Born on this day – John Frankenheimer:

John Frankenheimer

Director

February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002

Born on this day – Ruth Rendell:

Ruth Rendell

Writer

February 17, 1930 – May 2, 2015

Credits:

Books:

13 Steps Down (2004); A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986); A Demon in My View (1976); A Fatal Inversion (1987); A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970); A Judgement in Stone (1977); A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998); A Sleeping Life (1978); A Spot of Folly (2017); Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (2001); An Unkindness of Ravens (1985); Archie and Archie (2013); Asta's Book / Anna's Book (1993); BBC Radio Drama Collection (2019); Birthday Present (2008); Blood Lines (1995); Collected Short Stories (1989); Collected Stories Vol 1 (2006); Dark Corners (2015); Death Notes / Put On By Cunning (1981); End in Tears (2005); From Doon With Death (1964); Gallowglass (1990); Ginger and the Kingsmarkham (1992); Going Wrong (1990); Grasshopper (2000); Harm Done (1999); Heartstones (1987); In the Time of His Prosperity (1995); King Solomon's Carpet (1991); Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1992); Live Flesh (1986); Long Live The Queen (1991); Make Death Love Me (1979); Master of the Moor (1982); Means of Evil (1979); Minotaur (2005); Murder Being Once Done (1972); No Man's Nightingale (2013); No More Dying Then (1971); No Night Is Too Long (1994); Not in the Flesh (2007); One Across, Two Down (1971); Piranha to Scurfy (2000); Portobello (2008); Road Rage (1997); Ruth Rendell: Short Stories (2006); Ruth Rendell's Suffolk (1992); Shake Hands Forever (1975); Simisola (1994); Sins of the Fathers / A New Lease of Death (1967); Some Lie and Some Die (1973); Speaker of Mandarin (1983); Talking to Strange Men (1987); The Babes in the Wood (2002); The Best Man to Die (1969); The Blood Doctor (2002); The Bridesmaid (1989); The Brimstone Wedding (1995); The Child's Child (2012); The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998); The Convolvulus Clock (1985); The Copper Peacock and Other Stories (1991); The Crocodile Bird (1993); The Face of Trespass (1974); The Fallen Curtain (1976); The Fever Tree (1982); The Girl Next Door (2014); The House of Stairs (1988); The Keys to the Street (1996); The Killing Doll (1984); The Lake of Darkness (1980); The Monster in the Box (2009); The New Girlfriend (1985); The Reason Why (1995); The Rottweiler (2003); The Saint Zita Society (2012); The Secret House Of Death (1968); The Thief (2005); The Tree of Hands (1984); The Vault (2011); The Veiled One (1988); The Water's Lovely (2006); Thornapple (1998); Tigerlily's Orchids (2010); To Fear a Painted Devil (1965); Vanity Dies Hard (1966); Wolf to the Slaughter (1967).

Movies and television:

13 Steps Down (2012); A Dark Adapted Eye (1994); A Demon in My View (1991); A Fatal Inversion (1992); A Judgment in Stone (1986); A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James (1995); A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003); Alias Betty (2001); Bestseller (2002); Bookmark (1986); Bouillon de culture (2000); Cover to Cover (1987); Daphne Du Maurier - A Loving Spirit (1997); Das Literaturmagazin (1990); Diary of the Dead (1976); Drama Trails (2008); Faulks on Fiction (2011); Forty Years at the I.C.A. (1987); George Baker: Wexford and Me (2008); Imagine (2012); Innocent Victim (1989); La Cérémonie (1995); Late Review (2011); Le masque (1989); Live Flesh (1997); Loopy (2004); M.R. James: The Corner of the Retina (2004); Mystery!: Gallowglass (1993); No Night Is Too Long (2002); Out on Four (1989); Permis de penser (2006); Profiling (2008); Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000); Screen Two (1988); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Tales of the Unexpected (1981–1985); The Bridesmaid (2004); The Culture Show (2011); The Face of Trespass (1988); The New Girlfriend (2014); The South Bank Show (2004); The Write Stuff (1989); This Is Your Life (1995); This Morning (2008); Valentin Valentin (2014); Whodunnit? (1982); Without Walls (1992).

Born on this day – E. L. Konigsburg:

E. L. Konigsburg

Writer

Illustrator

February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013

Credits:

Winner of the Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor in 1968.

Books:

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (1973); About the B’Nai Bagels (1971); Altogether One at a Time (1971); Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale’s (1992); From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler (1968); George (1970); Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth (1967); Journey by First Class Camel (1983); Journey to an 800 Number (1982); My Father’s Daughter (aka Father’s Arcane Daughter) (1976); Pages and Stages (1999); Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Colors (1999); Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Inventions (1991); Silent to the Bone (2000); Talk, Talk (1995); T-backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit (1993); The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper (1974); The E. L. Konigsburg Newbery Collection (2013); The Mask Beneath the Face (1990); The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (2007); The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (2004); The Second Mrs. Giaconda (1975); The View from Saturday (1996); Throwing Shadows (1988); Up from Jericho Tel (1986).

Movies and television:

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973 / 1995); Caroline? (1990); NBC Children’s Theatre (1973).

Born on this day – Bobby "Blue" Bland:

Bobby “Blue” Bland

Blues singer

Songwriter

January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013

Credits:

Albums:

After All (1986); Ain't Nothing You Can Do (1964); Andy Russell Romance, Vol. 1 (2008); Blues at Midnight (2003); Blues Masters: The Greatest (2005); Blues You Can Use (1987); Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live (1976); Call on Me (2001); Call On Me / That's The Way Love Is (1963); Come Fly With Me (1978); Double Trouble (1995); Dreamer (1974); Farther Up The Road (2008); Further On Up the Road (2011); Get On Down With Bobby Bland (1975); Gold Masters: Bobby Bland, Vol. 2 (2014); Here We Go Again (1990); Here's the Man! (1962); His California Album (1973); Hold It Right There (2023); Hold Me Tenderly (Hall of Fame) (2014); It's My Life, Baby: The Singles - As & Bs, 1951-1960 (2012); Last Night (2008); Lil' Boy Blue (2013); "Live" On Beale Street (1998); Little Boy Blue (2014); Loan A Helping Hand (2015); Long Beach 1983 (1994); Members Only (1985); Memphis Monday Morning (1998); Midnight Run (1989); Portrait of the Blues (1991); R&b Originals (2012); Really The Blues (2017); Reflections in Blue (1977); Rhythm and Blues Originals, Volume 3 (2021); Sad Street (1995); Sometime Tomorrow (2015); Spotlighting the Man (1969); Sunday Morning Love in Concert (2021); The 3d Blues Boys (2013); The Classic Years, Vol. 2 (2021); The One and Only, Vol. 1 (2008); Together for the First Time... Live (1974); Touch of the Blues (1967); Turn on Your Love Light (2017); Two Steps from the Blues - 50 Classic Blues Tracks (2012); Two Steps from the Blues (Blues People - Original Album & Singles - 1951-1962) (2015); Years of Tears (1993); You Got Me (Where You Want Me) (2015); You or None (2021).

Movies and television:

11.22.63 (2016); A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988); American Masters (2015); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); Austin City Limits (1999); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Beforeigners (2019); Big George Foreman (2023); Black Lightning (2018); Blues Story (2003); Brown Sugar (2002); Detroit (2017); Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1988); Eileen (2023); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); Fighting (2009); Fresh Meat (2011); Giri/Haji (2019); Girls (2016); Godfather of Harlem (2021); In Concert (1973); Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014); Mystery Train (1989); Nobody's Fool (2018); Ocean's Twelve (2004); Pink Lightning (1991); Remember the Titans (2000); Rolling Vengeance (1987); Sex Education (2019); Shaft (2019); Skeppsholmen (2003); Soul Train (1973); Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023); Take Me to the River (2014); The 2003 Essence Music Festival (2003); The 56th Annual Grammy Awards (2014); The Butcher (2013); The Fugitive (1993); The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017); The Lincoln Lawyer (2011); The Lloyd Thaxton Show (1965); The Midnight Special (1974); The Simpsons (2021); To Sleep with Anger (1990); True Detective (2015); Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (2018); Unsung (2016); Upbeat (1965); Vinyl (2016); You (2021).

Born on this day – Colette Ripert:

Colette Ripert

Actress

January 17, 1930 – May 20, 1930

Born on this day – Micheline Luccioni:

Micheline Luccioni

Actress

January 16, 1930 – December 24, 1992

Credits:

À corps perdu (1970); Allô police (1967); Allô! Juliette (1972); An Idiot in Paris (1967); Au théâtre ce soir (1969–1981); Back to the Wall (1958); Baratin (1956); Belphégor ou le fantôme du Louvre (1965); Cadet Rousselle (1973); Cherchez l'erreur (1980); Children of Mata Hari (1970); Clarisse Fenigan (1959); Croquemitoufle (1959); Dis bonjour à la dame!.. (1977); Distracted (1970); Don Juan revient de guerre (1968); Églantine (1972); Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970); Fleur d'oseille (1967); Gervaise (1956); Guinguette (1959); Hello Beatrice (1984); Hôtel des neiges (1958); How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning / Segment: La Fermeture (1965); It Happened All Night (1960); Je vous ferai aimer la vie (1979); Jo (1971); La brune que voilà (1960); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1987); La dernière nuit (1981); La nuit des rois (1957); La petite vertu (1968); La sentinelle endormie (1966); L'académie des 9 (1982–1983); Le chemin des écoliers (1959); Le divan (1982); Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite (1971); Le majordome (1965); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1981); Le plus heureux des trois (1957); Le puits aux trois vérités (1961); Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville (1961); Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1974); L'école des femmes (1973); Les amours des années folles (1981); Les beaux yeux d'Agatha (1964); Les cinq dernières minutes (1959–1978); Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1973); Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973); Les livreurs (1961); Les pieds nickelés (1960); L'étiquette (1986); L'inspecteur Leclerc enquête (1962–1963); Lovers of Paris (1957); Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959); Max le débonnaire (1967); Maxime (1958); Messieurs les jurés (1977); Midi Trente (1973–1974); Numéro un (1975); On n'est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans (1974); Pacôme... toujours (1971); Pauvre Eros (1983); Prends ta rolls et va pointer (1981); Rêves d'amour (1962); Samantha (1981); Soirée Courteline / Segment: Gros chagrins (1974); Tête folle (1960); The One Man Band (1970); The Tattoo (1968); Un mariage sous Louis XV (1961); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Vive la sociale! (1983); Vogue la galère (1973); Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis (1975); Witness in the City (1959).

Born on this day – Frances Sternhagen:

Frances Sternhagen

Actress

January 13, 1930 – November 27, 2023

Credits:

And So It Goes (2014); The Closer (2006–2012); Pearl (2012); Parenthood (2012); Dolphin Tale (2011); Julie & Julia (2009); The Mist (2007); Becker (2004); ER (1997–2003); Sex and the City (2000–2002); The Simpsons (2002); Highway (2002); The Laramie Project (2002); Landfall (2001); The Rising Place (2001); Midnight Gospel (2000); It All Came True (1998); To Live Again (1998); The Con (1998); Law & Order (1991–1997); The Outer Limits (1995); Reunion (1994); The Road Home (1994); Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993); Cheers (1986–1993); Raising Cain (1992); Tales from the Crypt (1992); She Woke Up (1992); Walking the Dog (1991); Golden Years (1991); Doc Hollywood (1991); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1991); Misery (1990); Sibling Rivalry (1990); Follow Your Heart (1990); Communion (1989); See You in the Morning (1989); Bright Lights, Big City (1988); Once Again (1987); At Mother's Request (1987); Resting Place (1986); Spencer (1985); The Dining Room (1984); Prototype (1983); Romantic Comedy (1983); Independence Day (1983); Outland (1981); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980); Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980); Starting Over (1979); Who'll Save Our Children? (1978); Fedora (1978); The Andros Targets (1977); The American Parade (1975); Great Performances (1972–1974); Two People (1973); The Hospital (1971); NET Playhouse (1964); The Doctors (1963); New York Television Theatre (1965); The Tiger Makes Out (1967); Up the Down Staircase (1967); Soldier in Love (1967); For the People (1965); Profiles in Courage (1964); Another World (1964); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe (1962); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Goodyear Playhouse (1957); Studio One (1956–1957); Omnibus (1956); Producers' Showcase (1955); The Secret Storm (1954); Love of Life (1951).

Born on this day – Edgar Lansbury:

Edgar Lansbury

Art director

Producer

January 12, 1930 – May 2, 2024

Credits:

A Stranger Waits (1987); Advice from a Caterpillar (1999); Biography (1998); Blue Sunshine (1977); Camera Three (1971); Climax! (1957); Coronet Blue (1967); Desperate Characters (1971); Godspell (1973); Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006); He Knows You're Alone (1980); Kim (1950); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Squirm (1976); Star Witness (1963); Stars of Jazz (1956); Studio One (1958); Summer Girl (1983); The Clairvoyant (1982); The Defenders (1963–1964); The Gene Kelly Show (1959); The Magic Show (1983); The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1954–1961); The Subject Was Roses (1968); The Wild Party (1975); War Hunt (1962).

Born on this day – Rod Taylor:

Rod Taylor

Actor

January 11, 1930 – January 7, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); 36 Hours (1964); A Gathering of Eagles (1963); A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975); A Time to Die (1982); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1979); Alcoa Theatre (1960); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Ask Any Girl (1959); Bearcats! (1971); Biography (1998–2004); Bus Stop (1961); Catalina Island (1966); Cheyenne (1955); Chuka (1967); Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960); Compression (2016); Cry of the Innocent (1980); Dark of the Sun (1968); Darker Than Amber (1970); Dateline: San Francisco (1962); Dee Time (1968); Disney's Halloween Treat (1984); Do Not Disturb (1965); El lado oscuro (2024); Every Girl's Dream (1966); Falcon Crest (1988–1990); Family Flight (1972); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); General Electric Theater (1957–1960); Giant (1956); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Gottschalk Late Night (1994); Grass Roots (1992); Half Nelson (1985); Hell on Frisco Bay (1955); Hellinger's Law (1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Hong Kong (1960–1961); Hotel (1967); Il barone (1995); IMDb Originals (2019); Inglourious Basterds (2009); Inland with Sturt (1951); Into the Shadows (2009); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981); John Wayne: Working with a Western Legend (2005); Kaw (2006); King of the Coral Sea (1954); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); Legends (2007); Les Oiseaux Kaléidoscopiques d'Alfred Hitchcock (2017); Lionpower from MGM (1967); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Lux Playhouse (1958); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas (1985); Mask of Murder (1988); Masquerade (1983–1984); Murder, She Wrote (1995); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); On the Run (1982); One Chance (1966); One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961); Open Season (1995); Operation Raintree (1957); Outlaws (1986–1987); Pacific Blue (1996); Palomino (1991); Partizani (1976); Playhouse 90 (1958–1959); Raintree County (1957); Robot Head (2023); Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (2016); Rod Taylor: Return to Oz (2005); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland (1965); Separate Tables (1958); Seven Seas to Calais (1962); Special Collector's Edition (2015); Step Down to Terror (1958); Studio 57 (1955); Studio One (1958); Sunday in New York (1963); Suspicion (1957); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); TCM Remembers 2015 / Music Video (2015); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 20th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1963); The 24th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (1982); The 33th Annual Thalians Ball (1988); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The Birds (1963); The Catered Affair (1956); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Deadly Trackers (1973); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Glass Bottom Boat (1966); The Hell with Heroes (1968); The Heroes (1973); The High Commissioner (1968); The Last Guerrilla (1974); The Late Show (1986); The Liquidator (1965); The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970); The Merv Griffin Show (1984); The Movie Show (1997); The Oregon Trail (1976–1978); The Oscars (2015); The Osiris Chronicles (1998); The Picture Show Man (1977); The Point of Betrayal (1995); The Rack (1956); The Time Machine (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966); The Train Robbers (1973); The Treasure Seekers (1979); The Twilight Zone (1959); The V.I.P.s (1963); The Virgin Queen (1955); The Wayne Train (1973); This Is Your Life (1975); Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993); Top Gun (1955); Trader Horn (1973); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); US Against the World (1977); Vortex (1976); Walker, Texas Ranger (1996–2000); Welcome to the Basement (2017); Welcome to Woop Woop (1997); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960); World Without End (1956); Young Cassidy (1965); Zabriskie Point (1970); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Elaine Devry:

Elaine Devry

Actress

January 10, 1930 – September 20, 2023

Credits:

Heart to Heart.com (1999); Beverly Hills Bordello (1996); Project U.F.O. (1978); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971–1975); Herbie Rides Again (1974); The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973); Cannon (1972); Bless the Beasts & Children (1971); To Rome with Love (1970); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); My Three Sons (1966–1969); Family Affair (1969); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1969); This Is the Life (1968); With Six You Get Eggroll (1968); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); Lassie (1967); I Dream of Jeannie (1967); Bonanza (1965); Perry Mason (1962–1964); Three Wise Boys (1963); Burke's Law (1963); Arrest and Trial (1963); Diary of a Madman (1963); Ripcord (1962); Hawaiian Eye (1962); I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962); Surfside 6 (1961–1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1962); Target: The Corruptors! (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); Man-Trap (1961); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); Dante (1961); Lock Up (1961); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Laramie (1960); Death Valley Days (1960); Bachelor Father (1959–1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); China Doll (1958); The Great Gildersleeve (1955); The People's Choice (1955); The Atomic Kid (1954); General Electric Theater (1953); A Slight Case of Larceny (1953).

Born on this day – Vic Tayback:

Vic Tayback

Actor

January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990

Credits:

MacGyver (1985); Horseplayer (1990); All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989); Act Naturally (1989); Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989); Criminal Act (1989); Loverboy (1989); Tales from the Darkside (1983); The Under Achievers (1987); The Three Kings (1987); Adderly (1986); The Love Boat (1977); Treasure Island (1986); Weekend Warriors (1986); Crazy Like a Fox (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Alice (1976); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); The Jesse Owens Story (1984); Hotel (1983); Fantasy Island (1977); Matt Houston (1982); Mysterious Two (1982); The Shape of Things (1982); T.J. Hooker (1982); The Time Crystal (1981); Flo (1980); The Night the City Screamed (1980); CHiPs (1977); Gridlock (1980); Rage! (1980); This Year's Blonde (1980); Portrait of a Stripper (1979); Time Express (1979); Supertrain (1979); Sweepstakes (1979); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); Vega$ (1978); The Cheap Detective (1978); Getting Married (1978); Hawaii Five-O (1968); James at 16 (1977); The Choirboys (1977); Little Ladies of the Night (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Mansion of the Doomed (1976); McCloud (1970); Special Delivery (1976); The Big Bus (1976); Family (1976); Bronk (1975); The Practice (1976); Medical Center (1969); No Deposit, No Return (1976); Dark Victory (1976); The Black Bird (1975); The Blue Knight (1975); Cannon (1971); Switch (1975); On the Rocks (1975); Insight (1960); Khan! (1975); Barney Miller (1975); Lepke (1975); Report to the Commissioner (1975); The Rookies (1972); Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974); The Gambler (1974); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); All in the Family (1971); Griff (1973); Maxie (1973); Papillon (1973); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Blue Knight (1973); The Alpha Caper (1973); Cops (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); Partners in Crime (1973); Emergency! (1972); The Partridge Family (1970); Honor Thy Father (1973); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); Mod Squad (1968); Gunsmoke (1955); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Super (1972); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Arlene Golonka in Call Holme (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); Longstreet (1971); Ironside (1967); Death Follows A Psycho (1972); Arnie (1970); They Call It Murder (1971); Mannix (1967); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969); Columbo (1971); Blood and Lace (1971); Bewitched (1964); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970); The Young Lawyers (1969); The Silent Force (1970); Bonanza (1959); Here Come the Brides (1968); Lancer (1968); My World and Welcome to It (1969); Land of the Giants (1968); The Outsider (1968); The Good Guys (1968); The Felony Squad (1966); That Girl (1966); Mission: Impossible (1966); Bullitt (1968); With Six You Get Eggroll (1968); Star Trek (1966); Judd for the Defense (1967); The Monkees (1965); Cimarron Strip (1967); The Second Hundred Years (1967); Get Smart (1965); Captain Nice (1967); Occasional Wife (1966); Family Affair (1966); Gambit (1966); Daniel Boone (1964); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966); Love on a Rooftop (1966); I Dream of Jeannie (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); F Troop (1965); Rawhide (1959); The Lieutenant (1963); Arrest and Trial (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Dr. Kildare (1961); Saints and Sinners (1962); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962); Surftide 77 (1962); Five Minutes to Live (1961); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); North to Alaska (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959); Gangster Story (1959); Lock Up (1959); T-Bird Gang (1959); The Power of the Resurrection (1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Buckskin (1958).

Born on this day – Barbara Stuart:

Barbara Stuart

Actress

January 3, 1930 – May 15, 2011

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); 87th Precinct (1961); A Family Affair (2001); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Airplane! (1980); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Arrest and Trial (1963); Bachelor Party (1984); Banacek (1973); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973); Batman (1966); Cannon (1973); Captain Nice (1967); Circle of Fear (1973); Code Red (1982); Colt .45 (1959); Coronado 9 (1961); Damned If You Do (2000); December Bride (1957); Destry (1964); Doctor Dan (1974); Downtown (1986); Dr. Christian (1956); Dreamer (1979); Father of the Bride (1962); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier Circus (1961); Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005); Get Christie Love! (1974); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969); Have I Got a Christmas for You (1977); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Hellfighters (1968); Highway to Heaven (1986); Hotel (1984); Huff (2004–2006); I Led 3 Lives (1954); Iron Horse (1967); It Takes Two (1969); It's Your Bet (1969); Jefferson Drum (1958); Kung Fu (1973); L.A. Law (1993); Lawman (1958); Leave Yesterday Behind (1978); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Television Weekend (1971); Lux Video Theatre (1957); M Squad (1959); Mama's Family (1983); Marines, Let's Go (1961); Markham (1960); Mason (1977); Match Game (1973); Mike Hammer (1959); Mister Roberts (1966); Mr. Lucky (1959); Mr. Terrific (1967); Nash Bridges (1999); New Love, American Style (1986); Not for Hire (1959–1960); One Step Beyond (1960); Otherworld (1985); Our Family Honor (1985–1986); Out of This World (1987); Outlaws (1961); Panic! (1957); Password (1974); Perry Mason (1961); Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Peter Gunn (1958–1961); Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996); Quincy, M.E. (1982); Rawhide (1963); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Riverboat (1959–1960); Room for One More (1962); Sam Benedict (1963); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Simon & Simon (1988); Starsky and Hutch (1979); State Trooper (1956–1959); Sugarfoot (1957); Surfside 6 (1961); T.H.E. Cat (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960–1961); Target (1958); Tattletales (1974–1977); Taxi (1980); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962–1965); The Andy Griffith Show (1965); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Bill Dana Show (1963); The Blue Angels (1961); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Danny Thomas Show (1963); The Deep Six (1958); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Eleventh Hour (1962); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1958); The George Burns Show (1958); The Great Gildersleeve (1955–1956); The Hat Squad (1993); The Home Team (1960); The Joey Bishop Show (1964–1965); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979); The McLean Stevenson Show (1976–1977); The Queen and I (1969); The Rookies (1975); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); The Texan (1960); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Untouchables (1959); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); Three's Company (1980–1983); Thunder Alley (1994); Tom & Jerry Kids Show (1990–1992); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); Two Faces West (1960); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Valentine's Day (1965); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Wide Country (1962); You Don't Say (1969).

Born on this day – Robert Loggia:

Robert Loggia

Actor

January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015

Credits:

The Savant (2019); Cries of the Unborn (2017); The Red Maple Leaf (2016); Independence Day: Resurgence (2016); Sicilian Vampire (2015); La Trattoria Sitcom (2015); No Deposit (2015); Bleeding Hearts (2015); The Big Fat Stone (2014); Before It's Too Late (2014); An Evergreen Christmas (2014); Scavenger Killers (2014); Snapshot (2014); Real Gangsters (2013); Family Guy (1999); Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012); Margarine Wars (2012); The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012); Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012); Men of a Certain Age (2009); The Life Zone (2011); The Great Fight (2011); The Grand Theft (2011); Fake (2011); Hawaii Five-0 (2010); Obituary of the Sun (2010); Harvest (2010); Shrink (2009); The Least of These (2008); The Boneyard Collection (2008); Monk (2002); Her Morbid Desires (2008); Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006); Wild Seven (2006); Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004); Forget About It (2006); Rain (2006); Funny Money (2006); The Deal (2005); Kojak (2005); The Sopranos (1999); Queens Supreme (2003); All Over Again (2001); The Shipment (2001); The Guardian (2001); Grand Theft Auto III (2001); Malcolm in the Middle (2000); Dodson's Journey (2001); The Fearing Mind (2000); Dharma & Greg (1997); Touched by an Angel (1994); The Outer Limits (1995); Frasier (1993); Return to Me (2000); FeeSpace 2 (1999); Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999); American Virgin (1999); Flypaper (1999); Joan of Arc (1999); The Suburbans (1999); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Hard Time (1998); Holy Man (1998); The Proposition (1998); Wide Awake (1998); Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997); The Don's Analyst (1997); The Dog of Flanders (1997); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997); Lost Highway (1997); Pandora's Clock (1996); Mistrial (1996); Independence Day (1996); The Right to Remain Silent (1996); Man with a Gun (1995); Picture Windows (1994); Between Love and Honor (1995); Coldblooded (1995); Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou (1995); I Love Trouble (1994); White Mile (1994); The Last Tattoo (1994); Bad Girls (1994); Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993); Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993); Lifepod (1993); Wild Palms (1993); Innocent Blood (1992); Afterburn (1992); Gladiator (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1991); Necessary Roughness (1991); Sunday Dinner (1991); The Marrying Man (1991); Spies Inc. (1992); Mancuso, FBI (1989); Opportunity Knocks (1990); Triumph of the Spirit (1989); Relentless (1989); Running Away (1989); Dream Breakers (1989); Oliver & Company (1988); Favorite Son (1988); Intrigue (1988); Big (1988); Old Dogs (1987); Echoes in the Darkness (1987); Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); Gaby: A True Story (1987); The Believers (1987); Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987); Hot Pursuit (1987); Over the Top (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1980); That's Life! (1986); Armed and Dangerous (1986); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); Streets of Justice (1985); Jagged Edge (1985); Prizzi's Honor (1985); The Ferret (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Matt Houston (1982); Overnight Sensation (1984); Tales of the Unexpected (1979); Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983); Scarface (1983); Curse of the Pink Panther (1983); Psycho II (1983); Trail of the Pink Panther (1982); Falcon Crest (1981); Little House on the Prairie (1974); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); A Woman Called Golda (1982); S.O.B. (1981); Nero Wolfe (1981); Fantasy Island (1977); Casino (1980); Charlie's Angels (1976); Vega$ (1978); Flatfoot in Egypt (1980); The Ninth Configuration (1980); Quincy M.E. (1976); Kaz (1978); No Other Love (1979); Hawaii Five-O (1968); Sword of Justice (1978); Starsky and Hutch (1975); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The Rockford Files (1974); Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); First Love (1977); The Six Million Dollar Man (1973); Speedtrap (1977); The Bionic Woman (1976); Police Woman (1974); Switch (1975); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Wonder Woman (1975); Scott Free (1976); Street Killing (1976); S.W.A.T. (1975); Columbo (1971); Cannon (1971); Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence (1976); McMillan & Wife (1971); Doctors' Hospital (1975); Ellery Queen (1975); Harry O (1973); Caribe (1975); Mannix (1967); The Manhunter (1974); Kojak (1973); Turn the Other Cheek (1974); Young Dr. Kildare (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); The High Chaparral (1967); Then Came Bronson (1969); Che! (1969); The Big Valley (1965); The Name of the Game (1968); Tarzan (1966); Custer (1967); The Wild Wild West (1965); T.H.E. Cat (1966); The Three Sisters (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); Run for Your Life (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Combat! (1962); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Gunsmoke (1955); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); Ben Casey (1961); Route 66 (1960); Breaking Point (1963); 330 Independence Avenue, SW (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1962); Cattle King (1963); Rawhide (1959); The Defenders (1961); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Untouchables (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Target: The Corruptors! (1961); Naked City (1958); Play of the Week (1959); Moment of Fear (1960); An Arabian Night (1960); Overland Trail (1960); Kraft Theatre (1947); The Magical World of Disney (1954); Strindberg on Love (1960); One Step Beyond (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Wagon Train (1957); The Lost Missile (1958); Cop Hater (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Studio One (1948); The Garment Jungle (1957); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); The Secret Storm (1954); Search for Tomorrow (1951).

Born on this day – Donald Moffat:

Donald Moffat

Actor

December 26, 1930 – December 20, 2018

Born on this day – Julian Barry:

Julian Barry

Writer

December 24, 1930 – July 25, 2023

Credits:

A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Lenny (1974); Me Myself and I (1992); Mission: Impossible (1966); Pablo (2012); Rhinoceros (1974); Spuiten en slikken (2005); Suspense (1954); The River (1984); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965).

Born on this day – Edna O'Brien:

Edna O'Brien

Writer

December 15, 1930 – July 27, 2024

Credits:

Books:

A Christmas Treat (1982); A Fanatic Heart (1984); A Pagan Place (1970); A Scandalous Woman (1972); An Edna O'Brien Reader (1994); August Is a Wicked Month (1965); Byron In Love (2009); Casualties of Peace (1966); Collector's Choice (1978); Country Girl (2012); Down by the River (1996); Far from the Land (1989); Girl (2019); Girls in Their Married Bliss (1963); Haunted (2010); House of Splendid Isolation (1994); In the Forest (2002); Irish Revel (1998); James and Nora (1981); James Joyce (1999); Johnny I Hardly Knew You / aka I Hardly Knew You (1977); Joyce's Women (2022); Lantern Slides (1990); Mother Ireland (1976); Mrs. Reinhardt (1996); Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories / aka A Rose in the Heart (1978); Night (1972); On the Bone (1989); Paradise (2019); Poolside (2007); Returning (1982); Saints and Sinners (2011); Shovel Kings (2009); Some Irish Loving (1979); Tales for the Telling (1986); The Country Girls (1960); The Dazzle (1981); The High Road (1988); The Light of Evening (2006); The Little Red Chairs (2015); The Lonely Girl (1962); The Love Object (1968); The Love Object: A Story (2020); The Rescue (1983); Time and Tide (1992); Triptych (2005); Triptych and Iphigenia (2005); Vanishing Ireland (1990); Virginia (1985); Wild Decembers (1999); Zee and Co. (1971).

Movies and television:

28' (2013); À mi-mots (2003); Aquarius (1972–1976); Armchair Theatre (1965); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Festival (1965); Girl with Green Eyes (1964); Half Hour Story (1967–1968); Harty (1986); Hemingway (2021); Hyggekrogen (1969); Imagine (2014–2019); In Bed with Ulysses (2012); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); James Joyce: A Shout in the Street (2017); Kulturplatz (2020); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2014); Love / Segment: Julia (1982); Love Story (1964–1965); Omnibus (2002); Pebble Mill at One (1982); Personal Choice (1970); Question Time (1979 / 2019); Read All About It (1974–1976); Review (1970); Sie hätten im Sommer kommen sollen (1972); Sunday AM (2012); That's All Right (1989); The Book Show (2009–2013); The Country Girls (1983); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1967); The Hard Way (1980); The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986); The Russell Harty Show (1981); The South Bank Show (1978); Then and Now (1973); Three Into Two Won't Go (1969); Thursday Play Date (1975); Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tonite Let's All Make Love in London / Segment: Dollygirls (1967); When I Get to Heaven (1988); Wild Decembers (2009); Wogan (1985–1990); X, Y & Zee (1972).

Born on this day – Robert Prosky:

Robert Prosky

Actor

December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008

Born on this day – Chus Lampreave:

Chus Lampreave

Actress

December 11, 1930 – April 4, 2016

Born on this day – Jean-Louis Trintignant:

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Actor

December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022

Born on this day – Buck Henry:

Buck Henry

Actor

Writer

Director

December 9, 1930 – January 8, 2020