Born on this day – Victor Halperin:

Victor Halperin

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

August 24, 1895 – May 17, 1983

Credits:

Bachelor Bait (1934); Buried Alive (1939); Convoy (1927); Dance Magic (1927); Double Reward (1922); Ex-Flame (1930); Girls' Town (1942); Greater Than Marriage (1924); I Conquer the Sea! (1936); In Borrowed Plumes (1926); Nation Aflame (1937); Party Girl (1930); Racing Blood (1936); Revolt of the Zombies (1936); School for Wives (1925); She Goes to War (1929); Supernatural (1933); Tea: With a Kick! (1923); The Danger Point (1922); The Lone Star Trail (1943); The Unknown Lover (1925); Torture Ship (1939); Underseas (2018); When a Girl Loves (1924); White Zombie (1932).

Born on this day – Gertrude Bambrick:

Gertrude Bambrick

Actress

August 24, 1897 – January 10, 1974

Credits:

A Circumstantial Hero (1913); A Compromising Complication (1913); A Horse on Bill (1913); A Limited Divorce (1912); A Ragtime Romance (1913); A Real Estate Deal (1912); A Saturday Holiday (1913); A Spring Chicken (1916); All Hail to the King (1913); Almost a Wild Man (1913); An Old Maid's Deception (1913); As It Might Have Been (1914); Aunts, Too Many! (1913); Baby Indisposed (1913); Broken Ways (1913); Brothers (1913); Cinderella and the Boob (1913); Cupid and the Cook (1913); Divorcons (1915); Faust and the Lily (1913); For the Son of the House (1913); Frappe Love (1913); Gold and Glitter (1912); Highbrow Love (1913); His Hoodoo (1913); Intolerance (1916); Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (1913); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Just Kids (1913); Liberty Belles (1914); Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913); Master Jefferson Green (1913); McGann and His Octette (1913); Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog (1913); Near to Earth (1913); Objections Overruled (1913); Oil and Water (1913); Red Hicks Defies the World (1913); The Adventures of Dollie (1912); The Billionaire (1914); The End of the World (1913); The God Within (1912); The Hicksville Epicure (1913); The King and the Copper (1913); The Lady in Black (1913); The Mothering Heart (1913); The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912); The New York Hat (1912); The One She Loved (1912); The Perfidy of Mary (1913); The Reformers; or, the Lost Art of Minding One's Business (1913); The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1916); The Skating Rink (1916); The Suffragette Minstrels (1913); The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913); The Waiter Who Waited (1915); The Widow's Kids (1913); The Winning Punch (1913); Those Little Flowers (1913); Two Daughters of Eve (1912); Virtue Is Its Own Reward (1914); Who's Looney Now? (1914).

Born on this day – Dorothy Comingore:

 

Dorothy Comingore

Actress

August 24, 1913 – December 30, 1971

Credits:

Any Number Can Play (1949); Blondie Meets the Boss (1939); Cafe Hostess (1940); Campus Cinderella (1938); Citizen Kane (1941); Citizen Kane Trailer (1940); Coast Guard (1939); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Compression (2025); Convicted Woman (1940); Fireside Theatre (1951); Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939); Golden Boy (1939); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); North of the Yukon (1939); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Outside These Walls (1939); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 7: Children of the Stars (1942); Pioneers of the Frontier (1940); Prison Train (1938); Rebound (1952); Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940); Romance of the Redwoods (1939); Scandal Sheet (1939); The Awful Goof (1939); The Big Night (1951); The Doctor (1952); The Hairy Ape (1944); The Heckler (1940); The South Bank Show (1988); Trade Winds (1938).

Born on this day – Joan Chandler:

 

Joan Chandler

Actress

August 24, 1923 – May 11, 1979

Born on this day – Helena Carter:

Helena Carter

Actress

August 24, 1923 – January 11, 2000

Born on this day – Rachael Carpani:

 

Rachael Carpani

Actress

August 24, 1980 – December 7, 2025

Credits:

15th AACTA Awards (2026); 800 Words (2017–2018); ABC News Breakfast (2025); Against the Wall (2011); All Saints (2001); Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (2005); Beat (2022); Cane (2007); Hating Alison Ashley (2005); Home and Away (2001–2024); Ihaka: Blunt Instrument (2000); Law Dogs (2007); McLeod's Daughters (2001–2009); McLeod's Daughters: The Inside Story (2003); NCIS: Los Angeles (2009); Scorched (2008); Stalker (2014); The 49th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2007); The Glades (2010); The Making of 'Triangle' (2010); The Rachels (2017); The Umbrella Man (2016); The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020); The Way Back (2020); Touched by Romance (2014); Triangle (2009); True Blue (2010); V.C. Andrews' Dollanganger Saga (2015); Weekend Sunrise (2017).

Born on this day – A. S. Byatt:

 

A. S. Byatt

Writer

August 24, 1936 – November 16, 2023

Credits:

Books:

A Stone Woman (2011); A Whistling Woman (2002); Angels and Insects (1992); Babel Tower (1996); Best European Fiction 2013 (2012); Black Water 2 (1990); Body Art (2011); Deadly Sins (1994); Degrees of Freedom (1994); Dolls' Eyes (2013); Elementals (1998); Ghostly (2015); Life (2013); Medusa's Ankles (2021); Memory (2008); Mistresses of the Dark (1998); New Writing 4 (1995); On Histories and Stories (2000); Passions of the Mind (1990); Peacock & Vine (2016); Portraits in Fiction (2001); Possession (1990); Ragnarok (2011); Raw Material (2011); Short Stories (2009); Sightlines (2001); Still Life (1985); Stories for Mothers and Daughters (2025); Sugar (1987); The Biographer's Tale (2000); The Children's Book (2009); The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994); The Game (1967); The Literary Ghost (1991); The Little Black Book of Stories (2003); The Matisse Stories (1975); The New Uncanny (2008); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Pink Ribbon (2011); The Shadow of the Sun (1991); The Thing in the Forest (2011); The Virgin in the Garden (1978); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999); Unruly Times (1970); White Fire (1991).

 

Movies and television:

Angels and Insects (1995); Bestseller (2001); Bookmark (1995–1996); Ceramics: A Fragile History (2011); Cover to Cover (1987); Inside the News (1975); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Mark Lawson Talks to... (2009); Medusa's Ankles (2018); Newsnight at 30 (2010); Omnibus (1989); Possession (2002); Read All About It (1978–1979); Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? (2012); Samtaler i natten (1996); Take It or Leave It (1967–1970); The Andrew Neil Show (1996); The Brains Trust (1996); The Burgess Variations (1999); The Late Show (1992–1994); The South Bank Show (1990); The Worlds of Fantasy (2008); Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022); Un siècle d'écrivains (1997).