Wednesday, November 19, 2025

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959):


Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 10.
Episode entitled: Tempted.
Released November 19, 1959.
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair.
Written by Francis M. Cockrell, Richard Carr.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.


Cast:

John Cassavetes, Elizabeth Montgomery, Eduardo Ciannelli, Fred Beir, Murray Alper, Lionel Decker, Marty Green, Lillian O'Malley, Edwin Rochelle, Harry Wilson.

Born on this day – Etchika Choureau:


Etchika Choureau


Actress

November 19, 1929 – January 25, 2022

Credits:

Angélique (1964); Children of Love (1953); Darby's Rangers (1958); Ein Mädchen aus Paris (1954); Escalier de service (1954); Fruits of Summer (1955); Heart of the Festival (2002); I colpevoli (1957); La prostitution (1963); Lafayette Escadrille (1958); L'envers du paradis (1953); Les lumières du soir (1956); Paris au mois d'août (1966); Sulle strade di notte (1956); Tab Hunter Confidential (2015); The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955); The Scheming Women (1954); The Vanquished (1953); Tides of Passion (1956); Toute la ville accuse (1956).

Born on this day – Luisella Beghi:


Luisella Beghi

Actress

November 19, 1922 – September 9, 2006

Born on this day – Gene Tierney:


Gene Tierney

Actress

November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991

Born on this day – Luke Short:


Luke Short


Writer

November 19, 1908 – August 18, 1975

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Great Western Stories (2000); A Man Could Get Killed (1980); Ambush (1950); And the Wind Blows Free (1943); Barren Land Showdown / aka Barren Land Murders (1951); Bold Rider (1938); Bold Rider / King Colt (1989); Bought with a Gun / aka Gun Bought Grant (1940); Bought with a Gun / Marauder's Moon (1989); Bounty Guns (1939); Brand of Empire (1937); Colt's Law (1957); Coroner Creek (1945); Crazy Rythmn / No Man's Range / Guns for a Peacemaker (1999); Dead Freight for Piute / aka Bull-Whip (1939); Debt of Honor (1968); Desert Crossing (1963); Donovan's Gun (1969); Fiddlefoot (1946); First Campaign (1965); First Claim (1960); Floodwater (1965); Frontier (1955); Gauntlet of Fire (1960); Great Tales of the West (1994); Gunfight! (1996); Gunman's Chance / aka Blood On the Moon (1941); Hard Money (1938); Hardcase (1941); High Vermilion / aka Hands Off! (1947); Hurricane Range (1959); King Cole (1980); King Colt (1937); Last Hunt (1963); Luke Short's Best of the West (1983); Man from the Desert (1979); Marauder's Moon (1937); Misery Lode (1964); Paper Sheriff (1966); Play a Lone Hand (1952); Raiders of the Rimrock (1938); Ramrod (1943); Raw Land (1940); Ride the Man Down (1942); Rimrock (1956); Saddle by Starlight (1953); Savage Range (1938); Show the Colors (1989); Silver Rock (1953); Station West (1947); Summer of the Smoke (1958); Sunset Graze (1942); The Best of the American West (1998); The Branded Man (1936); The Deserters (1976); The Feud At Single Shot (1936); The Gold Rustlers (1959); The Guns of Hanging Lake (1969); The Jackleg Sheriff (1989); The Man from Two Rivers (1975); The Man on the Blue (1936); The Marshal of Vengeance (1985); The Outrider (1989); The Primrose Try (1967); The Some-Day Country (1970); The Stalkers (1973); The Whip (1958); Three for the Money (1970); Trigger Country (1965); Trouble Country (1976); Trumpets West! (1951); Vengeance Valley (1949); War on the Cimarron (1939); War Whoop and Battle Cry (1968); Weary Range (1960); Western Bonanza (1969); Western Freight (1960).

Movies and television:

Albuquerque (1948); Ambush (1950); Blood on the Moon (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Hell's Outpost (1954); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); Ramrod (1947); Ride the Man Down (1952); Silver City (1951); Stage 7 (1955); Station West (1948); Suspense (1951); The Hangman (1959); Vengeance Valley (1951); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1960).

Born on this day – Jack Schaefer:


Jack Schaefer


Writer

November 19, 1907 – January 1991

Credits:

Books:

Shane (1949); The Canyon (1953); The Pioneers (1954); First Blood (1954); Company of Cowards (1957); Out West (1959); Old Ramon (1960); Monte Walsh (1963); Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1966); Mavericks (1974); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964); The Big Range (1953); First Blood and Other Stories (1954); The Kean Land (1960); Tales from the West (1961); The Plainsmen (1963); The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer (1966); The Great Endurance Horse Race (1963); Heroes Without Glory (1965); Jack Schaefer And The American West (1978); Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978).

Movies and television:

Advance to the Rear (1964); Cavalcade of America (1956); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Konyakçi (1965); Monte Walsh (1970 / 2003); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Shane (1953 / 1966); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978); Studio 57 (1957); The Silver Whip (1953); Tribute to a Bad Man (1956); Trooper Hook (1957).

Born on this day – Eleanor Audley:


Eleanor Audley

Actress

November 19, 1905 – November 25, 1991