Friday, September 25, 2026

Born on this day – Irène Tunc:


Irène Tunc


Actress

Model

September 25, 1935 – January 16, 1972

Credits:

À armes égales (1970); Adorable Sinner (1959); Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958); Bravissimo (1955); Camilla (1954); Cavalcata selvaggia (1960); Cavalier in Devil's Castle (1959); Cinéma (1967); Compression (2025); Diamond Machine (1955); Dim Dam Dom (1967–1970); Frédéric le gardian (1965); Frou-Frou (1955); Genitori in blue-jeans (1960); Girl on the Third Floor (1955); Graffiti 60 (2004); Heartbeat (1968); I Love You, I Love You (1968); Irène (2009); La contessa azzurra (1960); La sposa (1958); L'abandon (1967); Lazzarella (1957); Le colonel est de la revue (1957); Le signore (1960); Léon Morin, Priest (1961); Live for Life (1967); Maid in Paris (1956); Mise à sac (1967); Mon royaume pour un lapin (1965); Noi siamo due evasi (1959); Operazione notte (1957); Paris Holiday (1958); Provinces (1968); Reflets de Cannes (1962); Rembob'Ina (2023); Si Paris nous était conté (1956); Sweet and Sour (1963); The Conqueror of the Orient (1960); The Gangsters (1957); The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966); The Last Adventure (1967); The Parisian (1957); Two English Girls (1971); Vacances explosives! (1957); Vive la vie (1968).

Born on this day – Delia Scala:


Delia Scala


Ballerina

Actress

Singer

September 25, 1929 – January 15, 2004

Credits:

A Dog's Life (1950); Agenzia matrimoniale (1953); Al paradise (1983); Anni difficili (1948); Appointment for Murder (1951); Auguri e figli maschi! (1951); Before the Deluge (1954); Bellezze in bicicletta (1951); Cañas y barro (1954); Canzone di primavera (1951); Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani (1962); Canzonissima (1959); Carramba che sorpresa (1998); Casa Cecilia (1982); Casa Cecilia 2 (un anno dopo) (1983); Cavalcade of Song (1953); Che Combinazione (1978–1980); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012); Delia Scala Story (1968); Di qua, di là del Piave (1954); Fuoco nero (1951); Giove in doppiopetto (1954); Gioventù alla sbarra (1953); Giovinezza (1952); Goubbiah... mon amour (1956); Gran premio internazionale della TV (1987); Gran varietà (1954); How I Discovered America (1949); I Teddy boys della canzone (1960); Il giorno della tartaruga (1966); Il padrone del vapore (1951); Io e la mamma (1996–1998); La fiammata (1952); L'adorabile Giulio (1961); Le olimpiadi dei mariti (1960); Le village magique (1955); L'eroe della strada (1948); L'eroe sono io! (1952); Lieutenant Craig: Missing (1949); Lui e lei (1956); Madri pericolose (1960); My Seven Little Sins (1954); Opinione pubblica (1954); Position Wanted (1951); Principessina (1943); Ragazze da marito (1952); Rinaldo in campo (1963); Rome 11:00 (1952); Side Street Story (1950); Signore e signora (1970); Signori si nasce (1960); Tanto piacere (1975); Terror of Oklahoma (1959); The Affairs of Messalina (1951); The Cliff of Sin (1951); The Dream of Zorro (1952); The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963); Touchez pas au grisbi (1954); Un Français nommé Gabin (2017); Viva il cinema! (1952).

Born on this day – Aldo Ray:


Aldo Ray

Actor

September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991

Born on this day – Ray Nazarro:


Ray Nazarro


Director

Producer

Writer

September 25, 1902 – September 8, 1986

Ray Nazarro photographed with Adele Roberts during the filming of The Desert Horseman (1946)

Credits:

Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951); Annie Oakley (1954–1956); Apache Territory (1958); Bandits of El Dorado (1949); Blazing Across the Pecos (1948); Buckaroo from Powder River (1947); Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955); Bullfighter and the Lady (1951); Carolina Blues (1944); Challenge of the Range (1949); China Corsair (1951); Cowboy Blues (1946); Cowboy Canteen (1944); Cowboy from Lonesome River (1944); Cripple Creek (1952); Cyclone Fury (1951); Cyclone Prairie Rangers (1944); Darktown Follies (1930); Daughter of the Tong (1939); David Harding, Counterspy (1950); Domino Kid (1957); Eadie Was a Lady (1945); Einer frisst den anderen (1964); El Dorado Pass (1948); Eve Knew Her Apples (1945); Exile Express (1939); Flame of Stamboul (1951); Fort Savage Raiders (1951); Fremont: The Trailblazer (1956); Frontier Outpost (1950); Fury (1955–1960); Galloping Thunder (1946); Gun Belt (1953); Gunning for Vengeance (1946); Heading West (1946); Hoedown (1950); Home in San Antone (1949); I Love a Mystery (1945); In and Out (1929); In Old Montana (1939); Indian Uprising (1952); Is Everybody Happy? (1943); Jimmy the Gent (1934); Junction City (1952); Kansas Pacific (1953); Laramie (1949); Laramie Mountains (1952); Last Days of Boot Hill (1947); Laugh Jubilee (1946); Law of the Canyon (1947); Lone Star Moonlight (1946); Mike Hammer (1959); Montana Territory (1952); Mystery Is My Business (1955); Outcast of Black Mesa (1950); Outlaws of the Rockies (1945); Over 21 (1945); Over the Santa Fe Trail (1947); Phantom Valley (1948); Quick on the Trigger (1948); Ra Hould Conquers the Dragon (1937); Railroadin' (1941); Reefer Madness (1938); Renegades of the Sage (1949); Return to Warbow (1958); Roaring Rangers (1946); Roaring Roads (1935); Rose of Santa Rosa (1947); Runt Page (1932); Saddle Leather Law (1944); Sing Sing Nights (1934); Singin' Spurs (1948); Singing on the Trail (1946); Six-Gun Law (1948); Smoky Mountain Melody (1948); Snickerty Nick and Buzzy the Pirate Bee (1937); Song of Idaho (1948); Song of the Prairie (1945); South of Death Valley (1949); Southwest Passage (1954); Stars on Parade (1944); State Trooper (1959); Streets of Ghost Town (1950); Suicide Squad (1935); Terror Trail (1946); Texas Dynamo (1950); Texas Panhandle (1945); Thanks for Listening (1937); That Texas Jamboree (1946); The Arkansas Swing (1948); The Bandits of Corsica (1953); The Black Dakotas (1954); The Blazing Trail (1949); The Desert Horseman (1946); The Gene Autry Show (1955); The Hired Gun (1957); The Kid from Amarillo (1951); The Lone Gun (1954); The Lone Hand Texan (1947); The Mystic Circle Murder (1938); The Palomino (1950); The Phantom Stagecoach (1957); The Range Rider (1951–1953); The Rough, Tough West (1952); The Tougher They Come (1950); The White Squaw (1956); Throw a Saddle on a Star (1946); To the Ends of the Earth (1948); Top Gun (1955); Trail of the Rustlers (1950); Trail to Laredo (1948); Two-Fisted Stranger (1946); Two-Man Submarine (1944); West of Dodge City (1947); West of Sonora (1948).

Born on this day – Robert Bresson:


Robert Bresson


Writer

Director

September 25, 1901 – December 18, 1999

Books:

Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943–1983 (2016); Notes sur le Cinématographe / aka Notes on Cinematography (1975).

Movies and television:

A Gentle Woman (1969); A Man Escaped (1956); Angels of Sin (1943); Au cinéma ce soir (1972); Au hasard Balthazar (1966); Au hasard Bresson (1967); Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Andrej Tarkowskijs Exil und Tod (1988); Cannes Film Festival (1971); C'était un musicien (1933); Cinéastes de notre temps (1965); Cinéma (1966–1967); Cinépanorama (1960); Courrier Sud (1937); Diary of a Country Priest (1951); Épreuves d'artistes (2004); Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971); Heart of the Festival (2002); Humbert Balsan, producteur rebelle (2006); If It Moves Shoot It (1970); Journeys Through French Cinema (2017); Lancelot of the Lake (1974); L'Argent (1983); Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (Inventaire des rues du 7ème arrondissement) (2014); Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (Inventaire des rues du 9ème arrondissement) (2014); Mag Bodard, un destin (2005); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Mouchette (1967); Notes on the Cinematographer (parlato in italiano) (2020); Pickpocket (1959); Pour le cinéma (1969); Pour le plaisir (1966–1967); Public Affairs (1934); The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000); The Devil, Probably (1977); The Dreamers (2003); The Foolish Virgin (1938); The Road to Bresson (1984); The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962); The Well (2016); Wear (2015); What Is Cinema? (2013).

Born on this day – William Faulkner:


William Faulkner


Writer

September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Fable (1954); A Rose for Emily (1930); Absalom, Absalom! (1936); As I Lay Dying (1930); Barn Burning (1996); Barn Burning and other stories (1939); Big Woods (1955); Collected Stories (1948); Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Flags in the Dust (1973); Go Down, Moses (1942); Growing Up in the South (1991); Intruder in the Dust (1948); Jealousy and Episode (1977); Knight's Gambit (1949); Light in August (1932); Louisiana Stories (1990); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Marble Faun and a Green Bough (1960); Mayday (1978); Mosquitoes (1927); New Orleans Sketches (1957); Ole Miss Juvenilia (2018); Pylon (1935); Requiem for a Nun (1950); Road to Glory (1981); Sanctuary (1931); Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1954); Sartoris (1929); Selected Short Stories (1956); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Soldiers' Pay (1926); Stories of the Modern South (1977); The Bear (1942); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Best Horror Stories (1977); The Essential Faulkner (2013); The Hamlet (1940); The Mansion (1959); The Marionettes (1978); The Reivers (1962); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sound and the Fury (1929); The Town (1957); The Unvanquished (1938); The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939); These 13 (1931); Three Famous Short Novels (1958); Uncle Willy and Other Stories (1967); Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979); Wishing Tree (1927); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

A Rose for Emily (1983); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Air Force (1943); As I Lay Dying (2013); Background to Danger (1943); Barn Burning (1980); Camera Three (1956–1958); Cheyenne (1956); Climax! (1954–1955); Deep Valley (1947); Dim (1958); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Estudio 1 (1977); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flesh (1932); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Fumée / Smoke (1961); General Electric Theater (1960); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gunga Din (1939); Intruder in the Dust (1949); Invitation au voyage (2021); Kaki Bakar (1995); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lazy River (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Mildred Pierce (1945); Mississippi Requiem (2018); Moi, général de Gaulle (1990); Noga (1991); Northern Pursuit (1943); Old Man (1997); Omnibus / Segment: William Faulkner (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Requiem für eine Nonne (1965); Sanctuary (1961); Slave Ship (1937); Sling Blade (1996); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The Bear (1980); The Big Sleep (1946); The Loneliness Trilogy (2008); The Long Hot Summer (1985); The Long, Hot Summer (1958–1966); The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner (2024); The Reivers (1969); The Road to Glory (1936); The Sound and the Fury (1959 / 2009 / 2014); The Southerner (1945); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Tarnished Angels (1957); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Tomorrow (1972); Two Soldiers (1986 / 2003); Vacation Playhouse (1964).

Born on this day – Josephine Rector:


Josephine Rector


Writer

Actress

September 25, 1885 – October 1, 1958

Credits:

A Gambler's Way (1914); A Romance of the Hills (1913); Across the Plains (1911); Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist (1913); Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid (1913); Broncho Billy's Bible (1912); Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed (1913); Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner (1911); Broncho Billy's Reason (1913); Broncho Billy's Sermon (1914); Broncho Billy's Squareness (1913); Hard Luck Bill (1913); Love on Tough Luck Ranch (1912); Snakeville's Fire Brigade (1914); Snakeville's Home Guard (1914); Sophie's Birthday Party (1914); That Pair from Thespia (1913); The Atonement (1914); The Cast of the Die (1914); The Cowboy Samaritan (1913); The Dance at Eagle Pass (1913); The Dance at Silver Gulch (1912); The Last Shot (1913); The Two Ranchmen (1913); The Weaker's Strength (1914); Western Girls (1912).