1950s

A list of events in the1950s related toStar Wars.

Births[]

1950[]

• February 21 –Larry Drake.
• March 6 –Allen Milgrom.
• March 26 –K. W. Jeter.
• April 5 –A. C. Crispin.
• April 13 –Ron Perlman.
• May 7 –Rick Veitch.
• May 13 –Joe Johnston.
• May 28 –Denny Delk.
• June 6 –John Byrne.
• June 13 –Stellan Skarsgård.
• June 26 –Tom DeFalco.
• July 6 –Geraldine James.
• July 10 –Nick Jameson.
• September 14 –Michael Reaves.
• September 24 –Harriet Walter.
• September 27 –Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
• October 1 –Natalia Nogulich.
• October 4 –Alan Rosenberg.
• October 4 –Tom Spackman.
• October 7 –Howard Chaykin.
• October 18 –Gerald Home.
• November 7 –Lindsay Duncan.
• November 30 –Chris Claremont.
• December 8 –Rick Baker.
• December 10 –Gregg Berger.
• ? –Ken Wheat.

1951[]

• February 5 –Robin Sachs.
• April 10 –Peter Bernstein.
• April 11 –Jay Benedict.
• April 17 –Olivia Hussey.
• June 24 –Mark Klastorin.
• July 9 –David Anthony Pizzuto.
• July 19 –Mark Capri.
• July 25 –Anthony Forrest.
• August 6 –Ed Hannigan.
• August 6 –Jack Klaff.
• August 13 –Gene Day.
• August 20 –Greg Bear.
• August 24 –Tony Amendola.
• August 28 –Barbara Hambly.
• September 1 –Timothy Zahn.
• September 25 –Mark Hamill.
• September 26 –Tom Veitch.
• September 27 –Jim Shooter.
• October 30 –P. Craig Russell.
• December 1 –Treat Williams.
• December 15 –David Bischoff.
• December 22 –Tony Isabella.

1952[]

• January 20 –Dave Fennoy.
• January 23 –Klaus Janson.
• January 27 –Steve Leialoha.
• March 1 –Steven Barnes.
• March 2 –Mark Evanier.
• April 17 –Joe Alaskey.
• May 30 –Mike W. Barr.
• July 1 –Brian George.
• June 7 –Liam Neeson.
• June 7 –Rick Hoberg.
• July 15 –Celia Imrie.
• July 16 –Stewart Copeland.
• July 21 –Kathy Tyers.
• August 4 –Kristoffer Tabori.
• August 23 –Terry Austin.
• August 27 –Paul Reubens.
• October 11 –Jim Woodring.
• October 18 –Jeff Moon.
• November 3 –Jim Cummings.
• November 17 –Duwayne Dunham.
• December 2 –Keith Szarabajka.
• December 19 –Linda Woolverton.
• December 23 –Elaine Baker.
• December 27 –Tovah Feldshuh.
• ? –Rick Carter.
• ? –Steve Gawley.
• ? –Terry Madden.
• ? –Jim Wheat.

1953[]

• January 27 –Richard Bremmer.
• March 21 –Taborah Johnson.
• March 27 –Patricia C. Wrede.
• April 18 –Howard Roffman.
• April 26 –Andrew Secombe.
• May 18 –Alan Kupperberg.
• May 24 –Alfred Molina.
• May 25 –Stan Sakai.
• June 2 –Rick Berry.
• June 5 –Kathleen Kennedy.
• June 12 –Michael Donovan.
• July 14 –Dorothée.
• August 6 –Valerie Wildman.
• October 26 –Jennifer Roberson.
• October 27 –Peter Firth.
• October 29 –Adam Bareham.
• November 2 –Tom Lyle.
• November 18 –Alan Moore.
• November 23 –Carl Gafford.
• December 15 –J. M. DeMatteis.
• ? –Walter Jon Williams.

1954[]

• February 9 –Mary Jo Duffy.
• February 9 –Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
• March 1 –Ron Howard.
• April 10 –Peter MacNicol.
• April 14 –Chuck Dixon.
• April 26 –Kerry Gammill.
• April 27 –John Cygan.
• June 19 –Anthony Phelan.
• August 29 –Michael P. Kube-McDowell.
• August 30 –David Paymer.
• September 7 –Doug Bradley.
• September 26 –Craig Chaquico.
• October 27 –Jan Duursema.
• November 2 –Brian Augustyn.
• December 12 –Stephanie Steele.
• December 14 –James Horan.
• December 17 –Beau Smith.
• December 22 –Hugh Quarshie.
• ? –Terry Moore.
• ? –Simon Templeman.

1955[]

• February 1 –Diana Schutz.
• February 8 –Ethan Phillips.
• February 14 –James Eckhouse.
• February 22 –Mark Boudreaux.
• March 7 –Michael Jan Friedman.
• March 17 –Mark Boone Junior.
• May 12 –John Chapman.
• June 1 –Ralph Morse.
• June 15 –Brent Anderson.
• July 9 –Jimmy Smits.
• July 19 –Tudi Roche.
• July 27 –Roger Guenveur Smith.
• August 3 –Corey Burton.
• September 3 –Tim Landry.
• September 9 –Edward Hibbert.
• September 14 –Jim Novak.
• September 16 –Dirk Yohan Beer.
• September 17 –Charles Martinet.
• October 24 –Françoise Mouly.
• December 16 –Xander Berkeley.
• December 28 –Janice Chiang.
• ? –Clem Robins.

1956[]

• January 1 –Michael Gough.
• February 9 –Timothy Truman.
• February 28 –Lloyd Sherr.
• March 4 –Randy Stradley.
• March 11 –Rob Paulsen.
• April 26 –Koo Stark.
• May 13 –Kirk Thornton.
• June 18 –Alan Davis.
• June 30 –David Alan Grier.
• July 1 –Matt Jacobs.
• July 13 –Roger Jackson.
• July 17 –Tim Rose.
• August 30 –Adam Arkin.
• September 11 –Tony Gilroy.
• September 23 –Peter David.
• September 25 –Jamie Hyneman.
• September 28 –Kiran Shah.
• October 21 –Carrie Fisher.
• December 3 –Michael Gough.
• ? –Jerome Blake.

1957[]

• January 17 –Ann Nocenti.
• January 24 –Adrian Edmondson.
• January 27 –Frank Miller.
• February 1 –Gilbert Hernandez.
• February 7 –Dave Cooper.
• March 17 –Iain McCaig.
• March 29 –Elizabeth Hand.
• May 5 –Richard E. Grant.
• June 12 –Glynnis Talken Campbell.
• June 18 –Ralph Brown.
• July 30 –Victor Slezak.
• August 7 –Paul Dini.
• August 9 –Rick Leonardi.
• August 12 –Elaine Cunningham.
• August 13 –Kathleen Gati.
• August 27 –Jeff Grubb.
• September 26 –Roger MacBride Allen.
• October 10 –David Lodge.
• October 30 –Miguel A. Fuertes.
• October 30 –Kevin Pollak.
• November 6 –Cam Clarke.
• November 19 –Tom Virtue.
• November 27 –Michael A. Stackpole.
• December 1 –Deep Roy.
• December 11 –Peter Bagge.
• ? –Paul Chadwick.
• ? –Lawrence Holland.
• ? –Kathryn Hunter.

1958[]

• January 6 –Wayne Douglas Barlowe.
• February 7 –Kevin Schon.
• February 7 –Alastair Duncan.
• February 13 –Pernilla August.
• March 21 –Gary Oldman.
• March 23 –Michael Sorich.
• March 27 –Adrian Rawlins.
• March 30 –Maurice LaMarche.
• March 31 –Tony Cox.
• April 26 –Giancarlo Esposito.
• May 27 –Daniel Mindel.
• June 4 –Josef Rubinstein.
• June 9 –John Dukakis.
• June 25 –Joyce Kurtz.
• June 29 –Jeff Coopwood.
• July 2 –Jasper Jacob.
• July 2 –Stephen Rashbrook.
• August 1 –Adrian Dunbar.
• September 3 –Kevin Kiner.
• September 25 –Derek Lyons.
• October 8 –Troy Denning.
• October 13 –Charity James.
• October 22 –Michael Price.
• November 3 –Tracy Eddon.
• November 19 –Terrence Carson.
• ? –Chris Corbould.
• ? –Dave Dorman.
• ? –Ron James.

1959[]

• January 5 –Clancy Brown.
• January 7 –Karl Kesel.
• January 20 –R. A. Salvatore.
• February 3 –Jimmy Vee.
• February 8 –Aaron McClellan.
• April 20 –Clint Howard.
• May 19 –Jim Ward.
• June 24 –John Gilroy.
• June 24 –Dan Gilroy.
• July 5 –Pablo Helman.
• July 8 –Stan Woch.
• July 19 –Luke McDonnell.
• July 22 –Nigel D. Findley.
• October 3 –Greg Proops.
• October 13 –Wayne Pygram.
• October 23 –"Weird Al" Yankovic.
• December 14 –Debbie Lee Carrington.

Events[]

• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is founded onJune 23, 1953.
• Disneyland opens in 1955.
• Galoob is founded in 1957.

Sources[]

• Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle
• Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle (updated edition)
• Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated and Expanded Edition
• Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition

External links[]

• 1950s onWikipedia