August 23rd Birthdays
If you were born on August 23rd you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Vera Miles is 93 (nee Vera Ralston)
American actress of movies (Psycho; The Searchers; The Wrong Man; Web of Evidence; The FBI Story; One of Our Spies is Missing; Follow Me, Boys!; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Gentle Giant; The Wild Country; Wichita) and TV (My Three Sons), born August 23, 1929. (Vera Miles 1970 Dan August)
Barbara Eden is 91 (nee Barbara Jean Morehead)
American actress of stage, TV (Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie; Stella Johnson on Harper Valley P.T.A.; Loco Jones on How to Marry a Millionaire) and movies (Flaming Star; Five Weeks in a Balloon; The Brass Bottle; The Amazing Dobermans) born August 23, 1931. (Barbara Eden 1972 The Woman Hater)
Richard Sanders is 82
American screenwriter & actor of TV (Les Nessman on WKRP in Cincinnati & The New WKRP in Cincinnati; Spencer; Berrengers) and movies (Neon City; The Nude Bomb; Valley Girl; Men of Honor; The Beans of Egypt, Maine), born August 23, 1940. (Richard Sanders 1981 Photo: AP Newsfeatures Photo)
Tony Bill is 82 (nee Gerard Anthony Bill)
Academy Award-winning American producer, director, and actor of TV (Dr. Kildare) and films (The Sting; Steelyard Blues; Hearts of the West; My Bodyguard; Flyboys; Shampoo; Ice Station Zebra; Less Than Zero; Come Blow Your Horn; Heart Beat), born August 23, 1940. (Tony Bill 1977 Photo: ABC TV)
Nancy Richey is 80
International Tennis Hall of Fame American professional tennis player, Grand Slam women’s tennis winner (Singles – 1967 Australian & 1968 French Open; Doubles – 1965 US Open, 1966 US & Australian Open, Wimbledon), born August 23, 1942. (Nancy Richey 1967 Photo)
Nelson DeMille is 79
American author of the Paul Brenner, Joe Ryker, John Corey, and John Sutter mystery-thriller novels and other books (The Sniper; Plum Island; The General’s Daughter; The Gold Coast; Cathedral; Spencerville; Up Country; The Lion), born August 23, 1943. (Nelson DeMille 2015 Photo: Sandy DeMille)
Rick Springfield is 73 (nee Richard Lewis Springthorp)
Grammy Award-winning Australian singer, songwriter (Jessie’s Girl; Don’t Talk to Strangers; Affair of the Heart), and actor (Hard to Hold; Battlestar Galactica; Mick Barrett on High Tide; Noah Drake on General Hospital), born August 23, 1949. (Rick Springfield 2010 Photo: Photobra Adam Bielawski)
Shelley Long is 73
Emmy Award-winning American senior, actress of TV (Diane Chambers on Cheers & Frasier; Good Advice; Modern Family) and movies (The Money Pit; Outrageous Fortune; Hello Again; Troop Beverly Hills; Irreconcilable Differences; Night Shift), born August 23, 1949. (Shelley Long 1996 Photo: TwinsofSedona)
Woody Paul is 73 (nee Paul Woodrow Chrisman)
American lariat trick artist, country music singer, children’s musical comedy musician (violinist) and performer with Grammy Award-winning band Riders in the Sky (Woody’s Roundup; For the Birds), and songwriter (So Long, Saddle Pals), born August 23, 1949. (Woody Paul 2008 Photo: Hugh Pickens)
Mark Hudson is 71
American senior, musician, composer, songwriter (Livin’ on the Edge) & producer of artists and TV (Aerosmith; Ringo Starr; Dog the Bounty Hunter), and performer with the Hudson Brothers (The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show) born August 23, 1951. (Mark Hudson 1975 Photo: CBS TV)
Chris Potter is 62 (nee Christopher Jay Potter)
Canadian actor of TV (Tim Fleming on Heartland; Peter Caine on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues; Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan on Silk Stalkings; Wild Card; Material World; Queer as Folk; The Young and the Restless) and movies (Rockets’ Red Glare), born August 23, 1960. (Chris Potter 2015 Photo: BruceK)
Jay Mohr is 52 (nee Jon Ferguson Mohr)
American comedian and actor of TV (Ghost Whisperer; Gary Unmarried; Saturday Night Live; Last Comic Standing; Camp Wilder) and films (Hereafter; Pay it Forward; Suicide Kings; The Groomsmen; Jerry Maguire), born August 23, 1970. (Jay Mohr 2004 Photo: Journalist 3rd Class Corwin Colbert / US Navy)
(Gene Kelly 1945: C.S. Bull | Vera Miles 1960)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on August 23rd!
Remember These August 23rd Famous Birthdays
Gene Kelly (nee Eugene Curran Kelly)
American dancer, choreographer, singer & actor of TV (Going My Way), and movies (An American in Paris; Brigadoon; Singin’ in the Rain; For Me and My Gal; Cover Girl; Anchors Aweigh; Take Me Out to the Ball Game The Three Musketeers; Ziegfeld Follies; Inherit the Wind; Marjorie Morningstar) (born Aug. 23, 1912 – died Feb. 2, 1996; age 83). (Gene Kelly 1943 Du Barry Was a Lady Trailer)
American actor of TV (Tom Jeffords on Broken Arrow; Tommy Horton on Days of Our Lives; Never Too Young; The Young and the Restless; The Virginian; Kung Fu; The F.B.I.), movies (Escape From Fort Bravo; Gun Fever; Taming Sutton’s Gal; The Rebel Set; Three Came to Kill; Airport 1975; Three Came to Kill) (born Aug. 23, 1928 – died Nov. 3, 1993; age 65). (John Lupton 1959 Black Saddle)
James Millhollin (nee Arthur James Millhollin)
American character actor of TV (Love, American Style; The Odd Couple; 77 Sunset Strip; The Twilight Zone; The Red Skelton Hour; That Girl; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Grindl; Dennis the Menace) and movies (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken; How to Frame a Figg; Zotz!) (born Aug. 23, 1915 – died May 23, 1993; age 77). James Millhollin died of cancer. (James Millhollin 1960 One Step Beyond)
Bob Crosby (nee George Robert Crosby; aka Bing Crosby’s younger brother)
American Dixieland jazz bandleader (Bob-Cats), singer & songwriter (Big Noise from Winnetka), actor & host of radio, TV (The Bob Crosby Show) and films (Kansas City Kitty; My Gal Loves Music; The Singing Sheriff; Let’s Make Music; Sis Hopkins; See Here, Private Hargrove; The Five Pennies) (born Aug. 23, 1913 – died Mar. 9, 1993; age 79). (Bob Crosby 1940: Boxoffice Digest)
American actor of silent films (Driftwood; The Last of the Mohicans; The Girl of Gold; The Net; The Last Card; Long Pants; The Sideshow; The Mating Call) and early 1930s movies (Hurricane; The Last Mile; Dynamite Ranch; Hell-Fire Austin; Flight; Hello Trouble; High Stakes; The Sin Ship; The Royal Bed; Danger Lights) (born Aug. 23, 1886 – died Mar. 8, 1933; age 46). (Alan Roscoe 1927)
Modern Drummer & Rock and Roll Halls of Fame English musician, The Who drummer (My Generation; I’m a Boy; Happy Jack; Pinball Wizard; Pictures of Lily; Won’t Get Fooled Again; Baba O’Riley), TV & film performer & actor (Tommy; That’ll Be the Day; Stardust) (born Aug. 23, 1946 – died Sept. 7, 1978; age 32). Keith Moon died of a drug overdose. (Keith Moon 1967: Klaus Hiltscher)
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