Born on this day – Will Sampson:

Will Sampson

Actor

Painter

Rodeo performer

September 27, 1933 – June 3, 1987

Credits:

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); American Playhouse (1986); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Born to the Wind (1981); Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976); Completely Cuckoo (1997); Cowboysan (1978); Crazy Mama (1975); Eastwood in Action (1976); Entretien avec Philippe Guedj (2024); Firewalker (1986); Fish Hawk (1979); From Here to Eternity (1979 / 1980); Great Spirit Within the Hole (1983); Hell Hath No Fury (1999); I Am (2010); Images of Indians (1979–1980); Insignificance (1985); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); Orca (1977); Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986); Relentless (1977); Reservation Dogs (2022); Standing Tall (1978); Tall Tales & Legends (1986); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The Gunfighters (1987); The Hunted Lady (1977); The Mystic Warrior (1984); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); The White Buffalo (1977); The Yellow Rose (1983–1984); Vega$ (1978–1980); Wildside (1985).

Born on this day – Roger C. Carmel:

Roger C. Carmel

Actor

September 27, 1932 – November 11, 1986

Credits:

A House Is Not a Home (1964); Act One (1963); Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1986); All in the Family (1977); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Anatomy of a Seduction (1979); Anna and the King (1972); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1961–1962); B.J. and the Bear (1979); Banacek (1972); Batman (1967); Batmania from Comics to Screen (1989); Blue Light (1966); Breezy (1973); Car 54, Where Are You? (1962); CBS Storybreak (1987); Chico and the Man (1975); Diff'rent Strokes (1982); DuckTales (1987); East Side / West Side (1963); Everglades! (1962); Fitz and Bones (1981); Gambit (1966); Get Christie Love! (1975); Getting Together (1971); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Hardly Working (1980); Hart to Hart (1980); Hawaii Five-O (1971–1972); Hogan's Heroes (1965); I Spy (1965–1967); Insight (1969); Ironside (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It Takes Two (1969–1970); It's Your Bet (1970–1971); Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On (2019); Lamp Unto My Feet (1962); Laverne & Shirley (1980); Look Up and Live (1961); Marathon Bar: Captain Quick (1974); McCloud (1975); McMillan & Wife (1973); My Brother the Angel (1966); My Dog, the Thief (1969); My Living Doll (1964–1965); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Naked City (1960–1963); North by Northwest (1959); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Premiere (1968); Route 66 (1960–1964); Skullduggery (1970); Snorks (1985); Stage Struck (1958); Star Trek (1966–1967); Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973); Stump the Stars (1970); Switch (1975); Terror at Alcatraz (1982); That's Life (1979); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Art of Love (1965); The Defenders (1961); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Doris Day Show (1972); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Glo Friends (1986); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The High Chaparral (1971); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1968); The Invisible Man (1975); The Magical World of Disney (1969); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1965); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1980); The Mothers-In-Law (1967–1968); The Munsters (1965); The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986–1987); The Patty Duke Show (1964); The Paul Lynde Show (1973); The Phyllis Diller Show (1966); The San Pedro Beach Bums (1977); The Silencers (1966); The Smurfs (1986); The Telephone Book (1971); The Transformers (1985–1986); The Transformers: The Movie (1986); The Venetian Affair (1966); Three's Company (1979); Thunder and Lightning (1977); Today (1967); Transformers: Five Faces of Darkness (1986); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965).

Born on this day – Arthur Penn:

Arthur Penn

Director

Producer

September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010

Credits:

100 Centre Street (2001); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Dead of Winter (1987); Flesh and Blood (1968); Four Friends (1981); Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953); Hungarian Emergency Relief Organization Christmas Day Special (1956); Inside (1996); Justice (1954); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953–1955); Little Big Man (1970); Lumière and Company (1995); Mickey One (1965); Night Moves (1975); Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989); Playhouse 90 (1957); Playwrights '56 (1955); Producers' Showcase (1954); Studio One (1956); Target (1985); The Chase (1966); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Left Handed Gun (1958); The Miracle Worker (1962); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The Portrait (1993); Visions of Eight (1973).

Born on this day – William Conrad:

William Conrad

Actor

Producer

Director

September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994

Credits:

-30- (1959); 5 Against the House (1955); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Acapulco (1961); Any Number Can Play (1949); Arch of Triumph (1948); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Barnaby Jones (1973); Bat Masterson (1958); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980); Body and Soul (1947); Bold Venture (1959); Brainstorm (1965); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); Cannon (1971); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Chisum (1970); Countdown (1967); Cry Danger (1951); Cry of the Hunted (1953); D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill (1971); Dial 1119 (1950); East Side, West Side (1949); Escape (1950); F Troop (1965); First to Fight (1967); Four Faces West (1948); G.E. True (1962); Geronimo (1962); Gorath (1962); Gunsmoke (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962); Highway Patrol (1959); Hoppity Hooper (1965); Hotel (1986); How the West Was Won (1976); Hudson Hawk (1991); In Like Flynn (1985); It Takes a Thief (1970); Jake and the Fatman (1987); Joan of Arc (1948); Johnny Concho (1956); Keefer (1978); Keep America Beautiful: The Crying Indian (1971); Killing Cars (1986); King of Diamonds (1961); Klondike (1960); Lock Up (1960); Lone Star (1952); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Manimal (1983); Matlock (1986); Men Into Space (1960); Moonshine County Express (1977); Motor Scouts (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1984); My Blood Runs Cold (1965); Naked City (1961); Nero Wolfe (1981); Night Cries (1978); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); One Way Street (1950); Pillow to Post (1945); Police Squad! (1982); Ripcord (1961); Route 66 (1961); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); Saints and Sinners (1962); Shocktrauma (1982); Side Show (1981); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); Storefront Lawyers (1970); Tales of the Unexpected (1977); Target (1958); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Temple Houston (1963); Tension (1949); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Aquanauts (1961); The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (1959); The Bob Mathias Story (1954); The Brady Kids (1972); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Bullwinkle Show (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960); The City (1977); The Conqueror (1956); The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service (1982); The Desert Song (1953); The Dudley Do-Right Show (1959); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Fall Guy (1984); The Force of Evil (1977); The Fugitive (1963); The High Chaparral (1970); The Highwayman (1987); The Killers (1946); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man from Galveston (1963); The Mikado (1982); The Milkman (1950); The Naked Jungle (1954); The Name of the Game (1969); The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger (1980); The Racket (1951); The Rebels (1979); The Return of Frank Cannon (1980); The Return of the King (1980); The Ride Back (1957); The Rifleman (1959); The Rough Riders (1958); The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951); This Man Dawson (1959); To the Victor (1948); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trauma Center (1983); Turnover Smith (1980); Two on a Guillotine (1965); Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986); Zero Hour! (1957).

Born on this day – Jim Thompson:

Jim Thompson

Writer

September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977

Credits:

A Hell Of A Woman (1954); A Swell-Looking Babe (1954); After Dark, My Sweet (1955); Bad Boy (1953); Child Of Rage (1972); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Cropper's Cabin (1952); Fireworks (1988); Hard-boiled (1995); Heed The Thunder (1946); Ironside (1967); King Blood (1973); More Hardcore: 3 Novels (1987); Murder Plus (1992); Nothing But A Man (1970); Nothing More Than Murder (1949); Now and On Earth (1942); Pop. 1280 (1964); Pulp Frictions (1996); Recoil (1953); Roughneck (1954); Savage Night (1953); South Of Heaven (1967); Texas By The Tail (1965); The Alcoholics (1953); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987); The Criminal (1953); The Getaway (1959); The Golden Gizmo (1954); The Grifters (1963); The Jim Thompson Omnibus (1995); The Killer Inside Me (1952); The Kill-Off (1957); The Nothing Man (1954); The Rip-Off (1989); The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus (1997); The Transgressors (1961); The Undefeated (1969); Unusual Suspects (1996); Wild Town (1957).

Movies and television:

After Dark, My Sweet (1990); Cain's Hundred (1961); Clean Slate (1981); Convoy (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Fallen Angels (1993); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Hit Me (1996); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Paths of Glory (1957); Pop. 1280 (2024); Serie Noire (1979); The Getaway (1972 / 1994); The Grifters (1990); The Killer Inside Me (1976 / 2010); The Killing (1956); The Kill-Off (1989); This World, Then the Fireworks (1997); Trapped (2014).

Born on this day – Olive Tell:

Olive Tell

Actress

September 27, 1894 – June 8, 1951

Credits:

A Woman's Business (1920); Baby, Take a Bow (1934); Brilliant Marriage (1936); Chickie (1925); Clothes (1920); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Delicious (1931); Devotion (1931); Easy to Take (1936); False Faces (1932); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); Good Medicine (1929); Hearts in Exile (1929); Her Sister (1917); In His Steps (1936); Ladies' Man (1931); Lawful Larceny (1930); Love Without Question (1920); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Polo Joe (1936); Private Scandal (1934); Sailors' Wives (1928); Secret Strings (1918); Shanghai (1935); Slaves of Beauty (1927); Soft Living (1928); Strictly Personal (1933); Summer Bachelors (1926); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Girl and the Judge (1918); The Prince of Tempters (1926); The Right of Way (1930); The Right of Way (1930); The Scarlet Empress (1934); The Silent Master (1917); The Trap (1919); The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929); The Unforseen (1917); The Very Idea (1929); The Witching Hour (1934); The Wrong Woman (1920); To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918); Under Southern Stars (1937); Wings of Pride (1920); Woman Hungry (1931); Womanhandled (1925); Worlds Apart (1921); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zaza (1938).

Iris Murdoch, on literature:

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature,

since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

– Iris Murdoch.