Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Born on this day – Howard Zieff:


Howard Zieff

Director

Photographer

October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009

Born on this day – Leonard Rossiter:


Leonard Rossiter

Actor

Writer

October 21, 1926 – October 5, 1984

Born on this day – Joyce Randolph:


Joyce Randolph


Actress

October 21, 1924 – January 13, 2024

Credits:

Everything's Jake (2000); Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991); Honeybloopers (1989); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1957); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Modern Romances (1955); The Mail Story (1954); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Plainclothesman (1953–1954); Short Short Dramas (1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); I Cover Times Square (1950); The Clock (1950); Famous Jury Trials (1950); Buck Rogers (1950); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Gander Sauce (1944).

Born on this day – Hy Averback:


Hy Averback

Actor

Producer

Director

October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997

Born on this day – Edna Purviance:


Edna Purviance


Actress

October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958

Credits:

Limelight (1952); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Éducation de prince (1927); A Woman of the Sea (1926); A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Pay Day (1922); The Idle Class (1921); The Kid (1921); A Day's Pleasure (1919); Sunnyside (1919); How to Make Movies (1918); Shoulder Arms (1918); The Bond (1918); Triple Trouble (1918); A Dog's Life (1918); The Adventurer (1917); The Immigrant (1917); The Cure (1917); Easy Street (1917); The Rink (1916); Behind the Screen (1916); The Pawnshop (1916); The Count (1916); The Vagabond (1916); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); Police (1916); A Burlesque on Carmen (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); Shanghaied (1915); The Bank (1915); A Woman (1915); Work (1915); By the Sea (1915); The Tramp (1915); A Jitney Elopement (1915); In the Park (1915); The Champion (1915); A Night Out (1915).

Born on this day – Samuel Taylor Coleridge:


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Writer

October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834

Credits:

Poems:

Christabel; Dejection: An Ode; Dura Navis; Easter Holidays; Fears in Solitude; France: An Ode; Frost at Midnight; Hymn Before Sunrise; Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment; Limbo; Lines on an Autumnal Evening; Lines Written at Shurton Bars; Monody on the Death of Chatterton; Ode on the Departing Year; On Quitting School; On Receiving an Account; Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement; Religious Musings; Sibylline Leaves; Songs of the Pixies; The Destiny of Nations; The Destruction of the Bastile; The Devil's Thoughts; The Eolian Harp; The Fall of Robespierre; The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; Time, Real and Imaginary; To a Young Ass; To Bowles; To Burke; To Erskine; To Fayette; To Fortune; To Godwin; To Kosciusko; To Lord Stanhope; To Mrs Siddons; To Pitt; To Priestley; To Sheridan; To Southey; To the River Otter; To William Wordsworth.

Books:

Aids to Reflection (1993); Biographia Literaria (1983); Essays on his Times in the Morning Post and the Courier (1978); Lay Sermons (1972); Lectures 1795 on Politics and Religion (1971); Lectures 1818–1819 on the History of Philosophy (2000); Lectures, 1808–1819, on Literature (1987); Logic (1981); Marginalia (1980); On the Constitution of the Church and State (1976); Opus Maximum (2002); Poetical Works (2001); Shorter Works and Fragments (1995); Table Talk (1990); The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1956–71); The Friend (1969); The Watchman (1970).

Movies and television:

A Delirious Eye (2020); Blomman ligger i din hand (1986); Camera Three (1956); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Creation in the 21st Century (2011); In Motion (2000); Kubla Khan (2010); Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1975 / 1977); The Albatross (1998); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Ancient Mariner: A Rock Opera (1983); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1967); Venus Blue (1998).

Recommended reading - The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (2014):


The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Paperback.
Published 2014.
Short story anthology.
Published by Running Press Adult.
ISBN 13: 9780762452217
ISBN 10: 0762452218
ASIN: 0762452218

Description:

Join shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big-shots, and crooked cops in this massive collection filled with seven decades worth of pure, unadulterated pulp fiction. From Mickey Spillane to Dashiell Hammett, all the greatest writers are here – so watch your back!