Batman, The Quitter, Optic Nerve, Blake 7, Life with Louie, The Arabian Nights, Cocoon, Captain Midnight, Men into Space, Watership Down, Tarantula.

I was not aware that Clint Eastwood's first acting gig was in a science fiction / horror movie. That same year he also appeared in a second one of the same genres. Good to know if you like trivia.


Take a look at the others, a few I was surprised at when it came to appearing in sci-fi.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Dean Haspiel 1967, comic book artist, He is most recognized for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter.

Madge Blake 1899, actress, most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on ABC's Batman TV series of the 1960s.

Adrian Tomine 1974, cartoonist, best known for his ongoing graphic novel series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.

Lynda Bellingham 1948, actress, Vena - Blake 7 (1 episode, "Headhunter", 1981), The Inquisitor - Doctor Who (14 episodes, "The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 1-14", 1986).

Tommy Hinkley 1960, actor, Journalist #1 - Star Trek: Generations (1994), Earl Grunewald - Life with Louie (10 episodes, 1995-1997)(voice).

William Heath Robinson 1872, cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W. Heath Robinson. He is best known for drawings of eccentric machines and "Heath Robinson" has entered the language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption. His early career was as a book illustrator, for example in Hans Christian Andersen's Danish Fairy Tales and Legends (1897); The Arabian Nights, (1899); Tales From Shakespeare (1902), and Twelfth Night (1908), Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1914), Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (1915), and Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie (1916). He also wrote and illustrated two children's books, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902) and Bill the Minder (1912); these are regarded as the start of his career in the depiction of unlikely machines. During the First World War he drew large numbers of cartoons, collected as Some "Frightful" War Pictures (1915), Hunlikely! (1916), and Flypapers (1919), depicting ever-more-unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants.

Don Ameche 1908, actor, Art Selwyn - Cocoon (1985), Arthur 'Art' Selwyn - Cocoon: The Return (1988).

Dave O'Brien 1912, actor, Jackson, Wentworth's Aide - The Spider Returns (1941), Captain Albright / Captain Midnight - Captain Midnight (1942).

John Vivyan 1915, actor, Duke - Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "The Gentle Monster", 1958), Ground Controller - Men Into Space (1 episode, "Moon Probe",1959), Bank Manager - Batman (1 episode, "Penguin's Clean Sweep", 1968).

Robert Arthur Ley 1921, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X

Denholm Elliott 1922 , actor, Cowslip - Watership Down (1978) (voice), Dr. Marcus Brody - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Richard Braling - The Ray Bradbury Theater (1 episode, "The Coffin",1988), Marcus Brody - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

Clint Eastwood 1930, actor, Jennings - Lab Technician - Revenge of the Creature (1955), Jet Squadron Leader - Tarantula (1955), Frank Corvin - Space Cowboys (2000).

Gregory Harrison 1950, actor, First Lieutenant - Army Medical Corps - Wonder Woman (1 episode, "The New Original Wonder Woman", 1975), Logan - Logan's Run (13 episodes, 1977-1978), Dack Steelbrow - Galaxy Beat (1994), Dr. Larry Chambers - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "To Tell the Truth", 1998).

Events

1943, Archie Andrews began on radio on the Blue Network.

1954, Long Sam comic strip by Al Capp begins.

1967, Bridge scenes are filmed for Star Trek:TOS, "Who Mourns for Adonais?".

2008, Dr. Who, "Silence in the Library" airs.