Thursday, November 27, 2025

Born on this day – Les Blank:


Les Blank

Cinematographer

Director

Editor

Documentary filmmaker

November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013

Born on this day – John Alcott:


John Alcott


Cinematographer

November 27, 1930 – July 28, 1986


John Alcott, with Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall, on the set of The Shining (1980).

Credits:

No Way Out (1987); White Water Summer (1987); Miracles (1986); Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Under Fire (1983); Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983); The Beastmaster (1982); Vice Squad (1982); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981); Terror Train (1980); The Shining (1980); Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora (1980); Fiat Strada: Figaro (1979); Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); The Disappearance (1977); March or Die (1977); Barry Lyndon (1975); Overlord (1975); Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974); A Clockwork Orange (1971); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Othello (1965); Tamahine (1963); The Main Attraction (1962); Whistle Down the Wind (1961); The Singer Not the Song (1961); An heiligen Wassern (1960); North West Frontier (1959); A Night to Remember (1958); Violent Playground (1958); Checkpoint (1956); Tiger in the Smoke (1956); A Town Like Alice (1956); An Alligator Named Daisy (1955); Value for Money (1955); Simba (1955); Land of Fury (1954); Man with a Million (1954); Desperate Moment (1953); The Long Memory (1953); The Assassin (1952); The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952); Easy Money (1948).

Born on this day – Marshall Thompson:


Marshall Thompson

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

November 27, 1925 – May 18, 1992

Born on this day – Hall Bartlett:


Hall Bartlett

Director

Producer

Writer

November 27, 1922 – September 8, 1993

Born on this day – Robert Youngson:


Robert Youngson

Director

Writer

Producer

November 27, 1917 – April 8, 1974

Born on this day – Connie Sawyer:


Connie Sawyer


Actress

November 27, 1912 – January 21, 2018

Credits:

2 Broke Girls (2012); 227 (1985); 8 Simple Rules (2003); A Bell for Adano (1967); A Hole in the Head (1959); Abandoned and Deceived (1995); ABC Weekend Specials (1982); Ada (1961); All in the Family (1971); Allan (1971); And Justice for All (1979); Archie Bunker's Place (1979); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Barbary Coast (1975); Barnaby Jones (1980); Becker (1999); Big Hawaii (1977); Blue Desert (1990); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1969); Boy Meets World (1998); Bram and Alice (2002); Cavalcade of Bands (1950); Cavalcade of Broadway: Blue Angel (1950); CBS Playhouse (1967); Complete Guide to Guys (2005); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008); Dave's World (1996); Do You Remember Love (1985); Doc Elliot (1973); Dr. Kildare (1962); Dream On (1992); Due Date (2010); Dumb and Dumber (1994); Dynasty (1982); Entanglement (2014); ER (1999–2006); Evil Roy Slade (1972); Family (1977–1979); Far from Home (1989); Fast Break (1979); Five Desperate Women (1971); Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984); For Pete's Sake! (1966); Foul Play (1978); Get Smart (1995); Girlfriends (2003); Good Times (1974); Guestward Ho! (1960); Hawaii Five-O (1974–1979); Hawthorne (2009); Hill Street Blues (1984–1986); Home Improvement (1995); Hot Chili (1985); How I Met Your Mother (2007); In the Heat of the Night (1990); It Came from Outer Space II (1996); Jake and the Fatman (1991); Johnny Staccato (1976); Just Our Luck (1983); Kiss the Bride (2007); Kojak (1974–1977); L.A. Doctors (1998); Laverne & Shirley (1983); Legmen (1984); Life's Waltz (2008); Little Ladies of the Night (1977); Lou Grant (1977); Love on a Rooftop (1967); Lovesick (2014); Majority Rule (1992); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976); Matlock (1987); McMillan & Wife (1973–1974); Murder, She Wrote (1986–1991); Murphy Brown (1994); My World and Welcome to It (1969); NCIS: Los Angeles (2013); Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2007); New Girl (2014); Nights in White Satin (1987); Nurses (1992); Oh, God! (1977); Out of Sight (1998); Peter Loves Mary (1961); Pineapple Express (2008); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Promised Land (2004); Pros & Cons (1986); Ray Donovan (2013–2014); Relative Strangers (2006); Ritoru champion (1981); Room 222 (1970); Roseanne & Tom: Behind the Scenes (1994); Scorpion Spring (1995); Seinfeld (1997); Showfolk (2014); Significant Others (2004); Silver Spoons (1984); Sliders (1998); Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992); Something's Gotta Give (2003); Staring at the Sun (2002); Starsky and Hutch (1977–1978); Stoney Burke (1963); Studio One (1954); Stu's Show (2013); Style & Substance (1998); Summer Playhouse (1965); Sunset Over Mulholland Drive (2019); Tell Me You Love Me (2007); That '70s Show (2000); That's Adequate (1989); The Andy Griffith Show (1968); The Arrow Show (1948); The Bait (1973); The Beast (2001); The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950); The Donna Reed Show (1961); The End of Innocence (1990); The F.B.I. (1965–1972); The Fugitive (1966); The Jackie Gleason Show (1954); The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (2004); The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995); The Judge (1987); The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966); The Man in the Glass Booth (1975); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975); The Michael Richards Show (2000); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Name of the Game (1970); The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991); The Office (2009); The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992); The People Next Door (1989); The President's Mistress (1978); The Red Skelton Hour (1967); The Rockford Files (1978); The Rookies (1972); The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1951); The Strangers in 7A (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); The Tom Ewell Show (1961); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2013); The Trip (2002); The Way West (1967); Troupers (2011); True Colors (1990); True Grit (1969); Unhappily Ever After (1996); Up All Night (2011); V (1984); Veronica's Closet (1998); View from the Top (2003); Visions (1978); Watch Out for Slick (2010); Webster (1988); Welcome Back, Kotter (1978); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); Where's Marlowe? (1998); Will & Grace (2000); Worst Week (2008).

Born on this day – James Agee:


James Agee


Writer

Actor

Director

November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955

Credits:

Books and screenplays:

A Death in the Family; Agee on Film; Agee on Film II; Cotton Tenants: Three Families, Melville House; Face to Face; Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families; Letters of James Agee to Father Flye; Permit Me Voyage; The African Queen; The Collected Poems of James Agee; The Collected Short Prose of James Agee; The Morning Watch; The Night of the Hunter; The Tramp's New World.

Movies and television:

20 Feet from Stardom (2013); A Death in the Family (2002); Agee (1979); All the Way Home (1963 / 1971 / 1981); American Experience (1988); Experimenter (2015); Face to Face / Segment: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1952); Festival (1961); Genghis Khan (1950); Green Magic (1953); In the Street (1948); Omnibus / Segment: Lincoln-Rutledge Debate (1953); Omnibus / Segments: Mr. Lincoln / Lincoln Part IV: New Salem (1953–1955); The African Queen (1951); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Quiet One (1948); Toutes les histoires / Histoire(s) du cinema (1999); Welcome to the Basement (2015); White Mane (1953).