Julian Beck
Julian Beck was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the documentary film Signals Through the Flames (1983).
31 May 1925
Born on the same birth day (31 May): Antti Niemi (footballer) • Chien-Shiung Wu • Don Ameche • Erik Karlsson • Frode Estil • Gabriele Hinzmann • Jake Peavy • John George II, Elector of Saxony • John Ringling • John Young (musician) • June Clark (nurse) • Lucile Godbold • Norman Vincent Peale • Pankaj Roy • Peter Yarrow • Ray Cote • Shane Bieber • Susie Essman
Born in the same month (May 1925): Ali Hassan Mwinyi • Andrei Eshpai • Bülent Ecevit • Carl Sanders • Carmen Montejo • Chuck Bednarik • Claude Pinoteau • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau • Don Liddle • Jean Tinguely • Jeanne Crain • John Marks (doctor) • Leo Ryan • Lillian Hoban • Mai Zetterling • Nancy Roman • Ola Vincent • Patrice Munsel • Sophie Kurys • Yogi Berra