Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Born on this day – James Whitmore:


James Whitmore

Actor

October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009

Born on this day – Walter Matthau:


Walter Matthau

Actor

October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000

Born on this day – Ernest Haycox:


Ernest Haycox


Writer

October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Western Stories (2000); A Rider of the High Mesa (1956); Action by Night (1957); Action By Night / Trouble Shooter (1984); Alder Gulch (1942); Alder Gulch / Rider of the High Mesa (1983); Blizzard Camp (2022); Born to Conquer (1999); Brand Fires on the Ridge / aka Wipe Out the Brierlys (1959); Bugles in the Afternoon (1957); Bugles in the Night (1952); Bugle's Wake (1953); Burnt Creek (1996); By Rope and Lead / aka Stage to Lordsburg / Stage-coach (1949); Canyon Passage (1945); Chaffee of Roaring Horse (1949); Clouds on the Circle (1997); Dead Man Range / aka Son of the West (1930); Deep West (1955); Discovery Gulch (1929); Fighting Man / aka On the Prod (1961); Four Great Novels of the West (1997); Frank Peace, Trouble Shooter (1963); Free Grass (1958); Frontier Blood (1974); Great Tales of the West (1994); Grim Canyon (1960); Gun Talk (1956); Guns of Fury (1967); Guns Up (1994); Head of the Mountain (1959); High Wind (1999); Land Rush (1997); Lone Rider (1959); Long Storm (1956); Man in the Saddle (1953); Murder on the Frontier (1954); New Hope (1998); No Law and Order (1954); On a Silver Desert (2003); Outlaw (1953); Outlaw Guns (1964); Pioneer Loves (1948); Prairie Guns (1961); Rawhide Range (1954); Return of a Fighter (1956); Ride the Wild Trail (1974); Riders West (1959); Rim of the Desert (1953); Rim of the Desert / Dead Man's Range (1980); Rough Justice (1951); Saddle and Ride (1958); Saddle and Ride / the Feudists (1980); Scout Detail (1997); Secret River (1955); Sixgun Duo (1965); Stagecoach and Other Stories (1981); Starlight and Gunflame (1973); Starlight Rider (1958); Sundown (1955); Sundown Jim (1955); The Adventurers (1954); The Bold West (1999); The Border Trumpet (1939); The Earthbreakers (1960); The Feudists (1959); The Last Rodeo (1949); The Man From Montana (1964); The Silver Desert (1951); The Wild Bunch (1949); Trail Smoke (1954); Trail Town (1941); Trigger Trio (1966); Trouble Shooter (1954); Vengeance Trail (1960); Whispering Range (1955); Winds of Rebellion (1954).

Short stories:

A Battle Piece (1926); A Burnt Creek Yuletide (1924); A Girl Must Wait (1939); A Man Needs an Answer (1938); A Municipal Feud (1928); A New Deal in Sevensticks (1927); A Rider of the High Mesa (1927); A Wooing in the Wilds (1925); A Young Man's Fancy (1942); Against the Mob (1935); Always Remember (1942); An Interval in Youth (1938); At Anselm's (1944); At Wolf Creek Tavern (1933); Blizzard Camp (1932); Blizzard (1939); Born to Conquer (1936); Bound South (1928); Brand Fires on the Ridge (1929); Breed of the Frontier (1932); Budd Dabbles in Homesteads (1924); By Rope and Lead (1929); Call This Land Home (1948); Change of Station (1940); Contention—Two Miles Ahead (1929); Crossfire (1931); Cry Deep, Cry Still (1948); Custom of the Country (1948); Dark Land Waiting (1940); Dead-Man Trail (1948); Deep Winter (1943); Departure (1946); Deserter at Valley Forge (1927); Discovery Gulch (1929); Dispatch for the General (1942); Dolorosa, Here I Come (1931); Down the River (1938); Drums Roll (1927); Faithfully, Judith (1942); False Face (1926); Farewell, Laramie, Farewell! (1932); Fighting Man (1929); Five Hard Men (1929); Found Out (1932); Fourth Son (1939); Free Land (1937); From the Tuality (1943); Frontier Blood (1926); Gambler's Heart (1933); Guns Up! (1928); Hang Up My Gun (1932); High Wind (1935); Invitation by Bullet (1929); Light of the West (1926); Make Me Believe (1935); Manhunt (1931); Martinet (1941); McQuestion Rides (1931); Mrs. Benson (1948); Night of Parting (1948); Night Raid (1929); Odd Chance (1933); Old Tough Heart (1931); On Don Jaime Street (1940); Once and for All (1935); One Night in Blackfoot (1927); Only the Best (1943); Outlaw's Reckoning (1949); Paycheck (1943); Pistol Gap (1930); Prairie Yule (1925); Pride (1934); Proud People (1936); Red Knives (1925); Renegade Law (1929); Ride Out! (1931); Rockbound Honesty (1926); Room 515 (1940); Scout Detail (1938); Second Choice (1942); Second-Money Man (1933); Secret River (1928); Sevensticks Gambler (1928); Skirmish at Dry Fork (1942); Smoke Talk (1931); Smoky Pass (1934); Snow in the Canyon (1948); Some Were Brave (1940); Son of the West (1930); Stage to Lordsburg (1937); Starlight and Gunflame (1928); Stubborn People (1924); The Bandit from Paloma County (1929); The Belle of Sevensticks (1927); The Claim Jumpers (1940); The Code (1926); The Colonel's Choice (1942); The Coolie Catcher (1923); The Decision (1933); The Desert Eye (1928); The Ditch to Freedom (1924); The Drifter (1940); The Feudists (1932); The Fighting Call (1932); The Grim Canyon (1928); The Gun Singer (1931); The Gun-Shot Path (1927); The Hour of Fury (1933); The Inscrutable Man (1951); The Kid From River Red (1932); The Killers (1930); The Land That Women Hate (1949); The Long Years (1939); The Man From Montana (1927); The Man with Smoke Gray Eyes(1934); The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley (1928); The Quarrel (1941); The Return of a Fighter (1929); The Roaring Hour (1932); The Sheriff of Crooked Rib (1928); The Silver Saddle (1940); The Stranger (1936); The Timberline Fugitive (1927); The Trail of the Barefoot Pony (1929); The Trap Lifters (1922); Their Own Lights (1933); Their Own Lights (1933); Things Remembered (1949); This Woman and This Man (1938); Time of Change (1942); Under Western Skies (1927); Violent Interlude (1949); Way Up the Bozeman (1935); Weight of Command (1940); When Money Went to His Head (1924); Wild Horse Lode (1929); Winds of Rebellion (1927); Woman Hungry (1937).

Movies and television:

Abilene Town (1946); Actor's Studio (1949); Apache Trail (1942); Apache War Smoke (1952); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Canyon Passage (1946); Cimarron City (1959); General Electric Theater (1955–1958); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Man in the Saddle (1951); Medallion Theatre (1953); Montana (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Stagecoach (1939 / 1966 / 1986); Sundown Jim (1942); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1959); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); Theatre of the West (1955); Union Pacific (1939).

Born on this day – Faith Baldwin:


Faith Baldwin


Writer

October 1, 1893 – March 18, 1978

Credits:

Mavis of Green Hill (1921); Those Difficult Years (1925); Laurel of Stonystream (1923); Magic and Mary Rose (1924); Sign Posts (1924); Thresholds (1925); Three Women (1926); Departing Wings (1927); Alimony (1928); Betty (1928); Rosalie's Career (1928); Broadway Interlude (1929); Garden Oats (1929); Incredible Year (1929); Broadway Sensation (1930); Judy: A Story of Divine Corners (1930); Make-Believe (1930); The Office Wife (1929); Babs, A Story of Devine Corners (1931); Mary Lou, A Story of Divine Corners (1931); Skyscraper (1931); Today's Virtue (1931); District Nurse (1932); Girl on the Make (1932); Myra, A Story of Divine Corners (1932); Self-Made Woman (1932); Weekend Marriage (1932); Beauty (1933); Love's a Puzzle (1933); White Collar Girl (1933); American Family (1934); Honor Bound (1934); Innocent Bystander (1934); Within a Year (1934); Wife vs. Secretary (1935); The Puritan Strain (1935); Men Are Such Fools (1936); The Moon's Our Home (1936); Private Duty (1936); Heart Has Wings (1937); Manhattan Nights (1937); That Man Is Mine (1937); Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1937); Enchanted Oasis (1938); Hotel Hostess (1938); Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1938); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Career by Proxy (1939); High Road (1939); Station Wagon Set (1939); White Magic (1939); The High Road (1939); Arizona Star (1940); Letty and the Law (1940); Medical Center (1940); Rehearsal for Love (1940); Something Special (1940); And New Stars Burn (1941); Heart Remembers (1941); Temporary Address: Reno (1941); Blue Horizons (1942); Breath of Life (1942); Rest of My Life with You (1942); Washington USA (1943); You Can't Escape (1943); Change of Heart (1944); He Married a Doctor (1944); A Job for Jenny (1945); No Private Heaven (1946); Woman on Her Way (1946); Give Love the Air (1947); Sleeping Beauty (1947); An Apartment for Jenny (1947); Marry for Money (1948); Golden Shoestring (1949); For Richer, For Poorer (1949); Look Out for Liza (1950); Tell Me My Heart (1950); The Whole Armour (1951); Juniper Tree (1952); Widow's Walk, Variations on a Theme (1954); Face Towards the Spring (1956); Many Windows: Seasons of the Heart (1958); Three Faces of Love (1958); Blaze of Sunlight (1960); Testament of Trust (1960); Harvest of Hope (1962); The West Wind (1963); Living by Faith (1964); Lonely Man (1964); The Lonely Doctor (1964); Search For Tomorrow (1966); Evening Star (1966); There Is a Season (1966); Velvet Hammer (1969); Take What You Want (1971); Any Village (1972); One More Time (1972); No Bed of Roses (1973); New Girl in Town (1975); Time and the Hour (1975); Hold on to Your Heart (1976); Thursday's Child (1976); Adam's Eden (1977).

Born on this day – Alice Joyce:


Alice Joyce


Actress

October 1, 1890 – October 9, 1955

Credits:

13 Washington Square (1928); A Battle of Wits (1912); A Bolt from the Sky (1913); A Business Buccaneer (1912); A Cattle Herder's Romance (1911); A Celebrated Case (1914); A Daughter's Sacrifice (1912); A Princess of the Hills (1912); A Prisoner of Mexico (1911); A Race with Time (1912); A Streak of Yellow (1913); A Thief in the Night (1913); A Victim of Deceit (1913); An Alabaster Box (1917); An American Invasion (1912); An Interrupted Wedding (1912); An Unseen Terror (1913); Beau Geste (1926); Between Father and Son (1911); Big Hearted Jim (1911); By the Aid of a Lariat (1911); Cast Up by the Sea (1915); Cousin Kate (1921); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925); Dan, the Lighthouse Keeper (1911); Dancing Mothers (1926); Dollars and the Woman (1920); Don Ramon's Daughter (1911); Everybody's Girl (1918); Fantasca, the Gipsy (1912); Fate's Midnight Hour (1914); Find the Woman (1918); For a Woman's Honor (1910); For Her Brother's Sake (1911); For Her Sister's Sake (1913); Freed from Suspicion (1912); He Knew Women (1930); Headlines (1925); Her Indian Mother (1910); Her Lord and Master (1921); Her Secret (1917); Her Supreme Sacrifice (1915); Hollywood (1980); How Betty Captured the Outlaw (1911); In the Grip of a Charlatan (1913); In the Power of Blacklegs (1913); In Wolf's Clothing (1914); Jean of the Jail (1912); Mannequin (1926); Mexican Filibusterers (1911); Mrs. Simms Serves on the Jury (1912); Nina o' the Theatre (1914); On the Warpath (1911); Our New Minister (1913); Over the Garden Wall (1911); Peggy, the Moonshiner's Daughter (1911); Rachel (1910); Reckless Reddy Reforms (1911); Richard the Brazen (1917); Rube Marquard Marries (1912); Rube Marquard Wins (1912); Saved by Telephone (1912); Slabsides (1911); Slaves of Pride (1920); Slim Jim's Last Chance (1911); Song o' My Heart (1930); Sorrell and Son (1927); So's Your Old Man (1926); Stella Dallas (1925); The $20,000 Corot (1913); The Ace of Cads (1926); The Adventure of an Heiress (1913); The Adventures of American Joe (1912); The Alcalde's Conspiracy (1912); The Alpine Lease (1911); The American Princess (1913); The Artist's Sacrifice (1913); The Attorney for the Defense (1913); The Badge of Courage (1911); The Bag of Gold (1912); The Beast (1914); The Bell of Penance (1912); The Blackfoot Halfbreed (1911); The Bolted Door (1911); The Brand (1914); The Branded Shoulder (1911); The Broken Trail (1911); The Business of Life (1918); The Cabaret Dancer (1914); The California Revolution of 1848 (1911); The Cambric Mask (1919); The Captain's Captain (1919); The Carrier Pigeon (1911); The Choice (1918); The Christian (1913); The City of Stars (1924); The Cloak of Guilt (1913); The Colonel's Escape (1912); The Countess (1917); The County Fair (1912); The Courage of Silence (1917); The Cub Reporter's Temptation (1913); The Dance of Death (1914); The Deacon's Daughter (1910); The Defeat of the Brewery Gang (1912); The Education of Elizabeth (1910); The Engineer's Daughter (1911); The Engineer's Sweetheart (1910); The Exposure of the Land Swindlers (1913); The Face of the Madonna (1915); The Family Tyrant (1912); The Fettered Woman (1917); The Finger of Suspicion (1912); The Flag of Freedom (1913); The Girl and the Stowaway (1914); The Girl of the Music Hall (1915); The Green Goddess (1923 / 1930); The Green Rose (1914); The Gun Smugglers (1912); The Hand Print Mystery (1914); The Heart of an Actress (1913); The Heart of Edna Leslie (1910); The Hero Track Walker (1911); The Higher Toll (1911); The Home Maker (1925); The Hunchback (1913); The Indian Maid's Sacrifice (1911); The Inner Chamber (1921); The Leech (1915); The Lion and the Mouse (1919); The Little French Girl (1925); The Long Arm of the Law (1911); The Lost Ribbon (1911); The Love of Summer Morn (1911); The Loyalty of Don Luis Verdugo (1911); The Lynbrook Tragedy (1914); The Mayor's Secretary (1914); The Mexican Joan of Arc (1911); The Mexican Revolutionist (1912); The Midnight Message (1913); The Miser's Child (1910); The Mission Carrier (1911); The Mistress of Hacienda del Cerro (1911); The Mystery of Grandfather's Clock (1912); The Mystery of the Sleeping Death (1914); The Noose (1928); The Nurse at Mulberry Bend (1913); The Octoroon (1913); The Old Army Coat (1914); The Organ Grinder (1912); The Outlaw (1912); The Passionate Adventure (1924); The Pawnbroker's Daughter (1913); The Peril of the Plains (1911); The Prey (1920); The Price of Ambition (1911); The Price of Silence (1914); The Question (1917); The Rescue of Molly Finney (1910); The Riddle of the Green Umbrella (1914); The Riddle of the Tin Soldier (1913); The Rising Generation (1928); The Roses of the Virgin (1910); The Runaway Engine (1911); The Russian Peasant (1912); The Scarab Ring (1921); The School for Scandal (1914); The Secret of the Miser's Cave (1912); The Senator's Dishonor (1913); The Shadow (1914); The Show Girl's Glove (1914); The Sneak (1913); The Song of the Soul (1918); The Spanish Revolt of 1836 (1912); The Spark Divine (1919); The Sporting Duchess (1920); The Squall (1929); The Stolen Invention (1912); The Strange Story of Elsie Mason (1912); The Street Singer (1912); The Suffragette Sheriff (1912); The Swindler (1915); The Temptation of Rodney Vane (1911); The Theft of the Crown Jewels (1914); The Third Degree (1919); The Trail of the Pomas Charm (1911); The Triumph of the Weak (1918); The Vampire's Trail (1914); The Vengeance of Durand (1919); The Vice of Fools (1920); The Viper (1914); The Wandering Musician (1912); The Wasp (1911); The Weakling (1914); The White Goddess (1915); The Winchester Woman (1919); The Woman Between Friends (1918); The Young Millionaire (1912); To the Highest Bidder (1918); Unfaithful to His Trust (1915); When California Was Won (1911); When Fate Decrees (1913); When Lovers Part (1910); When the Sun Went Out (1911); When Two Hearts Are Won (1911); White Man (1924); Whom the Gods Destroy (1916); Within the Law (1917); Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917).

Born on this day – Minta Durfee:


Minta Durfee


Actress

October 1, 1889 – September 9, 1975

Credits:

Portnoy's Complaint (1972); The Steagle (1971); What's the Matter with Helen? (1971); Willard (1971); Hollywood Horror House (1970); Mod Squad (1970); They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969); The Love God? (1969); Funny Girl (1968); Never a Dull Moment (1968); The Power (1968); The Gnome-Mobile (1967); Caprice (1967); Batman (1966–1967); The Fugitive (1966); Death Valley Days (1958–1966); The Singing Nun (1966); Green Acres (1965); When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965); Ship of Fools (1965); Mister Ed (1961–1965); How to Murder Your Wife (1965); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); Shock Treatment (1964); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963); My Six Loves (1963); Stoney Burke (1963); The Manchurian Candidate (1962); The Notorious Landlady (1962); All Fall Down (1962); The Rifleman (1962); The Young Savages (1961); Posse from Hell (1961); The Ann Sothern Show (1961); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960); Beloved Infidel (1959); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Sound and the Fury (1959); Auntie Mame (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1958); Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); Peyton Place (1957); Pal Joey (1957); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); The Wayward Bus (1957); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Great Man (1956); Hollywood or Bust (1956); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Noah's Ark (1956); Come Next Spring (1956); Artists and Models (1955); Illegal (1955); The Last Command (1955); To Catch a Thief (1955); How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); The Atomic Kid (1954); Human Desire (1954); My Dog Rusty (1948); The Son of Rusty (1947); Eve Knew Her Apples (1945); The Chance of a Lifetime (1943); Blondie for Victory (1942); The Man Who Returned to Life (1942); The Miracle Kid (1941); How Green Was My Valley (1941); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); Rollin' Home to Texas (1940); Glamour for Sale (1940); The Man with Nine Lives (1940); Naughty Marietta (1935); Skinner's Dress Suit (1926); Mickey (1918); The Cabaret (1918); Ambrose's Cup of Woe (1916); The Other Man (1916); His Wife's Mistakes (1916); Bright Lights (1916); The Great Pearl Tangle (1916); Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915); Saved by Wireless (1915); Fickle Fatty's Fall (1915); Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915); Toplitsky and Company (1915); He Wouldn't Stay Down (1915); Toplitsky and Company (1915); Toplitsky and Company (Droppington's Family Tree) (1915); Droppington's Devilish Deed (1915); Ambrose's Fury (1915); A One Night Stand (1915); Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915); That Little Band of Gold (1915); Ambrose's Little Hatchet (1915); Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915); Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915); Hearts and Planets (1915); A Bird's a Bird (1915); Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915); Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915); Love, Speed and Thrills (1915); Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914); Fatty's Magic Pants (1914); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Leading Lizzie Astray (1914); The Sea Nymphs (1914); Fatty's Wine Party (1914); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); An Incompetent Hero (1914); Lovers' Post Office (1914); Zip, the Dodger (1914); Hello, Mabel (1914); Fatty Again (1914); Fatty's Debut (1914); Lover's Luck (1914); The Rounders (1914); A Brand New Hero (1914); The Masquerader (1914); The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914); Those Happy Days (1914); The Sky Pirate (1914); Love and Salt Water (1914); Love and Bullets (1914); Fatty and the Heiress (1914); The Knockout (1914); The Alarm (1914); The Water Dog (1914); A Suspended Ordeal (1914); Caught in a Cabaret (1914); Twenty Minutes of Love (1914); Mabel at the Wheel (1914); A Bathing Beauty (1914); The Star Boarder (1914); Cruel, Cruel Love (1914); Tango Tangle (1914); Making a Living (1914); Rebecca's Wedding Day (1914); A Flirt's Mistake (1914); The Under-Sheriff (1914); A Misplaced Foot (1914); His Sister's Kids (1913); Fatty's Flirtation (1913); Fatty Joins the Force (1913); The Water Nymph (1912); Wine (1913); Fatty at San Diego (1913); The Janitor (1913); A Quiet Little Wedding (1913).

It’s October!

It’s Hockey Season!

GO PENS!