Monday, February 2, 2026

Born on this day – Frank Lloyd:


Frank Lloyd


Director

Actor

Writer

Producer

February 2, 1886 – August 10, 1960

Credits:
A Double Deal in Pork (1915); A Page from Life (1914); A Passport to Hell (1932); A Prince of Bavaria (1914); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); A Tale of Two Worlds (1921);  A Voice in the Dark (1921); According to Value (1915); Adoration (1928); Air Pattern - Pacific (1944); American Methods (1917); An Arrangement with Fate (1915); An International Marriage (1916); As the Wind Blows (1914); Ashes of Vengeance (1923); Berkeley Square (1933); Billie's Baby (1915); Black Oxen (1923); Blood on the Sun (1945); By Radium's Rays (1914); Captain Jenny, S.A. (1914); Captain Kidd (1913); Cavalcade (1933); Children of Divorce (1927); Circle 17 (1914); Damon and Pythias (1914); Dangers of the Veldt (1914); Dark Streets (1929); David Garrick (1916); Dr. Mason's Temptation (1915); Drag (1929); East Lynne (1931); Eleven to One (1915); Fate's Alibi (1915); For Freedom (1918); For His Superior's Honor (1915); For the Freedom of Cuba (1914); Forever and a Day (1943); From the Shadows (1915); Her Husband's Secret (1925); His Captive (1915); His Extra Bit (1918); His Last Serenade (1915); His Last Trick (1915); Hoopla (1933); If I Were King (1938); In the Grasp of the Law (1915); Invisible Agent (1942); Jane (1915); Kid Regan's Hands (1914); Les Misérables (1917); Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Life's Furrow (1915); Lilac Time (1928); Little Mr. Fixer (1915); Madame la Presidente (1916); Madame X (1920); Maid of Salem (1937); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Nature's Triumph (1915); Oliver Twist (1922); On Suspicion (1914); On the Rio Grande (1914); On the Verge of War (1914); $100,000 (1915); One of the Bravest (1914); Paternal Love (1915); Pawns of Fate (1915); Pitfalls of a Big City (1919); Prowlers of the Wild (1914); Riders of the Purple Sage (1918); Roads of Destiny (1921); Rulers of the Sea (1939); Saboteur (1942); Servants' Entrance (1934); Shadows of Life (1913); Sins of Her Parent (1916); Son of the Gods (1930); Stolen Glory (1914); 10,000 Dollars (1915); The Age for Love (1931); The Bay of Seven Isles (1915); The Black Box (1915); The Blindness of Divorce (1918); The Buccaneers (1913); The Call of the Cumberlands (1916); The Chorus Girl's Thanksgiving (1914); The Code of Marcia Gray (1916); The Dead End (1914); The Deadline (1914); The Divine Lady (1928); The Eagle of the Sea (1926); The Eternal Flame (1922); The Feud (1914); The Firebugs (1913); The Foreman of the Jury (1913); The Gentleman from Indiana (1915); The Great Lover (1920); The Grim Comedian (1921); The Heart of a Lion (1917); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Intrigue (1916); The Invisible Power (1921); The Kingdom of Love (1917); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); The Lash (1930); The Last Bomb (1945); The Last Command (1955); The Law of His Kind (1914); The Link That Binds (1914); The Little Girl of the Attic (1915); The Loves of Letty (1919); The Madonna of the Slums (1913); The Making of Maddalena (1916); The Man from Lost River (1921); The Man Hunter (1919); The Mexican's Last Raid (1914); The Opened Shutters (1914); The Pinch (1915); The Price of Silence (1917); The Prophet of the Hills (1915); The Rainbow Trail (1918); The Reform Candidate (1915); The Right of Way (1930); The Sea Hawk (1924); The Shanghai Story (1954); The She Wolf (1913); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Silver Horde (1920); The Sin Flood (1922); The Sob Sister (1914); The Source of Happiness (1915); The Splendid Road (1925); The Spoilers (1942); The Spy (1914); The Stronger Love (1916); The Temptation of Edwin Swayne (1915); The Test (1914); The Toll of Youth (1915); The Tongues of Men (1916); The Vagabond (1914); The Voice from the Minaret (1923); The Way of All Men (1930); The Wise Guy (1926); The Woman in Black (1914); The Woman in Room 13 (1920); The World and Its Woman (1919); The World and the Woman (1916); Their Golden Wedding (1915); This Woman Is Mine (1941); Through the Flames (1914); To Redeem a Value (1915); To Redeem an Oath (1915); Traffic in Babies (1914); Trickery (1915); True Blue (1918); Under the Black Flag (1913); Under Two Flags (1936); United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918); Unjustly Accused (1914); Weary River (1929); Wells Fargo (1937); When a Man Sees Red (1917); When the Spider Tore Loose (1915); Winds of Chance (1925); Within the Law (1923); Wolves of Society (1915); Won in the Clouds (1914); Young Nowheres (1929).

Born on this day – Walter Vinson:


Walter Vinson


Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975

Credits:

Album:

Complete Recorded Works (1928–1941) (1991).

Tracks: Mad Dog Blues; Your Friends Gonna Use It Too-Part 1; Overtime Blues; Your Friends Gonna Use It Too-Part 2; Mississippi Yodelin' Blues; Working Man's Blues; Sheiks Special; Dear Little Girl; Mississippi Low Down; That's It; Can't Anybody Tell Me Blues; Black Widow Spider; When The Breath Bids The Body Goodbye; I Ain't Gonna Have It; Losin' Blues; The Wrong Man; How Did It Happen; Rats Been On My Cheese; Every Dog Must Have His Day; You Know What You Promised Me; Gulf Coast Bay; Rosa Lee Blues; Can't Get A Word In Edgeways; She's Leaving Me.

Born on this day – Casey Bill Weldon:

 

Casey Bill Weldon


Blues singer

Guitarist

February 2, 1901 – September 28, 1972

Credits:

Songs:

Back Door Blues; Blues Everywhere I Go; Can't You Remember; Doctor's Blues; Flood Water Blues; Flood Water Blues - No. 2; Give Me Another Shot; Go Ahead, Buddy; Gonna Take My Time; Has My Gal Been Here; Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule; Howlin' Dog Blues; I Believe I’ll Make a Change; I'm a Stranger in Your Town; I've Been Tricked; Lady Doctor Blues; New Round And Round; No Good Woman; Red Hot Blues; Rooster Blues; Sales Lady; Sold My Soul to the Devil; Somebody Changed the Lock on That Door; Somebody's Got to Go; The Big Boat; The Twelves; Turpentine Blues; Way Down in Louisiana; We Gonna Move; What's The Matter With My Milk Cow?; You Just as Well Let Her Go; You Shouldn't Do That.

Albums:

Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters of the 1930's (1992); Casey Bill Weldon 1927-1938: Slide Guitar Swing (The Blues) (2002); Casey Bill Weldon Vol. 1 1935-1936 (2005); Casey Bill Weldon Vol. 2 1936-1937 (2005); Casey Bill Weldon Vol. 3 1937-1938 (2005); Greatest Blues Licks 1927-1938 (2010); Guitar Swing (2002); Hawaiian Guitar Wizard (1978); Presenting Casey Bill Weldon (1935); Steel Serenade - Vintage String Blues (2025); The Essential (2002).

Movies and television:

42 (2013); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); Independent Lens (2016); Life (1999); Queen of the Ring (2024); The Hollywood Palace (1965); The Sopranos (2006).

Born on this day – Frank Gruber:

 

Frank Gruber


Writer

February 2, 1904 – December 9, 1969

Credits:
Beagle Scented Murder (1946); Billy the Kid (1957); Bitter Sage (1954); Bitter Sage and the Bushwhackers (1984); Black Cat Weekly #98 (2023); Brass Knuckles (1966); Bridge of Sand (1963); Broken Lance (1949); Brothers of Silence (1962); Buffalo Grass aka The Big Land (1956); Bugles West (1961); Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense (1999); Fall-Guy for a Killer aka The Yellow Overcoat (1942); Fighting Man (1948); Fort Starvation (1953); Fourth Postman / Among Those Absent / Lock and the Key (1948); Gunsight (1953); Horatio Alger, Jr (1961); Johnny Vengeance (1954); Little Hercules (1965); Lonesome River (1957); Market for Murder (1947); Missing Widow / Scarlet Feather / I Want to Go Home (1948); Murder '97 (1948); Outlaw (1941); Peace Marshal (1957); Quantrell's Raider / Town Tamer (1984); Quantrell's Raiders (1953); Ride to Hell (1955); Ride to Hell / Lonesome River (1983); Run, Fool, Run aka The Lock and the Key (1948); Simon Lash: Private Detective (1945); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); Swing Low, Swing Dead (1964); Tales of Terror (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); The Books of Horatio Alger, Jr (1948); The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965); The Buffalo Box (1942); The Bushwhackers (1959); The Corpse Moved Upstairs (1964); The Curly Wolf (1969); The Dawn Riders (1968); The Etruscan Bull (1969); The Fourth Letter (1947); The French Key aka The French Key Mystery (1940); The Gift Horse (1942); The Gold Gap (1968); The Greek Affair (1965); The Highwayman (1955); The Honest Dealer aka Double Dealer (1947); The Hungry Dog Murders aka Die Like a Dog (1941); The Laughing Fox (1943); The Leather Duke aka A Job of Murder (1950); The Limping Goose aka Murder One (1955); The Lone Gunhawk aka Smoky Road (1949); The Lonesome Badger aka Mood for Murder (1954); The Man From Missouri (1956); The Marshal (1958); The Mighty Blockhead (1945); The Navy Colt (1941); The Pulp Jungle (1967); The Scarlet Feather (1948); The Silver Jackass (1947); The Silver Tombstone Mystery (1948); The Spanish Prisoner (1969); The Talking Clock (1944); The Thirteenth Floor (1948); The Twilight Man (1967); The Whispering Master (1956); This Gun Is Still (1967); Town Tamer (1957); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Wanted (1971); Zane Grey (1928).

Born on this day – James Dickey:


James Dickey


Writer

February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997

Credits: 

Books:

Alnilam (1987); Buckdancer's Choice (1965); Deliverance (1970); Drownings (1981); For a Time and Place (1983); From the Green Horseshoe (1987); Night Hurdling (1983); Sorties (1971); The Eagle's Mile (1981); The Selected Poems (1979); The Zodiac (1976); To the White Sea (1993).

Movies:

The Call of the Wild (1976); Deliverance (1972).

Born on this day – Bonita Granville:


Bonita Granville


Actress

Producer

Director

February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988

Credits:
AFI Life Achievement Award (1987–1988); Ah Wilderness! (1935); Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944); Angels of Mercy (1940); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); Anne of Green Gables (1934); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); Beauty for Sale (1933); Behind the Attraction (2021); Biography (1995); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Breakfast in Hollywood (1946); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Call It a Day (1937); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Cavalcade (1933); Chevron Theatre (1952); Climax! (1955–1956); Cradle Song (1933); Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1955); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Down in San Diego (1941); Escape (1940); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Flight of the Cougar (1967); Forty Little Mothers (1940); Gallant Sons (1940); Gruen Guild Theater (1951–1952); Guilty of Treason (1950); H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941); Hard to Get (1938); Hitler's Children (1943); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); Hollywood's Children (1982); It's Love I'm After (1937); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1957); Land of Liberty (1939); Lassie (1959–1973); Lassie: A Christmas Tail (1963); Lassie: Peace is Our Profession (2006); Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka (1968); Lassie: Well of Love (1970); Lassie's Great Adventure (1963); Little Women (1933); Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946); Lux Video Theatre (1951–1957); Maid of Salem (1937); Matinee Theatre (1956); Merrily We Live (1938); My Bill (1938); Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939); Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939); Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939); Nancy Drew: Detective (1938); Now, Voyager (1942); One Rogue Reporter (2014); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 6: Hollywood War Efforts (1942); Playhouse 90 (1959); Quality Street (1937); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Science Fiction Theatre (1957); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots: Jimmy McHugh's Song Party (1951); Senorita from the West (1945); Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942); Silver Dollar (1932); Soaring Stars (1942); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Song of the Open Road (1944); Song of the Saddle (1936); Strike It Rich (1948); Studio One (1958); Suspense (1946); Syncopation (1942); Target (1958); The Beautiful Cheat (1945); The Beloved Brat (1938); The Best of the Post (1961); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Garden of Allah (1936); The Glass Key (1942); The Guilty (1947); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Lone Ranger (1956); The Magic of Lassie (1978); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1979); The Mortal Storm (1940); The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Plough and the Stars (1936); The Schaefer Century Theatre (1952); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Truth About Murder (1946); The Unexpected (1952); The Wild Man of Borneo (1941); These Three (1936); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); This Is the Life (1956); This Is Your Life (1953); Those Were the Days! (1940); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1974); Westward Passage (1932); White Banners (1938); Youth Runs Wild (1944).

Born on this day – Dorian Gray:


Dorian Gray


Actress

February 2, 1928 – February 16, 2011

Credits:
I criminali della metropoli (1967); Thrilling (1965); Avventura al motel (1963); Commando (1962); Peccati d'estate (1962); Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1962); Gli attendenti (1961); Destination Fury (1961); ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960); Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960); Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960); Love and Larceny (1960); Le sorprese dell'amore (1959); Brevi amori a Palma di Majorca (1959); Vacanze d'inverno (1959); Love on the Riviera (1958); Mogli pericolose (1958); Domenica è sempre domenica (1958); Il Grido (1957); Nights of Cabiria (1957); Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956); Guaglione (1956); Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina (1956); Toto Double or Nothing (1956); Io piaccio (1955); Poppy (1952); The Queen of Sheba (1952); Vendetta... sarda (1952); My Heart Sings (1951); Appointment for Murder (1951); l mago per forza (1951); Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951).