Today ‘Melrose’ Larry Green is 70, and Kevin Sussman is 50. Today is also the birthday of Jeff Bridges, Marisa Tomei, Jay-Z, Fred Armisen, Tyra Banks, Tony Todd, Max Baer Jr., Gemma Jones, Wink Martindale, Cheng Pei Pei, Pamela Stephenson, Patricia Wettig, Corinne Marchand, Mick Garris, Álex de la Iglesia, Yôjirô Takita, and the late Deanna Durbin, Ronnie Corbett, Dennis Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Victor French, Donnelly Rhodes, Gérard Philipe, Michael Bates, who would be 100, Mark Robson, Lloyd Bacon, Alex North, Cornell Woolrich, and Francisco Franco. Bert Lahr died 53 years ago in 1967 at age 72. Frank Zappa died 27 years ago in 1993 at age 52.
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