Today Lea Thompson is 60. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Chris Elliott, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, who would be 100, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died eight years ago in 2013 at age 90.
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