Happy birthday to Leslie Shofield, born December 12, 1938.

Leslie Schofield is an English actor who is most famous in the UK for his role as Jeff Healy in the popular soap opera, EastEnders who he played from 1997 to 2000. His character was famous for unsuccessfully proposing to Pauline Fowler (played by Wendy Richard). He also appeared in EastEnders briefly in 1988 and 1989 playing a different character named Brian Wicks.
Schofield also appeared as Chief Bast, an Imperial Officer aboard the doomed Death Star in George Lucas’s first released Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in 1977. He also appeared in Star Wars Holiday Special, as the producers used stock footage from A New Hope in some scenes. His other film appearances included The Body Stealers (1969), Twinky (1969), Villain (1971), The Ruling Class (1972), The Glitterball (1977), The Wild Geese (1978), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Silver Dream Racer (1980) and Dead Man’s Folly (1986).
TV appearances in science fiction programmes include two Doctor Who stories, The War Games (1969) and The Face of Evil (1977), and as prison ship officer Raiker in the Blake’s 7 episode “Spacefall” (1978). He appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders entitled “Vixen’s Run” and an episode of Minder, You Lose Some, You Win Some. Schofield also played Reggie Perrin’s son-in-law, Tom in the third series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Len in The Smoking Room, the father in the BBC children’s drama Jonny Briggs and CBBC comedy show Chucklevision.
Some of Leslie Schofield’s earlier acting experiences took place when he served in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. After performances at HMS Ariel (Later HMS Daedalus) he was moved to HMS Seahawk near Helston in Cornwall, where he participated in amateur productions. It was his performance as John Proctor in the Navy Drama Festival of 1963 which brought him to the attention of Walter Lucas, the adjudicator and then director of the British Drama League, who helped him to leave the Navy and start in repertory theatre.

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Happy birthday to Sarah Douglas, born December 12, 1952.

Sarah Douglas is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the Kryptonian supervillain Ursa in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). Her other prominent roles include that of the evil Queen Taramis in the 1984 film Conan the Destroyer, and Pamela Lynch in the 1980s primetime drama series Falcon Crest (1983–85).

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Happy birthday to Mayim Bialik, born December 12, 1975.

Mayim Chaya Bialik is an American actress and neuroscientist. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of NBC’s Blossom. Since 2010, she has played Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler – like the actress, a neuroscientist – on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she has been nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Star Trek Insurrection premiered December 11, 1998.

Happy anniversary to Star Trek Insurrection which premiered on December 11, 1998.

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Remembering David Cadiente, born December 11, 1937.

Remembering David Cadiente, born December 11, 1937 and passed away on December 26, 2010.

David “Dave” Cadiente is a stuntman and stunt actor who portrayed the Klingon sergeant in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Dave’s resume includes blockbuster films and shows such as Scarface, Big Trouble in Little China, Airwolf, T.J. Hooker, Magnum P.I., and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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Happy birthday to Stephen Moore, born December 11, 1937.

Stephen Moore is an English actor, known for his work on British television since the 1980s.

The voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in radio and television adaptations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In the original radio versions, he also played a number of minor characters including Gag Halfrunt, The Ruler of the Universe, the whale and Frankie Mouse.
Reader for the original audiobook versions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, books one through five.
He is known for his appearances in Rock Follies and other TV series such as The Last Place on Earth, the children’s series The Queen’s Nose and the drama Mersey Beat and the British TV comedy series Solo, as well as numerous appearances on stage at The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and London’s West End.
In 2010, he appeared as the Silurian Eldane in the Series 5 Doctor Who episode “Cold Blood”.

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Remembering Zienia Merton, born December 11, 1945.

Remembering Zienia Merton, born December 11, 1945 and passed away September 14, 2018.

Zienia Merton is a British actress born in Burma. Her mother was Burmese, and her father half-English, half-French. She was raised in Singapore, Borneo, Portugal, and England.

She is probably best known for playing Sandra Benes in Space: 1999.

Following Space: 1999, Merton appeared in many popular television series including Grange Hill, Return of the Saint (1979), Bergerac (1983), Angels (1983), Tenko (1984), Dempsey & Makepeace (1985), Lovejoy (1986), Crime Traveller (1997), Doctors (2001), Dinotopia (2002), Casualty (1986 – 2002), EastEnders (1998 – 2003), The Bill (1999 – 2005), Judge John Deed (2006), Coronation Street (2008) and Wire in the Blood (2008). Merton rejoined one time guest star Space: 1999 Ian McShane for the 1986 Lovejoy episode “The Axeman Cometh”.

In December 2008, Zienia Merton filmed a guest role for the eighth episode (“Samaritan”) of the ITV drama Law & Order: UK. Although the series premiered on 23 February 2009, some episodes were held over for broadcast as “Series Two”. “Samaritan” was first transmitted on ITV1 on 11 January 2010.

In May 2009, Merton returned to the world of Doctor Who, 45 years after her appearance in Marco Polo, to record a special episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures in the two-part episode “The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith”, broadcast on BBC One on 29 and 30 October 2009.

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