Born on this day – Claudine Auger:

Claudine Auger

Actress

April 26, 1941 – December 18, 2019

Credits:

A Bay of Blood (1971); A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Few Hours of Sunlight (1971); Adriatic Sea of Fire (1968); Alerte à Orly (1964); Anyone Can Play (1967); Asalto al casino (1981); BBC2 Playhouse (1982); Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (1995); Best Ever Bond (2002); Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971); Bloody Sun (1974); Borsalino and Co. (1974); Christine (1958); Cinéma (1966); Cinémas (2010); Climb It, Tarzan! (2011); Come ti chiami, amore mio? (1969); Compression (2023); Credo (1983); Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra (1976); Danny Thomas Special: On the Road to Lebanon (1966); Desire (1992); Die goldenen Schuhe (1983–1984); Emmenez-moi au Ritz (1977); Equinozio (1971); Escalation (1968); Fantastica (1980); Flic Story (1975); Fregoli (1981); Games of Desire (1964); Gli ordini sono ordini (1972); Grand Amphi (1971); Great Performances / The Man Who Married a French Wife (1981); Gypsy (1966); I bastardi (1968); Il colpaccio (1976); Il gioco dei 9 (1991); Il mistero del tempio indiano (1963); Il padre di famiglia (1967); Il pentito (1985); In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (1995); In the French Style (1963); Italiques (1971); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond in the Bahamas (2008); James Bond's 'Spectre' with Jonathan Ross (2015); Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta (1963); Komm, süßer Tod (1969); Kvitt eller dobbelt (1994); La bocca (1991); La caméra explore le temps (1964); La nasse (1978); La nuit des 7 d'or (1985); La nuit des Césars (1979–1991); La piovra (1990); L'associé (1979); Le masque de fer (1962); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961); Les moutons de Panurge (1961); Les oiseaux de Meiji Jingu (1974); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1978); Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (1982); L'homme de Marrakech (1966); L'intrépide (1975); Listen, Let's Make Love (1968); Lobster for Breakfast (1979); L'ombra della sera (1994); Lovers and Liars (1979); Mardi cinema (1987); Medical Center (1972); Men Always Lie (1995); Oggi ho vinto anch'io (1989); Pane, burro e marmellata (1977); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1990); Pour cent millions (1990); Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (2006); Prestami tua moglie (1980); Que c'est triste Paris (1976); Qui c'est ce garçon? (1987); Reflets de Cannes (1965); Secret Places (1984); Signé croisette (1993); Spia - Il caso Philby (1977); Sport en fête (1973); Summertime Killer (1972); Take Thirty (1965); Terrain vague (1960); Testament of Orpheus (1960); The Bermuda Triangle (1978); The Bob Hope Show (1966); The Devil in Love (1966); The Devil's Lieutenant (1984); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (2006); The Incredible World of James Bond (1965); The Killing Game (1967); The Man who Married a French Wife (1984); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994); The Red and the Black (1997); The Seven Deadly Sins / L’Envie (1962); The South Bank Show (2008); The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988); The Steve Lawrence Show (1965); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966); Thunderball (1965); Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (2006); Thunderball: Production Footage (1964); Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (1965); Triple Cross (1966); Un amore di donna (1988); Un orage immobile (1995); Un papillon sur l'épaule (1978); Una bella grinta (1965); Una grande storia d'amore (1988); What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986); Yoyo (1965).

Born on this day – Mike Kellin:

Mike Kellin

Actor

Singer

April 26, 1922 – August 26, 1983

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Clear and Present Danger (1970); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958); All in the Family (1976); Assignment: Munich (1972); At the Waterfront After the Social: The Legacy of Sleepaway Camp (2014); At War with the Army (1950); Banning (1967); Barney Miller (1976); Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980); Ben Casey (1964); Black Saddle (1959); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1964); Bonino (1953); Camera Three (1958); Combat! (1965); Cover Me Babe (1970); Crime Photographer (1951); Danger (1955); Decoy (1958); Dr. Kildare (1962); Echoes (1982); F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980); Fitz and Bones (1981); Flamingo Road (1982); Fools' Parade (1971); Freebie and the Bean (1974); Galactica 1980 (1980); Girlfriends (1978); God Told Me To (1976); Goodyear Playhouse (1951–1952); Great Performances (1971); Grindl (1964); Gunsmoke (1966); Hands of Mystery (1951); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1961); Hell Is for Heroes (1962); Honestly, Celeste! (1954); Hurricane Smith (1952); I'm Healthy, I'm Alive and I'm Free (1977); Inner Sanctum (1954); Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); Ironside (1974); Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016); Johnny Staccato (1959); Just Before Dawn (1981); Kojak (1974); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1959); Lonelyhearts (1958); Lost in Space (1966); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1953); Man Against Crime (1953); Midnight Express (1978); Midnight Express: The Finished Film (2008); Mister Peepers (1952–1953); Mr. Novak (1964–1965); Naked City (1959–1963); Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976); Nightside (1973); Omnibus (1961); On the Yard (1978); One Step Beyond (1960); Outlaws (1962); Paternity (1981); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Rawhide (1964); Rendezvous (1959); Riot (1969); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Route 66 (1961–1962); Save Our Stream (1965); Seventh Avenue (1977); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Sleepaway Camp (1983); Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (1992); So Fine (1981); So Young, So Bad (1950); Stanley (1956); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Studio One (1954–1957); Suspense (1949–1953); Switch (1978); Terror at Alcatraz (1982); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Art of Crime (1975); The Boston Strangler (1968); The Catcher (1972); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1951); The Connection (1973); The Defenders (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Great Impostor (1960); The Incident (1967); The Islanders (1961); The Jazz Singer (1980); The Mail Story (1954); The Maltese Bippy (1969); The Mountain Road (1960); The New Breed (1961); The People Next Door (1970); The Phynx (1970); The Rifleman (1959); The Stranger (1954); The Tenth Level (1976); The Tragedy of King Lear (1982); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Untouchables (1960–1961); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960–1966); The Web (1953); The Wonderful Country (1959); Those Mad, Mad Moviemakers (1974); Tightrope (1960); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959).

Born on this day – Bernard Malamud:

Bernard Malamud

Writer

April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986

Credits:

Books:

A Malamud Reader (1967); A New Life (1961); A World of Fiction (1983); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Dubin's Lives (1977); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); God's Grace (1982); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Idiots First (1963); Penguin Modern Stories 1 (1969); Pictures of Fidelman (1969); Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970); Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards (1973); Rembrandt's Hat (1973); Selected Stories (1950); Talking Horse (1980); The Assistant (1957); The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Complete Stories (1997); The Fixer (1966); The Magic Barrel (1950); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999); The Natural (1952); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The People (1989); The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983); The Tenants (1971); Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1973); Winter's Tales 15 (1969); Wonderful Town (2000); Writing New York (1998).

Awards:

National Jewish Book Award: The Assistant (1958); National Book Award for Fiction: The Magic Barrel (1959); National Book Award for Fiction: The Fixer (1967); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Fixer (1967); O. Henry Award: Man in the Drawer, published in the April 1968 edition of The Atlantic Monthly (1969); PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the runner-up award for The Stories (1984).

Movies and television:

Der Gehilfe (1978); Shoestring Theatre (1959); Storyboard (1961); Take Pity (1996); The Angel Levine (1970); The Assistant (1997); The Book Programme (1980); The First Seven Years (1998); The Fixer (1968); The Matchmaker (1984); The Model (1994); The Natural (1984); The Tenants (2005); Writers and Places (1980).

Born on this day – Shirley Griffith:

Shirley Griffith

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974

Credits:

Mississippi Blues (1973); The Blues of J. T. Adams and Shirley Griffith: Indiana Ave. Blues (1964); The Blues of Shirley Griffith: Saturday Blues (1965).

Book references:

Blues: A Regional Experience (Greenwood Guides to American Roots Music) 1st Edition, by Eric LeBlanc (2013); The Guinness Who's Who of Blues, by Colin Larkin (1995).

Born on this day – Dorothy Sebastian:

Dorothy Sebastian

Actress

April 26, 1903 – April 8, 1957

Credits:

A Woman of Affairs (1928); Allez Oop! (1934); Among the Living (1941); Beauty à la Mud (1926); Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925); Brothers (1930); California (1927); Compression (2017); Contraband (1933); Contrabando (1932); Days of Jesse James (1939); Free and Easy (1930); George White's Scandals (1945); Hell's Island (1930); His First Command (1929); Isle of Forgotten Women (1927); Kansas Cyclone (1941); Ladies Must Play (1930); Love (1927); Montana Moon (1930); Morgan's Last Raid (1929); No Sleep on the Deep (1934); Officer O'Brien (1930); On Ze Boulevard (1927); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Radio Barred (1936); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Rough Riders' Round-up (1939); Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1930); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20 (1930); Ship of Wanted Men (1933); Ships of Hate (1931); Show People (1928); Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927); Spite Marriage (1929); Tea for Three (1927); The Adventurer (1927); The Arizona Kid (1939); The Arizona Wildcat (1927); The Big Gamble (1931); The Deceiver (1931); The Demi-Bride (1927); The Devil's Apple Tree (1929); The Haunted Ship (1927); The House of Scandal (1928); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Lightning Flyer (1931); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Mysterious Pilot (1937); The Rainbow (1929); The Rounder (1930); The Show (1927); The Single Standard (1929); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Unholy Night (1929); The Utah Kid (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Women (1939); Their Hour (1928); They Never Come Back (1932); Torrent (1926); True to the Army (1942); Twelve Miles Out (1927); Why Women Love (1925); Winds of Chance (1925); Wyoming (1928); You'd Be Surprised (1926).

Born on this day – Hamilton MacFadden:

Hamilton MacFadden

Actor

Writer

Director

April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977

Credits:

Are You There? (1930); As Husbands Go (1934); Charlie Chan Carries On (1931); Charlie Chan in Paris (1935); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); Charlie Chan in Rio (1941); Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933); Cheaters at Play (1932); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Crazy That Way (1930); Crazy That Way (1930); Dressed to Kill (1941); Elinor Norton (1934); Escape by Night (1937); Fighting Youth (1935); Five of a Kind (1938); Harmony at Home (1930); Hold That Girl (1934); Inside the Law (1942); It Can't Last Forever (1937); Keep Smiling (1938); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Oh, for a Man! (1930); Pardon Our Nerve (1939); Pier 13 (1940); Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941); Riders of the Purple Sage (1931); Sea Racketeers (1937); Second Hand Wife (1933); Sharpshooters (1938); She Was a Lady (1934); Shooting High (1940); Sleepers West (1941); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Tarnished Angel (1938); The Black Camel (1931); The Fourth Horseman (1932); The Honeymoon's Over (1939); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Lady in Question (1940); The Legion of Missing Men (1937); The Man Who Dared (1933); The Power of God (1942); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); Their Mad Moment (1931); Three Legionnaires (1937); Time Out for Murder (1938); Touchdown, Army (1938); Trick for Trick (1933); Unmarried (1939); While New York Sleeps (1938); Wilson (1944); Yesterday's Heroes (1940); Young America (1942); Youth for the Kingdom (1945).

Born on this day – Douglas Sirk:

Douglas Sirk

Director

Writer

April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987

Credits:

A Scandal in Paris (1946); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Accord final (1938); Acting for Douglas Sirk: 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' Remembered (2008); Against All Flags (1952); All I Desire (1953); All That Heaven Allows (1955); April, April! (1935); Battle Hymn (1957); Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk (1979); Boefje (1939); Bourbon Street Blues (1979); Captain Lightfoot (1955); Century of Cinema (1995); Cinéma cinémas / Segment: Douglas Sirk Lugano-Genève avril 1982 (1982); Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense (2010); Das Hofkonzert (1936); Der eingebildete Kranke (1935); Douglas Sirk - Hope as in Despair (2022); Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980); Dreimal Ehe (1935); Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002); Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1979); Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005); From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952); Hitler's Madman (1943); Im Schatten der Träume (2024); Imagine in Oglinda (2021); Imitation of Life (1959); Interlude (1957); La chanson du souvenir (1937); La Habanera (1937); Liebling der Matrosen (1937); Love Me Not (2019); Lured (1947); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Meet Me at the Fair (1953); Mirage de la vie (1983); My Life for Zarah Leander (1986); Mystery Submarine (1950); Never Say Goodbye (1956); No Room for the Groom (1952); Pillars of Society (1935); Quand la peur dévore l'âme (2007); Quelques jours avec Sirk (2008); Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023); Shockproof (1949); Sign of the Pagan (1954); Silvesternacht - Ein Dialog (1978); Sleep, My Love (1948); Slightly French (1949); Spécial cinéma (1984–1987); Sprich zu mir wie der Regen (1976); Summer Storm (1944); 't was een April (1936); Take Me to Town (1953); Taza, Son of Cochise (1954); The Final Chord (1936); The First Legion (1951); The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935); The Lady Pays Off (1951); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Strange Woman (1946); The Tarnished Angels (1957); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Thunder on the Hill (1951); To New Shores (1937); Triad (1938); Week-End with Father (1951); Written on the Wind (1956); Zwei Genies (1934).