Friday, January 3, 2025

Born on this day – Tom Bower:


Tom Bower

Actor

Producer

January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024

Born on this day – Dabney Coleman:


Dabney Coleman


Actor

January 3, 1932 – May 17, 2024

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); 60 Minutes (1986); 9 to 5 (1980); A Better Man: The Making of Tootsie (2008); A Current Affair (2011); A Witch's Way of Love (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Aly & AJ: Star Maps (2019); American Masters (2016); Amos & Andrew (1993); Apple Pie (1978); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1962); Arrest and Trial (1963); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Baby M (1988); Bad Ronald (1974); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973–1979); Ben Casey (1963); Bert D'Angelo / Superstar (1976); Biography (2001 / 2006); Bite the Bullet (1975); Black Fist (1975); Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); Bonanza (1968–1969); Bravo Profiles (1999); Breaking Point (1963); Bright Promise (1969–1972); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); Buffalo Bill (1983–1984); Callie & Son (1981); Cannon (1973–1976); Caribe (1975); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2019); Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins (2022); Char·ac·ter (2009); Cinderella Liberty (1973); Clifford (1994); Cloak & Dagger (1984); CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (2006); CMT Insider (2008); Columbo (1973–1991); Courting Alex (2006); Dan August (1970); Dan August: The Jealousy Factor (1980); Dateline NBC (1994); Death Valley Days (1968); Devil's Food (1996); Diff'rent Strokes (1979); Directed by (1994); Dolly (1988); Dolly Parton Tour TV (2011); Dolly Parton: Here I Am (2019); Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde (2003); Domino (2005); Downhill Racer (1969); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dragnet (1987); Drexell's Class (1991–1992); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Dying Room Only (1973); E! True Hollywood Story (2001); Egan (1973); Exiled (1998); Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018); Fernwood Tonight (1977); For The People (2019); Forever Fernwood (1977–1978); Freedom: A History of US (2003); Fresno (1986); Getting There Is the Hard Part (2010); Giving It Up (1999); Go Tell the Spartans (1978); Good Morning America (2010); Gotham (1988); Griff (1973); Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Four (2007); Hazel (1965); Heartland (2007); Home & Family (2016); Hot to Trot (1988); House of Evil (1974); How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980); How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000); I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1967); I Love My Wife (1970); Idols of the Game (1995); Inspector Gadget (1999); Iron Horse (1967); Ironside (1973); It's Garry Shandling's Show (1989–1990); Judd for the Defense (1968); Judicial Consent (1995); Jumanji (1997); Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (1995); Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976); Kiss My Act (2001); Kojak (1974); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1991); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009); Lincoln (1992); Love Is Not Forever (1974); Madman of the People (1994–1995); Maneaters Are Loose! (1978); Mannix (1972–1975); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976–1977); Maybe Baby (1988); McMillan & Wife (1974–1975); Medical Center (1975); Medical Story (1976); Meet the Applegates (1990); Melvin and Howard (1980); Midway (1976); Mod Squad (1968); Modern Problems (1981); Moonlight Mile (2002); More Than Friends (1978); Murrow (1986); Must Be Santa (1999); Naked City (1961); Nanny and the Professor (1970); NCIS (2019); Never Forget (1991); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016); North Dallas Forty (1979); Not Such a Bad Guy: Conversations with Dabney Coleman (2017); Nothing Personal (1980); On Golden Pond (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Petrocelli (1976); Plaza Suite (1987); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1966); Police Story (1976); Pound Puppies (2010–2011); Pray TV (1980); Quincy Coleman: It's All in the Song (2008); Quincy M.E. (1977); Ray Donovan (2016); Recess (1997–1999); Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001); Recess: All Growed Down (2003); Recess: School's Out (2001); Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003); Returning Home (1975); Rolling Thunder (1977); Room 222 (1970–1973); Rules Don't Apply (2016); Run for Your Life (1967); Saturday Night Live (1987); Savage (1973); Search (1973); Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996); Short Time (1990); Sidekicks (1966); Sons and Daughters (1974); Still Working 9 to 5 (2022); Stuart Little (1999); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Switch (1976); Sworn to Silence (1987); Taken (1999); Target Earth (1998); Tattletales (1977); That Girl (1966–1967); The 18th Annual Satellite Awards (2014); The 22nd Annual Satellite Awards (2018); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1987); The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1988); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1988); The 4th Annual Family Television Awards (2002); The 7th Annual People's Choice Awards (1981); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1964); The Art of Noise: Dragnet (1987); The Beverly Hillbillies (1993); The Big Interview with Dan Rather (2014); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Case of the Baltimore Girls (1978); The Climb (2002); The Donna Reed Show (1965); The Dove (1974); The Early Show (2006); The F.B.I. (1965–1974); The Flying Nun (1967); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Guardian (2001–2004); The Invaders (1967); The Love Boat (1978); The Magic School Bus (1997); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985); The Manhunter (1974); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1976); The Movie Maker (1964); The Movies (2019); The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); The Other Side of the Mountain (1975); The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978); The Outer Limits (1964); The Perfect Pitch (2002); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986); The Scalphunters (1968); The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988); The Slender Thread (1965); The Streets of San Francisco (1974–1976); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1984–1991); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1994); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Trouble with Girls (1969); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Wonderful World of Disney (1998); The Zeta Project (2002); Then Came Bronson (1969); There Goes the Neighborhood (1992); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Tootsie (1982); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Viva Knievel! (1977); WarGames (1983); When She Was Bad... (1979); Where the Heart Is (1990); Where the Red Fern Grows (2003); Yellowstone (2019); Young Doctors in Love (1982); You've Got Mail (1998).

Born on this day – Barbara Stuart:


Barbara Stuart


Actress

January 3, 1930 – May 15, 2011

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); 87th Precinct (1961); A Family Affair (2001); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Airplane! (1980); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Arrest and Trial (1963); Bachelor Party (1984); Banacek (1973); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973); Batman (1966); Cannon (1973); Captain Nice (1967); Circle of Fear (1973); Code Red (1982); Colt .45 (1959); Coronado 9 (1961); Damned If You Do (2000); December Bride (1957); Destry (1964); Doctor Dan (1974); Downtown (1986); Dr. Christian (1956); Dreamer (1979); Father of the Bride (1962); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier Circus (1961); Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005); Get Christie Love! (1974); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969); Have I Got a Christmas for You (1977); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Hellfighters (1968); Highway to Heaven (1986); Hotel (1984); Huff (2004–2006); I Led 3 Lives (1954); Iron Horse (1967); It Takes Two (1969); It's Your Bet (1969); Jefferson Drum (1958); Kung Fu (1973); L.A. Law (1993); Lawman (1958); Leave Yesterday Behind (1978); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Television Weekend (1971); Lux Video Theatre (1957); M Squad (1959); Mama's Family (1983); Marines, Let's Go (1961); Markham (1960); Mason (1977); Match Game (1973); Mike Hammer (1959); Mister Roberts (1966); Mr. Lucky (1959); Mr. Terrific (1967); Nash Bridges (1999); New Love, American Style (1986); Not for Hire (1959–1960); One Step Beyond (1960); Otherworld (1985); Our Family Honor (1985–1986); Out of This World (1987); Outlaws (1961); Panic! (1957); Password (1974); Perry Mason (1961); Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Peter Gunn (1958–1961); Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996); Quincy, M.E. (1982); Rawhide (1963); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Riverboat (1959–1960); Room for One More (1962); Sam Benedict (1963); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Simon & Simon (1988); Starsky and Hutch (1979); State Trooper (1956–1959); Sugarfoot (1957); Surfside 6 (1961); T.H.E. Cat (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960–1961); Target (1958); Tattletales (1974–1977); Taxi (1980); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962–1965); The Andy Griffith Show (1965); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Bill Dana Show (1963); The Blue Angels (1961); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Danny Thomas Show (1963); The Deep Six (1958); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Eleventh Hour (1962); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1958); The George Burns Show (1958); The Great Gildersleeve (1955–1956); The Hat Squad (1993); The Home Team (1960); The Joey Bishop Show (1964–1965); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979); The McLean Stevenson Show (1976–1977); The Queen and I (1969); The Rookies (1975); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); The Texan (1960); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Untouchables (1959); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); Three's Company (1980–1983); Thunder Alley (1994); Tom & Jerry Kids Show (1990–1992); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); Two Faces West (1960); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Valentine's Day (1965); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Wide Country (1962); You Don't Say (1969).

Born on this day – Robert Loggia:


Robert Loggia


Actor

January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015

Credits:

The Savant (2019); Cries of the Unborn (2017); The Red Maple Leaf (2016); Independence Day: Resurgence (2016); Sicilian Vampire (2015); La Trattoria Sitcom (2015); No Deposit (2015); Bleeding Hearts (2015); The Big Fat Stone (2014); Before It's Too Late (2014); An Evergreen Christmas (2014); Scavenger Killers (2014); Snapshot (2014); Real Gangsters (2013); Family Guy (1999); Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012); Margarine Wars (2012); The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012); Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012); Men of a Certain Age (2009); The Life Zone (2011); The Great Fight (2011); The Grand Theft (2011); Fake (2011); Hawaii Five-0 (2010); Obituary of the Sun (2010); Harvest (2010); Shrink (2009); The Least of These (2008); The Boneyard Collection (2008); Monk (2002); Her Morbid Desires (2008); Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006); Wild Seven (2006); Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004); Forget About It (2006); Rain (2006); Funny Money (2006); The Deal (2005); Kojak (2005); The Sopranos (1999); Queens Supreme (2003); All Over Again (2001); The Shipment (2001); The Guardian (2001); Grand Theft Auto III (2001); Malcolm in the Middle (2000); Dodson's Journey (2001); The Fearing Mind (2000); Dharma & Greg (1997); Touched by an Angel (1994); The Outer Limits (1995); Frasier (1993); Return to Me (2000); FeeSpace 2 (1999); Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999); American Virgin (1999); Flypaper (1999); Joan of Arc (1999); The Suburbans (1999); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Hard Time (1998); Holy Man (1998); The Proposition (1998); Wide Awake (1998); Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997); The Don's Analyst (1997); The Dog of Flanders (1997); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997); Lost Highway (1997); Pandora's Clock (1996); Mistrial (1996); Independence Day (1996); The Right to Remain Silent (1996); Man with a Gun (1995); Picture Windows (1994); Between Love and Honor (1995); Coldblooded (1995); Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou (1995); I Love Trouble (1994); White Mile (1994); The Last Tattoo (1994); Bad Girls (1994); Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993); Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993); Lifepod (1993); Wild Palms (1993); Innocent Blood (1992); Afterburn (1992); Gladiator (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1991); Necessary Roughness (1991); Sunday Dinner (1991); The Marrying Man (1991); Spies Inc. (1992); Mancuso, FBI (1989); Opportunity Knocks (1990); Triumph of the Spirit (1989); Relentless (1989); Running Away (1989); Dream Breakers (1989); Oliver & Company (1988); Favorite Son (1988); Intrigue (1988); Big (1988); Old Dogs (1987); Echoes in the Darkness (1987); Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); Gaby: A True Story (1987); The Believers (1987); Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987); Hot Pursuit (1987); Over the Top (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1980); That's Life! (1986); Armed and Dangerous (1986); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); Streets of Justice (1985); Jagged Edge (1985); Prizzi's Honor (1985); The Ferret (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Matt Houston (1982); Overnight Sensation (1984); Tales of the Unexpected (1979); Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983); Scarface (1983); Curse of the Pink Panther (1983); Psycho II (1983); Trail of the Pink Panther (1982); Falcon Crest (1981); Little House on the Prairie (1974); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); A Woman Called Golda (1982); S.O.B. (1981); Nero Wolfe (1981); Fantasy Island (1977); Casino (1980); Charlie's Angels (1976); Vega$ (1978); Flatfoot in Egypt (1980); The Ninth Configuration (1980); Quincy M.E. (1976); Kaz (1978); No Other Love (1979); Hawaii Five-O (1968); Sword of Justice (1978); Starsky and Hutch (1975); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The Rockford Files (1974); Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); First Love (1977); The Six Million Dollar Man (1973); Speedtrap (1977); The Bionic Woman (1976); Police Woman (1974); Switch (1975); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Wonder Woman (1975); Scott Free (1976); Street Killing (1976); S.W.A.T. (1975); Columbo (1971); Cannon (1971); Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence (1976); McMillan & Wife (1971); Doctors' Hospital (1975); Ellery Queen (1975); Harry O (1973); Caribe (1975); Mannix (1967); The Manhunter (1974); Kojak (1973); Turn the Other Cheek (1974); Young Dr. Kildare (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); The High Chaparral (1967); Then Came Bronson (1969); Che! (1969); The Big Valley (1965); The Name of the Game (1968); Tarzan (1966); Custer (1967); The Wild Wild West (1965); T.H.E. Cat (1966); The Three Sisters (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); Run for Your Life (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Combat! (1962); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Gunsmoke (1955); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); Ben Casey (1961); Route 66 (1960); Breaking Point (1963); 330 Independence Avenue, SW (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1962); Cattle King (1963); Rawhide (1959); The Defenders (1961); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Untouchables (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Target: The Corruptors! (1961); Naked City (1958); Play of the Week (1959); Moment of Fear (1960); An Arabian Night (1960); Overland Trail (1960); Kraft Theatre (1947); The Magical World of Disney (1954); Strindberg on Love (1960); One Step Beyond (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Wagon Train (1957); The Lost Missile (1958); Cop Hater (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Studio One (1948); The Garment Jungle (1957); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); The Secret Storm (1954); Search for Tomorrow (1951).

Born on this day – Sergio Leone:


Sergio Leone


Director

Producer

Writer

January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989

Credits:

The King of Ads (1991); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); Duck, You Sucker! (1971); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); For a Few Dollars More (1965); A Fistful of Dollars (1964); Sodom and Gomorrah (1962); The Colossus of Rhodes (1961).

Born on this day – Robert Flemyng:


Robert Flemyng


Actor

Producer

January 3, 1912 – May 22, 1995

Credits:

A Touch of Larceny (1960); About Religion (1962); Battle of Britain (1969); BBC Play of the Month (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1955); Blackmailed (1951); Bond Street (1948); Boyd Q.C. (1960); By Candlelight (1949); Cast a Dark Shadow (1955); Chance Meeting (1959); Compact (1963–1964); Conspirator (1949); Crown Court (1976–1982); Danger Man (1960); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978); Edward the King (1975); Enemy at the Door (1978); Executive Stress (1986); Fame Is the Spur (1982); Family Solicitor (1961); French Without Tears (1949); Funny Face (1957); Golden Rendezvous (1977); Half Hour Story (1967); Head Over Heels in Love (1937); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1972); ITV Television Playhouse (1956–1958); Kafka (1991); Lady Killers (1980); Late Night Theatre (1972); Let's Be Happy (1957); Let's Be Happy (1957); Man of the World (1962); Merkmale der Gotik am Beispiel von L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock (2018); Miss Nightingale (1974); Mystery Submarine (1962); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969); Omnibus / Segment: The Trial of St. Joan (1955); Paris by Night (1988); Perfect Scoundrels (1991); Play for Today (1982); Playhouse 90 (1957); Probation Officer (1961); Producers' Showcase (1955); Public Eye (1973); Rebecca (1979); Screen Two (1992); Shadowlands (1993); Small World (1988); Somerset Maugham Hour (1960); Spider's Web (1982); Spy Trap (1975); Studio One (1957); Suspicion (1957); Tempo (1968); The Alcoa Hour (1955–1956); The Avengers (1967); The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); The Blood Beast Terror (1968); The Blue Lamp (1950); The Body Stealers (1969); The Choir (1995); The Darwin Adventure (1972); The Deadly Affair (1967); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Firechasers (1971); The Four Feathers (1978); The Holly and the Ivy (1952); The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Inside Man (1969); The King's Breakfast (1963); The Magic Box (1951); The Man Who Never Was (1956); The Medusa Touch (1978); The New Avengers (1976); The Outsider (1948); The Persuaders! (1971); The Professionals (1983); The Quiller Memorandum (1966); The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966); The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991); The Strauss Family (1972); The Thirty Nine Steps (1978); The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995); The Venturers (1975); Theatre Night (1959); They Made History (1960); This Is Your Life (1980–1991); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Trial (1971); Vanity Fair (1967); Windom's Way (1957); Young Winston (1972); Zero One (1962).

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).