Born on this day – Peggy Knudsen:

Peggy Knudsen

Actress

April 22, 1923 – July 11, 1980

Credits:

A Stolen Life (1946); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Betrayed Women (1955); City Detective (1955); Copper Canyon (1950); General Electric Theater (1960); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Half Past Midnight (1948); Hilda Crane (1956); Howie (1962); Humoresque (1946); Istanbul (1957); Lock Up (1959); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Panic! (1957); Perilous Waters (1948); Perry Mason (1958–1959); Pete and Gladys (1960); Racket Squad (1951); Roses Are Red (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); So This Is Hollywood (1955); Stallion Road (1947); Target (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–1961); The Big Sleep (1946); The Bob Cummings Show (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Eve Arden Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955); The George Burns Show (1958); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The Millionaire (1956); The People's Choice (1955–1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Real McCoys (1958); The Thin Man (1957); The Unfaithful (1947); Tightrope (1959); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trouble Preferred (1948); Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946); Unchained (1955); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – Jill Freud:

 

Jill Freud

Actress

Producer

April 22, 1927 – November 24, 2025

Credits:

A House in the Square (1949); A Policeman at the Door (1948); Afternoon Theatre (1961–1984); Banana Bridge (1959); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952); Charles and Mary (1949); Crown Court (1973–1982); Filmed in Supermarionation (2014); ITV Play of the Week (1965); King Dithers and Daffy (1959); Let Us Be True (1953); Love Actually (2003); Maigret (1993); Malta Story (1953); Patrol Car (1955); Robert's Wife (1948); Rooms (1977); Saturday Special (1952–1953); Stranger at My Door (1950); Television Playwright (1958); The Canvas Rainbow (1949); The Devil's Disciple (1949); The Laurence Olivier Awards (1984); The Man Who Faced Facts (1949); The Princess and the Swineherd (1951); The Toys Get the Collywobbles (1959); The Woman in the Hall (1947); Theatre Night (1957); Tincture of Vervain (2011); Torchy Gets a Surprise (1959); Torchy, the Battery Boy (1960–1961); Whiteoaks (1949); Worst Fears (2016).

Born on this day – Mark Damon:

Mark Damon

Actor

Producer

April 22, 1933 – May 12, 2024

Credits:

11:14 (2003); 2 Guns (2013); 8 Million Ways to Die (1986); 9 Bullets (2022); 9½ Weeks (1986); A Dog of Flanders (1999); A Life in Film (2007); A Train for Durango (1968); Agente segreto 777 - Operazione Mistero (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); And So It Goes (2014); Anzio (1968); Bat*21 (1988); Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991); Beauty and the Beast (1962); Best Sellers (2021); Between Heaven and Hell (1956); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009); Beyond the Sea (2004); Biography (1997); Black Sabbath (1963); Blind (2016); Captivity (2007); Cavalcade of America (1956); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confessioni segrete di un convento di clausura (1972); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Cowboy Johnny: Mark Damon and the Spaghetti Western (2011); Crypt of the Living Dead (1973); Dark Angel (1990); Das Boot (1981); Dead Men Don't Count (1968); Death at Owell Rock (1967); Deceiver (1997); Deodato Holocaust (2019); Diary of a Hitman (1991); Dio, come ti amo! (1966); Es knallt - und die Engel singen (1974); Extreme Ops (2002); Eye of the Beholder (1999); Fast Charlie (2023); Feardotcom (2002); Flight of the Navigator (1986); Flypaper (2011); Gabriel's Fire (1991); Gang Busters (1952); Gate 2: The Trespassers (1990); Go for Broke (1968); Golden Chameleon (1967); Grizzly Falls (1999); Hal (2018); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Here's Hollywood (1960–1962); High Spirits (1988); House of Usher (1960); I cento cavalieri (1964); I Led 3 Lives (1955); I leoni di Pietroburgo (1972); In Venice, Like Rome-Milan-Turin, the Spiral of Crime (1974); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside Detroit (1956); It's Alive (2009); Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman (1971); Johnny Yuma (1966); Kiedy milosc byla zbrodnia (1968); Killing Priscilla (2000); Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977); Life Begins at 17 (1958); Lock Up (1961); Lone Survivor (2013); Long Live Robin Hood (1971); Love & Sex (2000); Loved (1997); Mac and Me (1988); Mark Damon: From Edgar Allen Poe to Stalingrad (2014); Mark Damon: From Gunslinger to Hollywood Player (2006); Masters of Fantasy (1998); Matinee Theatre (1956); Meet Corliss Archer (1954); Men of Annapolis (1957); Metropolis (1927) / (1984 restoration); Monster (2003); Naked You Die (1968); National Velvet (1960); O Jerusalem (2006); Orgazmo (1997); Panic! (1958); Peccati d'estate (1962); Pistol Packin' Preacher (1971); Questa libertà di avere... le ali bagnate (1971); Red Shoe Diaries (1992); Reimagining the Neverending Story (2014); Requiescant (1967); Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966); Rumble Through the Dark (2023); Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001); Screaming Eagles (1956); Seduced and Abandoned (2013); Sensation (1994); Shadow of the Wolf (1992); Short Circuit (1986); Stalingrad (1993); Stuck on You! (1983); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Temptation (1969); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2004); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Ann Sothern Show (1958); The Arena (1974); The Blackout (1997); The Body (2001); The Californians (1958); The Choirboys (1977); The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986); The Devil's Wedding Night (1973); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Great Treasure Hunt (1972); The Hurricane Heist (2018); The I Inside (2004); The Jungle Book (1994); The Last Full Measure (2019); The Ledge (2011); The Lineup (1959); The Longest Day (1962); The Lost Boys (1987); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The McGonigle (1961); The Musketeer (2001); The NeverEnding Story (1984); The Party Crashers (1958); The Protectors (1973); The Reluctant Saint (1962); The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997); The Shortest Day (1963); The Silent Service (1958); The Son of Caesar and Cleopatra (1964); The Tyrant of Castile (1963); The United States of Leland (2003); The Upside of Anger (2005); The Winner (1996); The Young Racers (1963); There Is No 13 (1974); They Called Him Veritas (1972); This Rebel Breed (1960); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012); Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009); Vietnam, Texas (1990); Wild Orchid (1989); Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991); Willy's Wonderland (2021); Woman of the Year (1973); Wounds of Hunger (1963); Young and Dangerous (1957); Your Play Time (1955); Zorro (1959–1961).

Born on this day – Jason Miller:

Jason Miller

Writer

Actor

Director

April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001

Credits:

Written work:

Barrymore's Ghost (2000); Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer (1971); Nobody Hears a Broken Drum (1970); That Championship Season (1972); Three One-Act Plays (1973).

Movies and television:

A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977); A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010); A Home of Our Own (1975); A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (1989); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2014); De película (1983); Deadly Care (1987); Des Teufels Advokat (1977); Don Adams' Screen Test (1975); F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975); Fear and Love: The Story of the Exorcist (2024); Finding Home (2003); Good Morning America (1984); Light of Day (1987); Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980); Miller's Tale (2011); Minty Comedic Arts (2023); Mommy (1995); Monsignor (1982); Murdered Innocence (1996); Night Heat (1987); Occulture (2023); Paradox Lake (2002); Reward (1980); Rudy (1993); Small Kill (1992); Terror in the Aisles (1984); That Championship Season (1982 / 1999); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002); The Anatomy of Horror (1995); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Dain Curse (1978); The Eternal (1998); The Exorcist (1973); The Exorcist III (1990); The Exorcist III: Legion (1990); The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998); The Henderson Monster (1980); The Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Joe Spinell Story (2001); The Making of: The Nickel Ride (2019); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Nickel Ride (1974); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974); Toy Soldiers (1984); Vampire (1979); Visionado obligado (2011); Welcome to the Basement (2014).

Born on this day – Marie-José Nat:

Marie-José Nat

Actress

April 22, 1940 – October 10, 2019

Born on this day – Louise Glück:

Louise Glück

Writer

April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023

Credits:

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles (1885); Mock Orange (1985); Ararat (1990); The Wild Iris (1992); Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994); Meadowlands (1997); Vita Nova (1999); The Seven Ages (2001); Aboriginal Landscape (2013); Averno (2006); A Village Life (2009); Poems: 1962-2012 (2012); Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014); Firstborn (1968); American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017); Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021); The Drowned Children (1968); For Jane Meyers (1979); The Triumph of Achilles (1985); The Wild Iris (1992); The Red Poppy (1992); Nostos (1996); The Empty Glass (2001).

Born on this day – Damien Broderick:

Damien Broderick

Writer

April 22, 1944 – April 19, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Man Returned (1965); Adrift in the Noosphere (2012); Alien StarSwarm / Human's Burden (2010); Beyond the Doors of Death (2013); Building New Worlds, 1946-1959 (2013); Centaurus (1999); Chained to the Alien (2009); City of the Tiger (2015); Climbing Mount Implausible (2010); Consciousness and Science Fiction (2021); Dark Gray (2010); Do Unto Others (2021); Earth Is but a Star (2001); Embarrass My Dog (2010); Fantastika (2014); Ferocious Minds (2005); Gaia to Galaxy (2012); Godplayers (2005); Human's Burden (2010); I'm Dying Here / aka I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? (2006); Intelligence Unbound (2014); Kingdom of the Worlds (2021); K-Machines (2006); Knowing The Unknowable: Putting Psi to Work (2015); Matilda at the Speed of Light (1988); New Worlds (2013); Not the Only Planet (1998); Other Spacetimes (2015); Outside the Gates of Science (2007); Perchance to Wake (2016); Philosophy's Future (2017); Post Mortal Syndrome (2011); Psience Fiction (2018); Quipu (2010); Reading by Starlight (1994); Restore Point (2012); Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012); Sorceror's World (1970); Starlight Interviews (2017); Strange Highways (2013); Striped Holes (1988); The Architecture of Babel (1994); The Black Grail (1986); The Book of Revelation (1999); The Dark Between the Stars (1991); The Daymakers (2014); The Dreaming (1980); The Game of Stars and Souls (2002); The Hunger Of Time (2003); The Judas Mandala (1982); The Last Mortal Generation (1999); The Lotto Effect (1992); The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013); The Qualia Engine (2010); The Ruined Queen of Harvest World (2011); The Sea's Furthest End (1993); The Spike (1998); The Time Machine Hypothesis (2019); The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc. (2015); The White Abacus (1997); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012); The Zeitgeist Machine (1977); Threshold of Eternity - The Novel (2017); Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order (2011); Transcension (2002); Transmitters (1984); Transrealist Fiction (1996); Uncle Bones (2009); Under the Moons of Venus (2021); Unleashing the Strange (2009); Valencies (1983); Valencies: A Science Fiction Novel (2013); Warriors of the Tao (2011); X, Y, Z, T: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004); Xeno Fiction (2013); Yggdrasil Station (2020); You're Not Alone (2014); Zones (1997).