Birthdays
| Ryan Brown 1962, comic book artist best known for his work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Brown began inking the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1985 and continued until 1988 when he and partner Steve Lavigne began producing artwork for licensed TMNT products. Brown worked primarily as inker over Lavigne's pencils. |
| Than Wyenn 1919, actor, Quedo - Terry and the Pirates (1 episode, "Black Market for Death", 19??), Dr. Herbert / Dr. Schiller (2 episodes, 1956), Prof. Zeller - The Invisible Boy (1957), Paul Johnson - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Execution", 1960), Koslow - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode, "No Way Out", 1964), Torberg - The Invaders (1 episode, "The Believers", 1967), Desk Clerk / Prof. Kosoyin / Ambassador Mahmoud - The Six Million Dollar Man (4 episodes, 1974-1977). |
| Scott Brian Stantis 1959, cartoonist, Stantis was the comic strip creator of Sydney (1985-1986), The Buckets (1990-present), and Prickly City (2004-present). Stantis has also assisted Bob Thaves on his comic-strip King Baloo. |
| Doug Wildey 1922, cartoonist, most famous for his co-creation of the acclaimed animated television series, Jonny Quest (1964) for Hanna-Barbera Productions, and being a comic book artist. Wildey got his start in television animation working with Alex Toth at Cambria Studios on their 1962 series Space Angel. In addition to Jonny Quest, he also co-created the Herculoids and Jana of the Jungle television properties. His other television credits include work on Marvel Super Heroes (1966), Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975), The Godzilla Power Hour (1978), Mister T (1983), and Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos (1986). He also worked on comic book series including Jonah Hex, Sgt. Rock and Tarzan (taking over the later book from Russ Manning). He created his own western comic book character, Rio. Most famously, he was able to return to his most prominent creation in the 1980s with a Jonny Quest comic series, published by Comico. He also created a comic strip, Ambler, that lasted about 12 to 18 months in the late '60s. |
| Howard Cruse 1944, alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics. Cruse's cartooning first attracted nation-wide attention in the 1970s, when he contributed to underground comix publications. His best-known character from this period was Barefootz, the title character of a surreal series about a good-natured, well-dressed young man with large bare feet. In 1979, when he began editing Gay Comix, a new anthology featuring comix by openly gay and lesbian cartoonists. For much of the 1980s, he created Wendel, a strip (1-2 pages per episode) about an irrepressible and idealistic gay man, his lover Ollie, and a cast of diverse urban characters. Cruse spent the first half of the 1990s creating Stuck Rubber Baby, a 210-page graphic novel commissioned by editor Mark Nevelow for his DC Comics imprint Piranha Press but eventually published by DC's Paradox Press. Cruse briefly wrote a column in a comic book review magazine, Comics Scene, under the rhyming masthead "Loose Cruse". |
| Theodore Bikel 1924, actor, Oliver Crangle - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Four O'Clock", 1962), Mandak - The Amazing Spider-Man (1 episode, "The Curse of Rava", 1978), CPO Sergey Rozhenko, ret. - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Family", 1990), Rabbi Koslov - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "TKO", 1994), Lenonn - Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) (TV). |
| John Neville 1925, actor, Dr. Mark Davidson - Unearthly Stranger (1963), Dr. Cecil Chambers - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) (TV), Isaac Newton - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Descent: Part 1", 1993), The Well-Manicured Man - The X-Files: The Unopened File (1996) (V), General Staedert - The Fifth Element (1997), Eternity - Silver Surfer (7 episodes, 1998), The Well-Manicured Man - The X-Files (8 episodes, 1995-1998), The Well-Manicured Man - The X Files (1998), Bosch - Johnny 2.0 (1998) (TV), The Seeker - Odyssey 5 (1 episode, "Pilot", 2002). |
| Lance LeGault 1935, actor, Giant Policeman - Land of the Giants (1 episode, "Underground", 1968), Matthew - Logan's Run (1 episode, "The Judas Goat", 1977), Otis Fiskle - Wonder Woman (1 episode, "Hot Wheels", 1978), Brad - The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, "The Antowuk Horror", 1978), Harley - Captain America (1979/I) (TV), Bootes / Maga - Battlestar Galactica (3 episodes, 1978-1979), Flagg - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (2 episodes, 1981), Andrew Jackson - Voyagers! (1 episode, "Old Hickory and the Pirate", 1982), Simon Rafferty - Automan (1 episode, "Death by Design", 1984), Chance McGill - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "How the Tess Was Won - August 5, 1956", 1989), Capt. K'Temoc - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "The Emissary", 1989). |
| Don Marshall 1936, actor, Boma - Star Trek (1 episode, "The Galileo Seven", 1967), Kimini - Tarzan (1 episode, "The Fanatics", 1967), Dan Erickson - Land of the Giants (51 episodes, 1968-1970), Captain Colter - The Bionic Woman (1 episode, "The Vega Influence", 1976), Julio - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (2 episodes, "Planet of the Slave Girls: Part 1 & 2", 1979), Lee / Doctor / Man - The Incredible Hulk (3 episodes, 1978-1980). |
| Brian Tochi 1959, actor, Ray - Star Trek (1 episode, "And the Children Shall Lead", 1968), Tommy - The Omega Man (1971), Alan Chan - The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (14 episodes, 1972)(voice), Tee Gar Soom - Space Academy (15 episodes, 1977), Darrell - Wonder Woman (1 episode, "The Deadly Dolphin", 1978), David Wong - The Twilight Zone (segment "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium") (1 episode, 1985), Bunjiro 'Bunji' Bennet/Karate-1/Rivet Rick - Bionic Six (2 episodes, 1987), Leonardo - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) (voice), Ensign Kenny Lin - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Night Terrors", 1991), Leonardo - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) (voice), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) (voice), Fighting Hyena - The Lion King (1994) (voice), Liu Kang - Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (13 episodes, 1996)(voice), Techi #1/Terrorist Pilot/Professor Ken Otsuki - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (2 episodes, "Nemesis", "Other Space", 1996-1997), Male Trooper - Starship Troopers (1997), Toshi/Japanese Dad/Japanese Boy #1/Japanese Boy #2 - Dexter's Laboratory (1 episode, "Last But Not Beast", 1998), Albino - Batman Beyond (1 episode, "Mind Games", 1999), Master Hama - Johnny Bravo (9 episodes, 1999-2001), Mighty Steel Leg Sing - Shaolin Soccer (2001) (voice), Kid B/Boy - Samurai Jack (1 episode, "Jack's Sandals", 2002)(voice), Chef/Announcer/Chief - Grim & Evil (2 episodes, 2002), J.J. Hakimoto - What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2 episodes, 2002-2003)(voice), Shiv - Static Shock (7 episodes, 2000-2004), Asian Police Pilot - Family Guy (1 episode, "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do", 2005), The Whoosh - Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1 episode, "Master & Disaster/All in the Crime Family", 2005). |
| Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson 1972, actor/wrestler, The Champion - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Tsunkatse", 2000), Jack Bruno - Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Captain Charles T. Baker - Planet 51 (2009) (voice). |
Events
| 1922, Bulletje en Boonestaak comic strip begins. The strip was one of the first very successful Dutch newspaper comics, the first Dutch comic moralists, and the first Dutch comic translated into other languages. It ran from May 2, 1922 until November 17, 1937 in the Dutch papers Het Volk and Voorwaarts, drawn by the Flemish artist George Van Raemdonck, who had moved to the Netherlands as a war refugee in 1914, and Dutch writer A.M. de Jong. The comic was controversial as the stories contained for instance nudity, fighting, vomiting and the use of bad words. |
| 1967, Bridge scenes with Uhura, DeSalle, and Chekov are filmed for TOS: "Catspaw". |
| 1988, Star Trek:TNG, "We'll Always Have Paris" airs. |
| 1993, Star Trek:TNG, "Frame of Mind" airs. |
| 1993, Star Trek:DS9, "The Storyteller" airs. |
| 2001, Star Trek:Voyager, "Natural Law" airs. |
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