Today Sam Trammell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, Tom Selleck, Heather Graham, Katharine Ross, Sara Gilbert, Edward Burns, Justin Hartley, Adam Lambert, and the late W.C. Fields, Anton Chekhov, Victor Mature, Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Malone, Paddy Chayefsky, and John Forsythe. Alan Ladd died 55 died years ago in 1964 at age 50. Freddie Prinze died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 22. Jacques Rivette died three years ago in 2016 at age 87.