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

July 1, 2011

Ghostbusters, Luke Cage, The Fifth Element, Doctor Who, Dimension 5, Stargate: Atlantis, Species, Fringe, Innerspace.

Who was the first choice to play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager. Today is the day to find out.


Enjoy !!!




Birthdays

Dan Aykroyd 1952, actor, ambulance driver - Twilight Zone: The Movie, Dr. Raymond Stantz - Ghostbusters & Ghostbusters 2, Weber - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Steven Mills - My Stepmother Is An Alien, Beldar Conehead - Coneheads, Dr. Raymond Stantz - Casper, Governor Lewis - Evolution, Yogi(voice) - Yogi Bear.
Billy Graham 1935, comic-book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics series Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and Jungle Action feature,
Sonny Caldinez 1952, actor, Egyptian Mummy - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1 episode, "Lot 249", 1967), Sskel / Ssorg / Ice Warrior / Turoc / Kemel - Doctor Who (18 episodes, 1967-1974), Kra - The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Mean Mongolian - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Emperor Kodar Japhet - The Fifth Element (1997).
Jean Marsh 1934, actress, Alicia - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Lonely", 1959), Miss Ballard - Unearthly Stranger (1963), Lady Lydia - Adam Adamant Lives! (1 episode, "Face in a Mirror", 1967), Janna Wade - UFO (1 episode, "Exposed", 1970), Joanna / Sara Kingdom / Morgaine - Doctor Who (15 episodes, 1965-1989), Doctor Culex - The Tomorrow People (5 episodes, 1994). Along with Lalla Ward, she is one of two actresses to play a companion in "Doctor Who" (1963) who was once married to an actor who played the Doctor. She portrayed the short-lived companion Sara Kingdom from December 1965 to January 1966 in the William Hartnell serial "The Daleks' Master Plan". Prior to the series' creation, she was married to Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor on the series, from 1955 to 1960. Along with Harold Innocent, she is one of the only two actors to appear in both "Doctor Who" (1963) and "Twilight Zone" (1959).
Harold Sakata 1920, actor, Oddjob - Goldfinger (1964), Big Buddha - Dimension 5 (1966), Matsu - The Amazing Spider-Man (1 episode, "Escort to Danger", 1978), The Pig - Death Dimension (1978).
Bill Walker 1896, actor, Native Chief - Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952), Chief Batsu - Jungle Jim (1 episode, "The Deadly Idol", 1955), Daddy Dean - World of Giants (1 episode, "Off Beat", 1959), Jeffrey - Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Masks", 1964), Slim - Dimension 5 (1966), Bartender - The Green Hornet (1 episode, "The Hunters and the Hunted", 1966).
Guy Raymond 1911, actor, Gibbons - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville", 1963), Trader - Star Trek (1 episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles", 1967).
Geneviève Bujold 1942, actress, She was the first choice of the producers of Star Trek: Voyager to play Captain Nicole Janeway. She quit after a day and a half of shooting, with the public reason being she was unaccustomed to the hectic pace of television filming. Other rumored reasons included dissatisfaction with her performance on the part of the producers and dissatisfaction with the character on the part of Bujold. As Rick Berman politely put it in the October 8-14, 1994 issue of TV Guide: "It was immediately obvious it was not a good fit." The producers subsequently hired TV veteran Kate Mulgrew, and changed the captain's first name from Nicole to Kathryn at Mulgrew's advice. She would have been the second Montreal native to play a Star Trek captain, after William Shatner.
Alan Ruck 1953, actor, Capt. John Harriman - Star Trek: Generations (1994), Howard Sharp - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Unnatural Selection", 1996), Dr. Fletcher - Stargate: Atlantis (1 episode, "The Real World", 2006), Capt. John Harriman - Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007) (V), Dr. Proway - InAlienable (2008), Dr. Hood - Eureka (1 episode, "Best in Faux", 2008), Tomasi - Flashforward (1 episode, "White to Play", 2009).
Tom Magee 1958, actor, Klingon Monster - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Devil's Due",1991).
Dominic Keating 1962, actor, Lieutenant Malcolm Reed- Star Trek: Enterprise (98 episodes, 2001-2005), Forbes McGuire - Species: The Awakening (2007) (V), Will - Heroes (4 episodes, 2007), Cain - Beowulf (2007).
Tom Hodges 1965, actor, Tiny - Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (1 episode, "No Day at the Beach", 1986), Pechetti - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Empok Nor", 1997).
Colby Paul 1992, actor, Vulcan Bully - Star Trek (2009), Matt Jarvis - Fringe (1 episode, "Snakehead", 2009).


Events

1987, Innerspace is released.
2006, Dr. Who, "Army of Ghosts" airs.

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