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Entertainment Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Name for August 17

Last Updated 08-19-2025

🎭Tim Bagley -- is 68 in the year 2025 and 69 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1957 N.S.
Actor

🎭🏆Carmen Berg -- is 62 in the year 2025 and 63 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1963
Actress, Model, Playmate
Misc: Real Estate Agent; July 1987

🎭Austin Butler -- is 34 in the year 2025 and 35 in the year 2026; 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: Dune: Part Two, Elvis, Aliens in the Attic, The Bling Ring

🎭Orlagh Cassidy -- is 58 in the year 2025 and 59 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1967
Actress
Movie Titles: Still Alice, Young Adult

🎭David Conrad -- is 58 in the year 2025 and 59 in the year 2026; 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

🎭Martha Coolidge -- is 79 in the year 2025 and 80 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1946
Producer/Director
Movie Titles: Valley Girl (director), Real Genius (director), Rambling Rose (director)

🎭Brady Corbet -- is 37 in the year 2025 and 38 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1988 N.S.
Actor, Director
TV Shows: 24
Movie Titles: Melancholia, Thirteen, Funny Games, Martha Marcy May Marlene

🎭🏆🏈Ed Cunningham -- is 56 in the year 2025 and 57 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1969
Filmmaker, Producer, Sports Announcer, NFL Center

⛪🎭Robert De Niro -- is 82 in the year 2025 and 83 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1943 N.S.
Roman Catholic, TV/Movie Actor, Producer
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

🎭Rupert Degas -- is 55 in the year 2025 and 56 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1970
Actor, Producer, English
TV Shows: Bob the Builder
Movie Titles: Evil Dead, Planet 51, Chop Socky Chooks, Rogue Trooper

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🎭Andrea Espada -- is 39 in the year 2025 and 40 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1986 N.S.
TV Hostess, Colombian
TV Shows: UFC Now

✍🎭🎵Wesley Eure -- is 74 in the year 2025 and 75 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1951 N.S.
Author, Lecturer, Screenwriter, TV/Soap Actor, Producer, Director, 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!)

🎭Taissa Farmiga -- is 31 in the year 2025 and 32 in the year 2026; 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

✍🎭Julian Fellowes -- is 76 in the year 2025 and 77 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1949 N.S.
Screenwriter, Actor, Producer, Egyptian
TV Shows: Downtown Abbey (writer)
Movie Titles: Gosford Park (writer), The Tourist (writer), The Young Victoria (writer)

🎭Tom Gallop -- is 59 in the year 2025 and 60 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1966 N.S.
Actor, Producer
TV Shows: Will and Grace, Hudson Street (as officer Regelski)
Movie Titles: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy

🎭🏆Ted Giannoulas -- is 72 in the year 2025 and 73 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1953 N.S.
Actor, Sports Figure
Misc: The KGB Chicken, The San Diego Chicken, The Famous Chicken, The Chicken. World famous mascot.

🎭🎵Kristin Holt -- is 44 in the year 2025 and 45 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1981
Actress, Personality, Singer
Names/Places: aka Kristin Adams
TV Shows: American Idol (Special Correspondent 2003, contestant 2002)

🎭Rachel Hurd-Wood -- is 35 in the year 2025 and 36 in the year 2026; 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

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🎭🎮Bryton James -- is 39 in the year 2025 and 40 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1986 N.S.
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, The Young and the Restless
Video Games: The Jungle Book: Rhythm 'n Groove

🎭Won Ji-an -- is 26 in the year 2025 and 27 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1999 N.S.
Actress, South Korean
Names/Places: RN: Kim In-seon

🎭Robert Joy -- is 74 in the year 2025 and 75 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1951
Actor, Producer, Canadian
TV Shows: CSI:NY (as Dr. Sid Hammerback)
Movie Titles: Land of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, Sweet November

🎭Brock Kelly -- is 40 in the year 2025 and 41 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1985
Actor
Movie Titles: Pitch Perfect, Costa Rican Summer, Faded Memories, Portal

🎭Guy Killum -- is 63 in the year 2025 and 64 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1962
Actor
Movie Titles: Crossroads, School Daze

🎭Julianna McCarthy -- is 96 in the year 2025 and 97 in the year 2026; 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

🎭Kate McNeil -- is 66 in the year 2025 and 67 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1959 N.S.
Actress
Movie Titles: Monkey Shines, The House on Sorority Row, Sudden Death

🎭🎮Jake Patellis -- is 48 in the year 2025 and 49 in the year 2026; 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

✍🎭Sean Penn -- is 65 in the year 2025 and 66 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1960
Screenwriter, Actor, Producer/Director
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

🎭🏆Janet Quist-Austion -- is 70 in the year 2025 and 71 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1955
Actress, Model, Playmate
Misc: December 1978

🎭Giuliana Rancic -- is 51 in the year 2025 and 52 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1974 N.S.
Personality, Italian
Names/Places: aka Giuliana DePandi

🎭Allan Royal -- is 81 in the year 2025 and 82 in the year 2026; 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

🎭Bo Rucker -- is 77 in the year 2025 and 78 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1948
Actor
Movie Titles: The Devil's Advocate, Superman (1978), Presumed Innocent, Lock Up

🎭Larry B. Scott -- is 64 in the year 2025 and 65 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1961
Actor, Producer/Director
TV Shows: Super Force
Movie Titles: The Karate Kid, Revenge of the Nerds, SpaceCamp, Iron Eagle

🎭🎵Tammy Townsend -- is 55 in the year 2025 and 56 in the year 2026; 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

🎭🎵Donnie Wahlberg -- is 56 in the year 2025 and 57 in the year 2026; b.8/17/1969 N.S.
Actor, Producer, 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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✍🎭Richard Aldrich -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1902 d.3/31/1986 (83)
Author, Stage Producer

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

🎭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

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

✍🎭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

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

🎭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

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

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🎭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)

🎭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.

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

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

🎭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)

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

🎭🎵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

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

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

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

🎭🎵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

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

✍🎭🎵Mae West -- Birth Anniversary -- b.8/17/1893 N.S. d.11/22/1980 N.S. (87)
Screenwriter, Playwright, 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

🎭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)

🎭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

🎭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)

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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)

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

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

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

🎭Yvonne Craig -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/16/1937 N.S. d.8/17/2015 N.S. (78)
TV Actress, Dancer, Ballerina
TV Shows: Batman (as Barbara Batgirl Gordon)

✍🎭Delmer Daves -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/24/1904 N.S. d.8/17/1977 N.S. (73)
Screenwriter, Producer/Director

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

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

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

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

🎭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, 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, 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)

🎭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

🎭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

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

🎭Terence Stamp -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/22/1938 N.S. d.8/17/2025 N.S. (87)
Actor, Director, English
Names/Places: b. in London
Movie Titles: Wanted, Star Wars: Episode I -The Phantom Menace, Yes Man, The Limey, Superman, Wall Street, Bowfinger, Alien Nations

🎭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)

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

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Rob (Actor) Steele -- Calculated Annual Tribute Days (Calantrib) -- b.??/??/1945 N.S. d.5/14/2022 N.S.
Actor, Australian
Misc: b. c. 1940 -1945

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