Them!, was Warner Brothers’ highest grossing film of 1954 and was the first
motion picture to have “monsters” generated by mutations due to nuclear
activity. It was nominated for an Oscar for Special Effects and won a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing. Leonard Nimoy appears as an Air Force sergeant (below) in the Communications Room (uncredited).
Early school photo of Stephen King
King’s books, including the horror classics “Carrie” (1974), and “Misery”
(1987), have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into
a number of feature films, television movies and comic books.
Henry Thomas in “ET”
Actor and musician Henry Jackson Thomas, Jr. has appeared in more than
40 films and is best known for his role as Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg
film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
1982
The Sci-Fi franchise Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, aired the
first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series on NBC-TV entitled
"The Man Trap". It was written by George Clayton Johnson, and directed
by Marc Daniels.
After three seasons, NBC television canceled the show, and the last
original episode aired on June 3, 1969.
Richard Samuel Attenborough (Baron Attenborough) is an English actor,
director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi
in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe
Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton
Rock (1947), The Great Escape (1963), 10 Rillington Place (1971),
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Jurassic Park (1993).
From left: James Stewart and Richard Attenborough from “Flight
of The Phoenix”
From “Miracle on 34th Street”
