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Entertainment Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Age for August 17

Last Updated 07-17-2023

🎭Julianna McCarthy -- is 94 in the year 2023 and 95 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1929
Actress
TV Shows: Young & the Restless (as Liz Brooks Foster for 24 years)
Movie Titles: Starship Troopers, The Frighteners, Bundy, Striking Distance

⛪🎭Robert De Niro -- is 80 in the year 2023 and 81 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1943 N.S.
Roman Catholic, TV/Movie Actor, Producer (m)
Names/Places: b. in New York City
TV Shows: Search for Tomorrow
Movie Titles: Godfather II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Untouchables, GoodFellas, Awakenings, Frankenstein, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Mean Streets, Bang the Drum Slowly, Casino, Backdraft, Sleepers, Marvin's Room, Wag the Dog, Jackie Brown, Great Expectations, Meet the Parents, Men of Honor, 15 Minutes, Showtime, City by the Sea, Analyze That, Godsend, Shark Tale, Meet The Fockers, Hide and Seek, The Good Shepherd, Arthur and the Invisibles, Righteous Kill

🎭Allan Royal -- is 79 in the year 2023 and 80 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1944
Actor, Canadian
TV Shows: They Came From Outer Space (as Lt. Col. Tom Barker), Falcon Crest (as R.D. Young), Night Heat (as Tom Kirkwood)
Movie Titles: The Good Witch, Pirates of Silicon Valley

🎭Martha Coolidge -- is 77 in the year 2023 and 78 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1946
Producer/Director (m)
Movie Titles: Valley Girl (director), Real Genius (director), Rambling Rose (director)

🎭Bo Rucker -- is 75 in the year 2023 and 76 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1948
Actor
Movie Titles: The Devil's Advocate, Superman (1978), Presumed Innocent, Lock Up

✍🎭Julian Fellowes -- is 74 in the year 2023 and 75 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1949 N.S.
Screenwriter, Actor, Producer (m), Egyptian
TV Shows: Downtown Abbey (writer)
Movie Titles: Gosford Park (writer), The Tourist (writer), The Young Victoria (writer)

🎭Robert Joy -- is 72 in the year 2023 and 73 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1951
Actor, Producer (m), Canadian
TV Shows: CSI:NY (as Dr. Sid Hammerback)
Movie Titles: Land of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, Sweet November

✍🎭🎵Wesley Eure -- is 72 in the year 2023 and 73 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1951 N.S.
Author (m), Lecturer, Screenwriter, TV/Soap Actor, Producer (m), Director (m), Singer
TV Shows: Days of Our Lives (as Mike Horton), Land of the Lost (as Will Marshall), Dragon Tales (creator and writer), Spy TV (writer), Totally Hidden Video (writer and assorted characters)
Movie Titles: C.H.O.M.P.S. (which is the reason why he's in the Demented Datebook!)

🎭🏆Janet Quist-Austion -- is 68 in the year 2023 and 69 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1955
Actress, Model, Playmate
Misc: December 1978

🎭Kate McNeil -- is 64 in the year 2023 and 65 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1959 N.S.
Actress
Movie Titles: Monkey Shines, The House on Sorority Row, Sudden Death

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✍🎭Sean Penn -- is 63 in the year 2023 and 64 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1960
Screenwriter, Actor, Producer/Director (m)
Names/Places: b. in Santa Monica; Madonna's ex-
Misc: ex-Brat Pack
Movie Titles: 21 Grams, Milk, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Colors, Dead Man Walking, Thin Red Line, Sweet and Lowdown, Up at the Villa, I Am Sam, Mystic River

🎭Larry B. Scott -- is 62 in the year 2023 and 63 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1961
Actor, Producer/Director (m)
TV Shows: Super Force
Movie Titles: The Karate Kid, Revenge of the Nerds, SpaceCamp, Iron Eagle

🎭Guy Killum -- is 61 in the year 2023 and 62 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1962
Actor
Movie Titles: Crossroads, School Daze

🎭🏆Carmen Berg -- is 60 in the year 2023 and 61 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1963
Actress, Model, Playmate
Misc: Real Estate Agent; July 1987

🎭David Conrad -- is 56 in the year 2023 and 57 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1967 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: Relativity, Miss Match (as Michael Mendelsohn), Ghost Whisperer (as Jim Clancy)
Movie Titles: Wedding Crashers, Men of Honor, Return to Paradise

🎭Orlagh Cassidy -- is 56 in the year 2023 and 57 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1967
Actress
Movie Titles: Still Alice, Young Adult

🎭🏆🏈Ed Cunningham -- is 54 in the year 2023 and 55 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1969
Filmmaker, Producer (m), Sports Announcer, NFL Center

🎭🎵Donnie Wahlberg -- is 54 in the year 2023 and 55 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1969
Actor, Producer (m), Pop Singer
Names/Places: RFN:Donald E.
Group Names: The New Kids on the Block
TV Shows: Boomtown (as Det. Joel Stevens), Blue Bloods (as Danny Reagan)
Movie Titles: The Sixth Sense, Saw (series)

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🎭Rupert Degas -- is 53 in the year 2023 and 54 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1970
Actor, Producer (m), English
TV Shows: Bob the Builder
Movie Titles: Evil Dead, Planet 51, Chop Socky Chooks, Rogue Trooper

🎭🎵Tammy Townsend -- is 53 in the year 2023 and 54 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1970
Actress, Singer
TV Shows: Rock Me Baby (as Pam), K.C. Undercover (as Kira Cooper)
Movie Titles: The Preacher's Kid, The Pest

🎭Giuliana Rancic -- is 49 in the year 2023 and 50 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1974 N.S.
Personality, Italian
Names/Places: aka Giuliana DePandi

🎭🎮Jake Patellis -- is 46 in the year 2023 and 47 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1977
Actor, Video Game Voice Actor
Misc: retired from acting in 2000
TV Shows: The Good Life (as Paul Bowman), George and Leo
Video Games: Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse

🎭🎵Kristin Holt -- is 42 in the year 2023 and 43 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1981
Actress, Personality, Singer
Names/Places: aka Kristin Adams
TV Shows: American Idol (Special Correspondent 2003, contestant 2002)

🎭Brock Kelly -- is 38 in the year 2023 and 39 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1985
Actor
Movie Titles: Pitch Perfect, Costa Rican Summer, Faded Memories, Portal

🎭Andrea Espada -- is 37 in the year 2023 and 38 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1986 N.S.
TV Hostess, Colombian
TV Shows: UFC Now

🎭🎮Bryton James -- is 37 in the year 2023 and 38 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1986
Actor, Cartoon Voice Actor, Video Game Voice Actor
Names/Places: RN:Bryton McClure
TV Shows: Family Matters (as Richie Crawford), Hero Factory, The Vampire Diaries, DC Super Friends, Winx Club (series), Zevo-3
Video Games: The Jungle Book: Rhythm 'n Groove

🎭Brady Corbet -- is 35 in the year 2023 and 36 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1988 N.S.
Actor, Director (m)
TV Shows: 24
Movie Titles: Melancholia, Thirteen, Funny Games, Martha Marcy May Marlene

🎭Rachel Hurd-Wood -- is 33 in the year 2023 and 34 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1990 N.S.
Actress, English
TV Shows: Home Fires (as Kate Heaton or Kate Campbell)
Movie Titles: Tomorrow When The War Began, An American Haunting, Peter Pan (2003), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

🎭Austin Butler -- is 32 in the year 2023 and 33 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1991 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: Zoey 101, Switched at Birth, The Carrie Diaries (as Sebastian Kydd), The Shannara Chronicles (as Wil Ohmsford)
Movie Titles: Elvis, Aliens in the Attic, The Bling Ring

🎭Taissa Farmiga -- is 29 in the year 2023 and 30 in the year 2024; b.8/17/1994 N.S.
Actress
TV Shows: American Horror Story (as Violet Harmon), Wicked City (as Karen McClaren)
Movie Titles: The Final Girls, The Bling Ring, 6 Years, Jamsey Boy, Middleton

🎭Julia Marlowe -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1865 N.S. d.11/12/1950 N.S. (85)
Stage Actress, English
Names/Places: RN:Sarah Frances Frost
Misc: known especially for her interpretations of William Shakespeare.

🎭Monty Woolley -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1888 d.5/6/1963 (74)
Movie/Stage Actor
Names/Places: RFMN:Edgar Montillion
Movie Titles: the Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner

✍🎭🎵Mae West -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1893 N.S. d.11/22/1980 N.S. (87)
Screenwriter, Playwright (m), Movie/Stage Actress, Comedienne, Singer
Misc: b. in Brooklyn; "Come up and see me sometime", "I've never met a man I didn't like", "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted"; career spanned seven decades; d. in Hollywood

🎭Marty May -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1898 N.S. d.11/11/1975 N.S. (77)
Comedian

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✍🎭Richard Aldrich -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1902 d.3/31/1986 (83)
Author (m), Stage Producer (m)

🎭Walter Herlihy -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1912 d.10/6/1956 (44)
TV Host, Announcer (m)
TV Shows: Music at the Meadowbrook

🎭Mort Marshall -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1918 d.2/1/1979 (60)
Actor

🎭Ralph Roberts -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1918 N.S. d.4/30/1999 N.S. (80)
Actor

🎭Evelyn Ankers -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1918 N.S. d.8/29/1985 N.S. (67)
Movie Actress, British, Chilean
Movie Titles: The Wolf Man

🎭🎵Maureen O'Hara -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1920 N.S. d.10/24/2015 N.S. (95)
Movie Actress, Singer, Irish
Names/Places: b. in Dublin; RLN:Fitzsimmons
Misc: some say b. 1921
Movie Titles: Miracle on 34th Street, The Quiet Man, How Green Was My Valley, McLintock!, Long Gray Line, Parent Trap, Spencer's Mountain

🎭Bob Clayton -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1922 d.11/1/1979 (57)
Game Show Host, Announcer (m)
TV Shows: Concentration (host in 60s and 70s), The Pyramid (announcer)

🎨🎭🎵Larry Rivers -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1923 N.S. d.8/14/2002 N.S. (78)
Cartoonist, Painter (m), Sculptor (m), Teacher (m), Actor, Filmmaker, Musician
Names/Places: b. in New York City; RN:Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg
Misc: pop artist; Washington crossing the Delaware 1953

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✍🎭Jean Poiret -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1926 d.3/14/1992 (65)
Dramatist/Playwright (m), Movie Actor, Movie Director (m), French
Movie Titles: La Cage Aux Folles

🎭Robert Moore -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1927 d.5/10/1984 (56)
Stage Actor, Stage Director (m)
Misc: Broadway's 1970-80s successful director (Promises Promises, Deathtrap, Woman of the Year)
TV Shows: Diana

🎭Chet Allen -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1928 N.S. d.4/19/2011 N.S. (82)
Actor, Director (m)
TV Shows: Bonino & The Troubleshooters

✍🎭Harve Bennett -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1930 N.S. d.2/25/2015 N.S. (84)
Screenwriter, TV/Movie Producer (m)

🎭Glenn Corbett -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1933 N.S. d.1/16/1993 N.S. (59)
Soap Actor, TV/Movie Actor
TV Shows: Route 66 (as Linc), Dallas (as Paul), The Doctors

🎭Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1936 N.S. d.12/13/2007 N.S. (71)
TV Actor
TV Shows: Walker Texas Ranger (as Uncle Ray 1993-94)

🎭Anthony Valentine -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1939 N.S. d.12/2/2015 N.S. (76)
Actor, English
TV Shows: Masada

✍🎭Shane Briant -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1946 N.S. d.5/27/2021 N.S. (74)
Novelist, Actor, English
Movie Titles: Demons of the Mind, Straight on Till Morning, Captain Kronos -Vampire Hunter, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

🎭Helen McCrory -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1968 N.S. d.4/16/2021 N.S. (52)
Actress, English
TV Shows: Peaky Blinders, Fearless
Movie Titles: Skyfall, Hugo, Harry Potter (series)

🎭Joshua Andrew Koenig -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1968 N.S. d.2/16/2010 N.S. (41)
Actor
Misc: died between Feb 16 and 18 of 2010
TV Shows: Growing Pains (as Boner)

🎭🎵Mark Salling -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1982 N.S. d.1/30/2018 N.S. (35)
Actor, Musician
TV Shows: Glee (as Noah "Puck" Puckerman)
Movie Titles: Rocky Road, Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

🎭Robert Frazer -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/29/1891 d.8/17/1944 (53)
Actor

🎭Richard Barthelmess -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/9/1895 d.8/17/1963 (68)
Actor

🎭Ed Gardner -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/29/1901 d.8/17/1963 (62)
Radio Actor, Comedian
Misc: radio: Duffy's Tavern

🎭Horace McMahon -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/17/1907 d.8/17/1971 (64)
Actor
Names/Places: RLN:MacMahon
TV Shows: Martin Kane (as Captain Willis), Danny Thomas Show (as Horace), Naked City (as Lt. Mike Parker), Jackie Gleason Show

🎭Edgar Dearing -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/4/1893 d.8/17/1974 (81)
Actor
Movie Titles: Free & Easy, Abraham Lincoln

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🎭Sig Arno -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/27/1895 d.8/17/1975 (79)
TV/Movie Actor, German
Names/Places: RN:Siegfried Aron
TV Shows: My Friend Irma (as Professor Kropotkin)

✍🎭William Redfield -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/26/1927 d.8/17/1976 (49)
Writer (m), Actor

🎭Murvyn Vye -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/15/1913 d.8/17/1976 (63)
Actor
TV Shows: Bob Cummings Show (as Lionel)

✍🎭Delmer Daves -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/24/1904 d.8/17/1977 (73)
Screen/Scriptwriter, Producer/Director (m)

🎭Vivian Vance -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/26/1912 d.8/17/1979 (67)
Hall of Famer, TV/Stage Actress
Names/Places: b. in Cherryville, KS
Misc: some say b. 1907, 11, or 13
TV Shows: I Love Lucy (as Ethel Mertz), The Lucy Show (as Vivian Bagley)

🎭Barney Phillips -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/20/1913 d.8/17/1982 (68)
Actor
TV Shows: Dragnet (as Sgt. Ed Jacobs), Twelve O'Clock High (as Maj. Doc Kaiser), Felony Squad (as Capt. Franks), The Betty White Show

🎭Clarence Brown -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/10/1890 d.8/17/1987 (97)
Movie Director (m)

🎭Harry Corbett -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/28/1918 d.8/17/1989 (71)
Actor, Puppeteer (m), British
Movie Titles: Jabberwocky

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🎭🎵Pearl Bailey -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/27/1918 N.S. d.8/17/1990 N.S. (72)
TV/Stage Actress, Gospel Singer, Blues Singer
Names/Places: b. in Newport News, VA; d. in Philadelphia
TV Shows: The Pearl Bailey Show, Silver Spoons (as Lulu Baker)
Movie Titles: The Fox and The Hound (as the voice of Big Mama the owl)

🎭Don Dubbins -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/28/1928 d.8/17/1991 (63)
Actor

🎭Gerald Gordon -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/12/1934 d.8/17/2001 (67)
Soap Actor
TV Shows: The Doctors, General Hospital

🎭Arthur Hiller -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/22/1923 d.8/17/2016 N.S. (92)
Director (m), Canadian
Movie Titles: The Americanization of Emily, Tobruk, The Hospital, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Man in the Glass Booth, Love Story, Lonely Guy, In-Laws, Man of LaMancha

⚖🎭Sonny Landham -- Death Anniversary -- b.2/11/1941 d.8/17/2017 N.S. (76)
Politician (m), Actor
Movie Titles: Lock Up, Poltergeist, 48 Hours, Predator

🎭Wanda Lewis -- Death Anniversary -- b.2/2/1926 N.S. d.8/17/2020 N.S. (94)
Actress
Misc: Uncle Al Lewis's wife; active from 1950-1951
TV Shows: The Uncle Al Show (as Captain Windy, the show aired in the Cincinnatti area and one of the longest-running children's shows in the country, airing from 1950 to 1985)

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