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Science fiction and fantasy events that took place on January 1, this year and in years gone by.
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Births
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Chesley Bonestell
Bonestell was born on January 1, 1888 in San Francisco, California, and died on June 11, 1986 in Carmel, California.
Trained as an architect, he became an artist and illustrator and created many such creations for science fiction movies and pulp magazines. His paintings of an alien world are featured at the end of When Worlds Collide (1951).
www.bonestell.org/.
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Victor Buono
Buono was born on February 3, 1938, in San Diego, California, and died on January 1, 1982.
An over-sized individual, cast mainly in villainous roles, Buono guest-starred as the villain Dr. Schubertin The Man From Atlantis (1977). He was the Fat Man in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and as King Tut in several episodes of Batman, starring Adam West.
A video remembrance of Victor Buono by his nephew. |
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Ray Walston
Walston was born on December 2, 1914, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and died on 1 January 1, 2001, in Beverly Hills, California of lupus.
Ray starred as "Uncle Martin" in My Favorite Martian, from 1963-1966 (starring opposite Bill Bixby). In a long TV career, his other science fiction roles were sporadic: in "A Bionic Christmas Carol" of The Six Million Dollar Man (1976), in "Cosmic Whiz Kid" in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) and in "Rules of Attraction" in Otherworld (1985).
Ray Walston interview at Actor's Studio.
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