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Julian Sands is born (1957). This suave actor has starred in a number of memorable genre projects, including Ken Russell's Gothic (1986), David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (1991), and the spider-infested, Steven Spielberg-produced Arachnophobia (1990). Julian also played the title monster in Warlock (1989) and its sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). The rest of his résumé includes the notorious Boxing Helena (1993), Vibes (1988), Outback Vampires (1987), and The Doctor and the Devils (1985). Julian was born in Otley, Yorkshire, England.

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Phyllis Coates is born (1927). During her Hollywood heyday, Phyllis was a reigning genre queen thanks to her appearances in such features as The Incredible Petrified World (1959), I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955), Invasion, U.S.A. (1952), and Superman and the Mole Men (1951), in which she played Lois Lane. Her television credits include The Claw Monsters (1966) as well as episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ("The House of Luthor") and the old Science Fiction Theatre ("Barrier of Silence"). Phyllis was born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell in Wichita Falls, Texas.

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Ray Bolger dies (1987). Ray will forever be remembered as the musical man who played Hunk Andrews (also known as The Scarecrow) in the immortal 1939 screen adaptation of Frank L. Baum's The Wizard of Oz. He also made an appearance playing Vector in a 1979 episode of television's Battlestar Galactica. Ray was born in 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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SCIFIpedia Timeline for January 15