Born on this day – Alex Toth:

Alex Toth

Cartoonist

June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006

Credits:

Adventures Into Digital Comics (2006); Battle of the Planets (1978–1980); Bionic Six (1987); Bird of Steel! (2024); Birdman (1967–1987); C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979); Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977–1980); Captain Fathom (1965); Cartoon Planet (1995–1999); Cartoon Superheroes Abridged (2015); Clue Club (1976); Devlin (1974); Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976–1977); Fantastic Four (1967); Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles (1966); Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2018); Jabberjaw (1976); Jack and the Beanstalk (1967); Jonny Quest (1965); Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space (1972); Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967); Project X (1968); Robin Hood (1973); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980); Scooby's Laff-A Lympics (1977–1979); Sealab 2020 (1972); Sealab 2021 (2000–2001); Shazzan (1967); Sin City (2005); Skyhawks (1969–1971); Space Angel (1962–1964); Space Ghost (1966–2021); Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1993–2004); Super Friends (1973–1978); The Angry Red Planet (1959); The Herculoids (1967–1969); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1978); Thundarr the Barbarian (1980).

Born on this day – Virginia Patton:

Virginia Patton

Actress

June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022

Credits:

TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); The Lucky Stiff (1949); Black Eagle (1948); A Double Life (1947); The Burning Cross (1947); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Nobody Lives Forever (1946); Canyon Passage (1946); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Last Ride (1944); Janie (1944); Grandfather's Follies (1944); Roaring Guns (1944); Old Acquaintance (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).

Born on this day – Sidney Lumet:

Sidney Lumet

Director

Producer

Writer

June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); 50 Years of Action! (1986); 100 Centre Street (2001–2002); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Stranger Among Us (1992); A View from the Bridge (1962); AFI Life Achievement Award (2007); AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres (2008); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); All the King's Men (1958); American Experience (2006); American Masters (2003–2017); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1977); Based on a True Story (2004); Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' (2008); Beyond the Time Barrier (1960); Biography (1999–2003); Blue Code of Silence (2020); By Sidney Lumet (2015); Bye Bye Braverman (1968); Camera Three (1962); CBS Television Workshop (1952); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Charlie Rose (1995–2007); Child's Play (1972); Cinema (1967); Cinema 3 (2011); Cinema mil (2005); Crime Photographer (1951–1952); Critical Care (1997); Cronkite Remembers (1997); Danger (1951–1953); Daniel (1983); De película (1987); Deathtrap (1982); Días de cine (2011); Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made (2008); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); 'Dog Day Afternoon': After the Filming (2006); 'Dog Day Afternoon': Casting the Controversy (2006); 'Dog Day Afternoon': Recreating the Facts (2006); Equus (1977); Fail Safe (1964); Family Business (1989); Film '72 (1973–1987); Find Me Guilty (2006); Finding Eleazar (2004); FOLCS Conversations (2006); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Frontier (1955); Funny (1988); Garbo Talks (1984); Gloria (1999); Goodyear Playhouse (1955–1956); Guilty as Sin (1993); Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958); Hollywood Greats (1984); Hollywood Insider (2021–2022); I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009); Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004); In Her Skin (2009); Inside 'Serpico' (2002); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000); John Brown's Raid (1960); John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (2017); Journey to Jerusalem (1941); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1959); Le 100 Centre Street De Sidney Lumet (2002); L'énigme Charlotte Rampling (2023); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Lovin' Molly (1974); Lumet on Lumet (2011); Lumet: Film Maker (1975); Making 'Murder on the Orient Express' (2004); Mama (1954); Messengers (2004); Milestones in Cinema History: The Verdict (2007); Minty Comedic Arts (2021); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Lumet (1985); Mr. Broadway (1957); Mr. Broadway (1957); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Network (1976); 'Network': Mad as Hell - The Creation of a Movie Moment (2006); 'Network': The Cast, the Characters (2006); 'Network': The Experience (2006); 'Network': The Style (2006); 'Network': The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky (2006); New York at the Movies (2002); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus (1954–1957); ...One Third of a Nation... (1939); Papirossen (1936); Party Girl (1995); Paul Newman, l'intranquille (2023); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1960); Power (1986); Prince of the City (1981); Prince of the City: The Real Story (2007); Private Screenings (2005); Private Screenings (2014); Producers' Showcase (1957); Q&A (1990); Rachel Getting Married (2008); Rachel, quand du seigneur (2004); Release (1968); Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000); Running on Empty (1988); Sean Connery Close Up (1997); Sean Connery: A BAFTA Tribute (1990); Sean Connery: An Intimate Portrait (1997); Serpico (1973); 'Serpico': Favorite Moments (2002); 'Serpico': From Real to Reel (2002); Sidney Lumet: I Love New York (1987); Spécial cinéma (1983); Special Collector's Edition (2013); Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003); Stage Struck (1958); Star Stage (1955); Strip Search (2004); Studio One (1957); Sunday Showcase (1960); TCM Remembers (2011); That Kind of Woman (1959); The 17th Annual Gotham Awards (2007); The 400 Million (1939); The 45th Annual Directors Guild Awards (1993); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005); The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Anderson Tapes (1971); The Annual ACLU Tribute: A Salute to Sidney Lumet (1985); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Appointment (1969); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The British Greats (1980); The Challenge (1955); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Dick Cavett Show (1968–1995); The Directors (1999); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1958); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fugitive Kind (1960); The Group (1966); The Hill (1965); The Iceman Cometh (1960); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1997); The Last Movie Stars (2022); The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); The Manchurian Candidate: Political Pundits (2004); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The Morning After (1986); The Offence (1973); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2012); The Pawnbroker (1964); The Sea Gull (1968); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Station Agent (2003); The Sun... the Sand... the Hill (1965); The Tramp and the Dictator (2002); The Verdict (1982); The Verdict: Paul Newman - The Craft of Acting (2007); The Verdict: Sidney Lumet - The Craft of Directing (2007); The Wiz (1978); This Is Your Life (1990); Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda (1988); What Is Cinema? (2013); William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989); Wiz on Down the Road (1978); You Are There (1953–1955).

Born on this day – Mary Livingstone:

Mary Livingstone

Actress

Comedienne

June 25, 1905 – June 30, 1983

Credits:

50 Years of Funny Females (1995); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975); Biography (1996); Bright Moments (1928); Buck Benny Rides Again (1940); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Here's Lucy (1970); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); It's in the Bag! (1945); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (1995); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mr. Broadway (1933); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Pair of Jacks (1953); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Show-Business at War (1943); Shower of Stars (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1957); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Jack Benny Program (1950–1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mouse That Jack Built (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); This Way Please (1937); Three of a Kind (1941).

Born on this day – George Orwell:

George Orwell

Writer

June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950

Credits:

Books:

1984 (1949); 40 Model Essays (2005); A Clergyman's Daughter (1935); A Collection of Essays (1970); A Kind of Compulsion (1999); A Life in Letters (2010); A Nice Cup Of Tea (1946); An Age Like This 1920-1940 (1971); Animal Farm (1945); As I Please, 1943-1945 (1968); Books v. Cigarettes (2008); Coming Up for Air (1939); Critical Essays (1951); Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays (1965); Diaries (2009); Dickens, Dali and Others (1946); Down and Out in Paris and London (1933); England Your England and Other Essays (1953); Facing Unpleasant Facts (1999); Fifty Essays (2015); Homage to Catalonia (1938); In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950 (1971); It Is What I Think (1999); Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936); Keeping Our Little Corner Clean (1999); Narrative Essays (2009); Orwell in Spain (2001); Orwell In Tribune (2007); Orwell The Lost Writings (1985); Orwell: A Celebration (2009); Orwell: The 'Observer' Years (2003); Orwell's England (2001); Our Job is to Make Life Worth Living (1999); Pages From a Scullion's Diary (1995); Selected Essays / Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1957); Selected Prose (1991); Selected Writings (1958); Smothered Under Journalism (1999); Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays (2010); The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1961); The Eloquent Essay (2000); The English People (1982); The Lion and the Unicorn (1962); The Penguin Essays of George Orwell (1984); The Road to Wigan Pier (1937); The Sayings of George Orwell (1994); The War Broadcasts (1985); Two Wasted Years (1999); War Commentaries (1985); Why I Write (2004); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies, television, theatre and audioplay:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1984 / aka Nineteen Eighty-Four (1956 / 1984 / 2006 / 2009 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023); 1984 a ballet by Jonathan Watkins (2016); 1984: A Personal View of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' (1983); A Merry War (1997); A Reading: 'You and the Atomic Bomb' (2017); About Religion (1964); Amélie Paul (2020); Animal Farm (1954 / 1999 / 2020); Anno Schmidt (1974); Apple Mac: 1984 (1983); Arena (1984); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); Big Brother (1970); Dobro vece, gospodine Orvel (1984); Dramarama (1984); Especial 84 (1984); Europa: The Last Battle (2017); Four Episodes from 1984 (1985); Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984); Hollywood Insider (2021); How to Become a Tyrant (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1965); LIT P.D. (2017); NET Playhouse (1968); rwell's England (1985); Peaceforce (2011); Poem 1984 (2020); Reminded (2023); Shooting an Elephant (2016); Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (2023); Studio One (1953); The Bolt Report (2024); The Dark Triad (2019); The Final Redpill (2022); The Rita Panahi Show (2023); Theatre 625 (1965).

Born on this day – Georgia Hale:

Georgia Hale

Actress

June 25, 1900 – June 17, 1985

Credits:

A Trick of Hearts (1928); A Woman Against the World (1928); Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003); Fashion News (1930); For Sale (1924); Gypsy of the North (1928); Hills of Peril (1927); His Marriage Wow (1925); Hollywood Party (1937); Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968); Lost Forever (2011); Man of the Forest (1926); No More Women (1924); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); The Floating College (1928); The Gold Rush (1925); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Last Moment (1928); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Rainmaker (1926); The Rawhide Kid (1928); The Salvation Hunters (1925); The Taxi Driver (1921); The Wheel of Destiny (1927); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Unknown Chaplin (1983).

Recommended reading - Blade Runner: The Inside Story, by Don Shay (2003):

Blade Runner: The Inside Story

By Don Shay.

Published by Titan Books.

Published 2003.

ISBN-10: 1840232102

ISBN-13: 9781840232103

Description:

In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand – copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition.

Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead.