Stan Dragoti
Director
Writer
October 4, 1932 – July 13, 2018
Credits:
Necessary Roughness
(1991); She's Out of Control (1989); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985); Mr. Mom
(1983); Love at First Bite (1979); McCoy (1975); Dirty Little Billy (1972).
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Born on this day – George Sidney:
George Sidney
Director
Producer
October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002
Credits:
A Door Will Open (1940); A Ticklish Affair
(1963); Alfalfa's Aunt (1939); Anchors Aweigh (1945); Annie Get Your Gun
(1950); Bathing Beauty (1944); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Bye Bye
Birdie (1963); Cass Timberlane (1947); Clown Princes (1939); Cousin Wilbur
(1939); Dog Daze (1939); Duel Personalities (1939); Football Romeo (1938); Free
and Easy (1941); Half a Sixpence (1967); Holiday in Mexico (1946); Hollywood
Hobbies (1939); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Jupiter's Darling (1955); Key to the City
(1950); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Loews Christmas Greeting (the Hardy Family)
(1939); Love on Tap (1939); Men in Fright (1938); Murder in 3-D (1941); Of Pups
and Puzzles (1941); Pacific Paradise (1937); Pacific Rendezvous (1942); Pal
Joey (1957); Party Fever (1938); Pepe (1960); Pilot #5 (1943); Polo (1936);
Practical Jokers (1938); Quicker'n a Wink (1940); Scaramouche (1952); Show Boat
(1951); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); The Cliff Edwards Show (1949);
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); The Harvey Girls (1946); The Red Danube (1949);
The Swinger (1966); The Three Musketeers (1948); Thousands Cheer (1943); Tiny
Troubles (1939); Viva Las Vegas (1964); 'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
(1940); What's Your IQ? (1940); Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965); Who Was That
Lady? (1960); Willie and the Mouse (1941); Young Bess (1953); Ziegfeld Follies
(1945).
Born on this day – Buster Keaton:
Buster Keaton
Actor
Comedian
Director
Stuntman
October 4,
1895 – February 1, 1966
Credits:
100 Years at the Movies (1994); 30 Years of Fun
(1963); 4 Clowns (1970); A Country Hero (1917); A Desert Hero (1919); A
Forbidden Orange (2021); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966);
A Night at the Opera (1935); A Reckless Romeo (1917); A Southern Yankee (1948);
A Tribute to Lucy (1989); Alberto Mazarro: Desvesiculado (2025); All Star
Summer Revue (1952); Allez Oop! (1934); America After Dark (1957); America at
the Movies (1976); American Experience (2021); American Masters (1989–2000);
America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); America's Clown: An
Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014);
Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Astronogeek (2025); At the Circus (1939);
Back Stage (1919); Bathing Beauty (1944); Battling Butler (1926); Beach Blanket
Bingo (1965); Beer Commercials of the 50s & 60s (2015); Best of Buster
Keaton (2024); Big Band Treasures (2008); Biography (1987–2004); Blue Blazes
(1936); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Bob Hope's World of Comedy
(1976); Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (2004); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and
Blockbusters (2006); Bollywood Hero (2009); Breath Death (1964); Broken Horses
(2015); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Burke's Law (1964); Buster Keaton and
Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle (2002); Buster Keaton in Wildwest (1962); Buster Keaton
Rides Again (1965); Buster Keaton, the Genius Destroyed by Hollywood (2016); Buster
Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987); Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
(2006); Buster Keaton: Head Over Heels in Hollywood (2008); Buster Keaton: The
Great Stone Face (1968); Buster se marie (1931); Buster's Bedroom (1991); Ça
c'est du cinéma (1951); Calendar (1962); Camera Three (1970); Candid Camera
(1962–1967); Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles (2005); Candid Camera's 50th
Anniversary (1996); Casanova wider Willen (1931); Casanova wider Willen (1931);
Catalogue of Ships (2008); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022);
Celebrity Time (1950–1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Character Studies (1927);
Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020); Cinéphiles de notre temps
(2012); Clapper Board (1976); College (1927); Columbia Laff Hour (1956);
Compression (2023); Coney Island (1917); Convict 13 (1920); Cops (1922);
Court-circuit (2010); Crazy Days (1962); Cynthia (1947); Dans les yeux de
Johnny Depp (2022); Day Dreams (1922); De frente, marchen (1930); Dieter &
Andreas (1989); Ditto (1937); Doughboys (1930); Duels (2016); Easy Go (2010);
Easy to Wed (1946); Edge of Outside (2006); Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015); El
moderno Barba Azul (1946); E-penser (2022–2025); Es darf gelacht werden (1962);
Estrellados (1930); Excuse My Dust (1951); Fast Company (1938); Film (1965);
Film Breaks (1999); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Flicker Flashbacks No. 3,
Series 2 (1944); Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (2021); Forever and a Day
(1943); Four Star Revue (1950–1952); Fractured Flickers (1963); Free and Easy
(1930); Funny Business (1992); Funny Show Part Two: The Video - Movie (2012);
General Nuisance (1941); George Jessel Show (1958); Go West (1925 / 1940);
God's Country (1946); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Good Night, Nurse!
(1918); Grand Slam Opera (1936); Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981); Hard Luck (1921); Harold Lloyd: Hollywood's Timeless Comedy Genius
(2017); Hayseed Romance (1935); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hidden Hollywood II:
More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999); His Ex Marks the Spot
(1940); His Wedding Night (1917); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004);
Hollywood (1980); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Babylon (1971);
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Hollywood Hobbies (1939);
Hollywood in Spanien (1966); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade
No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Television
(1949–1953); Hollywood Rivals (2001); Hollywood Rivals: Chaplin vs Keaton
(2006); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years
(1961); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); How We
Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and
Ciccio (2004); Hypertelia (2015); I Dood It (1943); In the Good Old Summertime
(1949); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
(1963); It's Showtime (1976); I've Got a Secret (1952–1957); Jail Bait (1937);
Jeopardy! (2004); June Night (2020); Kaleidoscope (2015); Keaton: The Great
Stone Face (1982); La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935); La profondeur de champs
(2017); Landesschau (1962); L'Art de Buster Keaton (2001); Laurel & Hardy:
Their Lives and Magic (2011); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2017); Le plombier
amoureux (1932); Le roi des Champs-Élysées (1934); Legends (2008); Legends of
Comedy (1993); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les Douze Glorieuses de Buster
Keaton (2017); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Life Begins at Eighty (1954);
Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938); Life with
Buster Keaton (1951); Lifetime of Comedy (1960); Li'l Abner (1940); Limelight
(1952); L'incantevole nemica (1953); Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown
Died (2022); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Love Nest on Wheels (1937); Lucy and
Desi (2022); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Magic with the Stars (1982); Make 'Em
Laugh (1982); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Make the
Connection (1955); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Matinee in New
York (1952); Medicine Man (1962); Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! (2026);
Mixed Magic (1936); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010);
Mooching Through Georgia (1939); Moonage Daydream (2022); Moonshine (1918);
Morir de humor (2008); Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983);
Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning (2004); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1963);
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007); Musings of the Classic Sherlock
Holmes Actor (2022); My Wife's Relations (1922); Neighbors (1920); New Moon (1940);
Nickelodeon Days (1962); Nordschau-Magazin (1962); Nothing But Pleasure (1940);
Nothing But Trouble (1944); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Oh Buster, Where Art
Thou? (2022); Oh Doctor! (1917); One Run Elmer (1935); One Week (1920); Our
Hospitality (1923); Our Turn (2020); Out West (1918); Pajama Party (1964);
Palooka from Paducah (1935); Paradise for Buster (1952); Pardon My Berth Marks
(1940); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Pest from the West (1939); Playhouse
90 (1958); Pritzker Military Library Presents (2009); Producers' Showcase
(1956); Quick Millions (1939); Return of the General (1962); Révolutions
surréalistes (2024); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Route 66 (1962); Salute to Stan
Laurel (1965); San Diego I Love You (1944); Savoring the Scarecrow: Or Buster
& the Sybil Trilogy (2011); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Screen
Snapshots (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots,
Series 19, No. 6: Hollywood Recreations (1940); Screen Snapshots, Series 21,
No. 1 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 24, No. 9 (1945); Screen Snapshots,
Series 3, No. 15 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen
Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 30, No. 9:
Hollywood Pie Throwers (1951); Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 1 (1924); Screen
Snapshots, Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Seeing Stars (1922); Sergeant Dead Head
(1965); Serling (2026); Seven Chances (1925); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
(2003); She Went to the Races (1945); Sherlock Jr. (1924); She's Oil Mine (1941);
Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Sidewalks of New York (1931); Silent Clowns (2006);
Silver Rainbow (2009); Slaphappy (2001–2003); Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 4:
Keaton, Arbuckle & St. John (1998); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Snarbuckled
(2010); So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004); So You Won't Squawk?
(1941); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership
(1949); Speak Easily (1932); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Spite Marriage
(1929); Sprockets (1991); Stan Laurel Funeral (1965); Star of the Family
(1950); Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025); Stars of the Silver Screen (2014);
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928); Streamlined Swing (1938); Stu's Show (2023); Sunday
Showcase (1960); Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936); Sunset Boulevard (1950);
Take It or Leave It (1944); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949); Tales of
Manhattan (1942); Tars and Stripes (1935); Telescope (1964); Televisión
registrada (2012); Ten Girls Ago (1962); That Night with You (1945); That's
Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment,
Part II (1976); That's the Spirit (1945); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards
(1960); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Actor's Society Benefit Gala
(1949); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The Adventures of Mr. Pastry
(1958); The All New Truth or Consequences (1963–1965); The Art of Action:
Martial Arts in Motion Picture (2002); The Art of Buster Keaton (1995); The
Arthur Murray Party (1951–1952); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Balloonatic
(1923); The Bell Boy (1918); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Betty White Show
(1958); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Blacksmith (1922); The Boat
(1921); The Buster Keaton Collector's Classic (1984); The Buster Keaton Show
(1949–1951); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Butcher Boy (1917); The
Cameraman (1928); The Chemist (1936); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Comic
Kino-Eye (2013); The Cook (1918); The Dead Sullivan Show (2017); The Devil to
Pay (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1965); The
Double-Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973); The Dreamers
(2003); The Dunninger Show (1955); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed
Sullivan Show (1950–1963); The Ed Wynn Show (1949–1950); The Eddie Cantor
Comedy Theater (1955); The E-Flat Man (1935); The Electric House (1922); The
Fall Guy (1965); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The First 100 Years: A
Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Footage Detectives (2023); The
Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle (2005); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952);
The Frozen North (1922); The Garage (1919); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The
General (1926); The Giant Mechanical Man (2012); The Goat (1921); The Gold
Ghost (1934); The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979); The Great Buster (2018);
The Great Chase (1962); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Haunted House
(1921); The Hayseed (1919); The 'High Sign' (1921); The Hollywood Clowns
(1979); The Hollywood Palace (1964); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The
Home Owner (1961); The Image Book (2018); The Invader (1936); The Iron Mule
(1925); The James Melton Show (1952); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963); The Jonathan
Winters Specials (1965); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Ken Murray
Show (1952); The Lovable Cheat (1949); The Love Nest (1923); The Man Who Bought
Paradise (1965); The March of Time (1930); The March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 12:
The Movies March On (1939); The Martha Raye Show (1956); The Misadventures of
Buster Keaton (1950); The Navigator (1924); The New Bike (2009); The New Flesh
(2024); The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962); The One
Show (2011); The Paleface (1922); The Passionate Plumber (1932); The Play House
(1921); The Railrodder (1965); The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021); The Red Skelton
Hour (1951–1952); The Revlon Revue (1960); The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956);
The Rough House (1917); The Round-up (1920); The Saphead (1920); The Saturday
Night Revue with Jack Carter (1951); The Scarecrow (1920); The Scribe (1966);
The Secret Genius of Modern Life (2023); The Smelly Janitor (2008); The Sound
of Laughter (1963); The Spook Speaks (1940); The Steve Allen Show (1956); The
Stolen Jools (1931); The Sunday Spectacular: Show Biz from Vaudeville to Video
(1955); The Taming of the Snood (1940); The Three Stooges Follies (1974); The
Timid Young Man (1935); The Tonight Show (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Jack
Paar (1958–1961); The Triumph of Lester Snapwell (1963); The Twilight Zone
(1961); The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940); The Voice of Hollywood (1930); The
Voice of Hollywood No. 26 (1931); The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (1930); The
World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988); This Is Show
Business (1951); This Is Your Life (1957); Three Ages (1923); Three Ages: Tour
of Filming Locations (2010); Three on a Limb (1936); Tide of Empire (1929);
Timeshift (2005); Today (1963); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Un duel à mort
(1947); Walt Disney World 4th of July Spectacular (1988); War Italian Style
(1965); Welcome to the Basement (2016); What-No Beer? (1933); What's My Line?
(1951–1957); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When Comedy Was King (1960); White
Rabbit (2011); Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931); Wonderful Times (1950);
Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); You Asked for It (1958); You Must Remember This
(2015); You're My Everything (1949); Zaz: Prends garde à ta langue (2018).
Born on this day – Damon Runyon:
Damon Runyon
Writer
October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946
Credits:
The Tents of Trouble
(1911); Rhymes of the Firing Line (1912); Guys and Dolls (1932); Little Miss
Marker (1934); Money From Home (1935); More Than Somewhat (1937); Furthermore
(1938); Take It Easy (1938); My Wife Ethel (1939); The Best of Runyon (1940); Damon
Runyon Favorites (1942); Runyon a la Carte (1944); In Our Town (1946); The
Three Wise Guys and Other Stories (1946); Poems for Men (1947); More Guys and
Dolls (1950); Runyon On Broadway (1950); The Turps (1951); From First to Last
(1954); A Treasury of Damon Runyon (1958); Slow Horses and Fast Women (1979); Guys
and Dolls of Broadway (1986); Romance in the Roaring Forties and Other Stories
(1986); Stories of Damon Runyan (1988); The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other
Stories (1990); Trials and Other Tribulations (1991); The Damon Runyon Omnibus
(2001); Guys and Dolls and Other Writings (2008); The Informal Execution of
Soupbone Pew (2010); A Slight Case of Murder (1940); My Old Man (1939); Short
Takes (1946).
Movies and television:
Betsy Byars, on writing:
Writing is like anything
– baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails.
The more you work
on it, the better you get.
But it seems to take a longer time to get better at
writing than hammering nails.
- Betsy Byars.
Saturday, October 3, 2026
On this day at The Pie Hole:
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Pushing Daisies
Season 1. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Pie-lette.
Released October 3,
2007.
Directed by Barry
Sonnenfeld.
Written by Bryan Fuller.
Series created by Bryan
Fuller.
Music by Jim Dooley.
Narrated by Jim Dale.
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Cast:
Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene,
Swoosie Kurtz, Patrick Breen, Terry Anzur, Ed Brigadier, Field Cate, Ted
Garcia, Murray Gershenz, Tina Gloss, Brad Grunberg, Samantha Hanratty, Geraud
Moncure, Leyna Nguyen, Sy Richardson, Greg Suddeth, David Trice, Julie Wittner,
Jeff Wolfe.
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