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Showing posts with label Writer. Show all posts

Monday, December 16, 2024

Born on this day – Jane Austen:


Jane Austen


Writer

December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817

Credits:

The Watsons (1804); Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Mansfield Park (1814); Emma (1815); Sanditon (1817); Northanger Abbey (1818); Persuasion (1818); The Beautifull Cassandra (1793); Lesley Castle: An Unfinished Novel In Letters (1793); Lady Susan (1794); Love and Freindship (2015); The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen (2017); A Memoir of Jane Austen (2017); The Letters of Jane Austen (2018); Juvenilia Volume I Annotated (1787); Juvenilia Volume II Annotated (2021); Identity And Self Respect (1952); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); Women Who Wrote (2020); Love, Lust and Passion in Regency Times (2021); The Bridgerthonian Novels (2022); The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance (2023); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).


Born on this day – Lizzy Mercier Descloux:


Lizzy Mercier Descloux


Singer

Musician

Writer

Composer

Actress

Painter

December 16, 1956 – April 20, 2004


Credits:

Albums:

Rosa Yemen – Live in N.Y.C July 1978 (1978); Press Color (1979); Mambo Nassau (1981); Zulu Rock (1984); One for the Soul (1985); Suspense (1988).

Movies and television:

Corporate (2019); Cocoricocoboy (1984); 5 Flaschen für Angelika (1981); Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979); Midi-Première (1979).


Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Born on this day – Jim Harrison:



Jim Harrison


Writer

December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016


Credits:

A Good Day to Die (1973); A Really Big Lunch (2017); After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996); Braided Creek (2003); Brown Dog (2013); Conversations with Jim Harrison (2002); Dalva (1988); Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (2013); Dead Man's Float (2015); Farmer (1976); Great Leader (2011); In Search of Small Gods (2009); Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals (2020); Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems (2019); Julip (1994); Just Before Dark (1993); Legends of the Fall (1979); Letters to Yesenin (1973); Locations (1968); New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (2000); Off to the Side (2002); Outlyer and Ghazals (1971); Plain Song (1965); Returning to Earth (2007); Saving Daylight (2006); Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 (1982); Songs of Unreason (2011); Sundog (1984); The Ancient Minstrel (2016); The Beast God Forgot to Invent (2000); The Big Seven (2015); The Boy Who Ran to the Woods (2000); The English Major (2008); The Etiquette of Freedom (2010); The Farmer's Daughter (2009); The Raw and the Cooked (2001); The River Swimmer (2013); The Road Home (1998); The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022); The Shape of the Journey (1998); The Summer He Didn't Die (2005); The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems (1990); The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990); True North (2004); Warlock (1982); Wild Stories (2002); Wolf (1971).

Movies and television:

A Day Like Any Other (1987); All That Is Sacred (2023); Amérique, notre histoire (2006); Café Picouly (2010); Carried Away (1996); Cold Feet (1989); Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013); Dalva (1996); Droit d'auteurs (2000); Jim Harrison entre chien et loup (1993); La grande librairie (2009–2015); Le cercle de minuit (1993–1995); Légendes d'automne (2018); Legends of the Fall (1994); Nulle part ailleurs (2000); Revenge (1990); Seule la terre est éternelle (2019); The Practice of the Wild (2010); Vol de nuit (2003); Wolf (1994).



Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Born on this day – Rhea Mitchell:


Rhea Mitchell


Actress

Writer

December 10, 1890 – September 16, 1957


Credits:
The Member of the Wedding (1952); My Man and I (1952); Washington Story (1952); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); The Unknown Man (1951); Bannerline (1951); Texas Carnival (1951); Grounds for Marriage (1951); Dial 1119 (1950); The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950); The Next Voice You Hear... (1950); Please Believe Me (1950); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Stars in My Crown (1950); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); State of the Union (1948); B.F.'s Daughter (1948); The Bride Goes Wild (1948); High Wall (1947); Green Dolphin Street (1947); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947); The Mighty McGurk (1947); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Hidden Eye (1945); Mrs. Parkington (1944); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); The Cross of Lorraine (1943); Harrigan's Kid (1943); I Take This Woman (1940); The Ship That Died (1938); Mysterious Crossing (1936); 15 Maiden Lane (1936); The Texas Rangers (1936); San Francisco (1936); Song and Dance Man (1936); One Hour Late (1934); Behold My Wife! (1934); Whom the Gods Destroy (1934); The Big Bluff (1933); Danger Patrol (1928); The Home Trail (1927); The Dude Desperado (1927); Modern Youth (1926); The Other Kind of Love (1924); The Greatest Menace (1923); The Innocent Cheat (1921); A Ridin' Romeo (1921); Good Women (1921); The Scoffer (1920); The Devil's Claim (1920); The Hawk's Trail (1919); The Sleeping Lion (1919); The Money Corral (1919); Unexpected Places (1918); The Goat (1918); Boston Blackie's Little Pal (1918); Ghost of the Rancho (1918); The Lion of the Hills (1918); Social Ambition (1918); Honor's Cross (1918); The Blindness of Divorce (1918); Whither Thou Goest (1917); The Gilded Youth (1917); Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky (1916); Philip Holden - Waster (1916); The Sable Blessing (1916); The Man from Manhattan (1916); The Blindness (1916); The Overcoat (1916); Overalls (1916); The Three Musketeers (1916); Don Quixote (1915); The Beckoning Flame (1915); The Brink (1915); The Phantom Extra (1915); Tools of Providence (1915); The Operator at Big Sandy (1915); The Kite (1915); The Diamond from the Sky (1915); The Valley of Hate (1915); On the Night Stage (1915); Molly of the Mountains (1915); The Fakir (1915); The Devil (1915); Mr. 'Silent' Haskins (1915); The Scourge of the Desert (1915); In the Sage Brush Country (1914); A Game of Life (1914); The Master of the House (1914); The Game Keeper's Daughter (1914); A Tragedy of the North Woods (1914); The Cruise of the Molly Ann (1914); The Old Love's Best (1914); The Long Feud (1914); The Feud at Beaver Creek (1914); In the Southern Hills (1914); Tennessee (1914); The Fires of Ambition (1914); Shorty Escapes Marriage (1914); Wolves of the Underworld (1914); A Barrier Royal (1914); Twixt Love and Fire (1914); A New England Idyl (1914); An Indian's Honor (1913); An Indian's Gratitude (1913); A Frontier Wife (1913); His Squaw (1912); The Colonel's Ward (1912); The Hidden Trail (1912).

Monday, December 9, 2024

Born on this day – C.J. Sansom:


C.J. Sansom


Writer

December 9, 1952 – April 27, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Dark Fire (2004); Dissolution (2003); Dominion (2012); Heartstone (2010); Hill of Bones (2011); House of Shadows (2007); King Arthur's Bones (2009); Lamentation (2014); Revelation (2008); Shardlake Books 1-3 (2014); Sovereign (2006); Sword of Shame (2006); The Deadliest Sin (2014); The False Virgin (2013); The First Murder (2012); The Lost Prophecies (2008); The Sacred Stone (2010); The Tainted Relic (2005); Tombland (2018); Winter in Madrid (2006).

Television:

Shardlake (2024).
 


Saturday, November 30, 2024

Born on this day – Lloyd Ingraham:


Lloyd Ingraham


Actor

Director

Writer

November 30, 1874 – April 4, 1956


Credits:
20 Mule Team (1940); A Borrowed Identity (1913); A Buckaroo Broadcast (1938); A Child of the Paris Streets (1916); A Front Page Story (1922); A Gambler's Way (1914); A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941); A House Divided (1931); A Lady to Love (1930); A Law Unto Himself (1914); A Man to Remember (1938); A Modern Melnotte (1914); A Night on the Road (1914); A Princess of Destiny (1929); A Romance of the Hills (1913); A Western Sister's Devotion (1913); A Western Welcome (1938); Adventures of Red Ryder (1940); Adventures of Rusty (1945); American Aristocracy (1916); An Old Fashioned Young Man (1917); Ann's Finish (1918); Arizona Nights (1927); Army Surgeon (1942); At the Postern Gate (1915); At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922); At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922); Aurora of the North (1914); Bad Man from Red Butte (1940); Bad Man of Deadwood (1941); Bandit Ranger (1942); Battle of Greed (1937); Be Neutral (1914); Beauty Parlor (1932); Beggars in Ermine (1934); Betty's Bandit (1912); Between Men (1935); Biff Bang Buddy (1924); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Blazing Guns (1943); Blonde Trouble (1937); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bombardier (1943); Bonnie of the Hills (1913); Branded a Coward (1935); Broncho Billy and the Western Girls (1913); Broncho Billy Reforms (1913); Broncho Billy, Guardian (1914); Broncho Billy's Capture (1913); Broncho Billy's Elopement (1913); Broncho Billy's Strategy (1913); Burning Gold (1936); Cactus Capers (1942); Captain Calamity (1936); Captains Courageous (1937); Casey at the Bat (1916); Charity Castle (1917); Circumstantial Evidence (1935); City of Missing Girls (1941); Code of the Streets (1939); Colorado (1940); Common Clay (1930); Conflict (1936); Contented Calves (1934); Cornered (1932); Courage (1915); Crime Takes a Holiday (1938); Cyclone on Horseback (1941); Dangerous Intruder (1945); Dark Command (1940); Destry Rides Again (1939); Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939); Dog-Gone (1939); Don Mike (1927); Don Mike (1927); Don't Get Excited (1929); Drum Taps (1933); Dude Cowboy (1941); Dulcy (1940); East Side of Heaven (1939); Empty Saddles (1936); Enemy Agent (1940); Everyman's Law (1936); Fast and Furious (1931); Fighting to Live (1934); First Comes Courage (1943); For the Honor of Bettina (1915); Forgotten Girls (1940); Frontier Feud (1945); Frontier Gal (1945); Frontier Justice (1935); Get That Girl (1932); Ghost Patrol (1936); Git Along Little Wifie (1933); Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936); Going Up (1923); Greed for Gold (1913); Gun Law (1938); Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937); Gun Packer (1938); Gun Smoke (1935); Gunman's Code (1946); Hearts and Fists (1926); Hearts in Bondage (1936); Heavenly Days (1944); Her Country's Call (1917); Highways by Night (1942); Hollywood, ciudad de ensueño (1931); Home Boner (1939); Hoodoo Ann (1916); Hot Rhythm (1944); I Love That Man (1933); I Stole a Million (1939); I Was a Convict (1939); I'll Tell the World (1934); Impossible Susan (1918); In Love with Life (1934); In Name Only (1939); Intolerance (1916); Invisible Ghost (1941); Isle of Destiny (1940); It's in the Bag! (1945); Jesse James (1927); Jesse James at Bay (1941); Jilted Janet (1918); Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921); Kit Carson (1928); Lavender and Old Lace (1921); Lawless Empire (1945); Leave It to Dad (1933); Legion of Terror (1936); Legion of the Lawless (1940); Let's Be Fashionable (1920); Lightnin' Crandall (1937); Little Men (1940); Love Affair (1939); Love and the Law (1913); Love and Water (1914); Love on a Bet (1936); Love Your Landlord (1944); Lover Come Back (1946); Lucky Partners (1940); Madison Square Garden (1932); Mammy (1930); Man from Music Mountain (1938); Man's Desire (1919); Marry the Poor Girl (1921); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Mary's Ankle (1920); Melody Ranch (1940); Merrily Yours (1933); Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942); Midnight Molly (1925); Miss Jackie of the Army (1917); Missing Girls (1936); Mister Antonio (1929); Modern Times (1936); Molly Go Get 'Em (1918); Montana Moon (1930); Morning Glory (1933); Mr. Lucky (1943); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Murder in Times Square (1943); My Lady Friends (1921); My Little Chickadee (1940); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931); Never Too Late (1935); Night Parade (1929); Nina, the Flower Girl (1917); No More Women (1924); Northern Frontier (1935); Officer Thirteen (1932); Oh, Doctor (1937); Oh, What a Night! (1926); Oklahoma Frontier (1939); Old Dad (1920); On Probation (1935); On the Border Line (1912); One Man's Journey (1933); One More Spring (1935); Our Daily Bread (1934); Outlaws of Cherokee Trail (1941); Painted Desert (1938); Paper Bullets (1941); Park Avenue Logger (1937); Partners of the Trail (1944); Peck's Bad Boy (1934); Peggy Leads the Way (1917); Petticoat Larceny (1943); Phantoms, Inc. (1945); Pioneer Scout (1928); Pony Post (1940); Prairie Law (1940); Prairie Papas (1938); Prairie Spooners (1941); Pride of the Bowery (1940); Prison Break (1938); Prison Shadows (1936); Race Suicide (1938); Racing Blood (1936); Rainbow Valley (1935); Range Law (1944); Red River Robin Hood (1942); Red River Valley (1936); Red Skins and Red Heads (1941); Reformatory (1938); Reno (1939); Revenge at Monte Carlo (1933); Rhythm Wranglers (1937); Riders of the Dawn (1937); Roarin' Guns (1936); Robbers of the Range (1941); Rogue of the Range (1936); Roll Along, Cowboy (1937); Rosemary Climbs the Heights (1918); S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939); San Diego I Love You (1944); Sarong Girl (1943); Scaramouche (1923); Second Hand Rose (1922); Shine on Harvest Moon (1938); Ship Cafe (1935); Silent Men (1933); Silver Comes Through (1927); Silver Comes Through (1927); Sing Sing Nights (1934); Single Handed (1914); Sinister Hands (1932); Sister Kenny (1946); Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934); Slave Girl (1947); Slightly Married (1932); Snakeville's New Doctor (1914); So Long Letty (1929); So Red the Rose (1935); So This Is Washington (1943); Social Error (1935); Soft Shoes (1925); Son of Roaring Dan (1940); Song of the Eagle (1933); Songs and Saddles (1938); Sons of Steel (1934); Souls in Pawn (1940); Springtime in Texas (1945); Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942); Stars Over Arizona (1937); State's Attorney (1932); Stormy Trails (1936); Stranded (1916); Street of Missing Men (1939); Strictly in the Groove (1942); Sudan (1945); Sundown Saunders (1935); Sutter's Gold (1936); Swede Larson (1914); Swing, Sister, Swing (1938); Take the Heir (1930); Ten Laps to Go (1936); Tennessee Johnson (1942); Texas Gun Fighter (1932); That's the Spirit (1945); The Amazing Impostor (1919); The Arm of Vengeance (1914); The Atonement (1914); The Avenging Rider (1943); The Awakening (1914); The Barnstormers (1914); The Beauty Prize (1924); The Belle of Siskiyou (1913); The Big Shot (1937); The Border Patrolman (1936); The Boss of Big Town (1942); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Bridge of Sighs (1936); The Broken Parole (1913); The Broken Parole (1913); The Caravan Trail (1946); The Cheaters (1945); The Chef's Revenge (1915); The Children Pay (1916); The Chorus Lady (1924); The Conquest of Man (1914); The Cowboy Millionaire (1935); The Cowboy Samaritan (1913); The Crusader (1932); The Curtain Falls (1934); The Dance at Eagle Pass (1913); The Danger Point (1922); The Day the Bookies Wept (1939); The Desert Hawk (1944); The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949); The Dude Ranger (1934); The Edge of Things (1913); The Emerald Brooch (1915); The Episode at Cloudy Canyon (1913); The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918); The Feud Maker (1938); The Flying Irishman (1939); The Fox (1914); The Fox Woman (1915); The Galloping Fish (1924); The Gambling Terror (1937); The Ghost Rider (1935); The Girl in the Taxi (1921); The Gladiator (1938); The Gold Ghost (1934); The Great Meadow (1931); The Green Archer (1940); The Grim Messenger (1915); The Headline Woman (1935); The Heart of a Magdalene (1914); The Hills of Peace (1914); The Hired Girl (1915); The Honeymooners (1914); The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935); The House of Bentley (1915); The House of Intrigue (1919); The Intrusion of Isabel (1919); The Iron Claw (1941); The Jailbird (1920); The Kid Sheriff (1913); The Lady Who Dared (1930); The Last of the Duanes (1930); The Lawless Nineties (1936); The Lightning Rider (1924); The Little Liar (1916); The Lonely Trail (1936); The Lost Jungle (1934); The Man Who Walked Alone (1945); The Marshal of Mesa City (1939); The Merry Monahans (1944); The Midnight Warning (1932); The Milky Way (1936); The Missing Links (1916); The Musical Bandit (1941); The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943); The Naming of the Rawhide Queen (1913); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Nutcracker (1926); The Old Swimmin' Hole (1940); The Padrone's Ward (1914); The Perfect Clue (1935); The Phantom of Paris (1931); The Phantom Plainsmen (1942); The Primitive Woman (1918); The Rainbow Man (1929); The Ranger and the Lady (1940); The Rider of the Law (1935); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Rustler's Step-Daughter (1913); The Sable Lorcha (1915); The Savage Horde (1950); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Shadow (1940); The Sheriff of Cochise (1913); The Silver Bullet (1942); The Singing Cowgirl (1938); The Spanish Jade (1915); The Spoilers (1930); The Spoilers (1942); The Square Deal (1918); The Storm (1938); The Story of the Old Gun (1914); The Sunset Legion (1928); The Talkies (1929); The Three Gamblers (1913); The Trail of the Snake Band (1913); The Veiled Woman (1922); The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936); The Warning (1914); The Weaker's Strength (1914); The Widow in Scarlet (1932); The Wise Virgin (1924); The World Accuses (1934); The World Gone Mad (1933); The Zero Hour (1939); There Goes My Heart (1938); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is the Life (1914); This Land Is Mine (1943); Three Legionnaires (1937); Through Trackless Sands (1914); Thunder Mountain (1935); Thundering Hoofs (1942); Timber War (1935); Timber! (1942); Time Out of Mind (1947); Today I Hang (1942); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Too Much Beef (1936); Trail of Terror (1935); Trail of the Vigilantes (1940); Tramp Trouble (1937); Trigger Tom (1935); Triple Justice (1940); Trouble in Sundown (1939); Truth Aches (1939); Twin Beds (1920); Undercover Man (1936); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Untamed (1929); Valley of the Sun (1942); Vivacious Lady (1938); Wagon Train (1940); Water Rustlers (1939); West of Sonora (1948); West of the Rio Grande (1944); Westward Ho (1935); What Came to Bar Q (1914); What's Your Husband Doing? (1920); When the Daltons Rode (1940); Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County (1913); Wide Open (1930); Winds of the Wasteland (1936); Wives and Other Wives (1918); X Marks the Spot (1931); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939).


Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Born on this day – Charles M. Schulz:


Charles M. Schulz


Cartoonist

Writer

Creator of the Peanuts comic strip

November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000




Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Born on this day – William Faulkner:


William Faulkner


Writer

September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962


Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Fable (1954); A Rose for Emily (1930); Absalom, Absalom! (1936); As I Lay Dying (1930); Barn Burning (1996); Barn Burning and other stories (1939); Big Woods (1955); Collected Stories (1948); Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Flags in the Dust (1973); Go Down, Moses (1942); Growing Up in the South (1991); Intruder in the Dust (1948); Jealousy and Episode (1977); Knight's Gambit (1949); Light in August (1932); Louisiana Stories (1990); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Marble Faun and a Green Bough (1960); Mayday (1978); Mosquitoes (1927); New Orleans Sketches (1957); Ole Miss Juvenilia (2018); Pylon (1935); Requiem for a Nun (1950); Road to Glory (1981); Sanctuary (1931); Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1954); Sartoris (1929); Selected Short Stories (1956); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Soldiers' Pay (1926); Stories of the Modern South (1977); The Bear (1942); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Best Horror Stories (1977); The Essential Faulkner (2013); The Hamlet (1940); The Mansion (1959); The Marionettes (1978); The Reivers (1962); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sound and the Fury (1929); The Town (1957); The Unvanquished (1938); The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939); These 13 (1931); Three Famous Short Novels (1958); Uncle Willy and Other Stories (1967); Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979); Wishing Tree (1927); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

A Rose for Emily (1983); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Air Force (1943); As I Lay Dying (2013); Background to Danger (1943); Barn Burning (1980); Camera Three (1956–1958); Cheyenne (1956); Climax! (1954–1955); Deep Valley (1947); Dim (1958); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Estudio 1 (1977); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flesh (1932); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Fumée / Smoke (1961); General Electric Theater (1960); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gunga Din (1939); Intruder in the Dust (1949); Invitation au voyage (2021); Kaki Bakar (1995); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lazy River (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Mildred Pierce (1945); Mississippi Requiem (2018); Moi, général de Gaulle (1990); Noga (1991); Northern Pursuit (1943); Old Man (1997); Omnibus / Segment: William Faulkner (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Requiem für eine Nonne (1965); Sanctuary (1961); Slave Ship (1937); Sling Blade (1996); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The Bear (1980); The Big Sleep (1946); The Loneliness Trilogy (2008); The Long Hot Summer (1985); The Long, Hot Summer (1958–1966); The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner (2024); The Reivers (1969); The Road to Glory (1936); The Sound and the Fury (1959 / 2009 / 2014); The Southerner (1945); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Tarnished Angels (1957); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Tomorrow (1972); Two Soldiers (1986 / 2003); Vacation Playhouse (1964).


Saturday, August 17, 2024

Born on this day – Ted Hughes:


Writer

August 17, 1930 – October 28, 1998


Credits:
 
Books:
 
A March Calf (2019); A Ted Hughes Bestiary (2014); All Around the Year (1979); Animal Poems (1967); By Heart (2012); Cave Birds (1978); Crow (1970); Emily Dickinson (2011); Euripides' Alcestis (2011); Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth (1986); Gaudete (1977); How the Whale Became (1963); Letters of Ted Hughes (2010); Lupercal (1960); Meet My Folks (1973); Moon-Whales (1976); Moortown (1979); My Brother Bert (2009); Nessie the Mannerless Monster (1964); New and Selected Poems (2010); Remains of Elmet (2011); River (1983); Season Songs (2019); Selected Poems (1962); T. S. Eliot: A Tribute (1987); Tales of the Early World (1988); The Coming of the Kings (1970); The Dreamfighter (1995); The Earth Owl and Other Moon People (1963); The Hawk in the Rain (1957); The Iron Man aka The Iron Giant (1968); The Iron Wolf (2019); The Iron Woman (1993); The Love Pet (1985); The Thought Fox (2019); The Tiger's Bones (1974); Timmy the Tug (2009); What is the Truth? (1984); Wodwo (1967); Wolfwatching (1989).
 
Movies and television:
 
Beauty and the Beast (1982); Biography (2004); Crow (2014); Jackanory (1972–1995); Jackanory Playhouse (1972); MultiVersus (2024); Seven Crows a Secret (1994); Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018); Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (2015); The Colossus (2010); The English Programme (1986–1998); The Iron Giant (1999); The Rain Horse (2008); The South Bank Show (1979–1981).


Friday, August 16, 2024

Born on this day – Charles Bukowski:


Writer

August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994

Credits:

Books:

A Bukowski Sampler (1988); Absence of the Hero (2010); All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966); At Terror Street And Agony Way (1968); Barfly (1983); Beerspit Night and Cursing (2001); Betting on the Muse (1996); Bone Palace Ballet (1997); Bring Me Your Love (1983); Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974); Cold Dogs In The Courtyard (1965); Come On In! (2006); Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965); Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981); Factotum (1975); Fire Station (1970); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Ham on Rye (1982); Hollywood (1989); Hot Water Music (1983); In the Shadow of the Rose (1991); Living On Luck (1995); Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977); Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972); Mondo Barbie (1993); Mondo Elvis (1994); Mondo James Dean (1996); Mondo Marilyn (1995); Mondo Marilyn (1995); More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011); New Poems Book Four (2003); New Poems Book One (2003); New Poems Book Three (2003); New Poems Book Two (2003); Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969); On Cats (2015); On Drinking (2019); On Love (2016); On Writing (2015); Open All Night (2000); Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979); Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window (1974); Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008); Post Office (1971); Pulp (1994); Reach for the Sun (1999); Run With the Hunted (1962); Screams from the Balcony (1993); Selected Letters Volume 1: 1958-1965 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994 (2005); Septuagenarian Stew (1990); Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 1 (2002); Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 2 (2002); Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005); South of No North (1973); Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983); The Bell Tolls for No One (2015); The Bukowski / Purdy Letters (1984); The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998); The Continual Condition (2009); The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969); The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2003); The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992); The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing (2018); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (2013); The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001); The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007); The Pleasures of the Damned (2007); The Portable Sixties Reader (2003); The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988); There's No Business (1984); War All the Time (1984); What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999); Women (1978); Writing Los Angeles (2002); You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (1986).

Movies and television:

900 Pounds (1987); A .45 to Pay The Rent (2010); A Man (2005); Alone with Everybody (2016); Amor por menos (1994); An Evil Town (1995); Apostrophes (1978); Apporte-moi ton amour (2002); Artbound (2014); Barfly (1987); Bluebird (2022); Breakfast with Bukowski (2011); Bring Me Your Love (2000); Broken-Mirror Music (2001); Bukowski (1973 / 2023); Bukowski at Bellevue (1995); Bukowski: Born into This (2003); BXLx24 (2011); Charles Bukowski's Nirvana (2013); Cinéma cinémas (1982); Code Name: Arabesque / The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985); Crazy Love (1987); Death Is Smoking My Cigars (2021); Dr Nazi (2011); Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1982); Eddie and Eve (2021); Encore une nuit de merde dans cette ville pourrie (2008); Factotum (2005); Fan des années 80 (2012); Figure (2017); Frozen Food Section (2005); Fuck the Forest (2013); Functioning on Zero: Robert Dean Live from the Lost Well (2020); Girl on the Escalator (2016); Gunnar Goes Comfortable (2003); Guts (1991); Hit Man (2014); Horseshoe (1998); Il falso bugiardo (2008); Ioana Dobroiu: The Night Kept Coming on and There Was Nothing I Could Do About It (2018); Jukebox: From Edison to Ipod (2007); Kasabanin En Güzel Kizi (2018); La pétaudière de Gontran H (2024); Lonely at the Top (1993); Loren Cass (2006); Love for $17.50 (1998); Love Is a Dog from Hell (2014); Love Lasts Three Years (2011); Love Pig (1990); Lune froide (1988 / 1991); Ma langue dans ta poche (2016); Mask (2011); Mermaid of Venice (2011); Metamorphosis (2022); My Old Man (2004); Nedgång och Fall (2009); Nice Guy Blues (2007); No Leaders Please (2021); Nothing Else to Do (2016); Opowiesc o ordynarnym szalenstwie (1987); Paradise Now, Apocalypse Later / The Laughing Heart (2017); Personenbeschreibung (1982); Pink & Tender (2007); Piss (2018); Poetry in Motion (1982 / 2020); Resiliencia (2020); Run to the Sea (2014); Sieh an, sieh an (1985); Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs (2015); Småfysen (2022); Somebody to Love (1994); Son of Satan (2003); Supervan (1977); Sve Zene Se Zovu Kiki (1991); Syn Szatana (2008); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981); The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990); The Big Pot Game (2013); The Blanket (1994); The Bottle (2019); The Crossing Guard (1995); The Devil Was Hot (2010); The Icecream People (2022); The Killers (1984); The Last Straw (2008); The Laughing Heart (2012); The Living Room Festival (1995–1999); The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (2000); The Midnight Show (2012); The Pleasures of the Damned (2024); The Strangest Thing Just Happened (2015); The Suicide (2006); The Works III (1994); There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here (2008); Vessel (2015); Warm Face/Cold Place (2015); Welcome to the Basement (2015); You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (2016).

 

Monday, July 15, 2024

Born on this day – Gloria Pall:

 
Actress

Dancer

Writer

Businesswoman

July 15, 1927 – December 30, 2012


Credits: 

Books:

Cameo Girl of the 50s (1993); I Danced Before the King (2000); The Marilyn Monroe Party (2002); Voluptua: Story of a TV Love Goddess (1992).

Movies and television:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Ada (1961); All Ashore (1953); All Star Revue (1952); City of Shadows (1955); Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1955); December Bride (1957); Elmer Gantry (1960); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hot Shots (1956); Jailhouse Rock (1957); Low Man on a Totem Pole (1964); Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952); Moviewatch (1994); Paris Model (1953); Racket Squad (1952); Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood (2009); Sky King (1958); Son of Sinbad (1955); Space Patrol (1954); The Abbott and Costello Show (1954); The A-B-C's of Love (1953); The All New Truth or Consequences (1951); The Bob Cummings Show (1955); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Danny Thomas Show (1960); The Extra (2017); The French Line (1953); The Garment Jungle (1957); The George Jessel Show (1953); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The People's Choice (1957); The Spike Jones Show (1957); The Twilight Zone (1959); This Could Be the Night (1957); Vampira and Me (2012); Where's Raymond? (1954).



Thursday, July 11, 2024

Born on this day – Pamela Gidley:


Actress

Director

Writer

July 11, 1965 – April 16, 2018


Credits:
Aberration (1997); Angel Street (1992 / 1993); Bad Love (1992); Blue Bayou (1990); Bombshell (1997); Cake Boy (2005); Celebrity Page (2018); Cherry 2000 (1987); Crime Story (1987); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2002); Disturbed (1990); Dudes (1987); Freefall (1994); Glory Days (1988); Goodbye, Casanova (2000); Highway to Hell (1991); I Just Forgot (2004); Kiss & Tell (1997); Landspeed (2002); Liar's Poker (1999); Liebestraum (1991); Luster (2002); MacGyver (1986); Mafia! (1998); Man Made (1998); Moving Through Time: Fire Walk with Me Memories (2014); Paper Hearts (1993); Permanent Record (1988); Puzzled (2001); S.F.W. (1994); Scratch the Surface (1997); Skin (2003–2005); Strange Luck (1995–1996); The Blue Iguana (1988); The Closer (2006); The Crew (1994); The Last of the Finest (1990); The Little Death (1996); The Little Vampire (2000); The Maze (1997); The Pretender (1997–2000); The Treat (1998); Thrashin' (1986); Tour of Duty (1987–1988); True Blue (2001); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014).


Monday, June 10, 2024

Born on this day – Manny Coto:


Writer

Director

Producer

June 10, 1961 – July 9, 2023

Credits:

24 (2006–2010); 24 Season 6: Inside the Writers Room (2007); 24: Day Six - Debrief (2007); 24: Legacy (2016–2017); 24: Live Another Day (2014); 24: Redemption (2008); 24: Solitary (2014); 24-7: The Untold Story (2009); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1988); American Horror Stories (2021–2023); American Horror Story (2018–2022); Cover-Up (1991); Dead at 21 (1994); Dexter (2010–2013); Dr. Giggles (1992); Dr. Giggles: Special Edition (2023); Hostile Intent (1997); In Creative Company (2020); Inglorious Treksperts (2023); Jack in the Box (1989); Jack Is Back (2014); Mirror Universe: Part 2 (2008); Monsters (1989); Moving Pictures (1990); Next (2020); Odyssey 5 (2002–2003); Playroom (1990); Sidekick Vs Superhero (2013); Star Kid (1997); Star Trek Phase II (2007); Star Trek: Enterprise (2003–2005); Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault (2016); Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (2016); Strange World (1999–2002); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993); The ½ Hour News Hour (2007); The 29th Annual Imagen Awards (2014); The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022); The Exorcist (2017); The Other Me (2000); The Outer Limits (1995); The Playboy Morning Show (2014); The Writers' Room (2013); Zenon: The Zequel (2001).



Saturday, May 18, 2024

Born on this day – Phoebe Atwood Taylor:

 

Writer

May 18, 1909 – January 9, 1976


Credits:
Banbury Bog (1938); Beginning with a Bash (1937); Cold Steal (1939); Dead Ernest (1944); Death Lights a Candle (1932); Deathblow Hill (1935); Diplomatic Corpse (1951); Figure Away (1937); File for Record (1943); Going, Going, Gone (1943); Murder and Mystery in Boston (1987); Murder At the New York World's Fair (1938); Octagon House (1937); Out of Order (1936); Proof of the Pudding (1945); Punch with Care (1946); Sandbar Sinister (1934); Spring Harrowing (1939); The Annulet of Gilt (1938); The Cape Cod Mystery (1931); The Criminal C. O. D (1940); The Crimson Patch (1936); The Cut Direct (1938); The Deadly Sunshade (1940); The Hollow Chest (1941); The Iron Clew / aka The Iron Hand (1947); The Left Leg (1940); The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933); The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934); The Perennial Boarder (1941); The Six Iron Spiders (1942); The Tinkling Symbol (1935).


Monday, May 13, 2024

Born on this day – Leighton Gage:

 

Writer

May 13, 1942 – July 26, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Vine in the Blood (2011); Blood of the Wicked (2007); Buried Strangers (2009); Dying Gasp (2010); Every Bitter Thing (2010); Perfect Hatred (2013); The Ways of Evil Men (2014).



Saturday, May 4, 2024

Born on this day – Eleanor Coppola:


Documentary film director

Cinematographer

Writer

Artist

May 4, 1936 – April 12, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now (1979); Notes on a Life (2008).

Documentaries, movies and television:

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012); A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004); A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now (2006); A Visit to China's Miao Country (1996); An American Rhapsody (2001); Apocalypse Now (1979); Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto (2014); Celebrity Page (2017–2021); Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007); Dementia 13 (1963); Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' (2007); Front Row Flynn (2018); Full Tilt Boogie (1997); Heard Any Good Movies Lately?: The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now (2006); Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991); Hollywood Insider (2021); Lost in Translation (2003); Love Is Love Is Love (2020); Made in Hollywood (2021); Making of 'The Virgin Suicides' (1998); Napa Valley Dreams (2013); On the Rocks (2020); On the Set of 'CQ' (2002); Paris Can Wait (2016); Ryska Alaska (1992); Somewhere (2010); Teknolust (2002); Tell Them We Were Here (2021); The 19th Annual Rudolph Valentino Awards (1991); The 43rd Annual Directors Guild Awards (1991); The Beguiled (2017); The Birth of 5.1 Sound (2006); The Bling Ring (2013); The Dream Studio (2004); The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990); The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' (2007); The Music of Apocalypse Now (2006); The Rain People (1969); THX 1138 (1971); You're a Big Boy Now (1966).



Thursday, February 8, 2024

Born on this day – Richard Romanus:


Actor

Writer

Producer

February 8, 1945 – December 23, 2023

With Harvey Keitel and Martin Scorsese, in Mean Streets (1973).
 
Credits:
The Young Black Stallion (2003); The Sopranos (1999–2002); Nailed (2001); Providence (2001); Carlo's Wake (1999); If You Believe (1999); Giving Up the Ghost (1998); Urban Relics (1998); NYPD Blue (1996); Diagnosis Murder (1996); Charlie Grace (1995); The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise (1995); Northern Exposure (1995); Chicago Hope (1994); Cops and Robbersons (1994); Johnny Bago (1993); Point of No Return (1993); Reasonable Doubts (1992); To Protect and Serve (1992); The Entertainers (1991); Jake and the Fatman (1991); Oscar (1991); Final Stage (1990); Hollywood Heartbreak (1990); Married to the Mob (1989); Mission: Impossible (1989); Midnight Caller (1989); The Couch Trip (1988); Cagney & Lacey (1983–1987); Ghost of a Chance (1987); The A-Team (1983–1986); MacGyver (1985–1986); Murphy's Law (1986); Hill Street Blues (1986); Shadow Chasers (1985); Stir Crazy (1985); Tales from the Darkside (1985); Fame (1985); Crackups (1984); Protocol (1984); Hunter (1984); Second Sight: A Love Story (1984); More Than Murder (1984); Hardcastle and McCormick (1983); Strangers Kiss (1983); Matt Houston (1982); Hey Good Lookin' (1982); Strike Force (1981–1982); Pandemonium (1982); Foul Play (1981); Fantasy Island (1981); Heavy Metal (1981); Hart to Hart (1980); Sitting Ducks (1980); Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980); Gold of the Amazon Women (1979); The Rockford Files (1978); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Outtakes (1977); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Night Drive (1977); Wizards (1977); Charlie's Angels (1977); Russian Roulette (1975); Kojak (1974); Rhoda (1974); The Dion Brothers (1974); Mean Streets (1973); Mod Squad (1970–1971); Night Chase (1970); Walk the Walk (1970); Mission: Impossible (1970); The Ghastly Ones (1968).