Actor Dean Carroll Jones is best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977. At the beginning of his career, Jones appeared in minor film and television roles. He made his Broadway debut, along with Jane Fonda, in the 1960 play There was a little Girl. Later that same year Jones played Dave Manning in the Broadway comedy Under the Yum-Yum Tree, a role he repeated in the 1963 film version starring Jack Lemmon.
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ERNEST BORGNINE IS 94 YEARS OLD TODAY
Ernest Borgnine is an actor of both television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning role in the 1955 film Marty. On television, he is best known for playing Quinton McHale in the 1962-66 ABC series McHales Navy, costarring in the mid-1980s action series Air wolf, and voicing the character Mermaid Man in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Borgnine earned an Emmy nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER on NBC from 1994 to 2009. In August 2009 he earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Borgnine in a scene from The Flight of the Phoenix, 1965.
ACTOR RUTGER HAUER IS 67 TODAY
Rutger Oelsen Hauer is a Dutch stage, television and film actor. His career began in 1969 with the title role in the popular Dutch television series Floris(1969). Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallon film Nighthawks (1981), he was cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named "Wulfgar”. His film credits also include Flesh + Blood(1985), Blind Fury(1989), Blade Runner(1982),The Hitcher(1986),Sin City(2005), and Batman Begins(2005).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANE LANE ~ 46 TODAY
Film actress Diane Lane, Born and raised in New York City, made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill’s 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier (above photo). Soon after, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine. She has since appeared in several notable films, including the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Academy Award, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She has been married to actor Josh Brolin since 2004.
Diane on Time magazine cover-August 13, 1979
EXORCIST STAR IS 52 YEARS OLD TODAY
Linda Denise Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan in the 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist. She was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in the 1977 sequel, Exorcist ll: The Heretic.
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