Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Born on this day – Claudia McNeil:


Claudia McNeil

Actress

August 13, 1917 – November 25, 1993

Born on this day – John Beal:


John Beal

Actor

August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997

Born on this day – Rita Johnson:


Rita Johnson


Actress

August 13, 1913 – October 31, 1965

Credits:

6,000 Enemies (1939); All Mine to Give (1957); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment for Love (1941); Broadway Serenade (1939); Congo Maisie (1940); Edison, the Man (1940); Emergency Hospital (1956); Family Honeymoon (1948); Forty Little Mothers (1940); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Honolulu (1939); Letter of Introduction (1938); London by Night (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Maisie Was a Lady (1941); Man-Proof (1938); Michigan Kid (1947); Mr. & Mrs. North (1952); My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937); My Friend Flicka (1943); Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939); Pardon My Past (1945); Rebound (1952); Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938); Sleep, My Love (1948); Smashing the Rackets (1938); Stronger Than Desire (1939); Susan Slept Here (1954); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1955); The Affairs of Susan (1945); The Art Director (1949); The Big Clock (1948); The Christophers (1954); The Girl Downstairs (1938); The Golden Fleecing (1940); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Major and the Minor (1942); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Naughty Nineties (1945); The Perfect Marriage (1946); The Second Face (1950); They All Come Out (1939); They Won't Believe Me (1947); Thunderhead: Son of Flicka (1945); Within the Law (1939); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Charles Williams:


Charles Williams


Writer

August 13, 1909 – April 5, 1975

Credits:

Books:

A Touch of Death / aka Mix Yourself a Redhead; based on 1953 novella And Share Alike (1954); Aground (1960); All the Way / aka The Concrete Flamingo (1958); And The Deep Blue Sea (1971); Big City Girl (1951); Dead Calm; based on the novella Pacific Honeymoon (1963); Girl Out Back / aka Operator; based on 1957 novella entitled either Operator or Operation (1958); Go Home, Stranger (1954); Hell Hath No Fury / aka The Hot Spot (1953); Hill Girl (1951); Man on a Leash (1973); Man on the Run / aka Man in Motion (1958); Nothing in Her Way (1953); River Girl / aka The Catfish Tangle (1951); Scorpion Reef / aka Gulf Coast Girl; based on novella Flight to Nowhere (1955); Talk of the Town / aka Stain of Suspicion (1958); The Big Bite (1956); The Diamond Bikini (1956); The Long Saturday Night / aka Confidentially Yours; Finally, Sunday! (1962); The Sailcloth Shroud (1960); The Wrong Venus / aka Don't Just Stand There (1966); Uncle Sagamore and His Girls (1959).

Movies and television:

Banana Peel (1963); Confidentially Yours (1983); Dead Calm (1989); Diamond Bikini (1971); Don't Just Stand There (1968); Folio (1955); Joy House (1964); La fille des collines (1990); Le gros coup (1964); Mieux vaut courir (1989); The 3rd Voice (1960); The Deep (1970); The Dictator's Guns (1965); The Hot Spot (1990); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1975); The Pink Jungle (1968).

Born on this day – Evelyn Francisco:


Evelyn Francisco


Actress

August 13, 1904 – January 27, 1963

Credits:

Bashful Jim (1925); Bright Lights (1924); Flip Flops (1923); Galloping Bungalows (1924); Giddap! (1925); He Who Gets Smacked (1925); His First Flame (1927); His New Mamma (1924); King of the Herd (1927); Love and Kisses (1925); Madame Behave (1925); Masked Mamas (1926); Nize Monkey (1926); O.U. West (1925); Off His Beat (1925); Picking Peaches (1924); Scarem Much (1924); Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925); Tee for Two (1925); The Godless Girl (1928); The Half-Back of Notre Dame (1924); The Hollywood Kid (1924); The King of Kings (1927); The Plumber (1925); The Raspberry Romance (1925); The Wild Goose Chaser (1925); Uppercuts (1926).

Born on this day – Alfred Hitchcock:


Alfred Hitchcock

Director

August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980

Born on this day – Regis Toomey:


Regis Toomey

Actor

August 13, 1898 – October 12, 1991