Born on this day – Gary Graham:

Gary Graham

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

June 6, 1950 – January 22, 2024

Credits:

A Captain's Log (2021); Alien Nation (1989–1990); Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995); Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994); Alien Nation: Millennium (1996); Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996); Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997); All the Right Moves (1983); Ally McBeal (1999); Alongside Night (2014); Amish Grace (2010); Angel Flight Down (1996); Aspiring Hollywood (2011); Cardio World (2012); Champion (2017); CHiPs (1981); Crash and Burn (2023); Crazy Like a Fox (1985); Crossing Jordan (2005); Crusade (1999); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Dead End City (2008); Demon Protocol (2018); Diagnosis Murder (1998); Dillinger in Paradise (1999); Divas of Novella (2008); Dragnet (2003); Dreams Awake (2011); Dust of War (2013); Eight Is Enough (1977); EverCracked! The Phenomenon of EverQuest (2009); Fire on the Mountain (1981); From the Mouths of Babes (2014–2016); Grace Under Fire (1993); Hardcore (1979); Hollywood Beat (1985); Hunter (1985); In the Best Interest of the Children (1992); InAlienable (2007); Interfleet Broadcasting (2020); Interviews (2008); JAG (1997–2002); Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022); Knots Landing (1981); Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story (1995); Life Happens (2010); Lolipop Gang (2024); Lost on Paradise Island (1975); M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994–1995); Man Trouble (1992); Manhattan, AZ (2000); Mistaken Identity (2008); Money on the Side (1982); Moonlighting (1985); Nash Bridges (2001); Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993); Nip / Tuck (2009); No Place to Hide (1981); Pacific Blue (1996); Paper People (2013); Planted (2023); Plugged (2007); Police Woman (1977); Prelude to Axanar (2014); Promised Land (1998); Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010); Remington Steele (1984); Renegade (1995); Renegades (2017); Robot Jox (1989); Running Woman (1998); Scruples (1980); Seven Days (2000); Sheena (2002); Shooting Gallery (2012); Shuttlepod Show (2022); Siren (2006); Sisters and Other Strangers (1997); Slavery and the Making of America (2005); Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1998); Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); Star Trek: Renegades (2015–2017); Star Trek: Voyager (1995); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Steel (1997); T.J. Hooker (1982); The Agency (2002); The Arrogant (1988); The Assassin's Apprentice: Silbadores of the Canary Islands (2023); The Atlanta Child Murders (1985); The Commish (1993); The Crusader (2009); The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987); The Dukes of Hazzard (1982); The Extendables (2014); The Flag: Documentary (2015); The Hollywood Knights (1980); The Incredible Hulk (1979); The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979); The Jace Hall Show (2008–2012); The Last Warrior (1989); The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979); The Presence (1992); The Quest (1976); The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996); The Spy Within (1995); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982); To Die Quietly (1997); Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth (1993); Unbelievable!!!!! (2016); Under Surveillance (2015); Universal Dead (2010); Vegas Cinefest (2011); Walker, Texas Ranger (2000); Wisdom from the Apocalypse (2023); Work Related (2015).

Born on this day – Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith:

Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith

Actress

Musician

Model

Artist

June 6, 1955 – October 25, 2002

Credits:

Babes Behind Bars (2013); Boogievision (1977); Caged Heat (1974); Cinderella (1977); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2010); Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982); Drum (1976); Du-beat-e-o (1984); Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996); Evel Knievel (1971); Fantasm Comes Again / Segment: Double Feature (1977); 'Fantasm' Penetrated (2004); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Game Show Models (1977); Hart to Hart (1981); Independence Day (1983); Laserblast (1978); Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973); Logan's Run (1976); Massacre at Central High (1976); Melvin and Howard (1980); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1996); Nice Dreams (1981); Parasite (1982); Phantom of the Paradise (1974); Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976); Slumber Party '57 (1976); The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004); The Best of Sex and Violence (1981); The Birth of Aphrodite (1971); The Choice (1981); The Choirboys (1977); The Incredible Melting Man (1977); The Pom Pom Girls (1976); The Quest (1976); The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974); Up in Smoke (1978); Vice Squad (1982); Video Vixens! (1974).

Born on this day – Dee Freeman:

Dee Freeman

Actress

Producer

Writer

June 6, 1959 – April 2, 2026

Credits:

10-8: Officers on Duty (2004); 13th Annual Indie Series Awards (2023); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996); ABC Afterschool Specials (1996); An Average American Marriage (2012); Anacostia (2017); Blue Hill Avenue (2001); Bones (2008); Boston Public (2003); Brothers & Sisters (2011); Caroline in the City (1998); Coach (1995); Cold Case (2003); Crossing Jordan (2005); Delicate State (2021); Dexter (2008); Do Us Part (2020); Don't Move (2026); ER (2002); Freezerburn (2005); From the Mouths of Babes (2014–2019); Ghost Whisperer (2007); Halfway Home (2007); High Incident (1997); Jackie's Back! (1999); Kenan & Kel (1999); Lost on Earth (1997); Motel Jerusalem (1999–2001); My Baby's Daddy (2004); NCIS: Los Angeles (2021); Nobody's Perfect (2015); Party of Five (1996); Passing the Time (2007); Perception (2014); Pet Bytez (2011); Pretty the Series (2010–2015); Profiler (1997); Reasonable Doubt (2022); Red Carpet Report (2011); Red Meat (1997); Reservations (2008); Rising Sun (2012); Rude Awakening (1999); Seinfeld (1998); Shameless (2016); Silk Stalkings (1997); Sistas (2026); Six Feet Under (2002); Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal (1996); Standardized Patience (2017); Stranger Inside (2001); Suddenly Susan (1997); Temps (2016); Thank You, Good Night (2002); The Astronaut (2023); The Captain (2008); The Case Within (2023); The Country They Call Life (2025); The District (2001); The Division (2002); The Gregory Hines Show (1997); The Guardian (2003); The Landlady (1998); The Loony Zoo (2015); The Shield (2002); The X-Files (2000); The Young and the Restless (1997–2009); Trailer Park Queen (date?); Urban Teach Now (2016); Way of Seeing (2013); Weight (2015).

On this day in movie history - Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie (2013)

 

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie

documentary directed and written by April Wright,

was released in the United States on June 6, 2013.

Music by Dave Glover, Kate Houle and Rob Houle. 

Cast:

Charles Bruss, Riley Cooke, Roger Corman, Dennis Cozzalio, Bob Deutsch, Matt Dillon, Barry Floyd, Barb Frankhouser, Bill Frankhouser, Paul Geissinger, Patricia King Hanson, Richard M. Hollingshead III, David Hudzik, Jennifer Sherer Janisch, Sam Kirkland, Jim Kopp, Megan Kopp, Mark Lovato, Robbie Mack, Wes Neal, Teri Oldknow, Karen Sternheimer, Ed Szurek, Tony Troidl, D. Edward Vogel.

On this day in movie history - Earthbound (1940)

 

Earthbound

directed by Irving Pichel,

written by Samuel G. Engel and John Howard Lawson,

based on the story by Basil King,

was released in the United States on June 6, 1940.

Music by Alfred Newman.

 

Cast:

Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elizabeth Patterson, Russell Hicks, Christian Rub, Ian Wolfe, Lester Sharpe, Reginald Sheffield, Pedro de Cordoba, Eugene Borden, Marcelle Corday, Jean Del Val, William Edmunds, Diane Fisher, Arno Frey, Jean Houghton, Bobby Larson, Myra Marsh, Eric Mayne, Mira McKinney, Clark Morgan, Alberto Morin, Ruth Robinson, Gloria Roy, Florence Shirley, Pierre Watkin, Lloyd Whitlock.

On this day in movie history - Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)

Jaws: The Inside Story

documentary directed and written by Rob Goldberg,

released in the United States on June 6, 2010.

Music by Richard Fiocca.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Steven Spielberg, David Fear, Sid Sheinberg, Alison Bailes, John Milius, Calvin Joe Acord/Cal Acord, James-Michael Roddy, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, Richard D. Zanuck, Wendy Benchley, David Brown, Helen Gurley Brown, William S. Gilmore, Joe Alves, Edith Blake, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Lorraine Gary, Susan Backlinie, Roy Arbogast, Kevin Pike, Richard O. Helmer/Richie Helmer, Michael Chapman, Bill Butler, Jonathan Filley, Jeffrey Voorhees, Lee Fierro, Roy Scheider, Harlan Twible, Mike Kuryla, John Williams, Mike New. 

On this day in movie history - Back to the Drive-in (2022)

Back to the Drive-in

documentary directed and written by April Wright

was released in the United States on June 6, 2022.