America’s 40th President Ronald Wilson Reagan was born
in Tampico, Illinois, on this day in history, Feb. 6, 1911.

Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and was the president of the
Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 until
1960.

On February 5, 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin,
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith joined
forces to create their own film studio, which they called the
United Artists Corporation.

United Artists quickly gained prestige in Hollywood, thanks to
the success of the films of its stars, notably Chaplin’s The Gold
Rush (1925), as well as the work of actors such as Buster
Keaton, Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Chaplin
directed UA films as well as acted in them, and Pickford
concentrated on producing after she retired from acting in
the 1930s. With the rise of sound during that decade, UA was
helped by the talents (and bankrolls) of veteran producers
like Joseph Schenck, Samuel Goldwyn, Howard Hughes and
Alexander Korda.

The corporation began to struggle financially in the 1940s,
however, and in 1951 the production studio was sold and
UA became only a financing and distributing facility.

From left, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin
(seated) and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. signing the original
contract that created the United Artists studio in 1919.     

James Yoshio Yoda (March 31, 1934 – January 13, 2023)

Yoshio Yoda, who portrayed Fuji, the sweet-natured Japanese
prisoner of war befriended by the irreverent gang of American
sailors at the center of the 1962-66 ABC World War II-set sitcom
McHale’s Navy, died Jan. 13 in Fullerton, CA. He was 88.

Yoda, who also went be the name James Yoshio Yoda during
his post-acting career as an executive of Toyota Hawaii, was
born in Tokyo and studied law at Keio University in Japan
before deciding on an acting career. After moving to the United
States, Yoda enrolled at the University of Southern California’s
film school.

Adam Rich (October 12, 1968 – January 7, 2023)

(FOX NEWS) – Child star Adam Rich, best known for his time
on ABC’s "Eight Is Enough," is dead. 

A representative for the actor confirmed Rich passed away
in an emotional statement shared on Twitter.

Danny Deraney, wrote."Adam was simply a wonderful guy. He
was kind, generous and a warrior in the fight against mental
illness." 

Rich was in drug rehabilitation at least three times during
his life. He was found dead in his home near Los Angeles
on January 7.

Rich played Nicholas Bradford from 1977 through 1981,
starring as the youngest child in a family of eight. He was
dubbed "America’s Little Brother" during his time on the
program.

Eight Is Enough comedy-drama series ran on ABC– TV
from March 15, 1977, until May 23, 1981.

Earl Boen ( August 8, 1941 – January 5, 2023)

Earl Boen, best known for his roles in the Terminator movies,
passed away Thursday in Hawaii.

Alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Boen appeared in three
of the Terminator films. According to Variety, the voice and
character actor was 81 years old and had been diagnosed
with stage four lung cancer in the fall. Boen was an actor
who wasn’t a household name for many, yet he worked
consistently in film and television. Boen retired from on-
camera work in 2003 but nevertheless continued to do voice-
over until he officially retired from all acting work in 2017.

Boen as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator (1984)