Raffaello Matarazzo
Director
August 17, 1909 – May 17, 1966
Monday, August 17, 2026
Born on this day – Evan S. Connell:
Evan S. Connell
Writer
August 17, 1924 – January 10,
2013
Credits:
Books:
A Long Desire (1979); American Short Story Masterpieces (1987); At the Crossroads (1965); Deus Lo Volt! (2000); Double Honeymoon (1976); El Dorado and Other Pursuits (2002); Francisco Goya: A Life (2003); Lost in Uttar Pradesh (2008); Mr. Bridge (1969); Mrs. Bridge (1959); Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1962); Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012); Points for a Compass Rose (1973); Son of the Morning Star (1984); St. Augustine's Pigeon (1980); The Alchymist's Journal (1991); The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories (1957); The Aztec Treasure House (2001); The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957); The Collected Stories (1995); The Connoisseur (1974); The Diary of a Rapist (1966); The Patriot (1958); The White Lantern (1980).
Movies and television:
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990); Son of the Morning Star (1991).
Born on this day – Ted Hughes:
Ted Hughes
Writer
August 17, 1930 – October
28, 1998
Credits:
Books:
Movies and television:
A March Calf (2019); A Ted Hughes Bestiary (2014); All Around
the Year (1979); Animal Poems (1967); By Heart (2012); Cave Birds (1978); Crow
(1970); Emily Dickinson (2011); Euripides' Alcestis (2011); Ffangs the Vampire
Bat and the Kiss of Truth (1986); Gaudete (1977); How the Whale Became (1963);
Letters of Ted Hughes (2010); Lupercal (1960); Meet My Folks (1973);
Moon-Whales (1976); Moortown (1979); My Brother Bert (2009); Nessie the
Mannerless Monster (1964); New and Selected Poems (2010); Remains of Elmet
(2011); River (1983); Season Songs (2019); Selected Poems (1962); T. S. Eliot:
A Tribute (1987); Tales of the Early World (1988); The Coming of the Kings
(1970); The Dreamfighter (1995); The Earth Owl and Other Moon People (1963);
The Hawk in the Rain (1957); The Iron Man aka The Iron Giant (1968); The Iron
Wolf (2019); The Iron Woman (1993); The Love Pet (1985); The Thought Fox
(2019); The Tiger's Bones (1974); Timmy the Tug (2009); What is the Truth?
(1984); Wodwo (1967); Wolfwatching (1989).
Beauty and the Beast (1982); Biography (2004); Crow (2014);
Jackanory (1972–1995); Jackanory Playhouse (1972); MultiVersus (2024); Seven
Crows a Secret (1994); Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018); Ted Hughes:
Stronger Than Death (2015); The Colossus (2010); The English Programme
(1986–1998); The Iron Giant (1999); The Rain Horse (2008); The South Bank Show
(1979–1981).
Born on this day – Luther Allison:
Luther Allison
Blues singer
Songwriter
Guitarist
August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997
Credits:
Albums:
Bad News Is Coming (1972); Blue Streak (1995); Hand Me Down My Moonshine (1994); Here I Come (1985); I Owe It All To You (2024); Learn From The Past (2022); Let's Have A Natural Ball (1985); Let's Try It Again (1992); Life Is a Bitch (1984); Live '89: Let's Try It Again (2006); Live At Montreux 1986 (2006); Live in Chicago (1999); Live in Montreux 1976-1994 (2006); Live in Paris (1979); Love Me Mama (1969); Love Me Papa (1977); Luther Allison Live in Paris 1979 (2005); Luther's Blues (1974); Montreux 1976 (Live) (2017); More From Berlin (1990); My Time Ain't Long (2023); Night Life (1976); Pay It Forward (2002); Power Wire Blues (1979); Reckless (1997); Rich Man (1995); Serious (1987); Songs From The Road (2009); Soul Fixin' Man (1994); South Side Safari (1979); Standing at the Crossroad (1977); Sweet Home Chicago (2006); The Alligator Records Years (2013); The Motown Years 1972-1976 (1996); Time (1989); Underground (2007); When The Sun Goes Down (2024); Where Have You Been? Live In Montreux 1976-1994 (1996).
Movies and television:
Chorus (1978–1980); Cooley High (1975); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1996); Karussell (1985–1987); Lieder & Leute (1982); Little Fires Everywhere (2020); Lord Thing (1970); Mad Money (2008); Magnum P.I. (2020); Musical express (1979); Nobody (2021); Taratata (1997); The Big Easy (1997); The Breed (2006); The Good Life (2014).
Born on this day – Anthony Valentine:
Anthony Valentine
Actor
August 17, 1939 – December 2, 2015
Credits:
A for Andromeda (1961); Adolf
Eichmann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder / documentary (2002); Adventure in the
Hopfields (1954); After the War (1989); Age of Treason (1993); Aggie (1957);
Airline (1982); Aladdin (1951); Alien Attack (1976); American Cuisine (1998);
An Age of Kings (1960); Armchair Cinema (1975); Armchair Theatre (1966); Asian
Connection: Midnight Orchid (1995); BBC Play of the Month (1982–1983); BBC
Sunday-Night Theatre (1958); Bergerac (1983); Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School
(1955–1957); Biography (1995); Body & Soul (1993); Boon (1989); Born for
Trouble (1955); Budgie (1971); Butterflies & Diamonds (2015); Call My Bluff
(1974–1981); Callan (1967–1972); Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1953);
Casualty (2009); Chuggington (2008–2010); Chuggington: Badge Quest (2011);
Codename (1970); Colditz (1974); Coronation Street (2009–2010); Coronation
Street at Christmas (2019); Covington Cross (1992); Dark Arts: Inside 'To the
Devil a Daughter' (2018); Department S (1969); Diana: A Tribute to the People's
Princess (1998); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1969); Emergency-Ward 10 (1967); Emil
and the Detectives (1952); Escape to Athena (1979); Escape to Athena: Cast and
Crew Interviews (1978); A Father's Revenge (1988);Fun at St Fanny's (1955);
Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hannay (1989); Heartbeat (2006); Inside the
Tower (2015); Intrigue (1966); It's About Time (1979); ITV Play of the Week
(1958); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Johnnie's Night Out (1954); Judge John Deed
(2002); Justice (1971–1974); Killer Contract (1984); Lime Street (1985); Love
Story (1966); Lovejoy (1986–1991); Masada (1981); Mencius Was a Bad Boy (1951);
Minder (1979–1983); Monkey Business (1993); Moon and Son (1992); Murder Is Easy
(1982); My Uncle Rollo (1954); New Tricks (2005); Night of One Hundred Stars
(1980); No Way Back (1949); Noel's Telly Years (1997); Nuremberg: Nazis on
Trial (2006); Pathfinders (1972); Performance (1970); Poirot (2006); Pop
Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Pulaski: The TV Detective
(1987); Put Out More Flags (1970); Raffles (1975); Raffles (1975–1977); Rex
Milligan (1956); Rheingold Theatre (1953); Riders (1993); Riviera Police
(1965); Robin Hood (1984–1985); Saturday Playhouse (1961); Scobie in September
(1969); Softly Softly (1969); Space: 1999 (1975); Spy Trap (1973); Stars on
Sunday (1974); Stay Lucky (1991); Stranger in the House (1953); Summer, Autumn,
Winter, Spring (1961); Sunset Song (1971); Take Three Girls (1969); Tales of
the Unexpected (1980–1982); The Attorney-General (1961); The Avengers (1967–1968);
The Bill (1998); The Brain Machine (1955); The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
(1991); The Children of the New Forest (1955); The Commander: Abduction (2008);
The Commander: Blackdog (2005); The Commander: Blacklight (2006); The
Commander: Virus (2005); The Cornet Player (1959); The Damned (1962); The
Dancing Years (1976); The Detectives (1994–1997); The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal
Mission (1988); The Donati Conspiracy (1973); The Expert (1969); The Fear
(1988); The Fifth Corner (1992); The Flesh and the Fiends (1960); The Girl on
the Pier (1953); The House of Angelo (1997); The House of Eliott (1991); The
Knock (1994–1996); The Last Detective (2007); The Last Man Out (1962); The
Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); The Monster Club /
Segment: Vampire Story (1981); The Plague Dogs (1982); The Scarf (1959); The
Secret Way (1954); The True Mistery of the Passion (1960); The Way to Dusty
Death (1995); The Wharf Road Mob (1957); The World About Us (1980–1982);
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967); This Is Your Life (1978–1995); This Man Craig
(1967); Thriller (1975); To the Devil a Daughter (1976); To the Devil... The
Death of Hammer (2002); Tower of Evil (1972); Two Men Went to War (2002); Van
der Valk (1992); Vice Versa (1953); Waking the Dead (2001); West 11 (1963);
When TV Goes to War (2011); Whodunnit? (1974); Z Cars (1972).
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