Born on this day – Carmen Boni:

Carmen Boni

Actress

April 8, 1901 – November 19, 1963

Credits:

Man to Men (1948); The Count of Monte Cristo (1943); Cleo, robes et manteaux (1935); Quella vecchia canaglia (1934); Ne sois pas jalouse (1932); La femme en homme (1932); La riva dei bruti (1931); La vacanza del diavolo (1931); Il richiamo del cuore (1930); Katharina Knie (1929); La grazia (1929); Quartier Latin (1929); Der Adjutant des Zaren (1929); The Art of Love (1928); The Jolly Peasant (1928); Liebeskarneval (1928); Scampolo (1928); La storia di una piccola Parigina (1928); Die Gefangene von Shanghai (1927); Gehetzte Frauen (1927); Ihr letztes Liebesabenteuer (1927); Venus im Frack (1927); Addio giovinezza! (1927); L'ultimo lord (1926); La bocca chiusa (1925); Il focolare spento (1925); La preda (1924); La moglie bella (1924); Il riscatto (1924); La piccola ignota (1923); La dama de Chez Maxim's (1923); Passione di Popolo (1921); Mio zio Barbassous (1921); La preda (1921); Ma non è una cosa seria (1921); La scimitarra di Barbarossa (1921); Monella di strada (1920); Il fiore del Caucaso (1920); Ave Maria (1920); Miss Dorothy (1920); La pecorella (1920); Ave Maria, gratia plena! (1919).

Born on this day – Marion Mack:

 

Marion Mack

Actress

Writer

April 8, 1902 – May 1, 1989

Born on this day – María Félix:

María Félix

Actress

Singer

April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002

Born on this day – Eric Porter:

Eric Porter

Actor

April 8, 1928 – May 15, 1995

Born on this day – John Gavin:

John Gavin

Actor

April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018

John Gavin (left), Vera Miles (right), in Psycho (1960).

 

Credits:

A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Breath of Scandal (1960); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Alcoa Premiere (1962); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Back Street (1961); Behind the High Wall (1956); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1998); Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Compression (2023); Convoy (1965); Cutter's Trail (1970); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Destry (1964); Disclosure (2020); Doctors' Private Lives (1979); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Entertainment Tonight (2018); Everybody's Talking (1967); Fantasy Island (1978–1981); Flying High (1978); Four Girls in Town (1957); Hart to Hart (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hour Magazine (1986); Imitation of Life (1959); Insight (1960); It's Your Bet (1972–1973); Jennifer (1978); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1974); Keep It in the Family (1973); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); La casa de las sombras (1976); Mannix (1973); Maurice Woodruff Predicts (1969); Medical Center (1976); Midnight Lace (1960); Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968); Password (1965–1975); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pedro Páramo (1967); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Psycho (1960); Psycho Path (1998); Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970); Quantez (1957); Raw Edge (1956); Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010); Romanoff and Juliet (1961); Snap Judgment (1967); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Spartacus (1960); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1959); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The City of Gods (1968); The Doris Day Show (1971); The Horror Show (1979); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1969); The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975); The Love Boat (1977); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1971); The New Adventures of Heidi (1978); The Pat Boone Show (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Virginian (1964); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); This Is Your Life (1973); Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967); To Tell the Truth (1973); Today (1985); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); You Don't Say (1965); Your First Impression (1964).

Born on this day – Lory Patrick:

 

Lory Patrick

Actress

April 8, 1938 – January 26, 2026

Credits:

Alcoa Premiere (1962); Bonanza (1967); Death Valley Days (1964); Dr. Kildare (1965); General Electric Theater (1962); Gunfight at Black Horse Canyon (1961); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967); It's a Man's World (1963); Laramie (1963); Praise the Lord (2000–2006); St. John in Exile (1986); Surf Party (1964); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961–1962); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Loretta Young Show (1961); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1963); This Is the Life (1967); Wagon Train (1962–1963); Wide Country (1962).

Born on this day – Douglas Trumbull:

Douglas Trumbull

Director

Writer

Inventor

Special effects supervisor

April 8, 1942 – February 7, 2022

Credits:

10th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards (2012); 2001 and Beyond (2001); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork (2007); 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001); 2001: The Science of Futures Past (2012); Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles (2012); Back to the Future... The Ride (1991); Big Ball (1983); Blade Runner (1982); Blade Runner: Convention Reel (1982); Brainstorm (1983); Candy (1968); Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future (2018); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Cyberspace (1996); Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007); Douglas Trumbull - Lighting the Starship Enterprise (2016); Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now (2002); Exploring 'the Tree of Life' (2011); Fantasy Film Festival (1979); Golden Eyes (2011); Gravity: Looking to the Stars - The Evolution of Space Films (2015); Greatest Sci-Fi Movies (2015); HypaSpace (2008); In Search of the Obelisk (1993); Inglorious Treksperts (2019); James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2021); Leonardo's Dream (1989); Les ateliers du rêve: les grands studios de cinéma dans le monde (1985); Let's Go (1985); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Making Close Encounters (1990); Miradas 2 (2008); Movies and Stuff (2015); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); New Magic (1983); Night of Dreams (1978); On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000); Phenomenon Blade Runner (2021); Secret Access: UFOs on the Record (2011); Silent Running (1972); 'Silent Running': By Director Douglas Trumbull (2002); Since '45 - In the Extraordinary House of History (2017); Since '45 (1979); Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Centennial Gala (2016); Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (2022); Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Starlost (1973); The 16th Annual Satellite Awards (2011); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film (2001); The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1993); The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1994); The History of the SF Film (1982); The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001); The Making of 'Silent Running' (1974); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Reality Trip (1997); The Starlost (1973); The Starlost (1973–1974); The Starlost: Deception (1980); The Tree of Life (2011); Theater of Time (1993); To Dream of Roses (1990); To the Moon and Beyond (1964); Tour of the Universe (1985); Trumbull Land (2018); Valkokangas (1984); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007).