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Entertainment Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Name for December 5

Last Updated 08-16-2025

🎭Amy Acker -- is 49 in the year 2025 and 50 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1976
Actress
TV Shows: Angel, Alias, Dollhouse, Person of Interest
Movie Titles: The Cabin in the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing

🎭Lewis Arlt -- is 76 in the year 2025 and 77 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1949
Actor, Director

🎭Brian Backer -- is 69 in the year 2025 and 70 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1956
Actor
Movie Titles: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Burning, The Money Pit, Loser

🎭Ross Bagley -- is 37 in the year 2025 and 38 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1988
Actor
Misc: b. 1989?
TV Shows: Fresh Prince of Bel Air (as Nicholas "Nicky" Andrew Banks/ Cousin)
Movie Titles: Independence Day, The Little Rascals, Babe

🎭🎮Joseph Barbara -- is 58 in the year 2025 and 59 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1967
Actor, Producer, Video Game Voice Actor
Video Games: Grand Theft Auto IV (series),

🎭Alexandra Beaton -- is 31 in the year 2025 and 32 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1994 N.S.
Actress, Canadian
TV Shows: The Next Step
Movie Titles: 300

🎭Morgan Brittany -- is 74 in the year 2025 and 75 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1951
Actress
Names/Places: b. in Hollywood, CA; RN:Suzanne Cupito
TV Shows: Dallas (as Katherine Wentworth), Glitter (as Kate), Melrose Place (as MacKenzie Hart)

🎭Adan Canto -- is 44 in the year 2025 and 45 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1981 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: The Following, Mixology, Designated Survivor (as Aaron Shore)

🎭🎵José Carreras -- is 79 in the year 2025 and 80 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1946
Actor, Tenor, Opera Singer, Spanish

🎭Charli -- is 56 in the year 2025 and 57 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1969
XXX-rated Actress

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🎨✍🎭🎵Margaret Cho -- is 57 in the year 2025 and 58 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1968 N.S.
Fashion Designer, Author, TV Actress, Comedienne, Songwriter, Singer
TV Shows: All American Girl (as Margaret Kim)

🎭John Lee Erwin -- is 89 in the year 2025 and 90 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1936 N.S.
Cartoon Voice Actor
Misc: voiced Morris the Cat in some "9 Lives" cat food commercials
TV Shows: Rawhide (as Teddy), The Archie Show (as Reggie Mantle), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (as He-Man)

🎭Michelle Federer -- is 52 in the year 2025 and 53 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1973
Actress
Movie Titles: Rachel Getting Married, Kinsey, Flannel Pajamas, Overnight Sensation

🎭J. W. "Corkey" Fornof -- is 80 in the year 2025 and 81 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1945
Actor, Stuntman
Misc: stunt coordinator of Octopussy Bond flick; engineer and inventor of Acrostar BD-5 minijet in Octopussy
Movie Titles: Mission: Impossible II, Face/Off, Six Days Seven Nights, Octopussy

✍🎭Morgan J. Freeman -- is 56 in the year 2025 and 57 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1969
Writer, Director

🎭🏆Shalom Harlow -- is 52 in the year 2025 and 53 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1973
Actress, Model, Canadian
Movie Titles: Vanilla Sky, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, In and Out, Head Over Heels

🎭Alex Kapp Horner -- is 56 in the year 2025 and 57 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1969
Actress, Producer
TV Shows: Maggie Winters (as Lisa Harte), The New Adventures of Old Christine (as Lindsay)

🎭Randy Kirby -- is 83 in the year 2025 and 84 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1942
Actor
Names/Places: Durwood's son
TV Shows: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.'s Randy Kovacs
Movie Titles: Pink Cadillac, Fireball Jungle, Heat Wave

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🎭Jeroen Krabbé -- is 81 in the year 2025 and 82 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1944
Actor, Producer/Director, Dutch (Netherlands)
Movie Titles: The Living Daylights, Transporter 3, Immortal Beloved, The Fugitive

🎭Charles (Director) Lane -- is 72 in the year 2025 and 73 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1953 N.S.
Director
Movie Titles: Sidewalk Stories

🎭Jules LeBlanc -- is 21 in the year 2025 and 22 in the year 2026; b.12/5/2004 N.S.
Actress
Names/Places: aka Annie LeBlanc

🎭Andrew Mark Leary -- is 52 in the year 2025 and 53 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1973
Actor, Entertainment Art Department
Misc: works mainly in the Art Department
Movie Titles: Casper Meets Wendy, Addams Family Reunion, Attraction, She Cried No

🎭Lauren London -- is 41 in the year 2025 and 42 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1984 N.S.
Actress
TV Shows: The Game (as Keira Whitaker)
Movie Titles: I Love You Beth Cooper, This Christmas, ATL

🎭Gabriel Luna -- is 43 in the year 2025 and 44 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1982 N.S.
Actor, Producer
TV Shows: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (as Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider)
Movie Titles: Bernie, Matador, Freeheld, Transpecos

🎭🏆🏁Frankie Muniz -- is 40 in the year 2025 and 41 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1985 N.S.
Actor, Cartoon Voice Actor, Producer, Auto Racer
TV Shows: The Fairly OddParents (as Chester McBadbat), Malcolm in the Middle (as Malcolm)
Movie Titles: Big Fat Liar, My Dog Skip, Agent Cody Banks (series), Racing Stripes

🎭Connie Newton-Needham -- is 66 in the year 2025 and 67 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1959
TV Actress
Names/Places: RN: Connie Marie Bowen
Misc: some say b. 1962, but she married in 1978, making her age at least 18 instead of 15 when she married; retired from acting in 1995
TV Shows: Eight is Enough (as Elizabeth Bradford)

🎭Jessica Paré -- is 45 in the year 2025 and 46 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1980
Actress, Canadian
TV Shows: Mad Men (as Megan Draper / Megan Calvet), Jack and Bobby (as Courtney Benedict)
Movie Titles: Lost and Delirious, Brooklyn, Wicker Pick

🎭Paula Patton -- is 50 in the year 2025 and 51 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1975
Actress, Producer
Movie Titles: Deja Vu, Warcraft: The Beginning, Precious, Mission: Impossible -Ghost Protocol, Swing Vote, Mirrors

🎭Arielle Renwart -- is 38 in the year 2025 and 39 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1987 N.S.
Actress

🎭Kali Rocha -- is 54 in the year 2025 and 55 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1971 N.S.
Actress
TV Shows: Liv and Maddie, Man with a Plan, Grey's Anatomy
Movie Titles: Meet the Parents

🎭Lisa Marie Sliwa -- is 57 in the year 2025 and 58 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1968
Actress
Movie Titles: Mars Attacks

🎭Nick Stahl -- is 46 in the year 2025 and 47 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1979 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: Carnivale
Movie Titles: In The Bedroom, Mirrors 2, The Man Without a Face, The Thin Red Line, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, In The Bedroom, Sin City

✍🎭Catherine Tate -- is 56 in the year 2025 and 57 in the year 2026; b.12/5/1969 N.S.
Comedy Writer, Actress, Comedienne, English
TV Shows: The Office (as Nellie Bertram), Doctor Who (as The Doctor's Companion), The Catherine Tate Show
Movie Titles: Starter for 10

🎭Diego (Actor) Velázquez -- is 24 in the year 2025 and 25 in the year 2026; b.12/5/2001 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: The Thundermans, Zoe Valentine

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🎭Richard Beebe -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1929 N.S. d.8/29/1998 N.S. (68)
Radio Broadcaster
Group Names: The Credibility Gap (co-founder)

🎭🎵Pamela Blair -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1949 N.S. d.7/23/2023 N.S. (73)
Actress, Dancer, Singer
Movie Titles: Mighty Aphrodite, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, 21 Grams

🎭Dave Broadfoot -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1925 N.S. d.11/1/2016 N.S. (90)
Comedian, Canadian
Misc: member of The Royal Canadian Air Farce

🎭Adolph Caesar -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1933 d.3/6/1986 (52)
Movie Actor
Movie Titles: The Color Purple

🎨✍🎭Walt Disney -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1901 d.12/15/1966 (65)
Hall of Famer, Animator, Writer, TV Host, Movie Producer/Director
Names/Places: b. in Chicago, IL; FN:Walter Elias
Misc: Cartoon Creator, Empire Founder; Created Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Minnie, etc.; produced Snow White, the first animated movie; Disneyland TV Show host; created Disneyland in Anaheim, planned Walt Disney World in Florida that opened five years after his death
TV Shows: Disneyland (host)

🎭🎵🎸Carrie Hamilton -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1963 N.S. d.1/20/2002 N.S. (38)
TV/Movie Actress, Rock and Roll Singer
Names/Places: b. in New York City; Carol Burnett & Joe's daughter
TV Shows: Fame's Reggie Higgins

🎭Peter Hansen -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1921 N.S. d.4/9/2017 N.S. (95)
Actor
TV Shows: Science Fiction Theatre, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., General Hospital, Mr. Novak (as Mr. Parkson)
Movie Titles: When Worlds Collide, Dragonfly

🎭Margaret Hayes -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1916 d.1/26/1977 (60)
Actress
Misc: the U.S. census for 1920 lists her as age 6, making her birthdate possibly b. 1914

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🎭Connie Hines -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1931 d.12/18/2009 (78)
Actress
TV Shows: Mr. Ed (as Carol Post)

🎭Harold Huber -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1909 d.9/29/1959 (49)
Actor

✍🎭Nunnally Johnson -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1897 N.S. d.3/25/1977 N.S. (79)
Screenwriter, Playwright, Movie Director

🎭🎵Larry Kert -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1930 d.6/5/1991 (60)
Stage Actor, Singer
Names/Places: RFN:Frederick Lawrence

🎭Fritz Lang -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1890 d.8/2/1976 (85)
Movie Director, Austrian
Misc: his films, dealing with fate and man's inevitable working out of his destiny, are considered masterpieces of visual composition.
Movie Titles: Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis

🎭Joyce Mathews -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1919 d.1/17/1999 (79)
Actress
Names/Places: 2x Milton Berle's wife

🎭Ismail Merchant -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1936 N.S. d.5/25/2005 N.S. (68)
Movie Producer/Director, Asia Indian

🎭🎵Grace Moore -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1901 d.1/26/1947 (45)
Movie/Stage Actress, Opera Soprano

🎭Alvy Moore -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1921 d.5/4/1997 (75)
Actor, Producer
TV Shows: Green Acres (as Hank Kimball)

🎭Otto Preminger -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1906 N.S. d.4/23/1986 N.S. (79)
Movie Actor, Producer/Director, Austrian
Misc: some say b. 1905
TV Shows: Batman (as Mr. Freeze)

🎭Cyril Ring -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1892 d.7/17/1967 (74)
Actor

🎭George Savalas -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1926 d.10/2/1985 (58)
TV Actor
Names/Places: Telly's brother
TV Shows: Kojak (as Det. Stavros)

🎭Lisa Sheridan -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1974 N.S. d.2/25/2019 N.S. (44)
Actress, Producer
TV Shows: FreakyLinks, Invasion, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Mentalist
Movie Titles: Beat, Home Invasion

🎭🎵Ray Whitley -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/5/1901 d.2/21/1979 (77)
Hall of Famer, Actor, Songwriter, Country Music Singer
Misc: in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

✍🎭Robert Aldrich -- Death Anniversary -- b.8/9/1918 d.12/5/1983 (65)
Writer, Movie Actor, Movie Producer/Director
Names/Places: b. in Cranston, RI
Movie Titles: Vera Cruz, Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard

🎭Kirstie Alley -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/12/1951 N.S. d.12/5/2022 N.S. (71)
TV/Movie Actress
Names/Places: b. in Wichita, Kan.; Parker Stevenson's ex-wife
Misc: NOT b. in 1955 according to ET; People says b. 1950, Star Magazine says 1951 and not 1955; once won $6,000 as a contestant on The Match Game
TV Shows: North & South, Cheers (as Rebecca Howe), Veronica's Closet (as Veronica "Ronnie" Chase)
Movie Titles: Look Who's Talking, Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan, It Takes Two, Deconstructing Harry, Drop Dead Gorgeous

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🎭John Archer -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/8/1915 d.12/5/1999 (84)
Movie Actor
Names/Places: Anne's dad
Misc: Radio announcer who introduced "The Shadow"

🎭Roone Arledge -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/8/1931 N.S. d.12/5/2002 N.S. (71)
Hall of Famer, TV Executive, TV Producer
Names/Places: b. in Forest Hills, N.Y.
Misc: introduced instant replay, stop-action, split screens, & slow motion
TV Shows: ABC's Wide World of Sports (producer), ABC Sports (executiuve), ABC News (executive)

🎭Edward Bryce -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/24/1921 d.12/5/1999 (78)
Actor
TV Shows: Tom Corbett-Space Cadet (as Captain Steve Strong), Guiding Light (as Bill Bauer)

🎭Charles Cappleman -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/30/1926 N.S. d.12/5/2021 N.S. (95)
Hall of Famer, TV Executive

🎭Thom Christopher -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/5/1940 N.S. d.12/5/2024 N.S. (84)
Actor
TV Shows: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, One Life to Live (as Carlo Hesser then Dr. Mortimer Burn), Loving, Guiding Light (as Colonel Dax)
Movie Titles: Blood and Wine, Space Raiders

🎭Fred Clark -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/9/1914 d.12/5/1968 (54)
Actor
TV Shows: Burns & Allen Show (as Harry Morton)

🎭Kay Faylen -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/9/1929 N.S. d.12/5/2011 N.S. (82)
Actress
Names/Places: Frank's daughter
Misc: retired from acting in 1957
TV Shows: Science Fiction Theatre, Perry Mason, Highway Patrol

🎭Nina Foch -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/20/1924 d.12/5/2008 (84)
TV/Movie Actress, Dutch (Netherlands)
Names/Places: RN:Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; PRON:FOSH
Misc: Blond movie starlet of 1940s-50s
Movie Titles: Spartacus, An American In Paris

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🎭Beverly Garland -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/17/1926 d.12/5/2008 (82)
TV/Movie Actress
Names/Places: b. in Santa Cruz, CA; RMLN:Lucy Fessenden
Misc: some say b. 1929 or 1930
TV Shows: The Bing Crosby Show (as Ellie), My Three Sons (as Barbara Harper Douglas), Scarecrow & Mrs. King (as Dotty West)
Movie Titles: DOA

🎭Pietro Germi -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/14/1904 d.12/5/1974 (70)
Actor, Movie Director, Italian

🎭🎵🎸Johnny Halliday -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/15/1943 N.S. d.12/5/2017 N.S. (74)
Actor, Rock and Roll Singer, French
Names/Places: RN:Jean-Philippe Smet
Misc: superstar has over 728 hits in France

🎭Paul Harvey -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/10/1882 d.12/5/1955 (73)
Actor
Misc: not to be confused with radio commentator Paul Harvey
TV Shows: Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree

🎭🎵Susie Hawthorn -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/??/1896 N.S. d.12/5/1963 N.S.
Comedienne, Singer
Misc: date of birth is unknown
Group Names: Butterbeans and Susie
Song Titles: I Want a Hot Dog for My Roll

🎭Harry Horner -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/24/1910 d.12/5/1994 (84)
Director, Set Designer, Czech
Misc: stage: Our Town

✍⛪🎭Norman Lear -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/27/1922 N.S. d.12/5/2023 N.S. (101)
Hall of Famer, Comedy Writer, Jewish, TV Producer/Director
Names/Places: b. in New Haven, CT
TV Shows: All in the Family, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Sanford & Son, Good Times, Maude, All That Glitters, Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Fernwood 2-Night, aka Pablo, Sunday Dinner, The Powers That Be

🎭John Leslie -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/25/1945 d.12/5/2010 N.S. (65)
XXX-rated Actor, Producer/Director
Names/Places: aka John Leslie Nuzzo or John Nuzzo

🎭Gunter Meisner -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/18/1926 d.12/5/1994 (68)
Actor, German

🎭🏆🏈Don Meredith -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/10/1938 d.12/5/2010 (72)
Hall of Famer, Actor, Commercial Actor, Sports Commentator, NFL Quarterback
Names/Places: b. in Mt. Vernon, TX; NN:Dandy
Misc: Lipton Ice Tea
Sports Teams: Southern Methodist University, Dallas Cowboys (1960-1968)
TV Shows: Monday Night Football

🎭Garfield Morgan -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/19/1931 d.12/5/2009 (78)
Actor, British
Movie Titles: The Odessa File, To Catch a Spy

🎭Terrence O'Hara -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/25/1945 N.S. d.12/5/2022 N.S. (76)
Actor, Producer/Director
Names/Places: Shanna Reed's hubby
TV Shows: NCIS (director), Smallville (director), NCIS: Los Angeles (director), JAG (director)

🎭Steve Shaw -- Death Anniversary -- b.2/19/1965 d.12/5/1990 (25)
Actor
TV Shows: Knots Landing (as Eric Fairgate)

🎭🎵Julie (B. 1936) Stevens -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/20/1936 N.S. d.12/5/2024 N.S. (87)
Actress, Singer, English

🎭Richard I Tucker -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/4/1884 d.12/5/1942 (58)
Actor
Names/Places: RN:Reuben Ticker

🎭Henry Wadsworth -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/18/1897 N.S. d.12/5/1974 N.S. (77)
Actor

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🎭Robert Walker Jr. -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/15/1940 N.S. d.12/5/2019 N.S. (79)
Movie Actor
Names/Places: Jennifer Jones & Robert Sr.'s son
Movie Titles: Easy Rider, The War Wagon, Beware! The Blob, Ensign Pulver

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