January 27
- 1992 – Connor Widdows, who appeared in “X-Men 2 & 3,” and the TV series “Battlestar Galactica.”
- 1984 – Elizabeth Domin, who appeared in the films “Skeleton Key” and “Cry_Wolf.”
- 1965 – Alan Cumming, who played “Nightcrawler” in “X2″ and “Glitch” in the TV mini-series “Tin Man.”
- 1964 – Bridget Fonda, who appeared in the films “Frankenstein Unbound” (where she played Mary Shelly), “Army of Darkness” and “Lake Placid.”
- 1957 – Frank Miller, legendary comic writer/artist who wrote the screenplays for “RoboCop 2″, “RoboCop 3″, “Sin City”, “300”, and many more.
- 1956 – Mimi Rogers who played “Maureen Robinson” in the 1998 remake of “Lost In Space” and starred in the film “Penny Dreadful.”
- 1953 – Horror host John Bloom a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs. He appeared in the TV mini-series “The Stand,” and the films “Evil Ever After” and “Rapturious.”
- 1940 – James Cromwell, best known to baby boomers as “Stretch Cunningham” on the TV series “All in the Family” and as “Babes” owner. He has appeared in the films “The Green Mile,” “Star Trek: First Contact,” “Surrogates,” “Spider-Man 3″ and the 2004 TV mini-series version of “Salem’s Lot.”
- 1936 – Troy Donahue, who appeared in the films “The Monolith Monsters,” “Monster on Campus” and “Dr. Alien.”
- 1928 – Michael Craig, who appeared in the 1961 version of “Mysterious Island,” “The Vault of Horror” and on the TV series’ “Dr. Who” and “Tales From the Unexpected.”
- 1913 – The late Michael Ripper was a talented character actor who appeared in numerous Hammer films including “Scars of Dracula”, “Taste the Blood of Dracula”, “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave”, “The Mummy’s Shroud”, “The Reptile”, “The Plague of the Zombies”, “The Mummy”, “Curse of the Werewolf” and many more. He passed away at the age of 87.
