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Science fiction and fantasy events that took place on September 9, this year and in years gone by.
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Births
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Angela Cartwright
Angela was born on September 9, 1952, in Altrincham, Cheshire, England.
She co-starred as Penny Robinson in Lost in Space, from 1965-1968.
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Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Combs was born on September 9, 1954 in Oxnard, California.
He played five different clones of the same character (Weyoun) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993); he also played two other roles on the show. Also played two roles on Enterprise (2001), an Andorian and a Ferengi.
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Neil Hamilton
Neil Hamilton was born on September 9, 1899 in Lynn, Massachusetts and died on September 24, 1984 in Escondido, California.
In his long career, Neil's SF credentials are not extensive. He played ChiefCommissioner Gordon in Batman (1966-69).
The Outer Limits
"The Bellero Shield" (1964)as Richard Bellero, Sr.
"The Invisibles" (1964) as General Hilary J. Clarke
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Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson was born on September 9, 1925 in Los Angeles, California.
He starred as Rod Bown in Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers in 58 episodes from 1953-1954.
He guest-starred on The Twilight Zone
"The Dummy" (1962) as Jerry Etherson
"A Hundred Yards over the Rim" (1961) as Christian Horn
The Outer Limits
"The Galaxy Being" (1963) as Alan Maxwell
On Batman, he guest-starred as the villainous cowboy Shame in Batman (1966-1969).
He also played Charly in the Flowers for Algernon movie, Charly.
In addition, he played Uncle Ben in the three Toby McGuire Spiderman movies.
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Topol
Topol was born on September 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Palestine (now Israel).
He starred as Dr. Zharkov in the 1980 movie Flash Gordon, starring Sam Jones. He also starred as Galileo Galilei in the 1980 movie of the same name.
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"Treasure of the Mind" (1993) as Dr. Rafik Hassan
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Deaths
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Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith was born on November 16, 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio and died in September 9, 1997 in Malibu, California, after suffering from Alzheimer's for some years.
In his long TV career, his genre credits are few. He starred in several episodes of The Twilight Zone and as the Penguin in Batman (1966-69).
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Nestor Paiva
Nestor Paiva was born on June 30, 1905 in Fresno, California and died on September 9, 1966 in Hollywood, California of cancer.
In his long career he only had two genre credit, as Lucas in The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) and reprising the role in The Revenge of the Creature(1955).
He also did some voices for the original Johnny Quest cartoon.
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