Born on this day – George P. Cosmatos:

Director

Writer

January 4, 1941 – April 19, 2005

Credits:

Shadow Conspiracy (1997); Tombstone (1993); Leviathan (1989); Cobra (1986); Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985); Of Unknown Origin (1983); Escape to Athena (1979); The Cassandra Crossing (1976); Massacre in Rome (1973); The Beloved (1971).

 

Patricia Highsmith, on being an introvert and a writer:

 My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

- Patricia Highsmith.

On this day in television history - Medium (January 2005 through January 2011):

Medium

The series began on January 3, 2005,

and ran for seven seasons until January 21, 2011.

Narrated by Patricia Arquette.

Cast:

Patricia Arquette, Jake Weber, Miguel Sandoval, Sofia Vassilieva, Feodor Lark, David Cubitt, Madison Carabello, Miranda Carabello, Tina DiJoseph, Ryan Hurst, David Arquette, Arliss Howard, Holliston Coleman, Bruce Gray, Kathy Baker, Margo Martindale, Olivia Sandoval, Kurtwood Smith, Zak Lee Guarnaccia, Roxanne Hart, Kelly Preston, John Prosky, Anjelica Huston, Annamarie Kenoyer.

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).