Terry
Pratchett
Writer
April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015
Monday, April 28, 2025
Born on this day – Madge Sinclair:
Madge Sinclair
Actress
April 28, 1938 – December 20, 1995
Credits:
19th
Annual NAACP Image Awards (1987); 21st NAACP Image Awards (1989); A Century of
Women (1994); ABC Afterschool Specials (1978–1984); All Star Blitz (1985); Almos'
a Man (1976); CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade (1985); Coming to
America (1988); Conrack (1974); Convoy (1978); Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975); Divided
We Stand (1988); Doctors' Hospital (1975); Dream On (1995); Entertainment
Tonight (1991); Executive Suite (1976); Gabriel's Fire (1990–1991); Grandpa
Goes to Washington (1978–1979); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1975); Guyana
Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); High Ice (1980); Homeroom (1989); I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979); I Love Liberty (1982); I Love You...
Good-bye (1974); I Will... I Will... For Now (1976); Jimmy B. & André (1980);
Joe Forrester (1975); Johnny Staccato (1989); Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
(1992); L.A. Law (1992); Leadbelly (1976); Look Away (1987); Madigan (1972); Mathnet
(1987); Me and the Boys (1994–1995); Medical Center (1974); Medical Story (1975);
Midnight Caller (1989); Miss Hollywood Talent Search (1985); Ohara (1987); One
in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978); Pros and Cons (1991–1992); Queen
(1993); Roots (1977); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Roseanne (1989); Serpico
(1976); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986); Star Trek: The Next Generation
(1993); Starman (1987); Tales from the Crypt (1992); The 2nd Annual Black
Achievement Awards (1983); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The
36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985);
The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The
End of Innocence (1990); The Lion King (1994); The Man with Three Wives (1993);
The Movies That Made Us (2021); The Orchid House (1991); The Steve Harvey Show
(1996–1997); The Waltons (1974); The White Shadow (1979); The Witches of Salem:
The Horror and the Hope (1972); Trapper John, M.D. (1980–1986); Uncle Joe
Shannon (1978); Victims (1982); Walkin' Walter (1977).
Born on this day – Lois Duncan:
Lois Duncan
Writer
April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016
Credits:
Books:
A Gift of Magic (1960); A
Promise for Joyce (1959); Daughters of Eve (1979); Debutante Hill (1958); Don't
Look Behind You (1989); Down a Dark Hall (1974); From Spring to Spring (1982); Gallows
Hill (1997); Game of Danger (1962); Hotel for Dogs (1971); I Know What You Did
Last Summer (1973); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); Killing Mr.
Griffin (1978); Locked in Time (1985); Love Song for Joyce (1958); Movie for
Dogs (2010); News For Dogs (2009); Night Terrors (1996); On the Edge (1997); Peggy
(1970); Point of Violence (1966); Ransom / aka Five Were Missing (1966); Season
of the Two - Heart (1964); Seasons of the Heart (2007); Songs From Dreamland
(1989); Stranger with My Face (1981); Summer of Fear (1976); Terrible Tales of
the Happy Days School (1983); The Middle Sister (1962); The Third Eye / aka The
Eyes of Karen Connors (1984); The Twisted Window (1987); They Never Came Home
(1969); When the Bough Breaks (1973); Written In The Stars (2014).
Movies and television:
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Home for Everyone: The Making of 'Hotel for Dogs' (2009); Don't Look Behind You
(1999); Down a Dark Hall (2018); Held for Ransom (2000); Hotel for Dogs (2009);
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997 / 2021 / 2021); I Know What You Did Last
Summer: Alternate Ending (2022); I Know What You Did Last Summer: Deleted
Scenes (2022); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); I'll Always Know
What You Did Last Summer (2006); I've Been Waiting for You (1998); Killing Mr.
Griffin (1997); Sightings (1992); Stranger with My Face (2009); Summer of Fear
(1978); The Bikini Open 8 (1992); The Generation Why Podcast (2014); Unsolved
Mysteries (1992).
Born on this day – Charlene Holt:
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Charlene Holt
Actress
April 28, 1928 – April 5, 1996
Credits:
Arrest and Trial (1964);
Barnaby Jones (1974); Burke's Law (1963–1964); CHiPs (1980); Days of Wine and
Roses (1962); El Dorado (1966); Gypsy (1967); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Hey Moe, Hey
Dad! (2015); Honey West (1965); Hour of the Gun (1967); If a Man Answers (1962);
Island of Love (1963); It Takes a Thief (1968); Man's Favorite Sport? (1964); Melvin
and Howard (1980); Perry Mason (1965); Police Story (1975); Red Line 7000 (1965);
Saints and Sinners (1962); Target: The Corruptors (1962); The Alfred Hitchcock
Hour (1963); The Hero (1966); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); Wonder
Woman (1974); Zig Zag (1970).
Born on this day – Harper Lee:
Harper Lee
Writer
April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016
Credits:
Books:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960);
Go Set a Watchman (2015); The Harper Lee Collection (2015); To Kill a
Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel, by Harper Lee and Fred Fordham (2018).
Awards:
The Pulitzer Prize in
1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Presidential Medal
of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature.
Movies, video,
television and stage:
Cedar
Cove (2015); Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders (2017); Hollywood Insider
(2022); I riassuntini (2018); Inside Edition (2015); Mockingbird (2023); PBS
NewsHour (2016); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Merv Griffin Show (1963); To Kill
a Mockingbird (1962); To Kill a Mockingbird (2014); To Kill a Mockingbird (2018
stage play, starring Jeff Daniels).
Born on this day – Adele Mara:
Adele Mara
Actress
Singer
Dancer
April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010
Credits:
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Sunset Strip (1959–1960); A Guy Could Change (1946); A Rookie's Cookie (1943); Adventures
of the Falcon (1954–1955); Alias Boston Blackie (1942); Angel in Exile (1948); Atlantic
City (1944); Bachelor Father (1961); Back from Eternity (1956); Back from the
Front / I Can Hardly Wait (1943); Bat Masterson (1958); Bells of Rosarita (1945);
Big Town (1955); Blackmail (1947); Blondie Goes to College (1942); Bringing Up
Buddy (1961); California Passage (1950); Call of the South Seas (1944); Campus
Honeymoon (1948); Casey Jones (1957); Cheyenne (1955–1958); Conflict (1957); Cool
Million (1972); Count the Hours! (1953); Crime Doctor (1943); Curse of the
Faceless Man (1958); Dante (1961); Earl Carroll Vanities (1945); Exposed (1947);
Faces in the Fog (1944); Farmer for a Day (1943); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945);
Girls of the Big House (1945); Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943); Grissly's Millions
(1945); His Girl's Worst Friend (1943); Honolulu Lu (1941); I, Jane Doe (1948);
I've Always Loved You (1946); Kiss and Wake Up (1942); Laramie (1960); Lock Up
(1961); Lucky Legs (1942); Markham (1959–1960); Maverick (1958–1960); Navy
Blues (1941); Nevada (1948); Night Train to Memphis (1946); Passkey to Danger
(1946); Redhead from Manhattan (1943); Reveille with Beverly (1943); Riders of
the Northwest Mounted (1943); Robin Hood of Texas (1947); Rock Island Trail
(1950); San Fernando Valley (1944); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); Shut My Big Mouth
(1942); Socks Appeal (1943); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Song of Mexico (1945);
Stagecoach West (1961); Studio 57 (1955); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); The
Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1956); The Alfred
Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Avengers (1950); The Big Circus (1959); The Black
Whip (1956); The Catman of Paris (1946); The Fighting Seabees (1944); The
Gallant Legion (1948); The Great Glover (1942); The Inner Circle (1946); The
Invisible Informer (1946); The Last Crooked Mile (1946); The Life and Legend of
Wyatt Earp (1958–1961); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Magical World of Disney (1957);
The Magnificent Rogue (1946); The Main Street Kid (1947); The Millionaire (1956);
The Red Skelton Hour (1961); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Sea Hornet
(1951); The Tall Man (1962); The Tiger Woman (1945); The Trespasser (1947); The
Vampire's Ghost (1945); Thoroughbreds (1944); Thriller (1961); Traffic in Crime
(1946); Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947); Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947); Vengeance
of the West (1942); Wake of the Red Witch (1948); Web of Danger (1947); Westinghouse
Desilu Playhouse (1959); Wheels (1978); You Were Never Lovelier (1942).
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