#OTD 1960 – Clark Gable, 59, (Heart Attack), US actor. (b. 1901)
He appeared in over 60 films in a career of three decades of which was as a leading man. He died of a heart attack age 59. His final role was of an aging cowboy in Huston's The Misfits, released posthumously, 1961.
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) * A Free Soul * Night Nurse * Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) * Possessed * Red Dust * No Man of Her Own (with future wife Carole Lombard) * White Sister * Dancing Lady * It Happened One Night
Manhattan Melodrama * Chained * The Call of the Wild (with Loretta Young) * China Seas * Mutiny on the Bounty * San Francisco * Saratoga * Idiot's Delight * Gone with the Wind * Strange Cargo * Boom Town * Comrade X
Honky Tonk * The Hucksters * Any Number Can Play * Across the Wide Missouri * Mogambo * Betrayed * Soldier of Fortune * The Tall Men * Run Silent, Run Deep * Teacher's Pet * It Started in Naples * The Misfits (1961 posthumous)
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#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
Kids (1995) * Trees Lounge * The Last Days of Disco * Boys Don't Cry (OscarNom) * American Psycho * Dogville * Demon lover * Party Monster * Shattered Glass * Melinda and Melinda * Broken Flowers
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
3 Needles * Sisters * Big Love * Zodiac * My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done * Beautiful Darling * Hit & Miss * American Horror Story * Linda Lovelace * The Wait * #Horror
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
Kitty (+ director) * Beatriz at Dinner * Lizzie * Love Is Blind * The Dead Don't Die * White Echo (+ Director) * True Adventures of Wolf boy * Queen & Slim * Slow Machine (2020) * Bones & All (TBA)
#BOTD 1944 – Danny DeVito, 77, US actor, director, and producer
He found fame as taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the TV's Taxi (1978–83) Golden Globe and Emmy. He currently plays Frank Reynolds in the FX and FXX sitcom, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, (2006–present)
#BOTD 1944 – Danny DeVito, 77, US actor, director, producer.
One Flew over Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) * Terms of Endearment * Romancing the Stone * Jewel of Nile * Tin Men * Throw Momma from Train (+ Director) * Twins * War of Roses (+ Director) * Batman Returns * Hoffa (+ Director)
#BOTD 1944 – Danny DeVito, 77, US actor, director, producer.
Reality Bites * Junior * Renaissance Man * Get Shorty * Matilda (+ Director) * Space Jam * Mars Attacks * The Rainmaker * LA Confidential * Gattaca * Out of Sight * Erin Brockovich * Big Fish * Deck the Halls * Jumanji
#BOTD 1942 – Martin Scorsese, 79, US filmmaker, screenwriter.
He's directed 25 films and 16 documentaries. A founding member of the Film Foundation which has restored over 800 films, including Powell, and Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948) and Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937)
#BOTD 1942 – Martin Scorsese, 79, US filmmaker, screenwriter.
Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)* Boxcar Bertha * Mean Streets * Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore * Taxi Driver * New York, New York * Raging Bull * The King of Comedy (1982)
#BOTD 1942 – Martin Scorsese, 79, US filmmaker, screenwriter.
After Hours (1985) * The Color of Money * The Last Temptation of Christ * Goodfellas * Cape Fear * The Age of Innocence * Casino * Kundun * Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)
Soldier in the Rain * No Way to Treat a Lady * Marathon Man * Princess Bride * Magic * Heat * Wild Card. He won Oscars for his screenplays Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969) and All President's Men (1976)
#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)
Screenplays: Harper (1966) Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969 Oscar) The Hot Rock (1972) The Stepford Wives (1975) Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Marathon Man (1976 his novel) All the President's Men (1976 Oscar)
#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)
A Bridge Too Far * Magic (his novel) Heat (his novel) * Princess Bride his novel) * Misery * A Few Good Men (consultant) Chaplin * Malice (consultant) Maverick * Dolores Claiborne (consultant) * The Chamber
#OTD 1981 – William Holden, (b. William Beedle Jr.), 63, (Accident), US actor (b. 1918)
The Golden Boy (1938) I Wanted Wings * Rachel and Stranger * Sunset Boulevard (Oscar Nom) * Born Yesterday * Stalag 17 (Oscar) * Executive Suite * Sabrina * The Bridges Toko-Ri * Country Girl
#OTD 1981 – William Holden, 63, US actor (b. 1918)
Love Many-Splendored Thing * Picnic * Bridge River Kwai * Horse Soldiers * World of Suzie Wong * Paris When It Sizzles * Alvarez Kelly * Devils Brigade * Wild Bunch * Towering Inferno * Network (OscarNom) * Omen II * SOB (1981)
#OTD 1981 – William Holden, 63, US actor (b. 1918)
"A British Army colonel in a Japanese PoW camp, co-operates with the enemy and oversees his men's construction of the Burma Railway to supply Japanese troops -oblivious to Allies plan to destroy it."
Classically trained in St Petersburg, he eventually moved to New York. In 1929, after stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood. He won Oscars for High Noon (1952) High and Mighty (1954) Old Man and the Sea (1958)
OscarNom: Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Corsican Brothers * The Moon and Sixpence * Bridge of San Luis Rey * Champion * High Noon (Oscar + Song) The High and Mighty (Oscar) Giant * Friendly Persuasion (1957)
OscarNom: Wild Is the Wind (1957 Song) Old Man and Sea (Oscar) Young Land (Song) Alamo (+ Song) Guns of Navarone * Town Without Pity (+ Song) 55 Days at Peking (+ Song) Fall of Roman Empire * Tchaikovsky (1969)