Today Eileen Atkins and Bill Cobbs are 85. Today is also the birthday of Laurie Metcalf, John Cho, Clifton Collins Jr., Daniel Brühl, Joyce Carol Oates, Abby Elliott, Frederick Koehler, Joan Van Ark, Sibel Kekilli, Ian Buchanan, Scott Alexander, and the late Stan Laurel, Jack Albertson, 2PAC (Tupac Shakur), Ilona Massey, and Vilmos Zsigmond. George Reeves died sixty years ago in 1959 at age 45. Nicholas Ray died forty years ago in 1979 at age 67. John G. Avildsen died two years ago in 2017 at age 81.
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