Born on this day – Bill Butler:

Bill Butler

Cinematographer

April 7, 1921 – April 5, 2023

Credits:

The Boys at the Bar (2016); Evil Angel (2009); Limousine (2008); Looking Up Dresses (2008); Redline (2007); The Plague (2006); Funny Money (2006); Zombie Prom (2006); Berserker (2005); Joe and Max (2002); Frailty (2001); Hendrix (2000); Ropewalk (2000); Good vs Evil (1999); Passing Glory (1999); Don King: Only in America (1997); Deceiver (1997); Anaconda (1997); Dark Skies (1996); Flipper (1996); A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982); Beethoven's 2nd (1993); Cop & ½ (1993); Sniper (1993); Brooklyn Bridge (1991); Hot Shots! (1991); Graffiti Bridge (1990); When We Were Young (1989); Child's Play (1988); Wildfire (1988); Biloxi Blues (1988); Bates Motel (1987); Big Trouble (1986); Rocky IV (1985); Beer (1985); A Streetcar Named Desire (1984); The Thorn Birds (1983); The Sting II (1983); Rocky III (1982); Killing at Hell's Gate (1981); Stripes (1981); The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981); It's My Turn (1980); Can't Stop the Music (1980); Death Ray 2000 (1980); Rocky II (1979); Ice Castles (1978); Uncle Joe Shannon (1978); Grease (1978); Damien: Omen II (1978); Capricorn One (1977); Mary White (1977); Demon Seed (1977); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Alex & the Gypsy (1976); The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976); Lipstick (1976); Fear on Trial (1975); Jaws (1975); The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975); McCoy (1975); Hustling (1975); Target Risk (1975); The Conversation (1974); The Execution of Private Slovik (1974); Indict and Convict (1974); I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973); Sunshine (1973); Deliver Us from Evil (1973); Running Wild (1973); Savage (1973); Circle of Fear (1972); Hickey & Boggs (1972); Deliverance (1972); Melinda (1972); Something Evil (1972); Deathmaster (1972); The Return of Count Yorga (1971); Drive, He Said (1971); A Clear and Present Danger (1970); Adam's Woman (1970); The Rain People (1969); A Space to Grow (1968); Fearless Frank (1967); The Bold Men (1965); The People vs. Paul Crump (1962).

Born on this day – R. G. Armstrong:

R. G. Armstrong

Actor

Writer

April 7, 1917 – July 27, 2012

Born on this day – Anthony Caruso:

Anthony Caruso

Actor

April 7, 1916 – April 4, 2003

Born on this day – Billie Holiday:

Billie Holiday

Singer

April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959

Born on this day – Frank V. Phillips:

Frank V. Phillips

Cinematographer

April 7, 1912 – April 12, 1994

Frank V. Phillips (holding camera), filming Escape to Witch Mountain (1975).

Credits:

The Ambush Murders (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1981); The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981); Going Ape! (1981); Herbie Goes Bananas (1980); All God's Children (1980); Midnight Madness (1980); The Black Hole (1979); The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979); Goin' Coconuts (1978); Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978); Return from Witch Mountain (1978); The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978); Pete's Dragon (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Gus (1976); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); No Deposit, No Return (1976); The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper (1976); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975); The Island at the Top of the World (1974); Return of the Big Cat (1974); Men of the Dragon (1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Hog Wild (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); The Red Pony (1973); The World's Greatest Athlete (1973); Snowball Express (1972); Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Scandalous John (1971); The Wild Country (1970); Darker Than Amber (1970); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969); Secrets of the Pirates' Inn (1969); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1969); Premiere (1968); The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968); The Young Loner (1968); Captain Nice (1967); Mosby's Marauders (1967); Run Buddy Run (1966); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); 12 O'Clock High (1965–1966); Wild Wild Winter (1966); The Wild Wild West (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Gunsmoke (1963–1965); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960–1963); Rider on a Dead Horse (1962); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Perry Mason (1961); Hong Kong (1961); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); Border Patrol (1959); A Matter of Attitude (1958); Jefferson Drum (1958); Navy Log (1956–1958); Colt .45 (1957); Circus Boy (1957); Maverick (1957).

Born on this day – William Wordsworth:

William Wordsworth

Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).

Carson McCullers, on writing:

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

- Carson McCullers.