Events People (Births) People (Deaths) John Ford John Martin Feeney (01 February 1894 to 31 August 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. Ford made frequent use of location shooting and wide… Read More
People (Births) People (Deaths) Tallulah Bankhead Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (31 January 1902 to 12 December 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several prominent films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat (1944) (The film is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a passenger vessel… Read More
People (Births) People (Deaths) Tom Selleck Thomas William Selleck (born 29 January 1945) is an American actor. His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1985. Since 2010, Selleck… Read More
People (Births) People (Deaths) John Banner John Banner (born Johann Banner, 28 January 1910 to 28 January 1973) was an Austrian-born American actor, best known for his role as Sergeant Schultz in the situation comedy TV series Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971). Schultz, constantly encountering evidence that inmates of his stalag were actively conducting anti-German espionage and… Read More
People (Births) James Cromwell James Oliver Cromwell (born 27 January 1940) is an American actor and activist. Some of his best-known films include Babe (1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), The Queen (2006), Secretariat (2010), The Artist (2011), and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Cromwell is also well… Read More
Events People (Births) John Logie Baird John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 to 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world’s first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely… Read More
People (Births) People (Deaths) Mia Kirshner Mia Kirshner (born 25 January 1975) is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist. She is known for television roles as Mandy in 24 (2001-2005), as Jenny Schecter in The L Word (2004-2009), as Amanda Grayson in Star Trek: Discovery (2017-2019), and as Isobel Flemming in The Vampire Diaries… Read More
People (Births) Ernest Borgnine Ernest Borgnine (/born Ermes Effron Borgnino; 24 January 1917 to 08 July 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and… Read More
People (Births) People (Deaths) Rutger Hauer Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 January 1944 to 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century. Hauer’s career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris and surged with… Read More
People (Births) People (Deaths) Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, romanised: Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 to 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for… Read More
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