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Entertainment Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Age for May 17

Last Updated 04-13-2024

🎭Joan Blackman -- is 86 in the year 2024 and 87 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1938 N.S.
Actress
Misc: retired from acting in 1990
TV Shows: Peyton Place, The Castle of Adventure
Movie Titles: Kid Galahad, Shivers, Visit to a Small Planet, Blue Hawaii

🎭Adel Eman -- is 84 in the year 2024 and 85 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1940 N.S.
Actor, Egyptian

🎭Peter Gerety -- is 84 in the year 2024 and 85 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1940
Actor
TV Shows: Homicide (as Detective Stuart Gharty)
Movie Titles: Inside Man, K-PAX, War of the Worlds, Changeling

🎭🎵Jerry Lanning -- is 81 in the year 2024 and 82 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1943
Actor, Singer

🎭Marlene Willoughby -- is 76 in the year 2024 and 77 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1948
XXX-rated actress

🎭Bobby Porter -- is 72 in the year 2024 and 73 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1952
Actor, Stuntman
Misc: midget stunt double
TV Shows: Quark (as Andy the Robot), Malcolm in the Middle (stunt coordiator)
Movie Titles: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jumanji

🎭John Iles -- is 70 in the year 2024 and 71 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1954
Actor, English
TV Shows: The Bill (as D.S. Mike Dashwood)

🎭Josh Kramer -- is 68 in the year 2024 and 69 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1956
Entertainment Figure

🎭Armand Schultz -- is 65 in the year 2024 and 66 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1959
Actor
Movie Titles: Burn After Reading, Salt, Vanilla Sky, Cold Souls
Video Games: Star Wars: The Old Republic -Rise of the Hutt Cartel

🎭Fiona Hutchison -- is 64 in the year 2024 and 65 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1960
Actress, Ballet Dancer (m)
Movie Titles: American Gothic

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🎭Simon Fuller -- is 64 in the year 2024 and 65 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1960 N.S.
TV Producer (m)
TV Shows: American Idol

🎭Jay Harik -- is 64 in the year 2024 and 65 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1960
Actor, Lebanese
Movie Titles: Accepted, American Dreamz, Nobody's Shalom, Live from Baghdad

🎭Bruce Thomas -- is 63 in the year 2024 and 64 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1961
Actor
TV Shows: Kyle XY
Movie Titles: Army of Darkness, Legally Blonde, Hall Pass

🎭Craig Ferguson -- is 62 in the year 2024 and 63 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1962 N.S.
Actor, Comedian, TV Talk Show Host, Scottish
TV Shows: Drew Carey Show (as Nigel Wick), The Late Late Show (host)

🎭David Eigenberg -- is 60 in the year 2024 and 61 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1964
Actor
TV Shows: Sex and the City (as Steve Brady), Chicago Fire (as Christopher Herrmann also in Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med)
Movie Titles: Sex and the City (series)

🎭Paige Turco -- is 59 in the year 2024 and 60 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1965
Actress, Cartoon Voice Actress, Dancer (m)
TV Shows: The 100 (As Dr. Abigail Griffin), The Game Plan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (as April O'Neil), American Gothic (as Gail Emory), Party of Five (as Annie Mott), NYPD Blue (as Officer Abby Sullivan)
Movie Titles: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (series)

🎭Hill Harper -- is 58 in the year 2024 and 59 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1966
Actor, Producer (m)
TV Shows: Live Shot (as Tommy Greer), CSI: NY (as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes)
Movie Titles: He Got Game, The Skulls, Concussion

🎭Cameron Bancroft -- is 57 in the year 2024 and 58 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1967
Actor, Stuntman
TV Shows: Beverly Hills 90210 (as Joe Bradley), Cedar Cove (as Will Jeffers)
Movie Titles: The Beachcombers, Code Name: Eternity, Simple Things

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🎭🎵Jordan Knight -- is 54 in the year 2024 and 55 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1970
Actor, Songwriter, Pop Singer
Names/Places: NN:N; RFN:Nathaniel Marcel
Misc: some say b. in 1971
Group Names: New Kids on the Block, soloist

🎭Jay Anthony Franke -- is 52 in the year 2024 and 53 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1972
Actor
TV Shows: California Dreams (as Jake Sommers)

🎭🎵🎸Joshua Homme -- is 51 in the year 2024 and 52 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1973
Actor, Music Producer, Songwriter, Alternative Rock Singer
Group Names: Eagles of Death Metal, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age

🎭Aisha Henderson -- is 50 in the year 2024 and 51 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1974
Actress

🎭Sendhil Ramamurthy -- is 50 in the year 2024 and 51 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1974 N.S.
Actor, Producer (m)
TV Shows: Heroes (as Mohinder Suresh also on Heroes Reborn), Beauty and the Beast (as Gabe Lowen)
Movie Titles: Shor in the City

🎭Sasha Alexander -- is 49 in the year 2024 and 50 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1975
Actress, Producer/Director (m)
TV Shows: Dawson's Creek (as Gretchen Witter), Navy NCIS (as Agent Caitlin Todd), Shameless, Rissoli and Isles (as Dr. Maura Isles)

🎭Rochelle Aytes -- is 48 in the year 2024 and 49 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1976
Actress
TV Shows: Mistresses (as April Malloy)
Movie Titles: White Chicks

🎭🎵Kandi Burruss -- is 48 in the year 2024 and 49 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1976
Actress, Personality, Music Producer, Songwriter, Rhythm and Blues Singer
Group Names: Xscape

🎭Kat Foster -- is 46 in the year 2024 and 47 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1978
Actress, Producer (m)
TV Shows: 'Til Death (as Steph Woodcock)

🎭Ayda Field -- is 45 in the year 2024 and 46 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1979
Actress
Names/Places: RN: Ayda Sabahat Evecan
TV Shows: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Back to You
Movie Titles: Austenland, Strange Wilderness

🎭Ginger Gonzaga -- is 41 in the year 2024 and 42 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1983
Actress
Movie Titles: The Morning After, Ted, Someone Marry Barry, Splitting Hairs

🎭Nathalie Paulding -- is 39 in the year 2024 and 40 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1985
Actress
Movie Titles: Bully, The Life Before Her Eyes, Bringing Rain

🎭🎵Derek Hough -- is 39 in the year 2024 and 40 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1985
Actor, Choreographer (m), Dancer (m), Songwriter, Singer, Musician, American
TV Shows: Nashville (as Noah West)

🎭Erin Richards -- is 38 in the year 2024 and 39 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1986 N.S.
Actress, Welsh (Wales)
TV Shows: Gotham (as Barbara Kean)
Movie Titles: The Quiet Ones, Open Grave

🎭Tahj Mowry -- is 38 in the year 2024 and 39 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1986
Actor, Cartoon Voice Actor
TV Shows: Baby Daddy (as Tucker Dobbs), Kim Possible (as Wade Load), Smart Guy (as T.J. Henderson)
Movie Titles: Seventeen Again

🎭Nikki Reed -- is 36 in the year 2024 and 37 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1988 N.S.
Actress
TV Shows: Sleepy Hollow (as Betsy Ross)
Movie Titles: Thirteen, Twilight (series)

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🎭🏆Karrueche Tran -- is 36 in the year 2024 and 37 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1988 N.S.
Actress, Model

🎭Honey Rose -- is 35 in the year 2024 and 36 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1989 N.S.
Actress, India

🎭💻Ross Butler -- is 34 in the year 2024 and 35 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1990 N.S.
Actor, Internet Video Actor, Singaporean
TV Shows: K.C. Undercover, 13 Reasons Why (as Zach Dempsey)

🎭Leven Rambin -- is 34 in the year 2024 and 35 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1990
Actress, Director (m)
TV Shows: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Grey's Anatomy, Wizards of Waverly Place, CSI: Miami, True Detective (as Athena Bezzerides)
Movie Titles: The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Chasing Mavericks

🎭Samantha Browne-Walters -- is 33 in the year 2024 and 34 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1991
Actress
Misc: retired from acting in 2003
TV Shows: Life With Bonnie (as Samantha Molloy)

🎭Justin Martin -- is 30 in the year 2024 and 31 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1994
Actor
Movie Titles: Flight, Soloist, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, The Express

🎭Ryan Ochoa -- is 28 in the year 2024 and 29 in the year 2025; b.5/17/1996 N.S.
Actor, Cartoon Voice Actor
TV Shows: iCarly (as Chuck Carly), Pair of Kings
Movie Titles: Astro Boy

🎭Goddess Sondra -- b.5/17/????
XXX-rated actress

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🎭Conway Tearle -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1878 d.10/1/1938 (60)
Movie Actor

🎭Ruth Donnelly -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1896 d.11/17/1982 (86)
Movie Actress

🎭Ralf Harolde -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1899 d.11/1/1974 (75)
Actor

🎭Jean Gabin -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1904 d.11/15/1976
Movie Actor, French
Names/Places: RN:Jean-Alexis Moncourge

🎭Horace McMahon -- Birth 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

🎭Magda Schneider -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1909 d.7/30/1996 (87)
Actress

🎭Alfredo Mayo -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1911 d.5/19/1985 (74)
Actor, Spanish

🎭Maureen O'Sullivan -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1911 d.6/22/1998 (87)
Movie Actress, Irish
Names/Places: b. in Boyle; Mia Farrow's mom, John Farrow's wife
Movie Titles: Tarzan (movie series as Jane)

📰🎭🎵Grant Turner -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1912 d.10/19/1991 (79)
Hall of Famer, Commentator, Announcer (m), Radio Disc Jock
Misc: Grand Ole Opry announcer for half-a-century

🎭Andrew Craddock Lyles -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1918 d.9/27/2013 (95)
Movie Producer/Director (m)
Names/Places: aka "A.C."

✍🎭Mary Lawrence -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1918 d.9/24/1991 (73)
Author (m), TV/Movie Actress
TV Shows: Love That Bob (as Ruth Helm)

✍📰🎭Harriet Van Horne -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1920 d.1/15/1998 (77)
Television Critic (m), Columnist, Panelist
TV Shows: Leave It to The Girls

🎭Gordon Polk -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1923 d.6/9/1960 (37)
Actor

🎭Alice Backes -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1923 d.3/15/2007 (83)
TV Actress
TV Shows: Bachelor Father (as Vickie)

✍🎭Dennis Potter -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1935 d.6/7/1994 (59)
Author (m), Screenwriter, Producer/Director (m), English
TV Shows: Pennies From Heaven (TV mini-series), The Singing Detective (screenwriter)

🎭Dennis Hopper -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1936 d.5/29/2010 (74)
TV/Movie Actor, Movie Director (m)
Names/Places: b. in Dodge City, KS; Michelle Gilliam (Phillip)'s hubby for eight days
Movie Titles: Rebel Without a Cause, True Grit, Black Widow, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Easy Rider, Speed, EDtv, Knockaround Guys

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🎭Don Dolan -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1936 N.S. d.9/22/2020 N.S. (84)
Actor
Movie Titles: The Philadelphia Experiment, Real Men, Shrunken Heads

🎭Jason Bernard -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1938 d.10/18/1996 (58)
TV/Movie Actor
TV Shows: Cagney and Lacey (as Deputy Inspector Marquette), Herman's Head (as Mr. Bracken)
Movie Titles: While You Were Sleeping, All of Me

🎭Paolo Bortoluzzi -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1938 d.10/16/1993 (55)
Actor, Choreographer (m), Ballet Dancer (m), Italian

🎭🎵Penny De Haven -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1948 d.2/23/2014 N.S. (65)
Actress, Gospel Singer, Country Singer
Names/Places: aka Penny Starr

✍🎭🎵Howard Ashman -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1951 d.3/14/1991 (39)
Dramatist/Playwright (m), Director (m), Lyricist, Gay
Movie Titles: Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast

✍🎭Yôko Shimada -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1953 N.S. d.7/25/2022 N.S. (69)
Author (m), Actress, Japanese
TV Shows: Shogun

🎭Bill Paxton -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1955 N.S. d.2/25/2017 N.S. (61)
Actor, Producer/Director (m)
Song Titles: Fish Heads (video)
TV Shows: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (as John Garrett), Training Day (as Det. Frank Rourke)
Movie Titles: Aliens, Edge of Tomorrow, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic, Mighty Joe Young, A Simple Plan, U-571, Thunderbirds To The Rescue

🎭Bob Saget -- Birth Anniversary -- b.5/17/1956 N.S. d.1/9/2022 N.S. (65)
TV Actor, Comedian, Game Show Host, Variety Show Host, Cartoon Voice Actor
Names/Places: b. in Philadelphia
TV Shows: Full House (as Danny Tanner also on Fuller House), America's Funniest Home Videos, How I Met Your Mother (as Older Ted Mosby), 1 vs 100 (host)
Movie Titles: Entourage (as himself), Madagascar

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🎭Montague Love -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/15/1877 d.5/17/1943 (66)
Movie Actor, English

🎭Robert E. "Wheezer" Hutchins -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/29/1925 N.S. d.5/17/1945 N.S. (20)
Movie Actor
Movie Titles: Our Gang

🎭Charles Braswell -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/7/1924 d.5/17/1974 (49)
Actor

🎭Roger Bower -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/8/1903 d.5/17/1979 (76)
Game Show Host, Director (m)
Misc: 1930s radio director

✍🎭🎵Abe Burrows -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/18/1910 d.5/17/1985 (74)
Dramatist/Playwright (m), Director (m), Panelist, Composer
Names/Places: NN: The Bald Headed Baritone from Brooklyn
Misc: quiz shows, stage: Guys and Dolls

🎭🎵Frank Gallop -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/30/1900 d.5/17/1988 (87)
Actor, Announcer (m), Novelty Singer
Song Titles: The Ballad of Irving
TV Shows: Buick Circus Hour (ringmaster), Perry Como Show, Kraft Television Shows

🎭Robert Webber -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/14/1924 d.5/17/1989 (64)
TV/Movie Actor
Misc: some say b. in 1928
TV Shows: Moonlighting (as Alex), 79 Park Avenue

🎭George Funston -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/12/1910 d.5/17/1992 (81)
Radio Executive (m)
Misc: executive and president of NYSE

🎭Preston Hedgepeth -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/15/1984 d.5/17/1996 (12)
Actor

🎭Bruce Fairbairn -- Death Anniversary -- b.2/19/1947 d.5/17/1999 (52)
Actor, Producer (m)

🎭Henry Jones -- Death Anniversary -- b.8/1/1912 d.5/17/1999 (86)
TV/Movie/Stage Actor
TV Shows: The Girl with Something Extra, Phyllis (as Judge Jonathan Dexter), Falcon Crest (as R. Riley Wicker), Kate Loves a Mystery, Alfred Hitchcock, Kraft Theatre, Bonanza, Gunsmoke

🎭June Whitley Taylor -- Death Anniversary -- b.8/26/1917 d.5/17/2004 (86)
Choreographer (m)

⛪🎭🎵Tony Randall -- Death Anniversary -- b.2/26/1920 d.5/17/2004 (84)
Jewish, TV/Movie/Stage Actor, Singer
Names/Places: b. in Tulsa, Okla.; RN:Leonard Rosenberg; Florence's hubby
TV Shows: One Man's Family (as Mac, Mr. Peepers' Harvey Weskit), The Odd Couple (as Felix Unger), Tony Randall Show (as Judge Walter Franklin), Love-Sydney (as Sidney Shorr)

🎭Frank Gorshin -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/5/1934 d.5/17/2005 (71)
Actor, Comedian, Impressionist
Names/Places: b. in Pittsburgh
TV Shows: Batman (as The Riddler)

🎭Cy Feuer -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/15/1911 d.5/17/2006 (95)
Stage Producer/Director (m)
Misc: A Chorus Line

🎨⛪🎭🎵Donna Summer -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/31/1948 N.S. d.5/17/2012 N.S. (63)
Hall of Famer, Artist, Baptist, Movie Actress, Songwriter, Disco Singer
Names/Places: Bruce Sudano's wife, b. in Boston; RN:LaDonna Andrea Gaines; NN:The Queen of Disco
Misc: novelty song about her: Donna Summer On The Radio
Song Titles: Last Dance, Hot Stuff, Love To Love You Baby, Heaven Knows, I Feel Love, Bad Girls, MacArthur Park, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough with Barbra Streisand), On The Radio, Sunset People, The Wanderer, Dim All The Lights, She Works Hard for the Money, Love is in Control, Dinner With Gershwin, This Time I Know It's For Real
Album Titles: Live and More, Love to Love You Baby, I Remember Yesterday, Bad Girls, The Wanderer, She Works Hard for the Money
Movie Titles: Thank God It's Friday

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🎭🏆Marnie Schulenburg -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/21/1984 N.S. d.5/17/2022 N.S. (37)
Actress, Gymnast

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