May 5th Birthdays
If you were born on May 5th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Will Hutchins is 92 (nee Marshall Lowell Hutchason)
American character actor of TV (Tom Brewster on Sugarfoot; Hey, Landlord; Blondie; Conflict; 77 Sunset Strip; Maverick) and movies (Spinout; Clambake; Claudelle Inglish; Merrill’s Marauders; No Time for Sergeants; The Shooting), born May 5, 1930. (Will Hutchins 1973 The Horror at 37,000 Feet)
Michael Murphy is 84
American actor of TV (Jack Tanner on Tanner on Tanner & Tanner ’88; This is Wonderland; Ben Casey; Combat!) and movies (Cloak & Dagger; Double Trouble; An Unmarried Woman; Manhattan; MASH; Away From Her; Batman Returns), born May 5, 1938. (Michael Murphy 1984 Two Marriages Photo: ABC)
Lance Henriksen is 82
American voice over artist & actor of stage, TV (Millenium; Ryan’s Hope; The Blacklist), video games, and movies (The Terminator; Jagged Edge; Aliens; Jennifer 8; Powder; The Outfit; Hard Target, Scream 3; The Right Stuff; The Last Samurai), born May 5, 1940. (Lance Henriksen 2010 Photo: Ak@ssia)
Michael Palin is 79
English travel writer, comedian, screenwriter, narrator & actor of TV (Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Clangers; Vanity Fair) and movies (A Fish Called Wanda; Time Bandits; Life of Brian; Jabberwocky; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Meaning of Life) born May 5, 1943. (Michael Palin 2009 Photo: PalFest)
John Rhys-Davies is 78
English character & voice over actor of TV (Shōgun; Noble House; The Untouchables; Sliders; War and Remembrance), film (The Living Daylights; Gimli in The Lord of the Rings movies; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Victor Victoria; Prisoners of the Sun), born May 5, 1944. (John Rhys-Davies 2012 Photo: Eva Rinaldi)
Lisa Eilbacher is 66
Saudia Arabian-American actress of TV (Midnight Caller; The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries; Ryan’s Four; The Winds of War) and movies (Beverly Hills Cop; 10 to Midnight; An Officer and a Gentleman; Run for the Roses; The Last Samurai; Live Wire), born May 5, 1956. (Lisa Eilbacher 1974 Movin’ On)
Tom Schanley is 61 (nee Thomas Lee Schanley)
American actor of TV (Whit Champion on The Yellow Rose; Dynasty; Melrose Place; Graceland; Outlaw) and movies (Fever Pitch; Courage Under Fire; Nothing Underneath; Listen To Me; Conspiracy Theory; Savage; Expose), born May 5, 1961. (Tom Schanley Photo: Bjorn Kommerell / © TomSchanley.com)
Brian Williams is 63
Emmy & Peabody Award-winning American MSNBC and NBC News journalist, White House correspondent, TV news anchor, and host (The 11th Hour With Brian Williams; NBC Nightly News; The News With Brian Williams; Rock Center), born May 5, 1959. (Brian Williams 2009 Photo: David Shankbone)
(Alice Faye 1940 | Tyrone Power 1953)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on May 5th!
Remember These May 5th Famous Birthdays
Pat Carroll (nee Patricia Ann Carroll)
Grammy & Emmy-winning American voice-over & character actress of stage, TV (Gussie Holt on She’s The Sheriff; Bunny Halper on Make Room for Daddy; Too Close for Comfort; Busting Loose; ER; The Interns), & films (The Little Mermaid; Songcatcher; The Brothers O’Toole; With Six You Get Eggroll; BFFs) (born May 5, 1927 – died July 30, 2022; age 95). (Pat Carroll 1955)
Tyrone Power (nee Tyrone Edmund Power III; son of Tyrone Power Sr.)
American film actor (The Mark of Zorro; Blood and Sand; Prince of Foxes; Witness For the Prosecution; The Sun Also Rises; The Eddy Duchin Story; Diplomatic Courier; The Black Rose; Rose of Washington Square; The Luck of the Irish; Thin Ice; Jesse James) (born May 5, 1915 – died Nov. 15, 1968; age 44). Tyrone Power died of a heart attack. (Tyrone Power 1940: Paul Hesse)
Tammy Wynette (nee Virginia Wynette Pugh; “First Lady of Country Music“)
Grammy Award-winning American Country Music Hall of Fame singer-songwriter solo (Stand By Your Man; I Don’t Wanna Play House; D-I-V-O-R-C-E; It’s All Over) & with husband George Jones (We’re Gonna Hold On; Golden Ring) (born May 5, 1942 – died Apr. 6, 1998; age 55). Tammy Wynette died of a blood clot. (Tammy Wynette 1975 Photo: Hubert Long / Epic Records)
Alice Faye (nee Alice Jeane Leppert)
American singer (You’ll Never Know) & movie actress (Hello, Frisco, Hello; George White’s Scandals; Alexander’s Ragtime Band; Rose of Washington Square; Hollywood Cavalcade; State Fair; Sally, Irene and Mary; Four Jills in a Jeep; In Old Chicago; Week-End in Havana) (born May 5, 1915 – died May 9, 1998; age 83). Alice Faye died of stomach cancer. (Alice Faye 1941 That Night in Rio Photo)
Roger Rees
Tony Award-winning Welsh-American actor of stage, TV (Singles; Cheers; M.A.N.T.I.S.; Boston Common; The West Wing) and movies (Star 80; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; The Scorpion King; The Prestige; The Pink Panther; If Looks Could Kill) (born May 5, 1944 – died July 10, 2015; age 71). Roger Rees died of brain cancer. (Roger Rees 1982 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
Gordon Richards (aka Sir Gordon Richards; “Moppy“)
English flat racing jockey who recovered from tuberculosis to achieve British Champion Jockey a record 26 times & over 4870 winners, later race horse trainer for Lady Beaverbrook, Dorothy Paget, and others (born May 5, 1904 – died Nov. 10, 1986; age 84). Cause of death for Gordon Richards is unknown. (Gordon Richards 1938 Photo: Associated Press Photo)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist, author (Microwave Spectroscopy), & researcher (spectroscopy; superconductivity; nuclear resonance) who invent the laser with Charles Townes, and 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics winner (born May 5, 1921 – died April 28, 1999; age 77). Arthur Schawlow died of leukemia. (Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1981 Photo: Jose Mercado / Stanford News Service)
Alexander Ragulin (“Rags”; aka Aleksandr Ragulin)
International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame Russian hockey defenseman, 3-time Winter Olympics hockey gold medalist (1964 Innsbruck Austria; 1968 Grenoble France; 1972 Sapporo Japan), 1972 Summit Series player (born May 5, 1941 – died Nov. 17, 2004; age 63). Cause of death for Alexander Ragulin is unknown. (Alexander Ragulin Stamp Photo)
John Van Dreelen (nee Jacques van Drielen Gimberg; aka Jack Gimberg)
Dutch-American actor of TV (The F.B.I.; Noble House; 77 Sunset Strip; Hawaiian Eye; It Takes a Thief; The Word; Falcon Crest; Ironside; Perry Mason; The Six Million Dollar Man) and movies (The Enemy General; The Flying Fontaines; Von Ryan’s Express) (born May 5, 1922 – died Sept. 4, 1992; age 70). John Van Dreelen’s cause of death is unknown. (John Van Dreelen 1966 12 O’Clock High)
Bing Russell (nee Neil Oliver Russell)
American actor of TV (Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza; The Virginian; Mannix; Emergency!; Gunsmoke; Death Valley Days; The Streets of San Francisco; The Big Valley; The Twilight Zone; Laramie; The Untouchables; Zane Grey Theater; Stagecoach West) (born May 5, 1926 – died Apr. 8, 2003; age 76). Bing Russell died of cancer complications. (Bing Russell 1957 Tombstone Territory)
Max Marcin (nee Max Schlamjack)
Polish-American novelist, playwright, film director & screenwriter (Eyes of Youth; Cheating Cheaters; The Woman in Room 13; The Love of Sunya; Here Comes the Bride; Three Live Ghosts), and radio program writer-creator (Crime Doctor) (born May 5, 1879 – died Mar. 30, 1948; age 68). Cause of death for Max Marcin is unknown. (Max Marcin 1933 Photo: Motion Picture Herald)
Alice Howell (nee Alice Florence Clark)
American comedienne, actress of burlesque and vaudeville stages, and silent movies for Keystone, L-KO & Century Comedies (Cinderella Cinders; How Stars Are Made; The Great Smash; Wandering Daughters; The Pride of the Force; Her Unmarried Life; The Elite of Hollywood; Papa’s Pet) (born May 5, 1888 – died Apr. 12, 1961; age 72) (Alice Howell 1917 Photo: Photoplay)
Freeman F. Gosden (nee Freeman Fisher Gosden; “Amos“)
American comedian, musician, writer, host, blackface & voice actor of radio (Amos on Amos ‘n’ Andy; Sam ‘n’ Henry; Correll and Gosden, the Life of the Party), TV (Calvin and the Colonel; The Amos ‘n Andy Show) & films (Check and Double Check; The Big Broadcast of 1936; The Lion Tamer) (born May 5, 1899 – died Dec. 10, 1982; age 83). (Freeman Gosden 1930 Photo: Radio Digest)
American writer, journalist (Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger; New York Evening Post), editor (Ladies’ Home Journal; Saturday Review of Literature) poet (On Vimy Ridge), and best-selling novelist (Kitty Foyle, Thunder on the Left, Kathleen, Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop) (born May 5, 1890 – died Mar. 28, 1957; age 66). (Christopher Morley 1935 Photo: Radio Mirror)
American western TV & film actor (The Lawless Nineties; Monkey Business; Call of the Rockies; The Ghost Rider; In Early Arizona; Hawaiian Buckaroo; Indian Agent; Stagecoach Days; Sunset Pass; Lawless Riders; The Texas Ranger; Last of the Duanes; The House of the Seven Gables; Wild Horse Mesa; West of the Pecos; Nevada) (born May 5, 1889 – died Dec. 28, 1968;age 79). (Harry Woods 1925)
John S. Ragin (nee John Stanley Ragin)
American actor & guest star of TV (Dr. Robert Asten on Quincy M.E.; Dr. Grant Jameson on Santa Barbara; Sons and Daughters; The Felony Squad; The F.B.I.; Ironside; Barnaby Jones; The Fugitive; Mission: Impossible) and movies (The Parallax View; Earthquake) (born May 5, 1929 – died Apr. 14, 2013; age 83). Cause of death for John S. Ragin is unknown. (John S. Ragin 1974 Killer Bees)
Douglas Marland (nee Marland Messner)
Daytime Emmy Award-winning American TV soap opera actor and screenwriter (The Brighter Day; As the World Turns; Another World; The Doctors; General Hospital; As the World Turns; Guiding Light; Loving; A New Day in Eden) (born May 5, 1934 – died Mar. 6, 1993; age 58). Douglas Marland died of abdominal surgery complications.
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