Today Steve Railsback is 75, and Martha Plimpton and Jamie Babbit are 50. Today is also the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Bonet, Clu Gulager, Missi Pyle, Pete Davidson, Harry Lennix, Marg Helgenberger, Miguel Sandoval, Allison Anders, Ron Chaney, and the late Burgess Meredith, Guy Stockwell, Royal Dano, Ellen Albertini Dew, Richard Hale, Daws Butler, George Petrie, George S. Kaufman, Henri Charrière, and Thomas H. Ince. Clark Gable died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 59. William Holden died 39 years ago in 1981 at age 63. Edward Woodward died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 79. William Goldman died two years ago in 2018 at age 87.
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