Today Ashley Judd is 50, and James Franco is 40. Today is also the birthday of Kate Hudson, Tim Curry, Hayden Christensen, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Elinor Donahue, Ali Wong, Tony Plana, Nicoletta Braschi, Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, Jesse James, and the late Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore, Hugh O’Brian, Dick Sargent, George O’Brien, May Robson, and Barry Brown.
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On this date- April 18
Today David Hewlett is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Hayley Mills, Maria Bello, Eric McCormack, David Tennant, Jane Leeves, America Ferrera, Melissa Joan Hart, James Drury, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Alia Shawkat, Britt Robertson, Clive Revill, Jeff Dunham, Kourtney Kardashian, and the late Barbara Hale, Miklós Rózsa, Clarence Darrow, and Gabriel Axel and André Bazin, who would both be 100. Dick Clark died six years ago in 2012 at age 82.
On this date- April 17
Today Adam McKay is 50. Today is also the birthday of Rooney Mara, Jennifer Garner, Sean Bean, Olivia Hussey, David Bradley, Maïwenn, William Mapother, Joel Murray, Michael Forest, Nick Hornby, Redman, Victoria Beckham, and the late William Holden and Anne Shirley (who would both be 100), Roddy Piper, Lindsay Anderson, Arthur Lake, Paul Langton, Joan Lorring, Señor Wences, Louis Jean Heydt, and George Seaton. Eddie Cochran died in a car accident 58 years ago in 1960 at age 21. Dick Shawn died on stage 31 years ago in 1987 at age 63. Kitty Carlisle died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 96. Doris Roberts died two years ago in 2016 at age 90.
On this date- April 16
Today Chance the Rapper is 25. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Barkin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Claire Foy, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Anya Taylor-Joy, Peter Billingsley, Bobby Vinton, Akon, Jay O. Sanders, Hayes MacArthur, Qi Shu, Billy West, Marshall R. Teague, Erik Bleaman (aka High Pitch Erik), and the late Charles Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, Spike Milligan (who would be 100), Barry Nelson, Edie Adams, Selena, Henry Mancini, David Graf, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, Catherine Scorsese, Les Tremayne, and Dusty Springfield. David Lean died 27 years ago in 1991 at age 83.
Italian Director Vittorio Taviani Dies at 88
Italian screenwriter and director Vittorio Taviani, who made films with his brother Paolo, died on April 15 at age 88. Films that the two directed together include Padre Padrone (1977), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Kaos (1984), and Caesar Must Die, which won the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
R. Lee Ermey, Character Actor Known for “Full Metal Jacket” and Other Military Roles, Dies at 74
Character actor R. Lee Ermey, best known for his supporting role as Gny. Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, died on April 15 at age 74. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for that film. His first two roles were in other Vietnam War films: The Boys in Company C (1978) and Apocalypse Now (1979). Other notable films include Mississippi Burning (1988), Fletch Lives (1989), Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers (1993), On Deadly Ground (1994), Se7en (1995), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Dead Man Walking (1995), The Frighteners (1996), Life (1999), and the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). Some of his voice work included Sarge in the Toy Story films (1995, 1999, 2010), Starship Troopers (1997), Recess: School’s Out (2001), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
On this date- April 15
Today Roy Clark is 85, Claudia Cardinale is 80, and Chris Stapleton is 40. Today is also the birthday of Emma Thompson, Seth Rogen, Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Maisie Williams, Andrew Daly, Thomas F. Wilson, Linda Perry, Trine Dyrholm, Susanne Bier, Reed Morano, Richard Rush, Sam McMurray, Tom Kane, Damien Dante Wayans, Olivier Nakache, and the late Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Montgomery, Hans Conried, John Williams, Michael Ansara, Frank Vincent, Jean Willes, Henry James, Wallace Reid, and Bessie Smith. Abraham Lincoln died 153 years ago in 1865 at age 56. Wallace Beery died 69 years ago in 1949 at age 64. Jean Genet died 32 years ago in 1986 at age 75. Greta Garbo died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 84. Joey Ramone died 17 years ago in 2001 at age 49.
Czech Film Director Milos Forman, Oscar Winner for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” Dies at 86
Two-time Oscar winner Milos Forman died yesterday, April 13, at age 86. The Czech filmmaker was best known for directing the Best Picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984), for which he won Best Director. Other notable films include The Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball (1967), both Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, the musical Hair, Ragtime, and the bio-pics The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon. His most recent film as a solo director, twelve years ago, was Goya’s Ghosts (2006), a film about painter Francisco Goya.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/milos-forman-dead-cuckoos-nest-amadeus-director-was-86-861207
On this date- April 14
Today Gloria Jean is 92, Peter Capaldi is 60, and Anthony Michael Hall is 50. Today is also the birthday of Julie Christie, Loretta Lynn, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abigail Breslin, Robert Carlyle, Brad Garrett, Rob McElhenney, James Gray, Daniel Clowes, Gina McKee, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and the late Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Richard Jeni, Bradford Dillman, Arlene Martel, Berry Berenson, Lee Tracy, Michelle McNamara, Philip Stone, Gerry Anderson, John Howard, Liz Renay, and Anne Sullivan. Fredric March died 43 years ago in 1975 at age 77. Burl Ives died 23 years ago in 1995 at age 85.
On this date- April 13
Today Stanley Donen is 94, and Allison Williams is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ron Perlman, Edward Fox, Glenn Howerton, Tony Dow, Caroline Rhea, Charles Burnett, Ruben Östlund, Bokeem Woodbine, William Sadler, Paul Sorvino, Al Green, Erick Avari, Saundra Santiago, Peter Davison, Lyle Waggoner, Gary Kroeger, and the late Don Adams, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Keel, Maurice Ronet, and Christopher Hitchens.
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