February 27th Birthdays
If you were born on February 27th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Joanne Woodward is 93 (nee Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier)
Emmy & Oscar-winning American actress of movies (The Three Faces of Eve; Mr. & Mrs. Bridge; From the Terrace; The Long Hot Summer; A Big Hand for the Little Lady; Come Back Little Sheba; The Stripper), stage & TV (Sybil), born February 27, 1930. Married Paul Newman. (Joanne Woodward 1971: MGM)
Ralph Nader is 89
American lawyer, Automotive Hall of Fame consumer protection and environmental activist, novelist & nonfiction author (Unsafe at Any Speed; In Pursuit of Justice; Fake President), and radio host (Ralph Nader Radio Hour), born February 27, 1934. (Ralph Nader 1975: Thomas J. O’Halloran)
Barbara Babcock is 86 (ex of Jay Sheffield)
Emmy Award-winning American character actress of TV (Hill Street Blues; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; Pasadena; Dallas; Search for Tomorrow) and movies (Space Cowboys; Far and Away; Bang the Drum Slowly; The Black Marble) born February 27, 1937. (Barbara Babcock 1982 Hill Street Blues: NBC)
Johnny Van Zant is 64 (nee John Roy Van Zant)
American rock singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd (Swamp Music; Smokestack Lightning; Good Lovin’s Hard to Find; Truck Drivin’ Man; Travelin’ Man; Red White & Blue [Love it or Leave]), younger brother of Ronnie and Donnie Van Zant, born February 27, 1959. (Johnny Van Zant Photo: Alliance Artists Ltd.)
Stoney Jackson is 63 (nee Alwyn Jackson; aka Stonewall W. Jackson)
American producer, dancer and actor of TV (Jesse on The White Shadow; Paul Whitney on Santa Barbara; Travis Filmore on 227;The Insiders; Sangre Negra) and movies (Knights of the City; Up Against the Wall; Roller Boogie; Streets of Fire), born February 27, 1960. (Stoney Jackson 1980 Photo: ABC)
Grant Shaud is 62 (nee Edward Grant Shaud III)
American character & voice over actor of TV (Miles Silverberg on Murphy Brown; Oliver Beene; Madigan Men) and movies (The American Side; The Distinguished Gentleman; Men Seeking Women; Wall Street; The January Man; The Crow: Salvation), born February 27, 1961. (Grant Shaud 1989 Photo: CBS)
James Worthy is 62 (“Big Game James“)
American retired pro basketball player, NBA forward (Los Angeles Lakers) with 3 NBA championships, 1988 NBA Finals MVP, 7-time NBA All-Star, NBA TV analyst (#LakeShow; Access Sportsnet: Los Angeles), born February 27, 1961. (James Worthy 1988 Photo: NBA / Los Angeles Lakers)
Grant Show is 61 (married Katherine LaNasa)
American TV actor (Jake Hanson on Melrose Place & Beverly Hills, 90210; Devious Maids; True Blue; Ryan’s Hope; Accidentally on Purpose; Dynasty; Point Pleasant; The Family; Swingtown; Strong Medicine; Private Practice; Big Love) born February 27, 1962. (Grant Show 2009 Photo: Greg Hernandez)
Adam Baldwin is 61
American actor of TV (Chuck; The Last Ship; Firefly; The Cape) and movies (My Bodyguard; Hadley’s Rebellion; D.C. Cab; Reckless; Full Metal Jacket; Next of Kin; Predator 2; Radio Flyer; How to Make An American Quilt; Independence Day), born February 27, 1962. (Adam Baldwin 2005 Photo: Raven Underwood)
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame American thoroughbred jockey, 3X winner of the Kentucky Derby & Preakness Stakes, & winner of the Belmont Stakes, 3X Eclipse Awards for Outstanding Apprentice / Jockey, & 1993 George Woolf Memorial Award, born February 27, 1970. (Kent Desormeaux 2016: Jlvsclrk)
(Franchot Tone 1937 | Elizabeth Taylor 1952)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on February 27th!
Remember These February 27th Famous Birthdays
American actor of TV (WKRP in Cincinnati; Head of the Class; One Day at a Time; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Soap; The Bob Newhart Show) & films (Doctor Detroit; Private Lessons; Billy Jack; The Other Side of Midnight; Silver Skies; Shampoo; Flight of the Navigator; This is Spinal Tap; Whiffs) (born Feb. 27, 1940 – died Jan. 29, 2022; age 81). (Howard Hesseman Photo: CBS)
John Steinbeck (nee John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.)
Pulitzer & Nobel Prize-winning American novelist (The Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden; The Winter of Our Discontent; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony; Cannery Row; In Dubious Battle; Tortilla Flat; The Pearl; Viva Zapata!) (born Feb. 27, 1902 – died Dec. 20, 1968; age 66). John Steinbeck died of heart disease and congestive heart failure. (John Steinbeck 1962 Photo: Nobel Foundation)
Elizabeth Taylor (married Mike Todd; ex of Richard Burton 2X)
Oscar-winning British-American actress (Lassie Come Home; National Velvet; Giant; Father of the Bride; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Butterfield 8; Cleopatra; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Beau Brummell; Little Women; Life With Father) (born Feb. 27, 1932 – died Mar. 23, 2011; age 79). Also ex of Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Eddie Fisher, John Warner. (Elizabeth Taylor 1955)
Marian Anderson
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winning pioneering American contralto concert singer in America and Europe during segregation, the first black person to perform at the Metropolitan Opera (1955) (born Feb. 27, 1897 – died April 8 1993; age 96). Cause of death for Marian Anderson was congestive heart failure. (Marian Anderson 1951 Photo: S. Hurok)
National Inventors Hall of Fame & Canadian Medical Hall of Fame American-Canadian doctor, WWI veteran, physiologist & biochemist researcher, assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting & co-discoverer of insulin, nominated for the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology (choline and heparin work) (born Feb. 27, 1899 – died Mar. 31, 1978; age 79). (Charles Herbert Best c. 1924-25)
Mary Frann (nee Mary Frances Luecke)
American child model, 1961 America’s Junior Miss, and actress of movies (Nashville Rebel), stage, and TV (Joanna Loudon on Newhart; D. B. Bentley on Return to Peyton Place; Amanda Howard on Days of Our Lives; Nan Hollister on King’s Crossing; Lucky Chances) (born Feb. 27, 1943 – died Sept. 23, 1998; age 55. Mary Frann died of a heart attack. (Mary Frann 1986 Press Photo)
Irwin Shaw (nee Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff)
Blacklisted American novelist (The Young Lions; Rich Man, Poor Man; Two Weeks in Another Town; Beggarman, Thief; Evening in Byzantium; Tip on a Dead Jockey) and writer for radio, stage, and movies (born Feb. 27, 1913 – died May 16, 1984; age 71). Irwin Shaw died after treatment for prostate cancer. (Irwin Shaw 1948 Photo: Willem Van de Poll / Dutch National Archives)
Lawrence Durrell
British Indian Diplomatic Corps civil servant, travel writer (Bitter Lemons; Sicilian Carousel), poet, and best-selling novelist (Justine; Pied Piper of Lovers; Monsieur: or, the Prince of Darkness; Judith; Panic Spring; The Black Book; Clea; Balthazar) (born Feb. 27, 1912 – died Nov. 7, 1990; age 78). Lawrence Durrell died of a stroke. (Lawrence Durrell 1970s: Ioannis D. Papadimos)
Van Williams
American actor of TV (Britt Reid / The Green Hornet; Kenny Madison on Surfside 6, Bourbon Street Beat & 77 Sunset Strip; The Tycoon; The Red Hand Gang; How the West Was Won; Batman) & movies (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) (born Feb. 27, 1934 – died Nov. 28, 2016; age 82). Van Williams died of renal failure. (Van Williams 1959 Bourbon Street Beat Photo: Carl Byoir and Associates)
William Demarest (nee Carl William Demarest)
American actor of TV (Uncle Charley O’Casey on My Three Sons; Tales of Wells Fargo) & films (The Jolson Story; The Blazing Forest; The First Legion; The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek; The Private War of Major Benson; Sorrowful Jones; Along Came Jones; Salty O’Rourke; Viva Las Vegas; Red, Hot and Blue) (born Feb. 27, 1892 – died Dec. 28, 1983; age 91). (William Demarest 1955: Sponsor)
American linguist, translator (Dante’s Divine Comedy), Professor of Modern Languages (Harvard; Bowdoin), fiction & non-fiction author, lyric and epic poet (Evangeline; The Wreck of the Hesperus; Christmas Bells; Paul Revere’s Ride; The Evening Star; The Song of Hiawatha) (born Feb. 27, 1807 – died Mar. 24, 1882; age 75). (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow c. 1850: Southworth & Hawes)
Franchot Tone (nee Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone)
American actor of stage, TV (Ben Casey), & films (Dancing Lady; Mutiny on the Bounty; The Gorgeous Hussy; Love on the Run; The Man on the Eiffel Tower; Advise & Consent; Fast and Furious; Dark Waters; Jigsaw; Without Honor) (born Feb. 27, 1905 – died Sept. 18, 1968; age 63). Ex of Joan Crawford, Jean Wallace, Barbara Payton, Dolores Dorn. (Franchot Tone 1943 Pilot #5)
Joan Bennett (daughter of Richard Bennett & Adrienne Morrison)
American radio, TV & film actress (Dark Shadows; Girl Trouble; Me and My Gal; Little Women; Trade Winds; Father of the Bride; We’re No Angels; Man Hunt; The Man in the Iron Mask; Private Worlds; The House Across the Bay) (born Feb. 27, 1910 – died Dec. 7, 1990; age 80). Sister of Barbara & Constance Bennett; ex of Gene Markey, Walter Wanger. (Joan Bennett: Vogues of 1938)
Alan Fudge
American actor of TV (Man from Atlantis; 7th Heaven; Eischied; Bodies of Evidence; L. A. Law; Paper Dolls; Matlock; Columbo; Dynasty; Falcon Crest; Knots Landing; Lou Grant; Hawaii Five-O; Petrocelli; Mannix; Dallas; Banacek) and movies (The Natural; Two People) (born Feb. 27, 1944 – died Oct. 10, 2011; age 67). Alan Fudge died of lung & liver cancer. (Alan Fudge 1974 Movin’ On)
Michael Fox (nee Myron Melvin Fox)
American character actor of stage, TV (Saul Feinberg on The Bold and the Beautiful; The Clear Horizon; Burke’s Law; Perry Mason; Falcon Crest; 87th Precinct; Gunsmoke; The Rifleman; The Twilight Zone) and movies (The Lost Planet; Sky Commando; Serpent of the Nile) (born Feb. 27, 1921 – died June 1, 1996; age 75). Michael Fox died of pneumonia. (Michael Fox 1974 Movin’ On)
Sally Spencer
American Professor of Special Education at California State U., learning innovator (SIMPACT), public speaker, author (Collaborate, Communicate and Differentiate), singer & actress of stage, movies (Baby Fever) & TV (M. J. McKinnon on Another World) (born Feb. 27, 1955 – died July 13, 2019; age 64). Sally Spencer died of leukemia complications. (Sally Spencer 1988)
Reginald Gardiner (nee William Reginald Gardiner)
British actor of radio, TV (The Phyllis Diller Show; Burke’s Law), and films (Halls of Montezuma; Wabash Avenue; That Wonderful Urge; I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now; The Doctor Takes a Wife; The Great Dictator; Ain’t Misbehavin’) (born Feb. 27, 1903 – died July 7, 1980; age 77). Reginald Gardiner died of a heart attack. (Reginald Gardiner 1937 Photo: Who’s Who at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Ian Keith (nee Keith Ross; ex of Blanche Yurka, Ethel Clayton, Fern Andra)
American actor of classic & silent movies (Border Feud; Cleopatra; The Ten Commandments; Dick Tracy’s Dilemma; Duel on the Mississippi; Song of Old Wyoming; The Man From Thunder River; It Came from Beneath the Sea; Mary of Scotland; Nightmare Alley; Northwest Trail; Manhandled; The Divine Lady) (born Feb. 27, 1899 – died Mar. 26, 1960; age 61). (Ian Keith 1945 Fog Island)
American singer (Stormy Weather; Far Away in Shanty Town) and actress of London, Paris & Broadway stages, TV (Jackanory), and movies (Big Fella; Over the Moon; Alibi; While Nero Fiddled; Death at a Broadcast; Revenge of the Pink Panther) (born Feb. 27, 1904 – died July 15, 2003; age 99). Cause of death for Elisabeth Welch is unknown. (Elisabeth Welch 1936 The Song of Freedom)
Ed Brophy (nee Edward Santree Brophy)
American actor of TV & films (Come On, Leathernecks!; The Champ; Dough Boys; The Gay Falcon; Air Force; A Dangerous Affair; The Great Profile; The Thin Man; Wedding Present; Spendthrift; Romance on the Run; She Gets Her Man; Golden Boy; The Camerman; Our Blushing Brides; Paris Interlude) (born Feb. 27, 1895 – died May 27, 1960; age 65). (Ed Brophy 1935: Universal Weekly)
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