Born on this day – Noreen Corcoran:

Noreen Corcoran

Actress

October 20, 1943 – January 15, 2016

Credits:

A Lion Is in the Streets (1953); About Faces (1960); An Evening at the Inn (1962); Apache Drums (1951); Bachelor Father (1957–1962); Band of Angels (1957); Ben Casey (1964); Cavalcade of America (1953–1955); Channing (1963); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Chevron Theatre (1952–1953); Circus Boy (1957); Dr. Kildare (1963); Four Star Playhouse (1955); General Electric Theater (1957); Gidget Goes to Rome (1963); Going My Way (1963); Gunsmoke (1964); Hans Christian Andersen (1952); I Love Melvin (1953); Mr. Novak (1964); Plymouth Adventure (1952); Saints and Sinners (1962); So This Is Love (1953); Social Security in Action (1965); Studio 57 (1955); Tanganyika (1954); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1955); The Big Valley (1965); The Bob Hope Show (1961); The Eleventh Hour (1964); The Girls on the Beach (1965); The Lawbreakers (1961); The Loretta Young Show (1953); The Magical World of Disney (1959); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Robe (1953); The Story of Three Loves / Segments: The Jealous Lover; Mademoiselle (1953); Violent Saturday (1955); Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952); You Don't Say (1965); Young Bess (1953).

Born on this day – Jerry Orbach:

Jerry Orbach

Actor

Singer

October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004

Born on this day – Timothy West:

Timothy West

Actor

October 20, 1934 – November 12, 2024

Credits:

102 Dalmatians (2000); A History of Britain (2001); A Room with a View (2007); A Very Peculiar Practice (1986); ABC News Breakfast (2025); After Henry (1989); Agatha (1979); An Audience with Alf Garnett (1997); An Audience with Kenneth Williams (1983); Animated Epics: Beowulf (1998); Animating Shakespeare (1992); Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage (1984); Arena (1977); Armchair Theatre (1967); At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper (1998); Bedtime (2001–2003); Beecham (1992); Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988); Beyond Borders (2003); Big Breadwinner Hog (1969); Bleak House (2005); Boswell's Life of Johnson (1971); Bramwell (1998); Brass (1983–1990); Breakfast (2005–2010); Breakthrough at Reykjavik (1987); Bremner, Bird and Fortune (2005); Bring Back My Bonnie (2022); Brother Felix and the Virgin Saint (1992); Bye Bye Columbus (1991); Call My Bluff (1983–2005); Campion (1989); Churchill and the Generals (1979); Colditz (2005); Comedy Classics (2008); Comedy Playhouse (2016); Consuming Passions (1988); Coronation Street (2013); Cottage to Let (1977); Crime and Punishment (1979); Cry Freedom (1987); Cuts (1996); Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019); Daybreak (2013); Deadline Midnight (1961); Delirium (2017); Des Teufels Advokat (1977); Dickens (2002); Did You See..? (1982); Dirty Beasts (1990); Dispatches (2011); Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures (2007); Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures (2008); Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures (2011); Doctors (2024); EastEnders (2014–2015); EastEnders: Secrets from the Square (2020); Edward II (1970); Edward the King (1975); Eleven Men Against Eleven (1995); Endgame (2009); Essential Poems for Christmas (2004); Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998); Exile (2011); Florence Nightingale (1985); Framed (1992); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1980); Funny Women (1998); Gentleman Jack (2019–2022); Going Postal (2010); Goodnight Sweetheart (1998); Great Canal Journeys (2014–2020); Hard Times (1977); Hedda (1975); Hine (1971); Hiroshima (1995); Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973); Hot Wok (1996); Hudson and Halls (1987); Idle-Hands (2010); Inside No. 9 (2014); Inspector Lewis (2010); Iris (2001); John Nettles Applauds (2008); Joseph Andrews (1977); Joy (1972); Last Tango in Halifax (2013–2020); Lenin: The Train (1988); Lives Well Lived (2024); Living the Life (2012); Local 10 News (1998); Looking for Victoria (2003); Loose Ends (2017); Loose Women (2023); Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh (2022); Marjorie and Men (1985); Martin Luther (2002); Masada (1981); Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976); Midsomer Murders (2000); Miss Marple (1985); Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (1985); Mop and Smiff (1985–1986); Murder in Mind (2001); Murder Is Easy (1982); Murder Most Horrid (1994); My Partner the Ghost (1970); Mystery and Imagination (1968); NET Playhouse (1969); New Tricks (2005); News from Nowhere (1978); Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); Night of the Broken (2022); No Hiding Place (1962); Not Going Out (2007–2009); Oliver Twist (1982); Open Space (1993); Over Here (1996); Performance (1998); Persuasion (1961); Peter Ackroyd's London (2004); Play for Today (1975); Poirot (2010); Public Eye (1966); Rebecca (1997); Revolting Rhymes (1990); Richard & Judy (2003); Rough Cut (1980); Ruddy Hell! It's Harry & Paul (2010); Run for Your Wife (2012); Screen One (1989–1990); Seasons (2010); Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018); Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992); Shrink (2003); Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003); Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022); Smokescreen (1994); Station Jim (2001); Sunday AM (2008); Sunday Premiere (1986–1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); Tender Is the Night (1985); The Actor's Apprenticeship (2017); The Alan Clark Diaries (2004); The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2008–2010); The Aviators (1998); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1979); The Big Knights (1999–2015); The Big Snow of 47 (2024); The Book of Water (2022); The British (2012–2014); The Bus Driver (2009); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Day the Guns Fell Silent (1998); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Duke of Wentworth (2025); The Edwardians (1972); The End of the Pier? Show (2014); The Fall of Gondolin (2019); The Fellows (1967); The Fourth Angel (2001); The Good Doctor Bodkin Adams (1986); The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2004); The Last Bastion (1984); The Looking Glass War (1970); The Marriage Lines (1964); The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999); The Ogre Hunters (2013); The Pink Popcast (2025); The Place of the Dead (1997); The Red Baron (1998); The Royal Wedding of HRH the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles (2005); The Siegfried Idyll (1969); The Story of the Costume Drama (2008); The Thirty Nine Steps (1978); The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990); The Tragedy of King Richard II (1970); The Variety Club Showbiz Awards 2009 (2009); The Vote (2015); The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club (1977); Theatre 625 (1964); Theatre Night (1959–1989); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967–1998); Time to Talk (1990); Timothy West as Beecham (1979); Titanic (2012); Toast of London (2015); Trapped (1967); Twisted Nerve (1968); Undercovers Hero (1974); Villa des roses (2002); Villains (1972); Waking the Dead (2004); Water World (2000–2008); We the Kings (2018); When We Are Married (1987); Witch Hunt (1967); Wogan (1986–1991).

Born on this day – William Christopher:

William Christopher

Actor

Comedian

October 20, 1932 – December 31, 2016

Born on this day – John Anderson:

John Anderson

Actor

October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992

Born on this day – Jean-Pierre Melville:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Director

Writer

Actor

October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973

Born on this day – Carla Laemmle:

Carla Laemmle

Actress

Dancer

October 20, 1909 – June 12, 2014

Credits:

A Sad State of Affairs (2013); Bathing Beauty (1944); Dracula (1931); Fashions for Women (1927); Girl Rush (1944); His Last Fling (1935); King of Jazz (1930); Ladies of the Chorus (1948); Mansion of Blood (2015); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); On Your Toes (1939); Pooltime (2010); She's Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein (1999); Step Lively (1944); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); The Broadway Melody (1929); The Extra (2017); The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999); The Gate Crasher (1928); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The King Steps Out (1936); The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); The Vampire Hunters Club (2001); Topsy and Eva (1927); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Universal Horror (1998).