This Date in MSTory

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1890: El Brendel, who played the manservant Olaf in the movie in episode 808- THE SHE-CREATURE.
1908: Daniel White, who played Porky Reed in the movie in episode 406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES.

1914: Yelena Fadeyeva, who played Maria Pavlovna in the movie in episode K11- HUMANOID WOMAN.

1922: Flavio Mogherini, set designer and art director for the movie in episode 502- HERCULES, art director and model effects creator for the movie in episode 1013- DIABOLIK and architect for the movie in episode 408- HERCULES UNCHAINED.

1922: Eileen Ford, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 516- ALIEN FROM L.A.

1922: Bruno Vesota, who played Sidney Chillas in the movie in episode 307- DADDY-O, Dave Walker in 406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, Zebulon Tabb in 511- GUNSLINGER, Mr. Seltzer in 515- THE WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN and Scroop in 806- THE UNDEAD.

1926: Guy Buccola, who played a leech in the movie in episode 406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES.

1927: Sylvia Anderson, co-creator of and writer for the TV series “Stingray,” episodes of which were incorporated into episode K01- INVADERS FROM THE DEEP and co-creator and writer for the TV series “Captain Scarlet,” episodes of which were incorporated into episode K02- REVENGE OF THE MYSTERONS FROM MARS. She was also the co-producer of the TV series “Space: 1999,” two episodes of which were incorporated into K10- COSMIC PRINCESS (though the two episodes featured were made in the show’s second season, after she and her husband and co-creator Gerry Anderson had parted ways). She also voiced some minor characters in that movie. One of the mole people in Deep 13 was named “Sylvia,” in tribute to her.

1927: Herbert Fux, who played the Governor in the movie in episode 323- THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU.

1933: Romano Puppo, who played Trash’s dad in the movie in episode 705- ESCAPE 2000.

1938: Hoyt Axton, who sang the theme song in the movie in episode 512- MITCHELL.

1943: Paul Michael Glaser, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 324- MASTER NINJA 2.*

1949: Bob Ezrin, co-author of the song “The Trial,” by Pink Floyd, which the bots sing snippets of in a host segment in episode 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN.*

1954: Meredith Kibbee, script supervisor for the movie in episode 622- ANGELS’ REVENGE.*

1960: Pamela Ludwig, who played Frankie in the movie in episode 403- CITY LIMITS.*

1961: John Stockwell, who played Lee in the movie in episode 403- CITY LIMITS.*

1968: Douglas Evans (age 64), who played Norman Taggart in the movie in episode 517- BEGINNING OF THE END.

1969: Alan Mowbray (age 72), who played Gordon in the short ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON, seen in episode 701- NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST.

1973: Heinz Kögel (age 56), who had a small role in the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.

1976: William Burnside (age 49; car accident), who played a bus disaster observer in the movie in episode 804- THE DEADLY MANTIS.

1983: Ib Lønvang (age 49), assistant camera for the movie in episode 1101- REPTILICUS.

1984: Vera Marshe (age 78), who played Mrs. Hubbard in the movie in episode 414- TORMENTED and Freida Johnson in the movie in episode 906- THE SPACE CHILDREN.

1985: Arthur Millan (age 70), who played Carl Parkins in
the movie in episode 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS.

1992: Nancy Walker (age 69), who was mentioned in host segments in episode 805- THE THING THAT COULDN’T DIE and 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS.

1994: Rudi Feld (age 96), art director for the movie in episode 524- 12 TO THE MOON.

2012: Bill Weston (age 70), who appeared as the gunman in the green spacesuit in the movie in episode 111- MOON ZERO TWO. (He also served as the stunt advisor.)

2015: Ivo Garrani (age 91), who played King Pelias in the movie in episode 502- HERCULES and the King of Megalia in the movie in episode 412- HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN.

1995: episode 624- SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN first shown.

1954: At the Oscars: Lyle R. Wheeler, production designer for the movie in episode 401- SPACE TRAVELERS, shares an art direction award for “The Robe.” Cedric Gibbons, supervising art director for the movie in episode 510- THE PAINTED HILLS, shares his art direction award for “Julius Caesar” with Edwin B. Willis.

1956: The movie in episode 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN premieres in the U.S.A.

1956: The movie WORLD WITHOUT END, riffed in MST3K’s first live show, premieres in the U.S.A.

1964: The movie in episode 612- THE STARFIGHTERS has its premiere.

1991: At the Oscars: John Barry, composer for the movie in episode 1106- STARCRASH, wins the best score award for “Dances with Wolves.” The ceremony is hosted by Billy Crystal, who played David in the movie in episode K13- SST-DEATH FLIGHT. Neil Travis, an editor on the movie in episode 322- MASTER NINJA I, wins the best editing award for “Dances with Wolves.” Rob Bottin, assistant makeup artist for movie in episode 704- THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN, in which he was also a stunt double, shares an Academy special achievement award for the visual effects in the movie “Total Recall.”

2001: At the Oscars: Rick Baker, who did the the sfx make-up for the movies in episodes 704- THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN, 1007- TRACK OF THE MOON BEAST and 1012- SQUIRM, wins his sixth make-up award for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and Baker shared that award with Gail Rowell-Ryan, who was Loni Anderson’s hairstylist for the movie in episode 1304- MUNCHIE. Also, Dino De Laurentiis, producer for the movie in episode 1013- DIABOLIK, receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

2014: Shout! Factory releases The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. XXIX.

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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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