Born on this day – Coleman Francis:

Coleman Francis

Actor

Writer

Director

January 24, 1919 – January 15, 1973

Credits:

The Dirtiest Game (1970); Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970); Body Fever (1969); The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1968); The Last American Hobo (1967); P.J. (1967); Red Zone Cuba (1966); Motorpsycho! (1965); The Thrill Killers (1964); The Skydivers (1963); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961); The Rifleman (1961); Spring Affair (1960); Cimarron (1960); The Jailbreakers (1960); From the Terrace (1960); The Man and the Challenge (1960); M Squad (1960); Tombstone Territory (1960); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Highway Patrol (1959); Dragnet (1957–1959); T-Bird Gang (1959); The Book of Acts Series: The Old Testament Scriptures (1958); Twilight for the Gods (1958); Stakeout on Dope Street (1958); The Book of Acts Series (1957); Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955–1957); The Phantom Stagecoach (1957); Burden of Truth (1957); Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1955); This Island Earth (1955); Killers from Space (1954); She Couldn't Say No (1953); Scarlet Angel (1952); The Girl in White (1952); Leadville Gunslinger (1952); The Tattooed Stranger (1950).

Born on this day – Gladys Lehman:

Gladys Lehman

Writer

January 24, 1892 – April 7, 1993

Credits:

20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); A Lady Surrenders (1930); A Message to Garcia (1936); Captain January (1936); Back Street (1932); Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939); Broadway Scandals (1929); Clear the Decks (1929); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Double Door (1934); Hired Wife (1940); His Lucky Day (1929); Hold Me Tight (1933); In Old Kentucky (1935); Embarrassing Moments (1930); Enter Madame! (1934); Fast and Furious / Red Hot Speed (1928); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Golden Girl (1951); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Her First Beau (1941); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); It's a Small World (1935); La voluntad del muerto (1930); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Reunion (1936); Little Accident (1930); Little Miss Marker (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Luxury Liner (1948); Meet Joe Black (1998); Mexicali Rose (1929); Midnight Madonna (1937); Nice Girl? (1941); Nice Women (1931); On Your Toes (1927); Out All Night (1927); The Broadway Hoofer (1929); The Cat Creeps (1930); The County Chairman (1935); Papa sans le savoir (1932); Personality (1930); Rio Rita (1942); Seed (1931); White Woman (1933); She Married an Artist (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Song and Dance Man (1936); Sorrowful Jones (1949); Strictly Dishonorable (1931); The Fall of Eve (1929); The Ice Flood (1926); The Lady Objects (1938); The Shield of Honor (1927); The Thin Man (1959); There's Always a Woman (1938); There's That Woman Again (1938); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); This Time for Keeps (1947); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944).

Born on this day – Edith Wharton:

Edith Wharton

Writer

Designer

January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920).

Credits:

Books:

A Backward Glance (1934); A Motor-Flight Through France (1908); A Son at the Front (1923); Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909); Bunner Sisters (1916); Certain People (1930); Crucial Instances (1901); Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings: 1888–1920 (1995); Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings (1996); Ethan Frome (1911); Fast and Loose: A Novelette (1938); Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915); French Ways and Their Meaning (1919); Ghosts (1937); Here and Beyond (1926); Hudson River Bracketed (1929); Human Nature (1933); In Morocco (1920); Italian Backgrounds (1905); Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904); Madame de Treymes (1907); Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes (1970); Old New York (1924); Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964); Sanctuary (1903); Shadow of a Doubt (1901); Summer (1917); Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910); The Age of Innocence (1920); The Book of the Homeless (1916); The Buccaneers (1938); The Children (1928); The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (1998); The Cruise of the Vanadis (1910); The Custom of the Country (1913); The Decoration of Houses (1897); The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904); The Fruit of the Tree (1907); The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973); The Glimpses of the Moon (1922); The Gods Arrive (1932); The Greater Inclination (1899); The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908); The House of Mirth (1905); The Marne (1918); The Mother's Recompense (1925); The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (2007); The Old Maid (1924); The Reef (1912); The Spinster (1921); The Touchstone (1900); The Valley of Decision (1902); The World Over (1936); The Writing of Fiction (1925); Twelve Poems (1926); Twilight Sleep (1927); Verses (1878); Xingu and Other Stories (1916).

Movies and television:

The Buccaneers (2023); Roman Fever (2014); Life (2011); Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (2010); The House of Mirth (2000); Passion's Way (1999); The Buccaneers (1995); The Age of Innocence (1993); Ethan Frome (1992); The Children (1990); Shades of Darkness (1983); Great Performances (1971); The House of Mirth (1981); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); Matinee Theatre / The House of Mirth (1955–1956); Ponds Theater (1954); General Electric Theater (1953); Goodyear Playhouse (1952); Lights Out / Pomegranate Seed (1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1951); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Old Maid (1939); Strange Wives (1934); The Age of Innocence (1934); The Marriage Playground (1929); The Age of Innocence (1924); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); The House of Mirth (1918).

Born on this day – Jeanne Moreau:

Jeanne Moreau

Actress

Singer

Writer

Director

January 23, 1928 – July 31, 2017

Born on this day – Marvin H. Albert:

Marvin H. Albert

Writer

January 22, 1924 – March 24, 1996

Credits:

Books:

A Dancer's Progress and Schodinger's Cat (1993); A Nightmare to Dreamland (1985); All the Young Men (1960); Apache Rising (1987); Back in the Real World (1986); Becoming a Mother (1982); Bimbo Heaven (1990); Broadsides and Boarders (1958); Clayburn (1989); Crazy Joe (1974); Dark Goddess (1978); Driscoll's Diamonds (1974); Duel at Diablo (1966); Get Off at Babylon (1987); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Hidden Lives (1981); I'd Love to But I Have a Game (1993); Last Train to Bannock (1989); Long Teeth (1987); Miami Mayhem (1960); My Kind of Game (1962); No Chance in Hell (1960); Operation Lila (1983); Party Girl (1958); Rider from Wind River (1988); Skylark Mission (1973); Some Die Hard (1961); Stone Angel (1986); Strike Force 7 (1975); The Divorce (1965); The Don Is Dead (1972); The Gargoyle Conspiracy (1975); The Girl with No Place to Hide (1959); The Golden Circle (1987); The Hoods Come Calling (1958); The Lady in Cement (1961); The Last Smile (1988); The Long White Road (1957); The Man in Black (1990); The Medusa Complex (1982); The Midnight Sister (1989); The Pink Panther (1964); The Reformed Gun (1989); The Riviera Contract (1992); The Untouchables (1987); The Vendetta (1972); The VIPs (1963); The Zig-Zag Man (1991); Three Rode North (1989); Till It Hurts (1960); Trail of a Tramp (1958); Valley of the Assassins (1975); What's New Pussy Cat? (1965).

Movies and television:

À corps et à cris (1989); A Twist of Sand (1968); Bullet for a Badman (1964); Duel at Diablo (1966); Lady in Cement (1968); Nick Quarry (1968); Pour cent millions (1992); Rough Night in Jericho (1967); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Law and Jake Wade (1958); The Ugly Ones (1966); Tony Rome (1967); Wahdah be-Wahdah (1984).

Born on this day – Denis Sanders:

Denis Sanders

Director

Producer

Writer

January 21, 1929 – December 10, 1987

Credits:

A Film on Hitchhiking (1974); A Time Out of War (1954); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Computers Are People, Too! (1982); Computers: The Friendly Invasion (1982); Crime & Punishment, USA (1959); Czechoslovakia 1918-1968 (1969); Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959); Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973); Mannix (1968); Naked City (1962); One Man's Way (1964); Ripcord (1962); Route 66 (1964); Shock Treatment (1964); Soul to Soul (1971); Subject: Narcotics (1951); The American West of John Ford (1971); The Defenders (1962); The Great Adventure (1964); The Naked and the Dead (1958); Trial: the City and County of Denver vs. Lauren R. Watson (1970); War Hunt (1962); What's the Big Hurry? (1974).

Born on this day – David Lynch:

David Lynch

Writer

Director

Producer

January 20, 1946 – May 13, 2024

Credits:

#2: Drops (2004); + de cinéma (2001–2002); 1000 millones (2002); 120 Minutes / loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies (2006); 2012: Time for Change (2010); 3615 Usul (2013); 3rd Shift: Michael's Lament (2009); 42 One Dream Rush (2010); 8½ Circles: Documentary (2017); A Common Confusion (2012); A Reality Check for Miss Betty (2008); A Slice of Lynch (2007); A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks (2017); Absolument cinema (2001); Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967); Absurda (2007); Ad Hominem (2009); Adidas: The Wall (1993); AFI Life Achievement Award (2013); All About Nina (2018); Along for the Ride (2016); America in Primetime (2011); American Masters (2013); American Playhouse (1982); An Introduction to David Lynch (2001); Angelo Badalamenti feat. Kid Moxie: Mysteries of Love (2015); Ant Head (2018); Arena (1987); Ariana Delawari: Lion of Panjshir (2010); Asesinato desde la Roja Oscuridad (2019); Ballerina (2007); Barilla: Cafè (1993); Beatles '64 (2024); Bees (2002); Behind the Red Curtain (2017); Behind the Scenes (2017); Between Two Worlds (2014); Beyond the Noise: My Transcendental Meditation Journey (2012); Biography (2000); Blue Green (2007); Blue Velvet Revisited (2016); BlueBob Egg (2004); BlueBob: Thank You, Judge (1999); Boat (2007); Box (2010); Brand: A Second Coming (2015); Breakfast with the Arts (2007); Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012); Britannia High (2008); British Film Forever (2007); Bug Crawls (2008); Cabin Fever (2002); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Celluloid Dreams (2002); Charlie Rose (1997–2005); Chris Isaak: Wicked Game (Wild at Heart Version) (1990); Chrystabell & David Lynch: Sublime Eternal Love (2024); Chrystabell & David Lynch: The Answers to the Questions (2024); Chrystabell & David Lynch: Two Lovers Kiss (2024); Cinefile: Made in the USA (1993); Cinema mil (2005); Cinéma, de notre temps (1989); Clique (2020); Close-Up (1997); Coachella (2006); Cold Wind Blowing (2022); CondenadX (2025); Confessions of a Kooky Cowboy (2011); Coyote (2002); Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper (1991); Darkened Room (2002); David Lynch & Chrysta Bell: Bird of Flames (2012); David Lynch Conference (Excerpt) (2007); David Lynch Cooks Quinoa (2007); David Lynch in Oslo (2010); David Lynch on TM (2010); David Lynch visiting Veda House, Stockholm (2010); David Lynch: A BAFTA Interview (2007); David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time (2012); David Lynch: I Have a Radio (2011); David Lynch: innsikt (2017); David Lynch: The Art Life (2016); David Lynch: The Virtual Life (2020); David Lynch's Comic-Con Message (2017); David Lynch's Festival of Disruption (2018); David Wants to Fly (2010); De película (1985–1986); Dead Mouse with Ants (2002); Dealer (2004); Dedication (2007); Den 11. Time (2007); Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) (2003); Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments (2002); Der Klang der Bilder (1995); Destination Dune (1984); Días de cine (2013); Die Harald Schmidt Show (2002); Diligo Victum (2010); Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001); Does That Hurt You? (2002); Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff (1994); Donovan in Donovan: I am the Shaman (2021); Donovan: Gimme Some A That (2021); Dream #7 (2010); DumbLand (2002); Dune (1984); Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011); Dusty Wright's Culture CatchCulture Catch (2005); Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com (2007); Early Experiments (2008); Ecstasy (2020); Edge of Outside (2006); El club lento (2022); El orfanato llega a Hollywood (2007); Ellie Parker (2005); Elvis: Viva Las Vegas (2007); Entertainment Tonight (1990); Entre Oscuros Sueños (2018); Épreuves d'artistes (2004); Eraserhead (1977); Eraserhead Stories (2001); Ergo-Robots (2015); Errors in Geography: Communal Pain(t) (2020); Esprits libres (2007); Eurodok 2011Evelyn Hamann's Geschichten aus dem Leben (1993); EW Reunites (2017); Extérieur jour (2008); Factory Mask (2002); Family Guy (2010–2016); Father Knows Best (2022); Fictitious Anacin Commercial (1967); Field Day (2004); Film '84 (1984); Film Önü / Arkasi (2020); Fire (PoZar) (2020); Flying Lotus Feat. David Lynch: Fire Is Coming (2019); Georgia Coffee: Twin Peaks (1993); Gilles Jacob: Citizen Cannes (2010); Girlfriend's Day (2017); Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità (2022); God morgen Norge (2010); Godhood (2011); Gomorron (2010); Good Day Today (2011); Good Morning America (1990); Great Directors (2009); Gucci by Gucci (2007); Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012); Head with Hammer (2001); Heart Beat (1980); Heart of the Festival (2002); Henrik Möller Talks to David Lynch (2010); Hollyshorts Greeting (2008); Hollywood Insider (2020–2022); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hotel Room (1993); How I Rock It (2013); How Was Your Day Honey? (2020); Hysteria! (2024); I Don't Know Jack (2002); I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun (2017); I Know Catherine, The Log Lady (2025); Idem Paris (2013); Il était une fois... (2008–2009); Il ritorno del maestro (Return of the Master) (2018); I'm Waiting Here (2013); Imagine (2009); In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (1999); In Pursuit of Treasure (1972); Industrial Soundscape (2008); Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990); Inland Empire (2006); Interpol: I Touch a Red Button (2011); Intervalometer Experiments (2004); Interview Project (2009); Intimate Portrait (1999); Invisible Empire (2010); Iodine (2009); It's a Beautiful World (2014); It's Over (2010); James Stewart: The Last of the Good Guys (1997); Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch (1990); Julie's Smile (2013); Kim's Video (2023); Kitsune (2016); Kung Pow: Enter the Fist - Analyzing a Lost Masterpiece (2019); La semaine du cinéma (2002); La traversée du désir (2009); Lady Blue Shanghai (2010); Lady Blue Shanghai Poem: 'It Holds the Love' (2010); Lamp (2003); Land of Nothing (2015); L'antre du Mea (2023); Last Call with Carson Daly (2002); Late Night with David Letterman (1991); Laura Palmer (2002); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le son de Lynch (2007); Leah (2011); Legends (2008); Looking for David Lynch (2003); Lost Highway (1997); Lost in Vienna, Austria (2013); Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown (2010); Louie (2012); Louis C.K. Oh My God (2013); Love (2015); Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of 'Wild at Heart' (2004); Lucky (2017); Lulu und Jimi (2009); Lumière and Company (1995); Lynch (2007); Lynch (One) (2008); Lynch/Oz (2022); M - A City Hunts a Murderer (2019); M3/H301 (2020); Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019); Meditation, Creativity, Peace (2012); Meeting the Beatles in India (2020); Memory Film (2012); Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005); Minty Comedic Arts (2021); Moby Doc (2021); Moby: Shot in the Back of the Head (2009); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); More Things That Happened (2007); Mulholland Drive (2001); Mulholland Drive: Making of (2004); My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014); My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009); My Suicide (2009); Mysteries of Love (2002); Nadja (1994); Nanoman (2013); National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts (2017); Nederlands-Engels Woordenboek (2020); Night Ride The Director's Cut (2017); Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted (2013); No Frank in Lumberton (1988); On Any Saturday (2008); On Meditation (2016); On the Air (1992); Out Yonder (2007); Out Yonder: Chicken (2007); Out Yonder: Teeth (2007); Parisienne People by David Lynch (1998); Pastewka (2005); Pearl Jam Twenty (2011); Peixe Vermelho (2009); Personnel et confidentiel (2007); Petals (2010); Pierre and Sonny Jim (2001); Pierrot le Fou / Cannes Film Festival (1990–2002); PlayStation 2: The Third Place (2000); Popular Voices at the BBC (2017); PP Studio: 13 (Years) + 10 (Years) = 1+3 (Releases Not Counting This) (2020); Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995); Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997); Psych (2010); Psychopomp (2020); Quality Content (2018); Rabbits (2002); Readymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima (2010); Reflections on the Phenomenon of 'Twin Peaks' (2002); Retour à Mulholland Drive (2003); Rétrogaming made in France (2019); Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love (2014); Robot Chicken (2020–2022); Rocksteppy (2017); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Rooted in Peace (2016); Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967); Scene by Scene (1999); School of Thought (2008); Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks (2007); Shadows of Paradise (2016); Shangri-La (2019); Show Kafka's Dudes (2020); Side by Side (2012); Siskel & Ebert (1999 / 2001); Six Men Getting Sick (1967); Something Remotely Beautiful (2016); Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Specific Spontaneity: Focus on Lynch (2004); Star (2014); Surveillance (2008); Surveillance: The Watched Are Watching (2008); Swipe (2014); t=E/x² (2020); Temps X (1985); Texas Monthly Talks (2007); The 15th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2000); The 1987 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (1987); The 3 Rs (2011); The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1990); The 44th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1987); The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987); The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018); The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002); The A to Z of Separating People from Their Money (1998); The Adventures of Alan R. (2020); The Air Is on Fire: David Lynch Exposes at the Cartier Foundation, Paris 2007 (2009); The Alphabet (1969); The American Tetralogy (2012); The Art of Cinematography at Plus Camerimage (2013); The Black Ghiandola (2017); The Blockbuster Buster (2016); The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991); The Cleveland Show (2010–2013); The Company (2003); The Culture Show (2007); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Directors (2003); The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed (2002); The Dream (2017); The Elephant Man (1980); The Elevator Storeys (2006); The Fabelmans (2022); The French as Seen by... (1988); The Grandmother (1970 / 1974); The Happy Worker (2025); The Johnny Vaughan Film Show (1999); The King of Ads / Segment: Yves Saint Laurent's Opium Parfum commercial (1991); The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1987); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2008); The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (1997); The Looking Glass (2015); The Lost End (2020); The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair (2017); The Media Show (1987); The Moon's Glow (2024); The Music of David Lynch Benefit Concert (2015); The Nineties (2017); The Other Me (2022); The Peaceline Project (2009); The Pig Walks (2002); The Reality of Truth (2016); The Room Mate (2006); The Scarapist (2015); The Screen Savers (2002); The Short Films of David Lynch (2002); The Soul Detective (2009); The Spider and the Bee (2020); The Story of a Small Bug (2020); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Straight Story (1999); The Strange & Mysterious Life of Jackson Bean (2015); The Swan Girl (2016); The Terrible Secret of Mulholland Drive (2020); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1990); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992–2001); The World's Best Sellers: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1996); The Worst Batman Fanfilm Ever... Period (2016); Theremin (2008); This Is Pop (2021); Thought Gang: A Real Indication (1992); To Each His Own Cinema (2007); Today's Number Is... (2020); Too Young to Die (2012); Tracks (2007); Transcendendo Lynch (2011); Trash Theory (2023); Trasharella (2009); Twin Peaks (1989–1991); Twin Peaks (2017); Twin Peaks Actually Explained (No, Really) (2019); Twin Peaks Festival Greeting (2008); Twin Peaks VR (2019); Twin Peaks/Cop Rock: Behind the Scenes (1990); Twin Peaks: El fenómeno cultural de los 90 (2017); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014); Twin Peaks: The Phenomenom (2017); Un écran nommé désir (2006); Un matin partout dans le monde (2000); Undead Noise (2012); Unknown Movies (2017); Unrecorded Night (2025); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2007); Valkokangas (1985); Vedro (2016–2020); Viannale-Trailer 2011: The 3 Rs (2011); Weather Report (2005–2021); WEDU Arts Plus (2015); Welcome to the Basement (2012–2013); Welcome to Twin Peaks (1997); We'll Deliver 'em (2024); What Did Jack Do? (2017); What Is Cinema? (2013); What Is David Working on Today? (2020); What Is It? (2005); When Lynch Met Lucas (2010); Why Are We Creative: The Centipede's Dilemma (2018); Wild at Heart (1990); Will There Be Anything Else (2024); Working with Marilyn Manson (2007); X Japan: Longing - Togireta Melody / Music Video (1995); Your Total Health (2007); Yves Saint Laurent: Opium / commercial (1990); Zaratozom (2014); Zelly and Me (1988).

Born on this day – Samm-Art Williams:

Samm-Art Williams

Actor

Writer

Producer

January 20, 1946 – May 13, 2024

Credits:

227 (1987); A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (1982); A Rage in Harlem (1991); ABC Afterschool Specials (1981); Accidental Hero: Room 408 (2001); American Playhouse (1984–1986); Are You Looking (2011); Blood Simple (1984); Cagney & Lacey (1987); Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983); Dressed to Kill (1980); Equal Justice (1990); Flag Day (2021); Frank's Place (1987–1988); Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1993–1994); Home (2012); Hot Resort (1985); Martin (1994–1997); Miami Vice (1987); Motown Returns to the Apollo (1985); Night of the Juggler (1980); Search for Tomorrow (1980); Summerdog (1977); Tall Tales & Legends (1986); The Baron (1977); The Debbie Allen Special (1989); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1993); The Good News (1997–1998); The New Mike Hammer (1987); The Wanderers (1979); The Women of Brewster Place (1989); Working in the Theatre (1980).

Born on this day – DeForest Kelley:

DeForest Kelley

Actor

Writer

Singer

January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999

Born on this day – Federico Fellini:

Federico Fellini

Director

Writer

Actor

January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993

Born on this day – Joy Adamson:

Joy Adamson

Naturalist

Artist

Writer

January 20, 1910 – January 3, 1980

Credits:

Books:

Born Free (1960); Elsa: The Story of a Lioness (1961); Forever Free: Elsa's Pride (1962); Friends from the Forest (1980); Joy Adamson's Africa (1972); Living Free: The story of Elsa and her cubs (1961); Peoples of Kenya (1975); Pippa: The Cheetah and her Cubs (1970); Pippa's Challenge (1972); Queen of Shaba: The Story of an African Leopard (1980); The Searching Spirit: Joy Adamson's Autobiography (1978); The Spotted Sphinx (1969).

Movies and television:

Born Free (1998); Born Free: A New Adventure (1996); The Joy Adamson Story (1980); Born Free (1974); Living Free (1972); Born Free (1966).

Born on this day – George Burns:

George Burns

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Singer

January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996

Credits:

100% Service (1931); 18 Again! (1988); A Damsel in Distress (1937); Alice (1978); Bob Hope's Love Affair with Lucy (1989); College Holiday (1936); College Humor (1933); College Swing (1938); Ellery Queen (1975); Fame (1983); Fit to Be Tied (1930); General Electric Theater (1959); George Burns - His Wit and Wisdom (1989); George Burns' 100th Birthday Party (1979); George Burns' 90th Birthday Party: A Very Special Special (1986); George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business (1983); George Burns How to Live to Be 100 (1984); George Burns in George Burns in Nashville??? (1980); Going in Style (1979); Happy Birthday, Bob! (1983); Here Comes Cookie (1935); Here's Lucy (1970); Honolulu (1939); International House (1933); Just You and Me, Kid (1979); Lambchops (1929); Let's Dance (1933); Love in Bloom (1935); Many Happy Returns (1934); McNab's Lab (1966); Mister Ed (1961–1963); Mona McCluskey (1965–1966); Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003); No Time for Sergeants (1964); Oh, God! (1977); Oh, God! Book II (1980); Oh, God! You Devil (1984); Oh, My Operation (1931); Once Over, Light (1931); Parade of Stars (1983); Patents Pending (1932); Phenom (1994); Pulling a Bone (1931); Radioland Murders (1994); Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978); Six of a Kind (1934); Stars in the Eye (1952); Startime (1959); Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978); Summer Fun (1966); Svengoolie (2017); Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970); That's Entertainment! (1975); That's Life (1968); The Antique Shop (1931); The Babbling Book (1932); The Big Broadcast (1932); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959); The Captain and Tennille (1977); The Danny Kaye Show (1967); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The George Burns (Early) Early, Early Christmas Special (1981); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958); The George Burns Show (1958–1960); The George Burns Special (1976–1977); The Golden Palace (1993); The Hollywood Palace (1965); The Jack Benny Program (1952–1963); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The Lucy Show (1966); The Many Faces of Comedy (1973); The Muppet Show (1977); The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1972); The Sunshine Boys (1975); Two of a Kind (1982); Walking the Baby (1933); Wendy and Me (1964–1965); We're Not Dressing (1934); Young at Heart (1987); Your Hat (1932).

Born on this day – Patricia Highsmith:

Patricia Highsmith

Writer

January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Dog's Ransom (1972); A Game for the Living (1958); A New Omnibus of Crime (2005); A Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller (1965); Books to Die For (2012); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Chillers (1990); Crime Never Pays (2001); Crime Story Collection (2000); Deep Water (1957); Edith's Diary (1977); Eleven / The Snail Watcher and Other Stories (1970); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); Found in the Street (1986); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Little Tales of Misogyny (1974); Mermaids on the Golf Course (1984); Murder Intercontinental (1996); Murder On The Railways (2003); Mystery Cats (1991); Nothing That Meets the Eye (1968); Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (2021); People Who Knock on the Door (1983); Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966); Ripley Under Ground (1970); Ripley Under Water (1991); Ripley's Game (1974); Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners (1970); Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979); Small g (1994); Sour Tales for Sweethearts (2015); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Strangers on a Train (1950); Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987); The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1977); The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1983); The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975); The Black House (1981); The Blunderer (1954); The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980); The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night (2003); The Cry of the Owl (1962); The Glass Cell (1964); The Price of Salt / Carol (1952); The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); The Tremor of Forgery (1969); The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories (1971); The Two Faces of January (1964); The Web She Weaves (1983); This Sweet Sickness (1960); Those Who Walk Away (1967); Verdict of Thirteen (1979).

Movies and television:

15! (2007); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); A Kind of Murder (2016); A Mighty Nice Man (2014); After Dark (1988); Armchair Thriller (1978); Carol (2015); Chillers (1990); Climax! (1956); Cover to Cover (1987); Deep Water (1981 / 2022); Der Geschichtenerzähler (1989); Der Schrei der Eule (1987); Die zwei Gesichter des Januar (1986); Ediths Tagebuch (1983); Enough Rope (1963); Húkanie sovy (1988); ITV Play of the Week (1967); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Kulturplatz (2006); La rançon du chien (1996); Loving Highsmith (2022); Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990); Muy personal (1987); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); Once You Meet a Stranger (1996); Perfect Days (2023); Petits contes misògins (1995); Purple Noon (1960); Read All About It (1978); Ripley (2024); Ripley Under Ground (2005); Ripley's Game (2002); Saturday Review (1986); Strangers on a Train (1951); Studio One (1956); Tales of the Unexpected (1984); Tell Her That I Love Her (1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The American Friend (1977); The Book Programme (1976–1980); The Cry of the Owl (1987); The Cry of the Owl (2009); The Glass Cell (1978); The Late Show (1990); The South Bank Show (1982); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); The Two Faces of January (2014); The Wednesday Thriller (1965); Tiefe Wasser (1983); Trip nach Tunis (1993); Trossos (1986).

Born on this day - Edgar Allan Poe:

Edgar Allan Poe

Writer

January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

Credits:

Books and poetry:

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (1994); 21 Great Stories (1969); 30 Press Presents: Classic Horror Poems Volume One (2023); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Cat of a Different Color (2020); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Cat of Cozy Situations (2020); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); A Cat of Fantastic Whims (2021); A Cat of Feral Instincts (2021); A Cat of Heroic Heart (2020); A Cat of Perfect Taste (2020); A Cat of Strange Lands (2020); A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841); A Few Words on Secret Writing (2014); A Predicament (1838); A Tale of Jerusalem (1832); A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1843); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829); American Midnight (2019); Anastatic Printing (1845); Annabel Lee (1849); Behind the Mask - Tales from the Id (2018); Berenice (1835); Birds of Prey (2010); Books to Die For (2012); Classic Cat Stories (2020); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Dark (2000); Detective Duos (1997); Diddling (1843); Dreams and Wonders (2010); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories (2018); Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works (2007); Eerie Archives Volume 13 (2013); Eerie Archives Volume 14 (2013); Eerie Archives Volume 16 (2014); Eerie Archives Volume 2 (2009); Eerie Archives Volume 21 (2016); Eerie Archives Volume 22 (2016); Eerie Archives, Vol. 1 (2004); Eerie Archives, Vol. 10 (2012); Eerie Archives, Vol. 11 (2012); Eerie Archives, Vol. 12 (2013); Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 4 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 5 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 8 (2011); Eerie Archives, Vol. 9 (2012); Eleonora (1842); Eureka (1848); Fantastic, Fall 1952 (1952); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1948); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats (2017); Fossil Lake II (2015); Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Fantasy (1983); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); Great Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1979); Great Tales of Terror (1845); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); King Pest (1835); Landor's Cottage (1845); Letters Until Now Unpublished (1973); Ligeia (1838); Maelzel's Chess-Player (1836); Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them (2000); Masters of the Macabre (1999); Mesmeric Revelation (1844); Metzengerstein (1832); Morella (1835); Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844); Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833); Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841); Night Frights Issue #2 (2021); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); Poetry Comix (2020); Politian: An Unfinished Tragedy (1923); Psychos (2012); Red Sky (2014); Sea Tales of Terror (1974); Sea-Cursed (1994); Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (2016); Shadow (1835); Short Stories: After Dark Classics (2012); Some Words with a Mummy (1845); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008); Tales and Poems (2004); Tales of Mystery (1963); Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1908); Tales of Mystery and Terror (2008); Tales of the Devil (2020); Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840); Tales of the Occult (1989); Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827); The Angel of The Odd (1844); The Balloon-Hoax (1844); The Bells and Other Poems (2017); The Black Cat (1843); The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark (2000); The Cask of Amontillado (1846); The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1845); The Complete Stories (1993); The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1849); The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1979); The Devil in the Belfry (1839); The Domain of Arnheim (1846); The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (2023); The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845); The Fall of the House of Usher (2016); The Giant Book of Zombies (1993); The Gold-Bug (1843); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Imp of The Perverse (1845); The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840); The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq (1844); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1988); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Man of the Crowd (1840); The Masque of the Red Death (1842); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841); The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (1841); The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842); The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838); The Oblong Box (1844); The Oval Portrait (1845); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Philosophy of Composition (1846); The Philosophy of Furniture (1840); The Pit and the Pendulum (1842); The Poetic Principle (2000); The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843); The Purloined Letter (1844); The Rationale of Verse (2013); The Raven (1845); The Raven and Other Poems (1845); The Raven and Other Selected Poems (2015); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Spectacles (1844); The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (1843); The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall (1835); The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1997); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); Thrillers (1994); Weird Business (1995); Wickedest Show on Earth (1985); William Wilson (1839); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998); Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead (2013).

Movies and television:

1954 (2016); 3 Days Rising (2025); 31 Days of Halloween (2024); A Curious World (2016); A Delirious Eye (2020); A.C. Dupin zasahuje (1970); ABC Weekend Specials (1980); Accidents (2009); Actor's Choice (1970); Actor's Studio (1949); Alexander the Last (2009); Alone (2002 / 2021); Alta comedia (1974); American Masters (1995); American Playhouse (1983); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); America's Book of Secrets (2012); Amontillado (2017); An Cridhe Cabaireach (the Tell-Tale Heart) (2012); An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970); Animus: The Tell-Tale Heart (2015); Annabel Lee (1971 / 2000 / 2009 / 2009 / 2015 / 2022); Annabelle Lee (1921); Annette (2021); Armchair Theatre (1957); Az elitélt (1982); Bad Karma Santa (2016); Bane v Superman: The Movie (2016); Beczka amontillado (1972); Bedtime Stories: Tales of Love and Hate (2024); Bérénice (1954 / 1959 / 1985 / 1988 / 2004 / 2005 / 2007 / 2012 / 2015 / 2025); Black Cat (2025); Bridal Ballad (2021); Bucket of Blood (1934); Buried Alive (1989); Bury Your Dead (2024); Camera Three (1958–1970); Cask (2014); Castle of Blood (1964); Centre Play (1975–1976); Cineficción Radio (2019–2024); City in the Sea (1965); Congestion of the Brain (2007); Continental (1989); Contos do Edgar (2013); Coração Delator (1953); Corazón delator (1999); Creepers (2014); Crepuscolo Veneziano (1970); Cztery razy rezyser (1991); Das verräterische Herz (1954 / 1958 / 1961 / 1979 / 2003); Delirium (2015); Den sorte Kat (1918); Der Rabe (1951 / 2000 / 2021); Der Verrückte, das Herz und das Auge (2006); Der wilde Rabe (1985); Det förrädiska hjärtat (1963); Detective (1968); Diabolic Wedding / Legend of Horror (1971); Die braune Bestie (1914); Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1954); Die Maske des roten Todes (1970); Die schwarze Katze (1980); Dr. Goudron's System (1913); Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973); Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993); E.A. Poe's Berenice (2012); E.A.P. (2007); École des vedettes (1960); EDGAR (2024); Edgar Allan Poe (1922); Edgar Allan Poe Centenary (1949); Edgar Allan Poe- del Amor a la Muerte (2017); Edgar Allan Poe's A Dream Within a Dream (2020); Edgar Allan Poe's Berenice (2014); Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog (2019); Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia (2022); Edgar Allan Poe's 'Lighthouse' (2022); Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper (2016); Edgar Allan Poe's Spirits of the Dead (2018); Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart (2022); Edgar Allan Poe's the Cask (2014); Edgar Allan Poe's the Man of the Crowd (2014); Edgar Allan Poe's the Tell-Tale Heart (2015); Edgar e o Corvo (1983); Eerie Tales (1919); El acomodador (1975); El barril de amontillado (1950); El barril del amontillado (2003); El Cobrador (2012); El corazón delator (1959 / 2001 / 2012 / 2025); El Cuervo (2007); El escarabajo de oro (1999); El Hipnotizador (2017); El hombre de la multitude (1986); El hombre largo (2004); El hombre nervioso (1993); El quinto jinete (1975); El rastro del cazador (2019); El trapero (1965); El trapero (1974); En busca del dragón dorado (1983); Entrañas (2013); Ett fat amontillado (1963); Expediente EV-0043 (2009); Extraordinary Tales (2013); Felicity (1998); Ficciones (1972); Fireside Theatre (1949); Fliegende Schatten (1916); Focus (2011); Fool's Fire (1992); For Annie (2025); Fortunato (1993); Freitag, der 13. - Das unheimliche Haus, 2. Teil (1916); Gamens öga (2014); Gavran (2016); Geierauge (2022); GONE (2025); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Gribbøyet (2015); Hatred of a Minute (2002); Haunting Fear (1990); Havran v panelovém dome (1983); Help Me I'm Dying (2019); Het verraderlijke hart (1996); High Tension (1954); Hilda Muramer (1973); Hip hop prica iz Hrvatske (2008); Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (1949); Historias para no dormir (1966–1982); Hjertet der sladrede (1971); Hora once (1970–1971); House of Evil (1968); House of Usher (1960 / 2008); Hovid Povid (2020); I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979); Il caso Valdemar (1936); Il cuore rivelatore (1934); Il gatto nero (2003); Imitation: Edgar Allan Poe with Steve Guynn (2015); Imp of the Perverse (1973); Invitation au voyage (2022); It's All Been Done Radio Hour (2023); Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You (2002); Joe's Marionette Theatre (1996); Jungle of Fear (1993); Kingdom by the Sea (2013); Krui-TV (2011); La Barrica del Amontillado (2004); La chute de la maison Usher (1992); La chute de la maison Usher / Histoires extraordinaires (1981); La hora musa (2018); La línea del caos (2003 / 2008); La morte rossa (2009); La notte romantica di Dolly (1920); La résurrection de Barnabé (1953); Lady in the Wall (2018); Lady Usher (2020); Le coeur révélateur (1966); Le Corbeau (2014); Le double assassinat de la rue Morgue (1973); Le fabuleux voyage de l'Oncle Ernest (1999); Le portrait ovale (2001); Le puits et le pendule (1909); Le scarabée d'or (1961); Lenore (2014 / 2021); Les grands détectives (1974); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); L'étrange collection / The Lighthouse (2025); L'étrange fiancée (1930); Ligeia (1959 / 2013); Lights Out (1949–1952); Los libros (1974); Lover from Beyond the Grave (2006); Lunacy (2005); Manfish (1956); Manicomio (1954); Mask of the Red Death (1971); Masking Threshold (2021); Masque of the Red Death (1989); Master of Horror (1965); Masters of Horror (2007); Masterworks of Terror (1959 / 1960); Masterworks of Terror / Segments: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillado; The Tell-Tale Heart; (1960); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Mea Maxima Culpa (2010); Mimetic Tales of Ragged Mountain (2010); Mind's Eye (1998); Monodrama Theater (1953); Morella (1999 / 2008 / 2011); Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 / 1971 / 2023); Music Box (2012); Mutant League Football (1993); Mystery and Imagination (1966–1968); Mystery of Marie Roget (1942); Narciso Ibáñez Serrador presenta a Narciso Ibáñez Menta (1974); Never Bet the Devil Your Head (2007); Nevermore (2014); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Night of the Skull (1974); Night Tide (1961); Nightmares from the Mind of Poe (2006); Novela (1978); O Coração Revelador (2018); O Flâneur (2021); Octoberpod AM (2024); On Camera (1955); One Minute Before Death (1972); OperaVision (2019); Operené stíny (1931); Oysters & Pearls (2010); Palabras cruzadas (1977); Pest in Florenz (1919); Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954); Phobies - The Raven (2022); Poe (2025); Poe's Lighthouse (2020); Point of No Return (2010); Ponto da poesia (2011); Portal: Curtain (2013); Portrait Mode (2023); Prelude (1927); Psychotic Breakdown Anthology / Segment The Raven (2022); Puissance de la parole (1988); Pukotina (2013); Puppet Club: Godzilla's Spooky Halloween Tales (2024); Racconti neri (2006); Radio Futura: Annabel Lee (1986); Radio Story Hour (2025); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020–2024); Requiem for the Damned (2012); Revenge in the House of Usher (1983); Saints Row IV (2013); Satanás de todos los horrores (1974); Satisfyingly Scary (2020); Scare on the Air (2022); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2022–2024); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Serce Oskarzycielem (2021); Sevier Thrillers (2022); Shadow: A Parable (2021); Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908); Shoestring Theatre (1960); Short Story Showcase: The Fall of the House of Usher (1976); Silencio (2002); Sombra (2021); Sonic Stories (2022); Sonnets of the soul (2024); Spirits of the Dead (1968 / 2022); Spooky Stories (2020); Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart (2019); Stonehearst Asylum (2014); Suspense (1949–1952); Swing Wedding / The Cuckoo Clock (1950); Syner (2009); Tale of a Vampire (1992); Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1995); Tales of Terror (1962); Television Theater (1957); Tell Tale (2009); Tell-Tale Heart (1947); Tell-Tale Hearts (1972); Terroir (2014); Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965); The Abyss of the Soul (2021); The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914); The Bells (1913 / 2013); The Best of Zagreb Film - Volume One: The Classic Collection (1999); The Black Cat (1934 / 1941 / 1966 / 1981 / 1989 / 1995 / 2015 / 2021); The Blancheville Monster (1963); The Bottle of Chateau Margaux (2007); The Cask of Amontillado (1979 / 1998 / 2008 / 2014 / 2015 / 2017); The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (2021); The Cask of Amontillado Redfield Arts Audio Podcast (2022); The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Early Years Vol. 1 (2003); The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Later Years Vol. 2 (2003); The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935); The Curse of Ligeia (2025); The Dark Eye (1995); The Darkest Hour (2018); The Destroying Angel (1976); The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 / 1950 / 1979 / 1982 / 2006 / 2010 / 2012 / 2021 / 2023); The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (2022); The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century (2002); The fall of Usher's house (2021); The Fantasmagori (2017); The Fear (2001); The Gold Bug (2009); The Golden Beetle (1914); The Graves of Edgar Allan Poe & The Women Who Haunted Him (2022); The Haunted Palace (1963); The Haunting of Morella (1990); The Horror Vault 2 (2009); The Horror Vault 3 (2010); The House of Usher (1989 / 2006 / 2010); The Invitation (2017); The Jester (2025); The Last Ache (2009); The Living Dead (1932); The Man of the Crowd (2013); The Masque of the Red Death (1964 / 1989 / 2006 / 2007 / 2010 / 2014 / 2020); The Merchant of Venice (2004); The Mesmerist (2002); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast Fortunato's Fatal Misfortune (2023); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast the Cask of Amontillado (2023); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast Valdemar (2023); The Mummy Lives (1993); The Murder of Evelyn Cross (2016); The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914 / 1986); The Night Prowler (2002); The NoSleep Podcast (2018–2023); The Oblong Box (1969); The Oval Portrait (1973 / 1997 / 2011 / 2017); The Pain of Creation (2011); The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983); The Pit (1962); The Pit and the Pendulum (1913 / 1961 / 1964 / 1991 / 2009); The Premature Burial (1962); The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe (2022); The Raven (1912 / 1935 / 1963 / 1970 / 1980 / 2003 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012 / 2014 / 2015 / 2018 / 2020 / 2022 / 2025); The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe) (2016); The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (2021); The Raven... Nevermore (1999); The Reasoner Report (1974); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); The Rose King (1986); The Sabbat of the Black Cat (1973); The ScapeCast (2008); The Sealed Room (1909); The Simpsons / Segment: The Raven (1990); The Sphinx (1985); The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether (1972); The Tell Tale Heart (1989 / 1991 / 1999 / 2005 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2022); The Teller and the Tale (1985); The Telltale Heart (1928); The Tell-Tale Heart (1939 / 1941 / 1953); The Telltale Heart (1958); The Tell-Tale Heart (1958 / 1960 / 1961 / 1971 / 1979 / 1986 / 1991 / 2003 / 2004 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2014 / 2016 / 2017 / 2022 / 2024); The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (2021); The Tell-Tale Heart: Sisters (2016); The Tell-Tale Plant (2019); The Tell-Tale Watch (2019); The Tomb (2009); The Tomb of Ligeia (1964); The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967); The Tragic End of Rodney & Madlyn U. (2022); Theatre Fantastique (2014–2017); Thirty2 (2023); This Evening's Discourse (2009); Thorsten Flinck läser rysare (2007); Thriller (1961); Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery (1995); Toby Dammit (1968); Tohtori Tarrin ja professori Featherin menetelmä (2012); Tras la puerta cerrada (1964); Travel with Jack and Kitty: The Podcast (2023); True (2010); Twisted (1997); Two Evil Eyes (1990); Ulalume (2023); Ulalume--A Ballad (2023); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Under (2013); Une vengeance d'Edgar Poë (1912); Usher (2000 / 2023); Valdemar (2000); Valdemar, el homonculus dormido (1977); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Vaya luna de miel (1980); Vrah jsi ty (2003); William Wilson (1999 / 2011); Wishbone (1995); Witchfinder General (1968); Within (2012); World Wide Adventures: Annabel Lee (1969); Wurmloch (2016); Your Favorite Story (1953); Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972).

Born on this day – Sarah Helen Whitman:

Sarah Helen Whitman

Writer

January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878

Credits:

Book:

Hours of Life: and Other Poems

By Sarah Helen Whitman.

First published 1853

Published by Wentworth Press.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0469744774

ISBN-13: 978-0469744776

Born on this day – Raymond Briggs:

Raymond Briggs

Writer

Illustrator

January 18, 1934 – August 9, 2022

Credits:

Books:

A Bit More Bert (2002); Big Billy's Scrapbook (1999); Building the Snowman (1985); Christmas Little Library (2010); Dressing Up (1985); Ethel and Ernest (1998); Father Christmas (1973); Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975); Father Christmas Having a Wonderful Time (1993); Fee Fi Fo Fum (1964); First Up Everest (1969); Fungus the Bogeyman (1979); Fungus's Big Green Bogey Book (2003); Gentleman Jim (1980); Ivor (2001); Jim and the Beanstalk (1970); Midnight Adventure (1961); Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (2011); Raymond Briggs' the Snowman: Walking in the Air (1985); Ring a Ring O' Roses (1962); Shackleton's Epic Voyage (1969); Sledges to the rescue (1963); Snowman and the Snowdog Finger Puppet Book (2014); The Adventures of Bert (2001); The Bear (1994); The Complete Father Christmas (1978); The Elephant and the Bad Baby (1969); The Fairy Tale Treasury (1980); The Man (1992); The Mother Goose Treasury (1966); The Party (1985); The Puddleman (2004); The Puffin Mother Goose Bedtime Rhymes (2012); The Snowman (1978); The Snowman and The Snowdog (2012); The Snowman and The Snowdog Activity Book (2014); The Snowman Book and Snowglobe (2015); The Snowman Pull-Out Pop-Up Book (2014); The Snowman Storybook and Magical Pop-up Snowglobe (2009); The Snowman: A Puppet Play Book (2013); The Strange House (1961); The Tin Pot Foreign General (1984); The White Land (1963); Time For Lights Out (2019); Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984); Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age (2002); Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and His Search for Soft Trousers (2001); Unlucky Wally (1987); Unlucky Wally Twenty Years on (1989); When the Wind Blows (1982); Notes From the Sofa (2014).

Movies, television and video:

Ethel & Ernest (2016); Fungus the Bogeyman (2015); The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012); The Snowman: The Live Stage Show (2010); Fungus the Bogeyman (2004); Ivor the Invisible (2001); The Bear (1998); Jackanory (1993–1994); Father Christmas (1991); When the Wind Blows (1986); The Snowman (1982); Wir warten auf's Christkind (1981).

Born on this day – Sol Yurick:

Sol Yurick

Writer

January 18, 1925 – January 5, 2013

Credits:

Books:

An Island Death (1975); Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel (1985); Fertig (1966); Green Snow (1984); Richard A (1982); Someone Just Like You (1973); The Bag (1968); The Warriors (1965); Voices of Brooklyn (1973).

Movies & video:

The Dreamers (2016); The Warriors (2005); The Confession (1999); The Warriors (1979).

Born on this day – A.A. Milne:

A.A. Milne

Writer

January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956

Credits:

Books:

A Bedtime Story for Pooh (1999); A Gallery of Children (1925); A Hint for Next Christmas (2019); A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore (1928); A Search Is Organdized (1928); A Table Near the Band (1950); A, B, C with Pooh (1999); An Expotition to the North Pole (1926); Autobiography (1939); Be Patient, Pooh (2000); Bedtime with Pooh (1980); Behind the Lines (1940); Belinda (1918); By Way of Introduction (1929); Chloe Marr (1946); Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party (1988); Cooking with Piglet and Roo (2003); Disney - A Rainy Day for Piglet (2003); Disney's Pooh's Favorite Singing Games (1999); Disney's Where Are You, Pooh? (1999); Disney's Where Is the Heffalump? (1999); Eeyore Finds The Wolery (1928); Eeyore Has a Birthday (1990); Eeyore Loses a Tail (1926); Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book (1996); First Plays of A A Milne (1921); For The Luncheon Interval (1925); Four Days' Wonder (1933); Happy New Year, Pooh! (1997); If I May (1920); Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest (1926); Lovers in London (1905); More Growing Up Stories (2001); Mr. Pim (1921); Mr. Pim Passes By (1919); My Very First Winnie the Pooh Growing Up Stories (1999); Nap Time for Roo (2003); Not That It Matters (1919); Now We Are Six (1927); Oh, Bother! It's the Easter Bunny! (1997); Once a Week (1914); Once on a Time (1917); Peace with Honour (1935); Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing (1928); Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water (1926); Piglet Meets a Heffalump (1990); Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting (1992); Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle (1926); Pooh Helps Out (1999); Pooh Invents A New Game (1928); Pooh Welcomes Winter (1997); Pooh's Favorite Things About Spring (2000); Pooh's First Day of School (1997); Pooh's Fun with One (1999); Pooh's Jingle Bells (1998); Pooh's Neighborhood (1997); Pooh's Scrapbook (1999); Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury (2000); Rabbit's Bad Mood (2003); Roo's New Baby-Sitter (1999); Safe at Home with Pooh (1998); Second Plays (1922); Singing Nursery Rhymes with Pooh (1999); Sweet Dreams, Pooh (1998); The Birthday Party (1948); The Boy Comes Home (1918); The Christopher Robin Birthday Book (1930); The Christopher Robin Story Book (1929); The Christopher Robin Verse Book (1932); The Classic Pooh Treasury Volume 2 Read-Along (1997); The Classic Pooh Treasury: The House at Pooh Corner Vol 3 (1997); The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (1961); The Dover Road (1921); The Great Broxopp (1921); The Holiday Round (1912); The House at Pooh Corner (1928); The Hums of Pooh (1929); The Ivory Door (1932); The Lucky One (1922); The Magic Hill (2000); The Norman Church (1925); The Original and Classic Pooh Treasury: Vol. 1 (1997); The Red House Mystery (1922); The Secret and Other Stories (1929); The Sunny Side (1923); The Truth About Blayds (1922); The Ugly Duckling (1941); The World of Christopher Robin (1958); The World of Pooh and the World of Christopher Robin (1957); The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926); Those Were the Days (1929); Three Plays (1923); Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast (1928); Tiggers Don't Climb Trees (1928); Tiggers Hate to Lose (1999); Tigger's Moving Day (1999); Two People (1931); Walt Disney Presents - Winnie-The-Pooh Meets Tigger (1973); When We Were Very Young (1924); Winnie-the-Pooh (1926); Winnie-the-Pooh and the Wrong Bees (2016); Winnie-the-Pooh's Friendship Book (1992); Wurzel-Flummery (1917); Year In, Year Out (1952).

Movies and television:

100 Acre Wood (2023); A Birthday Party in the Hundred Acre Wood (2001); A Poem Is... (2011); A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998); Abel Classics (2023); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); Animated StoryBook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1995); Armchair Theatre (1957); Bad Sir Brian Botany (1928); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952); Being New with Piglet (1987); Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996); Bookworms (1920); Christopher Robin (2018); Classroom Citizenship with Tigger (1987); Disney Friends (2007); Disney Sing-Along Songs: Sing a Song with Pooh Bear and Piglet Too! (2003); Downton Abbey (2019); Fireside Reading of Winnie-the-Pooh (2022); Five Pounds Reward (1920); For the Children (1950); Four Days Wonder (1936); General Electric Theater (1960); Gotham Reads (2020); In the Dark (1928); It's All Been Done Radio Hour (2023); Jackanory (1967–1996); Jackanory Playhouse (1978); Knights and Ladies (1928); Kraft Theatre (1947–1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Learning Skills with Eeyore (1987); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1956); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Michael and Mary (1931); Micimackó (2005); Middle school echo of the pasts (2024); Molly and Me (1945); Mr. Pim möchte nicht stören (1962); Mr. Pim Passes by (1921); My Friends Tigger & Pooh (2007); My Friends Tigger and Pooh - Super Sleuth Christmas Movie (2007); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Nursery Chairs (1928); Piglet's Big Movie (2003); Playdate with Winnie the Pooh (2023–2024); Ponds Theater (1955); Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997); Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005); Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005); Ready for Math with Pooh (1997); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Sarah Simple (1949); Saturday Playhouse (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); School Citizenship with Roo (1987); Self Esteem with Winnie the Pooh (1987); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Super Duper Super Sleuths (2010); Tales of Friendship with Winnie the Pooh (2012); Teatterituokio (1967); Television Theater (1983); The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (2001); The Bump (1920); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Dover Road (1948); The Ernie Sigley Show (1974); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The King's Breakfast (1928 / 1937 / 1963); The Little Adventuress (1927); The Magical World of Disney / Segment: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1982); The Man in the Bowler Hat (1938); The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977); The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece (1996); The Market Square (1928); The Muppet Show (1976–1981); The Perfect Alibi (1930 / 1949); The Princess and the Woodcutter (1947 / 1952); The Tigger Movie (2000); The Truth About Blayds (1948); The Ugly Duckling (1947); The World According to Winnie the Pooh: New Friend (2014); Theatre of Romance (1949); Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too (2009); Toad of Toad Hall (1947 / 1953); Too Smart for Strangers (1985); Top of the Pops (1977); Tristram (1955); Twice Two (1920); Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: Winnie the Pooh (1986); Wednesday Theatre (1953); Welcome to Pooh Corner (1983); Where Sinners Meet (1934); Why I Like Elephant About the Zoo (1983); Winnie the Pooh (1990 / 2011); Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983); Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991); Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968); Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966); Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974); Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons (1981); Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood (1984); Winnie the Pooh vs Chikatilo (2022); Winnie the Pooh: 123s (2004); Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999); Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002); Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999); Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004); Winnie the Pooh: Wonderful Word Adventure (2006); Winnie-the-Pooh (1952 / 1969 / 2023); Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day (1972); Winnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit (1971).