January 5th Birthdays
If you were born on on this day January 5th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Robert Duvall
Academy Award-winning American actor of movies (Tender Mercies; Apocalypse Now; True Grit; The Godfather; The Great Santini; MASH; Network; The Outfit; The Natural; Rambling Rose; Phenomenon; Wild Horses) & TV (Lonesome Dove), born January 5, 1931. (Robert Duvall 1966 Hawk)
Diane Keaton (ex-partner of Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Warren Beatty)
Academy Award-winning American TV & movie actress (Annie Hall; Play it Again, Sam: The Godfather films; Father of the Bride; Baby Boom; Something’s Gotta Give; Looking for Mr. Goodbar; The Little Drummer Girl), born January 5, 1946. Nee Diane Hall. (Diane Keaton 2011: Firooz Zahedi)
Ted Lange (nee Theodore William Lange)
American director (The First Family; Mr. Box Office), screenwriter & actor of movies & TV (Players at the Poker Palace; The Love Boat; That’s My Mama; Celebrity Fit Club), and sex & advice columnist (Ask Isaac), born January 5, 1948. (Ted Lange 1977 The Love Boat Photo: ABC TV)
Pamela Sue Martin
American actress of television (Dynasty; The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries) and movies (The Poseidon Adventure; Buster and Billie; Our Time; The Lady in Red; Torchlight; A Cry in the Wild; McTaggarts Fortune), born January 5, 1953. (Pamela Sue Martin Photo: Jay Jorgensen / PamelaSueMartin.com)
Clancy Brown (nee Clarence J. Brown III)
American actor of TV (SpongeBob SquarePants; ER; Carnivàle; Men in Black: The Series; Sleepy Hollow; Billions) and movies (Highlander; Shoot to Kill; Blue Steel; The Shawshank Redemption; Starship Troopers; Chappaquiddick), born January 5, 1959. (Clancy Brown 2008 Photo: Gateman1997 at en.wikipedia)
Suzy Amis (nee Susan Elizabeth Amis; married James Cameron)
American former Ford model, retired actress of TV & films (Titanic; The Usual Suspects; Blown Away; Twister; Where the Heart Is; Plain Clothes), and environmentalist (Red Carpet Green Dress; Plant Power Task Force), born January 5, 1962. Ex of Sam Robards. (Suzy Amis 2017: Brandon Hickman)
Vinnie Jones (nee Vincent Peter Jones)
British actor of movies (Snatch; Swordfish; She’s The Man; Gone in Sixty Seconds; The Big Bounce; EuroTrip; X-Men: The Last Stand; The Midnight Man), TV (Galavant; Arrow; The Cape; Deception), former Welsh soccer team captain, born January 5, 1965. (Vinnie Jones 2010 Photo: uncle_shoggoth)
Ricky Paull Goldin (ex-fiance of Yasmine Bleeth)
American TV screenwriter, producer, director (Hidden Heroes; Project Dad), reality show host and actor (Jake Martin on All My Children; Dean Frame on Another World; Guiding Light; The Young and the Restless), born January 5, 1965. (Ricky Paull Goldin Photo: RickyPaullGoldin.com)
(Jane Wyman 1939 | George Reeves 1943)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on January 5th!
Remember These January 5th Famous Birthdays
Jane Wyman (nee Sarah Jane Mayfield; ex of Ronald Reagan)
Oscar-winning American actress of TV (Angela Channing on Falcon Crest; Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre) & film (Johnny Belinda; Stage Fright; Lucy Gallant; Brother Rat; Magnificent Obsession; The Lost Weekend; The Yearling; Pollyanna; Just For You) (born Jan. 5, 1917 – died Sept. 10, 2007; age 90). Jane Wyman died of natural causes. (Jane Wyman 1953 Photo: Eiganotomo)
Umberto Eco
Italian philosopher, professor, and author (The Name of the Rose; Foucault’s Pendulum; The Prague Cemetery; The Island of the Day Before; Baudolino; History of Beauty) (born Jan. 5, 1932 – died Feb. 19, 2016; age 84). Cause of death for Umberto Eco was pancreatic cancer. (Umberto Eco 1984 Photo: Rob Bogaerts)
George Dolenz (nee Jure Dolenc; married Janelle Johnson)
Austrian-Hungarian-American actor of TV (Edmond Dantes on The Count of Monte Cristo) & movies (Moonlight in Vermont; The Royal Mounted Rides Again; My Cousin Rachel; A Bullet for Joey; The Sad Sack; The Purple Mask) (born Jan. 5, 1908 – died Feb. 8, 1963; age 55). Father of Mickey Dolenz; grandfather of Ami Dolenz. (George Dolenz 1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris)
George Reeves (nee George Keefer Brewer)
American actor of TV (Clark Kent on Adventures of Superman) & films (Bugles in the Afternoon; Westward Ho, the Wagons!; Forever Female; The Blue Gardenia; The Adventures of Sir Galahad; Superman and the Mole-Men; Gone With the Wind; Torrid Zone; ‘Til We Meet Again) (born Jan. 5, 1914 – died June 16, 1959; age 45). George Reeves died of a gunshot to the head. (George Reeves 1943)
Jean-Pierre Aumont (nee Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons)
French WWII veteran (Croix de Guerre; Légion d’Honneur), actor of TV & films (Day for Night; Lili; The Cross of Lorraine; Assignment in Brittany; John Paul Jones; Revenge of the Pirates; Heartbeat; The Seventh Sin; The Devil at 4 O’Clock) (born Jan. 5, 1911 – died Jan. 30, 2001; age 90). Married Maria Montez, Marisa Pavan; ex of Blanche Montel. (Jean-Pierre Aumont 1943)
Jerome Thor (nee Jerome Perlmutter)
American actor of TV (Robert Cannon on Foreign Intrigue; Danger; The Web; Hill Street Blues; Perry Mason; Checkmate; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; The F.B.I.; Adam-12; Quincy M.E.) and movies (Riot in Juvenile Prison; 55 Days at Peking; House of the Black Death) (born Jan. 5, 1915 – died Aug. 12, 1993; age 78). Cause of death for Jerome Thor is unknown. (Jerome Thor 1966 Daniel Boone)
J. Stuart Blackton (nee James Stuart Blacktin; married Evangeline Russell)
American reporter & illustrator, Vitagraph Studios founder, animator & movie director (The Film Parade), co-founder of M.P. Publishing (Shadowland, The Motion Picture Story Magazine; Motion Picture Classic) (born Jan. 5, 1875 – died Aug. 13, 1941; age 66). Father of Charles & Marion Constance Blackton. J. Stuart Blackton died after being hit by a car. (J. Stuart Blackton 1912: Stacy)
Albert Edward Sutherland (aka Eddie Sutherland)
American film actor & director (The Invisible Woman; One Night in the Tropics; The Flying Deuces; Abie’s Irish Rose; Having Wonderful Crime; Diamond Jim; The Boys From Syracuse; International House; Murders in the Zoo; Sky Devils; Tillie’s Punctured Romance) (born Jan. 5, 1895 – died Dec. 31, 1973; age 78). Ex of Margery Daw, Louise Brooks. (A. Edward Sutherland 1923: Evans)
King C. Gillette (nee King Camp Gillette)
American author (The Human Drift; The People’s Corporation), entrepreneur, marketing innovator (invented a thin, inexpensive, safe, disposable razor blade made of carbon steel), Gillette Safety Razor Company founder, he began selling the razors and blades in 1903; owner of the King Gillette Ranch (born Jan. 5, 1855 – died July 9, 1932; age 77). (King Gillette 1906: B.J. Falk)
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