Born on this day – Patrick Magee:

Patrick Magee

Actor

March 31, 1922 – August 14, 1982

Credits:

Play for Today (1979–1982); Horace (1982); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981); The Black Cat (1981); The Monster Club / Humgoo Story (1981); Chariots of Fire (1981); Hawk the Slayer (1980); The Sleep of Death (1980); Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980); The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time (1980); Rough Cut (1980); Churchill and the Generals (1979); The Brontë Sisters (1979); Oresteia (1979); Kidnapped (1978); Telefon (1977); Who Pays the Ferryman? (1977); BBC Play of the Month (1965–1977); Beasts (1976); Barry Lyndon (1975); Quiller (1975); Thriller (1974–1975); Galileo (1975); King Lear (1974); The Adventures of Black Beauty (1974); Simona (1974); Luther (1974); Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973); The Final Programme (1973); She Stoops to Conquer (1973); Lady Ice (1973); And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973); The Protectors (1973); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1968–1972); Demons of the Mind (1972); Pope Joan (1972); Young Winston (1972); Asylum / Framing story (1972); Beware My Brethren (1972); Tales from the Crypt / Blind Alleys (1972); A Clockwork Orange (1971); The Trojan Women (1971); King Lear (1970); You Can't Win 'Em All (1970); Cromwell (1970); Canterbury Tales (1969); Destiny of a Spy (1969); Hard Contract (1969); The Birthday Party (1968); ITV Playhouse (1968); The Champions (1968); The Wednesday Play (1967–1968); Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968); Portrait in Terror (1968); Anzio (1968); Jonathan Swift (1967); Marat / Sade (1967); Conflict (1967); Die, Monster, Die! (1965); The Skull (1965); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1965); Theatre 625 (1964); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964); Dixon of Dock Green (1964); Zulu (1964); The Plane Makers (1963–1964); The Avengers (1963); The Sentimental Agent (1963); Compact (1963); The Servant (1963); Zero One (1963); Dementia 13 (1963); Operacija Ticijan (1963); Moonstrike (1963); The Very Edge (1963); ITV Television Playhouse (1957–1963); Ricochet (1963); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1961–1963); The Young Racers (1963); Antigone (1962); A Prize of Arms (1962); The Boys (1962); ITV Play of the Week (1959–1962); A Great Ship (1962); Z Cars (1962); Never Back Losers (1961); Armchair Theatre (1961); About Religion (1961); No Hiding Place (1961); Young, Willing and Eager (1961); The Concrete Jungle (1960); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1960); Here Lies Miss Sabry (1960); Deadline Midnight (1960); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1955–1959); Dial 999 (1958); The Green Man (1956).

Born on this day – Etta Baker:

Etta Baker

Blues singer

Guitarist

Banjoist

March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006

Albums:

Banjo (2009); Carolina Breakdown (2005); Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (2004); Instrumental Music from the Southern Appalachians (1956); Knoxville Rag, with Kenny Wayne Shepherd (2006); One-Dime Blues (1991); Railroad Bill (1999); Railroad Bill (2015); The North Carolina Banjo Collection (1998).

Born on this day – Joseph Haydn:

Joseph Haydn

Composer

March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809

Joseph Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy (1791).

Born on this day – Johann Sebastian Bach:

Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer

March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750

Johann Sebastian Bach portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748).

Harlan Ellison, on writing:

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing,

that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that.

You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

- Harlan Ellison.

On this day in movie history - The Lookout (2007):

The Lookout,

directed and written by Scott Frank,

was released in the United States on March 30, 2007.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Sergio Di Zio, David Huband, Laura Vandervoort, Greg Dunham, Morgan Kelly, Aaron Berg, Tinsel Korey, Suzanne Kelly, Brian Edward Roach, Martin Roach, Ofield Williams, Julie Pederson, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Janaya Stephens, Marc Devigne, Courtney-Jane White, Thanya Romero, Paul Christie, Tracy Beemer, Gordie Farrell, Toni Reimer, Ted Felbel, Charles Crossin, Chuck Robinson, Kalyn Bomback, John Bluethner, Leslie Bais, Harry Nelken, Andrew Degryse, Shailee Ferguson, Kevin Michayluk.

On this day in movie history - Dark Star (1974):

Dark Star,

directed by John Carpenter,

written by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon,

was released in the United States on March 30, 1974.
Music by John Carpenter.
Title song Benson, Arizona performed by John Yager.
Lyrics by Bill Taylor.

Cast:
Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm, Andreijah "Dre" Pahich, John Carpenter, Joe Saunders, Barbara "Cookie" Knapp, Miles Watkins, Nick Castle.