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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 18h

Peter Lorre is a newly arrived America loving Hungarian immigrant clock maker forced to turn to crime after his face is horribly disfigured in a #NYC hotel fire. The story of an American Dream turned nightmare when, through misfortune, the dreamer doesn't fit the dream.

Face Behind the Mask (1941)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

She's brilliantly psychotic in Mr Wrong (1996) with Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman (critically terrible) but I really like it.

Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

12 October 1968 – Hugh Jackman, 57, Australian actor, singer

Oklahoma! (1998 London) Erskineville Kings * X-Men * Kate & Leopold * Boy from Oz (Tony Award) Van Helsing * The Prestige * Australia * Les Misérables (OscarNom) The Greatest Showman * Bad Education * The Son * Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

Yes?

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

12 October 1903 – 98 Josephine Hutchinson, 94, US actress. Le Gallienne's Theatre (1927)

The Little Princess (1917 age 13) The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) The Crime of Doctor Hallet * Son of Frankenstein * Somewhere in the Night * Ruby Gentry * #Hitchcock North by Northwest * Nevada Smith (1966)

Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

12 October 2017 – The #USA under President #Trump with #Israel announce it's decision to withdraw from #UNESCO a #UnitedNations organisation to promote world peace, security and international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture accusing it of antisemitism.
www.dw.com/en/us-leaves...

US leaves UNESCO again over alleged anti-Israel agenda – DW – 07/22/2025

The United States has announced it has left UNESCO, saying the UN cultural and education agency, best known for establishing world heritage sites, is biased against Israel.

www.dw.com

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

12 October 1984 – Brighton Bombing. The IRA fail to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The bomb lay hidden underneath a bathtub in room 629, and killed five people, wounding at least 31 others.

bbciplayer
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1962 – Joan Cusack, 63, US actress.

#SNL (1985-86) * Working Girl (OscarNom) * Toys * Addams Family Values * Nine Months * In & Out (OscarNom) * Toy Story (voice 1999-) * Arlington Road * Looney Tunes: Back in Action * School of Rock * Kit Kittredge An American Girl * Shameless (2011–21)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1957 – Dawn French, 68, British actress, comedian, writer.

French and Saunders (1989-2007-) * Murder Most Horrid * Vicar of Dibley * Ted and Alice * Wild West * Lark Rise to Candleford * Roger and Val Have Just Got In * Psychoville * Delicious * Roald & Beatrix * Death on the Nile (2022)

Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1953 – David Morse, 72, US actor.

St. Elsewhere (1982–88) * The Green Mile * Dancer in the Dark * Disturbia * The Long Kiss Goodnight * The Rock * The Crossing Guard * 12 Monkeys * Double Vision * Hurt Locker * The Collaborator * Treme * Outsiders * Escape at Dannemora * The Chair (2021)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1925 – 2013 Elmore Leonard, 87, US author.

Novels/Film Adaptations: 3:10 to Yuma (1953) The Tall T * Valdez is Coming * Hombre * Cat Chaser (+ screenplay) * Get Shorty * Rum Punch * Out of Sight * Fire in the Hole (TV's Justified)

Screenwriter: Joe Kidd * Mr. Majestyk * Desperado (1987)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1884 – 1967 Siegfried 'Sig' Ruman, 82, German-US actor.

Grand Hotel (Broadway 1930) Marx Brothers' including A Night at the Opera + A Day at the Races * Ninotchka * Comrade X * To Be or Not to Be * Shining Victory * Border Incident * Stalag 17 * Addams Family * The Fortune Cookie (1966)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1937 – Former King Edward VIII, then exiled as Duke of Windsor tours Nazi Germany with his wife Wallis Simpson and meets Adolf Hitler on 22nd October. The Duke also encouraged Germany to bomb Britain into submission in a plot to put him on back the throne.
www.channel4.com/programmes/e...

Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King

For the first time, the extent of the Duke of Windsor's treachery during WWII is revealed

www.channel4.com

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

#Netanyahu will undoubtedly try to sabotage this #Ceasefire just as he has every one before to keep power. I pray for people of #Gaza it will be more than a respite but a permanent #Peace

"This it is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

10 October 1946 – Charles Dance, 79, English actor.

For Your Eyes Only (1981) The Jewel in the Crown * The Golden Child * Alien 3 * Last Action Hero * Kabloonak * Rebecca * Gosford Park * Ladies in Lavender (writer/director) * Bleak House * Game of Thrones * Mank * The Crown * The King's Man (2021)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

10 October 1941 – Peter Coyote, (b. Cohon), 84, US actor, author, documentary narrator.

Cross Creek (1983) Jagged Edge * Outrageous Fortune * Patch Adams * Erin Brockovich * Femme Fatale * Deadwood * Comey Rule (2020)

Documentaries: The West (1996) Prohibition * The Vietnam War * Bad Faith (2024)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

10 October 1924 – 1994 James Clavell, 72, Australian-US writer. #WW2 Japanese POW

Writer/co-writer: The Fly (1958) * The Great Escape * 633 Squadron * The Satan Bug (1965)

Screenwriter/director: To Sir, with Love * The Last Valley (1970) Novels: King Rat (1962) * Shōgun (1980) * Noble House (1988)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

10 October 1900 – 1993 Helen Hayes, (b. Brown), 92, US actress. Charles MacArthur (m. 1928 died 1956)

The Sin of Madelon Claudette (1931 Oscar) A Farewell to Arms * Happy Birthday/Time Remembered (Tony Awards) Anastasia * Airport (OscarNom) The Snoop Sisters * Murder with Mirrors (1985 Miss Marple)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

#Netanyahu will undoubtedly try to sabotage this #Ceasefire just as he has every one before to keep power. I pray for people of #Gaza it will be more than a respite but a permanent #Peace

"This it is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1979 – Chris O'Dowd, 46, Irish actor, writer.

The Clinic (2003-05) The IT Crowd * Gulliver's Travels * Bridesmaids * Friends with Kids * The Sapphires * Cuban Fury * Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children * Loving Vincent * Cloverfield Paradox * Moone Boy (2012-15 + writer/director)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1964 – Guillermo del Toro (Gomez), 61, Mexican-US filmmaker.

Cronos (1992) * Mimic * Hellboy * Pan's Labyrinth (OscarNom) * Hellboy II Golden Army * Pacific Rim * Crimson Peak * The Shape of Water (Three Oscars) * Nightmare Alley (OscarNom) * Pinocchio (Oscar) * Frankenstein (2025)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1939 – 2023 John Pilger, 84, Australian-British journalist, war correspondent, filmmaker.

Year Zero (1979) Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993) #Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002) The Secret Country (1985) The War on Democracy (2007) The War You Don't See (2010) Utopia (2013)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1936 – Brian Blessed, 89, English stage and film actor, voice artist, mountaineer.

Z-Cars (1962-65) * I, Claudius (1976) * Flash Gordon * Henry V * Blackadder * King Lear (+ director) * Robin Hood Prince of Thieves * Star Wars: Episode I Phantom Menace (Boss Nass) * As You Like It (2006)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1902 – 1998 Freddie Young, 96, English cinematographer.

Oscars: Lawrence of Arabia * Doctor Zhivago * Ryan's Daughter

Victoria the Great * Sixty Glorious Years * Goodbye Mr. Chips * Caesar + Cleopatra * Lust for Life * You Only Live Twice * Battle of Britain * Nicholas + Alexandra (1971)

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Lauren Facall @laurenfacall.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1900 – 1976 Alastair Sim, 75, Scottish actor.

The Riverside Murder (1935) * Cottage to Let * Green for Danger * The Happiest Days of Your Life * #Hitchcock Stage Fright * Laughter in Paradise * Scrooge * St. Trinian's * An Inspector Calls * School for Scoundrels * The Ruling Class (1972)

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