Happy National Superhero Day.

National Superhero Day is observed annually on April 28. This is a day to honor superheroes, both real and fictional.

Superman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Batman, Hulk and Spiderman are just some of the superheroes whose names we recognize. Even though they are fictional, these superheroes are great role models for our children. They serve and protect while fighting evil.

Our real-life superheroes may not have super powers or wear capes, but they are also great role models who serve and protect while fighting evil. Military personnel, police officers and firefighters are just a few of the heroes who protect us on a daily basis.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Take your favorite superhero to lunch and say thank you for all they do. Post photos on social media using #NationalSuperheroDay.

HISTORY

National Superhero Day was created in 1995 by Marvel Comics employees.

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Happy birthday Alan Oppenheimer, born April 23, 1930.

Alan Louis Oppenheimer is an American actor and voice actor. He has performed numerous roles on live-action television since the 1960’s, and has had an active career doing voice work in cartoons since the 1970’s.

As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in Hogan’s Heroes, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS scientist on Get Smart, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man

He was the original Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph’s dad) on Happy Days.

He played a recurring role during the first two seasons of St. Elsewhere as Helen Rosenthal’s husband, Ira.

He had a recurring role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on Mama’s Family.

Alan showed himself well suited to the science fiction genre in the 1973 cult classic Westworld, where he played the head IT technician.

He has also appeared in three Star Trek series, always playing a different character. He appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rightful Heir” as a Klingon cleric, Koroth, a primary instigator of the cloning of Kahless; on Deep Space Nine as a Starfleet Captain Declan Keogh in command of the USS Odyssey; and as an alien ambassador in Voyager.

Oppenheimer is recognized as the voice of many characters, often for Filmation in the 1970’s and 1980’s, such as Oil Can Harry, Swifty and the narrator on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, Ming the Merciless on Flash Gordon, the Overlord on BlackStar, Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Mer-Man from Filmation’s 1980’s cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and the voice of Prime Evil in the 1986 TV series, Filmation’s Ghostbusters.

Other notable voice roles include Thundarr the Barbarian, Vanity on The Smurfs, Rhinokey and Crock from The Wuzzles and Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, and the Narrator from 1984’s The Never Ending Story.

In the early 1990’s, Oppenheimer was the voice of Merlin in The Legend of Prince Valiant. He also provided the voice of Barkerville in the Pound Puppies TV special. He also voiced Fraidy Cat on Fraidy Cat in 1975 and provided additional voices on Battle of the Planets in 1978.

Oppenheimer worked on The Transformers, most notably as two contrasting characters, the pacifist Beachcomber and the bellicose Warpath. His rendition of Seaspray was remarkably similar to Mer-Man, including the gurgling effects. He took over the voice of Roger Smith’s butler Norman Burg in the second season of The Big O. He was the voice of the unseen Alistair Crane on the soap opera Passions up until 2004, when the character was made fully visible and played by David Bailey. More recently, he provided the voice of the Scientist for the 2009 film 9 and Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Oppenheimer’s repertoire also includes video games, voicing Dr. Piotr Ivanovich in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, Prometheus in God of War II and Jandor the Airship Captain in Nox. In Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, he spoke the part of Harold, an ancient mutated survivor of nuclear holocaust who has appeared in four of the Fallout series games, and played the roles of The Chariot Master and Dyntos, God of the Forge, in Kid Icarus: Uprising. Oppenheimer also voiced the parts of a non-player character Soldier and the Wasteland Trader, and the NPC ‘enemies’ Cult Ghoul Thug and Kamikaze in Fallout: BoS. Also, in the English TG-16 port of Ys Book I and II, Oppenheimer voiced the roles of the Narrator, and the game’s lead antagonist, Darm.

In 2019 he guest-starred on the animated series Tigtone.

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Happy birthday Max Von Sydow, born April 10, 1929.

Carl Adolf “Max” von Sydow is a Swedish actor who became a French citizen in 2002. He has appeared in many films, in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish. He received the Royal Foundation of Sweden’s Cultural Award in 1954, was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur on 17 October 2012.

Von Sydow has appeared in well over 100 films and TV shows] Some of his most memorable film roles include Knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death; Martin in Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum (1966); Karl Oskar Nilsson in The Emigrants (1971); Roy Lindberg in The Apple War (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist (1973); Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor (1975); Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983); Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984); Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination; Dr Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002); Sir Walter Loxley in Robin Hood (2010), and The Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination. In 2016, von Sydow will join the cast of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, playing the role of the Three-eyed Raven.

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Happy birthday Timothy Dalton, born March 21, 1946.

Timothy Peter Dalton is an English actor. He is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett (1994).

Dalton quickly moved to television, working mainly with the BBC, and in 1968 made his film debut as Philip II of France in The Lion in Winter. This was the first of several period dramas, which included a remake of Wuthering Heights in 1970 in which he portrayed Heathcliff.

After a few more films, Dalton took a break in 1971 to concentrate on the theater, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and other troupes throughout the world. In 1975, Dalton and Vivien Merchant headed the cast of a revival of Noël Coward’s The Vortex.

With two notable exceptions, the films Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) and Permission to Kill (1975), he remained a theater actor until 1978. That year he starred in Sextette as the husband of 85-year-old Mae West, hailing his return to cinema and the beginning of his American career.

While in the United States, Dalton worked mainly in television, although he starred in several films. During this time, he played Prince Barin in the 1980 cult science fiction classic Flash Gordon and played Mr. Rochester in the 1983 BBC serial of Jane Eyre. Dalton starred alongside Jonathan Pryce in the 1985 film The Doctor and the Devils.

Dalton co-starred with Joan Collins in the miniseries, Sins (1986).

He plays Dr. Niles Caulder / Chief in Doom Patrol.

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Happy birthday Ornella Muti, born March 9, 1955.

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980.

American movies she appeared in include Love and Money (1982), Casanova (1987), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989), A Season of Giants (1990), Oscar (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), Somewhere in the City (1998) and To Rome with Love (2012).

She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a television commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. She was voted “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty.

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Remembering Buster Crabbe, born February 7 1908.

Remembering Buster Crabbe, born February 7, 1908 and passed away on April 23, 1983.

Clarence Linden “Buster” Crabbe II was an American competitive swimmer and actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400m freestyle swimming before subsequently breaking into acting.

He starred in a number of popular films in the 1930s and 1940s. He also played the title role in the serials Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

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Happy birthday to Melody Anderson who was born December 3, 1955.

Melody Anderson is a Canadian social worker and public speaker specializing in the impact of addiction on families. She is a retired actress, whose most high-profile role was playing Dale Arden in the 1980 adaptation of Flash Gordon. While doing singing, she also trained as an actress, leading to roles in films and television during the 1970s and 1980s.
Her first national exposure was as a guest star in the 1977 series Logan’s Run and as a “Sweathog” in a 1977 episode of Welcome Back, Kotter. She made numerous guest appearances on television, including Archie Bunker’s Place, Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, T. J. Hooker, CHiPs, the pilot episode of The A-Team and The Fall Guy. She had recurring roles on St. Elsewhere and Jake and the Fatman. She was the female lead of the NBC 1983 series Manimal. She was a guest star in the Murder, She Wrote episode “Prediction: Murder” in 1989.
She played the female lead Dale Arden in Flash Gordon (1980) and the female lead Janet Gillis in Dead and Buried (1981). In 1983, she played the title role in a made-for-television film called Policewoman Centerfold, in which her character, a divorced police officer, is fired after posing nude for a men’s magazine (based loosely on the true story of Springfield, Ohio patrolwoman Barbara Schantz, who was subsequently fired from her job after posing nude in Playboy magazine in the early 1980s).

She appeared with Nicolas Cage in The Boy in Blue (1986). She starred in the made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam (1986), which starred Faye Dunaway. From 1992–93, Anderson portrayed Natalie Marlowe, and briefly her twin sister Janet Dillon, on the soap opera All My Children.
She starred as Edie Adams in the television film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and played the coveted role of Marilyn Monroe in the television movie Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair (1993).

Her last television appearance was in 1995 as a guest star in the short-lived CBS revival of Burke’s Law.
Anderson graduated from New York University in 1997 with the Master of Social Work. That same year, she began to develop and became Coordinator the “Family & Friends Program” and “Intensive Out-Patient Program (IOP)” at Hazelden New York. She is a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in the states of New York and California, with private practices in Manhattan and West Los Angeles. She also facilitates therapy groups at several treatment centers in the LA area. Anderson is currently working on a book for parents with kids who use drugs and alcohol while continuing to paint, sculpt and sell her work.

Anderson holds an Honors bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Masters of Social Work from New York University’s Shirley Ehrenkrantz School. Her post-graduate studies include family training at the Ackerman Family and Training Institute in New York and certification in trauma treatment as a Level II-EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) specialist.

Anderson is an international lecturer and media spokesperson on addictions and the family. She has presented about substance abuse and other mental health-related areas of study.

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