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

January 11, 2010

Birthdays

Hardin (Jack) Burnley 1911, comic book artist and illustrator. Burnley was the first artist, after co-creator Joe Shuster, to draw Superman.
Terry Beatty 1958, cartoonist, Terry's credits include THE BATMAN STRIKES, MS. TREE and SCARY MONSTERS magazine. Terry has taught in the comic art program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Rod Taylor 1932, actor, H. George Wells-The Time Machine (1960)
George Zucco 1886, actor, Palanth, the High Priest-Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948), Ape Man-Return of the Ape Man (1944), Stanley-Sherlock Holmes in Washington, Prof. Moriarty-Adv. Of Sherlock Holmes (1939).

Jerome Bixby 1923, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote four episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series: "Mirror, Mirror", "By Any Other Name", "Day of the Dove", and "Requiem for Methuselah".

Mitchell Ryan 1928, actor, Kyle Riker-TNG: "The Icarus Factor", Burke Devlin-Dark Shadows.

Felix Silla 1937, actor and stuntman, appeared as a Talosian in the Star Trek: The Original Series pilot "The Cage", Cousin Itt on the classic 1960s television series The Addams Family, playing the robot Twiki in the science fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Silla was a regular performer on H.R. Pufnstuf, appeared as Lucifer on the original Battlestar Galatica, and played an Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Stan Ivar 1943, actor played Mark Johnson-Star Trek: Voyager episodes "Caretaker" and "Persistence of Vision". He was also seen on photographs in the episodes "Eye of the Needle" and "Elogium".

Nancy Harewood 1950, actress Lieutenant j.g. Nara-Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Eye of the Beholder".


Events

1958 , "Seahunt" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was aired on the network for four years.

1988, Star Trek:TNG: "The Big Goodbye" airs.

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