Today Clifton Collins Jr. is 50, and Sibel Kekilli is 40. Today is also the birthday of Laurie Metcalf, John Cho, Eileen Atkins, Daniel Brühl, Bill Cobbs, Joyce Carol Oates, Abby Elliott, Frederick Koehler, Joan Van Ark, Ian Buchanan, Scott Alexander, and the late Stan Laurel, Jack Albertson, 2PAC (Tupac Shakur), Ilona Massey, and Vilmos Zsigmond. George Reeves died 61 years ago in 1959 at age 45. Nicholas Ray died 41 years ago in 1979 at age 67. John G. Avildsen died three years ago in 2017 at age 81.
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