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Robert Downey Jr. is born (1965). This Oscar-nominated actor played reincarnated souls looking for romance in both Heart and Souls (1993) and Chances Are (1989). His other credits include In Dreams (1998), and the teen comedy Weird Science (1985). Robert was born in New York, New York, USA. Anthony Perkins is born (1932). Perkins gave one of the genre's greatest screen performances as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho (1960). He revived Norman for Psycho II (1983), Psycho III (1986), and the made-for-television Psycho IV: The Beginning (1991).
Michael Moriarty is born (1941). Moriarty has appeared in It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987), A Return to Salem's Lot (1987), Troll (1986), The Stuff (1985), Blood Link (1982), and Q-The Winged Serpent (1982). His television credits includes episodes of the updated Outer Limits ("Final Appeal"), Poltergeist: The Legacy ("Father to Son"), and the updated Twilight Zone ("20/20 Vision"). Michael was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Roger Corman is born (1926). Corman directed a series of low-budget 1950s classics, including A Bucket of Blood (1959), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), Not of This Earth (1957), The Day the World Ended (1956) and It Conquered the World (1956). During the 1960s, he continued to churn out dozens of films, among them The Terror (1963), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), as well as a series of well-received adaptations of works by Edgar Allan Poe including The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Still active as both director and producer, Roger has lent his genre expertise to such recent projects as Frankenstein Unbound (1990) and The Haunting of Hell House (1999). Roger was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Robert Bloch is born (1917). Bloch is the genre author who penned the original novel Psycho, upon which Hitchcock based his classic 1960 thriller of the same name. His other writing credits include The Night Walker (1964), The House That Dripped Blood (1970) and the made-for-television The Cat Creature (1973). He also worked on scripts for episodes of Tales of the Unexpected and the original Star Trek ("Catspaw," "Wolf In The Fold," and "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"). Robert, who died in 1994, was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Isaac Asimov dies (1992). The genre loses one of its most accomplished and enduring authors when novelist Isaac Asimov dies on this day in 1992. Among the most popular titles of his voluminous body of work are Pebble In The Sky, Foundation, The End of Eternity, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Nemesis, The Positronic Man, Robot Dreams, and I, Robot. Isaac was born in 1920 in Petrovichi, Russia. Audrey Rose opens (1977). Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason and a young Susan Swift star in this big-screen adaptation of Frank De Fellita's best-selling novel about a man who tries to convince a young couple that their daughter is actually the reincarnation of his own child who died years earlier in a tragic car accident. Though the director is Robert Wise (The Haunting, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still), the end result is a tedious bore that fails to impress either critics or audiences. Barry Levinson is born (1942). This Oscar-winning writer-producer-director put Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone through their paces for the underwater sci-fi thriller Sphere (1998). His other projects include Toys (1992), the Spielberg-produced Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) and The Natural (1984). He also was a producer on Steven Soderbergh's surreal Kafka (1991). Barry was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Francis Ford Coppola is born (1939). This Oscar-winning director went behind the camera to helm such genre projects as the baroque Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), the time-tripping Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), and his early black-and-white ax-murder mystery, Dementia 13 (1963). He also directed the "Rip Van Winkle" installment of Faerie Tale Theatre. As a producer, he has lent his clout to such genre fare as Sleepy Hollow (1999), Haunted (1995), Kenneth Branagh's version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), George Lucas' early THX 1138, and two memorable made-for-television titles, The Odyssey (1997) and The People (1972). Francis was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Yvonne Lime is born (1938). As a young, B-movie ingenue of the 1950s, Lime took on the role of Arlene Logan, Michael Landon's unfortunate steady in the classic I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). Yvonne was born in Glendale, California, USA. King Kong opens (1933). The king of all monster movies opens on this day in 1933. After an expedition to a remote island, a group of opportunistic explorers return to New York City with a giant ape in tow. When the monster falls in love with a beautiful actress — the incomparable Fay Wray — he breaks free of his shackles and heads for the Empire State Building for a final showdown. The special effects, state-of-the-art for their time, make this one a huge hit at the box office.
Rabid opens (1977). Canadian genre auteur David Cronenberg directs this bizarre entry in which porn star Marilyn Chambers plays Rose, a woman who survives a severe motorcycle accident and receives experimental plastic surgery — only to recover with an insatiable, contagious hunger for human blood that wreaks havoc in modern-day Montreal. Though the initial box office is weak, Rabid goes on to become a cult fave. Patricia Arquette is born (1968). Arquette, blonde and blue-eyed, (who once was married to Nicolas Cage) played Frankie Paige, a woman who embodies the eternal battle between good and evil in Stigmata (1999). She has also made appearances in Nightwatch (1998), David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997), Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994), and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Patricia was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Douglas Trumbull is born (1942). Trumbull directed two memorable sci-fi features, Brainstorm (1983) and Silent Running (1971), in addition to lending his special-effects expertise to such enduring genre titles as Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), The Andromeda Strain (1971), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Dennis Quaid is born (1954). Quaid (ex-husband of Meg Ryan) has lent his good looks and heroic stature to a variety of popular genre projects. He played Willis Davidge, a space traveler stranded on a strange planet with an intelligent alien in Enemy Mine (1985), and Alex Gardner, a psychic who enters the nightmares of the President of the U.S. in order to stop an assassination plot in Dreamscape (1984). His other genre projects include Frequency (2000), Dragonheart (1996), Wilder Napalm (1993), Innerspace (1987), The Right Stuff, Jaws 3-D (1983) and the made-for-television Are You in the House Alone? (1978). Dennis was born in Houston, Texas, USA. George O. Smith is born (1911). Smith is a science fiction writer who published largely in Astounding. His first published story launched his best-remembered series, the "Venus Equilateral" sequence which involved a communications space station orbiting Venus. The series was collected in [[1947} and an expanded edition was published in 1976. He is also remembered for his novel, The Fourth "R". He died in 1981. Charles Burbee is born (1915). Burbee is one of the best-known writers of "fannish essays.
Haley Joel Osment is born (1988). No matter what else he does, Oscar-nominated Haley Joel has already gained a place in genre history thanks to his scene-stealing performance as Cole Sear, the haunted child opposite Bruce Willis' haunted shrink in M. Night Shyamalan's blockbuster The Sixth Sense (1999). His other credits includes Spielberg's A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (2001), Bogus (1996) and Forrest Gump (1994). Haley Joel was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Gothic opens (1986). Director Ken Russell (Altered States, The Lair of the White Worm) concocted this stylish, hallucinatory fantasy set on the night in 1816 when Frankenstein scribe Mary Shelley and Vampyre author Dr. Polidori were inspired to write their gruesome literary masterpieces. The movie is an amalgamation of drug-induced imagery, bizarre ghost stories, and psychosexual subtext — in other words, pure Ken Russell. The cast includes Gabriel Byrne (Stigmata, Cool World) and Julian Sands (Warlock). Dawn of the Dead opens (1978). The second part of George Romero's "Dead" trilogy opens on this day in 1978. This time out, a small group of survivors seek refuge in a suburban shopping mall — and the blood and guts are in vivid color. Romero scores another cult hit.
Scream opens (1997). The "slasher" movies of the 1970s and 1980s are revived thanks to the phenomenal box-office success of Scream, which opens on this date in 1997. Director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and screenwriter Kevin Williamson breathe new life into the old "masked killer stalks teens" plot by poking fun at the clichés that have come to define the genre. The success of Scream helps move Drew Barrymore to the head of the Hollywood pack, and provides early fuel for the careers of Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich. Craven later remains on board for Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 3 (2000). John Milius is born (1944). Writer-director John Milius has directed some big-name actors in popular adventure flicks, among them Nick Nolte in Farewell to the King (1989), Patrick Swayze in Red Dawn (1984), and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the wildly successful Conan the Barbarian (1982). John was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Space Shuttle Columbia launches (1981). The N.A.S.A. space shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA, on its maiden voyage into space. It is the first manned spacecraft designed for repeated use. Astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen take Columbia on a two-day mission to test the new space vehicle's capabilities, opening up a program that eventually includes more than 75 missions. This first flight ends as scheduled with a landing April 14, 1981, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Tom Clancy is born (1947). Best-selling novelist and international espionage expert Tom Clancy has seen his work adapted to the screen with such hits as The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). One of his more recent works, Net Force, was made into a television miniseries. Tom was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Rebecca opens (1940). Rebecca, one of the most romantic thrillers of all time, opened on this day in 1940. Alfred Hitchcock's masterful adaptation of the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, about a woman haunted by the spirit of her husband's first wife, goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year. The inimitable cast includes Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Judith Anderson.
Ron Perlman is born (1950). Actor Ron Perlman is best known for his role as the title creature of TV's 1987 series, Beauty and the Beast. Since then, he has worked on the stage as well as in a variety of genre films, among them A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998), Alien Resurrection (1997), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), City of Lost Children (1995), Mr. Stitch (1995), Cronos (1993) and Sleepwalkers ([[1992). He also has lent his voice to such animated series as Mortal Kombat (1995) and Batman: The Animated Series (1992). Ron was born in New York, New York, USA. Stanley Donen is born (1924). Early in his career, Hollywood veteran Stanley Donen directed musical classics, but he later turned to genre films, such as the Hitchcockian Charade (1963) and Arabesque (1966), as well as the sci-fi adventure Saturn 3 (1980). In 1998, Donen was awarded an Honorary Oscar for "a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation."
Sarah Michelle Gellar is born (1977). Gellar was "discovered" at the age of four, but it took a few years of working on daytime soap operas before she hit it big as television's beloved Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. In addition to chasing the undead on a weekly basis for seven seasons, Gellar has been staking her claim to big-screen roles in such horror flicks as Scream 2 (1997) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). Along the way, she also provided the voice of Andromeda on television's Hercules. Sarah was born in New York, New York, USA. Julie Christie is born (1941). Oscar winner and perennial leading lady Julie Christie has lent her customary class and intelligence to roles in such genre films as François Truffaut's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1966), the haunting Don't Look Now,(1973), directed by Nicholas Roeg, Demon Seed (1977) and Dragonheart (1996). Julie was born in Chukua, Assam, India.
Lois Chiles is born (1947). Chiles, an actor with a famously dusky voice, appeared as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), and as Nancy Greenly in Michael Crichton's classic medical thriller Coma (1978). Her other genre credits include Creepshow 2 (1987), In the Eye of the Snake (1994), an uncredited turn in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), and the made-for-television Dark Mansions (1986). Lois was born in Alice, Texas, USA. Elizabeth Montgomery is born (1933). As Samantha Stevens — the perkiest witch ever to hit television — Montgomery continues to charm generation after generation of Bewitched viewers. Following that show's run, she was acclaimed for her complex portrayal of an alleged axe murderess in the television movie, The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975). Early in her career, she played the last woman on Earth (opposite Charles Bronson) in the famous 1959 Twilight Zone episode "Two." Elizabeth, who died in 1995, was born in Hollywood, California, USA. Henry James is born (1843). Legendary American novelist Henry James' classic ghost story, "The Turn of the Screw", has been adapted numerous times to the big screen, to television, and even to the opera stage. The most enduring version, re-titled The Innocents (1961), was directed by Jack Clayton and based on an adaptation by Truman Capote and William Archibald. The film starred Deborah Kerr as the repressed governess haunted by the spirits of a pair of demented lovers. James, who died in 1916, was born in New York, New York, USA.
Lukas Haas is born (1976). After holding his own in his debut performance as an Amish boy opposite Harrison Ford's big-city cop in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), child actor Haas would go on to be haunted by a vengeful ghost in The Lady in White (1988). In recent years, Lukas has also been seen as an imprisoned teen in Solarbabies (1986), as one of the few survivors in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), and as part of a real-life party posse led by pal Leonardo DiCaprio. Lukas was born in West Hollywood, California, USA. Les Tremayne is born (1913). This durable character actor is known by "creature feature" aficionados for his roles in a host of 1950s horror films, including The War of the Worlds (1953), The Monolith Monsters (1957), The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1958) and The Angry Red Planet (1959). Tremayne also provided the voice of the narrator in Forbidden Planet (1956). Later in his career, he kept the chills coming in such low-budget projects as Creature of Destruction (1967), The Slime People (1962) and Snakes (1974). Les was born in London, England, UK.
Roddy Piper is born (1951). This wrestler-turned-thespian, a former "bad boy" of the WWE, was one of the sport's most durable villains before he turned to acting. Since then, "Rowdy" Roddy has been the brawny hero in such genre films as Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987), John Carpenter's They Live (1988), Immortal Combat (1994) and Sci-Fighters (1996). Roddy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Olivia Hussey is born (1951). Hussey has appeared in such thrillers as Black Christmas (1974), The Cat and the Canary (1979) and Ice Cream Man (1995). Her television projects have included Psycho IV: The Beginning (1991), in which she played the notorious mother of Norman Bates, and Stephen King's It (1990). Olivia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. William Holden is born (1918). Silver-screen hunk and Oscar-winning actor William Holden, who starred in such enduring classics as Sunset Boulevard and Born Yesterday, was one of the top leading men of Hollywood's "Golden Age." Later in his career, he reached the top of the box-office charts when he played Damien Thorne's unfortunate adoptive father in Damien: Omen 2 (1976) and joined the all-star cast of the sci-fi disaster epic When Time Ran Out (1980). William, who died in 1981, was born in O'Fallon, Illinois, USA.
Avery Brooks is born (1949). This stage and screen actor is best known by genre fans for his role as Captain Benjamin Sisko on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Avery was born in Evansville, Indiana, USA. James Woods is born (1947). This versatile two-time Oscar nominee has starred in a variety of genre films, including John Carpenter's Vampires (1998), the big-screen version of Carl Sagan's Contact (1997), Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985), and David Cronenberg's cult fave Videodrome (1983). James was born in Vernal, Utah, USA.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie opens (1996). Mike Nelson, Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo and Gypsy make their big-screen debuts in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, which opens on this date in 1996. In the film, Mike and his oddball puppet crew travel through space while forced to sit through the 1955 space opus This Island Earth. The Company of Wolves opens (1987). This Freudian, grown-up version of Little Red Riding Hood, starring Angela Lansbury and David Warner, was directed by Neil Jordan, who would go on to helm the creepy In Dreams (1999), the big-screen adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1994), and the popular The Crying Game (1992). Though the box office is weak, Jordan's intriguing movie does manage to impress more than a few critics. Tim Curry is born (1946). This British actor is best known for his over-the-top performances as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and as Pennywise, the evil clown in the television adaptation of Stephen King's It (1990). Curry's other credits include the miniseries Lexx: The Dark Zone (1997) as well as such big-screen features as Congo (1995), The Shadow (1994), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Legend (1985), Clue (1985) and The Shout (1978). Tim was born in Cheshire, England, UK.
Crispin Glover is born (1964). Glover, the notoriously eccentric actor who played the nerdy George McFly in Back to the Future (1985), also made appearances in Jim Jarmusch's mystical Dead Man (1995) and in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984). Crispin was born in New York, New York, USA. Geraint Wyn Davies is born (1957). Davies was the handsome leading vampire of Forever Knight, but he also took his turn in other genre projects: Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (television film, 1989), Highlander (television series), The Outer Limits, and Dracula: The Series. Veronica Cartwright is born (1950). Throughout her impressively varied career, Cartwright has specialized in horror and sci-fi roles, beginning with her performance as Cathy Brenner, the terrorized school girl in Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds (1963). Veronica was born in Bristol, England, UK.
Andie MacDowell is born (1958). This model-turned-actress made her screen debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984). She has also appeared in Michael (1996), Multiplicity (1996) and Groundhog Day (1993). Andie was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, USA. Iggy Pop is born (1947). Rock-and-roll wild man Iggy Pop has taken time out of the recording studio and off of the concert stage to lend his nihilistic energies to a handful of genre films, including The Crow: City of Angels (1996), Jim Jarmusch's arty Dead Man (1995), the comic book-inspired Tank Girl (1995), and the ultra-violent Hardware (1990). Iggy also guest-starred as a surly Vorta named Yelgrun in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Magnificent Ferengi," appeared as Himself in an episode of Tales from the Crypt ("For Cryin' Out Loud"), and wrote and performed the theme song for the indie SF cult classic film Repo Man (1984). Iggy was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Actor Jack Nicholson is born (1937). He got his start in film with a part in the low-budget horror flick The Cry Baby Killer (1958). Nicholson has risen to great prominence in Hollywood with many roles in memorable films of all genres. SCIFIPEDIA readers will no doubt remember his unique take on the role of The Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 classic Batman. Of equal note in another rollicking Burton film was Nicholson's dual roles as both US President James Dale and Vegas tycoon Art Land in Mars Attacks! (1996).
The Zoetrope is patented by William Lincoln of Providence, Rhode Island in 1867. The machine had a strip of continuos frames or pictures mounted on a cylinder. A viewer peered through a slit and saw the illuminated images animated as the spun upon the drum.
Author Elizabeth Goudge born today in 1900 in Wells, England. She is the author of The Little White Horse (1946), a Carnegie Medal winner and said by J. K. Rowling to be her favorite childhood book.
Volcano opens (1997). This disaster epic, in which Los Angeles is threatened by volcanic eruptions and molten lava, stars Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche. The movie's box-office take turns out to be disappointing, largely due to the proximity of another volcano movie, Dante's Peak, released earlier in the year. Emily Bergl is born (1975). Stage actress Emily Bergl rose to Hollywood prominence when she played Rachel Lang, Sissy Spacek's telekinetic successor in The Rage: Carrie II (1999). Emily was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Hank Azaria is born (1964). Character actor Hank Azaria (ex-husband of Academy Award winner Helen Hunt) has played some offbeat heroes in such genre entries as Mystery Men (1999, as The Blue Raja) and the mega-budget remake of Godzilla (1998). Hank was born in Queens, New York, USA.
Giorgio Moroder is born (1940). This prolific composer scored big throughout his career with The NeverEnding Story (1984), The NeverEnding Story II, Electric Dreams (1984), Superman III (1983), and Cat People (1982). He also created a new film score for the reconstituted Metropolis (1927). Giorgio was born in Ortisei, Italy. One Million B.C. opens (1940). One Million B.C., curiously directed by comedy experts Hal Roach and Hal Roach, Jr., becomes Hollywood's first Jurassic Park. The big-budget (for its time), grand-scale caveman saga features all the prehistoric beasts and volcanic eruptions one would expect, and stars Victor Mature, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Carole Landis. A 1966 remake, retitled One Million Years B.C., would later make a star of Raquel Welch (in a fur bikini).
James Legros is born (1962). Indie-film favorite James Legros has played roles in Phantasm II (1988), Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho (1998), *batteries not included (1987), Near Dark (1987) and Solarbabies (1986). James was born in Minnesota, USA. Devil Girl from Mars opens (1954). Hazel Court plays the title character in this British sci-fi entry, which first lands on U.S. shores on this day in 1954. Court plays a leather-clad female alien who arrives on Earth with a ray gun and a robot, determined to take a few eligible men back to her home planet in order to reproduce. Today, Devil Girl from Mars is considered a high-camp delight... if you like that sort of thing.
The Road Warrior opens (1982). Australian director George Miller's savage and spectacular sequel to Mad Max moved star Mel Gibson even closer to superstardom. The high-speed, post-apocalyptic, stunt-heavy mayhem scores big at the box office, ensuring a third entry, 1985's Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Ann-Margret is born (1941). Ann-Margret, Hollywood's favorite "kitten with a whip," played the love interest opposite Anthony Hopkins' demented ventriloquist in Magic (1978) and recently starred in television's big-budget fantasy, The Tenth Kingdom. She was born in Valsjobyn, Sweden. Carolyn Jones is born (1929). Before Anjelica Huston, there was Carolyn Jones, the original Morticia on The Addams Family television series of the mid-1960s. Jones is also remembered by genre fans for her role as Teddy in Don Siegel's original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Her other credits include an early Tobe Hooper effort, Eaten Alive (1976). Carolyn, who died in 1983, was born in Amarillo, Texas, USA.
Alfred Hitchcock dies (1980). The "Master of Suspense" dies on this day in 1980, leaving behind an influential and acclaimed body of work. Among his undisputed classics are The Birds (1963), Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1954) and Rebecca (1940), to name a few. Hitchcock also acted as host and frequently directed episodes of television's popular suspense series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Outrageous as it seems, Hitchcock never won an Oscar for Best Director, but he was awarded the Academy's Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 1967. Alfred was born in 1899 in London, England, UK. Uma Thurman is born (1970). This sultry Oscar nominee played the villainous Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin (1997). Her other genre projects include The Avengers (1998), Gattaca (1997), in which she starred opposite then-husband Ethan Hawke, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and Jennifer Eight (1992). Uma was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kirsten Dunst is born (1982). Dunst first impressed critics and audiences with her haunting performance as Claudia, the angelic child blood-drinker in the big-screen adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1994). Her other credits include The Crow: Salvation (2000), Small Soldiers (1998) and Jumanji (1995). Kirsten was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA. Larry Niven is born (1938). Niven is the author of the famous Ringworld series. His original Ringworld novel won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In addition to his contributions to science-fiction literature, he also took a few stabs at writing for television. He penned story treatments for episodes of The Outer Limits ("Inconstant Moon") and the Star Trek animated series ("The Slaver Weapon"). He also wrote an episode of Land of the Lost ("Downstream"). Larry was born Laurence van Cott Niven in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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