Spencer Tracy
Actor
April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Born on this day – Richard Eberhart:
Richard Eberhart
Writer
April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005
Credits:
Books:
A Bravery of Earth (1930); Brotherhood of Men (1949); Burr Oaks (1947); Collected Poems, 1930–1976 (1976); Collected Verse Plays (1962); Fields of Grace (1972); Great Praises (1957); New and Selected Poems: 1930–1990 (1990); Poems (1945); Reading the Spirit (1937); Selected Poems, 1930–1965 (1965); Shifts of Being (1968); Song and Idea (1942); The Long Reach: New and Uncollected Works 1948–1984 (1984); The Quarry: New Poems (1964); Thirty One Sonnets (1967); Undercliff: Poems 1946–1953 (1953); War and the Poet (1945).
Born on this day – Bette Davis:
Bette Davis
Actress
April
5, 1908 – October 6, 1989
Credits:
Wicked
Stepmother (1989); The Whales of August (1987); As Summers Die (1986); Murder
with Mirrors (1985); Hotel (1983); Right of Way (1983); Little Gloria... Happy
at Last (1982); A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982); Family Reunion (1981); Skyward
(1980); The Watcher in the Woods (1980); White Mama (1980); Strangers: The
Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Death on the Nile (1978); Return from
Witch Mountain (1978); The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978); Laugh-In (1977);
The Disappearance of Aimee (1976); Burnt Offerings (1976); Hello Mother,
Goodbye! (1974); Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972);
The Scopone Game (1972); Madame Sin (1972); Bunny O'Hare (1971); Connecting
Rooms (1970); It Takes a Thief (1970); The Anniversary (1968); Gunsmoke (1966);
The Decorator (1965); The Nanny (1965); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964);
Where Love Has Gone (1964); Dead Ringer (1964); The Empty Canvas (1963); Perry
Mason (1957); The Virginian (1962); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962);
Wagon Train (1959–1961); Pocketful of Miracles (1961)The DuPont Show with June
Allyson (1959); The Scapegoat (1959); John Paul Jones (1959); Alfred Hitchcock
Presents (1959); Suspicion (1958); General Electric Theater (1957–1958); Studio
57 (1958); Telephone Time (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); Schlitz
Playhouse (1957); The Catered Affair (1956); Storm Center (1956); The 20th
Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Virgin Queen (1955); The Star (1952); Phone Call
from a Stranger (1952); Another Man's Poison (1951); Payment on Demand (1951);
All About Eve (1950); Breakdowns of 1949 (1949); Beyond the Forest (1949); June
Bride (1948); Winter Meeting (1948); Deception (1946); A Stolen Life (1946);
The Corn Is Green (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Old
Acquaintance (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); Watch on the Rhine (1943);
Now, Voyager (1942); In This Our Life (1942); The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942); The Little Foxes (1941); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); Shining Victory
(1941); The Great Lie (1941); The Letter (1940); All This, and Heaven Too
(1940); If I Forget You (1940); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(1939); The Old Maid (1939); Juarez (1939); Dark Victory (1939); The Sisters
(1938); Jezebel (1938); That Certain Woman (1937); It's Love I'm After (1937);
Kid Galahad (1937); A Day at Santa Anita (1937); Marked Woman (1937); Satan Met
a Lady (1936); The Golden Arrow (1936); The Petrified Forest (1936); Dangerous
(1935); Special Agent (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); The Girl from 10th
Avenue (1935); Bordertown (1935); Housewife (1934); Of Human Bondage (1934);
Fog Over Frisco (1934); Jimmy the Gent (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); The Big
Shakedown (1934); Just Around the Corner (1933); Bureau of Missing Persons
(1933); Ex-Lady (1933); The Working Man (1933); Parachute Jumper (1933). 20,000
Years in Sing Sing (1932); Three on a Match (1932); The Cabin in the Cotton
(1932); The Dark Horse (1932); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); So Big!
(1932); Hell's House (1932); The Man Who Played God (1932); The Menace (1932);
Way Back Home (1931); Waterloo Bridge (1931); Seed (1931); Bad Sister (1931).
Born on this day – Robert Bloch:
Robert Bloch
Writer
April
5, 1917 – September 23, 1994
Credits:
Books:
15 Grusel Stories (1964); American Gothic (1974); Atoms and Evil (1962); Black Cat Weekly #13 (2021); Blood Runs Cold (1961); Bogey Men (1963); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Cold Chills (1977); Crimes and Punishments (2000); Dragons and Nightmares (1969); Fear and Trembling (1979); Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations (2004); Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971); Fever Dream and Other Fantasies (1970); Final Reckonings (1987); Firebug (1961); Flowers from the Moon (1998); Hell On Earth (2000); Horror-7 (1963); It's All in Your Mind (1971); Lori (1989); Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (1987); Midnight Pleasures (1987); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); More Nightmares (1962); Mysteries of the Worm (1981); Nightmares (1961); Night-World (1972); Out of My Head (1981); Out of the Mouths of Graves (1979); Pleasant Dreams (1960); Pleasant Dreams / Nightmares (1959); Psycho (1959); Psycho House (aka Psycho III) (1990); Psycho II (1982); Psycho-paths (1991); Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997); Sea-Kissed (1945); Skeleton in the Closet (2008); Spiderweb (1954); Strange Eons (1978); Such Stuff as Screams Are Made of (1979); Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965); Terror (1962); Terror in the Night (1958); That Hellbound Train (2011); The Best of Robert Bloch (1977); The Couch (1962); The Crowded Earth (2009); The Cunning (aka There Is a Serpent in Eden) (1979); The Dead Beat (1960); The Devil with You! (1999); The Early Fears (1978); The House of the Hatchet (1960); The Jekyll Legacy (1990); The Kidnapper (1954); The King of Terrors (1977); The Laughter of a Ghoul (1977); The Living Demons (1967); The Night of the Ripper (1984); The Opener of the Way (1945); The Scarf (1947); The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (1987); The Shooting Star (1958); The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Star Stalker (1968); The Todd Dossier (1969); The Will to Kill (1954); This Crowded Earth (1958).
Movies and television:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1986); Asylum (1972); Bates Motel (1987); Bates Motel (2013–2017); Battle-Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2002); Bus Stop (1962); Cineficción Radio / Mannikins of Horror / Reaper (2019–2020); Circle of Fear (1972); Curious Matter Anthology (2019); Darkroom (1981); Dimension X (1950); Fear in the Dark (1991); Gemini Man (1976); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); How to Plan a Movie Murder (1964); I Spy (1966); Journey to Midnight (1968); Journey to the Unknown (1968); Lock Up (1960–1961); Mannikin (1977); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Michaels' Movie Madness (1988); Monsters (1988–1989); Mother (2020); Night Gallery / Logoda's Heads (1971); Psycho (1960); Psycho (1988); Psycho (1998); Psycho II (1983); Psycho III (1986); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Run for Your Life (1966); Sanfter Schrecken / The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon (1977); Secrets and Mysteries (1983); Star Trek (1966–1967); Strait-Jacket (1964); Tales from the Darkside (1984–1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); Tambien la muerte puede morir (1990); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Cabinet of Caligari (1962); The Cat Creature (1973); The Couch (1962); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Deadly Bees (1966); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Horror of It All (1983); The House That Dripped Blood (1971); The Hunger (1998); The Manhunter (1974); The Night Walker (1964); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Psychopath (1966); The Return of Captain Nemo / Atlantis Dead Ahead (1978); The Skull / The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Vault of Horror (1992); Three Dangerous Ladies / The Mannikin (1977); Thriller (1960–1962); Torture Garden (1967); Whispering Smith (1961); X Minus One (1955).
Born on this day – Arthur Hailey:
Arthur Hailey
Writer
April 5, 1920 – November 24, 2004
Credits:
Airport
(1968); Detective (1997); Flight into Danger / aka Runway Zero Eight (1958);
Hotel (1965); In High Places (1960); Overload (1978); Strong Medicine (1984);
The Evening News (1990); The Final Diagnosis (1959); The Moneychangers (1975);
Wheels (1971).
Movies and
television:
90 Minutes
Live (1976); Airplane! (1980); Airport (1970); Airport 1975 (1974); Airport '77
(1977); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Barris & Company (1968);
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1959); Bestseller (1985); Course for Collision
(1966); Detective (2005); Encounter (1956–1960); exclusiv (1982–1985); First
Performance (1956–1957); Flight Into Danger (1966); Flug in Gefahr (1964);
Hotel (1967 / 2003); Hotel / TV Series (1983–1988); International Airport
(1985); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1972); ITV Television Playhouse (1960);
Kraft Theatre (1956); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1957–1963);
Luncheon Date (1969); Matinee Theatre (1958); Playdate (1962); Playhouse 90
(1959); Strong Medicine (1986); Studio 4 (1962); Studio One (1957); Suspense
(1962–1963); Telescope (1969); Television Playwright (1958); Terror in the Sky
(1971); Test Pilot (1957); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Bob Braun Show (1976);
The Book Programme (1974); The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979); The Ed Nelson
Show (1969); The Larry Solway Show (1975); The Lee Phillip Show (1971); The
Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969); The
Young Doctors (1961); This Is Your Life (1991); Time Lock (1957); Vliegtuig in
gevaar (1963); Wheels (1978); Zeitsperre (1965); Zero Hour! (1957).
Born on this day – Gale Storm:
Gale Storm
Actress
Singer
April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009
Credits:
Abandoned
(1949); Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994); Al Jennings of Oklahoma
(1951); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Between Midnight and Dawn
(1950); Burke's Law (1964–1965); Campus Rhythm (1943); Celebrity Bowling
(1975); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); City of Missing Girls (1941); Crime Smasher
(1943); Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Donny
and Marie (1976); Footlights Theater (1952); Foreign Agent (1942); Forever
Yours (1945); Freckles Comes Home (1942); G.I. Honeymoon (1945); Gambling
Daughters (1941); Glamour Girl (1943); Gypsy (1966–1967); Hal Roach:
Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Hands of Mystery (1949); He Plays Gin
Rummy (1942); Here's Hollywood (1960); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); Hollywood
Theatre Time (1950); Hour Magazine (1986); How to Go Places (1954); I Know
Somebody Who Loves You (1941); I'm a Shy Guy (1943); It Happened on Fifth
Avenue (1947); Jesse James at Bay (1941); Let's Get Away from It All (1941);
Let's Go Collegiate (1941); Lure of the Islands (1942); Man from Cheyenne
(1942); Merry-Go-Roundup (1941); Murder, She Wrote (1989); My Little Margie
(1952–1955); Nearly Eighteen (1943); One Crowded Night (1940); Penthouse
Serenade (1941); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1955–1957); Person to Person
(1959); Red River Valley (1941); Revenge of the Zombies (1943); Rhyme and
Reason (1975); Rhythm Parade (1942); Rim of the Wheel (1951); Robert Montgomery
Presents (1955); Saddlemates (1941); ShirleyMania (2002); Shower of Stars
(1957); Smart Alecks (1942); Stage Show (1956); Stampede (1949); Sunbonnet Sue
(1945); Swing Parade of 1946 (1946); The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
(1972); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The All-Star Christmas
Show (1958); The Big Record (1957); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bob Braun
Show (1974); The Bob Hope Show (1953); The Buddy Rogers Show (1951); The
Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1954); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1960); The
Dude Goes West (1948); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre
(1955); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956–1960); The Garry Moore Show
(1961); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The John Barbour
Show (1975); The Kid from Texas (1950); The Love Boat (1979–1987); The Magical
World of Disney (1955); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Mike Douglas Show
(1964–1971); The Milton Berle Show (1955); The Movie Game (1970); The NBC
Comedy Hour (1956); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1958); The Texas Rangers
(1951); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Underworld Story
(1950); The Unexpected (1952); This Is Your Life (1957); Tom Brown's School
Days (1940); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1981); Uncle Joe (1941); Where Are Your
Children? (1943); Walk a Crooked Mile (1948); What's My Line? (1955–1957);
Woman of the North Country (1952); You Don't Say (1964).
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