Born on this day – Steve Fisher:

Steve Fisher

Writer

Producer

August 29, 1912 – March 27, 1980

Credits:
 
Books:
 

Be Still My Heart (1952); Homicide Johnny (1940); I Wake Up Screaming (1941); Image of Hell (1961); Murder of the Admiral (1936); Murder of the Pigboat Skipper / aka Murder on the S-23 (1937); No House Limit (1958); Satan's Angel (1935); Saxon's Ghost (1969); Take All You Can Get (1955); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Big Dream (1970); The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (2010); The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007); The Hell-Black Night (1970); The Night Before Murder (1939); Winter Kill (1946).

 

Movies and television:
 

77 Sunset Strip (1959); Adventures of the Sea Hawk (1958); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Barnaby Jones (1973); Battle Zone (1952); Berlin Correspondent (1942); Betrayed Women (1955); Black Spurs (1965); Cannon (1973); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Checkmate (1960); City That Never Sleeps (1953); Colt .45 (1958); Combat! (1965); Conflict (1956); Courage of Black Beauty (1957); Crusader (1955); Danger (1951); Dead Reckoning (1946); Decision (1958); Destination Tokyo (1943); Fantasy Island (1978–1981); Flat Top (1952); Fort Utah (1967); General Electric Theater (1959); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1959); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Hostile Guns (1967); I Mobster (1959); I Wake Up Screaming (1941); I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957–1958); Johnny Angel (1945); Johnny Reno (1966); King of Diamonds (1961–1962); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); Lady in the Lake (1946); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Law of the Lawless (1964); Luke and the Tenderfoot (1955 / 1965); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Matt Helm (1975); McMillan & Wife (1972–1973); Men of Annapolis (1958); Miami Undercover (1961); Navy Secrets (1939); New York Confidential (1959); Night Freight (1955); Noose for a Gunman (1960); Nurse from Brooklyn (1938); Peter Gunn (1958); Red Tomahawk (1966); Ripcord (1962–1963); Roadblock (1951); Rogue's Gallery (1968); San Antone (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1955–1956); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); September Storm (1960); Silent Fear (1956); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Starsky and Hutch (1976–1977); Susan Slept Here (1954); Switch (1978); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1960); Terror Street (1953); That's My Man (1947); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1956); The Best in Mystery (1954); The Big Frame (1952); The Big Tip Off (1955); The Clones (1973); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Evil Touch (1973); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1957); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Great Gundown (1977); The Hunted (1948); The Last Day (1975); The Lawbreakers (1963); The Loretta Young Show (1958–1959); The Man from the Alamo (1953); The Quick Gun (1964); The Restless Breed (1957); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Rough Riders (1958); The Shanghai Story (1954); The Toughest Man Alive (1955); The Wild Wild West (1966); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Tokyo Joe (1949); Tombstone Territory (1957–1958); Top Gun (1955); Typhoon (1940); U.S. Marshal (1959–1960); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Vicki (1953); Waco (1966); Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952); Wire Service (1957); Woman in the Rain (1976); Young Fury (1964).

Born on this day – Isabel Sanford:

 

Isabel Sanford

Actress

Comedian

August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004

Credits:

11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005); 1995 MTV Movie Awards (1995); 50 Years of Television: A Celebration of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary (1997); A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988); All in the Family (1971–1979); All Star Blitz (1985); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); America 2-Night (1978); An Evening at the Improv (1990); Bewitched (1968); Body Language (1984–1985); Break the Bank (1977); CBS at 75 (2003); CBS Galaxy (1977); CBS: On the Air (1978); Circus of the Stars #7 (1982); Click Three Times (2000); Community (2009); Crazy Like a Fox (1986); Cybill (1996); Daniel Boone (1970); Dark Side of the '90s (2022); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Redd Foxx (1976); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Valerie Harper (1975); Dean's Place (1975); Dinah! (1977); Disney's Math Quest with Aladdin (1998); Donny & Marie (2000); Donny and Marie (1976); Dream On (1993); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1983–1986); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1994); Hearts Are Wild (1992); Hickey & Boggs (1972); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood Squares (2001–2003); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); In the House (1995); Inside TV Land (2002); Intimate Portrait (2003); Isabel's Honeymoon Hotel (1987); Jackie's Back! (1999); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1983); John & Leeza from Hollywood (1993); Kids Are People, Too (1979); Kojak (1974); Lady Sings the Blues (1972); Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (1999); Living Single (1993); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994); Love at First Bite (1979); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Perfect Wedding; Love and the Baby (1971–1972); Mafia! (1998); Match Game (1976); Match Game PM (1976); Maury (1991); Mod Squad (1968); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Norman Lear: A Life on Television (2023); Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016); Of Black America (1968); Original Gangstas (1996); Pendulum (1969); Pepper Ann (1998); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1989); Reading Rainbow (1985); Relatively Speaking (1988); RerunIt: Some Things Are Worth Repeating (2018); Roseanne (1995); Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017); Saturday Night Live (1976); See It Loud: The History of Black Television (2023); South Beach (1993); Sprung (1997); Stand Up and Be Counted (1972); Star Search (1984); Steigler and Steigler (1980); Storybook Squares (1976); Supertrain (1979); Tattletales (1984); Teen Angel (1997); That's TV (1982); The 11th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1990); The 1st Annual American Comedy Awards (1987); The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame (1984); The 2nd Annual TV Land Awards (2004); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981); The 34th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1982); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 4th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1983); The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004); The 6th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1985); The 7th Annual People's Choice Awards / TV Special (1981); The Ben Stiller Show (1995); The Carol Burnett Show (1968–1977); The Comedy Shop (1978); The Comic (1969); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Evel Knievel (1975); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Muhammad Ali (1976); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1995–1996); The Fuzz Brothers (1973); The Great American Quiz Show (1987); The Great Man's Whiskers (1972); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1976–1980); The Hollywood Squares (Syndication) (1978); The Howard Stern Show (1992); The Interns (1971); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2002); The Jeffersons (1975–1985); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Late Show (1986); The Love Boat (1980–1983); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The New Centurions (1972); The New Hollywood Squares (1986–1987); The New Mike Hammer (1986); The New Temperatures Rising Show (1973); The Parkers (2001); The Paul Kent Show (1999); The Photographer (1974); The Red, White, and Black (1970); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1998); The Shape of Things (1982); The Simpsons (2004); The Steve Harvey Show (1996); The Young and the Restless (2002); The Young Runaways (1968); This Is Your Life (1984); Time & Again (2000); Tony Orlando and Dawn (1975); Truth Behind the Sitcom Scandals 4 (2000); TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV (2003); TV's Greatest Sidekicks (2004); Unsung Hollywood (2017); Up the Sandbox (1972); Vega$ (1978); Vicki! (1992–1993); Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972); You Are the Jury (1986).

Born on this day – Richard Attenborough:

Richard Attenborough

Actor

Director

August 29, 1923 – August 24, 2014

Born on this day – Thomas N. Scortia:

Thomas N. Scortia

Writer

August 29, 1926 – April 29, 1986

Born on this day – Susan Shaw:

Susan Shaw

Actress

August 29, 1929 – November 27, 1978

Credits:

A Killer Walks (1952); All Aboard (1959); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Blonde Blackmailer (1955); Carry on Nurse (1959); Chain of Events (1958); Count Your Blessings (1953); Davy (1957); Dulcimer Street (1948); Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956); Five Angles on Murder (1950); Here Come the Huggetts (1948); Holiday Camp (1947); It Always Rains on Sunday (1947); It's Not Cricket (1949); ITV Television Playhouse (1958); Jassy (1947); London Town (1946); Marry Me (1949); My Brother's Keeper (1948); No Hiding Place (1962); One Man's Family (1950–1951); Pool of London (1951); Quartet / Segment: The Kite (1948); Richard the Lionheart (1962); Small Town Story (1953); Stock Car (1955); Stranglehold (1963); Suspense (1960); The Big Day (1960); The Diplomatic Corpse (1958); The Good Die Young (1954); The Huggetts Abroad (1949); The Intruder (1953); The Long Rope (1953); The Switch (1963); The Upturned Glass (1947); Time Is My Enemy (1954); To the Public Danger (1948); Train of Events / Segment: The Engine Driver (1949); Vote for Huggett (1949); Walking on Air (1946); Wall of Death (1951); Waterfront Women (1950); Wide Boy (1952).

Born on this day – Mary Ellen Kay:

Mary Ellen Kay

Actress

August 29, 1929 – 2017 (exact date unknown)

Credits:

A Public Affair (1962); A Woman of Distinction (1950); Annie Oakley (1956); Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Border Saddlemates (1952); Buffalo Gun (1961); Cavalcade of America (1953); Circus Boy (1956); City Detective (1953); Colorado Sundown (1952); Desert of Lost Men (1951); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Father Knows Best (1956); Fort Dodge Stampede (1951); Francis in the Haunted House (1956); Girls' School (1950); Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (1951); I Love Lucy (1957); I Married Joan (1953); I'm the Law (1953); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Medic (1955); Mr. & Mrs. North (1954); Private Secretary (1954); Public Defender (1954); Racket Squad (1952); Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951); Runaway Daughters (1956); Satins and Spurs (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953–1956); Silver City Bonanza (1951); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955); Streets of Ghost Town (1950); Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Files of Jeffrey Jones (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1956); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1954–1957); The Gray Ghost (1958); The Joe Palooka Story (1954); The Last Musketeer (1952); The Life of Riley (1954); The Lone Ranger (1956–1957); The Long Wait (1954); The Red Skelton Hour (1953); The Roy Rogers Show (1953); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Well (1951); This Is the Life (1955–1966); Thunder in God's Country (1951); Thunder Pass (1954); Vice Squad (1953); Vigilante Terror (1953); Voodoo Woman (1957); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Wells Fargo Gunmaster (1951); Your Favorite Story (1953); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952); Yukon Vengeance (1954).

Born on this day – William Friedkin:

William Friedkin

Director

Producer

Writer

August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023

Credits:

Book:

The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir (2014).

Movies and television:

12 Angry Men (1997); 40 x 15 (2008); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Fuller Life / Segment: My Ballsy Yarns (2013); A Little Solitaire (2004); A Missed Connection (2018); ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (2023); Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter (2011); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); Aida (2015); Algren (2014); Algren (revised) (2021); American Federale (2013); American Masters (1998); Anatomy of a Chase (2009); Arbitrage (2012); Barbra Streisand: Somewhere (1985); Behind the Rules of Engagement (2000); Blue Chips (1994); Bravo Profiles (2000); Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (2022); Bug (2006); C.A.T. Squad (1986); C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (1988); Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic (2012); Cinéma par Albert Dupontel (2017); Comme au cinéma (2000); Counterfeit World: Making 'to Live and Die in L.A.' (2003); Cruising (1980); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2007–2009); Deal of the Century (1983); Ditched (2021); Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013); Durch die Nacht mit... (2010); Exorcising Cruising (2007); Face Time (2002–2003); Fantasy Film Festival (2014); Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock (2009); Fear and Love: The Story of the Exorcist (2024); Fear in the Dark (1991); Fellini of the Spirits (2020); Filming 'the Hunted' (2003); Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004); Frankenheimer in Focus (2009); Friedkin and Grosso Remember: The French Connection (2009); Friedkin Uncut (2018); Godard Made in USA (2010); Godfather World (2008); Good Day L.A. (2013); Good Morning America (2023); Good Times (1967); Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making 'A Clockwork Orange' (2007); Greatest Ever Scary Movies (2006–2007); Hardcore Nitzsche: Jack Nitzsche on Film (2017); Henri Langlois vu par... (2014); Histoires de cinéma (2010); Hollywood Halloween (1997); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood's Best Film Directors (2009); Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997); I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021); In the Grip of Evil (1997); In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy (2008); Intimate Portrait (2001); Jade (1995); Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth (2020); JoBlo Horror Originals (2020); Johnny Hallyday: Ce que je sais (1998); Just the Facts (2004); Killer Joe (2011); Laura Branigan: Self Control (1984); Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist (2019); M (1931) / Fritz Lang Interviewed by William Friedkin (1975); M3/H301 (2020); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Making the Boys (2011); Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection' (2001); Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012); Miller's Tale (2011); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Na plovárne (2014); Narc: Shooting Up (2003); Narc: The Friedkin Connection (2003); North by Northwest: One for the Ages (2009); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Nouvelle vague vue d'ailleurs (2009); On Tour (2010); Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist (1974); Paper Moon (1973); Pinter's Party as Told by William Friedkin (2017); Post Mortem with Mick Garris (2011); Precinct Hollywood (2005); Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon (1965); Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Master (2008); Pursuing 'the Hunted' (2003); Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album (1986); Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist (2010); Rampage (1987); Rebel Highway (1994); Reputations (1999); Richard Fleischer, Storyteller: William Friedkin on 'Violent Saturday' (2013); Rules of Engagement (2000); Scene of the Crime (2009); Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005); Shadows of Suspense (2006); Shock Docs (2020); Sonny and Cher Make a Movie (2018); Sorcerer (1977); Split Screen Personality: William Friedkin on Richard Fleischer's 'The Boston Strangler' (2013); Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Stanley Kubrick in Focus (2012); Tales from the Crypt (1992); Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013); Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen (2007); Tavis Smiley (2013); TCM Guest Programmer (2014); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The 100 Greatest Films (2001); The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003); The 202 Xtra (2019); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Angry Video Game Nerd (2023); The Big Picture (2018); The Birthday Party (1968); The Bold Men (1965); The Boys in the Band (1970); The Brink's Job (1978); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023); The Chili Con Carne Club (1993); The Cleansing Hour (2016); The Culture Show (2012); The Cutting Edge (2003); The David Frost Show (1972); The Day of the Living Dead (2014); The Devil and Father Amorth (2017); The Directors (1997–2008); The Essentials (2017); The Exorcist (1973); The Exorcist Confidential (2020); The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now (2010); The Exorcist: Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin (1998); The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen - Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin (2000); The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998); The French Connection (1971); The Guardian (1990); The History of Cruising (2007); The Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Hour (2011); The Hunted (2003); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1980); The Lost Print (2022); The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2013); The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007); The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008); The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style (2009); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Movies That Made Me (2019–2023); The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968); The Painter's Voice (2007); The People vs. Paul Crump (1962); The Pickle Brothers (1967); The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' (2000); The Revenant Kinder Surprise / Egg Cetera (2015); The Secrets of Dick Smith (1991); The Shining (1980) / The Visions of Stanley Kubrick (2007); The Simpsons (2017); The Sound of Hitchcock (2008); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Thin Blue Line (1966); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Nightcrawlers, written by Philip DeGuere, based on the short story by Robert R. McCammon. Season 1. Episode 4. Episode originally aired: October 18, 1985; The Uttmost (1998); The World Over Live (2015); This Is Your Life (2002); To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman (2009); View from the Overlook: Crafting 'the Shining' (2007); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); Wang Chung: To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); Welcome to the Basement (2016); Without Limits (1998); WTF with Marc Maron (2016).