Born on this day – Tim McGovern:

Tim McGovern

Visual Effects

June 24, 1955 – March 30, 2024

Credits:

A Sound of Thunder (2005); Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018); As Good as It Gets (1997); CFIC: Brilliance (1985); Dunkirk (2017); Equilibrium (2002); Feardotcom (2002); First Man (2018); Hideaway (1995); Imagining 'Total Recall' (2001); Jungle Cruise (2021); Last Action Hero (1993); Lift (2024); Look Who's Talking Now (1993); Men in Black: International (2019); Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015); Models & Skeletons: The Special Effects of Total Recall (2010); Money Train (1995); Movie Magic (1995–1996); Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015); Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023); Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014); So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993); Stigmata (1999); Supernova (2000); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016); The Making of Brilliance (1985); The Shaft (2001); The Story of Computer Graphics (1999); TIM MCGOVERN (Oscar Winner, VFX specialist) IFFI 49 (2019); Total Recall (1990); Trapped (2002); Triple Frontier (2019); Tron (1982); Virtuosity (1995).

Born on this day – Julian Holloway:

Julian Holloway

Actor

June 24, 1944 – February 18, 2025

Credits:

A Christmas Carol (2009); A Hard Day's Night (1964); A Horseman Riding By (1978); A Lustful Lady (1977); A Perfect Carry On (1998); A Season of Giants (1990); Angels (1978); Baby Talk (1992); BBC Play of the Month (1974–1983); BBC Show of the Week (1967); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); Bedtime Stories (1974); Before the Fringe (1967); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1992); Black and Blue (1973); Bowler (1973); Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974); Captain Zed and the Zee Zone (1991–1992); Carry on at Your Convenience (1971); Carry on Camping (1969); Carry on Christmas (1973); Carry on Doctor (1967); Carry on England (1976); Carry on Follow That Camel (1967); Carry on Forever (2015); Carry on Henry VIII (1971); Carry on Laughing (1981); Carry on Laughing's Christmas Classics (1983); Carry on Loving (1970); Carry on Up the Khyber (1968); Casualty (1993); Catflap (2007); Centre Play (1975); City '68 (1968); Comedy Playhouse (1967–1974); Conjugal Rights (1973); Crown Court (1978); Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (2002); Dead of Night (1972); Dentist on the Job (1961); Doctor Who (1989); Dragon Age: Origins (2009); Elizabeth R (1971); Ellis Island (1984); Fair Exchange (1962); Father of the Pride (2004–2005); First Night (1964); Five to One (1963); Gideon C.I.D. (1964); Give us a Break (1983); Grass Roots (1992); Greatest Ever Comedy Movies (2006); Hallelujah! (1983); Harriet's Back in Town (1973); Having a Wild Weekend (1965); Helen: A Woman of Today (1973); Hostile Witness (1969); How Am I Doing? (1977); If Tomorrow Comes (1986); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); It'll Be OK on the Day (1975); ITV Play of the Week (1967); James Bond Jr. (1991); Jubilee (1977); Keep It in the Family (1980); King of the River (1966); Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012); Loophole (1981); Managing Problem People. Behavioral Skills for Leaders (1988); Marked Personal (1973); Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005); Meetings Bloody Meetings (1993); Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976); Menace (1970); Minder (1982); Misfits (1981); My Uncle Silas (2001–2003); Nancy Astor (1982); Naughty Girls (1975); NBC Experiment in Television (1970); North West Confidential (1970); Nothing But the Best (1964); On Location (2000); Onimusha Blade Warriors (2004); Ooh La La! (1973); Our Man at St. Mark's (1963); Our Man Higgins (1962–1963); Pardon the Expression (1966); Parkin's Patch (1970); Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007); Play for Today (1970–1976); Plays for Pleasure (1981); Porridge (1979); Public Eye (1975); Rebecca (1979); Regular Show (2011–2017); Remember WENN (1996–1997); Ricky and Ravi (Are in Between Jobs) (2011); Rough Cut (1980); Rumpole of the Bailey (1991); Ryan's Daughter (1970); Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978); Scream and Scream Again (1970); Secrets & Scandals of Carry On (2023); Seven Faces of Woman (1977); Sprout (1974); Star Games (1978–1979); Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010–2020); Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011); Summer of Rockets (2019); Take Three Girls (1971); Tall Tales & Legends (1986); Telford's Change (1979); Ten from the Twenties (1975); That's Carry On! (1977); That's Show Business (1967); The Avengers (1961); The Bill (1987); The Brute (1977); The Chairman's Wife (1971); The Chief (1990); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1963); The Edwardians (1973); The Endless Game (1989); The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980); The Hostages (1975); The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night (1972); The Informer (1967); The Jokers (1967); The Knack... and How to Get It (1965); The Last Shot You Hear (1969); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991–1992); The Liver Birds (1969); The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995); The Man from Haven (1972); The New Avengers (1976); The Pleasure Girls (1965); The Professionals (1978); The Punch Review (1975–1977); The Rum Diary (2011); The Saint (1964); The Scarlet and the Black (1983); The Sea Can Kill (1978); The Shadow of the Tower (1972); The Spy's Wife (1972); The Stud (1974); The Sweeney (1975); The Unforgettable Joan Sims (2002); The Valiant Varneys (1964); The Vet (1995); The World of Wooster (1967); This Is Your Life (1970); Toot & Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas (2006); Torch Song (1993); TV/Film Podcast UK (2021); Ukridge (1968); Uncle Creepy Returns (2009); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); Warship (1974); What a Carry On (1984–1986); Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–1974); What's a Carry On? (1998); Where's Waldo? (1991); Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose (2003); Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1975); Young Winston (1972); Z Cars (1975).

Born on this day – Paul L. Smith:

Paul L. Smith

Actor

June 24, 1936 – April 25, 2012

Credits:

Alcohol: The Choice (1974); Alle hatten sich abgewandt (1970); All-Star Family Feud Special (1982); Barney Miller (1979); Caged Fury (1990); Carambola (1974); Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket (1975); CHiPs (1978); Conspiracy of Terror (1975); Convoy Buddies (1975); Crazy Camera (1989); Crimewave (1985); Crossing the Line (1990); D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999); Death Chase (1988); Deleted 'Dune' (2006); Desert Kickboxer (1992); Diamond Pedlars (1976); Disaster on the Coastliner (1979); Dune (1984); Emergency! (1974); Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo Auf Ibiza (2014); Exodus (1960); Eye of the Widow (1991); Fishke Goes to War (1971); Going in Style (1979); Gor (1987); Haunted Honeymoon (1986); Have Gun - Will Travel (1963); Hawaii Five-O (1979); Homicide (1965); I'm Healthy, I'm Alive and I'm Free (1977); Jungle Warriors (1984); Madron (1970); Masada (1981); Maverick (1994); Midnight Express (1978); Midnight Express: The Finished Film (2008); Midnight Express: The Production (2008); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Nahtche and the General (1972); Operation Shtreimel (1984); Outlaw Force (1987); Paul Smith: The Reddest Herring (2008); Pieces (1982); Popeye (1980); Red Sonja (1985); Red Sonja Vs. Kalidor: The Making of a Misunderstanding (2010); Return of the Tiger (1977); Sadat (1983); Sonny Boy (1989); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Tel Aviv Call Girls (1972); Ten Little Indians (1989); Terminal Entry (1987); Texas Godfather (1985); The Bull Buster (1973); The Frisco Kid (1979); The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973); The Hired Gun (1989); The In-Laws (1979); The Protector (1985); The Salamander (1981); The Toni Tennille Show (1980); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); War of 20 Years (1970); We Are No Angels (1975); When I Am King (1982); Wonder Woman (1979); You're Famous (1989).

Born on this day – Claude Chabrol:

Claude Chabrol

Director

June 24, 1930 – September 12, 2010

Born on this day – Yves Jean Bonnefoy:

Yves Jean Bonnefoy

Writer

Poet

Art historian

June 24, 1923 – July 1, 2016

Credits:

Books:

Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work (1993); Beginning and End of the Snow (2012); In the Shadow's Light (1991); Mythologies (1991); On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (1968); Poems: 1959-1975 (1985); Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (2011); Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004); The Anchor's Long Chain (2015); The Curved Planks (2007); The Digamma (2014); The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art (1995); The Present Hour (2013); Together Still (2017).

Movies and television:

Feu! Chatterton - Avant qu'il n'y ait le monde (Live acoustique) (2021); Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1960); Le Louvre imaginaire (1993); Le roi Lear (1965); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Qu'est-ce que la poésie? (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995).

Born on this day – Martha Sleeper:

Martha Sleeper

Actress

June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983

Credits:

A Punch in the Nose (1926); A Tailor Made Man (1931); A Ten-Minute Egg (1924); All Wet (1924); Along Came Auntie (1926); Are Husbands Human? (1925); Are Husbands Necessary? (1925); Baby Clothes (1926); Bad Boy (1925); Better Movies (1925); Big Red Riding Hood (1925); Bombshell (1933); Broken Dreams (1933); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Budding Youth (1924); Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931); Crazy Like a Fox (1926); Danger Street (1928); Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961); Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Every Man for Himself (1924); Fighting Fathers (1927); Flaming Fathers (1927); Fluttering Hearts (1927); Four Days Wonder (1936); Girls Demand Excitement (1931); Great God Gold (1935); Happy Days (1924); Hold Everything (1925); Hollywood Party (1934); Huddle (1932); Innocent Husbands (1925); Jewish Prudence (1927); Laughing Ladies (1925); Long Fliv the King (1926); Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927); Low Bridge (1924); Madam Satan (1930); Madame Mystery (1926); Merry Widower (1926); Midnight Mary (1933); Mum's the Word (1926); Never Too Old (1926); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Outdoor Pajamas (1924); Pass the Gravy (1928); Penthouse (1933); Plain and Fancy Girls (1925); Please, Teacher! (1924); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Sailing Along (1925); Say It with Babies (1926); Seeing Nellie Home (1924); Sex and the College Girl (1964); Sherlock Sleuth (1925); Should Husbands Pay? (1926); Should Landlords Live? (1924); Should Sailors Marry? (1925); Should Tall Men Marry? (1928); Skinner's Big Idea (1928); Spitfire (1934); Sure-Mike! (1925); Sweet Daddy (1924); Tame Men and Wild Women (1925); Taxi 13 (1928); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Air Legion (1929); The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927); The Little Yellow House (1928); The Mailman (1923); The Racing Kid (1924); The Rat's Knuckles (1925); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Royal Razz (1924); The Scoundrel (1935); The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933); The Voice of the Storm (1929); The Way of All Pants (1927); There Goes the Bride (1925); Thundering Fleas (1926); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Too Many Mammas (1924); Trailing Trouble (1924); Two Sinners (1935); Ukulele Sheiks (1926); War Nurse (1930); West of the Pecos (1934); What's the World Coming To (1926); Wild Papa (1925); Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926); Yale vs. Harvard (1927).

Born on this day – Ambrose Bierce:

Ambrose Bierce

Writer

Satirist

Civil War veteran

June 24, 1842 – circa. 1914

Exact date of death unknown

Credits:

Written work:

A Cynic Looks at Life (1927); A Deoderizer of Dead Dogs (1998); A Horseman in the Sky (1889); A Horseman in the Sky (1983); A Horseman in the Sky: A Watcher by the Dead: The Man and the Snake (1920); A Letter and a Likeness (1930?); A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce (2003); A Psychological Shipwreck (1879); A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography (1998); A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky (1907); A Tough Tussle (1888); A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce (1980); Ambrose Bierce: “My Dear Rearden”: a Letter (1997); Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale (2013); Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs (2011); Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War (1956); An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886); An Invocation (1928); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (1926); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (1995); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Selected Works (1991); An Unfinished Race (1888); Battle Sketches (1930); Battlefields and Ghosts (1931); Beyond the Wall (1907); Black Beetles in Amber (1892); Can Such Things Be? (1893); Civil War Stories (1994); Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 1: 1867–1869 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 10: 1878–1880 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 11: 1881 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 12: 1882 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 13: 1883 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 14: 1833–1884 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 15: 1884–1885 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 16: 1885 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 17: 1886 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 2: 1869–1870 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 3: 1870–1871 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 4: 1871–1872 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 5: 1872–1873 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 6: 1873–1874 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 7: 1874–1875 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 8: 1875–1876 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 9: 1877–1878 (2023); Containing Four Ambrose Bierce Letters (1921); Extraordinary Opinions on Commonplace Subjects (1927); Fantastic Debunking Fables (1926); Fantastic Fables (1899); For the Ahkoond (1980); Ghost and Horror Stories (1964); How Blind Is He (1896); Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography (1927); John Bartine’s Watch (1893); Killed at Resaca (1887); Map of the Black Hills Region, Showing the Gold Mining District and the Seat of the Indian War (1877); Moxon’s Master (1899); My Dear Mac: Three Letters (2006); My Favorite Murder (1916); My Favorite Murder and Other Stories (1927); Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California (1873); One of the Missing (1888); One of the Missing: Tales of the War Between the States (1991); One of Twins (1888); One Summer Night; Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002); Poems of Ambrose Bierce (1995); Selections from Prattle (1936); Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002); Shapes of Clay (1903); Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism from 1898 to 1901 (1980); Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts (1927); Tales of Haunted Houses (1927); Tales of Soldiers and Civilians / aka In the Midst of Life (1891); Ten Tales (1925); The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader (1968); The Boarded Window (1891); The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce (2000); The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce / Volume I: Ashes of the Beacon / Volume II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians / Volume III: Can Such Things Be? / Volume IV: Shapes of Clay / Volume V: Black Beetles in Amber / Volume VI: The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter; Fantastic Fables / Volume VII: The Devil’s Dictionary / Volume VIII: Negligible Tales; On with the Dance; Epigrams / Volume IX: Tangential Views / Volume X: The Opinionator / Volume XI: Antepenultimata / Volume XII: In Motley (1909–1912); The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (1946); The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (1970); The Cynic’s Word Book (1906); The Damned Thing (1893); The Dance of Death (1877); The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891); The Devil’s Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader (1987); The Eyes of the Panther (1897); The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires (2000); The Fiend’s Delight (1873); The Horseman in the Sky and Other Stories (1926); The Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922); The Lion and the Lamb (1939); The Man and the Snake (1890); The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1890); The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (1892); The Moonlit Road (1907); The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (1998); The Realm of the Unreal (1890); The Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce (1963); The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch (1891); The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays (1909); The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition (3 vols.);  (2006); The Spook House (1889); The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce (1977); Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922); Write It Right (1909).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006); Ambrose Bierce’s a Watcher by the Dead (2014); America’s 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Amerikai anzix (1975); An Arrest (1997); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (2005); Ancient Aliens (2011–2015); Au coeur de la vie (1963); Babybird: Unloveable (2010); Bagoly-folyó (2006); Boarded Window (1971 / 2024); Camera Three (1959); Chickamauga (1962); Cineficción Radio / Stories: Haïta the Shepherd; The Damned Thing; An Inhabitant of Carcosa (2020–2024); Cuvar mrtvaca (1978); Danger (1951–1955); Dead Meat Podcast / Stories: A Tough Tussle; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Boarded Window (2020); Droga w swietle ksiezyca (1973); El pozu (2004); 11 O’Clock: a Sense of Imminent Calamity (2023); Ficciones (1972–1974); Forgotten Sci-Fi (2020); Halucinacije (1975); Huile de chien (2005); Hundeöl (1988); La corsa (2002); L’armoire (1969); Lexicon (2023); L’oiseau moqueur (1962); Masters of Horror (2006); Middle Toe of the Right Foot (2011); Most (2024); My Name Is Boffer Bings (2012); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Nightmare Classics (1989); O Monge e a Filha do Carrasco (1996); Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961); One of the Missing (1969 / 1979); Owl Creek Bridge (2007); Owl Street (2014); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974 / 2016); Pedro (2009); Prokletinja (1975); Racconti neri / Stories: An Arrest; One of the Missing (2006); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2022); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2022–2024); The Bridge (1929); The Damned Thing (2014 / 2021); The Damned Thing is of Such a Color! (2020); The Eyes of the Panther (2007 / 2019); The Fantasmagori (2017); The Fear (2001); The Inconsolable Widow (2007); The Kiss: A Tale of Two Lovers (1977); The Life and Various Deaths of Ambrose Bierce (2016); The Man and the Snake (1972); The Moonlit Road (2008); The Return (1973); The Short Story (1979); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2009); The UnXplained (2021); The Watcher by the Dead (2021); Vampirismus / Stories: The Moonlit Road; A Watcher by the Dead (1980–1981); Whispers of Carcosa (date?); Your Favorite Story (1953–1954).