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Actors Born in October 1938

  • Oct 2 Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor (Myra Breckinridge), born in Fort Worth, Texas
  • Oct 2 Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (Armaan), born in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan (d. 1983)
  • Oct 8 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service) (d. 1993)

Fred Stolle (85 years old)

Oct 8 Australian tennis player, broadcaster (French C'ship 1965, US Nat C'ship 1966), born in Sydney, Australia

  • Oct 13 Jim McMullan, American actor (Dr McDaniel-Ben Casey), born on Long Island, New York
  • Oct 16 Nico [Christa Päffgen], German singer-songwriter (Velvet Underground), fashion model, and actress, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1988)

Dawn Wells (1938-2020)

Oct 18 American actress (Gilligan's Island -"Mary Ann"), born in Reno, Nevada [1]

Christopher Lloyd (85 years old)

Oct 22 American Emmy Award-winning actor (Taxi - "Reverend Jim"; Back to the Future films), born in Stamford, Connecticut

  • Oct 22 Derek Jacobi, British Tony, BAFTA, and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor and director (I, Claudius; Much Ado About Nothing; Dead Again), born in London, England
  • Oct 23 Jordan Christopher, American actor (Secrets of Midland Heights), born in Youngstown, Ohio
  • Oct 26 Bernadette Lafont, French actress (Perils of Gwendoline), born in Nimes, France (d. 2013)
  • Oct 28 Anne Perry [Juliet Marion Hulme], English-born crime writer (convicted of murder as a child as filmed in "Heavenly Creatures"), born in London, England (d. 2023) [1]
  • Oct 28 David Dimbleby, English TV presenter and political commentator, born in Surrey, England
  • Oct 29 Ralph Bakshi, Krymchak-American animator and film maker (Fritz the Cat; Lord of the Rings (1978); Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures), born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
  • Oct 30 Ed Lauter, American actor (The Artist, The Number 23), born in Long Beach, New York (d. 2013)

About October 1938

How Old? 85 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: No

Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
Star Signs: Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22), Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)