Born on this day – Robert Loggia:

Actor

January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015

Credits:

The Savant (2019); Cries of the Unborn (2017); The Red Maple Leaf (2016); Independence Day: Resurgence (2016); Sicilian Vampire (2015); La Trattoria Sitcom (2015); No Deposit (2015); Bleeding Hearts (2015); The Big Fat Stone (2014); Before It's Too Late (2014); An Evergreen Christmas (2014); Scavenger Killers (2014); Snapshot (2014); Real Gangsters (2013); Family Guy (1999); Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012); Margarine Wars (2012); The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012); Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012); Men of a Certain Age (2009); The Life Zone (2011); The Great Fight (2011); The Grand Theft (2011); Fake (2011); Hawaii Five-0 (2010); Obituary of the Sun (2010); Harvest (2010); Shrink (2009); The Least of These (2008); The Boneyard Collection (2008); Monk (2002); Her Morbid Desires (2008); Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006); Wild Seven (2006); Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004); Forget About It (2006); Rain (2006); Funny Money (2006); The Deal (2005); Kojak (2005); The Sopranos (1999); Queens Supreme (2003); All Over Again (2001); The Shipment (2001); The Guardian (2001); Grand Theft Auto III (2001); Malcolm in the Middle (2000); Dodson's Journey (2001); The Fearing Mind (2000); Dharma & Greg (1997); Touched by an Angel (1994); The Outer Limits (1995); Frasier (1993); Return to Me (2000); FeeSpace 2 (1999); Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999); American Virgin (1999); Flypaper (1999); Joan of Arc (1999); The Suburbans (1999); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Hard Time (1998); Holy Man (1998); The Proposition (1998); Wide Awake (1998); Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997); The Don's Analyst (1997); The Dog of Flanders (1997); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997); Lost Highway (1997); Pandora's Clock (1996); Mistrial (1996); Independence Day (1996); The Right to Remain Silent (1996); Man with a Gun (1995); Picture Windows (1994); Between Love and Honor (1995); Coldblooded (1995); Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou (1995); I Love Trouble (1994); White Mile (1994); The Last Tattoo (1994); Bad Girls (1994); Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993); Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993); Lifepod (1993); Wild Palms (1993); Innocent Blood (1992); Afterburn (1992); Gladiator (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1991); Necessary Roughness (1991); Sunday Dinner (1991); The Marrying Man (1991); Spies Inc. (1992); Mancuso, FBI (1989); Opportunity Knocks (1990); Triumph of the Spirit (1989); Relentless (1989); Running Away (1989); Dream Breakers (1989); Oliver & Company (1988); Favorite Son (1988); Intrigue (1988); Big (1988); Old Dogs (1987); Echoes in the Darkness (1987); Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); Gaby: A True Story (1987); The Believers (1987); Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987); Hot Pursuit (1987); Over the Top (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1980); That's Life! (1986); Armed and Dangerous (1986); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); Streets of Justice (1985); Jagged Edge (1985); Prizzi's Honor (1985); The Ferret (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Matt Houston (1982); Overnight Sensation (1984); Tales of the Unexpected (1979); Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983); Scarface (1983); Curse of the Pink Panther (1983); Psycho II (1983); Trail of the Pink Panther (1982); Falcon Crest (1981); Little House on the Prairie (1974); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); A Woman Called Golda (1982); S.O.B. (1981); Nero Wolfe (1981); Fantasy Island (1977); Casino (1980); Charlie's Angels (1976); Vega$ (1978); Flatfoot in Egypt (1980); The Ninth Configuration (1980); Quincy M.E. (1976); Kaz (1978); No Other Love (1979); Hawaii Five-O (1968); Sword of Justice (1978); Starsky and Hutch (1975); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The Rockford Files (1974); Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); First Love (1977); The Six Million Dollar Man (1973); Speedtrap (1977); The Bionic Woman (1976); Police Woman (1974); Switch (1975); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Wonder Woman (1975); Scott Free (1976); Street Killing (1976); S.W.A.T. (1975); Columbo (1971); Cannon (1971); Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence (1976); McMillan & Wife (1971); Doctors' Hospital (1975); Ellery Queen (1975); Harry O (1973); Caribe (1975); Mannix (1967); The Manhunter (1974); Kojak (1973); Turn the Other Cheek (1974); Young Dr. Kildare (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); The High Chaparral (1967); Then Came Bronson (1969); Che! (1969); The Big Valley (1965); The Name of the Game (1968); Tarzan (1966); Custer (1967); The Wild Wild West (1965); T.H.E. Cat (1966); The Three Sisters (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); Run for Your Life (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Combat! (1962); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Gunsmoke (1955); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); Ben Casey (1961); Route 66 (1960); Breaking Point (1963); 330 Independence Avenue, SW (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1962); Cattle King (1963); Rawhide (1959); The Defenders (1961); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Untouchables (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Target: The Corruptors! (1961); Naked City (1958); Play of the Week (1959); Moment of Fear (1960); An Arabian Night (1960); Overland Trail (1960); Kraft Theatre (1947); The Magical World of Disney (1954); Strindberg on Love (1960); One Step Beyond (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Wagon Train (1957); The Lost Missile (1958); Cop Hater (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Studio One (1948); The Garment Jungle (1957); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); The Secret Storm (1954); Search for Tomorrow (1951).

Born on this day – Sergio Leone:

 

Director

Producer

Writer

January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989

Credits:

The King of Ads (1991); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); Duck, You Sucker! (1971); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); For a Few Dollars More (1965); A Fistful of Dollars (1964); Sodom and Gomorrah (1962); The Colossus of Rhodes (1961).

Born on this day – John Sturges:

Director

January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992

Credits:

The Eagle Has Landed (1976); McQ (1974); Chino (1973); Joe Kidd (1972); Le Mans (1971); Marooned (1969); Ice Station Zebra (1968); Hour of the Gun (1967); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Satan Bug (1965); The Great Escape (1963); A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Sergeants 3 (1962); By Love Possessed (1961); The Magnificent Seven (1960); Never So Few (1959); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Law and Jake Wade (1958); Saddle the Wind (1958); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Backlash (1956); The Scarlet Coat (1955); Underwater! (1955); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Fast Company (1953); Jeopardy (1953); The Girl in White (1952); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); The People Against O'Hara (1951); Kind Lady (1951); The Magnificent Yankee (1950); Right Cross (1950); Mystery Street (1950); The Capture (1950); The Walking Hills (1949); Best Man Wins (1948); The Sign of the Ram (1948); Thunderbolt (1947); Keeper of the Bees (1947); For the Love of Rusty (1947); Alias Mr. Twilight (1946); Shadowed (1946); The Man Who Dared (1946).

Born on this day – Ray Milland:

Actor

Director

January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986

Credits:

The Gold Key (1985); The Sea Serpent (1985); Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984); Hart to Hart (1979); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Our Family Business (1981); The Dream Merchants (1980); The Attic (1980); Charlie's Angels (1976); Cave in! (1983); The Love Boat (1977); Game for Vultures (1979); Survival Run (1979); The Darker Side of Terror (1979); Oliver's Story (1978); Fantasy Island (1977); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Blackout (1978); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); Cruise Into Terror (1978); The Pyjama Girl Case (1977); Slavers (1977); The Uncanny (1977); Testimony of Two Men (1977); Oil (1977); Seventh Avenue (1977); The Last Tycoon (1976); Mayday at 40, 000 Feet! (1976); Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976); Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976); Aces High (1976); The Swiss Conspiracy (1976); Rich Man, Poor Man (1976); Ellery Queen (1975); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975); The Dead Don't Die (1975); Gold (1974); The Student Connection (1974); Terror in the Wax Museum (1973); The Big Game (1973); The House in Nightmare Park (1973); Cool Million (1972); Columbo (1971); The Thing with Two Heads (1972); Frogs (1972); Embassy (1972); Black Noon (1971); Night Gallery (1969); River of Gold (1971); ove Story (1970); The Name of the Game (1968); Company of Killers (1970); Bracken's World (1969); Daughter of the Mind (1969); Hostile Witness (1969); The Confession (1964); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Silver Burro (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963); Panic in Year Zero! (1962); The Premature Burial (1962); Alcoa Premiere (1961); King of Kings (1961); Markham (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1957); General Electric Theater (1953); Suspicion (1957); The Safecracker (1958); High Flight (1957); The River's Edge (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Three Brave Men (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Lisbon (1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955); A Man Alone (1955); The Ray Milland Show (1953); Dial M for Murder (1954); Let's Do It Again (1953); Jamaica Run (1953); The Thief (1952); Something to Live For (1952); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Close to My Heart (1951); Rhubarb (1951); Night Into Morning (1951); Circle of Danger (1951); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Woman of Distinction (1950); Copper Canyon (1950); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Alias Nick Beal (1949); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); Sealed Verdict (1948); The Big Clock (1948); So Evil My Love (1948); Variety Girl (1947); Golden Earrings (1947); The Trouble with Women (1947); California (1947); The Imperfect Lady (1946); The Well Groomed Bride (1946); Kitty (1945); The Lost Weekend (1945); Till We Meet Again (1944); Ministry of Fear (1944); The Uninvited (1944); Lady in the Dark (1944); The Crystal Ball (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); The Major and the Minor (1942); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); The Lady Has Plans (1942); Sullivan's Travels (1941); Skylark (1941); I Wanted Wings (1941); Arise, My Love (1940); Untamed (1940); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); Irene (1940); French Without Tears (1940); Everything Happens at Night (1939); Beau Geste (1939); Hotel Imperial (1939); Say It in French (1938); Men with Wings (1938); Tropic Holiday (1938); Her Jungle Love (1938); Wise Girl (1937); Ebb Tide (1937); Easy Living (1937); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937); Three Smart Girls (1936); The Jungle Princess (1936); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Return of Sophie Lang (1936); Next Time We Love (1936); The Glass Key (1935); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); The Gilded Lily (1935); One Hour Late (1934); Menace (1934); Charlie Chan in London (1934); Many Happy Returns (1934); We're Not Dressing (1934); The Mystery of Mr. X (1934); Bolero (1934); This Is the Life (1933); Orders Is Orders (1933); Payment Deferred (1932); But the Flesh Is Weak (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Man Who Played God (1932); Ambassador Bill (1931); Blonde Crazy (1931); Bought! (1931); Just a Gigolo (1931); Strangers May Kiss (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); Passion Flower (1930); Way for a Sailor (1930); The Informer (1929); The Plaything (1929; The Lady from the Sea (1929); The Flying Scotsman (1929); Piccadilly (1929); Moulin Rouge (1928).

Born on this day – Dorothy Arzner:

Director

Writer

Editor

January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979

Credits:

First Comes Courage (1943); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); The Bride Wore Red (1937); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); Craig's Wife (1936); Nana (1934); Christopher Strong (1933); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Working Girls (1931); Honor Among Lovers (1931); Anybody's Woman (1930); Paramount on Parade (1930); Sarah and Son (1930); Behind the Make-Up (1930); Charming Sinners (1929); The Wild Party (1929); Manhattan Cocktail (1928); Get Your Man (1927); Ten Modern Commandments (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); Old Ironsides (1926); The Red Kimona (1926); When Husbands Flirt (1925); Breed of the Border (1925); The No-Gun Man (1924); Inez from Hollywood (1924); Blood and Sand (1922).

Born on this day – Marion Davies:

Actress

Producer

Writer

Philanthropist

January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961

Credits:

Ever Since Eve (1937); Cain and Mabel (1936); Hearts Divided (1936); Catalina Isle (1935); Page Miss Glory (1935); Operator 13 (1934); Going Hollywood (1933); Peg o' My Heart (1933); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Christmas Party (1931); Five and Ten (1931); It's a Wise Child (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); The Florodora Girl (1930); Not So Dumb (1930); Marianne (1929); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); Show People (1928); The Cardboard Lover (1928); The Patsy (1928); Quality Street (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Tillie the Toiler (1927); The Red Mill (1927); Beverly of Graustark (1926); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Lights of Old Broadway (1925); Zander the Great (1925); The Wife of the Centaur (1924); Janice Meredith (1924); Yolanda (1924); Little Old New York (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Adam and Eva (1923); When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922); The Young Diana (1922); Beauty's Worth (1922); The Bride's Play (1922); Enchantment (1921); Buried Treasure (1921); The Restless Sex (1920); April Folly (1920); The Cinema Murder (1919); The Dark Star (1919); Getting Mary Married (1919); The Belle of New York (1919); The Burden of Proof (1918); Cecilia of the Pink Roses (1918); Runaway Romany (1917).

Born on this day – J. R. R. Tolkien:

Writer

January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973

Credits:

A Middle English Vocabulary; Sir Gawain & The Green Knight; The Hobbit: or There and Back Again; Farmer Giles of Ham; The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book; Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle; Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle; Bilbo’s Last Song; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo; The Father Christmas Letters; The Silmarillion; Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien; Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth; Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien; The Old English ‘Exodus’; Mr. Bliss; Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode; The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays; The Book of Lost Tales, Part I; The Book of Lost Tales, Part II; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle-earth; The Lost Road and Other Writings; The Return of the Shadow; The Treason of Isengard; The War of the Ring; Sauron Defeated; Morgoth’s Ring; The War of the Jewels; The Peoples of Middle-earth; Roverandom; Tales from the Perilous Realm; The Children of Húrin; The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún; The Fall of Arthur; Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell; Tolkien On Fairy-stories; The Story of Kullervo; A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages; The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun; Leaf by Niggle; Beren and Lúthien; The Fall of Gondolin; The Nature of Middle-earth; The Fall of Númenor; The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.