Birthdays in Film & TV on October 26

Jackie Coogan (1914-1984)

American actor (Addams Family - "Uncle Fester"; The Kid; Oliver Twist), born in Los Angeles, California

1918 Ivor Francis, Canadian-American radio, stage, and screen character actor (Dusty's Trail; The Prisoner of Second Avenue), and acting teacher, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1986)
1924 Shaw Taylor, British actor and television presenter (Police 5), born in Hackney, London, England (d. 2015)
1936 Shelley Morrison, American actress (General Hospital, Will & Grace), born in NYC, New York (d. 2019)
1938 Bernadette Lafont, French actress (Perils of Gwendoline), born in Nimes, France (d. 2013)
1942 Bob Hoskins, English actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), born in Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, England (d. 2014)
1945 Jaclyn Smith, American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Bourne Identity), born in Houston, Texas
1946 Holly Woodlawn, transgender Puerto Rican actress (Warhol films), born in Juana Díaz (d. 2015)
1946 Maureen Anderman, American actress (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale), born in Detroit, Michigan

Pat Sajak (76 years old)

1946 American TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show), born in Chicago, Illinois

1948 Marshall Colt, American actor (Eric-Lottery), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1949 Kevin Sullivan, American wrestler (WCW/ECW/SMW/NWA/Georgia/CWFI), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1953 Lauren Tewes, American actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat), born in Braddock, Pennsylvania
1954 D. W. Moffett, American actor (Fine Things, Lisa, Chicago Sons), born in Highland Park, Illinois
1956 Rita Wilson, American actress, singer, and film producer, born in Los Angeles, California
1959 Brian Bovell, British actor, born in London
1959 François Chau, Cambodian actor, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
1961 Dylan McDermott, American actor (The Practice, American Horror Story), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
1962 Cary Elwes, English actor (Glory, Princess Bride), born in London, England
1963 Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and producer (Ed, Scrubs), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1965 Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer, born in Ottawa, Canada
1966 Masaharu Iwata, Japanese video game composer, born in Tokyo
1966 Steve Valentine, Scottish actor (Crossing Jordan), born in Bishopbriggs, Scotland

1967 New Zealand-Australian Grammy, CMA, and ARIA Award-winning country music singer-songwriter ("Somebody Like You"; "The Fighter"), and television personality (American Idol; The Voice Australia), born in Whangarei, New Zealand

1970 Dian Bachar, American actor, born in Denver, Colorado
1970 Raveena Tandon, Indian actress, born in Mumbai, India
1971 Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor, born in Joliet, Illinois

Seth MacFarlane (49 years old)

1973 American animator, television producer (American Dad!, Family Guy) and filmmaker (Ted), born in Kent, Connecticut

1973 Taka Michinoku, Japanese professional wrestler, born in Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1977 Jon Heder, American actor (Napoleon Dynamite), born in Fort Collins, Colorado
1978 CM Punk, American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, born in Chicago, Illinois
1978 Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician, born in Thessaloniki, Greece

Guy Sebastian (41 years old)

1981 Malaysian-born Australian pop and soul singer ("Angels Brought Me Here"'; "Battle Scars"), and television personality (The Voice Australia, 2019-), born in Klang, Malaysia

1981 Sam Brown, American comedian (The Whitest Kid U'Know), born in Sandwich, Massachusetts
1984 Amanda Overmyer, American singer (American Idol season 7 finalist), born in Mulberry, Indiana
1985 Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress (Ghajini), born in Kochi, Kerala, India
1993 Drew Gooden, American comedian and YouTuber, born in North Carolina