365 Days of Columbo: October 1st

Happy Birthday, Angela May

Angela May was born on October 1, 1948. She played Ruth in Identity Crisis, the episode in which Patrick McGoohan’s Nelson Brenner tries to keep his secrets from a detective who never quite accepts the answers he’s given.

Happy Birthday, Shaaron Claridge

Born on October 1, 1938, Shaaron Claridge had an unusual connection to police television: she worked as a real Los Angeles police dispatcher and supplied a dispatch voice for Adam-12. She can also be heard, uncredited, as a police dispatcher in Make Me a Perfect Murder. 

Remembering Joyce Jillson

Joyce Jillson died on October 1, 2004. Columbo fans may remember her as Joan Stacey in Any Old Port in a Storm. Her career took an unexpected turn beyond acting: she wrote a daily astrology column that appeared in nearly 200 newspapers.



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