Friday, September 18, 2026

Born on this day – Jack Warden:


Jack Warden


Actor

September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); A Dog of Flanders (1999); A Private Battle (1980); A.D. (1985); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alice in Wonderland (1985); All the President's Men (1976); And Justice for All (1979); Being There (1979); Ben Casey (1962); Bewitched (1964); Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979); Billy Two Hats (1974); Blindfold (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bonanza (1959); Breaking Point (1964); Brian's Song (1971); Broadway Television Theatre (1952); Bullets Over Broadway (1994); Bulworth (1998); Bus Stop (1961); Bye Bye Braverman (1968); Campbell Playhouse (1953); Carbon Copy (1981); Center Stage (1954); Chairman of the Board (1997); Checkmate (1961); Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981); Climax! (1956–1957); Crackers (1984); Crazy Like a Fox (1984–1986); Danger (1951–1955); Darby's Rangers (1958); Dead Solid Perfect (1988); Death on the Nile (1978); Dig (1972); Dirty Work (1998); Donovan's Reef (1963); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dreamer (1979); Ed (1996); Edge of the City (1957); Escape from Zahrain (1962); Everybody Wins (1990); Five Fingers (1959); From Here to Eternity (1953); Gifts of Greatness (1985); Going My Way (1962); Goodyear Television Playhouse (1954–1955); Great Performances (1974); Guilty as Sin (1993); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984); Hobson's Choice (1983); Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War (1987); Ink (1997); Inner Sanctum (1954); Jigsaw John (1976); Journey from Darkness (1975); Judgment (1990); Justice (1955); Knight & Daye (1989); Kraft Mystery Theatre (1953–1954); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950–1955); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956–1957); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Television Theatre (1955); Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1953); Man Against Crime (1953–1954); Man on a String (1972); Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949–1954); Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Mister Peepers (1952–1954); N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969); Naked City (1962); Night and the City (1992); Norby (1955); Omnibus (1953–1955); Outlaws (1960); Passed Away (1992); Playhouse 90 (1958–1959); Police Story: The Watch Commander (1988); Problem Child (1990); Problem Child 2 (1991); Problem Child 3: Junior in Love (1995); Producers' Showcase (1955); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Remember When (1974); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Route 66 (1961–1963); Run Silent Run Deep (1958); September (1987); Shampoo (1975); Slattery's People (1964); So Fine (1981); Stagecoach West (1960); Still Crazy Like a Fox (1987); Studio One (1952–1955); Summertree (1971); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Suspense (1950); Suspicion (1957); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Target: The Corruptors (1962); That Kind of Woman (1959); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974); The Asphalt Jungle (1961); The Aviator (1985); The Bachelor Party (1957); The Bad News Bears (1979–1980); The Big Story (1953–1954); The Challenge (1955); The Champ (1979); The Cosmic Eye (1986); The Face of Fear (1971); The Frogmen (1951); The Fugitive (1967); The Godchild (1974); The Great Adventure (1964); The Great Muppet Caper (1981); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Invaders (1967); The Island on Bird Street (1997); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1957); The Lark (1957); The Magical World of Disney (1965); The Man Behind the Badge (1953); The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973); The Man with My Face (1951); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); The New Recruits (1955); The Norm Show (1999); The Presidio (1988); The Renegade (1960); The Replacements (2000); The Sound and the Fury (1959); The Sporting Club (1971); The Thin Red Line (1964); The Three Kings (1987); The Twilight Zone (1959–1960); The Untouchables (1959–1960); The Verdict (1982); The Virginian (1962–1965); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965–1966); The Web (1950–1954); The White Buffalo (1977); They Only Come Out at Night (1975); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Three Wishes for Jamie (1987); Topper (1979); Toys (1992); Used Cars (1980); Wagon Train (1962–1965); Wake Me When It's Over (1960); Welcome to the Club (1971); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960); What's a Nice Girl Like You...? (1971); Wheeler and Murdoch (1972); While You Were Sleeping (1995); Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971); You Are There (1954); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Born on this day – Rossano Brazzi:


Rossano Brazzi


Actor

September 18, 1916 – December 24, 1994

Credits:

20 to 1 (2010); 7, Hyden Park - La casa maledetta (1985); A Certain Smile (1958); A Fine Romance (1989); A Time for Miracles (1980); Addio Kira! (1942); Angela (1954); Barrier of the Law (1954); Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964); Blaues Blut (1989); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967); Bullet for Stefano (1947); Caribia (1978); Carne de horca (1953); Champagne... e fagioli (1980); Charlie's Angels (1979); Christopher Columbus (1985); Coralba (1970); Count Your Blessings (1959); Criminal Affair (1968); Damals (1943); Dark Purpose (1964); Day of Judgment (1971); Dracula in the Provinces (1975); Dream music (1940); È caduta una donna (1941); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1984); Engagement Italiano (1964); Eran trecento... (La spigolatrice di Sapri) (1952); Fantasy Island (1981); Fatal Frames (1996); Fear City (1984); Final Justice (1985); Flesh and Desire (1954); Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974); Furia (1947); Giro girotondo... con il sesso è bello il mondo (1975); Gli altri, gli altri... e noi (1967); Guilt Is Not Mine (1952); Hart to Hart (1983); Hawaii Five-O (1977); Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969); Honor Thy Father (1986); I contrabbandieri del mare (1948); I due Foscari (1942); Il bravo di Venezia (1941); Il conte Aquila (1955); Il corriere del re (1947); Il diario segreto di una minorenne (è nata una donna) (1968); Il figlio di Lagardère (1952); Il giornalaccio (1962); Il paramedico (1982); Il ponte di vetro (1940); Il treno crociato (1943); Incantesimo tragico (1951); Instant Love (1964); Interlude (1957); Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa (1970); Io e Caterina (1980); It Happens in Roma (1955); Kean (1940); King of Africa (1968); Krakatoa: East of Java (1968); La casa senza tempo (1945); La collina del diavolo (1988); La corona negra (1951); La donna che inventò l'amore (1952); La forza bruta (1941); La Gorgona (1942); La grande aurora (1947); La monaca di Monza (1947); La promessa (1979); La vallée des peupliers (1986); La voce (1982); L'assedio di Siracusa (1960); Le tiroir secret (1986); Legend of the Lost (1957); Les fables de La Fontaine (1966); Light in the Piazza (1962); Little Women (1949); Loser Takes All (1956); Madigan (1973); Malìa (1946); Melissa (1966); Merry Chase (1945); Mister Kingstreet's War (1971); Mistress of Treves (1952); Mort d'un zombie (1993); Mr. Too Little (1979); Orient-Express (1980); Per amore... per magia... (1967); Piccolo hotel (1939); Police Woman (1978); Political Asylum (1975); Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952); Processo e morte di Socrate (1939); Psychout for Murder (1969); Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti (1972); Redhead (1962); Return of the Black Eagle (1946); Revenge of Black Eagle (1951); Rheingold Theatre (1955); Romanzo d'amore (1950); Rome Adventure (1962); Run for Your Life (1966); Season for Assassins (1975); Sex of the Devil (1971); Silenzio, si gira! (1943); Soldier's Girl (1967); South Pacific (1958); Summertime (1955); Ten Commandments (1945); The Adventurers (1970); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); The Battle of Austerlitz (1960); The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965); The Bobo (1967); The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966); The Contessa's Secret (1954); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Executioner of Lille (1952); The Far Pavilions (1984); The Fighting Men (1950); The Final Conflict (1981); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1991); The Great Waltz (1972); The Italian Job (1969); The King's Jester (1941); The Love Boat (1982); The Name of the Game (1970); The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Survivors (1969); The Third Solution (1988); The White Devil (1947); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Three Fables of Love (1962); Tosca (1941); Un amore (1965); Una signora dell'ovest (1942); Vita segreta di una diciottenne (1969); Vivi ragazza vivi! (1971); Vulcano (1950); W. Somerset Maugham (1969); We the Living (1942); Welcome to Woop Woop (1997); Woman Times Seven (1967).

Born on this day – Jack Cardiff:


Jack Cardiff


Cinematographer

Director

Photographer

September 18, 1914 – April 22, 2009

Credits:

3rd Irish Film and Television Awards (2005); 50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979); A Matter of Life and Death (1946); A Matter of Michael & Emeric (1997); A Profile of 'Black Narcissus' (2000); A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (2000); A Profile of 'The Red Shoes' (2000); A Road in India (1938); A Village in India (1938); All Night Long (2010); Arabian Bazaar (1938); As You Like It (1936); Avalanche Express (1979); Billy's Rose (1922); Black Narcissus (1947); Blame the Woman (1932); Border Weave (1942); Bored Games (2012); Breakfast (2004); Brewster's Millions (1935); Britain's Finest (2005); British Film Forever (2007); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); Call from Space (1989); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Cat's Eye (1985); Cinema 3 (2009); Colour in Clay (1942); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Crossed Swords (1954 / 1977); Dark Journey (1937); Dark of the Sun (1968); Death on the Nile (1978); Delhi (1938); Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010); Fanny (1961); Film '06 (2006); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Flamingo Blues (2004); Follyfoot (1972–1973); Ghost Story (1981); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Harmony Heaven (1930); Here's Hollywood (1961); Holiday in Spain (1960); Honeymoon for Three (1935); How to Make a Freak (2005); Indian Durbar (1939); Intent to Kill (1958); It Started in Paradise (1952); Jerusalem (1938); Jungle (1939); Knight Without Armor (1937); La caccia alla volpe nella campagna Romana (1938); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legend of the Lost (1957); Lights2 (2005); Loose Ends (1930); Main Street of Paris (1939); Martin Scorsese on 'Age of Consent' (2009); Million Dollar Mystery (1987); Montmartre nocturne (1954); Moving Pictures (1990 / 1996); My Geisha (1962); My Son, My Son (1918); Omnibus (1993); One Precious Year (1933); Out of the Box (1942); Painting with Light (2001); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Paris (1951); Paris en Technicolor (1946); Paris on Parade (1938); Peasant Island (1940); Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973); Peintres et artistes montmartrois (1950); Penny Gold (1973); Petra (1938); Plastic Surgery in Wartime (1941); Queen Cotton (1941); Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985); Rear Window (1993); Rembrandt by Himself (1999); Reputations (1999); Ride a Wild Pony (1975); River Thames Yesterday (1939); Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek (1938); Scandalous (1984); Scott of the Antarctic (1948); Scottish Mazurka (1943); Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland (1965); Secret Lives (1996); Silence Becomes You (2005); Silent Britain (2006); Sinfonia di Roma (1937); Sons and Lovers (1960); Steel (1945); Tai-Pan (1986); TCM Remembers 2009 (2009); Temples of India (1938); The 1994 Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards (1994); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The African Queen (1951); The American Prisoner (1929); The Awakening (1980); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); The Black Rose (1950); The Brave One (1956); The Cinema Show (2005–2006); The Colour Merchant (1998); The Coronation (1937); The Coronation of King George VI (1937); The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2006); The Dance of Shiva (1998); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); The Dogs of War (1980); The Eternal Fire (1938); The Far Pavilions (1984); The Fifth Musketeer (1979); The Flame of Love (1930); The Four Feathers (1939); The Ghost Goes West (1935); The Ghost Train (1931); The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968); The Great Mr. Handel (1942); The Green Girdle (1944); The Hate Ship (1929); The Informer (1929); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 / 1984); The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); The Lion (1962); The Liquidator (1965); The Little Picture Show (1994); The Long Ships (1964); The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923); The Magic Balloon (1990); The Magic Box (1951); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936); The Master of Ballantrae (1953); The Moviemakers (1985); The Mutations (1974); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2010); The Other Side of the Screen (2007); The Prince and the Showgirl (1957); The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (2004); The Raider (1944); The Red Shoes (1948); The Sacred Ganges (1938); The Skin Game (1931); The Story of William Tell (1953); The Suicidal Dog (2000); The Tell-Tale Heart (2004); The Vikings (1958); The Western Isles (1941); The Wicked Lady (1983); Things to Come (1936); This Is Colour (1942); Tiptoes (1927); Under Capricorn (1949); Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1991); Wanderers of the Desert (1938); War and Peace (1956); We Get to Win This Time (2002); Web of Evidence (1959); Wings of the Morning (1937); World Windows (1939); Young Cassidy (1965).

Born on this day – Greta Garbo:


Greta Garbo


Actress

September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990

Credits:

1 a Minute / In memory of: Battled Breast Cancer (2010); 100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 30 Years of Fun (1963); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Man's Man (1929); A Woman of Affairs (1928); Absolutely Do Not Die! (2014); Adam & Yves (1974); Anita no perd el tren (2001); Anna Christie (1930); Anna Karenina (1935 / 2012); Annie (1982); Arena (1991–2012); As You Desire Me (1932); Avocado Toast the Series (2020); Azzedine Alaïa: Un couturier français (2022); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Biography (1998); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Camille (1936); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Century of Cinema (1995); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2023); Conquest (1937); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Diary for My Children (1984); Die Filmstadt Hollywood (1928); Dos reinas (1993); Duels (2015); Ein Idol hat Geburtstag - Die Karriere der Greta Garbo (1957); En lyckoriddare (1921); Film Time (1955); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); First Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! (1931); From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Garabatos Greta Garbo (1944); Garbo (2005); Garbo Talks (1984); Gossip (2000); Grand Hotel (1932); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Greta (2019); Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1985); Grosse Fische, kleine Fische (1973); Haunted Hotels of Hollywood (2018); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood Party (1934); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); How Andy invented a superstar: true uncut tales from Andy Warhol's Factory People (2018); How Not to Dress (1920); Inspiration (1931); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996); Kärlekens ögon (1922); Konsumtionsföreningen Stockholm med omnejd (1921); Kvinnor, kvinnor, kvinnor (1997); Le petit prince, naissance d'une étoile (2023); Le vie della Recherche - Luchino Visconti (2006); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Leggende dietro la quinte: Greta Garbo (2020); Love (1927); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); Luffar-Petter (1922); Marlowe (1969); Mata Hari (1931); MGM Parade (1955–1956); Minns Ni? (1993); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (2021); Ninotchka (1939); O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (1991); Prejudice & Pride: Swedish Film Queer (2022); PUB i City (1957); Queen Christina (1933); Romance (1930); S1m0ne (2002); Satin and Silk (2003); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Second Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Sensationer (1992); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Siskel & Ebert (1990); Sixty Years of Seduction (1981); Some of the Best (1944); Spécial cinéma (1985); Star Life (1990); Stiller, Garbo & Me (1988); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Casting Couch (1995); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1972); The Divine Garbo (1990); The Divine Woman (1928); The Dreamers (2003); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Happy Ending (1969); The Joyless Street (1925); The Kiss (1929); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies March On (1939); The Mysterious Lady (1928); The Painted Veil (1934); The Picture Theatre (1967); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924); The Single Standard (1929); The South Bank Show (2001); The South Bank Show / Greta Garbo: A Lone Star (2001); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Temptress (1926); The World's Most Photographed (2005); Third Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Torrent (1926); Two-Faced Woman (1941); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1979); Vi mötte stormen (1943); Vito (2011); Voices Across the Sea (1928); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wild Orchids (1929); Wonderful Times (1950).

Born on this day – Samuel Johnson:


Samuel Johnson


Writer

September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784

Credits:

Written work:

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755); A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775); A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735); Birmingham Journal (1732–33); Irene, a Tragedy (1749); Life of Browne (1756); Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744); Lives of the Poets (1779–81); London (1738); Messiah (1728); Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth (1745); Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language (1747); Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (1755); Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare (1765); Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane (1747); Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1756); Taxation no Tyranny (1775); The Adventurer (1753–54); The Beauties of Johnson (1781); The False Alarm (1770); The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia / novella (1759); The Idler (1758–60); The Literary Magazine, or Universal Review (1756); The Patriot (1774); The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765); The Rambler (1750–52); The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749); Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands (1771); Universal Visiter (1756).

Movie:

Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man (2006).

I need more books ...


It literally stresses me out how many good books are out there that I still haven't read.

Recommended reading - Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds (2014):


Connecting Detectives:
The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds

By Lewis D. Moore.

Published by McFarland.
Published 2014.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786477717
ISBN-13: 978-0786477715

Description:

A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.