Sunday, July 27, 2025

Born on this day – Maury Chaykin:


Maury Chaykin

Actor

July 27, 1949 – July 27, 2010

Born on this day – Barbara Ferris:


Barbara Ferris


Actress

Model

July 27, 1942 – May 23, 2025

Credits:

Stage:

Can-Can (1954); Saved (1965); There's a Girl in My Soup (1966).

Movies and television:

A Chorus of Disapproval (1989); A Nice Girl Like Me (1969); A Pair of Briefs (1962); A Place to Go (1963); A Slight Case of... (1965); All in Good Faith (1985–1987); Bitter Harvest (1963); Brothers in Law (1962); Children of the Damned (1964); Conjugal Rights (1973); Contrasts (1968); Coronation Street (1961); Five Guineas a Week (1956); Having a Wild Weekend (1965); Interlude (1968); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Juke Box Jury (1965); Mr & Mrs Edgehill / BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Murder at the Wedding (1979); Oranges and Lemons (1973); Play for Today (1973); Rush Hour (1958); Sparrows Can't Sing (1963); Term of Trial (1962); The Cheaters (1962); The Girl-Getters (1964); The Human Jungle (1964); The ITV Play (1980); The Krays (1990); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Strauss Family (1972); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968); This Is Your Life (1985); Tom Thumb (1958); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1966 (1967); Zero One (1963).

Born on this day – Quentin Dean:


Quentin Dean


Actress

July 27, 1944 – May 7, 2003

Credits:

Lancer (1969); The High Chaparral (1969); The F.B.I. (1969); Mod Squad (1969); The Virginian (1968); The Young Runaways (1968); Stay Away, Joe (1968); The Big Valley (1967); Will Penny (1967); Judd for the Defense (1967); In the Heat of the Night (1967).

Born on this day – Lanny Flaherty:


Lanny Flaherty


Actor

July 27, 1942 – February 18, 2024

Credits:

Little America (2020); Cold in July (2014); Alpha House (2013); Men in Black 3 (2012); All Good Things (2010); Forged (2010); White Collar (2009); The Exonerated (2005); Signs (2002); The Education of Max Bickford (2001–2002); Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000); Maze (2000); Third Watch (1999–2000); Homicide: The Movie (2000); Double Parked (2000); Home Fries (1998); A Simple Wish (1997); Tom and Huck (1995); New York News (1995); Waterworld (1995); Someone Else's America (1995); Natural Born Killers (1994); Sommersby (1993); Blood In, Blood Out (1993); Benny Hill's World Tour: New York! (1991); Mathnet (1991); The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991); Miller's Crossing (1990); Lonesome Dove (1989); Winter People (1989); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1988); Home at Last (1988); The Dirty Dozen (1988); The Equalizer (1985); The Edge of Night (1984).

Born on this day – Franca Polesello:


Franca Polesello

Actress

July 27, 1936 – March 8, 2021

Born on this day – Richard Ben Sapir:


Richard Ben Sapir


Writer

July 27, 1936 – January 1987

Credits:

Books:

A Pound of Prevention (2000); Acid Rock (1974); Air Raid (2002); American Obsession (1997); An Old-Fashioned War (1987); Angry White Mailmen (1996); Arabian Nightmare (1991); Assassin's Play-Off (1975); Bad Dog (2006); Balance of Power (1981); Bamboo Dragon (1997); Bidding War (1995); Blood Brotherhood (2021); Blood Lust (1991); Bloody Tourists (2003); Blue Smoke and Mirrors (1989); Brain Drain (1976); Brain Storm (1998); Bressio (1975); By Eminent Domain (2001); Chained Reaction (1978); Child's Play (1976); Chinese Puzzle (1973); Coin of the Realm (1989); Cold Warrior (1993); Created, the Destroyer (1972); Dark Ages (2005); Dark Horse (1992); Deadly Genes (1999); Deadly Seeds (1975); Death Check (1972); Death Sentence (1990); Death Therapy (1974); Disloyal Opposition (2001); Dr. Quake (1974); Dragon Bones (2006); Dream Thing (2005); Dying Space (1982); Engines of Destruction (1996); Fade To Black (2000); Failing Marks (1999); Father to Son (2002); Feast or Famine (1997); Fool's Gold (1983); Frightening Strikes (2005); Funny Money (1975); Ghost in the Machine (1992); Ground Zero (1991); High Priestess (1994); Holy Mother (2006); Holy Terror (1975); Hostile Takeover (1990); Identity Crisis (1994); In Enemy Hands (1977); Industrial Evolution (2004); Inside Sinanju (1985); Judgment Day (1974); Kill Or Cure (1975); Killer Chromosomes (1978); Killer Watts (2000); Killing Time (1982); King's Curse (1976); Last Drop (1983); Last Rites (1995); Last War Dance (1974); Look Into My Eyes (1987); Lords of the Earth (1985); Lost Yesterday (1986); Mafia Fix (1974); Market Force (2002); Master's Challenge (1984); Mindblower (2006); Misfortune Teller (1999); Mob Psychology (1992); Monumental Terror (2019); Mugger Blood (1977); Murder Ward (1974); Murder's Shield (1973); Never Say Die (1998); No Contest (2005); Oil Slick (1974); Political Pressure (2004); Profit Motive (1982); Prophet of Doom (1998); Quest (1987); Rain of Terror (1989); Remo: The Adventure Begins (1985); Scorched Earth (1996); Ship of Death (1977); Shock Value (1983); Shooting Schedule (1990); Skull Duggery (1990); Slave Safari (1973); Spies (1984); Spoils of War (1981); Sue Me (1986); Survival Course (1990); Syndication Rites (2001); Target of Opportunity (1994); Terminal Transmission (1993); Terror Squad (1973); The Arms of Kali (1984); The Best of the Destroyer (2007); The Body (1983); The Color of Fear (1995); The Day Remo Died (2015); The Destroyer Collection (2000); The Destroyer Collector's Ed. 2 (2000); The Empire Dreams (1998); The End of the Beginning (2002); The End of the Game (1985); The Far Arena (1978); The Final Crusade (1989); The Final Death (1977); The Final Reel (1998); The Head Men (1977); The Last Alchemist (1986); The Last Dragon (1993); The Last Monarch (2000); The Last Temple (1977); The Seventh Stone (1985); The Sky is Falling (1986); The Ultimate Death (1992); The Wrong Stuff (2001); Trial By Fire (2021); Troubled Waters (2003); Union Bust (1974); Unite and Conquer (1996); Unnatural Selection (2003); Unpopular Science (2004); Voodoo Die (1978); Walking Wounded (1988); Waste Not, Want Not (2003); White Water (1997); Wolf's Bane (2003).

Movies and television:

The Body (2001); Remo Williams: The Prophecy (1988); Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985).

Born on this day – Christine Carère:


Christine Carère


Actress

July 27, 1930 – December 13, 2008

Credits:

A Certain Smile (1958); A Free Woman (1954); A Private's Affair (1959); Anatole chéri (1954); Beauty and the Bullfighter (1954); Blue Light (1966); Bonjour jeunesse (1957); Cabaret du soir (1957); Cadet Rousselle (1954); Caroline Cherie (1953); Cinépanorama (1956); Delincuentes (1957); Don Juan (1956); Girls Who Like Girls (2001); High School (1954); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); I Deal in Danger (1966); La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985); La nuit des suspectes (1957); L'amour descend du ciel (1957); Le passage de Vénus (1951); Mardi Gras (1958); Olivia (1951); Paris chante toujours! (1951); Printemps à Paris (1957); Quelle sacrée soirée (1957); Sweet Madness (1951); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The Case of Poisons (1955); The Three from the Filling Station (1956); The Twilight Girls (1957); Tout chante autour de moi (1954); Trente-Six Chandelles (1957).