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Lauren Thompson
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"If I must die you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, so that a child somewhere in #Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad sees the kite flying up above, and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love." - Refaat Alareer
20 February 1948 – Jennifer O'Neill, 78, Brazilian-US model, actress.

For Love of Ivy (1968) * Rio Lobo * Summer of '42 * Such Good Friends * The Carey Treatment * The Reincarnation of Peter Proud * L'innocente * Lady Ice * The Innocent * Scanners * Committed * I'm Not Ashamed * Reagan (2024)
February 19, 2026 at 1:23 AM
20 February 1946 – Brenda Blethyn, 80, English actress.

Benefactors (1984) * Absent Friends * Outside Edge * Secrets & Lies + Little Voice (both OscarNom) * Anne Frank: The Whole Story * Saving Grace * Belonging * Pride & Prejudice * Clubland * London River * My Angel * Vera (2018)
February 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
20 February 1943 – Mike Leigh, 83, English filmmaker.

Five Oscar nominations: Secrets & Lies (1996) * Topsy-Turvy * Vera Drake * Happy-Go-Lucky * Another Year (2010)

Abigail's Party (1977 TV + play) * Life Is Sweet * All or Nothing * Peterloo * Hard Truths (2024)
collider.com/best-mike-le...
12 Best Mike Leigh Movies, Ranked
From Secrets & Lies to Topsy-Turvy, these are the greatest films of English auteur Mike Leigh.
collider.com
February 19, 2026 at 1:17 AM
20 February 1927 – 2022 Sidney Poitier, 94, US born Bahama actor, diplomat.

The Defiant Ones (1958 OscarNom) * Lilies of the Field (Oscar) * Honorary Oscar (2001)

Edge of the City (1958) Porgy and Bess * A Raisin in the Sun * A Patch of Blue * In the Heat of the Night * Separate but Equal (1991)
February 19, 2026 at 1:14 AM
20 February 1925 – 2006 Robert Altman, 81, US filmmaker

Oscar Nominated: M*A*S*H (1970) * Nashville * The Player * Short Cuts * Gosford Park * Honorary Oscar (2005)

McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) * The Long Goodbye * Popeye * Come Back to Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean * A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
February 19, 2026 at 1:12 AM
20 February 1933 – Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange financing Nazis for upcoming election in March. Efforts to prosecute businessmen who profited from the Nazi war crimes were mostly unsuccessful.

International Military Tribunal 1947
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eri...
The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
The failed efforts to prosecute businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine.
www.bostonreview.net
February 19, 2026 at 1:04 AM
19 February 1955 – Jeff Daniels, 71, US actor.

Ragtime (1981) Something Wild * 101 Dalmatians * The Hours * Good Night, and Good Luck * The Squid and the Whale * The Looming Tower * Godless * The Comey Rule (2020)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Pleasantville * Dumb and Dumber * Newsroom (2012-14)
February 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
19 February 1930 – 2002 John Frankenheimer, 72, US director.

All Fall Down (1962) * The Birdman of Alcatraz * The Manchurian Candidate * The Train * Seven Days in May * Seconds * Black Sunday * Holcroft Covenant * Year of the Gun * The Burning Season * George Wallace * Andersonville * Ronin (1998)
February 19, 2026 at 12:51 AM
19 February 1924 – 1987 Lamont 'Lee' Marvin, 63, US actor. #WW2 Purple Heart

The Big Heat (1953) * Raintree County * M Squad * Comancheros * The Killers * Ship of Fools * Cat Ballou (Oscar) * The Professionals * The Dirty Dozen * Point Blank * Paint Your Wagon * Monte Walsh * The Big Red One (1980)
February 19, 2026 at 12:48 AM
19 February 1911 – 1979 Merle Oberon, (b. O'Brien Thompson), 68, (Stroke), Anglo-Indian-US actress.

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) - US: These Three * The Lodger * A Song to Remember * Berlin Express * Désirée * Interval (1973)

Dark Angel (1935 OscarNom) * Wuthering Heights * Hotel (1967)
February 19, 2026 at 12:46 AM
19 February 1895 – 1956 Louis Calhern, (b. Carl Vogt), 61, (Heart Attack), US actor.

The Count of Monte Cristo * Heaven Can Wait * Asphalt Jungle * Magnificent Yankee (OscarNom) * We're Not Married! * Julius Caesar * Executive Suite

Duck Soup (1933) * #Hitchcock Notorious * High Society (1956)
February 19, 2026 at 12:44 AM
19 February 1893 – 1964 Cedric Hardwicke, 71, English actor.

Nell Gwyn (1934) * King Solomon's Mines * US: Stanley and Livingstone * Suspicion * The Lodger * Lured * The Winslow Boy * Richard III * The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) * Ghost of Frankenstein * Rope (1948)
February 19, 2026 at 12:42 AM
18 February 1964 – Matt Dillon, 62, US actor.

My Bodyguard (1981) Tex * The Outsiders * Rumble Fish * Drugstore Cowboy * Saint of Fort Washington * Mr Wonderful * To Die For * There's Something About Mary * Wild Things * Crash (OscarNom) Wayward Pines * The House That Jack Built * The Fence (2025)
February 17, 2026 at 5:24 AM
18 February 1950 – Cybill Shepherd, 76, US actress

Last Picture Show (1971) The Heartbreak Kid * Daisy Miller * At Long Last Love * Taxi Driver * The Lady Vanishes * Yellow Rose * Moonlighting * Alice * Baby Brokers * Cybill * The L Word * Psych * The Client List * How to Murder Your Husband (2023)
February 17, 2026 at 5:17 AM
18 February 1950 – 2009 John Hughes, 59, (Heart Attack), US director, screenwriter.

Director/writer: Sixteen Candles (1984) * The Breakfast Club * Weird Science * Ferris Bueller's Day Off * Planes, Trains and Automobiles * She's Having a Baby * Uncle Buck * Curly Sue * Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 AM
18 February 1933 – 1975 Mary Ure, 42, (Overdose), Scottish actress. John Osborne ​(m. 1957-63)​ Robert Shaw ​(m. 1963)

Storm Over The Nile (1955) Look Back in Anger (+ film) Sons and Lovers (OscarNom) Duel of Angels (with Vivien Leigh) * Custer of the West * Where Eagles Dare * The Exorcism (1975)
February 17, 2026 at 5:11 AM
18 February 1932 – 2018 Miloš Forman, 86, Czech-US (from 1968) director, screenwriter

Firemen's Ball (1967) US: Taking Off * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Oscar) Hair * Ragtime * Amadeus (Oscar) Valmont * People vs Larry Flynt (OscarNom) Man on the Moon * Goya's Ghosts * A Walk Worthwhile (2007)
February 17, 2026 at 5:08 AM
18 February 1925 – 2016 George Kennedy, 91, US actor, author.

Phil Silvers Show (1956-59) Lonely Are the Brave * Charade * Strait-Jacket * Cool Hand Luke (Oscar) The Flight of the Phoenix * Guns of the Magnificent Seven * Earthquake * Airport '75 * Virus * The Naked Gun Trilogy * Dallas (1988-98)
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 AM
18 February 1919 – 2006 Jack Palance, (b. Volodymyr Palahniuk), 87, US actor

A Streetcar Named Desire (1949 Broadway) Panic in the Streets * Sudden Fear (OscarNom) * Shane (OscarNom) * Second Chance * The Big Knife * Attack * The Professionals * Bagdad Café * Young Guns * City Slickers (1992 Oscar)
February 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM
18 February 1915 – 2002 Phyllis Calvert, (b. Bickle), 87, English actress.

The Man in Grey (1943) * Fanny by Gaslight * Broken Journey * Appointment with Danger (US) * Mandy * Child in the House * Indiscreet * Oscar Wilde * The Battle of the Villa Fiorita * Twisted Nerve * Mrs Dalloway (1997)
February 17, 2026 at 4:58 AM
18 February 1890 – 1963 Adolphe Menjou, 73, US actor

The Sheik (1921) * A Woman of Paris (1923) - - Morocco (1930) The Front Page (OscarNom) * A Farewell to Arms * Little Miss Marker * A Star Is Born * Roxie Hart * Across the Wide Missouri * Man on a Tightrope * Paths of Glory * Pollyanna (1960)
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
18 February 1890 – 1956 Edward Arnold (Schneider), 66, (Brain Hemorrhage), US actor.

The Glass Key (1935) * Meet Nero Wolfe * Easy Living * You Can't Take It with You * Mr Smith Goes to Washington * Meet John Doe * Johnny Eager * Eyes in the Night * City That Never Sleeps * Miami Exposé (1956)
February 17, 2026 at 4:54 AM
17 February 1945 – Brenda Fricker, 81, Irish actress.

Casualty (1984-2010) * My Left Foot (Oscar) * The Field * Home Alone 2: Lost in New York * So I Married an Axe Murderer * Angels in the Outfield * Swann * The War Bride * Veronica Guerin * Inside I'm Dancing * Albert Nobbs * The Catch (2023)
February 17, 2026 at 4:25 AM
17 February 1934 – 2003 Alan Bates, 69, English actor.

Nothing but the Best (1965) * Zorba the Greek * Georgy Girl * Far from the Madding Crowd * The Fixer (OscarNom) * Women in Love * Butley (Tony Award) * A Day in the Life of Joe Egg * Hamlet * Fortune's Fool (Tony Award) * Gosford Park (2002)
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 AM
17 February 1929 – 2025 Dame Patricia Routledge, 96, English actress, singer.

How's The World Treating You? (1966 Tony Award) * To Sir, with Love * Pretty Polly * Darling of the Day (Tony Award) * Victoria Wood (Kitty) * Talking Heads * Keeping Up Appearances (1990-95) * An Ideal Husband (2014)
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 AM