Saturday, October 19, 2024

Born on this day – Michael Gambon:


Michael Gambon

Actor

October 19, 1940 – September 28, 2023

Born on this day – Tony Lo Bianco:


Tony Lo Bianco


Actor

Director

Producer

October 19, 1936 – June 11, 2024

Credits:

Somewhere in Queens (2022); No Rest for the Weekend (2022); 79 Parts: Director's Cut (2019); Compression (2019); Cooking with Chef Johnny P (2018); Fame Us (2017); Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast (2017); The Seven-Ups: Cut to the Chase (2016); A Tony Lo Bianco Type (2016); Blondie (2016); Just a Common Soldier (2015); Love Letters: Tony Lo Bianco, Marilyn Chris and Stan Warnow on 'The Honeymoon Killers' (2015); Just a Common Soldier (2015); God Told Me to: Heaven & Hell on Earth - Interview with Tony Lo Bianco (2015); Send No Flowers (2013); All Night with Joey Reynolds (2011); Movie Nights (2011); Kill the Irishman (2011); Lily of the Feast (2010); Frame of Mind (2009); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007); The Last Request (2006); N.Y.-70 (2005); Hate (2005); The Engagement Ring (2005); Exit (2005); Anti-Italianism (2005); Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni (2003); Endangered Species (2002); Law & Order (1992–2002); Lucky Day (2002); Friends and Family (2001); Deadline (2001); Walker, Texas Ranger (2001); Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection' (2001); The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' (2000); Down 'n Dirty (2000); The Day the Ponies Come Back (2000); Rocky Marciano (1999); The Pawn (1999); Mafia! (1998); Bella Mafia (1997); Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1997); Cold Night Into Dawn (1997); F/X: The Series (1997); Sworn to Justice (1996); The Juror (1996); Nixon (1995); Tyson (1995); Homicide: Life on the Street (1995); The Maharaja's Daughter (1994); Apocrifi sul caso Crowley (1994); Power and Lovers (1994); The Ascent (1994); The Web of Silence - A.I.D.S. (1994); Murder, She Wrote (1991–1994); The Good Policeman (1993); Boiling Point (1993); The Sands of Time (1992); Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992); Stormy Weathers (1992); In the Shadow of a Killer (1992); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); Palace Guard (1991); The First Circle (1991); The Ten Million Dollar Getaway (1991); City of Hope (1991); Frederick Forsyth Presents (1990); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1990); ABC Afterschool Specials (1990); Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990); True Blue (1989); La romana (1988); CBS Summer Playhouse (1988); Body of Evidence (1988); Hour Magazine (1988); The Ann Jillian Story (1988); Night Heat (1987); Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987); American Masters (1986); Blood Ties (1986); Welcome Home, Bobby (1986); The Twilight Zone / Segment: If She Dies (1985); Lady Blue (1985); The 42nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1985); Jessie (1984); Battle of the Network Stars XVII (1984); Too Scared to Scream (1984); Jessie (1984); Hizzoner! (1984); City Heat (1984); The Paper Chase (1984); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); Working in the Theatre (1983); Another Woman's Child (1983); Marco Polo (1982); Today's F.B.I. (1981); Pals (1981); Separate Ways (1981); Circus of the Stars #3 (1979); The Mike Douglas Show (1979); The Duke (1979); The Secret Empire (1979); Kaz (1978–1979); Marciano (1979); A Last Cry for Help (1979); Champions: A Love Story (1979); Magee and the Lady (1978); Bloodbrothers (1978); The Last Tenant (1978); F.I.S.T. (1978); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); Circus of the Stars #2 (1977); Genova a mano armata (1976); God Told Me To (1976); Goldenrod (1976); Alle origini della mafia (1976); Police Story (1973–1976); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); The Streets of San Francisco (1975); A Shadow in the Streets (1975); The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974); The Seven-Ups (1973); Serpico (1973); Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973); Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside (1973); Madigan (1972); Great Performances (1971); The French Connection (1971); The Honeymoon Killers (1970); Hidden Faces (1968–1969); A Fine Pair (1968); Star! (1968); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Hawk (1966); Blue Light (1966); Get Smart (1966); The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965); The Lawrence Welk Show (1965); The Doctors (1963); Love of Life (1951–1980).

Born on this day – Micheline Francey:


Micheline Francey

Actress

October 19, 1919 – January 1, 1969

Born on this day – Fiorenzo Carpi:


Fiorenzo Carpi

Composer

Pianist

October 19, 1918 – May 21, 1997

Born on this day – Juanita Moore:


Juanita Moore


Actress

October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014

Credits:

Judging Amy (2001); ER (2000); The Kid (2000); The Sterling Chase (1999); Shades of LA (1990); Two Moon Junction (1988); And They're Off (1982); O'Hara's Wife (1982); Paternity (1981); ABC Weekend Specials (1981); The Richard Pryor Show (1977); Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976); Insight (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Fugitive Lovers (1975); Deliver Us from Evil (1975); Abby (1974); The Get-Man (1974); Thomasine & Bushrod (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972–1973); Fox Style (1973); The Mack (1973); Adam-12 (1973); Confessions of a Top Crime Buster (1971); The Partners (1971); Skin Game (1971); Ironside (1971); Mannix (1970); Angelitos negros (1970); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969); The Whole World Is Watching (1969); Uptight (1968); The Outsider (1968); Gentle Ben (1968); Rosie! (1967); Dragnet 1967 (1967); The Singing Nun (1966); Slattery's People (1965); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); Mr. Novak (1964); Ben Casey (1964); Breaking Point (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Wagon Train (1963); Going My Way (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); A Child Is Waiting (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); Imitation of Life (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957); Bombers B-52 (1957); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); Band of Angels (1957); Something of Value (1957); The Girl Can't Help It (1956); Climax! (1956); The Opposite Sex (1956); Ransom! (1956); Not as a Stranger (1955); Lord of the Jungle (1955); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Women's Prison (1955); The Gambler from Natchez (1954); Witness to Murder (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); The Royal African Rifles (1953); Ramar of the Jungle (1952); The Iron Mistress (1952); Affair in Trinidad (1952); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Lydia Bailey (1952); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); No Questions Asked (1951); Tarzan's Peril (1951); Pinky (1949); A Song Is Born (1948); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Belle Starr (1941); Broken Strings (1940); Double Deal (1939); Show Boat (1936); Cleopatra (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Roman Scandals (1933); So This Is Africa (1933).

Born on this day – Auguste Lumière:


Auguste Lumière

Director

Producer

Actor

Engineer

Biologist

Co-inventor of the cinematograph

Regarded as one of the pioneers of cinema

October 19, 1862 – April 10, 1954

Recommended reading - A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories (2002):


A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories


Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
Published 2002.
ISBN-10: 0451205960
ISBN-13: 978-0451205964

Anthology of short stories.

Description:

Bleak streets and bleaker futures. Trapped heroes and desperate shreds of hope. Wicked women and broken dreams. Urban whirlpools and inexorable fates. Call it noir. Call it pulp. Call it black – and blue. It’s a tradition – tough, reckless, and uncompromising – born from the fierce imaginations of a century of writers with a unique talent for creating shadows out of words and turning raw emotion into pure poetry.

And this is noir at its incomparable best – thirty-two of the finest crime stories of the twentieth century, personally chosen by Shamus Award winner Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane, one of the true masters of hard-boiled fiction.