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Birthdays
| Irene Champlin 1932, actress, Dale Arden - Flash Gordon (30 episodes, 1954-1955). |
| Gary Lee Shipman 1966, comic book illustrator and writer. Shipman, with wife Rhoda Shipman, created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land, both plotting out the stories together and Gary scripting, lettering, penciling, and inking the illustrations for the series. Shipman's artistic talents can also be found elsewhere. In 1987, he co-created the superhero character Edge for Silverwolf Comics, and illustrated the first 3 issues of that series. In 1997, he illustrated the cover of Issue # 19 of the comic series OZ, based on the books and characters of L. Frank Baum. In 1998, he illustrated the cover of Parables & Proverbs. In 2003, he illustrated Amazing True Life Stories Issue # 2: Spymaster for Crosswind Comics. |
| Charles Halton 1876, actor, Dr. Rupert Bulfinch - Dr. Cyclops (1940), Merkle - the Shyster - Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950). |
| Michael Lynch 1982, comic book writer, based in the West of Ireland. Michael is currently working on a super hero series called Black Star for a comic book called Ri Ra. His work on Ri Ra was in the May 2009 issue, and again can be seen in a new issue coming out April 2010. Michael has on-going work (February 2009, and September 2010 of this year) with a Belfast based sci fi anthology called Future Quake, and a Dublin based comic book called Havoc 21, which is currently finalizing it's production and will be printed soon. |
| Karl Bruck 1906, actor, King Duncan - Star Trek (1 episode, "The Conscience of the King", 1966), Dr. Krull / OSS Agent Huebler / Vandermeer / Underground Agent Number 3 / President of Court - Hogan's Heroes (5 episodes, 1967-1971), Doomsday Machine (1972). |
| Norman Stuart 1909, actor, Statesman - Battlestar Galactica (1978) (TV), 2nd Statesman / Statesman - Battlestar Galactica (3 episodes, 1978-1979), Vulcan Master -Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). |
| Granville Van Dusen 1944, actor, Darwin Jones - The Bionic Woman (1 episode, "Biofeedback", 1977), Captain Roger Canfield - The Astronauts (1982) (TV), Race Bannon - Jonny Quest (1 episode, "Deadly Junket", 1986), 'Race' Bannon - Jonny's Golden Quest (1993) (TV) (voice), Dash O'Pepper - Freakazoid! (1 episode, "Candle Jack/Toby Danger in Doomsday Bet/The Lobe", 1995), Race Bannon - Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects (1995) (TV) (voice), General Weirick - Space: Above and Beyond (1 episode, "Sugar Dirt", 1996), D.A. Clemmons - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (2 episodes, 1996), Roger T. 'Race' Bannon - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (6 episodes, 1996), Keeper Abraham - Sliders (1 episode, "The Great Work", 1999), Klingon Magistrate / Andorian General - Enterprise (2 episodes, "Judgment", "Proving Ground", 2003-2004). |
| Kevin Reed O'Hara 1969, animator, actor, As an animator he has worked Dug's Special Mission (2009) (V), Your Friend the Rat (2007) (V), Enchanted (2007), Ratatouille (2007), Shrek 2 (2004), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (animator: "Sinbad"), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) (animator: "Spirit"), The Road to El Dorado (2000) (animator: "Tulio"), and as an actor in the sci-fi genre he served as photo double for Walter Koenig in Star Trek Generations. |
| Isobel Elsom 1893, actress, Mrs. Montgomery - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "Night of April 14th", 1959). |
| Morgan Conway 1903, actor, Dick Tracy - Dick Tracy (1945), Dick Tracy - Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946). |
| Clive Morton 1904, actor, Sir Gerald Christie - Out of This World (1 episode, "Divided We Fall", 1962), Trenchard - Doctor Who (4 episodes, "The Sea Devils: Part 1-4", 1972). |
| Norman Wooland 1910, actor, Dr. Ballantyne - Masters of Venus (1962), Dr. L.G. Blanchard - The Projected Man (1966). |
| Leo McKern 1920, actor, Insp. McGill - X: The Unknown (1956), Bill Maguire - The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Companion Gwent - Space: 1999 (1 episode, "The Infernal Machine", 1976). |
| Erik Estrada 1949, actor, Prince Sakari - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "The Deadly Test, 1975), Dr. Stone - Alien Seed (1989), Mr. Dork - Homeboys in Outer Space (1 episode, "How the West Was Lost or, Daddy's Home",1997), Mexican Judge - King of the Hill (1 episode, "Peggy's Pageant Fever", 1998), Ponch - Family Guy (1 episode, "I Never Met the Dead Man", 1999), Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Sealab 2021 (35 episodes, 2000-2005). |
| Margaret Weis 1948, sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning |
| Victor Garber 1949, actor, Dr. Kevin Carlson - The Twilight Zone (segment "A Day in Beaumont") (1 episode, 1986), Dr. Ben McCormick / Dr. Edward Normandy - The Outer Limits (2 episodes, 1996-2000), Olivier Roth - ReGenesis (3 episodes, 2007-2008), Sinestro - Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) (V) (voice). |
| Todd McFarlane 1961, comic book artist, In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a popular comic book artist due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. Spawn was a popular hero in the 1990s and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties. In recent years, McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio. McFarlane's first published work was a 1984 backup story in Epic Comics' Coyote. |
| Lauren Graham 1967, actress, Laurie Harris - 3rd Rock from the Sun (1 episode, "Dick's First Birthday", 1996), Mother Maggie - Family Guy (1 episode, "Road To Europe", 2002), Fran Lockwood - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) (voice). |
Events
| 1936, Eugene the Jeep was introduced in the Thimble Theatre comic strip. The Jeep only ate orchids. |
| 1992, Final day of filming on TNG: "I Borg". |
| 1992, Star Trek:TNG, "The Outcast" airs. |
| 1994, Babylon 5 Episode 8 - "And the Sky Full of Stars" first aired |
| 2003, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, a three-part miniseries, airs on Sci-Fi channel. |
| 2004, Century City, a science fiction-legal drama television series set in Los Angeles in the year 2030 begins. |
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