Richard Anderson (born August 8, 1926)
Happy birthday Richard Anderson, 86. Anderson has done a lot of television, and his films include Cause for Alarm! (1951) The People Against O'Hara (1951), The Unknown Man (1951), Compulsion (1959), Johnny Cool (1963), Kitten with a Whip (1964) and The Glass Shield (1994).
Also celebrating birthdays today are actors Keith Carradine and Dustin Hoffman.
"Nat" Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967)
With Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face
Character actor Nat Pendleton usually played the comic relief, often as a dumb hood or cop. His films include The Star Witness (1931), The Beast of the City (1932), and Exposure (1932), in which he was a "maniac killer". Before becoming an actor he had been a professional wrestler, and he played one in Flesh (John Ford, 1932). He was also in Baby Face (1933), Under Cover of Night (1937), Arsène Lupin Returns (1938), the Edmund Lowe Philo Vance pic The Garden Murder Case (1936), Jail House Blues (1942), and The Mad Doctor of Market Street (Joseph H. Lewis, 1942). Not as dumb as he played on screen, Pendleton invested his wrestling earnings and retired early.
Under arrest in Exposure
Paul Kelly (August 9, 1899 – November 6, 1956)
Character actor Paul Kelly started acting as a child in silent films. Some of his many films are The Accusing Finger (1936), The Roaring Twenties (1939), Queen of the Mob (1940), The Glass Alibi (1946), Deadline for Murder (1946), the Woolrich derived Fear in the Night (1947), Crossfire (1947), The File on Thelma Jordon (1950), Side Street (1950), Split Second (1953), and The Steel Cage (1954).
The File on Thelma Jordon
There's a lot more on Paul Kelly here.
Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983)
Director Robert Aldrich.
Fleming and Vincent Price in While the City Sleeps
Happy birthday to actresses Rhonda Fleming (89) and Martha Hyer (88).
Martha Hyer
Sam Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997)
Screenwriter, novelist, and film director Sam Fuller.
John Derek (August 12, 1926 – May 22, 1998)
John Derek in SCANDAL SHEET (1952), Phil Karlson’s adaptation of Samuel Fuller’s 1944 novel The Dark Page.
Jane Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006)
Jane Wyatt, with Dick Powell in Pitfall (1948)
With Lee J. Cobb in The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
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Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992)
Actor Neville Brand wore the thick featured face of thuggery.
Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 - October 12, 1991)
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Regis Toomey had a friendly face and a soft voice that made him sympathetic, but which also made him a surprising and creepy villain.
Abby Dalton (born August 15, 1935)
Stakeout on Dope Street with Yale Wexler
Happy birthday to Abby Dalton, 77. Dalton appeared in the films Teenage Doll (1957) (uncredited), Girls on the Loose (1958), and Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) before starting a long career on television.
Stakeout on Dope Street
Mike Connors (born August 15, 1925)
Live Fast, Die Young with Mary Murphy
Happy birthday to actor Mike Connors, 87. Connors starred on television in Tightrope, and achieved fame as the title detective on Mannix (1967-1975). He started acting under the name "Touch" Conners, his nickname from playing college basketball at UCLA. His films include Sudden Fear (1952), The 49th Man (1953), Live Fast, Die Young (1958), and Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966).
Mae Clarke (August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992)
The Public Enemy with James Cagney
Actress Mae Clarke is famous for playing Frankenstein's bride in Frankenstein, and for having a grapefruit smashed into her face by James Cagney in The Public Enemy, both released in 1931. She was in The Front Page (1931), The Final Edition (1932), the Hildegarde Withers comedy/mystery Penguin Pool Murder (1932), Penthouse (1933), the crime comedy Lady Killer (1933), Streets of San Francisco (1949), The People Against O'Hara (1951), The Unknown Man (1951), Women's Prison (1955) and I Died a Thousand Times (1955).
Lady Killer with James Cagney
Ann Blyth (born August 16, 1928)
With Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott in Mildred Pierce
Happy birthday to actress Ann Blyth, 84. Blyth will be remembered by noir fans for playing the bratty social climber Veda, daughter of Mildred Pierce (1945). Blyth was also in Brute Force (1947), Killer McCoy (1947), A Woman's Vengeance (1948), Thunder on the Hill (Douglas Sirk, 1951), and Slander (1957).
Grant Williams (August 18, 1931 - July 25, 1985)
Grant Williams was The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), and on television he played a detective on The Hawaiian Eye.
With Ray Danton and Leigh Snowden in Outside the Law (1956)
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006)
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006)
The Night of the Hunter
With Ronald Coleman in A Double Life
Roman Polanski (born 18 August 1933)
Happy birthday to director Roman Polanski.
Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907 - May 28, 1986)
From Wikipedia: Lurene Tuttle was a character actress, who made the transition from vaudeville to radio, and later films and television. Her most enduring impact was as one of network radio's most versatile actresses. Often appearing in 15 shows a week, comedies, dramas, thrillers, soap operas, and crime dramas, she became known as the First Lady of Radio.
On radio's The Adventures of Sam Spade she played just about every female role, as well as Spade's man-hungry secretary Effie Perrine.
She made numerous guest appearances on such shows as John Payne's The Restless Gun, Dragnet, Lux Radio Theater, The Screen Guild Theater and Suspense (in "The Sisters", with Rosalind Russell). In The Whistler she played good and evil twins and used separate microphones to stay in character for each twin.
Lurene Tuttle (left) and Rosalind Russell in "The Sisters" on Suspense in 1948.
Tuttle's films include The Whip Hand (1951), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Niagara (1953), Slander (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a rare starring role as Ma Barker in Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Nightmare in the Sun (1965).
Lurene Tuttle and John McIntire in Psycho
Alan Reed (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977)
With Garfield and Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice
Another actor who worked extensively in radio, Alan Reed is most famous for voicing Fred Flintsone on television. Reed's films include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), I, the Jury (1953), The Desperate Hours (1955), Time Table (1956) and the crime comedy He Laughed Last (1956).
Tom Tully (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982)
In Lady in the Lake with Lloyd Nolan
Actor Tom Tully played the role of Inspector Matt Grebb on the CBS television detective series The Lineup from 1954 to 1960. His many films include The Unseen (1945), Lady in the Lake (1947), Intrigue (1947), Killer McCoy (1947), Blood on the Moon (1948), Illegal Entry (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), The Turning Point (1952), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), Behind the High Wall (1956), Coogan's Bluff (1968) and Charley Varrick (1973).
With Karl Malden in Where the Sidewalk Ends
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