Today Ben Chaplin is 50. Today is also the birthday of Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Murray, Pat Cooper, Michael Biehn, B.J. Novak, Dean Cain, Mark Cuban, Emilia Fox, France Nuyen, Jessica Williams, Rico Rodriguez, Paul Provenza, Dirk Blocker, Barry Van Dyke, Al Sapienza, Alan Autry, Cassi Davis, and the late Mario Bava, Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Cassidy, Louis de Funès, Percy Herbert, who would be 100, and Paul ‘Mousie’ Garner. Gore Vidal died eight years ago in 2012 at age 86. Roddy Piper died five years ago in 2015 at age 61. Jeanne Moreau died three years ago in 2017 at age 89.
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