Thursday, February 19, 2026

Born on this day – Lee Marvin:



Lee Marvin


Actor

February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987

Credits:
The Delta Force (1986); The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985); Dog Day (1984); Gorky Park (1983); Death Hunt (1981); The Big Red One (1980); Avalanche Express (1979); The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976); Shout at the Devil (1976); The Klansman (1974); The Spikes Gang (1974); The Iceman Cometh (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); Prime Cut (1972); Pocket Money (1972); Monte Walsh (1970); Paint Your Wagon (1969); Hell in the Pacific (1968); Sergeant Ryker (1968); Point Blank (1967); The Dirty Dozen (1967); The Professionals (1966); Ship of Fools (1965); Cat Ballou (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Dr. Kildare (1962–1964); The Killers (1964); The Great Adventure (1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); The Twilight Zone (1961–1963); Combat! (1963); Donovan's Reef (1963); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Untouchables (1961–1962); The Virginian (1962); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Bonanza (1962); Ben Casey (1962); Route 66 (1961); The Comancheros (1961); The Investigators (1961); Alcoa Premiere (1961); General Electric Theater (1954–1961); Checkmate (1961); Wagon Train (1960–1961); The Americans (1961); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); M Squad (1957–1960); Sunday Showcase (1960); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1959); Climax! (1955–1958); The Missouri Traveler (1958); Raintree County (1957); Kraft Theatre (1947); Studio 57 (1957); Pillars of the Sky (1956); Attack (1956); 7 Men from Now (1956); The Rack (1956); Front Row Center (1956); Kraft Theatre (1956); Shack Out on 101 (1955); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Studio One (1955); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); A Life in the Balance (1955); Not as a Stranger (1955); Violent Saturday (1955); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Medic (1954); Center Stage (1954); The Raid (1954); The Caine Mutiny (1954); Gorilla at Large (1954); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Wild One (1953); Suspense (1950–1953); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); Gun Fury (1953); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Big Heat (1953); The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953); The Doctor (1953); The Glory Brigade (1953); Seminole (1953); Dragnet (1952–1953); Eight Iron Men (1952); Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1952); Hangman's Knot (1952); The Duel at Silver Creek (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Boston Blackie (1952); Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952); Fireside Theatre (1952); The Web (1951); Teresa (1951); You're in the Navy Now (1951); Treasury Men in Action (1950); The Big Story (1950); Escape (1950).

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Born on this day – John Frankenheimer:


John Frankenheimer


Director

February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002

Born on this day – Carlin Glynn:


Carlin Glynn


Actress

Singer

February 19, 1940 – July 13, 2023

Credits:
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006); Whiskey School (2005); The Exonerated (2005); Lost Junction (2003); West of Here (2002); Judy Berlin (1999); Red Sky at Night (1996); Strange Luck (1996); Blessing (1994); Day-O (1992); Convicts (1991); A Woman Named Jackie (1991); Blood Red (1989); Night Game (1989); Coyote Mountain (1989); Mr. President (1987); Gardens of Stone (1987); The Trip to Bountiful (1985); Sixteen Candles (1984); Johnny Garage (1983); Chicken Ranch (1982); The Escape Artist (1982); Continental Divide (1981); Resurrection (1980); Three Days of the Condor (1975).

On this day in movie history - Cold Turkey (1971)


Cold Turkey


directed by Norman Lear,

written by Norman Lear and William Price Fox,

based on the novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau,

was released in the United States on February 19, 1971.

Music by Randy Newman.


Cast:
Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Graham Jarvis, Jean Stapleton, Barbara Cason, Judith Lowry, Sudie Bond, Helen Page Camp, Paul Benedict, Simon Scott, Raymond Kark, Peggy Rea, Woodrow Parfrey, George Mann, Charles Pinney, M. Emmet Walsh, Gloria LeRoy, Eric Boles, Jack Grimes, Walter Sande, Harvey Jason.

On this day in movie history - Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980 documentary & book):


Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

documentary directed by Les Blank,

written by Werner Herzog,

released in Germany on February 19, 1980.


Cast: Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Michael Goodwin, Alice Waters, Chris Strachwitz, Phil Harberts.

Recommended reading:

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe:
Based upon a Story That's True

by Mark Swartz.

Illustrated by Ping Fahn.

Published by Blurb.

Published 2016.

ISBN-10: 1367943191

ISBN-13: 978-1367943193

Description:

A rhyming tale about the friendship between filmmakers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris – and a bet they made in real life.

On this day in movie and book history - Shutter Island (2010 and 2003)


Shutter Island


directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Laeta Kalogridis,

based on the novel by Dennis Lehane,

was released in the United States on February 19, 2010.


Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, John Carroll Lynch, Ted Levine, Elias Koteas, Ruby Jerins, Robin Bartlett, Christopher Denham.

Recommended reading:

Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane.

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks.
First published 2003.
Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062068415
ISBN-13: 978-0062068415

Description:

“Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy, breakneck ride…utterly absorbing… is an express train with no local stops…engrossing.” – Boston Globe.

“The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.” – Miami Herald.

“Combines the claustrophobia of . . . Agatha Christie . . . with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn. . . . Good luck putting this one down. – San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

“Startlingly original…instantly cinematic… unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments.” – New York Times.

“There is no mystery…about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it’s a tour de force.” – Publishers Weekly.

“A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller…sure to be the most talked–about thriller of the year.” – Kirkus Reviews.

“Nightmarish…it’s not a book to start before bedtime. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.” – Orlando Sentinel.

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades – with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994)
Star Trek: Voyager (1996 & 1997)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)
 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Masks.

Released February 19, 1994.

Directed by Robert Wiemer.

Written by Joe Menosky, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Rickey D'Shon Collins, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Keith Gearhart, Fumiko Hamada, Marianne Lewis, Lorine Mendell, Pauline Olsen, Mark Riccardi, Dee Giffin Scott.
 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: Death Wish.

Released February 19, 1996.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael Piller, Shawn Piller, Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Gerrit Graham, Peter Dennis, Maury Ginsberg, John de Lancie, Jonathan Frakes, Antony Acker, Kevin Marshall Brady, John Copage, Tarik Ergin, Louis Ortiz, Richard Sarstedt, Garret Sato, Lou Slaughter, John Alex Tampoya.
 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: Darkling.

Released February 19, 1997.

Directed by Alexander Singer.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, David Lee Smith, Stephen Davies, Noel De Souza, Christopher Clarke, Susan Henley, Majel Barrett, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Holiday Freeman, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Lewis, Betty Matsushita, Louis Ortiz, Lemuel Perry, Don Rutherford, Scott Strozier, John Alex Tampoya.
 

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Future Tense.

Released February 19, 2003.

Directed by James Whitmore Jr.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Vaughn Armstrong, Cullen Douglas, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Daphney Damaraux, Peter Godoy, Scott Sterling Hill, Aldric A. Horton, Roy Joaquin, Mark Major, Tim Storms.