Born on this day – Ron Silver:

Ron Silver

Actor

Director

Producer

July 2, 1946 – March 15, 2009

Credits:

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2010); A Father's Revenge (1988); A Secret Promise (2011); A Woman of Independent Means (1995); Ali (2001); Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995); American Experience (1999); American Playhouse (1984); American Tragedy (2000); Baker's Dozen (1982); Best Friends (1982); Betrayal (1978); Big Eddie (1975); Billionaire Boys Club (1987); Black and White (1999); Blind Side (1993); Blue Steel (1990); Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60 (2005); Call It Fiction (2006); CBS Mornings (1990); Chain Reaction (1980); Charlie Rose (2000); Chicago Hope (1996–1997); Cineficción Radio (2021); Crossing Jordan (2007); Cutaway (2000); Danger Zone (1996); Deadly Outbreak (1995); Dear Detective (1979); Eat and Run (1986); Enemies, A Love Story (1989); Entertainment Tonight (1991); Exposure (2001); Fahrenhype 9/11 (2004); Festival in Cannes (2001); Find Me Guilty (2006); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010); Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files (1990); Garbo Talks (1984); Girl 6 (1996); Hardball with Chris Matthews (2005); Having Babies (1978); HBO First Look (2001); Heat Vision and Jack (1999); Here's Boomer (1980); Hill Street Blues (1983); In the Company of Spies (1999); Jack (2004); Kane & Abel (1985); Kissinger and Nixon (1995); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995–1996); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1988); Law & Order (2004–2007); Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2006); Lifepod (1993); Live Wire (1992); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Love Is Strange (1999); Lovesick (1983); Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994); Married to It (1991); Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002); McMillan & Wife (1975); Moving Image Salutes Steven Spielberg (1994); Mr. Saturday Night (1992); Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978); New York: A Documentary Film (1999); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); Oh, God! You Devil (1984); On the Record w/ Brit Hume (2004); PoliWood (2009); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Ratz (2000); Real Time with Bill Maher (2004); Red Mercury (2005); Reversal of Fortune (1990); Rhapsody in Bloom (1998); Rhoda (1975–1978); Romancing the Stone (1984); Screen Two (1990); Semi-Tough (1977); Shadow Zone: The Undead Express (1996); Silent Rage (1982); Silkwood (1983); Skeletons (1997); Skin (2003–2005); Strictly Courtroom (2008); The 17th Annual CableACE Awards (1995); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 42nd Annual Tony Awards (1988); The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990); The 46th Annual Tony Awards (1992); The 47th Annual Tony Awards (1993); The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1991 (1991); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010); The Arrival (1996); The Arsenio Hall Show (1989); The Beneficiary (1997); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Entity (1982); The Good Policeman (1993); The Goodbye People (1984); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1994 / 2003); The Mac Davis Show (1976); The Making of 'Ali' (2001); The Practice (2001); The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976); The Rockford Files (1976); The Stockard Channing Show (1980); The Ten (2007); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1990–1991); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992); The West Wing (2001–2006); The White Raven (1998); The Wisher (2002); Timecop (1994); Trapped in Silence (1986); Trying Times (1987); Tunnel Vision (1976); Veronica's Closet (1998–1999); Welcome to L.A. (1976); When Billie Beat Bobby (2001); Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1995); Wiseguy (1988–1989); Word of Honor (1981); Xenophobia (2008).

On this day in movie history - The Great Escape (1963)

The Great Escape

directed by John Sturges,

written by James Clavell and W. R. Burnett,

based on the book by Paul Brickhill,

was released in the United States on July 2, 1963.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Robert Graf, Jud Taylor, Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, William Russell, Robert Freitag, Ulrich Beiger, George Mikell, Lawrence Montaigne, Robert Desmond, Til Kiwe, Heinz Weiss, Tom Adams, Karl-Otto Alberty, Arthur Atkinson.

On this day in movie history - Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

directed by Jonathan Mostow,

written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris,

based on the story by John Brancato, Michael Ferris and Tedi Sarafian,

was released in the United States on July 2, 2003.

Music by Marco Beltrami.

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews, Mark Famiglietti, Earl Boen, Moira Sinise, Chopper Bernet, Christopher Lawford, Carolyn Hennesy, Jay Acovone, M.C. Gainey, Susan Merson, Elizabeth Morehead, Jimmy Snyder, Billy D. Lucas, Brian Sites, Alana Curry, Larry McCormick, Robert Alonzo, Michael Papajohn, Timothy Dowling, Jon Foster, Mark Hicks, Kim Robillard, Matt Gerald, William O’Leary, Rick Zieff, Rebecca Tilney, Chris Hardwick, Helen Eigenberg, Kiki Gorton, Walter von Huene, Jerry Katell, George A. Sack Jr., Eric Ritter.

On this day in movie history - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2003)

 

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Motonori Sakakibara,

written by Al Reinert, Jeff Vintar, Jack Fletcher, Bruce B.L. Jurgens and Ramin Mebdy,

based on the Final Fantasy game franchise by Hironobu Sakaguchi,

was released in the United States on July 2, 2003.

Music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Cast:

Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Keith David, Jean Simmons, Matt McKenzie, John DeMita, Matt Adler, Steve Alterman, David Arnott, Cathy Cavadini, Lanei Chapman, Vicki Davis, Judi M. Durand, Greg Finley, Jack Fletcher, Julia Fletcher, Barbara Harris, David McCharen, Tracy Metro, David Michie, Richard Penn, David Randolph, Andrea Baker, Atsushi Goto, Tsutomu Isobe, Jun Karasawa, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Rikiya Koyama, Keiko Toda, Akio Ôtsuka, Eric Aten, John DiMaggio, Alex Fernandez, David Rasner, Dwight Schultz, Annie Wu.

Mabel Seeley, on imagination:

 

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

– Mabel Seeley.

Recommended reading - A Coffin for Dimitrios

A Coffin for Dimitrios

by Eric Ambler.
Filmed as The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), directed by Jean Negulesco.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Published 1939.

ISBN-10: 0375726713
ISBN-13: 9780375726712
 
Description:

"Our greatest thriller writer." – Graham Greene.

"Anyone who hasn't read Ambler is in for a real treat." – The Washington Post Book World.

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

Born on this day – Alice Guy-Blaché:

 

Alice Guy-Blaché

Director

Writer

Producer

Actress

July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968

Credits:

A Child's Sacrifice (1910); A Comedy of Errors (1912); A Costly Pledge (1911); A Fateful Gift (1910); A Fool and His Money (1912); A Four-Year-Old Heroine (1907); A House Demolished and Rebuilt (1901); A House Divided (1913); Á la recherche d'un appartement (1906); A Man and the Woman (1917); A Man's a Man (1912); A Midnight Visitor (1911); A Reporter's Romance (1911); A Severe Test (1913); A Solax Celebration (1912); A Sticky Woman (1906); A Terrible Lesson (1912); A Terrible Night (1913); A Widow and Her Child (1910); Across the Mexican Line (1911); Algie, the Miner (1912); Alice Guy - L'inconnue du 7e art (2021); Alice Guy ou l'enfance du cinéma (1996); Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène sur la théâtre de pose des Buttes-Chaumont (1907); Alice Guy-Blaché (1997); Allumeur-Marche (1905); Anna, qu'est-ce que t'attends? (1906); Après la fête (1904); Arrivée d'Arléquin (1900); Arrivée de Pierette et Pierrot (1900); Au bal de Flore (1900); Au cabaret (1899); Au poulailler! (1905); Au réfectoire (1897); Avenue de l'opéra (1900); Badinage (1900); Baignade dans le torrent (1897); Ballet japonais (1900); Ballet libella (1897); Barbara Frietchie (1915); Bataille de boules de neige (1900); Bataille d'oreillers (1900); Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018); Beasts of the Jungle (1913); Behind the Mask (1917); Blighted Lives (1912); Blood and Water (1913); Bonsoir m'sieurs dames (1902); Broken Oaths (1912); Burstup Homes (1913); Burstup Homes' Murder Case (1913); Cake-walk de la pendule (1903); Cake-walk nègre (1905); Cambrioleur et agent (1904); Ce que c'est qu'un drapeau (1909); C'est une ingénue (1905); Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique (1900); Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont, premiers géants du cinéma (2016); Charmant froufrou (1901); Chez le barbier (1896); Chez le dentiste (1905); Chez le magnétiseur (1897); Chez le Maréchal-Ferrant (1900); Chez le photographe (1900); Chien jouant à la balle (1905); Child of the Tenements (1912); Chirurgie fin de siècle (1900); Cible humaine (1904); Cinéast(e)s (2015); Cinépanorama (1957); Clown en sac (1904); Clown, chien et ballon (1905); Comme on fait son lit on se couche (1903); Comment monsieur prend son bain (1903); Comment on disperse les foules (1904); Comment on dort à Paris! (1905); Compagnons de voyage encombrants (1903); Concours de bébés (1904); Conscience de prêtre (1906); Corinne in Dollyland (1911); Coucher d'une Parisienne (1900); Course à la saucisse (1907); Course de taureaux à Nîmes (1906); Courte echelle (1899); Cousins of Sherlocko (1913); Cucurbitacée (1905); Culture Intensive (1904); Cupid and the Comet (1911); Dance de l'ivresse (1900); Dans les coulisses (1900); Danse des saisons (1900); Danse du papillon (1900); Danse du pas des foulards par des almées (1900); Danse du voile (1900); Danse excentrique (1902); Danse fantaisiste (1902); Danse fleur de lotus (1897); Danse mauresque (1902); Danse serpentine (1900); Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter (1899); Danses (1900); Danses basques (1901); Déclaration d'amour (1900); Déménagement à la cloche de bois (1898 / 1907); Départ pour les vacances (1904); Dick Whittington and his Cat (1913); Douaniers et contrebandiers (1905); Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (1905); Dublin Dan (1912); Duel tragique (1904); Effets de mer (1906); Électrocutée (1904); En classe (1897); En faction (1902); Enlèvement en automobile et mariage précipité (1903); Entrée et sortie de la mine (1899); Erreur de poivrot (1904); Erreur judiciaire (1899); Esmeralda (1905); Espagne (1905); Et la femme créa Hollywood (2016); Être legume (1905); Falling Leaves (1912); Fanfan la Tulipe (1907); Farces de cuisinière (1902); Faust et Méphistophélès (1903); Five O'Clock Tea (1905); Folies masquées (1901); Fra Diavolo (1912); France et Russie (1897); Frivolité (1901); Frozen on Love's Trail (1912); Fruits de saison (1902); Gage d'amour (1904); Gavotte directoire (1900); God Disposes (1912); Greater Love Hath No Man (1911); Guillaume Tell (1900); Hearts Unknown (1912); Her Father's Sin (1910); His Best Friend (1911); His Double (1912); His Mother's Hymn (1911); His Musical Soul (1912); Hollywood Insider (2020–2021); House of Cards (1917); Hubby Does the Washing (1912); Hussards et grisettes (1901); Idylle (1897); Idylle interrompue (1897); Illusionniste renversant (1903); In a Bamboo Hut (1905); In the Year 2000 (1912); Intervention malencontreuse (1902); J'ai un hanneton dans mon pantalon (1906); Je vous y prrrrends! (1898); Jésus devant Pilate (1898); Jeune homme et le trottin (1905); Jocko musician (1903); Kelly from the Emerald Isle (1913); La bonne absinthe (1899); La cène (1898); La charité du prestidigitateur (1905); La chasse au cambrioleur (1903); La chaussette (1906); La concierge (1900); La conquête de Trottin (1906); La cour des miracles (1902); La crèche à Bethléem (1898); La crinoline (1906); La danse du ventre (1900); La dent récalcitrante (1902); La descente de croix (1899); La faim ... l'occasion ... l'herbe tendre (1904); La fée aux choux (1896); La fée aux choux, ou la naissance des enfants (1900); La femme du masque (1906); La fifille à sa mère (1905); La fiole enchantée (1902); La flagellation (1898); La fuite en Égypte (1898); La gavotte (1902); La gavotte de la reine (1904); La gigue (1902); La hiérarchie dans l'amour (1906); La leçon de pipeau (1904); La main du professeur Hamilton ou le roi des dollars (1903); La malagueña et le torero (1905); La mattchiche (1905); La mauvaise soupe (1899); La messe de minuit (1906); La mouche (1903); La paimpolaise (1905); La paysanne (1900); La pègre de Paris (1906); La petite magicienne (1900); La polka des trottins (1905); La poule fantaisiste (1903); La poupée noire (1900); La première cigarette (1904); La première gamelle (1902); La régiment moderne (1906); La reine des jouets (1900); La resurrection (1899); La rêve du chasseur (1904); La source (1900); La statue (1905); La tarentelle (1900); La valise enchantée (1905); La vérité sur l'homme-singe (1906); La vie du christ (1898); La vie du marin (1906); La voiture cellulaire (1906); Lady Betty's Strategy (1910); L'angélus (1900); L'arléquine (1900); L'assassinat du courrier de Lyon (1904); L'attaque d'une diligence (1904); Lavatory moderne (1901); L'aveugle (1897 / 1899); L'aveugle fin de siècle (1898); Le ballon dirigeable 'Le patrie' (1906); Le bébé (1900); Le bébé embarrassant (1905); Le billet de banque (1906); Le boléro cosmopolite (1905); Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque (1905); Le chapeau de Tabarin (1896); Le chemin de croix (1898); Le chiffonnier (1899); Le clubmen (1896); Le cocher de fiacre endormi (1897); Le cochon de lait (1906); Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly (1905); Le Coucher d'Yvette (1897); Le crime de la Rue du Temple (1904); Le crucifiement (1899); Le déjeuner des enfants (1899); Le départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette (1900); Le fantassin Guignard (1906); Le fiancé ensorcelé (1903); Le fils du garde-chasse (1906); Le frotteur (1907); Le jardin des oliviers (1898); Le jardin oublié: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché (1996); Le jour du terme (1904); Le kepi (1905); Le lapin (1900); Le lion savant (1902); Le liqueur du couvent (1903); Le lorgnon accusateur (1905); Le marchand de ballons (1902); Le marchand de coco (1900); Le matelot (1900); Le monolutteur (1904); Le Noël de Monsieur le curé (1906); Le pantalon coupé (1905); Le pavé (1905); Le pêcheur dans le torrent (1897); Le petit Grégoire (1905); Le petit panier (1905); Le planton du colonel (1897); Le plateau (1905); Le Polichinelle (1900); Le pommier (1902); Le pompon malencontreux (1904); Le reveil du jardinier (1904); Le rire du nègre (1905); Le sang d'Adonis donnant naissance à la rose rouge (1900); Le songe du pêcheur (1906); Le tango (1905); Le testament de Pierrot (1904); Le tondeur de chiens (1899); Le tonnelier (1899); Le trou de mon quai (1905); Le voleur sacrilege (1903); Leçon de danse (1897 / 1900); Leçons de boxe (1898); L'écossaise (1900); Lecture quotidienne (1901); L'enfant de la barricade (1907); L'enfant du cordonnier (1905); L'entrée à Jérusalem (1898); L'équilibriste (1902); Les apaches pas veinards (1903); Les aventures d'un voyageur trop pressé (1903); Les bienfaits du cinématographe (1904); Les braconniers (1903); Les cambrioleurs (1897); Les cambrioleurs de Paris (1904); Les clowns (1902); Les concierges (1896); Les dangers de l'alcoolisme (1899); Les démolisseurs (1896); Les deux rivaux (1904); Les dragons de Villars (1906); Les Druides (1906); Les effrontées: Le cinéma au féminin (2022); Les enfants du miracle (1904); Les farces de Jocko (1898); Les maçons (1905); Les malabares, acrobats (1902); Les p'tits pois (1905); Les secrets de la prestidigitation dévoilés (1904); Les soeurs Lumière: 100 ans de cinéma de femmes (1996); Les surprises de l'affichage (1903); Les vagues (1901); L'Habanera (1900); L'honneur du corse (1906); Lilas blanc (1905); L'indiscret (1896); Little Tich and His Funny Feet (1900); L'oeil, le pinceau et le cinématographe: naissance d'un art (2021); L'oiseau envolé (1904); Love's Test (1911); Lui (1904); L'utilité des rayons x (1898); Lutteurs américains (1903); Madame Ducordon, concierge (1906); Madame's Cravings (1907); Magie noire (1904); Making an American Citizen (1912); Marché à la volaille (1900); Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913); Mauvais coeur puni (1904); Medor douche son maître (1906); Mésaventure d'un charbonnier (1899); Micky's Pal (1912); Mignon (1912); Militaire et nourrice (1904); Mireille (1906); Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902); Miss Helyett: Air du portrait (1905); Miss Lina Esbrard, danseuse cosmopolitaine et serpentine (1902); Mixed Pets (1911); Modelage express (1903); Monnaie de lapin (1899); Mort d'Adonis (1900); Mrs. Cranston's Jewels (1912); Mrs. Richard Dare (1910); My Madonna (1915); Ne bougeons plus (1903); Non! Tu ne sortiras pas sans moi! (1911); Nos bons étudiants (1903); Officer Henderson (1913); On est poivrot, mais on a du Coeur (1905); One Touch of Nature (1910); Out of the Arctic (1911); Paris la nuit (1904); Parson Sue (1912); Pas de colombine (1901); Pas de grâce (1900); Pas des éventails (1900); Pas du poignard (1900); Pas Japonais (1900); Pâtissier et ramoneur (1904); Pauvre pompier (1906); Peintre et ivrogne (1905); Phantom Paradise (1912); Pierrot, Murderer (1904); Playing Trumps (1912); Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit (1905); Portrait animé pris par L et A Lumière (1895); Potage indigested (1903); Pour secouer la salade (1902); Put Out (1911); Quadrille réaliste (1902); Questions indiscrètes (1906); Rafle de chiens (1904); Rapt d'enfant par les Romanichels (1904); Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Reformation (1907); Répétition dans un cirque (1903); Retour des champs (1900); Ring of Love (1911); Road Leads Home (1911); Robert Macaire et Bertrand (1905); Roméo pris au piège (1905); Rose of the Circus (1911); Sage-femme de première classe (1902); Saharet, boléro (1907); Saut humidifié de M. Plick (1900); Scène d'amour (1901); Scène d'escamotage (1898); Scène d'ivresse (1901); Scènes directoire (1904); Sealed Lips (1906); Secours aux naufragés (1903); Service précipité (1903); Shadows of the Moulin Rouge (1913); Si ça t'va (1905); Souls in the Shadow (1912); Starting Something (1911); Stronger Than Death (1920); Stupefying! (2017); Suite de la danse (1900); Surprise d'une maison au petit jour (1898); Sydney's joujoux (1900); Tarnished Reputations (1920); Tears (2014); Tel est pris qui croyait prendre (1901); Tentative d'assassinat en chemin de fer (1904); The Absent-Minded Shoeblack (1905); The Adventurer (1917); The Animated Bathtub (1912); The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906); The Blood Stain (1912); The Coming of Sunbeam (1913); The Consequences of Feminism (1906); The Cure (1911); The Detective's Dog (1912); The Devil's Seven Castles (1906); The Dream Woman (1914); The Drunken Mattress (1906); The Empress (1917); The Enchanted Bean (1904); The Equine Spy (1912); The Face at the Window (1912); The Finger Prints (1912); The Girl and the Burglar (1911); The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912); The Glue (1907); The Great Adventure (1918); The Heart of a Painted Woman (1915); The High Cost of Living (1912); The Irresistible Piano (1907); The Legend of St. Nicholas (1904); The Little Hunchback (1913); The Love of the Flag (1912); The Lure (1914); The Monster and the Girl (1914); The Nightcap (1911); The Ocean Waif (1916); The Pawnshop (1910); The Pink Garters (1912); The Pit and the Pendulum (1913); The Reformation of Mary (1912); The Rogues of Paris (1913); The Rolling Bed (1907); The Sergeant's Daughter (1910); The Sewer (1912); The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915); The Song of the Wage Slave (1915); The Stepmother (1906); The Strike (1912); The Thief (1913); The Tigress (1914); The Vertigo Years (2013); The Violin Maker of Nuremberg (1911); The Woman Behind the Man (1912); The Woman of Mystery (1914); The Wooing of Alice (1912); Tramp Strategy (1911); Transformations (1899 / 1904); Treasures on the Wing (1912); Triste fin d'un vieux savant (1904); Trompé mais content (1902); Two Little Rangers (1912); Two Suits (1910); Un cas de divorce (1906); Un lunch (1899); Un soulier pour un jambon (1906); Une course d'obstacle (1906); Une histoire roulante (1906); Une noce au lac Saint-Fargeau (1905); Une nuit agitée (1897); Une rage de dents (1900); Une scène en cabinet particulier vue à travers le trou de la serrure (1902); Valse directoire (1900); Valse lente (1900); Valsons (1905); Vampire (1915); Vendetta (1901); Vénus et Adonis (1900); Vieilles estampes (1904); Viens, poupoule (1905); Villa dévalisée (1905); V'la le rétameur (1905); Voyage en Espagne (1906); What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1986); What Is to Be, Will Be (1910); What Will People Say? (1916); When You and I Were Young (1917); Yesterday Is History (2021).