Born on this day – Louise Fletcher:

 

Louise Fletcher

Actress

July 22, 1934 – September 23, 2022

Born on this day – Peter Jason:

Peter Jason

Actor

Producer

Cinematographer

July 22, 1944 – February 20, 2025

Credits:

4TH NAFCA: African Oscar (2014); 48 Hrs. (1982); 13th Child (2002); 1600 Penn (2013); A Bell for Adano (1967); A Different World (1992); A Reason to Live (1985); A Whole New Ballgame (1995); A Woman in the West (2008); Adaptation. (2002); Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011); Afterburn (1992); Agent Stoker (2021); Agua Dulce (2003); Air America (1998); Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); Alien Apocalypse (2005); Alien Nation (1988); Almost a Woman (2002); Amazing Stories (1985); American Black Beauty (2005); Angel (1983); Angel on My Shoulder (1980); Annie Claus Is Coming to Town (2011); Annie McGuire (1988); Another Life (2020); Anywhere, U.S.A. (2017); Arachnophobia (1990); Arli$$ (1999); Arrested Development (2004–2013); B.J. and the Bear (1980); Baskets (2017–2019); Batman Beyond (1999); Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999); Batman: The Animated Series (1992); Beaverton (2009); Beyond the Universe (1981); Big John (2006); Billionaire Boys Club (1987); Body Bags / Segment: The Gas Station (1993); BoomBastiCAST (2022–2023); Brewster's Millions (1985); Brick Novax's Diary (2011); Butterfly (1981); Cagney & Lacey (1982); Cahoots (2001); Carnivàle (2003); Castle (2009); Cesar Chavez (2014); Chuck (2010); Cimarron Strip (1968); Claire (2007); Coach (1994); Cody the Robosapien (2013); Cold Case (2010); Combat Radio: A Christmas Carol (2022); Combat Radio: A Christmas Carol 2023 (2023); Command 5 (1985); Confessions of an Action Star (2005); Congo (1995); Conjuring Orson (2014); Convicted (1986); Cover Up (1985); Crash and Burn (2008); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012); Daddy Issues (2018); Daniel Boone (1969); Dante's Peak (1997); Darkwatch: Curse of the West (2005); Dead Talk Live (2022); Deadwood (2004–2006); Deadwood: The Movie (2019); Dear John (1992); Deconstructing Sarah (1994); Deep in the Forest (2021); Desperate Housewives (2006–2007); Detonator (2003); Dirty Sexy Money (2007); Disaster on the Coastliner (1979); Disney·Pixar Learning: 2nd & 3rd Grade (2002); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1994); Dreamscape (1984); Eat or Be Eaten (1985); Eiga Doraemon: Shin Nobita no daimakyô (2014); Employee of the Month (2004); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Escape from L.A. (1996); Falling Up (2009); Fallout 2: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1998); Fast Track (1997); Filthy Rich (1982); Finding Kelly (2000); Five Houses (1998); For Love and Honor (1983); Foreign Land (2016); From the Dead of Night (1989); From the Head (2011); Frostbite (2005); Funny or Die Presents... / Segment: Brick Novax's Diary (2011); Gears of War 2 (2008); Gears of War 3 (2011); Gemini Division (2008); Get Married or Die (2018); Ghost of New Orleans (2011); Ghosts of Mars (2001); Gigi: Almost American (2014); Greatest Ever Disaster Movies (2007); Gunsmoke (1970–1973); Hail, Caesar! (2016); Hair High (2004); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995); Hard Cash (2002); Hard Knocks (1987); Hart to Hart (1980–1982); Hawaii Five-O (1971); Heal Thyself (2012); Heartbreak Ridge (1986); Heavenly Deposit (2019); Here Come the Brides (1969); Herman's Head (1992); High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (2017); Hopelessly in June (2011); How to Make Love to a Woman (2010); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Impulse (1984); In the Mouth of Madness (1994); Inside the Crazy Ant Farm (2022); Intervention (2008); It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned (2016); Izzy & Moe (1985); Jack in the Box (1989); Jackie Chan Adventures (2003); JAG (1995); Java Heads: The Movie (1997); John Carpenter: Fear Is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies (2004); John from Cincinnati (2007); Johnny Handsome (1989); Judd for the Defense (1968); Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018); Justified (2010); Kicking & Screaming (2005); Knights of the Kitchen Table (1990); Knots Landing (1990); Kung Fu (1972); Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1996); La ilegal (1979); Laguna Heat (1987); Land of the Giants (1970); Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013); Live from Baghdad (2002); Locked In (2010); Longmire (2016); Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003); Mad Men (2008); Marked for Death (1990); Married... with Children (1993); Measure (2014); Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II - Picture Show (1994); Men in Black: The Series (1999); Mending Fences (2009); Merkin Penal (2013); Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1973); Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998); Milk (2008); Mister Roberts (1984); Mister Sterling (2003); Mixels (2015–2016); Mommie Dearest (1981); Mortal Kombat (1995); Moving McAllister (2007); Murder in the Mirror (2000); Murder One (1997); Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer (1997); Murder, She Wrote (1995); Nash Bridges (1998–1999); NCIS (2009–2018); Nice Dreams (1981); On Air with Ka$h (2022); One Day at a Time (1978); Orson Welles: Shadows and Light (2015); Out of the Wilderness (1998); Oxford Blues (1984); Party Camp (1987); Passport (2014); Patients (2004); Perfect Strangers (1991); Perversions of Science (1997); Pinky and the Brain (1997); Planet Raptor (2007); Prince of Darkness (1987); Proposition 8 Trial Re-Enactment (2010); Providence (2001); Q N' A with Mikki and Shay (2014); Quantum Leap (1991); Queen City (2013); Rage (1995); Raising the Bar (2009); Raptor Island (2004); Red Desert Nights: Making 'Ghosts of Mars' (2001); Red Heat (1988); Remington Steele (1984–1986); Return to Zero (2014); Richard III (2007); Rio Lobo (1970); Riptide (1985); River Guard (2016); Road Back (2017); Roseanne (1993); Saint Judy (2018); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Scoring Ghosts of Mars (2001); Scorpion (2014); Seabiscuit (2003); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1983); Shadow on the Land (1968); Significant Others (2004); Silver Spoons (1982); Sister Cities (2016); Some Kind of Hero (1982); Son of Morning (2011); Splendor in the Grass (1981); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Starsky and Hutch (1979); Streets of Fire (1984); Students Like Us (2012); Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live (2018); Sunset (1988); Surviving Christmas (2004); Tale of 2 Fathers (2022); Texas Lightning (1981); The Adventures of Black Feather (1995); The Assent (2019); The Baltimore Bullet (1980); The Betty Ford Story (1987); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Christmas Card (2006); The Condo (2015); The Demolitionist (1995); The Downside of Bliss (2020); The Driver (1978); The Enigma with a Stigma (2006); The F.B.I. (1968); The Fighter & the Kid 3D (2016); The Final Analysis (2015); The Fuzz (2010); The Glimmer Man (1996); The Go to Guy: Peter Jason on John Carpenter (2016); The Golden Girls (1986); The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (1980); The Hunt for Red October (1990); The Incredible Hulk (1980); The Jackie Thomas Show (1993); The Karate Kid (1984); The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson (2017); The Long Riders (1980); The Man Who Came Back (2008); The Naked Truth (1997); The New Batman Adventures (1997–1998); The New Mike Hammer (1987); The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999–2002); The Nth Ward (2017); The Other Side of the Wind (2018); The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004); The Return of Captain Nemo (1978); The Rose Technique (2002); The Secret World of Arrietty (2010); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006); The Terror of Hallow's Eve (2017); The Way of the Karate Kid (2005); The Young Lawyers (1970); They Live (1988); They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018); Tiger, Tiger (1969); Titus (2000–2001); Trick or Treats (1982); Undisputed (2002); Valley Girls (1996); Valley of the Sun (2011); Village of the Damned (1995); We Are Gathered Here Today (2022); Webster (1984–1988); Welcome to Forever (2015); Wild Bill (1995); Willow Creek (2013); Wind in the Wire (1993); Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995); Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997); With This Ring (1978); Women: Stories of Passion (1997); Working with Orson Welles (1993).

On this day in movie history - I’ll Give a Million (1938)

I’ll Give a Million

directed by Walter Lang,

written by Boris Ingster and Milton Sperling,

based on a story by Giaci Mondaini and Cesare Zavattini,

was released in the United States on July 22, 1938.

Music by Cyril Mockridge.

Cast:

Warner Baxter, Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Lynn Bari, Fritz Feld, Sig Ruman, Christian Rub, Paul Harvey, Charles Halton, Frank Reicher, Frank Dawson, Harry Hayden, Stanley Andrews, Lillian Porter, Luis Alberni, Rafaela Ottiano, Georges Renavent, Rolfe Sedan, Eddie Conrad, Egon Brecher, Frank Puglia, Michael Visaroff, Alex Novinsky, Armand Kaliz, William Arnold, George Bookasta, Eugene Borden, Jack Chefe, André Cheron, Marcelle Corday, Gennaro Curci, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Antonio D'Amore, Albert D'Arno, George Davis, Jean De Briac, Zoia De Groot, Victor De Linsky, Mario Dominici, Tex Driscoll, Constant Franke, Elisabeth Fröhlich, Rosina Galli, Helen Giere, Joseph Kamaryt, Louis LaBey, Jacques Lory, Ludwig Lowry, Fred Malatesta, Alphonse Martell, Alex Melesh, Louis Mercier, Torben Meyer, Adolph Milar, Christina Montt, Alexander Palasthy, Manuel París, Albert Pollet, Paul Porcasi, Jules Raucourt, Joseph Romantini, Harry Semels, Pepi Sinoff, George Sorel, Charles Tannen, Laura Treadwell, Mary Treen, Jacques Vanaire, Frederik Vogeding, Marek Windheim, Wolfgang Zilzer.

On this day in movie history - Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Plan 9 from Outer Space

directed and written by Ed Wood,

was released in the United States on July 22, 1959.

Narrated by Criswell.

Music compiled by Gordon Zahler.

Cast:

Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony, Paul Marco, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee, John Breckinridge, Lyle Talbot, David De Mering, Norma McCarty, Bill Ash, Lynn Lemon, Ben Frommer, Gloria Dea, Conrad Brooks, Maila Nurmi / Vampira, Bela Lugosi, Criswell, Donald A. Davis, Johnny Duncan, Karl Johnson, Tom Mason, J. Edward Reynolds, Pauline Reynolds, Clay Stone, Hugh Thomas Jr., Edward D. Wood Jr.

On this day in movie history - Die Hard (1988)

Die Hard

directed by John McTiernan,

written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza,

based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp,

was released in the United States on July 22, 1988.

Music by Michael Kamen.

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De’voreaux White, William Atherton, Clarence Gilyard, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski, Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Gerard Bonn, Dennis Hayden, Al Leong, Gary Roberts, Hans Buhringer, Wilhelm von Homburg, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Tracy Reiner, Taylor Fry, Noah Land.

On this day in movie history - The Captains (2011)

The Captains

documentary directed and written by William Shatner,

was released in the United States on July 22, 2011.

Music by Andy Milne.

Cast:

William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, Chris Pine, Christopher Plummer, Richard Arnold, Rene Auberjonois, Ira Steven Behr, John de Lancie, Paul Duraso, Jonathan Frakes, Sally Kellerman, Walter Koenig, Chase Masterson, Robert Picardo, Steve Ridolfi, Jeri Ryan, David R. Sparks Jr., Connor Trinneer, Nana Visitor, Grace Lee Whitney.

On this day in movie history - Sarah’s Key (2011)

Sarah’s Key

directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner,

written by Serge Joncour and Gilles Paquet-Brenner,

based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay,

was released in the United States on July 22, 2011.

Music by Max Richter.

Cast:
Kristin Scott Thomas, Natasha Mashkevich, Arben Bajraktaraj, Mélusine Mayance, Charlotte Poutrel, Niels Arestrup, Dominique Frot, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, George Birt, Paige Jennifer Barr.