Showing posts with label November 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November 5. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Amy Waldman, on writing:

 

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction.

Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

- Amy Waldman.

Recommended reading - The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster.
 
Science Fiction short story.
Published by Suzeteo Enterprises.
First published 1909.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1645941566
ISBN-13: 9781645941569
 
Description:
 
In our modern era, we like to congratulate ourselves for our sophistication, knowing that we have doubtless created a world that our feckless ancestors could never have imagined. Actually reading the works of those ancestors would disabuse us of any such notion, and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops is a case in point. Not only does it seem that Forster has contemplated the ubiquitous 'Zoom' call, but he correctly sensed the deadening of the soul that would accompany the faux-mastery of Nature, expressing itself through technology.
 
In The Machine Stops the height of mankind's advances was The Machine, and it cared for every aspect of human experience, and anticipated every human need, until such time that there was nothing left for humans to do except eat, and, if the algorithm approved, procreate; and when the algorithm decided Euthanasia was due, then Euthanasia was happily accepted. The Machine was not just the pinnacle of human ingenuity, it was Progress Incarnate. And then... the Machine Stopped. Today, we hail our own progress, technological and societal. If our machine stops, what then? Do we really suppose it is eternal?

Recommended reading - The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

 

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

by Syd Mead.
 
Published by Titan Books.
Published 2017.
Illustrated edition.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1785651188
ISBN-13: 978-1785651182
 
Description:

Syd Mead is one of the most accomplished and widely respected artists and industrial designers alive today. His career boasts an incredible array of projects from designing cars to drafting architectural renderings, but he is most famous for his work as a concept artist on some of the most visually arresting films in the history of cinema. Since working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1978 as a production illustrator Syd Mead has always aimed to render “reality ahead of schedule,” creating evocative designs that marry believable content with a neofuturistic form. It is this ability to predict technological potential that has helped Mead create such a distinctive and influential aesthetic. From his work with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, to his striking designs for the light cycles in Tron, to his imposing concept art for the U.S.S. Sulaco in James Cameron’s Aliens, Syd Mead has played a pivotal role in shaping cinema’s vision of the future.

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead’s visionary work ever printed, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concept arts from a career spanning almost 40 years, many of which have never been seen in print before. Each entry provides a unique insight into the processes involved in Mead’s practice as well as illuminating the behind-the-scenes work involved in creating a fully realized, cinematic depiction of the future. With such a plethora of images from the many genre-defining films Mead has worked on, this is essential reading for film fans, artists and futurologists alike.

Born on this day – Jessie Ralph:


Jessie Ralph


Actress

November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944

Credits:

They Met in Bombay (1941); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); The Bank Dick (1940); I Want a Divorce (1940); Girl from Avenue A (1940); I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940); Star Dust (1940); The Blue Bird (1940); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Mickey the Kid (1939); The Kid from Texas (1939); Cafe Society (1939); St. Louis Blues (1939); Four Girls in White (1939); Port of Seven Seas (1938); Hold That Kiss (1938); Love Is a Headache (1938); Double Wedding (1937); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Good Earth (1937); After the Thin Man (1936); Camille (1936); Walking on Air (1936); Bunker Bean (1936); San Francisco (1936); The Unguarded Hour (1936); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Yellow Dust (1936); The Garden Murder Case (1936); Captain Blood (1935); I Found Stella Parish (1935); Metropolitan (1935); I Live My Life (1935); Jalna (1935); Paris in Spring (1935); Mark of the Vampire (1935); Les Misérables (1935); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Enchanted April (1935); David Copperfield (1935); Evelyn Prentice (1934); We Live Again (1934); One Night of Love (1934); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Coming Out Party (1934); Nana (1934); Ann Carver's Profession (1933); Cocktail Hour (1933); Elmer, the Great (1933); Child of Manhattan (1933); Such a Little Queen (1921); The Madonna of the Slums (1919); New York (1916); Mary's Lamb (1915); The Galloper (1915); A Ringer for Max (1915).

Born on this day – Etta Moten:

 

Etta Moten


Actress

Contralto vocalist

November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004
Credits:
 
Stage:

Fast and Furious (1931); Lysistrata (1946); Porgy and Bess (1943); Zombie (1932).

Movies and television:

A Day at the Races (1937); Amanda (1949); Bombshell (1933); Born to Sing (1942); Flying Down to Rio (1933); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Ladies They Talk About (1933); Operator 13 (1934); Professional Sweetheart (1933); Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker (1989); The Green Pastures (1936).

Born on this day – Joel McCrea:


Joel McCrea


Actor

November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990

Credits:

Mustang Country (1976); The Young Rounders (1971); Cry Blood, Apache (1970); Ride the High Country (1962); The Crowning Experience (1960); Wichita Town (1959–1960); The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959); Fort Massacre (1958); Cattle Empire (1958); The Tall Stranger (1957); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Trooper Hook (1957); The Oklahoman (1957); The First Texan (1956); Wichita (1955); Stranger on Horseback (1955); Black Horse Canyon (1954); Border River (1954); Shoot First (1953); The Lone Hand (1953); The San Francisco Story (1952); Cattle Drive (1951); Hollywood Story (1951); Frenchie (1950); Saddle Tramp (1950); Stars in My Crown (1950); The Outriders (1950); Colorado Territory (1949); South of St. Louis (1949); Four Faces West (1948); Ramrod (1947); The Virginian (1946); The Unseen (1945); The Great Moment (1944); Buffalo Bill (1944); The More the Merrier (1943); The Palm Beach Story (1942); Sullivan's Travels (1941); The Great Man's Lady (1941); Reaching for the Sun (1941); Foreign Correspondent (1940); Primrose Path (1940); He Married His Wife (1940); Espionage Agent (1939); They Shall Have Music (1939); Union Pacific (1939); Youth Takes a Fling (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Wells Fargo (1937); Dead End (1937); Woman Chases Man (1937); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); Banjo on My Knee (1936); Come and Get It (1936); Adventure in Manhattan (1936); Two in a Crowd (1936); These Three (1936); Splendor (1935); Barbary Coast (1935); Woman Wanted (1935); Our Little Girl (1935); Private Worlds (1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1934); Half a Sinner (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Chance at Heaven (1933); One Man's Journey (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Scarlet River (1933); Rockabye (1932); The Sport Parade (1932); The Most Dangerous Game (1932); Bird of Paradise (1932); The Lost Squadron (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Girls About Town (1931); The Common Law (1931); Born to Love (1931); Kept Husbands (1931); Once a Sinner (1931); Lightnin' (1930); The Silver Horde (1930); Framed (1930); Dynamite (1929); So This Is College (1929); The Single Standard (1929); The Jazz Age (1929); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); The Divine Lady (1928); Freedom of the Press (1928); Dead Man's Curve (1928); The Enemy (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Torrent (1926); A Self-Made Failure (1924); Penrod and Sam (1923).

Born on this day – Roy Rogers:


Roy Rogers


Singer

Actor

Television host

November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998


Born on this day – Vivien Leigh:


Vivien Leigh


Actress

November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20 to 1 (2010); 21 Days Together (1940); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); A Yank at Oxford (1938); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); Alexander Korda, Kt (1956); All-Time Movie Greats (1988); America at the Movies (1976); America in Color (2018); American Masters (2003); Anna Karenina (1948); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biography (1998–2001); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); Canaan Land (2020); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Century of Cinema (1995); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Classified X (2007); Corazón de... (2005); Dark Journey (1937); Darlings of the Gods (1989); Der Klang Hollywoods - Max Steiner & seine Erben (2009); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Faye (2024); Fire Over England (1937); Gentleman's Agreement (1935); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (2019); Gone with the Wind (1939); Great Performances (1983); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979); Heinz Rühmann: Kleiner Mann ganz groß (1994); HI$TORY (2019); Hollywood Couples (2001); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Intimate Portrait (1996); ITV Play of the Week (1959); Korda Interviews (1956); Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer (2011); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legends (2000); Legends of Entertainment Video (1995); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les couples mythiques du cinema (2015); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Living Famously (2003); Look Up and Laugh (1935); Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America (1993); Morgenmagazin (2024); MsMojo (2023); Murphy Brown (1989); My Week with Marilyn: The Untold Story of an American Icon (2011); News 44 (1994); Reader, I Married Him (2006); Round the Film Studios (1937); Sale el Sol (2022); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Ship of Fools (1965); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000); Small World (1958); Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006); Storm in a Teacup (1937); Suncoast Motion Picture Company - We Can Take You There Commercial (1986); Sunset Over Mulholland Drive (2019); Teresa the Thief (1973); That Hamilton Woman (1941); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 14th Annual Tony Awards (1960); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The British Academy Awards (1956); The Deep Blue Sea (1955); The Drunken Peasants (2016); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954 / 1963); The Extraordinary Seaman (1969); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Golden Gong (1985); The Golden Years of Alexander Korda (1968); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (2004); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961); The Screen Director (1951); The Sidewalks of London (1938); The Tales of Helpmann (1990); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Village Squire (1935); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); Things Are Looking Up (1935); To Oz! The Making of a Classic (2009); Today (1960); Today Australia (2017); Today Tonight (2007); Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020); Unsere Besten (2004); Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent (2021); Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990); Waterloo Bridge (1940).

Born on this day – Guy Green:


Guy Green


Director

Producer

Writer

Cinematographer

November 5, 1913 – September 15, 2005


Born on this day – Madeleine Robinson:


Madeleine Robinson


Actress

November 5, 1917 – August 1, 2004


Born on this day – Margot Friedländer:


Margot Friedländer


Holocaust survivor

Advocate

Writer

November 5, 1921 – May 9, 2025
Credits:

Book:
 

Try to Make Your Life
A Jewish Girl Hiding in Nazi Berlin

by Margot Friedländer, with Ronald L. Kolb.

Published by BEA Press.
Published 2013.
First Edition.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1935034073
ISBN-13: 978-1935034070

Description:

On January 25, 1943, the day of a planned escape from Nazi Germany, 22-year-old Margot Bendheim learns that the Gestapo has just picked up her brother and mother. Her mother manages to leave her a message, "Try to make your life." This is Margot's spellbinding memoir.

Movies and television:

Anne Will (2023); Arte Journal (1998); Aspekte (2021); Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation (2022); Eins zu eins (2010–2018); Goebbels and the Führer (2024); Günther Jauch (2015); Ich bin! Margot Friedländer (2023); Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World (2022); Judenhass: Unser Leben nach dem 7. Oktober (2024); Markus Lanz (2021); Morgenmagazin (2012); Tagesthemen (2024).

Born on this day – Gwen Van Dam:

 

Gwen Van Dam


Actress

November 5, 1928 – December 19, 2024

Credits:
100 Humans: Life's Questions. Answered. (2020); 227 (1990); A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain / Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain (1982); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Along the Way (2007); Angie Tribeca (2016); Any Day (2015); As We See It (2022); Bakersfield P.D. (1993); Big Boy Pants (2019); Blood Star (2024); Bloody Trail (1972); Bricktown (2008); Burlesque (2010); Calliope (1971); Charmed (2003); Civil Wars (1992); Coming Home (1978); Criminal Minds (2015); Dark Shadows (1966); Days Like These (2004); Days of Our Lives (1983–1987); Dead Night (2017); Diamond in the Rough (2022); Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2013); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1991); ER (2000); Fall of Hyperion (2008); Flexing with Monty (2010); Gideon's Trumpet (1980); Gilmore Girls (2003); Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006); Good Mourning (2020); Grace and Frankie (2019); Halloween (1978); Hart to Hart (1981); Have a Nice Death (2007); Hellevator (2015); Help Wanted: Male (1982); Hidden America with Jonah Ray (2016); Home (2020); Homecoming (2018); Hope Street Holiday (2023); House Calls (1980); Husbands (1970); Insecure (2018); Interior Chinatown (2024); Joey (2005); Joni (1979); JP Saxe: Like That (2021); Julien Baker: Faith Healer (2020); Knots Landing (1990); Lady Dynamite (2017); Lassie: A New Beginning (1978); Legion of the Dead (2001); Legit (2013); Lilith (1964); Long Lost Son (2006); Lost Tapes (2009); Love Street (1994); Malibu, CA (1999); Mannix (1970–1972); Mastodon: Show Yourself (2017); Matters of Life and Death (2007); Maude (1976); Me You Madness (2021); Mercy Christmas (2017); Miss Terious (2008); Modern Family (2016); Moonlighting (1988); Nakia (1974); New Girl (2014); No Tears in Hell (2025); Old Tricks (2004); One Mississippi (2017); Our House (1988); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Pinocchio (1971); Pocket (2019); Present Day, Athens (2019); Pushing Twilight (2008); Recoil (2016); Reset (2015); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); S.W.A.T. (1976); Second Thoughts (1983); Second-Hand Hearts (1980); Shadow Chasers (1985); Shameless (2020); Sienna's Choice (2016); Sleepwalk (2018); Sonder: LA (2019); Stand by Your Man (1981); Star Trek: Generations (1994); Stereotypes (2003); Still Waiting... (2009); Stillwatch (1987); Stir Crazy (1980); Storm (2019); Sunnyview (2010); T.J. Hooker (1985); Table Talk (2021); Take My Daughters, Please (1988); Tales from the Catholic Church of Elvis! (2009); Teenage Seductress (1975); Terror Out of the Sky (1978); The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010); The Awakening of Candra (1983); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Brady Bunch (1971); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987); The French Atlantic Affair (1979); The Human Factor (1992); The Incredible Hulk (1978); The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980); The Kentucky Fried Movie / Segment: Catholic High School Girls in Trouble (1977); The Ladies Club (1985); The Lay of LaLa Land (2017); The League (2013); The Orville (2017); The Prank Panel (2023); The Problem with Percival (2006); The Two Lives of Carol Letner (1981); The Ugly Christmas Sweater (2017); There's No Word for Us (2020); Traces of Us (1999); True Confessions (1981); Viagra Falls (2006); Walk (2016); Wandered Off (2018); Were You Gay in High School? (2020); Where the Bears Are (2014); Who's the Boss? (1989); Wilfred (2011); Winners (1977); Winters Garden (2025); Wisdom of the Crowd (2017); Without a Trace (2002); Workaholics (2017); You're Doing Great (2024); Zane's Sex Chronicles (2010).

Born on this day – Richard Davalos:


Richard Davalos


Actor

November 5, 1930 – March 8, 2016


Born on this day – Jan Shutan:

 

Jan Shutan


Actress

November 5, 1932 – October 7, 2021



Credits:
Miracle at Beekman's Place (1988); This House Possessed (1981); NBC Special Treat (1979); Hello, Larry (1979); Mother, Juggs & Speed (1978); Dracula's Dog (1977); Quincy M.E. (1976–1977); Charlie's Angels (1976); Three for the Road (1975); Love Is Not Forever (1974); Sons and Daughters (1974); Message to My Daughter (1973); Love, American Style (1972); Night Gallery (1971); The Seven Minutes (1971); Nanny and the Professor (1970); Room 222 (1969–1970); Star Trek / episode: The Lights of Zetar (1969); Dick Tracy (1967); The Felony Squad (1966); Man in the Square Suit (1966); Ben Casey (1963–1966); Barnaby (1965); The F.B.I. (1965); Valentine's Day (1964–1965); The Fugitive (1965); The Andy Griffith Show (1965); The Outer Limits (1964); My Three Sons (1964); Arrest and Trial (1963).

Born on this day – Victor Argo:


Victor Argo


Actor

November 5, 1934 – April 7, 2004

Credits:

A Change of Climate (1999); After Hours (1985); All in the Family (1973); Angel Eyes (2001); Angela (2002); Anything But Love (2002); Bad Lieutenant (1992); Baretta (1975); Blue in the Face (1995); Blue Moon (2000); Boxcar Bertha (1972); Bridget (2002); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980); Charlie's Christmas Secret (1984); Chopper One (1974); Cinéma, de notre temps (2003); Coming Soon (1999); Compression (2023); Condition Red (1995); Confessions of a Dangerous Mime (2004); Coyote Ugly (2000); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); Dangerous Game (1993); Dark Eyes (1995); Dealing: Or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972); Desperately Seeking Susan (1985); Dirt (2003); Don't Say a Word (2001); Double Whammy (2001); Dream House (1981); Dream Street (1989); Due vite, un destino (1993); Early Edition (1997); Falling in Love (1984); Fast Food Fast Women (2000); Fast Horses (1998); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1990); Florida Straits (1986); Force Five (1975); Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999); Going Nomad (1998); Hanky Panky (1982); Her Alibi (1989); Hot Tomorrows (1977); Household Saints (1993); I Believe in America (2007); Joe Forrester (1976); Johnny Ryan (1990); Johnny Staccato (1977); King of New York (1990); Kingston: Confidential (1977); Kojak (1973–1974); Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974); Law & Order (1992–1997); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2003); Leg Work (1987); Little Bill (2001–2003); Love = (Me) ^3 (2000); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Lustre (2005); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1977); McBain (1991); Mean Streets (1973); Men Lie (1994); Miami Vice (1988); Monkey Trouble (1994); Mulberry St (2006); Music (2003); New Rose Hotel (1998); New York News (1995); New York Stories / Segment: Life Lessons (1989); Next Stop Wonderland (1998); Off Beat (1986); On the Run (1999); Personal Sergeant (2004); Prince Street (1997); Queenie in Love (2001); Quick Change (1990); 'R Xmas (2001); Raw Deal (1986); Romando (1987); Shadows and Fog (1991); Side Streets (1998); Sins of Silence (1996); Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974); Smoke (1995); Somebody to Love (1994); Spenser: For Hire (1985); Starsky and Hutch (1975); Taxi Driver (1976); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Electric Chair (1985); The Equalizer (1985); The Exorcist (1973); The Funeral (1996); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); The Man Who Knew Belle Starr (2001); The Pick-up Artist (1987); The Rockford Files (1977); The Rose (1979); The Terminal Man (1974); The Unholy Rollers (1972); The Waltons (1973); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); The Yards (2000); Toma (1974); True Romance (1993); Under Fire (1995); Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride (1990); Very Like a Whale (1980); Which Way Is Up? (1977); Wonder Woman (1977).

Born on this day – Harris Yulin:


Harris Yulin


Actor

November 5, 1937 – June 10, 2025


Harris Yulin & Al Pacino in Scarface (1983).

Credits:
24 (2002–2003); 75 Degrees in July (2000); A Most Violent Year (2014); A Short History of Decay (2014); All Square (2018); American Classic (2025); American Experience (1997–2001); American Masters (1998 / 2004); American Outlaws (2001); American Photography: A Century of Images (1999); An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road (2012); Another Woman (1988); Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979); As the World Turns (1984); Bad Dreams (1988); Baretta (1975); Barnaby Jones (1974); Bean (1997); Bean: Scenes Unseen (2007); Billions (2018–2019); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999–2002); Cagney & Lacey (1986); Candy Mountain (1987); Canterbury's Law (2008); Caribe (1975); Cashmere Mafia (2008); Chelsea Walls (2001); Civil Wars (1992); Clear and Present Danger (1994); Clear and Present Danger: Behind the Danger (2002); Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987); Cradle Will Rock (1999); Cutthroat Island (1995); Damages (2009); Daughter of the Streets (1990); Divorce (2019); 'Doc' (1971); Double Trouble (2015); Dynasty (1976); End of the Road (1970); Entourage (2007); Face of a Stranger (1991); Fatal Beauty (1987); FBI: Most Wanted (2022); Final Analysis (1992); For The People (2019); Forever (2015); Fran's Bed (2005); Frasier (1996); FRO Thizzle Reviews (2022); Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006); Game 6 (2005); Ghostbusters II (1989); Good to Go (1986); Hamburger Hamlet (1975); HBO First Look (2006); How the West Was Won (1978); I Know This Much Is True (2020); If These Walls Could Talk / Segment: 1974 (1996); Incident at Vichy (1973); Insight (1976); Ironside (1975); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1986); Judgment in Berlin (1988); King of the Corner (2004); Kojak (1974); La Femme Nikita (1997); Law & Order (1994–2008); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007); Little House on the Prairie (1975); Loch Ness (1996); Looking for Richard (1996); Loving Leah (2009); Madso's War (2010); Maidstone (1970); Meeting of Minds (1979–1981); Melvin Purvis G-MAN (1974); Mister Sterling (2003); Most Wanted (1976); Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013); Multiplicity (1996); Murder at 1600 (1997); Murphy Brown (1997–2018); My Soul to Take (2010); Narrow Margin (1990); Neither Are We Enemies (1970); New York: A Documentary Film (1999); Night Moves (1975); Nikita (2011–2012); Norman (2016); Omni Loop (2024); Ozark (2017–2018); Pan Am (2011); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974); Perfume (2001); Police Woman (1975); Prime Time (1977); Ransom for Alice! (1977); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target (1977); Rubicon (2010); Rush Hour 2 (2001); S.W.A.T. (1975); Save West Bank Cafe (2020); Scarface (1983); Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006); Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000); Screen One (1997); St. Ives (1976); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993); Steel (1979); Stuart Saves His Family (1995); Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973); The American Side (2016); The Baby-Sitters Club (1995); The Believers (1987); The Blacklist (2015); The Emperor's Club (2002); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Family Fang (2015); The Greatest Gift (1974); The Heart of Justice (1992); The Hurricane (1999); The Kansas City Massacre (1975); The Last Hit (1993); The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979); The Legend of Hillbilly John (1972); The Midnight Man (1974); The Million Dollar Hotel (2000); The Missiles of October (1974); The Mystery of Maris: The Break-Up Begins (2004); The Night Rider (1979); The One Dollar Diary (2002); The People Speak (2009); The Place Beyond the Pines (2012); The Sounding (2017); The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979); The Treatment (2006); The Trial of Chaplain Jensen (1975); The Virginian (2000); The X-Files (2000); There Goes the Neighborhood (1992); Third Watch (2005); Training Day (2001); Traitor in My House (1990); Truman (1995); Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2016–2017); Veep (2016); Vengeance Unlimited (1999); Victory at Entebbe (1976); Wanderland (2018); Watched! (1974); What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018); When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978); WIOU (1990–1991); Wonder Woman (1977).

Born on this day – Chris Robinson:


Chris Robinson


Actor

Writer

Director

November 5, 1938 – June 9, 2025

Credits:
12 O'Clock High (1965–1967); 13 West Street (1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1962); Ace of Hearts (1975); Alcoa Premiere (1962–1963); Amy (1981); Another World (1988–1989); Arrest and Trial (1963–1964); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Bankrupt by Beanies (2009); Barely Dreaming (2021); Baretta (1976); Barnaby Jones (1976 / 1977); Bastard: An Illegitimate Film (2010); Beast from Haunted Cave (1959); Because They're Young (1960); Ben Casey (1962); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bus Stop (1961); Cain's Hundred (1962); Cannon (1975–1976); Caribe (1975); Catch the Black Sunshine (1974); Channing (1963); CHiPs (1980); Colt .45 (1960); Combat! (1963); Custer (1967); Dan August (1971); Dan August: Once Is Never Enough (1980); Dark Side of Eden: The Making of 'Stanley' (2008); Darker Than Amber (1970); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Death Valley Days (1962); Die glückliche Familie (1991); Empire (1962); Everglades! (1961–1962); Fantasy Island (1983); G.E. True (1963); General Hospital (1978–2013); Gentle Ben (1969); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1968); Gunsmoke (1963); Hardball (1990); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Hennesey (1961); Hogan's Heroes (1969); Hotel (1986); Hour Magazine (1986); Insight (1967–1971); Just for a Week (2022); Lady in Cement (1968); Legends from the Sky (2015); Like Father Like Son (1961 / 1987); Medical Center (1972); Most Wanted (1977); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Outlaws (1961); Perry Mason (1965); Primus (1971); Revenge Is My Destiny (1971); Rez Bomb (2008); Savannah Smiles (1982); Sea Hunt (1961); Shootout at Big Sag (1962); Stanley (1972); Stoney Burke (1963); Straightaway (1961); Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Aquarians (1970); The Bold and the Beautiful (1992–2005); The Busters (1978); The Cycle Savages (1969); The Dakotas (1963); The Detectives (1961–1962); The Diary of a High School Bride (1959); The Donna Reed Show (1961); The Dream Merchants (1980); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Felony Squad (1967); The Forsaken (2025); The Fugitive (1963); The Great Balloon Race (1977); The Hawaiians (1970); The Intruder (1975); The Invaders (1968); The Long Rope (1961); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Manhunter (1974); The Midnight Story (1957); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The New Breed (1962); The Streets of San Francisco (1975); The Toni Tennille Show (1980–1981); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); The Virginian (1963–1970); The Young Savages (1961); They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016); Thunder County (1974); Travis Logan, D.A. (1971); Two Faces West (1961); Viper (1988); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1968); Wagon Train (1963–1964); Wide Country (1963); Yancey McCord: The Killer That Arizona Forgot About (2020); Young Doctors in Love (1982); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Isela Vega:


Isela Vega


Actress

Singer

Songwriter

Director

November 5, 1939 – March 9, 2021


Born on this day – Sam Shepard:


Sam Shepard


Actor

Writer

Director

November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017


On this day in movie history - Challenge to Be Free (1975)

 

Challenge to Be Free

a.k.a. Mad Trapper of the Yukon and Mad Trapper.


Directed by Tay Garnett,

written by Anne Bosworth, Chuck D. Keen and Dick North,

music by Ian Bernard,

narrated by John McIntire,

was released in the United States on November 5, 1975.

Based on the true 1932 case of Albert Johnson, a.k.a. The Mad Trapper of Rat River.

Cast:
Mike Mazurki, Fritz Ford, Vic Christy, Jimmy Kane, Alex Van Bibber, Tay Garnett, Gordon Yardley, Bob McKinnon, Roger Reitano, Ted Yardley, Brian Russell, Connie Yardley, Patty Piper, John McIntire.