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John Newland dies (2000). Genre specialist John, the host of television's eerie One Step Beyond, directed a wide variety of television projects, including episodes of Wonder Woman, Night Gallery, Star Trek, Thriller, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He also directed the memorable made-for-television feature Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and acted as producer on Timestalkers (1987). John was born in 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Teresa Graves is born (1949). This 1970s sensation, who played a shapely detective on television's Get Christie Love, also starred as Vampira (opposite David Niven's distinguished Dracula) in the 1974 feature Old Dracula. Teresa was born in Houston, Texas.

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Walter Hill is born (1942). This longtime Hollywood player worked as writer and producer on a number of high-profile genre projects, including Aliens (1986) and Alien3 (1992). Walter's other producing credits include Alien: Resurrection (1997), Bordello of Blood (1996), Demon Knight (1995), the original Alien (1979), and television's Tales from the Crypt series. Among the projects Walter has directed are Supernova (2000) and The Driver (1978). Walter was born in Long Beach, California.

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