Dan Curtis

Daniel Mayer Cherkoss, known by his pen name Dan Curtis, was an American television and film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known as the creator of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71), and for directing the epic World War II miniseries The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988). ^{Dan Curtis, American director and producer (d. 2006)}

12 August 1928

Born on the same birth date (12 August 1928): Bob Buhl • Charles Blackman

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Daniel Biles • Gustavs Zemgals • Henrik Sillem • Hong Jeong-ho • Jane Wyatt • John Cazale • LaKeith Stanfield • Martha Hedman • Michael Kidd • Porter Wagoner • Walter Dean Myers

Born in the same month (August 1928): Addison Farmer • Bob Buhl • Carl Joachim Classen • Charles Blackman • Herbert Kroemer • Herbert Meier • Joan Kroc • John Tidmarsh • Johnny Mann • Mangosuthu Buthelezi • Marge Schott • Om Prakash Munjal • Péter Boross