Born on this day – Co Hoedeman:

Co Hoedeman

Animator

Cinematographer

Director

Writer

August 1, 1940 – May 26, 2025

Credits:

Awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, for The Sand Castle / Le Château de sable (1977), at the 50th Academy Awards (1978).

Movies and television:

55 chaussettes (2011); Bästa knattefilmerna 6 / Segment: Ludovic och dockan, Ludovic och krokodilen (2005); Canada Vignettes: Dancing Dolls (1980); Charles and François (1987); Co Hoedeman, Animator (1980); Continental Drift (1968); Coucou l'ourson! (2000); Dehors novembre (2005); DNA (1969); Eaude (2004); In the Animator's Eye: A Conjurer's Tales - Co Hoedeman (1996); Juke-Bar (1990); La boîte (1989); Le beau plaisir (1968); Le jardin d'Écos (1997); Le théâtre de Marianne (2004); Legends and Life of the Inuit (1978); L'homme et le géant (1975); L'ours renifleur (1992); Ludovic (2009); Ludovic II: un crocodile dans mon jardin (2001); Ludovic: Magic in the Air (2002); Ludovic: The Snow Gift (2002); Ludovic: Visiting Grandpa (2001); Lumaaq: An Eskimo Legend (1977); Making Movie History: Co Hoedeman (2013); Mascarade (1984); Matrioska (1970); Monsieur Pointu (1976); Oddball (1969); Running Time (1974); Sabina (1991); Tchou-tchou (1972); The Blue Marble (2014); The Cardinal (2016); The Mountain Head (2002); The Owl and the Lemming: An Eskimo Legend (1971); The Owl and the Raven: An Eskimo Legend (1973); The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend (1974); The Rogers' Cable (1998); The Sand Castle (1977); The Treasure of the Grotoceans (1980); Une histoire comme une autre (1981); Vacas d'Avanca (1998); Walter's Internal Battle (2022); Winter Days (2003).

Born on this day – Dom DeLuise:

Dom DeLuise

Actor

Comedian

August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009

Born on this day – Pat Heywood:

Pat Heywood

Actress

August 1, 1931 – June 26, 2024

Credits:

10 Rillington Place (1971); 2nd House (1975); All the Way Up (1970); Another Bouquet (1977); Arcadia (1990); Armchair Theatre (1972–1973); Arms and the Man (1983); Battle of Britain (1969); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); BBC2 Playhouse (1980); Between the Wars (1973); Centre Play (1975); Christabel (1988); Cottage to Let (1977); Couples (1976); Crown Court (1973–1978); December Flower (1984); Every Breath You Take (1988); First and Last (1989); Function Room (1985); Getting It Right (1989); Girly (1970); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hazell (1978); I Thought You'd Gone (1984); Inspector Morse (1991); ITV Playhouse (1970–1980); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971–1973); Lucky Feller (1976); Marks / Objects of Affection (1982); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); Play for Today (1984); Public Eye (1972); Romeo and Juliet (1968); Root Into Europe (1992); Screen Two (1987); Seeing and Believing (1964); Six Days of Justice (1972); Sporting Scenes (1973); Staircase (1969); Storia di una capinera (1993); Summer Season (1985); The Best Things in Life (1969); The Castiglioni Brothers (1958); The Children of the New Forest (1964); The Collection (1976); The Foundation (1977); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Main Chance (1970); The Nelson Affair (1973); The Problem of Mary Winshaw (1962); The Secret Garden (1987); The Teen-Age Lovers of Verona / Romeo & Juliet (1968); The Train Now Standing (1972); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1972); Too Much Monkey Business (1974); Village Hall (1974); Weekend Playhouse (1984); Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972); Wish You Were Here (1987); Within These Walls (1975); Wuthering Heights (1978); Young Toscanini (1988); Young Winston (1972).

Born on this day – Jerome Moross:

Jerome Moross

Composer

August 1, 1913 – July 25, 1983

Born on this day – Erle C. Kenton:

Erle C. Kenton

Director

August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980

Born on this day – Madlaine Traverse:

Madlaine Traverse

Actress

August 1, 1875 – January 7, 1964

Credits:

Fruits of Desire (1916); Gambling in Souls (1919); Leah Kleschna (1913); Lost Money (1919); Rose of the West (1919); Sins of Ambition (1917); Snares of Paris (1919); The Caillaux Case (1918); The Closing Net (1915); The Danger Zone (1918); The Hell Ship (1920); The Iron Heart (1920); The Love That Dares (1919); The Other Woman (1913); The Penalty (1920); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); The Shielding Shadow (1916); The Spirit of Good (1920); The Splendid Sin (1919); The Tattlers (1920); Three Weeks (1914); What Would You Do? (1920); When Fate Decides (1919).

Born on this day – M.R. James:

M.R. James

Writer

Medievalist scholar

August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936

Credits:

Books:

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994); 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1990); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Century of Ghost Stories (1936); A Century of Horror (1971); A Distant Cry (2002); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Neighbour's Landmark (1924); A Pleasing Terror (2001); A School Story (1911); A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930); A Thin Ghost and Others (1919); A View from a Hill (1925); A Vignette (1936); A Warning to the Curious (1925); Abbeys (1925); After Dark in the Playing Fields (1931); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); An Episode of Cathedral History (1919); An Evening's Entertainment (1925); Best Black Magic Stories (1960); Best Horror Stories (1957); Best Horror Stories 2 (1965); Between the Tracks (2017); Beyond Midnight (1976); Black Water (1983); Blood Thirst (1997); Casting the Runes (1987); Chamber of Horrors (1984); Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil (1977); Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974); Classic Ghost Stories II (1990); Classic Horror Stories (2024); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Classic Vampire Tales Volume One (2010); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Collected Ghost Stories (2018); Complete Ghost Stories (2017); Count Magnus (1904); Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (2005); Curious Warnings (2012); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dark Company (1984); December Tales (2021); Dracula's Brood (1987); Dracula's Guest (2010); Dying of Fright (1976); Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965); Evil Roots (2019); Fear (1975); Fear and Trembling (1946); Flotsam Fantasique (2013); Gaslight Tales of Terror (1976); Ghost Stories (1988 / 2018 / 2019); Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection (2023); Ghostly (2015); Ghosts (2018); Ghosts for Christmas (1988); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary (1904); Great Ghost Stories (1918); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Handle with Care (1985); Hanging By a Thread (1970); Hauntings (1968); Haunts (2011); Holy Ghosts (2023); In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe (2015); Lost Hearts (1895); Martin's Close (1911); Medley Macabre (1966); Mind at Bay (1969); Mind in Chains (1970); Minor Hauntings (2021); More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance (1911); My Favorite Fantasy Story (1994); My Favorite Horror Story (2000); Number 13 (1904); Nursery Crimes (1993); Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (2002); Quiver of Horror (1965); Realms of Darkness (1985); Sinister And Supernatural Stories (1978); Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979); Sleep No More (1964); Small Shadows Creep (1963); Sorceress in Stained Glass (1971); Specter! (1982); Spine Chillers (1961); Spirits of the Season (2018); Summoned from the Tomb (1973); Supernatural Horror Short Stories (2017); Supernatural Stories (1995); Tales from the Dead of Night (2013); Tales of the Dark 2 (1977); Tales of the Dark 3 (1988); Tales of the Supernatural (1962); Tales to Freeze the Blood (2006); The 16th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980); The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967); The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972); The Best Ghost Stories of M R James (1944); The Book of Ghost Stories (1983); The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume One (2004); The Collected Ghost Stories of M R James (1931); The Colour of Evil (1987); The Cthulhu Cycle (1996); The Damnations (2024); The Dark Descent (1997); The Dead of Winter (2023); The Diary of Mr Poynter (1919); The Edge of Never (1973); The Evil Image (1983); The Five Jars (1922); The Fourth Armada Ghost Book (1972); The Ghost Stories (1973); The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (2018); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Giant Book of Classic Ghost Stories (1997); The Haunted Dolls' House (1925); The Haunted Library (2016); The Haunted Looking Glass (1959); The Horror Hall of Fame (1987); The House of the Nightmare (1967); The Malice of Inanimate Objects (1933); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (2010); The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021); The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (1990); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Mezzotint (1904); The Midnight People (1968); The Mystery Book (1934); The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (1987); The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M R James (1931); The Residence at Whitminster (1919); The Rivals of Dracula (1977); The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (1910); The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (1913); The Third Armada Ghost Book (1970); The Thrill of Horror (1975); The Tractate Middoth (1911); The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1904); The Treasury of the Fantastic (2000); The Vampire Archives (2009); The Weird (2011); The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction (2022); There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard (1931); Thirteen Ghost Stories (1935); Thirteen Uncanny Tales (1970); Thrillers (1994); Twisted Yuletide (2025); Two Doctors (1919); Victorian Ghost Stories (1991); Wailing Well (1928); Weird Woods (2020); When Churchyards Yawn (1982); Wizards and Warlocks (1961); Young Ghosts (1985); Zombies! (2013).

Movies and television:

A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971–1975 / 2005–2022); Camera Three (1959); Christmas Tales (1990); Cineficción Radio (2019); Classic Ghost Stories (1986); Count Magnus (2015); Doctors (2014); Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Hello Humans (2022); ITV Playhouse (1979); Lights Out (1951); Lost Hearts (2007 / 2012); M R James: Ghost Stories for Christmas (2022); Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance (1976); Mystery and Imagination (1966–1968); Night of the Demon / aka Curse of the Demon (1957); Octoberpod AM (2024); Omnibus (1968); Play Me a Note (2015); Post Tenebras Lux (2017); Rats by M.R. James (2011); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2025); Shadows at the Door (2019–2020); Spine Chillers (1980); Tales of Ghosts and Demons (2023); The Church (1989); The Conception of Terror (2019); The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (2016); Vampirismus (1980); Wailing Well (2019); Whistle and I'll Come to You! (1957).