William Girdler
Director
Writer
Composer
Producer
October 22, 1947 – January 21,
1978
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Born on this day – David W. Allen:
David W. Allen
Stop motion animator
October 22, 1944 – August 16, 1999
Born on this day – Annette Funicello:
Annette Funicello
Actress,
Singer
October 22, 1942 – April 8, 2013
Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.
- Annette Funicello.
Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1987.
Credits:
A Dream Is a Wish Your
Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995); Full House (1991); Troop
Beverly Hills (1989); Back to the Beach (1987); Growing Pains (1986); Lots of
Luck (1985); The Love Boat (1978–1982); Fantasy Island (1979–1981); Frankie
& Annette: The Second Time Around (1978); Love, American Style (1971); Head
(1968); Hondo (1967); Thunder Alley (1967); Fireball 500 (1966); Dr. Goldfoot
and the Bikini Machine (1965); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); Ski Party
(1965); The Monkey's Uncle (1965); Beach Blanket Bingo (1965); Burke's Law (1963–1965);
Pajama Party (1964); Bikini Beach (1964); Muscle Beach Party (1964); The
Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964); Wagon
Train (1963); Beach Party (1963); Escapade in Florence (1962); The Magical
World of Disney (1959–1962); Toyland (1961); The Horsemasters (1961); Zorro (1959–1961);
The Danny Thomas Show (1959); The Shaggy Dog (1959); Annette (1958); The New
Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957); Further Adventures of Spin and Marty
(1956).
Born on this day – Tony Roberts:
Tony Roberts
Actor
October 22, 1939 – February 7, 2025
Credits:
12
and Holding (2005); 18 Again! (1988); A Different Affair (1987); A Guide for
the Married Man (1969); A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982); A Perry Mason
Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester (1995); A Question of Honor (1982); All
My Children (1994); American Masters (2001); American Masters (2011); Amityville
3-D (1983); An Anomaly (2013); Annie Hall (1977); Apologies to Bunuel (1996); B.
Smith with Style (1999); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Bitter Jester (2003); Bravo
Profiles (1999–2003); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
(2003); Comic Groove (2002); Dead Broke (1998); Dinner with Family with Brett
Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family (2015); Dirty Dancing (2017); Entertainment
Tonight (1990); Finder of Lost Loves (1985); Fist Fighter (1988); Gilbert
Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast (2017); Good Morning America (1978); Great
Performances (1999 / 2005 / 2021); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Hollywood
Squares (1977); Hotel (1985); If Things Were Different (1980); Intimate
Portrait (2001); It Takes a Lunatic (2019); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon
(1986); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Key Exchange (1985); Late Night with
Conan O'Brien (1996); Law & Order (1991–2010); Law & Order: Criminal
Intent (2008); Le sauvage (1975); Let's Celebrate (1972); Live with Kelly and
Mark (1990); Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003); Love, American Style / Segment: Love
and the Hotel Caper (1971); Married to the Kellys (2004); Matlock (1991); McMillan
& Wife (1977); Men at Law (1970); Murder, She Wrote (1992); My Best
Friend's Wife (2001); Night Gallery / Segment: The Messiah on Mott Street (1971);
Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Nightlife (1986); Not in My Family (1993); Our
Sons (1991); Our World (1986); Packin' It In (1983); Painting the Town: The
Illusionistic Murals of Richard Haas (1990); Phyllis (1975); Play It Again, Sam
(1972); Popcorn (1991); Radio Days (1987); Rosetti and Ryan (1977); Seize the
Day (1986); Serpico (1973); Short Talks on the Universe Benefit Performance (2002);
Snafu (1976); Sounds from a Town I Love (2001); Spotlight on Broadway (2013); Star
Spangled Girl (1971); Star Wars: A New Hope (1994); Star Wars: The Empire
Strikes Back (1994); Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (1994); Stardust
Memories (1980); Switch (1991); The $10,000 Pyramid (1974–1977); The $25,000
Pyramid (1975–1978); The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (1968); The 23rd Annual Tony
Awards (1969); The 34th Annual Tony Awards (1980); The 35th Annual Tony Awards
(1981); The 38th Annual Tony Awards (1984); The 39th Annual Tony Awards (1985);
The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The
62nd Annual Tony Awards (2008); The American Clock (1993); The Carol Burnett
Show (1991); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Edge of Night (1965–1966); The
Four Seasons (1984); The Girls in the Office (1979); The Kennedy Center Honors:
A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Lady in Question Is Charles
Busch (2005); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976); The Longest Week (2014); The
Love Boat (1978–1979); The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985); The Magical World of Disney
(1974); The Merv Griffin Show (1971–1977); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The
Million Dollar Duck (1971); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Taking of
Pelham One Two Three (1974); The Thorns (1988); The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
(1997); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); The Way They Were (1981); Today (1982–1985);
Trapper John, M.D. (1983–1985); Victor/Victoria (1995); Well Fed and
Comfortable (2006); What's My Line? (1972–1973); When Pop Culture Saved
America: A 9-11 Story (2011); Working in the Theatre (1980–1992).
Born on this day – Ann Rule:
Ann Rule
Writer
October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015
Credits:
A Rose for Her Grave and
Other True Cases (1993); You Belong to Me and Other True Crime Cases (1994); A
Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases (1996); In the Name of Love and Other
True Cases (1998); The End of the Dream (1998); A Rage to Kill and Other True
Cases (1999); Empty Promises and Other True Cases (2001); Last Dance, Last Chance
(2001); Kiss Me, Kill Me and Other True Cases (2004); Worth More Dead and Other
True Cases (2005); No Regrets and Other True Cases (2006); Smoke, Mirrors, and
Murder and Other True Cases (2007); Mortal Danger and Other True Cases (2008); But
I Trusted You and Other True Cases (2009); Don't Look Behind You (2011); Fatal
Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases (2012); Lying in Wait and Other
True Cases (2014); Possession (1981); The Stranger Beside Me (1980); Lust
Killer (1981); The Want-Ad Killer (1983); The I-5 Killer (1984); Mind Games (1984);
Small Sacrifices (1987); If You Really Loved Me (1991); Everything She Ever
Wanted (1992); Dead By Sunset (1995); Bitter Harvest (1997); And Never Let Her
Go (1999); Jerry Harris Case (1999); Every Breath You Take (2001); Without Pity
(2003); Heart Full of Lies (2003); Green River, Running Red (2004); Too Late to
Say Goodbye (2007); In the Still of the Night (2010); Practice to Deceive (2013).
Movies and television:
12 Desperate Hours (2023);
48 Hours (2001–2012); A House on Fire (2021); A Rose for Her Grave: The Randy
Roth Story (2023); And Never Let Her Go (2001); Ann Rule's A Murder to Remember
(2020); Biography (1995); Born to Kill? (2010–2011); Circle of Deception (2021);
Conversations with a Serial Killer (2008); Danger in the Dorm (2024); Dead by
Sunset (1995); Deranged (2009); Every Breath You Take (2003); Everything She
Ever Wanted (2009); Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011); Motives & Murders:
Cracking the Case (2014); Murder by Number (1993); Murderous Minds: Inside
Serial Killers (2018); Sleeping with Danger (2020); Small Sacrifices (1989); The
Criminal Calendar (1997); The Execution of Ted Bundy (1989); The Investigators
(2002); The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (1997); The Oprah
Winfrey Show (1988); The Perfect Murder (2014); They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
(2002); THS Investigates (2005); Too Late to Say Goodbye (2009); Twisted (2011).
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