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Science fiction and fantasy events that took place on September 11, this year and in years gone by.
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Births
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Roxann Dawson
Roxann Dawson was born on September 11, 1958 in Los Angeles, California.
She played B'Elanna Torres in Star Trek: Voyager from 1995-2001. She has not been on TV since 2004.
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Deaths
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Mikel Conrad
Mikel Conrad was born on July 30, 1919 in Columbus, Ohio and died on September 11, 1982 in Los Angeles, California.
He was the writer for The Flying Saucer (1950), the first SF movie to feature them. He also played Mike Trent in that movie.
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Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer was born on July 19, 1883 and died on September 11, 1972.
Max was the perfector of rotoscope animation, used in the Superman animated movie shorts made in the 1940s. (He was also the creator of Popeye).
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Lorne Greene
Lorne was born on February 12, 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and died on September 11, 1987, from pneumonia following heart surgery, in Santa Monica, California.
His main claim to fame was as Pa Cartwright in Bonanza, but then he took the role of Adama on Battlestar Galactica from 1978-1979. He was also in Galactica 1980.
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Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy was born on June 7, 1909 in London, England and died on September 11, 1994 in Easton, Connecticut.
In her long career she only has a couple of science ficotn credits:
Cocoon: The Return (1988)as Alma Finley
*batteries not included (1987) as Faye Riley
Cocoon (1985) as Alma Finley
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