Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American actor, comedian, dancer and singer who also performed in vaudeville.
 Albertson is known for his role as John Cleary in "The Subject Was Roses" (1968), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Grandpa Joe in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971); Manny Rosen in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972); and Ed Brown in the television sitcom "Chico and the Man" (1974–78).
 For his contributions to the television industry, Albertson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.
 He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face."
 Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor–director in the history of the movies".
 His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and he descended into alcoholism, ruining his family life.
 He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959.
Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978) is an American actor, model and director.
 He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama "Lost" and Damon Salvatore in The CW's supernatural drama "The Vampire Diaries".
The 10th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine "Empire", honored the best films of 2004 and took place on 13 March 2005 at the Guildhall in London, England.
 During the ceremony, "Empire" presented Empire Awards in 10 categories as well as four honorary awards.
 The honorary Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema award was first introduced this year.
 To celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the award ceremonies a special honorary award was presented, the Icon of the Decade award.
 The awards for Best British Actor, Best British Actress and Best British Director as well as the honorary Independent Spirit award were presented for the last time.
 This was the first year the Lifetime Achievement Award was not presented.
 The ceremony was televised in the United Kingdom by Channel 5 on March 15.
 English television presenter and radio presenter Johnny Vaughan hosted the show for the first time.
 The awards were sponsored by Sony Ericsson for the third consecutive year.
Vinod Johri (10 June 1935 – 10 May 2014) was an Indian astrophysicist.
 He was an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995.
 Johri had over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals.
 His major contributions in cosmological research included 'power law inflation, genesis of quintessence fields of dark energy and phantom cosmologies'.
 He was the co-author of the first model of power law inflation in Brans–Dicke theory along with C. Mathiazhagan.
 He was honored by Uttar Pradesh Government by Research Award of the Council of Science & Technology (CSIR).
The 1st Empire Awards ceremony, presented by the British film magazine "Empire", honored the best films of 1995 and took place in 1996.
 During the ceremony, "Empire" presented Empire Awards in eight categories as well as one honorary award.
 The first award ceremony introduced eight award categories for Best Film, Best British Film, Best Actor, Best British Actor, Best Actress, Best British Actress, Best Director and Best Debut as well as the honorary Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Genesis Awards are awarded annually by the Humane Society of the United States to individuals in the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding works which raise public awareness of animal issues.
 Presented by the HSUS Hollywood Outreach program, the awards show takes place every March in California.
 The awards have honored such well-known personalities as Michael Jackson, Aaron Sorkin, Anderson Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Goodall, David E. Kelley, Paul McCartney, Arthur Miller, Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, Prince, Jacques Cousteau and Ian Somerhalder, as well as journalists, film and documentary writers and producers, print and broadcast news outlets in the United States.
Daniel Frischman (born April 23, 1959) is an American actor, noted for playing socially inept "geeks" and "nerds".
 Frischman's birthdate is often listed as 1964, because early in his career his acting agent encouraged him to falsify his age to make himself more eligible for teenaged acting roles.
 He was born in Whippany, New Jersey.
Instinct is a 1999 American psychological thriller film starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., George Dzundza, Donald Sutherland, and Maura Tierney.
 It was very loosely inspired by "Ishmael", a novel by Daniel Quinn.
 In the United States, the film had the working title "Ishmael".
 In 2000, the film was nominated for and won a Genesis Award in the category of feature film.
 This was the first film produced by Spyglass Entertainment after Caravan Pictures shut down.
Judy Irving is an American filmmaker.
 She directed the documentary "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill", about writer Mark Bittner's relationship with a flock of wild parrots.
 The film won the Genesis Award for "Outstanding Documentary Film" in 2005, and is one of the 25 top-grossing theatrical documentaries of all time with over $3 million in box-office receipts.
 On May 29, 2007, "Parrots" was featured on the PBS series "Independent Lens".

Question: What is the birthdate of this American actor, model, and director, who played on "Lost" and was honored with a Genesis Award?
Answer: December 8, 1978