birthday: famous and less famous

so, today is the day they were born, those famous stars we like or dislike, and less famous ones we wish were more famous than they now are...


beginning today with:

Cary Grant, 1904
Kevin Kostner, 1955
Takeshi Kitano, 1948

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Also today:

Oliver Hardy (1892)
Danny Kaye (1913)
Eamonn Owens (1983)
Samantha Mumba (1983)
Jesse L. Martin (1969)
Dave Attel (1965)
Jane Harrocks (1964)
John Boorman (1933)

man, i can't leave this forum alone a few days...

so, while i've been away:
01.20 David Lynch 1946, Federico Fellini 1920
01.21 Geena Davis 1957
01.22 Diane Lane 1965, Jim Jarmush 1953
01.23 Rutger Hauer 1944, Jeanne Moreau 1928, and Humphrey Bogart!

and today, 01.24:

Nastassja Kinski 1961
Daniel Auteuil 1950 (another frog just like this one here...)
Michel Serrault 1928 (an even better frog!!)
Ernest Borgnine 1915

happy birthday y'all! bon anniversaire!

Paul Newman, 1925
Roger Vadim, 1928
Scott Glen, 1942
Patrick Dewaere , 1947 (unfortunately, he's left us)

bon anniversaire!!

Crikey, Newman's 80!

I saw him on a chat show a few months back and he didn't look a day over 78...

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and today...
Louis de Funès, 1983
Bridget Fonda, 1964

happy birthday Elijah Wood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...and happy birthday to Alan Alda!!!!!!!!!

January 28th was also John Banner's (Sgt. Schultz on Hogan's Heroes) birthday... and it is also the day he died...

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Now that is scary

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scary... or mythical!

i forgot yesterday: Minnie Driver, 1971

and today, :
Clark Gable, 1921
Sherilyn Fenn, 1965


but tis the day Hildegard Knef died 2002, and Buster Keaton 1966.

Today was also Director John Ford and Brandon Lee's birthdays… and it is the date that Thomas Edison completed the first movie studio in New Jersey…

Barbara Sukowa 1950
Farrah Fawcett 1947 (especially liked her in Dc T and the Women)

(but Donald Pleasance 1995 and Boris Karloff left us this day)

Happy Birthday to (possibly the first, and last, time mentioned on MoFo) Val Doonican!!!!!.



...well, he's listed in the IMDB.

Happy Birthday, Gabrielle Anwar, 1971!!!!!!!!!!!

(sad: John Cassavetes left us this day in 1989...)

02/05
twas the birthday of:
Charlotte Rampling 1945
John Carradine 1906
Jennifer Jason Leigh 1962
and
Barbara Hershe 1948

yesterday, 02/06, it was Anonymous Last's and mine, as well as other celebrities:

Ronald Reagan 1911
but, slightly better i'd say:
François Truffaut 1932, too

and today:

happy birthday James Spader, 1960

Lana Turner 1920
James Dean, 1931
Nick Nolte, 1941

!!!

whether you deserve it or not, happy birthday Denise Richard,
and Rene Russo too

the last days we had lotsa birthdays:

02/11
Jennifer Anniston 1969
Burt Reynolds 1936
(but Sergej Eisenstein left us 1948)

02/12
Margaux Hemingway 1955
Christina Ricci 1980

02/13
Constantin Costa Gavras 1933, same year as Kim Novak

02/14 Alan Parker 1944

02/15 Marisa Berenson