Born on this day – Janet MacLachlan:

Janet MacLachlan

Actress

August 27, 1933 – October 11, 2010

Credits:

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011); A Family for Joe (1990); A Private Affair (2000); ABC Weekend Specials (1981); Alias (2002); All in the Family (1979); Amen (1988–1990); American Playhouse (1983); Archie Bunker's Place (1980); Baby Girl Scott (1987); Baretta (1976); Barney Miller (1976); Beauty and the Beast (1988); Big Shots (1987); Black Listed (2003); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Cagney & Lacey (1982–1987); CBS Playhouse (1969); Change of Mind (1969); Circle of Fear (1972); Covenant (1995); Criminal Passion (1994); Cutter (1972); Daktari (1967); Dark Victory (1976); Darker Than Amber (1970); Days of Our Lives (1998–1999); Ellery Queen (1976); ER (1995); Family Law (2000–2001); Fantasy Island (1983); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1990); Film Making Techniques: Acting (1973); For Keeps? (1988); Free Spirit (1989); Friends (1979); Gabriel's Fire (1990); Generations (1990); Good Times (1978); Griff (1974); Halls of Anger (1970); Heart and Souls (1993); Hill Street Blues (1984); Home Improvement (1995); I Spy (1967); In the Heat of the Night (1994); Insight (1968–1976); Ironside (1969); It's Your Bet (1973); Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981); Killer Instinct (1988); Knots Landing (1989); L.A. Law (1986); Longstreet (1971); Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style (1976); Love Story (1973); Love Thy Neighbor (1973); Maurie (1973); Medical Center (1974); Midnight Caller (1990); Mod Squad (1969); Moonlighting (1988); Most Wanted (1977); Murder One (1996–1997); Murder, She Wrote (1985–1994); Murphy Brown (1989); Murphy's Law (1986); My Friend Tony (1969); My Last Love (1999); NYPD Blue (1995); Our House (1987); Pinocchio's Revenge (1996); Police Story (1974); Punky Brewster (1985); Quincy, M.E. (1983); Rafferty (1977); Reasonable Doubts (1992); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978); Run for Your Life (1966); Runaway Father (1991); S.W.A.T. (1975); Santa Barbara (1985); She's in the Army Now (1981); Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992); Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain (1983); Sounder (1972); Star Trek (1967); The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Big Squeeze (1996); The Blue Knight (1975); The Boy Who Could Fly (1986); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The F.B.I. (1966–1968); The Fugitive (1966); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Golden Girls (1987); The Interns (1971); The Invaders (1968); The Kid from Nowhere (1982); The Man (1972); The Manhunter (1975); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972); The Movie Game (1970); The Name of the Game (1969–1970); The Other Victim (1981); The Rockford Files (1975); The Six Million Dollar Man (1975); The Sophisticated Gents (1981); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Thirteenth Floor (1999); The Tuskegee Airmen (1995); There Goes My Baby (1994); Thursday's Child (1983); Tick, Tick, Tick (1970); Tightrope (1984); Toughlove (1985); Tracks of Glory (1992); Trapper John, M.D. (1985); Trouble Comes to Town (1973); Uptight (1968); What's Happening!! (1976); Who's the Boss? (1987); Wild Jack (1989); Winners (1978); Wonder Woman (1977).

Born on this day – Marilyn Lovell:

Marilyn Lovell

Actress

August 27, 1931 – April 13, 2012

Credits:

Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); The Return of Count Yorga (1971); The Outsider (1969); Captain Nice (1967); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The Munsters (1964); The Nut House!! (1964); Naked City (1962–1963); Route 66 (1963); Tightrope (1959); Stanley (1956).

Born on this day – Ira Levin:

Ira Levin

Writer

August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007

Credits:

Books:

Rosemary's Baby (1967); Son of Rosemary (1997); A Kiss Before Dying (1953); This Perfect Day (1970); The Stepford Wives (1972); The Boys from Brazil (1976); Sliver (1991); Interlock (1956); No Time For Sergeants (1956); Critic's Choice (1962); Dr. Cook's Garden (1968); Veronica's Room (1974); Deathtrap (1978); Break a Leg (1981); Cantorial (1990).

Movies and television:

A Kiss Before Dying (1956 / 1991 / 2024); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958); Apartment 7A (2024); Ashen Lit Box Set (2018); Barbra: The Concert (1994); Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965); Critic's Choice (1963); Cybill (1995); Deathtrap (1982); Dr. Cook's Garden (1971); Footsteps (2003); General Electric Theater (1961); Great Performances (2001); Guiding Light (1982); In Melbourne Tonight (1969); It's a Living (1988); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1955); La semilla del diablo (2020); Lights Out (1951); Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976); Martinez, Margaritas and Murder! (2024); Matinee Theatre (1956); Midnight Caller (1990); No Time for Sergeants (1958–1965); Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980); Rosemary's Baby (1968 / 2005 / 2014 / 2017); Saturday Night Live (1993); Sliver (1993 / 2014); Sliver: Alternate Ending (1993); Sliver: Alternate Opening (1993); Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby (2014); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The Boys from Brazil (1978 / 2014); The Caves of Steel / Story Parade (1964); The Clock (1950); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The Graham Kennedy Show (1972); The Stepford Children (1987); The Stepford Wives (1975 / 2004 / 2024); Tu das nicht, Angelika (1965); Women of the House (1995); Working in the Theatre (1982).

Born on this day – Susan Willis:

Susan Willis

Actress

August 27, 1925 – May 14, 2009

Born on this day – George Montgomery:

George Montgomery

Actor

Painter

Director

Producer

Writer

Sculptor

Furniture craftsman

Stuntman

August 27, 1916 – December 12, 2000

Born on this day – Helen Gibson:

Helen Gibson

Actress

Vaudeville performer

Producer

Rodeo rider

Stunt woman

August 27, 1892 – October 10, 1977

Credits:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Johnny Ringo (1959); Bonanza (1959); The Horse Soldiers (1959); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954); The Man from the Alamo (1953); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Horizons West (1952); Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952); The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952); The Dakota Kid (1951); Hollywood Story (1951); Kansas Raiders (1950); Lonely Heart Bandits (1950); Crooked River (1950); Outcasts of the Trail (1949); Cheyenne Cowboy (1949); The Scarlet Horseman (1946); The Climax (1944); The Blocked Trail (1943); The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942); The Sombrero Kid (1942); Wyoming (1941); Sheriff of Tombstone (1941); The Singing Hill (1941); Young Bill Hickok (1940); The Trail Blazers (1940); Deadwood Dick (1940); Covered Wagon Trails (1940); Cowboys from Texas (1939); Saga of Death Valley (1939); The Marshal of Mesa City (1939); New Frontier (1939); The Oregon Trail (1939); Spoilers of the Range (1939); Southward Ho! (1939); Stagecoach (1939); Flaming Frontiers (1938); The Old Barn Dance (1938); Luck of Roaring Camp (1937); Danger Valley (1937); Range Defenders (1937); Git Along Little Dogies (1937); Jungle Jim (1937); Roarin' Lead (1936); Ride, Ranger, Ride (1936); Winds of the Wasteland (1936); Last of the Warrens (1936); Lady of Secrets (1936); The Lawless Nineties (1936); Custer's Last Stand (1936); Gun Play (1935); Fighting Caballero (1935); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); The Drunkard (1935); Cyclone of the Saddle (1935); The Pecos Kid (1935); 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934); The Way of the West (1934); Rocky Rhodes (1934); Wheels of Destiny (1934); King of the Arena (1933); Law and Lawless (1932); The Silver Lining (1932); Single-Handed Sanders (1932); Human Targets (1932); The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Vanishing West (1928); The Chinatown Mystery (1928); Heroes of the Wild (1927); Thorobred (1922); Nine Points of the Law (1922); The Wolverine (1921); No Man's Woman (1921); No Man's Woman (1921); Wires Down (1920); Winning the Franchise (1920); Trail of the Rails (1920); The Payroll Pirates (1920); The Overland Express (1920); The Golden Star Bandit (1920); Flirting with Terror (1920); The Daring Daughter (1920); Clutch of the Law (1920); The Broken Trestle (1920); The Broken Brake (1920); The Ghost of the Canyon (1920); Border Watch Dogs (1920); Daring Danger (1919); Loot (1919); Down But Not Out (1919); Ace High (1919); Gun Law (1919); Rustlers (1919); The Black Horse Bandit (1919); Riding Wild (1919); The Canyon Mystery (1919); The Secret Peril (1919); Wolves of the Range (1918); The Robber (1918); Captured Alive (1918); The Silent Sentinel (1918); The Dead Shot (1918); The Fast Mail (1918); Under False Pretenses (1918); Danger Ahead (1918); Bawled Out (1918); The Pay Roll Express (1918); The Branded Man (1918); The Midnight Flyer (1918); Play Straight or Fight (1918); The Deserted Engine (1917); Fighting Mad (1917); The Detective's Danger (1917); Danger Ahead (1917); The End of the Run (1917); Saving the Fast Mail (1917); The Dynamite Special (1917); A Perilous Leap (1917); The Wrong Man (1917); A Race to the Drawbridge (1917); The Railroad Smugglers (1917); The Munitions Plot (1917); The Lone Point Feud (1917); The Mystery of the Burning Freight (1917); The College Boys' Special (1917); The Borrowed Engine (1917); The Registered Pouch (1917); In the Path of Peril (1917); The Sidetracked Sleeper (1917); The Prima Donna's Special (1917); The Death Siding (1917); The Railroad Claim Intrigue (1917); The Wrecked Station (1917); The Fireman's Nemesis (1917); The Mogul Mountain Mystery (1917); A Race with Death (1916); The Vanishing Box Car (1916); The Midnight Express (1916); The Lineman's Peril (1916); The Trial Run (1916); The Forgotten Train Order (1916); The Runaway Sleeper (1916); The Lone Point Mystery (1916); The Gate of Death (1916); The Lost Messenger (1916); A Daring Chance (1916); To Save the Special (1916); The Blocked Track (1916); The Death Swing (1916); Defying Death (1916); The Hoodoo of Division B (1916); Ablaze on the Rails (1916); The Secret of the Box Car (1916); At Danger's Call (1916); With the Aid of the Wrecker (1916); Hurled Through the Drawbridge (1916); A Mystery of the Rails (1916); A Plunge from the Sky (1916); In Death's Pathway (1916); The Broken Brake (1916); To Save the Road (1916); The Engineer's Honor (1916); The Mysterious Cipher (1916); A Race Through the Air (1916); The Treasure Train (1916); The Spiked Switch (1916); The Capture of Red Stanley (1916); One Chance in a Hundred (1916); The Bridge of Danger (1916); The Human Telegram (1916); The Trail of Danger (1916); The Governor's Special (1916); The Race for a Siding (1916); The Record Run (1916); The Trapping of 'Peeler' White (1916); The Detective's Peril (1916); The Girl Who Dared (1916); A Race for a Life (1916); The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve (1916); The Switchman's Story (1916); The Perilous Swing (1916); The Peril of the Rails (1916); The Broken Wire (1916); Tapped Wires (1916); The Open Track (1916); The Haunted Station (1916); When Seconds Count (1916); At the Risk of Her Life (1916); Boy at the Throttle (1915); The Wrong Train Order (1915); Crossed Wires (1915); The Tramp Telegrapher (1915); The Dynamite Train (1915); The Girl on the Bridge (1915); The Girl and the Special (1915); Danger Ahead! (1915); The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children (1915); A Mile a Minute (1915); The Hazards of Helen (1914); A Girl of the Range (1913); Old Moddington's Daughters (1913); Ranch Girls on a Rampage (1912).

Born on this day – Theodore Dreiser:

Theodore Dreiser

Writer

August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945

Credits:

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A Century of Horror (1971); American Ghost Stories (1928); An American Tragedy (1925); Dawn (1931); Great Short Stories of the World (1986); Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1994); Jennie Gerhardt (1911); Masters of Horror and the Supernatural (2010); Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural (1916); Quiver of Horror (1965); Rod Serling's Devils and Demons (1967); Sister Carrie (1904); The Bulwark (1946); The Financier (1912); The Genius (1915); The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Stoic (1947); The Titan (1914); Uncanny Tales 3 (1976).

Movies and television:

A Place in the Sun (1951); Americká tragédia (1976); Amerikietiska tragedija (1981); An American Tragedy (1931); Camille (1926); Carrie (1952); Hi no ataru basho (1982); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); Jennie Gerhardtová (1980); Lux Video Theatre (1954); My Gal Sal (1942); Nakaw na pag-ibig (1980); Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996); Television Theater (1955); The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951); The Window (1970); Um Lugar ao Sol (1959); Una tragedia americana (1962); Uragan (1970); V pasti (1956); Verano ardiente (1971); Zapadnya (1965).