Born on this day – Georges Simenon:

Georges Simenon

Writer

February 13, 1903 – 4 September 4, 1989

Credits:

Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett / Pietr the Latvian (1931); Maigret Meets a Milord / The Carter of 'La Providence' (1931); The Death of Monsieur Gallet / The Late Monsieur Gallet / Maigret Stonewalled (1931); The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien / The Crime of Inspector Maigret / Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets (1931); A Battle of Nerves / A Man's Head / Maigret Bides His Time / The Patience of Maigret / Maigret's Patience (1931); The Yellow Dog / Maigret and the Concarneau Murders (1931); Maigret at the Crossroads / The Night at the Crossroads (1931); Maigret in Holland / A Crime in Holland (1931); The Sailors' Rendezvous / Maigret Answers a Plea / The Grand Banks Café (1931); The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin / Maigret At the Gai-Moulin (1931); Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine / The Two-Penny Bar (1931); The Shadow Puppet / Maigret Mystified (1932); Maigret Goes Home / The Saint-Fiacre Affair / Maigret on Home Ground / Maigret and the Countess (1932); Maigret and the Flemish Shop / The Flemish House (1932); Maigret and the Death of a Harbor-Master / Misty Harbour / Maigret and Monsieur Labbe (1932); The Madman of Bergerac (1932); Liberty Bar / Maigret on the Riviera (1932); Lock No. 1 / The Lock at Charenton (1933); Maigret / Maigret Returns (1934); The Cellars of the Majestic / Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (1942); The Judge's House / Maigret in Exile (1942); Maigret and the Spinster / Cécile is Dead (1942); Maigret and the Fortuneteller / To Any Lengths / Signed, Picpus (1944); Félicie / Maigret and the Toy Village (1944); Inspector Cadaver / Maigret's Rival (1944); Maigret Gets Angry / Maigret in Retirement (1947); Maigret in New York / Maigret in New York's Underworld (1947); Maigret's Holiday / A Summer Holiday / No Vacation for Maigret (1948); Maigret's Dead Man / Maigret's Special Murder (1948); Maigret's First Case (1949); My Friend Maigret / The Methods of Maigret (1949); Maigret at the Coroner's / Maigret and the Coroner (1949); Maigret and the Old Lady (1950); Madame Maigret's Own Case / The Friend of Madame Maigret / Madame Maigret's Friend (1950); Maigret's Memoirs (1951); Maigret in Montmartre / Maigret and the Strangled Stripper / Maigret at Picratt's (1951); Maigret Takes a Room / Maigret Rents a Room (1951); Maigret and the Burglar's Wife / Maigret and the Tall Woman (1951); Maigret and the Gangsters / Inspector Maigret and the Killers / Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters (1952); Maigret's Revolver (1952); Maigret and the Man on the Bench / Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard (1953); Maigret Afraid / Maigret Is Afraid (1953); Maigret's Mistake (1953); Maigret Goes to School (1954); Maigret and the Calame Report / Maigret and the Minister (1954); Maigret and the Dead Girl / Maigret and the Young Girl (1954); Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955); Maigret Sets a Trap (1955); Maigret's Failure (1956); Maigret Enjoys Himself / Maigret's Little Joke / None of Maigret's Business (1957); Maigret Travels / Maigret and the Millionaires (1958); Maigret Has Scruples / Maigret's Doubts (1958); Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (1959); Maigret's Secret / Maigret Has Doubts (1959); Maigret in Court (1960); Maigret and the Old People / Maigret in Society (1960); Maigret and the Idle Burglar / Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (1961); Maigret and the Black Sheep / Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (1962); Maigret and the Saturday Caller (1962); Maigret and the Tramp / Maigret and the Dosser / Maigret and the Bum (1963); Maigret's Fury / Maigret Loses His Temper / Maigret's Anger (1963); Maigret and the Ghost / Maigret and the Apparition (1964); Maigret on the Defensive / Maigret Holds His Own / Maigret Defends Himself (1964); Maigret and the Nahour Case (1966); Maigret and the Pickpocket / Maigret's Pickpocket (1967); Maigret in Vichy / Maigret Takes the Waters (1968); Maigret Hesitates (1968); Maigret's Boyhood Friend / Maigret's Childhood Friend (1968); Maigret and the Killer (1969); Maigret and the Wine Merchant (1970); Maigret and the Madwoman / Maigret's Madwoman (1970); Maigret and the Loner (1971); Maigret and the Informer / Maigret and the Flea (1972); Maigret and Monsieur Charles (1973); Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories (1945); Maigret's Christmas (1976); The Girl with a Squint (1931); The Engagement (1933); Tropic Moon (1933); The Window Over the Way (1933); The Lodger (1934); The Long Exile (1935); Donadieu's Will (1936); The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1938); Girl In Waiting (1938); Three Crimes (1938); The Strangers in the House (1940); The Widow (1942); The Truth About Bebe Donge (1942); Across the Street (1942); The Suspect (1944); Monsieur Monde Vanishes (1945); Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (1946); Act of Passion (1946); The Mahé Circle (1946); Death of a Nobody (1947); Pedigree (1948); The Snow Was Dirty (1948); Magnet of Doom (1948); The Bottom Of The Bottle (1949); Four Days in a Lifetime (1949); The Pitards (1949); Strange Inheritance (1950); The Heart of a Man (1950); A New Lease On Life (1951); The Burgomaster of Furnes (1952); Escape in Vain (1952); Havoc by Accident (1952); On the danger line (1952); Belle (1952); In Two Latitudes (1952); The Trial of Bebe Donge (1952); Dirty Snow (1953); Red Lights (1953); The Iron Staircase (1953); The Watchmaker of Everton (1954); The Clockmaker (1954); Big Bob (1954); The Accomplices (1955); The Rules of the Game (1955); The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet (1955); The Fugitive (1955); A Sense of Guilt (1955); The Little Man From Archangel (1956); The Stowaway (1957); Sunday (1958); The President (1958); The Son (1958); The Widower (1959); The Grandmother (1959); The Negro (1959); Young Cardinaud (1959); The Blue Room (1960); Betty (1960); Justice (1960); The Family Lie (1960); The Train (1961); Striptease (1961); Poisoned Relations (1961); The hatter's ghosts (1961); The Door (1962); The House on Quai Notre Dame (1962); The Others (1962); The Bells of Bicetre (1963); The Magician (1963); Inquest on Bouvet (1963); The Man With the Little Dog (1964); The Venice Train (1965); The Survivors (1965); Venice Train (1965); Black Rain (1965); Ticket of Leave (1965); The Cat (1966); The Old Man Dies (1966); Old Man Dies (1966); The Mouse (1966); Fate of the Malous (1966); The Little Saint (1967); The Brothers Rico (1967); The Reckoning (1967); The neighbours (1968); The Prison (1968); The Premier (1968); The confessional (1968); The Patient (1968); The Witnesses (1968); Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in (1969); Uncle Charles (1969); November (1970); The Rich Man (1970); Enigmas (1970); The Glass Cage (1971); The Innocents (1972); The Disappearance Of Odile (1972); Magician (1974); The Girl in His Past (1976); The Nightclub (1977); The White Horse Inn (1979); The Little Doctor (1981); The Outlaw (1987); The Murderer (2013); The Hand (2016); Simenon's Paris (1970); When I Was Old (1971); Letter to My Mother (1976); Intimate Memoirs: Including Marie-Jo's Book (1981); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Nine Detective Stories (1964); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Murder Intercontinental (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); Murder On The Railways (2003); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004).

Mason Cooley, on reading:

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

- Mason Cooley.

On this day in movie history - Land (2021):

Land

directed by Robin Wright,

written by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam,

was released in the United States on February 12, 2021.
Music by Ben Sollee and Time for Three.

Cast:

Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge, Kim Dickens, Warren Christie, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Brad Leland, Jordan Bullchild, Dave Trimble, Rikki-Lynn Ward, Mia McDonald, Barb Mitchell, Dennis Corrie, Valerie Planche, Laura Yenga, Randolph West, Darin Grisdale, Darren Poirier, Thomas Komarniski, Shawn Loo, Edmund Gee, Maureen Bronner, Matthew Godden, Jordan Gooden, Vattanak Khun, Bud Klasky, Faith Louissaint, Travis Gordon Phillips, Mike Richards, Jill Maria Robinson, Daniel D'Angelo Sparks, Steve Tsang, Travis Willier.

On this day in movie history - The Wall (2012):

The Wall

original title: Die Wand,

directed and written by Julian Roman Pölsler,

based on the novel by Marlen Haushofer,

was released at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on February 12, 2012.
Music by Bernd Jungmair.

Cast:

Martina Gedeck, Luchs von Kyffhäuserbach, Karl Heinz Hackl, Ulrike Beimpold, Julia Gschnitzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Wolfgang Maria Bauer.

On this day in music history - Victoria And Her Blues, by Victoria Spivey (1962):

The album Victoria And Her Blues,

by Victoria Spivey,

was recorded on February 12, 1962.

Born on this day – Richard Lynch:

Richard Lynch

Actor

February 12, 1940 – June 19, 2012

Credits:

The Lords of Salem (2012); Gun of the Black Sun (2011); Resurrection (2010); Dark Fields (2009); Chrome Angels (2009); Laid to Rest (2009); Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy (2007); Halloween (2007); Wedding Slashers (2006); The Great War of Magellan (2005); Corpses Are Forever (2004); Final Combat (2003); The Mummy's Kiss (2003); Ancient Warriors (2003); Fabulous Shiksa in Distress (2003); Charmed (2003); First Watch (2003); Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002); Crime and Punishment (2002); Six Feet Under (2002); Outta Time (2002); Reflex Action (2002); Ankle Bracelet (2001); Death Game (2001); The Korean War (2001); Strike Zone (2000); Eastside (1999); Enemy Action (1999); Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999); Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1999); Lima: Breaking the Silence (1999); Thinking About Africa (1999); Air America (1999); Love and War II (1998); Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1998); Armstrong (1998); Shattered Illusions (1998); Divine Lovers (1997); Ground Rules (1997); Under Oath (1997); We Are Angels (1997); The Garbage Man (1996); Vendetta (1996); Diamond Run (1996); Total Force (1996); Lone Tiger (1996); Phantom 2040 (1995–1996); Takedown (1995); Destination Vegas (1995); Warrior of Justice (1995); Terminal Virus (1995); Werewolf (1995); Baywatch (1995); Dragon Fury (1995); Highlander (1995); Terrified (1995); Roughcut (1994); Loving Deadly (1994); Thunder in Paradise (1994); Death Match (1994); Dangerous Waters (1994); Murder, She Wrote (1992–1994); Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994); Midnight Confessions (1994); Scanner Cop (1994); Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993); Cobra (1993); Showdown (1993); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993); Merlin (1993); The Hat Squad (1993); Double Threat (1992); Inside Edge (1992); Maximum Force (1992); Super Force (1991–1992); The Last Hero (1991); Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991); Jake and the Fatman (1991); Alligator II: The Mutation (1991); Dark Justice (1991); Trancers II (1991); Lockdown (1990); Invasion Force (1990); Return to Justice (1990); Aftershock (1990); The Forbidden Dance (1990); True Blue (1990); Kojak: Flowers for Matty (1990); Hunter (1989); CBS Summer Playhouse (1989); One Man Force (1989); High Stakes (1989); Speed Zone (1989); Bad Dreams (1988); Little Nikita (1988); Werewolf (1987); The Law and Harry McGraw (1987); Once a Hero (1987); Nightforce (1987); The Barbarians (1987); The Last Precinct (1986); Savage Dawn (1985); Airwolf (1985); Invasion U.S.A. (1985); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1985); MacGruder and Loud (1985); Riptide (1985); Masquerade (1984); Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse (1984); Partners in Crime (1984); The A-Team (1984); Cover Up (1984); Cut and Run (1984); Matt Houston (1984); The Fall Guy (1983–1984); Automan (1984); Blue Thunder (1984); Manimal (1983); T.J. Hooker (1983); The Last Ninja (1983); High Performance (1983); White Water Rebels (1983); Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982); The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982); The Phoenix (1981–1982); McClain's Law (1982); Sizzle (1981); Vega$ (1979–1981); The Formula (1980); Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); The Ninth Configuration (1980); Galactica 1980 (1980); Charlie's Angels (1979); A Man Called Sloane (1979); Delta Fox (1979); Vampire (1979); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); Barnaby Jones (1979); Steel (1979); Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Deathsport (1978); The Bionic Woman (1978); The Baron (1977); Dog and Cat (1977); Stunts (1977); The Streets of San Francisco (1977); Good Against Evil (1977); Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target (1977); Police Woman (1977); Serpico (1976); God Told Me To (1976); Baretta (1976); Switch (1976); Bronk (1976); The Premonition (1975); The Happy Hooker (1975); Open Season (1974); The American Parade (1974); The Seven-Ups (1973); Scarecrow (1973); The Stoolie (1972); Tigress (1969); Trip to Where? (1968).

Born on this day – Paul Shenar:

Paul Shenar

Actor

Director

February 12, 1936 − October 11, 1989

Credits:

The Very Best of the Football Follies (1988); The Big Blue (1988); Best Seller (1987); Man on Fire (1987); Time Out for Dad (1987); The Bedroom Window (1987); Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986); Dark Mansions (1986); Raw Deal (1986); Dream Lover (1986); Streets of Justice (1985); Spenser: For Hire (1985); Dynasty (1983–1985); Brass (1985); Paper Dolls (1984); Scarface (1983); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983); Deadly Force (1983); The Secret of NIMH (1982); Richard II (1982); Today's F.B.I. (1982); The End of August (1981); Beulah Land (1980); Hart to Hart (1980); Family (1979); Suddenly, Love (1978); Lulu (1978); The Courage and the Passion (1978); Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978); The Mask of Alexander Cross (1977); Logan's Run (1977); Young Dan'l Boone (1977); The Hostage Heart (1977); Hawaii Five-O (1976–1977); Roots (1977); Camera Three (1976); Wonder Woman (1976); The Bionic Woman (1976); Gemini Man (1976); The Keegans (1976); The Night That Panicked America (1975); Ellery Queen (1975); The Invisible Man (1975); Petrocelli (1975); Kojak (1975); The Execution of Private Slovik (1974); Great Performances (1974); Mannix (1974); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1974); Columbo (1974); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973).