Birthdays
| Nick Bertozzi 1970, is an American comic book writer and artist, as well as a commercial illustrator and teacher of cartooning. He created the series Rubber Necker from Alternative Comics. |
| Tom Mandrake 1956, comic book artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations with writer John Ostrander on multiple comic books, including Grimjack (from First Comics) and The Spectre, Martian Manhunter, and Firestorm, from DC Comics. |
| Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe 1939, comic book artist, best known for his work on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout star of The X-Men. Trimpe started his career at Dell Comics, doing mostly Westerns and also licensed books, like the adaptation of the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth. joined Marvel's production staff in 1967 and remained associated with the company as a contract artist through 1996. While operating the Photostat camera in the Marvel offices, Trimpe did freelance inking for Marvel, and made his professional penciling debut with two Kid Colt Western stories, in Kid Colt, Outlaw #134–135 (May & July 1967). Shortly thereafter, Trimpe and writer Gary Friedrich created Marvel's World War I aviator hero the Phantom Eagle in Marvel Super-Heroes #16 (Sept. 1968). As a Marvel mainstay, Trimpe would draw nearly every starring character. When Marvel went bankrupt in the mid-1990s, Trimpe returned to college to finish his bachelor's degree, and then attended a master's degree program at SUNY New Paltz.[8] Afterward, he taught art at Eldred Central School, a rural middle/high school, for two years. He penciled BPRD: The War on Frogs (Aug. 2008) for Dark Horse Comics, and returned to his signature character by drawing the eight-page story "The Death and Life of the Abomination" in Marvel's King-Size Hulk #1 (July 2008). |
| Richard Harrison 1936, actor, Pilot - Kronos (1957), Alistair - Master of the World (1961). |
| Patrick Horgan 1929, actor, Eneg - Star Trek (1 episode, "Patterns of Force", 1968). |
| Musetta Vander 1963, actress, Zander Tyler - Super Force (22 episodes, 1991-1992), Katya - Monolith (1993), Lash - Oblivion (1994), Lash - Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996), Ingrid Henning - Highlander (1 episode, "The Valkyrie", 1997), Felicia - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "Between the Darkness and the Light", 1997), Derran Tahl - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "The Disease", 1999), Shan'auc / Shauna - Stargate SG1 (2 episodes, "Crossroads", " The Changeling", 2000-2003), Sgt. Jacqueline 'Jack' Moore - Planet Raptor (2007) (TV). |
| Yoshi Jenkins 1970, actor, Vissian - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Cogenitor", 2003). |
| Benji Gregory 1978, actor, Boy - The Twilight Zone (segment "Night of the Meek") (1 episode, 1985), Kid Cameron - Alf Loves a Mystery (1987) (TV), Brian Tanner - Alf (101 episodes, 1986-2004). |
| Matt Stone 1971, actor / Director / Producer - Kyle Broflovski / many other voices - South Park (191 episodes, 1997-2010). The town of South Park is based on the mountain town of Fairplay, Colorado. Co-creator of 'South Park' Emmy-Award winning television series, co-created film, 'Team America: World Police'. |
| Helena Bonham Carter 1966, actress, White Bear - Brown Bear's Wedding (1991) (TV) (voice), Ari - Planet of the Apes (2001), Lady Campanula Tottington - Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) (voice), Dr. Serena Kogan - Terminator Salvation (2009), Red Queen - Alice in Wonderland (2010). |
| Genie Francis 1962, actress, Amber Lake - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape", 1995), Betty Ross - The Incredible Hulk (4 episodes, 1996-1997), Gwen McMichael - Third Rock From The Sun (1 episode, "Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary", 2000), Mother - Roswell (1 episode,"Destiny", 2000), Lisa Lowe - Thunderbirds (2004). |
| Margaret Colin 1958, actress, Sara Brody - Martians Go Home (1989), Constance Spano - Independence Day (1996). |
| Dayle Haddon 1949, actress, Vanna Smith - Max Headroom (1 episode, "Deities", 1987), Pearl Prophet - Cyborg (1989). |
| Pam Grier 1949, actress, Louise Williams - Mars Attacks! (1996), Julie Auburn - Pinky and the Brain (1 episode, "Inherit the Wheeze", 1998), Mother Springbok - The Wild Thornberrys (1 episode, "Stick Your Neck Out", 1999), The Empress' Nightingale - Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1 episode, "The Empress' Nightingale", 1999), Commander Helena Braddock - Ghosts of Mars (2001), Flura Nash - The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), My'ria'h - Justice League (2 episodes, 2002), Amanda Waller - Smallville (3 episodes, 2010). |
| Philip Michael Thomas 1949, actor, Furst - Wonder Woman (1 episode, "The Man Who Wouldn't Tell", 1978), Brimstone - The Adventures of Superboy (1 episode, "Brimstone",1990). |
| Jacques Bergerac 1927, actor, French Freddie the Fence - Batman (2 episodes, "Batman Displays His Knowledge", "Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires", 1967-1968). |
| James Arness 1923, actor, Kirk Hamilton - Two Lost Worlds (1951), 'The Thing' - The Thing from Another World (1951), Robert Graham - Them! (1954), Marshal Matt Dillon - Gunsmoke (633 episodes, 1955-1975). |
| Roy Dotrice 1923, actor, Commissioner Gerald Simmonds - Alien Attack (1976) (TV), Commissioner Simmonds - Space: 1999 (2 episodes, "Breakaway", "Earthbound", 1975-1976), Benson - Saturn 3 (1980) (voice), The Elder - Earth 2 (2 episodes, "The Greatest Love Story Never Told", "After the Thaw", 1995), Frederick Lantz - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "The Fall of Night", 1995), Frederick - Batman: The Animated Series (1 episode, "The Lion and the Unicorn", 1995), Destroyer / Keene Marlow - Spiderman (4 episodes, 1997), Archibald Chandler / Marc LeBeau / The Seer - Sliders (2 episodes, 1999-2000), Dr. John Bachman - Alien Hunter (2003), King Balor - Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). |
| Jay Silverheels 1912, actor, Tonto - The Lone Ranger (217 episodes, 1949-1957), Tonto - The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958), Tonto - Alias Jesse James (1959). He was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman in 1938. |
| Peter Cushing 1913, actor, Dr. Who - Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), Dr. Who - Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966), Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes (16 episodes, 1968), Raan - Space: 1999 (1 episode, "Missing Link", 1976), Dr. Abner Perry - At the Earth's Core (1976), Grand Moff Tarkin - Star Wars (1977). |
Events
| 1967, Location filming at Vasquez Rocks for Star Trek:TOS: "Friday's Child". |
| 1997, Babylon 5 Episode 81 - "No Surrender, No Retreat" first aired |
| 1999, Star Trek:DS9, "The Dogs of War" airs. |
| 1999, Star Trek:Voyager, "Equinox" airs. |
| 2004, Star Trek:Enterprise, "Zero Hour" airs. |
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