Sunday, August 2, 2026

Born on this day – Wes Craven:


Wes Craven

Director

Writer

Producer

Actor

Editor

August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015

Born on this day – Peter O'Toole:


Peter O'Toole

Actor

August 2, 1932 – December 14, 2013

Born on this day – Vali Myers:


Vali Myers


Artist

Writer

Dancer

Actress

Director

August 2, 1930 – February 12, 2003

Credits:

Books:

Drawings 1949–79 (1980); Love on the Left Bank (1956): Night Flower: The Life and Art of Vali Myers (2012); Vali Myers Memoirs (2006).

Movies and television:

Death in the Port Jackson Hotel (1972); Dope (1968); Painted Lady (2002); Patti and Vali (1973); The Big Day (1949); The Chelsea (1993); The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968); The Tightrope Dancer (1990); Together (1956); Together with Lorenza Mazzetti (2023); Vali (1967); Vali, The Witch of Positano (1965); Vali: The Tightrope Dancer (1989); Vali's World (1984).

Born on this day – Charles Einstein:


Charles Einstein

Writer

August 2, 1926 – March 7, 2007

Born on this day – Carroll O'Connor:


Carroll O'Connor

Actor

Producer

Director

August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001

Born on this day – Carlo Savina:


Carlo Savina

Composer

August 2, 1919 – June 23, 2002

Born on this day – Joseph Hayes:


Joseph Hayes


Writer

August 2, 1918 – September 11, 2006

Credits:

Books and plays:

Bon Voyage!; Calculated Risk; Come into my Parlor; Don't Go Away Mad; Impolite Comedy; Is Anyone Listening?; Island on Fire; Leaf and Bough; Like Any Other Fugitive; Missing and Presumed Dead; No Escape; Summer in Copenhagen; The Deep End; The Desperate Hours; The Happiest Millionaire; The Hours After Midnight; The Long Dark Night; The Midnight Sun; The Third Day; The Ways of Darkness; Winner's Circle.

Movies and television:

Bon Voyage! (1962); Desperate Hours (1990); Ich melde einen Selbstmord (1989); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Pour cent millions (1994); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stolen Hours (1963); Stunden der Angst (1964); Suspense (1949); Terror After Midnight (1962); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Desperate Hours (1955 / 1967); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Magical World of Disney (1970); The Third Day (1965); The Web (1951); The Young Doctors (1961).