Born on this day – James Coburn:

James Coburn

Actor

August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002

Credits:

100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999); 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Distant Battle: Memories of Operation Market Garden (2004); A Fast Drive in the Country - The Heydays of Le Mans (1976); A High Wind in Jamaica (1965); A Life in Ten Pictures (2021); A Man Called Jones: The Real Virgil Hilts (2002); A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972); Acapulco (1961); Action on the Beach (1964); Affliction (1997); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1959); All-Star Birthday Party at Annapolis (1982); American Cinema (1995); American Gun (2002); American Masters (1989); Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge (1995); Arli$$ (2002); Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero (1999); A Christmas Reunion (1994); Bat Masterson (1959–1960); Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996); Biography (1994); Bite the Bullet (1975); Black Saddle (1959); Blackjack (1997); Blood and Steel: Making 'Enter the Dragon' (2004); Bonanza (1959–1962); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bracken's World (1970); Bronco (1959–1960); Bruce Lee, the Legend (1984); Bruce Lee, the Legend Continues (2001); Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist (1999); Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On (1999); Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973); Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth (1976); Bruce Lee: The Way of the Warrior (2022); Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (1995); Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (1995); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); C.E.O. (1995); Cain's Hundred (1962); Call from Space (1989); Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007); Candy (1968); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1992); Charade (1963); Charlie Rose (1999); Checkmate (1962); Cheyenne (1961); Cinema (1967); Circle of Iron (1978); Clive James' Postcard from... (1989); Combat! (1963); Convoy (1978); Cowboys of the Saturday Matinee (1984); Craps (1997); Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992); Cross of Iron (1977); Dale's All Stars (2000); Darkroom (1981–1982); De Caunes/Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle Part Ailleurs 2... suite et fin! (2005); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966); Deadfall (1993); Death of a Soldier (1986); Death Valley Days (1960); Des O'Connor Tonight (1991); Digital Dreams (1983); Draw! (1984); Duck, You Sucker! (1971); Duffy (1968); E! True Hollywood Story (1998); Enter the Clones of Bruce (2023); Eraser (1996); Escape (1980); Face of a Fugitive (1959); Faerie Tale Theatre (1984); Famous Families (1999); Film Genre (2002); Firepower (1979); Football America (1996); Frontier Justice (1961); Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002); General Electric Theater (1958); Go West, Young Man! (2003); Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (1994); Goldengirl (1979); Good Morning America (1977–1980); Gottschalk Late Night (1994); Gran premio internazionale della TV (2000); Great Performances (2000); Greyhounds (1994); Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000); Gypsy (1968); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Contract (1969); Hard Times / aka The Streetfighter (1975); Harry in Your Pocket (1973); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1960); HBO First Look (1994); Headshop (1971–1972); Hell Is for Heroes (1962); Hey Folks, It's Intermission Time (1993); High Risk (1981); Hollywood Beat (2001); Hollywood Greats (1984–2001); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Profile (2001); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Hollywood Stuntmakers (1991); Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee (1978); Horizon (1970); How the West Was Lost (2008); Hudson Hawk (1991); Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992); I Am Bruce Lee (2012); I Am Steve McQueen (2014); I Love Muppets (2002); Il falso bugiardo (2008); In Like Flint (1967); Intimate Portrait (2001); Intrepid (2000); Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981); John Wayne: On Board with the Duke (1997); Johnny Ringo (1959); Keys to Tulsa (1997); King of Diamonds (1962); Kings of the Sun (1963); Klondike (1960–1961); Laramie (1959–1961); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994–1999); Late Show with David Letterman (1999); Lawman (1960); Le cercle de minuit (1993); Les Chroniques du Mea (2019); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Looker (1981); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Loving Couples (1980); M Squad (1959); Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away (1986); Magacine (1999); Major Dundee (1965); Malibu (1983); Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001); Martin's Day (1985); Mastergate (1992); Maverick (1994); Men Into Space (1960); Midway (1976); Missing Pieces (2000); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Monsters, Inc. Scream Team (2001); Moving Pictures (1992); Mr. Murder (1998); Mr. Patman (1980); Muppets 201: Rarities from the Henson Vault (2009); Murder, She Wrote (1992); My Riviera (1990); Naked City (1962); Noah's Ark (1999); Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' (1981); Okavango: Africa's Savage Oasis (1996); Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone (2000); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Our Man Flint (1966); Outlaws (1961); Parkinson (1973); Passion & Poetry - Peckinpah's last western (2024); Passion & Poetry - The Dundee Odyssey (2019); Passion & Poetry: Major Dundee (2005); Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah Anecdotes (2017); Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011); Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie (2013); Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973); Payback (1999); Payback: Interview with Mel Gibson, Maria Bello, Lucy Liu and James Coburn (1999); Payback: Straight Up (2006); Paybacks Are a Bitch (2023); Perry Mason (1961–1962); Peter Gunn (1960); Philbin's People (1969); Picket Fences (1995); Profiler (1997); Proximity (2001); Rawhide (1962); Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995); Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (1994); Return to 'the Great Escape' (1993); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1960); Ride Lonesome (1959); RIP 2002 (2002); Ripcord (1962); Route 66 (1964); Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993); Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006); Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004); Saturday Night Live (1982); Scene by Scene (2000); Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996); Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999); Silverfox (1991); Sins of the Father (1985); Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993); Skeletons (1997); Sky Riders (1976); Slots with Video Poker (1997); Snow Dogs (2002); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Speed Fever (1978); Stagecoach West (1961); State Trooper (1959); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Stoney Burke (1963); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Studio One (1957); Sugarfoot (1960); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Superstunt (1977); Superstunt II (1979); Suspicion (1958); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958–1962); Tate (1960); Texas Rangers (2001); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 14th Annual CableACE Awards (1993); The 14th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (1999); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1976); The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979); The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1999); The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999); The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000); The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Aquanauts (1961); The Avenging Angel (1995); The Baltimore Bullet (1980); The BBC and the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Tribute to Richard Attenborough (1999); The Best of Hollywood (2017–2018); The Brothers Brannagan (1961); The Californians (1959); The Carey Treatment (1972); The Cherokee Kid (1996); The Coolest Guy Movie Ever: Return to the Scene of The Great Escape (2018); The Curse of the Dragon (1993); The Dain Curse (1978); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Defenders (1964); The Deputy (1960); The Detectives (1961); The Dick Cavett Show (1969); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965–1967); The Edge and Beyond (1988–1990); The Eighth Annual Diversity Awards (2000); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Fall Guy (1981); The Fifth Corner (1992); The Godfather and the Mob (2006); The Good Doctor (2000); The Great Escape (1963); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Hit List (1993); The Honkers (1972); The Infinite Voyage (1987–1991); The Internecine Project (1974); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Hard Men (1976); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1959); The Life of Bruce Lee (1994); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Lion's Roar (1985); The Living Edens (1998–1999); The Loved One (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1959); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Man from Elysian Fields (2001); The Man from Galveston (1963); The McCartney Years (2007); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1980); The Millionaire (1959); The Mists of Avalon (2001); The Muppet Movie (1979); The Muppet Show (1980); The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979); The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986); The Murder Men (1962); The New Bike (2009); The Nutty Professor (1996); The Path of the Dragon (2012); The Player (1992); The President's Analyst (1967); The Restless Gun (1958–1959); The Rifleman (1958–1961); The Rockford Files (1977); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1999–2002); The Rough Riders (1959); The Second Civil War (1997); The Set Up (1995); The Tall Man (1961); The Texan (1960); The Toni Tennille Show (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1980); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Unbeatable Bruce Lee (2001); The Untouchables (1961); The Wild West (1993); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); The Wolf Men (1969); The Yellow Bird (2001); This Is Your Life (1989); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trackdown (1959); Train to Heaven (1989); True Facts (1992); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Vengeance Unlimited (1999); Wagon Train (1958); Walking After Midnight (1988); Walter and Henry (2001); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959–1960); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition (1990); Waterhole #3 (1967); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); What's My Line? (1956); What's the Bet? (1994); Whirlybirds (1959); White Rock (1977); Wichita Town (1959–1960); Wogan (1989); World's Scariest Ghosts: Caught on Tape (2000); Young Guns II (1990); Zane Grey Theatre (1959–1960).

Born on this day – Harvey Hart:

Harvey Hart

Director

Producer

August 30, 1928 – November 21, 1989

Born on this day – Laurette Luez:

Laurette Luez

Actress

August 19, 1928 – September 12, 1999

Credits:

African Treasure (1952); Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Ben Casey (1964); Broadway Open House (1950); Cavalcade of America (1955); D.O.A. (1949); Flower Drum Song (1961); Jungle Gents (1954); Killer Shark (1950); Kim (1950); L'Oeil du cyclone (1995); Love That Brute (1950); Man-Trap (1961); Margie (1946); My Hero (1953); Nightmare Alley (1947); Paris Model (1953); Prehistoric Women (1950); Siren of Bagdad (1953); Stories of the Century (1955); The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956); The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954); The Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964); The Donald O'Connor Show (1955); The Mickey Rooney Show (1954); The Range Rider (1953); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); Unfaithfully Yours (1948); Valley of the Kings (1954); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Nicolas Roeg:

Nicolas Roeg

Director

Cinematographer

August 15, 1928 – November 23, 2018

Born on this day – Martin Greenfield:

Martin Greenfield

Tailor

Writer

Holocaust survivor

August 9, 1928 – March 20, 2024

Credits:

Founder of Martin Greenfield Clothiers.

Book:

Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor (2014).

Television:

Tailor Made (2018); Great Big Show (2017); Lessons from a Tailor (2008).

Born on this day – Betsy Byars:

Betsy Byars

Writer

August 7, 1928 – February 26, 2020

Credits:

Books:

A Blossom Promise (1987); After the Goat Man (1980); Ant (2001); Ant Plays Bear (1997); Beans On the Roof (1988); Bingo Brown and the Language of Love (1989); Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover (1991); Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance (1969); Boo's Dinosaur (2006); Boo's Surprise (2009); Cat Diaries (2010); Coast to Coast (1992); Cracker Jackson (1985); Dead Letter (1996); Death's Door (1997); Disappearing Acts (1998); Dog Diaries (2007); Go and Hush the Baby (1982); Good-bye, Chicken Little (1979); Hooray for the Golly Sisters! (1990); Keeper of the Doves (2002); King of Murder (2006); Little Horse (2002); Little Horse On His Own (2004); McMummy (1993); Me Tarzan (2000); Midnight Fox (1970); My Brother Ant (1996); My Dog, My Hero (2000); Perfect, the Pig (1970); Rama the Gypsy (1966); Rama the Gypsy Cat (1976); Tarot Says Beware (1995); The 18th Emergency (1975); The Animal, the Vegetable, And John D Jones (1982); The Black Tower (2006); The Blossoms and the Green Phantom (1987); The Blossoms Meet The Vulture Lady (1986); The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown (1988); The Cartoonist (1984); The Computer Nut (1984); The Cybil War (1981); The Dancing Camel (1965); The Dark Stairs (1994); The Glory Girl (1983); The Golly Sisters Go West (1985); The Golly Sisters Ride Again (1994); The House of Wings (1972); The Joy Boys (1996); The Lace Snail (1975); The Moon and I (1991); The Night Swimmers (1980); The Not-Just-Anybody Family (1986); The Pinballs (1977); The Seven Treasure Hunts (1991); The SOS File (2004); The Summer of the Swans (1972); The T.V. Kid (1974); The Winged Colt of Casa Mia (1973); TheTwo-Thousand-Pound Gold Fish (1982); Tornado (1996); Trouble River (1969); Wanted. . . Mud Blossom (1991).

Movies and television:

ABC Afterschool Specials (1974–1982); ABC Weekend Specials (1977); Jackanory (1975–1984); Middle English (1983).

Born on this day – Andy Warhol:

Andy Warhol

Artist

Director

Producer

August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987

Born on this day – Cécile Aubry:

Cécile Aubry

Actress

Writer

Director

August 3, 1928 – July 19, 2010

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick

In celebration of his movies:

Day of the Fight (1951)

Flying Padre (1951)

The Seafarers (1953)

Fear and Desire (1953)

Killer's Kiss (1955)

The Killing (1956)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Spartacus (1960)

Lolita (1962)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

The Shining (1980)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Video created by Jack Kost.

2022.

Music credit:

Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

– Stanley Kubrick.

In memory of Stanley Kubrick

Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999

Born on this day – Elliott Erwitt:

Elliott Erwitt

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023

Credits:

Books:

100+1 Elliott Erwitt (1997); Between the Sexes (1994); Dog Dogs A collection of black and white photographs of dogs Erwitt was intrigued by throughout his world travels (1998); EE 60/60 (2002); Elliot Erwitt's Scotland (2018); Elliott Erwitt Personal Best (2010); Elliott Erwitt XXL – Special and Collectors Edition (2012); Elliott Erwitt, Sequentially Yours (2011); Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience / Series: Masters of Contemporary Photography (1974); Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002); Elliott Erwitt's Kolor Kempen, Germany: teNeues (2013); Elliott Erwitt's New York (2009); Elliott Erwitt's Rome (2009); Found, Not Lost (2021); Museum Watching (1999); Observations on American Architecture (1972); On the Beach (1991); Personal Exposures (1988); Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972); Pittsburgh 1950 (20117); Recent Developments (1978); Snaps. London & New York: Phaidon (2001); Son of Bitch, photographs of dogs (1974); The Angel Tree (1993); The Art of Andre S. Solidor aka Elliott Erwitt (2010); To The Dogs (1992); Woof (2005).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1974); 3 x Magnum (2006); 4 Little Girls (1997); A Sense of Loss (1972); American Masters (2005–2006); Arte Journal (2023); Arthur Penn: The Director (1970); Articulate with Jim Cotter (2019); At Home with Elliott Erwitt (2013); Beautiful Baby, Beautiful (1980); Beauty Knows No Pain (1972); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Copyright by Inge Morath (1992); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs (2011); Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019); Everybody Street (2013); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009); Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2002); Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003); Incontournables: Les grandes expositions de 2010 (2010); Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (2017); L'invité (2006); Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016); Paper Lion (1968); The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan (1986); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Misfits (1961); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013); The Unwed Mother (1964); Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2008); Un jour, un destin (2011); Un voyageur (2013).

Born on this day – Michael Currie:

Michael Currie

Actor

July 24, 1928 – December 22, 2009

Credits:

A Perfect Match (1980); ABC Afterschool Specials (1980); Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); Any Which Way You Can (1980); Aaron's Way (1988); Barney Miller (1980); Bogie (1980); Cheers (1989); Christine Cromwell (1990); Code Red (1981); Dallas (1983); Dark Shadows (1966); Dead & Buried (1981); Deadly Intentions (1985); Devlin (1992); Distant Thunder (1988); Dying Time (1990); Eight Is Enough (1981); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Family (1979); Family Ties (1984); Fantasy (2002); Firefox (1982); G.I. Jane (1997); Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994–1995); Hooperman (1988); I Want to Live (1983); In the Shadow of a Killer (1992); Knots Landing (1981); Lou Grant (1979); Loving Couples (1980); M*A*S*H (1980); Mae West (1982); Mark, I Love You (1980); Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980); Mrs. R's Daughter (1979); N.Y.P.D. (1967); Nero Wolfe (1981); Newhart (1984); Once a Hero (1987); Our Family Business (1981); Pray TV (1982); Quarterback Princess (1983); Remington Steele (1983); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); See How She Runs (1978); Snoops (1989); Soap (1981); Spenser: For Hire (1985–1986); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Sudden Impact (1983); The Associates (1979); The Dead Pool (1988); The French Atlantic Affair (1979); The Man Without a Face (1993); The New Mike Hammer (1984); The Other Victim (1981); The Philadelphia Experiment (1984); The Trials of O'Brien (1965–1966); The Troublemaker (1964); Too Many Thieves (1966); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); Voyagers! (1982); Werewolf (1987); Wizards and Warriors (1983).

Born on this day – Tom Troupe:

Tom Troupe

Actor

Writer

July 15, 1928 – July 20, 2025

Credits:

Amen (1988); Archie Bunker's Place (1983); Baby Talk (1992); Barbary Coast (1975); Ben Casey (1962–1964); Bert D'Angelo / Superstar (1976); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Break a Hip (2015–2018); Cagney & Lacey (1985); Cannon (1973); Caravaggio and My Mother the Pope (2017); Cassie & Co. (1982); Che! (1969); Cheers (1987); CHiPs (1979); Combat! (1963); Dan August (1971); Dr. Kildare (1961); ER (1998); Frasier (1995); Griff (1973); Harrigan and Son (1961); Highway to Heaven (1989); Iron Horse (1966); Ironside (1974); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kelly's Heroes (1970); Knots Landing (1991); Lawman (1960); Lock Up (1960); Lucas Tanner (1974); Making It (1971); Mannix (1969); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974–1975); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976); McMillan & Wife (1972–1973); Mission: Impossible (1967); Murder, She Wrote (1990); My Own Private Idaho (1991); Night Gallery / Segment: Clean Kills and Other Trophies (1971); Off the Minnesota Strip (1980); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971–1974); Peyton Place (1965); Planet of the Apes (1974); Private Screenings (2014); PSI Factor (1980); Quincy, M.E. (1980); Rawhide (1960); Sofi (1968); Star Trek (1967); Studio One (1955); Summer School (1987); The Alpha Caper (1973); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The F.B.I. (1972); The Fugitive (1964); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors (2010); The Rookies (1972); The Runaways (1978); The Smith Family (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1973–1975); The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); The Wild Wild West (1968); The Young Rebels (1970); This Is the Life (1970–1976); Time Out (2019); Voyagers! (1983); What I Did Last Summer / Segment: Christmas in June (2012); Who's the Boss? (1990–1991).

Born on this day – Jane Gardam:

Jane Gardam

Writer

July 11, 1928 – April 28, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Few Fair Days (1971); A Long Way from Verona (1971); Animal Stories (1995); Bilgewater (1976); Black Faces, White Faces (1975); Black Woolly Pony (1993); Bridget and William (1981); Crusoe's Daughter (1985); Facing the Music (2013); Faith Fox (1996); God on the Rocks (1978); Going into a Dark House (1994); Horse (1982); Kit (1983); Kit / Kit in Boots (1988); Kit in Boots (1986); Last Friends (2013); Life (2013); Magical Stories (1995); Missing the Midnight (1997); Old Filth (2004); Reader, I Married Him (2016); Showing the Flag (1989); Stories for Five-Year-Olds (1995); Stories for Six-Year-Olds (1995); Stories of Jane Gardam (2014); Supernatural Stories (1995); Swan (1987); The Armless Maiden (1995); The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005); The Flight of the Maidens (2000); The Green Man (1998); The Hollow Land (1981); The Kit Stories (1998); The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Pangs Of Love (2012); The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983); The People on Privilege Hill (2007); The Pineapple Bay Hotel (1976); The Queen of the Tambourine (1991); The Sidmouth Letters (1980); The Stories (2012); The Summer After the Funeral (1973); Through the Doll's House Door (1987); Trio (1993); Tufty Bear (1996).

Movies and television:

BBC2 Playhouse (1982); Bookmark (1987); God on the Rocks (1990); Jackanory (1985); Read All About It (1979); Tales of the Unexpected (1983); The Book Show (2007).

On this day in movie history - Lights of New York (1928):

Lights of New York

directed by Bryan Foy,

written by Murray Roth and Hugh Herbert,

based on a story by Charles L. Gaskill,

was released in the United States on July 6, 1928.
Music by Louis Silvers.
Note: this was the first full-length all-talking movie.

Cast:

Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Gladys Brockwell, Robert Elliott, Eugene Pallette, Tom Dugan, Tom McGuire, Walter Percival, Guy D'Ennery, Jere Delaney, Harry Downing, Eddie Kane, Bob Perry.

Born on this day – Warren Oates:

Warren Oates

Actor

July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1965); 1941 (1979); 77 Sunset Strip (1960–1962); 92 in the Shade (1975); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2008); And Baby Makes Six (1979); Baby Comes Home (1980); Badlands (1973); Barquero (1970); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Beat the Clock (1950–1961); Behind-the-Scenes: 'Blue Thunder' (1983); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Black Beauty (1979); Black Saddle (1959); Blue Thunder (1983); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bonanza (1962); Branded (1965); Brave New Cowboy (1979); Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974); Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986); Bronco (1960); Buckskin (1959); Chandler (1971); China 9, Liberty 37 (1978); Cimarron Strip (1967); Cockfighter (1974); Combat! (1964); Dillinger (1973); Dixie Dynamite (1976); Dream in the Making: The Making of Sleeping Dogs (2018); Drum (1976); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); East of Eden (1981); Film Night (1973); Gunsmoke (1958–1967); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1960); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Hero's Island (1962); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hotel de Paree (1960); Iguana (1988); In the Heat of the Night (1967); Insight (1979); Iron Horse (1967); Johnny Ringo (1960); Kid Blue (1973); Kraft Theatre (1956–1957); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956); Lamp Unto My Feet (1955); Lancer (1969–1970); Lanton Mills (1969); Laramie (1961); Lawman (1960); Lost in Space (1965); Mail Order Bride (1964); Major Dundee (1965); Michael Shayne (1961); My Old Man (1979); On location with There Was a Crooked Man (1970); Outlaws (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); Police Story (1978); Prime Time (1977); Private Property (1960); Race with the Devil (1975); Rancho Deluxe (1975); Rawhide (1960–1965); Rescue 8 (1958); Return of the Seven (1966); Ride the High Country (1962); Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' (2006); Run for Your Life (1968); Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004); Shane (1966); Shenandoah (1965); Shotgun Slade (1960); Slattery's People (1965); Sleeping Dogs (1977); Smith! (1969); Something for a Lonely Man (1968); Sophie's Place (1969); Stagecoach West (1961); Stoney Burke (1962–1963); Stripes (1981); Studio One (1956–1958); Tales of the Unexpected (1985); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Target: The Corruptors (1961–1962); Tate (1960); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1958); The African Queen (1977); The Big Story (1956); The Big Valley (1965–1966); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Border (1982); The Brink's Job (1978); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The F.B.I. (1971); The Fugitive (1964); The Hired Hand (1971); The Larry Solway Show (1976); The Lawless Years (1961); The Magical World of Disney (1968); The Making of 'Sleeping Dogs' (2004); The Monroes (1966); The Movie Murderer (1970); The Name of the Game (1971); The Old Man & the Gun (2018); The Outer Limits (1964); The Rebel (1959); The Reluctant Heroes (1971); The Reporter (1964); The Rifleman (1958–1962); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Rough Riders (1959); The Rounders (1965); The Shooting (1966); The Split (1968); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); The Twilight Zone (1960–1963); The Untouchables (1962); The Virginia Graham Show (1970); The Virginian (1963–1966); The Westerner (1960); The White Dawn (1974); The Wild Bunch (1969); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); Thriller (1960–1962); Tom Sawyer (1973); Tombstone Territory (1958–1960); Tough Enough (1983); Trackdown (1959); True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978); Two-Lane Blacktop (1971); Up Periscope (1959); Wagon Train (1959); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961); Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Welcome to the Basement (2015–2018); Wrangler (1960); Yellowstone Kelly (1959).

On this day in movie history - The Racket (1928 movie & play):

The Racket

directed by Lewis Milestone,

written by Bartlett Cormack, Del Andrews, Tom Miranda, Harry Behn,

based on the play by Bartlett Cormack,

released in the United States on June 30, 1928.

Cast: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins, Henry Sedley, George E. Stone, Sam De Grasse, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Lee Moran, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Dan Wolheim, Frank Austin, Walter Brennan, Jimmy Dime, Jim Farley, Ruth Feldman, Sherry Hall, Sydney Jarvis, Tony Marlo, Burr McIntosh, Pat McKee, Lewis Milestone, William H. O'Brien, Jack Perry, Dick Rush, Charles Sullivan, Nick Thompson, Harry Wilson.

Recommended reading:

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 – Ian Bannen:

Ian Bannen

Actor

June 29, 1928 – November 3, 1999

Born on this day – Alex Toth:

Alex Toth

Cartoonist

June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006

Credits:

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