Born on this day – George Waggner:

George Waggner

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

September 7, 1894 – December 11, 1984

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1963); Adventures of the Falcon (1954); African Patrol (1958); Air Devils (1938); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Batman (1966–1967); Big Town (1954–1955); Bitter Creek (1954); Black Bandit (1938); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2013); Bonanza (1964); Branded Man (1922); Bronco (1962); Cappy Ricks Returns (1935); Champagne for Breakfast (1935); Cheers of the Crowd (1935); Cheyenne (1959–1962); City Limits (1934); Cobra Woman (1944); Code 3 (1957); Colt .45 (1959–1960); Crossroads (1956); Crusader (1956); Desert Driven (1923); Destination 60,000 (1957); Destination Nightmare (1958); Dizzy Dames (1935); Don't Get Personal (1936); Drums of the Desert (1940); Embarrassing Moments (1934); Father Steps Out (1941); Flying Cadets (1941); Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943); Frisco Sal (1945); Fury River (1961); Ghost Town Riders (1938); Girl O' My Dreams (1934); Gold, Glory and Custer (1964); Good News (1930); Gorilla Ship (1932); Guilty Trails (1938); Gunfighters (1947); Gypsy Wildcat (1944); Hawaiian Eye (1962); He Couldn't Take It (1933); High Voltage (1929); His Hour (1924); Honor of the West (1939); Horror Island (1941); I Cover the War! (1937); Idea Girl (1946); Idol of the Crowds (1937); Invisible Agent (1942); Jack the Ripper (1958); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957–1958); Kiddie Revue (1930); Laughing at Danger (1940); Love's Blindness (1926); M Squad (1958); Man from God's Country (1958); Man Made Monster (1941); Mary Lou (1948); Maverick (1959–1961); Men of Texas (1942); Midnight Intruder (1938); Mission of Danger (1960); Mystery Plane (1939); Mystery Plane (1939); Northwest Passage (1958); Northwest Passage (1958–1959); Now's the Time (1932); Oh, Yeah? (1929); Oklahoma Terror (1939); On the Spot (1940); Once to Every Bachelor (1934); Operation Pacific (1951); Outlaw Express (1938); Pawnee (1957); Phantom of Chinatown (1940); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Prairie Justice (1938); Queen of the Yukon (1940); Red Nightmare (1962); Requiem to Massacre (1960); Return from the Sea (1954); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956); Sealed Lips (1942); Shady Lady (1945); Sin Town (1942); Sky Patrol (1939); Son of the Navy (1940); South of Tahiti (1941); State Police (1938); Studio 57 (1956); Stunt Pilot (1939); Surfside 6 (1960–1962); Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957 / 1960); Tangier (1946); Telephone Time (1957–1958); The Alaskans (1959–1960); The Climax (1944); The Cowboy Millionaire (1935); The Death Kiss (1932); The Fargo Phantom (1950); The Fatal Hour (1940); The Fighting Kentuckian (1949); The Flying Fool (1929); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942); The Great Alone (1922); The Green Hornet (1967); The Healer (1935); The Iron Horse (1924); The Joey Bishop Show (1964); The Keeper of the Bees (1935); The Line-Up (1934); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Lone Wolf (1954–1955); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966–1967); The March of Time (1930); The Nut Farm (1935); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Old Homestead (1935); The Phantom Broadcast (1933); The Roaring 20's (1960–1961); The Sea Spoilers (1936); The Sheik (1921); The Spy Ring (1938); The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933); The Veil (1958); The Wolf Man (1941); The Wolfman (1966); Three Legionnaires (1937); Troopers Three (1930); Wagon Train (1957); Werebitches (2010); Western Trails (1938); What a Widow! (1930); White Savage (1943); Wolf Call (1939).

Born on this day – F. Richard Jones:

F. Richard Jones

Director

Writer

Producer

September 7, 1893 – December 14, 1930

Credits:

A Game Old Knight (1915); A Love Riot (1916); All Night Long (1924); Along Came Auntie (1926); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Are Married Policemen Safe? (1918); Asleep at the Switch (1923); Baby Clothes (1926); Bad Boy (1925); Be Reasonable (1921); Be Your Age (1926); Boys Will Be Joys (1925); Bring Home the Turkey (1927); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Bulldog Drummond (1929); Buried Treasure (1926); By Heck (1921); Caught in a Park (1915); Caught in the Act (1915); Charley My Boy! (1926); Chasing the Chaser (1925); Crazy Like a Fox (1926); Cupid's Boots (1925); Dizzy Daddies (1926); Dog Shy (1926); Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Down on the Farm (1920); East of the Water Plug (1924); Feet of Mud (1924); Flickering Youth (1924); Flying Pat (1920); Galloping Bungalows (1924); Galloping Ghosts (1928); Gee Whiz (1920); Get 'Em Young (1926); Giddy, Gay, and Ticklish (1915); Good Cheer (1926); Gussle, the Golfer (1914); Gussle's Day of Rest (1915); Gymnasium Jim (1922); Her First Mistake (1918); Her Marble Heart (1916); Her Painted Hero (1915); His Hereafter (1916); His Last False Step (1919); His Uncle Dudley (1917); Home Made Movies (1922); Inbad the Sailor (1923); Innocent Husbands (1925); Isn't Life Terrible? (1925); It Pays to Exercise (1918); Lazy Days (1929); Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924); Lizzies of the Field (1924); Long Fliv the King (1926); Love 'Em and Weep (1927); Love, Honor and Behave! (1920); Love's False Faces (1919); Love's Sweet Piffle (1924); Ma and Pa (1922); Madame Mystery (1926); Mama Behave (1926); Mary, Queen of Tots (1925); Mickey (1918); Mighty Like a Moose (1926); Molly O' (1921); Monkey Business (1926); Moonlight and Noses (1925); Never Too Old (1919); Nip and Tuck (1923); No Man's Law (1927); No One to Guide Him (1915); On Patrol (1922); On the Front Page (1926); One Cylinder Love (1923); One Hour Married (1927); One Spooky Night (1924); One Wild Ride (1925); Picking Peaches (1924); Pills of Peril (1916); Pitfalls of a Big City (1923); Raggedy Rose (1926); Reilly's Wash Day (1919); Riders of the Purple Cows (1924); Romeo and Juliet (1924); Rough and Ready (1923); Saucy Madeline (1918); Scarem Much (1924); Seeing the World (1927); Shanghaied Lovers (1924); She Loved Him Plenty (1918); She Needed a Doctor (1917); Shivering Spooks (1926); Should Husbands Pay? (1926); Should Men Walk Home? (1927); Should Sailors Marry? (1925); Skylarking (1923); Sleuths (1918); Smile Please (1924); Someone to Love (1928); Son of a Gun (1918); Starvation Blues (1925); Step Forward (1922); Suzanna (1923); Tell 'Em Nothing (1926); Telling Whoppers (1926); Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924); Ten Years Old (1927); That Springtime Feeling (1915); The Battle Royal (1918); The Big Killing (1928); The Cannon Ball Express (1924); The Caretaker's Daughter (1925); The Cat's Meow (1924); The Country Flapper (1922); The Crossroads of New York (1922); The Dare-Devil (1923); The Dentist (1919); The Extra Girl (1923); The First 100 Years (1924); The Foolish Age (1919); The Fourth Alarm (1926); The Gaucho (1927); The Ghost in the Garret (1921); The Great Vacuum Robbery (1915); The Half-Back of Notre Dame (1924); The Hollywood Kid (1924); The Judge (1916); The Lion and the Souse (1924); The Nickel-Hopper (1926); The Reel Virginian (1924); The Sea Squawk (1925); The Shriek of Araby (1923); The Speakeasy (1919); The Village Smithy (1919); The Water Hole (1928); The Water Nymph (1912); The Way of All Pants (1927); Their Social Splash (1915); Those Bitter Sweets (1915); Those College Girls (1915); Three Foolish Weeks (1924); Thundering Fleas (1926); Trying to Get Along (1919); Two Tough Tenderfeet (1918); Two-Time Mama (1927); Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926); Unfriendly Enemies (1925); Up in Alf's Place (1919); Wall Street Blues (1924); Wandering Papas (1926); Wandering Waistlines (1924); What's the World Coming To (1926); When Summer Comes (1922); Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? (1923); Why Beaches Are Popular (1919); Why Girls Say No (1927); Wife Tamers (1926); Wild Papa (1925); Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926); Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919); Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925); Your Own Back Yard (1925); Yukon Jake (1924).

Born on this day – Stein Riverton:

Stein Riverton

Writer

September 7, 1884 – December 18, 1934

Books:

The Final Days of Abbot Montrose (2018); The Iron Chariot (2005); The Man Who Plundered the City (2021); Through Three Rooms (2023).

Movies and television:

Bladkongen (1916); Bröderna (1914); Der schwarze Stern (1922); Die Banditen von Asnières (1920); Die Zwei und die Dame (1926); En forbryders liv og levned (1916); Hvem er Gentlemantyven? (1915); Kriminalgaaden i Kingosgade (1917); Mästertjuven (1915); Miraklet: Tavlor ur det katolska samfundslivet (1913); Morderen uten ansikt (1936); Politik och brott (1916); Rovedderkoppen (1916); The Mysterious Lady (1917).

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Recommended reading - Fifty Best Mysteries (2004):

Fifty Best Mysteries

Edited by Eleanor Sullivan.

Published by Da Capo Press.

Published 2004.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 078671347X

ISBN-13: 978-0786713479

Description:

Fifty Best Mysteries is a Who’s Who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine over a range of fifty years, this book is a treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere. As editor Eleanor Sullivan writes, “I took the task by decades and decided to go after solid and entertaining stories by regular and significant contributors, stories that reflected the time in which they were written and the best work being produced in that decade.” To this end, Sullivan has collected an astounding array of talent, from early works by John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to later selections by Patricia Highsmith, Robert Bloch, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, and Simon Brett that appeared over the next two decades.

Contents: The clue of the red wig / John Dickson Carr — Lost star / C. Daly King — The Bloomsbury wonder / Thomas Burke — Dressing-up / W. R. Burnett — Malice domestic / Philip MacDonald — I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh — The fourth degree / Hugh Pentecost — Midnight adventure / Michael Arlen — A study in white / Nicholas Blake — The phantom guest / Frederick Irving Anderson — As simple as ABC / Ellery Queen — Money to burn / Margery Allingham — The gentlest of brothers / David Alexander — One-way street / Anthony Armstrong — Murder at the dog show / Mignon G. Eberhart — Always trust a cop / Octavus Roy Cohen — The withered heart / Jean Potts — The girl who married a monster / Anthony Boucher — Between eight and eight / C. S. Forester — Knowing what I know now / Barry Perowne — Change of climate / Ursula Curtiss — Life in our time / Robert Bloch — The special gift / Celia Fremlin — A neat and tidy job / George Harmon Coxe — Run—if you can / Charlotte Armstrong — Line of communication / Andrew Garve — Danger at Deerfawn / Dorothy B. Hughes — The man who understood women / A. H. Z. Carr — Revolver / Avram Davidson — The eternal chase / Anthony Gilbert — Reasons unknown / Stanley Ellin — Three ways to rob a bank / Harold R. Daniels — The perfect servant / Helen Nielsen — The marked man / David Ely — Flowers that bloom in the spring / Julian Symons — A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre — Paul Broderick’s man / Thomas Walsh — When nothing matters / Florence V. Mayberry — This is death / Donald E. Westlake — Woodrow Wilson’s necktie / Patricia Highsmith — The jackal and the tiger / Michael Gilbert — The fix / Robert Twohy — One moment of madness / Edward D. Hoch — Loopy / Ruth Rendell — The plateau / Clark Howard — The butchers / Peter Lovesey — Burning bridges / James Powell — A good turn / Robert Barnard — Clap hands, there goes Charlie / George Baxt — Big boy, little boy / Simon Brett.

Andy Ihnatko, on writing:

Writing is hard.

That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things.

And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.

- Andy Ihnatko.

On this day in movie history - Roofman (2025):

Roofman

directed by Derek Cianfrance,

written by Derek Cianfrance, Kirt Gunn,

released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 6, 2025.

Music by Christopher Bear.

Cast: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Juno Temple, Ben Mendelsohn, Tony Revolori, Kirana Kuic, Gabriella Cila, Alissa Marie Pearson, LaKeith Stanfield, Esme McSherry, Melonie Diaz, Stella Gunn, Joe Bruno, Molly Price, Dan Marks, Scott Shipman, Benjamin Henderson, Jason Wise, Javier Molina, Charles Cummings, Peter Dinklage, Emory Cohen, Molly Grantham, Erika Jackson, Stephen Strickland, Kathryn Stamas, Uzo Aduba, Lily Collias, Kennedy Moyer, Gabe Fazio, Ron Clinton Smith, Lauren Rennick Lockhart, Bryan Allen Lockhart, Keya Hamilton, Katherine Scheimreif, Vedra Grant, Amy K. Harmon, Patricia Pegram, Punkie Johnson, Jimmy O. Yang, Christopher Moerke, Mark Assad, Chris Kimbell, Wesley Keziah, Timothy Dean, Myles Arnold, Craig Black, Abby Burkholder, Steve Caston, Kristy Concepcion, Veronica Toth DeStefano, Philip Dido, Karen Edwards, Willie Tyrone Ferguson, Isaiah Findley, Nick Gaddy, Brent Gribble, Michael Harding, Isaiah Hyman, Jobie James, Jane Klecker, Melissa Milch, Art Newkirk, Logan Newkirk, Luciana Newkirk, Lucretia Newkirk, Ted Nickerson, Brandon Parker, Bob Pelletier, Tom Rascoe, Michael Silverman, Cindee Smith, Rusty L. Stewart, C. Chad Williams.