Today is the birthday of Laurie Metcalf, John Cho, Clifton Collins Jr., Eileen Atkins, Daniel Brühl, Bill Cobbs, Joyce Carol Oates, Abby Elliott, Frederick Koehler, Joan Van Ark, Sibel Kekilli, Ian Buchanan, Scott Alexander, and the late Stan Laurel, Jack Albertson, Tupac Shakur, who would be 50, Ilona Massey, and Vilmos Zsigmond. George Reeves died 62 years ago in 1959 at age 45. Nicholas Ray died 42 years ago in 1979 at age 67. John G. Avildsen died four years ago in 2017 at age 81.
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