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Science fiction and fantasy events that took place on September 17, this year and in years gone by.
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Ib Melchior
Ib Melchior was born on September 17, 1917 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
After fighting in World War II, Melchior moved to the US where he became active in television. He directed about 500 New York-based TV shows ranging from the Perry Como Show to the documentary series The March of Medicine. Beginning in the late 1950s, he wrote a number of science-fiction films, including The Angry Red Planet, Journey to the Seventh Planet and .The Time Travelers.
In 1976, he was awarded a Golden Scroll for Best Writing by the Academy of Science-Fiction (for his body of work).
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Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall was born on September 17, 1928 in Herne Hill, London, England, and died on October 3, 1998 in Studio City, California, of lung cancer.
In his long TV and movie career, Roddy has several science fiction credits, including the compassionate gorilla Ceasar in the Planet of the Apes movie series, and a similar role in the TV series, Galen.
He played Sam Conrad in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "People Are Alike All Over," among several guest-star spots, and played the cynical Dr. Jonathan Willoway in the brief-lived TV series, Fantastic Journey (1977).
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Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer was born on September 17, 1965 in New York, New York.
He is a film director who has helmed the X-Men movie series and the latest Superman movies.
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Edgar G. Ulmer
Ulmer was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic, and died on Sepember 30, 1972.
Ulmer was a director of low-budget but atmospheric films. In the SF genre, they were The Man from Planet X (1951), and Beyond the Time Barrier.
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Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was born on August 31, 1914 in Zanesville, Ohio and died on September 17, 1984 in Los Angeles, California of the aftereffects of a stroke.
Richard starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson in 110 episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968).
As far as guest spots are concerned:
Lost in Space, "The Derelict" (1965) - uncredited, as the Shakespeare-Reading Tape Recorder Voice
Twilight Zone, as Adam Cook, "Probe 7, Over and Out" (1963)
City Beneath the Sea (1971) as The President in this TV movie
ime Travelers (1976), as Dr. Joshua P. Henderson, in 1871, in this TV movie
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