Monday, June 9, 2025

Born on this day – Joe Santos:

 

Joe Santos


Actor

June 9, 1931 – March 18, 2016

Credits:
A Knife for the Ladies (1974); A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975); a.k.a. Pablo (1984); Adderly (1987); Art Deco Detective (1994); Bakersfield P.D. (1993); Baretta (1975); Barnaby Jones (1974); Beverly Hills Brats (1989); Beyond Suspicion (2000); Black Sheep Squadron (1978); Blade (1973); Blue Thunder (1983); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Chronic (2015); Cover Up (1984); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Deadline: Madrid (1988); Deadly Desire (1991); Eischied (1979); Fear City (1984); Flesh and Lace (1965); Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990); Hammerlock (2000); Hardcastle and McCormick (1985–1986); Hill Street Blues (1984); Hunter (1984–1990); Jessie (1984); Joe Forrester (1976); Kung Fu (1975); Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (1983); Lou Grant (1977); MacGyver (1986–1987); Magnum, P.I. (1986–1988); Masquerade (1984); Match Game (1978–1979); Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour (1984); Match Game PM (1979–1980); Me and Maxx (1980); Miami Vice (1988); Mindreaders (1979); Mo' Money (1992); Moonlighting Wives (1966); Murder, She Wrote (1987–1988); My Body Hungers (1967); Naked City (1963); Nightside (1973); NYPD Blue (1993); Police Story (1974–1978); Power (1980); Proximity (2001); Quantum Leap (1989); Remington Steele (1984); Revenge (1990); Room 222 (1972); Santa Barbara (1990); Shaft's Big Score! (1972); Shamus (1973); Sinatra (1992); Suburban Beat (1985); Superior Court (1986–1990); T.J. Hooker (1985); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The A-Team (1984); The Blue Knight (1973); The Detective (1968); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Education of Allison Tate (1986); The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971); The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974); The Greatest American Hero (1983); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1980); The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980); The Last Boy Scout (1991); The Man from Elysian Fields (2001); The Old Man and the Sea (1990); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The Postman (1997); The Ratings Game (1984); The Right Way (1998); The Rockford Files (1974–1980); The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise (1995); The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996); The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996); The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994); The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads (1999); The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits... (1996); The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime (1996); The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda (1997); The Selling of Vince D'Angelo (1983); The Sopranos (2004); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Tiger Makes Out (1967); The Twilight Zone / Segment: The Library (1986); Toma (1973); Trapper John, M.D. (1982); Trial by Jury (1994); Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures (1964); Wendy Hooper, U.S. Army (1981); Zandy's Bride (1974).

Born on this day – Michel Lang:


Michel Lang


Director

Writer

June 9, 1939 – April 24, 2014


Born on this day – Brigid Bazlen:


Brigid Bazlen


Actress

June 9, 1944 – May 25, 1989

Credits:
Days of Our Lives (1972); Bright Promise (1969); How the West Was Won (1962); King of Kings (1961); The Honeymoon Machine (1961); Too Young to Go Steady (1959); The Blue Fairy (1958); Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel (1951–1955).

Born on this day – Tim Sullivan:

 

Tim Sullivan


Writer

Actor

Director

June 9, 1948 – November 10, 2024

Credits:
 
Books:
 
Chrysalis 5 (1979); Cold Shocks (1991); Destiny's End (1988); Dinosaurs! (1990); Glitter Street (1979); Lords of Creation (1992); Ripper! (1988); The 1983 Annual World's Best SF (1983); The Martian Viking (1991); The Parasite War (1989); The Ultimate Dracula (1991); Tropical Chills (1988); V # 10: The New England Resistance (1985); V # 13: To Conquer the Throne (1987); V # 5: The Florida Project (1985).
 
Movies and television:
 
A Passion to Kill (1999); Alien Agenda: Under the Skin / Segment: Alien Abductee Interviews (1997); Alien Force (1996); Camp Blood (2000); Camp Blood 2 (2000); Creaturealm: From the Dead / Segment: Hollywood Mortuary (1998); Deadly Scavengers (2001); Deadly Tales (1998); Demonicus (2001); Eyes of the Werewolf (1999); Hollywood Mortuary (2000); Hunting Season (2000); Ill Met by Moonlight (1994); The Dead Beat Volume 1 (1990); The Laughing Dead (1989); The Mark of Dracula (2000); The Naked Monster (2005); Twilight of the Dogs (1995); Vampyre Femmes (1999); V-World Matrix (1999).

On this day in movie history - Destination Murder (1950)

Destination Murder

directed by Edward L. Cahn,

written by Don Martin,

was released in the United States on June 9, 1950.

Music by Irving Gertz.

Cast:
Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Albert Dekker, Myrna Dell, James Flavin, John Dehner, Richard Emory, Norma Vance, Suzette Harbin, Buddy Swan, Bert Wenland, Franklyn Farnum, Steve Gibson’s Redcaps, Leon Alton, Kenneth Gibson, Steve Gibson, James Gonzalez, Robert Locke Lorraine, Harold Miller, Suzanne Ridgway, Steven Ritch, John Roche, Jeffrey Sayre.

On this day in movie history - Night and the City (1950)


Night and the City


directed by Jules Dassin,

written by Austin Dempster, William E. Watts and Jo Eisinger,

based on the novel by Gerald Kersh,

was released in the United States on June 9, 1950.

Music by Benjamin Frankel and Franz Waxman.


Cast:
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom, Aubrey Dexter, Maureen Delany, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Mike Mazurki, Ada Reeve, Charles Farrell, Ken Richmond, Edward Chapman, James Hayter, Gibb McLaughlin, Dirk Bogarde.

On this day in movie history - The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)


The Glass Bottom Boat


directed by Frank Tashlin,

written by Everett Freeman,

was released in the United States on June 9, 1966.

Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:
Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Elisabeth Fraser, Dick Martin, George Tobias, Alice Pearce, Ellen Corby, Dee J. Thompson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Alden, Don Anderson, Tom Anfinsen, Shirley Anthony, Ellen Atterbury, Bella Bruck, William Burnside, Boyd Cabeen, George Carlin, Regina Carrol, Pat Casella, Jerry Catron, Spencer Chan, George Cisar, Robert Cole, Bill Cord, John Dennis, Dick Dial, Dan Dowling, Ken DuMain, Roy Eason, Joe Evans, George Ford, James Gonzalez, M. Hakim, Florence Halop, Joe Haworth, Kathryn Janssen, Maurice Kelly, Richard Kindelon, Paul King, Jeff Lawrence, James Macklin, Mike Mahoney, Theodore Marcuse, Gregg Martell, Hans Moebus, Frank Parker, Joe Ploski, Murray Pollack, Christopher Riordan, Michael Romanoff, Rachel Romen, Jeffrey Sayre, Bernard Sell, George Simmons, Norman Stevans, Charles Stewart, Larry Strong, Blaine Turner, Leslie Vallen, Charles Victor, Carolyn Williamson.