Born on this day – Erich Segal:

Erich Segal

Writer

June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010

Credits:

A Change of Seasons (1980); A Ilha (1990); Apostrophes (1977–1980); Arrivederci Roma (1990); Carnaval (1990); Coup de foudre (1990–1992); Damals war's (2023); Dinah! (1980); Donahue (1972); E:60 (2022); Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story (1995); In at the Deep End (1982); Inspiration (1991); Jennifer on My Mind (1971); Life with Linkletter (1970); Love (2008); Love Story (1970); Love Story: Musical (2016); Man, Woman and Child (1983); NET Journal (1966); Oliver's Story (1978); Only Love (1998); Pas de deux (1990); Puerto Verde (1990); R.P.M. (1970); Ransom (1990); Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music (1990); Sunday Pursuit (1990); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1970); The Games (1970); The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1971); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1977); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1970–1980); The Write Stuff (1989); Today (1980); Without Apparent Motive (1971); Yellow Submarine (1968); Yellow Submarine: Interviews (1999).

Born on this day – Fred Karlin:

Fred Karlin

Composer

Writer

June 16, 1936 – March 26, 2004

Credits:

A Place to Call Home (1987); A Time for Miracles (1980); ABC Weekend Specials (1984); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); And Baby Makes Six (1979); ...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979); Baby Blue Marine (1976); Baby Comes Home (1980); Baby Sister (1983); Baby Songs Presents: Baby Rock (1991); Bad Ronald (1974); Believe in Me (1971); Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977); Bitter Harvest (1981); Blind Ambition (1979); Born Innocent (1974); Bridge to Silence (1989); Broken Promise (1981); Buck's Birthday (1977); Bud and Lou (1978); Calamity Jane (1984); California Dreaming (1979); Carpenters Very First Television Special (1976); Catalina C-Lab (1982); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1990); Celebration Family (1987); Chosen Survivors (1974); Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977); Çildirtan Kadin (1979); Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters (1997); Cloud Dancer (1980); Cover Me Babe (1970); Cybill (1995); Dadah Is Death (1988); Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976); Deadly Encounter (1982); Deadman's Curve (1978); Death Be Not Proud (1975); Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993); Dream West (1986); E! True Hollywood Story (1997); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fear Stalk (1989); Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier (1980); Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith (1995); Final Jeopardy (1985); Forever (1978); Friends (1979); Full House (1983); Futureworld (1976); Goodnight Jackie (1974); Greased Lightning (1977); Green Eyes (1977); Hardesty House (1986); Having Babies (1978–1979); Having Babies II (1977); Her Wicked Ways (1991); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Homeward Bound (1980); Hostage Flight (1985); Ike: The War Years (1979); In Defense of Kids (1983); Inside the Third Reich (1982); Inspector Perez (1983); Intimate Strangers (1977); It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974); Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981); Jessica Novak (1981); Joe Panther (1976); Just Me and You (1978); Kaz (1978); Kids Don't Tell (1985); Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978); Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993); Lady Mobster (1988); Lady of the House (1978); Lawman Without a Gun (1978); Leadbelly (1976); Leave Yesterday Behind (1978); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Goes to the Movies (1976); Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front (1977); Long Journey Back (1978); Lost Treasure of Dos Santos (1997); Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984); Lovers and Other Strangers (1970 / 1983); Loving Couples (1980); Lucan (1977); Made (1972); Man from Atlantis (1977–1978); Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980); Mastermind (1976); McLaren's Riders (1977); Mean Dog Blues (1978); Minstrel Man (1977); Miracle on Ice (1981); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); Mixed Company (1974); Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980); More Than Friends (1978); Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971); Murder C.O.D. (1990); My Kidnapper, My Love (1980); Night Partners (1983); Not in Front of the Children (1982); Off the Rack (1984); Once Upon a Family (1980); One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983); Paris (1979–1980); Policewoman Centerfold (1983); Punch and Jody (1974); Ravagers (1979); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978); Samurai (1979); Sex and the Single Parent (1979); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Strawberry Road (1991); Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987); Survive the Savage Sea (1992); The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974); The Awakening Land (1978); The Baby Maker (1970); The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1977); The Death of Richie (1977); The Dion Brothers (1974); The Dream Makers (1975); The Facts of Life Down Under (1987); The First Time (1982); The Five of Me (1981); The Gift of Love (1978); The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983); The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977); The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990); The Hostage Heart (1977); The Karen Carpenter Story (1989); The Larry Sanders Show (1995); The Last Giraffe (1979); The Last Prostitute (1991); The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish (1977); The Little Ark (1972);  he Making of 'High Noon' (1992); The Man Who Could Talk to Kids (1973); The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971); The Marva Collins Story (1981); The Midnight Special (1980); The Pest (1997); The Plutonium Incident (1980); The Secret (1992); The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980); The Simpsons (2014); The Special London Bridge Special (1972); The Spikes Gang (1974); The Stalking Moon (1968); The Sterile Cuckoo (1969); The Take (1974); The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The World Beyond (1978); The World of Darkness (1977); They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (1977); Thornwell (1981); Topper (1979); Transplant (1979); Up the Down Staircase (1967); Vampire (1979); Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986); Virgin Snow (1976); Walking Through the Fire (1979); Wanted: The Sundance Woman (1976); We're Fighting Back (1981); Westworld (1973); What Price Victory (1988); White Palace (1990); Who'll Save Our Children? (1978); Wishman (1983); Woman of the Year (1976); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).

Born on this day – Mel Novak:

Mel Novak

Actor

Producer

June 16, 1934 – April 9, 2025

Credits:

Book:

Gods in Polyester or, a Survivor's Account of 70s Cinema Obscura (2004 / 2007).

Movies and television:

3rd Eye (2018); A Force of One (1979); Afternoon Delight Live on Hollywood and Vine (2015); A-List TV (2017); An Eye for an Eye (1981); An Hour to Kill (2018); An Intimate Look with Michelle Tomlinson (2014); Apex Predators (2021); Arachnado (2020); Arachnado 2: Flaming Spiders (2021); Ark II (1976); Ash and Bone (2022); Banned, Exploited & Blacklisted: The Underground Work of Controversial Filmmaker Shane Ryan / Segment: The Making of Samurai Cop 2 (2020); Baretta (1976); Betrayal (2025); Big Freakin' Snake (2023); Big Freakin' Snake (2023); Big Guns (2006); Black Belt Jones (1974); Cadillac Respect (2026); Capital Punishment (1991); Cat in the Cage (1978); Celluloid Slaughter (2020); Check Point (2017); Cooking in with Joycelyne (2015); Critical Fumble (2014); Dawna of the Darkness (2019–2021); Dear God (1996); Direct Hit (1994); Doll Killer 2 (2021); Drifter TKD (2008); Ebola Rex (2021); Ebola Rex Versus Murder Hornets (2021); Enter the Samurai (2020); Eternal Code (2019); Everybody with Angela Williamson (2021); Exit to Eden (1994); Expert Weapon (1993); Eye on Entertainment (2016–2021); EZ Talk Live (2018); Facebook Live with Ford & Vida (2016); Family Reunion (1989); Fight or Die (2016); Force of Darkness (1985); Force: Five (1981); Future War (1997); Game of Death (1978); Gangsters Incorporated (2015); Giants (2000); GiAnts (2008); Hard Way Heroes (2010); Hell of the Screaming Undead (2023); Holy Terror (2017); I'm Not Bruce (2025); Kill Factor (2010); Kung Fu Drifter (2022); Last American Horror Show: Volume II (2022); Last Convict Standing (2017); LeagueOne: In the Spotlight! (2017); Lovely But Deadly (1981); Mannix (1973); Martial Arts Mania (2015); Mega Ape (2023); Moonbase (1997); MoreHorror in Hollywood (2015–2017); Movie Nights (2010–2011); Nemesis 5: The New Model (2017); Pastor Greg (2006); Pocket Ninjas (1997); Power Elite (2002); Praise the Lord (1998); Quakeasaurus (2022); Rattlers 2 (2021); Realm of Shadows (2024); RoboWoman (2019); Rolan Bolan: Children of the Revolution (2016); Runaway Killer (2025); Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015); Scorpion Girl (2017); Scorpion Girl: The Awakening (2020); Space Sharks (2024); Stale Popcorn and Sticky Floors (2023); Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017); Suspense (2016–2019); SWAT: Warhead One (2004); Sword of Heaven (1985); Syndicate Smasher (2017); Tales for the Campfire 3 (2020); Tales of Frankenstein (2018); The 700 Club (1977); The Beast Beneath (2023); The Blue Knight (1976); The Creeps 2 (2021); The F.B.I. (1971); The F-Zone (1997); The Love-Ins (1967); The Match-Stick Flame Prologue (2019); The Paradise Motel (2022); The Tehran Incident (1979); The Ultimate Warrior (1975); The Universe Multicultural Film Festival in 2019 (2019); Thunderkick (2008); Tom Horn (1980); Toxic Tutu (2017); Truck Turner (1974); Vampire Assassin (2005); Virginia Hill (1974); When It Rings (2023); Which Way to the Front? (1970); Zombi VIII: Urban Decay (2021).

Born on this day – Bill Cobbs:

Bill Cobbs

Actor

June 16, 1934 – June 25, 2024

Credits:

10-8: Officers on Duty (2003); 53 in 59: The Team That Made a Town Forget Defeat (2017); A Boy and a Boa (1975); A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977); A House Is Not a Home (2015); A Mighty Wind (2003); African American History Parade (2011); Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2020); Air Bud (1997); Always Outnumbered (1998); Army Wives (2008); As Evil Does (2018); Baby... I'm Back! (1978); Back in the Game (2013); Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003); Beyond the Law (2019); Beyond the Silence (2016); Bill and the Eco Stars Adventures (2025); Bird (1988); Bitter Winter (2001); Black Water Transit (2009); Block Party (2022); Branch Line (2012); Broken Church (2025); Call Me King (2017); Captiva Island (1995); Carolina Skeletons (1991); Caroltyn (2022); Christmas in Palm Springs (2014); Clipped Wings, They Do Fly (2018); Coach (1993); Compromising Positions (1985); Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008); Dear Secret Santa (2013); Decoration Day (1990); Demolition Man (1993); Designing Women (1990); Dino Dana (2017–2019); Dino Dana: The Movie (2020); Divas (1995); Dominick and Eugene (1988); Duck (2005); Ed (1996); Empty Nest (1994); Enough (2002); ER (1996); Exiled in America (1992); Family Teamwork (1979); Fatal Instinct (1993); First Kid (1996); First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson (1975); Five Corners (1987); Fluke (1995); For All Time (2000); For Your Love (1998–1999); FuN? (2017); Gabriel's Fire (1990); Get Low (2009); Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); Go On (2012–2013); Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1995); Good Times (1976); Greased Lightning (1977); Greenleaf (2016–2017); Grim Abdication (2008); Hand of God (2015); Hannah Royce's Questionable Choices (2017); HappySAD (2009); Hard Luck (2006); Harry's Law (2011); High Incident (1997); Homeroom (1989); Hope Floats (1998); Hurricane in the Rose Garden (2009); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); I'll Fly Away (1991–1993); I'll Fly Away: Then and Now (1993); Incandescent Love (2023); Inner Demon (2005); Intruso a medianoche (2024); JAG (2001–2003); Johnny Bull (1986); Kate & Allie (1986); Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995); L.A. Doctors (1998); L.A. Law (1988); Lost (2004); Lukewarm (2012); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Making 'The Great Gilly Hopkins' (2016); Man with a Gun (1995); Married People (1990); Moe's World (1992); Mojave Moon (1996); My Christmas Grandpa (2017); My Summer Friend (2009); My Wife and Kids (2002); New Jack City (1991); New Life (2016); Night at the Museum (2006); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014); Nightjohn (1996); No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School (2010); Northern Exposure (1994); NYPD Blue (1996–2003); October Road (2007); Of Mind and Music (2014); On Angel's Wings (2014); One Life to Live (1986); One Tree Hill (2008); Out There (1995); Oz the Great and Powerful (2013); Paulie (1998); Philly (2001); Picking Tribes (1989); Players at the Poker Palace (2008); Rage of Angels (1983); Rake (2014); Random Hearts (1999); Return to Sender (2005); Roadside Prophets (1992); Rugrats (2001); Sabora Mi (2025); Saving Paradise (2021); SEGAL (2025); Sent (2006); Sesame Street (1985–1986); Side Order of Life (2007); Silkwood (1983); Six Feet Under (2001); Soul Food (2004); Soulmates (1997); Special Ed (2005); Spenser: For Hire (1987); Squirrel Man (2005); Star Trek: Enterprise (2005); Stars in the House (2020); Steadfast (2009); Stories from the Edge / Segment: Tuesday Morning Ride (1996); Streets of Gold (1986); Stroll (2010); Sunshine State (2002); Superior Donuts (2018); Suspect (1987); Sweet Deadly Dreams (2006); TCM Remembers 2024 (2024); That Thing You Do! (1996); The Arcadian (2011); The Bay (2014); The Bodyguard (1992); The Brother from Another Planet (1984); The Carmichael Show (2017); The Color of Money (1986); The Cotton Club (1984); The Dark Horse (2008); The Derby Stallion (2005); The Division (2003); The Drew Carey Show (2002–2004); The Equalizer (1985); The Fighting Fitzgeralds (2001); The Final Patient (2005); The Glades (2010); The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015); The Gregory Hines Show (1997–1999); The Hard Way (1991); The Hitter (1978); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); The Interims: When Between Time & Place (Date?); The January Man (1989); The Last Letter (2013); The Mastermind 5 (2025); The Member of the Wedding (1982); he Michael Richards Show (2000); The Morgue (2008); The Mortuary (2004); The Muppets (2011); The Oscars (2025); The Others (2000); The Outer Limits (1997–2000); The People Under the Stairs (1991); The Practice (2000); The Search for Santa Paws (2010); The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988); The Sopranos (2000); The Stiller & Meara Show (1986); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); The Tenant (2010); The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1990); The Ultimate Gift (2006); The Ultimate Legacy (2016); The Ultimate Life (2013); The Undershepherd (2012); The Watcher (1995); The Wayans Bros. (1997); The Weight (2017); The West Wing (2002); The Wild Thornberrys (1998); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); This Man's Life (2008); Three Days to Vegas (2007); Thrill (1996); Tiffany at Breakfast (2014); Touched by an Angel (2001); Trading Places (1983); True Colors (1991); Tuesday Morning Ride (1995); Vampires in Venice (2013); Walker, Texas Ranger (1997); Way Black When: Primetime (2011); Yes, Dear (2005).

Born on this day – Gene Winfield:

Gene Winfield

Special effects designer

Actor

June 16, 1927 – March 4, 2025

Credits:

Against All Odds, the Making of DEUCE of SPADES (2016); Bitchin' Rides (2017); Crazy America (2017); Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007); Deuce of Spades (2011); Full Custom Garage (2019–2021); Jay Leno's Garage (2016–2019); Motor MythBusters (2021); Mr. Fantastic & The Wonderful Depot (2015); RoboCop (1987); Solar Crisis (1990); The Last Starfighter (1984); The Photographer (1974); Trancers (1984); TV's Greatest Cars (2004); Visual Futurist: The Art & Life of Syd Mead (2006); World of Cars (2020).

Born on this day – Faith Domergue:

Faith Domergue

Actress

June 16, 1924 – April 4, 1999

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); Amore grande, amore libero (1976); Blues in the Night (1941); Bonanza (1961–1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Bronco (1960); California (1963); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cheyenne (1959); Colt .45 (1960); Combat! (1966); Cult of the Cobra (1955); Dancing in a Harem (1941); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1982); Escort West (1959); Fireside Theatre (1954); Garrison's Gorillas (1968); General Electric Theater (1954); Hardly a Criminal (1949); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); Il cielo brucia (1958); It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955); Lo stato d'assedio (1969); Lock Up (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1954); Michael Shayne (1960); Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996); One on Top of the Other (1969); Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Rogue for Hire (1960); Santa Fe Passage (1955); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); So Evil, My Sister (1974); Spin a Dark Web (1956); State Trooper (1959); Sugarfoot (1959); Svengoolie (1997); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Atomic Man (1955); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Duel at Silver Creek (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Gamblers (1970); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); The Horror Show (1979); The House of Seven Corpses (1974); The Man with Icy Eyes (1971); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Tall Man (1961); This Is My Love (1954); This Island Earth (1955); Track of Thunder (1967); Vendetta (1950); Violent Stranger (1957); Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965); War of the Planets (1958); Where Danger Lives (1950); Will to Die (1971); Young Widow (1946).

Born on this day – Frances Rafferty:

Frances Rafferty

Actress

Dancer, June 16, 1922 – April 18, 2004

Credits:

Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alcoa Theatre (1958); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Bad Bascomb (1946); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Big Town (1952); Broadway Rhythm (1944); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Cavalcade of America (1954); Chevron Theatre (1952); Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1955); Curley (1947); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Dave and Charley (1953); December Bride (1954–1959); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Dragnet (1953–1954); Dragon Seed (1944); Fingers at the Window (1942); Fireside Theatre (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1953); Girl Crazy (1943); Half Nelson (1985); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Lady at Midnight (1948); Lassie (1957); Lost Honeymoon (1947); Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Matinee Theatre (1956); Money Madness (1948); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Three Sons (1964); Mystery Is My Business (1954–1957); Oboler Comedy Theatre (1949); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Personalities (1942); Pete and Gladys (1962); Pilot #5 (1943); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Public Defender (1954–1955); Racket Squad (1952–1953); Rodeo (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1955); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Stage 7 (1955); Stars Over Hollywood (1950); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Hidden Eye (1945); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1960); The Millionaire (1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954); The Shanghai Story (1954); The Streets of San Francisco (1975–1977); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Thousands Cheer (1943); Topper (1954); Treasury Men in Action (1952–1955); Twenty Years After (1944); Wings of Chance (1961); Young Ideas (1943); Your Favorite Story (1953); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).