Friday, December 6, 2024

Born on this day – Lisa Spoonauer:


Lisa Spoonauer


Actress

December 6, 1972 – May 20, 2017

Credits:

Clerks (2001); Bartender (1997); Clerks (1994).

Born on this day – Wende Wagner:


Wende Wagner

Actress

December 6, 1941 – February 26, 1997

Born on this day – Jan Haag:


Jan Haag


Filmmaker

Artist

Writer

December 6, 1933 – April 29, 2024

Credits:

Founded the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute (AFI) in 1974.

Artist known for needlepoint canvases and poetry.

Written work:

A Wedding in Mahabaleshwar, included in Travelers' Tales India (2009); Ascesis (2014); Birds Migrate At Night; Companion Spirit (2006); Haag, Jan (2014). Indra's Net II (2002); No Palms; The 1996 Poems (2011); The 2011 Poems (2011); The Devayani Poems; The Jaipur Sequence; There You Are, included in Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It (2016).

Movie:

Sudden Slaughter - Knochenwald 3 (2008).

Born on this day – Sergio Corbucci:


Sergio Corbucci

Director

Writer

Producer

December 6, 1926 – December 1, 1990

Born on this day – Susanna Foster:


Susanna Foster


Actress

December 6, 1924 – January 17, 2009

Credits:

Bowery to Broadway (1944); Detour (1992); Follow the Boys (1944); Frisco Sal (1945); Glamour Boy (1941); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); That Night with You (1945); The Best of Hollywood (1999); The Climax (1944); The Great Victor Herbert (1939); The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000); There's Magic in Music (1941); This Is the Life (1944); Top Man (1943); Universal Newsreel (1945).

Born on this day – Piero Piccioni:


Piero Piccioni

Composer

December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004

Born on this day – William P. McGivern:


William P. McGivern


Writer

December 6, 1918 – November 18, 1982

Credits:

But Death Runs Faster / The Whispering Corpse (1948); Heaven Ran Last (1949); Very Cold for May (1950); Shield for Murder (1951); Blondes Die Young (1952); The Crooked Frame (1952); The Big Heat (1953); Margin of Terror (1953); Rogue Cop (1954); The Darkest Hour / Waterfront Cop (1955); The Seven File / Chicago-7 (1956); Night Extra (1957); Odds Against Tomorrow (1957); Mention My Name in Mombasa (1958); Savage Streets (1959); Seven Lies South (1960); The Road to the Snail (1961); A Pride of Place (1962); A Choice of Assassins (1963); The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1966); Lie Down, I Want to Talk to You (1967); Caprifoil (1972); Reprisal (1973); Night of the Juggler (1975); Soldiers of '44 (1979); The Seeing (1980); Summit (1982); War Games (1984); A Matter of Honor (1984); Killer On the Turnpike (1961); The Science Fiction Collection 3 (2018); Convoy to Atlantis (1941); Send Along a Wreath (2019); The Judas Valley (2008); Police Special (1962); We, the Machine / Planet of Dread (2012); Black Cat Weekly #83 (2023).