What a great day for actors such as DeForest Kelley and Tom Baker. Artists are well represented also including Harold Gray who created Little Orphan Annie.
Enjoy !!!
Birthdays
| DeForest Kelley 1920, actor, famous for his role as Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, MD, on Star Trek: The Original Series. He went on to voice the character on The Animated Series and to play the character in the first six Star Trek movies. He also appeared as an aged Admiral McCoy in the Next Generation pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint". |
| William Wellman, Jr. 1937, actor, played a Bajoran security deputy in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Favor the Bold". |
| Daniel Benzali 1950, actor, appeared as the surgeon at Starbase 515 in the Next Generation episode "Samaritan Snare". |
| Skeet Ulrich 1970, actor, Thug - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Jake Green - Jericho (29 episodes, 2006-2008), Duke - Robot Chicken (3 episodes, 2007-2009). |
| Stacey Dash 1967, actress, Paprika Solo - Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (2005), Janet Lewis - American Dad "Escape from Pearl Bailey" (2008). |
| James Denton 1963, actor, Jack Bullock - Sliders (1 episode, 1996), Barney Curran - Masters of Science Fiction (1 episode, 2007). |
| Lorenzo Lamas 1958, Sergeant Bobby Chase - Terminal Justice (1995), Dane Quatrell - Dark Waters (2003), Trainor - Deep Evil (2004), Hacket - Raptor Island (2004), Andrew Dean - Sci-Fighter (2004), Lieutenant Aronnaux - 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007), Allan - Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009). |
| David Lynch 1946, director, actor, Directed Dune (1984), as an actor he played a spice worker in Dune. |
| Tom Baker 1934, actor, Best known for his role as the Fourth Dr. Who (173 episodes, 1974-1981), Prince Koura - The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Lynch - The Mutations (1974), Sir Guy de Gisbourne - The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984 TV), Captain Rum - Blackadder II (1 episode, 1986), The Doctor / Narrator - Doctor Who: Shada (1992), The Doctor - Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993 TV), The Doctor - Destiny of the Doctors (1998, Voice in Video Game), |
| Patricia Neal 1926, Helen Benson - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Susan North - Stranger from Venus (1954). |
| Alex Nicol 1919, actor, director, Directed - Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones (1967), Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army (1968), Tarzan (10 episodes, 1967-1968), Actor - Alex Walker -The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1962), Gen. Lee Stocker - The Outer Limits (1 episode, 1964), Phil Simmons (HEW Chief) - The Clones (1973), Col. Davis - Ape (1976). |
| Christopher Casson 1912, actor, Old Scientist - Zardoz (1974) |
| Rolfe Sedan 1896, actor, Alphonse - Palooka (1934), Dr. Watts - Adventures of Superman (1 episode, 1956), Butler - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond" (1 episode, 1960). |
| Harold L Gray 1894, creator of Little Orphan Annie. Gray's original concept starred a boy named, Otto. (That's right, Little Orphan Otto!) But, there were many strips featuring boys and none about a girl, so Gray changed the protagonist's gender and name. |
| Roscoe Ates 1892, actor, Press Photographer - King Kong (1933), Emory McQuade - Reg'lar Fellers (1941) based on cartoon strip. |
| A. Merritt 1884, sci-fi author, Moon Pool, Creep Shadow! |
| George Edward Papp 1916, comic book artist. Best known as one of the principal artists on the long-running Superboy feature for DC Comics, Papp also co-created the Green Arrow character with Mort Weisinger and co-created Congorilla along with writer Whitney Ellsworth. The Green Arrow feature made its first appearance in the More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941). Papp joined the American army during World War II. He drew the Superboy feature from 1958-1967, working on a variety of memorable characters, including early appearances of the Legion of Super-Heroes. |
| Keith Pollard 1950, comic book artist. Pollard is best known for his simultaneous work on the Marvel Comics titles Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, and The Amazing Spider-Man in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Pollard made his professional comics debut in 1974 with stints on such titles as Master of Kung Fu, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, Astonishing Tales, and Black Goliath. He became the regular penciller of The Amazing Spider-Man with issue #186 (November, 1978), lasting on the title until issue #205 (June, 1980). He also pencilled The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15 in 1981. With writer Marv Wolfman, Pollard co-created the Black Cat in The Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July, 1979). Pollard was also the regular penciler of The Mighty Thor during 1979-1982: issues #286-#317 (some material reprinted in the trade paperbacks Thor: The Eternals Saga, volumes one and two). In the early 1990s he drew all the character profiles for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition. |
Events
| 1930, 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit) |
| 1959, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond airs. |
| 1967, Production shuts down on Star Trek:TOS "The Devil in the Dark" due to the death of William Shatner's father. |
| 1979, Salvage 1 airs on ABC. |
| 1990, Kappatoo airs on CITV |
| 1993, Time Trax airs on PTEN |
| 1999, Star Trek: Voyager "Latent Image" airs. |
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