Born on this day – Nicoletta Machiavelli:

Actress

August 1, 1944 – November 15, 2015

Credits:

A History of Dollars (2008); A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1967); A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970); An Indian Named Joe (2009); Anyone Can Play (1967); Bawdy Tales (1973); Beyond Good and Evil (1977); Candy (1968); Carnal Circuit (1969); Dirty Weekend (1973); Especial pop (1969); Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012); Evil Pleasure (1975); Garter Colt (1968); I nostri mariti / Segment: Il Marito di Roberta (1966); It Takes a Thief (1969); Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966); La coppia (1973); La fuite en avant (1980); L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore (1971); L'année sainte (1976); L'autunno del generale (1982); L'homme au cerveau greffé (1972); Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua (1973); Matchless (1967); Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973); Navajo Joe (1966); Necropolis (1970); No Room to Die (1969); No Way Out (1973); Odia il prossimo tuo (1968); Policeman (1971); Review (1969); Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (1969); Someone Is Bleeding (1974); Temptation (1969); That Most Important Thing: Love (1975); The Hills Run Red (1966); The Ravine (1969); Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969); Thrilling / Segment: L'autostrada del sole (1965); Tough Cop (1976); Una questione d'onore (1966).

Born on this day – Dom DeLuise:

Actor

Comedian

August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009

Born on this day – Pat Heywood:

 

Actress

August 1, 1931 – June 26, 2024

Credits:

10 Rillington Place (1971); 2nd House (1975); All the Way Up (1970); Another Bouquet (1977); Arcadia (1990); Armchair Theatre (1972–1973); Arms and the Man (1983); Battle of Britain (1969); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); BBC2 Playhouse (1980); Between the Wars (1973); Centre Play (1975); Christabel (1988); Cottage to Let (1977); Couples (1976); Crown Court (1973–1978); December Flower (1984); Every Breath You Take (1988); First and Last (1989); Function Room (1985); Getting It Right (1989); Girly (1970); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hazell (1978); I Thought You'd Gone (1984); Inspector Morse (1991); ITV Playhouse (1970–1980); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971–1973); Lucky Feller (1976); Marks / Objects of Affection (1982); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); Play for Today (1984); Public Eye (1972); Romeo and Juliet (1968); Root Into Europe (1992); Screen Two (1987); Seeing and Believing (1964); Six Days of Justice (1972); Sporting Scenes (1973); Staircase (1969); Storia di una capinera (1993); Summer Season (1985); The Best Things in Life (1969); The Castiglioni Brothers (1958); The Children of the New Forest (1964); The Collection (1976); The Foundation (1977); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963); The Main Chance (1970); The Nelson Affair (1973); The Problem of Mary Winshaw (1962); The Secret Garden (1987); The Teen-Age Lovers of Verona / Romeo & Juliet (1968); The Train Now Standing (1972); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1972); Too Much Monkey Business (1974); Village Hall (1974); Weekend Playhouse (1984); Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972); Wish You Were Here (1987); Within These Walls (1975); Wuthering Heights (1978); Young Toscanini (1988); Young Winston (1972).

Born on this day – Jerome Moross:

 

Composer

August 1, 1913 – July 25, 1983

Born on this day – Erle C. Kenton:

Director

August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980

Born on this day – Madlaine Traverse:

 

Actress

August 1, 1875 – January 7, 1964

Credits:

Fruits of Desire (1916); Gambling in Souls (1919); Leah Kleschna (1913); Lost Money (1919); Rose of the West (1919); Sins of Ambition (1917); Snares of Paris (1919); The Caillaux Case (1918); The Closing Net (1915); The Danger Zone (1918); The Hell Ship (1920); The Iron Heart (1920); The Love That Dares (1919); The Other Woman (1913); The Penalty (1920); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); The Shielding Shadow (1916); The Spirit of Good (1920); The Splendid Sin (1919); The Tattlers (1920); Three Weeks (1914); What Would You Do? (1920); When Fate Decides (1919).

Born on this day – Herman Melville:

 

Writer

August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); Bartleby: The Scrivener (1853); Billy Budd (1924); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); I Would Prefer Not To (2021); Israel Potter (1855); Keys to the Bureau (2013); Mardi (1849); Moby Dick (1851); Mysterious Sea Stories (1987); Omoo (1847); Pierre (1852); Redburn (1849); The Apple-Tree Table (1922); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002); The Confidence-Man (1857); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Piazza Tales (1856); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Typee (1846); War: An Anthology (1969); White-Jacket (1850); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2010: Moby Dick (2010); A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus (2007); Age of the Dragons (2011); Animated Epics: Moby Dick (1999); As Ilhas Encantadas (1965); Bartleby - Geschichte der Wall Street (2010); Bartleby (1963 / 1969 / 1970 / 1976 / 2001 / 2016 / 2023); Bartleby le scribe (2010); Bartleby l'écrivain (1957); Bartleby ou Les hommes au rebut (1993); Bartleby the Scrivener (1977); Beau Travail (1999); Beer and Board Games (2016); Benito Cereno (1969); Billy Budd (1962 / 1966 / 1988 / 1998 / 2001 / 2010 / 2017); Billy Budd, fra Den Norske Opera & Ballett (2019); Camera Three (1955); Capitaine Achab (2004); Captain Ahab (2007); Dämon des Meeres (1931); Enchanted Island (1958); Encounter (1955); Explained (2018); History's Mysteries (2000); Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson (1986); Hora once (1972); I riassuntini (2018); Ishmael (2022); Last of the Pagans (1935); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1964); L'homme silencieux (2021); Los libros (1974); Mobi Dik (1972); Moby Dick (1930 / Moby Dick (1954 / 1956 / 1978 / 1998 / 2000 / 2011); Moby Dick et le secret de Mu (2005); Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955); Moby-Dick (1977 / 2013); Mythos Wal (2017); NBC Experiment in Television (1970); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1952); NET Playhouse (1967); Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949); One Man's Story (1953); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Partanen (2003); Pisar Bartleby (1966); Pola X (1999); Ponds Theater (1955); Rappresentazione della terribile caccia alla balena bianca Moby Dick (1973); Revenge of the Whale (2001); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Siesta Z (2017); Strange Stories (1953); The Adventures of Moby Dick (1996); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Lighthouse (2019); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1969); The Sea Beast (1926); The White Whale of Mu (1980); War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War (1999); Your Favorite Story / A Tale of the Enchanted Isles (1953); Zwischen Meer und Himmel (1957).