This Date in MSTory

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Patton Oswalt* (Happy birthday, Patton!)

1903: Jerome Pycha Jr., production designer of the movie in episode 109- PROJECT MOON BASE.

1903: Leon M. Leon, the sound man for the movie in episode 804- THE DEADLY MANTIS.

1904: Frankie Marvin, who played Salty in the season four serial UNDERSEA KINGDOM.

1913: Michael Ripper, who played a cardplayer in the movie in episode 111- MOON ZERO TWO and David Hawkins in the movie in episode 905- THE DEADLY BEES.

1917: Regis Parton, who was a moleman in the movie in episode 803- THE MOLE PEOPLE and a Metalunan mutant in THIS ISLAND EARTH riffed in MST3K: THE MOVIE.

1918: Suzanne Ridgeway, who appeared as a party guest in the movie in episode 808- THE SHE-CREATURE.

1919: Richard Emory, who played a lieutenant in the movie in episode 517- BEGINNING OF THE END.

1921: Donna Reed, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 410- HERCULES AGAINST THE MOON MEN.

1934: Jaime Jesús Balcázar, a producer for the movie in episode 323- THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU.*

1946: Kim Gardner, member of The Birds who performed in the movie in episode 905- THE DEADLY BEES.

1946: Don Dohler, director of the movie “Galaxy Invader,” snippets of which were seen during the credits of movie in episode 303- POD PEOPLE.

1959: Fred Frank (age 64), assistant director for the movie in episode 801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE plus THIS ISLAND EARTH, riffed in MST3K: THE MOVIE.

1968: Clarence A. Shoop (age 60), who played an army major in the movie in episode 602- INVASION U.S.A.

1972: David McMahon (age 61), who played Gen. Carpenter in the movie in episode 311- IT CONQUERED THE WORLD and Capt. Frank Carver in the movie in episode 804- THE DEADLY MANTIS.

1979: Les Bowie (age 65), who did special effects for the movies in episodes 101- THE CRAWLING EYE and 111- MOON ZERO TWO.

1994: Claude Akins (age 67), who played Jason Trumball in the movie in episode 322- MASTER NINJA and was mentioned in a host segment in episode 304- GAMERA VS. BARUGON.

2000: Loretta Agar (age 77), who played a woman on a boat in the movie in episode 801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE.

2005: Jonathan Welsh (age 57), who played Herman Stover in the movie in episode K16- CITY ON FIRE.

2010: Martin Grace (age 67), who played the assassin in the red spacesuit in the movie in episode 111- MOON ZERO TWO and did some stunts for the TV series “Space: 1999,” featured in episode K10- COSMIC PRINCESS.

2011: Charlie Callas (age 86), the inspiration for the “Charlie Callas massager,” one of Joel’s inventions demonstrated in episode 320- THE UNEARTHLY.

2011: Joe Lanza (age 87), choreographer for the movie in episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH (in which he also played a work farm inmate).

2011: Anthony La Penna (age 92), who was the narrator for the movie in episode 304- GAMERA VS. BARUGON and played Kurt in the movie in episode 513- THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE. He also provided the English dub voice of Lunari in the movie in episode 410- HERCULES AGAINST THE MOON MEN.

2018: Cartoonist Mort Walker (age 94), the creator of Beetle Bailey, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 315- TEENAGE CAVEMAN.

2018: Cliff Wenger, who did special effects for the movie in episode K16- CITY ON FIRE.

1990: episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH first shown.

1964: Henry Fonda, star of episode K16- CITY ON FIRE, celebrates the birth of his granddaughter, future actress Bridget Fonda.

1984: The NBC TV series “The Master” first broadcasts the episode entitled “Out-of-Time Step,” which would later be incorporated into episode 322- MASTER NINJA I.

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This Date in MSTory is written and compiled by Christopher Cornell, Brian Henry and Steve Finley with assistance by Tim Brown, Gordon Lawyer and many other Satellite News commenters.

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