Monday, October 21, 2024

Born on this day – Nicole Courcel:


Nicole Courcel

Actress

October 21, 1931 – June 25, 2016

Born on this day – Ursula K. Le Guin:


Ursula K. Le Guin


Writer

October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018

Credits:

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968); The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore (1972); Tehanu (1990); The Other Wind (2001); The Daughter of Odren (2014); Tales from Earthsea (2001); Dragonfly (2001); The Finder (2001); The Bones of the Earth (2001); Earthsea Revisioned (1993); Catwings (1988); Catwings Return (1989); Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994); Jane on Her Own (1999); Cat Dreams (2009); Tales of the Catwings (1996); More Tales of the Catwings (2000); Rocannon's World (1966); Planet of Exile (1966); City of Illusions (1967); The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); The Word for World is Forest (1972); The Dispossessed (1974); Four Ways to Forgiveness (1994); The Telling (2000); The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982); Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983); Gifts (2004); Voices (2006); Powers (2007); Orsinian Tales (1976); Malafrena (1979); The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth (2012); The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012); April in Paris (1962); The Masters (1963); The Word of Unbinding (1964); Things (1970); The Good Trip (1970); A Trip to the Head (1970); The Stars Below (1974); Direction of the Road (2017); Darkness Box (2017); The Day Before the Revolution (2017); Semley's Necklace (2017); The Rule of Names (2017); Winter's King (2017); The Lathe of Heaven (1971); Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (aka A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else) (1976); The Eye of the Heron (1978); The Beginning Place (aka Threshold) (1980); Always Coming Home (1985); Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991); Changing Planes (2003); Lavinia (2008); Nine Lives (1968); The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973); The Field of Vision (1973); The Water is Wide (1976); Leese Webster (1979); Gwilan's Harp (1981); Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983); The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (1984); Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987); Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) (1994); The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) (1994); Forgiveness Day (1994); Solitude (in F&SF) (1994); A Man of the People (in Asimov's) (1995); A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) (1995); Ether OR (1995); Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) (1996); The Wild Girls (2011); Dangerous People (2019); The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 (1975); Wild Angels (1975); The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 (1978); Hard Words and Other Poems (1981); The Compass Rose (1982); In the Red Zone (1983); Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987); Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988); Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (1994); A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994); Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems (1994); Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996); Sixty Odd (1999); The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002); Science Fiction Stories (2002); Incredible Good Fortune (2006); Walking in Cornwall (2008); Finding My Elegy (2012); Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 (2015); The Found and the Lost (2016); Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017); So Far, So Good (2018); A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988); Fire and Stone (1989); Fish Soup (1992); A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992); Tom Mouse (1998); From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973); Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975); The Language of the Night (1979); Way of the Water's Going (1989); Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009); Cheek by Jowl (2009); Words Are My Matter (2016); No Time to Spare (2017); Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (2018); Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989); Steering the Craft (1998); The Wave in the Mind (2004); Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (2008); The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future (2008); The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (2009); The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (2010); The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (2011); The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (2012); The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (2013); The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (2015); The WisCon Chronicles 11 (2017); Legends (1998); Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King (1998); Legends 3 (1999); We Say No (1989); We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991 (1989); Exiled from Almost Everywhere (1993); The Human Front (2001); The Left Left Behind (2009); Lucky Strike (2009); The Underbelly (2010); Mammoths of the Great Plains (2010); The Wild Girls (2011); Modem Times 2.0 (2011); The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (2011); Surfing the Gnarl (2012); Report from Planet Midnight (2012); The Science of Herself (2013); Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (2013); New Taboos (2013); Raising Hell (2014); My Life, My Body (2015); Gypsy (2015); Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (2016); Fire (2017); Totalitopia (2017); The Atheist in the Attic (2018); Thoreau's Microscope (2018); The Beatrix Gates (2019); A City Made of Words (2019).

Movies and television:

Democracy Now! (2018); Dragon writer's tracks (2018); Earthsea (2005); Freethought Radio (2006); Jackanory (1974–1995); Lathe of Heaven (2002); Tales from Earthsea (2006); The Field of Vision (2011); The Lathe of Heaven (1980); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Starlost (1973); The Starlost: The Beginning (1980); Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018).

Born on this day – Howard Zieff:


Howard Zieff

Director

Photographer

October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009

Born on this day – Leonard Rossiter:


Leonard Rossiter

Actor

Writer

October 21, 1926 – October 5, 1984

Born on this day – Joyce Randolph:


Joyce Randolph


Actress

October 21, 1924 – January 13, 2024

Credits:

Everything's Jake (2000); Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991); Honeybloopers (1989); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1957); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Modern Romances (1955); The Mail Story (1954); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Plainclothesman (1953–1954); Short Short Dramas (1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); I Cover Times Square (1950); The Clock (1950); Famous Jury Trials (1950); Buck Rogers (1950); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Gander Sauce (1944).

Born on this day – Hy Averback:


Hy Averback

Actor

Producer

Director

October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997

Born on this day – Edna Purviance:


Edna Purviance


Actress

October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958

Credits:

Limelight (1952); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Éducation de prince (1927); A Woman of the Sea (1926); A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Pay Day (1922); The Idle Class (1921); The Kid (1921); A Day's Pleasure (1919); Sunnyside (1919); How to Make Movies (1918); Shoulder Arms (1918); The Bond (1918); Triple Trouble (1918); A Dog's Life (1918); The Adventurer (1917); The Immigrant (1917); The Cure (1917); Easy Street (1917); The Rink (1916); Behind the Screen (1916); The Pawnshop (1916); The Count (1916); The Vagabond (1916); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); Police (1916); A Burlesque on Carmen (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); Shanghaied (1915); The Bank (1915); A Woman (1915); Work (1915); By the Sea (1915); The Tramp (1915); A Jitney Elopement (1915); In the Park (1915); The Champion (1915); A Night Out (1915).