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

January 21, 2011

The Fly, Hercules, Capricorn One, The Time Tunnel, Lost In Space, Jungle Girl, Chandu the Magician, Charlie Chan, Gnatrat.

It's an overly impressive day for actors from the past.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Geena Davis 1956, actress, Valerie - Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Veronica Quaife - The Fly (1986).
Steve Reeves 1926, actor, Hercules - Hercules and the Queen of Sheba (1959), Hercules - Labors of Hercules (1958).
Telly Savalas 1924, actor, Paul Price - The Aquanauts (1 episode, 1961), Erich Streator - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1963), Albain - Capricorn One (1977), El Sleezo Tough - The Muppet Movie (1979), The Cheshire Cat - Alice in Wonderland (1985) (TV), Magmar - GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986).
Judith Merril 1923, sci-fi writer
John Doucette 1921, actors, Henchman - Batman and Robin (1949), Dick Tracy (1 episode, 1951), Wilfred - Tales of Robin Hood (1951), Butch Cassidy - The Texas Rangers (1951), The Lone Ranger (played 5 characters in 11 episodes, 1949-1955), Foster/Joe/Slugger - Adventures of Superman (3 episodes, 1952-1955), Colonel Stewart/John Barton/Neilsen - Science Fiction Theatre (3 episodes, 1955-1956), Antonio Azuela - Zorro (1 episode, 1958), Louis Hale - Sea Hunt ( 1 episode 1959), Colonel Dorrance - Steve Canyon (1 episode, 1958), Ulysses - The Time Tunnel (1 episode, 1966), Arthur Brady - Tarzan (1 episode, 1967), Sheriff Finley - The Time Machine (1978) (TV).
Jinx Falkenburg 1919, actress, Sue Dolan - The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
Alan Hewitt 1915, actor, Dr. Johnson/Dr. Simpson/Mr. St.Clair - Dennis the Menace (4 episodes, 1960-1963), Det. Bill Brennan - My Favorite Martian (30 episodes, 1964-1966), Lemnoc - Lost in Space "The Phantom Family" (1967, TV).
Joe McGuinn 1904, actor, Henchman Tom - Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939), Trooper - Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939), Gort/a thug - Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940), Henchman - The Spider Returns (1941), Ted Bone - Edgar Rice Burrough's Jungle Girl (1941), Mahmud - Aladdin and His Lamp (1952), Station Master - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, 1960).
John George 1898, actor, Third Man Bidding on Betty Lou - Chandu the Magician (1932), Bird Shop Thug - Sherlock Holmes (1932), Beast - Island of Lost Souls (1932), Merchant in Marketplace - Son of Sinbad (1955), Kolb - The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (10 episodes, 1956).
J. Carrol Naish 1897, actor, Dr. Tito Daka / Prince Daka - Batman (1943), Dr. Carl Fletcher - Jungle Woman (1944), Charlie Chan - The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (39 episodes, 1957-1958).
Mark Martin 1956, comic book artist, Martin's first major work in the 1980s was Gnatrat, a parody of Batman featuring a rat who dresses as a gnat to fight crime. He went on to work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and created a long-running humor strip featured in Comics Buyer Guide, "20 Nude Dancers 20". As an editor, Martin created the anthology Hyena and briefly oversaw a humor section in Heavy Metal. He then moved toward working almost exclusively in children's comics, often for Nickelodeon's Nickelodeon Magazine, while producing other work for his Web site.


Events

1980, Blakes 7, 3rd series Episode 3. "Volcano"
1998, Babylon 5 Episode 89 - "No Compromises" first aired
1998, Star Trek: Voyager "Message in a Bottle" airs.
2004, Star Trek: Enterprise "Proving Ground" airs.
2005, Star Trek: Enterprise "Observer Effect" airs.

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