The Rap Sheet

I want to take a moment this morning to wish screenwriter and TV producer William Theodore Link the happiest of 77th birthdays. The co-crea...

Had he not died back in 1998, today would have been singer-actor Frank Sinatra ’s 95th birthday. To celebrate, we’ve embedded (above) the ...

Had he not perished of pneumonia back in 1994, actor George Peppard would today be celebrating his 82nd birthday. Thanks to his roles in th...

We want to send out our fondest wishes to Colin Dexter , the British schoolteacher turned author who created the now-famous mystery fiction ...

Well, it looks as if I’m not the only one who remembered that today would have been the 90th birthday of Kentucky-born actor William Conrad ...

Maj Sjöwall , the Edgar Award-winning Swedish author and translator who, with her partner Per Wahlöö , wrote 10 highly acclaimed novels fea...

This is a red-letter day for celebrating birthdays of folks near and dear to the hearts of crime-fiction fans. As Ivan G. Shreve Jr. reminds...

We offer our best birthday wishes today to the man who, for many filmgoers and spy-fiction fans, will always be James Bond . Sir Thomas Sean...

Happy birthday to actor Mike Connors , who starred for eight years in Mannix (1967-1975) and today turns 85 years old. READ MORE: “ Booksh...

One hundred and sixteen years ago today, a birth occurred on a tobacco farm in southern Maryland that would alter the course of crime fictio...

Mr. T (aka Laurence Tureaud), who played the mohawk-wearing B.A. Baracus on the 1980s TV series The A-Team , turns 58 years old today.

The star of The Rockford Files turns 82 years old today !

It’s time to break out the cake and candles for John Astin . The Baltimore-born actor and director turns 80 years old today. Although probab...

Having become a big fan of Thomas B. Dewey ’s detective fiction--both his series about compassionate Chicago private eye Mac , and the other...

Incredible as this seems, today marks the 80th birthday of American actor Robert Wagner . He of course starred as burglar-cum-spy Alexander ...