Thursday, December 11, 2025

Born on this day – Jim Harrison:


Jim Harrison


Writer

December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016

Credits:

A Good Day to Die (1973); A Really Big Lunch (2017); After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996); Braided Creek (2003); Brown Dog (2013); Conversations with Jim Harrison (2002); Dalva (1988); Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (2013); Dead Man's Float (2015); Farmer (1976); Great Leader (2011); In Search of Small Gods (2009); Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals (2020); Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems (2019); Julip (1994); Just Before Dark (1993); Legends of the Fall (1979); Letters to Yesenin (1973); Locations (1968); New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (2000); Off to the Side (2002); Outlyer and Ghazals (1971); Plain Song (1965); Returning to Earth (2007); Saving Daylight (2006); Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 (1982); Songs of Unreason (2011); Sundog (1984); The Ancient Minstrel (2016); The Beast God Forgot to Invent (2000); The Big Seven (2015); The Boy Who Ran to the Woods (2000); The English Major (2008); The Etiquette of Freedom (2010); The Farmer's Daughter (2009); The Raw and the Cooked (2001); The River Swimmer (2013); The Road Home (1998); The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022); The Shape of the Journey (1998); The Summer He Didn't Die (2005); The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems (1990); The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990); True North (2004); Warlock (1982); Wild Stories (2002); Wolf (1971).

Movies and television:

A Day Like Any Other (1987); All That Is Sacred (2023); Amérique, notre histoire (2006); Café Picouly (2010); Carried Away (1996); Cold Feet (1989); Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013); Dalva (1996); Droit d'auteurs (2000); Jim Harrison entre chien et loup (1993); La grande librairie (2009–2015); Le cercle de minuit (1993–1995); Légendes d'automne (2018); Legends of the Fall (1994); Nulle part ailleurs (2000); Revenge (1990); Seule la terre est éternelle (2019); The Practice of the Wild (2010); Vol de nuit (2003); Wolf (1994).

Born on this day – Nancy Holloway:


Nancy Holloway

Singer

Actress

December 11, 1932 – August 28, 2019

Born on this day – Anne Heywood:


Anne Heywood


Actress

December 11, 1931 – October 27, 2023

Credits:

90 Degrees in the Shade (1965); Bikini Baby (1951); Carthage in Flames (1960); Checkpoint (1956); Dangerous Exile (1957); Disclosure (2020); Doctor at Large (1957); Film Night (1970); Find the Lady (1956); Floods of Fear (1958); Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979); I Want What I Want (1972); Juke Box Jury (1962–1964); Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Love Under the Elms (1975); Memories of Manon (1987); Midas Run (1969); Off to See the Wizard (1967–1968); Ohara (1988); Petticoat Pirates (1961); Ring of Darkness (1979); Sadat (1983); Stork Talk (1962); The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988); The Brain (1962); The Chairman (1969); The Depraved (1957); The Dick Cavett Show (1969); The Equalizer (1988); The Equalizer: The Mystery of Manon (1988); The Fox (1967); The Heart of a Man (1959); The Killer Is on the Phone (1972); The Lady of Monza (1969); The Night Fighters (1960); The Nun and the Devil (1973); The Very Edge (1963); Trader Horn (1973); Upstairs and Downstairs (1959); Violent Playground (1958); What Waits Below (1984).

Born on this day – Chus Lampreave:


Chus Lampreave

Actress

December 11, 1930 – April 4, 2016

Born on this day – Jean-Louis Trintignant:


Jean-Louis Trintignant

Actor

December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022

Born on this day – Betsy Blair:


Betsy Blair

Actress

December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009

Born on this day – Maila Nurmi:


Maila Nurmi

Actress

Writer

December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008

Portrayed the character Vampira