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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Born on this day – Dan Simmons:


Dan Simmons


Writer

April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026

Credits:

Books:

A Winter Haunting (2002); Adventures of the Batman (1995); Angels of Darkness (1995); Banished Dreams (1990); Between Time and Terror (1990); Black Hills (2010); Blood Is Not Enough (1989); Bloodsuckers (2010); Carrion Comfort (1989); Children of the Night (1992); Dark Visions (1989); Darker Masques (2002); Darkness (2010); Darwin's Blade (2000); Drood (2009); Endymion (1996); Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990); Far Horizons (1999); Fires of Eden (1994); Flashback (2011); Flesh Creepers (1990); Flight or Fright (2018); Freak Show (1992); Going After The Rubber Chicken (1991); Hard as Nails (2003); Hard Freeze (2002); Hardcase (2001); High Fantastic (1987); Horrorscape 2 (2005); Hyperion (1989); Ilium (2003); LoveDeath (1993); Masques III (1989); Masques IV (1991); Midnight Graffiti (1992); Muse of Fire (2008); Night Visions 5 (1988); Obsessions (1991); Olympos (2005); Omni Visions Two (1994); Phases of Gravity (1989); Prayers to Broken Stones (1990); Redshift (2001); Rivals of Dracula (1996); Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 (2002); Song of Kali (1985); Songs of the Dying Earth (2009); Southern Blood (1997); Speaking of the Fantastic (2005); Still Dead (1992); Summer of Night (1991); Summer Sketches (1992); The Abominable (2013); The Crook Factory (1999); The Earth Strikes Back (1994); The Fall of Hyperion (1990); The Fifth Heart (2015); The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990); The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz (2013); The Hollow Man (1992); The Living Dead (2008); The New Space Opera (2007); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 (1989); The Rise of Endymion (1997); The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984); The Space Opera Renaissance (2006); The Terror (2007); The Ultimate Dracula (1991); The Vampire Archives (2009); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1993); The Year's Best Science Fiction First Annual Collection (1984); The Year's Best Science Fiction Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002); The Year's Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996); This Year's Class Picture (1992); Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1991); Worlds Enough and Time (2002); Year's Best SF 6 (2001).

Television & video game:

Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008); Monsters (1990); Prisoners of Gravity (1991–1994); Star Control / Video Game (1990); The Terror (2018).

Born on this day – Paulette Jiles:


Paulette Jiles


Writer

Actress

April 4, 1943 – July 9, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Blackwater (1988); Celestial Navigation / poems (1984); Chenneville (2023); Cousins (1992); Enemy Women (2002); Flying Lesson / poems 1995); Lighthouse Island (2013); News of the World (2016); North Spirit (1995); Simon the Fiddler (2020); Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola (1986); Song to the Rising Sun (1989); Stormy Weather (2007); The Color of Lightning (2009); The Golden Hawks (1978); The Jesse James poems / poems (1988); The Late Great Human Road Show (1986); Waterloo Express / poems (1973).

Movies and television:

News of the World (2020); Rose's House (1977).

Born on this day – Maya Angelou:


Maya Angelou


Writer

April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014

Credits:

Including titles with Steven Spielberg, Langston Hughes and Mary Ellen Mark:
Angelina of Italy (2004); Izak of Lapland (2004); Mikale of Hawaii (2004); Renee Marie of France (2004); Cedric of Jamaica (2005); Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971); Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975); And Still I Rise (1978); Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987); I Shall Not Be Moved (1990); On the Pulse of Morning (1993); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994); The Complete Collected Poems (1994); Maya Angelou: Poems (1994); Phenomenal Woman (1995); A Brave and Startling Truth (1995); Black Pearls (1998); Van Gogh's Ear (2005); Amazing Peace (2005); Celebrations (2006); Poetry for Young People (2007); Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011); Mrs. Flowers (1986); Life Doesn't Frighten Me (1993); My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me (1994); Kofi and His Magic (1996); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); Gather Together in My Name (1974); Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976); The Heart of a Woman (1981); All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986); A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002); Mom & Me & Mom (2013); Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983); Letter to My Daughter (1987); Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993); Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1996); The Voyage of the Amistad (1997); Making Magic in the World (1998); Amistad (1998); Mary Ellen Mark (1999); Graduation (2000); Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004); Mother (2006); Great Food, All Day Long (2010); His Day Is Done (2014); Rainbow in the Cloud (2014); Understanding Aspergers (2014); Strategies of Abundance (2014); The Weary Blues (1926); The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932); The Ways of White Folks (1934); Selected Poems (1959); Ask Your Mama (1961); Poems from Black Africa (1963); The Panther and the Lash (1967); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Poems 1921-1940 (2001); The Poems: 1941-1950 (2001); The Poems: 1951-1967 (2001); Let America Be America Again (2004); Poetry for Young People (2006); Jim Crow's Last Stand (2007); The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (2022); Fine Clothes to the Jew: Poems of Black America in the 1920s (2023); An Earth Song (2023); I Am the Darker Brother (1968); Growing Up in the South (1991); Quartet Of Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female (2006); What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self (2006); Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World (2019).

Born on this day – Jerome Weidman:


Jerome Weidman


Writer

April 4, 1913 – October 6, 1998

Credits:

Books:

A Dime a Throw (1957); A Family Fortune (1981); Back Talk (1963); Before You Go (1960); Child's Ploy (1984); Counselors-At-Law (1980); Fiorello! (1960); Fourth Street East (2002); Give Me Your Love (1952); I Can Get It For You Wholesale! (1938); I'll Never Go There Any More (1941); Last Respects (1972); Letter of Credit (1940); Manhattan Noir 2 (2008); My Father Sits In The Dark (1961); Other People's Money (1967); Praying for Rain (1986); Slipping Beauty (1951); Tenderloin (1960); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Captain's Tiger (1947); The Enemy Camp (1958); The Hand of the Hunter (1951); The Horse That Could Whistle Dixie (1939); The Lights Around The Shore (1943); The Price Is Right (1949); The Sound of Bow Bells (1962); The Temple (1976); The Third Angel (1953); Tiffany Street (1974); Too Early to Tell (1946); Traveler's Check (1954); What's in It for Me? (1938); Word of Mouth (1964); Your Daughter Iris (1955).

Movies and television:

Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951); Down You Go (1951); General Electric Theater (1958); House of Strangers (1949); I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951); Invitation (1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Slander (1956); Star Tonight (1955); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Big Show (1961); The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Reporter (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969); TV de Vanguarda (1953).

Friday, April 3, 2026

Born on this day – Catherine Spaak:


Catherine Spaak


Actress

Writer

April 3, 1945 – April 17, 2022

Credits:

3 notti d'amore (1964); A Beautiful Vacation (2006); Adulterio all'italiana (1966); Affari di famiglia (1986); Alice (2010); Attenti a quei due - La sfida (2011); Ballando con le stelle (2007); Benedetta e company (1983); Buona Domenica (1997–1998); Burnt by a Scalding Passion (1976); Cari genitori (1973); Carosello (1971); Causa di divorzio (1972); Cinéma 16 (1986); Circle of Love (1964); Claretta (1984); Compression (2023); Con quale amore, con quanto amore (1970); Crazy Desire (1962); Crazy Desire (1962); Dalla parte giusta (2005); Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969); Domenica in (1995); E non se ne vogliono andare! (1988); E se poi se ne vanno? (1989); Eighteen in the Sun (1962); Forum (1985); Fosca (1981); Freddo da morire (1982); Harem (1987–2001); Honey (1981); Horse Fever (1976); Hotel (1967); I cervelloni (1995); I più grandi di tutti (2011); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969); Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960); Il giocatore invisibile (1985); Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1968); Il ritorno del piccolo Lord (2000); Il sorpasso (1962); Io e Caterina (1980); Joy - scherzi di gioia (2002); Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2004); Kiss the Other Sheik (1965); La bugiarda (1965); La calda vita (1964); La gatta (1978); La Martingale (1983); La parmigiana (1963); La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no (1973); La vacanza (2019); La vedova allegra (1968); La via dei babbuini (1974); La voglia di vincere (1987); L'altro piatto della bilancia (1972); L'amore difficile (1962); L'armata Brancaleone (1966); Le jour le plus court (1983); Le puits aux trois vérités (1961); Le rire de Caïn (1986); Le trou (1960); L'hiver (1959); L'ingranaggio (1988); L'isola dei famosi (2015); Los pájaros de Baden-Baden (1975); L'uomo dalla bocca storta (2009); L'uomo privato (2007); Ma Prédilection II (2012); Madamigella di Maupin (1966); Made in Italy (1965); Make Love, Not War (1966); Marco Ferreri: Il regista che venne dal futuro (2007); Masterpiece Mystery (2011); Murder Is a Murder (1972); Night Was Made for Stealing (1967); Ophiria (1983); Our Land (2006); Partita doppia (1993); Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978); Porta a Porta (2015); Pour le cinéma (1972); Promessa d'amore (2004); Racconti di fantascienza (1979); Rag. Arturo De Fanti bancario-precario (1980); Reflets de Cannes (1961); Saucy 70's Volume 2 (2010); Scommettiamo che...? (1994); Secret Scandal (1990); Sei delitti per padre Brown (1988); Senza rete (1970); Spécial cinéma (1983); Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973); Sunday Lovers (1980); Sweet Deceptions (1960); Take a Hard Ride (1975); Tandem (2000); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); Te lo leggo negli occhi (2004); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The Boxer (1972); The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971); The Empty Canvas (1963); The Libertine (1968); The Little Nuns (1963); The Man with the Balloons (1967); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); Ti sposo ma non troppo (2014); Ton Pseudonyme I (2012); Ton Pseudonyme III (2012); Un medico in famiglia (2013); Un posto al sole memories: 20 anni di un posto al sole (2016); Un seul être vous manque (1984); Una ragazza piuttosto complicata (1969); Une famille formidable (1993); War on Everyone (2016); Weekend at Dunkirk (1964); Zen (2011).

Born on this day – Jane Goodall:


Jane Goodall


Zoologist

Primatologist

Anthropologist

Writer

April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Baboon Family (1991); Bruce Weber. the Golden Retriever Photographic Society (2021); Chimps (1989); Dr. White (1999); Elephant Family (1991); Giraffe Family (1991); Grub: The Bush Baby (1970); Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating (2005); Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink (2009); In the shadow of man (1971);Innocent killers (1970); Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe: A Tribute to the Five Decades of Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation (2010); Lion Family (1991); My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees (1967); My Life with the Chimpanzees (1988); Pangolina (2021); Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (1999); Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants (2013); The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide f or Trying Times (2021); The chimpanzee (1992); The Chimpanzee Family Book (1989); The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (1986); The Eagle & the Wren (2000); The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World (2021); Thou Shalt Not: 10 Commandments Adult Coloring Book (2016); Through a Window: 30 years observing the Gombe chimpanzees (1990); Wildebeest Family (1991); With Love (1994); Zebra Family (1991).

Movies and television:

2013 Tournament of Roses Parade (2013); 2017 Global Citizen (2017); 30 Years of National Geographic Specials (1995); 50 Years of Discovery: Jane Goodall and the Leakey Foundation (2018); 60 Minutes (2010–2018); 98% Human (2017); A Life Among Elephants (2024); ABC News Breakfast (2025); Amanpour. (2018); America's Book of Secrets (2013); Animal (2021); Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (2021); Arten retten: Gegen das große Verschwinden (2020); Australian Story (2014); Bambi Verleihung 2010 (2010); Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl (2012); Beyond the Trailer (2014); Bill Moyers' Journal (2010); Buitenhof (2020); C à vous (2013); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2021); Celebrity Page (2019); Change for Chimps (2016); Changing Minds, Changing Times (1991); Chasing Coral (2017); Chasing Ice (2012); Chattel (2003); Chimpanzee (2011); Chimps: So Like Us (1990); Citizen Animal (2017); Civilizace - Dobra zprava o konci sveta (2022); Closing a Deadly Gateway (2010); CNBC's Sustainable Future (2021); CNN Newsroom (2018); College Tour (2016); Countdown to Year Zero (2019); Covid-19 and the Environment (2020); Day of Peace with Jane Goodall (2024); Dead Society (2007); Dear... (2020); Defunctland (2018); Democracy Now! (2010–2016); Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist (2017); Double Helix: The DNA Years (2004); Einstein (2017); Elepalooza! (2020); Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (2006–2007); Equity & Opportunity (2024); Ethicall (2024); Evolution (2002); Exploring Hans Hass (2019); Film at Lincoln Center (2017); Fine Point with Chanel Rion (2024); Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss (2021); Forever a Scientist (2017); Fox News Sunday (2017–2024); From the Ground to the Cloud: Transforming Chimpanzee Conservation with High-Tech Tools (2003); Gaia Symphony IV (2001); Generació digital (2013); Good Morning America (1982–2017); Good Shepherds: Music for Mankind and Other Animals (2017); Gorillaville (2014–2017); GPS Fareed Zakaria (2024); Great Apes: So Like Us (2011); Great Conversations (1999); Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words (2011); Gutsy (2022); Heroes for the Planet: A Tribute to National Geographic (2001); Heroes of Jules Verne Festival (2010); Hope for All: Unsere Nahrung - unsere Hoffnung (2016); Hope! Estamos a tiempo (2025); Horizon (2004); Hubert von Goisern - 60 Jahre und kein bisschen leise (2012); Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's schon lang (2015); Humans and Other Animals (2024); Hyde Park Civilizace (2017); Iconoclasts (2010); Icons (2019); In the Cutz (2006); Inside Base Camp (2001); Inspiring America: The 2023 Inspiration List (2023); Instinct for Survival (1972); Jane (2017); Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa (1973); Jane Goodall: A Life in the Wild (1990); Jane Goodall: Beauty and the Beasts (2010); Jane Goodall: My Life with the Chimpanzees (1995); Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope (1999); Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope (2023); Jane Goodall: The Hope (2020); Jane Goodall: When Animals Talk (2005); Jane Goodall's Heroes (2006); Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe (2004); Jane Goodall's State of the Great Ape (2004); Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002); Jane New Generation (2020); Jane's Journey (2010); Jeopardy! (2020); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2023); Karussell (1982); Katie (2014); Kid Gloves (2023); La Entrevista (2024); La nit al dia (2007–2008); La Revuelta (2025); Land der Berge (1997); Land of the Free: Out of the Shadows (2022); Lanterne Cosmique (2022); Last of the Wild Chimps (2004); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995); Le grand 8 (2015); Le monde en face (2020); Les animaux ont ils des droits? (2016); Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010); Life is Short with Justin Long (2021); Life on Earth: A True Civilisation (1996); Live Earth (2007); Live with Kelly and Mark (2012); LoveMEATender (2011); Markus Lanz (2014); Mars (2018); Martha (2008); Me... Jane (2015); Meat the Future (2020); Medicine of the Wolf (2015); Menschenaffen: Eine Geschichte von Gefühl und Geist (2021); Mercy for Animals: Hope Gala (2021); Milked (2021); MTW - Menschen Technik Wissenschaft (1992); Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1986 / 2007); Na plovárne (2017); National Geographic Specials (1965–2003); Natural World (1984–2009); Naturally, Sadie (2005); Nature (2009); Nature Watch (1988–1990); New Day (2018); Nova (2008 / 2014); On the Edge (1998); One Plus One (2017); One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps (2003); Op1 (2021); Órbita Laika: La nueva generación (2016); Overheard (2025); Pant Hoot (2020); Payback (2012); PBS News Hour (2025); Peace with Nature in Costa Rica (2020); People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988); Planet Hope (2024); Poisoning for Profit (2003); Portrait Artist of the Year (2023); Precht (2022); Protecting the Amazon (2021); Quatre gats (2020); Racing Extinction (2015); Reading Rainbow (1994); Rebuilding Paradise with Paul Henry (2020); Red Carpet Report (2019); Reflex (2021); RTL Late Night (2015–2018); Rundschau (2009); RuPaul's Drag Race (2025); Saving Jane (2024); SBS World News (2024); Schimpansen im Kongo mit Jane Goodall (2021); Scott y Milá (2019); Sea of Shadows (2019); Seed: The Untold Story (2016); Sex and the Scientists: Beauty and the Beasts (1996); Shelter Me: Community Matters (2017); Six femmes sur la planète des grands singes (2020); Skavlan (2020); Spaceship Earth (2020); StarTalk (2017); Sternstunden (2007–2023); Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis (2021); Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War (2018); Surviving Progress (2011); Symphony of Science (2010–2011); Talk of the 80s (1989); Tavis Smiley (2017); Terra Mater (2018); The 8th Annual Genesis Awards (1994); The Amanpour Hour (2024); The Beat with Ari Melber (2023–2025); The Chimp Island (2023); The Colbert Report (2014); The Daily Show (2009–2020); The David Frost Show (1970); The Earth Awards (2011); The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2019); The Firekeepers (2023); The Forum (2019); The Great Ape Trial (1995); The Green Interview (2011); The Hadza: Last of the First (2014); The Hour (2011–2012); The Imagineering Story (2019); The Ivory Game (2016); The Jane Goodall Hopecast (2020–2022); The Kelly Clarkson Show (2023); The Last Tourist (2021); The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2024); The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall (1990); The Man Who Saves the World? (2025); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Nature of Things (2015–2019); The Power of Women Series (2019); The Price (2015); The Project (2011–2024); The Rise and Rise of Animal Rights (2001); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1999–2002); The Simpsons (2019); The Tim Ferriss Show (2020); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2017–2021); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1990); The Tony Danza Show (2005); The Way We Went Wild (2004); The Wild Thornberrys (2001); The World About Us (1968–1976); Tigerenten Club (1998); Time (2009); Time to Choose (2015); To the Ends of the Earth: East Africa (2018); Today (2017–2024); TRIO Jane's music of life (2015); UnchainedTV Video Podcast (2021); Undercover TV (2008); Universum (2021); Unter Menschen (2013); Van de schoonheid en de troost (2000); Vegan 2015 (2015); Vegan 2018 (2018); Vegan 2020 (2020); Visions for the Future (2013); Voices of Hope ~ Words of Wisdom by Dr. Jane Goodall (2024); Volle Kanne (2024); We Are Nature (2021); Webnation (2007); Weihnachten auf Gut Aiderbichl (2011); What Happened When We All Stopped (2020); What We Eat (2023); Wild Daze (2020); Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus / podcast (2024); Wogan (1986); Women's History Month: Dr. Jane Goodall Tribute (2023); Work in Progress with Sophia Bush (2021); World Animal News (2015); World Woman Hour (2020); WTF with Marc Maron / podcast (2021); Zayed's Antarctic Lights (2018); ZiB 2 (2025); Zibb (2015).

Born on this day – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco:


Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco


Composer

Pianist

Writer

April 3, 1895 – March 16, 1968

Credits:

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); A Letter for Evie (1946); A Slight Case of Larceny (1953); A Yank at Eton (1942); Above Suspicion (1943); Address Unknown (1944); Adventures in Silverado (1948); Adventures of Rusty (1945); Alias a Gentleman (1948); And Then There Were None (1945); Asana Travelogue (2012); Bad Bascomb (1946); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Barbary Pirate (1949); Barbed Wire (1952); Bataan (1943); Batman and Robin (1949); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Battle Stations (1956); Bewitched (1945); Big Leaguer (1953); Black Eagle (1948); Blondie's Hero (1950); Boston Blackie (1948); Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945); Brave Warrior (1952); Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947); Cannibal Attack (1954); Captain Pirate (1952); Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951); Captive Girl (1950); Charge of the Lancers (1954); Chinatown at Midnight (1949); Courage of Lassie (1946); Crash Landing (1958); Creature with the Atom Brain (1955); Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946); Criminal Lawyer (1951); Cripple Creek (1952); Cry of the Hunted (1953); Cry of the Werewolf (1944); Customs Agent (1950); Dangerous Business (1946); Desire Me (1947); Desperate Search (1952); Devil Goddess (1955); Devil Ship (1947); Down to Earth (1947); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Drums of Tahiti (1954); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Duel on the Mississippi (1955); Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956); El Alaméin (1953); Emergency Wedding (1950); Escape in the Fog (1945); Everybody Does It (1949); Fingers at the Window (1942); Forgotten Treasure (1943); Fury of the Congo (1951); Gaslight (1944); Gentle Annie (1944); Goldtown Ghost Riders (1953); Harem Girl (1952); Harrigan's Kid (1943); Hellcats of the Navy (1957); He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hurricane Island (1951); I Love a Mystery (1945); In Our Time (1944); Inca Gold (1943); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Journey for Margaret (1942); Jungle Jim (1948); Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952); Jungle Man-Eaters (1954); Jungle Manhunt (1951); Just Before Dawn (1946); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Key Witness (1947); Lassie Come Home (1943); Last of the Redmen (1947); Last Train from Bombay (1952); Main Street After Dark (1945); Man in the Dark (1953); Manhattan (1944); Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945); Mark of the Gorilla (1950); Mask of the Avenger (1951); Masterson of Kansas (1954); Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942); Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944); Mrs. Parkington (1944); Mule Train (1950); My Name Is Julia Ross (1945); Mysterious Intruder (1946); Mysterious Island (1951); Night Editor (1946); Nine Girls (1944); Okinawa (1952); Orchestra of Exiles (2012); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Out of the Depths (1945); Pirates of the High Seas (1950); Pirates of Tripoli (1955); Plan for Destruction (1943); Prince of Pirates (1953); Prison Ship (1945); Prison Warden (1949); Racing Luck (1948); Rage in Heaven (1941); Rationing (1944); Reunion in France (1942); Revenue Agent (1950); Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950); Savage Mutiny (1953); Secret Command (1944); Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956); Sergeant Mike (1944); Serpent of the Nile (1953); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Shadowed (1946); Shadows in the Night (1944); She's a Soldier Too (1944); Siren of Bagdad (1953); Slaves of Babylon (1953); Smuggler's Gold (1951); Somewhere I'll Find You (1942); Son of Lassie (1945); Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960); Streets of Ghost Town (1950); Strictly Dishonorable (1951); Superman (1948); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Big Gusher (1951); The Black Parachute (1944); The Brave Bulls (1951); The Brigand (1952); The Canterville Ghost (1944); The Clock (1945); The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945); The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949); The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947); The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945); The Crooked Web (1955); The Cross of Lorraine (1943); The Devil's Henchman (1949); The Devil's Mask (1946); The Fighting Frontiersman (1946); The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948); The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944); The Giant Claw (1957); The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957); The Hard Man (1957); The Heavenly Body (1944); The Hidden Eye (1945); The Long Wait (1954); The Lost Tribe (1949); The Love Machine (1971); The Loves of Carmen (1948); The Maestro (2018); The Man Who Dared (1946); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The Miami Story (1954); The Millerson Case (1947); The Missing Juror (1944); The Phantom Thief (1946); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); The Prince of Thieves (1948); The Return of the Vampire (1943); The Return of the Whistler (1948); The Saracen Blade (1954); The Secret of St. Ives (1949); The Soul of a Monster (1944); The Stars Look Down (1940); The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945); The Stratton Story (1949); The Unknown (1946); The Unwritten Code (1944); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Werewolf (1956); The White Squaw (1956); The World Was His Jury (1958); Thief of Damascus (1952); Time Out of Mind (1947); Tortilla Flat (1942); Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948); Two-Man Submarine (1944); U-Boat Prisoner (1944); Undercurrent (1946); Valley of Head Hunters (1953); Vendetta (1942); Voice of the Whistler (1945); Voodoo Tiger (1952); We Were Dancing (1942); Whirlwind Raiders (1948); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); White Cargo (1942); Without Love (1945); Zombies of Mora Tau (1957).

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Born on this day – Jack Webb:


Jack Webb

Actor

Producer

Director

Writer

April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982

Born on this day – Maurice Sandoz:


Maurice Sandoz


Writer

April 2, 1892 – June 5, 1958

Credits:

Books:

Am Rande; Choix de poèmes: Poèmes, épigrammes, le Beau voyage, sonnets; Collection de Montres et Automates; Das Labyrinth. Roman; Der Friedhof von Skutari: unheimliche Geschichten; Der Vampyr (Neff-Anthologie, #2); Diaghilev-Nijinksy, and other vignettes; Elephant Man e altri mostri; Fantastic memories; Imitation Des Sonnets from the Portuguese; La Limite; La salière de cristal: Souvenirs; On the Verge; Personal Remarks About England; Recordações Fantásticas e Três Histórias Singulares; The Crystal Salt Cellar; The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories; The House Without Windows; The Maze; The Pleasures of Mexico.

Movies:

Spring-Heeled Jack (1950); Strangler's Morgue (1946); The Maze (1953).

Born on this day – Ethel Lina White:


Ethel Lina White


Writer

April 2, 1876 – August 13, 1944

Credits:

Books:

The Wish-Bone (1927); Twill Soon Be Dark (1929); The Eternal Journey (1930); Put Out the Light (aka Sinister Light) (1931); Fear Stalks the Village (1932); The Spiral Staircase (aka Some Must Watch) (1933); The First Time He Died (1935); Wax (1935); The Wheel Spins (aka The Lady Vanishes) (1936); The Third Eye (1937); The Elephant Never Forgets (1938); Step in the Dark (1939); While She Sleeps! (1940); She Faded into Air (1941); Midnight House (aka The Unseen / Her Heart in Her Throat (1942); The Man Who Loved Lions (aka The Man Who Was Not There (1943); They See in Darkness (1944); Lethal Ladies (2004); The Lady Vanishes / The Spiral Staircase (2015).

Movies and television:

The Lady Vanishes (2013); The Spiral Staircase (2000); Alfred Hitchcock Presents / An Unlocked Window (1985); The Lady Vanishes (1979); The Spiral Staircase (1975); Detective (1969); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Spiral Staircase (1961); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Unseen (1945); The Lady Vanishes (1938).

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Born on this day – Jonathan Haze:


Jonathan Haze


Actor

Writer

Production Manager

April 1, 1929 – November 2, 2024

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); 11th Victim (1979); 77 Sunset Strip (1959 / 1960); A Story of Little Shop of Horrors (1987); Another Nice Mess (1972); Apache Woman (1955); Bayou (1957); Blood Bath (1966); Carnival Rock (1957); Castle Blood Midnight Monster Hop (2006); Catalina C-Lab (1982); Cell 2455, Death Row (1955); Childish Things (1969); Cimarron City (1958); Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness (2015); Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Day the World Ended (1955); Dementia (1955); Dragnet (1956); East of Eden (1955); Female Jungle (1955); Five Guns West (1955); Flesh and the Spur (1956); Forbidden Island (1959); Ghost of the China Sea (1958); Gunslinger (1956); Highway Patrol (1955); Horrible Horror (1986); Howard (2018); I Led 3 Lives (1956); Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962); Invisible Mom II (1999); It Conquered the World (1956); Medium Cool (1969); Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954); Mummenschanz (1978); Naked Paradise (1957); Navy Log (1956); Nobody Smiling (2010); Not of This Earth (1957); Overland Trail (1960); Rock All Night (1957); Special Collector’s Edition (2013); Stakeout on Dope Street (1958); Swamp Women (1956); Teenage Cave Man (1958); That Guy Dick Miller (2014); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955); The Born Losers (1967); The Californians (1959); The Fast and the Furious (1954); The Little Shop of Horrors (1960); The Oklahoma Woman (1956); The Phantom Eye (1999); The Premature Burial (1962); The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957); The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967); The Terror (1963); Vice Squad (1982); X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963).

Born on this day – Anne McCaffrey:


Anne McCaffrey


Writer

April 1, 1926 – November 21, 2011

Credits:

Books:

2041 (1991); A Diversity of Dragons (1996); A Dragon Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1994); A Gift of Dragons (2002); A Time When (1975); A Woman's Liberation (2001); A Yuletide Universe (2003); Acorna (1997); Acorna's People (1999); Acorna's Quest (1998); Acorna's Rebels (2003); Acorna's Search (2001); Acorna's Triumph (2004); Acorna's World (1999); Alchemy and Academe (1970); All the Weyrs of Pern (1991); An Exchange of Gifts (1995); Analog's Children of the Future (1982); Angels of Darkness (1995); Animal Brigade 3000 (1994); Black Horses for the King (1996); Camelot (1995); Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three (1990); Catacombs (2010); Catalyst (2009); Cats in Space (1992); Changelings (2005); Christmas Stars (1992); Confederacy of the Dead (1993); Continuum 1 (1974); Continuum 2 (1974); Continuum 3 (1974); Continuum 4 (1976); Cooking Out Of This World (1973); Creatures of the Cosmos (1977); Crisis on Doona (1992); Crystal Line (1992); Crystal Singer (1982); Damia (1992); Damia's Children (1993); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dangerous Interfaces (1990); David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996); Decision at Doona (1967); Deluge (2008); Dinosaur Planet (1978); Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984); Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear (1996); Dragon Harper (2007); Dragon Tales (1982); Dragondrums (1979); Dragonflight (1968); Dragonholder (1999); Dragonquest (1971); Dragons (1997); Dragon's Fire (2006); Dragon's Kin (2003); Dragon's Time (2011); Dragonsdawn (1988); DragonsEye / aka Red Star Rising (1996); Dragonsinger (1977); Dragonsong (1976); Duty Calls (1988); Emerald Eye (2005); Fantastic Creatures (1981); Far Horizons (1999); First Warning (2005); Freedom's Challenge (1998); Freedom's Choice (1997); Freedom's Landing (1995); Freedom's Ransom (2002); Future Crimes (2021); Future Love (1977); Future Quest (1973); Futurelove (1978); Generation Warriors (1991); Get Off the Unicorn (1977); Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995); Habit Is an Old Horse (1984); Heads to the Storm (1989); If Wishes Were Horses (1998); Killashandra (1985); L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume II (1986); L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIV (1998); L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 33 (2017); Legends (1998); Legends 2 (1999); Legends II: Shadows, Gods, and Demons (2004); Lightspeed: Year One (2011); Lyon's Pride (1994); Maelstrom (2006); Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989); Moonsinger's Friends (1985); Moreta (1983); Mothers And Daughters (1998); Nebula Award Stories 3 (1967); Nebula Award Stories 4 (1968); Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006); Nerilka's Story (1986); Nerilka's Story / Coelura (1987); New Destinies, Vol. VIII (1989); New Eves (1994); Nimisha's Ship (1998); No One Noticed the Cat (1996); Omega (1973); Once upon a Time (1991); Partnership (1992); Pegasus in Flight (1990); Pegasus in Space (2000); Power Lines (1994); Power Play (1992); Powers That Be (1993); Rescue Run (1991); Restoree (1967); Ring of Fear (1971); Sassinak (1990); Science Fiction A to Z (1982); Science Fiction Today And Tomorrow (1974); Second Wave (2006); Sense of Wonder (2023); Serve It Forth (1996); Sky Dragons (2012); Space 6 (1980); Space Opera (1996); Space Opera (1996); Spaceworlds (2021); Starships (1983); Stitch in Snow (1985); Sworn Allies (1990); Ten Tomorrows (1973); The Ascent of Wonder (1994); The Atlas of Pern (1984); The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1997); The Best of the Nebulas (1989); The Best of Writers of the Future (1992); The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993); The City Who Fought (1993); The Coelura (1983); The Death of Sleep (1990); The Dolphins' Bell (1993); The Dolphins of Pern (1994); The Fleet (1988); The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1985); The Great SF Stories 23 (1991); The Hugo Winners: Volume 2, Part 2 (1973); The Kilternan Legacy (1975); The Lady / aka Carradyne Touch (1987); The Last Dangerous Visions (2024); The Mark of Merlin (1971); The Masterharper of Pern (1998); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The People of Pern (1988); The Renegades of Pern (1989); The Rowan (1990); The Ship Avenged (1997); The Ship Errant (1996); The Ship Who Sang (1969); The Ship Who Searched (1992); The Ship Who Won (1994); The Skies of Pern (2000); The Tower and the Hive (1999); The Ultimate Alien (1995); The Venus Factor (1972); The White Dragon (1979); The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey (1981); The Year of the Lucy (1986); Third Watch (2007); Three Gothic Novels (1991); Three Women (1992); Time Wars (1986); To Ride Pegasus (1973); Top Fantasy (1984); Top Science Fiction (1984); Total War (1990); Treasures of Fantasy (1997); Treaty at Doona / aka aka Treaty Planet (1994); Visions of Fantasy (1989); Visions of Wonder (1996); Wings of Fire (2010); Women of Futures Past (2016); Women of Wonder (1995); Wondrous Beginnings (2003); Young Demons (1972).

Television and video:

Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern (2001); Freedom: First Resistance (2000); Time Out of Mind (1979).

Born on this day – Melville Shavelson:


Melville Shavelson

Director

Producer

Writer

April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007

Born on this day – Edgar Wallace:


Edgar Wallace


Writer

Producer

Director, April 1, 1875 – February 10, 1932

Credits:

Books:

A Debt Discharged (1926); A King By Night (1928); A Present for Evans (1924); Again Sanders (1928); Again The Ringer (aka The Ringer Returns) (1929); Again the Three Just Men (aka The Law of the Four Just Men) (1921); Angel Esquire (1908); Barbara on Her Own (1926); Big Foot (1927); Black Cat Weekly #109 (2023); Black Cat Weekly #123 (2024); Black Cat Weekly #21 (2022); Black Cat Weekly #47 (2022); Black Cat Weekly #49 (2022); Black Cat Weekly #54 (2022); Black Cat Weekly #56 (2022); Black Cat Weekly #92 (2023); Blue-Hand (1927); Bones (1915); Bones in London (1921); Bones of the River (1923); Bosambo of the River (1914); Captains of Souls (1923); Circumstantial Evidence (1934); Death Packs a Suitcase (1961); Double Dan (aka Diana of Kara-Kara) (1924); Down Under Donovan (1930); Educated Evans (1924); Eve's Island (1909); Fighting Snub Reilly (1934); Flat 2 (1927); Flying Fifty-five (1922); For Information Received (1929); Four Square Jane (1929); Good Evans (aka The Educated Man) (1924); Great Stories of Real Life (1930); Guilty Creatures (2021); Heroes All (1914); Jack o'Judgment (1920); John Flack (1930); Kate Plus 10 (1917); King Kong (1933); Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces (1915); KONG (2023); Lieutenant Bones (1918); Menace of the Monster (2019); More Educated Evans (1924); Mr J. G. Reeder Returns (1932); Mr Justice Maxwell (1927); Murder in the Falling Snow (2022); On the Spot (1931); People (1929); Planetoid 127 (1929); Red Aces (1932); Room 13 (1924); Sanders (aka Mr. Commissioner Sanders) (1926); Sanders of the River (1911); Sandi The Kingmaker (1922); Selected Novels (1985); Sergeant Sir Peter (aka Sergeant Dunn, C.I.D.) (1932); Silinski - Master Criminal (1930); Terror Keep (1927); The Admirable Carfew (1914); The Adventures of Heine (1919); The Angel of Terror (aka The Destroying Angel) (1922); The Avenger (aka The Hairy Arm) (1925); The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018); The Black Abbot (1926); The Book of All Power (1923); The Brigand (1928); The Calendar (1930); The Cheaters (1910); The Clue of the New Pin (1923); The Clue of the Silver Key (aka The Silver Key) (1930); The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1917); The Coat of Arms (aka The Arranways Mystery) (1931); The Council of Justice (1908); The Crimson Circle (1922); The Daffodil Mystery (aka The Daffodil Murder) (1920); The Dark Eyes of London (1929); The Daughters of the Night (1925); The Day of Uniting (1930); The Death Room (1986); The Devil Man (1931); The Door with Seven Locks (1926); The Double (1928); The Duke in the Suburbs (1909); The Face in the Night (1924); The Feathered Serpent (1930); The Fellowship of the Frog (1925); The Flying Squad (1929); The Forger (aka The Clever One) (1927); The Four Just Men (1905); The Fourth Plague (1913); The Frightened Lady (aka The Mystery of the Frightened Lady) (1932); The Ghost of Down Hill (1929); The Golden Hades (1929); The Governor of Chi-Foo (1933); The Green Archer (1926); The Green Mamba (aka The Dangerous Reptile) (1925); The Green Ribbon (1929); The Green Rust (1919); The Gunner (aka Gunman's Bluff (1928); The Guv'nor (aka Mr. Reeder Returns) (1932); The Hand of Power (1930); The India Rubber Men (1929); The Iron Grip (1929); The Joker (aka The Colossus (1926); The Just Men of Cordova (1917); The Keepers of the King's Peace (1917); The Lady of Ascot (1930); The Lone House Mystery (1929); The Man at the Carlton (1931); The Man from Morocco (1926); The Man Who Bought London (1915); The Man Who Knew (1919); The Man Who Was Nobody (1927); The Missing Million (1923); The Mission The Failed (1898); The Mixer (1927); The Murder Book of J.G. Reeder (aka The Mind of Mr J G Reeder) (1925); The Nine Bears (aka The Other Man) (1910); The Northing Tramp (aka The Tramp) (1926); The Orator (1928); The People of the River (1912); The Platform Edge (2019); The Queen of Sheba's Belt (1929); The Ringer (1928); The River of Stars (1913); The Road to London (1986); The Secret House (1917); The Sinister Man (1924); The Sooper (1984); The Square Emerald (aka The Girl from Scotland Yard) (1926); The Squeaker (aka The Squealer) (1927); The Standard History of the War (1914); The Strange Countess (1925); The Terrible People (1928); The Thief in the Night (1930); The Three Just Men (1929); The Three Oak Mystery (1924); The Traitor's Gate (1927); The Twister (1928); The Valley of Ghosts (1922); The War of the Nations (1914); The Yellow Snake (1926); This England (1927); Unofficial Despatches (1901); When the Gangs Came to London (1932).

Movies and television:

Skull Island: Rise of Kong (2023); FilmToons Logic (2021); King Kong Skull Island (2019); Kong: Skull Island (2017); Le mystère des jonquilles (2014); Banglar King Kong (2010); Kong: Return to the Jungle (2007); The Vexxer (2007); King Kong (2005); The Lost Spider Pit Sequence (2005); Kong: King of Atlantis (2005); Der Engel des Schreckens (2005); Der Wixxer (2004); Das Schloss des Grauens (2002); Kong: The Animated Series (2000); Theater: Der Hexer (1999); The Mighty Kong (1998); Der Blinde (1996); Das Karussell des Todes (1996); Die Katze von Kensington (1996); The Mixer (1992–1993); The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987); King Kong Lives (1986); Kingu Kongu Tsû: Ikari no Megaton Panchi (1986); Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle (1986); Die Schokoladenschnüffler (1986); Rùzový Hubert (1985); Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido (1985); Voces de Muerte (1983); Sangre en mis zapatos (1983); The Case of the Frightened Lady (1983); Il Camaleonte (1979); The Feathered Serpent (1976–1978); King Kong (1976); Night of the Skull (1974); What Have You Done to Solange? (1972); Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972); Il laccio rosso (1971); The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971); The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969–1971); Angels of Terror (1971); The Devil Came from Akasava (1971); Double Face (1969); The Man with the Glass Eye (1969); Gorilla Gang (1968); The Zombie Walks (1968); L'oro di Londra (1968); The Horror of Blackwood Castle (1968); The College Girl Murders (1967); King Kong Escapes (1967); Five Golden Dragons (1967); Creature with the Blue Hand (1967); The Trygon Factor (1966); Der Bucklige von Soho (1966); Psycho-Circus (1966); The Sinister Monk (1965); Again the Ringer (1965); Coast of Skeletons (1965); Face of a Stranger (1964); The Main Chance (1964); Downfall (1964); Das Verrätertor (1964); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1964); The Mysterious Magician (1964); We Shall See (1964); The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964); Room 13 (1964); The Double (1963); To Have and to Hold (1963); The Set Up (1963); The Rivals (1963); The Partner (1963); Return to Sender (1963); On the Run (1963); Five to One (1963); Accidental Death (1963); Death Drums Along the River (1963); The Indian Scarf (1963); The Black Abbot (1963); Der Hexer (1963); King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963); Der Zinker (1963); Ricochet (1963); Der Fluch der gelben Schlange (1963); Incident at Midnight (1963); Locker Sixty Nine (1962); Backfire! (1962); Death Trap (1962); Solo for Sparrow (1962); Playback (1962); The Inn on the River (1962); Der Hexer (1962); Time to Remember (1962); The Door with Seven Locks (1962); Number Six (1962); Candidate for Murder (1962); Secret of the Red Orchid (1962); The Share Out (1962); Flat Two (1962); The Sinister Man (1961); The Fourth Square (1961); Clue of the Silver Key (1961); Never Back Losers (1961); Man Detained (1961); Attempt to Kill (1961); Partners in Crime (1961); Noita (1961); The Strange Countess (1961); The Forger of London (1961); The Devil's Daffodil (1961); Clue of the New Pin (1961); Dead Eyes of London (1961); Der grüne Bogenschütze (1961); Marriage of Convenience (1960); Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960); The Man Who Was Nobody (1960); Crossroads to Crime (1960); The Terrible People (1960); The Avenger (1960); The Four Just Men (1959–1960); Armchair Theatre (1960); ITV Play of the Week (1956–1960); Urge to Kill (1960); The Red Circle (1960); Face of the Frog (1959); Der Zinker (1959); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1957–1958); Educated Evans (1957–1958); The Case of the Frightened Lady (1957); Der Mann, der seinen Namen änderte (1956); Der Hexer (1956); Inner Sanctum (1954); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); The Ringer (1952); Danger (1951); Kraft Theatre (1947–1950); The Squeaker (1949); The Case of the Frightened Lady (1948); On the Spot (1948); The Calendar (1948); The Green Pack (1947); The Ringer (1946); The Missing Million (1942); The Green Archer (1940); The Flying Squad (1940); The Frightened Lady (1940); Chamber of Horrors (1940); A Criminal at Large (1939); The Human Monster (1939); The Ringer (1939); The Secret Four (1939); The Missing People (1939); Flying Fifty-Five (1939); The Mysterious Mr. Reeder (1939); Old Bones of the River (1938); The Ringer (1938); The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936); Smoky Cell (1938); The Phantom Strikes (1938); The Terror (1938); Queen of Crime (1938); The Case of the Frightened Lady (1938); On the Spot (1938); Thank Evans (1938); Dangerous to Know (1938); Mystery of Room 13 (1938); Murder on Diamond Row (1937); The Frog (1937); Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936); Chick (1936); Educated Evans (1936); The Crimson Circle (1936); Prison Breaker (1936); Born to Gamble (1935); Sanders of the River (1935); The Lad (1935); The Feathered Serpent (1934); Giallo (1934); Return of the Terror (1934); Mystery Liner (1934); Der Doppelgänger (1934); Quelqu'un a tué... (1933); The Jewel (1933); Before Dawn (1933); King Kong (1933); Le jugement de minuit (1933); The Ringer (1932); The Flying Squad (1932); Criminal at Large (1932); The Menace (1932); The Old Man (1931); Bachelor's Folly (1931); Der Zinker (1931); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1931); To Oblige a Lady (1931); The Gaunt Stranger (1931); Red Aces (1930); The Squeaker (1930); Should a Doctor Tell? (1930); The Yellow Mask (1930); The Valley of Ghosts (1930); Prince Gabby (1929); The Wrecker (1929); The Clue of the New Pin (1929); Der rote Kreis (1929); The Flying Squad (1929); The Man Who Changed His Name (1928); The Forger (1928); The Terror (1928); The Ringer (1928); The Terrible People (1928); Mark of the Frog (1928); Der große Unbekannte (1927); The Brotherhood (1926); The Green Archer (1925); A Dear Liar (1925); The Flying Fifty-Five (1924); The Diamond Man (1924); Fighting Snub Reilly (1924); Down Under Donovan (1922); The Crimson Circle (1922); Melody of Death (1922); The River of Stars (1921); The Four Just Men (1921); Wanted at Headquarters (1920); Angel Esquire (1919); The Green Terror (1919); Pallard the Punter (1919); The Man Who Bought London (1916); Nurse and Martyr (1915).

Monday, March 30, 2026

Born on this day – Dennis Etchison:


Dennis Etchison


Writer

March 30, 1943 – May 29, 2019

Credits:

Books:

100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1990); 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998); 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); A Book of Horrors (2011); A Century of Horror 1970-1979 (1987); Best New Horror 26 (2016); Best New Horror 28 (2018); Best New Horror 3 (1992); Borderlands 4 (1995); California Gothic (1995); Cemetery Riots (2016); Creeping Crawlers (2015); Cutting Edge (1986); Dark Forces (1980); Dark Masques (2001); Dark Terrors 2 (1995); Dark Terrors 3 (1997); Dark Terrors 4 (1998); Dark Terrors 5 (2000); Darker Terrors (2016); Darkness (2010); Darkside (1986); Death (1983); Double Edge (1996); Embrace the Mutation (2002); Extreme Zombies (2012); Fears (1983); Final Shadows (1991); Fine Cuts (2004); Frights (1976); Gallery of Horror (1983); Gathering the Bones (2003); Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories (2008); Halloween (1979); Halloween II (1981); Halloween III (1982); Horror Story Volume 3 (1991); Horrors (1986); Horrorscape 2 (2005); Hot Blood (1989); In the Field of Fire (1987); In the Shadow of Frankenstein (2016); Intensive Scare (1990); It Only Comes Out At Night (2016); Keep Out the Night (2002); Lord John Ten (1988); Masques (1984); Masters of Darkness (1986); Masters of Darkness II (1988); Masters of Darkness III (1991); Masters of Darkness III (1991); Metahorror (1992); Midnight (1985); My Favorite Horror Story (2000); New Terrors 1 (1980); New Terrors Omnibus (1985); New Writings in SF 11 (1968); New Writings in SF 2 (1964); New Writings in SF 4 (1965); Night Terrors III (2014); Nightmares (1984); October Dreams (2000); One Hundred Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); Orbit 13 (1974); Prime Evil (1988); Psycho-Mania! (2013); Psycho-paths (1991); Red Dreams (1972); Rod Serling's Other Worlds (1978); Scales and Tales (2016); Scaremongers (1998); Shadow Man (1993); Shadows (1978); Shadows 7 (1984); Speaking of Horror (2022); Summer Chills (2007); Talking in the Dark (2001); Terrors (1982); The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 (2017); The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales (1990); The Best New Horror 5 (1995); The Best of Dark Terrors (2021); The Best of Masques (1988); The Best of Whispers (1994); The Blood Kiss (1988); The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume Two (2010); The Complete Masters of Darkness (1990); The Cutting Room (2014); The Dark Country (1982); The Dark Descent (1997); The Death Artist (2000); The Definitive Best of the Horror Show (1982); The Fog (1980); The Giant Book of Best New Horror (1994); The Late Shift (1980); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Thirteen (2002); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Twelve (2001); The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021); The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994); The Mammoth Book of Monsters (2007); The Mammoth Book of New Terror (2004); The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories (2019); The Mammoth Book of Terror (1991); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); The Mammoth Book of Werewolves (1993); The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men (2009); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Medusa in the Shield (1990); The Museum of Horrors (2001); The Pseudo-People (1965); The Walk (2014); The Weird (2011); The World Fantasy Awards, Vol. 2 (1980); The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 (2012); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Year's Best Horror Stories IX (1981); The Year's Best Horror Stories VI (1978); The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979); The Year's Best Horror Stories VIII (1980); The Year's Best Horror Stories X (1982); The Year's Best Horror Stories XI (1983); The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985); The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986); The Year's Best Horror Stories XV (1987); The Year's Best Horror Stories XVI (1988); The Year's Best Horror Stories XVII (1989); The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992); The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII (1994); Travellers in Darkness (2007); Urban Horrors (1990); Videodrome (1983); Whispers (1977); Whispers II (1979); Whispers III (1981); Whispers V (1985); Whispers VI (1987); Year's Best Horror Stories XII (1984); Zombies! (2013); Zombies: Encounters With the Hungry Dead (2009).

Movies and television:

Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010); Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990); Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006); Killing Time (1984); Night Life (1989); Present Light (2014); The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2002–2012).

Born on this day – Robert Riskin:


Robert Riskin


Writer

Producer

Director

March 30, 1897 – September 20, 1955

Credits:

American Madness (1932); Ann Carver's Profession (1933); Arizona (1931); Broadway Bill (1934); Çarikli Milyoner (1983); Carnival (1935); Conquer by the Clock (1942); Ex-Lady (1933); Half Angel (1951); Here Comes the Groom (1951); Hymn of the Nations (1944); Illicit (1931); It Happened One Night (1934); Lady for a Day (1933); Lelki klinika (1941); Library of Congress (1945); Lost Horizon (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Magic Town (1947); Many a Slip (1931); Meet John Doe (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Men in Her Life (1931); Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989); Mister 880 (1950); Mr. Deeds (2002); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Platinum Blonde (1931); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Riding High (1950); Rough and Ready Reggie (1917); Shopworn (1932); Swedes in America (1943); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Big Timer (1932); The Cowboy (1943); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Cummington Story (1945); The Miracle Woman (1931); The Night Club Lady (1932); The Real Glory (1939); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Town (1944); The Whole Town's Talking (1935); They Shall Have Music (1939); Three Wise Girls (1931); Valley of the Tennessee (1944); Virtue (1932); Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945); When You're in Love (1937); You Can't Run Away from It (1956); You Can't Take It with You (1938).

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Born on this day – Andrew Pyper:


Andrew Pyper


Writer

March 29, 1968 – January 3, 2025

Credits:

Books:

1001 Names and Their Meanings (2012); Breaking and Entering (2012); Call Roxanne (2012); Camp Sacred Heart (2012); Dime Bag Girl (2012); House of Mirrors (2012); If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now (2012); Kiss Me (1996); Lost Girls (1999); Magnificent (2012); Oracle (2021); Sausage Stew (2012); The Author Shows a Little Kindness (2012); The Damned (2015); The Demonologist (2013); The Earliest Memory Exercise (2012); The Guardians (2011); The Homecoming (2019); The Killing Circle (2008); The Only Child (2017); The Residence (2020); The Trade Mission / aka Dark Descent (2002); The Wildfire Season (2005); Toronto Noir / Akashic Noir (2008); Unnerving Magazine: Issue #14 (2020); X-Ray (2012).

Television:

Biology of Story (2016); Oracle (2021); Oracle 2: The Dreamland Murders (2022); Shock Docs (2021).

Born on this day – Bud Cort:


Bud Cort


Actor

Writer

Director

March 29, 1948 – February 11, 2026

Credits:

Affections (2016); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000); Altman on His Own Terms (2000); An Evening at the Improv (1989); And the Band Played On (1993); Arrested Development (2006); Bates Motel (1987); Batman: The Animated Series (1992); Behind the Scenes: 'But I'm a Cheerleader' (2001); Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976); Bob (1992); Brain Dead (1990); Brave New World (1980); Brewster McCloud (1970); But I'm a Cheerleader (1999); C.C.P.D. (1992); Camp Midnite (1989); Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue (1992); Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins (2022); Coyote Ugly (2000); Criminal Minds (2010); Die Laughing (1980); Dogma (1999); Dream Corp LLC (2014); Dream On (1992); Eagleheart (2012); Electric Dreams (1984); Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1983); Funny or Die Presents... (2010); Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970); Girl in the Cadillac (1995); Going Under (1991); Gun (1997); Hal (2018); Harold and Maude (1971); Heat (1995); Hotels - Geschichte und Geschichten (1989–1990); Hysterical (1982); I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998); Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004); Insight (1982); Interview-Director Keith Gordon Discusses 'the Chocolate War' (2007); Invaders from Mars (1986); Iron and Beyond (2002); Isle of Dogs (2018); Jack's Place (1993); Jeff Lynne: Video (1984); Jitters (1997); Justice League Unlimited (2006); Love at Stake (1987); Love Letters (1983); M*A*S*H (1970); Made (2001); Making It in Hollywood (1976); Maria's Lovers (1984); Martini Ranch: Reach (1988); Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal (2005); Midnight Caller (1989); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Out of the Dark (1988); Paid in Puke (2023); Pollock (2000); Pumping Iron (1977); Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' (2002); Room 222 (1969); SBS World News (2024); Screen Two (1995); She Dances Alone (1981); Shootout (2007); Siskel & Ebert (2000); Sledge Hammer! (1987); Son of Hitler (1979); South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000); Static Shock (2003); Sunday Night Live (1984); Superman: The Animated Series (1996–1998); Sweet Charity (1969); Sweet Jane (1998); Tales from the Darkside (1985); Tales of the Unexpected (1985); Ted & Venus (1991); Telephone (1986); The Annual American Cinematheque Award Honors Bette Midler (1987); The Big Empty (2003); The Chocolate War (1988); The Doctors (1968); The Governor & J.J. (1969); The Hallucinating Trip (1975); The Hitchhiker (1987); The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004); The Little Prince (2015); The Mask (1996–1997); The Million Dollar Hotel (2000); The Movies (2019); The Number 23 (2007); The One Dollar Diary (2002); The Pink Popcast (2023); The Roseanne Show (2000); The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984); The Strawberry Statement (1970); The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1998); The Traveling Executioner (1970); The Twilight Zone (1988); Theodore Rex (1995); This Is an Adventure (2005); This Is Your Life (1971); Tom & Jerry Kids Show (1992); Ugly Betty (2007); Up the Down Staircase (1967); Why Shoot the Teacher (1977).

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Born on this day – Mario Vargas Llosa:


Mario Vargas Llosa


Writer

Director

Actor

March 28, 1936 – April 13, 2025

Credits:

Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010.

Books:

A Fish in the Water (1993); A Writer's Reality (1990); Andes (2004); Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977); Book Of Latin American Plays (2004); Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973); Conversation in the Cathedral (1969); Death in the Andes (1993); Fonchito and The Moon (2022); Harsh Times (2021); In Praise of Reading and Fiction (2010); In Praise of the Stepmother (1988); Letters to a Young Novelist (1997); Making Waves (1996); Notes on the Death of Culture (2012); Sabers and Utopias (2009); The Bad Girl (2006); The Call of the Tribe (2018); The Children's Boat (2015); The Cubs and Other Stories (1967); The Discreet Hero (2013); The Dream of the Celt (2010); The Feast of the Goat (2000); The Green House (1965); The Language of Passion (2000); The Neighborhood (2016); The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997); The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997); The Perpetual Orgy (1975); The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984); The Storyteller (1987); The Temptation of the Impossible (2004); The Time of the Hero (1962); The War of the End of the World (1981); The Way to Paradise (2003); Three Plays (1990); Touchstones (2007); Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986).

Movies and television:

12h45 (2025); 28' (2018); 60 Minutes (1989); A Marcha do Tempo (1993); Ah! Quels titres (1995); Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand (1997–1998); Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1981); Ànima (2011); Apostrophes (1983–1990); Arte Journal (2025); Atención obras (2013–2020); Bibliothèque Médicis (2010–2016); Boda real (2004); Bookmark (1985); Bouillon de culture (1992–1996); Buitenhof (2013); Caiga quien caiga - CQC (2008–2011); Caiga quien caiga (1997); Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (2002); Caos, La Peste Chavista (2024); Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999); Ceremonia de clausura del festival de cine de San Sebastián (2004); Charlie Rose (2001); Chávez, La Peste Chavista (2024); Chavismo: la peste del siglo XXI (2018); Che: muerte de la utopia? (1999); Com Todas as Letras (1974–1976); Contact, l'encyclopédie de la création (2006–2010); Continuarà... (1999–2006); Corrupción, La Peste Chavista (2024); Cuando vivas conmigo (2017–2018); Cuba, La Peste Chavista (2024); Culture et dépendances (2002); Dani & Flo (2017); De jueves a Jueves (1986); De par en par (2008); Debate (1987); Democracia, La Peste Chavista (2024); Después de Trujillo (2014); Dictadura, La Peste Chavista (2024); Druckfrisch (2011); El Chivo (2014); El corazón del Teatro Real (2018); El lector (1994–1995); El loco de la colina (2006); El paraíso en la otra Esquina (2003); El primer café (2001); El programa de Carlos Herrera (1997); Entrevista a la carta (2012); Estravagario (2006); Frank Delaney (1983); Gente de primera (1993); Giganten (2007); Hemingway (2021); Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1984); Horizonte Flutuante (2011); Iñaki (2011); Informe semanal (1998); Jesús de Polanco: el hombre que miraba lejos (2007); Jesús G. Maestro (2024); Journal de voyage (1964); Kirjailijan valta (1968); La Chunga (1993); La cláusula Balcells (2016); La fiesta del Chivo (2005); La grande librairie (2009); La imagen de tu vida (2006); La mandrágora (2005); La noche abierta (2000); La odisea de los Andes (1976); La Peste Chavista (2024); La tele de tu vida (2007); La tía julia y el escribidor (1981); La última lidia (2023); Lady Tamara (2022); Las tres puertas (2022); Le bateau livre (2007); Le cercle de minuit (1995); Le procès d'Emma Bovary (2021); L'illa del tresor (2006); L'invité (2005); Lo + plus (1996–2003); Los cachorros (1973); Los desayunos de TVE (1997–2003); Los libros (1998–2002); Los Siete Locos (1987); Lundi en histoires (2016); Madrid en el corazón (2004); Maduro, La Peste Chavista (2024); Mario y los perros (2019); MasterChef Celebrity (2019); Mein Leben (2008); Memòries de la tele (2010); Metrònom Ferrater (2009); Miradas 2 (2008); Nieuwsuur (2010); Nobel Minds (2010); Noche Hache (2006); Nulle part ailleurs (1997); Odio, La Peste Chavista (2024); Os Sertões e Os Sermões (2011); Página 2 (2008–2019); Pantaleon (1976); Pátria Educadora (2020); Peor es nada (1993); Persecución, La Peste Chavista (2024); Por Outro Lado (2003); Pozner (2017); Premios Goya 30 edición (2016); Quiebra, La Peste Chavista (2024); Sálvame Deluxe (2018); Sepa: Nuestro Señor de los milagros (1986); Skavlan (2010); Some Time Later (2018); Tatuajes en la memoria (2024); Teletrece (2017); The City and the Dogs (1985); Todo es mentira (2019); Travesuras de la Niña Mala (2022); Tune in Tomorrow... (1990); Two Catalonias (2018); Un paseo por el tiempo (1995); Una belleza nueva (2010); Vol de nuit (2003); Y quién es él (1994); Yaguar (1987).