Friday, September 17, 2004
9/17: Today in G-History
1907: EIJIRO TONO, who was in "Madame White Snake", "The Three Treasures", and "The Last War", is born in Gunma, Japan.
1917: IB MELCHIOR, who wrote the screenplay for "Reptilicus" and wrote and directed "The Angry Red Planet", is born in Copenhagen.
1928: RODDY MCDOWALL, who provided the voice of Instute Director Hugh Trevor in the "Deadloch" episode of "Godzilla: The Series", is born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jode McDowall in London, England. A former child actor, his films include "How Green Was My Valley", "My Friend Flicka", "Cleopatra", "Planet of the Apes", and "The Poseidon Adventure".
1930: HARDY RAFN, who was in "Reptilicus", is born in Slagelse, Denmark.
1972: Episode 25 of "Superhuman Barom-1" debuts on Japanese TV.
1973: Episode 25 of "Zone Fighter", "Bloodbath! Zone and Godzilla vs. The United-Terro Beast Army!", debuts on Japanese TV.
1974: Episode 22 of "Inazuman Flash" debuts on Japanese TV.
1975: AUSTIN ST. JOHN, who played Jason Lee Scott a.k.a. the Red Ranger on "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", the Gold Ranger in "Power Rangers Zeo", and on "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie", is born Jason Geiger in Roswell, N.M.
1979: Episode 20 of "Megaloman, Warrior of Fire", "The Great Invasion of Monsters", debuts on Japanese TV.
1981: JOYCE SELZNICK, casting director for the 1976 remake of "King Kong", dies.
1989: Episode 34 of "Mobile Sheriff Jiban", "Shock! Jiban Dies", debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 46 of "Kamen Rider Black RX", "The Riders' All-Out Charge", debuts on Japanese TV.
1993: Episode 30 of "Five Star Task Force Dairanger", "The Deadly Fast-Talking Worker", debuts on Japanese TV.
1998: "Godzilla" is released in Slovakia.
2000: Episode 33 of "Kamen Rider Kuuga", "Cooperation", debuts on Japanese TV.
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Thursday, September 16, 2004
New Movie Added to Database
Added Gorath (1962).
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9/16: Today in G-History
1875: RUSS POWELL, who played a watchman in "King Kong", is born in Indianapolis.
1892: WALTER E. KELLER, production designer on "Earth vs. the Spider", is born.
1912: VICTOR O. SCHIPEK, production manager on "The Godzilla Power Hour", is born in Illinois.
1916: JOHN W. ROGERS, assistant director on "War of the Colossal Beast" and "Earth vs. the Spider", is born in Buffalo.
1917: GEORGE BECWAR, who played John Swanson in "War of the Colossal Beast", is born in Illinois. He was also in "Bride of the Monster".
1919: LAWRENCE DOBKIN, who played a Los Angeles city engineer in "Them!", is born in New York City.
1935: JULES BASS, who co-produced "The King Kong Show", "The Last Dinosaur", and "The Bermuda Depths", is born in Philadelphia.
1940: JEFF DAVID, who did the voice of Captain Majors on "The Godzilla Power Hour", is born in Philadelphia.
1972: Episode 10 of "Kikaida", "Scorpion Brown Maddened by the Human Bombs", debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 77 of "Kamen Rider", "Demon New Gesu — Duel at the Hellish Stock Ranch", debuts on Japanese TV.
1994: Episode 31 of "Ninja Task Force Kakuranger", "Enter! New General", debuts on Japanese TV.
1995: "Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe" premieres in Canada at the Toronto Festival of Films.
1998: "Godzilla" is released in France.
2001: SAMUEL Z. ARKOFF, who produced "The Amazing Colossal Man", "War of the Colossal Beast", and "Earth vs. the Spider", as well as the U.S. releases of "Reptilicus", "Attack of the Mushroom People", "Atragon", "Frankenstein Conquers the World", "Yog: Monster from Space", and "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster", dies of natural causes at 83 in Burbank, Calif.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
New Movie Added to Database
Added The Mysterians (1957) to the database.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
New Movie Added to Database
Added Atragon (1963) to the database. Also, I'm within striking distance of finishing up the Godzilla monster portion of the Monster Index.
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9/14: Today in G-History
1908: NOBUO NAKAMURA is born in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. His roles include Prof. Tanaka in "Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman", "The Last War", Dr. Munakata in "Dogora the Space Monster", the skeptical museum chief in "Frankenstein Conquers the World", Dr. Kita in "War of the Gargantuas", and the Japanese ambassador to Australia in "Tidal Wave", and appeared in films for Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa.
1916: JAMES H. NICHOLSON, co-founder of American International Pictures with Samuel Z. Arkoff, is born. He was one of the executive producers of the stateside releases of "Attack of the Mushroom People", "Atragon", "The Lost World of Sinbad", and "Frankenstein Conquers the World", as well as producing "The Amazing Colossal Man", "War of the Colossal Beast", "I Was a Teenage Werewolf", "Earth vs. the Spider", "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini", and "The Wild Angels".
1943: KEIICHI NODA, who was the voice of Zigra in the Japanese version of "Gamera vs. Zigra", is born Seiji Yamane in Yamaguchi, Japan. He was also in "Destroy All Planets" and "Lake of Dracula".
1960: HARRY TENBROOK, who played a sailor in "King Kong", dies of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, Calif.
1962: TITO VUOLO, who played the police commissioner in "20 Million Miles to Earth", dies of cancer in Los Angeles.
1968: TETSUO KURATA, who played Minami Kotaro a.k.a. "Kamen Rider Black" and "Kamen Rider Black RX", is born in Tokyo. He also played the character in "Kamen Rider Black: Terror of Demon Pass", "Kamen Rider Black: Hurry! To Evil Island", and "Kamen Rider: All Around the World".
MAKIKO WATANABE, who played Yayoi Takano in "Isola: Multiple Personality Girl", is born in Tokyo.
1973: Episode 50 of "Warrior of Love Rainbowman", "The Bullet That Went Insane", debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 24 of "Ultraman Taro", "This Is the Land of Ultra!", debuts on Japanese TV.
1974: Episode 31 of "Kamen Rider X", "Stand Up! King Dark!!", debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 24 of "Electroid Zaborger", "Fight! Topple Zaborger! Death Gunder", debuts on Japanese TV.
1982: MARIA TERESA GOW, who played Georgie Leland on "Ultraman Gaia", is born. She was also in "Godzilla x Mechagodzilla".
1995: EIJI OKADA, who starred in "The X from Outer Space", "ESPY", "Deathquake", "Hiroshima mon amour", and "Woman in the Dunes", dies of heart failure.
1996: "Gamera 2: Attack of Legion" premieres in Canada at the Toronto Film Festival.
2002: "Ultraman Tiga" premieres in the U.S. on Fox.
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Monday, September 13, 2004
9/13: Today in G-History
1913: ROY ENGEL, who played Major Evans in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms", is born in Missouri.
1914: MAURICE KING, who produced "Gorgo" and the U.S. version of "Rodan" with his brother Frank, is born Maurice Kozinski in New York City.
1924: MAURICE JARRE, composer on "Tokyo Blackout" and "Solar Crisis" (for which he was also conductor and music supervisor), is born in Lyon, France. He was also the composer for "Sundays and Cybele", "The Longest Day", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", "Topaz", "The Damned", "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean", "The Man Who Would Be King", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "The Tin Drum", "The Year of Living Dangerously", "A Passage to India", "Witness", "Fatal Attraction", "Gorillas in the Mist", "Dead Poets Society", "Enemies, a Love Story", and "Fearless".
1947: HENRY MANCINI, who composed stock music used in "Tarantula", "The Deadly Mantis", and the U.S. release of "King Kong vs. Godzilla", marries Virginia O'Connor.
1948: CLYDE KUSATSU, who played the tanker skipper in "Godzilla", is born in Honolulu.
1965: "Ghidrah — the Three Headed Monster" is released in the U.S.
1973: Episode 24 of "Robot Detective" debuts on Japanese TV.
1975: Episode 22 of "Secret Task Force Goranger" debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 24 of "Kamen Rider Stronger" debuts on Japanese TV.
ERIKA ODA, who played Misako Hara in "Alive", is born in Okinawa.
2001: "Ringu" is released in Australia.
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Sunday, September 12, 2004
9/12: Today in G-History
1907: FRED KNOTH, who did the special effects on "The Deadly Mantis", is born.
1916: KIKUKO HASHIMOTO, who was on "Ringu: Kanzen-ban", is born in Tokyo.
1945: SUSAN SENNETT, who was in the U.S. version of "Tidal Wave", is born. She was married to rock legend Graham Nash.
1951: JOE PANTOLIANO, who did the voice of Animal Palotti on "Godzilla: The Series", is born in Hoboken, N.J. "Joey Pants" won an Emmy for playing hotheaded and beheaded Ralph Cifaretto on "The Sopranos".
1965: Suit actor MIZUHO YOSHIDA, who played the title monster in "Zeiram" and "Zeiram 2", Legion in "Gamera 2: Advent of Legion", Death Ghidorah in "Rebirth of Mothra", Dagahra in "Rebirth of Mothra 2: Battle Under the Sea", the title robot in "Mikazuki", the cat monster in "Sakuya", and Godzilla in "Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" (also appearing as a bystander behind the twin girls), is born in Tokyo. He also worked on "Blitzkrieg Task Force Changeman", "Future Ninja", and "School of Ghosts".
1966: Episode 11 of "The Space Giants", "The Human Duplicates" (a.k.a. "Clash of the Mammoth Creature"), debuts on Japanese TV.
1973: STANLEY FLEISCHER, art director on "Them!", dies in Los Angeles.
1978: FRANK FERGUSON, who played Dr. Morton in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms", dies of cancer in Los Angeles.
1980: Episode 50 of "Sky Rider" debuts on Japanese TV.
1981: Episode 45 of "Kamen Rider Super-1" debuts on Japanese TV.
1993: RAYMOND BURR, who played reporter Steve Martin in the U.S. inserts for "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" and "Godzilla 1985", dies of liver cancer in Sonoma, Calif.
1995: "Wizard of Darkness" premieres in Canada at the Toronto Film Festival.
1998: "Godzilla: The Series" premieres on Fox with Episode 101, "New Family (Part 1)".
2002: "Alive" premieres in Canada at the Toronto Film Festival.
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