Jonathan Frakes was born August 19, 1952.

Jonathan Scott Frakes was born August 19, 1952.

He is an American actor, author and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films.

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Gene Roddenberry was born August 19, 1921.

Eugene Wesley “Gene” Roddenberry was born August 19, 1921 and passed away October 24, 1991.

He was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist.
He is best known for creating the original Star Trek television series and thus the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.

As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun–Will Travel, and other series, before creating and producing his own television series The Lieutenant. In 1964, Roddenberry created Star Trek, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons before being canceled. He then worked on other projects, including a string of failed television pilots. The syndication of Star Trek led to its growing popularity; this, in turn, resulted in the Star Trek feature films, on which Roddenberry continued to produce and consult. In 1987, the sequel series Star Trek: The Next Generation began airing on television in first-run syndication; Roddenberry was heavily involved in the initial development of the series, but took a less active role after the first season due to ill health. He continued to consult on the series until his death in 1991.

n 1985, he became the first TV writer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he was later inducted by both the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Years after his death, Roddenberry was one of the first humans to have his ashes carried into earth orbit. The popularity of the Star Trek universe and films has inspired films, books, comic books, video games, and fan films set in the Star Trek universe.

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Gene Roddenberry was born August 19, 1921.

Eugene Wesley “Gene” Roddenberry was born August 19, 1921 and passed away October 24, 1991.

He was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist.
He is best known for creating the original Star Trek television series and thus the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.

As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun–Will Travel, and other series, before creating and producing his own television series The Lieutenant. In 1964, Roddenberry created Star Trek, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons before being canceled. He then worked on other projects, including a string of failed television pilots. The syndication of Star Trek led to its growing popularity; this, in turn, resulted in the Star Trek feature films, on which Roddenberry continued to produce and consult. In 1987, the sequel series Star Trek: The Next Generation began airing on television in first-run syndication; Roddenberry was heavily involved in the initial development of the series, but took a less active role after the first season due to ill health. He continued to consult on the series until his death in 1991.

n 1985, he became the first TV writer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he was later inducted by both the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Years after his death, Roddenberry was one of the first humans to have his ashes carried into earth orbit. The popularity of the Star Trek universe and films has inspired films, books, comic books, video games, and fan films set in the Star Trek universe.

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Christian Slater was born August 18, 1969.

Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins, better known as Christian Slater, is an American actor hailing from New York, New York. (His father, actor Thomas Slater, used Michael Hawkins and Michael Gainsborough as his stage names.) Slater appeared in a cameo role as the night-duty officer in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The character was not named in the script or in dialog and is credited as “Excelsior Communications Officer” (an identical credit was given to Grace Lee Whitney, and in fact, the scene in the novelization featured her character instead of Slater’s). Slater is a big Star Trek fan and got the part through his mother, Mary Jo Slater, who was in charge of casting the film. (Captains’ Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 142) Slater filmed his scene on Friday 21 June 1991 at Paramount Stage 5.

A huge Trekkie, Slater even joked once that he would shave his eyebrows to dress up as Spock for Halloween. This started a rumor that his eyebrows never grew back in properly, giving them a distinctive look. His link to Trek goes even further – his godfather was Michael Zaslow, who appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series and in Star Trek: First Contact.
He made his film debut with a small role in The Postman Always Rings Twice before playing a leading role in the 1985 film The Legend of Billie Jean. He played a monk’s apprentice alongside Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose before gaining wider recognition for his breakthrough role in the cult film Heathers.

In the 1990s, Slater starred in many big budget films, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain. He was also featured in the cult film True Romance. Since 2000, Slater has combined work in the film business with television, including appearances in The West Wing and Alias and starring in Breaking In and Mind Games.

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Don Keefer was born August 18, 1916.

Don Keefer was born August 18, 1916 and passed away on September 7, 2014.

Donald H. “Don” Keefer was an actor from Pennsylvania who appeared on Star Trek: The Original Series, playing Cromwell in the second season episode “Assignment: Earth”. He filmed his scenes on Monday 8 January 1968 and Tuesday 9 January 1968 at the Paramount Pictures backlot and Desilu Stage 10.
He made guest appearances in many other television series, including Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian (starring Ray Walston), Mission: Impossible, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Barnaby Jones (with Lee Meriwether), Quincy, M.E. (with Garry Walberg and Robert Ito), Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul), Alice (with Vic Tayback), and Picket Fences (with Ray Walston and Roy Brocksmith), as well as the pilot movie for The Incredible Hulk. He also appeared in the 1972 TV movie Columbo: The Most Crucial Game, along with James Gregory, Susan Howard, and Dean Stockwell. His other TV movies include Who Is the Black Dahlia (1975, with Ronny Cox, John Fiedler, and Sid Haig), Lannigan’s Rabbi (1976, with Andrew Robinson), The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977, with Jonathan Banks and James Cromwell), The Immigrants (1978, with Stephen Macht), Samurai (1979, with Michael Pataki), The Scarlett O’Hara War (1980, with Clive Revill and Warren Munson), Amos (1985, with Ray Walston and James Sloyan), and Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991, with Alan Oppenheimer).

Keefer also had several films to his credit. He had a small role in the highly-acclaimed, Academy Award-winning 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which also featured fellow TOS guest actors Jeff Corey and Ted Cassidy and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Kenneth Mars. Prior to this, he and another TOS guest star, Whit Bissell, had uncredited roles in The Caine Mutiny, which was released in 1954 and also earned several Academy Award nominations. That same year, Keefer and Bissell co-starred with William Schallert in Riot in Cell Block 11. Keefer and Schallert would go on to appear in 1955’s An Annapolis Story and 1958’s Torpedo Run (with Richard Carlyle).
In 1966, Keefer appeared in the war comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. Also starring in this film were Brian Keith, Andrea Dromm, and Theodore Bikel. (Michael J. Pollard made an uncredited appearance.) In 1970, he co-starred with Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, and Graham Jarvis in R.P.M., and the following year, he and his “Assignment: Earth” co-star Robert Lansing appeared in The Grissom Gang, which starred Kim Darby and also featured Hal Baylor. In 1973, he and Kenneth Tobey appeared in the popular film, Walking Tall. That same year, he co-starred with Woody Allen in the latter’s acclaimed science fiction comedy Sleeper.

Other film credits include Incident in an Alley (1962, with Clegg Hoyt), The Young Nurses (1973, with Dick Miller), Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973, with Bill Quinn), Candy Stripe Nurses (1974, with Dick Miller and Bill Erwin), Fire Sale (1977, with Richard Libertini), The Car (1977, with John Rubinstein and Ronny Cox), Samurai (1979, with Michael Pataki, Walt Davis, Johnny Haymer, Bob Minor, Tom Lupo and Gregory J. Barnett), Creepshow (1982, in the same segment which features Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Robert Harper, the film also starred Jon Lormer), and The Marrying Man (1991, with Jeremy Roberts). His last film appearance was in the 1997 comedy Liar, Liar, which also featured Anne Haney and Randy Oglesby.

Keefer died of natural causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on 7 September 2014.

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Wesley Eure was born August 17, 1951.

He is known for appearing as Michael Horton on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1974 to 1981, during which he also starred on the popular children’s television series Land of the Lost. He later hosted the popular children’s game show Finders Keepers in 1987 and 1988, and co-created the children’s educational television show Dragon Tales in 1999. He subsequently published several books (for children and adult), and has produced plays and raised funds for HIV/AIDS and other causes.

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Harve Bennett was born August 17, 1930.

Harve Bennett was born August 17, 1930 and passed away on March 4, 2015.

Harve Bennett was a television producer and writer since 1968 for numerous television series, most notably including The Mod Squad (starring Tige Andrews and Clarence Williams III), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, and Time Trax.

For Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Bennett executive-produced and developed the story with Jack B. Sowards. He both wrote the script and produced Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, as well as providing the voice for a flight recorder. Along with producing Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, he and Leonard Nimoy developed the story while he wrote the script with Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, and Nicholas Meyer. And lastly, Bennett produced Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, developing the story with William Shatner and David Loughery. He also made a cameo appearance as Starfleet Chief of Staff Admiral Robert Bennett. He filmed his scene on Tuesday 11 October 1988, the first day of principal photography.

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