Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Born on this day – Charles Stevenson:

Charles Stevenson

Actor

October 13, 1887 – July 4, 1943

Credits:

A Man About Town (1923); A Pleasant Journey (1923); A Quiet Street (1922); A Regular Pal (1920); A Sailor-Made Man (1921); A Straight Crook (1921); All Aboard (1917); American Masters (1989); An Eastern Westerner (1920); An Ozark Romance (1918); Any Old Port (1920); Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918); Are Parents Pickles? (1925); Ask Father (1919); Bashful (1917); Be My Wife (1919); Bees in His Bonnet (1918); Before the Public (1923); Birds of a Feather (1917); Boys to Board (1923); Bride and Gloom (1918); Bumping Into Broadway (1919); Call a Taxi (1920); Captain Kidd's Kids (1919); Clubs Are Trump (1917); Count the Votes (1919); Dig Up (1923); Do You Love Your Wife? (1919); Dogs of War! (1923); Doing Time (1920); Dr. Jack (1922); Fare, Please (1918); Fire Fighters (1922); Follow the Crowd (1918); From Hand to Mouth (1919); From Laramie to London (1917); Gas and Air (1923); Get Out and Get Under (1920); Girl Shy (1924); Good Morning, Judge (1922); Grandma's Boy (1922); Haunted Spooks (1920); He Leads, Others Follow (1919); Hey There (1918); High and Dizzy (1920); His Busy Day (1918); His Only Father (1919); His Royal Slyness (1920); Hot Water (1924); Hurry West (1921); Isn't Life Terrible? (1925); It's a Wild Life (1918); Join the Circus (1923); June Madness (1920); Just Neighbors (1919); Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918); Kill or Cure (1923); Late Hours (1921); Little Miss Jazz (1920); Lodge Night (1923); Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917); Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917); Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917); Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917); Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917); Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917); Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917); Loose Change (1922); Love, Laughs and Lather (1917); Luke and the Bang-Tails (1916); Luke and the Bomb Throwers (1916); Luke and the Mermaids (1916); Luke Does the Midway (1916); Luke Joins the Navy (1916); Luke Laughs Last (1916); Luke Locates the Loot (1916); Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916); Luke Rides Roughshod (1916); Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917); Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916); Luke, Patient Provider (1916); Luke, Rank Impersonator (1916); Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916); Luke, the Chauffeur (1916); Luke, the Gladiator (1916); Luke's Double (1916); Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916); Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916); Luke's Late Lunchers (1916); Luke's Lost Lamb (1916); Luke's Lost Liberty (1917); Luke's Movie Muddle (1916); Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916); Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916); Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916); Luke's Society Mixup (1916); Luke's Speedy Club Life (1916); Mischief Makers (1960–1961); Money to Burn (1920); Move On (1917); Never Weaken (1921); No Noise (1923); Now or Never (1921); Number, Please? (1920); On the Jump (1918); One Terrible Day (1922); Pay the Cashier (1926); Pay Your Dues (1919); Pinched (1917); Pinning It On (1921); Ring Up the Curtain (1919); Run 'Em Ragged (1920); Running Wild (1921); Safety Last! (1923); Scorching Sands (1923); Short Orders (1923); Sic 'Em, Towser (1918); Soft Money (1919); Sold at Auction! (1923); Somewhere in Turkey (1918); Spring Fever (1919); Stage Fright (1923); Step Lively (1917); Stop Kidding (1921); Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917); That's Him (1918); The Big Idea (1917); The Champeen (1923); The Chink (1921); The City Slicker (1918); The Dippy Dentist (1920); The Dumb-Bell (1922); The Freshman (1925); The Golf Bug (1922); The Great Water Peril (1918); The Lucky Number (1921); The Non-Stop Kid (1918); The Rajah (1919); The Sandman (1920); The Shriek of Araby (1923); The Sleuth (1922); The Tip (1918); The Whole Truth (1923); Them Was the Happy Days! (1916); Two Scrambled (1918); Two-Gun Gussie (1918); Under Two Jags (1923); Watch Your Wife (1923); We Never Sleep (1917); Whom God Hath Joined (1914); Why Worry? (1923); Young Sherlocks (1922).

Born on this day – Irene Rich:


Irene Rich


Actress

October 13, 1891 – April 22, 1988

Credits:
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); Joan of Arc (1948); Fort Apache (1948); New Orleans (1947); Angel and the Badman (1947); Calendar Girl (1947); This Time for Keeps (1942); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); Keeping Company (1940); Queen of the Yukon (1940); The Lady in Question (1940); The Mortal Storm (1940); Everybody's Hobby (1939); The Right Way (1939); That Certain Age (1938); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Spitfire (1934); Manhattan Tower (1932); Her Mad Night (1932); Down to Earth (1932); The Champ (1931); Wicked (1931); The Mad Parade (1931); Five and Ten (1931); Strangers May Kiss (1931); Father's Son (1931); Beau Ideal (1931); Double Check (1930); On Your Back (1930); So This Is London (1930); Shanghai Rose (1929); They Had to See Paris (1929); The Exalted Flapper (1929); Daughters of Desire (1929); Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928); Women They Talk About (1928); The Perfect Crime (1928); Craig's Wife (1928); Powder My Back (1928); Beware of Married Men (1927); The Silver Slave (1927); The Desired Woman (1927); Dearie (1927); The Climbers (1927); Don't Tell the Wife (1927); My Official Wife (1926); The Honeymoon Express (1926); Silken Shackles (1926); Lady Windermere's Fan (1925); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); Compromise (1925); The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925); Eve's Lover (1925); The Man Without a Conscience (1925); My Wife and I (1925); A Lost Lady (1924); What the Butler Saw (1924); This Woman (1924); Behold This Woman (1924); A Woman Who Sinned (1924); Captain January (1924); Being Respectable (1924); Cytherea (1924); Beau Brummel (1924); Pal o' Mine (1924); Boy of Mine (1923); Lucretia Lombard (1923); Defying Destiny (1923); Rosita (1923); Yesterday's Wife (1923); Dangerous Trails (1923); Michael O'Halloran (1923); Snowdrift (1923); Brass (1923); Fruits of Faith (1922); The Marriage Chance (1922); While Justice Waits (1922); Brawn of the North (1922); The Ropin' Fool (1922); The Yosemite Trail (1922); A Fool There Was (1922); One Clear Call (1922); The Trap (1922); Strength of the Pines (1922); The Call of Home (1922); The Poverty of Riches (1921); The Invisible Power (1921); Desperate Trails (1921); A Voice in the Dark (1921); A Tale of Two Worlds (1921); Boys Will Be Boys (1921); One Man in a Million (1921); Sunset Jones (1921); Godless Men (1920); Just Out of College (1920); Stop Thief (1920); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); The Strange Boarder (1920); The Street Called Straight (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); The Spite Bride (1919); Her Purchase Price (1919); Wolves of the Night (1919); The Blue Bonnet (1919); The Sneak (1919); The Lone Star Ranger (1919); Castles in the Air (1919); The Silver Girl (1919); Diane of the Green Van (1919); A Man in the Open (1919); Todd of the Times (1919); A Law Unto Herself (1918); The Girl in His House (1918); A Desert Wooing (1918).

Born on this day – Georgia Backus:


Georgia Backus


Actress

October 13, 1900 – September 7, 1983

Credits:
Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Mark of the Renegade (1951); Apache Drums (1951); Cause for Alarm! (1951); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); No Man of Her Own (1950); Copper Canyon (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Too Late for Tears (1949); Force of Evil (1948); Dream Girl (1948); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Lady in the Dark (1944); Standing Room Only (1944); The Moon Is Down (1943); Lucky Jordan (1942); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); I Married a Witch (1942); The Talk of the Town (1942); Blondie for Victory (1942); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); Not a Ladies' Man (1942); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Shut My Big Mouth (1942); The Lady Is Willing (1942); Bedtime Story (1941); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); You Belong to Me (1941); Blondie in Society (1941); They Dare Not Love (1941); Citizen Kane (1941); Repent at Leisure (1941); Footlight Fever (1941); So Ends Our Night (1941); Nobody's Children (1940).

Born on this day – Yves Allégret:


Yves Allégret


Director

Writer

October 13, 1905 – January 31, 1987

Credits:

A Day in the Country (1946); Au cinéma ce soir (1971–1974); Autour du film Une si jolie petite plage (1973); Aventure à Paris (1936); Box of Dreams (1945); Chien de pique (1960); Ciboulette (1933); Cinépanorama (1958); Confessions of a Newlywed (1937); Dedee (1948); Don't Bite, We Love You (1976); Fanny (1932); Fantômas (1932); Forfaiture (1937); Germinal (1963); Graine d'ortie (1973); Happy Days (1935); Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1975); Jeunes filles de France (1939); Johnny Banco (1967); Konga Yo (1962); La meilleure part (1955); Ladies Lake (1934); Le collier (1931); Le dompteur (1938); Le gagnant (1937); L'émigrante (1940); Les amours de minuit (1931); Les démons de l'aube (1946); Les deux timides (1943); Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1979–1981); Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951); L'invasion (1970); L'invité de FR3 (1981); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Max le débonnaire (1967); Miss Nitouche (1954); Nez de cuir (1952); Oasis (1955); Orzowei, il figlio della savana (1976–1977); Port of Desire (1958); Prix et profits, la pomme de terre (1932); Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957); Revenge at Daybreak (1952); Simone Signoret, figure libre (2020); Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949); Ténérife (1932); The Bitch (1931); The cheat (1949); The Proud and the Beautiful (1953); The Restless and the Damned (1959); The Seven Deadly Sins (1952); Tobie est un ange (1940); Under Western Eyes (1936); Young Girls Beware (1957).

Born on this day – Cornel Wilde:


Cornel Wilde


Actor

Director

October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989


Born on this day – Jack MacGowran:


Jack MacGowran


Actor

October 13, 1918 – January 30, 1973


Born on this day – Laraine Day:


Laraine Day


Actress

October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007

Credits:

A Yank on the Burma Road (1942); Airwolf (1985); American Masters (2004); And One Was Beautiful (1940); Arizona Legion (1939); Border G-Man (1938); Bride by Mistake (1944); Burke's Law (1963); Calling Dr. Kildare (1939); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Checkmate (1961); Climax! (1957); Daydreaming with Laraine (1951); Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940); Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940); Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940); Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941); Fantasy Island (1978); Fingers at the Window (1942); Follow the Sun (1962); Foreign Correspondent (1940); General Electric Theater (1953); Hollywood Summer Theatre (1956); Hotel (1985); I Take This Woman (1940); Journey for Margaret (1942); Kathleen (1941); Keep Your Powder Dry (1945); Lou Grant (1979); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Medical Center (1973); Mister Gardenia Jones (1942); Moment of Fear (1960); Mr. Lucky (1943); Murder on Flight 502 (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1986); My Dear Secretary (1948); My Son, My Son! (1940); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Painted Desert (1938); Personal History: Foreign Hitchcock (2004); Playhouse 90 (1956); Pursuit (1958); Rendezvous (1958); Scandal Street (1938); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Sergeant Madden (1939); Stella Dallas (1937); Strange Stories (1960); Swiss Family Robinson (1958); Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939); The 3rd Voice (1960); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Bad Man (1941); The F.B.I. (1969); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The High and the Mighty (1954); The Locket (1946); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Love Boat (1978); The Name of the Game (1968); The New Breed (1962); The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941); The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1957); The Toy Tiger (1956); The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941); The Woman on Pier 13 (1949); The World: Color It Happy (1967); Think First (1939); Those Endearing Young Charms (1945); Three for Jamie Dawn (1956); Tycoon (1947); Unholy Partners (1941); Wagon Train (1963); Will Banner (1965); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Without Honor (1949).