Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Born on this day – Sidney Poitier:
Actor
Director
Diplomat
February 20, 1927 –
January 6, 2022
Credits:
The Last
Brickmaker in America (2001); The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999); David
and Lisa (1998); Free of Eden (1998); The Jackal: Alternate Ending (1998); The
Jackal (1997); Mandela and de Klerk (1997); To Sir, with Love II (1996);
Children of the Dust (1995); Sneakers (1992); Separate But Equal (1991); Little
Nikita (1988); Shoot to Kill (1988); A Piece of the Action (1977); Let's Do It
Again (1975); The Wilby Conspiracy (1975); Uptown Saturday Night (1974); A Warm
December (1973); Buck and the Preacher (1972); The Organization (1971); Brother
John (1971); They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970); The Lost Man (1969); For Love
of Ivy (1968); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); In the Heat of the Night
(1967); To Sir, with Love (1967); Duel at Diablo (1966); A Patch of Blue
(1965); The Slender Thread (1965); The Bedford Incident (1965); The Greatest
Story Ever Told (1965); The Long Ships (1964); Lilies of the Field (1963);
Pressure Point (1962); Paris Blues (1961); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); All the
Young Men (1960); Porgy and Bess (1959); Our Virgin Island (1958); The Defiant
Ones (1958); The Mark of the Hawk (1957); Band of Angels (1957); Something of
Value (1957); Edge of the City (1957); Good-bye, My Lady (1956); Kraft Theatre
(1952–1955); Ponds Theater (1955); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Go Man Go (1954);
Omnibus (segment entitled The Bad Men) (1952); Red Ball Express (1952); CBS
Television Workshop (1952); Cry, the Beloved Country (1951); No Way Out (1950);
Sepia Cinderella (1947).
Born on this day – Richard Matheson:
Credits:
65 Great
Spine Chillers (1982); 7 Steps to Midnight (1993); A Primer of Reality (2002);
A Stir of Echoes (1958); Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002); American Pulp (1997);
Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Bloodlines (2006); Button, Button:
Uncanny Stories (2007); By the Gun (1994); California Sorcery (1999); Camp
Pleasant (2001); Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (1989); Collected Stories, Vol. 2
(2005); Collected Stories, Vol. 3 (2005); Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003);
Comedy of Terrors (1964); Completely Doomed (2007); Darker Places (2004); Duel
— Horror Stories of the Road (1987); Duel (1971); Earthbound (1982); Flight or
Fright (2018); Fury on Sunday (1953); Generations (2012); Great Black Magic
Stories (1974); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Haunts:
Reliquaries of the Dead (2011); Hell House (1971); Hot Blood Tales of Erotic
Horror (1989); Hunger and Thirst (2000); Hunted Past Reason (2002); I Am Legend
/ The Omega Man (1954); If This Goes On (1965); Journal of the Gun Years
(1991); Kiss the Whip (2005); Kolchak Scripts (2003); Kolchak the Night Stalker
Volume 1 (2004); Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor (1982);
Leave Yesterday Alone (2013); Masques V (2006); Mediums Rare (2000); Nightmare
at 20,000 Feet (1961); Now You See It... (1995); Off Beat: Uncollected Stories
(2020); Other Kingdoms (2011); Passion Play (2000); Pride (2002); Richard
Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales (2011); Ride the
Nightmare (1959); Road Rage (2012); Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master
(1995); Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987); Rod Serling's Other Worlds
(1978); Second Annual Collection (1989); Shadow on the Sun (1994); Shock!:
Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify (1961); Shock II: Thirteen Tales to Haunt
the Imagination (1964); Shock III (1966); Shock Waves (1970); Slaughter House
(1953); Someone is Bleeding (1953); Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return (1975);
Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2
(1953); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 (1972); Steel and Other Stories
(2011); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Taps and Sighs (2000);
The Beardless Warriors of World War II (1960); The Best Horror Stories from the
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988); The Best of Cemetery Dance II
(2008); The Box (2008); The Dead That Walk (2009); The Devil's Generation
(1973); The Gun Fight (1993); The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man
(1956); The Link (2006); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012); The Memoirs of
Wild Bill Hickok (1996); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Night Stalker
(1973); The Night Strangler (1974); The Path (1993); The Richard Matheson
Companion (2007); The Shores of Space (1957); The Time Traveler's Almanac
(2013); The Twilight Zone (2017); The Twilight Zone Scripts (1998); The Year's
Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams (1990); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty
Endings (1998); Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy
(1954); Unrealized Dreams (2005); Visions Deferred (2009); Visions of Death:
Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 (2007); What Dreams May Come
(1978); Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man (1954).
Born on this day – Robert Altman:
Director
Writer
Producer
February 20, 1925 –
November 20, 2006
Credits:
3 Women
(1977); A Perfect Couple (1979); A Prairie Home Companion (2006); A Wedding
(1978); Afterglow (1997); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1958); Aria (1987);
Basements (1987); Better Football (1954); Beyond Therapy (1987); Bodyguard
(1948); Bonanza (1960–1961); Brewster McCloud (1970); Bronco (1960); Buffalo
Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976); Bus Stop
(1961–1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); California Split (1974); Christmas Eve
(1947); Combat! (1962–1963); Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy
Dean (1982); Cookie's Fortune (1999); Corn's-A-Poppin' (1955); Countdown
(1967); Dr. T & the Women (2000); Endless Love (1981); Events (1970); Fool
for Love (1985); Gosford Park (2001); Great Performances (1993–1996); Gun
(1997); Hawaiian Eye (1959); HealtH (1980); Honeymoon for Harriet (1950); How
to Run a Filling Station (1953); Images (1972); John Bromfield in U.S. Marshal
(1959–1960); Kansas City (1996); Killer App (1998); King Basketball (1952);
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1962–1964); Lawman (1961); Liv (1998); M Squad (1958);
M*A*S*H (1970); Maverick (1960); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); Modern
Football (1951); Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); Nashville (1975);
Nightmare in Chicago (1964); O.C. and Stiggs (1985); Peter Gunn (1961); Popeye
(1980); Pot au feu (1967); Precious Blood (1982); Premiere (1968); Quintet
(1979); Rattlesnake in a Cooler (1982); Ready to Wear (1994); Remember My Name
(1978); Rich Kids (1979); Roads and Bridges (2001); Route 66 (1961); Saturday
Night Live / Sissy's Roles (1977); Secret Honor (1984); Short Cuts (1993);
Short Cuts: Deleted Scenes (2004); Streamers (1983); Sugarfoot (1959–1960);
Surfside 6 (1961); Suspicion (1957); Tanner '88 (1988); Tanner on Tanner
(2004); That Cold Day in the Park (1969); The Builders (1954); The Caine Mutiny
Court-Martial (1988); The Company (2003); The Delinquents (1957); The Dirty
Look (1954); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1960); The Gallant Men (1962);
The Gingerbread Man (1998); The James Dean Story (1957); The Katherine Reed
Story (1965); The Last Mile (1953); The Late Show (1977); The Laundromat
(1985); The Long Goodbye (1973); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Magic Bond
(1956); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); The Millionaire (1958–1959); The Party
(1964); The Perfect Crime (1955); The Player (1992); The Pulse of the City
(1953); The Roaring 20's (1960–1961); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947);
The Sound of Bells (1952); Thieves Like Us (1974); Trixie (2000);
Troubleshooters (1959); Vincent and Theo (1990); Welcome to L.A. (1976);
Whirlybirds (1958–1959).
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