Born on this day – Walter Huston:

Walter Huston

Actor

Singer

April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); A House Divided (1931); Abraham Lincoln (1930); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Always in My Heart (1942); America at the Movies (1976); American Experience (2011); American Madness (1932); American Masters (1993–2009); America's Woman (2024); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); And Then There Were None (1945); Ann Vickers (1933); Anniversary (1963); Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991); Bragging Rites: The Carolina-Clemson Rivalry (2003); Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Call to Duty (1946); Century of Cinema (1995); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Combat Report (1942); December 7th (1943); Discovering Huston (2012); Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003); Dodsworth (1936); Dragon Seed (1944); Dragonwyck (1946); Duel in the Sun (1946); EastEnders (2004); Edge of Darkness (1943); Filmed Prologue to Birth of a Nation (1930); Five Came Back (2017); For God and Country (1943); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); Gentlemen of the Press (1929); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Hell Below (1933); History Rediscovered: Report from the Aleutians (2013); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Hobbies (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'the Spoon' (1931); Independent Lens (2017); Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston (1931); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996); John Ford Goes to War (2002); John Huston, une âme libre (2021); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Keep 'Em Rolling (1934); Know Your Ally: Britain (1944); Know Your Enemy - Japan (1945); Kongo (1932); Land of Liberty (1939); Law and Order (1932); Let There Be Light (1980); Martinez, Margaritas and Murder! (2025); Momo: The Sam Giancana Story (2011); Night Court (1932); Notes to Anarchism (2006); Of Human Hearts (1938); Rain (1932); Report from the Aleutians (1943); Rhodes (1936); Safeguarding Military Information (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 30, No. 7: Hollywood Memories (1951); September Affair (1950); Storm at Daybreak (1933); Summer Holiday (1948); Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936); Swamp Water (1941); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 21st Annual Academy Awards (1949); The Bad Man (1930); The Battle of Britain (1943); The Battle of China (1944); The Beast of the City (1932); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The Bishop's Candlesticks (1929); The Carnival Man (1929); The Criminal Code (1931); The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Furies (1950); The Great Sinner (1949); The Lady Lies (1929); The Light That Failed (1939); The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Nazis Strike (1943); The North Star (1943); The Outlaw (1943); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Ruling Voice (1931); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Star Witness (1931); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The Virginian (1929); The Virtuous Sin (1930); The Wet Parade (1932); The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932); This Our Life (1942); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Transatlantic Tunnel (1935); Trenches (2022); Twenty Years After (1944); Two Americans (1929); War Comes to America (1945); War Department Report (1943); Warner at War (2008); Why We Fight (1942); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

Born on this day – Spencer Tracy:

Spencer Tracy

Actor

April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967

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 – Gregory Peck:

 

Gregory Peck

Actor

April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003

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:

Books:

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).