Born on this day – Marie Bell:

Marie Bell

Actress

Theatre director

December 23, 1900 – August 14, 1985

Credits:

Don't cut down my trees (1975); Closed Shutters (1973); Les yeux crevés (1968); Phèdre (1968); Hotel Paradiso (1966); Sandra (1965); The Good Soup (1964); The Leopard (1963); The Colonel Chabert (1943); Private Life (1942); Those of the Sky (1941); The Phantom Wagon (1939); Coconut (1939); La Glu (1938); Legions of Honour (1938); One Carnet de bal (1937); Pantins d'amour (1937); Blanchette (1937); Fiordalisi D'oro (1936); The Temptation (1936); The Half-Virgins (1936); When midnight Sonnera (1936); The Flapper (1936); The Novel of a Poor Young Man (1936); Under The Terror (1935); Poliche (1934); The Great Game (1934); Fedora (1934); Whim of Princess (1934); The Man with the Hispano (1933); Luck (1931); The crazy adventure (1931); The Man Who Murdered (1931); The Joker (1930); The night is ours (1930); Figaro (1929); The Farewell Waltz (1928); Madame Récamier (1928); Paris (1924); The Bad Boy (1923).

Born on this day – Joseph Ziegler:

Joseph Ziegler

Actor

Theatre director

November 7, 1953 – July 28, 2025

Credits:

Co-founder of the Soulpepper theatre company.

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1989); Amreeka (2009); Black Harbour (1996–1999); Blue Murder (2001–2002); Dick Francis: In the Frame (1989); Dieppe (1993); Dinner at Lucy's (2009); Due South (1994–1995); E.N.G. (1993); Empire, Inc. (1983); Focus (2001); Forever Knight (1995); Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993); Hamlet (Solo) (2007); Heritage Minutes (2005); Leap Years (2001); Murdoch Mysteries (2021); North of 60 (1994); Nurses (2020); Oh, What a Night (1992); Open Heart (2004); Our Fathers (2005); Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994); Relic Hunter (2001); Robin & Mark & Richard III (2016); Side Effects (1994–1996); Slings and Arrows (2005); Sprnva (2014); Stratford Festival: Macbeth (2017); Street Legal (1989–1992); Ten Minute Call (2018); The Circle Game (1994); The Grid (2004); The Hitchhiker (1989); The Matthew Shepard Story (2002); The Trojan Horse (2008); Timon of Athens (2018); To Save the Children (1994); Tom Stone (2002); Tribulation (2000); Twelfth Night (1986); Twists of Terror (1997); War of the Worlds (1988); Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002).

Born on this day – Ngaio Marsh:

Ngaio Marsh

Writer

Theatre director

April 23, 1895 – February 18, 1982

Written work:

A Fool about Money (1973); A Knotty Problem / Bodies from the Library: Volume 3 (2020); A Man Lay Dead (1934); A National Theatre (1949); A Play Toward (1946); An Author's Defence of the Hackneyed Classics (1949); Artists in Crime (1938); Black As He's Painted (1974); Black Beech and Honeydew (19651981); Chapter and Verse: The Little Copplestone Mystery (1974); Clutch of Constables (1968); Colour Scheme (1943); Columbine and Pantaloon (1919); Dead Water (1963); Death and the Dancing Footman (1941); Death at the Bar (1940); Death at the Dolphin (1966); Death in a White Tie (1938); Death in Ecstasy (1936); Death on the Air (1937); Died in the Wool (1945); Enter a Murderer (1935); Evil Liver (1975); Exit Sir Derek by Henry Jellett (1935); False Scent (1959); Final Curtain (1947); Grave Mistake (1978); Hand in Glove (1962); I Can Find My Way Out (1946); Last Ditch (1977); Light Thickens (1982); Little House Bound (1924); Marie Tempest by Hector Bolitho (1937); Money in the Morgue (2018); Moonshine / aka Yours and Mine: Stories by Young New Zealanders (1936); Morepork (1979); Mrs 'obson (1914); My Poor Boy (1959); New Zealand (1942); New Zealand: Welfare Paradise (1960); Noel (1912); Off With His Head (1956); Opening Night (1951); Overture to Death (1939); Photo Finish (1980); Scales of Justice (1955); Singing in the Shrouds (1958); Singing Land (1974); Slipknot (1967); So Much for Nothing (1921); Speech of New Zealanders (1939); Spinsters in Jeopardy (1953); Stratford-upon-Avon (1967); Surfeit of Lampreys (1941); Swing Brother Swing (1949); The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh / aka Death on the Air and Other Stories (1995); The Cupid Mirror (1972); The Development of the Arts in New Zealand / Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts (1951); The Figure Quoted (1927); The Gift (1920); The Hand in the Sand (1953); The Hawthorn Gate (1920); The Moon Princess (1913); The Night Train from Grey (1919); The Novelist's Problem (1934); The Nursing Home Murder (1935); The Quick Forge (1964); The Wyvern and the Unicorn (1962); Theatre in a Young Country (1951); Theatre: A Note on the Status Quo (1947); Tied Up in Tinsel (1972); Vintage Murder / aka The Case of the Greenstone Tiki (1937); When in Rome (1970).

Movies and television:

Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994); Colour Scheme (1977); Crown Court (1975); Detective (1964–1968); Died in the Wool (1978); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951); Opening Night (1977); Poslední opona (1965); Smrt s fotografiou (1988); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); Vintage Murder (1977).