Born on this day – Steve Sandor:

Steve Sandor

Actor

October 27, 1937 – April 5, 2017

Credits:

Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1988); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Amy Prentiss (1974); Baretta (1977); Barnaby Jones (1974); Bonnie's Kids (1972); Bronk (1975); Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992); Cannon (1972); Centennial (1978); Charlie's Angels (1976); CHiPs (1981); Civil Wars (1993); Death Valley Days (1967); Fantasy Island (1981); Fire and Ice (1983); Gunsmoke (1968); Hardcastle and McCormick (1985); Hell Town (1985); Hell's Angels '69 (1969); Hunter (1985); If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968); Ironside (1972); Jessie (1984); Knight Rider (1985); Lady Blue (1986); Livin' Fast (2015); Mad Bull (1977); Matt Helm (1975); Nakia (1974); One More Train to Rob (1971); Petrocelli (1975); Rough Night in Jericho (1967); Star Trek (1968); Starsky and Hutch (1975); Strike Force (1981); Stryker (1983); perman: The Animated Series (1998); T.J. Hooker (1982); Tales of the Unexpected (1977); The A-Team (1984); The Blue Knight (1976); The Bridge at Remagen (1969); The Dukes of Hazzard (1981); The F.B.I. (1971); The Fall Guy (1982); The Manhunter (1975); The Movie Murderer (1970); The Name of the Game (1969); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The No Mercy Man (1973); The Only Way Home (1972); The Platinum Triangle (1990); The Rookies (1974); The Six Million Dollar Man (1977); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Virginian (1970); The Yellow Rose (1983); The Young Country (1970); Three's Company (1980); Vega$ (1980).

Born on this day – Sylvia Plath:

Sylvia Plath

Writer

October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963

Credits:

The Colossus (1960); Ariel (1965); The Collected Poems (2008); Crossing the Water (2008); Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (2008); Poems Selected by Ted Hughes (2009); Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy (2019); American Poetry Now (1961); Mary Ventura & the Ninth Kingdom (2019); The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II (2018); The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I (2019); American Gothic Tales (1996); Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (short story) (1968).

Movies and television:

Above Ground (2007); Biography (2004); Book Programme (1976); Daddy (2016); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Hunter (1988); In the Pink (1982); La veu latent (2022); Lady Lazarus (1991); Review (1971); Röda rummet (2003); Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018); Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (2015); The Bell Jar (1979); The Colossus (2010); The Missing Me (2010); Three Women UK Radio Drama Festival 2023 (2023).

Born on this day – Ruby Dee:

Ruby Dee

Actress

Writer

October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014

Credits:

Books:

My One Good Nerve: Rhythms, Rhymes, Reasons (1986); Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears / Audio (1984); With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (1998).

Movies and television:

14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 1982 (2013); 2003 Trumpet Awards (2003); 22nd NAACP Image Awards (1990); 39th NAACP Image Awards (2008); 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2001); A Certain Magical Pimpdex: Extended Edition (2019); A Colored Life: The Herb Jeffries Story (2008); A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School (2009); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); A Simple Wish (1997); A Storm in Summer (2000); A Thousand Words (2012); A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner (1998); A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers (1984); A Wealth of Wisdom (2004); Actor's Choice (1970); After Goodbye: An AIDS Story (1993); Alcoa Premiere (1963); All About Us (2007); All God's Children (1980); America (2009); America at the Movies (1976); American Experience (1990); American Gangster (2007); American Masters (1995 / 1999); American Playhouse (1985–1990); American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013); An Ecstatic Experience (2015); An Evening at the Academy Awards (2008); An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence (1998); An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2006); An Evening with Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee (2002); And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (2015); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1976); Armchair Theatre (1966); Baby Geniuses (1999); Baby of the Family (2002); Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003); Betty and Coretta (2013); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Between the Lions (2001); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2005); Black Girl (1972); Black Girls Rock (2010); Book TV (2004); Broadway Legends (2002); Buck and the Preacher (1972); Camera Three (1960–1965); Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996); Cat People (1982); CBC Show of the Week (1964); Character Studies (2005); Charlie Rose (1997–1998); Chelsea D.H.O. (1973); China Beach (1990); Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years (2001); Color Adjustment (1992); Cool Red (1976); Cop & ½ (1993); Cosby (1999); Crossing Over: How Roots Captivated an Entire Nation (2007); Crown Dick (1987); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2007); Dateline NBC: American Gangster: First Look (2007); Decoration Day (1990); Def Poetry (2004); Discovering William Greaves (2006); Do the Right Thing (1989); Domestic Differences (1997); Dooley's Not Dooby (2018); Dream Street (2010); East Side/West Side (1963); Easy to Get (1947); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1988); Edge of the City (1957); Entertainment Tonight (2008 / 2014); Evening Shade (1993); Fatherhood (2004); Finding Buck McHenry (2000); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore (2001); Freedom Spectacular (1964); Frontiers of Faith (1961); Go Man Go (1954); Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985); God's Gonna Trouble the Water (1998); Gone Are the Days! (1963); Great Performances (1982–1998); Great Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Guiding Light (1952–2009); Hands Upon the Heart (1991); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999); HBO First Look (2007); He Said, She Said (1970); History of the Negro People (1965); Homeward Bound (1994); Hughes' Dream Harlem (2002); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979); Iconoclasts (2007); In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema (2007); Inside TV Land (2002); Intimate Portrait (2001); It's Good to Be Alive (1974); I've Got a Secret (1963); Jazztime Tale (1991); Jungle Fever (1991); Just Cause (1995); King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018); King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969); La noche de los Oscar (2008); Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Legends Ball (2006); Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement (2009); Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014); Lincoln (1988); Little Bill (1999–2004); Little Bill Thinks Big! (2003); Little Bill: Big Little Bill (2001); Lockdown, USA (2006); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1982); Look Up and Live (1968); Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama (1975); Love at Large (1990); Love in Syncopation (1946); Making Do the Right Thing (1989); Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (2023); Meet Mary Pleasant (2008); Middle Ages (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miss Smith of Georgia (1962); Mississippi, America (1996); Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996); Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012); Naming Number Two (2006); Nick Jr. Favorites Holiday (2006); No Way Out (1950); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); On the Set of No. 2 (2007); Ossie and Ruby! (1980); Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson (2007); Our Virgin Island (1958); P.O.V. (2014); Passing Glory (1999); Password (1962); Peyton Place (1968–1969); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Police Woman (1975); Politics of Love (2011); Promised Land (1998); Reading Rainbow (1984–2001); Red & Blue Marbles (2011); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Seven Times Monday (1962); Shelly Fisher (1999); Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017); Sing Your Song (2011); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Soul! (1970–1972); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Spenser: For Hire (1987); Sports on the Silver Screen (1997); St. Louis Blues (1958); Steam (2007); Stories from the Edge / Segment: Tuesday Morning Ride (1996); Street Gear (1995); Take a Giant Step (1959); Taking Back Our Town (2001); Tavis Smiley (2008); Tenafly (1973); That Man of Mine (1946); The 15th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards (1991); The 16th Annual Diversity Awards (2008); The 16th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1964); The 16th Annual Tony Awards (1962); The 2006 Black Movie Awards (2006); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1991); The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (1994); The Atlanta Child Murders (1985); The Balcony (1963); The Black Movie Awards (2005); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Business of Hunger (1984); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1974); The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990); The Defenders (1965); The Dick Cavett Show (1970 / 1990); The Directors (2000); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ernest Green Story (1993); The Feast of All Saints (2001); The Fight Never Ends (1948); The First Year (1946); The Fugitive (1963); The Golden Girls (1990); The Great Adventure (1963); The Great American Pastime (1956); The History Makers (2005); The Incident (1967); The Insider (2004); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2000); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2004); The Landlord (2009); The Making of American Gangster (2008); The Making of Stephen King's the Stand (1994); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1968); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1971); The Mo'Nique Show (2010); The New Neighbors (2009); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2008); The Oscars (2015); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Roseanne Show (1998); The Sheriff (1971); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1972); The Stand (1994); The Tall Target (1951); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); The Torture of Mothers (1980); The Tyra Banks Show (2009); The Unfinished Journey (1999); The Wall / Segment: The Badge (1998); The Way Back Home (2006); The Wendy Williams Show (2011); Theater Talk (2014); Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005); To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972); To Tell the Truth (1963); Today (1989); Tony Brown's Journal (1978); Touched by an Angel (1999); Tuesday Morning Ride (1995); Turner Classic Movies Remembers 2014 (2014); TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004); Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003); Unstoppable: Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Ossie Davis (2005); Uptight (1968); Video Girl (2011); Watch Your Mouth (1978); Wattstax (1973); Wedding Band (1974); What a Guy (1948); What's My Line? (1972); Whitewash (1994); Windmills of the Gods (1988); Zur Nacht (1970).

Born on this day – Nanette Fabray:

Nanette Fabray

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018

Credits:

A Child Is Born (1939); Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966); Aloha Paradise (1981); Amy (1981); Animal Catchers (1927); Baby Be Good (1925); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Burke's Law (1964); But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970); Coach (1990); Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966); Fat and the Canary (1927); Fowl Play (1928); George M! (1970); Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974); Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978); Heebee Jeebees (1927); Here to Stay (1986); Hotel (1983); Howdy (1970); Laramie (1959); Love, American Style (1970); Magic Carpet (1972); Maude (1977); Murder, She Wrote (1991); NBC Experiment in Television (1967); Omnibus (1953); One Day at a Time (1979); Personal Exemptions (1989); Playhouse 90 (1956); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968); Saturday Spectacular: High Button Shoes (1956); Startime (1960); Teresa's Tattoo (1994); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Band Wagon (1953); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Golden Palace (1993); The Happy Ending (1969); The Jerry Lewis Show (1967); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Love Boat (1978); The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972); The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952); The Monroe Doctrine (1939); The Munsters Today (1989); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Subterraneans (1960); Westinghouse Playhouse (1961).

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