Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Born on this day – Georgia Brown:


Georgia Brown


Singer

Actress

Writer

October 21, 1933 – July 5, 1992


Georgia Brown, in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992)

Credits:

A Peaceable Kingdom (1989); A Study in Terror (1965); Actor (1978); Armchair Britain (2018); Baby Talk (1992); BBC Show of the Week (1967–1968); Blankety Blank (1986); Bruce's Hall of Fame (2014); Can I Play with Madness? - David Wood & Leon Lissek re-visit Tales That Witness Madness (2020); Cheers (1990–1991); Ed Sullivan Presents: The Beatles (2003); Faerie Tale Theatre (1985); Fish Police (1992); Five Guineas a Week (1956); Full House (1973); Galileo (1975); Garrison Theatre (1955); Georgia Brown Sings Kurt Weill (1968); Get the Message (1964); Golden Gala (1978); Good Evening! (1967); Gravedale High (1990); Great Performances (1989); Gypsy (1965); In Concert (1972); International Cabaret (1966–1968); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); Juke Box Jury (1965–1967); Late Night Line-Up (1972); Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969); Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971); Love at Stake (1987); Mary: Rhymes and Reasons (1972); Menace (1973); Murder Reported (1957); Murder, She Wrote (1989–1991); My Mother India (2001); Nothing But the Night (1973); One Pair of Eyes (1968); Paddington Bear (1989–1990); Parkinson (1973); Password (1963–1964); Review (1971); Round the Bend (1955); Running Scared (1972); Saturday Stars (1968); Sherlock Holmes (1968); Shoulder to Shoulder (1974); Showtime (1960 / 1968); Song by Song (1978–1980); Spotlight (1967); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990–1992); Sydney (1990); Take a Sapphire (1966); Talent Scouts (1963); Tales That Witness Madness / Segment: Mr. Tiger (1973); The 18th Annual Tony Awards (1964); The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990); The Army Game (1960); The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Coward Revue (1969); The David Susskind Show (1963–1964); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1963); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1965); The Ed Sullivan Show (1963–1964); The Eddy Arnold Show (1956); The Edwardians (1972); The Engelbert Humperdinck Show (1970); The Fixer (1968); The Good Old Days (1973–1976); The Heart of Show Business (1967); The Jimmy Logan Show (1969); The Les Crane Show (1965); The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974–1975); The Main Attraction (1984); The Merv Griffin Show (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968); The Mort Sahl Show (1961); The Protectors (1972–1973); The Roads to Freedom (1970); The Saint (1967); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976); The Sound of Petula (1974); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1967); The Top Hat (1951); The Val Doonican Music Show (1984); The Young Generation in The Young Generation (1970); They Sold a Million (1973); This Is the BBC (1959); This Is Tom Jones (1969); This Is Your Life (1991); To Tell the Truth (1964); Trial (1971); Upstairs, Downstairs (1972); Variety Parade (1955); Victim of Love (1991); Wogan (1988); World Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Nicole Courcel:


Nicole Courcel


Actress

October 21, 1931 – June 25, 2016

Credits:

Amazons of Rome (1961); Antoine & Antoinette (1947); Au théâtre ce soir (1979); Autour d'une collection (1949); Aux yeux du souvenir (1948); Beau sang (1956); Club de femmes (1956); Credo (1983); Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (1959); Escalier sur cour (1965); Father, Mother, My Wife and I (1955); Father, Mother, the Maid and I (1954); Foreign Intrigue (1953); Gibier de potence (1951); Hello Beatrice (1984); Konga Yo (1962); La belle et le tzigane (1958); La dame de Noël (1958); La Marie du Port (1950); La milliardaire (1991); La parisienne (1967); La peau de l'ours (1957); La vallée des peupliers (1986); L'araignée (1973); Le collège en folie (1954); Le destin des Steenfort (1999); Le grand pavois (1954); L'enchantement (1974); Les amants de Bras-Mort (1951); Les amours de Paris (1961); Les amours finissent à l'aube (1953); Les Boussardel (1972); Les cinq dernières minutes (1995); Les clandestines (1954); Les deux virus (1989); Les petits drames (1961); Les ruses du diable (Neuf portraits d'une jeune fille) (1966); Les Thibault (2003); L'esprit de famille (1979); L'inspecteur aime la bagarre (1957); Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! (1961); Madame Bovary (1974); Marchandes d'illusions (1954); Milady and the Three Musketeers (2004); Monelle (1948); Money Money Money (1972); Nick Carter et le trèfle rouge (1965); No Exit (1954); Quand elles conduisent (1955); Quatre femmes, quatre vies (1981); Rendezvous in July (1949); Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954); Sherlock Holmes (1955); Stop Train 349 (1963); Sundays and Cybèle (1962); Témoignages (1973); Testament of Orpheus (1960); The Beguines (1972); The Blonde Witch (1956); The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957); The Creatures (1966); The Night of the Generals (1967); The Slap (1974); The Strangler (1970); Thomas (1975); Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960); Un officier de police sans importance (1973).

Born on this day – Ursula K. Le Guin:


Ursula K. Le Guin


Writer

October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018

Credits:

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968); The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore (1972); Tehanu (1990); The Other Wind (2001); The Daughter of Odren (2014); Tales from Earthsea (2001); Dragonfly (2001); The Finder (2001); The Bones of the Earth (2001); Earthsea Revisioned (1993); Catwings (1988); Catwings Return (1989); Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994); Jane on Her Own (1999); Cat Dreams (2009); Tales of the Catwings (1996); More Tales of the Catwings (2000); Rocannon's World (1966); Planet of Exile (1966); City of Illusions (1967); The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); The Word for World is Forest (1972); The Dispossessed (1974); Four Ways to Forgiveness (1994); The Telling (2000); The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982); Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983); Gifts (2004); Voices (2006); Powers (2007); Orsinian Tales (1976); Malafrena (1979); The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth (2012); The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012); April in Paris (1962); The Masters (1963); The Word of Unbinding (1964); Things (1970); The Good Trip (1970); A Trip to the Head (1970); The Stars Below (1974); Direction of the Road (2017); Darkness Box (2017); The Day Before the Revolution (2017); Semley's Necklace (2017); The Rule of Names (2017); Winter's King (2017); The Lathe of Heaven (1971); Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (aka A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else) (1976); The Eye of the Heron (1978); The Beginning Place (aka Threshold) (1980); Always Coming Home (1985); Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991); Changing Planes (2003); Lavinia (2008); Nine Lives (1968); The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973); The Field of Vision (1973); The Water is Wide (1976); Leese Webster (1979); Gwilan's Harp (1981); Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983); The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (1984); Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987); Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) (1994); The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) (1994); Forgiveness Day (1994); Solitude (in F&SF) (1994); A Man of the People (in Asimov's) (1995); A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) (1995); Ether OR (1995); Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) (1996); The Wild Girls (2011); Dangerous People (2019); The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 (1975); Wild Angels (1975); The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 (1978); Hard Words and Other Poems (1981); The Compass Rose (1982); In the Red Zone (1983); Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987); Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988); Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (1994); A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994); Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems (1994); Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996); Sixty Odd (1999); The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002); Science Fiction Stories (2002); Incredible Good Fortune (2006); Walking in Cornwall (2008); Finding My Elegy (2012); Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 (2015); The Found and the Lost (2016); Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017); So Far, So Good (2018); A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988); Fire and Stone (1989); Fish Soup (1992); A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992); Tom Mouse (1998); From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973); Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975); The Language of the Night (1979); Way of the Water's Going (1989); Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009); Cheek by Jowl (2009); Words Are My Matter (2016); No Time to Spare (2017); Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (2018); Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989); Steering the Craft (1998); The Wave in the Mind (2004); Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (2008); The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future (2008); The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (2009); The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (2010); The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (2011); The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (2012); The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (2013); The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (2015); The WisCon Chronicles 11 (2017); Legends (1998); Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King (1998); Legends 3 (1999); We Say No (1989); We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991 (1989); Exiled from Almost Everywhere (1993); The Human Front (2001); The Left Left Behind (2009); Lucky Strike (2009); The Underbelly (2010); Mammoths of the Great Plains (2010); The Wild Girls (2011); Modem Times 2.0 (2011); The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (2011); Surfing the Gnarl (2012); Report from Planet Midnight (2012); The Science of Herself (2013); Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (2013); New Taboos (2013); Raising Hell (2014); My Life, My Body (2015); Gypsy (2015); Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (2016); Fire (2017); Totalitopia (2017); The Atheist in the Attic (2018); Thoreau's Microscope (2018); The Beatrix Gates (2019); A City Made of Words (2019).

Movies and television:

Democracy Now! (2018); Dragon writer's tracks (2018); Earthsea (2005); Freethought Radio (2006); Jackanory (1974–1995); Lathe of Heaven (2002); Tales from Earthsea (2006); The Field of Vision (2011); The Lathe of Heaven (1980); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Starlost (1973); The Starlost: The Beginning (1980); Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018).

Born on this day – Howard Zieff:


Howard Zieff

Director

Photographer

October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009

Born on this day – Leonard Rossiter:


Leonard Rossiter


Actor

Writer

October 21, 1926 – October 5, 1984

Credits:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); A Kind of Loving (1962); After Loch Lomond (1973); Alice in Wonderland (1985); Barry Lyndon (1975); BBC Play of the Month (1966); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); Billy Liar (1963); Britannia Hospital (1982); Cinzano Bianco 'Shaken not Stirred' James Bond Parody Television Commercial (1978); Cluff (1965); Comedy Playhouse (1974); Deadfall (1968); Deadlier Than the Male (1967); Death Is a Good Living (1966); Diamonds for Breakfast (1968); Escape to the West (1982); Festival (1964); First Night (1963); Half Hour Story (1968); Hotel Paradiso (1966); House of Glass (1964); If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1974); Into the Net (1958); ITV Play of the Week (1963); ITV Playhouse (1967); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969); ITV Television Playhouse (1962); Jezebel ex UK (1963); King Rat (1965); Le Petomane (1979); Love Story (1964); Luther (1974); Machinegunner (1976); Masquerade (1974); Maupassant (1963); Oliver! (1968); On Stage – London (1957); Otley (1969); Out of Town Theatre (1967); Play for Today (1975); Redcap (1964); Rising Damp (1974); Rising Damp (1980); Steptoe and Son (1964); Story Conference (1956); Studio 4 (1962); Suspense (1963); The Avengers (1963); The Carnforth Practice (1974); The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976); The Funny Side of Christmas (1982); The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (1977); The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog (1983); The Life and Death of King John (1984); The Long Ships (1964); The Losers (1978); The Moon Over Soho (1985); The Nightwatchman's Stories (1959); The Perishers (1979); The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976); The Revenue Men (1967); The Waterloo Bridge Handicap (1978); The Wednesday Play (1967); The Whisperers (1967); The Witches (1966); The Wrong Box (1966); Theatre 625 (1966); They All Died Laughing (1964); Thick as Thieves (1971); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967); This Sporting Life (1963); Thursday Theatre (1965); Tripper's Day (1984); Voyage of the Damned (1976); Water (1985); You Can't Win (1961); Z Cars (1963).

Born on this day – Joyce Randolph:


Joyce Randolph


Actress

October 21, 1924 – January 13, 2024

Credits:

Everything's Jake (2000); Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991); Honeybloopers (1989); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1957); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Modern Romances (1955); The Mail Story (1954); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Plainclothesman (1953–1954); Short Short Dramas (1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); I Cover Times Square (1950); The Clock (1950); Famous Jury Trials (1950); Buck Rogers (1950); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Gander Sauce (1944).

Born on this day – Hy Averback:


Hy Averback


Actor

Producer

Director

October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997

Credits:

A Guide for the Married Woman (1978); Adventurizing with the Chopper (1976); AfterMASH (1984); Alone at Last (1980); American Masters (1997); Andy Capp (1972); Anna and the King (1972); At Ease (1983); Barney (1965); Because of Eve (1948); Bedtime Story (1972); Bell, Book and Candle (1976); Big Eddie (1975); Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (1996); Brothers and Sisters (1979); Burke's Law (1963 / 1964); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Chesterfield Sound Off Time (1951); City of Angels (1976); Columbo (1971–1973); Cry Danger (1951); December Bride (1955); Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking (1972); Dragnet (1953); Eddie (1971); Ensign O'Toole (1962–1963); F Troop (1965–1967); Four Girls in Town (1957); Four Star Revue (1953); Francis in the Navy (1955); Freebie and the Bean (1980); Happy (1960); Hennesey (1959); House Calls (1979–1982); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967); I Love Lucy (1953–1955); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968); Karen (1975); Keep an Eye on Denise (1973); Les Chroniques du Mea (2022); Love, American Style (1972); M*A*S*H (1972–1982); 'M*A*S*H': 30th Anniversary Reunion (2002); Make Room for Granddaddy (1970–1971); Mastergate (1992); Matt Houston (1982); McCloud (1972); McMillan & Wife (1972); Meet Corliss Archer (1954); Memories of M*A*S*H (1991); Moe and Joe (1974); Movin' On (1974); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Needles and Pins (1973–1974); Newman's Drugstore (1976); Nine to Five (1982); Our Miss Brooks (1952–1956); Passport to Danger (1955); Pearl (1978); Popi (1976); Quark (1978); Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours (1976); Room 222 (1971); She's in the Army Now (1981); Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (1981); Summer Playhouse (1964); Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); The Bob Cummings Show (1956); The Bob Hope Show (1951–1959); The Box Brothers (1956); The Bureau (1976); The Chevy Show (1955); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Danny Thomas Show (1954–1955); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Don Rickles Show (1972); The Donna Reed Show (1960); The Dukes of Hazzard (1979); The Four Seasons (1984); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1952); The Gertrude Berg Show (1961–1962); The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite (1981); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Jerry Lewis Show: From This Moment On (1962); The Johnny Carson Show (1955); The Last Precinct (1986); The Love Boat II (1977); The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (1977); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The New Maverick (1978); The Night Rider (1979); The RCA Victor Show (1954); The Real McCoys (1957–1960); The Red Skelton Hour (1953–1956); The Rockford Files (1978); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Rubber Gun Squad (1977); The Saturday Night Revue (1954); The Steve Allen Show (1957); The Tom Ewell Show (1960–1961); The Tonight Show (1955); This Is Your Life (1972); Topper Returns (1973); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Venice Medical (1983); Where the Boys Are (1984); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968); Young Maverick (1979–1980).