Richard Carlson
Actor
Director
Writer
April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Born on this day – Jack Williamson:
Jack Williamson
Writer
April
29, 1908 – November 10, 2006
Credits:
Books:
A Sense of Wonder (1967);
After World's End (1939); At the Human Limit (2011); Beachhead (1992); Bright
New Universe (1967); Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods (1979); Darker Than You
Think (1948); Darker Than You Think and Other Novels (2003); Demon Moon (1994);
Dragon's Island / aka The Not-Men (1951); Dragon's Island and Other Stories
(2002); Dreadful Sleep (1977); Farthest Star (1975); Firechild (1986); Gateway
to Paradise (2008); Golden Blood (1933); H. G. Wells (1973); Islands of the Sun
(1935); Jack Williamson SF Gateway Omnibus (2014); Jamboree (1969); Lady in
Danger (1945); Land's End (1988); Lifeburst (1984); Manseed (1982); Mazeway
(1990); One against the Legion (1939); People Machines (1971); Realm of
Wizardry (1940); Rogue Star (1969); Salvage in Space (2011); Seetee Ship (1951);
Seetee Shock (1950); Seventy-Five (2004); Spider Island (2002); Star Bridge
(1955); Starchild (1965); Teaching Science Fiction (1980); Terraforming Earth
(2001); The Alien Intelligence (1929); The Best of Jack Williamson (1978); The
Black Sun (1997); The Blue Spot (1935); The Cometeers (1936); The Cosmic
Express (2011); The Crucible of Power (2006); The Dome Around America / aka
Gateway to Paradise (1955); The Early Williamson (1975); The Fortress of Utopia
(1939); The Girl from Mars (1930); The Green Girl (1930); The Green Girl / The
Robot Peril (2012); The Humanoid Touch (1980); The Humanoids (1949); The
Humanoids and With Folded Hands (2002); The Legion of Space (1934); The Legion
of Time (1938); The Metal Man and Others (1984); The Moon Children (1973); The
Moon Era (1967); The Pandora Effect (1969); The Power of Blackness (1976); The
Queen of the Legion (1982); The Reefs of Space (1964); The Reign of Wizardry
(1964); The Silicon Dagger (1999); The Singers of Time (1991); The Stone from
the Green Star (1931); The Stonehenge Gate (2005); The Trial of Terra (1962); The
Ultimate Earth (2000); Trapped in Space (1968); Undersea City (1958); Undersea
Fleet (1955); Undersea Quest (1954); Wall Around a Star (1975); With Folded
Hands (2011); With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind (2010); Wizard's Isle
(2000); Wolves of DarknessX (1999); Wonder's Child (1984); Xandulu (1934).
Movie, television and
radio:
Born on this day – Fred Zinnemann:
Fred Zinnemann
Director
April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997
Credits:
A
Hatful of Rain (1957); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Way in the Wilderness
(1940); Act of Violence (1948); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); And the
Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1998); Behold a Pale Horse (1964); Benjy (1951);
Biography (1998); Camille (1936); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Darkness at High Noon:
The Carl Foreman Documents (2002); De película (1983–1987); Decision (1958); Die
Öscars (2016); Elstree Britain's Hollywood (1989); Exercise No. One (1962); Eyes
in the Night (1942); Film Profile (1961); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Filmmakers
vs. Tycoons (2005); Five Days One Summer (1982); Forbidden Passage (1941); Forgotten
Victory (1939); Fred Zinnemann – Ein Hollywoodregisseur (1983); Friend Indeed (1937);
From Here to Eternity (1953); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); George
Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001); Hands Up! (1981); Hawaii (1966); He
Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001);
Help Wanted (1939); High Noon (1952); I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929); Julia
(1977); Kid Glove Killer (1942); Little Mister Jim (1946); Making Montgomery
Clift (2018); Man Trouble (1930); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989);
My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Nana (1934); Oklahoma! (1955); On Location
with 'The Sundowners' (1960); One Against the World (1939); Our World (1987); People
on Sunday (1930); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Redes (1936); Screen Directors
Playhouse (1956); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra:
All or Nothing at All (2015); Sonntagsgespräch (1986); Spécial cinéma (1983); Sprengbagger
1010 (1929); Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1991); Stuffie (1940); Teresa (1951);
That Mothers Might Live (1938); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The
39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The
69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Ash Can Fleet (1939); The Clock (1945); The
Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dark Angel (1935); The David Susskind Show (1960);
The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Great Meddler (1940); The Greenie (1942); The
Kid from Spain (1932); The Lady or the Tiger? (1942); The Making of 'High Noon'
(1992); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The March of the Machines (1927); The
Member of the Wedding (1952); The Men (1950); The Nun's Story (1959); The Old
Man and the Sea (1958); The Old South (1940); The Search (1948); The Seventh
Cross (1944); The Spy (1931); The Story of Doctor Carver (1938); The Sundowners
(1960); The Wiser Sex (1932); They Live Again (1938); This Is Your Life (1956);
Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual,
1954 / The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); Weather Wizards (1939); While
America Sleeps / Series: Crime Does Not Pay (1939); Your Last Act (1941).
Born on this day – Ethel Moses:
Ethel Moses
Actress
April 29, 1904 – June 1, 1982
Credits:
Stage:
Black Birds of 1935
(1935); Keep Shuffling (1928); Show Boat (1932).
Movies and television:
American
Masters (2008); Birthright (1924); Birthright (1938); Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
(1934); Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935); God's Step Children (1938); Gone
Harlem (1938); Temptation (1935); Underworld (1937).
Recommended reading - The Hunger, by Whitley Strieber (1981):
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The Hunger
By Whitley Strieber.
Filmed as The Hunger
(1983), directed by Tony Scott.
Published by Gallery Books.
First published 1981.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1416583742
ISBN-13: 9781416583745
Description:
Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few
who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by
death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves
withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent
demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her
thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful
Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to
immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and
the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love
and death go hand in hand.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, on writing:
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?,
I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.
- Ursula K. Le Guin.
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