Today Jimmy Lydon is 98, Keir Dullea is 85, Stephen Tobolowsky is 70, and Idina Menzel and Duncan Jones are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ruta Lee, Colm Meaney, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Ted McGinley, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Howard Hawks, Agnès Varda, Mel Blanc, Michael J. Pollard, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys, who would be 100. Dooley Wilson died 68 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 54 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 46 years ago in 1975 at age 80.
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