Today's Famous Birthdays

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Harry Morgan
(born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011)

was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.
Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and
Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan
on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter
in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985). Morgan also appeared as a
supporting player in more than 100 films.








Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors
(April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992)

was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of
only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major
League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National Basketball
Association (Boston Celtics 1946–48). With a 40-year film and television career, he is best
known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series
The Rifleman (1958–63).








Max von Sydow
(born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020)

was a Swedish-French[a] actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema,
television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in
multiple languages. He became a French citizen in 2002 and lived in France for the last two
decades of his life. Von Sydow made his American film debut as Jesus Christ in George Stevens'
Biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and went on to star in films such as
William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor (1975),
the science fiction film Flash Gordon (1980), the James Bond adaptation Never Say Never
Again (1983), David Lynch's Dune (1984), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986),
Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2002), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010),
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), and J. J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
He also had a supporting role in HBO's Game of Thrones as the Three-eyed Raven, for which
he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.








John Earl Madden
(April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021)

was an American football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL).
He served as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, who he led to eight
playoff appearances, seven division titles, seven AFL/AFC Championship Game appearances,
and the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XI. Never having a losing season,
Madden holds the highest winning percentage among NFL head coaches who coached at
least 100 games. After retiring from coaching, Madden was a color commentator for
NFL telecasts from 1979 to 2008, which earned him 16 Sports Emmy Awards. Madden
appeared on all four major American television networks, providing commentary for games
broadcast by CBS, Fox, ABC, and NBC. He also lent his name, expertise, and commentary
to the Madden NFL video game series (1988–present), which became the best-selling
football video game franchise of all time. Madden was inducted into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.









Steven Frederic Seagal
(born April 10, 1952)

is an American and naturalized Russian actor, screenwriter, and martial artist. A 7th-dan
black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan and
eventually ended up running his father-in-law's dojo. He later moved to Los Angeles
where he had the same profession. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above
the Law. By 1991, he had starred in four films.

In 1992, he played Navy SEAL counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback in Under Siege.
During the latter half of the 1990s, Seagal starred in three more feature films and the
direct-to-video film The Patriot. Subsequently, his career shifted to mostly direct-to-video
productions. He has since appeared in films and reality shows, including
Steven Seagal: Lawman, which depicted Seagal performing duties as a reserve deputy sheriff.








Orlando Jones
(born April 10, 1968)

is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for being one of the original cast
members of the sketch comedy series MADtv, for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999
to 2002, and for his role as the African god Anansi on Starz's American Gods.