Date 11/04/2008

Birthdays - November 4

1862 - Eden Phillpotts (author: Black, White and Brindled, A Deal With the Devil, The Red Redmaynes, Saurus; died Dec 29, 1960)

1879 - Will (William Penn Adair) Rogers (entertainer: The Wall Street Girl, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; humorist: “I never met a man I didn’t like.”; mayor: Beverly Hills; cowboy; subject of Broadway show: Will Rogers Follies; killed in plane crash Aug 15, 1935)

1912 - Pauline Trigere (fashion designer: produced first reversible coat; Costume Designer: Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

1913 - Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) (Academy Award-winning actor: They Shoot Horses Don’t They? {1969}; Teacher’s Pet, Young at Heart, Desperate Hours, The Rogues; TV host/narrator: Warner Brothers Presents; died Oct 19, 1978)

1916 - Walter Cronkite (Emmy Award-winning news anchor & news correspondent: CBS Evening News; narrator, host: The 20th Century, The 21st Century, The Facts We Face, Open Hearing, Man of the Week, It’s News to Me, Air Power; received Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governor’s Award {1979})

1917 - Virginia (Margaret Cynthia) Field (actress: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Dance, Girl, Dance, Waterloo Bridge; died Jan 2, 1992)

1918 - Art (William Matthew) Carney (Academy Award-winning actor: Harry and Tonto {1974}; Last Action Hero, Izzy and Moe, House Calls, Roadie, Take this Job and Shove It, Terrible Joe Moran; Emmy Award-winner: The Jackie Gleason Show: The Honeymooners {1954, 1955, 1966-1967, 1967-1968}, The Art Carney Special {1959-1960}; died Nov 9, 2003)

1918 - Cameron Mitchell (Mitzell) (actor: Trapped Alive, Hollywood Cop, Swift Justice, Blood and Black Lace, How to Marry a Millionaire, Desiree, The Tall Men, Carousel, Homecoming, The High Chaparral, Swiss Family Robinson; died July 6, 1994)

1919 - Martin (Henry) Balsam (Academy Award-winning actor: A Thousand Clowns {1965}; All the President’s Men, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Carpetbaggers, Death Wish 3, Delta Force, The Goodbye People, Harlow, Little Big Man, Marjorie Morningstar, Murder on the Orient Express, Psycho, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Twelve Angry Men, All in the Family; died Feb 13, 1996)

1923 - Alfred Heineken (beer mogul: Heineken Brewery; died Jan 3, 2002)

1930 - Dick (Richard Morrow) Groat (baseball: shortstop: Pittsburgh Pirates: {all-star: 1959, 1960, 1962/NL Batting Champ, Baseball Writers’ Award, Valuable Player, World Series: 1960}; SL Cardinals {all-star: 1963, 1964/World Series: 1964}, Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants; basketball: Ft. Wayne Pistons; sportscaster: WTAE, Pittsburgh: Panthers basketball {color})

1930 - Kate Reid (actress: Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Death Ship, Gavilan, Dallas; died Mar 27, 1993)

1930 - Doris Roberts (Emmy Award-winning actress: St. Elsewhere {1983}, Everybody Loves Raymond {2001, 2002, 2003, 2005}; Remington Steele, Maggie, Angie, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Ordinary Heroes, Used People)

1933 - Tito (John Patsy) Francona (baseball: Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians {all-star: 1961}, SL Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers)

1937 - Loretta Swit (Emmy Award-winning actress: M*A*S*H {1979-80, 1981-82}; TV host/narrator: Those Incredible Animals)

1938 - Harry Elston (musician: group: Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass)

1940 - Delbert McClinton (songwriter, singer: I Received a Letter {w/Glen Clark}, Sandy Beaches; musician: harmonica: Hey Baby {w/singer, Bruce Channel}; solo: Giving It Up for Your Love)

1941 - Walter Rock (football: Washington Redskins tackle: Super Bowl VII)

1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer: known for photographs of sadomasochistic rituals, nudes, portraits, still lifes; work on exhibit: Art Institute of Chicago, New York’s Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art, Paris’ Pompidou Center, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum)

1947 - Mike Smith (musician: saxophone: groups: Judas Jump; Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, {If Paradise Is} Half as Nice)

1950 - Markie Post (actress: Night Court, Hearts Afire, Fall Guy, The Gangster Chronicles)

1961 - Ralph Macchio (actor: Eight is Enough, Karate Kid series, Distant Thunder, My Cousin Vinny)

1966 - Kool Rock-Ski (Damon Wimbley) (rapper: group: Fat Boys)

1969 - Matthew McConaughey (actor: Angels in the Outfield, Amistad, The Newton Boys, U-571)