Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Born on this day – Teresa Wright:


Teresa Wright


Actress

October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005

Credits:

Adventures in Paradise (1959); Betty Crocker Star Matinee (1952); Bill: On His Own (1983); Bonanza (1964); California Conquest (1952); Casanova Brown (1944); CBS Playhouse (1969); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Climax! (1954); Count the Hours! (1953); Crawlspace (1972); Dolphin Cove (1989); Enchantment (1948); Escapade in Japan (1957); Festival (1965); Flood (1976); Four Star Playhouse (1955); General Electric Theater (1955); Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978); Guiding Light (1986); Hail, Hero! (1969); Hawkins (1974); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Lancer (1969); Lethal Innocence (1991); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Morning's at Seven (1982); Morningstar / Eveningstar (1986); Mrs. Miniver (1942); Murder, She Wrote (1988); NBC Special Treat (1979); No Room for Opal (1993); Our American Heritage (1960); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990); Picket Fences (1996); Playhouse 90 (1957); Pursued (1947); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Roseland (1977); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Something to Live For (1952); Somewhere in Time (1980); Star Stage (1956); Studio 57 (1956); Sunday Showcase (1960); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); The Actress (1953); The Alcoa Hour (1955); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Capture (1950); The Christophers (1957); The Defenders (1964); The Desperate Hours (1967); The Devil's Disciple (1955); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Elevator (1974); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Exorcist III (1990); The Fig Tree (1987); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Golden Honeymoon (1980); The Good Mother (1988); The Happy Ending (1969); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Love Boat (1982); The Men (1950); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); The Rainmaker (1997); The Red Coat (1993); The Restless Years (1958); The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956); The Star and the Story (1955); The Steel Trap (1952); The Trouble with Women (1947); The Web (1957); The Wide World of Mystery (1976); Theatre '62 (1961); Track of the Cat (1954); Undercurrent (1957); Your Play Time (1955).

Born on this day – Dylan Thomas:


Dylan Thomas


Writer

October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953

Poems:

A Child's Christmas In Wales; A Grief Ago; A Letter To My Aunt; A Process In The Weather Of The Heart; A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London; A Saint About To Fall; A Winter's Tale; After The Funeral (In Memory Of Ann Jones); All All And All; All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever; All That I Owe The Fellows Of The Grave; Altarwise By Owl-Light; Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred; And Death Shall Have No Dominion; Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait; Because The Pleasure-Bird Whistles; Before I Knocked; Being But Men; Ceremony After A Fire Raid; Clown In The Moon; Deaths And Entrances; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Do You Not Father Me; Dylan Thomas - Holy Spring; Ears In The Turrets Hear; Elegy; Especially When The October Wind; Fern Hill; Find Meat On Bones; From Love's First Fever To Her Plague; Grief Thief Of Time; Here In This spring; Hold Hard The Ancient Minutes; Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo's Month; Holy Spring; How Shall My Animal; How Soon The Servant Sun; I Dreamed My Genesis; I Fellowed Sleep; I Have Longed To Move Away; I Make This In A Warring Absence; I See The Boys Of Summer; I, In My Intricate Image; If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love; 'If my head hurt a hair's foot'; In Country Sleep; In My Craft Or Sullen Art; In The Beginning; In The White Giant's Thigh; Incarnate Devil; Into Her Lying Down Head; It Is The Sinners' Dust-Tongued Bell; January 1939; Lament; Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed; Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines; Limerick; Love In The Asylum; My Hero Bares His Nerves; My World Is Pyramid; Not From This Anger; Notes On The Art Of Poetry; O Make Me A Mask; On A Wedding Anniversary; On No Work Of Words; On The Marriage Of A Virgin; Once Below A Time; Once It Was The Colour Of Saying; Our Eunuch Dreams; Out Of The Sighs; Over Sir John's Hill; Poem In October; Poem On His Birthday; Prologue; Shall gods be said to thump the clouds; Should Lanterns Shine; Sometimes The Sky's Too Bright; The Conversation; The Conversation Of Prayer; The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower; The Hand That Signed The Paper; The Hunchback In The Park; The Seed-At-Zero; The Tombstone Told When She Died; Then Was My Neophyte; There Was A Saviour; This Bread I Break; This Side Of The Truth; To Others Than You; To-Day, This Insect; Twenty Four Years; Unluckily For A Death; Was There A Time; We Lying By Seasand; When All My Five And Country Senses See; When I Woke; When Once The Twilight Locks No Longer; When, Like A Running Grave; Why East Wind Chills.

Movies and television:

2nd House (1973); A Burning Hot Summer (2011); A Child's Christmas in Wales (1966 / 1987); A City Reborn (1945); A Dylan Thomas Memoir (1973); A Soldier Comes Home (1945); About Religion (1964); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Balloon Site 568 (1942); C.E.M.A. (1942); Camera Three (1961); Chaindance (1991); Chelsea Walls (2001); De schaduwlopers (1995); Doktor a besi (1966); Dylan Thomas: Return Journey (1990); Fern Hill (2005); Festival (1966); Folio (1959); Fuel for Battle (1944); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Interstellar (2014); Le beau samedi (1974); Miralls (1999); N'entre pas sans violence dans cette bonne nuit (2005); New Towns for Old (1942); No Room at the Inn (1948); Omnibus / Segment: Dylan Thomas Memorial (1953); On David's Day (1959); Onder het Melkwoud (1958); Our Country (1944); Paul Kelly: And Death Shall Have No Dominion (2018); Puerto Rico (1961); Rebecca's Daughters (1992); Rijanon (1984); Speaking Personally (1951–1959); Stone (1974); Stone Forever (1999); Tenth Edinburgh International Festival: An extract from Under Milk Wood (1956); The Battle for Freedom (1942); The Doctor and the Devils (1985); The Dying of the light (2020); The Hunchback in the Park (2014); The Mouse and the Woman (1980); The Outing (2019); The Poet Writes His Wife (2002); The Respectful Prostitute / Festival (1964); The Sunday Programme (2003); The Three Weird Sisters (1948); These Are the Men (1943); This Is Colour (1942); Titus (2001); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Under Milk Wood (1957 / 1971 / 1992 / 2014 / 2015 / 2021); Unter dem Milchwald (1960); Wales: Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942); We Who Are Young Are Old (2010); Welsh Greats (2014).

Born on this day – John Carson:


John Carson

Actor

October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963

Born on this day – Henry Townsend:


Henry Townsend


Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Cairo Blues (1973); Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas (2007); More Devil's Music (2006); Mule / Expanded Edition (1980); Mule's Blues (2015); My Story (2001); St. Louis Blues Ace (1996); The 88 Blues (1998); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend (1984); The Real St. Louis Blues (2001).

Movies and television:

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (2007); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Story (2003); Thats the Way I Do It (1986); The Devil's Music (1979).

Born on this day – Lee Krasner:


Lee Krasner


Painter

October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984

Movies and television:

American Modern Art: The Secret Weapon of the Cold War (2019); Close Up (1999); Hans Hofmann: Artist / Teacher, Teacher / Artist (2003); Jackson Pollock (1987); Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020); The New York School (1972).

Born on this day – Jane Murfin:


Jane Murfin


Writer

Producer

Director

October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955

Credits:

The Women (2008); Ponds Theater (1953); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Dragon Seed (1944); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Flight for Freedom (1943); Smilin' Through (1941); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Northwest Passage (1940); The Women (1939); Stand Up and Fight (1939); The Shining Hour (1938); I'll Take Romance (1937); That Girl from Paris (1936); Come and Get It (1936); Alice Adams (1935); Roberta (1935); The Little Minister (1934); Romance in Manhattan (1934); The Fountain (1934); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); This Man Is Mine (1934); The Crime Doctor (1934); Spitfire (1934); Little Women (1933); After Tonight (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); Double Harness (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Our Betters (1933); Rockabye (1932); Smilin' Through (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Young Bride (1932); Way Back Home (1931); Friends and Lovers (1931); Caught Plastered (1931); Too Many Cooks (1931); White Shoulders (1931); The Pay-Off (1930); Lawful Larceny (1930); The Runaway Bride (1930); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929); Dance Hall (1929); Half Marriage (1929); Side Street (1929); Street Girl (1929); Lilac Time (1928); The Prince of Headwaiters (1927); The Notorious Lady (1927); Meet the Prince (1926); The Savage (1926); A Slave of Fashion (1925); White Fang (1925); The Love Master (1924); Flapper Wives / play entitled: The Flaming Sign (1924); Brawn of the North (1922); Smilin' Through/ play entitled: Smiling Through (1922); Flapper Wives (1924); The Silent Call (1921); Playthings of Destiny (1921); The Amateur Wife (1920); The Right to Lie (1919); A Temperamental Wife / play entitled: Information Please (1919); Marie, Ltd. (1919); Daybreak (1918).

Born on this day – Niccolò Paganini:


Niccolò Paganini


Violinist

Composer

October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840

Compositions:

24 Caprices for Solo Violin; Cantabile e Valtz; Caprice No. 13; Caprice No. 16; Caprice No. 24; Caprice No. 5; Carnival of Venice; Grande sonate de Paganini; Mosè-fantasia; Sonata per la Grand Viola; Violin Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2; Violin Concerto No. 3; Violin Concerto No. 4; Violin Concerto No. 5.

Movies and television:

A Previous Engagement (2008); Always in My Heart (1942); American Horror Story (2011); Attention, Papa Arrives! (1991); Balestra (2024); Big-headed solitude (2021); Birth of the Blues (1941); Birthmarked (2018); Bleeding Hearts (2015); Canone Inverso (2000); Capriccio No. 24 (1989); Chez Léon Coiffure (2009); Colossal Youth (2018); Concert Magic (1951); Corpo d'amore (1973); Damages (2010); Dorian Gray (2009); Elementary (2013); Erbe Österreich (2020); Evening Urgant (2018); Face of the Trinity (2022); Gallipoli (1981); Grâce à la musique (1981); Great Performances (1998); Hacks (2025); Ikoku no oka (1949); Il caso dell'infedele Klara (2009); La course aux étoiles (1956); La garde-barrière (2011); Ladies in Lavender (2004); Lady Magdalene's (2008); Lady Vengeance (2005); Les grands interprètes (1967); Long Way Home (2018); Louisiana Music: Musical Clips (2019); Lux in Tenebris (2017); Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001); Metal Evolution (2011); Mientras el cuerpo aguante (1982); Monk (2002); Moto perpetuo (1972); Mozart in the Jungle (2015); My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014); Niccolò (2025); Nicolo Paganini (1982); Nyugalom (2008); Once Upon a Time (2016); Only Lovers Left Alive (2013); Ouija (2003); Paganini (1989); Paganini Guitar Fest - Opening Concert (2021); Paganini's Daemon (1997); Pra onde levam as ondas (2021); Rear Window (1954); Rhapsody in Black (2025); Robert és Robert (1985); Robinson Crusoe: The Great Blitzkrieg (2008); Saints Row (2006); Shine (1996); So You Think You Can Dance (2009); Song Without End (1960); Sparky's Magic Piano (1987); Spettacolo (2017); St. Ives (1998); Station Eleven (2021); Stay Tuned (1992); Stranger Strings (2021); Taz-Mania (1993); The American (2023); The Anxiousness of Paget over a Caprice by Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) No.1 in E Major, Op.1 (2014); The Art of the Calendar (2024); The Audition (2019); The Cat, Kafka and Myself (2007); The Cello (2008); The Days of No Return (1978); The Devil's Violinist (2013); The Five Pennies (1959); The Fly (2005); The Good Heart (2009); The Green Glove Gang (2022); The Magic Bow (1946); The Making of a Dream (2017); The Mantle of Love (1978); The Munsters (1966); The Shunned House (2003); The Song of Names (2019); The South Bank Show (1978); The Temptation Game (2015); The Truth (1960); The Uncertainty Principle (2002); The Velvet Underground (2021); Tom-ic Energy (1965); Uvolnete se, prosím (2005); Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona (2010); Vitus (2006); Watching (1988); What? Where? When? (1986); Your Lie in April (2016).