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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10h

18 October 1992 – Barry Keoghan, 34, Irish actor. Mammal (2016) * The Killing of a Sacred Deer * Dunkirk * Calm With Horses * The Green Knight * The Banshees of Inisherin (OscarNom) * Saltburn * Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man * Chernobyl * Bird * Masters of the Air (2024)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10h

18 October 1935 – 2006 Peter Boyle, 71, US actor. Joe (1970) * The Candidate * The Friends of Eddie Coyle * Crazy Joe * Young Frankenstein * Taxi Driver * Tail Gunner Joe * The Brink's Job * Hardcore * Hammett * Malcolm X * That Darn Cat * The X-Files * Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10h

18 October 1927 – 1999 George C. Scott, 71, US actor. Patton (1970 Oscar, refused) Oscar nominations: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) The Hustler (1961) The Hospital (1971) Richard III (1958) * The List of Adrian Messenger * Dr. Strangelove * Hardcore * The Changeling * The Last Days of Patton

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10h

18 October 1920 – 1994 Melina Mercouri, 73, Greek actress, singer, Member of Parliament, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (1981-94). Jules Dassin (m. 1966 to her death) Stella (1955) * Never on Sunday (OscarNom) * Phaedra * Topkapi * The Victors * 10:30 PM Summer * Promise at Dawn (1970)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10h

18 October 1915 – 1980 Victor Sen Yung, 65, US actor. The Good Earth (1937) * Charlie Chan Films (#2 son) * The Letter * Moontide * Across the Pacific * Web of Danger * The Breaking Point * Woman on the Run * The Flower Drum Song * Confessions of an Opium Eater * Kung Fu 7 (1972–74)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10h

18 October 1902 – 1972 Miriam Hopkins, 69, US actress. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) Trouble in Paradise * Story of Temple Drake * Design For Living * Becky Sharp (OscarNom) These Three * The Old Maid * Old Acquaintance * The Heiress * Outcasts of Poker Flats * The Children's Hour * The Chase (1966)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1956 – Anne Crawford, 35, (Leukaemia), Palestine born UK actress. Millions Like Us (1943) * The Dark Tower * Two Thousand Women * They Were Sisters * Caravan * Miranda * Trio * Thunder on the Hill * Street Corner * Knights of the Round Table (as Morgan le Fay) * Opportunity Murder (1956)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1948 – 2018 Margot Kidder, 69, Canadian-US actress. Sisters (1972) * Black Christmas * A Quiet Day in Belfast * The Great Waldo Pepper * Superman (1978-87) * The Amityville Horror * Heartaches * La Femme Nikita * Love at First Kill * Real Gangsters * The Red Maple Leaf (2016)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1926 – 2019 Julie Adams, 92, US actress. Hollywood Story (1951) * Bend of the River * The Creature from the Black Lagoon * The Gunfight at Dodge City * Tickle Me * The Jimmy Stewart Show * McQ * Murder, She Wrote (Eve Simpson) * Catchfire * World Trade Center * Lucky Southern Star (2018)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1920 – 1966 Montgomery Clift, 45, US actor. Oscar nominated: The Search (1948) A Place in the Sun (1951) From Here to Eternity (1953) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) The Search * Red River * The Heiress * I Confess * Raintree County * Suddenly, Last Summer * Wild River * The Misfits

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1918 – 1987 Rita Hayworth, (b. Casino), 68, US dancer, actress. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) * The Strawberry Blonde * Blood and Sand * You Were Never Lovelier * Cover Girl * Gilda * The Lady from Shanghai * Salomé * Miss Sadie Thompson * Pal Joey * Separate Tables * Circus World (1964)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1917 – 2022 Marsha Hunt, 104, US blacklisted actress, humanitarian. Born to the West (1937) Pride and Prejudice * Blossoms in the Dust * The Human Comedy * Cry 'Havoc' * None Shall Escape * Raw Deal (1948) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) A Life in Pictures www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1900 – 1991 Jean Arthur, 90, US actress. "Jean Arthur was whimsical without being silly, unique without being nutty, a theatrical personality, who was an untheatrical person. She was a delight to work with and to know." — Edward G. Robinson (co-stars in The Whole Town's Talking 1935)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1900 – 1991 Jean Arthur, 90, US actress. The Whole Town's Talking (1935) * You Can't Take It with You * Mr Deeds Goes to Town * Mr Smith Goes to Washington * The Devil and Miss Jones * More the Merrier (OscarNom) Talk of the Town * Peter Pan * Shane (1953) First Monday in October (1975)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1886 – 1971 Spring Byington, 84, US actress. Little Women (1933) Jezebel * You Can't Take It with You (OscarNom) Lucky Partners * Devil and Miss Jones * Meet John Doe * Roxie Hart * I'll Be Seeing You * Walk Softly, Stranger * December Bride (1954–59) Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 2023 – Bombing Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in #Gaza kills >200 #Palestinians 10 days after #October7th Israel claimed a misfired Hamas rocket but forensic investigation dispute this. Israel first bombed it 14 October 2023, in February 2024, and, in April 2025 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

aljazeera.com

Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, forcing patients to flee

The missile destroyed parts of the hospital, including its emergency department.

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 11h

17 October 1931 – Notorious organised crime boss Al Capone, age 33, convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years. During his time in Alcatraz he showed signs of neurosyphilis and was released in 1939. In 1947 he died of a heart attack age 48. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

thenation.com

October 17, 1931: Al Capone Is Convicted of Income Tax Evasion and Sent to Federal Prison

“Only one thing keeps Al from being supreme: he has to split the millions in profits with his compatriots, the politicians.”

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The world unfortunately hasn't changed.

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

16 October 1958 – Tim Robbins, 68, US actor, filmmaker. Bull Durham (1988) * Jacob's Ladder * Bob Roberts (+ writer, director) * The Player * The Hudsucker Proxy * The Shawshank Redemption * Dead Man Walking (Director, OscarNom) * Arlington Road * Mystic River (Actor, Oscar) * Silo (2023-)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

16 October 1925 – 2022 Angela Lansbury, 96, English-US actress, singer, producer. Gaslight (1944) * National Velvet * Picture of Dorian Gray * The Harvey Girls * Samson and Delilah * The Manchurian Candidate * Broadway: Mame * Gypsy * Sweeney Todd * Murder, She Wrote (1984–2003) Mary Poppins (2018)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

16 October 1923 – 1965 Monetta Linda Darnell, 41, (House Fire), US actress. Hotel for Women (1939) * The Mark of Zorro * Buffalo Bill * Hangover Square * Fallen Angel * My Darling Clementine * Forever Amber * Unfaithfully Yours * A Letter to Three Wives * No Way Out * Black Spurs (1965)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

16 October 1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette, 37, executed guillotine (Louis XVI executed 21 January 1793) France's funding of American Revolution was a major economic cause for unrest that resulted in revolution but Marie Antoinette became the most blamed woman in France. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

bbc.co.uk

Why 'the most controversial queen in history' was so hated

Once the most despised woman in Europe, Marie Antoinette was vilified as a libertine, a conspirator and a spendthrift – then publicly executed. Now an exhibition explores her story.

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

15 October 1943 – 2018 Penny Marshall, 75, US actress. Actor: The Odd Couple (1972-74) * Happy Days/Laverne & Shirley * The Odd Couple (2016) Director: Laverne & Shirley * Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) * Big * Awakenings * A League of Their Own * Renaissance Man * Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

15 October 1933 - Barry McGuire, 91, US singer-songwriter, guitarist. In 1962, with the New Christy Minstrels he sang lead vocal on hit song Three Wheels on My Wagon. As a solo artist in 1965 he's best known for the anti-war Eve of Destruction, written by P. F. Sloan. youtu.be/Zu0hh7eI4_A?...

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Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (Lyric video)

YouTube video by Jesse Lyons

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

15 October 1926 – 2000 Jean Peters, 73, US actress. Howard Hughes (second husband m. 1957- divorced 1971) The Captain from Castle (1947) * Anne of the Indies * Viva Zapata! * Niagara * Pickup on South Street * Three Coins in the Fountain * Apache * Broken Lance (1954) * Murder, She Wrote (1988)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

15 October 1900 – 1987 Mervyn LeRoy, 86, US director Little Caesar (1930) * Three on a Match * I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang * Gold Diggers 1933 * The Wizard of Oz (Producer) * Waterloo Bridge * Johnny Eager * Random Harvest * Madame Curie * Quo Vadis * Mister Roberts * Gypsy (1962)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

15 October 1879 – 1967 Jane Darwell, (b. Patti Woodward), 87, US actress. Back Street (1932) Bright Eyes * Curly Top * Poor Little Rich Girl * Jesse James * Gone with the Wind * The Grapes of Wrath (Oscar) * The Ox-Bow Incident * My Darling Clementine * Wagon Master * Mary Poppins (1964)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

14 October 1980 – Ben Whishaw, 46, English actor My Brother Tom (2000) I'm Not There * Perfume * James Bond Q * Cloud Atlas * Criminal Justice * The Hollow Crown: Richard II * Paddington * The Lobster * London Spy * A Very English Scandal * This Is Going to Hurt * Women Talking * Black Doves (2024)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

14 October 1927 – 2017 Roger Moore, English actor. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) * Maverick (1960–61) * The Saint (1962–69) * The Man Who Haunted Himself * The Persuaders! (1971) James Bond (7 films 1973-85) The Wild Geese * Escape to Athena * Sea Wolves * Man Who Wouldn't Die * The Saint (2017)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

14 October 1909 – 1997 Dorothy Kingsley, US screenwriter, producer. Girl Crazy (1943) * A Date with Judy * Neptune's Daughter * Angels in the Outfield * Kiss Me Kate * Seven Brides for Seven Brothers * Pal Joey * Green Mansions * Can-Can * Half a Sixpence * The Valley of the Dolls (1967)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

14 October 1893 – 1993 Lillian Gish, US actress. Silent: Birth of a Nation (1915) * Orphans of the Storm * The White Sister * The Wind (1928) Duel in the Sun (1946 OscarNom) * The Trip to Bountiful (TV/Broadway 1953) * The Cobweb * Night of the Hunter * The Comedians * The Whales of August (1987)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

13 October 1952 – John Lone, (b. Ng Kwok-leung), 74, British Hong Kong-US retired actor. Steve (1981 Obie Award) * Iceman (1984) * Year of the Dragon * The Last Emperor * The Moderns * M. Butterfly * The Shadow * The Hunted * Rush Hour 2 * Qianlong and the Fragrant Concubine * War (2007)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

13 October 1941 – Paul Simon, 85, US singer-songwriter, guitarist. Simon and Garfunkel: Sound of Silence (1965) Homeward Bound * Mrs Robinson * Bridge Over Troubled Water * Feelin' Groovy * America 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover * You Can Call Me Al' * Graceland * Diamonds On The Souls of Their Shoes

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

13 October 1920 – 2007 Laraine Day, (b. Johnson), 87, US actress. Dr. Kildare (1939-41) #Hitchcock Foreign Correspondent * Trial of Mary Dugan * Fingers at the Window * Mr Lucky * The Story of Dr Wassell * The Locket * Tycoon * I Married a Communist * High and the Mighty * Murder, She Wrote (1986)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

13 October 1918 – 1951 Robert Walker, 32, (Accidental Overdose), US actor. Jennifer Jones (m. 1939-45) Bataan (1943) * Since You Went Away * The Clock * Her Highness and the Bellboy * The Sea of Grass * One Touch of Venus * Vengeance Valley * #Hitchcock Strangers on a Train * My Son John (1952)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

13 October 1912 – 1989 Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-US actor. High Sierra (1941) * Leave Her to Heaven * A Song to Remember (OscarNom) * Forever Amber * Road House * Shockproof * The Greatest Show on Earth * The Big Combo * Director: Storm Fear/Naked Prey/Beach Red (1967) * Murder, She Wrote (1987)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

13 October 1891 – 1988 Irene Rich, (née Luther), 96, US actress. Rosita (1923) * Beau Brummel * Lady Windermere's Fan * The Perfect Crime (1928) * Shanghai Rose * Five and Ten * The Champ * Queen of the Yukon * The Mortal Storm * Angel and the Badman * New Orleans * Fort Apache * Joan of Arc (1948)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

12 October 1903 – 1998 Josephine Hutchinson, US actress. Eva Le Gallienne (#LGBT partner 1927-?) Civic Repertory Theatre. The Little Princess (1917) * The Story of Louis Pasteur * Son of Frankenstein * Somewhere in the Night * Ruby Gentry * #Hitchcock North by Northwest * Nevada Smith (1966)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

12 October 1984 – Provisional IRA attempt to assassinate the UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, with a bomb planted in The Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the annual Conservative Party conference, killing five people, and wounding at least 31 others.

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

12 October 1915 – Edith Cavell, age 49, English nurse (b. 1865) She treated wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination in #WW1 and helped around 200 allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Arrested and tried under German military law, she was executed by firing squad.

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

11 October 1962 – Joan Cusack, 64, US actress. Oscar nominations: Working Girl (1989) In & Out (1998) #SNL * Stars and Bars * Married to the Mob * Men Don't Leave * Addams Family Values * Nine Months * Grosse Pointe Blank * The Runaway Bride * Mr Wrong * Arlington Road * Toy Story * Shameless

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

11 October 1957 – Dawn French, 69, British actress, comedian, writer. The Comic Strip Presents * French and Saunders * Murder Most Horrid * The Vicar of Dibley * Jam & Jerusalem * Lark Rise to Candleford * Psychoville * Roger & Val Have Just Got In * Delicious * 300 Years of French and Saunders

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

11 October 1953 – David Morse, 73, US actor. St Elsewhere (1982-88) The Langoliers * The Crossing Guard * 12 Monkeys * The Green Mile * Hack * Double Vision * House * John Adams * The Hurt Locker * Collaborator * Treme * Outsiders * The Iceman Cometh * How I Learned to Drive * We Were Liars (2025)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

11 October 1951 – 2024 Charles Shyer, 83, US filmmaker. Writer: Smokey and Bandit * House Calls * Going South * Private Benjamin (OscarNom) * Irreconcilable Differences * Jumpin' Jack Flash * The Parent Trap Director: Baby Boom * Father of the Bride * Affair of the Necklace (OscarNom)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

11 October 1884 – 1967 Sig Ruman, 82, German-US (1924) actor. Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935) A Day at the Races * Lancer Spy * Heidi * Nothing Sacred * Only Angels Have Wings * Ninotchka * To Be or Not to Be * Marx Bros. A Night in Casablanca * Stalag 17 * The Fortune Cookie (1966)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

10 October 1946 – Charles Dance, 80, English actor, filmmaker. For Your Eyes Only (1981) * Jewel in the Crown * Kabloonak * Michael Collins * Gosford Park * Ladies in Lavender (director/writer) * Bleak House * Game of Thrones * Dracula Untold * Godzilla * The Crown * Mank * Frankenstein (2026)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

10 October 1941 – Peter Coyote, 84, US actor, documentary narrator. E.T. (1982) * Cross Creek * Jagged Edge * Outrageous Fortune * Bitter Moon * Kika * Buffalo Girls * Patch Adams * Sphere * Erin Brockovich * A Walk to Remember * Femme Fatale * Deadwood * The Comey Rule (2020)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

10 October 1900 – 1993 Helen Hayes, 92, US actress. Oscars: The Sin of Madelon Claude (1931) Airport (1970) Tony Awards: Happy Birthday (1947) Time Remembered (1958) A Farewell to Arms (1932) Arrowsmith * Anastasia * Herbie Rides Again * The Snoop Sisters * Murder with Mirrors (1985 Miss Marple)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

9 October 1979 – Chris O'Dowd, 47, Irish actor, writer Festival (2005) * The IT Crowd (2006-10) * Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel * Gulliver's Travels * Moone Boy (writer, director) * Bridesmaids * Friends with Kids * The Sapphires * Cuban Fury * Cloverfield Paradox * Artificial (2026)

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Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

9 October 1964 – Guillermo del Toro, 62, Mexican-US filmmaker, screenwriter. Three Oscars: The Shape of Water (2017 Producer, Director) * Pinocchio (2022) Five Nominations: Pan's Labyrinth (Writer) * The Shape of Water (Writer) * Nightmare Alley (Producer) * Frankenstein (2025 Picture, Writer)

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