 (1963); Gather Yourselves Together (1994); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Human Is? (1955); Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1986); Hunger for Horror (1988); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985); In Milton Lumky Territory (1984); In Pursuit of VALIS (1991); Inside the Funhouse (1992); Invaders! (1993); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Lies, Inc. (1983); Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories (2015); Lou Reed (2015); Martian Time-Slip (1964); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Mary and the Giant (1987); More Amazing Stories (1998); Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction (2020); New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003); Nick and the Glimmung (1988); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Now Wait for Last Year (1966); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Our Friends From Frolix 8 (1970); Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters (1982); Philip K. Dick (2015); Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017); Puttering About in a Small Land (1985); Radio Free Albemuth (1985); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Robots Through the Ages (2023); Science Fiction Super Pack #1 (2013); Second Variety (1987); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Small Town (1954); Solar Lottery / World of Chance (1955); Spells of Enchantment (1991); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Tales of Time Travel - Book Three: Seven Short Science Fiction Stories (2016); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24 (1982); The Book of Philip K. Dick (1972); The Broken Bubble (1988); The Campfire Collection (2005); The Cosmic Puppets (1957); The Crack in Space (1966); The Crystal Crypt (1954); The Dark-Haired Girl (1988); The Defenders (1953); The Defenders and Three Others (1950); The Divine Invasion (1981); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Eyes Have It and Other Stories (2022); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Game-Players of Titan (1963); The Ganymede Takeover (1967); The Golden Man (1980); The Gun (1952); The Last of the Masters (1954); The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories (2014); The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction (2002); The Man in the High Castle (1962); The Man Who Japed (1956); The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1984); The Minority Report (1956); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Penultimate Truth (1964); The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995); The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories (1987); The Simulacra (1964); The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack (2013); The Skull (1952); The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964); The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982); The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Unreconstructed M (1957); The Unteleported Man (1964); The Variable Man and Other Stories (1957); The Vintage Book of Amnesia (2000); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The World Jones Made (1956); The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); The Zap Gun (1967); Time Out of Joint (1959); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Total Recall (1966); Ubik (1969); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); VALIS (1981); Visions of Fear (1992); Voices from the Street (2007); Vulcan's Hammer (1960); War Veteran (1955); We Can Build You (1969); We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1987); What If Our World is Their Heaven? (1982).

Movies, television and video:

Blade Runner (1982); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); A Scanner Darkly (2006); Andys (2014); Barjo (1992); Beyond the Door (2011); BIOS (2018); Blade Runner (video game) (1997); Blade Runner 60: Director's Cut (2012); Blade Runner(s); Blade Runner(s) (2019); Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021–2022); Blade Runner: Czy androidy marza o elektrycznych owcach? (Audioplay) (2012); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2013); Cineficción Radio / The Defenders (2021); Curious Matter Anthology (2019); Dust (2019); Electric Dreams (2017–2018); Ficción sonora (2014); Impostor (2001); Minority Report (2002); Minority Report (2015); Morning Patrol (1987); Natural City (2003); Next (2007); Out of This World (1962); Pavel Kolev & Icaka: There's No Lie (2019); Paycheck (2003); Paycheck: Alternate Ending (2004); Paycheck: Deleted / Extended Scenes (2004); Philip K. Dick Interview (1977); Philip K. Dick: The Metz Speech (1977); Piper in the Woods (2016); Radio Free Albemuth (2010); Radio Theater Project (2014); Roog (2019); Screamers (1995); Screamers: The Hunting (2009); Second Variety (2014); The Adjustment Bureau (2011); The Crystal Crypt (2013); The Edge of Human (2022); The Great C (2018); The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019); The Pipers (2013); The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick (1990); The Room 13 (2018); The Skull (2023); The Truth (2011); Total Recall (1990 / 2012); Total Recall 2070 (1999 / 2012); Vampirismus (1981).

Born on this day – Terry Carter:

Terry Carter

Actor

Director

December 16, 1928 – April 23, 2024

Credits:

227 (1988); Abby (1974); American Masters (1988); Attraction (1969); Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979); Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999); Benji (1974); Bracken's World (1969); Breaking Point (1964); Brother on the Run (1973); Celebrity Bowling (1975); Combat! (1965); Company of Killers (1970); Dr. Kildare (1964); Falcon Crest (1984); First Person (1960); For the People (1965); Foxy Brown (1974); Galacticon (2003); Glen Larson on the Creation of 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004); Hamilton (1998); Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation (2012); Julia (1968–1970); Mannix (1970); McCloud (1970–1977); Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979); Mr. Belvedere (1987); Naked City (1961); One West Waikiki (1994); Parrish (1961); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Remembering 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004); Search (1973); That Girl (1969); The 5th Annual People's Choice Awards (1979); The Big Story (1957); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Cop and the Kid (1976); The Cross-Wits (1976); The Cylons of 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004); The Defenders (1961–1965); The Fall Guy (1982–1985); The Green Pastures (1959); The Highwayman (1988); The Jeffersons (1982); The Making of Black Mayors (1986); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Most Deadly Game (1970); The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959); The Return of Sam McCloud (1989); The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973); Two on a Bench (1971); Unsung Hollywood (2016); Working with the Daggit of 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004).

Born on this day – Thomas A. Carlin:

Thomas A. Carlin

Actor

December 10, 1928 - May 6, 1991

Credits:

One Good Cop (1991); Law & Order (1991); Jacob's Ladder (1990); Family Business (1989); Blood Money (1988); The Equalizer (1986–1988); Matewan (1987); Search for Tomorrow (1985); The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984); The Executioner's Song (1982); Ragtime (1981); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981); Caddyshack (1980); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980); Hawk (1966); The Defenders (1961–1964); Route 66 (1963); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1962–1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); Naked City (1961); John Brown's Raid (1960); Sunday Showcase (1960); Playhouse 90 (1960); Play of the Week (1960); Decoy (1958); True Story (1958); The Young Don't Cry (1957); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Big Story (1949).

Born on this day – Barbara Nichols:

Barbara Nichols

Actress

December 10, 1928 – October 5, 1976

Born on this day – Norma Crane:

Norma Crane

Actress

November 10, 1928 — September 28, 1973

Born on this day – Ennio Morricone:

Ennio Morricone

Composer

Orchestrator

Conductor

Musician

November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020

Born on this day – John Lasell:

John Lasell

Actor

November 6, 1928 – October 4, 2024

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1966); 87th Precinct (1962); A Death in California (1985); A Great American Tragedy (1972); Adam-12 (1970); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1960); As the World Turns (1956–2010); Barnaby Jones (1974); Ben Casey (1961); Camera Three (1961); Cannon (1972); Checkmate (1960–1961); Dallas (1984); Dan August (1970–1971); Dan August: Once Is Never Enough (1980); Dark Shadows (1967); Deathmaster (1972); Dr. Kildare (1964); Falcon Crest (1985); Fear on Trial (1975); Flipper (1964); General Electric Theater (1961); Gunsmoke (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Hazel (1961); Helen Keller and Her Teacher (1970); Hong Kong (1960); Honky (1971); I Spy (1965); Judd for the Defense (1968); Lassie (1973); Lassie: Joyous Sound (1973); Mannix (1972); Men at Law (1971); Message to My Daughter (1973); Mission: Impossible (1972); Mod Squad (1972); My Favorite Martian (1966); Naked City (1962); Night Gallery / Segment: Little Girl Lost (1972); One Step Beyond (1960); Perry Mason (1962–1966); Peyton Place (1965); Police Story (1973); Rawhide (1965); Robert Frost's the Death of the Hired Man (1979); Route 66 (1962); Shannon (1962); Shotgun Slade (1961); Slattery's People (1965); Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1964); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960–1961); The F.B.I. (1966–1971); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Harness (1971); The Invaders (1967); The Investigators (1961); The New Breed (1961); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Organization (1971); The Psychiatrist (1970); The Rogues (1964); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); The Tall Man (1961); The Twilight Zone (1961); This Is the Life (1968–1973); Topaz (1969); Wagon Train (1961).

Born on this day – Wanda Hendrix:

Wanda Hendrix

Actress

November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981

Credits:

Police Story (1974); The Oval Portrait (1973); One Minute Before Death (1972); Mystic Mountain Massacre (1971); Bewitched (19716); My Three Sons (1969); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Johnny Cool (1963); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963); Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961); The Deputy (1961); Bat Masterson (1960); Lock Up (1960); The Red Skelton Hour (1959); Wagon Train (1958); Telephone Time (1958); Climax! (1957); The Black Dakotas (1954); Highway Dragnet (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1953); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); The Last Posse (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Golden Mask (1953); Your Favorite Story (1953); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Montana Territory (1952); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951–1952); My Outlaw Brother (1951); The Highwayman (1951); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1950); Saddle Tramp (1950); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); Sierra (1950); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Prince of Foxes (1949); Song of Surrender (1949); My Own True Love (1949); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); Variety Girl (1947); Hollywood Wonderland (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); Nora Prentiss (1947); Confidential Agent (1945).

Born on this day – Dianne Foster:

Dianne Foster

Actress

October 31, 1928 – July 27, 2019

Born on this day – Jeanne Cooper:

Jeanne Cooper

Actress

October 25, 1928 – May 8, 2013

Credits:

13 West Street (1962); 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014); 5 Steps to Danger (1956); 5th Annual Soap Opera Awards (1989); 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964); 78th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2009); 87th Precinct (1961); A Closer Look (1991); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Ben Casey (1961–1966); Beyond Suspicion (1993); Black Zoo (1963); Bonanza (1962–1963); Bracken's World (1969–1970); Branded (1965); Bronco (1959–1960); Calling Homicide (1956); Cannon (1971); Carpool Guy (2005); Celebrity Page (2021); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Channing (1963); Chevron Theatre (1953); Cheyenne (1957–1962); Cimarron Strip (1968); Code 3 (1957); Crook & Chase (1996); Crossroads (1956); Crusader (1956); Daniel Boone (1966–1967); Dead Air (2009); Death Valley Days (1954–1969); Diagnosis Murder (1995); Doc Elliot (1974); Donna on Demand (2009); Dr. Christian (1956); Dr. Kildare (1964); Emergency! (1975); Front Row Center (1956); Frozen Assets (1992); General Electric Theater (1959); Gentle Ben 2: Black Gold (2003); Guiding Light (2009); Gunsmoke (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962); Hawaii Five-O (1971); Hawaiian Eye (1962–1963); Hawkins (1973); Highway Patrol (1956); HLN News Now (2013); Hour Magazine (1984); House of Women (1962); I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956); Insight (1970–1977); Ironside (1968–1973); It's Your Bet (1971); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Jefferson Drum (1958); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1986); John & Leeza from Hollywood (1993); Kansas City Bomber (1972); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974); L.A. Law (1986–1990); Lancer (1968); Laredo (1967); Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960); Lethal Justice (1991); Longstreet (1972); M Squad (1958–1960); Mannix (1972); Marie (2012–2013); Matinee Theatre (1955–1958); Maverick (1957–1961); McCloud (1975); Men at Law (1971); Mike Hammer (1958); Mosby's Marauders (1967); Mr. Novak (1963); Nanny and the Professor (1971); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Over-Exposed (1956); Perry Mason (1958–1966); Playhouse 90 (1956); Plunder Road (1957); Rawhide (1961–1963); Red Nightmare (1962); Rock All Night (1957); Run, Joe, Run (1974); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Screaming Mimi (1958); Shadows of Tombstone (1953); Shotgun Slade (1960); SoapTalk (2003–2006); State Trooper (1957–1959); Stoney Burke (1963); Sugarfoot (1960); Surfside 6 (1962); Sweet Hostage (1975); Tales of the Vikings (1959); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1959); The 16th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1989); The 19th Annual People's Choice Awards (1993); The 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1999); The 27th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2000); The 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2004); The 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2005); The 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2007); The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2008); The 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1987); The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (2013); The 8th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards (1992); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1953); The Alaskans (1959); The All-American Boy (1973); The Big Valley (1965–1966); The Bold and the Beautiful (2005); The Boston Strangler (1968); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The Dakotas (1962–1963); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1989–1996); The Glory Guys (1965); The Hollywood Moment at Home Edition (2020); The Houston Story (1956); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2009); The Intruder (1962); The Lineup (1958); The Loner (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1967–1968); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); The Man from the Alamo (1953); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Marsha Warfield Show (1990); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Millionaire (1957); The Monroes (1966); The Naked Street (1955); The Nanny (1997); The New Breed (1961); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2011); The Outsider (1968); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Redhead from Wyoming (1953); The San Pedro Bums (1977); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Silent Force (1970); The Tall Man (1961); The Tomorrow Man (2002); The Twilight Zone (1959); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Virginian (1964); The Web (1957); The Young and the Restless (1974–2023); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); Thriller (1960); Tony Rome (1967); Touched by an Angel (1997); Unwed Mother (1958); Vicki! (1993); Wagon Train (1961–1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); Your Favorite Story (1954); Zane Grey Theatre (1958).

Recommended reading - The Racket (1928):

The Racket

By Bartlett Cormack.

A play in three acts.
ASIN: B0BPM49P6T
Published by Samuel French.
Published 1928.

Adapted to film in 1928 and 1951.

The play The Racket is also available in the following anthology:

Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Plays

Edited by Richard Nelson.

Paperback.
Published 1993.
Published by Theatre Communications Group.
ISBN 13: 9780930452551
ISBN 10: 0930452550
ASIN: 0930452550

Contents: Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges; The Racket by Bartlett Cormack; The Ghost of Yankee Doodle by Sidney Howard and A Slight Case of Murder by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.

Born on this day – Marthe Mercadier:

Marthe Mercadier

Actress

October 23, 1928 – September 15, 2021

On this day in movie history - The Fall of the House of Usher (1928):

The Fall of the House of Usher

aka La chute de la maison Usher,

directed by Jean Epstein,

written by Luis Buñuel and Jean Epstein,

based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe,

was released in France on October 5, 1928.

Cast:
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard, Luc Dartagnan, Abel Gance, Halma, Pierre Hot, Pierre Kefer.

Born on this day – George Peppard:

George Peppard

Actor

October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994

Born on this day – Martine Sarcey:

Martine Sarcey

Actress

September 28, 1928 – June 11, 2010

On this day in movie history - The Fall of the House of Usher (1928):

The Fall of the House of Usher

directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber,

based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe,

was released at the Athens Film Festival in Greece on September 20, 2011.
The movie was originally released in the United States in 1928.
Exact release date is unknown.
Music by Alec Wilder and Léon Barzin.

Cast:

Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak, Dorthea House.

On this day in movie history - The Wind (1928):

The Wind

directed by Victor Sjöström,

written by Frances Marion and John Colton,

based on the novel by Dorothy Scarborough,

was released in the United States on September 17, 1928.
Music by William Axt and Carl Davis.

Cast:

Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle, William Orlamond, Carmencita Johnson, Leon Janney, Billy Kent Schaefer, Sam Appel, Si Jenks, Cullen Johnson, Seessel Anne Johnson, Gus Leonard, Margaret Mann.

Born on this day – Roddy McDowall:

Roddy McDowall

Actor

September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998