"It's just mass murder, killing, torture, a nightmare" #Australian emergency specialist volunteer. Last week doctors had to conduct an emergency Caesarean on a 9-month pregnant woman whose head had been blown off to save her daughter." #Gaza #TrumpIsrael #UnitedNations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

26 September 1937 – Bessie Smith, 45, (Car Crash), US blues singer-songwriter. A tombstone was finally erected on her unmarked grave in 1970 by Janis Joplin and Juanita Green 🎶Nobody needs you when you're upside down. Everyone loves you when you're six foot in the ground 🎶 youtu.be/kxTyV_cBz7o?...

26 September 1962 – Tracey Thorn, 63, English born singer-songwriter, writer. Everything But The Girl 🎶 Fascination * Wrong * Missing * Driving * The Only Living Boy in New York * Another Bridge * Each and Every One * Better Things 🎶 Massive Attack (Protection) www.dailymotion.com/video/x96ajcy

26 September 1956 – Linda Hamilton, 69, US actress. Children of the Corn (1984) * The Terminator * Beauty and the Beast (1987-89) Terminator 2 * A Mother's Prayer * Dante's Peak * The Line * Missing in America * Weeds * Chuck * Terminator: Dark Fate * Claws * Easy Does It * Resident Alien (2021-25)

26 September 1939 – Ricky Tomlinson, 86, English born blacklisted building worker, actor, musician, philanthropist. Brookside (1982–88) Cracker * Hillsborough * Playing the Field * Royle Family * Mike Bassett: England Manager * Nice Guy Eddie * Down to Earth * Mike Bassett Manager * Our Kid (2023)

26 September 1926 – 2000 Julie London, (b. Peck), 74, US actress (1947-78) Grammy Award jazz singer (1955-69) The Red House (1947) * The Fat Man * The Crime Against Joe * The Girl Can't Help It (Cry Me A River) * Man of the West * The George Raft Story * The Helicopter Spies * Emergency! (1972-78)

26 September 1901 – 1980 George Raft, (b. Ranft), 79, US actor, dancer Scarface (1932) The Glass Key (1935) * Each Dawn I Die * They Drive by Night * Some Like It Hot (1959) Roles famously declined: Dead End (1937) High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca (1942) all played by Humphrey Bogart

26 September 1875 – 1959 Edmund Gwenn (b. Kellaway) 81, UK-US actor. Cousin Cecil Kellaway. Miracle on 34th Street (1947 Oscar) Mister 880 (OscarNom) #Hitchcock The Skin Game (1931) Waltzes from Vienna, Foreign Correspondent, The Trouble with Harry (1955) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Them! (1954)

#ClaudiaCardinale (1938 – 23 September 2025, age 87) French Tunis born Italian actress. Rocco and His Brothers (1960) * The Girl with a Suitcase * The Leopard * 8½ * The Pink Panther * The Lost Command * The Professionals * Once Upon a Time in the West * Fitzcarraldo * Signora Erica (2010)

25 September 1957 –3 July 2025 Michael Madsen, 67, US actor. Sister Virginia (b. 1961) Doors (1991) Thelma & Louise * Reservoir Dogs * Free Willy * Wyatt Earp * Species * Mulholland Falls * Donnie Brasco * Die Another Day * Kill Bill * Sin City * Hateful Eight * Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

25 September 1946 – Felicity Kendal, 79, English actress. Shakespeare Wallah (1965) * The Norman Conquests * Edward the Seventh * The Good Life (1975-78) * Valentino * Amadeus * The Camomile Lawn * Parting Shots * Rosemary & Thyme * Pennyworth * Ludwig * Rivals * Noises Off (West End 2023)

25 September 1936 – 1996 Juliet Prowse, 59, (Cancer), British India born SA-US dancer, actress, singer. Stage: Kismet (1955) Film: Can-Can (1960) G.I. Blues * Who Killed Teddy Bear? * Mame (Stage 1969; 1990; 1994) * Murder, She Wrote * Stage: Follies (1987; 1988; 1990) Chicago * Sugar Babies (1995)

25 September 1929 – 2005 Ronnie Barker, 76, English comedian, actor, screenwriter. The Frost Report (1966-67) * Frost on Sunday * Futtock's End * The Two Ronnies (1971-87) Porridge (1974-77) Open All Hours (1976-85) * Robin and Marian * Going Straight * Porridge * The Two Ronnies Sketchbook (2005)

25 September 1926 – 1991 Aldo Ray, 64, (Cancer), US actor. The Marrying Kind (1952) Pat and Mike * Miss Sadie Thompson * We're No Angels * Nightfall * Men in War * God's Little Acre * Siege of Pinchgut * Day They Robbed Bank of England * Welcome to Hard Times * The Sicilian * Shock 'Em Dead (1991)

25 September 1897 – 1962 William Faulkner, 64, (Heart Attack), US author. The Portable Faulkner, 1949 Nobel Prize Literature. A Fable (1954) The Reivers (1962) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Screenplays: Today We Live (1933) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

"Team this is all my fault. I was overzealous in Cairo. I let racism cloud my judgment. I was so sure the ultimate terrorist was a Middle Eastern Muslim I didn't realize that he was really a goddamn white so called Christian American. I'll never be a racist again." Team America World Police (2004)

"Prejudice, hate and discrimination make money. It's a racket just like prohibition racketeers. How? Membership dues, subscriptions, merchandise. They live on fear by making people feel rage toward people different to them. The profits can climb into millions." www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropo...

24 September 1961 – John Logan, 64, US screenwriter. OscarNom: Gladiator (2000) * The Aviator * Hugo (2011) RKO 281 (2000) * The Last Samurai * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street * Red (Play, Tony Award) * Skyfall * Penny Dreadful/ City of Angels * Spectre * Moulin Rouge! (Play, 2020)

24 September 1950 – Harriet Walter, 75, English actress, author. Christopher Lee (uncle) Imitation Game (1980) * Men's Room * Sense and Sensibility * Atonement * Young Victoria * Star Wars * Denial * Downton Abbey * The Crown * Killing Eve * Succession * Ted Lasso * Silo * Brian and Maggie (2025)

24 September 1936 – 1990 Jim Henson, 53, (Multiple Lung abscesses), US puppeteer, director, producer, screenwriter, creator The Muppets. Sesame Street (1969-90) The Muppets Movies (1979-91) The Muppet Show (1976-81) The Dark Crystal (1982) Fraggle Rock (1983-87) Labyrinth (1986) The Witches (1990)

24 September 1931 – 1999 Anthony Newley, 67, (Cancer), English actor, singer-songwriter, playwright. Oliver Twist (1948) Songs: Who Can I Turn To? * What Kind of Fool Am I? * Feeling Good * Goldfinger * Gurney Slade (actor/writer) * Can Heironymus Merkin.... * Willy Wonka (1971 OscarNom co-writer)

24 September 1922 – 2023 Bert I. Gordon, 100, US filmmaker, writer, visual effects artist. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) Earth vs Spider * Village of the Giants * Food of the Gods * Picture Mommy Dead * Empire of the Ants (1977) Secrets of a Psychopath (2014) denniscooperblog.com/bert-i-gordo...

23 September 1938 – 1982 Romy Schneider, (b. Rosemarie Albach), 43, (Heart Attack), German-French actress Sissi (1957) Mädchen in Uniform * The Trial * L'important c'est d'aimer (César) Group Portrait with a Lady * Une histoire simple (César) La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982) Honorary César (2008)

23 September 1920 – 2014 Mickey Rooney, 93, US actor, singer, dancer Boys Town (1938 Oscar) - OscarNom: Babes in Arms * Human Comedy * The Bold and the Brave * The Black Stallion Film debut (age 6) * Andy Hardy (1938-58) National Velvet * Quicksand * Baby Face Nelson * Bill * Honorary Oscar (1983)

23 September 1897 – 1984 Walter Pidgeon, 87, Canadian-US actor. Saratoga (1937) * Man-Proof * Man Hunt * How Green Was My Valley * Mrs Miniver + Madame Curie (both OscarNom) * The Bad and the Beautiful * Forbidden Planet * Voyage to Bottom of Sea * Advise and Consent * Funny Girl * Sextette (1978)

Brits support #PalestinianState by 44% with 37% don't knows and 18% against (17% #Reform voters) 65% of 18-24 year old Brits back it. But few under brutal illegal occupation will be able to celebrate and #Gaza is being destroyed as we vote yougov.co.uk/politics/art... theguardian.com/world/2012/n...

September 21, 1924 – 1961 - Gail Russell, 36, (Alcoholism), US actress, artist. Before being pushed into acting, age 17, by her mother, she had hoped she could instead become a Hollywood commercial artist. "Blue eyes. Holding back tears, holding back pain. Baby´s got blue eyes. She´s alone again."

That look...."I'm done for." #BOTD Derrick De Marney (1906-78) #Hitchcock Young and Innocent (1937)

22 September 1912 – 2003 Martha Scott, 90, US actress, producer Plumstead Playhouse. Our Town (Broadway 1938 + 1940 film OscarNom) In Old Oklahoma * The Desperate Hours * Ten Commandments * Ben-Hur * Airport 1975 * Columbo (Playback) * The Turning Point * Dallas * Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988)

22 September 1895 – 1967 Paul Muni, (b. Frederich Weisenfreund), 71, Ukrainian-US actor Story of Louis Pasteur (Oscar) OscarNom: The Valiant (1929) * I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang * The Life of Emile Zola * The Last Angry Man (1959) Scarface * Black Fury * The Good Earth * Angel on My Shoulder

22 September 1885 – 1957 Erich 'von' Stroheim, 71, Austrian-US actor, blacklisted director, screenwriter. Blind Husbands (1919) * Devil's Pass Key * Foolish Wives * Greed * The Merry Widow * The Wedding March * The Honeymoon * Queen Kelly * Hello, Sister! (1933) * The Devil-Doll (1936 co-writer)

"In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth ...... Fascists and Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys." "Remember, reflect and resist." #Hollywood hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-a...

21 September 1950 – Bill Murray, 75, US actor. #SNL (1977-80) * Caddyshack * Stripes * Ghostbusters 1/2 * Scrooged * What About Bob? * Groundhog Day * The Man Who Knew Too Little * The Royal Tenenbaums * Lost in Translation (OscarNom) * Broken Flowers * The Grand Budapest Hotel * The Friend (2024)

21 September 1947 – Stephen King, 78, US author. Creeps how * Carrie * The Shining * The Dead Zone * Pet Sematary * Christine * Stand by Me * Misery * The Shawshank Redemption * Needful Things * Dolores Claiborne * The Green Mile * Secret Window * The Mist * It * Under the Dome * The Long Walk

21 September 1931 – 2012 Larry Hagman, 81, US actor. Mother Actress, Singer Mary Martin. Fail Safe (1964) * I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) * The Group * Harry and Tonto * The Eagle Has Landed * Superman * Dallas (1978–91, 2012-13) * S.O.B. * Nixon * Primary Colors * Flight of the Swan (2011)

21 September 1866 – 1946 Herbert George H. G. Wells, 79, English novelist. The Time Machine * The Invisible Man * The War of the Worlds * The Island of Doctor Moreau * The First Men in the Moon * Kipps * The History of Mr Polly * The Shape of Things to Come * Time After Time

America took me into her heart when my country was no longer worthy of a name. #Germany and I no longer speak the same language. #MarleneDietrich #USA #WW2 Medal of Freedom Vehemently #Antifascist - Nazi Germany branded her a traitor for speaking directly to her ex-countrymen: “Hitler is an idiot.”

"Amidst the ruins, trees are in bloom as they have never been. Sometimes at night you feel in all your sorrow, a perfume as of a sweet tomorrow! You realise at last they won't return - phantoms of the past. A brand new spring is to begin out of the ruins." #Gaza #Deutschland youtu.be/VgDmDKkTn20?si

20 September 1934 – Sophia Loren (b. Scicolone) 91, Italian actress, singer. Black Orchid (1958) It Started in Naples * Two Women (Oscar) Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow * El Cid * Marriage Italian Style * Judith * More Than a Miracle * Sunflower * The Voyage * A Special Day * The Life Ahead (2021)

20 September 1914 – 1982 Kenneth More, 67, (Parkinsons Disease), English actor. Genevieve (1953) Deep Blue Sea * Reach for the Sky * The Admirable Crichton * A Night to Remember * Sheriff of Fractured Jaw * North West Frontier * Sink Bismarck! * Greengage Summer * Forsyte Saga * Father Brown (1974)

#Trump2025 when asked about #Project2025 during election? "What's that? Never heard of it!" humanrightsfirst.org/library/project-2025-subvert-democracy/

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand".

19 September 1949 – Twiggy (b. Lesley Hornby) 76, English model, actress, singer. The Boy Friend (1971) Blues Brothers * Club Paradise * Madame Sousatzka * Body Bags * Something Borrowed, Something Blue * Brand New World * Absolutely Fabulous (2000–01) 'Pin-Ups' Cover (1973) 'Twig the Wonderkid'

19 September 1948 – Jeremy Irons, 77, English actor. Sinéad Cusack ​(m. 1978-) Brideshead Revisited (1981) The French Lieutenant's Woman * The Mission * Reversal of Fortune (Oscar) * Damage * Die Hard with a Vengeance * Kingdom of Heaven * Appaloosa * The Borgias * Watchmen * Palestine '36 🇵🇸 (2025)

19 September 1933 – 2023 David McCallum, 90, Scottish-US actor. Robbery Under Arms (1957) * A Night to Remember * Violent Playground * The Long and the Short and the Tall * The Great Escape * The Man From Uncle (1964-68) * The Invisible Man * Colditz * Sapphire & Steel * Batman * NCIS (2003-23)

19 September 1913 – 1970 Frances Farmer, 56, (Cancer), US actress. Rhythm on the Range (1936) Golden Boy (Broadway 1937-38) Ebb Tide * Flowing Gold * Badlands of Dakota (1941) Involuntarily Committed to Asylums (1942-50) Party Crashers (1958) Frances Farmer Presents (1958-64) Frances (biopic 1982)

#Trump #USA "net approval rating is -17%, down 2.6 points since last week. 39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure." (Sep 17th 2025) #TrumpStateVisit “Smart people don't like me, you know. They don't like what we talk about.” Americans maybe smarter than I thought? economist.com/interactive/...

Maggie Smith as Lady Hester Random, whose admiring faith in Benito Mussolini is shattered by the brutal reality of #Fascism #WW2 A moral for today? "If the Germans and the Italians couldn't get rid of us, I see absolutely no reason why we should surrender to the Scots." Tea With Mussolini (1999)

18 September 1970 – Jimi Hendrix, 27, US singer-songwriter, guitarist. Curtis Knight and the Squires * Jimmy James and the Blue Flames * The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Band of Gypsys Posthumous Single: Voodoo Chile(sic)/Hey Joe/All Along the Watchtower' - released October 23, 1970 (UK only) #1 UK

18 September 1967 – Tara Fitzgerald, 58, English actress. Great-aunt actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. Hear My Song (1991) * Sirens * The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain * Brassed Off * Frenchman's Creek * Legend * Waking the Dead * Game of Thrones * The ABC Murders (2018)