Born on this day – Tanya Roberts:

Tanya Roberts

Actress

October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021

Credits:

27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1999); A View to a Kill (1985); A View to a Kill: Deleted Scenes with Introductions by John Glen (2006); A View to a Kill: Featurette (1985); A View to a Kill: Film '85 BBC Report (1985); A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (1985); Almost Pregnant (1992); Barbershop (2005); Biography (2000); Body Slam (1986); Bond Exhibit (2008); Burke's Law (1994); California Dreaming (1979); Charlie's Angels (1980–1981); Charlie's Angels: TV Tales (2002); Deep Down (1994); Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2006); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie's Angels – Uncovered (1999); Eve (2005); Evening (1983); Eye on L.A. (1985); Famous Homes & Hideaways (2000); Fantasy Island (1982); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fillmore! (2003); Fingers (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Happy Hour (1999); Hearts and Armour (1983); High Tide (1997); Hollywood '84 (1984); Hollywood Squares (2001–2004); Hot Line (1994–1996); Hour Magazine (1981); I Can't Believe I Wore That (2005); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000); Inside TV Land (2000); Investigating Tarzan (1997); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); Legal Tender (1991); Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) / Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Na sowas! (1985); Night Eyes (1990); Off Centre (2002); Pajama Party (2000); Pleasure Cove (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Purgatory (1988); Racquet (1979); Sheena (1984); Silk Stalkings (1995); Sins of Desire (1993); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); That '70s Show (1998–2004); The Alan Thicke Show (1981–1982); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beastmaster (1982); The Beastmaster Chronicles (2020); The Blues Brothers Animated Series (1997); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1992); The Insider (2013); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Last Victim (1976); The List (2000); The Love Boat (1982); The Martin Short Show (1999); The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Pandora Directive (1996); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Saga of 'the Beastmaster' (2005); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1981–1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008); The Yum Yum Girls (1976); Time & Again (2000); Tourist Trap (1979); TV Land Confidential (2007); Twisted Justice (1990); UnConventional (2004); Vega$ (1980); Waikiki (1980); Zuma Beach (1978).

On this day in movie history - Badlands (1973)

Badlands

directed and written by Terrence Malick,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1973.

Inspired by the true Charles Starkweather case (1957-58).

Music by George Tipton, Carl Orff and James Taylor.

Cast:

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Charles Fitzpatrick, Howard Ragsdale, John Womack Jr., Dona Baldwin, Ben Bravo, Emilio Estevez, Li Po Lung, Terrence Malick, Charlie Sheen.

On this day in movie history - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

directed by Marcus Nispel,

written by Scott Kosar,

based on the 1974 screenplay by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper,

was released in the United States on October 15, 2003.

Music by Steve Jablonsky.

Cast:

Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey, David Dorfman, Lauren German, Terrence Evans, Marietta Marich, Heather Kafka, Kathy Lamkin, Brad Leland, Mamie Meek, John Larroquette, Scott Martin Gershin, Harry Jay Knowles.

On this day in movie history - Brave New Jersey (2016)

Brave New Jersey

directed by Jody Lambert,

written by Michael Dowling and Jody Lambert,

was released at the Austin Film Festival in the United States on October 15, 2016.

Music by Dennis Lambert, Matthew Logan Vasquez and Kelly Winrich.

Based on Orson Welles’ dramatized radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds,

in turn based on the novel by H. G. Wells,

broadcast as part of the CBS Radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, on October 30, 1938.

Cast:

Anna Camp, Tony Hale, Erika Alexander, Sam Jaeger, Heather Burns, Evan Jonigkeit, Raymond J. Barry, Dan Bakkedahl, Grace Kaufman, Mel Rodriguez, Matt Oberg, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Noah Lomax, Leonard Earl Howze, Adina Eady, Blaque Fowler, Helen Ingebritsen, Jack Landry, Roy Hawkins Jr., Bill Coelius, Michael Dowling, Antoinette Cancelliere, Harp Sandman, David Lundgren, Bruce Boone, Kerry D. Watson, Dean Allen Jones, Anna Claire Watson, Kerry Watson, Jennifer Cooke Turnage, Daniel Debouver, Wes McGullion, Leilani Stephens, Nancy Potts, Chelsea Summerlin, Brian Keith Huggins, Robin Wilson, Gabriel Landis, Kathy Winchell, Dustin Wilson, Brianna Stephens, Melissa Dawn Roberts, Travis Smith, Lynda Austin, Ricky Wilson Jr., Mitch Norville, Stephanie Watson, Patrick Miller.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959)

Johnny Staccato
Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Nature of the Night.

Released October 15, 1959.

Directed by Boris Sagal.

Written by Richard Carr, Henry Kane.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Dean Stockwell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Pat O'Malley, Janet Lake, Rory/Roy Mallinson, Harry Strang, Jack Costanzo, Mr. Bongo and His Quartet, Jimmie Horan, Harry Raven, Edwin Rochelle, Dennis Sallas 

On this day in television history - The Untouchables (1959 - 1963)

The Untouchables

based on the book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1959,

and ran for four seasons until May 21, 1963.

The pilot episode was released on January 22, 1959.

Narrated by Walter Winchell.

Music by Bill Loose, Jack Cookerly and Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez, Steve London, Jerry Paris, Chuck Hicks, Anthony George, Keenan Wynn, Eddie Firestone, Robert Osterloh, Frank Wilcox, Robert Bice, Jason Wingreen, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Nichols, Dane Clark, John Gabriel, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Asner, Virginia Capers, Bruce Gordon, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Lawrence Dobkin, Robert J. Wilke, Warren J. Kemmerling, Bern Hoffman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lloyd Nolan, Robert J. Wilke, Harry Morgan, Gene Roth, Robert Carricart, Joseph Ruskin, Robert Carricart, Carl Milletaire, Grant Richards, Neville Brand, Frank de Kova, John Beradino, Henry Silva, Joe De Santis, George N. Neise, John Kellogg, H. M. Wynant, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict, Herman Rudin, Les Lampson, Walter Winchell, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade.

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1995)

Fallen Angels
Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Professional Man.

Released October 15, 1995.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Written by Howard A. Rodman.

Created by William Horberg.

Based on the story by David Goodis.

Theme music by Peter Bernstein. 

Cast:

Brendan Fraser, Bruce Ramsay, Peter Coyote, Bernard Hocke, Alpheus Merchant, Joe Chrest, Wayne Pére, Raoul Flambe, David Ward, John Mese, Miguel Ferrer, Mike Malone/Flambe.