James Best
Actor
Writer
Director
Acting coach
Artist
Professor
Musician
Animal rights advocate
July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Born on this day – Elliott Erwitt:
Elliott Erwitt
Photographer
Director
Cinematographer
July 26, 1928 – November 29,
2023
100+1 Elliott Erwitt (1997);
Between the Sexes (1994); Dog Dogs A collection of black and white photographs
of dogs Erwitt was intrigued by throughout his world travels (1998); EE 60/60
(2002); Elliot Erwitt's Scotland (2018); Elliott Erwitt Personal Best (2010);
Elliott Erwitt XXL – Special and Collectors Edition (2012); Elliott Erwitt,
Sequentially Yours (2011); Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience / Series:
Masters of Contemporary Photography (1974); Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002);
Elliott Erwitt's Kolor Kempen, Germany: teNeues (2013); Elliott Erwitt's New
York (2009); Elliott Erwitt's Rome (2009); Found, Not Lost (2021); Museum
Watching (1999); Observations on American Architecture (1972); On the Beach
(1991); Personal Exposures (1988); Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972);
Pittsburgh 1950 (20117); Recent Developments (1978); Snaps. London & New
York: Phaidon (2001); Son of Bitch, photographs of dogs (1974); The Angel Tree
(1993); The Art of Andre S. Solidor aka Elliott Erwitt (2010); To The Dogs
(1992); Woof (2005)
2nd House (1974); 3 x Magnum
(2006); 4 Little Girls (1997); A Sense of Loss (1972); American Masters
(2005–2006); Arte Journal (2023); Arthur Penn: The Director (1970); Articulate
with Jim Cotter (2019); At Home with Elliott Erwitt (2013); Beautiful Baby,
Beautiful (1980); Beauty Knows No Pain (1972); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Copyright
by Inge Morath (1992); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Elliott
Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs (2011); Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019);
Everybody Street (2013); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009);
Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2002); Henri Cartier-Bresson: The
Impassioned Eye (2003); Incontournables: Les grandes expositions de 2010
(2010); Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (2017); L'invité (2006); Mapplethorpe:
Look at the Pictures (2016); Paper Lion (1968); The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan
(1986); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Misfits (1961); The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty (2013); The Unwed Mother (1964); Thelonious Monk: Straight, No
Chaser (1988); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2008); Un jour, un destin (2011);
Un voyageur (2013).
Born on this day – Kathryn Hays:
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Kathryn Hays
Actress
July 26, 1934 – March 25, 2022
Credits:
ABC Late
Night (1975); After Hours: Getting to Know Us (1977); American Playhouse
(1989); Arrest and Trial (1964); As the World Turns (1972–2010); Bearcats!
(1971); Bonanza (1964); Branded (1965); Breakout (1970); Cade’s County (1972);
Circle of Fear (1973); Counterpoint (1967); Dr. Kildare (1963); Guiding Light
(1952); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Here Come the Brides (1969); Kraft Suspense
Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Ladybug
Ladybug (1963); Law & Order (1999); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(2007); Mannix (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1969); Mr. Novak (1964); Naked City (1962); Night Gallery (1972); One Life to
Live (2010); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); Ride Beyond Vengeance
(1966); Route 66 (1963); Run for Your Life (1966); SoapTalk (2006); Star Trek /
episode entitled: The Empath, originally aired December 6 (1968); Surfside 6
(1962); The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); The 33rd Annual
Daytime Emmy Awards (2006); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bold Ones:
The New Doctors (1971); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses
(1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The High Chaparral (1968); The Hollywood
Squares (Daytime) (1967); The Lieutenant (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
(1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Road West (1966–1967); The Virginian
(1965); This Savage Land (1969); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Wide Country
(1963); Yuma (1971).
Born on this day – Brenton Wood:
Brenton Wood
R&B singer
Songwriter
July 26, 1941 – January 3, 2025
Credits:
Albums:
18 More of the Best, Vol. 2
(1999); Baby You Got It (1967); Better Believe It (2000); Brenton Wood's 18
Best (1991); Classic By Design (2000); Come Softly (1977); Gimme Little Sign
(1967); Lord Hear My Prayer (2009); Oogum Boogum (1967); Out of the Woodwork
(1986); Sweet Old School (1995); This Love Is for Real (2001).
Songs:
Movies and television:
A Change Is Gonna Come (1969);
All That Jazz (1975); Another Saturday Night (1973); Baby You Got It (1967);
Bless Your Little Heart (1976); Boogaloosa Louisian' (1970); Come Softly To Me
(1977); Gimme Little Sign (1967); Great Big Bundle of Love (1970); Hide-a-Way
(1963); I Want Love (1966); It Only Make Me Want It More (1975); It's Just a
Game, Love (1968); Let's Get Crazy Together (1978); Lovey Dovey Kinda Lovin'
(1968); Number One (1977); Rainin' Love (You Gotta Feel It) (1975); Sad Little
Song (1971); Some Got It, Some Don't (1968); Sticky Boom Boom (Too Cold)
(1972); Sweet Molly Malone (1966); The Oogum Boogum Song (1967); Whoop It On Me
(1969); You're Beautiful People (1973).
20 to 1 (2008); 4-3-2-1 Hot and
Sweet (1968); Almost Famous (2000); American Bandstand (1967–1977); Aquarius
(2015); Big Little Lies (2019); Colors (1988); Criminal Minds (2015);
CrissCross (1992); Devil's Due (2014); Dogfight (1991); Don't Worry Darling
(2022); Eastbound & Down (2010); England's World Cup Lionesses (2019);
Festival di Sanremo (1969); Funny Woman (2022); GLOW (2018); Hangin' with the
Homeboys (1991); Hard Eight (1996); Home Again (2017); Infinitely Polar Bear
(2014); It's Happening (1968); Joy (2024); Life of Crime (2013); Little Fish
(2020); Lorraine (2016); Love, Simon (2018); Lovelace (2013); Lover of Men: The
Untold History of Abraham Lincoln (2024); Lymelife (2008); Mortal Sins (1989);
Mother and Child (2009); Mr. Write (1994); Mrs. America (2020); Murphy Brown
(1990); My Crazy Life (1993); On My Block (2019); Pat Boone in Hollywood
(1967); Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016); Pie in the Sky (1995); Playboy After Dark
(1969); Poms (2019); Popdown (1969); Reptile (2023); Reversal of Fortune (1990);
Scorpion (2016); Seven Girlfriends (1999); Sex Education (2021); Shopgirl
(2005); Slayground (1983); Small Time (2014); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
(2017); The Gray Man (2022); The Groovy Show (1967); The Joey Bishop Show
(1967); The Last Days of Disco (1998); The Playroom (2012); The Shack (2017);
The Stand (2021); The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
(1989); The Umbrella Academy (2022); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); This Fool
(2022); Tohuwabohu (1998); Top of the Pops (1968); Vibrato (1968); Will &
Harper (2024); Your Mother Should Know (2018).
Born on this day – Celeste Yarnall:
Celeste Yarnall
Actress
July 26, 1944 – October 7, 2018
Credits:
A New Kind of Love (1963); A Shattered Dream (1990); Ambition (1991); America Loves... Star Trek (2001); Around the World Under the Sea (1966); Beast of Blood (1970); Bewitched (1966); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1968); Born Yesterday (1993); Brewed in Brooklyn (2013); Burke's Law (1963); Captain Nice (1967); Civil Wars (1993); Daughters of Privilege (1991); Drive-in Movie Memories (2001); Driving Me Crazy (1991); Elvis Found Alive (2012); Elvis on Tour (1972); Eve (1968); Fatal Beauty (1987); Femme (2013); Find Your Future Reality (2018); Funny About Love (1990); Gidget (1966); Hogan's Heroes (1968); In Name Only (1969); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's Your Bet (1971); Knots Landing (1990); Land of the Giants (1968); Live a Little, Love a Little (1968); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Postal Meeter (1973); Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010); Mannix (1969); McMillan & Wife (1972); Melrose Place (1995–1998); Metaltech: Earthsiege (1994); Midnight Kiss (1993); My Three Sons (1962–1963); Ransom for a Dead Man (1971); Scorpio (1973); Shrink Rap (2003); Sisters (1994); Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); That's My Baby (2002); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Cure (2018); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (2002); The F.B.I. (1968); The Green Girl (2014); The Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow Awards (1967); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2011); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Mechanic (1972); The Nation's Favourite Elvis Song (2013); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Seven Ages of Elvis (2017); The Survivors (1969); The Two Sisters (2007); The Velvet Vampire (1971); The Wild Wild West (1965); Unbelievable!!!!! (2020); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); We the People (2018); William Shatner's Get a Life! (2012).
Born on this day – Leon Vitali:
Leon Vitali
Actor
Casting
director
July 26, 1948 – August 19, 2022
Credits:
Arena: Making 'The Shining' (1980); Barry Lyndon (1975); Comedy Playhouse (1975); Crime of Passion (1973); Crown Court (1972–1973); Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015); Dixon of Dock Green (1975); Edge of Outside (2006); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Filmworker (2017); Follyfoot (1973); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Hadleigh (1971); Hamlet (1985); Haunted, Horrifying Sounds from Beyond the Grave (2018); I Am What You Imagine (2023); In the Bedroom (2001); Inter Rail (1981); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); Justice (1971); Kubrick Remembered (2014); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2018–2022); Little Children (2006); Long Voyage Out of War (1971); Love Story (1973); Mackan (1977); Mafia Junction (1973); Notorious Woman (1974); Please Sir! (1971); Prometheus: The Life of Balzac (1975); Public Eye (1971); Romeo & Juliet (2013); Room 237 (2012); Secrets of 'The Shining': Live from the First Annual Stanley Film Festival (2013); Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket' (1986); Softly Softly: Task Force (1970); Stanley and Us (1999); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); Terror of Frankenstein (1977); The Burning Cold (2022); The Fenn Street Gang (1971–1972); The Roads to Freedom (1970); The Shining (1980); Up the Workers (1973–1976); Van der Valk (1973); Z Cars (1971).
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