Sunday, October 27, 2024

Born on this day – Steve Sandor:


Steve Sandor

Actor

October 27, 1937 – April 5, 2017

Born on this day – Sylvia Plath:


Sylvia Plath

Writer

October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963

Born on this day – Nanette Fabray:


Nanette Fabray

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018

Born on this day – Teresa Wright:


Teresa Wright

Actress

October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005

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).