Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Born on this day – Clarence E. Mulford:


Clarence E. Mulford


Writer

February 3, 1883 – May 10, 1956
Credits:

Books:

Bar-20 (1906); Bar-20 Days / Hopalong Cassidy's Private War (1911); Bar-20 Three / Hopalong Cassidy Sees Red (1921); Black Buttes (1923); Bring Me His Ears (1922); Buck Peters, Ranchman (1912); Corson of the J.C. (1928); Cottonwood Gulch (1925); H. C. Returns (1923); Hopalong Cassidy (1910); Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagles Brood (1931); Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ (1941); Hopalong Cassidy Takes Cards (1937); Hopalong Cassidy's Saddle Mate (1926); Johnny Nelson (1920); Me An' Shorty (1929); Mesquite Jenkins (1928); Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed (1932); On The Trail Of The Tumbling T (1935); Round-Up (1933); Rustler's Valley (1924); Tex (1922); The Bar-20 Rides Again (1926); The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921); The Coming of Cassidy (1913); The Deputy Sheriff (1930); The Man from Bar 20 (1918); The Orphan (1908); Trail Dust (1934).

Movies and television:

Bar 20 (1943); Bar 20 Justice (1938); Bar 20 Rides Again (1935); Battle of the Buttes (1952); Border Justice (1951); Border Patrol (1943); Border Vigilantes (1941); Borderland (1937); Borrowed Trouble (1948); Call of the Prairie (1936); Cassidy of Bar 20 (1938); Colt Comrades (1943); Danger Trail (1951); Dangerous Venture (1947); Doomed Caravan (1941); False Colors (1943); False Paradise (1948); Fool's Gold (1946); Forty Thieves (1944); Heart of Arizona (1938); Heart of the West (1936); Hidden Gold (1940); Hills of Old Wyoming (1937); Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935); Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954); Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936); Hopalong Rides Again (1937); Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943); Hoppy's Holiday (1947); In Old Mexico (1938); Law of the Pampas (1939); Law of the Trigger (1952); Leather Burners (1943); Lost Canyon (1942); Lumberjack (1944); Mystery Man (1944); North of the Rio Grande (1937); Outlaws of the Desert (1941); Partners of the Plains (1938); Pirates on Horseback (1941); Prairie Vengeance (1951); Pride of the West (1938); Range War (1939); Renegade Trail (1939); Riders of the Deadline (1943); Riders of the Timberline (1941); Rustlers' Valley (1937); Santa Fe Marshal (1940); Secret of the Wastelands (1941); Silent Conflict (1948); Silver on the Sage (1939); Sinister Journey (1948); Stagecoach War (1940); Stick to Your Guns (1941); Strange Gamble (1948); Sunset Trail (1938); Texas Masquerade (1944); Texas Trail (1937); The Dead Don't Dream (1948); The Deadwood Coach (1924); The Devil's Playground (1946); The Eagle's Brood (1935); The Frontiersmen (1938); The Marauders (1947); The Orphan (1920); The Showdown (1940); Three Men from Texas (1940); Three on the Trail (1936); Trail Dust (1936); Twilight on the Trail (1941); Undercover Man (1942); Unexpected Guest (1947); Wide Open Town (1941 / 1953).

Born on this day – Hilary Masters:


Hilary Masters


Writer

February 3, 1928 – June 14, 2015

Credits:
An American Marriage (1969); Clemmons (1985); Cooper (1987); Elegy for Sam Emerson (2006); Hammertown Tales (1986); Home Is the Exile (1996); How the Indians Buried Their Dead (2009); In Montaigne's Tower (2000); Last Stands: Notes from Memory (1982); Manuscript for Murder (1987); Palace of Strangers (1971); Post: A Fable (2011); Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro (2005); Strickland (1989); Success: New and Selected Short Stories (1992); The Common Pasture (1967).

Born on this day – Michael Cimino:

 

Michael Cimino


Director

Producer

Writer

February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016
Credits:
City of Life (2009); Desperate Hours (1990); Eastman Kodak: Yesterdays (1967); Finding Home (2003); Heaven's Gate (1980); Il pianto della statua / The Wind Sculpture (2007); Magnum Force (1973); Platoon (1986); Silent Running (1972); The Big Brass Ring (1999); The Deer Hunter (1978); The Rose (1979); The Sicilian (1987); The Sunchaser (1996); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); To Each His Own Cinema (2007); United Airlines: Take Me Along (1967); Year of the Dragon (1985).

Born on this day – Trisha Noble:

 

Trisha Noble


Singer

Actress

February 3, 1944 – January 23, 2021
Credits:

Albums:

Hits and Rarities – The Story of Patsy Ann Noble (1997); Il Est Là Le Garçon (1964); Just for You (1962).

Songs:

A Good Looking Boy; Accidents Will Happen; Better Late Than Never; City Of Night; Crack in the Door; Don't You Ever Change Your Mind; Good Looking Boy; Green Eyed People; He Tells Me With His Eyes; He Who Rides A Tiger; Heartbreak Avenue; Hey Look Me Over; I Did Nothing Wrong; I Love You So Much It Hurts; I Was Only Foolin' Myself; If You Wanna Be More Than Friends; I'll Be Thinking Of You; It Might As Well Be Spring; It's Better to Cry Today; Johnny One Note; Like I'm In Love; Live For Life; Mama; Misty; Once In A Lifetime; Private Property; Put On A Happy Face; Sour Grapes; The New Israeli Patchka; Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye; Tied Up With Mary; When You Find Your True Love.

Movies and television:

A Dream Singing (1964); All Saints (2000–2004); Arnie (1972); Bandstand (1961–1967); Baretta (1975); BBC Show of the Week (1968); Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Bennies from Heaven (2000); Big Night Out (1963–1964); Blackpool Night Out (1964); Blonde (2001); Body Business (1986); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979 / 1980); Callan (1970); Carry on Camping (1969); Carry on Laughing (1981); Casablanca (1983); Club Night (1964); Columbo (1975); Comedy Bandbox (1964–1965); Crowther's Back in Town (1970); ..Deadline.. (1982); Discs-a-gogo (1963–1964); Eischied (1979); Executive Suite (1976–1977); Fantasy Island (1978); Five O'Clock Club (1965–1966); Flamingo Road (1981); Fraud Squad (1970); Funny Girl Happened to Me on the Way to the Piano (1966); Hart to Hart (1982); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); How the West Was Won (1978); Husbands, Wives & Lovers (1978); I'm a Fan (1972); International Cabaret (1968); Iolanthe (1968); James at 16 (1978); Juke Box Jury (1966); Love Is a Woman (1966); Matt Helm (1975); Matt Houston (1983); McMillan & Wife (1971); Mickey Dunne (1967); Mrs. Columbo (1979); My First Toy Company (2007); Ni figue ni raisin (1965); Night Gallery / Segment: House - With Ghost (1971); Oh Madeline (1983); One of Our Own (1975); Out of the Unknown (1969); Pops and Lenny (1963); Ready, Steady, Go! (1963); Reels Within Reels (1964); Revue '61 (1961–1962); Secret Agent (1966); Sing and Swing (1963); Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002); Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones: Deleted Scenes (2002); Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005); Stone (1980); Strike Force (1981–1982); T.J. Hooker (1983); Testimony of Two Men (1977); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1963–1966); The Andy Stewart Show (1964); The Arthur Haynes Show (1963); The Benny Hill Show (1966 / 1970); The Blackpool Show (1967); The Bob Crane Show (1975); The Charlie Drake Show (1967); The Courage and the Passion (1978); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1972); The Dave King Show (1969); The Dick Emery Show (1966–1968); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1964); The Engelbert Humperdinck Show (1970); The Golden Rock (1960); The Liberace Show (1969); The Love Boat (1981); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1976); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Nixon Line (1967); The Private Eyes (1980); The Rhinemann Exchange (1977); The Rockford Files (1979); The South Bank Show (1996); The Wednesday Play (1966); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); Tommy Cooper (1970); Two of a Kind (1964); Up Pompeii! (1970); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1963); Water Rats (2000); We Have Ways of Making You Laugh (1968); What's a Carry On? (1998); Who-Dun-It (1969); Willow B: Women in Prison (1980); With Andy (1965); Z Cars (1969).

Born on this day – Paul Auster:

 

Paul Auster


Writer

Director

February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024
Credits:
 
Books and plays:
 
110 Stories (2004); 4 3 2 1 (2017); A Life in Words (2017); Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990); Baumgartner (2023); Bloodbath Nation (2023); Blue in the Face (1990); Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021); Central Park: An Anthology (2012); City of Glass (1985); Collected Prose (2003); Collected Screenplays (2010); Dream Days in Hotel (1998); Ghosts (1986); Granta 58: Ambition (1997); Groundwork (2020); Hand to Mouth (1997); Here and Now (2012); In the Country of Last Things (1987); Invisible (2009); Leviathan (1992); Long Live King Kobe (2022); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Man in the Dark (2008); Moon Palace (1989); Mr. Vertigo (1994); Oracle Night (2004); Paul Auster's New York (1997); Report from the Interior (2013); Smoke (1995); Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999); Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001); Sunset Park (2010); Talking to Strangers (2019); The Art of Hunger (1983); The Book of Illusions (2002); The Brooklyn Follies (2005); The Future Dictionary of America (2004); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2000); The Invention of Solitude (1985); The Locked Room (1986); The Music of Chance (1990); The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1983); The Red Notebook (1993); The Story of My Typewriter (2002); Timbuktu (1999); Translations (1997); Travels in the Scriptorium (2005); White Spaces (1980); Why Write? (1996); Winter Journal (2012).
 
Movies and television:
 
20 heures le journal (2001); 21 cm (2018); 50 anys en companyia (2009); 60 Minutes / Smoke Screen (1996); Act of God (2009); Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009); Ànima (2012); Apos' (1987); Apostrophes (1990); As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005); Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000 (1998); Babel (2017); Bestseller (2002 / 2003); Blue in the Face (1995); Bonnie (2022); Broken Flowers (2005); C politique (2020); Café littéraire (2009); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Ceremonia de apertura - 55º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Charlie Rose (1997–2004); Cinema 3 (2007); Continuarà... (2008); Conversas de Escritores (2009); David Blaine: Beyond Magic (2016); Doc (2008); Double je (2002); Druckfrisch (2013); Edge of Outside (2006); El blog de Cayetana (2007); Èxit (2008); Fluxus (2004); Gomorron (2011); Hjemkomst (2004); I Remember (1999); In the Country of Last Things (2020); It Was Mine (2015); Joan Mitchell: Woman in Abstraction (2022); Kulturplatz (2013); Kulturzeit (2017); La grande librairie (2009–2022); La tarda (2008); La tele de tu vida (2007); Le carnet rouge (2004); Le cercle (1998); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le Conversazioni, Close Up (2015); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2011); L'hora del lector (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Los Siete Locos (2018); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Mein Leben (2006); Newsnight (2017); Out of My Head (2018); Página 2 (2008–2017); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2015); Paul Auster: Le jeu du hasard (2019); Por Outro Lado (2005); Qwerty (2008–2012); Sabine Christiansen in Sabine Christiansen (2001); Saturday Review (1987); Skavlan (2013); Smoke (1995); Sqizo (2020); Talking Books (2012); The Accompanist (1992); The Center of the World (2001); The DVD Collection (2005); The Fall (1969); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007); The Look / Age (2011); The Music of Chance (1993); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tot el temps del món (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Via llibre (2012).

Born on this day – Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk, a.k.a. Melanie or Melanie Safka:


Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk

a.k.a. Melanie or Melanie Safka:


Singer

Songwriter

February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024

Credits:
Am I Real or What (1985); Antlers (1997); Arabesque (1982); As I See It Now (1974); Ballroom Streets (1978); Beautiful People (1999); Born to Be (1968); Candles in the Rain (1970); Cowabonga – Never Turn Your Back on a Wave (1988); Crazy Love (2002); Ever Since You Never Heard of Me (2010); Garden in the City (1971); Gather Me (1971); Low Country (1997); Madrugada (1974); Melanie (1987); Melanie (aka Affectionately Melanie) (1969); Moments from My Life (2002); Old Bitch Warrior (1996); Paled by Dimmer Light (2004); Phonogenic – Not Just Another Pretty Face (1978); Photograph (1976); Seventh Wave (1983); Silence Is King (1993); Silver Anniversary (1993); Stoneground Words (1972); Sunset and Other Beginnings (1975); The Good Book (1971).

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On this day in movie history - The Gladiator (1986)


The Gladiator


directed by Abel Ferrara,

written by William Bleich, Tom Schulman and Jeffrey Walker,

based on a story by William Bleich,

was released in the United States on February 3, 1986.

Music by David Frank.

Cast:
Ken Wahl, Nancy Allen, Robert Culp, Stan Shaw, Rosemary Forsyth, Bart Braverman, Brian Robbins, Rick Dees, Michael Young, Harry Beer, Garry Goodrow, Robert Phalen, Linda Thorson, Mary Baldwin, Thom Bierdz, José Flores, Stephen Anthony Henry, Gary Lev, Jan Merlin, Georgie Paul, Mort Sertner, Jim Wilkey, Royce D. Applegate, Jeannie Epper, Lyle Gold, Helen Kelly, Mark Munski, George A. Sack Jr., Chris Sundlee.