Sunday, April 13, 2008

Today's Celebrity Birthdays 4/13

Stanley Donen - age 84 - American movie director of "Funny Face" and "Pajama Game;" co-director of "Singin' in the Rain"

Lyle Waggoner - age 73 - American actor who was an announcer and performed on CBS's "The Carol Burnett Show"

Lanford Wilson - age 71 - Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright known for his gay themes and characters

Paul Sorvino - age 69 - American character actor who was in the films "Goodfellas," "The Firm" and NBC's "Law & Order"

Jack Casady - age 64 - American bass guitarist who backed Ray Charles and was in the band Jefferson Airplane

Tony Dow - age 63 - American actor who played Wally Cleaver on "Leave it to Beaver"

Al Green - age 62 - American gospel and soul singer

Ron Perlman - age 58 - American actor who played Vincent on CBS's "Beauty and the Beast" and the title role in the adaptation of the comic book "Hellboy"

William Sadler - age 58 - American character actor who was in "The Shawshank Redemption" and the WB's "Roswell"

Peabo Bryson - age 57 - American R&B and soul singer

Max Weinberg - age 57 - drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and the bandleader for NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"

Sam Bush - age 56 - American bluegrass mandolin player

Jimmy Destri - age 54 - keyboard player and songwriter for the rock band Blondie

Louis Johnson - age 53 - American bassist who collaborated with Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney and John Mellencamp, among others

Gary Kroeger - age 51 - former castmember of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and host of several revived game shows, including "The Newlywed Game"

Saundra Santiago - age 51 - American actress best known as Detective Gina Calabrese on NBC's "Miami Vice"

Caroline Rhea - age 44 - Canadian actress and stand-up comedian who played Hilda on ABC's "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" and was the original host of NBC's "The Biggest Loser"

Marc Ford - age 42 - former lead guitarist of the hard rock jam band The Black Crowes

Capleton - age 41 - Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist

Ricky Schroder - age 38 - American child actor who went on to act in ABC's "NYPD Blue"

Lou Bega - age 33 - West German-born Latin-pop musician

Glenn Howerton - age 32 - American actor, writer and executive producer of FX's "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

Nellie McKay - age 26 - British-born American pop singer and actress

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