March 1st Birthdays
If you were born on March 1st you share a birthday with these famous people:
Robert Clary is 95 (nee Robert Max Widerman)
French-American singer, actor of TV (LeBeau on Hogan’s Heroes; Robert LeClair on Days of Our Lives; Pierre Jourdan on The Bold and the Beautiful), movies (A New Kind of Love; The Hindenburg; Thief of Damascus; Ten Tall Men), born March 1, 1926. (Robert Clary 1953 Photo: William Morris Agency)
Harry Belafonte is 94 (nee Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; “King of Calypso“)
Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning American songwriter, singer (Banana Boat [Day-O]; Matilda; Jump in the Line; Turn Around), and blacklisted actor (Island in the Sun; Carmen Jones; Buck and the Preacher; The Angel Levine; Bobby) born March 1, 1927. (Harry Belafonte 1962 What’s My Line?)
Roger Daltrey is 77
English actor (Tommy) and lead singer of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band The Who (My Generation; I Can’t Explain; Pinball Wizard; Won’t Get Fooled Again; I Can See For Miles; Who Are You; The Kids Are Alright; Magic Bus; My Generation) born March 1, 1944. (Roger Daltrey 1975 The Who Photo: Jim Summaria)
Mike d’Abo is 77 (nee Michael David d’Abo)
English radio show host (The Golden Years), singer-songwriter solo (Handbags and Gladrags; Build Me Up Buttercup; Loving Cup; Miss Me in the Morning), with Manfred Mann (Mighty Quinn; Do Wah Diddy Diddy; Pretty Flamingo), born March 1, 1944. (Mike D’Abo 1972 Photo: Roger Perry)
Dirk Benedict is 76 (nee Dirk Niewoehner)
American author (Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy), actor of stage, TV (Templeton Peck on The A-Team; Lieutenant Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica; Chopper One; Charlie’s Angels), and movies (Battlestar Galactica; The A-Team; Alaska) born March 1, 1945. (Dirk Benedict 1973 Ssssss Photo: NBC)
Lana Wood is 75 (nee Svetlana Gurdin)
American producer (The Mystery of Natalie Wood), actress of movies (Diamonds Are Forever; Justin Morgan Had a Horse; Grayeagle) and TV (Sandy Webber on Peyton Place; Capitol; Who is the Black Dahlia?; The Long Hot Summer; Police Story), born March 1, 1946. (Lana Wood c 1966 Peyton Place)
Ron Howard is 67 (nee Ronald William Howard)
American actor, director, & producer of TV (Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show; Richie Cunningham on Happy Days; Arrested Development; Felicity; Curious George) and movies (The Music Man; American Graffiti; Far and Away; The ‘Burbs), born March 1, 1954. (Ron Howard 1990 Photo: Georges Biard)
Catherine Bach is 67 (nee Catherine Bachman)
American model & actress of TV (Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard; Margo Dutton on African Skies; Anita Lawson on The Young and the Restless) and movies (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; Criminal Act; Masters of Menace), born March 1, 1954. (Catherine Bach 1995 Photo: Reggie Bibbs)
Tim Daly is 65 (nee James Timothy Daly)
American actor of TV (Wings; Private Practice; Madam Secretary; The Fugitive; Almost Grown; The Nine; Ryan’s Four) and movies (The Object of My Affection; Love or Money: Year of the Comet; Diner; Made in Heaven; Just The Way You Are), born March 1, 1956. (Tim Daly 2006 Photo: Peabody Awards)
Maurice Benard is 58 (nee Mauricio Jose Morales)
Cuban-American actor of TV (Michael “Sonny” Corinthos on General Hospital, Port Charles, & General Hospital: Night Shift; Nico Kelly on All My Children) and movies (Joy; The Ghost and the Whale; A Lover Betrayed; Ruby; Confession; Equal Standard), born March 1, 1963. (Maurice Benard 2005 Photo: SAMHSA)
Ron Francis is 58 (nee Ronald Michael Francis Jr.)
Hockey Hall of Fame Canadian NHL hockey player (Hartford Whalers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs), Lady Byng Trophy (1995, 1998, 2002), & Carolina Hurricanes GM, born March 1, 1963. (Ron Francis 2006 Photo: akulawolf / Ron Francis, Rudely Interrupted)
Academy Award-winning Spanish movie star (No Country for Old Men; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Before Night Falls; Eat Pray Love; Skyfall; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Gunman; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Men Tell No Tales), born March 1, 1969. (Javier Bardem 2008 Photo: Greg Hernandez)
American actor of TV (Noah Warner on Suburgatory; Firefly; The Tick; Santa Clarita Diet; Arrested Development) & films (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; I, Robot; 42; 3:10 to Yuma; Hearts in Atlantis; A Knight’s Tale; 28 Days), born March 16, 1971. (Alan Tudyk 2019 Photo: Geffen Playhouse)
(Vintage VW Camper, Baker Beach, San Francisco Photo: Caleb George via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on March 1st!
And remembering
Robert Conrad (nee Conrad Robert Falk)
American actor of TV (Tom Lopaka on Hawaiian Eye & 77 Sunset Strip; James T. West on The Wild Wild West; Black Sheep Squadron; Jesse Hawkes; Assignment: Vienna), and movies (Palm Springs Weekend; Young Dillinger; The Lady in Red) (born March 1, 1935 – died Feb. 8, 2020; age 84). Robert Conrad died of heart failure. (Robert Conrad 1965 Photo: Gabor Rona / CBS TV)
Jed Allan (nee Jed Allan Brown)
American actor & host of movies and TV (C. C. Capwell on Santa Barbara; Paul Britton on The Secret Storm; Don Craig on Days of Our Lives; Ace Hubbard on Love of Life; Lassie; Beverly Hills 90210; General Hospital; Port Charles; Celebrity Bowling; Adam-12; Love, American Style) (born Mar. 1, 1935 – died Mar. 9, 2019; age 84). Cause of death for Jed Allan is unknown. (Jed Allan 1969 Lassie)
Alan Thicke (nee Alan Willis Jeffrey)
Canadian screenwriter, actor & host of TV (Dr. Jason Seaver on Growing Pains; Hope & Gloria; The Bold and the Beautiful; The Alan Thicke Show; Unusually Thicke; Thicke of the Night; The Bobby Vinton Show) (born Mar. 1, 1947 – died Dec. 13, 2016; age 69). Alan Thicke died of an aortic dissection. (Alan Thicke 2010 Photo: © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com)
David Niven (nee James David Graham Niven)
English Academy Award-winning actor (Separate Tables; Raffles; The Pink Panther; Around the World in Eighty Days; Please Don’t Eat the Daisies; Death on the Nile; The Guns of Navarone; Wuthering Heights; The Bishop’s Wife; The Sea Wolves) (born Mar. 1, 1910 – died July 29, 1983; age 73). David Niven died of ALS / Lou Gehrig’s disease. (David Niven 1963 The Pink Panther Trailer)
Cesare Danova (nee Cesare Deitinger)
Italian-American actor of TV (Garrison’s Gorillas; The Doris Day Show) and movies (Tender is the Night; Cleopatra; Gidget Goes to Rome; Viva Las Vegas; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Crossed Swords; Tender is the Night; Boy, Did I Get a Wong Number!) (born Mar. 1, 1926 – died Mar. 19 1992; age 66). Cesare Danova died of a heart attack. (Cesare Danova 1966 Daniel Boone)
Canadian NHL Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs), NHL All-Star (1960, 1961, 1966) with 4 Stanley Cups (1962, 1963, 1964, 1967) (born Mar. 1, 1926 – died Oct. 18, 2013; age 87). Allan Stanley died of knee surgery complications. (Allan Stanley 1963-1965 Photo: Ralston-Purina Company)
Tony Award-winning American dancer-actor of stage, TV (The Hartmans; Emmett Clark on Mayberry R.F.D. & The Andy Griffith Show; The Pride of the Family; Petticoat Junction; Alfred Hitchcock Presents), and movies (Sunny; Man on a Tightrope; The Thrill of It All) (born Mar. 1, 1904 – died Oct. 2, 1973; age 69). Paul Hartman died of a heart attack. (Paul Hartman 1960 Thriller)
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