Friday, October 23, 2026

On this day in movie history - The Shooting (1966):


The Shooting

directed by Monte Hellman,
written by Carole Eastman (writing as Adrien Joyce),
was released at the San Francisco Film Festival in the United States on October 23, 1966.
Music by Richard Markowitz.


Cast:

Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Charles Eastman, Guy El Tsosie, Brandon Carroll, B.J. Merholz, Wally K. Berns, William Mackleprang, James Campbell.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: The Human Bond.
Released October 23, 1959.
Directed by Francis D. Lyon.
Written by Jack Jacobs.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Grant Richards, Carolyn Craig, Raoul De Leon, Argentina Brunetti, Don Oreck, Claire Carleton, Leonard P. Geer, Roy Barcroft.

Born on this day – Michael Crichton:


Michael Crichton


Writer

Director

October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008

Credits:

Twisters (2024); Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022); Westworld (2016–2022); Jurassic World Dominion (2022); Killer Poop in the Movies (2022); Battle at Big Rock (2019); Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar (2019); Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018); Lego Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape (2016); Lego Jurassic World (2015); Jurassic World (2015); Sala de Urgencias (2015); Aberrant Forms: A Jurassic Short (2014); Jurassic Park: The Game (2011); ER (1994–2009); The Andromeda Strain (2008); Timeline (2003); Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003); Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure (2001); Jurassic Park: Scan Command (2001); Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor (2001); Jurassic Park III (2001); Timeline (2000); Warpath: Jurassic Park (1999); The 13th Warrior (1999); Jurassic Park: Trespasser (1998); Sphere (1998); Jurassic Park: Chaos Island (1997); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); Twister (1996); Congo (1995); Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition (1994); Disclosure (1994); Jurassic Park (1993); Rising Sun (1993); Equinox (1993); Physical Evidence (1989); Amazon (1984); Runaway (1984); Looker (1981); Beyond Westworld (1980); The Great Train Robbery (1978); Coma (1978); The Terminal Man (1974); Insight (1971–1974); Westworld (1973); Extreme Close-Up (1973); Pursuit (1972); The Carey Treatment (1972); Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972); The Andromeda Strain (1971).

Books:

The Andromeda Strain (1969); The Andromeda Evolution (2019); Jurassic Park (1990); The Lost World (1995); Odds On (1966); Scratch One (1967); A Case of Need (1968); Easy Go / The Last Tomb (1968); Zero Cool (1969); The Venom Business (1969); Drug of Choice (1970); Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues (1970); Grave Descend (1970); Binary (1972); The Terminal Man (1972); The Great Train Robbery (1975); Eaters of the Dead (1976); Congo (1980); Sphere (1987); Rising Sun (1992); Disclosure (1994); Airframe (1996); Timeline (1999); Prey (2002); State of Fear (2004); Next (2006); Pirate Latitudes (2009); Micro (2011); Dragon Teeth (2017); Eruption (2024); Five Patients (1970); Jasper Johns (1977); Electronic Life (1983); Travels (1988); Westworld (1974).

Born on this day – Dimitra Arliss:


Dimitra Arliss


Actress

October 23, 1932 – January 26, 2012

Credits:

A Perfect Couple (1979); As the World Turns (1987); Bella Mafia (1997); Bless the Child (2000); Bring 'Em Back Alive (1983); Civil Wars (1992); Dallas (1979); Eleni (1985); Firefox (1982); General Hospital (1993); Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); Iron Man (1994); It's My Party (1996); Joe and Sons (1975); Kojak (1974); Lucas Tanner (1974); Mannix (1975); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1975); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1977); Murder in Texas (1981); NBC Special Treat (1976); Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988); Quincy, M.E. (1976); Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976); Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1996); Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown (2002); Streetkill (1975); The Art of Crime (1975); The Art of 'the Sting' (2005); The Disappearance of Christina (1993); The Fall of the House of Usher (1979); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The Other Side of Midnight (1977); The Pirate (1978); The Ski Bum (1971); The Sting (1973); The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999); This Is the West That Was (1974); Xanadu (1980); You Gotta Start Somewhere (1977).

Born on this day – Marthe Mercadier:


Marthe Mercadier


Actress

October 23, 1928 – September 15, 2021

Credits:

Act of Love (1953); Arsène Lupin (1974); Au théâtre ce soir (1966); Aux frais de la princesse (1969); Beautiful, Blondes and Tanned (1981); Béru et ces dames (1968); Blue jeans (1977); Brigade verte (1985); Captain Slipper (1953); Caroline Cherie (1953); Casse-cou, mademoiselle! (1955); Catherine, il suffit d'un amour (1986); Ce bon Monsieur Durand (1950); Chacun son tour (1951); Companions of the Night (1953); Coq en pâte (1951); Dear Caroline (1951); Élisa (1957); Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1982); Escalier de service (1954); In the Water... Which Makes Bubbles!... (1961); Jamais deux sans trois (1951); La bonne Anna (1992); La chasse à l'homme (1952); La clé des champs (1959); La coqueluche (1971); La maison Bonnadieu (1951); La poule aux oeufs d'or (1995); La prima notte (1959); La puce et le privé (1981); L'anglais tel qu'on le parle (1959); Le bon roi Dagobert (1963); Le braconnier de Dieu (1983); Le Clou aux maris (1961); Le feu aux poudres (1957); Le plus joli péché du monde (1951); Le Squat (2003); Le tampon du capiston (1950); Le tombeur (1958); Le train bleu s'arrête 13 fois (1966); Le Valet maître (1963); Les aliénés (2001); Les amours des années folles (1981); Les amours romantiques (1983); Les cinq dernières minutes (1967); Les détectives du dimanche (1953); Les enfants d'Édouard (1992); Les enquiquineurs (1966); Les évadés (1955); Les fables de La Fontaine (1966); Les pique-assiettes (1989); Les saintes chéries (1965); Les surprises du chef (1996); Les Voisins du dessus (1988); Les Voix de la Breizh: Tes yeux de Breizh (2013); L'hôtel du libre-échange (1979); Lost Souvenirs (1950); Madame le maire (1987); Mädchen in Uniform (1958); Marriage Episodes (1954); Mon seul amour (1971); M'sieur la Caille (1955); Nounouche (1951); Obsession (1954); Once in Paris... (1978); Ouvert contre X... (1952); Paris Incident (1950); Paris Vice Squad (1951); Pariser Kammertheater (1961); Plaisir du théâtre (1957); R.I.S. Police scientifique (2012); Rayés des vivants (1952); Rendez-vous à Grenade (1951); Secrets of the Satin Blues (1981); Si Perrault m'était conté (1966); Soutien de famille (1995); Sweet Madness (1951); Système deux (1962); Te marre pas... c'est pour rire! (1982); The Adventures of Gil Blas (1956); The Camp at Thiaroye (1988); The Flea in the Ear (1956); The Night Is My Kingdom (1951); The Wicked Go to Hell (1955); Tout bascule (2005); Treize à table (1984); Un chat est un chat (1968); Un garçon de chez Véry (1965); Une nuit orageuse (1959); Vacances de rêve (1996); Vacances explosives! (1957); Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1971); Women Are Talkative (1958).

Born on this day – Ned Rorem:


Ned Rorem


Composer

Writer

October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022

Credits:

Books:

An Absolute Gift; Critical Affairs: a Composer's Journal; Dear Paul, Dear Ned: The Correspondence of Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem; Facing the Night: A Diary (1999-2005) and Musical Writings; Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir; Music and People; Music from Inside Out; Other Entertainment: Collected Pieces; Paul's Blues; Pure Contraption; Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary; Settling the Score: Essays on Music; The Final Diary; The Nantucket Diary; The New York Diary; The Paris Diary; Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003.

Music:

75 Notes for Jerry (2007); 99 Notes for the Millennium (1999); A Childhood Miracle (1951); A Christmas Carol (1952); A Dream of Nightingales (1992); A Journey (1976); A Little Fantasy (2008); A Poison Tree (2007); A Quaker Reader (1976–1988); A Quiet Afternoon (1948); A Sermon on Miracles (1947); A Song of Hosea (2005); After Long Silence (1982); After Long Silence (1982); After Reading Shakespeare (1980); Aftermath (2001–02); Afternoon on a Hill (2006); Air Music (1974); All Glorious God (1955); Alleluia (1946); An American Oratorio (1983); An Oboe Book (1999); Anna la Bonne (1989); Another Sleep (2000); Are You the New Person? (1989); Ariel (1971); Ask Me No More (1963); Assembly and Fall (1975); Autumn Music (1996–1997); Back to Life (1980); Barcarolles (1949); Before the Morning Star (1986); Bertha (1968); Book of Hours (1975); Breathe On Me (1989); Bright Music (1987); Canticle of the Lamb (1971); Canticles: Sets 1 & 2 (1971–72); Cello Concerto (2002); Christ is Made the Sure Foundation (1992); Chromatic Fantasy (2001); Clouds (1953); Concertino de Camera (1946); Concerto for English Horn (1991–1992); Conversation (1957); Cradle Song (1953); Cries and Whispers (2000); Cycle of Holy Songs (1951); Dance Suite (1949); Dances (1984); Day Music (1971); Death and the Young Man (2007); Design (1953); Diversions (1990); Do I love you more than a day? (1962); Double Concerto (1998); Eagles (1958); Early in the Morning (1954); Echo's Song (1948); Eight Etudes (1975); Eleven Songs for Susan (2007); Eleven Songs for Susan (2007); Eleven Studies for Eleven Players (1959–1960); Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997); Exaltabo Te, Domine (1995); Fables (1971); Fanfare and Flourish (1988); Fantasy and Polka (1989); Fantasy and Toccata (1946); Far-Far-Away (1963); Ferry me across the water (1978); Festival Alleluia (1992); Five Armenian Love Songs (1987); Five Poems of Walt Whitman (1957); Flight for Heaven (1952); Flute Concerto (2002); For Barbara (2006); For Ben (1999); For Don (2006); For Marian (2006); For Mary (2006); For Poulenc (1963); For Rosemary (2006); For Shirley (1989); For Susan (1953); Four Colours (2003); Four Dialogues (1953–1954); Four Hymns (1973); Four Introits (1999); Four Madrigals (1947); Four Poems of Tennyson (1963); Four Prayers (2006); Four Sonnets (2005); Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008); Frolic (1986); From an Unknown Past (1950); From an Unknown Past (1950); From an Unknown Past (1950); From When Cometh Song? (1978); Full of Life Now (1989); Give All to Love (1981); Gliding O'er All (1957); Gloria (1970); Go, Lovely Rose (1979); Gods (1957); Goodbye My Fancy (1988); He Shall Rule from Sea to Sea (1967); He Will Not Hear (2001); Hearing (1966–1976); Homer (1986); How Like a Winter (2013); How Lovely is your Dwelling Place (1994); I Am Rose (1955); I Feel Death... (1953); I Never Knew (2001); I Strolled Across an Open Field (1959); I Will Always Love You (1955); I Will Always Love You (1990); Ideas (1961); In a Gondola (1953); In Time of Pestilence (1973); Julia's Clothes (1950); King Midas (1961); Last Poems of Wallace Stevens (1971–1972); Laudemus Tempus Actum (1964); Lead Kindly Light (1988); Let's Take a Walk (1981); Letters from Paris (1966); Lift up your Heads (The Ascension) (1963); Lions (A Dream) (1963); Little Elegy (1949); Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? (1982); Little Prayers (1973); Look Down, Fair Moon (1957); Love (1953); Love Alone (1989); Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (1966); Love in a Life (1951); Lovers (1964); Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (1950); Mallet Concerto (2003); Memory (1959); Mercy and Truth Are Met (1983); Miracles of Christmas (1959); Miss Julie (1965); Missa Brevis (1973); More Than A Day (1995); Mountain Song (1948); My Papa's Waltz (1959); My Sad Captains (1995); Nantucket (1978–79); Night Crow (1959); Night Music (1972); Nine Episodes for Four Players (2001); Nocturne (2007); Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1963); O Do Not Love Too Long (1951); O God, My Heart is Ready (1992); O You to Whom I Often and Silently Come (1957); Ode (1953); Ode to Man (2005); Orchestral works; Orchids (1959); Organ Concerto (1985); Organbook I. (1989); Organbook II. (1989); Organbook III. (1989); Our Town (2005); Pas de Trois (2002); Pastorale (1949); Piano Concerto No. 1 (1948); Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951); Piano Concerto No. 3 (1969); Piano Concerto No. 4 (1991); Picnic on the Marne (1983); Pilgrim Strangers (1984); Pilgrims (1958); Pippa's Song (1953); Poèmes pour la paix (1953–1956); Poèmes pour la paix (1953–1956); Poems of Love and the Rain (1963); Praise the Lord, O My Soul (1982); Praises for the Nativity (1970); Prayer to Jesus (1973); Prayers and Responses (1960); Present Laughter (1993); Proper for the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (1966); Rain in Spring (1949); Recalling (2003); Recalling Nadia (2014); Reconciliation (1957); Remembering Tommy (1979); Remembrance of Things Past (1998); Requiem (1948); Romeo and Juliet (1977); Root Cellar (1959); Sally's Smile (1953); Santa Fe Songs (1980); See How They Love Me (1956); Septet Scenes from Childhood (1984–1985); Serenade on Five English Poems (1975); Seven Motets for the Church Year (1986); Sicilienne (1950); Sinfonia (1957); Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love (1955); Six Pieces (1997); Six Variations (1995); Sky Music (1976); Snake (1959); Solemn Prelude (1973); Some Trees (1968); Sometimes With One I Love (1957); Somewhere... (1994); Sonata No. 1 (1948); Sonata No. 2 (1949); Sonata No. 3 (1954); Song and Dance (1986); Song for a Girl (1953); Songs of Sadness (1994); Songs Old and New (2008); Songs Old and New (2008); Sonnet (1980); Sonnet 144 (Two Loves I Have) (2010); Sound the Flute (2004); Soundpoints (2003); Spiders (1968); Spirit Divine (1992); Spring (1947); Spring and Fall (1946); Spring Music (1990); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1947); String Quartet No. 3 (1991); String Quartet No. 4 (1994); String Symphony (1985); Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957); Suite (1980); Sun (1966); Sun (1966); Sunday Morning (1977); Surge Illuminare (1977); Swords and Plowshares (1990); Swords and Plowshares (1990); Symphony No. 1 (1950); Symphony No. 2 (1956); Symphony No. 3 (1958); Te Deum (1986–87); That Shadow, My Likeness (1963); The Animals Sick of the Plague; The Anniversary (1961); The Auden Poems (1989); The Bird Wounded by an Arrow; The Call (1951); The Dance (1978); The Dancer (1979); The Death of Moses (1987); The End (2003); The End of Summer (1985); The Fox and the Grapes; The Lion in Love; The Lordly Hudson (1947); The Midnight Sun (1953); The Nightingale (1951); The Poets' Requiem (1954–55); The Robbers, (1956); The Schuyler Songs (1987); The Schuyler Songs (1987); The Serpent (1972); The Seventieth Psalm (1943); The Silver Swan (1949); The Sleeping Palace (1949); The Sleeping Palace (1963); The Sowers (1980); The Stars Have Not Dealt (2007); The Sun and the Frogs; The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1968); The Tulip Tree (1953); The Unquestioned Answer (2002); The Waking (1959); The Wintry Mind (1980); Their Lonely Betters (1992); Three Calamus Poems (1982); Three Choruses for Christmas (1978); Three Incantations from a Marionette Tale (1948); Three Motets (1973); Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954); Three Poems of Baudelaire (1986); Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007); Three Prayers (1973); Three Slow Pieces (1978); Three Women (1994); To a Young Girl (1951); To the Willow Tree (1950); To You (1957); To You (1970); Trickle Drops (1970); Trio (1960); Triptych (1992); Truth in the Night Season (1966); Two Poems of Edith Sitwell (1948); Two Poems of Theodore Roethke (1959); Two Psalms and a Proverb (1962); Two Sermons (2001); Two Shakespearean Poems (2008); Up-Hill (1979); Views from the Oldest House (1981); Violin Concerto (1984); Violin Sonata (1948); Virelai (1961); Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1957); Waiting (1996); War Scenes (1969); Water Music (1966); We Are the Music Makers (2003); We Never Said Farewell (1975–76); Whales, Weep Not! (1978); What If Some Little Pain (1949); What is Pink? (1987); What Sparks and Wiry Cries (1956); While Sodom Was Occupied (2004); Whitman Cantata (1983); Wild Nights (2007); Winter Pages (1981); Women's Voices (1975–1976); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2004); Youth, Day, Old Age and Night (1954).

Movies and television:

Camera Three (1965–1977); Flicker (2008); For the Whales (1989); Furies (1978); Great Conversations in Music (2005); Jack Mitchell: My Life Is Black and White (2006); Ned Rorem: Word & Music (2005); Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper (2016); Nuit américaine (2005); Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider (1994); Sleep in a Nest of Flames (2001); The 65th Annual Grammy Awards (2023).

Born on this day – Coleen Gray:


Coleen Gray


Actress

October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); Adam-12 (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962); Apache Drums (1951); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Bonanza (1968); Branded (1965); Bright Promise (1969); Bus Stop (1961); Captain David Grief (1959); Celanese Theatre (1952); Climax! (1956); Copper Sky (1957); Coronado 9 (1961); Crossroads (1956); Crusader (1956); Cry from the Mountain (1985); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Danger (1951); Days of Our Lives (1966); Dear Phoebe (1955); Death of a Scoundrel (1956); Destination 60, 000 (1957); Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (1971); Emergency! (1972); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); Family Affair (1968); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier (1956); Frontier Gambler (1956); Fury at Furnace Creek (1948); General Electric Theater (1960); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961); Hell's Five Hours (1958); Hong Kong (1961); Insight (1960); Ironside (1968); Johnny Rocco (1958); Judd for the Defense (1968); Kansas City Confidential (1952); Kiss of Death (1947); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Lawman (1961); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Mannix (1971); Markham (1959); Matinee Theatre (1957); Maverick (1961); McCloud (1974); Mike Hammer (1959); Mister Ed (1961); Models Inc. (1952); Mother (1978); My Three Sons (1965); Nightmare Alley (1947); P.J. (1967); Perry Mason (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rawhide (1962); Red River (1948); Riding High (1950); Run for Your Life (1967); Sabre Jet (1953); Saints and Sinners (1962); Sand (1949); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Shotgun Slade (1960); Star in the Dust (1956); Starlight Theatre (1951); State Fair (1945); Tales from the Darkside (1986); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960); Tennessee's Partner (1955); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1963); The Best Place to Be (1979); The Black Whip (1956); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Dakotas (1963); The Deputy (1960); The F.B.I. (1971); The Faith of Our Children (1957); The Fake (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Killing (1956); The Late Liz (1971); The Leech Woman (1960); The Magical World of Disney (1960); The Millionaire (1955); The Name of the Game (1969); The Phantom Planet (1961); The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Sleeping City (1950); The Tall Man (1961); The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955); The Unexpected (1952); The Vampire (1957); The Vanquished (1953); The Virginian (1966); The Wild Dakotas (1956); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); Town Tamer (1965); Whiz Kids (1984); Wide Country (1962); Window on Main Street (1962).