Born on this day – Mark Stevens:

Mark Stevens

Actor

Director

Producer

December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994

Credits:

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Big Town (1954–1956); Bronk (1975); Bus Stop (1962); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cry Vengeance (1954); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Decision (1958); Destination Tokyo (1943); Es usted mi padre (1971); Escape from Hell Island (1963); España otra vez (1968); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); Food and Magic (1943); Footlights Theater (1953); From This Day Forward (1946); Frontier Justice (1958); Frozen Alive (1964); General Electric Theater (1953); Ghost Train (1991); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gun Fever (1958); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); Jack Slade (1953); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Katie Did It (1950); Kojak (1975); La Lola, dicen que no vive sola (1970); Little Egypt (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1954 / 1955); Magnum, P.I. (1987); Martin Kane (1953–1954); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Mutiny (1952); News Gal (1957); Objective, Burma! (1945); Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949); Our American Heritage (1959); Passage to Marseille (1944); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Place the Face (1953); Please Believe Me (1950); Police Story (1975); Pride of the Marines (1945); Rawhide (1962); Reunion in Reno (1951); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Roaring Guns (1944); S.W.A.T. (1976); Sand (1949); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1957); September Storm (1960); Simon & Simon (1987); Strike It Rich (1953); Studio 57 (1957); Sunday Showcase (1959); Sunscorched (1965); Target Unknown (1951); The Big Frame (1952); The Dark Corner (1946); The Doughgirls (1944); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1953); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1958); The Law and Harry McGraw (1987); The Loretta Young Show (1957–1958); The Snake Pit (1948); The Street with No Name (1948); Time Table (1956); Torpedo Alley (1952); Wagon Train (1957–1958); Within These Walls (1945); Your Show Time (1949); Zane Grey Theatre (1957–1960).

Born on this day – Ann Richards:

Ann Richards

Actress

Writer

Artist

December 13, 1917 – August 24, 2006

Credits:

Writing:

Helen of Troy (play written in the 1970s – exact date unknown); The Grieving Senses (poetry) (1971); Odyssey for Edmond (poetry) (1991).

Movies and television:

Don't Call Me Girlie (1984); General Electric Theater (1960); Breakdown (1952); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); Love from a Stranger (1947); Lost Honeymoon (1947); The Searching Wind (1946); Badman's Territory (1946); Love Letters (1945); An American Romance (1944); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); 100,000 Cobbers (1942); Random Harvest (1942); Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942); The Woman in the House (1942); Come Up Smiling (1939); The Farmer Goes to Town (1938); Vengeance of the Deep (1938); Timberland Terror (1937); It Isn't Done (1937).

Born on this day – Don Taylor:

Don Taylor

Director

Actor

Writer

December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998

Born on this day – James Wright:

James Wright

Writer

December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980

Credits:

Poems:

A Blessing; A Note Left In Jimmy Leonard's Shack; A Poem About George Doty In The Death House; A Winter Daybreak Above Vence; As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter...; At The Executed Murderer's Grave; Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio; Beginning; Bologna: A Poem About Gold; Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry...; Fear Is What Quickens Me; Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium; Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon...; Hook; In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling...; Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's; May Morning; Northern Pike; On The Skeleton Of A Hound; Outside Fargo, North Dakota; Rip; Saint Judas; Small Frogs Killed On The Highway; The Jewel; The Journey; The Lambs on the Boulder; The Last Pieta, in Florence; To A Blossoming Pear Tree; To The Muse; Trying To Pray.

Books:

A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright (2005); Above the River, The Complete Poems (1990); Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio—Broadside (1963); Collected Poems (1971); James Wright, In Defense Against This Exile. Letters To Wayne Burns (1985); Moments of the Italian Summer (1976); Saint Judas (1959); Selected Poems (2005); Shall We Gather at the River (1967); The Branch Will Not Break (1963); The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright (2009); The Green Wall (1957); The Temple at Nîmes (1982); This Journey (1982); To a Blossoming Pear Tree (1977); Two Citizens (1973).

Born on this day – Christopher Plummer:

Christopher Plummer

Actor

December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021

On this day in movie history - Le Doulos (1962)

 

Le Doulos

a.k.a. The Finger Man,

directed and written by Jean-Pierre Melville,

based on the novel by Pierre Lesou,

was released in Italy on December 13, 1962.

Music by Paul Misraki.

 
Cast:

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Marcel Cuvelier, Philippe March, Fabienne Dali, Monique Hennessy, Carl Studer, Christian Lude, Jacques De Leon, Jack Leonard, Paulette Breil, Philippe Nahon, Charles Bayard, Daniel Crohem, Charles Bouillaud, Michel Piccoli.

Born on this day – Robert Prosky:

 

Robert Prosky

Actor

December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008