1885: Fred Myton, screenwriter for the movie in episode 103- THE MAD MONSTER.
1891: Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 414- TORMENTED.
1902: Jack Ingram, who played a Khan’s guardsman in the season four serial UNDERSEA KINGDOM.
1905: Frank Tuttle, set decorator for the movie in episode 401- SPACE TRAVELERS.
1905: Ray Kellogg, director of the movies in the movie in episode 402- THE GIANT GILA MONSTER and 407- THE KILLER SHREWS.
1913: Charles F. Haas, director of the movie in episode 601- GIRLS TOWN.
1919: Judge Joseph Wapner, who was parodied in a host segment in episode K18- THE MILLION EYES OF SU-MURU and appeared, in cardboard standee form, in a host segment in episode 306- TIME OF THE APES.
1928: C.W. McCall (aka William Dale Fries Jr.), who was mentioned in host segments in episodes 421- MONSTER A-GO GO and 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS.
1929: Ed Asner, whose memorable character Lou Grant was imitated by Tom Servo in a host segment in the movie in episode 1010- IT LIVES BY NIGHT. He was also mentioned in the LITTLE GOLD STATUE PREVIEW SPECIAL and was included in the list of prominent “doughy guys” shown in a host segment in episode 522- TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE.
1934: James A. Sullivan, production designer for the movie in episode 418- ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES and editor for the movie in episode 424- “MANOS” THE HANDS OF FATE.
1935: Danny Kamekona, who played Wa-Lee in the movie in episode 1302- ROBOT WARS.
1940: Fabrizio De Angelis, producer of the movie in episode 705- ESCAPE 2000.*
1940: Ann (Anne) Graves, who played Princess Laura in the movie in episode 411- THE MAGIC SWORD and in real life was marries to singer Glen Yarbrough, who sang the theme in the movie in episode 1113- THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN’T.
1948: Jack Cummins, assistant director for the movie “Time Walker,” seen in episode 405- BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
1954: Twin Cities comedy impresario Scott Hansen, who promoted the early careers of several MST3K cast members.
DIED ON THIS DATE
1945: Ralph Holmes (age 30; overdose), who played Martos in the season four serial UNDERSEA KINGDOM.
1966: William Haade (age 63), who played Rocky Rockford in the movie in episode 611- LAST OF THE WILD HORSES.
1978: Madge Cleveland (age 72), who had a small part as a screaming woman in the movie in episode 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN.
1979: Jack Broder (age 74), producer for the movie in episode 104- WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET.
1984: Karen Kadler (age 49), who played Ellen Peters in the movie in episode 311- IT CONQUERED THE WORLD and Iris in the movie in episode 415- THE BEATNIKS.
1985: Alan Foster (age 79), who played also the jeweler in the movie in episode 702- THE BRUTE MAN. He also had a role in the TV movie “The Stranger,” seen in episode 305- STRANDED IN SPACE.
1989: Ralph Thomas (age 58), who played Captain O’Brien in the movie in episode 612- THE STARFIGHTERS.
1987: Roy Reid (age 94), producer of the movies in episodes 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS and 613- THE SINISTER URGE.
1987: Grant Tucker (age 86), a key grip for the movie in episode 607- BLOODLUST!
1991: Jacques Morall (age 44), who co-wrote the song “Macho Man,” which Tom Servo sung in a host segment in episode 103- MAD MONTER.
2015: Moira Orfei (age 63), who played Némée in the movie in episode 1108- THE LOVES OF HERCULES.
2017: Keith Barron (age 83), who played Bradley in the movie in episode 1107- THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT and played Dowsett in the movie in episode 1114- AT THE EARTH’S CORE.
2017: Charles Sinclair (age 93), who co-wrote the movie in episode 1007- TRACK OF THE MOON BEAST and the movie THE GREEN SLIME, which was riffed in MST3K’s pilot.
2018: Roy Clark (age 85), who was mentioned in a host segments in episode 318- STAR FORCE: FUGITIVE ALIEN II.
EVENT ON THIS DATE
1966: The movie in episode 424- “MANOS” THE HANDS OF FATE premieres in El Paso, Texas. Several of the cast members slink out of the theater in the dark before the movie ends.
1979: Gene Siskel selected the movie in episode 1205- KILLER FISH as his “dog of the week” on TV’s “Sneak Previews.”
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