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Birthdays
| Hal Foster 1892, Canadian-American cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. Foster worked as a staff artist for the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg and moved to Chicago in 1919 where he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and soon found illustration assignments. Foster's Tarzan comic strip, adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, began January 7, 1929, continuing until Rex Maxon took over the Tarzan daily on June 10, 1929. Foster returned to do the Tarzan Sunday strip beginning September 27, 1931, continuing until Burne Hogarth took over the Sunday Tarzan on May 9, 1937. He soon grew tired of adaptation and began planning his own creation. William Randolph Hearst, who had long wanted Foster to do a comic for his newspapers, was so impressed with Foster's pitch for Prince Valiant that he promised Foster the ownership of the strip if he would start the series, a very rare offer in those days. The strip began February 13, 1937, continuing for decades. In 1967, Woody Gelman, under his Nostalgia Press imprint revived some of his earlier work. In 1970, Foster was suffering from arthritis and began planning his retirement. He had several artists draw Sunday pages before choosing John Cullen Murphy as his collaborator and permanent replacement in 1971. Murphy drew the strip from Foster scripts and pencil sketches. Foster stopped illustrating (and signing) the Prince Valiant pages in 1975. For several years, he continued writing the strip and doing fairly detailed layouts for Murphy, eventually doing less and less of both the writing and art until Alzheimer's took his memory and he no longer remembered ever doing the strip at all. His Prince Valiant pages were much admired by other artists, and he became a key influence on several generations of artists who were creating realistic comic strip and comic book illustrations, including Joe Kubert, George Pratt, Mark Schultz, William Stout, Warren Tufts, the British illustrator Bill Ward, Al Williamson and Wally Wood. |
| Brian Michael Bendis 1967, comic book writer, primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe. |
| Joan Taylor 1929, actress, Carol Marvin - Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), Marisa Leonardo - 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Carol Gordon - Men into Space (1 episode, "Water Tank Rescue", 1959). |
| Shelley Winters 1920, actress, Ma Parker - Batman (2 episodes, "The Greatest Mother of Them All", "Ma Parker", 1966), The Dodo Bird - Alice in Wonderland (1985) (TV). When Shelley and Marilyn Monroe were roommates in the late 1940s in Hollywood, Shelley said that one day she had to step out and asked Marilyn to "wash the lettuce" for a salad they were to share for dinner. When she got back to the apartment, Marilyn (aparently new to the art of cooking) had the leaves of lettuce in a small tub of soapy water and was scrubbing them clean. She was also a fan of the TV show "Babylon 5" (1994). |
| Grant Williams 1931, actor, Scott Carey - The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Dave Miller - The Monolith Monsters (1957), Bill Quentin - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "Dead Ringer", 1959), Maj. Douglas McKinnon - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Brain of Colonel Barham", 1965), Maj. Kurt Mason - Doomsday Machine (1972). |
| Don Keefer 1916, actor, Doctor - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "Message from Clara", 1959), Dan Hollis / Spiereto / Fred Danziger - Twilight Zone (3 episodes, 1961-1964), Henry / Jim - My Favoriter Martian (2 episodes, 1964), Cromwell - Star Trek (1 episode, "Assignment: Earth", 1968), Mr. MacIntire - The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, "747", 1978), Old Benny Rockland - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "Brutal Youth", 1996). |
| Reg E. Cathey 1958, actor, Morag - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Aquiel", 1993), Freeze - The Mask (1994), Deetee - Tank Girl (1995), Samuel - 20 Years After (2008). |
| Christian Slater 1969, actor, Eric Michaels - Beyond the Stars (1989), Excelsior Communications Officer - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Pips - FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) (voice), Jet Fusion - The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2 episodes, 2003-2005), Michael Griffin - Hollow Man II (2006) (V), Dr. Schadenfreude's Igor - Igor (2008) (voice), Henry Spivey / Edward Albright - My Own Worst Enemy (9 episodes, 2008), Composite Santa Claus / Drug Kingpin / Michael Vaughn / Skater McGee - Robot Chicken (4 episodes, 2005-2008). |
Events
| 1980, fictional date that an Earth NASA spaceship takes off from Earth in the TV series "Planet of the Apes" only to end up returning in 3085. |
| 1992, Principal photography on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine begins, with the first live action scenes on "Emissary" filmed on Paramount Stage 4. |
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