Friday, October 10, 2025

Born on this day – Janis Carter:


Janis Carter


Actress

October 10, 1913 – July 30, 1994

Credits:
A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Woman of Distinction (1950); Addio Mimí! (1949); And Baby Makes Three (1949); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Cadet Girl (1941); Center Stage (1954); Double Profile (1954); Feather Your Nest (1954); Flying Leathernecks (1951); Framed (1947); Girl in the Case (1944); Girl Trouble (1942); I Love Trouble (1948); I Married an Angel (1942); Just Off Broadway (1942); Lady of Burlesque (1943); Lights Out (1950); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); My Forbidden Past (1951); Night Editor (1946); One Mysterious Night (1944); One Way to Love (1946); Panama Hattie (1954); Santa Fe (1951); Secret Agent of Japan (1942); Slightly French (1949); Star of the Family (1950); Starlight Theatre (1950); Suspense (1953); Swing Out the Blues (1943); That Other Woman (1942); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fighting Guardsman (1945); The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944); The Half-Breed (1952); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The Missing Juror (1944); The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946); The Power of the Whistler (1945); The Sergeant and the Spy (1954); The Woman on Pier 13 (1949); Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942); Together Again (1944); Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953).

Born on this day – Ed Wood:


Ed Wood


Director

Actor

Writer

October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978

Born on this day – Richard Jaeckel:


Richard Jaeckel


Actor

October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997


Born on this day – Dana Elcar:


Dana Elcar


Actor

October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005


Born on this day – Daniel Massey:


Daniel Massey


Actor

October 10, 1933 – March 25, 1998


Born on this day – Kirsty MacColl:


Kirsty MacColl


Singer

Songwriter

October 10, 1959 – December 18, 2000

Credits:

Albums:

30:30 The Essential Collection (2013); A New England: The Very Best of Kirsty MacColl (2013); All I Ever Wanted (2014); All I Ever Wanted: The Anthology (2014); Can’t Stop Killing You (1993); Days (1988 - 1991) (2018); Desperate Character (1981); Electric Landlady (1991); Electric Landlady (Deluxe Edition) (1991); From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology (2005); Galore (1995); Kite (1989); Kite (Deluxe Edition) (1989); Live At The Jazz Café, London, 12 October 1999 (2023); Real (2023); See That Girl (2023); See That Girl 1979–2000 (2023); The Best of Kirsty MacColl (2005); The Essential Collection (1993); The One and Only (2001); The Real MacColl (1991); The Stiff Singles Collection (2006); The Stiff Years (2005); Titanic Days (1993); Tropical Brainstorm (2000); What Do Pretty Girls Do? (1998).

Songs:

All I Ever Wanted; Angel; Can't Stop Killing You; Caroline; Days; Dear John; Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!; Fairytale of New York; Free World; He's on the Beach; I Want Out; In These Shoes?; Innocence; Keep Your Hands off My Baby; Mambo de la Luna; Miss Otis Regrets; My Affair; A New England; Perfect Day; See That Girl; Terry; There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis; They Don't Know; Walking Down Madison; You Caught Me Out.

Movies, television and video:

A Question of Pop (2000); Adore (2013); Angela and Friends (2009); Any Time Now (2002); Bargain Hunt (2018); BBC Music Live 2000 (2000); Beautiful People (1999); Billy Bragg: Sexuality (1991); Boomers (2015); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Cannonball (2017); Completely Pogued (1991); Cow (2021); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cuck (2019); De verschrikkelijke jaren tachtig (2022); Dinner at Noon (1991); Doom Patrol (2019); Dream Stuffing (1984); EastEnders (2000–2022); EastEnders: Back to Ours (2015); F.C. De Kampioenen (1991); Folk Britannia (2006); Folk Hibernia (2007); French and Saunders (1990); Fresh Meat (2016); Get It Together (1981); Girls (2016); Good Morning Britain (2017–2019); Hittimittari (1984); Hotel Babylon (2007); I Want You (1998); If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001); If It Ain't Stiff (2007); Kinky Boots (2005); Kirstie's Handmade Britain (2011); Kirstie's Handmade Christmas (2014); Kirsty MacColl: A New England (1984); Kirsty MacColl: Days (1989); Kirsty MacColl: Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (1990); Kirsty MacColl: Freeworld (1989); Kirsty MacColl: He's on the Beach (1985); Kirsty MacColl: Terry (1983); Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993); Later... With Jools Holland (1992–2000); Live from Studio Five (2009); Mad Love (1995); Midsomer Murders (2013); Misfits (2009); Moving Story (1994–1995); MTV 80s - Top 100 Forgotten Gems of the 80s! (2024); MTV 80s - Top 100 Hits of 80s Wonder Women! (2024); Musikladen (1984); National Geographic Explorer (1985); Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1997 / 2000); Not Going Out (2017–2019); Our Nixon (2013); P.S. I Love You (2007); Peter Andre's Xmas Extravaganza Top 50 (2014); Picking up the Pieces (1998); Picture Perfect (1997); Rage (1994); Razzmatazz (1981); Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990); Reeling in the Years (1999); Run All Night (2015); Sex and the City (2001); She's Having a Baby (1988); Sings the Great American Songbook (2010); Something Else (1981); Sounds of the 80s (2015); Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers (1988); Tattoo Fixers (2017); Teachers (2002); Ted Lasso (2021); The 80s - Music's Greatest Decade? (2021); The Adventures of Mole (1995); The Catherine Tate Show (2004); The End of the Tour (2015); The Ghosts of Oxford Street (1991); The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022); The Jack Docherty Show (1997); The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York (1987); The Pogues: Live at the Town and Country (1988); The Project (2023); The Roxy (1987); The Sara Cox Show (2019); The Story of Fairytale of New York (2005); The Vicar of Dibley (1996); Top of the Pops (1980–1991); Tracey Takes On... (1996–1999); Tracey Ullman: Terry (1985); Tracey Ullman: They Don't Know (1983); Tracy Beaker Returns (2012); Who Killed Kirsty MacColl? (2004); Wogan (1985–1991); Women in Rock (1986).

Born on this day – Chris Penn:


Chris Penn


Actor

October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006

Credits:
13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); AFP: American Fighter Pilot (2002); After the Sunset (2004); Aftermath (2013); All the Right Moves (1983); American Pie: Beneath the Crust Vol. 2 (2003); At Close Range (1986); Beethoven's 2nd (1993); Best of Chris Isaak / Segment: Somebody's Crying (2006); Best of the Best (1989); Best of the Best II (1993); Blvd. of Broken Dreams (2007); Bread and Roses (2000); Cannes Man (1996); CBS Cares (2000–2015); Cement (2000); Charlie and the Talking Buzzard (1979); Chicago Hope (1995); Chris Isaak: Somebody's Crying (1995); Close Up (1999); Corazón de... (2006); Corky Romano (2001); CSI: Miami (2003); Dead Man's Walk (1996); Deceiver (1997); E! True Hollywood Story (2010); Empire of the Censors (1995); Entourage (2005); Everwood (2005); Faerie Tale Theatre (1987); Family Attraction (1998); Fist of the North Star (1995); Flagpole Special (1998); Footloose (1984); Footloose: A Modern Musical (2004); From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker (2011); Future Kick (1991); Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004); Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition (2021); Holly (2006); Hollywood Lives (2009); Imaginary Crimes (1994); Jay-Z Feat. Ja Rule & Amil: Can I Get A... (1998); Josh and S.A.M. (1993); Juarez: Stages of Fear (2006); Jump! (2007); Kenny Loggins: Footloose (Version 2) (1984); King of Sorrow (2007); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–1996); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005); Le Hard Corner (2018); Leather Jackets (1991); Let's Dance! Kevin Bacon on 'Footloose' (2011); Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country (1993); Made in U.S.A. (1987); Madonna: Live to Tell (1986); Magnum, P.I. (1982); 'Masked & Anonymous' Exposed (2003); Masked and Anonymous (2003); Mobsters (1991); Moviewatch (1993); Mr. Devon Sawa (Aka Scott from Now and Then) (2006); Mulholland Falls (1996); Murder by Numbers (2002); Nobody's Heroes (1983); North Beach and Rawhide (1985); On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' (2005); One Tough Cop (1998); Pale Rider (1985); Papertrail (1998); Redemption (2002); Remembering Willard (2011); Reservoir Dogs (1992); Reservoir Dogs: Deleted Scenes (1992); Reservoir Dogs: Original Interviews (2002); Return from the River Kwai (1989); Revealed with Jules Asner (2002); Rumble Fish (1983); Rush Hour (1998); Rush Hour 3 (2007); Sacred Cargo (1995); Shelter Island (2003); Short Cuts (1993); Starsky & Hutch (2004); Staunch T.V. (2018–2023); Stealing Harvard (2002); The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006); The Boys Club (1996); The Boys Club: Placebo - The Bitter End (2010); The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (2003); The Contender (2005); The Darwin Awards (2006); The Florentine (1999); The Funeral (1996); The Last Sentinel (2007); The Music of Chance (1993); The Pickle (1993); The Wild Life (1984); The Young Riders (1990); To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995); True Romance (1993); Under the Hula Moon (1995); VH1 Goes Inside (2004); Vice (2008); Who Do You Think You're Fooling? (1994); Will & Grace (2003).