Chronography of films, actors, theatres and
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Films
� see appendix 1a below
Film
production � see appendix 1b below
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Actors,
film directors and film stars � see appendix 3 below
Theatres, concerts, operas � see appendix
5 below
Art Galleries = see Appendix
6 below
Appendix 1a � Films
For Harry Potter films see books
26/2/2012, The Artist
became the first silent film to win
an Oscar since 1927.
31/8/2004, Mel Gibson�s
film, The
Passion of the Christ, sold some 4.1 million copies in the USA on
the first day it was released on video and DVD,
2/10/1990. Ghost was one of the films on release.
13/8/1990. Die Hard II
was one of the film on release.
2/12/1984, Films on
included Ghostbusters
and Gremlins.
21/5/1980, The Star Wars
sequel, The
Empire Strikes Back, premiered.
8/6/1977. Films on
release included Blazing
Saddles.
30/3/1975. Films on
release included Monty
Python and the Holy Grail.
29/11/1974. In the
cinema the new sensurround film Earthquake
made its debut.
12/4/1974. Films on
release included Last
Tango in Paris and The Exorcist.
4/1/1974. The James Bond
film Live and
let Die was released in South Africa.
16/10/1972. Films
included Steven Spielberg�s Duel.
17/12/1971, The James Bond
film, Diamonds
Are Forever, was released in the US and Denmark
22/2/1969. Films on
release included 2001:
A Space Odyssey.
7/10/1968. Films on
release included 2001:
A Space Odyssey.
30/5/1968, The films 2001: A Space
Odyssey and Planet of the Apes were showing.
30/10/1967. Captain Scarlet
merchandise hit the shops.
20/10/1967, Roger Patterson
and Robert
Gimlin filmed �Bigfoot�, on an expedition in northern
California to search for the creature.
16/12/1968, World
premier of the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
15/6/1967. Films
included The
Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy.
27/1/1963. Films on
release included Cape
Fear.
22/9/1964, The James Bond
film Goldfinger
premiered in Leicester� Square, London.
18/11/1962. The first
James Bond
film, Dr No,
was released.
16/6/1960, Alfred
Hitchcock�s terrifying film Psycho
opened in new York.
11/11/1959, The film Ben Hur
premiered in London.
1958, The first �Carry on� film was released, Carry on
Sergeant. The series went on for 20 years, with a heavy emphasis on
double-entendres.
21/10/1957, Elvis Presley�s
3rd musical drama film, Jailhouse Rock, opened in the USA.
3/11/1954, The first
Godzilla
movie was released in Japan. The story was of a giant beast awoken from a
million-year slumber by nuclear weapons testing in the south Pacific.
4/3/1950, Walt Disney�s
Cinderella
was released.
9/1/1951, The first
film to receive the new X rating opened in London. Entitled Life Begins Tomorrow, it
received the rating for a scene dealing with artificial insemination.
13/8/1942, The Walt Disney film Bambi premiered at Radio City Music Hall, New
York.
31/10/1941, The Walt Disney
film Dumbo
was released today.
13/11/1940, The Walt Disney
film Fantasia
had its first showing.
27/7/1940, Warner Brothers released the film A Wild Hare,
Bugs Bunny�s
first feature film, containing the line Eh,
what�s up doc?
14/1/1938, Walt Disney�s
Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full length colour and sound
animated cartoon, went on general release across the USA.
21/12/1937. Walt Disney�s
Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full length colour and sound
animated cartoon was premiered in Los Angeles, USA.
5/2/1936, Charlie Chaplin
released the last
ever silent film, Modern Times.
2/3/1933, The film King Kong
premiered in New York.
20/1/1929, In Old Arizona,
the first full-length talking ,movie filmed outdoors, was released.
19/9/1928. The first cartoon talking picture, Walt Disney�s
Steamboat
Willie, with Mickey Mouse (originally called Mortimer Mouse), was
shown in New York.
6/7/1928, The first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York, was presented at The Sound
Theatre, New York.
10/1/1927, The
futuristic film Metropolis,
by Fritz
Lang, premiered. It was the most expensive silent film made so far,
costing 7 million German Marks, equivalent to US$ 200 million in 2005.
16/8/1925, Charlie
Chaplin�s film Gold Rush was premiered in America.
21/12/1925. Battleship
Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein, opened in the USSR.
1/11/1925, The
Buster Keaton film Go West opened.
23/9/1912. Mack Sonnett
released the first Keystone Cops film.�
21/9/1903. The first Wild West movie, Kit Carson, opened in the USA.
It was 21 minutes long.
Appendix 1b � Film Productiom
8/4/1985, Rupert Murdoch
bought Twentieth Century Fox.
1960, Just 10 million people in the UK
visited the cinema at least once a week, compared to 25 million in 1954. TV had
made great inroads into cinema audiences, but rigid cinema film distribution
schedules did not help. New films, of whatever standard, good or bad, were
shown, for example,� across northwest
London for a week, trhen for a week in north east London; south London
generally got the last viewings, by which time the film would have lost miuch
of its novelty factor. UK cinema admissions declined from 600 million in 1959
to 225 million in 1970.
1959, BAFTA, the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts, was flrmed from an amalgamation of
the British Film Academy (founded 1948) and the Guild of Television Producers
(founded 1954). It gives annual awards for merit in the TV and film industry,
1959, The first film made in Smell-o-Vision (The Scent of Mystery) was released. The
process did not catch on.
22/1/1959, Two
thirds of British homes now had a television. The Rank Organisation, on 17/9/1959, said cinema attendance in Britain
fell from 1.396 million in 1950 to 1.101 million in 1956 and was still in
decline.
10/4/1953, The first full colour feature film from a major studio, The House of Wax, premiered at New
York�s Paramount Theater.
18/2/1953, The first 3-D film, Bwana
Devil, opened in New York City.
9/4/1951, The first trials of Pay-per-View TV in Chicago, Illinois. Viewers paid
US$3 to download three films.
20/9/1946. The first Cannes Film Festival opened.
30/9/1936, Pinewood Film Studios
opened.
1935, The first film made in 3-colour Technicolour, Becky
Sharp, was released. In 1932 Technicolour was first utilised for a Walt
Disney cartoon film. The process is no longer used.
1933, Joseph Arthur Rank entered the film industry, to promote Methodism.
1933, The British Film Institute (BFI) was founded to promote the cinema sa a
means of entertainment and instruction. The BFI includes the National Film
Archive (founded 1935) and the National Film Theatre (founded 1951).
1930, The Western Big Trail was filmed in 70 mm film (see 1917). 70mm was sometimes
used for big epic films such as Lawrence
of Arabia, but 35mm remained the common standard
18/2/1929, The First
Academy Awards, known as Oscars from 1931, were announced.
6/10/1927. The first full length talking
picture, The Jazz Singer, opened in New York. The soundtrack
was almost entirely music. The biggest problem with sound movies was synchronising speech with
mouth movements.
26/3/1927. The
Gaumont British
Film Corporation was founded.
1925, In Britain the cinema was a major source of entertainment
and news. For just 6d, or 2d in the �fleapits� you could a newsreel, a feature
film, a second film after an advertisement, and then a cartoon. Children paid
just 1d/. The largest cinemas could seat 3,000, but people also stood at the
back.
1924, Columbia Pictures,
US film and distribution company, was formed.
16/4/1924. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film corporation
was formed by merger.
1923, Warner Brothers US film production company was founded.
1922, Technicolour
was first used, initially as a 2-colour (red and green) superimposed image
system. The system was expensive and gave poor results, but was improved with a
3-colour system from 1932 and then widely adopted.
1917, 35 mm film was adopted as the
industry standard by the Society of Motion Picture Engineers of America, see
1889 and 1930.
1912, Paramount Studios was formed, originally as The Famous Players Film
Company, by Adolph
Zukor (1873-1976). In 1914 it merged with the distribution company Paramount Pictures. In 1966 the company
was taken over by Gulf and Western Industries.
1912, The British Board of Film Censors
was founded. It was renamed in 1985 as the British Board of Film
Classification.
1910, The USA now possessed some 10,000
�nickelodeons� cinenas where admission was one nickel (5 cents). These cinemas
recieved 26 million visitors every week. They showed a succession of short
silent films, many consisteing of newsreels, with no continuity or order;
patrons were expected to come and go at different times. The short films meant
plots were very simple, with no time for character development.
24/2/1909. Colour films were shown to the public for the first time, in
Brighton.
1907, Britain�s
first film-only picture theatre, the Balham Palace, opened in SW London.
1906, The earliest colour film, made in Kinemacolor, was patented.
5/12/1901. Walt Disney
was born.
2/6/1899, Lotte Reiniger,
film animator, was born.
3/10/1896, Queen Victoria
became the first British monarch to be captured on moving film, at Balmoral.
11/6/1892, The
Limelight Department, one of the world�s first film studios, was established in
Melbourne, Australia.
1889, Edison invented 35 mm film, see 1917.
23/12/1888. The film
magnate J Arthur Rank was born. Born in Hull, England, he was born into a Yorkshire flour
milling family. He entered the film business in his mid 30s, seeing it as a way
to propagate his Methodist faith. He failed to secure distribution for a
religious film called The Turn of the Tide and so began his own
production, distribution, and exhibition of films in 1933. By the 1940s the
Rank Organisation owned half the film studios in Britain and over 1,000
cinemas, including the well-known Odeon chain. However Rank failed to establish
Britain as a rival to Hollywood. The Rank Organisation survives but with films
as a secondary interest behind hotels, real estate, ballrooms, bingo, and, most
profitable of all, copying machines.
Appendix
2� -Telegraph, Radio and Telephone
Communications
14/2/1989. Skyphone,
the world�s first satellite telephone
service, was launched on a British Airways flight from London to New York.
1/1/1985, The first mobile phone call was made, by Ernie Wise
to Vodafone.
1962, The concept of music playing whilst a
telephone call was on hold was born. Alfred Levy, factory owner, allegedly came up
with the idea when a loose wire on his company�s phone system touched a girder
which acted as an aerial and picked up music from a nearby radio station.
Callers to Mr Levy heard music, not silence, whilst on hold. The advantage of
music was that a caller on hold knew they had not been cut off, the line was
still open.
12/8/1960. The first US
communications satellite, Echo 1,
was launched.
1/1/1934. Britain now had over 2 million telephone
subscribers, with 275,000 more joining every year.
1/5/1933, The Britain to India telephone service began.
30/4/1930. A telephone link opened between Britain and
Australia.
2/12/1929. Britain got its first 22 public phone boxes.
1/1/1929. In the UK, there were now 3.6 telephones per 100
people.
7/1/1927. The transatlantic telephone service between London and New York began. The charge was �15 for three minutes.
11/5/1925. Direct telephone communication between London and
Rome began for the first time.
7/1/1924. Direct communication by transatlantic cable and land
wire was opened by the Western Union Telegraph Company between London and
Chicago.
20/3/1919. Wireless telephone communication established between
Ireland and Canada.
22/1/1918, Radio-telegraphic communication was inaugurated
between the USA and Italy.
23/1/1908, A 7,000 mile telegraph line from Britain to India
began operations.
1902, The Cape Town to Australia
cable, via Mauritius and Rodriguez opened.
1901, In the previous 12 months,
84,000,000 telegrams had been sent in the UK, compared to 9,000,000 in 1870/1.
1893, The
Mauritius-Seychelles-Aden-Zanzibar-Europe cable opened.
12/7/1892, Cyrus Field, US capitalist who projected the
first transatlantic cable, died (born 30/11/1819).
18/3/1891, The
London-Paris telephone link opened.�
The first call was between the Prince of Wales and President Carnot. The link
opened to the public on 1/4/1891.
14/3/1891. The submarine Monarch laid
the first telephone cable across the English Channel.
24/2/1887, The
telephone link between Paris and Brussels was inaugurated, the first such link
between national capitals.
18/2/1876. A
direct telegraph link was set up between Britain and New Zealand.
23/11/1872. Australia was connected by undersea cable to the
rest of the world. The cable ran from Darwin in the north to Java, and also
into southern Australia.
3/6/1871. London gained direct communication with Shanghai
via an undersea cable laid via San Francisco.
1868, The UK Parliament passed a
Bill enabling the Post Office to take over the competing private companies
running electric telegraphs along the new rail routes. Electric telegraph links had been
installed along the railway between Eustgon and Camden Town in 1837, and along
the Great Western line between Paddington and Hanwell, and by the 1850s three
large telegraph companies wree competing along the nations railway routes,
Parliament considered this competition wasteful, and effectively created the first nationalised company.
27/7/1866. The first successful transatlantic cable was laid by
the Great Eastern, which arrived this day at Hearts Content, Newfoundland.
Attempts had been made to do this since 1856.
5/8/1858, The first transatlantic cable was
completed, by Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832 � 1888), and
opened by Queen
Victoria and President Buchanan. See 7/9/1866. It initially
worked but failed in October 1858 due to decay of its electrical insulation. A
second cable was succesfuly laid in 7/1866.
7/7/1858, Work began on laying the first transatlantic cable.
13/11/1851. A telegraphic service between London and
Paris was started.
28/8/1850. The Channel telegraph was laid between
Dover and Cap Gris Nez.
30/11/1819, Cyrus Field, US capitalist who projected the
first transatlantic cable, was born (died 12/7/1892).
Appendix
3 � Actors, film directors and film stars
4/9/2014, Joan Rivers, US actress, died aged 81/
11/8/2014, Robin Williams, star actor in the film Mrs Doubtfire, died aged 63.
19/7/2014, US actor James Garner died aged 86,
29/4/2014, Bob Hoskins, British actor, died.
6/4/2014, US actor Mickey Rooney died aged 93.
2/2/2014, US actor Philip Seymour Hoffmann died.
23/3/2011, Elizabeth
Taylor, UK born Hollywood actress, died aged 79 (born 1932).
4/10/2010, Death
of Norman
Wisdom, British comedian, aged 95.
29/9/2010, US film star Tony Curtis died aged 85.
29/5/2010, US actor Dennis Hopper died aged 74.
22/1/2008, Australian
actor Heath Ledger died aged 28.
30/7/2007, Film directors Michelangelo Antonioni (94) and Ingmar Bergman
(89) both died this day.
17/1/2007, Protests in the UK and India after, on the Big Brother Reality Show,
Jade Goody
was allegedly racist to Shilpa Shetty.
7/5/2006, Richard Carleton, Australian TV journalist,
died.
24/2/2006, Dennis Weaver, actor, died.
5/2/2006, Norma Candal, actress, died.
14/1/2006, Shelly Winters, actress, died.
10/12/2005, Richard Pryor, comedian, died.
25/9/2005, Don Adams, actor and comedian, died.
11/7/2005, Frances Langford, actress, died.
6/6/2005, Anne Bancroft, actress, died.
25/5/2005, Graham Kennedy, TV personality, died.
9/3/2005, Sheila Gish, actress, died |(born 23/4/1942).
6/3/2005, Teresa Wright, actress, died (born
27/10/1918).
24/2/2005, Leonard Miall, BBC broadcaster, died (born
6/11/1914).
23/2/2005, Simone Simon, actress, died (born 23/4/1910).
21/2/2005, Gene Scott, TV evangelist, died (born
14/8/1929).
20/2/2005, Sandra Dee actress, died (born 23/4/1942)
17/2/2005, Dan O�Herlihy, actor, died (born 1/5/1919).
11/2/2005, Stan Richards, actor, died (born 8/12/1930).
4/2/2005, Ossie Davis, actor and civil rights activist,
died (born 18/12/1917).
1/2/2005, John Vernon, actor, died (born 24/2/1932)
22/1/2005, Patsy Rowlands, actress, died (born
19/1/1934).
17/1/2005, Basil Hoskins, actor, died (born 10/6/1929).
2/12/2004, Alicia Markova, ballerina, died.
10/10/2004, Christopher Reeve, actor, died.
5/10/2004, Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, died.
8/8/2004, Fay Wray, actress, died.
28/3/2004, Sir Peter Ustinov, actor, died.
29/12/2003, Bob Monkhouse, comedian, died.
27/12/2003, Alan Bates, actor, died.
12/11/2003, Actor Jonathan Brandis committed suicide, aged 27
(born 13/4/1976)
14/10/2003, Patrick Dalzel-Job, James Bond inspiration, died.
28/9/2003, Elia Kazan, film director, died.
30/8/2003, Charles Bronson, actor, died.
23/7/2003, Bob Hope, comedian and actor, died.
29/6/2003, Katharine Hepburn, actress, died.
15/6/2003, Hume Cronyn, actor, died.
1/4/2003, Leslie Cheung, actor, died.
28/10/2002, Margaret Booth, film director, died.
25/10/2002, Richard Harris, actor, died.
23/7/2002, Leo McKern, actor, died.
29/6/2002, Rosemary Clooney, actress, died.
23/4/2002, Linda Lovelace, actress, died.
27/3/2002, Billy Wilder, director of films including Some
Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard, died
13/1/2002, Ted Demme, TV director, died.
26/12/2001, Nigel Hawthorne, actor, died.
28/6/2001, Joan Sims, actress, died.
27/6/2001, Jack Lemmon, actor and film director, died.
3/6/2001, Anthony Quinn, actor, died.
11/4/2001, Harry Secombe, actor and comedian, died.
19/2/2001, Stanley Kramer, film director, died.
18/10/2000, Julie London, actress, died.
17/9/2000, British TV producer Paula Yates died from an
accidental drug overdose.
5/8/2000, Sir Alec Guinness, actor, died.
21/5/2000. Sir John Gielgud, British actor, died at the age of 96.
21/11/1999, Quentin Crisp, actor, died.
8/5/1999, British film star Dirk Bogarde died, aged 78.
1/5/1999, Oliver Reed, actor, died.
21/3/1999, Ernie |Wise, comedian, died.
7/3/1999, Stanley Kubrick, film director, died.
6/9/1998, Akira Kurosawa, film director, died.
16/5/1998, Ariel Waller, Canadian child actress, was born.
9/5/1998, Alice Faye (Leppert), US actress died aged 83.
28/2/1998, Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian, died.
17/9/1997, Red Skelton, comedian, died.
30/7/1996, Claudette Colbert, actress, died.
2/4/1996, Minnie Pearl, hillbilly comedienne, died.
9/3/1996, George Burns, actor, died.
25/12/1995, Dean Martin, actor, died.
23/11/1995, French film director Louis Malle died.
18/5/1995, Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, died.
25/4/1995, Ginger Rogers, US actress, died.
20/10/1994, Burt Lancaster, US film actor, died.
11/9/1994, Jessica Tandy, actress, died.
8/5/1994, George Peppard, actor, died.
4/3/1994, John Candy, comedian, died.
23/2/1994, Dakota Fanning, actress, was born.
19/2/1994, English film director Derek Jarman died.
22/1/1994, Telly Savalas, actor, died.
12/1/1994, Samuel Bronston, film producer died aged 85.
21/11/1993, Bill Bixby, actor and director, died.
31/10/1993, River Phoenix, US actor, died.
2/10/1993, Tara Lynne Barr, US actress, was born.
26/6/1993, Jack Bittner, entertainer, died.
2/3/1993, Paul Zimmerman, US screenwriter, died (born 3/7/1938).
6/2/1993, Joseph Mankiewicz, film producer, died.
16/1/1993, Florence Desmond, English actress, died (born 31/5/1905).
2/1/1993, Alden Richards, TV actor, was born.
10/12/1992, �Melissa Roxburgh, Canadian actress, was born.
5/12/1992, Hilary Tindall, English actress (born 14/8/1938) died.
15/10/1992, Vincent Martella, US actor, was born in Rochester, New York
16/10/1992, Shirley Booth, actress, died.
3/10/1992, Matthew Little, actor, was born.
27/6/1992, Allan Jones, US
actor, died aged 84.
6/5/1992. Marlene
Dietrich, German actress, died in Paris aged 90. She was
born on 27/12/1901 in Berlin, and left Germany for the USA in 1930. Her role in
the film The
Blue Angel brought her to fame. She became a US citizen in 1937,
rejecting attempts by Hitler to bring her talents back to Germany.
She played a major role in entertaining the wartime Allied troops. In 1960, on
only her second post-war visit to Germany, she encountered hostility from
pro-Nazi sympathisers. She subsequently remained hostile to the ideas of
returning to Germany again, until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and chose
the city as her final resting place.
8/12/1992, Yui
Yokoyama, Japanese
actress, was born.
25/6/1992, William E
Harris, entertainer, died.
21/6/1992, Max Schneider,
actor, was born.
5/5/1992, Jean Claude
Pascal, actor, died.
24/4/1992, Sean Rademaker,
US actor, was born in Washington, DC.
20/4/1992, Comedian
Benny Hill
died.
20/3/1992, Avonne Taylor,
actress, died.
15/3/1992, Jack Washburn,
actor, died aged 62.
24/2/1992, Kay Loring,
actress, died.
5/2/1992, Laura Liddell,
English actress died aged 83.
6/12/1991, Ann Sorg Coston,
actress died aged 62.
9/11/1991, Yves Montand,
actor, died.
22/10/1991, Peter Willes,
British actor, died.
17/10/1991, Tennessee Ernie
Ford, TV host, died.
11/10/1991, Redd Foxx,
comedian and actor, died.
14/6/1991, Dame Peggy
Ashcroft, actress, died.
24/5/1991, Miriam di San
Servolo, Italian actress, died (born 1912).
18/5/1991, Muriel Box, British
writer, film director and feminist, died aged� 85.
17/5/1991, Daniel Curtis Lee, American
actor, was born.
16/4/1991, David Lean, film director, died.
29/3/1991, Matt Bennett, actor died aged 52 of a brain tumour.
28/3/1991, Amy Bruckner, US� actress,
was born.
15/12/1990, Betty Warren actress,
died.
4/12/1990, Edward Binns, US
actor, died of a heart attack aged 74.
8/11/1990, Grampy Davis, US� actor,
died of a heart attack, aged 87.
3/11/1990, Mary Martin, actress, died.
1/9/1990, Aisling Loftus, English
actress, was born.
25/8/1990, Aras Lynemli, Turkish
actor, was born.
28/6/1990, Estelle Lamont, entertainer, died.
2/6/1990, Rex Carey Harrison, British actor, died aged 82.
16/5/1990, Sammy Davis Junior, US comedian, died.
29/3/1990, Tai Hara, Australian
TV actor, was born.
26/3/1990, Yuya Yagira, Japanese
actor, was born.
8/1/1990, Terry-Thomas, actor and comedian, died.
16/12/1989, Lee van Cleef, movie
star, died.
20/10/1989, Anthony Quayle, actor, died.
6/10/1989, Sophia Thomalla,
German
television actress, was born.
23/9/1989, Mara
Scherzinger, German actress, was born.
23/7/1989, Daniel
Radcliffe, actor, was born.
11/7/1989, Sir Lawrence
Olivier, actor, died.
10/7/1989. Mell Blanc,
the voice behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, died.
27/6/1989, Laurence
Olivier, British actor, died.
30/4/1989, Sergio Leone,
film director, died.
6/3/1989, Harry Andrews,
actor, died aged 77.
3/12/1988, Michela
Quattrociocche, Italian film actress, was born.
27/11/1988, John Carradine,
actor, died.
18/5/1988, Daws Butler,
cartoon voice for Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, died.
27/4/1988, David Scarboro,
British actor, died (born 1968)
13/4/1988, Allison
Williams, US actress, was born.
11/4/1988, Jean �Jeff�
Donnell, US actress, died aged 66 of a heart attack.
10/4/1988, Haley Joel
Osment, actor, was born.
16/1/1988, Ballard
Berkeley, British actor, died aged 83
7/1/1988, Trevor Howard,
actor, died.
27/12/1987, Lily Luahana
Cole, English actress, was born.
30/11/1987, James Baldwin,
actor, died.
10/11/1987, Jessica Tovey,
Australian actress, was born.
26/9/1987, Jang Keun-Suk,
TV actor, was born.
24/9/1987, Grey Damon,
US TV actor, was born.
29/8/1987, Lee Marvin,
actor, died.
28/8/1987, John Huston,
film director, died.
24/6/1987, Jackie Gleason,
actor, died.
22/6/1987, Fred Astaire,
US actor, died.
13/6/1987, Geraldine Page,
actress, died.
15/5/1987, Rita Hayworth, US actress, died of Alzheimer�s
Disease.
10/4/1987, Shay Mitchell,
Canadian actress, was born.
8/3/1987, Milana Vayntrub, TV actress, was born.
3/3/1987, US actor Danny Kaye died.
24/2/1987, Mayuko Iwasa, actress, was born.
21/2/1987, Ashley Green, US actress, was born.
12/2/1987, Lang Jefferies, Canadian
actor, died aged 55.
2911/1986, British-born US actor Cary Grant died.
30/3/1986, Easter Sunday. James Cagney, US actor, died.
5/3/1986, Andrew Jenks, US
filmmaker, was born.
29/1/1986, Leif Erickson, actor, died.
27/1/1986, Lilli Palmer, actress, died.
14/1/1986, Donna Reed, actress, died.
26/12/1985, Harold P Warren, US film
director, died (born 1928).
16/12/1985, Rock Hudson, actor, died.
16/10/1985, Claude Stroud, actor,
died.
10/10/1985, Orson Welles, US
actor, died aged 70.
30/3/1985, Harold Peary,
actor, died of a heart attack aged 76.
21/10/1984, Francois
Truffaut, French film director, died aged 52.
5/8/1984, Richard Burton,
Welsh actor, died aged 58.
27/7/1984, British actor James Mason died.
7/7/1984, Dame Flora Robson, actress, died.
28/5/1984, Eric Morecambe,
comedian on the Morecambe
and Wise Show, died in Cheltenham.
4/5/1984, British actress Diana Dors died.
2/3/1984, Louis Basile,
actor, died aged 48.
15/2/1984, Ethel Merman, actress, died.
20/1/1984, Johnny Weissmuller, US actor who played Tarzan,
died
8/10/1983, Joan Hackett, actress, died.
27/9/1983, Jose Mar�a de Tavira Bianchi, Mexican actor,
was born
3/9/1983, Ellie Lambeti,
Greek actress, died (born 1926).
29/7/1983, Luis Brunel,
Spanish
film maker, died aged 83.
5/5/1983, John Williams, actor, died.
5/11/1982, Jacques Tati,
French film-maker, died aged 74.
29/10/1982, Nicolas Gob,
Belgian actor, was born/
15/10/1982, Imran Naqvi,
actor, was born.
30/8/1982, Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman died.
18/7/1982, Priyanka Chopra, actress, was born.
5/6/1982, Scott Speer,
US film-maker, was born.
2/6/1982, Jewel Staite,
Canadian actress, was born.
31/5/1982, Jonathan Tucker,
US film director, was born.
5/3/1982, John Belushi, actor, died.
18/2/1982, Tina Carver,
actress, died aged 58.
29/11/1981, Natalie Wood, US actress, died.
16/11/1981, William Holden, actor, died.
13/11/1981, Shawn Yue,
Hong Kong actor, was born.
28/3/1981, Julia Stiles,
US actress, was born.
28/1/1981, Elijah Wood, actor, was born.
10/1/1981, Richard Boone, actor, died.
19/12/1980, Jake Gyllenhall, actor, was born.
22/11/1980, Mae West, American film star in the 1930s, died
aged 88.
7/11/1980, Steve McQueen,
Hollywood actor who performed many of his own stunts, died of cancer.
25/10/1980, Mehcad Brooks,
US actor, was born.
24/7/1980, Peter Sellers,
English
film actor, died aged 54.
3/4/1980, Luella Gear,
US actress, died aged 82.
29/3/1980, Amy Mathews,
Australian actress., was born.
7/3/1980, Divine, actor, died.
30/11/1979, Zeppo Marx, the agent of the Marx brothers,
died in London.
18/7/1979, Jared Hess, US film director and screenwriter,
was born
11/6/1979. The actor John Wayne
died,aged 72.
8/6/1979, British actor Michael Wilding died.
12/4/1979, Claire Danes, actress, was born.
13/2/1979, Jean Renoir, French film director, died.
21/2/1979, Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, was born.
27/1/1979, Rosamund Pike, actress, was born.
2/1/1979, Suranne Jones, British
actress, was born.
18/12/1978, Katie Holmes, actress, was born.
7/12/1978, Shiri Appleby, US
actress, was born.
30/10/1978, Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist, died.
25/9/1978, Jodie Kidd, TV personality, was born.
9/9/1978, Jack Warner, film studio founder, died.
9/8/1978, Audrey Tatou, actress, was born.
8/5/1978, Matthew Davis, US actor, was born.
21/6/1978, Erica Durance,
Canadian actress, was born.
1/3/1978, Charlie Chaplin�s coffin was stolen from a
cemetery in Switzerland.
15/1/1978, Eddie Cahill, US
actor, was born New York City.
14/10/1977, Bing Crosby, US actor, died.
2/8/1977, Edward Furlong, actor, was born.
10/5/1977, American film star Joan Crawford died.
27/1/1977, Walter Baldwin, US actor, died aged 88
16/1/1977, Peter Finch, actor, died.
13/1/1977, Orlando Bloom, actor, died.
31/8/1976, Shar Jackson,
actress, was born.
23/8/1976, Scott Caan, US actor, was born in Los Angeles, California.
2/8/1976, Fritz Lang, German
film director, died aged 85.
26/4/1976, South African-born British actor Syd James died.
13/4/1976, Actor Jonathan Brandis was born in Connecticut USA (committed
suicide 12/11/2003, aged 27).
22/3/1976, Reece Witherspoon, actress, was born.
17/3/1976, Luchino Visconti, Italian
film director, died aged 69.
14/3/1976, Busby Berkeley, US film director, died.
23/1/1976, Paul Robeson, US
actor, died aged 77.
17/12/1975, Milla Jovovich, actress, was born.
25/10/1975, Evel Knievel made his longest motorbike jump, clearing 14
Greyhound buses on his Harley Davidson machine.
5/10/1975, Kate Winslet, British actress, was born.
7/8/1975, Charlize Theron, actress, was born.
27/6/1975, Toby Maguire, actor, was born.
6/6/1975, Larry Blyden, US TV� game
show host of What's My Line? was killed aged 49 in a car accident in Morocco.
4/6/1975, Angelina Jolie, actress, was born.
27/4/1975, Nicholas Soussanin, actor, died aged 86.
15/4/1975, British actor Michael Flanders died.
11/4/1975, Josephine Baker, US entertainer, died.
4/3/1975, Queen Elizabeth II knighted the actor Charlie
Chaplin.
22/2/1975, Drew Barrymore, US actress, was born.
28/10/1974, Joaquin Phoenix, actor, was born.
13/10/1974, Ed Sullivan, TV host, died.
15/8/1974, Natasha Henstridge, actress, was born.
28/7/1974, Nicole Narain,
US-Lebanese actress, was born.
21/7/1974, Steve Byrne, US
comedian, was born.
16/7/1974, Robinne Lee, US
actress, was born.
21/3/1974, Candy Darling, US transgender actress, died.
31/1/1974, Sam Goldwyn,
Polish-born
US film producer, died aged 91.
30/1/1974, Christian Bale,
actor, was born.
4/12/1973, Tyra Banks,
actress, was born.
3/10/1973, Neve Campbell,
actress, was born.
1/9/1973, Ram Kapoor,
Indian actor, was born in New Delhi.
24/8/1973, David Chapelle,
comedian, was born.
29/7/1973, Stephen Dorff,
actor, was born.
19/7/1973, US Kung
Fu film star Bruce
Lee died.
2/7/1973, US
actress Betty
Grable died.
21/6/1973, Juliette Lewis,
US film actress, was born.
16/5/1973, Tori Spelling,
US actress, was born.
21/4/1973, Mark Dexter:
English actor, was born.
14/4/1973, Adrien Brody,
actor, was born.
31/1/1973, Portia de Rossi,
actress, was born.
26/1/1973, US
actor Edward
G Robinson died.
24/12/1972, Melville Ruick,
US actor, died aged 74.
22/12/1972, Vanessa Paradis,
actress, was born.
28/9/1972, Gwyneth Paltrow,
actress, was born.
31/8/1972, Chris Tucker,
actor, was born.
15/8/1972, Ben Affleck,
actor, was born.
30/4/1972, Josephine Grace
Johanna Scoglio, actress, died (born 3/3/1934),
11/4/1972, Natacha Regnier,
Belgian actress, was born.
3/4/1972, Jennie Garth,
actress, was born.
29/3/1972, J Arthur Rank,
British film entrepreneur, created a peer in 1957, died.
28/3/1972, Nick Frost,
English comedian and actor, was born.
23/3/1972, Judith Godreche,
French actress, was born.
11/1/1972, Amanda Peet,
actress, was born.
31/12/1971, Marin Sais,
US actress, died (born 1890)
5/12/1971, Kali Rocha,
US actress, was born.
17/11/1971, Gladys Cooper,
English actress, died aged 82.
18/9/1971, Jada Pinkett
Smith, actress, was born.
5/6/1971, Mark Wahlberg,
actor, was born.
10/5/1971, Amy Mastura,
Malaysian actress, was born.
18/4/1971, David Tennant,
actor, was born.
25/2/1971, Sean Astin,
US actor, was born in Santa Monica, California.
9/2/1971, Adeline
Blondieau, French actress, was born.
6/11/1970, Ethan Hawke, film director, was born.
8/10/1970, Matt Damon, actor, was born.
6/8/1970, M. Night
Shyamalan (Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan), Indian-born horror film
producer and director; was born in Mahe, Puducherry union territory.
26/4/1970, Gypsy Rose� Lee,
actress, died.
5/3/1970, John Frusciante, rock musician, was born.
31/1/1970, Minnie Driver, actress, was born.
29/1/1970, Heather Graham, actress, was born.
21/12/1969, Julie Delpy, actress, was born.
9/9/1969, Rachel Hunter, actress, was born.
4/9/1969, Noah Taylor, actor, was born
28/7/1969, Jason Priestley, actor, was born.
22/6/1969, Judy Garland, US actress, died.
2/2/1969, Boris Karloff, actor, died.
4/1/1969, Violet and Daisy Hilton, English conjoined
twin actresses, died.
3/12/1968, Brendan Fraser, actor, was born.
2/12/1968, Lucy Liu, actress, was born.
8/10/1968, Emily Procter,
actress, was born
28/9/1968, Naomi Watts, actress, was born.
21/9/1968, Ricki Lake, actress, was born.
10/9/1968, Guy Ritchie, film director, was born.
28/8/1968, Billy Boyd, Scottish actor known for the Lord
of the Rings trilogy, was born.
26/8/1968, Byron Lawson,
Canadian actor, was born.
16/8/1968, Donovan Leitch Jr, US actor, was born in
London, England.
9/8/1968, Gillian Anderson, actress, was born.
25/6/1968. Comedian Tony Hancock killed himself in a hotel
bathroom in Sydney, Australia.
4/6/1968, Dorothy Gish, actress, died.
18/2/1968, Molly Ringwald, actress, was born.
17/2/1968, British actor Sir Donald Wolfit died.
29/1/1968,� Edward Burns,
actor, was born.
20/1/1968, Melissa Rivers, actress, was born.
16/12/1967, Miranda Otto, actress, was born.
4/12/1967, Bert Lahr,
US stage and film actor, died aged 72.
1/12/1967, Nestor
Carbonell, TV actor, was born.
24/11/1967, Salli
Richardson, actress, was born.
28/10/1967, Julia Roberts, actress, was born.
28/9/1967, Mira Sorvino, actress, was born.
21/8/1967, Carrie Anne Moss, actress, was born
16/7/1967, Will Ferrell, comedian and actor, was born.
20/6/1967, Nicole Kidman, actress, was born.
16/6/1967, Reginald Denny, English actor died aged 75.
6/6/1967, Paul Giamatti,
US actor, was born.
14/1/1967, Emily Watson,
actress, was born.
21/12/1966, Kiefer
Sutherland, actor, was born.
15/12/1966, Walt Disney,
US film producer and leader in animation, died.
12/11/1966, David Schwimmer,
actor, was born.
11/10/1966, Luke Perry,
actor, was born.
7/9/1966, Toby Jones,
English film actor, was born in Hammersmith, London
15/8/1966, Debra Messing, actress, was born.
14/8/1966, Halle Berry,
actress, was born.
3/8/1966, US
nightclub comedian Lenny Bruce was found dead at his Hollywood
house.
23/7/1966, Montgomery
Clift, actor, died.
28/6/1966, John Cusack,
actor, was born.
27/6/1966, JJ Abrams,
TV producer, was born.
3/4/1966, Miina Tominaga,
Japanese actress, was born in Hiroshima, Japan.
7/3/1966, Joy Tanner,
US actress, was born.
3/3/1966, Fernando
Colunga, actor, was born.
27/2/1966, Donal Logue,
Canadian actor, was born
25/2/1966, Alexis Denisof,
US actor, was born.
22/2/1966, Rachel Dratch,
US actress, was born
21/2/1966, Bronwen Booth,
English actress, was born.
1/2/1966, The
silent film comedian Buster Keaton died.
13/1/1966, Patrick Dempsey,
actor, was born.
23/12/1965, Eddie Vedder,
rock singer (Pearl Jam) was born.
30/11/1965, Ben Stiller,
actor, was born.
26/9/1965, Clara Bow,
actress, was born.
7/9/1965, John Polson,
actor, was born.
23/2/1965, Stan Laurel, English-born American film comedian along with Oliver Hardy,
died aged 74.
27/1/1965, Alan Cumming,
actor, was born.
9/1/1965, Joely
Richardson, actress, was born.
13/12/1964, Ernesto
Almirante, Italian actor, died aged 87.
5/12/1964, Remy Angenot,
Flemish actor, died aged 70
28/9/1964. Harpo Marx, the
silent one who chased girls and played the harp, died aged 75.
16/9/1964, Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress, was born.
23/5/1964, Staci Greason,
actress, was born in Denver, Colorado.
20/4/1964, Crispin Glover, actor, was born.
7/4/1964, Russell Crowe, actor, was born.
29/3/1964,) Easter Sunday. Elle MacPherson, actress, was born.
18/2/1964, Matt Dillon, actor, was born.
5/2/1964, Laura Linney, actress, was born.
29/1/1964, Alan Ladd, actor, died.
21/1/1964, Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-born American stage and film actor, died aged 67.
18/12/1963, Brad Pitt, actor., was born.
16/12/1963, Benjamin Bratt, actor, was born.
28/10/1963, Lauren Holly, actress, was born.
6/10/1963, Elisabeth Shue, actress, was born.
18/6/1963, Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor, died aged 51.
9/6/1963, Johnny Depp, actor, was born.
8/5/1963, British comedian Max Miller died.
26/4/1963, Jet Li, actor, was born.
20/3/1963, Actor David Thewlis was born in Blackpool, England.
3/1/1963, Jack Carson, actor, died.
22/12/1962, Ralph Fiennes, actor, was born.
16/12/1962, Lew Landers, US film and TV director, died aged 61.
15/12/1962, Charles Laughton, actor, died.
6/12/1962, Janine Turner, US
actress, was born.
13/10/1962, Kelly Preston, actress, was born.
17/9/1962, Baz Luhrmann, film director, was born.
5/8/1962. Marilyn Monroe, US film actress, died in Los Angeles aged
36, of a barbiturates overdose.
31/7/1962, Wesley Snipes, actor, was born.
17/2/1962, Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, was born.
5/2/1962, Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress, was born.
17/1/1962, Jim Carrey, US actor, was born.
28/11/1961, Martin Clunes, actor, was born.
19/11/1961, Meg Ryan, actress, was born.
9/11/1961, Jill Dando, British
journalist and BBC television presenter, was born in Weston-super-Mare
(murdered 1999).
5/11/1961, Gina Mastrogiacomo, US actress), was born in Long Island, New York (died 2001)
3/10/1961, Dean Lawrence, English
actor, was born.
25/9/1961, Heather Locklear, actress, was born.
30/8/1961, Charles Coburn, actor, died.
30/7/1961, Laurence Fishburne, actor, was born.
23/7/1961, Woody Harrelson, actor, was born.
13/5/1961, Gary Cooper, US actor, died.
6/5/1961, George Clooney, actor, was born.
3/4/1961, Eddie Murphy, actor and comedian, was born.
21/2/1961, Christopher Atkins, actor, was born.
13/1/1961, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress, was born.
10/12/1960, Kenneth Branagh, actor, was born.
3/12/1960, Julianne Moore, actress, was born.
16/11/1960, Clark Gable, US actor, died.
5/11/1960, Mack Sennett, Canadian-born
US actor and film director, died aged 80.
9/9/1960, Hugh Grant, actor in Four
Weddings and a Funeral, was born.
10/8/1960, Antonio Banderas, actor, was born.
22/5/1960, Mohanlal, Indian
actor, was born.
24/4/1960, Paula Yates, TV presenter, was born.
31/3/1960, Anne Howard, US
actress, was born in San Diego, California
9/2/1960, Joanne Woodward, actress, received the first star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
11/1/1960, Stanley Tucci, actor, was born.
31/12/1959,� Val Kilmer, actor, was born.
30/12/1959, Tracey Ullman,
actress, was born.
11/12/1959, Lisa Gastineau, US reality show star, was born as Lisa D'Amico in Rockland County, New York
18/11/1959, Ulrich Noethen, German actor, was born.
12/11/1959, Vincent Irizarry, US actor, was born.
25/10/1959, Nancy Cartwright, voice actress, was born.
23/10/1959, �Weird Al� Yankovic, comedian, was born.
15/10/1959, Todd Solondz, film director, was born.
14/10/1959, Errol Flynn, British actor, died.
23/9/1959, Jason Alexander, actor, was born.
10/8/1959, Rosanna Arquette, actress, was born.
16/6/1959, George Reeves, actor, died.
31/1/1959, Kelly Lynch, actress, was born.
15/11/1958, US actor Tyrone Power dieed.
10/10/1958, J Peck, US� actor, was born.
6/10/1958, Bernie Mac, actor,
was born.
15/9/1958, Wendie Sperber, US comedian and actress, was born.
13/9/1958, Bobby Davro, English
comedian and actor, was born.
16/7/1958, Michael Flatley, dancer, was born.
8/7/1958, Kevin Bacon, actor, was born.
6/7/1958, Jennifer Saunders, comedienne and director, was born.
30/5/1958, Annette Bening, actress, was born.
29/4/1958, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, was born.
15/4/1958, Estelle Taylor, US actress, died aged 64.
22/3/1958, Michael Todd, film producer, died.
10/3/1958, Sharon Stone, actress, was born.
7/3/1958, Rick Mayall, actor
in The Young Ones, was born.
20/3/1958, Holly Hunter, actress, was born.
10/2/1958, Billy Vine, actor,
died.
26/1/1958, Ellen DeGeneres, US actress and talk show host, was born.
26/12/1957, Death of French film pioneer Charles Pathe.
1/11/1957, Brian Stokes Mitchell, actor, was born
30/9/1957, Fran Drescher, actress, was born.
23/9/1957, Rosalind Chao, US actress, was born.
24/8/1957, Stephen Fry, comedian, was born.
18/8/1957, Denis Leary, comedian, was born
7/8/1957, Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and
Hardy fame, died of a stroke, aged 65. Laurel was then aged 67.
29/4/1957, Geoffrey Gould, US actor, was born
27/4/1957, Michel Barrette, Canadian actor, was born.
21/3/1957, Sabrina Le Beauf, US actress, was born.
12/3/1957, Josephine Hull, US actress, died aged 71.
18/2/1957, Vanna White, TV game show presenter, was born.
17/1/1957, Keith Chegwin, English television presenter
& actor, was born in Walton, Liverpool (died 2017)
14/1/1957, Humphrey Bogart, American film actor and 1951 Oscar winner,
died of throat cancer.
8/1/1957, Amanda Burton, actress, was born
3/1/1957, Frank Dicopoulos, US actor, was born in Akron,
Ohio
29/12/1956, Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian, was born in
Perth, UK.
20/11/1956, Bo Derek, actress, was born.
8/11/1956, Richard Curtis, English actor, was born.
8/10/1956, Stephanie Zimbalist, actress, was born.
20/9/1956, Gary Cole, actor, was born.
17/9/1956, Rita Rudner, comedienne, was born.
21/8/1956, Kim Cattrall, actress, was born.
16/8/1956, Hungarian-born US actor Bela Lugosi died.
9/7/1956, Tom Hanks, actor, was born.
2/7/1956, Jerry Hall, actress, was born.
30/4/1956, Lars von Trier, film director, was born
7/3/1956, Bryan Cranston, US actor, was born.�
27/1/1956, Mimi Rogers, actress, was born.
23/1/1956, Hungarian-born British film director Sir Alexander Korda died.
21/1/1956, Geena Davis, actress, was born.
9/1/1956, Imelda Staunton, actress, was born.
7/1/1956, David Caruso, actor, was born.
13/12/1955, Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) made her
stage debut at the Union Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.
29/11/1955, Howie Mandel, comedian, was born in Toronto,
Ontario
30/9/1955, TV actor James Dean was killed when his Porsche
careered off the road near Los Angeles.
21/7/1955, Willem Dafoe, actor, was born.,
6/6/1955, Sandra Bernhardt, actress, was born.
27/6/1955, Isabelle Adjani., actress, was born.
19/3/1955, Bruce Willis, actor, was born.
19/2/1955, Jeff Daniels, actor, was born.
6/1/1955, Rowan Atkinson, actor and comedian, was born.
28/12/1954, Denzel Washington, actor, was born.
22/11/1954, Roy Rene (Mo), comedian, died.
7/9/1954, Corbin Bernsen, actor, was born.
28/6/1954, Alice Krige, actress, was born.
19/6/1954, Kathleen Turner, actress, was born.
30/4/1954, Jane Campion, film director, was born.
18/4/1954, Easter Sunday. Rick Moranis, comedian, was born.
16/4/1954, Ellen Barkin, US actress, was born in New York
City.
10/4/1954, Auguste Lumiere, French cinema pioneer, died.
9/4/1954, Dennis Quaid, actor, was born.
8/4/1954, Fritzi Scheff, US actress and singer, died
aged 74.
2/4/1954, Ron Palillo, actor, was born (died 2012).
17/3/1954, Lesley Anne Down, actress, was
born.
18/2/1954 John Travolta, US film actor,
was born in Englewood, New York State.
17/2/1954, Rene Russo, actress, was born.
2/2/1954, Christie Brinkley, actress, was
born.
1/2/1954, Bill Mumy, actor, was born.
29/1/1954, Oprah Winfrey, actress and TV
host, was born.
6/1/1954, Anthony Minghella, director, was
born.
9/12/1953, John Malkovich, actor, was born.
25/11/1953, James Hayden, US actor, was born.
9/10/1953, Tony Shalhoub, actor, was born.
8/10/1953, Nigel Bruce, British actor
(Sherlock Holmes), died from a heart attack aged 58.
4/10/1953, Tcheky Karyo, Turkish actor, was born.
17/7/1953, Maude Adams, US actress (born
11/11/1872) died.
13/6/1953, Tim Allen, comedian and actor,
was born.
19/4/1953, Ruby Wax, comedienne, was born.
16/3/1953, Isabelle Huppert, actress, was
born.
17/2/1953, Norman Pace, actor, was born.
8/2/1953, Mary Steenburgen, actress, was
born.
20/12/1952, Jenny Agutter, actress, was
born.
10/12/1952, Susan Dey, actress, was born.
9/12/1952, Michael Dorn, US actor (Trek
Next Generation), was born in Luling, Texas.
3/12/1952, Mel Smith, English actor, was born.
30/11/1952, Mandy Patinkin, US actor, was born.
3/11/1952, Rosanne Barr, actress and comedienne, was
born.
25/9/1952, Christopher Reeve, US actor, was born.
18/8/1952, Patrick Swayze, actor, was born,
7/8/1952, Alexei Sayle, comedian, was born.
31/7/1952, Alan Autry, actor, was born.
27/7/1952, Roxanne Hart, US actress, was born.
7/6/1952, Liam Neeson, actor, was born.
27/3/1952, Maria Schnieder, actress, was born.
24/10/1951, Todd Crespi, actor, was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
6/8/1951, Daryl Somers, TV presenter, was born.
5/8/1951, John Jarratt, actor, was born.
21/7/1951, Robin Williams, actor and comedian, was born.
8/7/1951, Angelica Huston, actress, was born.
6/7/1951, Geoffrey Rush, actor, was born.
20/4/1951, Luther Vandross, singer, was born.
4/4/1951, Al Christie, Canadian film director and
producer died (born 1881)
5/3/1951, Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor, was born.
12/1/1951, Kirstie Alley, actress, was born.
18/12/1950, Gillian Armstrong, film director, was born
31/10/1950, Jane Pauley, news anchor, was born.
23/10/1950, Al Jolson, US film actor, died aged 64.
21/9/1950, Bill Murray, actor, was born.
11/5/1950, Jeremy Paxman, TV broadcaster, was born.
18/2/1950, John Hughes, film director, was
born.
5/2/1950, Marie-Pierre Castel, French actress, was born.
23/1/1950, Richard Dean Anderson, actor,
was born.
16/1/1950, Debbie Allen, actress, was born.
5/1/1950, Malcolm Hardee, comedian, was
born (died 2/2/2005).
25/12/1949, Sissy Spacek, actress, was born
15/12/1949, Don Johnson, actor, was born
11/12/1949, Teri Garr, actress, was born.
4/12/1949, Jeff Bridges, actor, was born.
6/11/1949, Nigel Havers, actor, was born.
21/10/1949, Jacques Copeau, French actor, died in Beaune.
8/10/1949, Sigourney Weaver, actress, was
born/
25/9/1949, Anson Williams, US� actor, was born in Los Angeles, California.
16/9/1949, Susan Ruttan, US actress, was born in Oregon
City, Oregon.
31/8/1949, Richard Gere, actor, was born.
7/7/1949, Shelley Duval, actress, was
born.
22/6/1949, Meryl Streep, actress, was born.
15/6/1949, Simon Callow, actor, was born.
2/5/1949, Alan Titchmarsh, gardener and TV personality,
was born in Ilkley, England
8/4/1949, John Madden, film director, was
born.
29/3/1949, Eric Idle, comedian, was born.
22/3/1949, Fanny Ardant, actress, was
born.,
16/3/1949, Leyland Hodgson, British-born US actor, died
aged 56.
24/1/1949, John Belushi, actor, was born
14/1/1949, Lawrence Kasdan, director and
screenwriter, was born.
9/1/1949, British comedian Tommy Handley
died.
27/12/1948, Gerard Depardieu, French actor,
was born.
3/11/1948, Lulu, or Marie Lawrie, actress, was born.
17/10/1948, Margot Kidder, actress, was
born.
29/9/1948, Bryant Gumbel, TV host, was
born.
19/9/1948, Jeremy Irons, actor, was born.
23/7/1948, US film director David Wark
Griffith died.
24/2/1948, Denis Waterman, actor, was born.
16/1/1948, John Carpenter, film director,
was born.
29/12/1947, Ted Danson, actor, was born in San Diego.
29/10/1947, Kevin Kline, actor, was born.
17/10/1947, Michael McKean, actor, was born.
26/8/1947, Anne Archer, actress, was born.
15/4/1947, Lois Chiles, actress and model,
was born in Houston, Texas;
12/4/1947, David Letterman, US talk show
host, was born.
19/3/1947, Glenn Close, actress, was born.
16/3/1947, Robin Williams, actor and
comedian, was born.
14/3/1947, Billy Crystal, actor and
comedian, was born.
24/2/1947, Edward James Olmos, actor, was
born.
2/1/1947, Larry David, comedy writer, actor and TV
producer, was born in Brooklyn, New York
5/8/1946, Loni Anderson, actress, was
born.
19/7/1946, Mrs Norma Jeane Dougherty,
former munitions factory worker and model, took a screen test at 20th Century
Fox Studios. The studio suggested she adopt the name Marilyn, after the 1920s musical
star Marilyn
Miller, and she decided on the last name Monroe, her mother�s maiden
name. For 6 months after she signed, she learnt about make-up, hair and acting.
She divorced her husband, James Dougherty, a former US Merchant marine,
in September 1946.
12/3/1946, Liza Minelli, US actress, was
born.
2/2/1946, Farrah Fawcett, US actress, was born.
6/1/1946, Diane Keaton, actress, was born.
17/12/1945, Christopher Cazenove, actor, was
born.
21/11/1945, Goldie Hawn, actress, was born.
30/10/1945. Henry Winkler, actor, was born.
28/10/1945, Gilbert Emery, US actor, died
aged 70.
20/10/1945, George Wyner, actor, was born in
Boston, Massachusetts.
19/10/1945, Divine, actor, was born.
21/9/1945, Jerry Bruckheimer, TV film
producer, was born.
2/6/1945, Jon Peters, film producer, was born in Van
Nuys, Los Angeles, California.
5/1/1945, Roger Spottiswoode, film
director, was born in Ottawa, Canada
25/12/1944, Kenny Everett, radio and TV comedian, was
born.
14/6/1944, Joe Grifasi, US actor, was born.
11//6/1944, Roscoe Orman, US actor, was born.
19/5/1944, Peter Mayhew, US-British actor
(Chewbacca in Star Wars), was born in London, England (died 2019).
10/5/1944, Jim Abrahams, film director was
born in Shorewood, Wisconsin
26/3/1944, Diana Ross, US actress, was born.
6/1/1944, Bonnie Franklin, actress, was
born.
8/10/1943, Chevy Chase, actor, was born.
27/8/1943, Tuesday Weld, US� film and TVesday actress, was born.
27/5/1943, Cilla Black, singer and presenter of the TV
show Blind Date, was born.
5/5/1943, Michael Palin, actor, was born.
20/4/1943, Edie Sedgwick, actress, was born
31/3/1943, Christopher Walken, US actor,
was born in Queens, New York City.
29/1/1943, Tony Blackburn, British radio presenter, was
born.
6/1/1943, Luciano
Virgilio,
Italian actor, was born.
5/12/1942, Randy Kirby, US actor was born
in Chicago, Illinois
30/11/1942, Buck Jones, US actor, died.
24/11/1942, Billy Connolly, Scottish
comedian, was born.
18/11/1942, Linda Evans, US actress, was
born.
29/10/1942, Bob Ross, TV host, was in
Daytona Beach, Florida (died 1995)
26/10/1942, Bob Hoskins, actor, was born.
21/10/1942, Judith Sheindlin, US TV
personality (Judge Judy), was in
Brooklyn, New York
15/10/1942, Penny Marshall, actress, was
born.
5/9/1942, Werner Herzog, German film director, was born.
16/8/1942, John Challis, English actor, was born.
13/7/1942, Harrison Ford, actor, was born.
23/4/1942, Sandra Dee, actress, was born
(died 20/2/2005)
5/4/1942, Easter Sunday. Peter Greenaway,
film director, was born.
21/2/1942, Margarethe von Trotta, film
director, was born in Berlin, Germany
19/1/1942. Michael Crawford, British comedy actor, was born in
Salisbury, Wiltshire, as Michael Dumble-Smith.
3/1/1942, John Thaw, actor, was born.
28/7/1941, Colin Higgins, US film director, was born.
19/5/1941, Nora Ephron, screenwriter and TV
director, was born.
8/2/1941, Nick Nolte, US actor, was born in Omaha,
Nebraska.
26/1/1941, Scott Glen, actor, was born.
25/1/1941, Gregory Sierra, US actor,
was� born in New York City (died 2021)
8/12/1940, Jenny Linden, English actress, was born.
16/11/1940, Donna McKechnie, US actress, was born.
6/10/1940, Sukumari, Indian film actress,
was born in Nagercoil, British India (died 2013)
13/7/1940. Patrick Stewart, actor, was
born.
25/5/1940, Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director, died aged 67.
25/4/1940, Al Pacino, actor, was born.
10/3/1940, Chuck Norris, actor, was born.
9/3/1940, Raul Julia, actor, was born.
22/1/1940, John Hurt, actor, was born.
10/11/1939, Russell Means, actor, was born.
27/10/1939, John Cleese, English comedy actor, was born in
Weston Super Mare.
7/10/1939, Clive James, TV broadcaster, was born in
Sydney.
3/10/1939, Fay Templeton, US actress, died aged 73.
1/9/1939, Lily Tomlin, actress, was born.
31/7/1939,�
Susan
Flannery, soap opera actress, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey,
USA.
30/7/1939, Peter Bogdanovich, film
director, was born.
26/9/1939, Ricky Tomlinson, actor, was born.
28/4/1939, Judy Carne, actress, was born.
23/4/1939, Lee Majors, actor, was born in Wyandotte,
Michigan.
21/2/1939, Richard Beymer, US actor was
born in Avoca , Iowa.
11/12/1938, Reg Livermore, entertainer, was
born
23/10/1938, Derek Jacobi, actor, was born.
20/10/1938, Emidio Greco, Italian director and
screenwriter, was born.
29/8/1938, Elliott Gould, actor, was born.
3/8/1938, Terry Wogan, TV broadcaster, was born in
Limerick, Ireland.
20/4/1938, Peter Snow, radio and television
presenter and historian, was born in Dublin, Ireland
27/2/1938, Pascale Petit, French actress, was born in
Paris, France.
13/2/1938, Oliver Reed, actor, was born.
31/12/1937, Anthony Hopkins, actor, was
born.
4/11/1937, Loretta Swit, actress, was born.
8/8/1937, Actor Dustin Hoffman was born.
7/6/1937, Jean Harlow, US actress, died.
1/6/1937, Morgan Freeman, US actor, was
born.
11/4/1937,
Jill
Gascoine, British TV actress, was born in London, England (died
2020)
30/3/1937, Warren Beatty, actor, was born.
29/12/1936, Mary Tyler Moore, actress, was
born.
8/12/1936, David Carradine, actor, was
born.
30/10/1936, Michael Landon, actor, was born.
26/10/1936, Shelley Morrison, actress, was
born in New York City
8/10/1936, David Carradine, actor, was
born.
24/9/1936, Jim Henson, puppeteer, was born.
18/8/1936, Robert Redford, actor, was born.
6/7/1936, Dave Allen, comedian, was born
(died 10/3/2005).
17/5/1936, Dennis Hopper, actor, was born.
19/3/1936, Ursula Andress, actress, was
born.
17/3/1936, Patty Maloney, actress, was born in
Perkinsville, New York.
11/2/1936, Burt Reynolds, US actor, was
born.
1/10/1935, Julie Andrews, star in The Sound of Music and Mary
Poppins, was born in Walton on Thames.
18/8/1935, Sir Howard Morrison,
entertainer, was born.
8/8/1935, John Laws, radio presenter, was
born.
17/7/1935. Donald Sutherland, actor, was
born.
20/5/1935, Mickey Rose, US actor, was born
(died 2013).
19/4/1935, British comedian Dudley Moore
was born.
27/2/1935, Lilian Gish, actress, was born.
25/2/1935, Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk
show host, was born.
9/1/1935, Bob Denver, actor, was born.
29/12/1934, Ed Flanders, actor, was born in Minneapolis,
Minnesota (died 1995)
9/12/1934, Dame Judi Dench, actress, was
born.
23/11/1934, Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, died aged 79.
28/9/1934, Brigitte Bardot, actress, female
role model, was born in Paris.
20/9/1934, Sophia Loren, actress, was born.
24/8/1934, Barbara Eden, actress, was born.
28/7/1934, Marie Dressler, US film star, died at santa
Barbara, California (born 9/11/1860, Coburg, Ontario, Canada).
21/7/1934, Sir Jonathan Miller, actor and
film director, was born.
16/6/1934, Dame Eileen Atkins, actress, was
born.
3/3/1934, Josephine Grace Johanna Scoglio,
actress, was born (died 30/4/1972),
14/2/1934, Florence |Henderson, actress,
was born.
13/2/1934, George Segal, actor, was born.
22/1/1934, Bill Bixby, actor, was born.
19/1/1934, Patsy Rowlands, actress, was
born (died 22/1/2005).
29/6/1933, Fatty Arbuckle, actor, died.
11/6/1933, Gene Wilder, actor, was born.
15/4/1933, Elizabeth Montgomery, actress,
was born.
9/4/1933, Gian Maria Volont�, Italian actor, was born in
Milan, Italy (died 1994)
6/4/1933, Dudley Sutton, British actor, was born.
3/3/1933, Margaret Fink, Australian film producer, was born.
13/2/1933, Kim Novak, actress, was born.
29/12/1932, Inga Swenson, US actress, was born.
10/11/1932, Roy Scheider, actor, was born.
19/10/1932, Robert Reed, actor, was born.
2/8/1932, Peter O�Toole, actor, was born.
7/12/1932, Ella Burstyn, actress, was born.
22/6/1932, Amrish Puri, actor, was born
(died 12/1/2005)
13/5/1932, Gianni Boncompagni, Italian
television host, was born.
19/4/1932, Jayne Mansfield, US actress, was
born.
18/2/1932, Milos Forman, Czech film director and actor, was
born.
23/10/1931, English actress Diana Dors
was born.
20/6/1931, Martin Landau, actor, was born.
22/3/1931, William Shatner, actor, was
born.
15/2/1931, Claire Bloom, actress, was born.
8/2/1931, James Dean, US actor, was born.
7/2/1931, Gloria Talbott, US actress, was
born in Glendale, California (died 2000)
23/1/1931, Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina,
died.
19/1/1931, Tippi Hedren, actress, was born.
17/1/1931, James Earl Jones, actor, was
born.
13/1/1931, Charles Nelson Reilly, actor,
was born.
5/1/1931, Robert Duvall, US actor, was born.
8/12/1930, Stan Richards, actor, was born
(died 11/2/2005).
1/10/1930, Sir Richard Harris, actor, was
born.
26/8/1930, US actor Lon Chaney died.
25/8/1930, Sean Connery,
British film actor who played the leading role in seven James Bond movies, was
born in Edinburgh as Thomas Connery.
3/8/1930, James Komack,
US film director and actor, was born in New York City (died 1997)
24/6/1930, Claude Chabrol,
film director, was born.
1/6/1930, Birth
of TV actor Edward
Woodward, best known for The
Equaliser.
30/3/1930, Rolf Harris,
Australian
entertainer and cartoonist, was born.
24/3/1930, Steve McQueen,
US actor, was born.
27/2/1930, Joanne Woodward,
actress, was born.
10/2/1930, Robert Wagner,
actor, was born.
30/1/1930, Gene Hackman,
actor, was born.
11/1/1930, Rod Taylor,
actor, was born.
11/12/1929, Sir Kenneth
MacMillan, dancer and choreographer, was born
12/11/1929, Grace Kelly,
US actress, was born.
12/10/1929, Magnus
Magnusson, British writer and TV presenter of the quiz show Mastermind, was born in Reykjavik,
Iceland.
11/10/1929, Graham Roberts,
actor, was born.
27/9/1929, Barbara Murray,
English actress, was born.
20/9/1929, Anna Meara,
actress, was born.
14/8/1929, Gene Scott,
TV evangelist, was born (died 21/2/2005).
4/8/1929, Kishore Kumar,
Indian actor, was born.
16/5/1929, The
first Academy Awards were presented in Hollywood, by the Academy�s President, Douglas
Fairbanks.
4/5/1929, Audrey Hepburn,
actress, was born.
12/2/1929, Lillie Langtry,
US actress, died.
12/11/1928, Grace Kelly,
US actress, was born (died 1982)
25/10/1928, Marion Ross,
actress, was born.
26/7/1928, Stanley Kubrick,
US film director, was born (died 1999)
21/7/1928, Ellen Terry, British actress, died.
26/1/1928, Roger Vadim, film director and actor, was
born.
23/1/1928, Jeanne Moreau, actress, was born.
9/7/1927, John Drew,
US actor, died in San Francisco, California (born 13/11/1853 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania)
13/12/1927, Christopher Plummer, actor, was born
12/12/1927, Honor Blackman, actress, was born.
4/7/1927, Gina Lollobrigida, Hollywood actress, was
born.
3/7/1927, Ken Russell, film director, was born.
7/4/1927, The
comedian A
Dolan was televised in Whippany, New Jersey, making him the first
televised comedian.
31/10/1926, Jimmy Savile,
British
radio and TV presenter, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire.
31/10/1926. The USA magician and escapologist Harry Houdini
died, aged 52. He was born as Ehrich Weisz in Hungary and adopted his later
name from the conjuror Robert Houdin whose autobiography he read as a young
boy. .Determined to match Houdin�s achievements and to haul his family out of
poverty, Houdini ran away to New York to begin a life in magic and
entertainment which would enthral thousands. He escaped from handcuffs in an
underwater nailed packing crate, and later exposed many psychic frauds. Whilst
giving a lecture on spiritualism in Montreal, Houdini was asked if he could
withstand a blow to the abdomen. Before he had a chance to prepare himself,
Houdini was struck three times by a student. Despite this he managed to perform
again, but died of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital a few days later.
23/8/1926, Rudolf Valentino, Hollywood film star, died.
14/7/1926, Harry Dean Stanton, actor, was born.
16/2/1926, John
Schlesinger, English actor, was born (died 2003).
20/1/1926, Patricia Neal, actress, was born.
15/1/1926, Maria Schell, actress, was born.
8/12/1925, Sammy Davis Junior, US actor, was born.
2/12/1925, Julie Harris,
actress, was born in Grosse Point, Michigan (died 2013)
17/11/1925, Rock Hudson,
US actor, was born.
23/10/1925, Johnny Carson,
TV presenter, was born (died 23/1/2005).
11/10/1925, Richard Burton,
Welsh actor who was married to Elizabeth Taylor twice, was born this day.
8/9/1925, Peter Sellers,
comic TV actor, was born.
2/8/1925, Alan Whicker,
widely-travelled TV reporter, was born in Cairo, Egypt.
15/7/1925, Harry Dean
Stanton, actor, was born.
4/4/1925, Dorothy Alison,
actress, was born.
20/2/1925, Robert Altman,
film director, was born
8/2/1925, Jack Lemmon,
actor and film director, was born.
26/1/1925, Paul Newman,
US actor, was born.
21/1/1925, Benny Hill,
English comedian, was born in Southampton.
10/10/1924, Ed Wood,
flim producer, was borm.
4/10/1924, Charlton Heston,
the film star in Ben Hur, was born.
16/9/1924, Lauren Bacall,
Hollywood actress, was born.
21/7/1924, Don Knotts,
actor and comedian, was born.
7/6/1924, Dolores Gray,
US actress, was born in Chicago (died 2002)
12/5/1924, Tony Hancock,
English comedian, was born (died 1968).
21/4/1924, Eleonora Duse,
Italian actress (born Lombardy, Italy, 3/10/1859) died in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
3/4/1924, Marlon Brando,
US Hollywood actor, was born.
19/2/1924, Lee Marvin,
actor, was born.
8/1/1924, Ron Moody,
actor, was born.
9/12/1923, Meggie Albanesi,
British actress, died aged 24.
24/10/1923, Sir Robin Day,
TV interviewer, was born this day.
4/10/1923, Charlton Heston,
US actor, was born
29/8/1923, British
film director and actor Sir David Attenborough was born.
29/4/1923, Irvin Kershner,
film director, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 2010)
13/4/1923, Don Adams,
actor, was born.
4/9/1923, Dick York,
actor, was born.
22/3/1923, Marcel Marceau,
mime artist, was born.
28/2/1923, Charles Durning,
actor, was born.
19/1/1923, Jean Stapleton,
actress, was born.
13/11/1922, Charles Bronson,
US actor, was born.
17/10/1922, Pierre Juneau,
Canadian film and broadcast executive, was born in Montreal, Quebec (died 2012)
8/9/1922, Sid Caesar,
comedian, was born.
10/6/1922, Judy Garland,
US actress, was born.
27/5/1922, Christopher Lee,
English actor, was born.
17/1/1922, Betty White,
actress, was born.
24/2/1921, Abe Vigoda,
US actor, was born (died 2016)
3/11/1921, Charles Bronson,
actor, was born.
9/9/1921, Charlie Chaplin
arrived at Waterloo
Station, London, on
the boat train from Southampton, to a rapturous welcome. He was staying at the
Ritz Hotel, socially a million miles from his childhood days in Lambeth.
8/9/1921, Harry Secombe,
Welsh actor and comedian, was born.
19/8/1921, Gene Roddenbury,
TV producer, was born.
8/6/1921, Sheila Ryan,
US actress, was born.
21/6/1921, Jane Russell,
US actress, was born.
16/4/1921. Peter Ustinov,
actor, was born.
28/3/1921. Dirk Bogarde, English
film actor, was born in Hampstead, London.
22/3/1921, Nino Manfredi, Italian
actor, was born.
2/3/1921, Kenji Misumi, Japanese film director; was born in Kyoto (died
1975)
27/1/1921, Donna Read, actress, was born.
30/11/1920, Virginia Mayo, actress, was born (died 17/1/2005).
17/10/1920, Montgomery Clift, actor, was born.
1/10/1920, Walter Matthau, US actor, was born.
27/9/1920, William Conrad, actor, was born.
17/8/1920, Maureen O'Hara, Irish-born US film actress, was born (died 2015)
29/6/1920, Ray Harryhausen, film producer, was born.
30/3/1920, Turhan Bey, actor,
was born in Vienna, Austria.
6/3/1920, Lewis Gilbert, British
film director, was born in Hackney, London (died 2018)
4/2/1920, Norman Wisdom,
British comedian, was born as Norman Wisden.
3/2/1920, Bibi Osterwald,
actress, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
7/7/1919, Jon Pertwee,
actor, was born,
29/6/1919, Slim Pickens,
actor, was born.
19/4/1919, Merce
Cunningham., choreographer, was born.
17/4/1919, The United Artists film distribution
company was founded in Hollywood.
18/2/1919, Jack Palance,
actor, was born.
9/12/1918, Kirk Douglas,
US actor, was born.
22/10/1918, Myrtle Gonzalez,
US actress, was born.
14/7/1918, Swedish
film director Ingmar
Bergman was born.
1/6/1918, Nathalie
Krassovska, ballerina, was born (died 8/2/2005).
16/4/1918, Spike Milligan,
British-Irish actor and comedian, was born.
4/2/1918, Ida Lupino,
actress, was born.
29/1/1918, John Forsythe,
actor, was born.
11/7/1917, Yul Brynner,
US actor, was born.
6/8/1917, Robert Mitchum,
Hollywood actor, was born in Connecticut, USA.
25/4/1917, Ella Fitzgerald,
singer, was born.
6/2/1917, Zsa Zsa Gabor,
actress, was born.
24/1/1917, Ernest Borgnine,
actor, was born.
18/12/1916, Bettie Grable,
US actress, was born.
9/12/1916, Kirk Douglas,
actor, was born.
4/11/1916, Walter Cronkite,
news broadcaster, was born.
27/10/1916, Bob de Lange,
Dutch actor, was born.
5/4/1916, Gregory Peck,
US actor, was born.
26/2/1916, Jackie Gleason,
actor, was born.
18/12/1915, Betty Grable,
actress, was born.
7/12/1915, Eli Wallach,
actor, was born.
7/7/1915, Yul Brynner,
actor, was born.
6/5/1915, Orson Wells,
American actor and film director, was born.
21/4/1915, Anthony Quinn,
actor, was born.
12/2/1915, Lorne Green,
actor, was born.
29/1/1915, Victor Mature,
actor, was born.
26/1/1915, William Hopper,
actor, was born.
13/12/1914, Fred Coe,
US television producer, was born.
10/12/1914, Dorothy Lamour,
actress, was born.
26/10/1914, Jackie Coogan,
actor, was born.
5/5/1914, US
actor Tyrone
Power was born.
2/4/1914, British
actor Sir
Alec Guinness was born.
26/2/1914, Robert Alda,
actor, was born.
20/1/1914, Roy Plomley,
who created �Desert Island Discs�,
was born. He began his career as a copywriter for an advertising agency then
became an actor. He then became an announcer for a French commercial radio
station. He was awarded the OBE in 1975.
4/1/1914, Jane Wyman,
actress, was born.
30/11/1913. Charlie Chaplin made his
film debut in Mack
Sennett�s short film Making a
Living.
9/11/1913, Hedy Lamarr,
actor, was born.
2/11/1913, Burt Lancaster,
US actor, was born.
19/9/1913, Frances Farmer,
actress, was born.
25/6/1913, Cyril Fletcher,
TV comedian, was born (died 2/1/2006).
18/1/1913, Danny Kaye,
US actor, was born (died 1987).
21/11/1912, Eleanor Powell,
actress, was born.
25/10/1912, Minnie Pearl,
comedian, was born.
23/8/1912, Gene Kelly,
US singer and dancer, was born
12/8/1912, Samuel Fuller,
US film director, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts (died 1997)
11/5/1912, Phil Silvers,
US actor famous for his role as Sergeant Bilko, was born.
21/4/1912, Marcel Camus,
film director, was born.
6/8/1911, Lucille Ball,
US TV actress, was born.
16/7/1911, US
actress Ginger
Rogers was born.
3/6/1911, Paulette
Goddard, actress, was born.
17/5/1911, Maureen
O�Sullivan, actress, was born.
5/4/1911, Gordon Jones,
actor, was born in Alden, Iowa, USA.
3/3/1911, Jean Harlow,
actress, was born.
26/11/1910, Cyril Cusack,
actor, was born.
14/7/1910, William Hanna,
animator, was born.
23/3/1910, Akira Kurosawa,
Japanese film maker, was born/
1/3/1910, British
actor David
Niven was born.
6/1/1910, Loretta Young,
actress, was born.
9/12/1909, Douglas Fairbanks
Jr, actor, was born
8/11/1909, Katherine
Hepburn, US actress, was born.
15/5/1909, British
actor James
Mason was born.
11/2/1909, Joseph
Mankiewicz, film director, was born.
14/1/1909, Joseph Losey,
US film director, was born (died 1984).
18/11/1908, Imogene Coca,
American actress, was born (died 2001)
9/10/1908, Jacques Tati,
French comedian who created Monsieur
Hulot�s Holiday, was born.
14/9/1908, Clayton Moore,
actor, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
20/5/1908, US
actor James
Stewart was born.
7/4/1908, Laurie West,
TV weatherman, was born (died 16/3/2005)
23/3/1908, Birth
of US actress Joan
Crawford.
5/3/1908, Sir Rex
Harrison, actor, was born.
20/3/1908, Sir Michael
Redgrave, actor, was born.
22/2/1908, Birth
of actor John
Mills.
5/2/1908, Daisy and Violet
Hilton, conjoined twin actresses, were born.
22/12/1907, Dame Peggy
Ashcroft, actress, was born.
29/9/1907, Gene Autry,
entertainer, was born.
15/9/1907, Fay Wray,
actress, was born.
4/6/1907, Rosalind
Russell, actress, was born.
26/5/1907, John Wayne,
actor, was born.
22/5/1907, Birth
of British actor, Laurence Olivier.
12/5/1907, Katharine
Hepburn, US actress, was born.
15/2/1907, Cesar Romero,
actor, was born.
30/1/1907, Henri Murray,
French actor, was born.
13/1/1907, Jeff Morrow,
US actor, was born in New York city (died 1993)
5/8/1906, John Huston,
film director, was born.
3/7/1906, George Sanders,
actor, was born.
3/5/1906, Nancy Astor,
actress, was born.
6/2/1906, Nin� Gordini
Cervi, Italian actress, was born.
5/2/1906, John Carradine,
actor, was born.
13/10/1905, Sir Henry
Irving, the first British actor to receive a knighthood, gave his
final performance in Bradford, Yorkshire, before collapsing and dying in the
arms of his dresser at the Midland Hotel.
18/9/1905. Greta Garbo,
the Swedish shop-girl who became a famous film star, was born.
16/5/1905, Bob Hope,
US comedian, was born.
15/5/1905, Henry Fonda, actor, was born.
3/4/1905, Joseph
Jefferson, US actor, died (born 20/2/1829).
16/3/1905, Elisabeth
Flickenschildt, German actress, was born in Hamburg, Germany (died
1977)
18/1/1905, Chick Chandler, US actor, was born in
Kingston, New York (died 1988)
12/1/1905, Tex Ritter, actor, was born.
1904,
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
(RADA) was set up to train actors. In 1905 it moved to premises in Gower
Street, London.
2/12/1904,
Ann Gilbert,
US actress, died (born 21/10/1821).
15/11/1904, Tilly Losch,
Austrian actress, was born in Vienna, Austria (died 1975)
29/9/1904, Greer Garson, actress, was born.
7/7/1904, James Cagney,
film director, was born in New York.
3/5/1904, John Breeden, US actor, was born in San
Francisco, California (died 1977)
1/4/1904, Sid Field,
English actor was born (died 1950).
18/1/1904, Cary Grant,
American film actor, was born in Bristol, England, as Alexander Archibald Leach.
10/1/1904, Ray Bolger,
actor, was born.
18/6/1903, Jeanette
MacDonald, actress and singer, was born.
29/5/1903, Bob Hope,
comedian, was born.
3/5/1903, Actor
and singer Bing
Crosby was born (died 1977).
28/2/1903, Vincente
Minnelli, film director, was born.
9/11/1902, British
film director Anthony
Asquith was born.
27/12/1901, Marlene Dietrich, German
actress, was born.
5/12/1901, Walt Disney
was born.
28/9/1901, Ed Sullivan,
TV show host, was born.
19/9/1901, Joe Pasternak,
film producer, was born.
7/5/1901, US
actor Gary
Cooper was born.
14/4/1901, US
actors were arrested at the Academy of Music, New York, for wearing costumes on
a Sunday.
18/3/1901,
Russian-German dancer Tatiana Gsovsky was born.
9/2/1901, James Murray,
US actor, was born (died 1936).
27/12/1900, Marlene
Dietrich, US actress, was born (died 1992).
6/12/1900, Agnes Moorhead,
actress, was born.
22/2/1900, Luis Bunuel,
Spanish film maker, was born (died 1983).
24/9/1899, John Clarke,
US actor, died (born 3/9/1833).
13/8/1899, Birth
of film director Alfred Hitchcock.� He
was born in Leytonstone, London, the son of a greengrocer.
17/7/1899, James Cagney,
actor, was born.
5/7/1899, Jean Cocteau,
film director, poet, artist, novelist,
was born in Maisons-Lafitte, France.
12/3/1899, Mary Keeley,
English actress, died.
31/10/1898, Helena Faucit,
English actress, died (born 1817).
13/8/1898, Alfred Hitchcock, film director, born in Leytonstone.
19/6/1897, Moe Howard, comic actor, was born.
30/10/1896, Ruth Gordon, actress, was born.
12/1/1896, Tommy Handley, British comedian, was born in Liverpool.
24/12/1895, Carl Brisson, Danish actor, was born in Copenhagen (died in
Copenhagen 26/9/1958).
2/10/1895, Bud Abbott, actor and comedian, was born.
6/5/1895, Rudolph Valentino, actor, was born.
1/2/1895, John Ford, film director, was born.
15/9/1894, Jean Renoir, film director, was born.
31/5/1894, Fred Allen, US actor, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (died
17/3/1956 in New York).
11/5/1894, Martha Graham, choreographer, was born.
14/2/1894, Jack Benny, actor, was born.
14/10/1893, Lilian Gish, actress, was born.
17/8/1893, Actress Mae West was born.
2/10/1893, David James, English
actor, died (born 1839).
10/2/1893, Jimmy Durante, actor, was born.
1/2/1893, In New
Jersey, USA, Thomas
Edison opened the world�s
first film studio.
7/12/1892, Fred Leslie,
English actor, died (born 1/4/1855).
25/10/1892, Leo G Carroll,
actor, was born.
23/10/1892, Gummo Marx,
actor and comedian, was born.
29/7/1892, William Powell,
actor, was born.
13/6/1892, Basil Rathbone,
actor, was born.
18/1/1892, Oliver Hardy,
comedian in the Laurel and Hardy
duo, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
20/3/1891, Lawrence
Barratt, US actor, died born in Paterson, New Jersey 4/4/1838).
5/12/1890, Fritz Lang,
film director, was born.
2/10/1890, Julius Groucho
Marx was born (died 1977).
16/6/1890, Stan Laurel, of the Laurel and Hardy duo, was born as Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire (now Cumbria). Oliver Hardy was born in
America on 18/1/1892.
24/2/1890, Marjorie Main, actress, was born.
9/11/1889, Claude Rains, actor, was born.
17/6/1889, John Gilbert, US
actor, died (born 27/2/1810).
16/4/1889, Birth of comedian Sir Charles
Chaplin in Kennington,
London (died 1977). He was the son of two music hall entertainers.
24/12/1888, Michael Curtiz, film director, was born.
23/11/1888, Harpo Marx, one of the Marx
Brothers comedy team, was born in New York City.
12/3/1888, Vaslav Nijinski, ballet dancer and choreographer, was born.
16/8/1887, Augustine Brohan, French actress, died (born 22/1/1807).
25/6/1887, George Abbott, US actor, was born in Forestville, New York.
18/3/1887, Chico Marx, comedian, was born.
23/1/1886, Jean Bressant, French actor, died (born 23/10/1815).
8/11/1885, John McCullough, US actor, died.
13/1/1884, Sophie Tucker, comedienne and vaudeville performer, was
born.
15/7/1883, Tom Thumb, the American circus midget who finally attained a
height of 40 inches, died.
23/5/1883, Douglas Fairbanks, US actor, was born in Denver, Colorado (died 12/12/1939 in Santa
Monica, California).
1/4/1883, Lon Chaney, actor in Phantom of the Opera, was born.
20/10/1882, Bela Lugosi, actor, was born.
29/8/1882, Samuel Goldwyn
was born.
12/2/1882, Madame Celeste,
French actress, died (born 16/8/1815) 12/2/1882).
12/2/1881, Anna Pavlova,
ballerina., was born
7/6/1880, John Brougham,
British actor, died (born 9/5/1814).
15/8/1880, Adelaide
Neilson, British actress, died.
3/2/1880, Lina Abarbanell,
German actress, was born in Berlin (died 6/1/1963).
29/1/1880, William Claude Dukenfield (WC Fields), actor,
was born (died 25/12/1946).
27/12/1879, Sydney
Greenstreet, actor, was born.
5/8/1879, Charles Fechter,
actor, died (born 23/10/1824)
11/6/1879, Max Schrek,
actor, died
8/6/1878, Charles
Matthews, English actor, died (born 26/12/1803).
26/1/1876, Antoine
Frederick-Lemaitre, French actor, died (born 28/7/1800).
1/12/1875, Pauline Dejazet, French actress, died (born
30/8/1798).
22/3/1875, Hezekiah
Bateman, US actor, died (born in Baltimore, Maryland 6/12/1812).
30/12/1874, Ludwig Dessoir, German actor, died (born
15/12/1810).
24/8/1874, William Betty,
English actor, died (born in Shrewsbury 13/9/1791).
24/4/1874, Harry Houdini,
American magician and escapologist, was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, as Ehrich Weiss.
He was the son of a rabbi from Budapest.
4/11/1873, Laura Keene,
actress, died
27/4/1873, William
MacReady, English actor, died (born 3/3/1793).
12/12/1872, Edwin Forrest,
US actor, died (born 9/3/1806).
11/11/1872, Maude Adams,
US actress, was born (died 17/7/1953).
7/8/1872, Gustav Devreint,
German actor, died (born 4/9/1803).
1/2/1872, Bogumil Dawison,
German actor, died (born 1818).
10/8/1868, Adah Menken,
US actress, died.
24/9/1861, William Farren,
English actor, died (born 13/5/1786).
17/1/1861, Marie Gilbert, Irish dancer, died (born 1818).
9/2/1860, William Burton,
actor, died (born 1804).
12/11/1859, French
acrobat Jules
Leotard performed the first circus trapeze act at the Cirque
Napoleon, Paris, wearing the famous costume named after him.
28/7/1859, Mary Anderson,
US actress, was born in Sacramento, California.
4/11/1858, Francis Benson,
English actor, was born in Tunbridge Wells.
25/7/1857, Nathaniel
Goodwin, US actor, was born.
24/5/1857, Richard
Mansfield, US actor, was born (died 30/8/1907).
1/4/1855, Fred Leslie,
English actor, was born (died 7/12/1892).
12/11/1854, Charles Kemble,
actor, died
1/5/1852, Calamity Jane,
Wild West performer, was born.
9/12/1847, George
Grossmith, English comedian, was born.
20/3/1847, Anne Boutet,
French actress, died (born 9/2/1779).
26/10/1845, Edward Harrigan, US actor, was born.
22/10/1845, Sarah Bernhardt,
French actress, was born in Paris.
30/4/1845, Henry Crane,
US actor, was born.
22/10/1844, Sarah Bernhardt,
actress, was born.
16/5/1844, Sir John Hare,
English actor, born
16/12/1843, William Kendal,
English actor, was born.
14/5/1841, Sir Squire
Bancroft, actor, was born near London.
28/2/1841, Jean
Mounet-Sully, French actor, was born.
23/1/1841, Benoit Coquelin, French actor, was born (died
8/2/1909).
3/10/1838, Otto Devrient,
German actor, was born (died 23/6/1894).
4/4/1838, Lawrence
Barratt, US actor, was born in Paterson, New Jersey (died
20/3/1891).
4/1/1838, Charles
Sherwood Stratton was born. He later became famous as Tom Thumb,
a midget exhibited by Phineas Barnum.
31/5/1837, Joseph Grimaldi,
famous English clown, died (born 18/12/1779).
13/11/1833, Edwin Booth, US actor, was born in Belair,
Maryland (died 7/6/1893).
3/9/1833, John Clarke,
US actor, was born (died 24/9/1899).
15/5/1833, Edmund Kean,
actor, died (born 17/3/1787)
20/12/1832, Ludwig Devrient,
German actor, died (born 15/12/1784).
6/2/1832, Joseph Munden,
English actor, died.
26/7/1831, William
Florence, US actor, was born (died 14/11/1891).
26/12/1803, Charles
Matthews, English actor, was born (died 8/6/1878).
1/11/1827, Friedrich Haase,
German actor, was born.
23/10/1824, Charles Fechter,
actor, was born (died 5/8/1879).
26/2/1823, John Philip
Kemble, actor, died (born 1/2/1757)
1/10/1822, Francois Got,
French actor, was born (died 1901).
3/3/1822, Abraham Benard,
French actor, died (born 26/10/1750).
21/10/1821, Ann Gilbert,
US actress, was born (died 2/12/1904).
7/9/1819, Jeanne
Arnould-Plessey, French actress, was born in Metz (died 1897).
23/7/1816, Charlotte
Cushman, US actress, was born (died 18/2/1876).
3/7/1816, Dorothea Jordan,
Irish actress, died.
25/5/1816, Anne Lange,
French actress, died (born 17/9/1772).
23/10/1815, Jean Bressant,
French actor, was born (died 23/1/1886).
16/8/1815, Madame Celeste,
French actress, was born (died 12/2/1882).
4/3/1815, Frances
Abington, English actress (born 1737) died.
9/5/1814, John Brougham,
British actor, was born (died 7/6/1880).
6/12/1812, Hezekiah Bateman, US actor, was born in
Baltimore, Maryland (died 2/3/1875).
26/9/1811, George Cooke,
English actor, died (born 1756).
15/12/1810, Ludwig Dessoir,
German actor, was born (died 30/12/1874).
5/7/1810,
American showman Phineas T Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut.
27/2/1810, John Gilbert,
US actor, was born (died 17/6/1889).
22/1/1807, Augustine Brohan, French actress, was born
(died 16/8/1887).
9/3/1806, Edwin Forrest,
US actor, was born (died 12/12/1872).
4/9/1803, Gustav Devreint,
German actor, was born (died 7/8/1872).
23/7/1803, Charles Lewes,
English actor, died.
28/7/1800, Antoine Frederick-Lemaitre,
French actor, was born (died 26/1/1876).
5/8/1799, Jean Colson,
French actor, died (born 16/1/1725).
30/8/1798, Pauline Dejazet,
French actress, was born (died 1/12/1875).
15/5/1797, Pierre Lafont,
French actor, was born (died 19/4/1873).
5/4/1797, Karl Devrient,
German actor, was born (died 4/10/1877).
1/2/1794, Etienne Arnal,
actor, was born in Meulan (died 1872).
3/3/1793, William
MacReady, English actor, was born (died 27/4/1873).
13/7/1791, William Betty,
English actor, was born in Shrewsbury (died 24/8/1874).
31/10/1790, John Edwin,
English actor, died (born 10/8/1749).
16/2/1788, George Anne
Bellamy, English actress, died.
17/3/1787, Edmund Kean,
actor, was born (died 15/5/1833).
13/5/1786, William Farren,
English actor, was born (died 24/9/1861).
6/12/1785, Catherine Clive, British actress, died (born
1711).
15/12/1784, Ludwig Devrient,
German actor, was born (died 30/12/1832).
18/12/1779, Joseph Grimaldi,
English clown who invented the white face make up for clowns, was born.
9/2/1779, Anne Boutet,
French actress, was born (died 20/3/1847).
20/1/1779, David Garrick,
English actor and theatre manager, died. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
16/6/1778, Konrad Ekhof,
German actor, died (born 12/8/1720).
8/2/1778, Henri Louis
Cain, French actor, died (born 14/4/1728).
10/1/1777, Spranger Barry,
British actor, died in London (born in Dublin 23/11/1719).
27/12/1774, Henry Mossop,
Irish actor, died.
7/4/1774, Robert Elliston,
English actor, was born (died 1831).
17/9/1772, Anne Lange,
French actress, was born (died 25/5/1816).
30/1/1766, Susannah Cibber, actress, died (born 1714).
24/1/1760, Lavinia Fenton,
English actress, died (born 1708).
11/12/1757, Colley Cibber,
English actor, died (born 6/11/1671).
1/2/1757, John Philip
Kemble, actor, was born (died 26/2/1823).
26/10/1750, Abraham Benard,
French actor, was born (died 3/3/1822).
10/8/1749, John Edwin,
English actor, was born (died 31/10/1790).
15/11/1746, Jean Dugazon,
French actor, was born (died 1809).
16/8/1738, Joe Miller,
English actor, died.
20/3/1730, Adrienne
Lecouvreur, Frenchy actress, died (born 5/4/1692).
22/12/1729, Michel Baron,
French actor, died (born in Paris 1635).
14/4/1728, Henri Louis
Cain, French actor, was born (died 8/2/1778).
16/1/1725, Jean Colson,
French actor, was born� (died 5/8/1799),
25/1/1723, La Clairon, French actress, was born (died
1803).
12/8/1720, Konrad Ekhof,
German actor, was born (died 16/6/1778).
23/11/1719, Spranger Barry,
British actor, was born in Dublin (died in London 10/1/1777).
7/11/1713, Elizabeth Barry,
actress, died (born 1658).
2/1/1713, Marie Dumesnil,
actress, was born (died 20/2/1803).
15/5/1698, Marie
Champmesle, French actress, died (born 1642).
5/4/1692, Adrienne
Lecouvreur, Frenchy actress, was born (died 20/3/1730).
6/11/1671, Colley Cibber,
English actor, was born (died 11/12/1757).
Appendix 5 � Theatres, concerts, operas
(see also
Music for operatic performances).
12/6/1997, The new
Globe Theatre, London, opened.
13/5/1975, Richard
Hollingshead, who pioneered the development of
the drive-in movie theatre in 1933 In Camden, USA, died this day.
12/6/1974. The Redgrave Theatre, Farnham, opened.
8/9/1971, The John F
Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts opened in Washington DC.
9/8/1962, The
National Theatre was established in London, with Sir Lawrence Olivier as
director.
10/5/1961, In Britain the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe mocked �The
Establishment� (a term coined by the journalist Henry Fairlie in 1955 to
describe those holding the power in Britain).
8/5/1956, First performance of John Osborne�s play �Look Back in Anger� at the Royal Court
theatre, London. The play heralded the start of the ;Angry Young Men� on the
British establishment.
5/11/1955, The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopened with a
performance of Beethoven�s
Fidelio. It had been destroyed in an
Allied bombing raid on 12/3/1945.
14/1/1947, The newly-renovated Covent Garden Opera House in
London opened, with a performance of Bizet�s Carmen.
1934, The opera house at Glyndebourne, East Sussex, England, was
established by John Christie (1882-1962).
23/4/1932, The new Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre opened in Stratford
on Avon.
6/1/1931, The New
Sadlers Wells Theatre in London was opened.
27/4/1928. The
Piccadilly Theatre, London, opened.
6/3/1926. Fire destroyed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford on Avon. Only a blackened shell was left.
6/1/1914, The Professional Children's School began admitting
students interested in theatre work in New York City.
7/11/1912, The Deutscher Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin)
opened in Charlottenburg, Berlin.
29/10/1911. First
stone of the Drury Lane Theatre
laid.
9/6/1904, First concert
by the London Symphony Hall.
28/2/1883, The first Vaudeville theatre opened, in Boston,
USA.
15/5/1862, The third Royal Opera House
opened at Covent Garden, London.
30/1/1858, The Halle
Opera in Manchester, England, gave its first
public
concert.
5/3/1856, London�s Covent Garden Opera House was destroyed
by fire.
18/9/1809, The Royal Opera House in London opened with a
performance of Macbeth. The building
burnt down in 1856, and a foundation stone from it was incorporated into the
current structure.
27/11/1806, The Adelphi Theatre, London, opened.
24/2/1804, London�s Drury Lane Theatre burnt down,
bankrupting its owner, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
27/7/1787, The Theatre Royal, Margate, was founded.
3/8/1778, La Scala opera house� in Milan opened, the work of Guiseppe
Piermarini.
30/5/1766, The oldest theatre still in use in Britain, the
�Royal;� in Bristol, was opened.
28/9/1745. The National Anthem �God save the King� was first played at the Drury Lane Theatre,
London.
7/5/1663, The first Drury Lane theatre, London, opened.
13/4/1644. Demolition of the Globe Theatre on the South Bank, London.
29/6/1613. The Globe
Theatre in London burnt down after a cannon was fired during a Shakespeare
play and set fire to the roof.�
Appendix 6 � Art Galleries
12/5/2000, In
London, the Tate Modern art
gallery opened.
2/2/1977, The Pompidou
Centre of art and culture opened in Paris.
21/7/1897. The Tate Gallery in London was officially opened, on the site of Millbank Prison.
9/4/1838. The National
Gallery, in Trafalgar Square, London, opened.
