Monday, April 7, 2025

Born on this day – Bill Butler:


Bill Butler


Cinematographer

April 7, 1921 – April 5, 2023

Credits:

The Boys at the Bar (2016); Evil Angel (2009); Limousine (2008); Looking Up Dresses (2008); Redline (2007); The Plague (2006); Funny Money (2006); Zombie Prom (2006); Berserker (2005); Joe and Max (2002); Frailty (2001); Hendrix (2000); Ropewalk (2000); Good vs Evil (1999); Passing Glory (1999); Don King: Only in America (1997); Deceiver (1997); Anaconda (1997); Dark Skies (1996); Flipper (1996); A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982); Beethoven's 2nd (1993); Cop & ½ (1993); Sniper (1993); Brooklyn Bridge (1991); Hot Shots! (1991); Graffiti Bridge (1990); When We Were Young (1989); Child's Play (1988); Wildfire (1988); Biloxi Blues (1988); Bates Motel (1987); Big Trouble (1986); Rocky IV (1985); Beer (1985); A Streetcar Named Desire (1984); The Thorn Birds (1983); The Sting II (1983); Rocky III (1982); Killing at Hell's Gate (1981); Stripes (1981); The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981); It's My Turn (1980); Can't Stop the Music (1980); Death Ray 2000 (1980); Rocky II (1979); Ice Castles (1978); Uncle Joe Shannon (1978); Grease (1978); Damien: Omen II (1978); Capricorn One (1977); Mary White (1977); Demon Seed (1977); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Alex & the Gypsy (1976); The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976); Lipstick (1976); Fear on Trial (1975); Jaws (1975); The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975); McCoy (1975); Hustling (1975); Target Risk (1975); The Conversation (1974); The Execution of Private Slovik (1974); Indict and Convict (1974); I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973); Sunshine (1973); Deliver Us from Evil (1973); Running Wild (1973); Savage (1973); Circle of Fear (1972); Hickey & Boggs (1972); Deliverance (1972); Melinda (1972); Something Evil (1972); Deathmaster (1972); The Return of Count Yorga (1971); Drive, He Said (1971); A Clear and Present Danger (1970); Adam's Woman (1970); The Rain People (1969); A Space to Grow (1968); Fearless Frank (1967); The Bold Men (1965); The People vs. Paul Crump (1962).

Born on this day – R. G. Armstrong:


R. G. Armstrong

Actor

Writer

April 7, 1917 – July 27, 2012

Born on this day – Anthony Caruso:


Anthony Caruso

Actor

April 7, 1916 – April 4, 2003

Born on this day – Billie Holiday:


Billie Holiday


Singer

April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959

Credits:

Albums:

A Rare Live Recording Of Billie Holiday (1964); All Or Nothing At All (1958); An Evening with Billie Holiday (1953); BD Jazz (2003); Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues (2009); Billie Holiday & Friends (2007); Billie Holiday (1954); Billie Holiday (Best Of) (2011); Billie Holiday And Teddy Wilson (1951); Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic (1954); Billie Holiday at Storyville (1999); Billie Holiday Live (1990); Billie Holiday Sings (1952); Billie Holiday, Lester Young (2013); Billie Holiday: Easy Living (2012); Billie's Best (1992); Body and Soul (1957); Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1958); Ella Fitzgerald vs. Billie Holiday (2013); From the Original Decca Masters (1986); Giants Of Jazz: Billie Holiday (1979); Greatest Hits (1995); Happy Billie (2003); Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday (2001); Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 (2001); Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles (2007); Lady Day: The Very Best of Billie Holiday (1997); Lady in Satin (1958); Lady Sings the Blues (1956); Last Recording (1959); Music for Torching (1955); Night and Day (2003); Sam & Billie (2014); Solitude (1952); Songs for Distingué Lovers (1958); Summer of '49 (1949); Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday (1949); The Best of Billie Holiday (2001); The Billie Holiday Playlist (2014); The Billie Holiday Songbook (1986); The Billie Holiday Story (1990); The Commodore Master Takes (2000); The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993); The Complete Decca Recordings (1991); The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes (2005); The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live (1961); The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume II (1987); The Silver Collection (1984).

Songs:

All of Me; Any Old Time; Autumn In New York; Blue Moon; Body and Soul; Crazy He Calls Me; Easy Living; Fine and Mellow; Gloomy Sunday; God Bless The Child; Good Morning Heartache; I Love My Man; I’m a Fool to Want You; I'll Be Seeing You; I'm a Fool to Want You; Jeepers Creepers; Lady Sings The Blues; Love Is Here to Stay; Lover Man; Lover, Come Back to Me; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Pennies From Heaven; Strange Fruit; Sugar; Summertime; The Very Thought of You; Them There Eyes; These Foolish Things; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; When You're Smiling; Why Not Take All of Me; You Go to My Head.

Movies and television:

15 Till Midnight (2010); 42 (2013); 90 Minutes Live (1977); 9½ Weeks (1986); 9-1-1 (2020–2024); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Fond Kiss (2004); A Man in Full (2024); A Salute to Billie Holiday (1979); About Endlessness (2019); Alcatraz (2012); All You Need Is Love (1977); Amazing Stories (1986); Amélie (2001); American Crime Story (2018); American Dad! (2013); American Idol (2005); American Masters (1986–2025); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); An Unmarried Woman (1978); ...and Beautiful II (1970); Angela's Ashes (1999); Antenize (2019); Any Given Sunday (1999); Anything Else (2003); Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993); Arbitrage (2012); Archive 81 (2022); Arena (1984–1985); Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985); August Rush (2007); Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011); Back to Black (2024); Bad Sisters (2022); Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980); Banda sonora (2010); Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007); Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990); Billie (2019); Billie Holiday: A Sensation (2015); Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (2005); BioShock (2007); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971); Black-ish (2017); Bloodline (2017); Body Electric (2004); Bomb Girls (2012); Born in Flames (1983); Bosch (2021); Bowl of Dreams (2011); Broken City (2013); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Brown Sugar (1986); Burnt Money (2000); Cafe Society (1995); Calamari Union (1985); Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018); Canada After Dark (1978); Canadian Idol (2004–2006); Canopy (2013); Capote (2005); Carnivàle (2003); Carol (2015); Carols by Kindlelight (2014); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2021–2022); Celebrity (1998); Chanel No. 5: Train de Nuit (2009); Changing Ends (2024); Chelsea at Nine (1959); Chelsea Walls (2001); Children in Need (1998); Clueless (1995); Cold Case (2004–2009); Cold War (2018); Confess, Fletch (2022); Constellation (2005); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2018); Cover Your Ears (2023); Cradle Will Rock (1999); Criminal Minds (2006–2013); Crooked House (2017); Crossing Jordan (2005); Crossroads (1999); Dark Buenos Aires (2009); Dediscina (1984); Democracy Now! (2017); Diana Ross in Concert! (1980); Diana Ross Live! The Lady Sings... Jazz & Blues: Stolen Moments (1992); Diana Ross: Don't Explain (1993); Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021); Duets (2012); Dzi Croquettes (2009); El resultado del amor (2007); Empty Suitcases (1980); End of the Road (1970); Enemies, A Love Story (1989); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005); Equinox (1992); Eric (2024); ESCZ Offstage with Kraig (2019); Eva (1962); Fallen Angels (1993); Fallout 3 (2008); Fallout 4 (2015); Fellow Travelers (2023); Floor Show (1949); Forever (2018); Forever Young (1992); Forget Paris (1995); Fritz the Cat (1972); Fyra veckor i juni (2005); Gent de paraula (2010); Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (2011); Get Up, Stand Up (2003); Gin & Dry (2010); Gloomy Sunday (2014); Good Night Oppy (2022); Great Performances (1994); Grey's Anatomy (2006); Guilty by Suspicion (1991); Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018); Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012); Harlem Nights (1989); Helen (2009); Herbie Hancock Presents Living Jazz (1996); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Home Before Dark (2020); Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (1993); Hotel Hooker (1974); Howard Goodall's Story of Music (2013); I Hired a Contract Killer (1990); Icons (2019); If Not Us, Who? (2011); If We Were a Love Song (2021); In Her Place (2024); In Living Color (1992); In the Mood (1987); Independent Lens (2005); Insecure (2018); Instinct (2018); Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (2010); Ironside (1967); It Could Happen to You (1994); It's Black Entertainment (2002); Jazz (2001); Joe Albany... a Jazz Life (1980); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); L.A. Noire (2011); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016); Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Lady Sings the Blues (1972); Land Girls (2009); Late Night with David Letterman (1988); Later... With Jools Holland (2008); Legends in Concert: Duke Ellington (2004); Les mots pour le dire (1983); Les refrains de la mémoire (2002); Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006); Little Fires Everywhere (2020); Livshunger (2002); Liza with a Z (1972); Lost (2009); Love Comes After (2013); Lovecraft Country (2020); Lumière and Company (1995); M Squad (1959); Malcolm X (1972 / 1992); Manhattan (2014); Marlowe (2022); Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (2023); Me (1987); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Med sjela i Sjøgata (2004); Mildred Pierce (2011); Minority Report (2002); Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998); Mozart in the Jungle (2014); Mr. Church (2016); Murder on the Orient Express (2017); Murphy Brown (1989); Music Hall Parade (1958); Musiques au Coeur (1991); My Kinda People (2003); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2024); New British Canon (2020); New Orleans (1947); Nice Jazz Festival (2020); Night at the Golden Eagle (2001); Nip/Tuck (2007); No One But Me (2012); No Way Out (2023); Novo (2002); Nurse Jackie (2009); Nynne (2005); O Cristo de Vitória da Conquista (1980); On the Road (2012); Ordinary Love (2019); P2 Dokumentär (2024); Page Eight (2011); Pain of Love (1992); Pan Am (2011); Panic in the Streets (1950); Passage to Mars (2016); Pimeys odottaa (1985); Poetry in America with Elisa New (2022); Pollock (2000); Private Life (2018); Private Practice (2010); Probe and Night Beat (1956); Promises in the Dark (1979); Public Enemies (2009); Queens of Heartache (2006); Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013); Reaching for the Moon (2013); Read My Lips (2001); ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019); Rembob'Ina (2021); Reputations (2001); Rhythm & Jam (1993); Rich in Love (1992); Rocket Gibraltar (1988); Salto al vacío (1995); Satisfaction (1988); Saturday Night Live (2012); Schindler's List (1993); Schwarzkopf BRD: Martin Luther King in Berlin! (2014); Se7en (1995); Serena (2014); Severance (2022–2025); Sex and the City (2002); SexTV (2002); Shindig! (1965); $#*! My Dad Says (2010); Sir John Dankworth at the BBC (2010); Skärgårdsdoktorn (2000); Skogskyrkogården (2008); Slaves of New York (1989); Sleepy Hollow (2013); Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005); Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014); Speed (1984); Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002); Star Trek: Enterprise (2004); Star Trek: Picard (2020); Stars of Jazz (1956); Stealing Beauty (1996); Stranded in Canton (2005); Strange Fruit (2002 / 2005 / 2012 / 2020); Stranger Things (2017); 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet (1951); Sunset Strip (2012); Sweet Talker (1991); Sweet Thing (2020); Switch (1991); Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935); 't Bolleken (1988); Television (1988); Texas Chili (1985); That's Black Entertainment (1990); The 4400 (2004); The Affair (1995); The Apollo (2019); The Arsenio Hall Show (1992); The Art Ford Show (1949); The Big House (1999); The Blues (2003); The Bob Hope Show (1977); The Colbert Report (2014); The Comeback Story (1953); The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross (2021); The Crown (2019); The Diahann Carroll Special (1971); The Dressmaker (2015); The Emperor Jones (1933); The Equalizer (2023); The Final Arrangement (1987); The Flash (2016–2021); The Funeral (1996); The Game Day (1992); The Greatest (1999); The Green Mile (1999); The Humans (2021); The Hummingbird (2022); The Intern (2015); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996); The King (2017); The Kovak Box (2006); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Laramie Project (2002); The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1988); The Last Tycoon (2017); The Leftovers (2017); The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019); The Marrying Man (1991); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018); The Meteor Man (1993); The Muppet Show (1980); The Notebook (2004); The Originals (2015–2016); The Pacific (2010); The Perfect Find (2023); The Peripheral (2022); The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999); The Rocketeer (1991); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Simpsons (2006–2022); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1976); The Source (1999); The Terror (2019); The Thing (1982); The Tie That Binds (1995); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Ultimate Life (2013); The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); The Vampire Diaries (2016–2017); The War (2007); The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011); The West Wing (2006); The Wire (2006); The World Unseen (2007); The Worst Person in the World (2021); The X Factor UK (2004–2013); Them (2021); This Is Pop (2021); This Is Tom Jones (1969); This Is Us (2018); Thomas Sanders (2019); Three Pines (2022); Timeshift (2005); Toll (2023); Tongues Untied (1989); Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (1972); Torch Song Trilogy (1988); Transatlantic Coffee (2012); True Blood (2010); True Detective (2019); Trumbo (2015); Two Weeks Notice (2002); U2: Window in the Skies (2007); Ulee's Gold (1997); United States of Tara (2009); Unprisoned (2024); Upstairs Downstairs (2012); Uvolnete se, prosím (2007); Vago (2011); Valentina (1989); Venice West (2016); Vrouwenvleugel (1995); Waiting for a Stranger (2011); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); Watchmen (2009 / 2019); Waterloo Road (2012); We, the People (1948); What If... (2012); When Lights Are Low (2010); Win or Lose (2025); Worlds Apart (2015); Wrestling with Alligators (1998); Zum Teufel mit der Wahrheit (2015).

Born on this day – Frank V. Phillips:


Frank V. Phillips


Cinematographer

April 7, 1912 – April 12, 1994


Frank V. Phillips (holding camera), filming Escape to Witch Mountain (1975).

Credits:

The Ambush Murders (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1981); The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981); Going Ape! (1981); Herbie Goes Bananas (1980); All God's Children (1980); Midnight Madness (1980); The Black Hole (1979); The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979); Goin' Coconuts (1978); Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978); Return from Witch Mountain (1978); The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978); Pete's Dragon (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Gus (1976); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); No Deposit, No Return (1976); The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper (1976); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975); The Island at the Top of the World (1974); Return of the Big Cat (1974); Men of the Dragon (1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Hog Wild (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); The Red Pony (1973); The World's Greatest Athlete (1973); Snowball Express (1972); Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Scandalous John (1971); The Wild Country (1970); Darker Than Amber (1970); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969); Secrets of the Pirates' Inn (1969); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1969); Premiere (1968); The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968); The Young Loner (1968); Captain Nice (1967); Mosby's Marauders (1967); Run Buddy Run (1966); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); 12 O'Clock High (1965–1966); Wild Wild Winter (1966); The Wild Wild West (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Gunsmoke (1963–1965); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960–1963); Rider on a Dead Horse (1962); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Perry Mason (1961); Hong Kong (1961); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); Border Patrol (1959); A Matter of Attitude (1958); Jefferson Drum (1958); Navy Log (1956–1958); Colt .45 (1957); Circus Boy (1957); Maverick (1957).

Born on this day – William Wordsworth:


William Wordsworth


Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).

Recommended reading - The League of Gentlemen, by John Boland (1958):


The League of Gentlemen

By John Boland.

ASIN: B000WH36FM
Published by Beacon Envoy.
Published 1958.
Mass Market Paperback.

The basis of the movie The League of Gentlemen (1960), directed by Basil Dearden.