Richard Stephen Dreyfuss 

Dreyfuss is best known for starring in a number of film, television, and 
theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Grafitti 
(1973), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and 
Mr. Holland’s Opus which was filmed in Portland, Oregon (1995).

Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for his role
in The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland’s
Opus.

Dreyfuss in Jaws

Ross Simpson

John Cleese, 2 years old

 
John Marwood Cleese is 74 today

 
        Hal Brett Needham (March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013)

LOS ANGELES (AP) –  Hal Needham, a top Hollywood stuntman who
turned to directing rousing action films including "Smokey and the Bandit"
(1977) and "The Cannonball Run” (1981).

His business managers tell the Los Angeles Times that Needham died on
Friday in Los Angeles.

A former paratrooper, Needham was a billboard model for Viceroy Cigarettes
while beginning a career in Hollywood as a motion picture stuntman. He had 
appeared in thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies, performing
and designing stunts and new equipment to execute them.

Needham’s first break was as the stunt double for actor Richard Boone on
the popular CBS-TV western Have Gun, Will Travel (1957-1963).

Needham jumped from planes, was dragged by horses and wrecked cars —
breaking 56 bones in the process. He received an honorary Oscar last year.

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is known for his humorous
songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical
acts. Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has sold more
than 12 million albums, and recorded more than 150 parody and
original songs. His works have earned him three Grammy Awards 
among nine nominations, four gold records, and six platinum
records.

1989

Joan Fontaine (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)

Joan was born in Japan to British parents. She moved to California with
her older sister Olivia de Havilland in 1919. Fontaine began a career on
the stage in 1935 and signed a contract with RKO Pictures that same
year. In 1941, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best
Actress for her role in Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The
following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for
Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941) making Fontaine the only actress to
ever win an Academy Award in a film directed by Hitchcock.

After a career spanning over 50 years, Fontaine made her last on-
screen appearance in 1994. She currently lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea,
California where she owns a home, Villa Fontana.