Happy Birthday to actor Earl Cameron, who played theastronaut Williams in The Tenth Planet, who has reached the momentous age of100!

4 days ago he was invited to unveil a plaque at Coventry Theatre commemorating the fact thatin 1828 the then 20 year-old Ira Aldridge became Manager of that theatre makingher the first black person to run a British theatre (her daughter was voicecoach to Cameron). Apparently, Earl performed Othello's final speech at thisevent – from memory!