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

April 7, 2010

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, The Atomic Kid, The Phantom, Colonel Blimp, Predator, Outland, Doctor Who.



As always, take a few minutes to read through the actors birthdays and check out the events for today. If you think I missed someone then let me know.



Birthdays

Louise Currie 1913, actress, Bordine's girlfriend - The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941)[Ch. 1], Betty Wallace - Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), Office Girl - Tillie the Toiler (1941), Tillie the Toiler (1941), Alice Hamilton - The Masked Marvel (1943).
Stanley Adams 1915, actor, Wildcat Hooper - The Atomic Kid (1954), Jerry Richman - Dennis the Menace (1 episode, "Dennis and the Fishing Rod", 1961), Rollo / Jensen - The Twilight Zone (2 episodes, 1961-1964), Ila Klarpe - The Addams Family (1 episode, "The Addams Family Meet the VIPs", 1964), Captain Courageous - Batman (2 episodes, "Catwoman Goes to College", "Batman Displays His Knowledge", 1967), King Kaliwani - Gilligan's Island (1 episode, "Gilligan, the Goddess", 1967), Cyrano Jones - Star Trek (1 episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles", 1967), Tybo - Lost in Space (1 episode, "The Great Vegetable Rebellion", 1968), Carl Swafford - The Clones (1973), Cyrano Jones - Star Trek: The Animated Adventures (1 episode, "More Tribbles, More Troubles", 1973), The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) (voice).
Anthony Caruso 1916, actor, Count Silento - The Phantom (1943)[Chs. 3-6], Mongo - Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), Sengo - Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950), Luigi Dinelli - Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "Czar of the Underworld", 1953), Grundy - Tarzan (1 episode, "The Figurehead", 1966), Hernando Cortez - The Time Tunnel (1 episode, "Idol of Death", 1967), Bela - Star Trek (1 episode, "A Piece of the Action", 1968), Danny Romero - The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, "Goodbye, Eddie Cain", 1981).
David Low 1891, political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.
Henry Kuttner 1915, sci-fi author, Dark World, As You Were.
R G Armstrong 1917, actor, Contractor - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Nothing in the Dark", 1962), Pinkerton - The Time Tunnel (1 episode, "The Death Trap", 1966), Gus Flagg / Police Capt. Bill Battersea - The Invaders (2 episodes, 1967-1968), Gen. Harris - The Time Machine (1978) (TV), Sheriff - Salvage 1 (1 episode, "Confederate Gold", 1979), General Phillips - Predator (1987), Pruneface - Dick Tracy (1990), Davison - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "A Single Drop of Rain - September 7, 1953", 1991).
Ronald Howard 1918, actor, Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes (39 episodes, 1954-1955), Colin Chandler - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "The Haunting", 1960), Uncle Dick - The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961).
James White 1928, sci-fi author, Star Surgeon, Star Healer.
Clarke Peters 1952, actor, Ballard - Outland (1981), Night Eagle - Doctor Who: Dreamland (3 episodes, 2009).


Events


1986 - HMS Bounty scenes are filmed for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
1999 - Star Trek:DS9, "Penumbra" airs.
2007, Dr. Who, "The Shakespeare Code" airs.

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