Today Wink Martindale is 85. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Bridges, Marisa Tomei, Jay Z, Fred Armisen, Tyra Banks, Tony Todd, Max Baer Jr., Gemma Jones, Pei-Pei Cheng, Patricia Wettig, Corinne Marchand, Kevin Sussman, Mick Garris, Álex de la Iglesia, Pamela Stephenson, Yôjirô Takita, ‘Melrose’ Larry Green, and the late Deanna Durbin, Ronnie Corbett, Dennis Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Victor French, Donnelly Rhodes, Gérard Philipe, Michael Bates, Mark Robson, Lloyd Bacon, Alex North, Cornell Woolrich, and Francisco Franco. Bert Lahr died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 72. Frank Zappa died 25 years ago in 1993 at age 52.
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