Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the
1976 film Network. She was previously nominated for Bonnie and Clyde (1967),
and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in numerous other films, including The
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Little Big Man (1970), and The Towering
Inferno (1974),
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ACTRESS FAYE DUNAWAY IS 73 TODAY
ACTRESS KIM BASINGER IS 60 TODAY
Basinger won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors
Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in L.A.
Confidential (1997). She also played a major role in Batman in 1989.
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BURT LANCASTER’S BIRTHDAY
Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994)
Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for
his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. He also won a Golden Globe for that
performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and
Atlantic City (1980). His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the
most successful independent production company in Hollywood in the 1950s,
making movies such as Marty (1955), Trapeze (1956), and Sweet Smell of
Success (1957). He was named 19th among the greatest male stars of all
time by the American Film Institute in 1999.
Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
MICHAEL LANDON’S BIRTHDAY
Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz)
(October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991)
Actor Michael Landon was also a writer, director, and producer. He is
known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973),
Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), and Jonathan
Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984–1989), all on NBC-TV. Landon has
appeared on the cover of TV Guide 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball.
The Cartwright’s from left: Dan Blocker,Michael Landon, Lorene Greene, and
Pernell Roberts
Landon began to suffer from severe abdominal pain in February 1991. On
April 5, 1991, pancreatic cancer was diagnosed; it had metastasized into his
liver and lymph nodes. The cancer was inoperable and the doctors’ prognosis
was terminal. On July 1, 1991, at age 54, Landon died in Malibu, California
REMEMBERING WILLIAM CONRAD ~
William Conrad (John William Cann Jr.)
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)
Conrad was an actor, producer and director whose career spanned five
decades in radio, film and television. He created the role of Marshal Matt
Dillon for the popular CBS radio series Gunsmoke (1952–1961), and he
narrated the television adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959-1964)
on ABC/NBC and The Fugitive (1963–1967) on ABC television.
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