Born on this day – John Sturges:

John Sturges

Director

January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992

Credits:

The Eagle Has Landed (1976); McQ (1974); Chino (1973); Joe Kidd (1972); Le Mans (1971); Marooned (1969); Ice Station Zebra (1968); Hour of the Gun (1967); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Satan Bug (1965); The Great Escape (1963); A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Sergeants 3 (1962); By Love Possessed (1961); The Magnificent Seven (1960); Never So Few (1959); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Law and Jake Wade (1958); Saddle the Wind (1958); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Backlash (1956); The Scarlet Coat (1955); Underwater! (1955); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Fast Company (1953); Jeopardy (1953); The Girl in White (1952); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); The People Against O'Hara (1951); Kind Lady (1951); The Magnificent Yankee (1950); Right Cross (1950); Mystery Street (1950); The Capture (1950); The Walking Hills (1949); Best Man Wins (1948); The Sign of the Ram (1948); Thunderbolt (1947); Keeper of the Bees (1947); For the Love of Rusty (1947); Alias Mr. Twilight (1946); Shadowed (1946); The Man Who Dared (1946).

Born on this day – Jacob Barosin:

Jacob Barosin (self-portrait)
Jacob Barosin and his wife Sonia

Jacob Barosin

Holocaust survivor

Artist

Painter

Writer

January 3, 1908 – 2001

Exact date of death unknown

Credits:

Book:

A Remnant (1988).

ISBN-10: 0896041298
ISBN-13: 978-0896041295
United States Holocaust Library.

Born on this day – Ray Milland:

Ray Milland

Actor

Director

January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986

Credits:

The Gold Key (1985); The Sea Serpent (1985); Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984); Hart to Hart (1979); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Our Family Business (1981); The Dream Merchants (1980); The Attic (1980); Charlie's Angels (1976); Cave in! (1983); The Love Boat (1977); Game for Vultures (1979); Survival Run (1979); The Darker Side of Terror (1979); Oliver's Story (1978); Fantasy Island (1977); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Blackout (1978); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); Cruise Into Terror (1978); The Pyjama Girl Case (1977); Slavers (1977); The Uncanny (1977); Testimony of Two Men (1977); Oil (1977); Seventh Avenue (1977); The Last Tycoon (1976); Mayday at 40, 000 Feet! (1976); Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976); Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976); Aces High (1976); The Swiss Conspiracy (1976); Rich Man, Poor Man (1976); Ellery Queen (1975); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975); The Dead Don't Die (1975); Gold (1974); The Student Connection (1974); Terror in the Wax Museum (1973); The Big Game (1973); The House in Nightmare Park (1973); Cool Million (1972); Columbo (1971); The Thing with Two Heads (1972); Frogs (1972); Embassy (1972); Black Noon (1971); Night Gallery (1969); River of Gold (1971); ove Story (1970); The Name of the Game (1968); Company of Killers (1970); Bracken's World (1969); Daughter of the Mind (1969); Hostile Witness (1969); The Confession (1964); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Silver Burro (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963); Panic in Year Zero! (1962); The Premature Burial (1962); Alcoa Premiere (1961); King of Kings (1961); Markham (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1957); General Electric Theater (1953); Suspicion (1957); The Safecracker (1958); High Flight (1957); The River's Edge (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Three Brave Men (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Lisbon (1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955); A Man Alone (1955); The Ray Milland Show (1953); Dial M for Murder (1954); Let's Do It Again (1953); Jamaica Run (1953); The Thief (1952); Something to Live For (1952); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Close to My Heart (1951); Rhubarb (1951); Night Into Morning (1951); Circle of Danger (1951); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Woman of Distinction (1950); Copper Canyon (1950); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Alias Nick Beal (1949); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); Sealed Verdict (1948); The Big Clock (1948); So Evil My Love (1948); Variety Girl (1947); Golden Earrings (1947); The Trouble with Women (1947); California (1947); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Well Groomed Bride (1946); Kitty (1945); The Lost Weekend (1945); Till We Meet Again (1944); Ministry of Fear (1944); The Uninvited (1944); Lady in the Dark (1944); The Crystal Ball (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); The Major and the Minor (1942); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); The Lady Has Plans (1942); Sullivan's Travels (1941); Skylark (1941); I Wanted Wings (1941); Arise, My Love (1940); Untamed (1940); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); Irene (1940); French Without Tears (1940); Everything Happens at Night (1939); Beau Geste (1939); Hotel Imperial (1939); Say It in French (1938); Men with Wings (1938); Tropic Holiday (1938); Her Jungle Love (1938); Wise Girl (1937); Ebb Tide (1937); Easy Living (1937); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937); Three Smart Girls (1936); The Jungle Princess (1936); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Return of Sophie Lang (1936); Next Time We Love (1936); The Glass Key (1935); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); The Gilded Lily (1935); One Hour Late (1934); Menace (1934); Charlie Chan in London (1934); Many Happy Returns (1934); We're Not Dressing (1934); The Mystery of Mr. X (1934); Bolero (1934); This Is the Life (1933); Orders Is Orders (1933); Payment Deferred (1932); But the Flesh Is Weak (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Man Who Played God (1932); Ambassador Bill (1931); Blonde Crazy (1931); Bought! (1931); Just a Gigolo (1931); Strangers May Kiss (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); Passion Flower (1930); Way for a Sailor (1930); The Informer (1929); The Plaything (1929; The Lady from the Sea (1929); The Flying Scotsman (1929); Piccadilly (1929); Moulin Rouge (1928).

Born on this day – Marion Davies:

Marion Davies

Actress

Producer

Writer

Philanthropist

January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961

Credits:

Ever Since Eve (1937); Cain and Mabel (1936); Hearts Divided (1936); Catalina Isle (1935); Page Miss Glory (1935); Operator 13 (1934); Going Hollywood (1933); Peg o' My Heart (1933); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Christmas Party (1931); Five and Ten (1931); It's a Wise Child (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); The Florodora Girl (1930); Not So Dumb (1930); Marianne (1929); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); Show People (1928); The Cardboard Lover (1928); The Patsy (1928); Quality Street (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Tillie the Toiler (1927); The Red Mill (1927); Beverly of Graustark (1926); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Lights of Old Broadway (1925); Zander the Great (1925); The Wife of the Centaur (1924); Janice Meredith (1924); Yolanda (1924); Little Old New York (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Adam and Eva (1923); When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922); The Young Diana (1922); Beauty's Worth (1922); The Bride's Play (1922); Enchantment (1921); Buried Treasure (1921); The Restless Sex (1920); April Folly (1920); The Cinema Murder (1919); The Dark Star (1919); Getting Mary Married (1919); The Belle of New York (1919); The Burden of Proof (1918); Cecilia of the Pink Roses (1918); Runaway Romany (1917).

Born on this day – Dorothy Arzner:

Dorothy Arzner

Director

Writer

Editor

January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979

Credits:

First Comes Courage (1943); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); The Bride Wore Red (1937); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); Craig's Wife (1936); Nana (1934); Christopher Strong (1933); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Working Girls (1931); Honor Among Lovers (1931); Anybody's Woman (1930); Paramount on Parade (1930); Sarah and Son (1930); Behind the Make-Up (1930); Charming Sinners (1929); The Wild Party (1929); Manhattan Cocktail (1928); Get Your Man (1927); Ten Modern Commandments (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); Old Ironsides (1926); The Red Kimona (1926); When Husbands Flirt (1925); Breed of the Border (1925); The No-Gun Man (1924); Inez from Hollywood (1924); Blood and Sand (1922).

Born on this day – Zasu Pitts:

Zasu Pitts

Actress

January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963

Credits:

13 Hours by Air (1936); 13 Washington Square (1928); 1925 Studio Tour (1925); '49-'17 (1917); 52nd Street (1937); A Daughter of Luxury (1922); A Desert Dilemma (1917); A Lady's Name (1918); A Little Princess (1917); A Match in Quarantine (1917); A Modern Musketeer (1917); A Society Sensation (1918); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); A Woman of Experience (1931); A Woman's Faith (1925); About Faces (1961); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); Alum and Eve (1932); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); And She Learned About Dames (1934); As the Sun Went Down (1919); Asleep in the Feet (1933); Back Street (1932); Bad Sister (1931); Behind the Map (1917); Better Times (1919); Beyond Victory (1931); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Breakfast in Hollywood (1946); Bright Skies (1920); Broadway Limited (1941); Broken Lullaby (1932); Buck Privates (1928); Burke's Law (1963); Canning the Cannibal King (1917); Casey at the Bat (1927); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Changing Husbands (1924); Dames (1934); Daughters of Today (1924); Dear Miss Gloria (1946); Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Destry Rides Again (1932); Discords in 'A' Flat (1917); Disneyland '59 (1959); Early to Wed (1926); Eternally Yours (1939); Finn and Hattie (1931); For the Defense (1922); Forty Naughty Girls (1937); Francis (1950); Francis Joins the WACS (1954); Free Love (1930); General Electric Theater (1954); Going Highbrow (1935); Greed (1924); Guestward Ho! (1961); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); He Had 'em Buffaloed (1917); Heart of Twenty (1920); Hello, Sister! (1933); Her Big Night (1926); Her First Mate (1933); Her Private Life (1929); Here's Hollywood (1962); His Fatal Beauty (1917); Hollywood (1923); Hollywood maudit (2020); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014); Honey (1930); Hot Tip (1935); How Could You, Jean? (1918); Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922); Is My Face Red? (1932); It All Came True (1940); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); I've Got a Secret (1952); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Lazybones (1925); Legend of Hollywood (1924); Let's Do Things (1931); Let's Face It (1943); Life with Father (1947); Little Accident (1930); Love Birds (1934); Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933); Lum and Abner (1949); Mad Holiday (1936); Madison Square Garden (1932); Maids a la Mode (1933); Make Me a Star (1932); Mannequin (1926); Mary of the Movies (1923); Meet the Baron (1933); Men, Women, and Money (1919); Merry Comes to Town (1937); Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942); Mickey the Kid (1939); Miss Polly (1941); Monte Carlo (1926 / 1930); Mr. Skitch (1933); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934); Naughty But Nice (1939); Niagara Falls (1941); No, No, Nanette (1930 / 1940); Nurse Edith Cavell (1939); Oh, Yeah? (1929); Old Shoes (1925); O-My the Tent Mover (1917); On the Loose (1931); Once in a Lifetime (1932); One Track Minds (1933); Out All Night (1933); Paris (1929); Passion Flower (1930); Patsy (1921); Penrod and Sam (1931); Perry Mason (1962); Poor Men's Wives (1923); Poor Relations (1919); Pretty Ladies (1925); Private Scandal (1934); Private Secretary (1957); Professional Sweetheart (1933); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917); Red Noses (1932); Risky Business (1926); River's End (1930); Roar of the Dragon (1932); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 9 - A Day at the Races (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 14 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 2 (1923); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Party (1948); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Sealskins (1932); Secrets of the Night (1924); Seed (1931); Seeing It Through (1920); She Gets Her Man (1935); Shopworn (1932); Show Business (1932); Sin Takes a Holiday (1930); Sing and Like It (1934); Sing Me a Love Song (1936); Sins of the Fathers (1928); Sneak Easily (1932); So's Your Aunt Emma! (1942); Souls for Sale (1923); Spring Tonic (1935); Steady Company (1932); Strangers of the Evening (1932); Strictly Unreliable (1932); Sunlight (1928); Sunlight of Paris (1924); Sunny Side Up (1926); Tea: With a Kick! (1923); Teenage Millionaire (1961); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Affair of Susan (1935); The Argyle Case (1929); The Bargain of the Century (1933); The Bashful Bachelor (1942); The Battling Bellboy (1917); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Big Gamble (1931); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Business of Love (1925); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948); The Crooked Circle (1932); The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1960); The Devil's Holiday (1930); The Dummy (1929); The Fast Set (1924); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956–1960); The Gay Bride (1934); The Girl Who Came Back (1923); The Goldfish (1924); The Great Divide (1925); The Great Love (1925); The Greatest Thing in Life (1918); The Green Fog (2017); The Guardsman (1931); The Honeymoon (1929); The James Melton Show (1951–1952); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); The Locked Door (1929); The Lottery Bride (1930); The Meanest Gal in Town (1934); The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941); The Milton Berle Show (1950); The Naked Archaeologist (2008); The Name's the Same (1952); The Old Bull (1932); The Other Half (1919); The Pajama Party (1931); The Perfect Marriage (1946); The Pie Eyed Piper (1918); The Plot Thickens (1936); The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019); The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925); The Red Skelton Hour (1956); The Secret Witness (1931); The Soilers (1932); The Spike Jones Show (1954); The Squall (1929); The Squealer (1930); The Talk of the Town (1918); The Thrill of It All (1963); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The Unexpected Father (1932); The Vanishing Frontier (1932); The Wedding March (1928); Their Big Moment (1934); Their Mad Moment (1931); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); This Could Be the Night (1957); This Thing Called Love (1929); Three on a Honeymoon (1934); Three Wise Fools (1923); Thunder Mountain (1925); Tillie of the Nine Lives (1917); Tish (1942); Triumph (1924); Twin Beds (1929); Two Alone (1934); Uncle Joe (1941); Uneasy Money (1917); Wages for Wives (1925); Wanted! (1937); War Mamas (1931); War Nurse (1930); Weekend for Three (1941); West of the Water Tower (1923); Westward Passage (1932); What Happened to Jones? (1925); What's My Line? (1952); Who's Your Wife? (1918); Why They Left Home (1917); Wife Savers (1928); Wine of Youth (1924); Youth to Youth (1922).

Born on this day – J.R.R. Tolkien:

J.R.R. Tolkien

Writer

January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973

Credits:

Books:

A Middle English Vocabulary; Sir Gawain & The Green Knight; The Hobbit: or There and Back Again; Farmer Giles of Ham; The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book; Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle; Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle; Bilbo’s Last Song; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo; The Father Christmas Letters; The Silmarillion; Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien; Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth; Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien; The Old English ‘Exodus’; Mr. Bliss; Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode; The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays; The Book of Lost Tales, Part I; The Book of Lost Tales, Part II; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle-earth; The Lost Road and Other Writings; The Return of the Shadow; The Treason of Isengard; The War of the Ring; Sauron Defeated; Morgoth’s Ring; The War of the Jewels; The Peoples of Middle-earth; Roverandom; Tales from the Perilous Realm; The Children of Húrin; The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún; The Fall of Arthur; Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell; Tolkien On Fairy-stories; The Story of Kullervo; A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages; The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun; Leaf by Niggle; Beren and Lúthien; The Fall of Gondolin; The Nature of Middle-earth; The Fall of Númenor; The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.

Movies and television:

A Passage to Middle-earth: The Making of 'Lord of the Rings' (2001); A Simple Walk Into Mordor (2012); Adventure Quest (1983); Allting i ett (2021); An Awfully Big Adventure (1998); An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold (1986); Angband (1993); Arte Journal (2023); Atop the Fourth Wall (2014); Bookstand (1962); Born of Hope (2009); Colossal Adventure (1983); Death Battle (2022); Der kleine Hobbit (1980 / (1984); Die gefährten (2010); Die zwei türme (2010); Dungeon Adventure (1984); Epic Rap Battles of History (2011); Fastitocalon (2006); Golden Moustache (2013); Guardians of Middle-Earth (2012); Hobitit (1993); Horn of Gondor (2020); Icons Unearthed (2024); J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings - The Definitive Guide to the World of the Rings (2004); J.R.R. Tolkien: The Origin of the Rings (2002); J.R.R.T.: A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien (1996); Jackanory (1979–1985); Jet Set Willy: Lord of the Rings (2000); Kingdom O' Magic (1996); Kot (2005); La fraternité de l'anneau (2018); La Somme, une bataille mondiale - Documentaire sur la Bataille de la Somme (2024); Lego the Hobbit (2014); Lego the Lord of the Rings (2012); Les deux tours (2018); Lingua Franca (2018); Lord of the Brush (2005); Lord of the Rings (1990); Lord of the Rings: Game One (1986); Making of Hunt for Gollum (2010); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Master of the Rings: The Unauthorized Story Behind J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' (2001); Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014); Minecraft Adventure Maps (2012); Moria (1975 / 1983); Mr. Bliss (2004); MultiVersus (2024); National Geographic Explorer (2001); Nerdrotic (2022–2024); Olifaunt (2006); Quest for the Ring (2001); Release (1968); Review (1972); Riders of Rohan (1991); Sagan om ringen (1971); Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' (2003); Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's 'the Hobbit' (2003); Seelenjäger (2014); Shadowfax (1982); Skazochnoe puteshestvie mistera Bilbo Begginsa, Khobbita (1985); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Story Box (1964); Super Power Beat Down (2012); Tale of a Timelord (2016); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Crack of Doom (1989); The Fall of Gondolin (2019); The Fellowship of the Ring (1991); The Fellowship of the Ring Animated (2022); The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One of the Lord of the Rings (2012); The Hobbit (1966 / 1968 / 1977 / 1991 / 2003 / 2007 / 2012); The Hobbit Software Adventure (1982); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Extended Edition Scenes (2013); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Extended Edition Scenes (2015); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014); The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Extended Edition Scenes (2014); The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013); The Hobbit: The Swedolation of Smaug (2014); The Hunt for Gollum (2009); The Last Journey (2021); The Lord of the Rings (1978); The Lord of the Rings Online (2007); The Lord of the Rings Starring Cats: A Meowy Earth Adventure (2025); The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest (2010); The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (2009); The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (2023); The Lord of the Rings: Sons of Elrond (2005); The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king (2006); The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II (2006); The Lord of the Rings: The Empire of Saruman (2025); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Special Extended Edition Scenes (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 / 2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Special Extended Edition Scenes (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003 / 2007); The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–2024); The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Special Extended Edition Scenes (2003); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 / 2021); The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring (2003); The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024); The Lord of the Rings: Vol. I (1990); The Lord of the Rings: Vol. II (1992); The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (2011); The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2002); The Return of the King (1980); The Return of the King: Book Three of the Lord of the Rings (2012); The Shadows of Mordor (1988); The Silmarillion (2015 / 2023); The Standard Deviants: Rings, Kings & Things (2002); The Two Towers: Book Two of the Lord of the Rings (2012); The UnXplained (2022); The Worlds of Fantasy (2008); Tolkien Remembered (1984); War in Middle Earth (1988); Weekend Sunrise (2016); Who the 'Ell Is Tauriel? (2013); Wings Over Arda: The First Age (2011); Wonderland (2022).