Born on this day – Tay Garnett:

Tay Garnett

Director

Writer

June 13, 1894 – October 3, 1977

Born on this day – Lois Weber:

Lois Weber

Director

Writer

Actress

June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939

Credits:

White Heat (1934); The Angel of Broadway (1927); Topsy and Eva (1927); Sensation Seekers (1927); The Marriage Clause (1926); A Chapter in Her Life (1923); What Do Men Want? (1921); The Blot (1921); Too Wise Wives (1921); What's Worth While? (1921); Mum's the Word (1920); Life's Mirror (1920); To Please One Woman (1920); Forbidden (1919); Home (1919); Mary Regan (1919); A Midnight Romance (1919); When a Girl Loves (1919); Borrowed Clothes (1918); For Husbands Only (1918); The Doctor and the Woman (1918); The Price of a Good Time (1917); The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917); Even As You and I (1917); The Boyhood He Forgot (1917); The Mysterious Mrs. Musslewhite (1917); Alone in the World (1917); The Gilded Life (1916); The Rock of Riches (1916); The People vs. John Doe (1916); The Celebrated Stielow Case (1916); Wanted: A Home (1916); Idle Wives (1916); Under the Spell (1916); Saving the Family Name (1916); Shoes (1916); The Eye of God (1916); Where Are My Children? (1916); John Needham's Double (1916); The Dance of Love (1916); There Is No Place Like Home (1916); The Flirt (1916); Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916); The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916); Discontent (1916); The Children Shall Pay (1916); Idle Wives (1916); Jewel (1915); A Cigarette - That's All (1915); Scandal (1915); Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915); Captain Courtesy (1915); Sunshine Molly (1915); Hypocrites (1915); It's No Laughing Matter (1915); Helping Mother (1914); The Traitor (1914); Daisies (1914); Behind the Veil (1914); Plain Mary (1914); Lost by a Hair (1914); The Pursuit of Hate (1914); Closed Gates (1914); The Stone in the Road (1914); Avenged (1914); The Triumph of Mind (1914); The Career of Waterloo Peterson (1914); An Episode (1914); On Suspicion (1914); The Man Who Slept (1914); The Baby's Doll (1914); In the Days of His Youth (1914); The Spider and Her Web (1914); A Modern Fairy Tale (1914); The Weaker Sister (1914); The Merchant of Venice (1914); Woman's Burden (1914); An Old Locket (1914); The Coward Hater (1914); The Leper's Coat (1914); A Fool and His Money (1914); False Colors (1914); The Female of the Species (1914); The Wife's Deceit (1913); The Jew's Christmas (1913); The Mask (1913); James Lee's Wife (1913); The Blood Brotherhood (1913); The Haunted Bride (1913); Two Thieves and a Cross (1913); The Clue (1913); The Thumb Print (1913); Memories (1913); Shadows of Life (1913); His Brand (1913); Never Again (1913); The Light Woman (1913); Just in Time (1913); Civilized and Savage (1913); The Fallen Angel (1913); How Men Propose (1913); Through Strife (1913); Suspense (1913); The Pretender (1913); The King Can Do No Wrong (1913); The Trifler (1913); The Cap of Destiny (1913); The Poverty of Riches (1913); The Rosary (1913); The Dragon's Breath (1913); A Book of Verses (1913); Until Death (1913); Bobby's Baby (1913); The Peacemaker (1913); An Empty Box (1913); Troubled Waters (1913); In the Blood (1913); Two Thieves (1913); His Sister (1913); Leaves in the Storm (1912); Faraway Fields (1912); A Japanese Idyll (1912); An Old Fashioned Girl (1912); The Greater Christian (1912); The Troubadour's Triumph (1912); The Lash of Fate (1912); The Greater Love (1912); The Power of Thought (1912); The Price of Peace (1912); Eyes That See Not (1912); The Final Pardon (1912); The Bargain (1912); Fine Feathers (1912); Angels Unaware (1912); The Martyr (1911); The Price (1911); A Breach of Faith (1911); Fate (1911); On the Brink (1911); The Twins (1911); From Death to Life (1911); The Realization (1911); The Heiress (1911); A Heroine of '76 (1911).

Born on this day – Barry Michael Cooper:

Barry Michael Cooper

Producer

Writer

Director

June 12, 1958 – January 21, 2025

Credits:

Above the Rim (1994); American Gangster (2006–2008); Blood on the Wall$ (2005); Bloomberg Game Changers (2010); Classic Albums (2007); Grand Daddy I.U.: Something New (1990); Guilt... (2019); Inside the Label (2016); It's Good to Be... (2003); NBA 2K16 (2015); New Jack City (1991); Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation (2011); Private Times (1991); She's Gotta Have It (2017–2019); Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music (2005); Sugar Hill (1993); Tevin Campbell: For Your Love (1999).

Born on this day – Sian Barbara Allen:

Sian Barbara Allen

Actress

Writer

June 12, 1946 – March 31, 2025

Credits:

Adam-12 (1975); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Baretta (1978); Billy Two Hats (1974); Bonanza (1972); Cagney & Lacey (1988); Captains and the Kings (1976); Columbo (1973); Darkroom (1981); Eric (1975); Falcon Crest (1984); Gunsmoke (1971); Hawaii Five-O (1977); Ironside (1972–1974); Kate McShane (1975); Kingston: Confidential (1977); Kojak (1974); L.A. Law (1990); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Happy Family (1973); Lucas Tanner (1974); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971–1974); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Police Story (1976); Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976); Sword of Justice (1978); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1972); The F.B.I. (1972); The Family Rico (1972); The Incredible Hulk (1979); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Rockford Files (1974); The Scarecrow (1972); The Waltons (1973); W.E.B. (1978); You'll Like My Mother (1972).

Born on this day – Anne Frank:

Anne Frank

Writer

June 12, 1929 – March 12, 1945

Credits:

Book:

The Diary, aka Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and The Diary of Anne Frank (1948).

Movies and television:

1945: 12 Städte, 12 Schicksale (2015); 1945: Amsterdam - Der Völkermord (2015); 60 Minutes (2022); A Tale of Two Sisters (2015); Acting for a Cause (2021); Anne Frank House VR (2018); Anne Frank Parallel Stories (2019); Anne Frank Remembered (1995); Anne Frank Video Diary (2020); Anne Frank: 70 Years Later (2015); Anne Frank's Diary (1999); Anne Frank's Holocaust (2015); Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari (1979); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Bild Live (2022); Biography (2000); Classmates of Anne Frank (2008); De Erfenis van Anne Frank (2015); El diari d'Anna Frank (1996); Fantastic (2012); Format 60 (1970); Front Row (2012); Gedenkfeier in Bergen-Belsen (2015); Hanneli and Anne (2017); History (2015); History Daily (2022); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Kaaskoppen & waterlanders (2008); La casa del darrere (2009); Love All You Have Left (2017); My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021); No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story (2015); Otto Frank, Father of Anne (2010); Silence is Violence (2021); The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988); The Brief Life of Anne Frank (2001); The CJN Daily (2022); he Decibel (2022); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 / 1962 / 1967 / 1980 / 1985 / 1987 / 1995 / 2009 / 2016); The History Chicks (2018); The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank (1988); The Twentieth Century (1964); The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022); The World at War (1974); Timmen (1968); Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (2019); Where Is Anne Frank (2021); Who Betrayed Anne Frank (2001); Witness History: Archive 2012 (2012).

Born on this day – James Oliver Curwood:

James Oliver Curwood

Writer

Conservationist

June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927

Credits:

Books:

A Gentleman of Courage (1924); Back to God's Country (1920); Baree, Son of Kazan (1917); Commerce on the Great Lakes (1907); Falkner of the Inland Seas (1931); Flower of the North (1912); Glory of Living (1928); God's Country (1921); God's County and the Woman (1915); Great Wilderness Stories (1997); Green Timber (1930); Isobel (1913); Kazan (1914); My Stories That I Like Best (1925); Nomads of the North (1919); Peter God (2005); Son Of A Hero (2004); Son of the Forests (1930); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1911); Swift Lightning (1926); The Alaskan (1922); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Black Hunter (1926); The Country Beyond (1922); The Courage of Captain Plum (1908); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1918); The Crippled Lady of Peribonka (1929); The Danger Trail (1910); The Fiddling Man (1917); The Flaming Forest (1921); The Gold Hunters (1909); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Lakes (1909); The Grizzly (1916); The Grizzly King / aka The Bear (1918); The Honor of Her People (1920); The Honor of the Big Snows (1911); The Hunted Woman (1916); The Match (1920); The Mouse (2005); The Plains of Abraham (1928); The River's End (1919); The Strength of Men (1920); The Valley of Silent Men (1920); The Wolf Hunters (1908); The Yellow Back (1920).

Movies and television:

A Captain's Courage (1926); A Fighting Chance (1913); A Flirt's Repentance (1914); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Pound for a Pound (1915); A Study in Tramps (1915); Back to God's Country (1919 / 1927 / 1953); Baree, Son of Kazan (1918 / 1925); Beautiful Belinda (1915); Beauty-Proof (1919); Betty in the Lions' Den (1913); Billy Smoke (1917); Call of the Klondike (1950); Call of the Yukon (1938); Caryl of the Mountains (1914 / 1936); Cats (1915); Clover's Rebellion (1917); Code of the Mounted (1935); Cupid Makes a Bull's Eye (1913); Danger Trail (1917); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Diamond Cut Diamond (1913); Duty and the Man (1913); Fangs of the Arctic (1953); Fathers of Men (1916); Fortune's Turn (1913); Four Minutes Late (1914); Galloping Dynamite (1937); Getting a Start in Life (1915); God's Country (1946); God's Country and the Law (1921); God's Country and the Woman (1916 / 1937); Gold Madness (1923); Hearts of Men (1914 / 1928); Her Fighting Chance (1917); His Dominant Passion (1914); His Fight (1914); His Fighting Blood (1915 / 1935); His Lordship Billy Smoke (1913); Husks (1916); I Am the Law (1922); In Defiance of the Law (1914); In the Days of Famine (1915); Isobel or the Trail's End (1920); Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers (1923); Jan of the Big Snows (1922); Kazan (1921 / 1949); Law of the Timber (1941); Looking Forward (1910); Love's Western Flight (1914); Man's Law (1915); Memories That Haunt (1914); My Neighbor's Wife (1925); 'Neath Canadian Skies (1946); Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961); Nomads of the North (1920); North of the Border (1946); Northern Frontier (1935); Northern Patrol (1953); Northwest Territory (1951); Northwest Trail (1945); Paid in Advance (1919); Phantom Patrol (1936); Playing with Fire (1914); Polishing Up (1914); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); Prisoners of the Storm (1926); Rags and the Girl (1915); Retribution (1915); River's End (1930 / 1940); Roaring Six Guns (1937); Rough Riding Rhythm (1937); Saturday Roundup (1951); Second Childhood (1914); Skull and Crown (1935); Snow Dog (1950); Soldiers of Chance (1917); Some Liar (1919); Song of the Trail (1936); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1925); Such a Little Pirate (1918); Tales of the Wild (1994–1995); Tangled Lives (1918); Tentacles of the North (1926); The Alaskan (1924); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Awakening (1915); The Battle of Frenchman's Run (1915); The Bear (1988); The Beauty Hunters (1916); The Broken Silence (1922); The Country Beyond (1926 / 1936); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920); The Coyote (1915); The Destroyers (1916); The Dream Girl (1914); The Eugenic Girl (1914); The Fatal Note (1914); The Feudists (1913); The Fifth Man (1914); The Fighting Texan (1937); The Fighting Trooper (1934); The Flaming Forest (1926); The Flashlight (1915); The Flower of the North (1921); The Girl from Porcupine (1921); The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918); The Gods Redeem (1915); The Gold Ship (1916); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Experiment (1915); The Hawk (1935); The Hunted Woman (1916 / 1925); The Jungle Lovers (1915); The Lady Killer (1915); The Last Man (1916); The Lone Trail (1932); The Lost Millionaire (1913); The Magical World of Disney (1964); The Man from Hell's River (1922); The Man Hater (1914 / 1917); The Midnight Call (1914); The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915); The Mystery of the Seven Chests (1914); The Mystery of the Silver Skull (1913); The Northern Trail (1921); The Old Code (1915 / 1928); The Ordeal (1914); The Pirates (1913); The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915); The Queen of Jungle Land (1915); The Red Blood of Courage (1915 / 1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1915); The River's End (1920); The Silver Trail (1937); The Skull and the Crown (1914); The Slaver (1927); The Sole Survivor (1917); The Soul Master (1917); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spirit of the Violin (1915); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Princess Khan (1915); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Strength of Men (1913); The Test (1914 / 1935); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Trail Beyond (1934); The Treasure of Desert Isle (1913); The Valley of Silent Men (1922); The Vengeance of Rannah (1915); The Wandering Horde (1916); The Warmakers (1913); The Wheels of Fate (1913); The White Mouse (1914 / 1921); The Wilderness Mail (1914); The Wolf Hunters (1926 / 1949); The Yellow-Back (1929); The Young Man Who 'Figgered' (1915); Their Wives' Indiscretion (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Timber Fury (1950); Timber War (1935); Toll of Sin (1917); Trail of the Yukon (1949); Trails End (1935); Trails of the Wild (1935); Two Women (1914 / 1919); Untamed Justice (1929); Unto Those Who Sin (1916); V debryakh, gde reki begut... (1988); Valley of Terror (1937); Vengeance of Rannah (1936); Venus and Adonis (1914); When the Door Opened (1925); When Women Go on the Warpath; or, Why Jonesville Went Dry (1913); Where the North Begins (1947); Whistling Bullets (1937); Why I Am Here (1913); Wild Horse Round-Up (1936); Wildcat Trooper (1936); Wilderness Mail (1935); Ye Vengeful Vagabonds (1914); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Manhunt (1951); Yukon Vengeance (1954).

Born on this day – Gene Wilder:

Gene Wilder

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Director

June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016

Born on this day – Manny Coto:

Manny Coto

Writer

Director

Producer

June 10, 1961 – July 9, 2023

Credits:

24 (2006–2010); 24 Season 6: Inside the Writers Room (2007); 24: Day Six - Debrief (2007); 24: Legacy (2016–2017); 24: Live Another Day (2014); 24: Redemption (2008); 24: Solitary (2014); 24-7: The Untold Story (2009); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1988); American Horror Stories (2021–2023); American Horror Story (2018–2022); Cover-Up (1991); Dead at 21 (1994); Dexter (2010–2013); Dr. Giggles (1992); Dr. Giggles: Special Edition (2023); Hostile Intent (1997); In Creative Company (2020); Inglorious Treksperts (2023); Jack in the Box (1989); Jack Is Back (2014); Mirror Universe: Part 2 (2008); Monsters (1989); Moving Pictures (1990); Next (2020); Odyssey 5 (2002–2003); Playroom (1990); Sidekick Vs Superhero (2013); Star Kid (1997); Star Trek Phase II (2007); Star Trek: Enterprise (2003–2005); Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault (2016); Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (2016); Strange World (1999–2002); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993); The ½ Hour News Hour (2007); The 29th Annual Imagen Awards (2014); The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022); The Exorcist (2017); The Other Me (2000); The Outer Limits (1995); The Playboy Morning Show (2014); The Writers' Room (2013); Zenon: The Zequel (2001).

Born on this day – Saul Bellow:

Saul Bellow

Writer

June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005

Credits:

Books:

A Theft (1989); Collected Stories (1992); Conversations with Saul Bellow (1994); Dangling Man (1944); Granta 10 (1984); Great Jewish Short Stories (1985); Henderson the Rain King (1959); Herzog (1964); Him With His Foot in His Mouth (1984); Humboldt's Gift (1975); It All Adds Up (1994); Leaving the Yellow House (2018); Letters (2010); More Die of Heartbreak (1987); Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968); Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970); Novels 1944–1953 (2003); Novels 1956–1964 (2007); Novels 1970–1982 (2010); Novels 1984–2000 (2015); Ravelstein (2000); Recent American Fiction (1963); Seize the Day (1956); Settling My Accounts Before I Go Away (2013); Something to Remember Me By (1990); Summations (1987); Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge (1974); The Actual (1997); The Adventures of Augie March (1953); The Bellarosa Connection (1989); The Dean's December (1982); The Good Parts (2000); The Last Analysis (1965); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Portable Saul Bellow (1974); The Victim (1947); There Is Simply Too Much to Think about (2015); To Jerusalem and Back (1976); Wonderful Town (2000); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers on Writing (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); American Masters (2022); Apostrophes (1982); Arena (1993); Bookmark (1998); Das Mal - Orangen-Soufflé (1969); Hanly's People (1991); I klemme (1968); In Search of Identity (1980); Izvlacenje (1967); Life Itself (2014); Money (2016); New Release (1966); Orange soufflé (1968); Personal Reflections (1969); Puerto Rico / Q for Quest (1961); Release (1969); Seize the Day (1986); The Adventures of Saul Bellow (2021); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); Ut av klemmen (1968); Von unten hervor (1969); Zelig (1983).

Born on this day – Tim Sullivan:

Tim Sullivan

Writer

Actor

Director

June 9, 1948 – November 10, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Chrysalis 5 (1979); Cold Shocks (1991); Destiny's End (1988); Dinosaurs! (1990); Glitter Street (1979); Lords of Creation (1992); Ripper! (1988); The 1983 Annual World's Best SF (1983); The Martian Viking (1991); The Parasite War (1989); The Ultimate Dracula (1991); Tropical Chills (1988); V # 10: The New England Resistance (1985); V # 13: To Conquer the Throne (1987); V # 5: The Florida Project (1985).

Movies and television:

A Passion to Kill (1999); Alien Agenda: Under the Skin / Segment: Alien Abductee Interviews (1997); Alien Force (1996); Camp Blood (2000); Camp Blood 2 (2000); Creaturealm: From the Dead / Segment: Hollywood Mortuary (1998); Deadly Scavengers (2001); Deadly Tales (1998); Demonicus (2001); Eyes of the Werewolf (1999); Hollywood Mortuary (2000); Hunting Season (2000); Ill Met by Moonlight (1994); The Dead Beat Volume 1 (1990); The Laughing Dead (1989); The Mark of Dracula (2000); The Naked Monster (2005); Twilight of the Dogs (1995); Vampyre Femmes (1999); V-World Matrix (1999).

Born on this day – Michel Lang:

Michel Lang

Director

Writer

June 9, 1939 – April 24, 2014

Born on this day – George Axelrod (2003):

George Axelrod

Writer

Producer

Director

June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003

Born on this day – Alan Scarfe:

Alan Scarfe

Actor

Writer

Director

June 8, 1946 – April 28, 2024

Credits:

A Gift to Last (1976); Alien Nation (1989); American Playhouse (1987); Andromeda (2004–2005); As Is (1986); Aka Albert Walker (2002); Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007); Back in Business (1997); Burn: The Robert Wraight Story (2003); C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (1988); Cathy's Curse (1977); Cathy's Daddy (2024); Columbo Cries Wolf (1990); Counterstrike (1993); Day One (1989); DEA (1990); Deserters (1983); Diamonds (1987); Divided Loyalties (1990); Double Impact (1991); Due South (1998); E.N.G. - Created by Bryce Zabel & Brad Markowitz (1990); Earthsea (2005); For the Record (1979); Gabriel's Fire (1991); Gridlock (1996); Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994); Hastings Street (2007); Heart of Darkness (1994); Heritage Minutes (1993); Hide and Seek (1984); Highlander (1994); Hunter (1989); Iron Eagle II (1988); Jake and the Fatman (1990); Jericho Fever (1993); Joshua Then and Now (1985); Keeping Track (1986); Kingdom Hospital (2004); Kingsgate (1989); Labor of Love (1987); Lethal Weapon 3 (1992); Lock Up (1984); MacGyver (1990); Mimi & Me (1991); Murder by Phone (1982); Mysterious Island (1995); Night Heat (1987); NYPD Blue (1993); Once a Thief (1996); One Life to Live (1968–2013); Overnight (1986); Pajama Tops (1983); Quantum Leap (1991); Reasonable Doubts (1991); Sanctuary (1998); SeaQuest 2032 (1993); Seeing Things (1984); Seven Days (1998–2001); Silence (1997); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991–1993); Star Trek: Voyager (1995); Stargate: Atlantis (2004); Street Justice (1987); Tales from the Darkside (1986); The Bay Boy (1984); The Bitter Ash (1963); The Burning Zone (1997); The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985); The Great Detective (1981); The Hamster Cage (2005); The Lazarus Man (1996); The Littlest Hobo (1984); The Outer Limits (1997–1998); The Owl (1991); The Portrait (1992); The Ray Bradbury Theater (1986–1989); The Wars (1982); The Wrong Guy (1997); Tour of Duty (1989–1990); Trick or Treasure (1990); Viper (1994); Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983); Without Warning (1994).

Born on this day – Kate Wilhelm:

Kate Wilhelm

Writer

June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018

Credits:

Books:

A Flush of Shadows (1995); A Sense of Shadow (1981); A Wrongful Death (2007); Abyss (1973); All For One (2012); Alpha 5 (1974); And the Angels Sing (1992); Andover and the Android (1966); Angels! (1995); Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 (1994); Best New Horror 4 (1993); Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection (1977); Better Than One (1980); By Stone By Blade By Fire (2012); Cambio Bay (1990); Children of the Wind (1989); City of Cain (1974); Clarion SF (1977); Clear and Convincing Proof (2003); Cold Case (2008); Crazy Time (1988); Death of an Artist (2012); Death Qualified (1991); Defense for the Devil (1999); Desperate Measures (2001); Fantasy & Science Fiction, July / August 2012 (2012); Fault Lines (1977); Fear is a Cold Black (2010); Forever Yours, Anna (1987); Heaven is High (2011); Huysman's Pets (1985); I Know What You’re Thinking (1994); In Between (2014); Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 (1986); Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders (1983); Juniper Time (1979); Justice for Some (1993); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One (2015); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume Two (2015); Let the Fire Fall (1969); Listen, Listen (1981); Malice Prepense / For the Defense (1996); Margaret and I (1971); Mirror, Mirror (2017); Moongate (2000); More Bitter Than Death (1963); Music Makers (2012); Naming the Flowers (1992); Nebula Awards 9 (1974); No Defense (2000); Oh, Susannah! (1982); Omni Visions Two (1994); Orbit 11 (1972); Orbit 12 (1973); Orbit 3 (1967); Orbit 6 (1970); Seven Kinds of Death (1992); Sister Angel (2012); Skeletons (2002); Sleight of Hand (2006); Smart House (1989); Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions (1978); Storyteller (2005); Sweet, Sweet Poison (1990); Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987); The Best Defense (1994); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); The Bird Cage (2012); The Clewiston Test (1976); The Clone (1965); The Dark Door (1988); The Deepest Water (2000); The Downstairs Room (1970); The Fullness of Time (2012); The Giant Book of Terror (1994); The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky (1986); The Good Children (1998); The Gorgon Field (1986); The Hamlet Trap (1987); The Hills Are Dancing (1986); The House Share (2022); The Infinity Box (1975); The Killer Thing / The Killing Thing (1967); The Mile-Long Spaceship (1963); The Nevermore Affair (1966); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 (1988); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three (1990); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (1989); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Price of Silence (2005); The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009); The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989); The Unbidden Truth (2004); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Winter Beach (1981); Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973); Torch Song (2012); Welcome, Chaos (1983); Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1975); Whisper Her Name (2012); With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope (2012); Yesterday's Tomorrows (2015).

Movies and television:

The Lookalike (1990); Out of the Unknown (1965).

Born on this day – Jerry Stiller:

Jerry Stiller

Actor

Writer

Comedian

June 8, 1927 – May 11, 2020

Born on this day – John W. Campbell:

John W. Campbell

Writer

June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971

Credits:

Books:

A New Dawn (2003); Analog (1961); Analog 1 (1963); Analog 6 (1966); Astoundimg Science Fiction Vol. 10 No. 1 (1954); Cloak of Aesir (1952); Cosmic Kill / Beyond the End of Space (2014); From Unknown Worlds (1938); Frozen Hell (2019); Invaders from the Infinite (1961); Islands of Space (1957); Moon is Hell / Green World (2012); The Best of John W Campbell (1973); The Black Star Passes (1953); The Elder Gods (1951); The Essential Surrealism (2002); The Incredible Planet (1949); The John W. Campbell Letters With Isaac Asimov and A.E. Van Vogt (1989); The Mightiest Machine (1935); The Moon Is Hell (1951); The Space Beyond (1976); The Ultimate Weapon (1936); Who Goes There? (1938).

Movies, video and television:

Cineficción Radio (2020); Prophets of Science Fiction (2012); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); The Thing (1982 / 2002 / 2011); The Thing from Another World (1951).

Born on this day – Nikki Giovanni:

Nikki Giovanni

Writer

June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024

Credits:

Written work:

100 Best African American Poems (2010); A Dialogue with James Baldwin (1973); A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (2017); A Library (2022); A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974); Acolytes (2007); Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems) Woman in the Moon (1985); Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (1991); Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of southwest Virginia) (2017); Bicycles: Love Poems (2009); Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018); Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968); Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement (1970); Black Judgement (1968); Blues: For All the Changes (1999); Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013); Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012); Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993); Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008); I Am Loved (2018); Knoxville, Tennessee (1994); Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (2008); Love Poems (1997); Make Me Rain (2020); My House (1972); Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971); Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994); Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017); Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices (1970); Racism 101 / essays (1994); Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) (1988); Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems (1995); The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman (1991); Poetry Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005); Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002); Re: Creation (1970); Rosa (2005); Spin a Soft Black Song (1971); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003); The Genie in The Jar (1996); The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004); The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008); The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003); The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996); The Sun Is So Quiet (1996); The Women and The Men (1975); Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983); Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980); Woman (1978).

Music:

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Every Tone A Testimony (2001); Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1976); Like a Ripple on a Pond (1973); Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir (1993); The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni (2022); The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002); The Reason I Like Chocolate (1976); The Way I Feel (1975); Truth Is On Its Way (1971).

Movies and television:

27th NAACP Image Awards (1996); 29th NAACP Image Awards (1998); American Masters (2017); An Evening with Nikki Giovanni (2005); Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (2009); BET Awards 2014: Genius Talks (2014); Black Journal (1969); Brooks People (2017); By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem (2020); Camera Three (1972); Channel 4 News (2024); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Def Poetry (2002–2005); Democracy Now! (2012–2013); Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 (1998); Get Real! Wise Women Speak (2011); Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023); HBCUs: 2nd Acts (2022); How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); Independent Lens (2021); Legends Ball (2006); Love Life (2021); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); Mr. Soul! (2018); MU/T/T/ER (2022); Muhammad Ali (2021); Number One with a Bullet (2008); Overheard (2018); Say It Loud (2008); Soul! (1971–1972); Sp!t (2006); Spirit to Spirit: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1986); What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2021); Tavis Smiley (2007–2014); Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White (1998); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Amazing Nina Simone (2015); The Final Genocide (2021); The History Makers (2005); The Mike Douglas Show (1974–1975); The Poets' Café (1995); The Rock Newman Show (2013); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l'Amérique (2020); Touré Show (2017); Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel 2 (2011); What Ever Happened to Hip Hop? (2009).

Born on this day – Gwendolyn Brooks:

Gwendolyn Brooks

Writer

Teacher

June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000

Credits:

A Street in Bronzeville (1945); Aloneness (1971); Annie Allen (1949); Black Love (1982); Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956); Family Pictures (1970); For Illinois 1968: A Sesquicentennial Poem (1968); In Montgomery, and Other Poems (2003); In the Mecca (1968); Maud Martha (1953); Mayor Harold Washington; and, Chicago, the I Will City (1983); Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972); Report from Part Two (1996); Riot (1969); The Bean Eaters (1960); The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (1987); We Real Cool (1960); Winnie (1988).

Born on this day – Gary Graham:

Gary Graham

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

June 6, 1950 – January 22, 2024

Credits:

A Captain's Log (2021); Alien Nation (1989–1990); Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995); Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994); Alien Nation: Millennium (1996); Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996); Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997); All the Right Moves (1983); Ally McBeal (1999); Alongside Night (2014); Amish Grace (2010); Angel Flight Down (1996); Aspiring Hollywood (2011); Cardio World (2012); Champion (2017); CHiPs (1981); Crash and Burn (2023); Crazy Like a Fox (1985); Crossing Jordan (2005); Crusade (1999); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Dead End City (2008); Demon Protocol (2018); Diagnosis Murder (1998); Dillinger in Paradise (1999); Divas of Novella (2008); Dragnet (2003); Dreams Awake (2011); Dust of War (2013); Eight Is Enough (1977); EverCracked! The Phenomenon of EverQuest (2009); Fire on the Mountain (1981); From the Mouths of Babes (2014–2016); Grace Under Fire (1993); Hardcore (1979); Hollywood Beat (1985); Hunter (1985); In the Best Interest of the Children (1992); InAlienable (2007); Interfleet Broadcasting (2020); Interviews (2008); JAG (1997–2002); Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022); Knots Landing (1981); Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story (1995); Life Happens (2010); Lolipop Gang (2024); Lost on Paradise Island (1975); M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994–1995); Man Trouble (1992); Manhattan, AZ (2000); Mistaken Identity (2008); Money on the Side (1982); Moonlighting (1985); Nash Bridges (2001); Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993); Nip / Tuck (2009); No Place to Hide (1981); Pacific Blue (1996); Paper People (2013); Planted (2023); Plugged (2007); Police Woman (1977); Prelude to Axanar (2014); Promised Land (1998); Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010); Remington Steele (1984); Renegade (1995); Renegades (2017); Robot Jox (1989); Running Woman (1998); Scruples (1980); Seven Days (2000); Sheena (2002); Shooting Gallery (2012); Shuttlepod Show (2022); Siren (2006); Sisters and Other Strangers (1997); Slavery and the Making of America (2005); Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1998); Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); Star Trek: Renegades (2015–2017); Star Trek: Voyager (1995); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Steel (1997); T.J. Hooker (1982); The Agency (2002); The Arrogant (1988); The Assassin's Apprentice: Silbadores of the Canary Islands (2023); The Atlanta Child Murders (1985); The Commish (1993); The Crusader (2009); The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987); The Dukes of Hazzard (1982); The Extendables (2014); The Flag: Documentary (2015); The Hollywood Knights (1980); The Incredible Hulk (1979); The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979); The Jace Hall Show (2008–2012); The Last Warrior (1989); The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979); The Presence (1992); The Quest (1976); The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996); The Spy Within (1995); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982); To Die Quietly (1997); Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth (1993); Unbelievable!!!!! (2016); Under Surveillance (2015); Universal Dead (2010); Vegas Cinefest (2011); Walker, Texas Ranger (2000); Wisdom from the Apocalypse (2023); Work Related (2015).

Born on this day – Chantal Akerman:

Chantal Akerman

Director

Writer

Actress

June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015

Credits:

40 x 15 (2008); 5% de risque (1980); A Couch in New York (1996); À l’Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2009); A Whole Night (1982); Addictions (2016); Almayer’s Folly (2011); American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989); Antenne 2 Midi (1986); Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975); Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage) (2004); Beau geste (2024); Birth of a Nation (1983); Chantal Akerman (2013); Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010); Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (2023); Ciné regards (1978); CinéKino (2017); Cinéma cinémas (1985); Cinéma, de notre temps (1996); Ciném’Arte (2002); Clap (1976); Compression (2024); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Delphine and Carole (2019); Des mots de minuit (2000); Días de cine (2015); Down There (2006); Entretien avec ma mère (2007); Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984); Farpões, baldios (2017); Fifty Fifty (1998); From the East (1993); From the Other Side (2002); Golden Eighties (1986); Guest (2010); Hanging Out Yonkers (1973); Histoire bruyante de la jeunesse (2020); Hôtel des Acacias (1982); Hotel Monterey (1973); I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015); I, You, He, She (1974); J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984); Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975); Jeune cinéma (2023); L.A. Tea Time (2019); La chambre (1972); La paresse (1986); Le 15/8 (1975); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le jour où... (1997); Le Marteau (1986); Le masque et la plume (1976); Leg, Arm, Head (2016); L’enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée (1971); Les effrontées: Le cinéma au féminin (2022); Les ministères de l’art (1989); Les Nuits de France Culture (2019); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1976–1978); Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989); Lest We Forget (1991); Letters Home (1986); L’Exposition Philippe Garrel au MMCA de Séoul (Carnet Filmé: 19 décembre 2015 - 22 décembre 2015) (2016); Limonada, limonada (2020); Mallet-Stevens (1986); Mieux partagés que nous ne sommes (2006); Milou and the Venusians (2008); Monologues (1993); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Movie Night Extravaganza (2023); New York, New York bis (1984); News from Chantal Akerman (2020); News from Home (1976); Night and Day (1991); No Home Movie (2015); On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983); Only Solomon Lee (2013); Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984); Parlons Cinema (1977); Picture of Europe (1990); Porto (2016); Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles / Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1994); ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) (1974); Saute ma ville (1971); Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Shredder (2011); Sodankylä Forever (2010); South (1999); State of the World (2007); TCM Remembers 2015 / Music Video (2015); Télévision de chambre (1984); Tell Me (1980); The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977); The Captive (2000); The Eighties (1983); The Lost Days (1999); The Meetings of Anna (1978); The New Cinema (1984); The New Garden (2012); The Oscars / In Memoriam (2016); To Live Forever (2015); Tom in America (2014); Tomorrow We Move (2004); Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (1989); Venezia: Biennale cinema - Cerimonia per l’assegnazione dei Leoni d’oro 1986 (1986); Voyages (1999); What Is Cinema? (2013); With Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2003); Women from Antwerp in November (2008).