On this day in movie history - The Andromeda Strain (1971):

The Andromeda Strain

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Nelson Gidding and Robert Wise,

based on the novel by Michael Crichton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1971.
Music by Gil Mellé.

Cast:

Arthur Hill, James Olson, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Ramon Bieri, Carl Reindel, Frances Reid, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Ken Swofford, John Carter, Richard Bull, James W. Gavin, Garry Walberg, Emory Parnell, Georgia Schmidt, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Don Messick, Michael Crichton.

Born on this day – Katherine Woodville:

Katherine Woodville

Actress

March 12, 1938 – June 5, 2013

Credits:

A Chance of Thunder (1961); Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960); Black Gunn (1972); Boyd Q.C. (1960–1961); Clue of the New Pin (1961); Days of Our Lives (1977); Eight Is Enough (1979); Ellery Queen (1976); Extreme Close-Up (1973); Fear No Evil (1969); Gemini Man (1976); Ghost Squad (1964); Gibbsville (1976); Harry O (1974); Inside Story (1960); Intertect (1973); It Takes a Thief (1968–1970); ITV Play of the Week (1961); Keefer (1978); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); Kung Fu (1974); Little House on the Prairie (1978); Mannix (1968–1971); Mission: Impossible (1968); No Hiding Place (1961–1965); Posse (1975); Salvage 1 (1979); Secret Agent (1964); Sergeant Cork (1964); Sir Francis Drake (1962); Star Trek / episode entitled: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, originally aired November 8 (1968); The Aquarians (1970); The Avengers (1961–1962); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1970); The Brigand of Kandahar (1965); The Crooked Road (1965); The Debbie Reynolds Show (1970); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1961); The Greatest Mother of Them All (1969); The Healers (1974); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); The Outsider (1968); The Party's Over (1965); The Psychiatrist (1971); The Rhinemann Exchange (1977); The Rockford Files (1975–1976); The Saint (1964); The Spies (1966); The Third Man (1962); The Virginian (1970); The Wednesday Play (1964); Underworld Informers (1963); Where's Willie? (1978); Widow (1976); Wonder Woman (1979); Young and Willing (1962); Z Cars (1964).

Born on this day – Virginia Hamilton:

Virginia Hamilton

Writer

March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002

Credits:

Books:

A Little Love (1984); A Newbery Halloween (1993); A Ring of Tricksters (1997); A White Romance (1987); Anthony Burns (1988); Arilla Sun Down (1976); Bluish (1999); Cousins (1990); Drylongso (1992); Dustland (1980); Her Stories (1995); In the Beginning (1988); Jaguarundi (1994); Jahdu (1980); Junius Over Far (1992); Justice and Her Brothers (1978); M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974); Many Thousand Gone (1993); Out of the Mold (1997); Paul Robeson (1974); Plain City (1993); Second Cousins (1998); Speeches, Essays, and Conversations (2010); Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982); The All Jahdu Storybook (1991); The Bells of Christmas (1989); The Dark Way (1990); The Gathering (1981); The Girl Who Spun Gold (2000); The House of Dies Drear (1968); The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (1983); The Mystery of Drear House (1987); The People Could Fly (1985); The Planet of Junior Brown (1971); The Time-Ago Tales of Jahdu (1969); The Writings of W. E. B. Dubois (1975); Time Pieces (2002); Time-Ago Lost (1973); Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (2021); W.E.B. Du Bois (1972); Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny (2004); When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing (1996); Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed (1983); Zeely (1967).

Movies:

The House of Dies Drear (1984); The Planet of Junior Brown (1997).

Born on this day – Myrna Fahey:

Myrna Fahey

Actress

March 12, 1933 – May 6, 1973

Credits:

The Great American Beauty Contest (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Monty Nash (1971); Peyton Place (1969); Rango (1967); The Time Tunnel (1967); Batman (1966); Perry Mason (1960–1966); Laredo (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); Daniel Boone (1965); The Reporter (1964); Wagon Train (1960–1964); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1963); Laramie (1962); Here's Hollywood (1962); Father of the Bride (1961–1962); The Hour of St. Francis (1962); Man on the Beach (1961); Surfside 6 (1960–1961); Straightaway (1961); Acapulco (1961); Checkmate (1961); The Americans (1961); Thriller (1960); Bonanza (1960); Maverick (1959–1960); House of Usher (1960); The Alaskans (1960); Bachelor Father (1960); Overland Trail (1960); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959); The Story on Page One (1959); Face of a Fugitive (1959); Death Valley Days (1959); Colt .45 (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); The Ed Wynn Show (1958–1959); The Gray Ghost (1958); Flight (1958); The Light in the Forest (1958); Zorro (1958); Adventures of Superman (1958); Gunsmoke (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1958); Harbor Command (1958); Matinee Theatre (1957); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Loving You (1957); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1957); West Point (1957); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Warner Brothers Presents (1955); Kings Row (1955); Cavalcade of America (1954).

Born on this day – Georges Delerue:

Georges Delerue

Compose

March 12, 1925 – March 20, 1992

Credits:

30 million friends (1981); A (1965); A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972); A Little Romance (1979); A Little Sex (1982); A Man for All Seasons (1966) A Man in Love (1987); A Mistress for the Summer (1960); A Show of Force (1990); A Summer Story (1988); A Time to Live (1985); A Walk with Love and Death (1969) Farewell, my fifteen years... (1971); Agnes of God (1985); Alien Thunder (1974); All Night Long (1981); All the Memory in the World (1956); Alle Sieben Wellen (2010); Allégra (1978); Let's go to the movies (1978); Allumorphoses (1960); Along the Coast (1958); Amazing Stories (1986–1987); American Friends (1991); Americano (2011); Souls of Clay (1955); Amos (1985); An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) André Masson and the Four Elements (1959); Andromache (1960); Angela (1973); Anne of the Thousand Days (1969); Arcana knowledge of music (1971–1973); Arch of Triumph (1984); Arsène Lupin Plays and Loses (1980); In the Land of William the Conqueror (1954); To the rhythm of the century (1954); Au verre de l'amitié (1970); Trailer for 'Contempt' (1963); Southeast Suburbs (1977–1978); Bluebeard (1979); Beaches (1988); Bergeval and son (1977); Berre, cité du pétrole (1953); Biloxi Blues (1988); Black Dress (1991); Boomerang (1976); Bosphorus (1964); Broken English (1981); Cadence (1990); Carné, the Man with the Camera (1985); Cartouche (1962); Casanova (1927); Céline (1992); Champs-Elysées (1983); Dear Louise (1972); Dear Old Things (1957); Children of the World (1971); Chillers (1990); Chouans! (1988); Chronicles of France (1968); Ciné Chalom (2020); Filmmakers of Our Time (1967); Cinema, by Our Time (1994–1996); All-Hazards Class (1960–1965); Code Name: Dancer (1987); Confidentially Yours (1983); Contempt (1963); Countdown to Vengeance (1971); Obstacle Course (1961); Crime Does Not Pay (1962) Crime and Punishment (1971); Crimes of the Heart (1986); Curly Sue (1991); Dandelions by the Roots (1964); Day for Night (1973); Deadly Intentions (1985); Dear Inspector (1977); Der Atem (1989); Der kleine Soldat (1971); Men... one doctrine (1959); Of Ruins and Men (1959); Descent Into Hell (1986); Dien Bien Phú (1992); Discorama (1963); Documenter (1981); Don Carlos (1957); Of the mayhem among widows (1964); Enetime (1963); Between Earth and Sky (1959); Between All Women (1974); Escale (1959); Escape from Sobibor (1987); Star de mer (1961); Future Eves (1964); Exposed (1983); Family Council (1986); Fantômas (1980); Nobody's Women (1984); Femmes Fatales (1976); Fernandel in Happy who, like Ulysses... (1970); Five Day Lover (1961); Invisible River (1959); Fortune (1969); François Truffaut (1991); French Dressing (1964); Gaspard des montagnes (1965); Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (1989); Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978); Girl in His Pocket (1957) Give Her the Moon (1970); Greed in the Sun (1964); Guy de Maupassant (1982); Heartbreak Hotel (1988); Hélène or The Joy of vivre (1968); Her Alibi (1989); Hibernatus (1969); Highway Pick-Up (1963); Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959); Histoires de voyous (1978–1979); Horizon (1978); Huckleberry Finn (1967); Images of Lost Worlds (1959); Images for Baudelaire (1959); In the Tracks Of (2010); Incorrigible (1975); Engineers of the Sea (1951); Interlude (1968); Jacquou le croquant (1969); Thursday on chantera comme dimanche (1967); Joe Versus the Volcano (1990); Josépha (1982); Joséphine or the comedy of the ambitions (1979); Merry Wives of Windsor (1964); Jules and Jim (1962); Julihas (1977); Julie Pot-de-Colle (1977); At World's End (1963); King of Hearts (1966) Kramer Junction (2012); The Field of the Possible (1962); The fall of the Usher House (1981); The Tibetan Bell (1974); Double Bass (1963); The Golden Horn (1964); La derelitta (1978–1980); Jean's Wife (1974); The Madwoman de Chaillot (1980); The Great City of Angkor (1954); The Trojan War will not have No Place (1984); The Mona Lisa: The Story of an Obsession (1958); The sea and the Days (1958); The Death of Belle (1961); The Naturalized (1962); The night of the Césars (1981); Twelfth Night (1957); La parole est au fleuve (1960); The Little Virtue (1968); The First Night (1958); The White Queen (1991); The Queen Dead (1961); The Rose and the Salt (1965); The Chinese Street (1956); Life goes on (1981); The African (1983); The Ungrateful Age (1964); Up, the Four Seasons (1973); Let the Shooters Shoot (1964); L'amour à la chaîne (1965); Lancelot of the lake (1970); The Other Woman (1964); L'aventure et ses Terras-Nuevas (1952); The beautiful age (1960); The Love Bestiary (1965); Le bon plaisir (1984); Happiness conjugal (1965); Happiness is for Tomorrow (1961); The Marriage Bureau (1962); The Candlestick (1977); Le Cid (1962); Le Corbusier, the architect of happiness (1957); Callao's Cousin (1962); The Komodo Dragon (1956); The great chessboard (1982); The Great Escogriff (1976); The Big Shot (1964); The game of solitaire (1976); The Young Green Man (1979); Le journal d'Alphonse (2005); The Diary of a Madman (1963); The Drop at Six O'Clock in the Morning (1953); The sick Imaginary (1971); The Bad (1973); The Shadow Showman (1959); Sheep noir (1979); The Mystery of the Quai de Conti (1950); The Mythomaniac (1981); The shipwreck de Monte-Cristo (1977); The Elephant Seal's Umbrella (1973); The small Elevator Boy (1962); The Focal Point (1977); The Survivor of Tikeroa (1981); The Revolver and the Rose (1970); The Century Is Thirsty (1958); Time redonné (1964); Youth Theatre (1964–1965); The theatre of the youth: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1967); The Village in the Midst of Mists (1962); The Violin of Cremona (1967); The volcano of Arbat Street (1980); Education sentimental (1973); Lektionen (1963); The Loves of the Unloved (1980); Confessions The Sweetest (1971); The Horses of the Sun (1980); The Companions of Eleusis (1975); Les cousins de la Constance (1970); The Cracks (1968); Flowers succumb in Arcadia (1973); Gums (1969); Great Expectations (1968); The Marines (1957); The Musicians of Film (1974); The Litigants (1967); The White Curtains (1965); The Cursed Kings (1972–1973); The Overworked (1958); The red pompom technicians (1952); Les théâtres de Paris (1964); Visitors (1980); The Man with the Umbrella (1956); The Man Who Comes Back from Afar (1972); Liberty Belle (1983); Lily Lamont (1983); L'Immortelle (1963); The Ingénu (1972); The rebel (1964); L'hôte de FR3 (1980); Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978); The bird blue (1981); The Ondomane (1961); L'opéra-mouffe (1958); Louis de Funès, 100 years old already (2014); Louis Lecoin: le cours d'une vie (1966); Love and the Frenchwoman (1960); Love at Twenty (1962) Love Exists (1961) Love on the Run (1979); Love Play (1961); Love Story (2011); Love Thy Neighbor (1984); Lucky Jo (1964) Macbeth (1959); Madagascar (1954); Madame Ex (1978); Magnet of Doom (1963); Maid to Order (1987); But where are the negroes of yesteryear? (1962); Male Companion (1964) Mam'zelle Souris (1957); Man Trouble (1992); Man, Woman and Child (1983); Walking French (1956); Walk or Die (1960); Mary of Cork (1967); Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964); Mauregard (1970); Maxie (1985); Memories of Me (1988); Thank you Natercia! (1960); Mesmerized (1985); Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1978); Mijn Vriend (1979); Milady (1977); Mira (1971); Mister Johnson (1990); Mit der linken Hand (1977); Molière pour rire et pour pleurer (1973); Mona, the star Unnamed (1966); Monsieur Cinéma (1980); Monsieur Laplanche (1963); Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue (1995); Nana (1981); Nevermore, Forever (1976); Night and Fog (1956); Nunca pasa nada (1963) O.S.S. 117 Kills the Horsefly (1971); We have Stole the Sea (1961); One Deadly Summer (1983) Oscar (1967); Forget me, Mandolin (1976); Our Mother's House (1967); Our World (1967); Over the wall (1961); Paris in the Time of Cherries: The Commune (1966); Paris by Night (1988); Paris Pick-Up (1962); Partners (1982); Paul and Virginia (1974); Paul Gauguin (1975); Picasso, romancero du picador (1961); Pierrot mon ami (1979); Pierrot the Fool (1989); Platoon (1986); More Bitter Than Death (1975); Python 357 Font (1976) Why Anna's Dress Doesn't Want to Come Down (1975); Why Patricia? (1979); Practice Makes Perfect (1979) First Voyage (1980); First cruise (1954); Prince of the City (1981); Princes of the Blood (1952); Promise at Dawn (1970); Qualcosa Di Biondo (1984); Queenie (1987); Rapture (1965); Regards sur l'Indochine (1954); Renaud and Armide (1969); Rich and Famous (1981); Rich in Love (1992) Richard's Things (1980); Rififi in Tokyo (1963); Romulus the Great (1971); Sahara Year IV (1961); El Salvador (1986); Screen Two (1992); Shoot the Piano Player (1960); Show bises (1986); Silence of the Heart (1984); Silkwood (1983); Simone de Beauvoir (1979); Sin of Innocence (1986); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983); Somewhere, Someone (1972); Splendours and Miseries of the Courtesans (1976); Steel Magnolias (1989); Stone Pillow (1985); Sultan for sale (1974); Sunday in Peking (1956); Sunday Night (1966); Sundays and Cybele (1960); On the Arroyo (1956); Sword of Gideon (1986) That Man from Rio (1964); That Most Important Thing: Love (1975); The 25th Hour (1967); The Black Indies (1964) The Black Stallion Returns (1983); The Borgias (1981); The Brain (1969) The Conformist (1970); The Cousteau Odyssey (1978–1979); The Crucible (1957) The Day of the Dolphin (1973); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Devil by the Tail (1969); The Empty Screen or the Metaphysics of Movies (2017); The Escape Artist (1982); The Execution (1985); The French Revolution (1989); The Grilling (1981); The High Commissioner (1968); The Horse Ate the Hat (1928); The Horsemen (1971); The House on Carroll Street (1988); The Immoral Moment (1962) The Joker (1960) The Josephine Baker Story (1991); The Last Metro (1980); The Legend of Doom House (1971) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987); The Long Absence (1961); The Love Game (1960) The Man from Chicago (1963) The Nina B. Affair (1961) The Passerby (1982); The Pick-up Artist (1987); The Pumpkin Eater (1964) The Reluctant Spy (1963) The Season for Love (1961); The Slap (1974); The Soft Skin (1964); The Song of Styrene (1958); The Sucker (1965); The Sunday of Life (1967); The Two of Us (1967); The Uninhibited (1965); The Vultures (1984); The Winner (1961) The Woman Next Door (1981); Thibaud (1969); To Kill A Priest (1988); Toine (1980); Touch and Go (1986); Around the World, Towers of the Sky (1991); True Confessions (1981); You inFanteras sans douleur (1956); Twins (1988); Two English Girls (1971); Two Timid Souls (1928); An Honest Man (1963); A Hostage (1970); A Belgian prince de l'Europe, Charles-Joseph de Ligne (1963); An Alchemy (1966); Another life (1971); A Question of Insurance (1960); A week of kindness or the seven Capital Elements (1961); Up to His Ears (1965); Go see mom, dad works (1978); Vacation in Paradise (1961); Portuguese Holiday (1963); Valparaiso (1963); Viva Maria! (1965); Vive le tour (1962); Voglia di volare (1984) Willie & Phil (1980); Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) Women and War (1961); Women in Love (1969); Women of Valor (1986); Woyzeck (1964); Yvette (1971).

Born on this day – Harry Harrison:

Harry Harrison

Writer

March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012

Credits:

Books:

100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); 50 in 50 (2001); A Rebel in Time (1983); A Science Fiction Reader (1973); A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985); Analog 6 (1969); Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965 (1965); Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 (1967); Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 (1969); Antigrav (1975); Apeman, Spaceman (1968); Arm of the Law (1958); Backdrop of Stars (1968); Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series (1973); Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (1969); Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (1970); Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (1971); Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (1972); Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (1976); Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut (2010); Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965); Blast Off (1969); Captive Universe (1969); Confessions Illustrated (2022); Deathworld (1960); Deathworld 3 (1968); Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer (1964); Decade: The 1940's (1975); Decade: The 1950s (1976); Decade: The 1960s (1977); Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2 (2016); Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus (1968); Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); Four for the Future (1969); Frontline Combat Volume 2 (2019); Frontline Combat Volume 3 (2021); Frontline Combat, Vol. 1 (2008); Galactic Dreams (1995); Great Balls of Fire (1977); Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! (2014); Hell's Cartographers (1975); Homeworld (1980); In Our Hands, the Stars / The Daleth Effect (1970); Invasion: Earth (1982); King and Emperor (1996); Make Room! Make Room! (1966); Mechanismo (1978); Montezuma's Revenge (1972); Navy Day (1954); Nebula Award Stories #2 (1966); Nova 1 (1970); Nova 2 (1972); Nova 3 / The Outdated Man (1973); Nova IV (1974); Nova One (1971); On the Planet of Bottled Brains (1990); On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1990); On the Planet of Zombie Vampires (1991); One King's Way (1994); One Step from Earth (1970); Plague from Space (1965); Planet of No Return (1981); Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation (1962); Planet Story (1979); Prime Number (1970); Psychoanalysis (2020); Queen Victoria's Revenge (1974); Return to Eden (1988); Science Against Man (1970); SF Authors' Choice 2 (1970); SF Authors' Choice 3 (1973); SF: Author's Choice (1968); Skyfall (1976); Spacecraft In Fact and Fiction (1979); Spaceship Medic (1970); Stainless Steel Rat (1961); Stainless Steel Visions (1992); Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1974); Stars and Stripes Forever (1998); Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000); Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2001); Starworld (1981); Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died (1972); Study War No More (1977); Tales from the Crypt Volume 3 (2023); Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987); Tales from the Planet Earth (1986); The 6th Annual Best SF 72 (1973); The Astounding Analog Reader (1972); The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two (1973); The Best of Harry Harrison (1977); The California Iceberg (1975); The Drabble Project (1988); The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories Volume 4 (2019); The EC Archives: Panic Volume 2 (2018); The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 4 (2017); The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 5 (2018); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 3 (2005); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 (2019); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 (2019); The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 (2015); The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 3 (2018); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Final Incoherent Adventure! (1992); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI (2016); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XIV (2018); The Hammer and the Cross (1993); The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned (2016); The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding (1973); The Jupiter Legacy (1970); The Jupiter Plague (1965); The K-Factor (1960); The Lifeship / Lifeboat (1975); The Light Fantastic (1971); The Man from P.I.G. (1968); The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. (1974); The Misplaced Battleship (1960); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991); The Planet of the Robot Slaves (1989); The QEII is Missing (1980); The Repairman (1958); The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982); The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987); The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996); The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999); The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010); The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World (1971); The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994); The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978); The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970); The Technicolor Time Machine (1967); The Turing Option (1992); The Velvet Glove (1956); The Year 2000 (1970); The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); There Won't Be War (1991); Toy Shop (2010); Toy Shop and Two Others (2009); Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (1972); Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965); Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 (2007); Two-Fisted Tales Volume 3 (2016); Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 2 (2007); War with the Robots (1962); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Weird Fantasy Volume 1 (2016); Weird Science Volume 1 (2006); Weird Science, Vol. 2 (2007); West of Eden (1984); Wheelworld (1981); Winter in Eden (1986); Wondermakers 2 (1974); Worlds of If, February 1969 (1969); You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985).

Movies and television:

Bill the Galactic Hero (2014); New Nightmares (1993); Perversions of Science (1997); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Soylent Green (1973); The Book Programme (1975–1979); The History of the SF Film (1982); Time Out of Mind (1979).

Born on this day – Jack Kerouac:

Jack Kerouac

Writer

March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

Credits:

Books:

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945); Atop an Underwood (1987); Beat Generation (1992); Big Sur (1962); Book of Blues (1995); Book of Dreams (1960); Book of Haikus (2003); Book of Sketches (1957); Collected Poems (1971); Dear Carolyn (1983); Departed Angels (2004); Desolation Angels (1965); Door Wide Open (2000); Dr. Sax (1959); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Field of Fantasies (2014); Good Blonde & Others (1993); Heaven and Other Poems (1977); Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010); Lonesome Traveler (1960); Mexico City Blues (1959); Old Angel Midnight (1973); On the Road (1957); Orpheus Emerged (2002); Pic (1971); Piers of the Homeless Night (2018); Pomes All Sizes (1992); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); San Francisco Blues (1991); Satori in Paris (1966); Scattered Poems (1971); Selected Letters, 1940-1956 (1995); Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (1999); Some of the Dharma (1997); The Dharma Bums (1958); The Haunted Life (2014); The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960); The Sea Is My Brother (1942); The Subterraneans (1958); The Town and the City (1950); The Unknown Kerouac (2016); Trip Trap (1973); Tristessa (1960); Vanity of Duluoz (1967); Visions of Cody (1960); Visions of Gerard (1963); Wake Up (2008); Windblown World (1947); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movie:

On the Road (2012).