Born on this day – Buddy Messinger:

Buddy Messinger

Actor

Assistant director

Stunts

October 26, 1907 – October 25, 1965

Credits:

A Family Row (1924); A Front Page Story (1922); A Howling Success (1923); A Lady of Chance (1928); A Regular Boy (1923); A Sorority Mixup (1927); A Star Is Born (1937); A Young Tenderfoot (1924); Ah Wilderness! (1935); Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917); Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918); All for a Girl (1925); All Over Twist (1923); Almost a Husband (1925); An All American Toothache (1936); Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Atlantic Flight (1937); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Blonde Trouble (1937); Bondage (1933); Boyhood Days (1923); Bringing Up Buddy (1923); Brooklyn Orchid (1942); Buckin' the Line (1923); Budding Youth (1924); Buddy at the Bat (1923); Cheer Up and Smile (1930); Citizen Kane (1941); Clear the Way (1925); College Coach (1933); College Holiday (1936); Crime by Night (1944); Dad's Boy (1923); Devil's Doorway (1950); Don't Fall (1924); Don't Get Fresh (1923); Don't Kidd Me, Monkey (1926); Dumb Belles (1927); Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920); Edgar Camps Out (1920); Edgar Takes the Cake (1920); Edgar, the Detective (1921); Edgar, the Explorer (1920); Edgar's Country Cousin (1921); Edgar's Feast Day (1921); Edgar's Hamlet (1920); Edgar's Jonah Day (1920); Edgar's Little Saw (1920); Edgar's Sunday Courtship (1920); Eyes of Hollywood (1925); Fan Fan (1918); Fast and Furious (1939); Fast and Loose (1939); Fighting Joe (1916); Flame of the Islands (1955); Four Girls in White (1939); Giant (1956); Gloriana (1916); Good Scouts (1927); Happy Days (1924); Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943); Here He Comes! (1924); His First Degree (1924); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); Hold That Kiss (1938); Hot Stuff (1929); Hullabaloo (1940); Idiot's Delight (1939); Jack and the Beanstalk (1917); Jack Slade (1953); Jinx (1919); Keeping Company (1940); Kelly the Second (1936); Keyhole Katie (1933); Let 'em Have It (1935); Libeled Lady (1936); Love Thy Neighbor (1940); Low Bridge (1924); Midnight Madonna (1937); Mister Cinderella (1936); Modern Times (1936); Monkey Hula (1927); Monkeys Prefer Blondes (1926); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Nize Monkey (1926); Oh, Monkey, Be Good (1926); One, Two, Three, Kick! (1927); Our Relations (1936); Penrod and Sam (1923); Please, Teacher! (1924); Quit Kidding (1924); Ringside Romeos (1928); Sailing Along (1925); Sandwiches and Tea (1928); Sergeant Madden (1939); Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1956–1957); Shadows (1922); She's a He (1923); Six-Shooter Andy (1918); Smarty (1923); So Long, Buddy (1923); Some Pets (1928); So's Your Monk (1927); Stage Mother (1933); Summer Knights (1928); Super-Sleuth (1937); Swell Clothes (1927); Taming the East (1925); Test Pilot (1938); Thanks a Million (1935); That's My Mummy (1927); The 3 Wise Guys (1936); The Abysmal Brute (1923); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Age of Consent (1932); The Aggravatin' Kid (1925); The Andy Griffith Show (1962); The Atomic Kid (1954); The Babes in the Woods (1917); The Big Store (1941); The Blow Out (1924); The Caddy (1924); The Campus Hoofer (1934); The Clown and the Kid (1961); The Danny Thomas Show (1963); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Flirt (1922); The Gay Amigo (1949); The Gay Sisters (1942); The Godless Girl (1928); The Hoodlum (1919); The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939); The King of Shebas (1928); The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939); The Luck of the Irish (1920); The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941); The Old Nest (1921); The Public Menace (1935); The Racing Kid (1924); The Road to Denver (1955); The Sergeant Was a Lady (1961); The Shining Hour (1938); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Valiant Hombre (1948); The Whispered Name (1924); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three of a Kind (1936); Timberjack (1955); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Trailing Trouble (1924); Treasure Island (1917); Trifling with Honor (1923); Turnabout (1940); Two Arabian Sights (1927); Undressed (1928); What an Eye (1924); When Love Comes (1922); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Yellow Jack (1938); Young Ideas (1924); Zero Hour! (1957).

Born on this day – John Lawlor:

John Lawlor

Actor

Assistant director

June 5, 1941 – February 13, 2025

Credits:

3 Minute Gaps (2011); A Matter of Life and Death (1981); A New Kind of Family (1979); A Prayer for the Dying (1987); ABC Weekend Specials (1984); After the Shock (1990); Alice (1977); Angel (1982); Banshee Chapter (2013); Barney Miller (1978); Behind Closed Doors (2020); Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977); Black Sheep Squadron (1976); Breaking Bad (2011); Cassie & Co. (1982); Cold Case (2004); Condo (1983); Driftwood (1997); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Ellery Queen (1975); Excalibur (1981); FBI: The Untold Stories (1992); Godless (2017); Gold (2016); Graves (2016); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1999); Here's Boomer (1981); Highlander (1986); Highway to Heaven (1985–1987); In Plain Sight (2009); Isabel's Honeymoon Hotel (1987); Jackson County Jail (1976); Joe Forrester (1976); Killer Women (2014); Knots Landing (1992–1993); L.A. Law (1993); Longmire (2014); McBride: Tune in for Murder (2005); Movie Madness (1982); Mr. Belvedere (1989); Mr. Fixit (1988); Naked Run (2011); Newhart (1984); Northern Lights (2000); Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs (2014); Outside Chance (1978); Phyllis (1976–1977); Relentless (1977); S.O.B. (1981); Scoundrels (2010); She's the Sheriff (1987); Simon & Simon (1984); Sledge Hammer! (1986); Stingray (1986); T.J. Hooker (1984); The Best Times (1985); The Bold and the Beautiful (1988–1989); The Bureau (1976); The Country Girls (1983); The Facts of Life (1979–1984); The Gumball Rally (1976); The Lyon's Den (2003); The Magical World of Disney (1987); The New Lassie (1991); The Oregon Trail (1978); The Reunion (2011); The Roaring Twenties (2008); The Rockford Files (1975); The Trumpeter (2004); Today (2010); United States (1980); Why Us? (1981); Wyatt Earp (1994).

Born on this day – George Folsey Jr:

George Folsey Jr.

Assistant director

Editor

Producer

Cinematographer

January 17, 1939 – December 29, 2024

Credits:

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); An American Werewolf in London (1981); Ants! (1977); B.B. King: Into the Night (1985); Basic (2003); Basic Ingredients: A Writer's Perspective (2003); Basic: A Director's Design (2003); Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London' (2009); Black Caesar (1973); Bone (1972); Bucktown (1975); Bulletproof (1996); Cabin Fever (2002); Cellmates (2011); Chain of Command (2015); Character Building: The Many Faces of Rick Baker (2007); Cheaper by the Dozen (2003); Clarity (2015); Club Dread (2004); Clue (1985); Coming to America (1988); Dead Within (2014); Death Link (2021); Despair (2010); Dirty Work (1998); Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004); Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970); Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996); Exploring the Unknown (1977); Face of the Enemy (1989); Fargo (2003); Fit for Akeem: The Costumes of 'Coming to America' (2007); Freedom Road (1979); Freeloaders (2012); Glass Houses (1972); Goosed (1999); Greedy (1994); Grumpier Old Men (1995); Hammer (1972); Here's Peggy Fleming (1968); Hole in the Paper Sky (2008); Hostel (2005); Hostel Dissected (2006); Hostel: Part II (2007); Hostel: Part III (2011); Hot Tub Time Machine (2010); Igor (2008); Insider Trading: The Making of 'Trading Places' (2007); Into the Night (1985); J.D.'s Revenge (1976); Just Swipe (2021); Latchkey's Lament (2007); Let's Go to Church (2004); Love and Mary (2007); My Sister (2014); National Lampoon's Animal House (1978); Norman... Is That You? (1976); One World (2016); Pledge This! (2006); Portrait of a Hitman (1979); Prince-ipal Photography: The Coming Together of America (2007); Reboot Camp (2020); Schlock (1973); Sex Drive (2008); Shaft (1973–1974); Son of Man (2011); Sourdough (1981); Spies Like Us (1985); Summer Rain (2024); Super Troopers (2001); Thanksgiving (2007); The Blues Brothers (1980); The Chicken Chronicles (1977); The Gray Man (2007); The Great Santini (1979); The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977); The Killing Floor (2017); The Kings of Brooklyn (2004); The Making of 'Thriller' (1983); The Monkees (1967); The Movies That Made Us (2021); The Pink Panther (2006); The Rainbow Tribe (2008); The Right Hook (2000); The Ringer (2005); The Stories Behind the Making of 'the Blues Brothers' (1998); The Thing Called Love (1993); The Wicked Within (2015); The Yearbook: An 'Animal House' Reunion (1998); Three Amigos! (1986); Thriller (1983); Tracks (1976); Trader Horn (1973); Trading Places (1983); Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); Unaccompanied Minors (2006); Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV (2011); Wolf Mountain (2022).