Born on this day – Tracy Wright:

Tracy Wright

Actress

December 7, 1959 – June 22, 2010

Credits:

All Hat (2007); Apartment Hunting (2000); Blind Spot (1997); Blindness (2008); Blue (1992); Book of Knives (1995); Bubbles Galore (1996); Childstar (2004); Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story (1996); Dice (2001); Dog Park (1998); Eclipse (1994); Elimination Dance (1998); Good Stuff (2001); Green Door (2008); Highway 61 (1991); It's Me Gerald (2005); Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996); Last Night (1998); Liberty Street (1995); Manson, My Name Is Evil (2009); Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005); Midwest of Eden (2005); Monkey Warfare (2006); My Addiction (1994); My Summer Vacation (1996); Northern Town (2006); Permission (1997); Picture Claire (2001); Slings and Arrows (2005); Superstar (1999); The 2000 Canadian Comedy Awards (2000); The fires of Joanna (1998); The Five Senses (1999); The Kids in the Hall (1991); This Movie Is Broken (2010); Trigger (2010); Twitch City (1998–2000); Wake Up, Jerk Off (1993); Wasaga (1995); When Night Is Falling (1995); You Are Here (2010); Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach (1997).

December in movie history - Gangster Story (1959):

Gangster Story

directed by Walter Matthau,

written by Paul Purcell,

based on a story by Richard Grey and V.J. Rheims,

was released in the United States in December, 1959.
Exact release date unknown.
Music by Alex Compinsky.

Cast:

Walter Matthau, Carol Grace, Bruce MacFarlane, Garry Walberg, Raikin Ben-Ari, David Leonard, John Albright, Clegg Hoyt, Leonard Bremen, Vic Tayback.

Born on this day – Dominique Dunne:

Dominique Dunne

Actress

November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982

Born on this day – Tony Ganios:

Tony Ganios

Actor

October 21, 1959 – February 18, 2024

Credits:

Wanderers Forever (2017); Rising Sun (1993); The Ring of the Musketeers (1992); Ring of the Musketeers (1992); The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991); Die Hard 2 (1990); Wiseguy (1989–1990); The Equalizer (1988); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Porky's Revenge (1985); Body Rock (1984); Porky's II: The Next Day (1983); Porky's (1981); Continental Divide (1981); Back Roads (1981); The Wanderers (1979).

Born on this day – Norm Macdonald:

Norm Macdonald

Comedian

Actor

Writer

October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021

On this day in television history - The Detectives (1959-1962):

The Detectives

aka The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Captain of Detectives,

and Robert Taylor's Detectives,

was released in the United States on October 16, 1959,

and ran for three seasons until May 18, 1962.

Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.

Directed by: Alvin Ganzer, Arnold Laven, Arthur Hiller, Charles F. Haas, David Friedkin, David Lowell Rich, Dick Moder, Don McDougall, Don Medford, Don Weis, Felix E. Feist, Gerald Mayer, Harry Keller, James Clavell, James Neilson, James P. Yarbrough, John Rich, Joseph H. Lewis, Lamont Johnson, Lawrence Dobkin, Lewis Allen, Murray Golden, Paul Landres, Paul Wendkos, Richard Carlson, Richard Donner, Richard Whorf, Robert B. Sinclair, Robert Butler, Roger Kay, Stuart Rosenberg, Ted Post, Thomas Carr, Tom Gries, Walter Doniger, William A. Graham, William F. Claxton.

Written by: A.I. Bezzerides, Alfred Brenner, Alvin Sapinsley, Anthony Boucher, Antony Ellis, Arthur Browne Jr., Barry Trivers, Borden Chase, Boyd Correll, Calvin Clements Sr., Christopher Knopf, Clark Howat, Curtis Kenyon, David P. Harmon, Don Brinkley, Donald S. Sanford, Ed Adamson, Elliot West, Ellis Marcus, Erna Lazarus, Gene Roddenberry, George Bruce, George W. George, Gordon Gordon, Harry Kronman, Henry F. Greenberg, Herbert Abbott Spiro, Herman Groves, Howard Dimsdale, Jack Laird, Jay Simms, John K. Butler, Joseph Petracca, Joseph Stefano, Judy George, Laurence E. Mascott, Lawrence Dobkin, Lee Berg, Lee Karson, Leonard Freeman, Lewis Reed, Louis Pelletier, Meyer Dolinsky, Michael Morris, Michael Plant, Mildred Gordon, Milton S. Gelman, Mort Thaw, Norman T. Herman, Palmer Thompson, Patricia Chase, Peter Packer, Peter Stephens, Philip Saltzman, Richard Collins, Richard Morgan, Robert B. Sinclair, Robert C. Dennis, Robert J. Shaw, Stanley Niss, Sy Salkowitz.

Cast:

Robert Taylor, Tige Andrews, Russell Thorson, Mark Goddard, Lee Farr, Adam West, Ursula Thiess, Michael Harris, Rita Lynn, Joe Higgins, Johnny Seven, Arthur Batanides, Enid Jaynes, Marc Lawrence, Sandra Warner, Dabbs Greer, William Sargent, Adam Williams, John Anderson, Michael Parks, Sandra White, Al Ruscio, Laura Shelton, Alice Backes, Arlene Martel, Joe Mantell, John Milford, Naomi Stevens, Robert Brubaker, Bruce Gordon, Vera Miles, Jay Adler, Grace Lee Whitney, Diane Mountford, Aneta Corsaut, Jena Engstrom, Jack Kruschen, Harold J. Stone, Eileen Ryan, Robert Karnes, Michael Fox, Joey Faye, Sue England, Joan Marshall, Bernard Fein, Denise Alexander, John Considine, Augusta Merighi, William Tannen, Jack Holland, Jean Allison, Hazel Shermet, Philip Bourneuf, Kay Stewart, Larry Breitman, Mel Carter, Marc Cavell, Jay Strong, John Larkin, Morris D. Erby, George E. Mather, Hugh Sanders, Arthur Malet, Joe Turkel, Adrianne Ellis, Adrienne Hayes, Alice Allyn, Alice Frost, Amzie Strickland, Anita Sands, Barbara Nichols, Brian G. Hutton, Bruce Dern, Catherine Mazzola, Cathy O'Donnell, Charles McGraw, Claire Carleton, Danielle Aubry, Darlene Fields, Diane Ladd, Dianne Foster, Donna Douglas, Dyan Cannon, Edward G. Robinson, Ellen Burstyn, Eva Gabor, Fay Spain, George Conrad, Inger Stevens, James Coburn, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Joseph Sargent, Joyce Van Patten, L.Q. Jones, Lawrence Tierney, Lee Meriwether, Marianna Hill, Marion Ross, Marsha Hunt, Martin Landau, Michael Constantine, Murray Hamilton, Nancy Anderson, Robert Culp, Telly Savalas.

On this day in television history - The Untouchables (1959 - 1963):

The Untouchables

based on the book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1959,

and ran for four seasons until May 21, 1963.
The pilot episode was released on January 22, 1959.
Narrated by Walter Winchell.
Music by Bill Loose, Jack Cookerly and Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez, Steve London, Jerry Paris, Chuck Hicks, Anthony George, Keenan Wynn, Eddie Firestone, Robert Osterloh, Frank Wilcox, Robert Bice, Jason Wingreen, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Nichols, Dane Clark, John Gabriel, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Asner, Virginia Capers, Bruce Gordon, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Lawrence Dobkin, Robert J. Wilke, Warren J. Kemmerling, Bern Hoffman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lloyd Nolan, Robert J. Wilke, Harry Morgan, Gene Roth, Robert Carricart, Joseph Ruskin, Robert Carricart, Carl Milletaire, Grant Richards, Neville Brand, Frank de Kova, John Beradino, Henry Silva, Joe De Santis, George N. Neise, John Kellogg, H. M. Wynant, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict, Herman Rudin, Les Lampson, Walter Winchell, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade.

On this day in movie history - Odds Against Tomorrow (1959):

Odds Against Tomorrow

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Abraham Polonsky and Nelson Gidding,

based on the novel by William P. McGivern,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1959.
Music by John Lewis.

Cast:

Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame, Will Kuluva, Kim Hamilton, Mae Barnes, Richard Bright, Carmen De Lavallade, Lew Gallo, Lois Thorne, Wayne Rogers, Zohra Lampert, Allen Nourse.

Born on this day – Kirsty MacColl:

Kirsty MacColl

Singer

Songwriter

October 10, 1959 – December 18, 2000

Credits:

Albums:

30:30 The Essential Collection (2013); A New England: The Very Best of Kirsty MacColl (2013); All I Ever Wanted (2014); All I Ever Wanted: The Anthology (2014); Can’t Stop Killing You (1993); Days (1988 - 1991) (2018); Desperate Character (1981); Electric Landlady (1991); Electric Landlady (Deluxe Edition) (1991); From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology (2005); Galore (1995); Kite (1989); Kite (Deluxe Edition) (1989); Live At The Jazz Café, London, 12 October 1999 (2023); Real (2023); See That Girl (2023); See That Girl 1979–2000 (2023); The Best of Kirsty MacColl (2005); The Essential Collection (1993); The One and Only (2001); The Real MacColl (1991); The Stiff Singles Collection (2006); The Stiff Years (2005); Titanic Days (1993); Tropical Brainstorm (2000); What Do Pretty Girls Do? (1998).

Songs:

All I Ever Wanted; Angel; Can't Stop Killing You; Caroline; Days; Dear John; Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!; Fairytale of New York; Free World; He's on the Beach; I Want Out; In These Shoes?; Innocence; Keep Your Hands off My Baby; Mambo de la Luna; Miss Otis Regrets; My Affair; A New England; Perfect Day; See That Girl; Terry; There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis; They Don't Know; Walking Down Madison; You Caught Me Out.

Movies, television and video:

A Question of Pop (2000); Adore (2013); Angela and Friends (2009); Any Time Now (2002); Bargain Hunt (2018); BBC Music Live 2000 (2000); Beautiful People (1999); Billy Bragg: Sexuality (1991); Boomers (2015); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Cannonball (2017); Completely Pogued (1991); Cow (2021); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cuck (2019); De verschrikkelijke jaren tachtig (2022); Dinner at Noon (1991); Doom Patrol (2019); Dream Stuffing (1984); EastEnders (2000–2022); EastEnders: Back to Ours (2015); F.C. De Kampioenen (1991); Folk Britannia (2006); Folk Hibernia (2007); French and Saunders (1990); Fresh Meat (2016); Get It Together (1981); Girls (2016); Good Morning Britain (2017–2019); Hittimittari (1984); Hotel Babylon (2007); I Want You (1998); If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001); If It Ain't Stiff (2007); Kinky Boots (2005); Kirstie's Handmade Britain (2011); Kirstie's Handmade Christmas (2014); Kirsty MacColl: A New England (1984); Kirsty MacColl: Days (1989); Kirsty MacColl: Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (1990); Kirsty MacColl: Freeworld (1989); Kirsty MacColl: He's on the Beach (1985); Kirsty MacColl: Terry (1983); Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993); Later... With Jools Holland (1992–2000); Live from Studio Five (2009); Mad Love (1995); Midsomer Murders (2013); Misfits (2009); Moving Story (1994–1995); MTV 80s - Top 100 Forgotten Gems of the 80s! (2024); MTV 80s - Top 100 Hits of 80s Wonder Women! (2024); Musikladen (1984); National Geographic Explorer (1985); Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1997 / 2000); Not Going Out (2017–2019); Our Nixon (2013); P.S. I Love You (2007); Peter Andre's Xmas Extravaganza Top 50 (2014); Picking up the Pieces (1998); Picture Perfect (1997); Rage (1994); Razzmatazz (1981); Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990); Reeling in the Years (1999); Run All Night (2015); Sex and the City (2001); She's Having a Baby (1988); Sings the Great American Songbook (2010); Something Else (1981); Sounds of the 80s (2015); Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers (1988); Tattoo Fixers (2017); Teachers (2002); Ted Lasso (2021); The 80s - Music's Greatest Decade? (2021); The Adventures of Mole (1995); The Catherine Tate Show (2004); The End of the Tour (2015); The Ghosts of Oxford Street (1991); The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022); The Jack Docherty Show (1997); The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York (1987); The Pogues: Live at the Town and Country (1988); The Project (2023); The Roxy (1987); The Sara Cox Show (2019); The Story of Fairytale of New York (2005); The Vicar of Dibley (1996); Top of the Pops (1980–1991); Tracey Takes On... (1996–1999); Tracey Ullman: Terry (1985); Tracey Ullman: They Don't Know (1983); Tracy Beaker Returns (2012); Who Killed Kirsty MacColl? (2004); Wogan (1985–1991); Women in Rock (1986).

On this day in movie history - Pillow Talk (1959):

Pillow Talk

directed by Michael Gordon,

written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.
Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.