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How Anton Yelchin’s Death Changes Star Trek Beyond

By Scott Meslow

At a key moment in Star Trek Beyond , Kirk leads the crew of the USS Enterprise in a toast. "To absent friends," Kirk says, as everyone raises a glass. And then the camera shifts, ever so slightly, to refocus on the man standing behind him: Pavel Chekov, the crew member played by Anton Yelchin, who died at age 27 in a freak automobile accident last month.

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At least, I thought the camera pivoted to Chekov. In retrospect, I'm almost 100 percent sure it was in my imagination. But for me, watching Star Trek Beyond so soon after Yelchin's sudden death cast his performance—and the film itself—in a different light. It's a resonance that the film's creative team never intended, but it's still there. When the film began, every time Chekov appeared on screen, I felt a little jolt of grief. As it continued, this feeling gradually softened, but it never totally went away.

None of this is to criticize the creative team behind Star Trek Beyond , who have felt the loss of Yelchin as both a colleague and friend, and who have been unfailingly thoughtful and gracious in their tributes to Yelchin during the movie's promotional circuit. But the death of an actor changes the context in which you watch a movie, and for fans of Yelchin's work, Star Trek Beyond will be both a tribute and a fresh source of grief. And sitting in a movie theater, it's hard to reconcile those feelings with what Star Trek Beyond wants to be: a fun, escapist summer popcorn blockbuster.

Star Trek Beyond is hardly the first Hollywood blockbuster to hit theaters under the shadow of a cast member's unexpected death. The Harry Potter franchise recast the role of Dumbledore after the death of Richard Harris. Last year, the final Hunger Games sequel was reworked to minimize the role of Plutarch Heavensbee, the supporting character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died in February 2014. Earlier this summer, Alice Through the Looking Glass featured the final performance of Alan Rickman, whose unmistakable baritone classed up an otherwise forgettable movie.

Of course, a movie faces a different challenge when a late actor's performance contains echoes of their death. One of the Joker's final lines to Batman in The Dark Knight —"I think you and I are destined to do this forever"—became unintentionally ghoulish after Heath Ledger died. And then, of course, there's Furious 7 —the James Wan-directed installment of a franchise largely defined by Stark Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, who directed installments three, four, five, and six. When Paul Walker died during the production of Furious 7 —in a car crash, no less—the film's producers faced a difficult decision: shut down production, or release a movie with some unsettling parallels to a real-life tragedy? In the end, they concluded that releasing the film was the right decision, and they managed to give Walker's protagonist a relatively graceful exit, using previously shot footage, along with CGI and body doubles, to complete the performance.

Star Trek Beyond is largely constructed as a tribute to another late Star Trek icon: Leonard Nimoy.

But the team behind Star Trek Beyond had a simpler choice to make. Yelchin's performance was finished, and nothing in the film directly recalls the circumstances of his death. In fact, Star Trek Beyond is largely constructed as a tribute to another late Star Trek icon: Leonard Nimoy, who died several months before Beyond entered production.

This timeline enabled screenwriters Simon Pegg and Doug Jung to weave Nimoy's real-life death into the fabric of the film. As Beyond begins, Spock (Zachary Quinto) learns that Ambassador Spock (Nimoy)—his older self from an alternate timeline, as seen in the previous two Star Trek movies—has died. This news sends the younger Spock into a soul-searching grief that informs his entire arc in the movie, as he contemplates leaving both the Federation and his girlfriend, Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana), to spend more time rebuilding his culture with the other surviving Vulcans. The story crescendoes with a brief, poignant nod to Ambassador Spock and the rest of the original cast, offering a final love letter to both the character and Leonard Nimoy.

Star Trek Beyond features one of Yelchin's final performances, which is both the simplest and most complete way to honor his work in the franchise—but his death also hangs over the movie, and the already-announced Star Trek 4 will need to address it. J.J. Abrams has said that the role of Chekov won't be recast, but that it's "too early" to decide how they'll resolve the character’s absence.

As far as I can tell, the only change that was definitively made to Star Trek Beyond in the wake of Yelchin's death happens several minutes after the movie itself has ended. In the middle of the credits, a warm title card appears that was presumably planned a long time ago: "In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy." When those words fade away, they're replaced by a second, simpler dedication: "For Anton."

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'Star Trek Beyond' becomes tragic tribute for two

Star Trek Beyond was always going to deal with heartbreak.

Leonard Nimoy, the only member of the seminal TV series to join the rebooted film franchise as Spock Prime, died in February 2015 at 83 before the third Trek  film began shooting.

This sadness was amplified months after filming wrapped when Anton Yelchin, 27, who played navigator Pavel Chekov, died in a car accident in June.

"We knew going into production this would be bittersweet because of Leonard's loss," says Zachary Quinto, who plays a younger version of Commander Spock in the alternate timeline. "But none us could have possibly imagined the unfathomable tragedy of losing Anton.”

The credit tributes for  Star Trek Beyond (in theaters Friday) read simply “In Loving Memory of Leonard Nimoy” before going to “For Anton.” But the impact of these deaths goes deeper.

Spock Prime is portrayed as having died in the film, sending Quinto’s Spock into an existential crisis.

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“(Quinto’s) Spock faces his own mortality with his own (future self) passing. It just seemed like such an incredibly Trekkie idea,” says Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the movie with Doug Jung. “We had become very close to Leonard and loved the idea of this becoming part of Zach’s Spock journey. It seemed cosmically right, a fitting tribute to one of Star Trek 's iconic faces ."

When Spock talks about his own mortality onscreen, Quinto let highly un-Vulcan-like tears flow — not hard to tap into with the loss of his close friend Nimoy.

“They were certainly authentic expressions of my sadness,” says Quinto. “It’s not easy to lose someone so dear as Leonard. I was grateful to have somewhere to put that.”

Yelchin’s sudden death was a devastating shock to the tight-knit cast, coming weeks before director Justin Lin finished editing the film. Lin added a poignant image of Yelchin to a scene where Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) toasts absent friends.

“It's a beautiful shot of Anton, looking relaxed, like he didn’t know the camera was on him,” says Pegg. “That was a way we could at least acknowledge the awfulness of what happened.”

The emotional cast called an emergency meeting to discuss whether they would even talk about the film publicly.   

“We were devastated, bereft beyond any idea. The idea of banging a drum, saying 'Come see this movie,' seemed an impossible task,” says Pegg. “It’s been very difficult to process for us all. I would be lying if I said any of us have truly come to terms with it. I don’t know if we ever will.”

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Pegg ultimately found the film a fitting tribute to Yelchin, whose role won't be recast in the already-announced fourth  Star Trek.

“To see him onscreen being so great, so alive, it gave me hope that he will be around forever, in some way. Even if we have lost him,” says Pegg. “For people who never met him, he hasn’t gone away and won’t go away. I found myself heartened by that when I watched the movie. That means something to us.”

Chris Pine Reflects On Anton Yelchin’s Secret Illness Filming Star Trek Beyond

Before J.J. Abrams helped to kickstart the Star Wars franchise with The Force Awakens , he had his eye on another intergalactic property. Abrams brought the Star Trek series back to theaters with his trilogy of movies, starring a talented cast and plenty of lens flares. The fate of the potential fourth movie remains unclear , although the Star Trek family suffered a loss with the death of actor Anton Yelchin .

Anton Yelchin played Pavel Chekov in all three Star Trek movies, although the threequel Beyond was released after his unexpected death at the age of 27. The Star Trek cast recently assembled to celebrate the first movie's 10-year anniversary, and Chris Pine spoke to working with Yelchin. It was revealed posthumously that Yelchin suffered from cystic fibrosis, and Pine remembered a scene where he's sure the young actor was silently suffering. As he put it:

While we were shooting [Star Trek Beyond], especially towards the end, I think we could all tell that something wasn’t right with Anton. I don’t think anyone knew that he was battling the illness that he was. We had about a week of doing a pretty intense stunt, like a really grueling, physically demanding stunt. I haven’t actually thought about it until now, but looking back on it, I remember how hard it was for him to get through it. And he never complained. He didn’t use [the disease] to get out of this fight scene, which he could easily have done, obviously.

It looks like Anton Yelchin was determined to shoot all of his scenes in Star Trek Beyond . So this included silently suffering through symptoms of cystic fibrosis while shooting a weeks worth of stunt footage. It's this type of dedication that made his tenure as Pavel Chekov such a fan favorite aspect of the trilogy.

Chris Pine 's comments to THR just continue to highlight the tragedy of Anton Yelchin's unexpected death. The Russian-American actor clearly had a strong work ethic, and was able to juggle his diagnosis and the long grueling hours of working on a film set. Besides not asking for assistance, Yelchin didn't even share his experience with co-stars like Pine.

Related: Zoe Saldana Recalls Anton Yelchin Being ‘Nervous’ To Do Star Trek Justice

Anton Yelchin's life is being explored through the new documentary Love, Antosha . The doc explores the actor's life and death, with both Chris Pine and J.J. Abrams among the cast who speak to their experiences with Yelchin. You can check the trailer for Love, Antosha below.

Anton Yelchin died on June 19th, 2016 at the age of 27. He was involved in a freak motor vehicle accident in his own driveway, before Star Trek Beyond made it way to theaters. It's particularly tragic that Yelchin didn't get to see the scene that Chris Pine described above, considering the hard work involved.

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Here's how Star Trek Beyond pays tribute to Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin

"Absent friends" are remembered in the new movie, which began and ended production cloaked in tragedy

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Contains mild Star Trek Beyond spoilers

New sci-fi sequel Star Trek Beyond began its journey with some tragedy, as original Spock actor Leonard Nimoy (who also appeared in the 2009 and 2013 film reboots) passed away shortly before filming began.

Naturally, the iconic actor’s death added a sombre air to the film’s production, but the sadness was only just beginning for the cast and crew. A few months later, 27-year-old cast member Anton Yelchin (who played Pavel Chekov in the series) was killed in an accident involving his car, shocking his fans and drawing tributes from around the world.

Both deaths hang heavily over Star Trek Beyond in its finished form, which includes tributes to both men. But for the most part the film itself focuses on Nimoy, whose death was far enough before production for the writers to make it part of the film’s storyline (as opposed to Yelchin, who died after filming had completed).

During Star Trek Beyond it’s revealed that Nimoy’s older Spock (who travelled to the new films’ parallel timelines in 2009’s Star Trek) has also passed away, leading to sad reflection from his younger self (Zachary Quinto) and other crew members on his life and achievements.

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Later, young Spock goes through Spock Prime’s effects, finding a photograph of the original Star Trek crew – William Shatner, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols etc – paying tribute to Nimoy’s “family” on the show as well as the 50th anniversary of the original series.

And finally, as the adventure ends and the crew reflect on what they’ve been through, Kirk calls a toast “to absent friends”, a callback to a toast given in 1984's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock after the "death" of Spock in 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (as well as a drink Kirk has in his late father's honour earlier in Beyond). The moment was undoubtedly meant to invoke Nimoy’s memory, but given Yelchin’s passing it gains an even greater poignancy.

Blink and you’ll miss it, but as Kirk raises his glass, the camera seems to linger on Yelchin for a second – a subtle goodbye to a young actor who producer JJ Abrams has recently announced won’t be replaced as Chekov for future films.

And when the movie finishes, both men are honoured, the screen reading “In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy” and “for Anton” before the credits start rolling. A fitting tribute to the loss of both old and new members of the Star Trek family.

Star Trek Beyond is in UK cinemas from Friday 22 July

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The Huge Impact That Leonard Nimoy's Death Had on Star Trek Beyond

If you read our report from the set of Star Trek Beyond , you may have wondered why there weren’t quotes from Zachary Quinto. That’s because while Quinto was filming as Spock, he wasn’t talking to the media... in honor of Leonard Nimoy, who never did interviews while in character. And that’s just the start of how Nimoy’s passing is impacting Star Trek Beyond .

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“That was a really difficult time for me personally but there was also a tremendous amount of love in the experience of losing Leonard,” Quinto told io9 via telephone a week after our set visit. “I was very close with him and am very close with his family and in his loss we really found comfort in one another.”

Much of that comfort also came from finally getting back to a Star Trek set, a place Nimoy felt very much at home, and among friends who share the loss.

“I would say my connection to the character is deeper now because of our relationship,” Quinto continued “I feel a real responsibility to honor him and to do the character a real kind of justice. So I think my connection to that is a lot stronger now even though he’s not with us anymore.”

In Star Trek Beyond , Spock is dealing not just with the imminent threat of Idris Elba’s character, Krall, he’s dealing with an injury and feeling like his true purpose isn’t on the Enterprise, but instead helping the remnants of the Vulcan race. Quinto calls “the rebuilding of his civilization” Spock’s “singular pursuit.”

And while that’s the new Spock’s role in the movie, Nimoy will have some kind of presence as well. Talking in August 2015, Quinto teased as much by saying, “I think this movie is being made with him in all of our hearts and he’ll be honored as a result of that.” Several months later, at the Star Trek Beyond fan event, he offered up a more specific statement:

In a way I feel like he’s more a part of this film than he was the other two. We were all so cognizant of his absence but I think in the face of that, we all held him in our hearts more fully. Everyone on this film showed up to work in the spirit of celebrating his life and his indelible contribution to this franchise... He’s there in a really powerful way.

The question is, is that literal? Does Spock Prime play a role in Beyond ? Is it simply the film being dedicated to him, or just a general feeling on set? There are numerous possibilities and we’ll find out on July 22. However, there’s no doubt that Nimoy was someone everyone was thinking about while filming.

“This movie is being made with him in all of our hearts and he’ll be honored as a result of that,” Quinto said. “We miss him all the time... His spirit is really with all of us, and will continue to be for sure.”

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The Tragic Death Of Anton Yelchin

At only 27 years old , actor Anton Yelchin died in a freak accident in his own driveway in Los Angeles in June 2016. He found himself pinned between a pillar and a fence after his car started rolling backward, according to BBC News . It appeared that Yelchin had gotten out of the vehicle, but had not put the car into park correctly (via CBS News ). The Los Angeles County coroner's office determined that cause of death was "blunt traumatic asphyxia." The young performer, known for such films as 2009's " Star Trek ," was basically crushed to death by his own car.

Born on March 11, 1989, in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia, Yelchin had begun his career with small roles in such TV shows as "ER" and "The Practice" when he was only a child (via  People magazine). He eventually graduated to more substantial projects, including a leading role in 2007's "Charlie Bartlett." Yelchin soon landed his most high-profile part, bringing his own take to the part of Pavel Chekov in J.J. Abrams' revival of "Star Trek." After Yelchin's death, Abrams took to Twitter to remember the actor, tweeting "You were kind. You were funny as hell, and supremely talented. And you weren't here nearly long enough" (via BBC ).

Anton Yelchin's death led to a lawsuit

Questions quickly rose up about Yelchin's vehicle, a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Apparently, the 2014 and 2015 models of this car had been involved in numerous accidents as its "e-shift" feature made it hard for drivers to tell whether they had put their cars into park or not (via CBS News ). Victor and Irina Yelchin, the distraught parents of the young actor, pursued legal action against Fiat Chrysler, the company that manufactured the Jeep Grand Cherokee, according to an Associated Press report (via USA Today ). "In spite of our unbelievable grief, we decided to come here to prevent other families from the same tragedy," Victor Yelchin said. The Yelchins reached a settlement with the carmaker in 2018.

Yelchin's final appearance as Pavel Chekov was in 2016's "Star Trek Beyond," which premiered not long after his fatal accident. He had several more films released after his death, including the 2017 independent drama "Thoroughbreds" and the 2017 mystery "We Don't Belong Here." Fans also got to see another side to the late performer. He had several posthumous exhibitions of his photography, including a show at the De Buck Gallery in New York City (via W magazine). According to his official website , Yelchin said that "I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium." A collection of his photography has been published as the 2019 book "In Case of Fire."

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‘Star Trek Beyond’ actor Anton Yelchin dies at 27

“Star Trek Beyond” actor Anton Yelchin died early Sunday morning at age 27 in a “fatal traffic collision,” according to his publicist, Jennifer Allen.

Yelchin was found pinned between his car and a gate in his inclined driveway, Los Angeles police Officer Jenny Hosier told the Associated Press . The car was in neutral with the engine still running when the actor’s body was discovered, according to TMZ . Friends found the scene after becoming alarmed when he didn’t show up to meet them. No foul play is suspected.

Yelchin, whose third turn as Chekov in the forthcoming “Star Trek” sequel is due in theaters next month, was an up-and-coming actor known for his roles in a number of films, including “Alpha Dog,” “Charlie Bartlett,” “Like Crazy” and “Green Room.” He was no stranger to working with big-name actors — including Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Robert Downey Jr., Diane Lane, Jennifer Lawrence and Susan Sarandon — while barely out of his teens.

Born March 11, 1989, to figure-skating Russian parents, Yelchin and his family moved to the United States when he was 6-months-old. His first acting gig was on the hit show “ER” in 2000. Yelchin acted on several television shows, including “The Practice,” “Criminal Minds,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “NYPD Blue.” But it was his turn in the 2001 film “Hearts in Atlantis,” based on Stephen King’s book, that earned him critical acclaim and a Young Artist Award for best performance in a feature film.

Yelchin’s death brought an immediate outpouring of grief on Twitter, as his name and the titles of several of his films began to trend on the social-media site. Co-stars, friends and fans alike have expressed their condolences, including King and director Guillermo del Toro, who was set to work with Yelchin in his upcoming Netflix animated series,  announced just last week .

The sweetest, most humble, delightful, talented guy you'd ever meet. Worked together for about a year. Shocked. https://t.co/uyg2NlmhqP — Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) June 19, 2016

Anton was a sweetheart. Absolutely a great creative partner and artist. — Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) June 19, 2016

Terrible news about Anton Yelchin, crazily talented actor gone too soon. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 19, 2016

Anton Yelchin was one of my best friends. Can't say anything that conveys what this feels like — Kat Dennings (@OfficialKat) June 19, 2016

I loved Anton Yelchin so much. He was a true artist - curious, beautiful, courageous. He was a great pal and a great son. I'm in ruins. — John Cho (@JohnTheCho) June 19, 2016

Still in shock. Rest in peace, Anton. Your passion and enthusiasm will live on with everyone that had the pleasure of knowing you. — Justin Lin (@justinlin) June 19, 2016

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• 1 – Tiger Shapiro ( 1983 ), Ray Walston ( 2001 ), Jack C. Haldeman II , Benjamin W.S. Lum , and Meg Wyllie (all 2002 ), Robert Fortier ( 2005 ), Jerry Summers ( 2006 ), Jon Steuer ( 2018 ), and Mickey Cottrell ( 2024 )
• 2 – Pato Guzman ( 1991 ), Frank Kelly Freas ( 2005 ), Patricia Smith ( 2011 ), Connie Bosmans ( 2021 ), and J. Patrick McNamara ( 2023 )
• 3 – Judith Anderson ( 1992 ), Oscar Katz ( 1996 ), and Jack Hunsaker ( 2018 )
• 4 – Bernie Williams ( 2015 ), Rudy Cataldi ( 2019 ), Joe Podnar ( 2020 ), Gregory Sierra ( 2021 ), and David Soul and Tracy Tormé (both 2024 )
• 5 – Bart La Rue ( 1990 ), Hal Baylor ( 1998 ), Nancy Parsons and Clark E. Spangler (both 2001 ), Joe Longo ( 2014 ), and Earl Boen ( 2023 )
• 6 – Keith Smith ( 1996 ), James Wellman ( 1999 ), Stephen Edward Poe ( 2000 ), Scott Marlowe ( 2001 ), and W. Morgan Sheppard ( 2019 )
• 7 – Dick Wood ( 1972 ), Frank Van der Veer ( 1982 ), Frank McKane ( 1990 ), Frank Corsentino ( 2007 ), David Richard Ellis ( 2013 ), Richard Libertini ( 2016 ), Greg Bronson ( 2017 ), and Peter Greenwood ( 2021 )
• 8 – Larry Robb ( 1990 ), Phil Hetos ( 2006 ), Tom Lay and Keely Sims (both 2013 ), Lloyd A. Buswell ( 2020 ), and Steve Lightle ( 2021 )
• 9 – Don Whipple ( 2007 ), Alan Marcus ( 2015 ), and Lan O'Kun ( 2020 )
• 10 – Arthur Batanides and John Newland (both 2000 ), and Peter Crombie ( 2024 )
• 11 – Lil Evans ( 2003 ) and Jophery C. Brown ( 2014 )
• 12 – Keye Luke ( 1991 ) and Charlie Skeen ( 1999 )
• 13 – Joan Pearce ( 2005 ), Morgan Jones ( 2012 ), Henry Murph ( 2016 ), and Dick Kulpa and Geri Lee (both 2021 )
• 14 – Mart McChesney ( 1999 ), Viola Stimpson ( 2008 ), Ricardo Montalban ( 2009 ), and Peter Mark Richman ( 2021 )
• 15 – John Bloom ( 1999 ), Chris McBee ( 2007 ), Barbara Minster ( 2009 ), Peter Virgo, Jr. ( 2022 ), Craig Smith ( 2023 ), and William O'Connell ( 2024 )
• 16 – Ted Cassidy ( 1979 ), Glenn Corbett ( 1993 ), Ron Taylor ( 2002 ), Hal Sutherland ( 2014 ), and Mark Wilson ( 2016 )
• 17 – Dick Dial ( 1992 ), Nicholas Corea ( 1999 ), Gordon Belljohns Love ( 2001 ), Albert Henderson and Noble Willingham (both 2004 ), and Nicole Frank ( 2013 )
• 18 – Paul Fennell ( 1990 ), Sarah Marshall ( 2014 ), and Robert Sampson ( 2020 )
• 19 – Chuck Courtney ( 2000 ), Cal Bolder ( 2005 ), Miguel Ferrer ( 2017 ), and Kellam de Forest ( 2021 )
• 20 – Armando Contreras ( 2008 ), Bairbre Dowling and David G. Hartwell (both 2016 ), Richard Merrifield ( 2018 ), and Johnetta Anderson ( 2021 )
• 21 – Abraham Sofaer ( 1988 ), Bernie Bielawski ( 2000 ), and Steve Susskind ( 2005 )
• 22 – Eli Behar ( 1988 ), Allen Pinson ( 2006 ), Jean Simmons ( 2010 ), Leslie Frankenheimer ( 2013 ), and Gary Graham ( 2024 )
• 23 – Ian Wolfe ( 1992 ), Bill Zuckert ( 1997 ), Roger Holloway ( 2000 ), Arthur Bernard ( 2001 ), David M. Ronne ( 2007 ), Barrie Ingham ( 2015 ), and Robert Harper ( 2020 )
• 24 – Richard C. Datin, Jr. ( 2011 ) and Mark Watson ( 2017 )
• 25 – Dick Crockett ( 1979 ), Tom Pedigo ( 2000 ), Jerry Greenwood ( 2004 ), Kim Manners ( 2009 ), and Larry Albright and Janice D. Brandow (both 2022 )
• 26 – Guy Raymond ( 1997 ), Bernard Sachs ( 1998 ), A.E. van Vogt ( 2000 ), Cameron McCulloch ( 2004 ), Ian Abercrombie and Larry Polson (both 2012 ), Richard Arnold ( 2021 ), and Nicholas Kepros ( 2023 )
• 27 – Brad Forrest ( 1998 ), Bill Nunes ( 2004 ), and Tige Andrews and Claude Binyon, Jr. (both 2007 )
• 28 – Dan Spiegle ( 2017 ), and Marj Dusay and Dyanne Thorne (both 2020 )
• 29 – Boris Sobelman ( 1971 ), Barbara Townsend ( 2002 ), Ron Feinberg ( 2005 ), Walker Boone and Cy Chermak (both 2021 ), and Annie Wersching ( 2023 )
• 30 – Mack Reynolds ( 1983 ), Larry Silverman ( 1995 ), Clive Church ( 1999 ), Herb Kenwith ( 2008 ), Carl Fortina ( 2014 ), Dick Miller ( 2019 ), and Jason Rossilli ( 2020 )
• 31 – Gary Nardino ( 1998 ), Gil Kane ( 2000 ), and Lee Bergere ( 2007 )

February [ ]

• 1 – Jack T. Collis ( 1998 ), John Vernon ( 2005 ), Robin Sachs ( 2013 ), and George Wilbur ( 2023 )
• 2 – Boris Karloff ( 1969 ), Bernard Kates ( 2010 ), and Michael Fleisher ( 2018 )
• 3 – Theodore R. Cogswell ( 1987 ), John Miranda ( 2015 ) and Douglas Knapp ( 2020 )
• 4 – John Foley ( 1998 ), Maggie Ostroff ( 2008 ), and Betty Hankins ( 2016 )
• 5 – David Hillary Hughes ( 1974 ), Jack F. Lilly ( 1981 ), Howard Block ( 2005 ), Don Peterman ( 2011 ), Kevin Conway and Edward Penn (both 2020 ), and Christopher Plummer ( 2021 )
• 6 – Ernie Anderson ( 1997 ), John Alvin ( 2008 ), Rees Vaughn ( 2010 ), and Caron Colvett ( 2014 )
• 7 – Don McDougall ( 1991 ), Vernon Sion ( 1998 ), Hubie Kerns, Sr. ( 1999 ), Carl Byrd ( 2001 ), and Steven Baum ( 2018 )
• 8 – Gertrude Reade ( 1978 ), David Froman and Bob Hoy (both 2010 ) and Douglas Trumbull ( 2022 )
• 9 – Lee Erwin ( 1972 ), Vince Cadiente ( 1996 ), Robert DoQui ( 2008 ), and Reg E. Cathey ( 2018 )
• 10 – Steve Gerber ( 2008 ), David Gibbs ( 2013 ), Richard J. Anobile ( 2023 ), and Paul Neary ( 2024 )
• 11 – Kermit Murdock ( 1981 ), Max Ehrlich ( 1983 ), Joy Garrett ( 1993 ), Carol Lundberg ( 2007 ), and Fred Hafner ( 2020 )
• 12 – Harriet Leider ( 2004 ), Kenneth Mars ( 2011 ), and Cheryl Wheeler Duncan ( 2020 )
• 13 – Ken Lynch ( 1990 ), Jon Kowal ( 2003 ), Jim Rugg ( 2004 ), Andreas Katsulas ( 2006 ), Lou DeGrado ( 2008 ), Jennifer Watson ( 2017 ), Victor Milan ( 2018 ), and Ryan MacDonald ( 2020 )
• 14 – Angelique Pettyjohn ( 1992 ), Perry Lopez ( 2008 ), Andrew Koenig ( 2010 ), and Cole Chipman ( 2015 )
• 15 – Roy Sickner ( 2001 ), Walker Edmiston ( 2007 ), Cliff Bole ( 2014 ), and Anthony Fredrickson ( 2016 )
• 16 – Edwin Rochelle ( 1977 ), Bill Oakley ( 2004 ), and John Chandler ( 2010 )
• 17 – Adam John Backauskas ( 1976 ), Jerry Fielding ( 1980 ), Samuel Matlovsky ( 2004 ), Paul Carr ( 2006 ), William Steinfeldt ( 2012 ), and Gerald Fried ( 2023 )
• 18 – Robert Budaska ( 2015 ), Matt Tufo ( 2018 ), and Barbara Bosson ( 2023 )
• 19 – Larry Forrester ( 1988 ), Trevor Habberstad ( 2017 ), and Lisabeth Hush and Gil Mosko (both 2021 )
• 20 – John Kneubuhl ( 1992 ), Harry Boykoff ( 2001 ), Claudette Nevins and Elyse Rosenstein (both 2020 ), and Eric Whitmore ( 2022 )
• 21 – Blaisdel Makee ( 1988 ), Richard Snell ( 2006 ) and Rod Arrants ( 2021 )
• 22 – Leo Duranona ( 2018 }, and Bob Sordal , Beverly Swanson and Morgan Woodward (all 2019 )
• 24 – Maurice Hurley ( 2015 ), Alan Robert Murray ( 2021 ), Sally Kellerman and Ralph Maurer (both 2022 ), Ed Fury ( 2023 ), and Kenneth Mitchell ( 2024 )
• 25 – Bill Couch, Sr. ( 1999 ), Harve Bennett and Jen Oda (both 2015 ), Laurel Goodwin ( 2022 ), and Charles Dierkop ( 2024 )
• 26 – Lawrence Tierney and Tony Young (both 2002 ), Robert McCall ( 2010 ), Caryl Codon-Tharp ( 2023 ), and Michael Barrier ( 2024 )
• 27 – Adam John Backauskas ( 1976 ), George Duning ( 2000 ), John Lendale Bennett ( 2006 ), Leonard Nimoy ( 2015 ), and Gene Dynarski ( 2020 )
• 28 – Jay Crimp ( 2011 ), Lee Reherman ( 2016 ), and Kirk Baily ( 2022 )
• 29 – Meyer Dolinsky ( 1984 ) and Janet Kagan and Gayne Rescher (both 2008 )
• 1 – Harold Michelson ( 2007 ), Phillip Richard Allen ( 2012 ), Gary Hutzel ( 2016 ), and Robert Jodlowski ( 2023 )
• 2 – John E. Chilberg II ( 1987 ), Joseph Paz ( 2002 ), Fred Freiberger ( 2003 ), Rhae Andrece ( 2009 ), Jubin K ( 2020 ), and Danny Rogers ( 2021 )
• 3 – Cecily Adams ( 2004 ), Phil Chong ( 2007 ), Ralph McQuarrie ( 2012 ), David Ogden Stiers and Robert Scheerer (both 2018 ), James Otis and David Wise (both 2020 ), and Della Van Hise ( 2021 )
• 4 – Torin Thatcher ( 1981 ), William E. Snyder ( 1984 ), Carey Loftin ( 1997 ), Leonard Rosenman ( 2008 ), Carrie Henger and Nan Martin (both 2010 ), Paul Baxley ( 2011 ), and Mitchell Ryan ( 2022 )
• 5 – Herschel Daugherty ( 1993 ), Whit Bissell ( 1996 ), Richard Kiley ( 1999 ), and Evans Ricciardi ( 2002 )
• 6 – David Alexander ( 1983 ), Brent Lon Hershman ( 1997 ), John Colicos ( 2000 ), Mike May ( 2015 ), David Campagna and Will Yazzie (both 2017 ), and Gordon Dawson ( 2023 )
• 7 – Kim Yale ( 1997 ), Jack Perkins ( 1998 ), Paul Winfield ( 2004 ), and Benjie Bancroft ( 2007 )
• 8 – Hector Berlioz ( 1869 ), Monty O'Grady ( 2000 ), Larry Bunker and Elliot Schick (both 2005 ), Rhoda Williams ( 2006 ), and Wendy Hughes ( 2014 )
• 9 – Don Eitner ( 2018 ), Jeffrey Hayes ( 2021 )
• 10 – Reuben Timmins ( 1994 ), Jim Burk ( 2009 ), Bill Wistrom ( 2010 ), Don Ingalls ( 2014 ), Ken Adam and Ralph Moratz (both 2016 ), and Kate Kuhlkin ( 2021 )
• 11 – Fredric Brown ( 1972 ), Nick Borgani ( 1987 ), and Thelma Lee ( 2012 )
• 12 – Karen Steele ( 1988 ), Lynne Thigpen and Thomas Warkentin (both 2003 ), Arnold Drake ( 2007 ), and Eddie Hice ( 2015 )
• 13 – Felix Locher ( 1969 ), Janos Prohaska ( 1974 ), John A. Alonzo ( 2001 ), Jason Evers ( 2005 ), Malachi Throne ( 2013 ), and Douglas Alan Shanklin ( 2020 )
• 14 – Stephen Hawking ( 2018 ), Joe Knowland ( 2019 ), and Henry Darrow ( 2021 )
• 15 – Rik Vollaerts ( 1988 ), Wally Rose ( 2000 ), John Vallone ( 2004 ), Jeri McBride ( 2015 ), Roma Lee Tracy ( 2016 ), and Erik Ahl ( 2017 )
• 16 – Vince St. Cyr ( 1997 ), Jimmie Booth ( 2017 ), and Sharon Acker ( 2023 )
• 17 – Willard Sage ( 1974 ), Merritt Butrick ( 1989 ), Gordon Dawson and Lawrence Miller (both 1996 ), Earl Maddox ( 2013 ), Larry Drake ( 2016 ), and Lawrence Montaigne ( 2017 )
• 18 – Alan Gibbs ( 1988 ), Charles Bidwell and Gilbert Ralston (both 1999 ), Mel Traxel ( 2000 ), Steven Grothe ( 2020 ), and James M. Ward ( 2024 )
• 19 – Arthur H. Singer ( 1978 ), Jon Lormer ( 1986 ), Alden McWilliams ( 1993 ), Bo Ching ( 1996 ), Michael Van Dyke ( 2008 ), Gene DeWeese ( 2012 ), Jon Horback ( 2015 ), and David Bischoff ( 2018 )
• 20 – Greg Karas ( 1995 ), Bernard A. Widin ( 1997 ), Mickey S. Michaels ( 1999 ), and Michael Reaves ( 2023 )
• 21 – Fred Phillips ( 1993 ) and John Franklyn-Robbins ( 2009 )
• 22 – Denise Lynne Roberts ( 2003 )
• 24 – Foster Hood ( 2008 ), Peter Duryea ( 2013 ) and Joseph Pilato ( 2019 )
• 25 – Mike Roy ( 1996 ), Alexander Lepak ( 2009 ), John Jefferies ( 2010 ), Garret Sato ( 2020 ), and Kathryn Hays ( 2022 )
• 26 – Anthony Gordon ( 2006 ) and Jerry Daniels ( 2020 )
• 27 – Dick Giordano and Gregg Peters (both 2010 ), Warren Stevens and Garry Walberg (both 2012 ), and Valora Noland ( 2022 )
• 28 – Gil Perkins ( 1999 ) and Marvin Chomsky ( 2022 )
• 29 – Jeffrey Deacon ( 2009 ), Jane Webb ( 2010 ), Jim Mees ( 2013 ), and Rudy Doucette ( 2021 )
• 30 – David Sharpe ( 1980 ), Joseph A. Ippolito ( 1995 ), Carlos Yeaggy ( 1997 ), and Shelly Leferman ( 2007 )
• 31 – Barbara Baldavin ( 2024 )
• 1 – Booker Bradshaw ( 2003 ), Ward Botsford ( 2004 ), Joseph R. Jennings ( 2015 ), Barton Tinapp ( 2017 ), and Vonda N. McIntyre ( 2019 )
• 2 – Frank Springer ( 2009 ), Bill Varney ( 2011 ), Morton Greenspoon ( 2018 ), and Estelle Harris ( 2022 )
• 3 – Kay Wright ( 1999 ), Joseph Bernard ( 2006 ), Ralph Ferraro ( 2012 ), and John Paragon ( 2021 )
• 4 – Mark Dempsey ( 1994 ), Anthony Caruso ( 2003 ), William Purcell ( 2002 ), Bill Heath ( 2008 ), and Carmine Infantino ( 2013 ), and Martin R. Burke ( 2021 )
• 5 – Paul Power ( 1968 ), Tom Towles ( 2015 ), Steve Sandor and Peter Webb (both 2017 ), Tim O'Connor ( 2018 ), Robert Fletcher and Mary-Linda Rapelye (both 2021 ), and Nehemiah Persoff ( 2022 )
• 6 – Isaac Asimov ( 1992 ), Susan French ( 2003 ), Randy D. Thornton ( 2006 ), Jerry Finnerman ( 2011 ), Sandra Rowden ( 2018 ), and Erik Holland ( 2020 )
• 7 – David Graf ( 2001 ), and Seymour Cassel and Eric Mansker (both 2019 )
• 8 – Alfredo Alcala ( 2000 ), Kathie Browne ( 2003 ), Nevio Zeccara ( 2005 ), Tom Huff ( 2006 ), Stanley Kamel ( 2008 ), and Margaret Wander Bonanno ( 2021 )
• 9 – Russell Bates and David Quashnick ( 2018 )
• 10 – Anthony Jochim ( 1978 ), Kevin Peter Hall and Paul Stader (both 1991 ), Robert Whitney ( 2007 ), and Dan Wallin ( 2024 )
• 11 – Joe Garcio ( 1982 ), William P. Dornisch ( 1997 ), Buddy Bowles ( 2005 ), and Gary Bullock ( 2022 )
• 12 – Christopher Pettiet ( 2000 ) and Bob Miles ( 2007 )
• 13 – Shirley Maiewski ( 2004 ), Bob Trochim ( 2006 ), Charles Washburn ( 2012 ), and V.E. Mitchell ( 2017 )
• 14 – Leonard Mudie ( 1965 ), Ben Shenkman ( 1996 ), Donald Hotton ( 1999 ), Alan Marston ( 2010 ), and John S. Ragin ( 2013 )
• 15 – William Meader ( 1979 ), Gilbert Green ( 1984 ), Gerry Boudreau and Alberto Giolitti (both 1993 ), Craig Denault ( 1994 ), Arthur Morton ( 2000 ), Michael Pataki ( 2010 ), and Jim Novak ( 2018 )
• 16 – Byron Haskin ( 1984 ), John McLiam ( 1994 ), Alfred Ryder ( 1995 ), Graham Jarvis ( 2003 ), and Felix Silla ( 2021 )
• 17 – Michael Sarrazin ( 2011 ) and Scott Nimerfro ( 2016 )
• 18 – James Drake ( 1976 ), William H. O'Brien ( 1981 ), Georgia Schmidt ( 1997 ), Liam Sullivan ( 1998 ), Peter Dennis ( 2009 ), Maurice Harvey ( 2019 )
• 19 – Charles Seel ( 1980 ), George F. Slavin ( 2001 ), Virginia Kearns ( 2016 ), and Brett Davidson and Janet Stout (both 2017 )
• 20 – Winnie McCarthy ( 1986 ), Gerald B. Moss ( 2005 ), Corky Randall ( 2009 ), Richard Anthony ( 2015 ), and Rina Bennett ( 2020 )
• 21 – Samara Hagopian ( 2012 ), and John LaSalandra ( 2022 )
• 22 – Bert Remsen ( 1999 ) and Bob Mascagno ( 2003 )
• 23 – Marc Daniels ( 1989 ), Harold Arlen and Kaem Wong (both 1986 ), Rudy Solari ( 1991 ), Michael Wagner ( 1992 ), and Shay Duffin ( 2010 )
• 24 – Frank Overton ( 1967 ), Carl Saxe ( 1999 ), Rhodie Cogan ( 2000 ), Roy Jenson ( 2007 ), Nathan Jung ( 2021 ), and James Bama ( 2022 )
• 25 – Robert Hamner ( 1996 ), Doug Hale ( 2014 ), and Don M. Mankiewicz ( 2015 )
• 26 – Lucille Ball ( 1989 ), Albert Stratton ( 2011 ), Jacqueline Brookes ( 2013 ), and Jessie Lawrence Ferguson ( 2019 )
• 27 – Stanley Adams ( 1977 ), Adam Roarke ( 1996 ), Paul Lambert ( 1997 ), Jack Murdock ( 2001 ), and David Birney ( 2022 )
• 28 – Ben Gage and Margaret Makau (both 1978 ), Jerome Bixby ( 1998 ), Joe Walls ( 2002 ), William Campbell ( 2011 ), Everett Lee ( 2013 ), and Neal Adams and Harold Livingston (both 2022 )
• 29 – Bill Quinn ( 1994 ), Pat Westmore ( 2003 ), Ed Friedman ( 2005 ), Marl Young ( 2009 ), Joel Goldsmith ( 2012 ), Robert Mandan ( 2018 ), and Michael G. Hagerty ( 2022 )
• 30 – Adolf Hitler ( 1945 ), Jeanne Bal and David Opatoshu (both 1996 ), Jim Conners ( 2003 ), C.J. Bau ( 2009 ), George Murdock ( 2012 ), Mike Gray ( 2013 ), Rusty McClennon ( 2015 ), and Michael Keenan ( 2020 )
• 1 – Edward Madden ( 2004 ), Jerry Zimmer ( 2005 ), Ric Estrada ( 2009 ), Grace Lee Whitney ( 2015 ), and Else Blangsted ( 2020 )
• 2 – David Rappaport ( 1990 ), Carey Wilber ( 1998 ), and Ron Soble ( 2002 )
• 3 – Tom Sutton ( 2002 ), Robert Gary ( 2010 ), and John Mahon ( 2020 )
• 4 – Mike Minor ( 1987 ), Ed Bakey ( 1988 ), Darrell Anderson ( 2014 ), Ellen Albertini Dow ( 2015 ), Jimmy Nickerson ( 2018 ), Chuck Hicks ( 2021 ), and Pamela Kosh ( 2022 )
• 5 – Michael O'Connor ( 1992 ), Walter Gotell ( 1997 ), and Kenneth Welsh ( 2022 )
• 6 – Robert Becker ( 1993 ), Daniel Cohen ( 2018 ), Michael Scranton ( 2021 ), and George Pérez ( 2022 )
• 7 – Arch Whiting and Nicholas Worth (both 2007 ), Jack White ( 2008 ), and Jack Kehler ( 2022 )
• 8 – Theodore Sturgeon ( 1985 ), Richard Derr ( 1992 ), Philip Barberio ( 2006 ), Nancy Malone ( 2014 ), William Schallert ( 2016 ), and Marta Dubois ( 2018 )
• 9 – Virgil Raddatz ( 2003 ), Chris Kreski ( 2005 ), Clement von Franckenstein ( 2019 ), Geno Silva ( 2020 ), and James L. McCoy‎ ( 2022 )
• 10 – Susan Oliver ( 1990 ), Martin Pasko ( 2020 ), and Randall Bosley ( 2023 )
• 11 – Byron Morrow ( 2006 ) and Norman Lloyd ( 2021 )
• 12 – Steve Ihnat ( 1972 ), Phyllis Douglas ( 2010 ), John Boyer ( 2012 ), Frank Bolle ( 2020 ), and Wilbur Finks ( 2021 )
• 13 – Betty Matsushita ( 2004 ), Nick Trisko ( 2014 ), David Armstrong ( 2016 ), and Douglas Rowe ( 2023 )
• 14 – Alyce Andrece ( 2005 ), George C. Villaseñor ( 2009 ), and Jerry Ayres ( 2013 )
• 15 – Tom Curtis ( 1983 ), Linwood G. Dunn ( 1998 ), Richard Geary ( 2000 ), Alexander Courage ( 2008 ) and Mary Marshall ( 2016 )
• 16 – Geoff Brewer ( 1989 ), Jerry Catron ( 2017 ), and Joseph Campanella ( 2018 )
• 17 – Virgil Ross ( 1996 ) and Frank Gorshin ( 2005 )
• 18 – Jim Goodwin ( 1980 ), Richard Hale ( 1981 ), Jill Ireland ( 1990 ), Elisha Cook ( 1995 ), Joseph Pevney ( 2008 ), Wayne Allwine ( 2009 ), Robin Ritter ( 2018 ), Michael Braveheart ( 2022 )
• 19 – Jon Cavett ( 2011 ), Biff Manard ( 2014 ), Stu Satterfield ( 2015 ), and Vincent McEveety ( 2018 )
• 20 – Lee Poppie ( 2021 )
• 21 – Franklyn Seales ( 1990 ), Robert Gist ( 1998 ), Dave Hudson ( 2011 ), and Stephen Mines ( 2019 )
• 22 – A. Conan Doyle ( 1930 ), Gerd Oswald ( 1989 ), Steve Price ( 1995 ), William Douglas Lansford ( 2013 ), and Gregory Jein ( 2022 )
• 23 – Harry Townes ( 2001 ) and Edward J. Lakso ( 2009 )
• 24 – Barry Atwater ( 1978 ), John Abbott ( 1996 ), Gordon L. Day ( 2005 ), Stephane Gudju ( 2017 ), and Jerry Maren ( 2018 )
• 25 – Victor Tayback ( 1990 ), George E. Allen ( 2015 ), George Jensen ( 2018 ), and Karl Guers ( 2022 )
• 26 – Franz Bachelin ( 1980 ), Lily LaCava ( 1993 ), Anne Haney ( 2001 ), Angela Paton ( 2016 ), and Richard Herd and Anthony James (both 2020 )
• 27 – Jeffrey Hunter ( 1969 ), William Newman ( 2015 ), and Vince Deadrick ( 2017 )
• 28 – Bill Pratt ( 2001 ), Robert H. Justman ( 2008 ), Phil Rawlins and David F. Tepool (both 2009 ), and Matthew Yuricich ( 2012 )
• 29 – Basil Langton ( 2003 ) and Roger Duchowny ( 2021 )
• 30 – Nick Ramus ( 2007 ) and Albert Deschesne ( 2017 )
• 31 – John Zimeas ( 1978 ), Sherman Labby ( 1998 ), and Kazuhiko Sano ( 2011 )
• Unknown day – Toni-Ann Walker ( 2017 )
• 1 – Harold Johns ( 1980 ), Richard Merson ( 2003 ), Eddie Smith ( 2005 ), David Spielberg ( 2016 ), Leon Harris ( 2022 )
• 2 – Gary Pillar ( 1985 ), Franz Joseph ( 1994 ), Pilar Seurat ( 2001 ), Louise Schulze ( 2003 ), Bill Dial ( 2008 ), Paul Ambrose ( 2014 ), and Ken Kelly ( 2022 )
• 3 – Maryesther Denver ( 1980 ), Jamake Highwater ( 2001 ), George Kashdan ( 2006 ), William John Wheeler ( 2008 ), and Marcy Vosburgh ( 2016 )
• 4 – Marv Ystrom ( 1999 ), Charles Correll ( 2004 ), John Horton ( 2006 ), Ward Costello ( 2009 ), Frank da Vinci ( 2013 ), Rico Bueno ( 2016 ), Georgann Johnson ( 2018 ), Keith Birdsong and Billy Mayo (both 2019 ), Clarence Williams III ( 2021 ), and Webster Whinery ( 2022 )
• 5 – Michael P. Schoenbrun ( 1993 ), Bernie Pock ( 1996 ), Larry Anthony ( 2005 ), James Linn ( 2010 ), Kate Woodville ( 2013 ), and Rolando Oliva ( 2015 )
• 6 – Paul S. Eckstein and Jerry Spicer (both 2023 )
• 7 – Bill Borzage ( 1973 ), Don Trumbull ( 2004 ), and Douglas S. Cramer ( 2021 )
• 8 – Ed Bishop ( 2005 )
• 9 – Al Francis and Norman Stuart (both 1998 ), Chester Hayes ( 2000 ), Andy Epper ( 2010 ), Chuck Clow ( 2015 ), and Thomas DeWier ( 2020 )
• 10 – Richard Webb ( 1993 ), Bill McGovern ( 1995 ), and Dave Simons ( 2009 )
• 11 – Wes Herschensohn ( 1985 ), Curt Perkins ( 1996 ), DeForest Kelley ( 1999 ), William Marshall ( 2003 ), David Richards and Bruce Watson (both 2009 ), Lightning Bear ( 2011 ), Dennis Howard ( 2014 ), and Denny O'Neil and Mel Winkler (both 2020 )
• 12 – Christopher Collins ( 1994 ), Al Williamson ( 2010 ), and Richard Allen ( 2013 )
• 13 – Sherri Townsend ( 2014 )
• 14 – Ronnie Claire Edwards ( 2016 ), William Dennis Hunt ( 2020 ), and Lisa Banes ( 2021 )
• 15 – Chuck Menville ( 1992 ), Bill Hickey ( 2011 ), Joe Billingiere ( 2017 ), and Tyson Weihe ( 2022 )
• 16 – Nancy Wong ( 1985 ), Curt Swan ( 1996 ), Michael O'Herlihy ( 1997 ), Carolyne Barry ( 2015 ), and Michael Champion ( 2021 )
• 17 – Ross Taylor ( 2007 )
• 18 – Bob Carlson ( 1990 ), Chuck Couch ( 1991 ), Vince Howard ( 2002 ), Robert Vernon Biggs ( 2010 ), Jordan Monheim ( 2013 ), and Dino Ganziano ( 2016 )
• 19 – Fred Grable and Joseph Mullendore (both 1990 ), Michael Rougas ( 2008 ), Richard Lynch ( 2012 ), Anton Yelchin ( 2016 ), and Peter Allan Fields ( 2019 )
• 20 – Billy Parrish ( 2005 ), Joanne Linville ( 2021 ), and Walter Soo Hoo ( 2022 )
• 21 – Charlene Polite ( 1999 ) and Wayne King, Sr. ( 2001 )
• 22 – James Horner ( 2015 )
• 23 – Fred Steiner ( 2011 ), Richard Matheson ( 2013 ), Jim Brummett ( 2015 ), Les Kaluza ( 2018 ), Stephanie Niznik ( 2019 ), and Harry Basch ( 2020 )
• 24 – Gregg Duffy Long ( 1995 ), Brian Keith ( 1997 ), Ted Pedersen ( 2010 ), Loren Janes ( 2017 ), William F. Phillips ( 2020 ), and Gene De Ruelle ( 2021 )
• 25 – Michael Cuneo and John Fiedler (both 2005 ), Casey Kono ( 2006 ), Richard L. Jefferies ( 2015 ), Skip Homeier ( 2017 ), and John Erman ( 2021 )
• 26 – Eleanore Vogel ( 1973 ), Phil Rubenstein ( 1992 ), Ronald W. Smith ( 1995 ), Logan Ramsey ( 2000 ), Jeff Winkless ( 2006 ), Lilyan Chauvin ( 2008 ), Karlotta Nelson ( 2013 ), Joan Swift ( 2016 ), Mary Mara ( 2022 ), and John Copage and Nicolas Coster (both 2023 )
• 27 – Jane Ross ( 1985 ), Corey Allen ( 2010 ), and Buddy Garion ( 2013 )
• 28 – Joan Marshall ( 1992 ) and Harlan Ellison ( 2018 )
• 29 – Ron Gans ( 2010 )
• 30 – Bruce Schoengarth ( 1995 ), Harve Presnell ( 2009 ), Jillana Neiman ( 2011 ), and Susan Rossitto ( 2013 )
• 1 – Tony Leader ( 1988 ), Larry Abbott ( 2001 ), Anna Karen ( 2009 ), and Dorothy Duder ( 2022 )
• 2 – Maurice Zuberano ( 1994 ), Norm Prescott ( 2005 ), Victor Lundin ( 2013 ), and Mike Reynolds ( 2022 )
• 3 – Sam Bagley ( 1968 ), James Daly ( 1978 ), John Schuyler ( 1989 ), and Frank Salsedo ( 2009 )
• 4 – Vic Perrin ( 1989 ) and Bruce Alan Solow ( 2001 )
• 5 – Frank Bellamy ( 1976 ), Georgia Brown ( 1992 ), Bill Larson ( 2016 ), and Art Anthony ( 2022 )
• 6 – Ray Young ( 1999 ), Jimmie F. Skaggs ( 2004 ), and Thomas E. Sanders ( 2017 )
• 7 – Ed Long ( 2015 ) and Glenn R. Wilder ( 2017 )
• 8 – Gene L. Coon ( 1973 ), Gene Lyons ( 1974 ), Jack B. Sowards ( 2007 ), Vanna Bonta ( 2014 ), John Garrett ( 2016 ), Bob Lubbers ( 2017 ), and Gregory Itzin ( 2022 )
• 9 – Robert Dawn ( 1983 ), Melvin Belli ( 1996 ), Elliott Marks ( 2003 ), Les D. Gobruegge ( 2009 ), Cheri Ruff ( 2019 ), and Manny Coto ( 2023 )
• 10 – Vic Toyota ( 1987 ), Sam Rolfe ( 1993 ), and Byron Berline ( 2021 )
• 12 – Jorge Zaffino ( 2002 ), Seamon Glass ( 2016 ), and David Berlatsky and Roger Perry (both 2018 )
• 13 – Carl Gafford ( 2020 )
• 14 – Robert Strong ( 1993 ), Sal Trapani ( 1999 ), Olaf Pooley and David-Troy (both 2015 ), and Galyn Görg ( 2020 )
• 15 – David Brian ( 1993 ) and Maurice Roëves ( 2020 )
• 16 – Angus Allan ( 2007 ), Phil Caplan ( 2012 ) and Tom Ormeny ( 2023 )
• 17 – George Waiss ( 1997 ), Romolo Acquistapace ( 1997 ), Donna Barrett Gilbert ( 2004 ), and Paul Sorensen ( 2008 )
• 18 – Davis Roberts ( 1993 ), Serena Sande ( 2001 ), George Coe ( 2015 ), Ann Chatterton ( 2018 ), and Vincent DeRosa ( 2022 )
• 19 – Ivy Bethune and Jeremy Kemp (both 2019 ) and Ralph Garrett ( 2021 )
• 20 – James Doohan ( 2005 ) and John Graffeo ( 2007 )
• 21 – Matt Jefferies ( 2003 ), Jerry Goldsmith ( 2004 ), Tony Epper and Lloyd Kino (both 2012 ), Theodore Bikel ( 2015 ), Terry Windell ( 2018 ), and Brock Lumarque ( 2020 )
• 22 – George D. Wallace ( 2005 ), Ron Kapp ( 2021 ), and James Gruzal ( 2022 )
• 23 – David Clover ( 2007 ) and Chip Mayer ( 2011 )
• 24 – Logan Frazee ( 2013 ), Douglas H. Grindstaff ( 2018 ), and David Warner ( 2022 )
• 25 – Randy Pausch ( 2008 ), Don Christensen ( 2011 ), Scott Rubenstein ( 2019 ), and Paul Sorvino ( 2022 )
• 26 – Richard Tatro ( 1991 ), Arch Dalzell ( 1992 ), Laurindo Almeida ( 1995 ), Charles Beck ( 2016 ), and Tony Dow ( 2022 )
• 27 – Boris Gorelick ( 1984 ) and Russ Mayberry ( 2012 )
• 28 – Eugene Roche ( 2004 ), Peter Eastman ( 2013 ), Peter Canon , Jim Portnoy , and Michael Wilkinson (all 2017 ), and Donald R. Pike ( 2018 )
• 30 – James Blish ( 1975 ), Roger Trantham ( 1994 ), Cosmo Genovese and Audrey Trent (both 2019 ), Tom LeGarde ( 2021 ), and Nichelle Nichols ( 2022 )
• 31 – Fred Carson ( 2001 ), Carl Steven ( 2011 ), and Michael Ansara ( 2013 )
• Unknown day – Jim Michael ( 2020 )
• 1 – Bob Peak ( 1992 ), Lola McNalley ( 2001 ), and Ronald F. Hoiseck ( 2021 )
• 2 – Shari Lewis ( 1998 ), Loulie Jean Norman ( 2005 ), David Huddleston ( 2016 ), Ted LeGarde ( 2018 ), and Cuauhtemoc Sanchez ( 2020 )
• 3 – Mark Margolis ( 2023 )
• 4 – Ron Veto ( 2004 ) and Karin Baxter ( 2010 )
• 5 – Murray Golden ( 1991 ), Scott Ciencin ( 2014 ), and David Landsberg ( 2018 )
• 6 – John Harmon ( 1985 ), Tony Roque ( 2006 ), Jud Taylor ( 2008 ), and John Eskobar ( 2018 )
• 7 – Jane Crowley ( 1970 ), Pete Kellett ( 1982 ), John Anderson ( 1992 ), Charles Maxwell ( 1993 ), Terrence Evans ( 2015 ), and Richard H. Kline ( 2018 )
• 8 – Mickey Morton ( 1993 ), Adolphus Hankins ( 2010 ), Brioni Farrell ( 2018 ), Ernie Colón ( 2019 ), and Martine Wood ( 2023 )
• 9 – Barry Jenner ( 2016 ) and Gene LeBell ( 2022 )
• 10 – Mauri Russell ( 1970 ), Edward M. Parker ( 1993 ), and Kenny Endoso ( 2010 )
• 11 – Les Pine ( 2001 ), Jack Hinkle ( 2005 ), Richard Compton ( 2007 ), Joe Viskocil ( 2014 ), and Barbara March ( 2019 )
• 12 – Paul Johnson ( 2003 ), Paula Moody ( 2007 ), and Arlene Martel ( 2014 )
• 13 – Al Wyatt ( 1992 ), Charles Macaulay ( 1999 ), Martin Becker ( 2004 ), Tony Jay ( 2006 ), Warren A. Stevens ( 2019 ), and Wayne Grace ( 2022 )
• 14 – Thomas Kellogg ( 2003 ), Bernie Abramson ( 2010 ), Stephen Lee ( 2014 ), and Cedric Taporco ( 2021 )
• 15 – Wes Dawn ( 1990 ), Francine Pyne ( 1995 ), Herta Ware ( 2005 ), and Biff Elliot ( 2012 )
• 16 – Jeff Corey ( 2002 ), Ed Reimers ( 2009 ), and William Windom ( 2012 )
• 17 – Barry Trivers ( 1981 ), Irene Sale ( 2008 ), Warren Hamilton, Jr. ( 2009 ), Yvonne Craig ( 2015 ), Mark Bussan ( 2018 ), and Eddie Paskey ( 2021 )
• 18 – Jim Sheppard ( 1977 ), Persis Khambatta ( 1998 ), Ben Cross ( 2020 ), Tom Palmer ( 2022 ), and Steven Lambert ( 2023 )
• 19 – Billy Vernon ( 1971 ), June Gilham ( 2009 ), and Jim Alexander ( 2019 )
• 20 – Irving A. Feinberg ( 1991 ) and Reza Badiyi ( 2011 )
• 21 – Karl Bruck ( 1987 ), Sam Freedle ( 2000 ), Gene Sherry ( 2013 ), Robert Wiemer ( 2014 ), and Elizabeth Hoffman ( 2023 )
• 22 – Bill Taylor ( 2021 )
• 23 – Hazel Keats ( 1970 ), Oliver McGowan ( 1971 ), Brock Peters ( 2005 ), Robert Symonds ( 2007 ), Dianne Wager ( 2013 ), Josepha Sherman ( 2012 ), and Russ Heath ( 2018 )
• 24 – K.L. Smith ( 1981 ), Herbert J. Wright ( 2005 ), Bill Catching and Denny Martin Flinn (both 2007 ), Brian Freifield ( 2010 ), and Jack Hayes ( 2011 )
• 25 – Ross Dowd ( 1965 ), John Chambers ( 2001 ), John Lindesmith ( 2005 ), and Joseph Stefano ( 2006 )
• 26 – Ted Knight ( 1986 ), Samuel A. Peeples ( 1997 ), John Finger ( 2005 ), John Burnside ( 2010 ), Martin Cassidy ( 2013 ), Paul Comi and Bob Cummings (both 2016 ), and Dexter Clay ( 2017 )
• 27 – Brandon Tartikoff ( 1997 ), Audrey Gelfand ( 2018 ), and Amanda Mackey Johnson ( 2022 )
• 28 – Robert Sparr ( 1969 ), Eve Smith ( 1997 ), David P. Harmon ( 2001 ), Robert Lewin ( 2004 ), and Dayton Anderson ( 2007 )
• 29 – James Claytor ( 2010 )
• 30 – Michael Dunn ( 1973 ), Charles M. Graffeo , Kathleen Nicholson Graham , and William Sully (all 2012 ), and Marie Severin ( 2018 )
• 31 – Joseph Mell ( 1977 ), Jerry Bono ( 2007 ), Rebecca Neason and Millicent Wise (both 2010 ), Rosemarie Baio ( 2012 ), Alan Bergmann ( 2017 ), and Keith Taylor ( 2019 )
• Unknown day – Jean Lisette Aroeste ( 2020 )

September [ ]

• 1 – Don LaFontaine ( 2008 )
• 2 – John Hostetter ( 2016 )
• 3 – Forest G. Brown ( 2010 ), Michael Clarke Duncan ( 2012 ), and Ken Jackman ( 2020 )
• 4 – Paul Prokop ( 1980 ), Carl W. Daniels ( 1991 ), Derek Bellman ( 2003 ), Dave Hoover ( 2011 ), Joe Geletko ( 2013 ), and Patricia McNulty ( 2023 )
• 5 – Joseph Glick ( 1978 ), John Megna ( 1995 ), Leo Penn ( 1998 ), Robert H. Raff ( 2001 ), Ed McCready ( 2002 ), and Ilona Wilson ( 2008 )
• 6 – Michael McMaster ( 1978 ), Percy Rodriguez ( 2007 ), Mel Harris ( 2008 ), A.C. Crispin ( 2013 ), Stefan Gierasch ( 2014 ), Susie Stillwell ( 2016 ), and Marsha Hunt ( 2022 )
• 7 – Leonard Maizlish ( 1994 ), Bibi Besch ( 1996 ), Dick Singleton ( 2000 ), Don Keefer ( 2014 ), and Robert Axelrod ( 2019 )
• 10 – Charles Drake ( 1994 ), Ivan Ditmars ( 1997 ), Kevin G. Tracey ( 2006 ), Susan Carol-Schwary ( 2009 ), Lance LeGault ( 2012 ), Harry Landers and Len Wein (both 2017 ), and Ken Dufva ( 2022 )
• 11 – Joan Winston ( 2008 ), Rick Mitchell ( 2011 ), Alan D. Purwin ( 2015 ), and Mark La Mura ( 2017 )
• 12 – Joe Evans ( 1973 ), Ed Peck ( 1992 ), Tony Dante ( 1993 ), Frank Serafine ( 2018 ), and Fran Bennett ( 2021 )
• 13 – Steven Craig ( 1990 ), Michael Hungerford ( 2007 ), Dallas Mitchell ( 2009 ), Victor Paul ( 2011 ), Jay Scott Pike ( 2015 ), and Stewart Moss ( 2017 )
• 14 – George H. Merhoff ( 1972 ), Jerry Fleck ( 2003 ), Robert Wise and Barbara Webber (both 2005 ), Henry Gibson ( 2009 ), William Bastiani ( 2018 ), and Reuben Klamer ( 2021 )
• 15 – John Hoyt ( 1991 ), John M. Dwyer ( 2018 ), David Hurst ( 2019 ), Gavan O'Herlihy and Ronald Roose ( 2021 ), and Dan Kern ( 2023 )
• 16 – Gene Nelson ( 1996 ), James Gregory ( 2002 ), Kim Hamilton ( 2013 ), Rusty Meek ( 2014 ), Hagan Beggs ( 2016 ), Merritt Yohnka ( 2020 ), and Jeff Khachadoorian ( 2022 )
• 17 – George Sawaya ( 2003 ), Jerry Sherman ( 2008 ), Dick Durock ( 2009 ), Deeana Pampena ( 2011 ), Patricia Blau Price ( 2019 ), and Marva Hicks ( 2022 )
• 18 – Nancy Bernstein ( 2015 )
• 19 – Robert Sabaroff ( 2007 ), Bernie Casey ( 2017 ), John Winston ( 2019 ), Mary Mascari ( 2020 ), Robert Brown ( 2022 ), and Bob Scribner ( 2023 ) ‎
• 20 – Bill Shepard ( 2009 ), and Jeremy Tarcher ( 2015 )
• 21 – Walt Davis ( 1981 ), Angelo Rossitto ( 1991 ), George Ede ( 2007 ), John Crawford ( 2010 ), Arell Blanton ( 2018 ), Jack Donner , Aron Eisenberg , and Sid Haig (all 2019 ), and Willie Garson ( 2021 )
• 22 – Arthur Heinemann ( 1987 ), Edward Laurence Albert ( 2006 ), Peter E. Berger ( 2011 ), Richard Walker ( 2013 ), and Allan Asherman ( 2023 )
• 23 – Gene Day ( 1982 ), Robert Bloch ( 1994 ), Robert Abel ( 2001 ), and Louise Fletcher ( 2022 )
• 24 – Clark Ross ( 1987 ), Rolland M. Brooks and Austen Jewell (both 1998 ), Denver Mattson ( 2005 ), John M. Ford ( 2006 ), Oliver Crawford ( 2008 ), and Suzanne Bianqui ( 2021 )
• 25 – La Verne Harding ( 1984 )
• 26 – Jim Boeke ( 2014 ) and Barry Dennen and Gerard Williams (both 2017 )
• 27 – Jay Robinson ( 2013 ), Howard A. Anderson, Jr. ( 2015 ), and Yvonne Suhor ( 2018 )
• 28 – Ted Gehring ( 2000 ), Len Felber ( 2003 ), and Catherine Coulson ( 2015 )
• 29 – Michael Strong ( 1980 ), Herb Wallerstein ( 1985 ), Paul McCardle ( 1993 ), Shimon Wincelberg ( 2004 ), Scott Workman ( 2013 ), and Noby Arden ( 2020 )
• 30 – Sally Yarnell ( 1995 ), Jane Philippi ( 1997 ), and Ravil Issyanov ( 2021 )
• Unknown day – Winrich Kolbe ( 2012 )

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• 1 – Julie Parrish ( 2003 ), Sebastian Tom ( 2009 ), and Peter Horak ( 2017 )
• 2 – Adrian Spies ( 1998 ), Hamilton Camp ( 2005 ), and Richard Evans ( 2021 )
• 3 – Donald Hansard, Sr. ( 2010 )
• 4 – Don Peters ( 2002 ), Richard J. Zobel, Jr. ( 2005 ), Mike Howden ( 2010 ), and James Schmerer‎‎ ( 2019 )
• 5 – Hal Lynch ( 2006 ), Charles Napier ( 2011 ), and Robin Van Sharner ( 2015 )
• 6 – Clegg Hoyt ( 1967 ), Lincoln Demyan ( 1991 ), Huey Duval ( 2000 ), and Patrick Horgan ( 2021 )
• 7 – Lewis R. Stegman ( 1923 ), Barbara Lampson ( 2003 ), Charles Rocket ( 2005 ), Paul Kent and Andrew Laszlo (both 2011 ), Celeste Yarnall ( 2018 ), and Jan Shutan ( 2021 )
• 8 – William Rotsler ( 1997 ), Louise Sandoval ( 2015 ), Lee Delano ( 2017 ), and Gabrielle Beaumont ( 2022 )
• 9 – Thalmus Rasulala ( 1991 ), Harvey Vernon ( 1996 ), Robert Hitchcock ( 1997 ), Matt Roe ( 2003 ), Kim Robert Koscki ( 2014 ), Louise Sandoval ( 2015 ), Eric Kotani ( 2017 ), and Mario Roccuzzo ( 2021 )
• 10 – Orson Welles ( 1985 ), Thomas J. Booth ( 2006 ), Ken Lesco ( 2018 ), Robert Herron ( 2021 ), Fabio Passaro ( 2022 ), and Ken Lally ( 2023 )
• 11 – Morgan Farley ( 1988 ), Janet MacLachlan and Evan Carlos Somers (both 2010 ), Bob Orrison ( 2014 ) and Mike Brislane ( 2015 )
• 12 – Celia Lovsky ( 1979 ), Elden E. Ruberg ( 1981 ), John Hancock ( 1992 ), and Joe Rosen ( 2009 )
• 13 – Keene Curtis ( 2002 ), Paul Schneider ( 2008 ), Carmen Emeterio ( 2010 ), Bruce Hyde ( 2015 ), and Kenny Studer ( 2021 ),
• 14 – Paul Fix ( 1983 ) and William McCarter ( 1987 )
• 15 – Julian Davidson ( 1988 ) and Johnny Mandell ( 1994 )
• 16 – Edward Wiley ( 1995 ), Dave Stewart ( 1997 ), Tommy Johnson ( 2006 ), and Ed Lauter ( 2013 )
• 17 – Lou Scheimer ( 2013 ), Morris Chapnick ( 2015 ), Charles J. Stewart ( 2016 ), and Toshiya Agata ( 2020 )
• 18 – Paddi Edwards and Eddie Jones (both 1999 ), Joel Marston ( 2012 ), Mary Carver ( 2013 ), and William Lucking ( 2021 )
• 19 – Joseph J. Stone ( 1994 ), John Meredyth Lucas ( 2002 ) and Eddy Donno ( 2014 )
• 20 – Arthur Tovey ( 2000 ), Jane Wyatt ( 2006 ), and Nick Dimitri ( 2021 )
• 21 – Ernest Haller ( 1970 ), Dick Cherney ( 2017 ), and Stephen Kandel ( 2023 )
• 22 – Jean Marie Novak ( 2005 ), Don Ivan Punchatz ( 2009 ), and Murphy Anderson ( 2015 )
• 23 – Robert Lansing ( 1994 ), Adolph Green ( 2002 ), and Tom Klunis ( 2023 )
• 24 – Gene Roddenberry ( 1991 ), Laurence N. Wolfe ( 2017 ), Tom Bentley ( 2021 ), and Leslie Jordan ( 2022 )
• 25 – Burt "Skip" Burnam ( 2004 ) and Hal Needham ( 2013 )
• 26 – Stanford G. Haughton ( 1967 ), Vic Christy ( 1995 ), Albert Whitlock ( 1999 ), Tom O'Loughlin ( 2007 ), and Wyatt Knight ( 2011 )
• 27 – John Warburton ( 1981 ), William Bramley ( 1985 ), Richard Ryder ( 1995 ), and Yvette Blais ( 2008 )
• 28 – Ted Scott ( 1999 ), Larry Dobkin ( 2002 ), Charles F. Wheeler ( 2004 ), Russ Simpson ( 2009 ), Robert Ellenstein ( 2010 ), Kerrie Cullen ( 2016 ), Frank Atienza ( 2018 ), Leanza Cornett ( 2020 ), and Camille Saviola ( 2021 )
• 29 – Darleen Roddenberry ( 1995 ) and Dick Cangey ( 2003 )
• 30 – Tom Steele ( 1990 ), Buzz Barbee ( 2013 ), and Don Marshall ( 2016 )
• 31 – Grant Woods ( 1968 ), Ron Walters ( 1994 ), Don Schloat ( 2010 ), Fred Brauer ( 2014 ), Gregg Palmer ( 2015 ), and Marvin March and Andrew Prine (both 2022 )
• Unknown day – Mary Black ( 2021 )

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• 1 – Laura Wood ( 1974 ), Michael Piller ( 2005 ), Michael O'Hagan ( 2017 ), David Assael ( 2021 ), Clay Pinney ( 2022 ), and Peter White ( 2023 )
• 2 – Lee Correy ( 1997 ) and Nancy Vawter ( 2020 )
• 3 – Dennis Ott ( 1994 ), Richard A. Kelley ( 1995 ), Tina Pine ( 1998 ), John Perry ( 2004 ), Dave Perna ( 2004 ), Joseph G. Sorokin ( 2015 ), Danny Bulanadi ( 2022 ), and Robert Butler ( 2023 )
• 4 – Carl F. Biddiscombe ( 2000 ), Jerry Sohl ( 2002 ), George A. Rutter ( 2007 ), Brenan Baird ( 2013 ), Ned Romero ( 2017 ), and Gene D'Angelo ( 2021 )
• 5 – James Goldstone ( 1999 ), Andre Tayir ( 2003 ), Robert Phillips ( 2018 ), and William Wintersole ( 2019 )
• 6 – Joseph Westheimer ( 1998 ), Gray Morrow ( 2001 ), Mike Dugan ( 2002 ), Elizabeth Rogers ( 2004 ), Stephen Markle ( 2018 ), and Glenn Ota ( 2023 )
• 7 – Walter Bacon ( 1973 ), Robert L. Swanson ( 1978 ), Bobby Bass ( 2001 ), Hilary J. Bader ( 2002 ), Steve Marlo ( 2019 ), and Dean Stockwell ( 2021 )
• 8 – Noble Chissell ( 1987 ), Basil Poledouris ( 2006 ), Gene S. Cantamessa ( 2011 ), and William Knight ( 2022 )
• 9 – Billy Curtis ( 1988 ), C. Marie Davis ( 2005 ), Dean Gilmore ( 2010 ), Jay Devlin ( 2014 ), and James Greene ( 2018 )
• 10 – Margaret Armen ( 2003 ), Murphy Wiltz ( 2005 ), and George Sasaki ( 2020 )
• 11 – Kathy Ahart ( 1971 ), John Caleffie ( 1976 ), Roger C. Carmel ( 1986 ), Keith Andes ( 2005 ), and John Aniston ( 2022 )
• 12 – David Oliver ( 1992 ), Kay E. Kuter ( 2003 ), Walter Irwin ( 2004 ), Alberto De Mello ( 2008 ), and Stan Lee ( 2018 )
• 13 – Donald O. Nygren ( 2001 ), Kellie Waymire ( 2003 ), Monty Westmore ( 2007 ), and Marvin Paige ( 2013 )
• 14 – Sol Kaplan ( 1990 ), Jake Dengel and Tom Villard (both 1994 ), Jack Blessing ( 2017 ), and Rae Norman and William Thomas, Jr. (both 2020 )
• 15 – Troy Melton ( 1995 ), Richard Carlyle ( 2009 ), Mike Noble ( 2018 ), and David Selburg ( 2021 )
• 16 – Max Wagner ( 1975 ), Buck Maffei ( 1982 ), Jack Ozark ( 2000 ), Christopher T. Gerrity ( 2004 ), and Stan Robertson ( 2011 )
• 17 – Richard Tim Vanik ( 2003 )
• 18 – Johnny Haymer ( 1989 ), Jean Conan Doyle ( 1997 ), John Buonomo ( 2006 ), and Garland Thompson ( 2014 )
• 19 – Reggie Nalder ( 1991 ), Tom Cranham ( 1997 ), John Neville ( 2011 ), Herbert F. Solow ( 2020 ), and Greg Bear ( 2022 )
• 20 – Lee Ettleman ( 2007 ), Michael J. Pollard ( 2019 ), and Tim McCormack ( 2022 )
• 21 – Harvey Hart ( 1989 ), Jeff Mart ( 2009 ), Ron Thornton ( 2016 ), and Edna Glover ( 2020 )
• 22 – Mark Lenard ( 1996 ), Parley Baer ( 2002 ), Danny McCauley ( 2004 ), Jessie Biscardi ( 2013 ), and Venita Wolf ( 2014 )
• 23 – Dave Cockrum ( 2006 ), Jay M. Leggett ( 2013 ), and Dominic Calandra ( 2015 )
• 24 – Leo Shreve ( 1993 ) and Jim Veilleux ( 2013 )
• 25 – Ron Glass ( 2016 ) and Claude Earl Jones ( 2019 )
• 26 – Fritz Weaver ( 2016 )
• 27 – Dick Rubin ( 1987 ), Sheila Barnes ( 1997 ), Robert F. Shugrue ( 1999 ), Thomas Small ( 2014 ), and Wendy Davies ( 2017 )
• 28 – Robert Bentley and Jane Nordin (both 2000 ), Terry Lester ( 2003 ), Marc Lawrence ( 2005 ), Bob Baker ( 2014 ), Norman Snow ( 2022 ), and Jack Axelrod ( 2023 )
• 29 – Theo Marcuse ( 1967 ), Garson Citron ( 1968 ), Charles Cooper ( 2013 ), Brian Demonbreun ( 2016 ), John D.F. Black ( 2018 ), Tiny Ron ( 2019 ), and Brad William Henke ( 2022 )
• 30 – Michael Witney ( 1983 ) and Ted Sorel ( 2010 )

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• 1 – Reginald Lal Singh ( 1970 ), Harvey P. Lynn ( 1986 ), Stephen Brooks ( 1999 ), Robert Barron ( 2000 ), and Gary Epper ( 2007 )
• 2 – D.C. Fontana ( 2019 ), Diana G. Gallagher ( 2021 ), and Danny Goldring ( 2022 )
• 3 – Kay Elliot ( 1982 ), Sam Gilman ( 1985 ), and Richard E. Butler ( 2013 )
• 4 – Charles Cirillo ( 1999 ), Karen Montgomery ( 2015 ), Anthony Giger ( 2018 ), and David L. Lander ( 2020 )
• 5 – Ken Southworth ( 2007 ), James G. Becker ( 2014 ), Diana R. Lupo ( 2015 ), Robert Walker ( 2019 ), and Kirstie Alley and Terrence O'Hara (both 2022 )
• 6 – Bart Conrad ( 1981 ), Roy Orbison ( 1988 ), Michael Zaslow ( 1998 ), and Monte Swann ( 2022 )
• 7 – Gail Bonney ( 1984 ), Robert Chadwick ( 1997 ), George Wilson ( 1998 ), and Michael Lamper ( 2019 )
• 8 – James D. Ballas ( 1979 ), Bob Harks ( 2010 ), and René Auberjonois ( 2019 )
• 9 – Mike Hazy ( 2004 ), Robert Sheckley ( 2005 ), and Judy Levitt ( 2022 )
• 10 – Bob Overbeck ( 2000 ) and Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr. ( 2020 )
• 11 – Charles Gunning ( 2002 ), Jim Willoughby ( 2004 ), Alan Bernard and Vincent Mazzella, Jr. (both 2011 ), and Mimi Cozzens ( 2021 )
• 12 – Dave Galanter ( 2020 )
• 13 – Barry Russo ( 2003 ), Ben Slack ( 2004 ), and Lou Elias , Bruce Gray , and Vanessa Greene (all 2017 )
• 14 – Edward K. Milkis ( 1996 ), Brett Weir ( 2003 ), and Emil Richards ( 2019 )
• 15 – Arnold Moss ( 1989 ), William Ware Theiss ( 1992 ), John Berg ( 2007 ), Eduardo Barreto ( 2011 ), Booth Colman and Randy Roberts (both 2014 ), Shep Houghton ( 2016 ), and Jeff Schnaufer ( 2022 )
• 16 – Derek Garth ( 1995 ), Roy Brocksmith ( 2001 ), Madlyn Rhue ( 2003 ), Robert Easton ( 2011 ), Gregory Hinton ( 2012 ), Ray Price ( 2013 ), and John Arndt ( 2021 )
• 17 – Al Cavens ( 1985 ) and Rod Perry ( 2020 )
• 18 – Joe Lombardi ( 1997 ), Otto Feuer ( 1998 ), Majel Barrett Roddenberry ( 2008 ), Joseph L. Scanlan ( 2020 ), and Maggie Thrett ( 2022 )
• 19 – Ron Turner ( 1998 ), Jefrey Alan Chandler ( 2001 ), Lee Halpern ( 2002 ), Marty Hornstein ( 2013 ), and Penny L. Juday ( 2015 )
• 20 – Peter Brocco ( 1992 ), Madge Sinclair ( 1995 ), Natalie Norwick ( 2007 ), Larry Corbett ( 2008 ), Lois Jewell ( 2014 ), and Alexander Singer ( 2020 )
• 21 – Casey Onaitis ( 1999 ), Lois Hall ( 2006 ), and Al Bettcher ( 2017 )
• 22 – Wilbur Hatch ( 1969 ), Kenneth Tobey ( 2002 ), Wah Chang ( 2003 ), Phillip Pine ( 2006 ), Joseph Sargent ( 2014 ), and Victor Llamas ( 2017 )
• 23 – Joe Orlando ( 1998 ), Lars Hensen ( 1999 ), Frank Orsatti ( 2004 ), Ernest Robinson ( 2008 ), and James Gunn ( 2020 )
• 24 – John Kingsbridge ( 1994 ), James Komack and Greig McRitchie (both 1997 ), Herb Hazelton ( 2002 ), and John Blower ( 2004 )
• 25 – Frank P. Keller ( 1977 ), Paul Chipello ( 2014 ), George Clayton Johnson and Jason Wingreen (both 2015 ), Malcolm "Mel" Rennings ( 2017 ), and Abdul Salaam El Razzac ( 2018 )
• 26 – Robert Gentile ( 2000 ), Luke Scully ( 2004 ), Vincent Schiavelli ( 2005 ), Dave Cadiente ( 2010 ), Rhodes Reason ( 2014 ), Barbara J. Tarbuck ( 2016 ), and Brad Blaisdell and Virginia Darcy (both 2018 )
• 27 – Grant McCune ( 2010 ), Jesco von Puttkamer ( 2012 ), Kevin Pentalow ( 2013 ), and Jack Sheldon ( 2019 )
• 28 – William Frankfather ( 1998 ), Jim Spencer ( 2010 ), Martee La Comette ( 2012 ), and Joseph Ruskin ( 2013 )
• 29 – William Boyett ( 2004 ), Teresa E. Victor ( 2005 ), Bill Erwin and Steve Horch (both 2010 ), Henry Reichenbach ( 2012 ), Jim Baikie and Bob Morrisey (both 2017 ), Brendan McKane ( 2020 ), and Michael Childers and Majliss Larson (both 2022 )
• 30 – Gary Downey ( 1979 ), William J. Kenney ( 1992 ), Milt Tarver ( 2004 ), Joseph M. Wilcots ( 2009 ), Syd Mead ( 2019 ), and Winston DeLugo ( 2021 )
• 31 – Lloyd Haynes ( 1986 ), Robert C. Johnson ( 1993 ), James Avery ( 2013 ), Karen Landry and Ken Magee (both 2015 ), and Alfred T. Ferrante ( 2020 )
• Unknown day – April Nocifora ( 2021 )

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• 1999 – Brad Weston
• 2017 – Nedra Rosemond
• 2022 – Lindsley Parsons, Jr. and Barbara Paul

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"There's no relative direction in the vastness of space," a Starfleet high mucky-muck tells  Enterprise  Captain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) in "Star Trek Beyond." "There's only you." She's asking him whether he wants to give up his captain's seat for a chance at a powerful desk job on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, a year younger than his father was when he died. Her language is meant to spur Kirk to look inward, and for a moment we might hope that he will, and that the film will look inward with him. 

There's a precedent for this sort of thing. Where all of the TV incarnations of " Star Trek " were mainly about morality and philosophy, with characterization serving as a means of examining those dramatic values, most of the big-screen film versions, including the '80s and '90s versions of the flagship TV show, were mainly concerned with the heroes' personalities. The screenplays gave us detailed examinations of, say, the relationship between Kirk and his half-Vulcan first officer Mr. Spock, between Kirk and the United Federation of Planets, between Kirk and the Klingons who tormented his civilization and killed his only son, and between all the characters (Kirk especially) and the prospect of aging and death. It was more soap opera than space opera at times, but always fun to watch, sometimes moving. 

What undermines "Star Trek Beyond" is that it's ultimately not interested in taking a long look at the "you" of Kirk, Spock ( Zachary Quinto ), ship's doctor "Bones" McCoy ( Karl Urban ), communications officer Uhura ( Zoe Saldana ), and the rest of the NCC-1701 crew. Sure, it nods in that direction. Even the worst "Star Trek" stories do. But in the end it's mostly a good big-budget sci-fi action movie that's been marinated in "Star Trek" flavor packets—and thus not terribly different from the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot or its sequel, " Star Trek Into Darkness ."

"Star Trek Beyond" pits the crew of the  Enterprise  against another bellowing megalomaniac ( Idris Elba ) who wants to punish the United Federation of Planets for its perceived sins. It's the best of the new "Trek" films, but it's still an unsatisfying effort if you want "Star Trek" to be something more than a military-minded outer space action flick, with familiar, beloved characters shoehorned into a standard mix of martial arts slugfests, close-quarters firefights, and scenes of starships and cities being shredded and burned. Advance publicity hyped "Star Trek Beyond" as a return to the original series' roots as a showcase for a bunch of eccentric personalities traveling the galaxy, ingeniously solving problems, and indulging in populist philosophizing about civilization and the frontier as they went along. But that's not what we get here—not really. 

Yes, there's a promising setup (the  Enterprise  crew is held hostage by a vicious bad guy who rules a backwater planet a la Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness"). And there are suggestions of classic "Star Trek" style action-plus-characterization-plus-cleverness, and pleasing performances by a cast that has settled into each others' rhythms, as a real-world naval crew would after years of sailing together. 

But the movie never delivers on its considerable promise because it's always in such a hurry to get to the next action scene. And aside from three magnificent setpieces—the first, crippling sneak attack by a fleet of tiny ships that swarm the  Enterprise  like explosive bees, and two vertigo-inducing chase-and-fight scenes in which geography goes all M.C. Escher on us—the action is not good enough to be the film's main course. Lin, who proved in the "Fast and Furious" series that he could do great or near-great action, here substitutes wobbly camerawork, chop-chop editing and rumbling sound effects for suspense and a sense of spatial design. It's a step up from the action in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movies, but that's not the sort of thing one should brag about. A climactic reprise of a certain overused Beastie Boys song might be the franchise's low point, rivaled only by the laughable credits sequence of "Star Trek V," which cut from a helicopter shot of a lean young stuntman scaling a craggy peak in the Pyrenees to a close-up of the 57-year-old star/director Shatner's meaty hand in a studio, gripping a fiberglas "rock."

Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's screenplay provides the right amount of homage (as when Kirk grumbles after an opening action scene that he ripped his shirt again), plus Spock/McCoy odd-couple banter and some marvelous, character-based laugh lines (Scotty demands that Kirk give an opinion on one of his engineering improvisations, because "if I mess it up, I don't want it to be just my fault"). There's psychological nuance, irony, even a political subtext (Elba's character, Krall, a reptilian Che Guevara-type who wants the galaxy's "frontier" to "push back" against the Federation's expansionism). Too bad none of these aspects are filled out with the detail they deserve. Krail's fire-and-brimstone sermonizing is turned to nonsense by a pointless and self-defeating third act "twist"—like we need another one of those after the boneheaded fan service of "Darkness"!—and there are points late in the film where "Star Trek Beyond" seems jolted by the sudden remembrance of things that it told us it was going to deal with but didn't. 

Uhura spends most of the movie in a prison camp. Kirk, Spock and even McCoy have human moments, but they spend too much of their screen time sprinting through hallways, firing phaser pistols, and piloting spaceships while yelling and grimacing in tight closeup, like the heroes of every other science fiction-flavored action movie projected in theaters recently. Krall and other characters allude to the Federation's fake-benevolent brand of imperialism, but unless you're familiar with examples from elsewhere in the "Star Trek" universe or got briefed by a super-fan before buying a ticket, you'll leave with no sense of whether the villains' grievances are legitimate, much less if you're supposed to feel mixed emotions at Kirk's inevitable triumph.  

Spock, whose home planet was destroyed by a renegade Romulan warlord in the first movie, suffers most from the filmmakers' preoccupation with  pew-pew-pew! a ction-adventure. For three movies now, Spock's been carrying a crushing load of survivor's guilt. The character's barely disguised Jewishness, brilliantly articulated by the late Leonard Nimoy in the original TV and movie series, is more pronounced in the new franchise: he's been turned into a holocaust survivor, part of a fragile Vulcan diaspora haunted by genocide. But the scripts seem scared of treating Spock's predicament with the seriousness it deserves, much less daring to put it at the center of a film. Here it's treated mainly as an explanation for why Spock can't seem to keep a relationship going with Uhura. The death of Leonard Nimoy is integrated into the story by having Vulcan diplomats inform Spock of the death of Ambassador Spock, an alternate-universe incarnation of the character who dispensed advice and plot points to new Spock whenever the screenwriters painted themselves into a corner. The film's method of mourning Nimoy's Spock makes the Spockus ex machina  thing worse. New Spock mourns classic Spock as if the two were dear friends who had dinner every Monday at the same Chinese restaurant.

The missteps of writing and direction are more depressing when you consider the excellence of the core cast. Quinto and Saldana give the Spock-Uhura relationship and their own spotlight moments a lot more than the film gives them. Pegg is a hoot as Scotty, colorful but never hammy, though we may justifiably raise a Spock-like eyebrow at all the times that the actor-screenwriter lets his character save the day. Pine's Kirk seems to be morphing seamlessly into Shatner's, complete with surprising pauses and intonations, but he's more credible as a strong, respected leader; watch how the actor grows more calm and friendly whenever Kirk's bridge crew is becoming more agitated. Elba is such a strong presence throughout, even near the end, that it's a shame Krall is never granted the depth and complexity that his character keeps threatening to disclose. 

At this point it's worth asking what, if anything, this franchise is good for besides generating cash for Paramount and its above-the-line talent. Everything that made the original TV series and its follow-ups, small- and big-screen, seem so open-hearted, intelligent and playful is marginalized to make room for hyperactively edited action scenes and displays of hardware and production design. These are technically state-of-the-art but ultimately not all that different from what you see in most other CGI-driven action pictures, superhero as well as sci-fi—long, loud spectacles that are filled with people fighting, blowing up cities and planets, and crashing things into other things, instead of finding some other, more surprising way to move the plot along. What's the point of giving up pleasures that the "Star Trek" franchise is good at providing, to make more room for pleasures that most big-budget science fiction and fantasy already give us, month after month and year after year? Why boldly go where everyone else is already going? 

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence.

120 minutes

Chris Pine as Kirk

Zachary Quinto as Spock

Karl Urban as Bones

Zoe Saldana as Uhura

Simon Pegg as Scotty

John Cho as Sulu

Anton Yelchin as Chekov

Idris Elba as Krall

Sofia Boutella as Jaylah

Deep Roy as Keenser

Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus

Writer (television series "Star Trek")

• Gene Roddenberry

Writer (uncredited)

• Roberto Orci
• Patrick McKay
• John D. Payne

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• Greg D'Auria
• Dylan Highsmith
• Kelly Matsumoto
• Steven Sprung
• Michael Giacchino

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The Ending Of Star Trek Beyond Explained

Star Trek Beyond has landed in theaters, and the crew of the USS Enterprise have endured another ordeal in space while averting yet another world-ending disaster. There aren't too many loose ends left to tie up after Beyond 's final act, but there are certainly some things that seem like they might carry over into the next Trek movie. Let's take a look at what the ending of Beyond mean for the future for Kirk and the crew—and as always, be warned that there are SPOILERS AHEAD .

The crew will pilot the new Enterprise into unknown territory

Thankfully, the Federation works quickly and gets started on building the USS Enterprise-A at the end of the film, while Kirk and the crew look on. They still have two more years in their five-year mission, so you can bet they'll get some mileage out of the new ship. And since Chris Hemsworth is set to return as Kirk's late father George, we might see some time travel or wormhole action to allow for a reunion between father and son.

Jaylah might join the crew after her Academy training

Newcomer Jaylah quickly becomes one of the more interesting characters in Beyond . Her friendship with Scotty is entertaining, and their back-and-forth interplay is fun to watch. Thanks to this friendship, Jaylah gets accepted to Starfleet Academy on Scotty's recommendation; we're not sure how long she'll train, but it's not entirely out of the question that we might ultimately see her join the crew of the Enterprise. She's a skilled fighter, which is always useful, and she kept the USS Franklin running for a while, so she can be handy with repairs. We'd say she probably has a bright future in the Federation.

Kirk and Spock will return, but the crew might change

In the real world, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto have signed contracts to return for a fourth movie , so we can count on seeing these two again. Whether or not they'll be joined by Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and John Cho remains to be seen, but we're glad we're getting at least another movie out of Trek 's rebooted odd couple.

Chekov will not return

Anton Yelchin's character, Pavel Chekov, will not return in the fourth film. Yelchin tragically passed away just a month before Star Trek Beyond 's release, and it has been reported that his character, who serves as the ship's main navigator, will not be recast . The film is dedicated to both Yelchin and Leonard Nimoy, with a message for these actors during the credits. We might see Sofia Boutella's Jaylah return and take over as the Enterprise-A 's main navigator, but we certainly won't see a different actor as Chekov.

Krall's weapon is still floating in space

It's easy to forget in all the action of the final act, but after the credits, you might want to stop and consider that Krall was jettisoned into space with his bioweapon, which tears biological material apart. The starbase Yorktown might have been spared, but shouldn't we be worried about the floating clouds of doom that are now hurtling through space? Sure, it's probably a long shot that the bioweapon will hit a populated planet, but the possibility isn't nil. They'll just have to hope that this particular baddie doesn't come back (although we're always happy to see Elba on screen).

Spock and Uhura will rekindle their romance

It might not seem like anything major, but being imprisoned on Altimad and almost dying helped Spock and Uhura get their groove back. We're going to gloss over the fact that the necklace Spock gave Uhura is a radioactive tracking device, and just say we're relieved they're back together. The warp-speed turbulence the characters have endured over the span of three movies has probably solidified their relationship, so we don't think it's out of the question for them to take it to the next step in the fourth film. Might we see Kirk officiating a wedding on the bridge of the Enterprise-A ?

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Anton Yelchin, ‘Star Trek’ Actor, Dies at 27

By Dave Itzkoff

• June 19, 2016

Anton Yelchin, who played the young incarnation of Chekov, an excitable officer on the Starship Enterprise, in the rebooted “Star Trek” movie series, died early Sunday morning when he was pinned by his car in his driveway at his home in Los Angeles. He was 27.

Officer Jenny Houser of the Los Angeles Police Department said Mr. Yelchin was hit around 1:10 a.m. The car, an SUV, had rolled backward down a steep driveway and trapped him against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence.

Officer Houser said he was found dead by friends who had come to his house, in the Studio City neighborhood, after he did not show up for a rehearsal.

(On Monday, The Associated Press reported that the vehicle, a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee, was one of 1.1. million vehicles recalled by the manufacturer, Fiat Chrysler, in April because their gear shifters had confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration records.)

Mr. Yelchin was born on March 11, 1989, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, in what was then the Soviet Union. His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were superstar figure skaters with the Leningrad Ice Ballet.

But the Yelchins, who are Jewish, fled the Soviet Union six months later, facing political and religious oppression and fearing for their son’s safety. They settled in Los Angeles. His parents survive him.

“It is a very bad situation over there,” Viktor Yelchin told The Los Angeles Times . “I would get angry, too — I’d say, ‘Why should we have to buy things on the black market? Why should we have to stand in line?’”

As a child actor, Anton made memorable appearances on television shows like “ER,” “The Practice” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” on which he played a child magician who frustrates Larry David with a card trick.

He also appeared in the films “Charlie Bartlett” (2007), with Robert Downey Jr., in which he played the title role, a talkative student who appoints himself his school’s resident therapist, and “Alpha Dog” (2006), in which he played an innocent boy who becomes an unwitting pawn in a drug war.

His breakthrough came in the director J. J. Abrams’s 2009 resuscitation of “Star Trek,” the venerable science-fiction adventure franchise. Mr. Yelchin was cast as Pavel Chekov, the Russian-born Starfleet officer portrayed by Walter Koenig in the original “Star Trek” television series and movies.

As played by Mr. Yelchin, Chekov was endearingly antic, humorously navigating his way through high-pressure scenarios and — even in the 23rd century — having difficulty with the “V” sounds in words like “Victor” and “Vulcan.”

Mr. Yelchin reprised the role in a 2013 sequel, “Star Trek Into Darkness,” and will be seen in a third film, “Star Trek Beyond,” to be released this summer.

His other recent roles included the voice of Clumsy Smurf in two “Smurfs” movies and a member of a punk-rock band fighting its way out of a neo-Nazi skinhead club in the horror film “Green Room” (2015).

His co-stars mourned his death on social media. In an Instagram post , Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the new “Star Trek” movies, wrote that Mr. Yelchin was “one of the most open and intellectually curious people I have ever had the pleasure to know.” In a post on Twitter , John Cho, who plays Sulu in the new movies, called Mr. Yelchin “a true artist — curious, beautiful, courageous.”

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Anton Yelchin, Star Trek actor, dies in car accident at age 27

The rising star – best known for playing Chekov in the new films – was found dead in his driveway early on Sunday morning

Anton Yelchin, a charismatic rising star best known for playing Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films, has died at the age of 27. He was killed in a car accident early on Sunday morning, his publicist, Jennifer Allen, confirmed.

Yelchin’s friends alerted police when he failed to turn up to a rehearsal scheduled to start on Saturday evening. They then discovered the actor in his driveway at around 1am. No other vehicles are thought to have been involved and the cause of death is being reported as accidental. Jenny Houser, a spokeswoman for the LAPD, told the Hollywood Reporter : “It appears he momentarily exited his car and it rolled backward, causing trauma that led to his death.”

Yelchin was an actor whose stock-in-trade was sweetness and even naiveté: his career began young, in small films and TV series, before he broke out in 2006 with crime thriller Alpha Dog and the following year as Robert Downey Jr’s troubled pupil in Charlie Bartlett . In 2011, he starred opposite Felicity Jones in Like Crazy , a transatlantic romance that won both audience and jury awards at the Sundance film festival, as well as playing Mel Gibson’s son in Jodie Foster’s The Beaver .

But it was as mathematical brainbox Pavel Chekov in the new set of Star Trek films that Yelchin first came to mainstream attention. In JJ Abrams’ critically and commercially successful 2009 Star Trek, and the 2013 follow-up, the actor won acclaim for an innocence and humour that characterised many of his roles. A third film, Star Trek: Beyond, is due out in July.

Abrams posted a photo of a handwritten note via the Twitter account of his production company, Bad Robot. He paid tribute to Yelchin’s “kind … brilliant … funny” nature.

pic.twitter.com/q8VBJBVPK3 — Bad Robot (@bad_robot) June 19, 2016

Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the franchise, said that they joined “the world in mourning the untimely passing of Antony Yelchin. As a member of the Star Trek family, he was beloved by so many and he will missed by all. We share our deepest condolences with his mother, father and family.”

His Star Trek co-star, John Cho, tweeted that he was “in ruins” at the news of Yelchin’s death.

I loved Anton Yelchin so much. He was a true artist - curious, beautiful, courageous. He was a great pal and a great son. I'm in ruins. — John Cho (@JohnTheCho) June 19, 2016

Despite his age, Yelchin had managed to carve out a career that balanced blockbusters with credible independent movies. Speaking to the Guardian in 2009 to promote the sci-fi movie Terminator Salvation, Yelchin said: “What I watch and what I work on are different.”

His own taste veered more towards the films of directors such as Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier and Pedro Almodóvar, as well as Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch, in whose 2013 vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive Yelchin went on to take a role.

The star of that film, Tom Hiddleston, said he was “absolutely devastated” to hear the news of the death of “such a gifted, natural actor [and] a deeply kind man”.

Absolutely devastated to hear about Anton Yelchin. He was such a gifted, natural actor & a deeply kind man. My thoughts are with his family. — Tom Hiddleston (@twhiddleston) June 19, 2016

An only child, Yelchin was born in Russia in 1989. His parents were professional figure skaters who moved the family to the United States when Yelchin was a baby. Yelchin’s family has requested privacy at this time.

Tributes to the actor began appearing on Twitter shortly after reports broke. Anna Kendrick called his death a “huge loss”, while Matt Lucas called it “dreadful news” and Kevin Smith described it as “so damn sad”.

This is unreal. Anton Yelchin is such a talent. Such a huge loss. — Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) June 19, 2016

Anton Yelchin just died in a car wreck. So damn sad. I met him and his Mom on a plane once. They were very sweet. https://t.co/OtkoO4HisG — KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) June 19, 2016

Dreadful news about Anton Yelchin. I thought he was an amazing actor. — Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas) June 19, 2016

Like Crazy director Drake Doremus has also shared his memories of working with Yelchin. “Anton was one of a kind,” he told Variety . “Such an old soul who was one of the most sincere but also funniest people I have ever met. Anton changed my life in so many ways and I’ll never forget him.”

Earlier this year, Yelchin won much acclaim for his role in ensemble horror Green Room , opposite Patrick Stewart and Imogen Poots. The film’s director, Jeremy Saulnier, described his lead as “such a dedicated, generous and hyper-smart young man”.

Oh, Anton. Such a dedicated, generous and hyper-smart young man. So grateful for the time we shared, destroyed he left so soon. — Jeremy Saulnier (@saulnier_jeremy) June 19, 2016

Among Yelchin’s upcoming projects was Baseballissimo, a sports comedy set in Italy during the second world war. Its writer and Yelchin’s co-star, Jay Baruchel, wrote of his shock and sadness over the sudden loss of someone he “call[ed] my friend for the better part of the last decade”.

Fuck. I was lucky enough to call Anton Yelchin my friend for the better part of the last decade. This is so fucking awful. — Jay Baruchel (@BaruchelNDG) June 19, 2016

Yelchin was also due to take a voice part in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming TV series Trollhunters. The director said the actor was “a great creative partner and artist”.

Anton was a sweetheart. Absolutely a great creative partner and artist. — Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) June 19, 2016

Among the other Hollywood stars who took to Twitter to pay tribute were Captain America actor Chris Evans, who said he was “devastated” by Yelchin’s death . He was joined by Spider-Man actor Dane DeHaan and Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul, who said he was “utterly heartbroken” .

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Anton Yelchin, aka Star Trek's Pavel Chekov, arrives on the red carpet at the LA premiere of "Star Trek" in 2009. The actor died on Sunday.

Anton Yelchin, the actor known for playing Chekov in the recent series of Star Trek reboot films, died in a freak accident in Los Angeles early Sunday morning.

Left to right: Yelchin as Chekov, Chris Pine as Kirk, John Cho as Sulu.

Yelchin, 27, was killed when his

Friends found Yelchin after he failed to show up for a scheduled rehearsal, Houser said.

The Russian-born actor played Pavel Chekov in 2009's " Star Trek " and 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness," as well as in " Star Trek Beyond ," due out later this year.

Yelchin's Star Trek colleagues took to Twitter on Sunday to express their sorrow, including actors John Cho and Zachary Quinto, who play Sulu and Spock, respectively, "Star Trek Beyond" director Justin Lin and "Star Trek" and "Star Trek Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams (by way of his production company, Bad Robot):

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Star trek: how old was spock when he died (both times).

Spock died twice in the Star Trek timeline but confusingly, the Vulcan died in two separate realities and his second death was earlier than his first.

• Spock died at the age of 55 in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan due to radiation poisoning.
• Spock was resurrected in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and continued to serve in Starfleet.
• In the alternate Kelvin timeline, Ambassador Spock died at the age of 161 in Star Trek Beyond, following the death of Leonard Nimoy.

Here's how old Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was when he died, which happened twice and in two different Star Trek realities and timelines. The quintessential Star Trek character, Mr. Spock was portrayed by the late Leonard Nimoy from 1966 to 2013. Although many actors have played Spock at different ages, most notably Zachary Quinto in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies and Ethan Peck in Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Nimoy's Vulcan is the singular legend who embodies the best qualities of Star Trek.

The half-Vulcan/half-human Spock was born on January 6, 2230. After graduating from Starfleet Academy, Ensign Spock was assigned to the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) in 2250. Spock remained aboard the Enterprise for the rest of his Starfleet career , most notably serving as both First Officer and Science Officer alongside his best friend, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) from 2265 onward. Spock left Starfleet for a time to pursue the Vulcan Kolinahr discipline but he rejoined the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Afterward, Spock was promoted to Captain and commanded the Enterprise when it was turned into a Starfleet Academy training vessel. Spock ceded the Captain's chair to Admiral Kirk when their old adversary, Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban), stole the planet terraforming Genesis Device.

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The events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan took place in 2285: Khan and his genetically-engineered followers commandeered the USS Reliant and used the Genesis Device to exact revenge on Admiral Kirk. When both starships were damaged following a pitched battle in a nebula, a suicidal Khan detonated the Genesis Device to kill Kirk. With no time to don a contamination suit, Spock repaired the Enterprise's radioactive warp core, allowing the starship to escape the explosion and the resulting formation of the Genesis Planet. Tragically, the heroic Vulcan succumbed to radiation poisoning. Spock was 55 years old when he died in Star Trek II , which is relatively young considering Vulcans can live up to 200 years old. Spock's father Sarek (Mark Lenard), for example, was 203 when he died in 2368 during Star Trek: The Next Generation season 5.

I have been and always shall be your friend. Live long and prosper.

However, Spock was resurrected by the Genesis Planet ; his rebirth involved him aging from an infant back to his 55-year-old self by the time Kirk and the Enterprise crew reunited Spock with his katra (his Vulcan soul) in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Returning to Starfleet, Spock served alongside Captain Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise-A until their final mission in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , where they ensured galactic peace between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets. Afterward, Spock left Starfleet and became a Federation ambassador. In the 24th century TNG era, Spock was secretly living on Romulus and attempting to negotiate the reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan people.

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As seen in Star Trek 2009 , Ambassador Spock's tenure on Romulus is the key to the events that created the alternate Kelvin timeline and led to the ultimate fate of the Vulcan legend. When the Romulan sun went supernova in the 2380s, Spock tried to use red matter to stop it but he was sent back in time to the 23rd century. The alternate Kelvin timeline was created by the arrival of Spock's enemy Nero (Eric Bana) in 2233 when the Romulan destroyed the USS Kelvin. Spock arrived 25 years later, in 2258, and aided the younger version of Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) in defeating Nero. Trapped in the past and in an alternate timeline, Ambassador Spock decided to help repopulate Vulcan, which Nero destroyed in his rampage.

A year later, the younger Spock contacted Ambassador Spock for advice on how to defeat Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Star Trek Into Darkness . This was Leonard Nimoy's final performance as Spock.

Spock's Second Death In Star Trek Beyond

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As a result of the real-life death of Leonard Nimoy in 2015, Ambassador Spock's death was written into 2016's Star Trek Beyond . The elder Spock died off-screen on New Vulcan on January 2, 2263. Ambassador Spock was 161 when he died in the Kelvin timeline , although his final death chronologically happened 12 years before his original Prime timeline death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . The United Federation of Planets in the Prime timeline also had no knowledge that Spock time-traveled and died in an alternate reality; he was considered missing in 2387 during the Romulan supernova crisis.

Star Trek: Discovery season 3 established that the Temporal Wars made the Federation aware of the Kelvin Timeline's existence, hinting that they also could have learned the fate of Ambassador Spock.

Spock Is Alive & Well In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Leonard Nimoy's beloved incarnation of Spock is gone, but the younger version of the Vulcan lives on with Ethan Peck's portrayal in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Peck plays the younger version of Nimoy's Spock in Star Trek 's Prime Timeline, unlike Zachary Quinto's Spock who lives a different life in an alternate reality. Just like Star Trek: Discovery 's reintroduction of Lt. Spock established that he has an adopted sister, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Strange New Worlds deepens the past and history of Leonard Nimoy's Spock , especially regarding his relationships with T'Pring (Gia Sandhu) and Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 depicted the canonical first meeting between Lt. Spock and Lt. James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley), the beginning of their lifelong friendship. Indeed, it was Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) who introduced Spock to Kirk, laying the foundation of what would become the legendary crew of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series . With Spock having died twice in the Star Trek movies in two different timelines and realities, it's doubtful Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will kill off the Vulcan a third time .

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Star Trek Sets the Stage for Wesley Crusher's Galaxy-Shaking Return

• In Star Trek #19, by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Megan Levens, the stage is set for Wesley Crusher's epic return.
• Wesley's organization, the Travelers, are a powerful, but mysterious group who may hold the key to the franchise's god war.
• There could also be dire ramifications if Wesley meets his mother for the first time in years.

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Wesley Crusher has been suspiciously absent from Star Trek ’s franchise-shaking god war, but now the stage has been set for his return. Wesley’s mother, Doctor Beverly Crusher, was a key player in the god war–but little mention has been made of her god-like son. Now, in Star Trek #19, Doctor Crusher and the crew of the Theseus are heading to the Pleroma –and maybe Wesley Crusher as well.

Star Trek #19 is written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Megan Levens. In a text piece, made to resemble Doctor Crusher’s personal log, she reflects on her recent victories aboard the Theseus. She then switches gears, mentioning Wesley. Doctor Crusher wonders if there is anything she could have done to keep him closer. She also stresses she may not even have factored into his decision to leave.

Later, she talks with Captain Sisko about their impending trip to the Pleroma.

She tells him it is “personal” and he immediately knows she is going to look for Wesley.

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Introduced as one of the main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation , Wesley Crusher was a precocious kid living aboard the Enterprise. He would eventually leave the show midway through its fourth season to attend Starfleet Academy, but it never sat right with him. Disillusioned, he dropped out. In the seventh season Next Generation episode “Journey’s End,” Wesley learned of his true nature. Wesley leaves his family and friends behind to join the mysterious Travelers. As revealed in Star Trek #400, this was a one-way trip for Wesley, as he was not allowed to revisit his loved ones.

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Wesley returned to the screen, as a full-fledged Traveler, in the season two finale of Star Trek: Picard. This episode also connected the Travelers to the Supervisors introduced in the Original Series’ second season. Prior to launching the flagship Star Trek title, Lanzing and Kelly had already handled the Supervisors in Year Five, where they were cast as the villains. In a recent interview with ScreenRant, Lanzing and Kelly admitted their story was completed before Picard’s season finale, but hinted that the two visions can be reconciled. The Pleroma may hold the key to Wesley Crusher’s return.

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In the ScreenRant interview, Lanzing and Kelly all but stated Wesley would be returning in a future issue of Star Trek. No details were given, but the Pleroma, the “Realm of the Gods,” is an entirely new place in the Star Trek universe. The Travelers and the Supervisors may have access to the Pleroma already, meaning Doctor Crusher could be reunited with Wesley sooner than later. However, the consequences of a Traveler returning home have never been fully explored. The ramifications of Wesley Crusher’s return to the Star Trek universe could be devastating.

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