Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Born on this day – Ethel Moses:


Ethel Moses


Actress

April 29, 1904 – June 1, 1982
Credits:

Stage:

Black Birds of 1935 (1935); Keep Shuffling (1928); Show Boat (1932).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2008); Birthright (1924); Birthright (1938); Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934); Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935); God's Step Children (1938); Gone Harlem (1938); Temptation (1935); Underworld (1937).

Born on this day – Fred Zinnemann:

 

Fred Zinnemann


Director

April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997

Credits:

A Hatful of Rain (1957); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Way in the Wilderness (1940); Act of Violence (1948); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1998); Behold a Pale Horse (1964); Benjy (1951); Biography (1998); Camille (1936); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002); De película (1983–1987); Decision (1958); Die Öscars (2016); Elstree Britain's Hollywood (1989); Exercise No. One (1962); Eyes in the Night (1942); Film Profile (1961); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Five Days One Summer (1982); Forbidden Passage (1941); Forgotten Victory (1939); Fred Zinnemann – Ein Hollywoodregisseur (1983); Friend Indeed (1937); From Here to Eternity (1953); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001); Hands Up! (1981); Hawaii (1966); He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001); Help Wanted (1939); High Noon (1952); I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929); Julia (1977); Kid Glove Killer (1942); Little Mister Jim (1946); Making Montgomery Clift (2018); Man Trouble (1930); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Nana (1934); Oklahoma! (1955); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); One Against the World (1939); Our World (1987); People on Sunday (1930); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Redes (1936); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sonntagsgespräch (1986); Spécial cinéma (1983); Sprengbagger 1010 (1929); Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1991); Stuffie (1940); Teresa (1951); That Mothers Might Live (1938); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Ash Can Fleet (1939); The Clock (1945); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dark Angel (1935); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Great Meddler (1940); The Greenie (1942); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Lady or the Tiger? (1942); The Making of 'High Noon' (1992); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The March of the Machines (1927); The Member of the Wedding (1952); The Men (1950); The Nun's Story (1959); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Old South (1940); The Search (1948); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Spy (1931); The Story of Doctor Carver (1938); The Sundowners (1960); The Wiser Sex (1932); They Live Again (1938); This Is Your Life (1956); Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 / The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); Weather Wizards (1939); While America Sleeps / Series: Crime Does Not Pay (1939); Your Last Act (1941).

Born on this day – Jack Williamson:

Jack Williamson

Writer

April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Sense of Wonder (1967); After World's End (1939); At the Human Limit (2011); Beachhead (1992); Bright New Universe (1967); Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods (1979); Darker Than You Think (1948); Darker Than You Think and Other Novels (2003); Demon Moon (1994); Dragon's Island / aka The Not-Men (1951); Dragon's Island and Other Stories (2002); Dreadful Sleep (1977); Farthest Star (1975); Firechild (1986); Gateway to Paradise (2008); Golden Blood (1933); H. G. Wells (1973); Islands of the Sun (1935); Jack Williamson SF Gateway Omnibus (2014); Jamboree (1969); Lady in Danger (1945); Land's End (1988); Lifeburst (1984); Manseed (1982); Mazeway (1990); One against the Legion (1939); People Machines (1971); Realm of Wizardry (1940); Rogue Star (1969); Salvage in Space (2011); Seetee Ship (1951); Seetee Shock (1950); Seventy-Five (2004); Spider Island (2002); Star Bridge (1955); Starchild (1965); Teaching Science Fiction (1980); Terraforming Earth (2001); The Alien Intelligence (1929); The Best of Jack Williamson (1978); The Black Sun (1997); The Blue Spot (1935); The Cometeers (1936); The Cosmic Express (2011); The Crucible of Power (2006); The Dome Around America / aka Gateway to Paradise (1955); The Early Williamson (1975); The Fortress of Utopia (1939); The Girl from Mars (1930); The Green Girl (1930); The Green Girl / The Robot Peril (2012); The Humanoid Touch (1980); The Humanoids (1949); The Humanoids and With Folded Hands (2002); The Legion of Space (1934); The Legion of Time (1938); The Metal Man and Others (1984); The Moon Children (1973); The Moon Era (1967); The Pandora Effect (1969); The Power of Blackness (1976); The Queen of the Legion (1982); The Reefs of Space (1964); The Reign of Wizardry (1964); The Silicon Dagger (1999); The Singers of Time (1991); The Stone from the Green Star (1931); The Stonehenge Gate (2005); The Trial of Terra (1962); The Ultimate Earth (2000); Trapped in Space (1968); Undersea City (1958); Undersea Fleet (1955); Undersea Quest (1954); Wall Around a Star (1975); With Folded Hands (2011); With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind (2010); Wizard's Isle (2000); Wolves of DarknessX (1999); Wonder's Child (1984); Xandulu (1934).

Movie, television and radio:

Dimension X (1950); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); The Creation of the Humanoids (1962).

Born on this day – Dolly Haas:


Dolly Haas


Actress

Singer

April 29, 1910 – September 16, 1994

Credits:

A Girl of the Street (1932); A Girl You Don't Forget (1932); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Broken Blossoms (1936); Carefree (1938); Der Ball (1931); Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933); Dolly macht Karriere (1930); Dolly, Lotte und Maria (1987); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Ein steinreicher Mann (1932); Eine Stunde Glück (1931); Es tut sich was um Mitternacht (1934); Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland (1975); Girls Will Be Boys (1934); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Großstadtnacht (1932); I Confess (1953); I Married an Angel (1942); Kleines Mädel - großes Glück (1933); Lamp Unto My Feet (1956); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Liebeskommando (1931); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Spy of Napoleon (1936); Star for a Night (1936); Studio One (1950–1956); The Bank Dick (1940); The Billy Rose Show (1951); The Exiles (1989); The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996); The Merry Widow (1952); The Page of the Hotel Dalmasse (1933); The Private Secretary Gets Married (1933); The Upright Sinner (1931); Things Are Getting Better Already (1932); Unfinished Business (1941); Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? (1935).

Born on this day – Richard Carlson:


Richard Carlson


Actor

Director

Writer

April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977

Credits:

3-D Rarities (2015); A Millionaire for Christy (1951); A Stranger in Town (1943); Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Alcoa Premiere (1961); All I Desire (1953); An Annapolis Story (1955); Appointment with a Shadow (1957); Arrest and Trial (1964); Back Street (1941); Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996); Before the Flood (2016); Behind Locked Doors (1948); Bengazi (1955); Beyond Tomorrow (1940); Biography (2002); Bonanza (1968); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Bus Stop (1962); Cameo Theatre (1951); Cannon (1972–1973); Celanese Theatre (1952); Change of Habit (1969); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Climax! (1956); Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954); Crossroads (1957); Daktari (1966–1969); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Della (1965); Desert Death (1935); Eye Witness (1953); Famous Ghost Stories (1961); Film Breaks (1999); Flat Top (1952); Flight to California (1952); Fly-By-Night (1942); Footlights Theater (1953); For God and Country (1943); Four Guns to the Border (1954); Freedom 2000 (1974); Frontline (2008); Fury in the Pacific (1945); General Electric Guest House (1951); General Electric Theater (1954); Going My Way (1963); Gremlins (1984); Hemo the Magnificent (1957); Highways by Night (1942); Hold That Ghost (1941); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); I Led 3 Lives (1953–1956); Island of the Lost (1967); It Came from Outer Space (1953); It Takes a Thief (1969); Jack Arnold erzählt (1983); Johnny Rocco (1958); Jungle Safari (1950); Khan! (1975); Kid Rodelo (1966); King Solomon's Mines (1950); Kraft Theatre (1955); Lancer (1969); L'antre du Mea (2017); Lights Out (1951); Little Accident (1939); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Mannix (1974); Matinee Theatre (1956); Men Into Space (1959); Mobile One (1975); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); No, No, Nanette (1940); Off to See the Wizard (1967); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971–1972); Omnibus / Segment: The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Perry Mason (1964–1966); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 7: Children of the Stars (1942); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rawhide (1965); Retreat, Hell! (1952); Return to the Valley (2003); Riders to the Stars (1954); Riverboat (1959); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1959); Seminole (1953); So Well Remembered (1947); Studio One (1950–1958); Sucker Bait (1943); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Amazing Mr. X (1948); The Aquanauts (1960); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Best of Hollywood (2018); The Blue Veil (1951); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Christophers (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Counterfeit Green (1972); The Detectives (1961–1962); The Doomsday Flight (1966); The Duke of West Point (1938); The F.B.I. (1969); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950–1951); The Fugitive (1964); The Ghost Breakers (1940); The Golden Blade (1953); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1952); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Last Command (1955); The Linkletter Show (1953); The Little Foxes (1941); The Loretta Young Show (1960); The Loretta Young Show (1960–1961); The Magnetic Monster (1953); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man from Down Under (1943); The Maze (1953); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Power (1968); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1951); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Rose Bowl Story (1952); The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958); The Sound of Fury (1950); The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957); The Unchained Goddess (1958); The Universe According to Universal (2002); The Valley of Gwangi (1969); The Virginian (1964–1965); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); The Young in Heart (1938); These Glamour Girls (1939); This Man Dawson (1959–1960); Three for Jamie Dawn (1956); Thriller (1961); Too Many Girls (1940); Tormented (1960); Valentino (1951); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Wagon Train (1963–1964); West Point Widow (1941); Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952); White Cargo (1942); Winter Carnival (1939); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); Young Ideas (1943); Your Show of Shows (1951).

Born on this day – Maya Deren:


Maya Deren


Director

Cinematographer

Choreographer

Dancer

Film theorist

Lecturer

Writer

Photographer

Music composer

April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961

Credits:
 
The American Film Institute (AFI) created the Maya Deren Award, in 1986, to recognize and honor the work of independent video and film makers.
 
Written work:
 
An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946); Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti (1953) / aka The Voodoo Gods by Paladin (1975 & 1998); Film in Medias Res (2005); Film Poetics (2005); Film Production (2005).
 
Music albums:
 
Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1980); Meringues and Folk Ballads of Haiti (1978); Voices of Haiti (1953).
 
Movies, video and television:
 
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); At Land (1944); At Land / The Very Eye of Night (1955); Black Lake (2020); Cinema16: American Short Films (2006); Dissent (2011); Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993); Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951); Eschew (2017); History's Mysteries (1999); Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001); Invocation: Maya Deren (1987); Julie's Smile (2013); Maeva (1961); Marianne (2005); Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2007); Maya Deren, Take 0 (2012); Meditation on Violence (1949); Medusa (1949); Meshes of the Afternoon (1943); Mother (2019); Probe and Night Beat (1957); Reminiscences of Yearning (2011); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Satan's Playground (2006); Season of Strangers (1959); The Private Life of a Cat (1946); The Very Eye of Night (1955); This Changes Everything (2018); Vever (2018); Vever (for Barbara) (2019); Witch's Cradle (1944).

Born on this day – Irvin Kershner:

 

Irvin Kershner


Actor

Director

Producer

April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010