This Date in MSTory

BORN ON THIS DATE
1877: Sam Harris, who played a reporter in the movie in episode 201- ROCKETSHIP X-M and a bar patron in the movie in episode 203- JUNGLE GODDESS.

1886: George Zucco, who played Dr. Lorenzo Cameron in the movie in episode 103- THE MAD MONSTER.

1887: Monte Blue, who played Unga Kahn in the season four serial UNDERSEA KINGDOM.

1888: Charles Previn, one of the uncredited musical score composers for the season two serial THE PHANTOM CREEPS and the movie in episode 702- THE BRUTE MAN.

1904: Murray Alper, who played an air police sergeant in the movie in episode 208- LOST CONTINENT and a drunk in the movie in episode 802- THE LEECH WOMAN.

1920: Derek Sydney, who played Wilde in the movie in episode 101- THE CRAWLING EYE.

1930: Rod Taylor, who played Herbert Ellis in the movie WORLD WITHOUT END, riffed in MST3K’s first live show.

1930: Francesco De Masi, musical score composer for the movie in episode 705- ESCAPE 2000.

1930: Harold Greenberg, executive producer for the movie in the movie in episode K16- CITY ON FIRE.

1931: Peter Baldwin, who played Security Officer James in the movie in episode 906- THE SPACE CHILDREN.

1932: Mabel Rea, who had a role in 509- THE GIRL IN LOVERS LANE.

1934: Judith Exner, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 505- THE MAGIC VOYAGE OF SINBAD.

1939: Gail Rowell-Ryan, who was Loni Anderson’s hairstylist for the movie in episode 1304- MUNCHIE.

1944: Eileen Deitz, who played Dana in the movie in episode 811- PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR.*

DIED ON THIS DATE
1971: Marshall Bradford (age 85), who played U.S. Secretary Platt in the movie in episode 311- IT CONQUERED THE WORLD and a member of the tribe in the movie in 315- TEENAGE CAVEMAN.

1973: Ken Carlson (age 57), who did the sound for the movies in episodes 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!?, 815- AGENT FOR H.A.R.M. and 908- THE TOUCH OF SATAN.

1979: Jack Soo (age 61), who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 411- THE MAGIC SWORD.

1980: Hugh McDowell Jr. (age 77), sound engineer for the movie in episode 509- THE GIRL IN LOVERS LANE.

1981: Larry Germain (age 67), hair stylist for the movies in episodes 615- KITTEN WITH A WHIP, 614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL and 802- THE LEECH WOMAN.

1981: Fernando Mendoza (age 66), who played Professor Van Roth in the movie in episode 1301- SANTO IN THE TREASURE OF DRACULA.

1990: Charles Clement (age 76), music editor for the movies in episodes 313- EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST and 315- TEENAGE CAVEMAN and post-production operations head for the movie in episode 614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL.

1992: Grigori Yagdfeld (age 83), screenwriter for the movie “Sampo,” seen in episode 422- THE DAY THE EARTH FROZE.

2001: Ignacy Machowski (age 80), who played Polnischer Chefingenieur, Prof. Saltyk and Prof. Durand in the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.

2007: Tudor Gates (age 77), one of the screenwriters for the movie in episode 1013- DIABOLIK.

2008: Jazz trumpeter Pete Candoli (age 84), who can be heard in a song in the movie THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (riffed by fans in Sci-fi Channel’s “MST3K: The Home Game”).

2011: Russell Vreeland (age 67), assistant director for the movie in episode 1104- AVALANCHE.

2012: Richard Bruno (age 87), men’s costume supervisor for the movie in episode 1201- MAC AND ME.

2013: Corinne Jacker (age 79), who wrote the movie in episode 822- OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK.

2014: Jophery C. Brown (age 68), a stunt player in the movie in episode 516- ALIEN FROM L.A.

2022: Maria Cristina Brancucci (age 81), who sang “Se Chiami Amore” in the movie “Operation Kid Brother,” seen in episode 508- OPERATION DOUBLE 007, and “Deep Deep Down” in the movie in episode 1013- DIABOLIK.

EPISODE PREMIERE ON THIS DATE
1992: episode 322- MASTER NINJA I first shown.

EVENTS ON THIS DATE
1949: Keenan Wynn, who played Col. Farley in the movie in episode 706- LASERBLAST and Jake Noble in the movie in episode 811- PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR, marries Betty Jane Butler.

1978: The movie in episode 704- THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN is reviewed in Variety.

1998: The SCI-FI CHANNEL EUROPE broadcasts MST3K for the first time. The special THE MAKING OF MST3K, episode 801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE and episode 802- THE LEECH WOMAN are shown.

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This Date in MSTory is written and compiled by Christopher Cornell, Brian Henry and Steve Finley with assistance by Tim Brown, Gordon Lawyer and many other Satellite News commenters.