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January 17, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat
1899 – Nevil Shute, sci-fi author (On the Beach)
1921 – Dehl Berti, actor (Operation Neptune, One Step Beyond, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1931 – James Earl Jones, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

James Earl Jones
1933 – Sheree North, actress (Future Cop, Destination Inner Space)

Sheree North in Destination Inner Space.
1934 – Stuart Nisbet, actor (They Came from Outer Space (TV), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)
1935 – Paul O[sborne] Williams, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
1938 – John Bellairs, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)
1941 – Tom Lowell, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, The Twilight Zone)
1942 – Nancy Parsons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)
1942 – Randy Boone, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)
1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

Geoffrey Deuel in The Invaders episode, The Condemned.
1947 – Todd Susman, actor (The Invaders, Weird Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Coneheads, ALF, The Twilight Zone)
1949 – Andy Kaufman, actor (Heartbeeps)
1950 – Sharon Duce, actress (The Tomorrow People (TV), Doctor Who, Outland)

Sharon Duce in Doctor Who
1956 – Mitch Vogel, actor (Ark II, The Immortal)
1962 – Jim Carrey, actor (Earth Girls are Easy)
1963 – Chris Casamassa, actor (Sci-Fighter)
1965 – D.J. Caruso, director (I Am Number Four, Smallville, Tin Man (2014), VR.5)
1966 – Joshua Malina, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1, Sliders)
1967 – Kang-ho Song, actor (Snowpiercer)
1968 – Jeff Chase, actor (Star Trek: ID, Revolution, Looper, Star Trek (2009), Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)

Jeff Chase in Star Trek ID
1969 – Naveen Andrews, actor (Planet Terror, Future Tense, Rollerball (2000))
1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, artist (Star Wars: Clone Wars)
1973 – Fred Essler, actor, d @ 77 (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)
1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, actor (Planet Terror)
1976 – Anne Stedman, actress (Space Cowboys)
1977 – Leigh Whannell, actress (Insidious, The Matrix Reloaded)
1980 – Zooey Deschanel, actress (Tin Man, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
1981 – Ray J, actor (Mars Attacks!, Steel)
1983 – Doodles Weaver, actor, d @ 71 (Earthbound, Land of the Giants, Superman)
1988 – Earth Star Voyager debuted on the Wonderful World of Disney
1992 – Dorothy Alison, actress, d @ 66 (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)
2003 – Richard Crenna, actor, d @ 76 (Intruders, Marooned, Leviathan)
2004 – Noble Willingham, actor, d @ 72 (Fire in the Sky, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Man from Atlantis)
2008 – Allan Melvin, actor, d @ 84 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)
2015 – Greg Plitt, actor, d @ 37 (Terminator Salvation)
January 14, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat
1908 – Carl Esmond, actor (From the Earth to the Moon)
1909 – Joseph Losey, director (X the Unknown, The Boy with Green Hair )
1919 – Douglas Henderson, actor (King Dinosaur, The Outer Limits, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The War of the Worlds, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Invaders)
1919 – Joe Seneca, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The Blob (1988))
1924 – Guy Williams, actor (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Lost in Space)

Guy Williams in Lost in Space.
1926 – Frank Aletter, actor (It’s About Time, Automan, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, My Favorite Martian, The Big Brain, Twilight Zone)
1926 – Tom Tryon, actor (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

Tom Tryon in I Married a Monster from Outer Space
1926 – Warren Mitchell, actor (Moon Zero Two, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of the Unknown, The Crawling Eye)

Warren Mitchell (left) in The Crawling Eye
1934 – Richard Briers, actor (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)

Richard Briers in Doctor Who
1940 – John Castle, actor (RoboCop 3)
1941 – Faye Dunaway, actress (Supergirl, The Gene Generation)
1941 – Marjoe Gortner, actor (Starcrash, Food of the Gods, Otherworld)
1943 – Ronald Hunter, actor (Man Without a Head)
1943 – Holland Taylor, actor (Strange Frequency)
1945 – Vonetta McGee, actress (Brother Future, Repo Man)
1947 – Stuart Baird, director (Star Trek: Nemesis)
1948 – Carl Weathers, actor (Predator, Alien Siege, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Six Million Dollar Man)

Carl Weathers in Predator
1949 – Christine Belford, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Beyond Westworld, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1949 – Lawrence Kasdan, writer (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)
1954 – Riders to the Stars released
1957 – Suzanne Danielle, actress (Flash Gordon, Doctor Who)
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, actor, d @ 57 (The Return of Doctor X)
1961 – Ernest Thesiger, actor, d @ 81 (Bride of Frankenstein)
1963 – Steven Soderbergh, director (Solaris, Contagion)
1964 – Mark Addy, actor (The Time Machine)
1965 – Jemma Redgrave, actress (Doctor Who)
1967 – Emily Watson, actress (Equilibrium)
1968 – LL Cool J, actor (Rollerball (2002), Deep Blue Sea)
1969 – Jason Bateman, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1973 – Katie Griffin, actress (Annedroids, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070, RoboCop)
1974 – Kevin Durand, actor (Real Steel, I Am Number Four, Resident Evil: Retribution, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits)
1974 – Davis S. Hogan, actor (Z Nation)
1977 – Peter Finch, actor, d @ 60 (First Men in the Moon)
1978 – Blossom Rock, actress, d @ 81 (She Devil)
1990 – David Arkin, actor, d @ 49 (Whitney and the Robot)
1992 – Hari Rhodes, actor, d @ 59 (Earth II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Automan, Beyond Westworld, Salvage 1, Logan’s Run, The Bionic Woman, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Satan Bug, The Lost Missile, The Outer Limits)
1994 – Esther Ralston, actress, d @ 91 (Tales of Tomorrow)
2000 – Supernova released
2004 – Ron O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (The Final Countdown, Hyper Space)
2004 – Uta Hagen, actress, d @ 84 (The Boys From Brazil, The Twilight Zone)
2007 – Barbara Kelly, computer voice d @ 82 (Space 1999, Alien Attack)
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape From the Planet of the Apes )
2013 – Conrad Bain, actor, d @ 89 (C.H.O.M.P.S.)
2016 – Alan Rickman, actor, d @ 69 (Galaxy Quest, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest
January 13, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichatToday in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction
1893 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
1907 – Jeff Morrow, actor (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth.
1916 – Osa Massen, actress (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)
1918 – Steve Dunne, actor (Quatermass II)
1919 – Robert Stack, actor (Butt-Ugly Martians)
1923 – Jack Watling, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Jack Watling in Doctor Who
1925 – Gwen Verdon, actress (Cocoon I & II)
1925 – Rosemary Murphy, actress (‘Way Out)
1928 – David Sheiner, actor (Automan, Manimal, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
1928 – Gregory Walcott, actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

Gregory Walcott in Plan 9 from Outer Space
1930 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (Outland, The Mist, The Outer Limits, Prototype, Independence Day, Communion)
1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly (Millennium, The X Files)
1932 – Ian Hendry, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1932 – Jon Cypher, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invaders (1995), RoboCop (TV), Spontaneous Combustion, Probe, Masters of the Universe, The Food of the Gods)
1933 – Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, sci-fi author / writer (Deadwalk, Plunder / Flash Gordon, TekWar)
1935 – Rip Taylor, actor (Virtual Combat)
1938 – Billy Gray, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Adventures of Superman)
1938 – William B. Davis, actor (Continuum, Caprica, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Smallville, Andromeda, Singularity Principle, Sliders)
1942 – Carol Cleveland, actress (Moon Zero Two)
1943 – Richard Moll, actor (Smallville, Galaxis, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Evolution, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Weird Science, The Munsters Today, Mork & Mindy, Ragewar, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Richard Moll in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.
1945 – [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], sci-fi author (High Kings)
1948 – Malcolm Story, actor (New Worlds, Jekyll, Star Trap)
1956 – Dwight H. Little, director (Tekken, Dollhouse, The X Files, Strange World, Millennium)
1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Robosapien: Rebooted)
1965 – Bill Bailey, actor (Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaced)
1966 – Patrick Dempsey, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Outbreak, The Stuff)
1970 – Keith Coogan, actor (Python, Starman)
1971 – John Asher, actor (Space Cowboys, Weird Science (TV))
1972 – Nicole Eggert, actress (Amanda and the Alien, Annihilator)
1976 – Michael Peña, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone, Roswell, Ant-Man)
1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress, d @ 53 (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1979 – Jill Wagner, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series)
1983 – Arthur Space, actor, d @ 74 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)
1989 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)
1989 – Beau Mirchoff, actor (I Am Number Four)
1990 – Liam Hemsworth, actor (The Hunger Games)
2000 – Elizabeth Kerr, actress, d @ 87 (Mork & Mindy, The Six Million Dollar Man)
2009 – Patrick McGoohan, actor, d @ 80 (Hysteria, Scanners)
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichatToday in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction
1893 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
1907 – Jeff Morrow, actor (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth.
1916 – Osa Massen, actress (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)
1918 – Steve Dunne, actor (Quatermass II)
1919 – Robert Stack, actor (Butt-Ugly Martians)
1923 – Jack Watling, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Jack Watling in Doctor Who
1925 – Gwen Verdon, actress (Cocoon I & II)
1925 – Rosemary Murphy, actress (‘Way Out)
1928 – David Sheiner, actor (Automan, Manimal, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
1928 – Gregory Walcott, actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

Gregory Walcott in Plan 9 from Outer Space
1930 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (Outland, The Mist, The Outer Limits, Prototype, Independence Day, Communion)
1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly (Millennium, The X Files)
1932 – Ian Hendry, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1932 – Jon Cypher, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invaders (1995), RoboCop (TV), Spontaneous Combustion, Probe, Masters of the Universe, The Food of the Gods)
1933 – Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, sci-fi author / writer (Deadwalk, Plunder / Flash Gordon, TekWar)
1935 – Rip Taylor, actor (Virtual Combat)
1938 – Billy Gray, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Adventures of Superman)
1938 – William B. Davis, actor (Continuum, Caprica, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Smallville, Andromeda, Singularity Principle, Sliders)
1942 – Carol Cleveland, actress (Moon Zero Two)
1943 – Richard Moll, actor (Smallville, Galaxis, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Evolution, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Weird Science, The Munsters Today, Mork & Mindy, Ragewar, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Richard Moll in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.
1945 – [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], sci-fi author (High Kings)
1948 – Malcolm Story, actor (New Worlds, Jekyll, Star Trap)
1956 – Dwight H. Little, director (Tekken, Dollhouse, The X Files, Strange World, Millennium)
1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Robosapien: Rebooted)
1965 – Bill Bailey, actor (Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaced)
1966 – Patrick Dempsey, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Outbreak, The Stuff)
1970 – Keith Coogan, actor (Python, Starman)
1971 – John Asher, actor (Space Cowboys, Weird Science (TV))
1972 – Nicole Eggert, actress (Amanda and the Alien, Annihilator)
1976 – Michael Peña, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone, Roswell, Ant-Man)
1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress, d @ 53 (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1979 – Jill Wagner, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series)
1983 – Arthur Space, actor, d @ 74 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)
1989 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)
1989 – Beau Mirchoff, actor (I Am Number Four)
1990 – Liam Hemsworth, actor (The Hunger Games)
2000 – Elizabeth Kerr, actress, d @ 87 (Mork & Mindy, The Six Million Dollar Man)
2009 – Patrick McGoohan, actor, d @ 80 (Hysteria, Scanners)
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichatToday in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction
1893 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
1907 – Jeff Morrow, actor (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth.
1916 – Osa Massen, actress (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)
1918 – Steve Dunne, actor (Quatermass II)
1919 – Robert Stack, actor (Butt-Ugly Martians)
1923 – Jack Watling, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Jack Watling in Doctor Who
1925 – Gwen Verdon, actress (Cocoon I & II)
1925 – Rosemary Murphy, actress (‘Way Out)
1928 – David Sheiner, actor (Automan, Manimal, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
1928 – Gregory Walcott, actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

Gregory Walcott in Plan 9 from Outer Space
1930 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (Outland, The Mist, The Outer Limits, Prototype, Independence Day, Communion)
1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly (Millennium, The X Files)
1932 – Ian Hendry, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)
1932 – Jon Cypher, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invaders (1995), RoboCop (TV), Spontaneous Combustion, Probe, Masters of the Universe, The Food of the Gods)
1933 – Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, sci-fi author / writer (Deadwalk, Plunder / Flash Gordon, TekWar)
1935 – Rip Taylor, actor (Virtual Combat)
1938 – Billy Gray, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Adventures of Superman)
1938 – William B. Davis, actor (Continuum, Caprica, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Smallville, Andromeda, Singularity Principle, Sliders)
1942 – Carol Cleveland, actress (Moon Zero Two)
1943 – Richard Moll, actor (Smallville, Galaxis, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Evolution, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Weird Science, The Munsters Today, Mork & Mindy, Ragewar, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Richard Moll in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.
1945 – [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], sci-fi author (High Kings)
1948 – Malcolm Story, actor (New Worlds, Jekyll, Star Trap)
1956 – Dwight H. Little, director (Tekken, Dollhouse, The X Files, Strange World, Millennium)
1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Robosapien: Rebooted)
1965 – Bill Bailey, actor (Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaced)
1966 – Patrick Dempsey, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Outbreak, The Stuff)
1970 – Keith Coogan, actor (Python, Starman)
1971 – John Asher, actor (Space Cowboys, Weird Science (TV))
1972 – Nicole Eggert, actress (Amanda and the Alien, Annihilator)
1976 – Michael Peña, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone, Roswell, Ant-Man)
1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress, d @ 53 (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)
1979 – Jill Wagner, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series)
1983 – Arthur Space, actor, d @ 74 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)
1989 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)
1989 – Beau Mirchoff, actor (I Am Number Four)
1990 – Liam Hemsworth, actor (The Hunger Games)
2000 – Elizabeth Kerr, actress, d @ 87 (Mork & Mindy, The Six Million Dollar Man)
2009 – Patrick McGoohan, actor, d @ 80 (Hysteria, Scanners)
January 12, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat
1876 – Jack London, author (author, The Iron Heel)
1902 – Ray Teal, actor (Twilight Zone)
1916 – House Peters, actor (Twilight Zone, Target Earth, Red Planet Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon)
1930 – Bruce Lansbury, writer (Swamp Thing, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
1934 – Bob Dishy, actor (The Twilight Zone)
1935 – Ron Harper, actor (Planet of the Apes)

Ron Harper in The Planet of the Apes: Escape from Tomorrow
1938 – Lewis Fiander, actor (Doctor Who, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

Lewis Fiander in Doctor Who
1942 – Geoffrey Hoyle, sci-fi author (2010: Living in the Future)
1944 – Luke Bromley, actor (The World’s End, Torchwood)
1948 – Anthony Andrews, actor (Doomwatch)
1949 – Haruki Murakami, sci-fi author (1Q84, Sputnik Sweetheart)
1951 – Kirstie Alley, actress (Star Trek II, Runaway, Quark)

Kirstie Alley in Star Trek II
1955 – Rockne S. O’Bannon, writer (Farscape, V, Alien Nation, Revolution, The Twilight Zone, SeaQuest 2032, Creature, Invasion)
1959 – Ralf Moller, actor (Mutant X, Andromeda, Universal Soldier)
1960 – Wanda Cannon, actress (Andromeda, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, My Secret Identity)
1960 – Oliver Platt, actor (2012, Bicentennial Man, Martian Child, Flatliners)
1899 – Nevil Shute, sci-fi author, d @ 60 (On the Beach)
1966 – Barbara Scolaro, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)
1966 – Olivier Martinez, actor (Cybergeddon, Cybergeddon Zips)
1967 – Farrah Forke, actress (Bionic Ever After?, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Brain Twisters)
1968 – Rachel Harris, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032)
1968 – Chris Gartin, actor (Transcendence, M.A.N.T.I.S.)
1980 – Vanessa Johansson, actress (Day of the Dead)
1987 – Naya Rivera, actress (Frankenhood)
1987 – Will Rothhaar, actor (Battle Los Angeles, Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1989 – Tiler Peck, actor (Donnie Darko)
1991 – Keye Luke, actor, d @ 86 (Superboy, Star Trek, Project X)
1998 – Nathan Gamble, actor (The Mist)

Nathan Gamble in The Mist
1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, actress, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone, The Fly)
2001 – Zenon: The Zequel debuted on Disney Channel
2009 – Russ Conway, actor, d @ 95 (The Space-Watch Murders, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, The Munsters, The War of the Worlds, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Flight to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)
2010 – Ann Prentiss, actress, d @ 70 (My Stepmother Is an Alien, Quark)
2011 – Paul Picerni, actor, d @ 88 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Men Into Space, The Immortal, Capricorn One, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk, The Powers of Matthew Star)
2014 – Frank Marth, actor, d @ 91 (The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marooned, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)
2014 – Alexandra Bastedo, actress, d @ 67 (The Starlost)
January 11, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat
1888 – Chester Conklin, actor (The Beast with a Million Eyes)

Chester Conklin (dead on ground) in The Beast With a Million Eyes.
1909 – Robert Douglas, director, Man from Atlantis, Future Cop, The Immortal, The Invaders, Lost in Space)
1912 – Nick Cravat actor (Twilight Zone, The Island of Dr. Moreau)
1912 – Donald Barry, actor (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970, Project U.F.O., The Munsters)
1922 – Kathleen Byron, actress (Blakes 7)

Kathleen Byron in Blakes 7.
1923 – Jerome Bixby, writer (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Fantastic Voyage, It! The Terror from Beyond Space)
1928 – Mitchell Ryan, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Dark Skys, Judge Dredd, Mann & Machine, ‘Way Out)
1930 – Angela Paton, actress (The X Files, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap, Flatliners)
1930 – Rod Taylor, actor (The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Time Machine, World Without End, Twilight Zone)

Rod Taylor in The Time Machine.
1935 – Melvyn Hayes, actor (The Curse of Frankenstein, Quatermass II)
1937 – Felix Silla, actor (Spaceballs, Star Trek, Return of the Jedi, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Demon Seed, Planet of the Apes)
1947 – Anna Calder-Marshall, actress (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)
1947 – Sondra Currie, actress (Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, RoboCop (TV), They Came from Outer Space, Misfits of Science, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk)
1953 – John Sessions, actor (Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time, Whoops Apocalypse)

John Sessions in Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express
1954 – Saskia ten Batenburg, actress (Supergirl)
1956 – Phyllis Logan, actress (Invasion: Earth, 1984)
1958 – Alyson Reed, actress (The X-Files)
1962 – Melanie Hill, Actress (Stardust)
1963 – Jason Connery, actor (Lightspeed, Smallville, Doctor Who, Alien Strain)
1965 – Loredana Romito, actress (Transformations)
1965 – Olivia Barash, actress (Repo Chick, Repo Man, Dr. Alien, The Incredible Hulk
1966 – Shelly Sweeney, actress (Godzilla: Final Wars, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
1967 – Derek Riddell, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Doctor Who)

Derek Riddell (left) in Doctor Who
1969 – Kyle Richards, actor (Time Express)
1972 – Amanda Peet, actress (2012, The X Files)
1972 – Konstantin Khabenskiy, actor (World War Z)
1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, actor (Alien Raiders, Earth 2)
1977 – Devin Ratray, actor (Surrogates)
1977 – James Huang, actor (Skyline)
1978 – Michael Bates, actor, d @ 57 (A Clockwork Orange)
1995 – Peter Pratt, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who)
2000 – Helena Carter, actress, d @ 79 (Invaders from Mars)
2003 – Richard Simmons, actor, d @ 89 (The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The Munsters)
2007 – Solveig Dommartin, actress, d @ 45 (Until the End of the World)
2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Trick Top Hat)
2009 – Harry Turner, artist, d @ 88
2013 – Mariangela Melato, actress, d @ 71 (Flash Gordon)
2015 – Anita Ekberg, actress, d @ 83 (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)
January 10, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat
1883 – Francis X. Bushman, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Phantom Planet)
1901 – Harry Harvey Sr, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still, Lost in Space)

Harry Harvey Sr in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
1904 – Ray Bolger, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

Ray Bolger in Battlestar Galactica
1908 – Bernard Lee, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain)

Bernard Lee in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1927 – Lee Philips, director / actor (Salvage 1 / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Lee Phillips in The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy .
1929 – Douglas Hickox, director (The Giant Behemoth)
1932 – Elaine Devry, actress (Project U.F.O., The Atomic Kid)
1939 – Sal Mineo, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal)
1942 – Walter Hill, producer (Alien 1 – 4, Prometheus, Perversions of Science, W.E.I.R.D, Aliens vs Predator)
1944 – William Sanderson, actor (Blade Runner, Avatar, The Low Budget Time Machine, Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Hologram Man, The X-Files, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)
1944 – Jeff Jones, artist
1947 – George Alec Effinger, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)
1948 – Lally Cadeau, actress (ReGenesis, The Twilight Zone, Videodrome, Threshold)
1948 – Jim Bailey, actor (The Day It Came to Earth)
1961 – Mark Venturini, actor (Space Rangers, Return of the Living Dead)
1962 – Julie Moran, actress (Independence Day, Hard Time on Planet Earth)
1964 – Tony Gardner, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Jekyll, My Parents are Aliens)
1964 – Krista Tesreau, actress (Quantum Leap)
1967 – Trini Alvarado, actress (Fringe)
1967 – Emerson Treacy, actor, d @ 66 (Science Fiction Theatre)
1968 – Basil Sydney, actor, d @ 73 (The Hands of Orlac)
1968 – Howard Smith, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone)
1974 – Jemaine Clement, actor (Men in Black 3)
1978 – Antonio Cupo, actor (Andromeda)
1980 – Sarah Shahi, actress (The Death and Return of Superman)
1981 – Richard Boone, actor, d @ 63 (The Last Dinosaur)
1982 – Paul Lynde, actor, d @ 55 (The Munsters)
1989 – Emily Meade, actress (Fringe)
2000 – John Newland, director/actor/producer/host, d @ 82 (One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond, Star Trek / One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow / Timestalkers / One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond)
2008 – Maila Nurmi [Vampira], actress, d @ 85 (Plan 9 From Outer Space)
2012 – Lila Kaye, actress, d @ 82 (Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, The Invisible Man)
January 9, 2016
Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifichat
1890 – Karel Capek, sci-fi author (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
1913 – Steve Plytas, actor, d @ 81 December 1994 (Superman 4, Doctor Who)

Steve Plytas (left) in Doctor Who
1915 – Fernando Lamas, actor (The Lost World)
1917 – Herbert Lom, actor (The Dead Zone, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)
1925 – Lee Van Cleef, actor (Space Patrol, Twilight Zone, Escape from New York, It Conquered the World, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

Lee Van Cleef in It Conquered The World
1931 – Paul Mantee, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Robinson Crusoe on Mars)
1931 – Algi Budrys, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1935 – Bob Denver, actor (The Invisible Woman, ALF, Far Out Space Nuts)

Bob Denver in ALF
1939 – Susannah York, actress (Superman I, II & IV, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)
1940 – Jimmy Boyd, actor (Brainstorm, Space Force, Space Patrol)
1942 – K Callan, actress (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: DS9, The Unborn, Quantum Leap)
Kathryn Walker b. 1943 (D.A.R.Y.L., )
1945 – John Doman, actor (Star Trek: DS9)
1955 – J. K. Simmons, actor (Dark Skys, The Astronaut Farmer)
1956 – Kimberly Beck Hilton, actress (Independence Day, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Giants)
1956 – Imelda Staunton, actress (Doctor Who)

Imelda Staunton in Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited
1961 – Anthony Harrison, actor (Fringe, Aliens vs, Predator: Requiem, The 4400, Smallville, The Core, Strange World, The Sixth Day, The X-Files)
1963 – Joseph Culp, actor (Cyxork 7, Star Trek: DS9, Cyxork 7)
1965 – Joely Richardson, actress (Event Horizon, The Day of the Triffids)
1965 – Rhoda Griffis, actress (The Hunger Games, Surface)
1969 – Joey Lauren Adams, actor (Coneheads)
1970 – Marco Sanchez, actor (Star Trek ID, Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise, SeaQuest 2032, Super 8)
1973 – Angela Bettis, actress (Sliders)
1975 – Patrick Sabongui, actor (TRON: Legacy, Stargate: Atlantis, Caprica)
1978 – Noble Johnson, actor, d @ 96 (Lost Horizon, She)
1979 – Joshua Harto, actor (Invasion)
1981 – Julia Dietze, actress (Iron Sky)
1983 – David Ellison, producer (World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness)
1995 – Nicola Peltz, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction)
1992 – Steve Brodie, actor, d @ 72 (Science Fiction Theatre, The Giant Spider Invasion, Frankenstein Island, MST3K)
1995 – Madge Ryan, actress, d @ 75 (A Clockwork Orange)
1995 – Peter Cook, actor, d @ 57 (Whoops Apocalypse, Supergirl)
1996 – Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, sci-fi author, d @ 72 (Hugo, View from Stars)
1997 – Jesse White, actor, d @ 80 (The Reluctant Astronaut, Monster in the Closet, The Cat From Outer Space, Twilight Zone)
2002 – Bill McCutcheon, actor, d @ 77 (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Johnny Jupiter)
2004 – Lyndon Brook, actor, d @ 77 (Invasion, 1990, Who?)
2006 – Don Stewart, actor, d @ 70 (Future Zone, The X-Files)
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