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Friday, August 15, 2025

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Born on this day – William Goldman:


William Goldman


Writer

August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018

Credits:

Books:

Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).

Movies and television:

5 Minutes (2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters (2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000); Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci (1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003); Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look (2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993); Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100 Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon (1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies (2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face (2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars (2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of (1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year of the Comet (1992).

Friday, August 1, 2025

Born on this day – Pat Heywood:


Pat Heywood


Actress

August 1, 1931 – June 26, 2024

Credits:

10 Rillington Place (1971); 2nd House (1975); All the Way Up (1970); Another Bouquet (1977); Arcadia (1990); Armchair Theatre (1972–1973); Arms and the Man (1983); Battle of Britain (1969); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); BBC2 Playhouse (1980); Between the Wars (1973); Centre Play (1975); Christabel (1988); Cottage to Let (1977); Couples (1976); Crown Court (1973–1978); December Flower (1984); Every Breath You Take (1988); First and Last (1989); Function Room (1985); Getting It Right (1989); Girly (1970); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hazell (1978); I Thought You'd Gone (1984); Inspector Morse (1991); ITV Playhouse (1970–1980); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971–1973); Lucky Feller (1976); Marks / Objects of Affection (1982); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); Play for Today (1984); Public Eye (1972); Romeo and Juliet (1968); Root Into Europe (1992); Screen Two (1987); Seeing and Believing (1964); Six Days of Justice (1972); Sporting Scenes (1973); Staircase (1969); Storia di una capinera (1993); Summer Season (1985); The Best Things in Life (1969); The Castiglioni Brothers (1958); The Children of the New Forest (1964); The Collection (1976); The Foundation (1977); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Main Chance (1970); The Nelson Affair (1973); The Problem of Mary Winshaw (1962); The Secret Garden (1987); The Teen-Age Lovers of Verona / Romeo & Juliet (1968); The Train Now Standing (1972); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1972); Too Much Monkey Business (1974); Village Hall (1974); Weekend Playhouse (1984); Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972); Wish You Were Here (1987); Within These Walls (1975); Wuthering Heights (1978); Young Toscanini (1988); Young Winston (1972).

Monday, July 28, 2025

Born on this day – Darryl Hickman:


Darryl Hickman


Actor

Writer

Television executive

Acting coach

July 28, 1931 – May 22, 2024

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Kiss for Corliss (1949); A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988); A Year at the Top (1977); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); Alias Nick Beal (1949); All in the Family (1978); And Now Tomorrow (1944); Annie Oakley (1954); Any Number Can Play (1949); Assignment in Brittany (1943); Baywatch (1996); Beauty and the Beast (1987); Better Living TV Theatre (1953); Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1953); Big Town Scandal (1948); Black Gold (1947); Boogie Woogie (1945); Boys' Ranch (1946); Call My Bluff (1965); Captain Eddie (1945); CBS Daytime 90 (1973); Century of Cinema (1995); Challenge of the GoBots (1984–1985); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Climax! (1957); Coffins on Wheels (1941); Criminal Lawyer (1951); Crossroads - U.S.A. (1952); D.A.R.E. Yogi Bear (1989); Dangerous Years (1947); David and Goliath (1986); Destination Gobi (1953); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Emergency Squad (1940); Fighting Father Dunne (1948); Final Warning (1977); Footlights Theater (1953); General Electric Theater (1957–1958); Get the Message (1964); Glamour Boy (1941); GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords (1986); Going to Press (1942); Good Old Days (1966); Gunsmoke (1959); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Heart Burn (1942); Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout (1944); Here's Hollywood (1961); High School U.S.A. (1983); If I Were King (1938); Inside Harvester (1952); Insight (1961); Island in the Sky (1953); Jackass Mail (1942); Joe Smith, American (1942); Johnny Shiloh (1963); Jonah (1992); Joseph and His Brothers (1990); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Kiss and Tell (1945); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Lightning Strikes Twice (1951); Looker (1981); Love of Life (1975–1977); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Uncoupled Couple (1970); Many Rivers to Cross (1955); Margaret O'Brien in When We Were Young...: Growing Up on the Silver Screen (1989); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Mark Saber (1952); Matinee Theatre (1956–1958); Maude (1977); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Men of Annapolis (1957–1958); Men of Boys Town (1941); Missing Links (1964); Mob Town (1941); Mystery Sea Raider (1940); Network (1976); New York Television Theatre (1967); Northwest Rangers (1942); Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937); Pac-Man (1983); Panic! (1957); Perry Mason (1957); Playhouse 90 (1957–1958); Pole Position (1984); Prairie Law (1940); Prisoner of War (1954); Private Screenings (2006); Private Screenings (2006–2014); Public Defender (1954); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Pursuit (1958); Queen Esther (1992); Rawhide (1961–1962); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Ricochet Romance (1954); Salty O'Rourke (1945); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1983); Scream for Your Lives! William Castle and 'the Tingler' (1999); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); Second Final Warning (1978); Sharky's Machine (1981); Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling (1993); Sign of the Wolf (1941); Sky Commanders (1987); Sky King (1952); Snap Judgment (1967); Sneak Preview (1956); Southwest Passage (1954); Space Stars (1981); Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007); Studio One (1958); Submarine Command (1951); Super Friends (1985); Superman (1988); Tab Hunter Confidential (2015); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); Tattletales (1976); TCM Remembers 2024 (2024); Tea and Sympathy (1956); The Ad (2009); The Americans (1961); The Biskitts (1983); The Detectives (1960); The Devil on Wheels (1947); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Easter Story (1989); The Farmer's Daughter (1940); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1985–1992); The Happy Years (1950); The Human Comedy (1943); The Iron Sheriff (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957); The Lone Ranger (1951–1953); The Loretta Young Show (1961); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1963); The Man and the Challenge (1960); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1960); The Match Game (1965–1966); The Millionaire (1959); The Miracles of Jesus (1991); The Nanny (1997–1999); The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986–1987); The Persuader (1957); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Range Rider (1952); The Sainted Sisters (1948); The Set-Up (1949); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Star Maker (1939); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Tingler (1959); The Tragedy of King Lear (1982); The Untouchables (1959–1962); The Way of All Flesh (1940); Three Cheers for Love (1936); Two Years Before the Mast (1946); Untamed (1940); Vacation Playhouse (1963–1966); Vic (2011); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); Waterfront (1954); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961); What's My Line? (1968); Whirlybirds (1957–1959); Whiz Kids (1983); Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995); Wildfire (1986); World in White (1957); You Don't Say (1964–1966); Young America (1942); Young People (1940).

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Born on this day – Clive Cussler:


Clive Cussler


Writer

Actor

Underwater explorer

July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020

Credits:

Books:

Arctic Drift (2008); Atlantis Found (1999); Black Wind (2004); Blue Gold (2000); Built for Adventure (2011); Built to Thrill (2016); Celtic Empire (2019); Condor's Fury (2023); Corsair (2009); Crescent Dawn (2010); Cyclops (1985); Dark Vector (2022); Dark Watch (2005); Deep Six (1984); Desolation Code (2024); Devil's Gate (2011); Dirk Pitt Revealed (1998); Dragon (1990); Fast Ice (2021); Final Option (2019); Fire Ice (2002); Fire Strike (2023); Flood Tide (1997); Ghost Ship (2014); Ghost Soldier (2024); Golden Buddha (2003); Havana Storm (2014); Hellburner (2022); Iceberg (1975); Inca Gold (1991); Journey of the Pharaohs (2020); Lost City (2004); Lost Empire (2010); Marauder (2020); Medusa (2009); Mirage (2012); Night Probe! (1981); Nighthawk (2017); Odessa Sea (2016); Pacific Vortex! (1983); Piranha (2015); Pirate (2016); Plague Ship (2008); Polar Shift (2005); Poseidon's Arrow (2012); Raise the Titanic! (1976); Sacred Stone (2004); Sahara (1992); Sea of Greed (2018); Serpent (1999); Shadow Tyrants (2018); Shock Wave (1995); Skeleton Coast (2006); Spartan Gold (2009); The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (2010); The Adventures of Vin Fiz (2006); The Assassin (2013); The Bootlegger (2014); The Chase (2007); The Corsican Shadow (2023); The Cutthroat (2017); The Devil's Sea (2021); The Emperor's Revenge (2016); The Eye of Heaven (2014); The Gangster (2016); The Gray Ghost (2018); The Heist (2024); The Jungle (2011); The Kingdom (2011); The Mayan Secrets (2013); The Mediterranean Caper / aka Mayday! (1973); The Navigator (2007); The Oracle (2019); The Pharaoh's Secret (2015); The Race (2011); The Rising Sea (2018); The Romanov Ransom (2017); The Saboteurs (2020); The Sea Hunters (1994); The Sea Hunters II (2002); The Sea Wolves (2022); The Serpent's Eye (2023); The Silent Sea (2010); The Solomon Curse (2015); The Spy (2010); The Storm (2012); The Striker (2013); Suspense Magazine, April 2010 (2010); The Thief (2012); The Titanic Secret (2018); The Tombs (2012); The Treasure of Khan (2006); The Wrecker (2009); Thriller 2 (2009); Thriller 2.1 (2016); Thriller 2.3 (2016); Treasure (1988); Trojan Odyssey (2003); Typhoon Fury (2017); Valhalla Rising (2001); Vixen 03 (1976); White Death (2003); Wrath of Poseidon (2020); Zero Hour (2013).

Movies and television:

History's Mysteries (2000); Raise the Titanic (1980); Raising the Hunley (2001); Read All About It (1978); Sahara (2005); Sunk on Christmas Eve (2001); The Criminal Calendar (1997); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Sea Hunters (2002); Today (1986).

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Born on this day – Alice Munro:


Alice Munro


Writer

July 10, 1931 – May 13, 2024

Credits:

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); A Wilderness Station (2015); Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers (1989); Away from Her (2007); Carried Away (2006); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Dance of the Happy Shades (1968); Dear Life (2012); Dreams And Nightmares: At Bay Press Fiction Annual (2016); Every Father's Daughter (2015); Family Furnishings (2014); Fathers: A Literary Anthology (2011); Finding the Words (2011); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Friend of My Youth (1990); From Ink Lake (1990); Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Julieta (2016); Lives of Girls and Women (1971); Lying Under the Apple Tree (2014); My Best Stories (2009); New Selected Stories (2011); No Love Lost (2003); Open Secrets (1994); PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction (2002); Points of View (1956); Queenie (1999); Runaway (2004); Selected Shorts (1993); Selected Stories (1996); Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974); Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Beggar Maid (1977); The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (2009); The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991); The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001); The Best American Short Stories 2012 (2012); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles (2004); The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories (1990); The Literary Traveller (1994); The Love of a Good Woman (1998); The Minerva Book of Short Stories 3 (1991); The Moons of Jupiter (1983); The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 (2013); The Office (2015); The Progress of Love (1985); The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction (2008); The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1999); Too Much Happiness (2009); View From Castle Rock (2006); Vintage Munro (2004); Who Do You Think You Are? (1977); Woman: An Anthology (2014); Women and Fiction (1975); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

Away from Her (2006); Baptizing (1975); Boys and Girls (1983); Canaan (2008); Connection (1986); Cover to Cover (1987); Edge of Madness (2002); Hateship Loveship (2013); Juliet (2019); Julieta (2016); Lives of Girls & Women (1996); Nobelstudion (2013); The Newcomers (1977); The Ottawa Valley (1974); The Play's the Thing (1974); To See Ourselves (1971–1973); Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007).

Friday, June 27, 2025

Born on this day – Magali Noël:


Magali Noël


Actress, Singer

June 27, 1931 – June 23, 2015

Credits:

A qualcuna piace calvo (1960); Absolument cinema (2001); Acteur studio (1987); All the Other Girls Do! (1964); Amarcord (1973); Amarcord de Federico (2004); Astragal (1968); Boris Vian, swing à Saint-Germain des Prés (2010); Boulevard (1960); Ça n’arrive qu’aux vivants (1959); Cabaret du soir (1958); Café Picouly (2009); Caroline and the Rebels (1955); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Champs-Elysées (1983–1990); Ciao, Federico! (1970); Cinépanorama (1960); Comme avant, mieux qu’avant (1972); Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire (1966); Crimes et jardins (1991); Dans la gueule du loup (1961); Demain nous divorçons (1951); Dernier tiercé (1965); Destination Fury (1961); Deux de l’escadrille (1953); Diesel (1985); Discorama (1961); Donnarumma all’assalto (1972); Doris (1956); Du côté de chez Fred (1988); È arrivata la parigina (1958); École des vedettes (1961); Edipeon (1970); Elena and Her Men (1956); Exit-exil (1986); Fellini dice... (2006); Fellini Satyricon (1969); Fidelity (2000); Gastone (1960); Gioventù di notte (1961); Il prete sposato (1970); J’avais 15 ans (2008); Jean-Christophe (1978); La banca di Monate (1976); La chance aux chansons (1985); La corde au cou (1965); La dama de Beirut (1965); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1982–1986); La Dolce Vita (1960); La nuit de l’éclusier (1989); La ragazza in vetrina (1961); La source des Sarrazins (2002); La traite des blanches (1965); Le belve (1971); Le chemin perdu (1980); Le dernier des cinq (1974); Le dernier fils (1998); Le désir mène les hommes (1957); Le mas Théotime (1969); Le miroir à trois faces: Carmen (1965); Le mois le plus beau (1968); Le palmarès des chansons (1965); Le p’tit vient vite (1972); Le Sahara brûle (1961); Legge di guerra (1961); Les bottes rouges (1985); Les coeurs brûlés (1992); Les dossiers de l’écran (1980); Les héritiers (1997); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1978–1980); Les trois Henry (1962); L’histoire du samedi (1999); L’invité (2009–2011); Lovers and Thieves (1956); Lundi noir (1989); Mardi cinema (1985); Marie of the Isles (1959); Midi Trente (1972); Mille Bravo (1990); Monsieur Cinéma (1980); Mourez, nous ferons le reste (1954); Murder Party (1961); Musique and Music (1977); No Escape (1958); Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita (2009); Noi siamo due evasi (1959); Noi siamo due evasi (1959); Numéro un (1976); O.S.S. 117 n’est pas mort (1957); Oh! Qué mambo (1959); Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista (1975); Passing show (1964); Passionate Summer (1956); Pentimento (1989); Querido cabaret (1991); Qu’est-ce qui fait courir David? (1982); Queste pazze pazze donne (1964); Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti (1972); Razzia (1955); Regina Coeli (2000); Requiem pour un caïd (1964); Rififi (1955); Saint Laurent (2014); Samedi soir (1971); Season for Assassins (1975); Seul dans Paris (1951); Si le roi savait ça (1958); Stato interessante (1977); Sur les traces de Fellini (2013); Système 2 (1976); Temptation (1959); The Accident (1963); The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982); The Death Eye of Ceylon (1963); The Death of Mario Ricci (1983); The Eighties (1983); The Golem (1967); The Grand Maneuver (1955); The Lowest Crime (1955); The Lustful Vicar (1970); The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970); The Meetings of Anna (1978); The Ray Bradbury Theater (1988); The Road to Shame (1959); The Secret Mark of D’Artagnan (1962); The Truth About Charlie (2002); The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964); Totò e Cleopatra (1963); Toute la chanson (1960); Transit (1982); Trente-Six Chandelles (1957); Tropic of Cancer (1970); Un pas dans la forêt (1980); Upshaw (1967); Vertiges (1985); Z (1969); Zoom su Fellini (1983).

Monday, June 9, 2025

Born on this day – Joe Santos:


Joe Santos


Actor

June 9, 1931 – March 18, 2016

Credits:

A Knife for the Ladies (1974); A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975); a.k.a. Pablo (1984); Adderly (1987); Art Deco Detective (1994); Bakersfield P.D. (1993); Baretta (1975); Barnaby Jones (1974); Beverly Hills Brats (1989); Beyond Suspicion (2000); Black Sheep Squadron (1978); Blade (1973); Blue Thunder (1983); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Chronic (2015); Cover Up (1984); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Deadline: Madrid (1988); Deadly Desire (1991); Eischied (1979); Fear City (1984); Flesh and Lace (1965); Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990); Hammerlock (2000); Hardcastle and McCormick (1985–1986); Hill Street Blues (1984); Hunter (1984–1990); Jessie (1984); Joe Forrester (1976); Kung Fu (1975); Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (1983); Lou Grant (1977); MacGyver (1986–1987); Magnum, P.I. (1986–1988); Masquerade (1984); Match Game (1978–1979); Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour (1984); Match Game PM (1979–1980); Me and Maxx (1980); Miami Vice (1988); Mindreaders (1979); Mo' Money (1992); Moonlighting Wives (1966); Murder, She Wrote (1987–1988); My Body Hungers (1967); Naked City (1963); Nightside (1973); NYPD Blue (1993); Police Story (1974–1978); Power (1980); Proximity (2001); Quantum Leap (1989); Remington Steele (1984); Revenge (1990); Room 222 (1972); Santa Barbara (1990); Shaft's Big Score! (1972); Shamus (1973); Sinatra (1992); Suburban Beat (1985); Superior Court (1986–1990); T.J. Hooker (1985); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The A-Team (1984); The Blue Knight (1973); The Detective (1968); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Education of Allison Tate (1986); The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971); The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974); The Greatest American Hero (1983); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1980); The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980); The Last Boy Scout (1991); The Man from Elysian Fields (2001); The Old Man and the Sea (1990); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The Postman (1997); The Ratings Game (1984); The Right Way (1998); The Rockford Files (1974–1980); The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise (1995); The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996); The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996); The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994); The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads (1999); The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits... (1996); The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime (1996); The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda (1997); The Selling of Vince D'Angelo (1983); The Sopranos (2004); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Tiger Makes Out (1967); The Twilight Zone / Segment: The Library (1986); Toma (1973); Trapper John, M.D. (1982); Trial by Jury (1994); Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures (1964); Wendy Hooper, U.S. Army (1981); Zandy's Bride (1974).

Friday, June 6, 2025

Born on this day – Joan Marshall:


Joan Marshall


Actress

Producer

June 6, 1931 – June 28, 1992

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960–1962); A Star Is Born (1976); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alcoa Theatre (1957); Bat Masterson (1958); Biography (1999–2003); Bold Venture (1959); Bonanza (1967); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bronco (1960–1961); Dante (1960–1961); Dr. Kildare (1966); Follow the Sun (1962); Gunsmoke (1962); Gypsy (1967); Hal (2018); Harbor Command (1958); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1963); Hennesey (1960); Here's Hollywood (1962); Highway Patrol (1958); Homicidal (1961); I Spy (1967); Kiss 'N' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century (2004); Laredo (1966); Lawman (1960); Live Fast, Die Young (1958); Looking for Love (1964); M Squad (1960); Maverick (1958–1961); Men Into Space (1960); Michael Shayne (1961); Mike Hammer (1958); Paris Is Gay Again (1944); Petticoat Junction (1964); Shampoo (1975); Star Trek (1967); Sunday Night Live (1984); Surfside 6 (1960–1962); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Tammy and the Doctor (1963); Target (1958); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Chicago Kid (1945); The Detectives (1961); The F.B.I. (1965); The Great Sex War (1969); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968); The Jack Benny Program (1963–1964); The Landlord (1970); The Magical World of Disney (1971); The Millionaire (1958); The Munsters (1964); The Road West (1967); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Rough Riders (1958); The Twilight Zone (1962); Tombstone Territory (1958).

Friday, May 30, 2025

Born on this day – Audrey Flack:


Audrey Flack


Visual artist

Painter

Printmaker

Sculptor

Photographer

Writer

May 30, 1931 – June 28, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Art & Soul: Notes on Creating (1986); Audrey Flack: On Painting (1981); Audrey Flack: The Daily Muse (1989); Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950–1990 (1992); Louisa Ignacia Roldan (1978); On Carlo Crivelli / Art Magazine 55 (1981); The Haunting Images of Louisa Roldan (1979); With Darkness Comes Stars: Audrey Flack, a Memoir (2024).

Television:

Amy & Monte: A Legacy of Love and Creativity (2024); Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack (2019).

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Born on this day – Michael Lonsdale:


Michael Lonsdale


Actor

Writer

May 24, 1931 – September 21, 2020


Credits:

Book:

Le Dictionnaire de Ma Vie (2016).

Movies and television:

007 Legends (2012); 12h45 (2012); A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958); A Dirty Story (1977); A Monkey's Tale (1999); À suivre (1988); Acte manqué (1979); Adieu (2003); Adorable Liar (1962); African Glory (2023); Agora (2009); Alberte (1972); Allons au cinéma (1976); Aloïse (1975); An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022); Appelez-moi Rose (1969); Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2010); Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible (1977); Bartleby (1976); Behold a Pale Horse (1964); Best Ever Bond (2002); Billy Ze Kick (1985); Birth and Death of Prometheus (1974); Bond's Greatest Moments (2013); Brigitte Fossey, à coeur ouvert (2016); Bruit d'amour et de guerre (1997); Bruits en fête et sons de plaisir (1978); Bye Bye Blackbird (2005); C à vous (2011–2014); Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (2003–2006); Canevas la ville (1986); Caravan to Vaccarès (1974); Ce que je vous dois (2006); Cela s'appelle l'amour (1989); Certains Leeb Show (1986); C'est arrivé à Aden... (1956); C'est le ciel qui vous envoie! (2014); Ceux d'en face (2000); Chariots of Fire (1981); Chronopolis (1982); Chut! (1972); Ciels de traîne (2008); Ciné regards / Segment: Le film de la semaine (1978–1979); Cinéma 16 (1981–1987); Clap (1975); Comédie (1966); Compression (2016–2025); Concerto pour un exil (1968); Concessions à perpétuité (1997); Cops Is Cops (1972); Crime Does Not Pay / Segment: L'homme de l'avenue (1962); D'après une histoire vraie (2021); Degas et moi (2019); Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000); Der Madonna-Mann (1987); Des mots de minuit (2003–2012); Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon / Video Game (2008); Destroy, She Said (1969); Deux amis, prelude (1992); Die Abtei des Verbrechens: Umberto Ecos 'Der Name der Rose' wird verfilmt (1986); Dix de der (1976); Don Juan (1998); Dream On (1992); Droit d'auteurs (1996); Du côté de chez Fred (1988); Ella, une vraie famille (1980); En votre âme et conscience (1958); Enigma (1982); Erendira (1983); Escale obligatoire (1962); Euphorie II (1979); Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été (1979); Faits divers (2007); Film sur Hans Bellmer (1974); Fioretti pour Marcel Hanoun (2011); Five Times Two (2004); Folle à tuer (1975); Foutraque (!) Jean-Pierre Mocky cinéaste (2024); Free Men (2011); Galileo (1975); Gargouille de charme - Daniel Emilfork, contre les apparences (2010); Gebo and the Shadow (2012); Gentille (2005); Ghjuva est mort (2011); Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007); God Only Knows (1994); Goya's Ghosts (2006); Grand écran (1972); Hail, Mafia (1965); Halman's Walk (2003); Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976); Hibernatus (1969); Histoire contemporaine (1981); Hitler in Hollywood (2010); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Il sera une fois... (2006); In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (1995); India Song (1975); Inside 'Moonraker' (2000); Is Paris Burning? (1966); J.R.R.Tolkien, des mots, des mondes (2014); Jacques Prévert (1977); Jaloux comme un tigre (1964); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond Stars (2002); James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute (2002); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Jaune le soleil (1971); Je vais te manquer (2009); Je veux être actrice (2016); Jean-Louis Barrault, un homme de théâtre (1983); Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres (2015); Jeanne à petits pas (2006); Jean-Sans-Terre (1980); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Jeune cinéma (2023); Kaena: The Prophecy (2003); La chevauchée sur le lac de Constance (1974); La choisie (1974); La confession d'un enfant du siècle (1974); La conscience (1987); La couleur des mots (1984); La dame à la licorne (1978); La fenêtre (1970); La fille au violoncelle (1973); La galerie France 5 (2012); La grande lessive (!) (1968); La grande Paulette (1974); La jeune femme en vert (1984); La main chaude (1960); La nuit des Césars (1977–2011); La nuit des Molières (2018); La nuit du beau marin peut-être (1976); La pince à ongles (1969); La place de l'autre (2003); La plante humaine (1996); La poule (1973); La question humaine (2007); La redevance du fantôme (1965); La séparation (2005); La table d'émeraude (1992); La traque (1975); La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu (1974); La visite (2015); L'adieu nu (1977); L'amour médecin (1964); Langlois monumental (1991); L'art d'aimer (1985); L'authentique procès de Carl-Emmanuel Jung (1967); L'automne (1972); Le bon roi Dagobert (1984); Le bureau des mariages (1962); Le cercle de minuit (1993–1994); Le chant des particules (2011); Le conseiller Crespel (1977); Le diable dans la boîte (1977); Le divan (1989); Le doc Stupéfiant (2019); Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné (2021); Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020); Le fer à repasser (1966); Le film de Bazin (2017); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2017); Le Furet (2003); Le génie du faux (1985); Le grand échiquier (1978); Le jeu des preuves (1974); Le Jour du Seigneur (1987); Le judoka, agent secret (1966); Le juge (1984); Le loufiat (1987); Le malade imaginaire (1971); Le monde enchanté d'Isabelle (1973); Le nom de la rose (2004); Le Petit Nicolas (1964); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1980–1982); Le renard jaune (2013); Le revolver et la rose (1970); Le risque de vivre (1980); Le roman du samedi (1981); Le rose et le blanc (1982); Le silence de l'épervier (2008); Le tiroir secret (1986); Le tourbillon de Jeanne (2013); Le voisin de Paul (1989); Le voyage à l'étranger (1976); L'Eden Palace (1976); L'empreinte (2004); L'enfant et le president (1987); L'enjeu de l'acteur (1979); L'enlèvement d'Antoine Bigut (1964); L'entretien (1995); Les acteurs (2000); Les amants cinéma (2008); Les années Lumière (1972); Les assassins de l'ordre (1971); Les atours de l'oeil foudre (1982); Les Boulugres (1984); Les cent livres des hommes (1972); Les Chroniques du Mea (2023); Les compagnons de la marguerite (1967); Les copains (1965); Les discours du maître (1976); Les écrans déchirés (1976); Les fables de La Fontaine (1966); Les filles au Moyen Âge (2015); Les frères Karamazov (1969); Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973); Les invisibles (2005); Les invites (1982); Les mains d'Andrea (2006); Les musiciens du culte (1974); Les Mystères de Paris: 'Out 1' de Jacques Rivette revisité (2015); Les Nuits de France Culture (2022–2024); Les oeufs brouillés (1976); Les petites demoiselles (1964); Les portes claquent (1960); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1978–1979); Les trois soeurs (1960); Let There Be Light (1998); L'étalon (1970); L'etranger: Air is on Fire (2023); L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma (1985); L'hiver (1969); L'homme à la Buick (1968); L'homme de terre (1989); Liberté-liberté (1983); L'imprécateur (1977); L'invité (2014); Lire c'est vivre: Élie Faure, Vélasquez et les Ménines (1984); Lonsdale l'insondable (2007); L'ordre du jour (1993); Ma vie est un enfer (1991); Maestro (2014); Maigret et la grande perche (1991–2001); Malaventure (1974); Marguerite Yourcenar: Alchimie du paysage (2013); Mauvais genre (1997); Méli-mélodrame (1967); Même l'avenir dure longtemps (2010); Mémoires rhénanes: L'aventure des mines (1990); Merci Bernard (1983–1984); Mersonne ne m'aime (1982); Metropolis (2007); Micros et caméras (1969); Mocky circus (2006); Monsieur Cinéma (1979); Moonraker (1979); Mora (1982); Mr. Klein (1976); Munich (2005); unich: The International Cast (2006); Murmur of the Heart (1971); My Name Is Bond... James Bond (1979); N: The Madness of Reason (2014); Ne (1975); Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995); Nom d'une pipe (1961); Non-Lieu (1981); Nox (2015); Of Gods and Men (2010); Out 1 (1971); Out 1: Spectre (1972); Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971); Park Benches (2009); Passemerveille (2009); Passez donc me voir (1979); Passion Terzieff (2018); Pièce unique (1992); Plain-chant (1972–1975); Plaisir du théâtre (1985); Pour le cinéma (1976); Project Orfée (1968); Qui est-ce? (2010); Regarding Buñuel (2000); Rembob'Ina (2020); Rencontre avec Michael Lonsdale (2011); Rendez-vous manqués (1986); Requiem pour un fumeur (1985); Riviera (1987); Romulus le grand (1971); Ronin (1998); Ronin: In the 'Ronin' Cutting Room with Editor Tony Gibbs (2004); Rosenn (2014); Samedi soir (1972); Sculpt (2016); Selon Rachel (2005); Sérieux comme le plaisir (1975); Seuls (1981); Skyfall: Modern Day Bond (2013); Smiley's People (1982); Snobs! (1962); Sotto falso nome (2004); Souvenir (1988); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Special Section (1975); Spring (1971); Stavisky (1974); Stolen Kisses (1968); Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974); Sur les traces de Balint (1977); Sweet Inquest on Violence (1982); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); Terra incognita (1995); The Bride Wore Black (1968); The Bunker (1981); The Cardboard Village (2011); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The First, the Last (2016); The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981); The Holcroft Covenant (1985); The Immoral Moment (1962); The Last Mistress (2007); The Left-Handed Woman (1977); The Man from London (2007); The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003); The Name of the Rose (1986); The Name of the Rose: Photo Video Journey with Jean-Jacques Annaud (2003); The Old Maid (1972); The Passage (1979); The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005); The Phantom of Liberty (1974); The Pink Telephone (1975); The Remains of the Day (1993); The Romantic Englishwoman (1975); The Suspects (1974); The Trial (1962); The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988); Théâtre pour demain: L'armoire (1982); Titeuf, le film (2011); To Be or Not to Be (1998); To Each His Own Cinema / Segment: Le Don (2007); Top Gear (2012); Tous les enfants du monde (1964); Trompe-l'oeil (1982); Un cane sciolto (1990); Un cane sciolto 2 (1991); Un cane sciolto 3 (1992); Un comédien lit un auteur (1979); Un étrange equipage (2010); Un film sur Georges Perec (1990); Un foglio bianco - Appunti su 'Il villaggio di cartone' (2011); Un immense fil d'une heure de temps (2007); Un jour, un destin (2013–2015); Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974); Un passager clandestin (2016); Un prete tra noi (1997); Un siècle d'écrivains (2000); Une baleine qui avait mal aux dents (1974); Une belle croisière (2008); Une jeunesse (1983); Une saison pour Maurice Pons (2016); Une ville (2009); Vivement dimanche (2008–2013); Vroum-vroum (1995); Wakefield (2009); Woyzeck (1993); Your Money or Your Life (1966); Zoo Story (1968).

Friday, May 23, 2025

Born on this day – Laura Devon:


Laura Devon


Actress

Singer

May 23, 1931 – July 19, 2007

Credits:

A Covenant with Death (1967); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Coronet Blue (1967); Dr. Kildare (1965); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Gunn (1967); I Spy (1965); Insight (1960); Mr. Sycamore (1975); Rawhide (1964); Red Line 7000 (1965); Route 66 (1962–1963); Stoney Burke (1963); T.H.E. Cat (1966); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Big Valley (1966); The Fugitive (1966); The Gallant Men (1963); The Invaders (1967); The Lieutenant (1963); The New Breed (1962); The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964); The Rogues (1965); The Twilight Zone (1963); Wide Country (1962).

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Public Enemy (1931):


The Public Enemy

directed by William A. Wellman,
written by Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Harvey F. Thew,
based on the novel Beer and Blood by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon,
was released in the United States on April 23, 1931.
Music by David Mendoza.


Cast:

James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Murray Kinnell, Mae Clarke, Frank Coghlan Jr., Frankie Darro, Robert Homans, Sam McDaniel, William H. Strauss, Mia Marvin, Lev Abramov, Clark Burroughs, George Daly, Snitz Edwards, Rita Flynn, Dorothy Gee, Douglas Gerrard, Dorothy Gray, Ben Hendricks Jr., Eddie Kane, Arnold Lucy, Harold Minjir, Helen Parrish, Lee Phelps, Russ Powell, Purnell Pratt, Nanci Price, Joe Sawyer, Landers Stevens, Charles Sullivan, Lucille Ward, Adele Watson.