October 27th Birthdays
If you were born on October 27th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
John Cleese (ex of Connie Booth, Barbara Trentham)
English comedian, screenwriter, and actor of movies (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda; Harry Potter films; Die Another Day), and television (Fawlty Towers; Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Hold the Sunset; Will & Grace), born October 27, 1939. (John Cleese 1989 Photo: Alan Light)
Lee Greenwood (nee Melvin Lee Greenwood)
American country music songwriter & singer (God Bless the USA; Somebody’s Gonna Love You; Going, Going, Gone; Dixie Road; I Don’t Mind the Thorns [If You’re the Rose]); Mornin’ Ride; Someone; Star Spangled Banner), born October 27, 1942. (Lee Greenwood 2010s Photo: Courtesy of Lee Greenwood)
J. A. Jance (nee Judith Ann Jance)
American novelist, author of J. P. Beaumont, Sheriff Joanna Brady, Walker Family, and Ali Reynolds mystery series (Partner in Crime; Fire and Ice; Desert Heat; Devil’s Claw; Web of Evil; Until Proven Guilty; Dead to Rights; Hour of the Hunter), born October 27, 1944. (J. A Jance Photo: Courtesy J. A. Jance)
Fran Lebowitz (nee Frances Ann Lebowitz)
American public speaker, book collector, columnist (Interview; Mademoiselle), novelist (Metropolitan Life; Social Studies; The Fran Leibowitz Reader), and children’s book author (Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas), born October 27, 1950. (Fran Lebowitz 2010 Photo: David Shankbone)
Jayne Kennedy (nee Jayne Harrison; Ex of Leon Isaac Kennedy)
American model & spokeswoman (Ebony; Playboy; Butterick Patterns; Coca-Cola; Revlon), The NFL Today studio analyst, actress of movies and TV (The Love Boat; CHiPs; Benson; Trapper John, M.D.; Wonder Woman; The Rockford Files), born October 27, 1951. (Jayne Kennedy 1979 Photo: Nick Allen)
Roberto Benigni (married Nocolette Braschi)
Academy Award-winning Italian film screenwriter, director, and actor (Life is Beautiful; To Rome With Love; The Monster; Johnny Stecchino; Coffee and Cigarettes; Nothing Left to Do But Cry; Pinocchio; Son of the Pink Panther) born October 27, 1952. (Roberto Benigni 1998 Photo: Georges Biard)
Peter Firth (married Alexandra Pigg)
English audiobook narrator, actor of stage, movies (Joseph Andrews; The Hunt for Red October; Pearl Harbor; Equus; Northanger Abbey; Amistad; Diamonds on Wheels; Tess; Mighty Joe Young), and TV (Harry Pearce on MI-5 / Spooks; Victoria), born October 27, 1953. (Peter Firth 2009 Photo: Damien Everett)
Robert Picardo
American actor of TV (The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager; Dr. Dick Richard on China Beach; Richard on Stargate: Atlantis & Stargate SG-1; The Wonder Years; Alice; L. A. Law;) and movies (Until Morning; Gremlins 2: The New Batch), born October 27, 1953. (Robert Picardo 2011 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Simon Le Bon (married Yasmin Parvaneh)
British songwriter and lead singer of Duran Duran (Hungry Like the Wolf; Come Undone; A View to a Kill; The Reflex; Union of the Snake; The Wild Boys; Is There Something I Should Know?; Notorious; I Don’t Want Your Love; Rio), born October 27, 1958. (Simon Le Bon 1984: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous)
(Nanette Fabray 1954: TV Guide | Scott Weiland 2009: C. Maranon)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on October 27th!
Remember These October 27th Famous Birthdays
Lara Parker (nee Mary Lamar Rickey)
American actress of TV (Angelique on Dark Shadows; One Life to Live; Capitol; Washington: Behind Closed Doors; Hawaii Five-O; Kojak; The China Lake Murders), movies (Night of Dark Shadows; Save the Tiger; Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar), & author (Dark Shadows books) (born Oct. 27, 1938 – died Oct. 12, 2023; age 84). (Lara Parker Fan Photo: by Permission of Lara Parker)
Ivan Reitman (father of Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman)
Czechoslovakian-Canadian screenwriter, producer and director of TV & films (Ghostbusters; Legal Eagles; Meatballs; Twins; Stripes; Kindergarten Cop; Animal House; Beethoven; Road Trip; Dave; Hitchcock; Up in the Air; Mummies Alive!; Delta House; Six Days, Seven Nights; Father’s Day) (born Oct. 27, 1946 – died Feb. 12, 2022; age 75). (Ivan Reitman 2006 Photo: GabboT)
Nanette Fabray (nee Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares)
Emmy & Tony-winning hearing-impaired American singer-dancer & actress of TV (Grandma Romano on One Day at a Time; The Hollywood Squares; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Coach) & films (The Band Wagon; Harper Valley PTA) (born Oct. 27, 1920– died Feb. 22, 2018; age 97). Married Ranald MacDougall. (Nanette Fabray 1970 Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County)
Ruby Dee (nee Ruby Ann Wallace; married Ossie Davis)
Grammy & Emmy Award-winning American actress of movies (A Raisin in the Sun, Roots, The Jackie Robinson Story; American Gangster; A Simple Wish; Buck and the Preacher; Take a Giant Step; Just Cause; ), TV (Peyton Place; Guiding Light; Jungle Fever; Ossie and Ruby!), and civil rights activist (born Oct. 27, 1922 – died June 11, 2014; age 91). (Ruby Dee 1974 It’s Good to Be Alive)
Leif Erickson (nee William Wycliffe Anderson)
American WWII Navy combat photographer, singer-actor of TV (Big John Cannon on The High Chaparral; Bonanza; The Virginian) & films (Drift Fence; Tea and Sympathy; The Carpetbaggers; Roustabout; I Saw What You Did; Show Boat; The Snake Pit) (born Oct. 27, 1911 – died Jan. 29, 1986; age 74). Ex of Frances Farmer & Margaret Hayes. (Leif Erickson 1936 College Holiday)
Scott Weiland (nee Scott Richard Kline)
American lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots (Plush; Creep; Vasoline; Big Bang Baby; Interstate Love Song; Lady Picture Show; Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart; Big Empty; Dancing Days) & Velvet Revolver (Slither; Fall to Pieces) (born Oct. 27, 1967 – died Dec. 3, 2015; age 48). Scott Weiland died of an overdose of cocaine, MDA & alcohol. (Scott Weiland 2009: C. Maranon)
Welsh poet (Do not go gentle into that good night; Light breaks where no sun shines; And death shall have no dominion), actor & writer of stage & radio (Under Milk Wood; Book of Verse; A Child’s Christmas in Wales) (born Oct. 27, 1914 – died Nov. 9, 1953; age 39). Dylan Thomas died of bronchopneumonia and a lung infection. (Dylan Thomas c. 1953: Prix Italia 1954)
American actor of TV (Russ Matthews on Another World; Tony Monroe on Where the Heart Is; Alistair Crane on Passions; Ed Bartowsky on One Life to Live; Teddy Malcolm on Ryan’s Hope) and movies (Up the MacGregors; Wicked, Wicked; In a Pig’s Eye; Above the Rim) (born Oct. 27, 1933 – died Nov. 25, 2004; age 71). David Bailey drowned in his pool. (David Bailey 1972 Photo)
Sylvia Plath (married Ted Hughes)
American short story writer, children’s author (The Bed Book), novelist (The Bell Jar), and 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (The Colossus and other Poems; Ariel; Morning Song; Crossing the Water; The Collected Poems; Mad Girl’s Love Song; Lady Lazarus) (born Oct. 27, 1932 – died Feb. 11, 1963; age 30). Sylvia Plath died by suicide (carbon monoxide poisoning). (Sylvia Plath pre-1963)
Harry Saltzman (nee Herschel Saltzman)
Canadian theatre and movie producer of James Bond (Dr. No; Goldfinger; Thunderball; The Man with the Golden Gun; Live and Let Die; You Only Live Twice), Harry Palmer (The Ipcress File; Funeral in Berlin), and other films (Battle of Britain; Nijinsky) (born Oct. 27, 1915 – died Sept. 28, 1994; age 78). Harry Saltzman died of a heart attack. (Harry Saltzman c. 1980s Photo)
Jack Carson (nee John Elmer Carson; ex of Lola Albright)
Canadian-American movie actor (Arsenic and Old Lace; A Star is Born; Romance on the High Seas; Wings for the Eagle; Gentleman Jim; The Strawberry Blonde; The Male Animal; Larceny, Inc.; My Dream is Yours; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Blues in the Night) (born Oct. 27, 1910 – died Jan. 2, 1963; age 52). Jack Carson died of stomach cancer. (Jack Carson 1945 Mildred Pierce Trailer)
Carrie Snodgress (nee Caroline Snodgress; ex-partner of Neil Young)
American movie actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife; Rabbit, Run; The Fury; Murphy’s Law; 8 Seconds; White Man’s Burden; Blueberry Hill; The Attic; Homework; Trick or Treats; A Night in Heaven; Pale Rider; Chill Factor) (born Oct. 27, 1945 – died Apr. 1, 2004; age 58). Carrie Snodgress died of liver and heart failure. (Carrie Snodgress 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife)
American stuntman & character actor of TV (Daniel Boone; The Big Valley; Branded; The Untouchables; Wagon Train; Bonanza; Adventures in Paradise; I Spy; Get Smart; The Andy Griffith Show; Batman) and movies (Aladdin and His Lamp) (born Oct. 27, 1920 – died July 23, 1978; age 57). Cause of death for Charles Horvath is unknown. (Charles Horvath 1958 Zane Grey Theater)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (aka “Teddy” Roosevelt; m. Alice Lee, Edith Carow)
Nobel Peace Prize-winning American explorer (South Africa; Amazon), Rough Riders soldier, author (The Naval War of 1812), & Republican / Progressive “Bull Moose” politician, 26th President of the United States (previously Vice-President; Governor of New York; Asst. Secretary of the Navy) (born Oct. 27, 1858 – died Jan. 6, 1919; age 60). (Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 1904: Pach Bros.)
Enid Bagnold (sister of Ralph Bagnold; married Roderick Jones)
English magazine editor & writer, WWI nurse & driver, playwright (The Chalk Garden; The Chinese Prime Minister; A Matter of Gravity), poet, memoir author (A Diary Without Dates), and novelist (National Velvet; The Happy Foreigner; The Squire; The Loved and Envied) (born Oct. 27, 1889 – died Mar. 31, 1981; age 91). Ex-lover of Frank Harris. (Enid Bagnold c. 1930s Painting: A. Hamilton)
Isaac Singer (nee Isaac Merritt Singer; married Isabella Eugenie Boyer)
American stage actor (Merritt Players), inventor (rock drilling machine; wood-block cutting machine; sewing machine improvements), Singer Sewing Machine Company founder (mass-produced consumer sewing machines, North America & Europe) (born Oct. 27, 1811 – died July 23, 1875; age 63). Father of 26 (2 mistresses, 2 wives). (Isaac Singer 1869: Edward Harrison May)
Jane Murfin (nee Jane Macklem; ex of Donald Crisp)
American film producer (Strongheart movies) & screenwriter (The Women; Alice Adams; Pride and Prejudice; Dragon Seed; Smilin’ Through; Roberta; The Little Minister; The Fountain; This Man is Mine; What Price Hollywood?; Lawful Larceny Seven Keys to Baldpate; Runaway Bride) (born Oct. 27, 1884 – died Aug. 10, 1955; age 70). Ex-partner of Laurence Trimble. (Jane Murfin 1920)
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