Author: jonathanhwinchell

Today Thelma Schoonmaker is 80, Victoria Principal is 70, and Matt Ross is 50. Today is also the birthday of Mel Gibson, Dabney Coleman, Florence Pugh, Nicholas Gonzalez, Tom Bower, Danica McKellar, Alex D. Linz, Dan Harmon, Eli Manning, and the late Sergio Leone, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Milland, Robert Loggia, Zasu Pitts, Jesse White, Josephine Hull, Jeremy Kemp, Marion Davies, Anna May Wong, John Sturges, George Martin, John Russell, John Thaw, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Stuart, and Conrad Brooks. Victor Sjöström died sixty years ago in 1960 at age 80. Pat Hingle died eleven years ago in 2009 at age 84.

Today John Considine is 85, and Jim Bakker is 80. Today is also the birthday of Cuba Gooding Jr., Kate Bosworth, Taye Diggs, Dax Shepard, Todd Haynes, Paz Vega, Tia Carrere, Joanna Pacula, James Marshall, Jack Hanna, and the late Isaac Asimov, who would be 100, Roger Miller, Anna Lee, Howard Caine, Jason Evers, Dziga Vertov, and Oscar Micheaux. Emil Jannings died seventy years ago in 1950 at age 65. Alan Hale Jr. died thirty years ago in 1990 at age 68. Anne Francis and Pete Postlethwaite died nine years ago in 2011. Francis was 80. Postlethwaite was 64. Bob Einstein died one year ago in 2019 at age 76.

Today Frederick Wiseman is 90, Woo-Ping Yuen is 75, and Deepa Mehta is 70. Today is also the birthday of Frank Langella, Morris Chestnut, Stacy Martin, Grandmaster Flash, Danny Lloyd, Dana DeLorenzo, Gia Coppola, Kôji Yakusho, Richard Edson, Mr. Lawrence, Mary Sweeney, and the late J.D. Salinger, J. Edgar Hoover, Dana Andrews, Verne Troyer, Valentina Cortese, Ousmane Sembene, Barry Goldwater, Barbara Baxley, Charles Bickford, Xavier Cugat, E.M. Forster, Matthew ‘Stymie’ Beard, Haruo Nakajima, and Teinosuke Kinugasa. Hank Williams died 67 years ago in 1953 at age 29. Maurice Chevalier died 48 years ago in 1972 at age 83. Cesar Romero died 26 years ago in 1994 at age 86. Victor Buono died 38 years ago in 1982 at age 43. Ray Walston died nineteen years ago in 2001 at age 86.

Today Taylor Hackford is 75, and Val Kilmer is 60. Today is also the birthday of Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Tim Matheson, James Remar, Bebe Neuwirth, Li Gong, Sarah Miles, Michael McDonald, Nicholas Sparks, Psy, Vernon Wells, Sean S. Cunningham, Erich Bergen, Chris Terrio, George Schlatter, Adam Rifkin, Scott Ian, Donald Trump Jr., and the late John Denver, Donna Summer, Theresa Harris, Rhys Williams, and Jason Robards Sr. Raoul Walsh died 39 years ago in 1980 at age 93. Ricky Nelson died 34 years ago in 1985 at age 45. Woody Strode died 25 years ago in 1994 at age 80. Wayne Rogers died three years ago in 2015 at age 82.

Today Russ Tamblyn is 85, Tracey Ullman is 60, and Dave England is 50. Today is also the birthday of Patti Smith, Fred Ward, Michael Nesmith, Tyrese Gibson, Lucy Punch, Betty Aberlin, LeBron James, Sandy Koufax, Tiger Woods, Bennett Miller, Lloyd Kaufman, Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa, Kelli Maroney, George Newbern, Sheryl Lee, Ralph, Ellen Sandweiss, Jeff Lynne, Meredith Vieira, James Burrows, Andrew Fleming, Matt Lauer, Sean Hannity, and the late Rudyard Kipling, Bo Diddley, Jack Lord, Davy Jones, Jack Riley, Carol Reed, Jeanette Nolan, and Joseph Bologna. Lew Ayres died 23 years ago in 1996 at age 88. Luise Rainer died five years ago in 2014 at age 104.

Today Patricia Clarkson and Paula Poundstone are 60, Jennifer Ehle and Patrick Fischler are 50, Diego Luna is 40, and Jane Levy is 30. Today is also the birthday of Jon Voight, Jude Law, Ted Danson, Alison Brie, Danny McBride, Barbara Steele, Lilly Wachowski, Michael Cudlitz, Kevin Weisman, Mekhi Phifer, Ross Lynch, Dylan Minnette, Maria Dizzia, Bernard Cribbins, Tarita, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the late Mary Tyler Moore, Dina Merrill, Jo Van Fleet, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Polito, George Marshall, and Andrew Johnson. Andrei Tarkovsky died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 54.

Today Maggie Smith is 85, Lior Ashkenazi is 50, and Noomi Rapace and André Holland are 40. Today is also the birthday of Denzel Washington, Sienna Miller, John Legend, Seth Meyers, Joe Manganiello, Nichelle Nichols, Gayle King, Jan Bijvoet, James Foley, and the late F.W. Murnau, Stan Lee, Lew Ayres, Martin Milner, Billy Chapin, Hildegard Knef, Lou Jacobi, Charmian Carr, Frank Kelly, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Woodrow Wilson. Dennis Wilson died 36 years ago in 1983 at age 39. Sam Peckinpah died 35 years ago in 1984 at age 59. Jerry Orbach died fifteen years ago in 2004 at age 69. Debbie Reynolds died three years ago in 2016 at age 84. Rose Marie died two years ago in 2017 at age 94.

Today John Amos is 80, and Sarah Vowell is 50. Today is also the birthday of Gerard Depardieu, Timothée Chalamet, Michel Piccoli, Barbara Crampton, Salman Khan, Gaspar Noé, Olivia Cooke, Harry Goaz, Lily Cole, Savannah Guthrie, Masi Oka, Jay Ellis, Wilson Cruz, Tovah Feldshuh, and the late Marlene Dietrich, Sydney Greenstreet, Oscar Levant, Heather O’Rourke, Louis Pasteur, and Chyna, who would be 50. Hal Ashby died 31 years ago in 1988 at age 59. George Roy Hill died seventeen years ago in 2002 at age 81. Alan Bates died sixteen years ago in 2003 at age 69. Haskell Wexler died four years ago in 2015 at age 93. Carrie Fisher died three years ago in 2016 at age 60.

Today Phil Spector and Fred Schepisi are 80. Today is also the birthday of Jared Leto, Kit Harington, David Sedaris, Beth Behrs, Lars Ulrich, John Walsh, David Lowery, Chuck Hicks, Shane Meadows, Bill Lawrence, and the late Steve Allen, Alan King, Caroll Spinney, Richard Widmark, Elisha Cook Jr., Donald Moffat, Henry Miller, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Mao Zedong. Jack Benny died 45 years ago in 1974 at age 80. Howard Hawks died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 81. Elsa Lanchester died 33 years ago in 1986 at age 84. Jason Robards died nineteen years ago in 2000 at age 78. Nigel Hawthorne died eighteen years ago in 2001 at age 72.

Today Sissy Spacek is 70. Today is also the birthday of Justin Trudeau, Hanna Schygulla, Stuart Wilson, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Jimmy Buffet, Gary Sandy, Nicholas Hope, Paul Willson, John Capodice, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Karl Rove, and the late Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Dick Miller, Mabel King, Mike Mazurki, Ismail Merchant, Frank Ferguson, Barton MacLane, Tony Martin, J. Edward Bromberg, and Conrad Hilton. W.C. Fields died 73 years ago in 1946 at age 66. Charlie Chaplin died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 88. Joan Blondell died forty years ago in 1979 at age 73. Dean Martin died 24 years ago in 1995 at age 78. Denver Pyle died 22 years ago in 1997 at age 77. James Brown died thirteen years ago in 2006 at age 73. Eartha Kitt died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 81. George Michael died three years ago in 2016 at age 53.