Category Archives: Birthdays

If it’s yours, too, Happy Birthday!

 

Director Peter Brook (Lord of the Flies, King Lear) is 87.

 

Actor Al Freeman Jr. (A Patch of Blue, Finian’s Rainbow, Ensign Pulver) is 78.

 

Actor Timothy Dalton (Centennial, Licence to Kill, The Lion in Winter) is 68.

 

Pianist – singer Rosie Stone (Sly & the Family Stone) is 67.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixniJ0mtW-k

Guitarist – singer Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 62.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BruEmB7_1ok

 

Singer Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics) is 61.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILgIoNIDT8

 

Actor Gary Oldman (Sid and Nancy, Bram Stoker’s Dracula) is 54.

 

Actor Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, War Games) is 50.

 

Actress Cynthia Geary (Northern Exposure, 8 Seconds) is 47.

If it’s yours, too, Happy Birthday!

 

Writer – director – actor Carl Reiner (The Man with Two Brains; The Dick Van Dyke Show; Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) is 90.

 

Trombonist Sonny Russo (Sonny Russo Jazz Ensemble) is 83.

Actor Hal Linden (Barney Miller, How to Break up a Happy Divorce) is 81.

 

Producer – director Paul Junger Witt (The Partridge Family, The Golden Girls) is 69.

Basketball coach Pat Riley (Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks: coach with the highest winning percentage in basketball history – .719) is 67.

Actor William Hurt (Broadcast News, The Accidental Tourist, Altered States) is 62.

 

Drummer Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Asia) is 62.

 

Director – screenwriter Spike Lee (She’s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues) is 55.

 

Actress Theresa Russell (The Spy Within, Straight Time, Black Widow) is 55.

 

Actress Holly Hunter (Broadcast News, The Firm, Raising Arizona) is 54.

 

Actor John Clark Gable (Bad Jim, A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story, Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome; son of actor Clark Gable) is 51.

 

Drummer Jim McDonell (Slim Jim Phantom; The Stray Cats) is 51.

 

If it’s yours, too, Happy Birthday!

Actress – singer – musician Patricia Morison (The Magnificent Fraud, The Roundup, One Night in Lisbon, The Song of Bernadette) is 97.

 

Musician (saxophone, trumpet, violin) – composer Ornette Coleman (Something Else!!!, Tomorrow is the Question!, The Shape of Jazz to Come) is 82.

 

Jazz singer Bill Henderson (And His Special Friends, Live at the Times) is 82.

 

Actress Phyllis Newman (Picnic, A Secret Space) is 79.

 

Writer Phillip Roth (Goodbye, Columbus, A.P.E.X., Ghostwriter) is 79.

 

Actress – screenwriter Renée Taylor (Acts of Love – and Other Comedies, The Nanny, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman) is 79.

 

Actress Ursula Andress (Dr. No, Casino Royale, Fun in Acapulco) is 76.

Singer Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry (Ain’t Got No Home, But I Do) is 75.

 

Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, is 68.

 

Singer Ruth Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) is 66.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY&ob=av2n

 

Actress Glenn Close (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story) is 65.

 

Composer – trombone player Chris Brubeck is 60.

 

Drummer Derek Longmuir (The Bay City Rollers) is 57.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBn2ux5vRHk

 

Actor Bruce Willis (Moonlighting, Die Hard series, Pulp Fiction) is 57.

 

Singer Terry Hall (The Specials, Fun Boy Three) is 53.

 

 

Frederik Willem de Klerk, former president of South Africa [1989 – 1994]; recipient (with Nelson Mandela) of 1993 Nobel Peace Prize is 76.

 

Actor Shashi Kapoor (Gulliver’s Travels, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid) is 74.

 

Country singer Charley Pride (Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’, Why Baby Why) is 74.

 

Actor Kevin Dobson (Kojak, Knots Landing) is 69.

 

Actor Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Mississippi Burning) is 62.

 

Skier Ingemar Stenmark, holds individual racing record of 86 wins including 46 giant slalom and 40 slalom out of 287 contests, is 56.

 

Singer – actress Irene Cara (Fame, The Dream) is 53.

 

Singer – actress Vanessa L. Williams (The Comfort Zone, The Sweetest Days), Miss America 1984, is 49.

 

Bonnie Blair, 1988 Olympic Gold medalist and 1994 world record holder in speed skating, is 48.

 

Composer – jazz musician Paul Horn (Green Jelly Beans, Dancing Children) is 82.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSpooKkXaY

 

Singer Adam Wade (Take Good Care of Her, The Writing on the Wall) is 77.

 

Guitarist Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is 71.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkoSPqjaU4

 

Cito Gaston, former baseball player and manager of the Toronto Blue Jays; World Series titles (1992-1993); first black manager to win Series, is 68.

 

Musician – songwriter John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful) is 68.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-hh-U7sScQg#t=19s

 

Drummer Harold Brown (War) is 66.

 

Actor Patrick Duffy (Man from Atlantis, Dallas) is 63.

 

Guitarist Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) is 61.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cEB7iqpXQ&feature=related

 

Actor Kurt Russell (Elvis, Escape from New York) is 61.

 

Actress Lesley-Anne Down (Upstairs, Downstairs; The Great Train Robbery) is 58.

 

Keyboardist Mike Lindup (Level 42) is 53.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAuOCluflKQ

 

Actor Rob Lowe (St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night) is 48.

 

Actor – comedian Jerry Lewis is 86.

 

Astronaut R. Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7; chief of Skylab applications program) is 80.

 

Singer Betty Johnson (The Little Blue Man, Dream) is 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TK9x-ExTaM

 

Film director Bernardo Bertolucci (Once Upon a Time in the West, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor) is 72.

 

Guitarist – singer Jerry Jeff Walker (Mr. Bojangles, Good Loving Grace) is 70.

 

Actor Erik Estrada (C.H.I.P.S., Twisted Justice) is 63.

 

Actress Kate Nelligan (Fatal Instinct, Eye of the Needle) is 62.

 

Actress Isabelle Huppert (Le Ceremonie, The Separation) is 59.

 

Singer – guitarist Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 58.

 

 

Astronaut Alan Bean (Apollo 12, 4^th man to set foot on the moon, Skylab 3 commander) is 80.

 

Jazz pianist – composer Cecil Taylor is 79.

 

Actor Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Ordinary People) is 77.

 

TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggert is 77.

 

Bass guitarist Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) is 72.

 

Singer – songwriter Mike Love (The Beach Boys) is 71.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L–cqAI3IUI

 

Bass guitarist David Costell (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) is 68.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_yhmyKk70

 

Musician – singer Sly Stone (Sly & The Family Stone) is 68.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiIBwu2mjs0

 

Guitarist – singer Howard Scott (War) is 66.

 

Actor Craig Wasson (Body Double, Malcolm X) is 58.

 

Singer – songwriter Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) is 57.

 

Here’s a snippet of Snider’s testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1985 about censorship in the music industry.

 

Fabio Lanzoni (romance novel cover model) is 53.

 

Singer – songwriter Terence Trent D’Arby (Wishing Well, Introducing the Hard Line) is 50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqy0IODpW5Q

 

Singer Rockwell (Kennedy William Gordy; Somebody’s Watching Me; son of Motown founder, Berry Gordy) is 48.

 

 

Singer Phil Phillips (Sea of Love) is 81.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjureLXo_Ig

 

Actor Michael Caine (Sleuth, Hannah and Her Sisters) is 79.

 

Composer – record producer Quincy Jones is 79.

 

Astronaut Eugene Cernan (Gemini 9, Apollo 17; last man to walk on the moon) is 78.

 

Actress Rita Tushingham (Dr. Zhivago, A Taste of Honey) is 70.

 

Musician Walter Parazaider (Chicago) is 67.

 

Comedian – actor Billy Crystal (City Slickers, Throw Mama from the Train) is 64.

 

Michael Ford (oldest son of former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford) is 62.

Actress Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables, Hockey Night) is 44.

 

 

 

Singer Jan Howard (The One You Slip Around With, Evil on Your Mind) is 82.

 

Songwriter – record producer Mike Stoller (Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Up on the Roof) is 79.

Actress Leslie Parrish (The Manchurian Candidate, Sex and the Single Girl) is 77.

 

Singer – songwriter Neil Sedaka (Oh! Carol, Calendar Girl) is 73.

 

Singer Donny York (Sha Na Na) is 63.

 

Actress Deborah Raffin (Foul Play, Noble House) is 59.

 

Actress Glenne Headly (Mr. Holland’s Opus, The Purple Rose of Cairo ) is 57.

 

Bass guitarist Adam Clayton (U2) is 52.

 

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Delicate Balance) is 84.

 

Andrew Young (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter) is 80.

 

Actress Barbara Feldon (Get Smart; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is 79.

 

Auto racer Johnny Rutherford (Indianapolis 500 winner 1974, 1976, 1980) is 74.

 

Singer Al Jarreau (Breakin’ Away, We’re in This Love Together) is 72.

 

Actress – singer Liza Minnelli (Cabaret; The Sterile Cuckoo) is 66.

 

Singer James Taylor (You’ve Got a Friend; Fire & Rain) is 64.

 

Keyboardist Bill Payne (Little Feat) is 63.

Singer Marlon Jackson (The Jackson Five) is 55.

Former professional baseball player Darryl Strawberry (NY Mets; LA Dodgers; SF Giants; NY Yankees) is 50.