Happy birthday Antonio Sabato, Jr., born February 29, 1972.
Antonio Sabàto Jr. is an Italian-American model, actor, and politician. Sabàto first found fame in the 1990’s as an underwear model for Calvin Klein and playing Jagger Cates on the soap opera General Hospital from 1992 to 1995.
He also played on Earth 2 and on the prime time soap opera Melrose Place.
Throughout the late 1990’s, he starred in various TV movies and direct-to-video films, as well as a supporting role in the 1998 feature film The Big Hit.
In 2003, he played the protagonist’s lover Pablo in the movie Testosterone.
From 2005 to 2006, Sabàto played Dante Damiano on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, and in 2008, Sabàto reprised his role of Jagger Cates on the second season of General Hospital: Night Shift.
Sabàto made an appearance on Bones as a bouncer from a Jersey Shore club in season 6, episode 3, “The Maggots in the Meathead” in 2010.
In 2013, he played Father Zaragosa in the television series The League.
Happy birthday Harvey Jason, born February 29, 1940.
Jason starred with Rene Auberjonois in Lilith in 1964.
He also acted with Majel Barrett in 1973 in Genesis II, a movie that was written by Gene Roddenberry.
In 1974 he starred with Brock Peters in Lost in the Stars, and acted with Fionnula Flanagan in Rich Man, Poor Man in 1976.
Also in 1976, he acted with John de Lancie in Captains and the Kings.
Two years later, in 1978, he starred with Dean Stockwell and Frank Gorshin in Greatest Heroes of the Bible.
In 1989 he had a guest role in the Hardball episode “The Silver Scream” alongside Megan Parlen, Marcelo Tubert and Valerie Wildman and directed by Larry Shaw.
Jason was in Air America with David Bowe in 1990, and acted in Hi Honey – I’m Dead with Catherine Hicks in 1991.
His voice was used in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, along with that of Christian Slater.
Tommy Lister and Clint Howard both starred with Jason in 1996 in Street Corner Justice.
He played the role of Felix Leech in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Big Goodbye”.
Even though there is not one this year, you can now listen to the Today In Nerd History podcast for February 29.
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Happy birthday Avaah Blackwell, born February 28, 1990.
She can be seen in EFC as Scarlett Jones, 12 Monkeys as “Alabaster Woman”, and other cult classic films.
She has appeared on Star Trek: Discovery as an alien officer in the episodes “Context Is for Kings”, “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”, “Brother”, and “Point of Light”.
She also appeared as the same character in the Star Trek: Short Treks episode “Runaway”.
Happy birthday Michelle Horn, born February 28, 1987.
Michelle Horn is an American actress known for her work in the TV shows Strong Medicine and Family Law.
Horn is also known for her voiceover work in The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride as the young Kiara. Her voice can be heard in Lion King-related merchandise such as software, plushes, toys and video games. Horn also costarred with Bruce Willis in the 2005 feature Hostage, and appeared on Loving Annabelle and as Eliza Pinchley on Family Guy.
She also guest starred in two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “Tears of the Prophets” and “Penumbra”, as Sahgi, a young Bajoran resident of Deep Space Nine. She also guest starred in Season 3, episode 11 of Without a Trace.
Remembering Frank Bonner, born February 28, 1942 and passed away June 16, 2021.
Frank Bonner was an American actor and television director best known for playing sales manager Herb Tarlek on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.
Happy birthday Ali Larter, born February 28, 1976.
Alison Elizabeth “Ali” Larter is an American actress. She is best known for playing the dual roles of Niki Sanders and Tracy Strauss on the NBC science fiction drama Heroes as well as her guest roles on several television shows in the 1990’s.
Larter’s screen debut came in the 1999 film Varsity Blues, followed by the horror films House on Haunted Hill and Final Destination as Clear Rivers. Major supporting roles in the comedy Legally Blonde and the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love led her to lead roles as the titular character in Marigold and in the 2009 thriller Obsessed. Larter achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Claire Redfield in Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Afterlife.
Remembering Olan Soule, born February 28, 1909 and passed away February 1, 1994.
Olan Evart Soule was an American character actor and voice-over performer who had an extensive career with professional credits in nearly 7,000 radio shows and commercials, appearances in 200 television series and television films, and in over 60 films.
Soule’s voice work on television included his 15-year role (1968-1983) as Batman on several animated series that were either devoted to or involved the fictional “Dark Knight” superhero.
On radio he performed for eleven years in the daytime soap opera Bachelor’s Children.
Beginning in 1943, he played lead male characters on radio’s famed The First Nighter Program for nine years. Listeners of First Nighter who met Soule in person were often surprised, since his slight 135-pound frame did not seem to match the voices he gave to his characters.
From 1941 on, Soule had the role of L. William Kelly, SS-11, the second in command of the Secret Squadron on the Captain Midnight radio adventure serial. When Captain Midnight became a television series in the 1950’s, Soule was known as SQ-3, behind Captain Midnight himself and Ichabod Mudd “with two D’s”.
He also had a regular part on Lee Hansen’s 1970’s and 1980’s science fiction radio drama Alien Worlds.
Concluding his nine-year run on First Nighter, Soule moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in films and television shows, building a reputation as a reliable character actor. He was best known as Mr. Krull, a boarding house resident in The Day The Earth Stood Still.
He appeared on many television series: The Donald O’Connor Show, Captain Midnight (as scientist Aristotle “Tut” Jones), I Love Lucy, several appearances as a hotel clerk and choir director on The Andy Griffith Show, and a semi-regular role as real-life LAPD criminalist Ray Murray on the 1967 revival version of Dragnet. He also made six appearances on Perry Mason, mostly as a court clerk, but also as a bank employee and water company official.
He made at least two appearances on Petticoat Junction. In both, the 1967 episode “Shoplifter at the Shady Rest” and the 1968 episode “Mae’s Helping Hand”, he played Mr. Benson.
The list of Soule’s supporting and starring roles is long. Some include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Jack Benny Program, I Love Lucy, The Danny Thomas Show, The Real McCoys, Mister Ed, City Detective, Behind Closed Doors, Dante, Harrigan and Son, Hennesey, State Trooper, One Step Beyond, The Restless Gun, The Rebel, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Bewitched, Pete and Gladys, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Johnny Ringo, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Happy, Bonanza, The Jean Arthur Show, Laramie, The Monkees, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), Battlestar Galactica, Fantasy Island, Little House on the Prairie, Dallas, Simon & Simon. He was the only actor who performed on both the Captain Midnight radio and television shows.
In The Twilight Zone he played Mr. Smiles in the episode “Caesar and Me and the IRS Man in “The Man in the Bottle”.
He played Carmichael in the Battlestar Galactica episodes “War of the Gods: Part 1” and “The Magnificent Warriors”.
Happy birthday Stephanie Beacham, born February 28, 1947.
Stephanie Beacham is the British actress who played Countess Regina Bartholomew in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Ship in a Bottle” in 1992.
Between 1985 and 1989, Beacham played Sabella “Sable” Scott Colby on the television drama series Dynasty on which she worked with Joan Collins and Tracy Scoggins. She also played this part on the spin-off series The Colbys (1985-1987) on which she worked again with Tracy Scoggins and with Ricardo Montalban. For her work on Dynasty and The Colbys, Beacham received three Soap Opera Digest Award nominations in 1986, 1988, and 1990.
Between 1989 and 1990 she played the lead role in the television comedy Sister Kate, Golden Globe award nominated in the category Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical in 1990.
In the 1990’s she played Dr. Kristin Westphalen in the first season of the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV, with fellow regular Marco Sanchez and recurring actors William Morgan Sheppard, Frank Welker, and Richard Herd and Iris McKay, mother to Luke Perry’s character in eight episodes of the drama series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991-1994, with Michael Durrell and Ann Gillespie).
On Charmed she played Martha van Lewen in the episode “Reckless Abandon”.
Beacham had a recurring role as Martha Fraser in the British long running drama series Coronation Street (2009) and guest roles in episodes of Material Girl (2010), Casualty (2010), and Mount Pleasant (2011).
In 2010 she also took part in the seventh season of Celebrity Big Brother UK.
She portrayed Maria Callas in the stage play “Master Class” in the UK and published her autobiography.
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