Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Born on this day – Roger Moore:


Roger Moore

Actor

October 14, 1927 – May 23, 2017

Born on this day – Robert Webber:


Robert Webber

Actor

October 14, 1924 – May 19, 1989

Born on this day – Jack Arnold:


Jack Arnold

Actor

Director

October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992

Born on this day – Jean Gillie:


Jean Gillie


Actress

October 14, 1915 – February 19, 1949

Credits:

The Macomber Affair (1947); Decoy (1946); Flight from Folly (1945); Tawny Pipit (1944); The Gentle Sex (1943); The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941); A Call for Arms! (1940); Sailors Don't Care (1940); Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940); The Middle Watch (1940); The Spider (1939); What Would You Do, Chums? (1939); Sweet Devil (1938); The Live Wire (1937); The Girl in the Taxi (1937); This'll Make You Whistle (1936); His Majesty and Co (1935); While Parents Sleep (1935); School for Stars (1935); It Happened in Paris (1935); Brewster's Millions (1935); Smith's Wives (1935).

Born on this day – Michael D. Moore:


Michael D. Moore


Director

Second unit director

Writer

Actor

October 14, 1914 – March 4, 2013

Credits:

Danger Rangers (2003–2008); 102 Dalmatians (2000); Wrongfully Accused (1998); Flubber (1997); 101 Dalmatians (1996); Little Giants (1994); The Three Musketeers (1993); Cool Runnings (1993); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993); Chaplin (1992); The Mighty Ducks (1992); Toy Soldiers (1991); Ghostbusters II (1989); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Le palanquin des larmes (1988); Funny Farm (1988); Willow (1988); Ishtar (1987); Outrageous Fortune (1987); Amazing Stories (1985); National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985); Lady Blue (1985); Sylvester (1985); The Little Drummer Girl (1984); Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Never Say Never Again (1983); Mister Deathman (1983); Six Pack (1982); Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Raise the Titanic (1980); The Electric Horseman (1979); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); Damnation Alley (1977); Airport '77 (1977); The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); Rooster Cogburn (1975); The Yakuza (1974); Mame (1974); Badge 373 (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); Portnoy's Complaint (1972); Sometimes a Great Notion (1971); Patton (1970); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); How to Commit Marriage (1969); Buckskin (1968); The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967); Bonanza (1967); Hondo (1967); Kill a Dragon (1967); An Eye for an Eye (1966); Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Roustabout (1964); Where Love Has Gone (1964); The Carpetbaggers (1964); Fun in Acapulco (1963); A New Kind of Love (1963); A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962); Blue Hawaii (1961); Summer and Smoke (1961); G.I. Blues (1960); Visit to a Small Planet (1960); Career (1959); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); Don't Give Up the Ship (1959); The Trap (1959); Houseboat (1958); King Creole (1958); Hot Spell (1958); Wild Is the Wind (1957); The Tin Star (1957); Beau James (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); The Ten Commandments (1956); Pardners (1956); You're Never Too Young (1955); The Seven Little Foys (1955); Hell's Island (1955); Living It Up (1954); Casanova's Big Night (1954); Money from Home (1953); The Caddy (1953); Houdini (1953); The War of the Worlds (1953); The Turning Point (1952); When Worlds Collide (1951); The Furies (1950); Fancy Pants (1950); The Great Gatsby (1949); Streets of Laredo (1949); The Paleface (1948); Unconquered (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); California (1947); Good as Gold (1927); The King of Kings (1927); No Man's Gold (1926); The Test of Donald Norton (1926); The Lady from Hell (1926); Flaming Waters (1925); The Man from Red Gulch (1925); Cytherea (1924); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); Mine to Keep (1923); Truxton King (1923); The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922); Manslaughter (1922); The Love Charm (1921); Exit the Vamp (1921); Shame (1921); The Mask (1921); I Am Guilty (1921); The Lost Romance (1921); All Souls' Eve (1921); Something to Think About (1920); The Price of Redemption (1920); Polly of the Storm Country (1920); Parted Curtains (1920); Out of the Dust (1920); The Unpainted Woman (1919).

Born on this day – Paul Wellman:


Paul Wellman


Writer

October 14, 1895 – September 17, 1966

Credits:

Books:

A Dynasty of Western Outlaws (1962); Angel with Spurs (1942); Broncho Apache (1936); Death in the Desert (1935); Death On Horseback (1947); Death On the Prairie (1956); Glory, God and Gold (1954); Gold in California (1958); Good Soldiers Do Die (1951); Jericho's Daughters (1956); Jubal Troop (1939); Magnificent Destiny (1962); Portage Bay (1957); Race to the Golden Spike (1961); Ride the Red Earth (1958); Spawn of Evil (1964); Stuart Symington (1960); The Blazing Southwest (1961); The Bowl of Brass (1944); The Buckstones (1967); The Chain (1950); The Comancheros (1954); The Devil's Disciples (1964); The Female City (1953); The Fiery Flower (1959); The Greatest Cattle Drive (1964); The House Divides (1966); The Indian Wars of the West (1947); The Iron Mistress (1951); The Trampling Herd (1939); The Walls of Jericho (1948).

Movies and television:

Apache (1954); Cheyenne (1947); Jubal (1956); McCoy of Abilene (1953); The Comancheros (1961); The Iron Mistress (1952); The Walls of Jericho (1948).

Victor Hugo, on books and reading:


It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

- Victor Hugo.