July 27th Birthdays
If you were born on July 27th you share a birthday with these famous people:
Norman Lear is 98
Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter & producer of TV (All in the Family; One Day at a Time; Sanford and Son; The Jeffersons; Maude; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Good Times; Fernwood Tonight; The Deputy) & films (Divorce American Style), born July 27, 1922. (Norman Lear 1974 Photo)
Jack Higgins is 91 (nee Henry Patterson)
English screenwriter and mystery-spy-thriller novelist (Cry of the Hunter; The Graveyard Shift; A Prayer for the Dying; The Eagle Has Landed; Storm Warning; The Valhalla Exchange; The Eagle Has Flown; Flight of Eagles; Midnight Runner), born July 27, 1929.
John Pleshette is 78
American screenwriter, actor of TV (Richard Avery on Knots Landing; Dr. Danvers on Doctor’s Hospital; Murder One; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) and movies (House Calls; Rocky II; S.O.B.; The Truman Show), born July 27, 1942. (John Pleshette 1977 The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald)
Bobbie Gentry is 76 (nee Roberta Lee Streeter)
Grammy Award-winning retired American singer-songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe; I’ll Never Fall in Love Again; Fancy; Let it Be Me: All I Have To Do Is Dream) and TV host (Bobbie Gentry; The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour) born July 27, 1944. (Bobbie Gentry 1970 Portrait: Frank Norton)
Betty Thomas is 73 (nee Betty Lucille Nienhauser)
Emmy Award-winning American TV & movie actress (Lucy Bates on Hill Street Blues; Used Cars; Troop Beverly Hills), and director (Only You; Dream On; Sons and Daughters; 28 Days; I Spy; John Tucker Must Die; Hooperman), born July 27, 1947. (Betty Thomas 1982 Hill Street Blues Photo: NBC)
American 1968 Grenoble Olympics ladies gold medal figure skating champion, 5-time United States ladies champion, 3-time world champion figure skater (1966-1968), and ABC sports commentator since 1981, born July 27, 1948. (Peggy Fleming 1966 To Tell the Truth)
Maureen McGovern is 71
American musical theater actress (The Pirates of Penzance; Little Women The Musical) and singer (The Morning After; We May Never Love Like This Again; The Continental; Different Worlds; Can You Read My Mind; We Could have It All), born July 27, 1949. (Maureen McGovern 2011 Photo: The Huntington)
Roxanne Hart is 68
Tony Award-winning American actress of stage, TV (Nurse Camille Shutt on Chicago Hope; Isadora on One Life to Live; Dream On; Medium; Hung; Oz) and movies (The Bell Jar; The Verdict; Highlander), born July 27, 1952. (Roxanne Hart 1986 Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story Promo: CBS)
Carol Leifer is 64
American stand-up comedienne, producer, actress & screenwriter of movies & TV (Saturday Night Live; Seinfeld; Alright Already; The Ellen Show; Better Late Than Never; A Little Help with Carol Burnett; MADtv; Devious Maids; I’m With Her), born July 27, 1956. (Carol Leifer 2011 Photo: Bridget Laudien)
Christopher Dean is 62
World Figure Skating Hall of Fame British ice-dancing choreographer & figure skater with partner Jayne Torvill, 4-time European & World ice-dancing champ, 1984 Sarajevo Olympics gold medalist and 1994 Lillehammer Olympics bronze medalist, born July 27, 1958. (Christopher Dean 1989 Photo)
Julian McMahon is 52
Australian model & actor of TV (Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck; Det. John Grant on Profiler; Ben Lucini on Home and Away; Ian Rain on Another World; The Power, the Passion) and movies (Fantastic Four films; Wet and Wild Summer!; In Quiet Night), born July 27, 1968. (Julian McMahon 2011 Photo: Danny Casillas)
Danish actor of TV (Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones; New Amsterdam) and movies (Bent; Misery Harbour; Stealing Rembrandt; Enigma; Wimbledon; The Other Woman; Small Crimes; Domino; The Baker; Kingdom of Heaven), born July 27, 1970. (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau 2019 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
(Orange Flowering Cactus Medina-Sidonia, Spain Photo: Georgia de Lotz via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on July 27th!
And remembering
Don Galloway (nee Donald Poe Galloway)
American actor of stage, TV (Det. Sgt. Ed Brown on Ironside; Kip Rysdale on The Secret Storm; Dr. Buzz Stryker on General Hospital; Arrest and Trial; Dallas), movies (The Big Chill; The Rare Breed; Ride to Hangman’s Tree; Rough Night in Jericho) (born July 27, 1937 – died Jan. 8, 2009; age 71). Don Gallow had a stroke in the weeks before he died. (Don Galloway 1974 Movin’ On)
Keenan Wynn (nee Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn)
American actor of TV (Call to Glory; Troubleshooters; Dallas; Black Saddle; The Name of the Game; Combat!) and films (Easy to Wed; Royal Wedding; Son of Flubber; The Glass Slipper; The Absent Minded Professor; The Great Race; Stagecoach; FInian’s Rainbow) (born July 27, 1916 – died Oct. 14, 1986; age 70). Keenan Wynn died of pancreatic cancer. (Keenan Wynn 1951 Royal Wedding)
Jerry Van Dyke
American musician, comedian and actor of TV (Luther Van Dam on Coach; My Mother the Car) and movies (The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; Palm Springs Weekend; McLintock!; Love and Kisses; Angel in My Pocket) (born July 27, 1931 – died Jan. 5, 2018; age 86). Jerry Van Dyke died of heart failure. (Jerry Van Dyke 1963 McLintock! Screenshot: Batjac / Paramount Pictures)
Liam Redmond
Irish character actor of stage, TV (Swizzlewick; Festival; The Saint; Wagon Train; Gunsmoke) and movies (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken; The Diplomatic Corpse; Kid Galahad; Barry Lyndon; The Cruel Sea; The Devil on Horseback; Tobruk; Night of the Demon) (born July 27, 1913 – died Oct. 28, 1989; age 76). Cause of death for Liam Redmond is unknown (Liam Redmond 1965 Daniel Boone)
Donald Crisp (nee George William Crisp)
Academy Award-winning English actor of TV & movies (Don Q Son of Zorro; Laddie; Jezebel; Wuthering Heights; The Sea Hawk; National Velvet; Pollyanna; Lassie Come Home; Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog; A Dog of Flanders) (born July 27, 1882 – died May 25, 1974; age 91). Donald Crisp died of stroke complications. (Donald Crisp 1938 Jezebel Trailer)
Geoffrey de Havilland
English airplane engineer and aviation pioneer, designer of the Mosquito and Comet airplanes, WWI RFC Captain, and founder of the de Havilland Aircraft Company in 1920 (born July 27, 1882 – died May 21, 1965; age 82). Cause of death for Geoffrey de Havilland was a cerebral haemorrhage. (Geoffrey de Havilland Photo: SDASM Archives)
Leo Durocher (“Leo the Lip“; “Lippy“)
Baseball Hall of Fame American professional baseball player, MLB shortstop (New York Yankees; St. Louis Cardinals; Brooklyn Dodgers; New York Giants), player-manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers, later NBC color commentator (born July 27, 1905 – died Oct. 7, 1991; age 86). Cause of death for Leo Durocher is unknown. (Leo Durocher 1962 The Beverly Hillbillies Screenshot)
Nick Reynolds (nee Nicholas Wells Reynolds)
Grammy Award-winning American musician and singer with Hit Parade & Vocal Group Hall of Fame band The Kingston Trio (Tom Dooley; At Large; Sloop John B; They Call the Wind Maria; Remember the Alamo; Scotch and Soda), (born July 27, 1933 – died Oct. 1, 2008; age 75). Nick Reynolds died of acute respiratory disease. (Nick Reynolds 1961 The Gertrude Berg Show)
Émile Genest
Canadian CBC radio sportscaster, character actor of radio, TV (The Plouffe Family; 12 O’Clock High; Combat!; Gunsmoke; Iron Horse; Mission: Impossible; The Rat Patrol) and movies (Big Red; The Incredible Journey;The Cincinnati Kid; To Hell With Heroes) (born July 27, 1921 – died Mar. 19, 2003; age 81). Cause of death for Émile Genest was a heart attack. (Émile Genest 1965 Seaway)
Joseph Tinker
National Baseball Hall of Fame American professional baseball player, MLB shortstop (Chicago Cubs – World Series Champions 1907 & 1908; Cincinnati Reds), and player-manager for the Chicago Cubs & Cincinnati Reds (born July 27, 1880 – died July 27 1948; age 68). Cause of death for Joseph Tinker was diabetes complications. (Joseph Tinker 1908 Photo: Charles M. Conlon)
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