Jack Kost

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Born on this day – Tanya Roberts:

Tanya Roberts

Actress

October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021

Credits:

27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1999); A View to a Kill (1985); A View to a Kill: Deleted Scenes with Introductions by John Glen (2006); A View to a Kill: Featurette (1985); A View to a Kill: Film '85 BBC Report (1985); A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (1985); Almost Pregnant (1992); Barbershop (2005); Biography (2000); Body Slam (1986); Bond Exhibit (2008); Burke's Law (1994); California Dreaming (1979); Charlie's Angels (1980–1981); Charlie's Angels: TV Tales (2002); Deep Down (1994); Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2006); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie's Angels – Uncovered (1999); Eve (2005); Evening (1983); Eye on L.A. (1985); Famous Homes & Hideaways (2000); Fantasy Island (1982); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fillmore! (2003); Fingers (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Happy Hour (1999); Hearts and Armour (1983); High Tide (1997); Hollywood '84 (1984); Hollywood Squares (2001–2004); Hot Line (1994–1996); Hour Magazine (1981); I Can't Believe I Wore That (2005); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000); Inside TV Land (2000); Investigating Tarzan (1997); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); Legal Tender (1991); Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) / Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Na sowas! (1985); Night Eyes (1990); Off Centre (2002); Pajama Party (2000); Pleasure Cove (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Purgatory (1988); Racquet (1979); Sheena (1984); Silk Stalkings (1995); Sins of Desire (1993); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); That '70s Show (1998–2004); The Alan Thicke Show (1981–1982); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beastmaster (1982); The Beastmaster Chronicles (2020); The Blues Brothers Animated Series (1997); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1992); The Insider (2013); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Last Victim (1976); The List (2000); The Love Boat (1982); The Martin Short Show (1999); The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Pandora Directive (1996); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Saga of 'the Beastmaster' (2005); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1981–1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008); The Yum Yum Girls (1976); Time & Again (2000); Tourist Trap (1979); TV Land Confidential (2007); Twisted Justice (1990); UnConventional (2004); Vega$ (1980); Waikiki (1980); Zuma Beach (1978).

Born on this day – Penny Marshall:

Penny Marshall

Actress

Director

Producer

October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018

Born on this day – Linda Lavin:

Linda Lavin

Actress

Singer

October 15, 1937 – December 29, 2024

Credits:

20/20 (1986); 9JKL (2017–2018); A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995); A Matter of Life and Death (1981); A Place to Call Home (1987); A Short History of Decay (2014); A World of Love (1970); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Alan King and His Buddy (1969); Alice (1976–1985); American Playhouse (1991); American Television Icons (2000); Another Woman's Child (1983); At Home in Utopia (2008); B Positive (2020–2022); Bakery in Brooklyn (2016); Barney Miller (1975–1982); Battle of the Network Stars II (1977); Being the Ricardos (2021); Beneath the Airlie Oak (2008); Best Friends for Life (1998); Betty White: First Lady of Television (2018); Bob's Burgers (2013–2023); Bones (2015); Brockmire (2019); Call Me Back: The Uncommon Wisdom of Yvette Slosch (2021); CBS All American Thanksgiving Day Parade (1980); CBS at 75 (2003); CBS Galaxy (1977); CBS Mornings (2024); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2020); CBS Playhouse (1969); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1990); CBS: On the Air (1978); Celebrity Page (2019); Charlie Rose (1998); Collected Stories (2002); Comedy Is King (1968); Conrad Bloom (1998); Courage the Cowardly Dog (2002); Daily Blast Live (2024); Damn Yankees! (1967); Dean Martin's Christmas in California (1977); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022); Elsbeth (2024); Family (1977); Final Warning (1977); For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal (1996); Girl Talk (1967); Girls Weekend (2019); Good Morning America (1979); Great Performances (1987); Great Women of Television Comedy (2003); Harry O (1975); History of the Sitcom (2021); Holiday Road Trip (2013); Hollywood Squares (1999); Hour Magazine (1981); How to Be a Latin Lover (2017); I Want to Go Home (1989); In a New Light: A Call to Action in the War Against AIDS (1992); Independent Lens (2009); Intimate Portrait (1990–2005); Jerry (1974); Kaz (1979); Lauren Hutton and... (1996); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2002); Lena: My 100 Children (1987); Let Us Entertain You (2020); Like Mom, Like Me (1978); Lily for President? (1982); Linda in Wonderland (1980); Madam Secretary (2018); Maggie Tales (2010); Manhattan Night (2016); Maricela (1986); Mid-Century Modern (2025); Mom (2016); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); r. Prince (2009); Naked Singularity (2021); Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); No Good Deed (2024); On Stage (2020); One Big Happy Family (2025); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Phyllis (1976); Reading Rainbow (1994); Rhoda (1974); Room 104 (2020); Room for Two (1992–1993); Santa Clarita Diet (2019); Saturday Night Live (2001); Sean Saves the World (2013–2014); See You in the Morning (1989); Selected Shorts / Segment: Silver Water (2023); Spotlight on Broadway (2013); Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996); Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration (2020); The $5.20 an Hour Dream (1980); The 24th Annual Tony Awards (1970); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 42nd Annual Tony Awards (1988); The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990); The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 52nd Annual Tony Awards (1998); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The 5th Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards (2015); The 64th Annual Tony Awards (2010); The 66th Annual Tony Awards (2012); The 76th Annual Drama League Awards (2010); The 78th Annual Drama League Awards (2012); The Alan King Show (1969); The Back-up Plan (2010); The Best of Everything (1983); The Doctors (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The Good Wife (2014–2015); The Great American Dream Machine (1971); The Hal Linden Special (1979); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1976–1980); The Hollywood Squares (Syndication) (1978); The Intern (2015); The Joan Rivers Show (1992); The John Davidson Christmas Show (1978); The John Davidson Show (1980); The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch (2005); The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show (1976); The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979); The Merv Griffin Show (1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1980); The Morning After (1974); The Muppet Show (1979); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); The O.C. (2004–2005); The Ring (1996); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996–2000); The Sopranos (2002); The Talk (2018–2021); The Television Critics Circle Awards (1977); The Toni Tennille Show (1980–1981); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1980); Theater Talk (2010–2016); Touched by an Angel (1999); TV's 50 Funniest Catch Phrases (2009); Wanderlust (2012); Whitewash (1994); Working in the Theatre (1987–2012); Yvette Slosch, Agent (2020); Yvette Slosch, Agent: How It's Made (2020).

Born on this day – Ed McBain:

Ed McBain

Writer

October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005

The Gutter and the Grave

By Ed McBain.

Published by Hard Case Crime.
First published 1958.
Complete and Unabridged.
ISBN-10: 0857683675
ISBN-13: 978-0857683670

Description:

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.

Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days – only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end...

Credits:

The 87th Precinct novel series: Cop Hater (1956); The Mugger (1956); The Pusher (1956); The Con Man (1957); Killer's Choice (1957); Lady Killer (1958); Killer's Wedge (1958); Killer's Payoff (1958); King's Ransom (1959); 'Til Death (1959); Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960); The Heckler (1960); See Them Die (1960); Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961); The Empty Hours (1962); Like Love (1962); Ten Plus One (1963); Ax (1963); He Who Hesitates (1965); Doll (1965); Eighty Million Eyes (1966); Fuzz (1968); Shotgun (1968); Jigsaw (1970); Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (1971); Sadie When She Died (1972); Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (1973); Hail to the Chief (1973); Bread (1974); Blood Relatives (1975); So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976); Long Time No See (1977); Calypso (1979); Ghosts (1980); Heat (1981); McBain Brief (1982); Ice (1983); Lightning (1984); And All Through The House (1984); Eight Black Horses (1985); Poison (1987); Lullaby (1989); Vespers (1989); Tricks (1989); Widows (1991); Kiss (1992); Mischief (1993); Romance (1995); Nocturne (1997); The Big Bad City (1998); The Last Dance (1999); Money, Money, Money (2001); Fat Ollie's Book (2002); The Frumious Bandersnatch (2003); Hark! (2004); Fiddlers (2005). The Matthew Hope novel series: Goldilocks (1976); Rumpelstiltskin (1981); Beauty And The Beast (1982); Jack and the Beanstalk (1984); Snow White and Rose Red (1985); Cinderella (1986); Puss in Boots (1987); The House That Jack Built (1988); Three Blind Mice (1990); Mary, Mary (1991); There Was A Little Girl (1994); Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996); The Last Best Hope (1998). Transgressions Books: Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions (2005); Transgressions (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006). Stand alone novels: Rocket To Luna (1953); Don't Crowd Me (1953); Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953); Cut Me In (1954); Runaway Black (1954); The Blackboard Jungle (1954); Death of a Nurse (1955); Murder in the Navy (1955); Tomorrow's World (1956); Second Ending (1956); Vanishing Ladies (1957); The Spiked Heel (1957); I'm Cannon--For Hire (1958); Strangers When We Met (1958); Even the Wicked (1958); The Gutter and the Grave (1958); Big Man (1959); A Matter of Conviction (1959); Buddwing (1964); The Sentries (1965); The Paper Dragon (1967); A Horse's Head (1967); Last Summer (1968); Sons (1969); Nobody Knew They Were There (1971); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Seven (1972); Come Winter (1973); Streets of Gold (1974); Doors (1975); Where There's Smoke (1975); Guns (1976); The Chisholms (1976); Love Dad (1981); Far from the Sea (1982); Lizzie (1984); Another Part of the City (1986); Downtown (1989); Gangs! (1989); Scimitar (1992); Criminal Conversation (1994); Privileged Conversation (1995); Driving Lessons (1998); Candyland (2000); The Moment She Was Gone (2002); Alice In Jeopardy (2004); So Nude, So Dead (2015); Runaway (2016); Find the Feathered Serpent (1952); The Remarkable Harry (1961); The Wonderful Button (1961); Me and Mr. Stenner (1976); Let's Talk (2005); The McBain Brief (1982); Barking at Butterflies (2000); Running from Legs and Other Stories (2002); Learning to Kill (2006); Transgressions (2006); Keller's Adjustment; Forever (2006); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Jungle Kids (2016); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942); The Thursday Turkey Murders (1943); The April Robin Murders (1958); Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Crimes of Passion (1993); The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 (1995); Murder For Love (1996); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Crime After Crime (1999); The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000); Writers on Writing (2001); The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); Dangerous Women (2005); Transgressions (2005); Price of Desire (2005); Transgressions vol. 4 (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006); Masters of Noir, Volume One (2010); Masters of Noir, Volume Three (2010); Books to Die For (2012).

Movies and television:

87. revír (1970); 87th Precinct (1961–1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1959); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Blood Relatives (1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966–1967); Brokovnice (1992); Case Reopened (1999); CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1981); Climax! (1958); Columbo (1992–1994); Cop Hater (1958); Dream West (1986); Dzungle pred tabulí (1980); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Ed McBain möter Ulf Örnkloo (1988); Ed McBain: Satsui (2005); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fallen Angels (1995); Fuzz (1972); General Electric Theater (1958); High and Low (1963); I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021); Ironside (1968); Kao no nai onna: Kurushima keiji no hôkokusho yori (2007); Koho si vybral vrah (1974); Kraft Theatre (1958); La soupe aux poulets (1963); Last Summer (1969); Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971); Le Dernier Tour (2002); Living Famously (2003); Lonely Heart (1981); Midnight Journal (1990); Mike Hammer (1958); Mister Buddwing (1966); Of Men and Women (1973); Panenka (1980); Plus rien à perdre (1968); Read All About It (1979); Reputations (1999); Skládacka (1991); Spin (2012); Sposob ubiystva (1993); Strangers When We Meet (1960); Tanin no kankei (1989); Tengoku to jigoku (2007); The Birds (1963); The Bob Braun Show (1981); The Chisholms (1979–1980); The Culture Show (2005); The David Frost Show (1972); The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980); The Mugger (1958); The Pusher (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); The Write Stuff (1989); The Young Savages (1961); Three Blind Mice (2001); Walk Proud (1979); Without Apparent Motive (1971); Wogan (1986); Zabiják (1972).