On This Day in Film & TV for May 13

Events in Film & TV

Birthdays in Film & TV

1854 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates, Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra), born in Amsterdam, Netherland (d. 1926)
1891 Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)
1903 Paul Page, American actor (Girl From Havana, Moth), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1974)
1911 Robert Middleton, American film and TV actor (Barney-Monroes), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1977)
1912 Helen Craig, American actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1986)
1922 Bea Arthur, American comedian, singer and actress (Maude, The Golden Girls), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)
1927 Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
1928 Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter (La Cage aux Folles), born in Bordeaux, France (d. 2013)
1936 Rafael Campos, Santiago Dominican Republic, actor (Tonka)
1937 Zohra Lampert, American actress (Doctor's Hospital), born in NYC, New York
1938 Buck Taylor, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke), born in Hollywood, California
1939 Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1941 Senta Berger, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow), born in Vienna, Austria
1943 Eve Babitz, American artist and author (Eve's Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company), born in Los Angeles, California
1945 Sam Anderson, American actor
1946 Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor (Jewel in Crown, King Charles III), born in Rugby (d. 2017)
1947 Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
1949 Franklin Ajaye, American comedian and actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash), born in Brooklyn, New York
1949 Zoe Wanamaker, American actress (Raggedy Rawney), born in NYC, New York
1950 John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
1951 Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
1956 Richard Madeley, British TV presenter, journalist, columnist and novelist (Richard & Judy, The Wright Stuff), born in Romford, Essex
1957 Eloise Broady, playmate (Apr, 1988), born in Houston, Texas
1957 Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1958 Frances Barber, Wolverhampton England, actress (Castaway)
1960 Richard M "Dick" van de Toorn, actor (Pastorale)
1962 Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
1962 Sean McDonough, American sports newscaster
1962 Paul McDermott, Australian comedian

Stephen Colbert

1964 Stephen Colbert, American comedian and TV host (The Colbert Report, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), born in Washington, D.C.

1964 Tom Verica, American actor
1965 Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1965 Lari White, American country music singer and actress (You Can Be a Star winner- 1988), born in Dunedin, Florida (d. 2018)
1973 Brooke Jennifer Gambrell, Miss America-Idaho (1996), born in Boise, Idaho
1973 Michelle Mouser, Miss USA-Ohio (1997)
1974 Brian Geraghty, American actor
1977 Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 Samantha Morton, English actress
1980 Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1981 Sunny Leone, Canadian born Indian American model and actress, born in Sarnia, Ontario
1981 Jimmy Yang, American wrestler
1981 Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
1984 Caitlin Murphy, Australian actress and Model
1986 Giuliana Marino, Playboy Playmate of the Year, Germany 2005

Robert Pattinson

1986 Robert Pattinson, English actor (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight), born in London, England

1987 Hunter Parrish, American actor
1993 Debby Ryan, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck), born in Huntsville, Alabama.

Weddings in Film & TV

Wedding of Interest

1922 "Latin Lover" silent actor Rudolph Valentino (27) weds film costume and set designer Natacha Rambova (25) in Mexicali, Mexico

Silent Film Star Rudolph Valentino — Silent Film Star
Rudolph Valentino

2006 Actress Sara Bakker weds Sloan Alexander at the United Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut
2017 Actor Jim Parsons marries graphic designer Todd Spiewak at the Rainbow Room in New York

Deaths in Film & TV

Gary Cooper

1961 Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60

1962 Frank Jenks, American actor (Colonel Flack, Zombies on Broadway), dies of cancer at 60
1967 Frank McGrath, American actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, Wagon Train), dies from a heart attack at 64
1972 Dan Blocker, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 43
1975 Bob Wills [James Robert Wills], American actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle), dies from bronchial pneumonia at 69
1993 Joaquin Garcia [Vargas] "Borolas", Mexican comedian and actor (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
1994 Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
1995 Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
2000 Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2002 Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (Mother and Son), dies at 76
2009 Frank Aletter, American character actor (Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy), dies of lung cancer at 83

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