Born on this day – Jeffrey Boam:

Jeffrey Boam

Writer

Producer

November 30, 1946 – January 26, 2000

Born on this day – Jane Stanton Hitchcock:

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Writer

November 24, 1946 – June 23, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Bluff (2019); Grace (1982); Mortal Friends (2009); One Dangerous Lady (2005); Social Crimes (2002); The Witches' Hammer (1994); Trick of the Eye (1992).

Movies and television:

American Greed (2012); Angel River (1988); First Love (1977); Our Time (1974); Talking Live with Dr. Robi Ludwig (2019); The Name's the Same (1955); Trick of the Eye (1994); Yes, Virginia... (1990).

On this day in movie history - The Chase (movie & novel):

The Chase

directed by Arthur Ripley,

written by Philip Yordan,

based on the novel The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich,

was released in the United States on November 17, 1946.
Music by Michel Michelet.

Cast:

Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt, Peter Lorre, Don Wilson, Alexis Minotis, Nina Koshetz, Yolanda Lacca, James Westerfield, Jimmy Ames.

Recommended reading:

The Black Path of Fear

By Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as The Chase (1946), directed by Arthur Ripley.

ASIN: B000TZ32I8

Published by Ace.

Published 1944.

Mass Market Paperback.

Description:

The Black Path of Fear (1944) tells of a man who runs away to Havana with an American gangster's wife, followed by the vengeful husband, who kills the woman and frames her lover, leaving him a stranger in a strange land, menaced on all sides and fighting for his life.

“A fiendishly ingenious plot … thrilling episodes.” – New York Times.

Born on this day – Jack Ketchum:

Jack Ketchum

Writer

November 10, 1946 – January 24, 2018

Credits:

Off Season (1980); Offspring (1991); The Woman (2010); Laramie Plains (1974); Border Dawn (1976); Hide and Seek (1980); Dead or alive (1982); The Guns of Amarillo (1982); Winchester pass (1982); Cover (1987); She Wakes (1989); The Girl Next Door (1989); Trail to Nowhere (1991); Joyride (1994); Stranglehold (1995); Only Child (1995); Red (1996); Ladies' Night (1997); Station Two (2001); The Lost (2001); Old Flames (2008); The Secret Life of Souls (2016); The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998); Right to Life (1998); Broken on the Wheel of Sex (1999); Peaceable Kingdom (2003); Closing Time and Other Stories (2007); Triptych (2012); Night Terrors III (2014); What They Wrote (2015); The Box (1994); Gone (2000); The Haunt (2001); The Crossings (2003); Weed Species (2006); Book of Souls (2008); I'm Not Sam (2012); Notes from the Cat House (2013); Gorilla In My Room (2019); Turning Japanese (2013); Writers On Writing (2015); Triage (1990); Deadly After Dark (1994); Vampire Detectives (1995); Fear the Fever (1996); Skull Full of Spurs (2000); October Dreams (2000); Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Tales from a Darker State (2003); Fear Of The Unknown (2005); Masques V (2006); Mondo Zombie (2006); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); In Laymon's Terms (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The World Is Dead (2009); A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre (2011); Slices of Flesh (2012); Horror for Good (2012); Psychos (2012); Chiral Mad (2012); Fear the Abyss (2012); Mister October, Volume II (2013); Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013); Chiral Mad 2 (2013); Turn Down the Lights (2013); Piercing the Darkness (2014); Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014); Horror 101: The Way Forward (2014); Cemetery Dance: Issue 71 (2014); Suspended In Dusk (2014); Insidious Assassins (2015); Chiral Mad 3 (2016); Beast: Revelations - A Dark Ethology - Volume 2 (2016); Cemetery Riots (2016); Seas & Oceans (2017); Dark Places, Evil Faces (2017); Red Room Issue 1 (2017); Zippered Flesh 3 (2017); VS: X: US vs UK Extreme Horror (2017); Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (2018); A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (2019); Freedom of Screech (2019); Dark Screams: Volume Three (2021).

Movies and television:

Beyond Blood (2018); Dark Dreamers (2011); Darlin' (2019); Header (2006); How to Score with Girls (1976); Inside the Plain Brown Wrapping (2013); Mail Order (2011); Offspring (2009); Olivia (2013); Red (2008); Sky Sharks (2020); Tales of Halloween (2015); The Cult of Ichi (2007); The Girl Next Door (2007); The Life of Death (2015); The Lost (2006); The Making of 'the Girl Next Door' (2007); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The Woman (2011); XX / Segment: The Box (2017).

On this day in movie history - Nocturne (1946):

Nocturne

directed by Edwin L. Marin,

written by Jonathan Latimer,

based on a story by Roland Brown and Frank Fenton,

was released in the United States on October 29, 1946.
Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Edward Ashley, Walter Sande, Mabel Paige, Bern Hoffman, Queenie Smith, Virginia Keiley, Mack Gray, Lilian Bond, Rudy Robles, Greta Granstedt, Carol Forman, William Challee.

Born on this day – Kenneth Washington:

Kenneth Washington

Actor

October 19, 1946 – July 18, 2025

Credits:

A Different World (1989); About Religion (1963); Adam-12 (1968–1969); Changes (1969); Climb an Angry Mountain (1972); Cry Rape (1973); Dragnet 1967 (1968); Escape from DS-3 (1981); Hec Ramsey (1972); Hogan's Heroes (1970–1971); Hook, Line and Sinker (1969); I Dream of Jeannie (1966); J. Edgar Hoover (1987); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970); Money on the Side (1982); My Friend Tony (1969); My Three Sons (1968); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Our Family Business (1981); Petticoat Junction (1969); Police Story (1974–1977); Star Trek (1969); The Birds and the Bees (1956); The F.B.I. (1974); The Name of the Game (1969); The Paul Lynde Show (1972); The Rockford Files (1975); Westworld (1973).

Born on this day – Suzanne Somers:

Suzanne Somers

Actress

Writer

Singer

October 16, 1946 – October 15, 2023

Credits:

Say It Isn't So (2001); The Darklings (1999); Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998); Step by Step (1991–1998); No Laughing Matter (1998); Love-Struck (1997); Devil's Food (1996); The Nutty Professor (1996); The Simpsons (1996); The Naked Truth (1995); ABC TGIF (1991–1995); ABC Sneak Peek with Step by Step (1994); Seduced by Evil (1994); Serial Mom (1994); Full House (1994); The Larry Sanders Show (1993); Sisters (1993); Exclusive (1992); Keeping Secrets (1991); Rich Men, Single Women (1990); She's the Sheriff (1987–1989); Totally Minnie (1988); Goodbye Charlie (1985); Hollywood Wives (1985); Three's Company (1977–1981); Nothing Personal (1980); Yesterday's Hero (1979); The Ropers (1979); Billy (1979); ; Zuma Beach (1978); Happily Ever After (1978); The Six Million Dollar Man (1977); Ants! (1977); Starsky and Hutch (1975–1977); The Love Boat (1977); Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977); One Day at a Time (1976); Sky Heist (1975); The Rockford Files (1974); Lotsa Luck! (1974); Magnum Force (1973); American Graffiti (1973); Fools (1970); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969); Bullitt (1968).

Born on this day – Michael Sloan:

Michael Sloan

Writer

Producer

October 14, 1946 – August 13, 2025

Credits:

A Double Life (1978); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1987–1989); Alien Agent (2007); An Amazing Time: Pemini co-founder and writer Michael Sloan (2022); Assassin (1973); B.J. and the Bear (1979–1981); Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980); Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979); Baywatch (2000); Baywatch Nights (1996); Bionic Ever After? (1994); Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989); Call of the Wild (2000); Columbo (1976); Earthquake in New York (1998); Evening in Byzantium (1978); Feature Fitness (1990); Free Fall (1999); Harry O (1975–1976); Her Sister's Keeper (2006); Hunted (1972); Intimate Portrait (1992); Kung Fu: A Legend Reborn (1992); Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993–1996); La Femme Nikita (1999); Magi-Nation (2007); Max Havoc: Ring of Fire (2006); McCloud (1976–1977); McCoy (1975); Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979); Moments (1974); Mystery Woman (2003); Mystery Woman: At First Sight (2006); Mystery Woman: Game Time (2005); Mystery Woman: In the Shadows (2007); Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend (2005); Mystery Woman: Oh Baby (2006); Mystery Woman: Redemption (2006); Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder (2005); Mystery Woman: Snapshot (2005); Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder (2005); Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery (2006); P.S.I. Luv U (1991); Pacific Blue (1997); Police Academy: The Series (1997); Quincy, M.E. (1977); Riviera (1987); Simon & Simon (1982); Spidersweb (2025); Switch (1975); Sword of Justice (1978–1979); The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008); The Caller (1987); The Devlin Connection (1982); The Equalizer (1985–1989 / 2014–2025); The Equalizer 2 (2018); The Equalizer 3 (2023); The Equalizer: The Mystery of Manon (1988); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977–1978); The Master (1984); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979); The Outer Limits (2001 / 2002); The Return of Sam McCloud (1989); The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983); The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987); This Is Your Life (1995); X Bomber (1980–1981).

Born on this day – Jean-Jacques Beineix:

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Director

October 8, 1946 – January 13, 2022

Credits:

Les Gaulois au-delà du mythe (2013); Loft Paradoxe (2002); Mortal Transfer (2001); The Works (1997); Assigné à résidence (1997); Otaku (1994); The King of Ads, Part 2 (1993); IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992); Roselyne and the Lions (1989); Betty Blue (1986); L'épi d'or (1985); The Moon in the Gutter (1983); Diva (1981); Le chien de Monsieur Michel (1977).

Born on this day – Dan O'Bannon:

Dan O'Bannon

Actor

Writer

Director

September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009

Credits:

A Conversation with Dan O'Bannon: The Final Interview (2011); A Little Bit Zombie (2012); Alien (1979); Alien Encounters: Superior Fan Power Since 1979 (2014); Alien Evolution (2001); Alien vs. Predator (1994 / 2004); Alien: Alone (2019); Alien: Containment (2019); Alien: Covenant (2017); Alien: Earth (2025); Alien: Enhancement Pods (2010); Alien: Harvest (2019); Alien: Isolation (2014); Alien: Night Shift (2019); Alien: Ore (2019); Alien: Resurrection (1997); Alien: Romulus (2024); Alien: Specimen (2019); Alien³ (1992); Aliens (1986); Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007); Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013); Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997); ASMR Xenomorph Attack (2019); Bird of Steel! (2024); Bleeders (1997); Blood Bath (1969); Bloodmyth (2006); Blue Thunder (1983 / 1984); Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Circus Maximus (2009); Cult Connections / Podcast Series (2021); Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear (2003); Dark Star (1974); Dead & Buried (1981); Delivering Milo (2001); Eli Roth's History of Horror (2020); Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors (1986); Film Genre (2002); Foster's Release (1971); Heavy Metal / Segment: Soft Landing (1981); Het loon van de angst (1983); I'm Gonna Eat Your Brains (2013); Invaders from Mars (1986); Jodorowsky's Dune (2013); Kill Her Goats (2023); L'antre du Mea (2017); Last Breath (2001); Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star (2010); Lifeforce (1985); Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019); Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures (2007); More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Phobia (1980); Prometheus (2012); Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead (2002); Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' (2006); Screamers (1995); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Alien Legacy (1999); The 'Alien' Saga (2002); The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' (2003); The Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Resurrected (1991); The Return of the Living Dead (1985); Total Recall (1990 / 2012); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); Welcome to the Basement (2013–2014); When Muscles Ruled the World (2002); Zaum - Andare a parare (2011).

Recommended reading - Dark Passage (1946):

Dark Passage

By David Goodis.

First published 1946.

ISBN 13: 9781598534467

ISBN 10: 1598534467

ASIN: B00TNBOFUI

Description:

The story of a man railroaded for his wife’s murder and forced to assume a different identity after escaping from prison becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of urban fear and loneliness. A fugitive from justice, in the depths of despair, he finds refuge with a beautiful woman as he struggles to unravel a nightmarish plot.

First published as a magazine serial, Dark Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, it is regarded as a classic of noir filmmaking.

For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.

Born on this day – Nicholas Clay:

Nicholas Clay

Actor

September 18, 1946 – May 25, 2000

On this day in movie history - Decoy (1946):

Decoy

directed by Jack Bernhard,

written by Nedrick Young,

based on a story by Stanley Rubin,

was released in the United States on September 14, 1946.
Music by Edward J. Kay.

Cast:

Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Edward Norris, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt, Marjorie Woodworth, Carole Donne, John Shay, Bert Roach, Rosemary Bertrand.

Born on this day – Alfa Anderson:

Alfa Anderson

Singer

Teacher

September 7, 1946 – December 17, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

C'est Chic (1978); Chic (1977); Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979); Music from My Heart (2017); Tongue in Chic (1982).

Songs:

A Warm Summer Night; At Last I Am Free; Bone; Chic Cheer; Chic Mystique; Chicism; Dance, Dance, Dance; Do That Dance; Do You Wanna Party; Everybody Dance; Good Times; Good Times / Rapper's Delight; Hangin'; Happy Man; I Want Your Love; I’ll Be There; I'm Coming Out; Jusagroove; Le Freak; My Feet Keep Dancing; My Forbidden Lover; Real People; São Paulo; Savoir Faire; Sober; Sometimes You Win; Soup for One; Till The World Falls; We Are Family; What About Me; Will You Cry; Would You Be My Baby.

Movies, television and video:

Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance (1978); Chic: Everybody Dance (1978); Chic: I Want Your Love (1979); Chic: Le Freak (1978); Coronation Street (2015–2016); Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker (2013); Unsung (2014).

On this day in movie history - Crack-Up (1946):

Crack-Up

directed by Irving Reis and James Anderson,

written by John Paxton, Ben Bengal and Ray Spencer,

based on the short story Madman's Holiday by Fredric Brown,

was released in the United States on September 6, 1946.
Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford, Dean Harens, Damian O'Flynn, Erskine Sanford, Mary Ware.

Born on this day – Freddie Mercury:

Freddie Mercury

Singer

Songwriter

Instrumentalist

September 5, 1946 – November 24, 1991

Born on this day – Susan Backlinie:

Susan Backlinie

Actress

Stuntwoman

September 1, 1946 – May 11, 2024

Credits:

1941 (1979); 20 to 1 (2010); A Stranger in My Forest (1976); A Stranger in My Forest (1976); American Grindhouse (2010); Catalina C-Lab (1982); Celebrity Chatter and Things that Matter with Elijah (2023); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Day of the Animals (1977); E! True Hollywood Story (2002); Image of the Beast (1981); Inside Edition (2015); Jaws (1975); Jaws: The Inside Story (2010); Jaws: The Restoration (2012); MythBusters (2005); Quark (1978); Robert Shaw: Jaws, Deoch & Deora (2015); Something Was Out There (2006); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The Fall Guy (1982); The Great Muppet Caper (1981); The Grizzly & the Treasure (1975); The Incredible Hulk (1978); The Making of 'Jaws' (1995); The Quest (1976); The Return of the Incredible Hulk (1977); The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws' (2007); The Villain (1979); Two-Minute Warning (1976).

On this day in movie history - The Killers (1946):

The Killers

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Anthony Veiller, John Huston and Richard Brooks,

based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on August 30, 1946.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett, Virginia Christine, Jack Lambert, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Ernie Adams, Audley Anderson, George Anderson, Sam Ash, Frank Baker, Brooks Benedict, John Berkes, Edward Biby, Harry Brown, Phil Brown, Jack Cheatham, James Conaty, Jeff Corey, Gino Corrado, Noel Cravat, Oliver Cross, Rex Dale, Neal Dodd, Mike Donovan, Howard Freeman, Dick Gordon, Robert Haines, Michael Hale, Sam Harris, Harry Hayden, Mark Hellinger, Al Hill, George Hoagland, Jimmie Horan, Geoffrey Ingham, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Ethan Laidlaw, Mike Lally, Perc Launders, Nolan Leary, Vera Lewis, Jack Lomas, Therese Lyon, Frank McLure, Charles Middleton, John Miljan, Howard Negley, Garry Owen, Barbara ‘Red’ Powers, Beatrice Roberts, Wally Rose, William Ruhl, Wallace Scott, John Sheehan, Queenie Smith, Ann Staunton, Jack Tornek, John Trebach, Bill Walker, Milton Wallace, Gabrielle Windsor, Florence Wix.