On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 22.
Episode entitled: Burglar’s Nightmare.
Released February 16, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Scott Flohr.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Robert Armstrong, John Goddard, Connie Hines, Jim Oberlin, Jerry O’Sullivan.

On this day in movie history - The Canary Murder Case (1929):

The Canary Murder Case

directed by Malcolm St. Clair,

written by S.S. Van Dine, Albert Shelby LeVino, Florence Ryerson and Herman J. Mankiewicz,

based on the novel by S.S. Van Dine,

was released in France on February 16, 1929.
Music by Karl Hajos.

Cast:

William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Margaret Livingston, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, E. H. Calvert, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks, Louis John Bartels, Tim Adair, Oscar Smith.

Born on this day – R. D. Call:

R. D. Call

Actor

February 16, 1950 – February 27, 2020

Credits:

Not a Stranger (2018); Wildfires (2016); Rogues of LA (2014); Castle (2014); Silent Night in Muncie (2012); Perception (2012); Burn Notice (2012); Night Walkers (2012); Follow the Prophet (2009); Adventures in Appletown (2008); Into the Wild (2007); The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006); The Drop (2006); Babel (2006); Dark Heart (2006); The Work and the Glory II: American Zion (2005); Supernatural (2005); JAG (2002); Murder by Numbers (2002); I Am Sam (2001); The Weight of Water (2000); Family Law (2000); Malaika (1998); Logan's War: Bound by Honor (1998); Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–1998); Diagnosis Murder (1998); The Practice (1998); Waterworld (1997); EZ Streets (1996–1997); Last Man Standing (1996); Waterworld (1995); The X-Files (1994); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Jack Reed: Badge of Honor (1993); Cruel Doubt (1992); Other People's Money (1991); Golden Years (1991); State of Grace (1990); Young Guns II (1990); Paradise (1990); Born on the Fourth of July (1989); L.A. Takedown (1989); Knightwatch (1988–1989); Unconquered (1989); War Party (1988); Judgment in Berlin (1988); Colors (1988); No Man's Land (1987); Timestalkers (1987); The Children of Times Square (1986); At Close Range (1986); Brewster's Millions (1985); Trapper John, M.D. (1985); V (1985); 48 Hrs. (1982); General Hospital (1982); Little House on the Prairie (1982); Barnaby Jones (1979).

Born on this day – Ron Faber:

Ron Faber

Actor

February 16, 1933 – March 26, 2023

Credits:

Back to Me (2008); Hope & Faith (2004); Third Watch (2000); Calling Bobcat (2000); Law & Order (1991–1998); Romeo Is Bleeding (1993); Navy Seals (1990); The Edge of Night (1983); Running Out (1983); Soup for One (1982); Bill (1981); Hardhat and Legs (1980); On the Yard (1978); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); Kojak (1977); The American Parade (1976); L'arbre de Guernica (1975); The Exorcist (1973).

Born on this day – Sol Negrin:

Sol Negrin

Cinematographer

Producer

Actor

February 16, 1929 – March 20, 2017

Credits:

...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979); A Call to Arms (2008); Across 110th Street (1972); Amazing Grace (1974); Baker's Dozen (1982); Blue Shirts (2000); Car 54, Where Are You? (1961–1963); Clean and Sober (1988); Coming to America (1988); Crazy Joe (1974); Dear John (1988); Dempsey (1983); East Side/West Side (1963–1964); Eischied (1979); Fame (1984); Great Performances (1971); Happy Hell Night (1991); I, the Jury (1982); Jamboree! (1957); Jaws 2 (1978); Johnny Garage (1983); Kay O'Brien (1986); Kojak (1974–1977); Light Fantastic (1964); Lime Street (1985); McCloud (1974); More Than Friends (1978); Naked City (1958–1959); Parades (1972); Pink (2010); Proof of the Man (1977); Redd Foxx: Video in a Plain Brown Wrapper (1983); RoboCop (1987); Sacred Eyes (2009); Salsa (1976); Some Trouble of a SeRRious Nature (2002); St. Elsewhere (1982–1983); Superman (1978); The Bedroom (2012); The Concert for Bangladesh (1972); The Deer (2009); The Defenders (1961–1962); The Edge of Town (2012); The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure (1986); The Last Tenant (1978); The Line (1980); The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985); The Nothing Man (2010); The Patty Duke Show (1963–1964); The Rack (2002); The Scourge of the Vagabond Spectre (2009); The Story Lady (1991); The White Shadow (1980); Voodoo Blood Death (1965); Where's Poppa? (1970); Women at West Point (1979).

Born on this day – Olga James:

Olga James

Actress

Singer

February 16, 1929 – January 25, 2025

Credits:

Music:

Cannonball Adderley Presents the Nat Adderley Sextet Plus Rick Holmes / Soul of the Bible (1972); Carmen Jones / Original Movie Soundtrack (1954); David Axelrod / Heavy Axe (1974); Sammy Davis Jr. / 1956 Broadway Cast / Mr. Wonderful (1956); The Cannonball Adderley Quintet / The Happy People (1972).

Movies and television:

Carmen Jones (1954); Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003); Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009); Omnibus (1978); Sealab 2020 (1972); The Bill Cosby Show (1969–1971); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1957).

Born on this day – John Schlesinger:

John Schlesinger

Director

Writer

Actor

February 16, 1926 – July 25, 2003

Credits:

A Kind of Loving (1962); A Loan from Lorenzo (1953); A Woman of Property (1957); Aggie (1957); An Englishman Abroad (1983); Armchair Theatre (1957); As I Was Saying (1955); Assignment Foreign Legion (1957); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953); Big City (1956); Billy Liar (1963); Black Tide (1958); Brothers in Law (1957); Cold Comfort Farm (1995); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956); Darling (1965); Der Rosenkavalier (1994); Eye for an Eye (1996); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967); Honky Tonk Freeway (1981); ITV Television Playhouse (1957); Ivanhoe (1958); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Marathon Man (1976); Midnight Cowboy (1969); Monitor (1958–1961); Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955); Pacific Heights (1990); Paul McCartney: Little Willow (1997); Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956); Sailor of the King (1953); Screen One (1991); Screen Two (1985); Separate Tables (1983); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); Sunday in the Park (1956); Terminus (1961); The Adventures of Annabel (1955); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1957); The Beasts of Marseilles (1957); The Believers (1987); The Buccaneers (1956); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Divided Heart (1954); The Falcon and the Snowman (1985); The Grove Family (1956–1957); The Innocent (1993); The Last Man to Hang (1956); The Lost Language of Cranes (1991); The McCartney Years (2007); The Next Best Thing (2000); The Starfish (1952); The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997); The Twilight of the Golds (1996); The Vise (1955); The Wednesday Play (1967); The Why Store: Father (1996); Un ballo in maschera (1990); Visions of Eight (1973); Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (1960); Yanks (1979).