If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”
Actor – producer – director Andy Griffith (The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock, A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, From Here to Eternity) is 86.
Singer Pat Boone (Love Letters in the Sand, April Love, Moody River, Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Friendly Persuasion, Don’t Forbid Me) is 78.
Peter Masterson (actor: The Exorcist; as Carlos Bee Masterson director: Arctic Blue, Night Game, Full Moon in Blue Water, The Trip to Bountiful) is 78.
Actor Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad) is 75.
Actor Rene Auberjonois (Coco, The Ballad of Little Jo, Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid, Police Academy 5, Pete ’n’ Tillie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud) is 72.
Actor Jonathan Pryce (Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carrington, Barbarians at the Gate, The Age of Innocence, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brazil) is 65.
Guitarist Ron Wood (Rolling Stones, since 1975) is 65.
Actor Powers Boothe (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones [1980]; Skag, Sudden Death, Nixon, Extreme Prejudice, The Emerald Forest) is 64.
Singer Graham Russell (Air Supply) is 62.
Actress Diana Canova (Soap, I’m a Big Girl Now, Throb, Home Free) is 59.
Singer Ronnie Dunn (Brooks & Dunn) is 59.
Actress Lisa Hartman (Knots Landing, Tabitha, Bare Essentials, Deadly Blessing, Red Wind) is 56.
Keyboardist Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode) is 53.
Drummer Mike Joyce (The Smiths) is 49.
Chief Writing Wolf 