Jack Kost

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Born on this day – Micheline Francey:

Micheline Francey

Actress

October 19, 1919 – January 1, 1969

Born on this day – Fiorenzo Carpi:

Fiorenzo Carpi

Composer

Pianist

October 19, 1918 – May 21, 1997

Born on this day – Juanita Moore:

Juanita Moore

Actress

October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014

Credits:

Judging Amy (2001); ER (2000); The Kid (2000); The Sterling Chase (1999); Shades of LA (1990); Two Moon Junction (1988); And They're Off (1982); O'Hara's Wife (1982); Paternity (1981); ABC Weekend Specials (1981); The Richard Pryor Show (1977); Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976); Insight (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Fugitive Lovers (1975); Deliver Us from Evil (1975); Abby (1974); The Get-Man (1974); Thomasine & Bushrod (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972–1973); Fox Style (1973); The Mack (1973); Adam-12 (1973); Confessions of a Top Crime Buster (1971); The Partners (1971); Skin Game (1971); Ironside (1971); Mannix (1970); Angelitos negros (1970); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969); The Whole World Is Watching (1969); Uptight (1968); The Outsider (1968); Gentle Ben (1968); Rosie! (1967); Dragnet 1967 (1967); The Singing Nun (1966); Slattery's People (1965); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); Mr. Novak (1964); Ben Casey (1964); Breaking Point (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Wagon Train (1963); Going My Way (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); A Child Is Waiting (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); Imitation of Life (1959); The Thin Man (1958); The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957); Bombers B-52 (1957); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); Band of Angels (1957); Something of Value (1957); The Girl Can't Help It (1956); Climax! (1956); The Opposite Sex (1956); Ransom! (1956); Not as a Stranger (1955); Lord of the Jungle (1955); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Women's Prison (1955); The Gambler from Natchez (1954); Witness to Murder (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); The Royal African Rifles (1953); Ramar of the Jungle (1952); The Iron Mistress (1952); Affair in Trinidad (1952); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Lydia Bailey (1952); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); No Questions Asked (1951); Tarzan's Peril (1951); Pinky (1949); A Song Is Born (1948); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Belle Starr (1941); Broken Strings (1940); Double Deal (1939); Show Boat (1936); Cleopatra (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Roman Scandals (1933); So This Is Africa (1933).

Born on this day – Auguste Lumière:

Auguste Lumière

Director

Producer

Actor

Engineer

Biologist

Co-inventor of the cinematograph

Regarded as one of the pioneers of cinema

October 19, 1862 – April 10, 1954

Recommended reading - A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories (2002):

A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories

Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
Published 2002.
ISBN-10: 0451205960
ISBN-13: 978-0451205964

Anthology of short stories.

Description:

Bleak streets and bleaker futures. Trapped heroes and desperate shreds of hope. Wicked women and broken dreams. Urban whirlpools and inexorable fates. Call it noir. Call it pulp. Call it black – and blue. It’s a tradition – tough, reckless, and uncompromising – born from the fierce imaginations of a century of writers with a unique talent for creating shadows out of words and turning raw emotion into pure poetry.

And this is noir at its incomparable best – thirty-two of the finest crime stories of the twentieth century, personally chosen by Shamus Award winner Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane, one of the true masters of hard-boiled fiction.