Richard Eberhart, on writing:

 

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart.

Born on this day – Henry Fielding:

Henry Fielding

Writer

April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

Credits:

A Journey from This World to the Next (1749); Amelia (1751); An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (aka Shamela) (1741); An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751); An Old Man Taught Wisdom (1735); Grub Street Opera (1731); Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737); Jonathan Wild (aka The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great) (1743); Joseph Andrews (aka The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742); Joseph Andrews / Shamela (1961); Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755); Legal Writings (1919); Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq (1743); Pasquin (1736); Plays and Poems (1919); Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap (aka The Coffee-House Politician) (1730); The Author's Farce (1730); The Collected Works of Henry Fielding (1997); The Complete Works of Henry Fielding (1902); The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding (1993); The Covent Garden Journal (1752); The Female Husband (1746); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (aka Tom Jones) (1749); The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings (1974); The Modern Husband (1732); The Old Debauchees (1732); The True Patriot (1745); The Wedding Day (1743); The Works of Henry Fielding (1900); Tragedy of Tragedies (1731).

Born on this day – Byron Haskin:

Byron Haskin

Director

April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984

Credits:

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Across the Pacific (1926); Across the Pacific (1942); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Alcoa Theatre (1957); All American (1940); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); Always in My Heart (1942); Armored Command (1961); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); As the Earth Turns (1934); Black Fury (1935); Black Waters (1929); Bobbed Hair (1925); Broken Chains (1922); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Bullet Scars (1942); Captain Sindbad (1963); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Caught in the Fog (1928); City for Conquest (1940); Clothes Make the Pirate (1925); Colleen (1936); Conquest of Space (1955); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Desperate Journey (1942); Dive Bomber (1941); Dodge City (1939); Don Juan (1926); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Flight Angels (1940); Flowing Gold (1940); Four Wives (1939); From the Earth to the Moon (1958); Gambling on the High Seas (1940); Ginsberg the Great (1927); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Green Light (1937); High Sierra (1940); His Majesty O'Keefe (1954); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood (1980); Hurricane's Gal (1922); I Married a Doctor (1936); I Walk Alone (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); Irish Hearts (1927); It All Came True (1940); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); King of the Lumberjacks (1940); Lilly Turner (1933); Little Big Shot (1935); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948); Manpower (1941); Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Matinee Ladies (1927); Millionaires (1926); On Approval (1930); On Thin Ice (1925); On Trial (1928); On Your Toes (1939); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Passage to Marseille (1944); Personal Maid's Secret (1935); Plunder (1930); Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); September Storm (1960); Side Streets (1934); Silver City (1951); Silver Dollar (1932); Slander the Woman (1923); Slim (1937); South of Suez (1940); Stage Struck (1936); Star Trek (1966); Strings (1933); Studio 57 (1957); Submarine D-1 (1937); Tarzan's Peril (1951); The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Boss (1956); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Californians (1957–1958); The Deadline (1931); The Fighting 69th (1940); The First Texan (1956); The Golden Cocoon (1925); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Sex War (1969); The Guilty Generation (1931); The Little Savage (1959); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Naked Jungle (1954); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Power (1968); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Redeeming Sin (1929); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Sea Beast (1926); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Singing Fool (1928); The Siren (1927); The Speckled Band (1931); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The War of the Worlds (1953); The World's a Stage (1922); They Drive by Night (1940); This Our Life (1942); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Tons of Money (1930); Too Late for Tears (1949); Torrid Zone (1940); Treasure Island (1950); Truck Busters (1943); Virginia City (1940); Warpath (1951); We Are Not Alone (1939); When a Man Loves (1927); Where the Worst Begins (1925); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wild Harvest (1947); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Wolf's Clothing (1927); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

William Jay Smith

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

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).