Ralph Fiennes is an actor, film producer and director best known
for his role as the menacing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter
films and for portraying Nazi captain Amon Goeth in the 1993
Steven Spielberg film Schindler’s List (below).

Clinton Eastwood Jr., actor, film director, composer, and producer turned 91 Sunday, May 31.

Actor, director and narrator Morgan Freeman
is 84 today. He has appeared in a range of
film genres portraying many characters.

MIKE GRACIA

On this day, Pvt. Eddie Slovik became the first American
soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion
and the only one who suffered such a fate during World
War II.

Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch) 

The retired actor, producer, director and author is one of the last surviving
stars of the film industry’s Golden Age.

1960

Arthur Ronald Marks (August 2, 1927 – November 13, 2019)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Longtime producer and director Arthur Marks, who
helmed many episodes of the "Perry Mason" TV series and produced several
hit blaxploitation films, has died. 

According to his son Paul, Marks passed away Nov. 13 at his home in
Woodland Hills, California. 

Marks was the director and producer of 80 episodes of "Perry Mason." He
also directed episodes of the TV shows "I Spy," "Mannix" and "The Dukes
of Hazzard."