July 1st Birthdays
If you were born on July 1st you share a Canada Day birthday with these famous people:
Leslie Caron is 89
Emmy Award-winning French-American dancer-actress of TV & movies (An American in Paris; Lili; The Glass Slipper; Daddy Long Legs; Gigi; Promise Her Anything; The Subterraneans; Fanny; Father Goose; The Doctors Dilemma; The L-Shaped Room) (born July 1, 1931). (Leslie Caron 1960s Photo)
Jamie Farr is 86 (nee Jameel Farah)
American actor of stage, TV (Corporal Maxwell Klinger on M*A*S*H & After MASH; Port Charles; The Dick Van Dyke Show), and movies (With Six You Get Eggroll; Arnold; The Cannonball Run; Scrooged; A Month of Sundays; Blackboard Jungle), born July 1, 1934. (Jamie Farr 1976 Stumpers Photo: NBC)
Ron Masak is 84 (nee Ronald Alan Masak)
American actor of stage, TV (Sheriff Mort Metzger on Murder, She Wrote; Love Thy Neighbor; Bewitched; Once an Eagle; Police Story; Webster; The Law; Quincy M.E.), and films (Ice Station Zebra; Tora! Tora! Tora!; Harper Valley P.T.A.), born July 1, 1936. (Ron Masak 1973 Photo: Herman Rush Associates)
Twyla Tharp is 79
Tony & Emmy Award-winning American senior, dancer and choreographer (Deuce Coupe) for American Ballet Theatre, Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, & founder of Twyla Tharp Dance, born July 1, 1941. (Twyla Tharp 1981 Photo: Ken Duncann)
Geneviève Bujold is 78
French-Canadian actress of TV and movies (Anne of the Thousand Days; Earthquake; King of Hearts; Coma; Tightrope; Dead Ringers; Murder by Decree; Final Assignment; Act of the Heart; The Trojan Women; The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark; Choose Me), born July 1, 1942. (Geneviève Bujold 1969 Photo)
Debbie Harry is 75 (nee Angela Tremble; aka Deborah Harry)
American actress of TV & movies (Hairspray; Satisfaction; Cop Land; Deuces Wild; Elegy), dance & new wave singer-songwriter solo, and as lead singer of Blondie (Heart of Glass; Call Me; The Tide is High; Rapture; Atomic; Maria) and septuagenarian born July 1, 1945. (Deborah Harry 1970s Photo: stein odland)
Daryl Anderson is 69
American photographer, TV producer (Screen Actors Guild Awards), and actor of stage, TV (Dennis “Animal” Price on Lou Grant; Passions; Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless; Hollywood Wives; Melrose Place; Trapper John, M.D.), born July 1, 1951. (Daryl Anderson 1977 Photo: CBS TV)
Dan Aykroyd is 68 (nee Daniel Edward Aykroyd)
Emmy Award-winning Canadian comedian, producer, screenwriter & actor of TV (Saturday Night Live; Soul Man; According to Jim) and movies (The Blues Brothers; Ghostbusters; Trading Places; Neighbors; My Fellow Americans; Dragnet), born July 1, 1952. (Dan Aykroyd 2009 Photo: Rnunezart)
Alan Ruck is 64
American actor of stage, TV (Stuart Bondek on Spin City; Mad About You), and movies (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Three for the Road; Speed; Class; Star Trek: Generations; Young Guns II; Twister; Cheaper by the Dozen; Bad Boys), born July 1, 1956. (Alan Ruck 2006 Photo: Corey Bond from United States)
Carl Lewis is 59 (nee Frederick Carlton Lewis)
Retired American track and field athlete, 10-time Olympic medalist (9 Gold – 1984 Los Angeles 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, long jump; 1988 Seoul 100, long jump; 1992 Barcelona 4x100m relay, long jump; 1996 Atlanta 1996 long jump), born July 1, 1961. (Carl Lewis 2009 Photo: Manfred Werner – Tsui)
Andre Braugher 58
Emmy Award-winning American actor of TV (Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street; Capt. Ray Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Kojak movies; Hack; Gideon’s Crossing; House) & films (City of Angels; Frequency), born July 1, 1962. (Andre Braugher 2011 Photo: Anders Krusberg / Peabody Awards)
Pamela Anderson is 53 (aka Pam Anderson Lee)
Canadian-American model (Playboy; Outdoor Life), producer & actress of TV (C. J. Parker on Baywatch; Vallery Irons on V.I.P.; Home Improvement; Dancing With the Stars) & (Barb Wire; Raw Justice; Scary Movie 3), and PETA activist, born July 1, 1967. (Pamela Anderson 2003 Photo: Darren Stone)
(Lake Ontario at Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto Photo © 2020 Anita Hamilton)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on July 1st!
And remembering
English weightlifter, bodybuilder, actor of TV (Green Cross Code Man; The Edge of Night) and films (Darth Vader in Star Wars films; Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell; A Clockwork Orange; The People That Time Forgot; Callan; Black Snake; White Cargo) (born July 1, 1935 – died Nov. 28, 2020; age 85). David Prowse died of COVID-19. (David Prowse 2007 Photo: Nihonjoe)
Emmy & Academy Award-winning English-American actress (To Each His Own; The Snake Pit; The Heiress; Gone With the Wind; Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna; My Cousin Rachel; Santa Fe Trail; The Adventures of Robin Hood; Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte) (born July 1, 1916 – died July 25, 2020; age 104). Olivia de Havilland died of natural causes. (Olivia de Havilland c. 1945 Photo)
Charles Laughton
Academy Award-winning British-American actor of stage & movies (The Private Life of Henry VIII; Mutiny on the Bounty; Witness for the Prosecution; Jamaica inn; I, Claudius; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Canterville Ghost) (born July 1, 1899 – died Dec. 15, 1962; age 63). Charles Laughton died of renal cancer. (Charles Laughton 1934 Photo: Clarence Bull / MGM)
Karen Black (nee Karen Blanche Ziegler)
American actress of TV (E/R) and movies (Easy Rider; Five Easy Pieces; The Pyx; The Great Gatsby, Nashville; Family Plot; Burnt Offerings; Capricorn One; Airport 1975; In Praise of Older Women; The Player; Cisco Pike; Portnoy’s Complaint; The Outfit; The Day of the Locust) (born July 1, 1939 – died Aug. 8, 2013, age 74). Karen Black died of ampullary cancer. (Karen Black 1976 Burnt Offerings)
Constance Ford (nee Cornelia M. Ford)
American model (Elizabeth Arden Victory Red lipstick) and actress of stage, TV (Ada Hobson on Another World; Rose Peterson on Search For Tomorrow; Eve Morris on The Edge of Night; Climax!), and movies (A Summer Place; Rome Adventure; Shootout at Big Sag) (born July 1, 1923 – died Feb. 26, 1993; age 69). Constance Ford died of cancer. (Constance Ford 1960 Thriller)
Andraé Crouch
American pastor, Grammy Award-winning Gospel Music Hall of Fame songwriter, producer, gospel singer, and musical arranger for other artists (Little Richard; Elton John; Madonna; Michael Jackson) & movies (The Color Purple; The Lion King) (born July 1, 1942 – died Jan. 8, 2015; age 72). Andraé Crouch died of a heart attack. (Andraé Crouch 1982 Photo: Warner Bros.)
Sydney Pollack
American actor, producer, and director (Ben Casey; Tootsie; Eyes Wide Shut; Bobby Deerfield; Absence of Malice; Out of Africa; Sabrina, Cold Mountain, The Way We Were; Three Days of the Condor; The Electric Horseman; The Firm; Changing Lanes; Random Hearts) (born July 1, 1934 – died May 26, 2008; age 73). Sydney Pollack died of cancer. (Sydney Pollack 2006 Photo: Arthur)
Estée Lauder (nee Josephine Esther Mentzer)
American businesswoman and co-founder of Estée Lauder cosmetics company with her husband Joseph Lauder (nee Joseph Lauter), creator of Youth-Dew bath oil and other beauty products (born July 1, 1908 – died Apr. 24, 2004; age 95). Estée Lauder died of cardiopulmonary arrest. (Estée Lauder 1966 Photo: Bill Sauro, New York World-Telegram and the Sun)
Murray Matheson (aka Sidney Murray Matheson)
Australian actor of TV (Felix Mulholland on Banacek; Encounter; Perry Mason; Naked City; The F.B.I.) and movies (Hurricane Smith; Botany Bay; Jamaica Run; Flight to Tangier; Love is a Many-Splendored Thing; Signpost to Murder; Twilight Zone: The Movie) (born July 1, 1912 – died Mar. 6, 1985; age 77). Cause of death for Murray Matheson is unknown. (Murray Matheson 1961 Thriller)
Irna Phillips (“Queen of the Soaps“)
American “inventor of the soap opera”, head screenwriter, casting director, and creator of radio and television daytime soaps (Painted Dreams; Guiding Light; As the World Turns; Another World; Our Private World; The Road to Happiness) (born July 1, 1901 – died Dec. 23, 1973; age 72). Cause of death for Irna Phillips is unknown. (Irna Phillips 1958 To Tell The Truth)
Madge Evans (nee Margherita Evans)
American movie actress (Army Girl; Pennies from Heaven; Sinners in Paradise; The Thirteenth Chair; Espionage; Helldorado; Piccadilly Jim; Moonlight Murder; Exclusive Story; What Every Woman Knows; Sporting Blood; Paris Interlude; Dinner at Eight; Son of India) (born July 1, 1909 – died Apr. 26, 1981; age 71). Madge Evans died of cancer. (Madge Evans 1935 Photo: Clarence Bull)
American actor of radio & TV soap operas (Grandpa Shawn Brady on Days of our Lives from 1983-2008; Quincy M.E.; Paddy Kelly on General Hospital; The Young and the Restless; The Six Million Dollar Man; Battlestar Galactica) (born July 1, 1939 – died Sept. 16, 2018; age 79). Frank Parker died of dementia and Parkinson’s Disease complications. (Frank Parker 1936 Photo: Radio Mirror)
Bobby Day (nee Robert James Byrd)
American music producer, songwriter, R&B musician, and rock & roll lead singer of the Satellites (Rockin’ Robin; Over and Over; Buzz-Buzz-Buzz; Little Bitty Pretty One; The Bluebird, the Buzzard, and The Oriole; Gotta New Girl; That’s All I Want) (born July 1, 1930 – died July 27, 1990; age 60). Bobby Day died of prostate cancer.
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