Sunday, July 13, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Dead Pool (1988):


The Dead Pool

directed by Buddy Van Horn,
written by Steve Sharon,
based on a story by Steve Sharon, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw,
was released in the United States on July 13, 1988.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan C. Kim, David Hunt, Michael Currie, Michael Goodwin, Darwin Gillett, Anthony Charnota, Christopher P. Beale, John Vick, Jeff Richmond, Patrick N. Van Horn, Sigrid Wurschmidt, Jim Carrey, Deborah A. Bryan, Nicholas Love, Maureen McVerry, John X. Heart, Victoria Bastel, Kathleen Turco-Lyon, Michael Faqir, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Wallace Choy, Melodie Soe, Kristopher Logan, Scott Vance, Glenn Wright, Stu Klitsner, Karen Kahn, Shawn Elliott, Ren Reynolds, Ed Hodson, Edward Hocking, Diego Chairs, Patrick Valentino, Calvin Jones, Melissa Martin, Phil Dacey, Louis Giambalvo, Peter Anthony Jacobs, Bill Wattenburg, Hugh McCann, Suzanne Sterling, Lloyd Nelson, Charles Martinet, Taylor Gilbert, George Orrison, Marc Alaimo, Justin Whalin, Kris LeFan, Katie Bruce, Harry Demopoulos, John Frederick Jones, Martin Ganapoler, James W. Gavin, Craig Hosking, Steven Adler, Cynthia Brian, Michael E. Burgess, Richard Conti, Richard Conti, Brian Danker, Jack Duane, Duff McKagan, D.C. Murphy, Axl Rose, Slash, Theodore Carl Soderberg, Izzy Stradlin, John Woehrle.

On this day in music history - Idle Hours, by Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey (1961):


Idle Hours

Album by Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey,
recorded July 13, 1961.

Track list:

Darling I Miss You So; Long Time Blues; You Are My Life; Or Yes, Baby; Please Baby; Leave Me or Love Me; Idle Hours; You Have No Love in Your Heart; Good Luck Darling; No More Cryin’; I Got the Blues So Bad 6. End It All.

On this day in movie history - The Night Holds Terror (1955):


The Night Holds Terror

directed and written by Andrew L. Stone,
was released in the United States on July 13, 1955.
Based on the true 1953 Courtier case.
Music by Lucien Cailliet.


Cast:

Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes, David Cross, Eddie Marr, Jack Kruschen, Joyce McCluskey, Jonathan Hale, Barney Phillips, Roy Neal, Joel Marston, Guy Kingsford, Stanley Andrews, Charles Herbert, Barbara Woodell, William Woodson.

On this day in movie history - He Ran All the Way (1951):


He Ran All the Way

directed by John Berry,
written by Hugo Butler and Dalton Trumbo,
based on the novel by Sam Ross,
was released in the United States on July 13, 1951.
Music by Franz Waxman.


Cast:

John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, Gladys George, Norman Lloyd, Robert Hyatt, Clancy Cooper, Vici Raaf, Keith Hetherington, Robert Karnes.

Born on this day – Robert Forster:


Robert Forster


Actor

July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019

Credits:

4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1998); 10 Cent Pistol (2014); 13 Graves (2006); 29th Street (1991); A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks (2017); A Word on Westerns (2016); Acts of Vengeance (2017); Alcatraz (2012); All the Rage (1999); Alligator (1980); Alligator Author (2007); Amazing Stories (2020); American Grindhouse (2010); American Perfekt (1997); American Yakuza (1993); Army Wives (2007); Art of the Prank (2015); Automata (2014); Avalanche (1978); Backstrom (2015); Banyon (1971–1973); Better Call Saul (2020); Bigger (2018); Blockbuster Entertainment (2001); Bounty Hunters (2005); Breaking Bad (2013); Bus Driver (2016); Celebrity Page (2017); Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003); Checkered Flag (1990); Childrens Hospital (2015); Cleaner (2007); Clubhouse (2004); Coffee, Kill Boss (2013); Committed (1991); Confidence (2003); Countdown to Esmeralda Bay (1990); Counterforce (1988); Cover Me Babe (1970); Cover Story (1993); Cowboys and Angels (2000); Crossbow (1987–1988); Crossbow: The Movie (1989); CSI: NY (2011); Damsel (2018); Demolition University (1997); Dennis Miller Live (1998); Desperate Housewives (2007); Diamond Men (2000); Diplomatic Immunity (1991); Divorce (2016); Dragon Wars: D-War (2007); Due East (2002); El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014); Expecting Love (2009); Eye on Entertainment (2017); Family Tree (1999); Fastlane (2002–2003); Finder's Fee (2001); Firewall (2006); Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009); Gibbsville (1976); Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011); Godzilla: The Series (2000); Goliath Awaits (1981); Grampa's Cabin (2007); Grand Theft Parsons (2003); Grave Intentions / Segment: The Bridge Partner (2021); Guns & Lipstick (1995); Heartbreak High (1981); Heroes (2007–2008); Heroes Unmasked (2008); Hindsight (1996); Hollywood Harry (1985); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Home & Family (2017); Home (2015); Hotel (1987); Hotel Noir (2012); Huff (2004–2005); Human Nature (2001); I'm Dying Up Here (2017); In Between (1991); In the Shadow of a Killer (1992); Indie Film Hustle Show (2015); Intruders (2014); Ironside (2013); It's a Shame About Ray (2000); Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008); Jackie Brown (1997); Jackie Brown: How It Went Down (2002); Jake and the Fatman (1991); Jesse Hawkes (1989); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Journey Through Rosebud (1972); Judd for the Defense (1968); Justice League Unlimited (2005); Justine (1969); Kalamity (2010); Karen Sisco (2003–2004); Killer on the Loose (2011); King Cohen (2017); Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999); Knight Rider (1985); Lakeboat (2000); Last Man Standing (2012–2018); Le dernier film de Jess Franco (2013); Like Mike (2002); Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001); London Has Fallen (2016); Lone Hero (2002); Long Way Back (1990); Look Out, Haskell, It's Real: The Making of 'Medium Cool' (2001); Lucky Number Slevin (2006); Magnum, P.I. (1985); Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992); Me, Myself & Irene (2000); Medical Story (1975); Medium Cool (1969); Mick and Frankie (1989); Middle Men (2009); Mulholland Drive (2001); Mundo VIP (1998); Murder in Greenwich (2002); Murder, She Wrote (1986–1995); N.Y.P.D. (1967); Nakia (1974); Nasty (2018); Never the Same: The Prisoner-of-War Experience (2013); Night Vision (1997); No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad (2013); NTSF:SD:SUV (2013); Numb3rs (2006); Olympus Has Fallen (2013); Once a Hero (1987); One West Waikiki (1995); Original Gangstas (1996); Outside Ozona (1998); P.S.I. Luv U (1991); Peacemaker (1990); Phil (2019); Pieces of Dreams (1970); Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III (1994); Police Story (1975–1977); Premiere (1968); Psycho (1998); QT8: The First Eight (2019); Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking (2012); Rachael Ray (2018); Rear Window (1998); Red Carpet Report (2013–2019); Red Princess Blues (2010); Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967); Remembering 2019: In Memoriam (2019); Rise: Blood Hunter (2007); Roads to Riches (2002); Royce (1976); Run Fast (2015); SAG Foundation Conversations (2007); Satan's Princess (1989); Scanner Cop II (1995); Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash (1993); Silk Stalkings (1993); Small Crimes (2017); Small Town Crime (2017); Small Town Crime: Crime and Character (2018); Small Town Crime: Devising a Small Town Crime (2018); Somewhere Slow (2013); South Beach (1993); Spawn (1999); Standing Tall (1978); Street Time (2003); Stunts (1977); Supernova (2000); Survivor (2015); Tales from the Darkside (1987); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2016); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014–2015); That Guy Dick Miller (2014); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2020); The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster (2015); The A-List (2001); The American Side (2016); The Banker (1989); The Bannen Way (2010); The Biffle Murder Case (2015); The Big Take (2018); The Black Hole (1979); The Bridge Partner (2015); The Case for Christ (2017); The City (1977); The Code (2009); The Code: Cast Interviews (2009); The Confirmation (2016); The Darker Side of Terror (1979); The David Frost Show (1969); The Death Squad (1974); The Delta Force (1986); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Descendants (2011); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Eric Andre Show (2012); The Grid (2004); The Hunt for the BTK Killer (2005); The Joe Spinell Story (2001); The John Kerwin Show (2016); The Lady in Red (1979); The Magic of Marciano (2000); The Making of 'London Has Fallen' (2016); The Making of 'Survivor' (2015); The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair (2017); The Method (1996); The Movies That Made Me (2018); The Program (2015); The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019); The Simpsons (2008); The Soul Man (2012); The Spaghetti West (2005); The Stalking Moon (1968); The Trial (2010); The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020); Tilt (2005); Too Late (2015); Touching Home (2008); Transformers Prime (2012); Twin Peaks (2017); Uncle Sam (1996); Undefeated (2003); Unsung Hollywood (2014); Vigilante (1982); Walker, Texas Ranger (1995–1997); Walking the Edge (1985); What They Had (2018); Where's Angelo? (2003); Wild Seven (2006); Would Be Kings (2008); You'll Be Fine (2014).

Born on this day – Theresa Amayo:


Theresa Amayo


Actress

July 13, 1933 – January 24, 2022

Credits:

A Dona da Banca (2024); A Grande Mentira (1969); A Rainha Louca (1967); A Última Valsa (1969); A Viagem de Volta (1990); Capital Sin (1975–1976); Carmem (1987–1988); Doidas e Santas (2016); E Nós Aonde Vamos? (1970); Eu Sou o Tal (1959); Fuzileiro do Amor (1956); Gina (1978); Her Own Destiny (2004); Memorial de Maria Moura (1994); Meu Dia Chegará (1951); Na Corda Bamba (1958); O Barbeiro Que Se Vira (1958); O Camelô da Rua Larga (1958); O Diamante (1956); O Espantalho (1977); O Portador (1991); O Rei dos Ciganos (1966–1967); Os Homens São de Marte... E é pra Lá que Eu Vou (2017); Passo dos Ventos (1968); Paulo Coelho's Best Story (2014); Pé na Cova (2013); Perdidos de Amor (1953); Romeu e Julieta (1980); S.O.S.: Women to the Sea (2014); Sai de Baixo: O Filme (2019); Sangue e Areia (1967–1968); Santa de Um Louco (1953); Sorria, Você Está Sendo Filmado (2014); The Brazilians: The Women (2012); The Cariocas (2010); Trágica Mentira (1959); Tudo ou Nada (1986); Você Decide (1992–2000).

Born on this day – Leslie Brooks:


Leslie Brooks


Actress

Dancer

July 13, 1922 – July 1, 2011

Credits:

Blonde Ice (1948); Cigarette Girl (1947); City Without Men (1943); Cover Girl (1944); Hollow Triumph (1948); How's Your Love Life? (1971); I Love a Bandleader (1945); It's Great to Be Young (1946); Lucky Legs (1942); Navy Blues (1941); Nine Girls (1944); Overland to Deadwood (1942); Romance on the High Seas (1948); Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949); TCM Remembers (2011); The Cobra Strikes (1948); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941); The Man Who Dared (1946); The Playgirls (1942); The Secret of the Whistler (1946); The Talk of the Town (1942); Tonight and Every Night (1945); Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943); Underground Agent (1942); What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); You Were Never Lovelier (1942); You're in the Army Now (1941); Ziegfeld Girl (1941).