Born on this day – Anthony Quinn:

Anthony Quinn

Actor

April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001

Born on this day – Gilbert Taylor:

Gilbert Taylor

Cinematographer

April 21, 1914 – August 23, 2013

Credits:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); A British Horror Film (2003); A Day at the Beach (1970); A Hard Day's Night (1964); A Nice Girl Like Me (1969); A Prize of Arms (1962); Alive and Kicking (1958); Aquarius (1972); As Long as They're Happy (1955); Before Winter Comes (1968); Bottoms Up (1960); Breaking Up (1978); Brighton Rock (1948); Call Me Genius (1961); Circle of Danger (1951); Conan the Barbarian (1982); Crest of the Wave (1954); Cul-de-sac (1966); Damien: Omen II (1978); Department S (1969); Don't Get Me Started (1994); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Dracula (1979); Duran Duran: The Chauffeur (1982); Escape Me Never (1935); Escape to Athena (1979); Fame Is the Spur (1947); Ferry Cross the Mersey (1964); Flash Gordon (1980); Follow the Beatles: The Story of the Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1964); Frenzy (1972); Front Page Story (1954); Glory at Sea (1952); Green Ice (1981); Hide and Seek (1964); High Treason (1951); Ice Cold in Alex (1958); Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000); It's Great to Be Young! (1956); Josephine and Men (1955); Journey Together (1945); Lassiter (1984); Losin' It (1982); Macbeth - Power and Corruption (1973); Macbeth (1971); Many Waters (1931); Me and My Girl (1939); Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979); Monopoly Star Wars (1997); My Brother Jonathan (1948); My Partner the Ghost (1969); My Wife's Family (1956); Nell Gwyn (1934); No Time for Tears (1957); No Trees in the Street (1959); Number 17 (1932); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Operation Bullshine (1959); Pathfinders (1972–1973); Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock (2009); Petticoat Pirates (1961); Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970); Repulsion (1965); Reputations (1999); Ring-A-Ding Rhythm! (1962); Sailor of the King (1953); Sands of the Desert (1960); Secret Flight (1946); Seven Days to Noon (1950); She Didn't Say No (1958); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960); The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove (2000); The Avengers (1966–1969); The Baron (1966–1967); The Bedford Incident (1965); The Bedroom Window (1987); The Dam Busters (1955); The Good Companions (1957); The Man in a Looking Glass (1965); The Man Outside (1967); The New-Fangled Wandering Minstrel Show (1973); The Omen (1976); The One Show (2013); The Outsider (1948); The Punch and Judy Man (1963); The Silken Affair (1956); The Yellow Balloon (1953); Theatre of Death (1967); Things They Said Today (2002); Third Time Lucky (1931); Tommy the Toreador (1959); Trouble in the Glen (1954); Turn of the Tide (1935); Two Gangsters and an Island (2003); Undercovers Hero (1974); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1978); Venom (1981); Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984); Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957); Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968); Yield to the Night (1956); Young and Willing (1954).

Born on this day – Eve Arnold:

Eve Arnold

Photographer

Journalist

April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012

Born on this day – Josh Billings:

Josh Billings

Writer

April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885

Born on this day – Charlotte Brontë:

Charlotte Brontë

Writer

April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855

Credits:

Books:

Emma (1860); Great Short Stories by English and Irish Women (2007); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Jane Eyre (1847); Legends of Angria (1933); Mina Laury (1838); My Angria And The Angrians (1830); Selected Letters (2007); Shirley (1849); Shirley, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale (2018); Shirley, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale (2018); Stancliffe's Hotel (2003); Tales of Angria (1839); Tales of the Islanders (1830); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte (1923); The Foundling (1830); The Green Dwarf (1830); The Professor (1857); The Secret & Lily Hart (1830); The Secret (2006); The Spell (1830); Villette (1853); Women Who Wrote (2020); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

Acting for a Cause (2020); Ardiente secreto (1978); Die Waise (1919); Die Waise von Lowood (1926); El secreto (1963); Grande Teatro Tupi (1959); Guiding Light (1981); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); Jana Eyrová (1972); Jane Eyre (1910); Jane Eyre (1914); Jane Eyre (1915); Jane Eyre (1921); Jane Eyre (1934); Jane Eyre (1943); Jane Eyre (1946); Jane Eyre (1948); Jane Eyre (1955); Jane Eyre (1956); Jane Eyre (1957); Jane Eyre (1958); Jane Eyre (1961); Jane Eyre (1963); Jane Eyre (1968); Jane Eyre (1970); Jane Eyre (1973); Jane Eyre (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Jane Eyre (1997); Jane Eyre (2006); Jane Eyre (2011); Kraft Theatre (1951); Le memorie di una istitutrice (1917); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mei gu (1956); Monodrama Theater (1953); National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre (2015); Novela (1965–1972); Recordarás mi nombre (1976); Sangdil (1952); Sargasso: A Caribbean Love Story (1991); Shirley (1922); Studio One (1949–1952); Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia (2020); The Autobiography of Jane Eyre (2013); The Castle of Thornfield (1915); The Mad Lady of Chester (1910); The Man I Love (1962); Theatre Parade (1937); TV de Vanguarda (1962); Villette (1957); Villette (1970); Wide Sargasso Sea (1993); Wide Sargasso Sea (2006); Woman and Wife (1918).

Hilma Wolitzer, on writing:

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation, but not really a lonely one.

The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

- Hilma Wolitzer.

On this day in movie history - The Hole (2001):

The Hole,

directed by Nick Hamm,

written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip,

based on the novel After the Hole by Guy Burt,

was released in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2001.
Music by Clint Mansell.

Cast:
Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz, Steven Waddington, Emma Griffiths Malin, Jemma Powell, Gemma Craven, Anastasia Hille, Kelly Hunter, Maria Pastel, Celia Montague, Kevin Trainor, Lolita Chakrabarti, Claire Fox, Jennifer Hockman, Jack Tanner.