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

Fallen Angels
Season 2. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Good Housekeeping.

Released October 29, 1995.

Directed by Michael Lehmann.

Written by Bruno Fischer.

Created by William Horberg.

Based on the short story by Scott McGehee, David Siegel.

Theme music by Peter Bernstein.

Cast:

Dana Delany, Benicio Del Toro, Marcia Gay Harden, William Petersen, Adam Baldwin, James Flynn, Matt O'Toole, Zack Phifer, Johanna Went.

Fallen Angels
Season 2. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Fly Paper.

Released October 29, 1995.

Directed by Tim Hunter.

Written by Donald E. Westlake.

Created by William Horberg.

Based on the short story by Dashiell Hammett.

Theme music by Peter Bernstein.

Cast:

Christopher Lloyd, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Berg, Michael Rooker, Arnold Vosloo, Jack Thibeau, Kristin Minter, Darren McGavin, James Rekart, Johanna Went, Miguel Ferrer, Harry Northup.

Julia Alvarez, on writing:

 

A book does not discriminate against any reader.

All are welcome at the table of literature.
– Julia Alvarez.

Recommended reading: Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

by David Mamet.
 
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984.
 
Published by Grove Press.
First published 1983.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0802130917
ISBN-13: 978-0802130914
 
Description:
 
Comic Drama Characters: 7 males.
 
2 interior sets.
 

“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by any other dramatist.” – New York Times.

 

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole, connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it everything.

 

“Wonderfully funny … a play to see, remember and cherish.” – New York Post.

Recommended reading - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

 

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

by John Godey.
 
First published 1973.
Published by Penguin Publishing Group.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0425253309
ISBN-13: 978-0425253304
 
Description:
 
"Chillingly real." – Houston Chronicle.
 
"A cliff-hanger." – The New Yorker.
 
"Harrowing, terrifying, and so, so good." – Business Week.
 
THIS AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER A SUBWAY TRAIN LEFT THE PELHAM STATION AT 1:23 P.M., THE EVENTS OF THE DAY TOOK A TERRIFYING DETOUR…
 
“You will all remain seated. Anyone who tries to get up, or even moves, will be shot. There will be no further warning. If you move you will be killed…”
 
Four men, armed with submachine guns, have seized a New York City subway train, holding all seventeen passengers – and the entire city – hostage.
 
The identities of the hijackers are unknown.
 
Their demands seem impossible.
 
Their threats are real.
 
Their escape seems inconceivable.
 
Only one thing is certain: they aren’t stopping for anything.

Born on this day – Wallace Stevens:

Wallace Stevens

Writer

October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955

Credits:
 
Books:
 

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman; Anecdote of the Jar; Collected poetry and prose; Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock; Earthy Anecdote; Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs; Gubbinal; Harmonium; How to Live, what to Do; Idées de l'ordre; Infanta Marina; Last Looks at the Lilacs; Letters of Wallace Stevens; Life Is Motion; Lunar Paraphrase; Nomad Exquisite; Of Modern Poetry; Opus posthumous; Palace of the Babies; Peter Quince at the Clavier; Ploughing on Sunday; Poems; Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo; Selected Poems; Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens; Sunday Morning; The Auroras of Autumn; The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition; The Comedian as the Letter C; The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician; The Emperor of Ice-Cream; The emperor of ice-cream, and other poems; The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad; The man with the blue guitar; The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination; The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play; The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage; The Place of the Solitaires; The Plot Against the Giant; The Poetry of Wallace Stevens; The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade; The Worms at Heaven's Gate; Theory; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; Transport to summer; Wallace Stevens Reads; Wallace Stevens: Poems.

 

Movies and television:
 

The Emperor of Ice Cream (2015); The Extravagant Shadows (2012); Thirteen Ways... (2001).

Born on this day – Bud Abbott:

Bud Abbott

Actor

Comedian

Producer

October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974

Credits:

Abbott & Costello (1967); General Electric Theater (1961); Dance with Me, Henry (1956); Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955); Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955); Fireman Save My Child (1954); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1954); Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Lost in Alaska (1952); Jack and the Beanstalk (1952); Comin' Round the Mountain (1951); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950); Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949); Africa Screams (1949); Mexican Hayride (1948); 10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); The Noose Hangs High (1948); The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); The Time of Their Lives (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Little Giant (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); The Naughty Nineties (1945); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Lost in a Harem (1944); In Society (1944); Hit the Ice (1943); It Ain't Hay (1943); Who Done It? (1942); Pardon My Sarong (1942); Rio Rita (1942); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Keep 'Em Flying (1941); Hold That Ghost (1941); In the Navy (1941); The Andrews Sisters in Buck Privates (1941); One Night in the Tropics (1940).

Born on this day – Groucho Marx:

Groucho Marx

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Singer

October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977

Born on this day – Alice Ernestine Prin:

Alice Ernestine Prin

Stage names: Queen of Montparnasse & Kiki de Montparnasse

Writer

Actress

Singer

Model

Painter

Chanteuse

Actress

October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953

Born on this day – Graham Greene:

 

Graham Greene

Writer

October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991

Credits:

Books:

A Burnt-Out Case (1960); A Chance For Mr Lever (1936); A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire (1936); A Sense of Reality (1950); A Sort of Life (1971); A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992); Across the Bridge and Other Stories (1981); Alaska Stories (1995); Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006); Babbling April (1925); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Blood River (2007); Brighton Rock (1938); British Dramatists (1942); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Carving a Statue (1964); Chicago Stories (1993); Child's Ploy (1984); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Collected Essays (1969); Collected Stories (1973); Complete Short Stories (1990); Contemporary British Short Stories I (1971); Crime Never Pays (2001); David Bowie (2016); Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980); England Made Me / The Shipwrecked (1935); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Fragments of Autobiography (1991); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Friendship (1990); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Getting to Know the General (1984); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories (1947); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Patagonia (1977); In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961); It's a Battlefield (1934); J. D. Salinger (2016); J'Accuse (1982); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Journey Without Maps (1936); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Little Fire Engine (1950); London Stories (2013); Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Loser Takes All (1955); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967); Monsignor Quixote (1982); New Orleans Stories (1992); No Man's Land (2004); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Orient Express / Stamboul Train (1932); Our Man in Havana (1958); Philip K. Dick (2015); Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 (1972); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Reflections (1990); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Rumour at Nightfall (1931); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Shades of Greene (1975); Shadow of the Silk Road (2007); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Bear Fell Free (1935); The Captain and the Enemy (1988); The Collected Plays (1985); The Comedians (1966); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The Confidential Agent (1939); The Destructors (1955); The End of the Affair (1951); The Great Jowett (1981); The Heart of the Matter (1948); The Honorary Consul (1973); The Human Factor (1978); The Killing Spirit (1996); The Last Word and Other Stories (1990); The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico (1939); The Little Fire Engine (1973); The Little Horse Bus (1952); The Little Steamroller (1955); The Little Train (1946); The Living Room (1954); The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951); The Man Within (1929); The Ministry of Fear (1943); The Name of Action (1930); The Old School (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987); The Portable Graham Greene (1973); The Potting Shed (1957); The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways (1940); The Quiet American (1955); The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975); The Rings of Saturn (1995); The Tenth Man (1985); The Third Man (1949); The Third Man and Other Stories (2011); Third Man (1977); Three Entertainments (1952); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Travels with My Aunt (1969); Triple Pursuit! (1971); Twenty-One Stories (1954); Under the Garden (1963); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); Victorian Villainies (1984); Ways of Escape (1980); Why Do I Write? (1975); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991) 

Movies and television:

21 Days Together (1940); A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2013); A Shocking Accident (1982); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); About Religion (1964); Across the Bridge (1957); Alta comedia (1971); Arena (1987 / 1993); Au théâtre ce soir (1980); Beyond the Limit (1983); Brighton Rock (1948 / 2010); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confidential Agent (1945); Cüneyt Arkin in Yarali Kurt (1972); Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013); Das Geheimnis (1957); Das Herz aller Dinge (1971); Day for Night (1973); De kamer waarin wij leven (1959); Den føjelige elsker (1963); Den nøysomme elsker (1967); Der letzte raum (1966); Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit (1957); Double Take (2001); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); El teatro (1974); Empire of the Censors (1995); England Made Me (1973); Estudio 1 (1982); François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (1996); Frontiers of Faith (1955); Great Performances (1986); Günes dogmasin (1961); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Honorární konzul (1991); Il treno per Istanbul (1980–1981); ITV Play of the Week (1956); Jádro veci (1968); La fine dell'avventura (1969); La mano dello straniero (1954); Late Night Story (1978); Lights Out (1951); Los exclusivos del Nueve (1982); Loser Takes All (1956); May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986); Ministerstvo strachu (1966); Ministry of Fear (1944); Neodcudzitelný majetok (1984); Noche de teatro (1974); Novela (1976); Omnibus (1968); Orient Express (1934); Our Man in Havana (1959); Pelon talo (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Primera función (1989); Quinta colonna (1966); Saint Joan (1957); Saturday Review (1986); Secrets of the Content (2010); Shades of Greene (1975–1976); Shadowing the Third Man (2004); Ship's Reporter (1950); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Strike It Rich (1990); Studio 4 (1962); Studio One (1951); Tajný agent (1974); Television Theater (1998); Terror Toons 4 (2022); The Art of Dissent (2021); The Book Programme (1978); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The End of the Affair (1955 / 1999 / 2006); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Fugitive (1947); The Future's in the Air (1937); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Heart of the Matter (1953 / 1983); The Human Factor (1979); The Making of 'Saint Joan' (1957); The New Britain (1940); The Power and the Glory (1957 / 1961); The Quiet American (1958 / 2002); The Smugglers (1947); The Tenth Man (1988); The Third Man (1949–1965); The Unforeseen (1960); This Gun for Hire (1942 / 1991); Thursday Theatre (1965); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Una pistola in vendita (1970); Verschlossene Räume (1958); Went the Day Well? (1942).

Born on this day – Mildred Boyd:

Mildred Boyd

Actress

October 2, 1908 - October 22, 1999

Credits:

Baby, Are You Kiddin'? (1946); Birth of the Blues (1941); Broadway Rhythm (1944); Carolina Blues (1944); Cleopatra (1934); Double Deal (1939); Force of Evil (1948); Gang Smashers (1938); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928); I Love a Bandleader (1945); I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951); Irene (1940); Lady for a Night (1942); Lydia Bailey (1952); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Mississippi (1935); Murder at the Vanities (1934); New Faces of 1937 (1937); No Time for Romance (1948); Out of the Past (1947); Phantom Lady (1944); Pinky (1949); Reet, Petite, and Gone (1949); Riley the Cop (1928); Satchel Mouth Baby (1946); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Spirit of Youth (1938); Strike Me Pink (1936); Sun Tan Ranch (1948); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); The Beloved Brat (1938); The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); The Duke Is Tops (1938); The Harlem Globetrotters (1951); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); The Red Dragon (1945); The Singing Kid (1936); Variety Girl (1947); Vogues of 1938 (1937); Way Down South (1939).

Born on this day – Shirley Clarke:

Shirley Clarke

Director

Producer

Editor

October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997

Born on this day – Ramona Fradon:

Ramona Fradon

Artist

Illustrator

October 2, 1926 – February 24, 2024

Credits:
 
Books:
 

1st Issue Special (1975); Adventure Comics (1938); Alter Ego (1999); Aquaman (1962); Blackhawk (1957); Bongo Comics Presents Simpsons Super Spectacular (2006); Choices (1990); Danny Fingeroth's Write Now! (2002); DC Super Stars (1976); Dignifying Science (1999); Fantastic Four (1961); Freedom Fighters (1976); Gang Busters (1947); Ghosts (1971); House of Mystery (1951); House of Secrets (1956); Invaders Now! (2010); Just Imagine Stan Lee With Scott McDaniel Creating Aquaman (2002); Metamorpho (1965); More Secret Origins Replica Edition (1999); Namora (2010); Plastic Man (1976); Plastic Man 80-Page Giant (2004); Plop! (1973); Secrets of Haunted House (1975); Secrets of Sinister House (1972); Showcase (1956); Silver Age: Doom Patrol (2000); Teen Titans (1966); The Adventures of Unemployed Man (2010); The Brave and the Bold (1955); The Super Friends (1976); The Unexpected (1968); Wonder Woman (1987); World's Finest Comics (1941).

 

Movies, television and video:
 

Aquaman (2018); Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2011); Beware the Batman (2013–2014); Black Adam (2022); Dare2Draw Studio's Chat (2016); Imagine the Dreams (2019); Peacemaker (2022); Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010); She Makes Comics (2014); Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013); Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018); The Anti Gravity Room (1995); The Flash (2023); The Legends Behind the Comic Books (2007); Titans (2021); Wonder Woman 1984 (2020); Young Justice (2019).

Born on this day – Moses Gunn:

Moses Gunn

Actor

October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993

Credits:

20th NAACP Image Awards (1988); 60 Millionen für Phantásien - Wie die 'unendliche Geschichte' ins Kino kam (1984); A Man Called Hawk (1989); Aaron Loves Angela (1975); Amazing Grace (1974); Amen (1989); American Playhouse (1984–1985); Amityville II: The Possession (1982); Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street' (1998); Assignment: Vienna (1973); Bates Motel (1987); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Brother Future (1991); Carter's Army (1970); Certain Fury (1985); Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975); Day of Absence (1971); Dixie Lanes (1988); Eagle in a Cage (1972); East Side/West Side (1964); Equal Justice (1990); Father Murphy (1981–1983); Firestarter (1984); Flag (1988); Gabriel's Fire (1990); Good Times (1977); Great Performances (1976); Haunts of the Very Rich (1972); Hawaii Five-O (1971); Heartbreak Ridge (1986); Highway to Heaven (1985); Hill Street Blues (1987); Homicide: Life on the Street (1993 / 1996); Hotel (1986); How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972); John Mercer Langston (1974); Kung Fu (1973); Law of the Land (1976); Leonard Part 6 (1987); Little House on the Prairie (1977–1981); Maude (1978); McCloud (1972); Memphis (1992); Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love (1991); Movin' On (1975); Murder Times Seven (1990); N.Y.P.D. (1968); No Room for Opal (1993); Nothing But a Man (1964); Of Mice and Men (1968); Perfect Harmony (1991); Quincy, M.E. (1977); Ragtime (1981); Remember My Name (1978); Rollerball (1975); Roots (1977); Salvage 1 (1979); Shaft (1971); Shaft's Big Score! (1972); Snoops (1990); Switch (1977); Tales from the Crypt (1990); The 20th Annual Obie Awards (1975); The Contender (1980); The Cowboys (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The F.B.I. (1969); The Great White Hope (1970); The Hot Rock (1972); The House of Dies Drear (1984); The Iceman Cometh (1973); The Jeffersons (1975 / 1978); The Luckiest Man in the World (1989); The Magical World of Disney (1975); The Never Ending Story (1984); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Sheriff (1971); The Wide World of Mystery (1973–1974); The Women of Brewster Place (1989); TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004); Vega$ (1978); What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968); Wild Rovers (1971); WUSA (1970).

Born on this day – Robin Hardy:

Robin Hardy

Director

Writer

Actor

October 2, 1929 – July 1, 2016

Born on this day – Phill Niblock:

 

Phill Niblock

Composer

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024

Credits:
 
Music:
 

Working Touch (2022); Sound Collages (2021); Touch Five (2013); Touch Strings (2009); G2 44 +/X 2 (2006); Touch Three (2006); Disseminate (2004); The Movement of People Working (2003); Touch Food (2003); Touch Works (2000); A Young Person’s Guide to Phill Niblock (1994); Music by Phill Niblock (1993); Four Full Flutes (1990).

 

Movies and video:
 

Niblock's Sound Spectrums - Within Invisible Rivers (2019); The Movement of People Working (2003); Fluxus Replayed (1991); China (1988); The Lobotomy (1980); Sunsets (1970); Max (1967); The Magic Sun (1966).

Born on this day – Persis Khambatta:

Persis Khambatta

Actress

Model

Producer

October 2, 1948 – August 18, 1998

Credits:

Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein (1968); Bheegi Raat (1965); Casablanca (1983); Conduct Unbecoming (1975); Deadly Intent (1988); Family Feud / All-Star Family Feud Special (1984); First Strike (1984); Get High on Yourself (1981); Good Morning America (1980); Hunter (1986); Jazira (1987); Kama Sutra (1969); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993); MacGyver (1986); Making It So: Continuing Star Trek - The Next Generation (2012); Megaforce (1982); Men Who Rate a 10 (1980); Miss Universe Pageant (1965); Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1979); My Beautiful Laundrette (1985); Nighthawks (1981); Not a Nice Man to Know (1998); Phoenix the Warrior (1988); Pinjre Ke Panchhi (1966); Sammy LaBella: The Real Skip E. Lowe (2025); Shingora (1986); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Teaser (1979); Terror in the Aisles (1984); That's Action (1990); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2021); The Lost Enterprise: Star Trek - Phase II (2001); The Man with the Power (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1983); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Miss Teen USA Pageant (1983); The New Mike Hammer (1987); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Wilby Conspiracy (1975); Warrior of the Lost World (1983).

Born on this day – Paul D'Amato:

Paul D'Amato

Actor

October 2, 1949 – February 19, 2024

Credits:
 

The Unusuals (2009); Light and the Sufferer (2007); The Living Wake (2007); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2005); Law & Order (1993–2002); The Opportunists (1999); Men Under Water (1998); Six Ways to Sunday (1997); Destination Anywhere (1997); Crimson Lights (1994); Dangerous Affairs (1993); American Playhouse (1988); Suspect (1987); A Case of Deadly Force (1986); F/X (1986); Murder Ink (1983); Heaven's Gate (1980); Firepower (1979); The Deer Hunter (1978); Heaven Can Wait (1978); The Six Million Dollar Man (1977); The Deadliest Season (1977); Slap Shot (1977); Code R (1977); Magnum Force (1973).

 

Stage play:
 
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1996).

Born on this day – Janusz Olejniczak:

Janusz Olejniczak

Pianist

Actor

October 2, 1952 – October 20, 2024

Credits:

AVE MARIA (Ellens Gesang III) D. 839 / Short (1990); Blue Note (1991); Die Drehscheibe (1981); Influence (2015); Le grand échiquier (1989); Les Milles (1995); The 2016 European Film Awards (2016); The Pianist (2002); Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny (1999).

On this day in movie history - Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

Coogan’s Bluff

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Herman Miller, Dean Riesner and Howard Rodman,

based on a story by Herman Miller,

was released in the United States on October 2, 1968.

Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud, Betty Field, Tom Tully, Melodie Johnson, James Edwards, Rudy Diaz, David Doyle, Louis Zorich, Meg Myles, Marjorie Bennett, Seymour Cassel, John Coe, Skip Battyn, Albert Popwell, Conrad Bain, James Gavin, Albert Henderson, James McCallion, Syl Lamont, Jess Osuna, Jerry Summers, Antonia Rey, Marya Henriques.

On this day in movie history - The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (1974)

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

directed by Joseph Sargent,

written by Peter Stone, and based on the novel by John Godey,

was released in the United States on October 2, 1974.

Music by David Shire.

Cast:

Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, James Broderick, Dick O'Neill, Lee Wallace, Tom Pedi, Beatrice Winde, Jerry Stiller, Nathan George, Rudy Bond, Kenneth McMillan, Doris Roberts, Julius Harris, Cynthia Belgrave, Anna Berger, Gary Bolling, Carol Cole, Alex Colon, Joe Fields, Mari Gorman, Michael Gorrin, Thomas La Fleur, María Landa, Louise Larabee, George Lee Miles, Carolyn Nelson, Eric O'Hanian, Lucy Saroyan, William Snickowski, Barry Snyder, Walter Jones, Jerry Holland, Robert Weil, Penny Krompier, Christopher Murney, Timothy Meyers, Ruth Attaway, Thomas Barbour, Marvin Silbersher, Neil Brooks Cunningham, Sal Viscuso, Tony Fasce, Burtt Harris, Gene Gross, Walter Lott, Conrad Yama, Sho Onodera, Toru Nagai, Tura Nakamura, Rowena Rollins, Joseph Attles, Willis Pinkett, Michelle Matthow, Isabella Hoopes, Bill Cobbs, Jim Pelham, Joe Seneca, Gino Gennaro, Carmine Foresta, Tony Roberts, Hy Anzell, Ines Hellendall, Jean-Paul Hellendall, Ben Lautman, Carey Loftin, James Mapes, Paul Nuckles, Jay Rasumny, Charles Silvern, Dominique St. Pierre, Dolph Sweet, Frank Ventgen.