Born on this day – Simon Oakland:

Simon Oakland

Actor

August 28, 1915 – August 29, 1983

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962); Alexander the Great (1963); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1957–1960); Ben Casey (1962); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Big Town (1951); Black Saddle (1959); Black Sheep Squadron (1976–1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Bonanza (1963–1969); Brenner (1959); Bret Maverick (1982); Bronco (1960); Bullitt (1968); Bus Stop (1962); Cade's County (1972); Cain's Hundred (1962); Captain David Grief (1960); Captain Nice (1967); Car 54, Where Are You? (1962); Celebrity Bowling (1973); Charlie's Angels (1980); Chato's Land (1972); Checkmate (1961); CHiPs (1979–1982); Chubasco (1968); Cimarron Strip (1967); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Combat! (1963–1965); Crosscurrent (1971); Dan August (1971); Daniel Boone (1965–1969); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978–1979); Deadline (1959–1961); Decoy (1957–1958); Directions (1964); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); East Side/West Side (1963); Ellery Queen (1975); Emperor of the North (1973); Evening in Byzantium (1978); Follow That Dream (1962); Follow the Sun (1961); General Electric Theater (1961); Gentle Ben (1967); Get Smart (1965); Gibbsville (1976); Good Morning World (1968); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Gunsmoke (1956–1965); Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1975); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); I Spy (1956); I Want to Live! (1958); Ironside (1969–1973); It Takes a Thief (1968); Judd for the Defense (1968); Key West (1973); Kojak (1976); Kolchak: Crackle of Death (1974); Kolchak: Demon and the Mummy (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975); Kraft Theatre (1956–1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961–1962); Laramie (1960); Lou Grant (1982); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1976); Matt and Jenny (1980); Medical Center (1970–1972); Men Into Space (1959); Mission: Impossible (1967); Mod Squad (1969); Mr. Broadway (1964); Mr. Novak (1964); Murder, Inc. (1960); My Favorite Martian (1963); Naked City (1959); Off to See the Wizard (1968); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970); Outlaws (1961); Perry Mason (1960–1961); Police Story (1976); Producers' Showcase (1957); Profiles in Courage (1965); Psycho (1960); Purex Summer Specials (1962); Quincy, M.E. (1978–1982); Rawhide (1963–1965); Ready for the People (1964); Red Light (1949); Route 66 (1962); S.W.A.T. (1975); Saints and Sinners (1962); Scandalous John (1971); Slattery's People (1965); Stoney Burke (1963); Suspense (1950); Switch (1978); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Tarzan (1967); The Alaskans (1959); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Big Story (1956); The Big Valley (1969); The Bill Dana Show (1963); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Buccaneer (1958); The Defenders (1961–1965); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Desperate Hours (1955); The Detectives (1960); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1965); The F.B.I. (1969); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Felony Squad (1967); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1978); The Hunting Party (1971); The Law and Mr. Jones (1961); The Littlest Hobo (1982); The Man and the City (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1967); The Name of the Game (1968–1970); The New Breed (1961); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Night Stalker (1972); The Night Strangler (1973); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outsider (1968); The Plainsman (1966); The Raiders (1963); The Reporter (1964); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Rockford Files (1977–1979); The Rogues (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Satan Bug (1965); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); The Silent Force (1970); The Silent Service (1958); The Starlost (1973); The Ten Commandments (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Third Man (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); The Twilight Zone (1961–1963); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1965); The Web (1953); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); The Wild Wild West (1968); The Young Lawyers (1970); Third of a Man (1962); Tightrope (1959); Toma (1973–1974); Tony Rome (1967); Tucker's Witch (1983); Unsolved (1960); Vega$ (1981); Wagon Train (1960–1962); Wall of Noise (1963); West Side Story (1961); Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965); Who Was That Lady? (1960); You Are There (1953–1955); Young Dr. Kildare (1973); Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977); Zane Grey Theatre (1959–1960).

On this day in movie history - Psycho (1960 movie & books):

Psycho

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Joseph Stefano,

based on the novel by Robert Bloch,

was released in the United States, on June 16, 1960.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.
Inspired by the true 1957 Ed Gein murder case.

Cast:

Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, Pat Hitchcock, Vaughn Taylor, Lurene Tuttle, John Anderson, Mort Mills, Virginia Gregg, Paul Jasmin, Jeanette Nolan.

Recommended reading:

Psycho

By Robert Bloch.

Filmed as Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by The Overlook Press.

First published 1959.

ISBN-10: 1590203356

ISBN-13: 9781590203354

Description:

"Psycho all came from Robert Bloch's book." – Alfred Hitchcock.

"Icily terrifying!" – The New York Times.

"Robert Bloch is one of the all-time masters." – Peter Straub.

Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for the past 20 years, or so people think. Norman knows better, though.

Ever since leaving the hospital, he has lived with Mother in the old house up on the hill above the Bates Motel. One night, after a beautiful woman checks into the motel, Norman spies on her as she undresses. Norman can’t help but spy on her.

Mother is there, though. She is there to protect Norman from his filthy thoughts. She is there to protect him with her butcher knife.

If you love to be scared, or are a fan of classic movies, then you know the story of Norman Bates, his mother, and the dark and frightening Bates Motel. Alfred Hitchcock’s taut, shocking scare-fest starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is a classic movie, as scary today as it was in 1960 when it was first released, and this is the 1959 novel upon which the movie is based.

It was here that the legend of the Bates Motel was born.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Edited by Richard J. Anobile.

The Film Classics Library.

Published by Universe Books.

First Edition.

Published 1974.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0876631898

ISBN-13: 978-0876631898

Description:

The Film Classics Library present the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book over 1,300 frame blow-up photos shown sequentially and coupled with the complete dialogue from the original soundtrack, allow you to recapture this film classic in its entirety – at your leisure.