Born on this day – Ed Lauter:

Ed Lauter

Actor

Comedian

October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013

Credits:

3:15 the Moment of Truth (1986); A Bright Shining Lie (1998); A Shadow in the Streets (1975); Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); Allie & Me (1997); Art Heist (2004); Automan (1984); B.J. and the Bear (1979); Bad Company (1972); Baretta (1975); Birdland (1994); Blast (2000); Blind Pass (2015); Booker (1989); Born on the Fourth of July (1989); Breach of Trust (1995); Breakheart Pass (1975); Brothers in Arms (2005); Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992); Camille (2008); Cannon (1972); Can't Hurry Love (1996); Carnal Innocence (2011); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984); Charlie's Angels (1977); Charmed (2001); Chief Zabu (1988); Childhood Sweetheart? (1997); Chocolate News (2008); Civility (2000); Class of '63 (1973); Cold Case (2008); Coming Attractions (1978); Coyote Summer (1996); Crazy Like a Fox (1984); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002); Cujo (1983); Dark Shadows (1967); Death Hunt (1981); Death Wish 3 (1985); Digital Man (1995); Dirty Little Billy (1972); Dollar for the Dead (1998); ER (1998); Eureka (1983); Executive Action (1973); Expecting a Miracle (2009); Extreme Justice (1993); Family Plot (1976); Farewell, My Love (2000); Fat Man and Little Boy / aka Shadow Makers (1989); Father Dowling Mysteries (1990); Finders Keepers (1984); Firefighter (1986); For Which He Stands (1996); French Connection II (1975); Gentleman B. (2000); Girl in the Cadillac (1995); Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985); Gleaming the Cube (1989); Go for Broke (2002); Godspeed (2009); Golden Years (1991); Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988); Grandpa's Place (2004); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Grey's Anatomy (2008); Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); Hardcastle and McCormick (1983); Hawaii Five-O (1980); Hickey & Boggs (1972); Highlander (1994); Hitz (1992); Homicide: Life on the Street (1993); How the West Was Won (1978); In the Custody of Strangers (1982); Into the Fire (2005); Ironside (1972); JAG (2004); Kate McShane (1975); King Kong (1976); Kingpin (2003); Knight Club (2001); Kojak (1974); Kojak: Flowers for Matty (1990); Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1996); Lassiter (1984); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); Law & Order (2000); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973); Longstreet (1971); Love Hollywood Style (2006); Love's Savage Fury (1979); Magic (1978); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Manimal (1983); Mannix (1971); Married to a Stranger (1997); Mercenary (1996); Miami Vice (1986); Millennium (1998); Monsters (1990); Mulholland Falls (1996); Murder, She Wrote (1987); My Blue Heaven (1990); Nero Wolfe (1981); Nickel Mountain (1984); Night of Terror (1999); Nobody Knows Anything! (2003); Not Another Teen Movie (2001); NYPD Blue (2005); Ohara (1987); Operation Shock and Awe... some (2008); Our Family Honor (1985); Out in Fifty (1999); Poisoned by Love: The Kern County Murders (1993); Police Story (1976); Psych (2009); Purple Heart (2005); Python (2000); Rage (1972); Rattled (1996); Raven Hawk (1995); Raw Deal (1986); Real Genius (1985); Renegade (1992); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987); Ripple (1995); Rooster (1982); Satan's Triangle (1975); School Ties (1992); Screen Two (1986); Seabiscuit (2003); Secret Sins of the Father (1994); Seraphim Falls (2006); Shameless (2012); Simon & Simon (1983); Solace (2006); Something's Wrong in Kansas (2008); St. Elsewhere (1983); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992); Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004); Taken by Force (2010); Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006); Tennessee Waltz (1989); The Amateur (1981); The American Standards (2008); The Artist (2011); The A-Team (1983); The Beautiful Ones (2017); The Big Score (1983); The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980); The Cartier Affair (1984); The Chicken Chronicles (1977); The Clone Master (1978); The Defiant Ones (1986); The Equalizer (1987); The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012); The Godchild (1974); The Jericho Mile (1979); The Last American Hero (1973); The Last Days of Patton (1986); The Librarians (2003); The Longest Yard / aka The Mean Machine (1974); The Lost (2006); The Magical World of Disney (1986); The Magnificent Seven (1999); The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972); The Midnight Man (1974); The Migrants (1974); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979); The New Centurions (1972); The New Land (1974); The Number 23 (2007); The Office (2013); The Oregon Trail (1978); The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie (2007); The Prometheus Project (2010); The Return of Ironside (1993); The Rocketeer (1991); The Rockford Files (1977); The Seduction of Gina (1984); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); The Sweeper (1996); The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (1984); The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014); The Tuskegee Airmen (1995); The Waltons (1974); The White Buffalo (1977); The X-Files (1993); The Yellow Rose (1984); Thirteen Days (2000); Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982); Top of the World (1997); Trial by Jury (1994); Trouble with the Curve (2012); True Romance (1993); Under Investigation (1993); Under Wraps (1997); Undercover with the KKK (1979); Venice Underground (2005); Wagons East (1994); Walker, Texas Ranger (1997); Working for Harry (1995); Youngblood (1986).

On this day in movie history - Eureka (1983):

Eureka

directed by Nicolas Roeg,

written by Paul Mayersberg,

based on the book Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes? by Marshall Houts,

was released in the United States on October 5, 1984.
Inspired by the true 1943 Sir Harry Oakes murder case.
Music by Stanley Myers.

Poem quoted in final scene is a verse from Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service:

There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;
It’s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder,
It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.

Cast:

Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Ed Lauter, Joe Pesci, Helena Kallianiotes, Cavan Kendall, Corin Redgrave, Joe Spinell, Frank Pesce, Michael Scott Addis, Norman Beaton, Emrys James, James Faulkner, Ann Thornton, Emma Relph, Mickey Rourke, John Vine, Tim Van Rellim, Ellis Dale, Mico Blanco Group, Aklowa Master Drummers, Lloyd Berry, Tom Heaton, Timothy Scott, Geri Dewson, Annie Kidder, Ian Tracey, Brad Sakiyama, Sandra Friesen, Raimund Stamm, Suzette Collins, Tommy Lane.

On this day in movie history - The Longest Yard (1974):

The Longest Yard

aka The Mean Machine,

directed by Robert Aldrich,

written by Tracy Keenan Wynn,

based on a story by Albert S. Ruddy,

was released in the United States on August 21, 1974.
Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Harry Caesar, John Steadman, Charles Tyner, Mike Henry, Jim Nicholson, Bernadette Peters, Pervis Atkins, Tony Cacciotti, Anitra Ford, Michael Fox, Joe Kapp, Richard Kiel, Pepper Martin, Mort Marshall, Ray Nitschke, Tony Reese, Sonny Sixkiller, Robert Tessier, Dino Washington, Ernie Wheelwright, Joe Dorsey, Gus Carlucci, Jack Rockwell, Sonny Shroyer, Ray Ogden, Don Ferguson, Chuck Hayward, Alfie Wise, Steve Wilder, George A. Jones, Wilbur Gillian, Wilson Warren, Joe Jackson, Howard Silverstein, Donald Hixon.

On this day in movie history - Death Hunt (1981):

Death Hunt

directed by Peter Hunt,

written by Michael Grais and Mark Victor,

was released in the United States on May 21, 1981.
Music by Jerrold Immel.

Based on the true 1932 case of Albert Johnson, aka the Mad Trapper of Rat River.

Cast:

Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter, Scott Hylands, Angie Dickinson, Henry Beckman, William Sanderson, Jon Cedar, James O’Connell, Len Lesser, Richard Davalos, Maury Chaykin, August Schellenberg, Dennis Wallace, James McIntire, Rayford Barnes, Maurice Kowalewski, Sean McCann, Steve Finkel, Denis Lacroix, Tantoo Cardinal, Amy Marie George, Steve Mirer.

On this day in movie history - French Connection II (1975):

French Connection II

directed by John Frankenheimer,

written by Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, Laurie Dillon and Pete Hamill,

based on the story by Robert Dillon and Laurie Dillon,

was released in the United States on May 18, 1975.
Music by Don Ellis.

Cast:

Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter, Charles Millot, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Cathleen Nesbitt, Samantha Llorens, André Penvern, Reine Prat, Raoul Delfosse, Ham Chau Luong, Jacques Dynam, Malek Kateb, Pierre Collet, Alexandre Fabre, Jean-Pierre Zola, Manu Pluton, Daniel Vérité, Jean-Marc Allègre, Roland Blanche, Patrick Bouchitey, Philippe Brizard, Marie-Christine Descouard, Paul Mercey, Hal Needham, Ambroise Perrin.