Daily Birthdays and Events in Sci-Fi, Comics and related areas

July 5, 2010

Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, Kimbu, Kimba, Kid Flash, Terror From the Year 5000, Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., Alien Attack, Phaser.

It's Bill Watterson's birthday today. Bill was one of the main reasons I opened the Sunday page from 1985 to 1995, with his always funny, Calvin and Hobbes. Bill has left himself a mystery when he retired and refuses to give interviews.


Enjoy !!!


Birthdays

Bill Watterson 1958, cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes which ran from 1985 to 1995. Bill Watterson designed grocery advertisements for four years prior to creating Calvin and Hobbes
Tommy Cook 1930, actor, Kimbu - Jungle Girl (1941), Kimba - Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), Gene Fennell - Missile to the Moon (1958), Kid Flash (Wally West) - The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) TV series (unknown episodes)(voice), Kid Flash - Aquaman" (1968) TV series (voice), Augie - The Funky Phantom (1971) TV series (voice), Biff Starke - Jabberjaw (1 episode, "Dr. Lo Has Got to Go",1976).
Milburn Stone 1904, actor, Capt. Roth - army technician - Invaders from Mars (1953).
Ward Costello 1919, actor, Dr. Robert Hedges - Terror from the Year 5000 (1958), Admiral Gregory Quinn - Star Trek: The Next Generation (2 episodes, 1988).
Philip Madoc 1934, actor, George Mathias - Out of this World (1 episode, "Target Generation", 1962), Brockley - Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966), Dr. Pontini - Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969), Steven Rutland - UFO (3 episodes, 1970-1971), Commander Gorski - Space: 1999 (1 episode, "Breakaway", 1975), Commander Anton Gorski - Alien Attack (1976) (TV), Eelek / The War Lord / Solon / Fenner - Doctor Who (15 episodes, 1968-1979), Gwydion - Otherworld (2003) (voice).
Richard M. "Dick" Rubin 1912, was the property master on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He was credited as being the "inventor" of the designs for the phaser and communicator used in the film on the associated design patents.
Ronald D. Moore 1964, writer and producer of several Star Trek series and films, as well as several other science fiction and genre programs such as Roswell and Carnivàle and the updated version of Battlestar Galactica.
Cody Klop 1993, actor, Vulcan Bully - Star Trek (2009).


Events

1963, Space Patrol, a science-fiction TV series featuring marionettes airs.

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