Born on this day – William Cullen Bryant:

William Cullen Bryant

Writer

November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878

Credits:

Poems:

A Forest Hymn; A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal; A Song of Pitcairn's Island; A Summer Ramble; A Walk at Sunset; A Winter Piece; After a Tempest; An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers; An Indian Story; Autumn Woods; Blessed are they that Mourn; Green River; Hymn of the City; Hymn of the Waldenses; Hymn to Death; Hymn to the North Star; I broke the spell that held me long; I cannot forget with what fervid devotion; Innocent child and snow-white flower; Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood; June; Lines on Revisiting the Country; March; Monument Mountain; No Man knoweth his Sepulchre; Ode for an Agricultural Celebration; Oh fairest of the rural maids; Rizpah; Romero; Scene on the Banks of the Hudson; Song of Marion's Men; Song of the Greek Amazon; Song of the Stars; Song.—Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow; Song—Dost thou idly ask to hear; Sonnet.—Midsummer; Sonnet.—Mutation; Sonnet.—November; Sonnet.—October; Sonnet.—To Cole, the Painter, departing for Europe; Sonnet.—William Tell; Spring in Town; Summer Wind; Thanatopsis; The African Chief; The Ages; The Arctic Lover; The Burial-place. A Fragment; The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus; The Damsel of Peru; The Death of the Flowers; The Disinterred Warrior; The Evening Wind; The Gladness of Nature; The Greek Boy; The Greek Partisan; The Hunter's Serenade; The Hurricane; The Indian Girl's Lament; The Journey of Life; The Lapse of Time; The Massacre at Scio; The Murdered Traveller; The New Moon; The Old Man's Funeral; The Past; The Prairies; The Rivulet; The Skies; The Twenty-second of December; The Two Graves; The West Wind; The Yellow Violet; To a Cloud; To a Musquito; To a Waterfowl; To the fringed Gentian; To the River Arve; Upon the mountain's distant head; When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam.

Born on this day – Ford Sterling:

Ford Sterling

Actor

Comedian

November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939

Born on this day – Frederick Nebel:

Frederick Nebel

Writer

November 3, 1903 - May 3, 1967

Credits – book and short story titles:

A Couple of Quick Ones; A Gambler Passes; A Girl Must be Sure; A Grudge is a Grudge; A Gun in the Dark; A Man Must Fight; A Man With Sand; A Truck-Load of Diamonds; Accidental Night; All the Answers; All the Good Times; All the Way Back; Alley Rat; Alone; And There Was Murder; Any Boy Can Be President; Appointment in Rio; Ask Me No Questions; At the End of the Alley Was a Door; Back in Town; Backwash; Bad News; Be Your Age; Beat the Rap; Behind the Eight Ball; Behind the Shield; Best of Luck; Bet Your Life; Big Moon Lake Patrol; Birdmen of Borneo; Birdmen of Passage; Blood in the Dark; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 1; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 2; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 3; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 4; Bolt From the Blue; Boomerang Barnes; Brood of the Wind; But Not the End; Cache Law; Call It Justice; Case Against Women; Case for Innocence; Chains of Darkness; Champions Also Die; Chance is an Enemy; Change of Heart; Chechako Trail; China Silk; Claws of the Jungle; Coast of Hate; Cops Are Dumb; Courage of the Strong; Crack Down; Crate Crashers; Dance No More; Dead Man’s Folly; Death After Murder; Death Alley; Death for a Dago; Death in the Raw; Death’s Not Enough; Deep Red; Defiance Valley: The Complete Northwoods Stories of Frederick Nebel, Vol. 1; Defiance Valley; Die-Hard; Dog Eat Dog; Doom Drums; Doom Lagoon; Doors in the Dark; Doorway to Danger; Dreams Are Real; Dumb Luck; East of Big Moon; Emeralds of Shade; Empire of the Devil & Other Tales of Adventure; Empire of the Devil; Fan Dance; Far North of Chilkoot; Farewell to Crime; Fifty Roads to Town; Flame Island & Other Tales of Adventure; Flame Island; Fly-by-Night; Flyers of Fortune; Flying Freebooters; Flying Freebooters; Flying Jade; Forbidden Affair; Forbidden River: Five Novels of Conflict in the Frozen North; Forbidden River; Get a Load of This; Ghost of a Chance; Give Me This; Graft; Grain to Grain; Grampa and the Spirit of ’76; Guess Again, Lady; Gun Thunder; Guns Down; Hands; Hard to Take; He Could Take It; He Was a Swell Guy; Heir to Murder; Hell Couldn’t Stop Him; Hell on Wheels; Hell to Pay; Hell’s Back Door; Hell’s Pay Check; Hell-Smoke; High Jinks as Sky High; Hot Spot; Hounds of Darkness; If You Can Take It; Isle of Lost Men; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 1; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 2; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 3; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 4; It Takes a Man; It’s a Gag; It’s the Live Ones That Talk; Junk; Just Leave Everything to Me; Kick Back; Killed After 10 P.M.; Killer at Large; King of the Yukon; Last Question; Law Alone; Law of the Trapline; Law Without Law; Lay Down the Law; Lead Pearls; Lead Poison; Leave It to Cardigan; Magnificent Gesture; Make Mine Murder; Man-Crazy; Mask of Murder; Me–Cardigan; Moment in the Dark; Money, Money; Murder & Co; Murder á la Carte; Murder by Ballot; Murder by Mail; Murder Cure; Murder Off Stage; Murder on the Loose; Murder Won’t Wait; Muscle Man; Needle in a Haystack; Never Sing Again; New Guns for Old; Night Shift on the Lunchwagon; Nightfall; No Hard Feelings; No Kid Stuff; No Shadow of Doubt; No Time for Tears; No Time to Kill; Nobody’s Fall Guy; Not a Care in the World; Not So Tough; Nothing to Lose; Old Put’s Camp Ground; One Cold Night; Out of Stir; Outcast Ships; Pardon My Murder; Patrol of Courage; Pearls Are Tears; Phantom Fingers; Pity the Poor Underdog; Pound for Pound; Protecting Monica; Proud Eagles; Proud Youth; Raw Courage; Raw Law: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 1; Raw Law; Read ‘Em and Weep; Rebound; Red Hot; Red Night; Red Pavement; Red Web; Remember the Good Times; Remember the Music; Rendezvous With Treason; Reprieve at Eleven; Return of the Exile; Rogue’s Ransom; Roses in the Rain; Rough Justice; Rough Reform; Round Trip; Save Your Tears; Scandal in St. Louis; Scoundrel’s Choice; Scrambled Murder; Shake-Down: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 2; Shake-Down; Shake-Up; Six Deadly Dames; Six Diamonds and a Dick; Sky Blazers & Other Tales of High-Flying Adventure; Sky Blazers; Sky Scrappers; Sky Spoilers; Sky-High Nerve; Skyrocket Scott; Sky-Trap; Sleepers East; Soda-Pop Mary; Some Die Young; Some Grudge; Something Like a Dream; Something to Remember; Somewhere East of Singapore; Song and Dance; South of Saigon; Spades Are Spades; Spare the Rod; Stand Up and Fight; Strangle Hold; Street Wolf: The Black Mask Stories of Frederick Nebel; Street Wolf; Stuart of the City Patrol; Sun Dog Gold; Sunken Sovereigns; Take It and Like It; Tell It to the Mounted; Ten Men From Chicago; That’s Kennedy; The Adventures of Cardigan: A Dime Detective Book; The Bars Between; The Big World; The Black Fox Skin; The Bluff That Worked; The Brave Tradition; The Breaks of the Game; The Bribe; The Candy Killer; The Come Back; The Complete Air Adventures of Gales & McGill, Vol. 1; The Complete Air Adventures of Gales & McGill, Vol. 2;The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 2; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 3; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan: Vol. 1; The Complete Casebook of Sgt. Brinkhaus; The Creed of Sergeant Bone; The Crimson Diamond; The Crimson Fist; The Crooked Spot; The Curse of Cardigan; The Darjeeling Diamond; The Dead Die Twice; The Dead Don’t Die; The Devil’s Double-Cross; The Devil’s Slouch; The Devil’s Souvenir; The Drifting Kid Strikes; The Fifth Question; The Firelight Patrol; The Frontier of Vengeance; The Girl on the Big Drum; The Girl With the Blonde; The Grand Manner; The Great Big-Hearted People; The Green Widow; The Hard Way; The Hardy Fly Hard; The Hell-Bender; The Human Side; The Island Nobody Knows; The Kill; The Law Dies Hard; The Law Laughs Last; The Legend; The Lemon; The Makings of Command; The Man Who Couldn’t Spell; The Man Who Knew; The Man Who Lost Everything; The Man Who Promised Not to Tell; The Man You Love; The Missing Car; The Mystery at Pier 7; The Penalty of the Code; The Pinch; The Quick or the Dead; The Real Thing; The Red-Hots; The Secret Vanity; The Seed of Caution; The Shanghai Jest; The Sign of Murder; The Simple Life; The Spot and the Lady; The Tailormade Clue; The Things You Say; The Trail to Caribou; The Valley of Wanted Men; The Web; The Wheel; The White Peril; The Woman in Shadow; The Woman Who Changed Her Mind; The X-Circle; The Yukon Trail; Too Hot to Handle; Too Young to Die: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 3; Too Young to Die; Tough As Nails: The Complete Casebook of Donahue; Tough Treatment; Trade Law; Try It My Way; Unfinished Marriage; Unfriendly Call; Wait Till I’m On My Feet; Wanted: An Accomplice; Wayward Journey; Weekend to Kill; Welcome Home, Soldier; When the Time Comes; Whispers of Death; White Villa in Rio; Wind Patrol; Wings of Mercy; Winter Kill: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 4; Winter Kill; Wise Guy; With Benefit of Law; Wolves of Dismay; Wolves of the Wind: Sky High Tales of Adventure; Wolves of the Wind; Woman at Bay; Yangtze Yellow; You Can Take So Much; You Can’t Have Everything; You Go Your Way; You Got to Think of the Kids; You Haven’t Changed a Bit; You Know How Women Are; You Owe It to Yourself; Your Face Looks Familiar. 

Movie and television adaptations:

TV Teatro (1958); M Squad (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Bribe (1949); A Shot in the Dark (1941); Sleepers West (1941); Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939); Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939); Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939); Torchy Gets Her Man (1938); Torchy Blane in Panama (1938); The Adventurous Blonde (1937); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); Smart Blonde (1937); Sleepers East (1934); Ships of the Night (1928); Isle of Lost Men (1928).

Born on this day – Charles Bronson:

Charles Bronson

Actor

November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003

Credits:

10 to Midnight (1983); 100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 4 for Texas (1963); 6 Bullets to Hell (2016); A Thunder of Drums (1961); Act of Vengeance (1986); Adventures in Paradise (1961); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1978); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); All-Star Party for Joan Collins (1987); America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1989); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); An All-Star Tribute to John Wayne (1976); Apache (1954); Assassination (1987); Backstage in Hollywood (1975); Bad Men of the West (1974); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Battle Zone (1952); Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1952); Big House, U.S.A. (1955); Biography (2002); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Bonanza (1964); Borderline (1980); Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II (1997); Breakheart Pass (1975); Breakout (1975); Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018); Bronson: St. Ives (1976); Cabo Blanco (1980); Caboblanco: Introduction and Tony Curtis' Parting Words (1998); Cain's Hundred (1961); Cannes Film Festival (1991); Captain Eo Grand Opening (1986); Catastrophe: No Safe Place (1980); Cavalcade of America (1955); CBS Mornings (1993); Charles Bronson, Hollywood's Lone Wolf (2020); Chato's Land (1972); Chevron Theatre (1953); Chino (1973); Ciao! John Crowther (2023); Cinema mil (2005); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Cinescope aujourd hui... (1975); Classified X (2007); Cold Sweat (1970); Colt .45 (1957); Combat! (1965); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Crime Wave (1953); Crusader (1955–1956); Death Hunt (1981); Death Wish (1974); Death Wish 3 (1986); Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987); Death Wish II (1982); Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Donato and Daughter (1993); Donny B: The Original King of Daytime (2010); Downtown Crackdown: Mask of Death (2011); Dr. Kildare (1963); Drum Beat (1954); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014); Empire (1962–1963); Ennio (2021); Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012); Evocator (2009); Family of Cops (1995); Family of Cops II: Breach of Faith (1997); Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999); Farewell, Friend (1968); Film '76 (1976); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Fireside Theatre (1949); Four Star Playhouse (1953); From Noon Till Three (1976); Gang War (1958); General Electric Theater (1955–1961); Good Morning America (1979); Guns for San Sebastian (1968); Guns of Diablo (1964); Gunsmoke (1956–1958); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Times (1975); Have Camera Will Travel (1956); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963); Hennesey (1960–1961); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hey, Jeannie! (1957); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); House of Wax (1953); How the West Was Lost (2008); I Am Steve McQueen (2014); Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills (2007); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1995); Jubal (1956); Kain's Quest (2015–2017); Kid Galahad (1962); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989); La classe américaine (1993); La Marató 2005 (2005); La nuit des Césars (1984); Laramie (1960–1961); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Live & Kicking (1996); London Affair (1970); Love and Bullets (1979); Luke and the Tenderfoot (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1955); M Squad (1958); Machine-Gun Kelly (1958); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Man with a Camera (1958–1960); Master of the World (1961); Medic (1954–1956); Messenger of Death (1988); Miss Sadie Thompson (1953); Mr. Majestyk (1974); Murphy's Law (1986); My Six Convicts (1952); Never So Few (1959); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Ninja the Mission Force (2012); Off Limits (1952); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); One Step Beyond (1961); Operation Dirty Dozen (1967); Pancho Villa: Myth or Man? (1968); Pat and Mike (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Public Defender (1955); Quickies, les questions brèves d'e-penser (2015); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Rawhide (1965); Real Heroes (1981); Red Skies of Montana (1952); Red Sun (1971); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Rider on the Rain (1970); Riding Shotgun (1954); Riverboat (1960); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Run of the Arrow (1957); San Sebastian 1746 in 1968 (1968); Sauna (2008); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Shooting Violent City (2001); Showdown at Boot Hill (1958); Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990); Someone Behind the Door (1971); Spanish Western (2014); St. Ives (1976); Stage 7 (1955); Strange Stories (1956); Studio 57 (1957); Studio One (1957); Sugarfoot (1958); Suspicion (1957); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Target Zero (1955); Telecinema (1976); Telefon (1977); Telephone Time (1956); Tennessee Champ (1954); Terror Island Overkill: Blutgericht in Todeszone 13 (2013); The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1978); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The American Ireland Fund Annual Tribute a Salute to Gene Kelly (1990); The Aquanauts (1960); The Big Sur (1965); The Big Valley (1965); The Bob Newhart Show (1962); The Bull of the West (1972); The City of Gods (1968); The Clown (1953); The Court of Last Resort (1958); The Cowboy (2016); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Dirty Dozen (1967); The Doctor (1952–1953); The Evil That Men Do (1984); The F.B.I. (1966); The Fugitive (1967); The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014); The Great Escape (1963); The Indian Runner (1991); The Islanders (1960); The Joe Palooka Story (1954); The Legend of Jesse James (1966); The Loretta Young Show (1961); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Making of Cabo Blanco (1980); The Making of 'Death Wish 3' (1985); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Mechanic (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Millionaire (1957); The Mob (1951); The New Breed (1961); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The People Against O'Hara (1951); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Red Skelton Hour (1952); The Roy Rogers Show (1952); The Sandpiper (1965); The Sea Wolf (1993); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Stone Killer (1973); The Suppressor (2011); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Untouchables (1962); The Valachi Papers (1972); The Virginian (1965–1967); The Walter Winchell File (1958); The White Buffalo (1977); The Wild West (1979); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Those Whiting Girls (1957); Today (1985); Torpedo Alley (1952); Treasury Men in Action (1954–1955); U.S. Marshal (1959); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Valachi: The Violent Era (1972); Vera Cruz (1954); Villa Rides (1968); Violent City (1970); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Waterfront (1954–1956); When Hell Broke Loose (1958); Wire Service (1956); X-15 (1961); Yancy Derringer (1959); Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991); You Can't Win 'Em All (1970); You Don't Say (1964); Your First Impression (1962); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Born on this day – Wanda Hendrix:

Wanda Hendrix

Actress

November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981

Credits:

Police Story (1974); The Oval Portrait (1973); One Minute Before Death (1972); Mystic Mountain Massacre (1971); Bewitched (19716); My Three Sons (1969); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Johnny Cool (1963); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963); Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961); The Deputy (1961); Bat Masterson (1960); Lock Up (1960); The Red Skelton Hour (1959); Wagon Train (1958); Telephone Time (1958); Climax! (1957); The Black Dakotas (1954); Highway Dragnet (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1953); Sea of Lost Ships (1953); The Last Posse (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Golden Mask (1953); Your Favorite Story (1953); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Montana Territory (1952); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951–1952); My Outlaw Brother (1951); The Highwayman (1951); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1950); Saddle Tramp (1950); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); Sierra (1950); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Prince of Foxes (1949); Song of Surrender (1949); My Own True Love (1949); Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); Variety Girl (1947); Hollywood Wonderland (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); Nora Prentiss (1947); Confidential Agent (1945).

Born on this day – Monica Vitti:

Monica Vitti

Actress

November 3, 1931 – February 2, 2022

Born on this day – Claire van Kampen:

Claire van Kampen

Composer

Director

Writer

November 3, 1953 – January 18, 2025

Credits:

Stage:
 

As You Like It; Bash at the Trafalgar Studios; Boeing-Boeing; Helen; Henry IV; I am Shakespeare; King Lear; La Bete; Love's Labour's Lost; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Peer Gynt; Romeo and Juliet; Shakespeare Walks; The Clean House; The Tempest; True West; Twelfth Night.

 

Movies and television:
 

Anonymous (2011); Bing (2014); Days and Nights (2014); Globe on Screen: Julius Caesar (2015); It Never Entered My Mind (2025); Nocturne (2009); Shakespeare's Globe (2005); Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: Henry V (2013); Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: Twelfth Night (2013); Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014); Shakespeare's Globe: Henry IV, Part 1 (2010); Shakespeare's Globe: Henry IV, Part 2 (2010); The 72nd Annual Tony Awards (2018); The Broadway.com Show (2014); The Phantom of the Open (2021); Theater Talk (2018); Uncle Silas (1989); Wolf Hall (2015).