Monday, December 16, 2024

Born on this day – Terry Carter:


Terry Carter


Actor

Director

December 16, 1928 – April 23, 2024

Credits:

227 (1988); Abby (1974); American Masters (1988); Attraction (1969); Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979); Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999); Benji (1974); Bracken's World (1969); Breaking Point (1964); Brother on the Run (1973); Celebrity Bowling (1975); Combat! (1965); Company of Killers (1970); Dr. Kildare (1964); Falcon Crest (1984); First Person (1960); For the People (1965); Foxy Brown (1974); Galacticon (2003); Glen Larson on the Creation of 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004); Hamilton (1998); Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation (2012); Julia (1968–1970); Mannix (1970); McCloud (1970–1977); Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979); Mr. Belvedere (1987); Naked City (1961); One West Waikiki (1994); Parrish (1961); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Remembering 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004); Search (1973); That Girl (1969); The 5th Annual People's Choice Awards (1979); The Big Story (1957); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Cop and the Kid (1976); The Cross-Wits (1976); The Cylons of 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004); The Defenders (1961–1965); The Fall Guy (1982–1985); The Green Pastures (1959); The Highwayman (1988); The Jeffersons (1982); The Making of Black Mayors (1986); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Most Deadly Game (1970); The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959); The Return of Sam McCloud (1989); The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973); Two on a Bench (1971); Unsung Hollywood (2016); Working with the Daggit of 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004).

Born on this day – Dorothy Abbott:


Dorothy Abbott


Actress

December 16, 1920 – December 15, 1968

Credits:

A Gathering of Eagles (1963); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Virgin in Hollywood (1953); Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952); Angels in Disguise (1949); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Bachelor in Paradise (1961); Beyond Glory (1948); Copper Canyon (1950); David and Bathsheba (1951); Dear Heart (1964); Dragnet (1953–1954); East Side, West Side (1949); Everything But the Truth (1956); Give a Girl a Break (1953); Going My Way (1963); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); His Kind of Woman (1951); If You Knew Susie (1948); It's a Great Life (1955); Jailhouse Rock (1957); Jet Pilot (1957); Leave It to Beaver (1963); Little Women (1949); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); Lover Come Back (1961); Matinee Theatre (1955); My Favorite Spy (1951); Neptune's Daughter (1949); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); Palm Springs Weekend (1963); Pardners (1956); Pepe (1960); Quick, Before It Melts (1964); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Red, Hot and Blue (1949); Road to Rio (1947); Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Sergeants 3 (1962); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); South Pacific (1958); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949); That Touch of Mink (1962); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1955–1963); The Apartment (1960); The Caddy (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Great Man (1956); The Las Vegas Story (1952); The Paleface (1948); The Petty Girl (1950); The Razor's Edge (1946); The Unholy Wife (1957); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); Vacation Playhouse (1963); Warning Shot (1966); Where Danger Lives (1950); Words and Music (1948).

Born on this day – George Schaefer:


George Schaefer

Director

Writer

Producer

December 16, 1920 – September 10, 1997

Born on this day – Arthur C. Clarke:


Arthur C. Clarke


Writer

Inventor

Undersea explorer

Television series host

December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008

Credits:

Books:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2010: Odyssey Two (1982); 2061: Odyssey Three (1987); 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997); 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1963); A Fall of Moondust (1961); A Meeting With Medusa (1988); Against the Fall of Night (1948); Aliens: 3 Novellas (1977); Alpha 3 (1972); Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century (1986); Astounding Days (1990); Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World (1999); Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (1987); Beyond the Fall of Night (1990); Boy Beneath the Sea (1958); Bright Messengers (1995); Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos (2011); Childhood's End (1953); City and the Stars (1956); Cradle (1987); Dolphin Island (1963); Double Full Moon Night (1999); Drabble II: Double Century (1990); Earthlight (1955); Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology (2006); Expedition to Earth (1968); Firstborn (2007); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); From Narnia To Space Odyssey (2003); From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul (2009); Futures Unlimited (1969); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958 (1958); Galileo's Children (2005); Glide Path (1963); Grave Predictions (2016); Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists (1985); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (1999); How the World Was One (1992); Imperial Earth (1975); In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2013); Infinite Stars (2019); Interplanetary Flight (1950); Into Space (1971); Isaac Asimov's Aliens (1991); Isaac Asimov's Camelot (1998); Isaac Asimov's Christmas (1997); Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (1994); Isaac Asimov's Detectives (1998); Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1985); Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1989); Isaac Asimov's Father Day (2001); Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (1995); Isaac Asimov's Halloween (2001); Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981); Isaac Asimov's Robots (1991); Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993); Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (1995); Isaac Asimov's Solar System (1999); Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own (1983); Isaac Asimov's Utopias (2000); Isaac Asimov's War (1993); Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (1999); Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (1980); Islands in the Sky (1952); Man And Space (1964); 1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures (1984); Novelets of Science Fiction (1963); Of Time and Stars (1972); Other Dimensions (1974); Prelude to Space (1950); Profiles of the Future (1962); Rama II (1989); Rama Revealed (1993); Reach for Tomorrow (1956); Rendezvous with Rama (1973); Richter 10 (1996); Science Fiction A to Z (1982); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Space Odyssey (1983); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Sunstorm (2005); Tales From The White Hart (1957); Tales of Ten Worlds (1962); Tales of Time and Space (1969); The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Baen Big Book of Monsters (2014); The Bedside Playboy (1963); The Best of British SF 1 (1977); The Best of British SF 2 (1977); The Body (1964); The Coast of the Coral (1956); The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals (2004); The Deep Range (1957); The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse (2010); The Exploration of Space (1951); The Exploration of the Moon (2020); The Fountains of Paradise (1979); The Futurists (1972); The Garden of Rama (1991); The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990); The Hammer of God (1993); The Hard SF Renaissance (2003); The Last Theorem (2008); The Light of Other Days (2000); The Lion Of Comarre (1968); The Lost Worlds Of 2001 (1971); The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009); The Nine Billion Names of God (1967); The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack (2014); The Promise of Space (1968); The Reefs of Taprobane (1956); The Sands of Mars (1951); The Sentinel (1951); The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack (2013); The Songs of Distant Earth (1986); The Tranquility Wars (2000); The Treasure of the Great Reef (1964); The Trigger (1999); The Ultimate Alien (1995); The View from Serendip (1977); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Wind From The Sun (1972); The World Turned Upside Down (2005); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Time's Eye (2003); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Voice Across The Sea (1958); Voices from the Sky (1966); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967).

Movies, television, video games and audio plays:

2001 and Beyond (2001); 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future (1966); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2001: HAL's Legacy (2001); 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2016); 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001); 2010: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2017); 2010: The Odyssey Continues (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2061: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2021); 3001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2021); 50 Terrible Predictions (2005); 50th Anniversary Brunch Noreascon Three Videotape (1989); A Failed Recluse (1993); Adventure (1964); Adventure (1964); Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993); Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993); Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who Saw the Future (1997); Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (1980); Baddegama (1980); Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Breaking Strain (2019); Camera Three (1970–1972); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949); Childhood's End (2015); Cold Fusion: Fire from Water (1998); Contact: The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (1995); Esther (1996); Future Fantastic (1996); God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988); Jännitysnäytelmä (1968); La Estrella (2020); Letadlo (2001); L'odyssée de la survie (1999); Masters of Fantasy (1997); Mysterious Universe (1994); Nova (1978); Odyssey of Survival (1999); People to Watch (1966); Phenomenon: The Lost Archives (1998); Planetary Defense (2007); Rama (1997); Rama (1997); Rendezvous with Rama (2003); Sci-Fi Entertainment (1998); Sightings / The Sci-Fi Prophet (1996); Siskel & Ebert (1997); Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Television (1985); Television (1988); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The City in the Image of Man: Ideas and Work of Paolo Soleri (1972); The Colours of Infinity (1995); The Colours of Infinity (1995); The David Frost Show (1969–1972); The Day of Five Billion (1987); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (2021); The Martians and Us (2006); The Sky at Night (1963–2003); The Twilight Zone (1985); The Unexplained (1970); The Works (1997); This Is Your Life (1995); Time Out of Mind (1979); To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (2003); Trapped in Space / Breaking Strain (1994); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); We Love 'The Sky at Night' (2007); Without Warning (1994); Wogan (1985); World of Strange Powers (1985).

Born on this day – Birgitta Valberg:


Birgitta Valberg

Actress

Director

December 16, 1916 – March 29, 2014

Born on this day – Ruth Johnson Colvin:


Ruth Johnson Colvin


Literacy Advocate

Writer

Teacher

Philanthropist

December 16, 1916 – August 18, 2024

Credits:

Founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America / renamed ProLiteracy Worldwide.

Awarded the Volunteer Action Award by President Ronald Reagan in 1987,
and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006 by President George W. Bush.

Books and educational videos:

Basic Reading Workshop (video); English as a Second Language Tutor Training Workshop; Great Traveling After 55 (1989); How to Add Family Literacy to Your Program; I Speak English (1962); LVA Works: A Guide to Workplace Education; Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50/50 Management; My Travels Through Life, Love, and Literacy: A Memoir (2020); Off the Beaten Path: Stories of People Around the World (2011); Reading to Children (video); Student Involvement Guidelines; Tutor (1962); Tutoring Small Groups Handbook.

Born on this day – Nelly Corradi:


Nelly Corradi


Opera singer

Soprano

Actress

December 16, 1914 – April 16, 1968

Credits:

Gli orizzonti del sole (1955); House of Ricordi (1954); Puccini (1953); The Count of Saint Elmo (1951); La forza del destino (1950); Faust and the Devil (1949); The Lost One (1947); Barber of Seville (1947); Elixir of Love (1947); Lucia di Lammermoor (1946); La danza del fuoco (1943); Measure for Measure (1943); Fari nella nebbia (1942); Barbablù (1941); La zia smemorata (1940); Il ladro sono io (1940); Nobody's Land (1939); Il torrente (1938); Dimmed Lights (1936); Le scarpe al sole (1935); Everybody's Woman (1934).