Sunday, October 11, 2026

Born on this day – Katherine Emery:

 

Katherine Emery


Actress

October 11, 1906 – February 7, 1980

Credits:
3-D Rarities (2015); Arch of Triumph (1948); Chicken Every Sunday (1949); Eyes in the Night (1942); Hiawatha (1952); Isle of the Dead (1945); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Payment on Demand (1951); Strange Bargain (1949); The Locket (1946); The Maze (1953); The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947); The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); Untamed Frontier (1952).

Born on this day – Linda Hayes:


Linda Hayes


Actress

October 11, 1918 – December 19, 1995

Credits:
Brooklyn (2015); Citadel of Crime (1941); Conspiracy (1939); Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941); I'm Still Alive (1940); Men of the Timberland (1941); Mexican Spitfire (1939); Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940); Millionaire Playboy (1940); Millionaires in Prison (1940); Raiders of the Desert (1941); Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942); Romance on the Range (1942); Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys (1992); South of Santa Fe (1942); Sued for Libel (1939); The Girl from Mexico (1939); The Saint in Palm Springs (1940); The Spellbinder (1939).

Born on this day – Olive Deering:


Olive Deering


Actress

October 11, 1918 – March 22, 1986

Credits:

Air Hostess (1949); Alcoa Theatre (1960); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1960); Ben Casey (1963); Big Town (1951); Caged (1950); Camera Three (1956); City Hospital (1952); Climax! (1958); Danger (1950); Diagnosis: Unknown (1960); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Goodyear Television Playhouse (1952); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Howzer (1973); Johnny Staccato (1959); Kraft Mystery Theatre (1951); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1953); Kraft Television Theatre (1954); Lamp Unto My Feet (1957); Markham (1960); Masterpiece Playhouse (1950); Moment of Fear (1960); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Oboler Comedy Theatre (1949); One Step Beyond (1959); Outlaws (1962); Perry Mason (1958); Playhouse 90 (1959); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); Rocky King, Detective (1951); Sam Benedict (1963); Samson and Delilah (1949); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Shock Treatment (1964); Short Short Dramas (1952); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950); Starlight Theatre (1950); Steve Randall (1952); Studio One (1955); Suspense (1951); Tales of Tomorrow (1951); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Clock (1950); The Defenders (1962); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Outer Limits (1963); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Stranger (1955); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Witness (1961); You Are There (1954).

Born on this day – Linda Stirling:


Linda Stirling


Actress

Showgirl

Model

October 11, 1921 – July 20, 1997

Credits:

Adventures of the Falcon (1954); Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine (1966); Cavalcade of America (1956); Cliffhangers! Adventures from the Thrill Factory (1993); Cyclotrode 'X' (1966); Dakota (1945); D-Day on Mars (1966); General Electric Theater (1955); I Led 3 Lives (1954); Jesse James Rides Again (1947); Jungle Gold (1966); Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945); Medic (1955); On Trial (1957); Passkey to Danger (1946); Public Defender (1955); Rio Grande Raiders (1946); Santa Fe Saddlemates (1945); Sheriff of Cimarron (1945); Sheriff of Sundown (1944); Sprockets (1995); Strangers in the Night (1944); Studio 57 (1955); That Brennan Girl (1946); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1954); The Bob Hope Show (1958); The Cherokee Flash (1945); The Crimson Ghost (1946); The Invisible Informer (1946); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1956); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Magnificent Rogue (1946); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Many Faces of Zorro (2000); The Millionaire (1955); The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Powers Girl (1943); The Pretender (1947); The Purple Monster Strikes (1945); The Real McCoys (1959); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The San Antonio Kid (1944); The Tiger Woman (1944); The Topeka Terror (1945); The Whistler (1955); Vigilantes of Dodge City (1944); Wagon Wheels Westward (1945); Zorro's Black Whip (1944).

Born on this day – Nancy Guild:


Nancy Guild


Actress

October 11, 1925 – August 16, 1999

Credits:

Black Magic (1949); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Francis Covers the Big Town (1953); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); Justice (1954); Little Egypt (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1952); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Somewhere in the Night (1946); Such Good Friends (1971); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Ken Murray Show (1951); Where Was I? (1952–1953); Who Said That? (1952–1954).

Born on this day – Elmore Leonard:


Elmore Leonard


Writer

October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013

Credits:

Books:

The Big Bounce (1969); Unknown Man #89 (1977); Swag (aka Ryan's Rules) (1976); Stick (1982); Get Shorty (1990); Be Cool (1999); Pronto (1993); Riding the Rap (1995); Fire in the Hole (2001); Raylan (2011); Raylan Goes to Detroit (2018); Out Of Sight (1996); Road Dogs (2009); The Hot Kid (2005); Up in Honey's Room (2007); Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories (2009); The Switch (1978); Rum Punch (1992); Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1 (1998); Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 (1998); Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3 (1998); The Bounty Hunters (1953); The Law at Randado (1954); Escape from Five Shadows (1956); Last Stand at Saber River (1959); Hombre (1961); The Moonshine War (1969); Valdez Is Coming (1970); Forty Lashes Less One (1972); 52 Pick Up (1974); Mr Majestyk (1974); The Hunted (1977); Gunsights (1979); Gold Coast (1980); City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1980); Split Images (1981); Cat Chaser (1982); LaBrava (1983); Glitz (1985); Bandits (1987); Touch (1987); Freaky Deaky (1988); Killshot (1989); Maximum Bob (1991); Cuba Libre (1998); Pagan Babies (2000); Tishomingo Blues (2002); Mr. Paradise (2004); A Coyote's in the House (2004); Djibouti (2010); The Trespassers (2013); Confession (2013); Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories (1953); The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories (1975); Dutch Treat (1985); When the Women Come Out to Dance (2001); The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard (2004); The Complete Western Stories (2004); Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories (2006); Blood Money and Other Stories (2006); Trail of the Apache and Other Stories (2007); Charlie Martz and Other Stories (2015); Notebooks (1990); Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing (2006); New Orleans Stories (1992); Chicago Stories (1993); Southwest Stories (1993); Florida Stories (1993); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Alaska Stories (1995); Texas Stories (1995); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Florida Stories (1993); New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories (1994); Murder For Love (1996); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Naked Came the Manatee (1997); Western Movies (1997); The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997); Murder On The Railways (2003); The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003); Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing (2010); Books to Die For (2012); Long Night (2014); The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (2016); Miami Noir (2020).

Movies and television:

3:10 to Yuma (1957 / 2007); 52 Pick-Up (1986); A Conversation with Elmore Leonard (2007); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); American Cinema (1995); Arena (1991); Be Cool (2005); Border Shootout (1990); Byline Showtime (1988); Cat Chaser (1989); Charlie Rose (1995–2000); Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013); Desperado (1987); Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (1988); Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989); Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989); Días de cine (2013); Elmore Leonard - But Don't Try to Write (2021); Elmore Leonard: A Detroit Classic (2010); Freaky Deaky (2012); Get Shorty (1995); Get Shorty / TV Series (2017–2019); Get Shorty: Look at Me (2005); Get Shorty: Wiseguys and Dolls (2005); Glitz (1988); Gold Coast (1997); High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980); Hombre (1967); Jackie Brown (1997); Jackie Brown: How It Went Down (2002); Joe Kidd (1972); Justified (2010–2015); Justified: City Primeval (2023); Justified: Sneak Peek (2013); Karen Sisco (2003–2004); Killshot (2008); Last Stand at Saber River (1997); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2012); Life of Crime (2013); Maximum Bob (1998); Michigan & Trumbull (1999); Mr. Majestyk (1974); Out of Sight (1998); Pronto (1997); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); Sparks (2009); Split Images (1992); Squzz Corn N' Ole Scratch (2012); Stick (1985); The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Live Action (2008); The Ambassador (1984); The Arrangement (2013); The Big Bounce (1969 / 2004); The Daily Show (2002); The Media Show (1988–1989); The Moonshine War (1970); The Oscars (2014); The Return of Desperado (1988); The Rosary Murders (1987); The Tall T (1957); The Tonto Woman (2008); Touch (1997); Valdez Is Coming (1971).

Born on this day – Duccio Tessari:


Duccio Tessari


Director

Writer

Actor

October 11, 1926 – September 6, 1994