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Events in Film & TV

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• 1864-03-01 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

First Moving Images

1878-06-15 World's first moving pictures caught on camera (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

• 1881-09-18 Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment

• 1891-05-20 1st public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope to members of the National Federation of Women's Club
• 1892-06-11 The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
• 1893-02-01 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
• 1894-01-07 William K.L. Dickson captures "Fred Ott's Sneeze" as a motion picture at Thomas Edison's Black Mariah Studio, West Orange, New Jersey [1]
• 1894-01-09 William K.L. Dickson's motion picture "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" aka "Fred Ott's Sneeze" receives first US copyright for the format; it was filmed a few days earlier at Edison Studio, West Orange, New Jersey [1]
• 1894-04-14 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
• 1894-09-08 Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films first boxing match at West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
• 1895-03-22 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
• 1895-05-20 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
• 1895-07-11 French film pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière show film for scientists
• 1896-03-12 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
• 1896-04-23 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st shown at Koster & Bial's Music Hall, New York City
• 1896-07-26 Vitascope Hall, the first permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans
• 1897-05-14 Oldest continuously operating movie theater in the world, the State Theatre first opens in Washington, Iowa (Guinness World Records)
• 1897-08-31 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures
• 1900-02-14 Date of events in Australian movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
• 1902-03-10 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera
• 1902-04-02 "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California

• 1906-01-01 First permanent movie theater in Canada, The Ouimetoscope, is opened by Léo Ouimet in Montreal, Quebec
• 1907-05-22 Plaza Cinema opens in Ottawa, Kansas, the world's oldest purpose-built movie theatre [1]

Mayer's 1st Theater

1907-11-28 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater

• 1908-05-21 1st American horror movie silent film "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" premieres in Chicago
• 1909-03-06 Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema, the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
• 1909-12-11 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
• 1910-11-12 1st possible movie stunt: man jumps into the Hudson river from a burning balloon
• 1912-05-08 Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded
• 1912-05-18 Maurits Binger establishes two Dutch movie companies
• 1912-07-31 US government censors movies and photos of prizefights

• 1913-12-29 1st movie serial "Adventures of Kathlyn" premieres in Chicago

The Squaw Man

1914-02-12 "The Squaw Man", 1st feature-length film shot in Hollywood, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US

• 1914-04-04 Film serial "Perils of Pauline" shown for the first time in Los Angeles, California

First 12-Reel Film

1915-02-08 "The Birth of a Nation" the first 12-reel film in America, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles

Pickford's Million Dollar Contract

1916-06-24 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract

• 1916-09-05 "Intolerance", silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Vera Lewis and Ralph Lewis, is released
• 1919-02-05 Hollywood film studio United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith
• 1919-10-23 Orchestra Hall, designed by C. Howard Crane opens in Detroit, Michigan; home of the Detroit Symphony, 1919-39 and 1989 to present, also known as The Paradise Theater, featuring top jazz performers and films, 1941-51
• 1920-02-26 German silent horror film classic "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" starring Werner Krauss is released

The Mark of Zorro

1920-11-27 "The Mark of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film

• 1921-02-06 Charlie Chaplin releases his first full-length feature - "The Kid", a silent film starring Charlie Chaplin & 6-year old Jackie Coogan
• 1921-10-28 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens

Nosferatu

1922-03-04 1st vampire film "Nosferatu", an un-authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany

• 1922-11-26 1st successful Technicolor movie (The Toll of the Sea), premieres at the Rialto Theatre in NYC
• 1924-03-18 Silent film classic "The Thief of Bagdad" based on One Thousand and One Nights, starring Douglas Fairbanks and directed by Raoul Walsh is released

The Last Laugh

1924-12-23 German silent film classic "The Last Laugh" directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Emil Jannings is released

• 1925-12-21 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
• 1926-05-20 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

Don Juan

1926-08-06 "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore is released by Warner Bros., the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects

• 1927-01-05 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
• 1927-01-10 Fritz Lang's silent film "Metropolis" premieres in Berlin
• 1927-01-11 Louis B. Mayer head of film studio MGM announces creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

"The General"

1927-02-05 "The General", American silent film starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack, co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, premieres in New York City

• 1927-05-18 Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre opens in Hollywood, California, with a stage production followed by the world premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's silent film epic "King of Kings"

1st Laurel and Hardy Film

1927-10-08 "The Second Hundred Years" silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - 1st Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team

• 1928-05-15 Mickey Mouse makes his 1st ever appearance in silent film "Plane Crazy"
• 1929-02-01 "The Broadway Melody" directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Bessie Love is released. 1st film with sound to win an Oscar (Outstanding Picture 1930)
• 1930-03-31 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next 38 years

• 1931-03-14 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)

• 1931-05-11 "M" Fritz Lang's first sound film starring Peter Lorre premieres in Berlin

Frankenstein

1931-11-21 Horror film "Frankenstein" is released, starring Boris Karloff as the monster, directed by James Whale and based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"

• 1932-07-28 "White Zombie" - 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US

• 1932-12-22 "The Mummy" directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff is released in the US - 1st Mummy horror film

• 1933-03-09 "42nd Street" a musical film revolving around rehearsals for a Broadway show, directed by Lloyd Bacon, with choreography by Busby Berkeley, and songs by Harry Warren and by Al Dubin, premieres at the Strand, NYC; later adapted as a stage musical

Appearance of The Three Stooges

1933-07-06 "Nertsery Rhymes" short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges premieres, one of the first film appearance of The Three Stooges

• 1933-11-17 Marx brothers film "Duck Soup" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US

"Zouzou"

1934-12-21 French film "Zouzou" premieres in Paris, starring Josephine Baker; 1st black woman to star in a major motion picture

• 1935-04-19 "Bride of Frankenstein" horror film classic and sequel to "Frankenstein" starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lancaster is released

• 1935-11-15 "A Night at the Opera", comedy film directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
• 1936-02-05 "Modern Times", silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
• 1936-02-07 Felix the Cat, animated film released by Van Beuren Studios licensed from Otto Messmer

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

1937-12-21 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles

• 1938-09-21 RKO film comedy "Room Service", starring the Marx Brothers, based on Allen Boretz and John Murray's play, premieres in NYC

Birthdays in Film & TV

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 215

• 1822-04-21 Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, born in Taughannock, New York (d. 1900)
• 1844-12-08 Émile Reynaud, French inventor of the praxinoscope who created the first projected animated films (Pantomimes Lumineuses), born in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France (d. 1918)
• 1863-09-21 John Bunny, American film comedian, born in New York City (d. 1915)
• 1863-12-25 Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (Pathé Brothers, 1896), born in Paris, France (d. 1957)
• 1867-01-17 Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
• 1870-06-29 Joseph Carl Breil, American lyric tenor, and composer - one of the first to write for film (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth; Birth of a Nation; Intolerance), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
• 1873-03-11 David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
• 1876-11-12 Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, American MLB baseball outfielder (New York Giants - 1 game, 1905), medical doctor, and subject of "Field of Dreams" film, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1965)
• 1877-10-29 Narcisa de León, Filipino film mogul, born in San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines (d. 1966)
• 1880-04-13 Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner, born in London, Ontario, Canada (d. 1955)
• 1883-05-14 Julian Eltinge [Dalton], American vaudeville, Broadway, and silent film female impersonator star (The Crinoline Girl), born in Newtownville, Massachusetts (d. 1941)
• 1883-07-16 Charles Sheeler, American Modernist-Precisionist artist, commercial photographer, and the avant-garde film maker (Manhatta), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)

• 1885-10-08 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld's Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1951) [1]
• 1887-01-28 Lily (Theresa) Strickland, American composer of art songs, piano, and silent film music, and ethnomusicologist (The Music Courier), born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 1958)

• 1890-07-11 Georg Annenkov, Russian-French artist and stage and film set designer ('The Mutiny of the Machines'), born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
• 1891-11-10 Carl W. Stalling, American film composer (Disney's Silly Symphonies; Warner Brothers Cartoons), born in Lexington, Missouri (d. 1972)
• 1891-12-05 Al Boasberg, American vaudeville, radio and film comedy writer (Jack Benny; Bob Hope; The Marx Brothers), born In Buffalo, New York (d. 1937)
• 1894-12-19 Paul Dessau, German orchestral, film, and theater composer and conductor (Adventures of Casanova; Deutsches Miserere; Never Trust a Woman), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1979)
• 1895-12-02 Jesse Crawford, American pianist, theatre organist for silent films, and recording artist, born in Woodland, California (d. 1962)
• 1896-08-06 Cyril Mockridge, British composer for film and television (Miracle On 34th Street; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), born in London (d. 1979)
• 1897-01-19 Natacha Rambova [Winifred Shaughnessy], American film costume designer, 2nd wife of Rudolph Valentino (1923-25), and Egyptologist, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1966)
• 1897-09-10 David L. Snell, American pianist and composer for films (MGM Studio), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1967)
• 1898-01-16 Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
• 1899-03-25 Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer, and subject of the film 'The World's Fastest Indian", born in Invercargill, New Zealand (d. 1978)
• 1899-07-01 Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., American fictional film character (Indiana Jones films)
• 1899-11-13 Howard Hill, American expert bowman (billed as "The World's Greatest Archer"; movie technical adviser), born in Wilsonville, Alabama (d. 1975)
• 1899-11-17 Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
• 1899-12-15 Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), born in Bedford, England (d. 1978)
• 1900-01-30 Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, Soviet operetta & film composer, born in Lokhvitsa, Russian Empire (d. 1955)
• 1900-02-20 Antonio Veretti, Italian orchestral, theater, and film composer, born in Verona, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1978)
• 1901-05-01 Heinz Roemheld, American film composer (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Ruby Gentry), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1985)
• 1901-08-17 Henri Tomasi, French classical and film music composer (Requiem for Peace; The Silence of the Sea), born in Marseille, France (d. 1971)
• 1901-10-07 Ralph Rainger [Reichenthal], American song and film composer (Thanks for the Memory; Love In Bloom), born in New York City (d. 1942)
• 1902-05-17 Maurice Kusell, American film choreographer (Puttin' On the Ritz), born in Champaign, Illinois (d. 1992)
• 1902-07-20 Dilys Powell, English film critic and travel writer (Descent from Parnassus), born in Bridgnorth, England (d. 1995)
• 1902-09-20 Stevie Smith [Florence Margaret Smith], English poet and novelist ("A Good Time Was Had By All"; "Not Waving but Drowning") whose life was turned into the play and film "Stevie", born in Kingston upon Hull, England (d. 197)
• 1903-02-10 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, Russian-Soviet composer of popular songs and film music ("Katyusha"), born in Pochep, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
• 1903-03-03 Gilbert Adrian [Greenberg], American costume designer (MGM films, The Wizard of Oz), born in Naugatuck, Connecticut (d. 1959)
• 1904-07-15 Rudolf Arnheim, German-American film theorist and author of "Art and Visual Perception", born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2007) [1]
• 1905-07-08 Leonid Amalrik, Russian film animator "Black and White", born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1997)
• 1905-10-22 Joseph Kosma [József Kozma], Hungarian-French film composer (Les Enfants du Paradis; The Grand Illusion), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1969)
• 1906-08-19 Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), born in Beaver, Utah (d. 1971)

• 1906-12-08 Leo Shuken, American film music composer and arranger (Stagecoach; The Fabulous Dorseys; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1976)
• 1908-04-18 Eric Spear, British film and TV composer (Coronation Street theme), born in Croydon, Surrey (d. 1966)

• 1908-07-18 Barry Gray [John Livesey Eccles], British pianist, ondist, Hammond organ player, film and television composer (Thunderbirds; Space:1999), born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England (d. 1984)
• 1908-11-29 N. S. Krishnan, Tamil film comedian (d. 1957)
• 1909-06-17 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2004)
• 1909-08-10 Brian Easdale, British orchestral and film composer (The Red Shoes; Gone To Earth), born in Manchester, England (d. 1995)
• 1909-09-13 Leith Stevens, American pianist, composer and conductor of scores for radio (Suspense), film (The Wild Ones; War of the Worlds), and television (Climax!), born in Mount Moriah, Missouri (d. 1970)
• 1910-08-01 Walter Scharf, American film composer (Jerry Lewis movies; The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2003)
• 1911-01-26 Norbert Schultze, German composer, primarily of film scores, born in Brunswick, Saxony, Germany (d. 2002)
• 1912-02-02 Burton Lane, American film and stage composer and lyricist (Finian's Rainbow), born in New York City (d. 1997)
• 1912-02-08 Šimon Jurovský [Shimon Weiss-Nägel], Slovak composer for ballet, theater, and film, born in Uľanka, Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia (d. 1963)
• 1912-05-10 Harold Myers, British film journalist (Variety), born in Russia (d. 1994)
• 1912-05-21 Monty Stratton, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1937 Chicago WS; played minor leagues with prosthetic leg; 1949 film The Stratton Story), born in Palacios, Texas (d. 1982)
• 1912-08-04 David Raksin, American composer renown for his work in film and TV (Laura; Modern Times), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
• 1913-01-29 Peter von Zahn, German journalist, writer, and film maker, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 2001)
• 1913-03-22 Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
• 1913-05-30 Cedric Thorpe Davie, British composer of film scores and pedagogue (The Green Man; St. Andrews University), born in Lewisham, London (d. 1983)
• 1914-01-11 Dorothy Jeakins, Americanfilm and theatre costume designer (Samson and Delilah), born in San Diego, California (d. 1995)
• 1914-05-31 Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer, best known for his film scores in the Godzilla films, born in Kushiro Hokkaido, Japan (d. 2006)
• 1914-08-08 (C. Dudley) "Pete" King, American film and easy listening music arranger and composer (The Pied Piper of Hamelin; The Last of the Secret Agents?), born in Greenville, Ohio (d. 1982)
• 1916-01-04 Lionel Newman, American film music composer (Peyton Place), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1989)
• 1916-05-16 Adriana Caselotti, voice of Snow White in Disney's animated film, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1997)
• 1916-11-24 Forrest J. Ackerman, American literary agent and writer who invented the term "sci-fi" (Famous Monsters of Filmland), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 208)
• 1917-01-26 Louis Zamperini, American World War II veteran whose story of capture by the Japanese inspired the movie "Unbroken", born in Olean, New York (d. 2014)
• 1917-02-07 Milt Holland [Milton Olshansky], American drummer, percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and tinkle-ist (film Tinkerbell's tinkle; Bewitched - Samantha's nose tinkle), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2005)
• 1918-01-13 George "Bud" Hamilton, American film make-up artist (Westmore family), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1973)

Desmond Doss (1919-2006)

1919-02-07 American soldier and 1st conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor who was the subject of the film Hacksaw Ridge, born in Lynchburg, Virginia

• 1919-02-25 Fred Katz, American classical and jazz cellist (Chico Hamilton Quintet), and composer (Roger Corman films), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2013)
• 1919-12-14 Felix the Cat, anthropomorphic cartoon character created in the silent film era by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer
• 1920-02-13 Eileen Farrell, American soprano (I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; Metropolitan Opera, 1960-66) and film voice (Interrupted Melody), born in Willimantic, Connecticut (d. 2002)
• 1920-05-08 Saul Bass, American graphic designer of logos and film titles, born in New York City (d. 1996)
• 1921-03-19 Robert McFerrin, Sr., American operatic baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1955-58; singing voice for Sidney Poitier in film "Porgy and Bess"), born in Marianna, Arkansas (d. 2006) [1]
• 1921-07-13 Ernest Gold [Goldner], Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1999)
• 1921-09-05 Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2007)
• 1921-09-24 Leonard Salzedo, British orchestral, ballet, and film composer (The Witch Boy; Requiem Sine Voxibus, Hammer Films), born in London, England (d. 2000)
• 1921-11-09 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, German-British film scholar and exhibitor, born in Berlin (d. 1996)
• 1922-04-12 (Edwin) "Ted" Astley, British arranger, bandleader, and film and television composer (The Mouse That Roared; The Saint), born in Warrington, Lancashire, England (d. 1998)
• 1922-05-24 Sadao Bekku, Japanese classical and film composer (Matango), born in Tokyo (d. 2012)
• 1922-08-18 Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist (Voyeur) and film maker, born in Brest, France (d. 2008)
• 1922-09-15 Bob Anderson, English Olympic Fencer, renowned film fight choreographer (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings) (d. 2012)
• 1922-09-20 Frank Comstock, American big band and pop orchestral arranger (Les Brown; Doris Day; Warner Bros; Brian Setzer), film and television composer (Rocky and His Friends; Adam-12), and recording artist (Project: Comstock - Music from Outer Space), born in San Diego, California (d. 2013)
• 1922-10-17 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2012)
• 1922-12-16 Seymour "Cy" Leslie, American music (Pickwick Records) and video (MGM/UA Home Entertainment) executive, born in Israel (d. 2008)
• 1923-01-08 Giorgio Tozzi, American operatic bass (dubbed vocals of Emile de Becque for "South Pacific" film), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
• 1923-04-09 Dann Cahn, American film editor (I Love Lucy, Beverly Hillbillies), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2012)
• 1923-07-22 Mukesh [Mathur], Indian "playback singer" for Bollywood films, born in Delhi, British India (d. 1976)
• 1923-12-16 Werner Haentjes, German conductor and composer of operas and film scores, born in Bocholt, Germany (d. 2001)
• 1924-02-01 Richard Hooker [Heister Richard Hornberger], American army surgeon, and novelist (MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors - inspiration for film and TV series), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 1997)
• 1924-04-17 Donald Richie, American-born author and (Japanese) film critic, born in Lima, Ohio (d. 2013)
• 1925-07-19 Sue Thompson [Eva Sue McKee], American pop and country music singer ("Sad Movies (Make Me Cry")), born in Nevada, Missouri (d. 2021)
• 1925-07-29 Mikis Theodorakis, Greek classical and film music composer (Zorba the Greek; Mauthausen Trilogy; Serpico), born on the island of Chios, Greece (d. 2021)
• 1926-10-18 John Morris, American film and Broadway composer who commonly worked alongside Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 2018)
• 1927-02-24 David Mourão-Ferreira, Portuguese poet (Cancioneiro de Natal) and film maker, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1996)

Weddings in Film & TV

• 1992-07-18 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith

Harvey Weinstein

2007-12-15 American Miramax film mogul Harvey Weinstein (55) weds second wife, English "Marchesa" fashion designer Georgina Chapman (31) in Connecticut; separate in 2017, divorce finalized in 2021

Deaths in Film & TV

Deaths 1 - 100 of 168

• 1900-12-31 Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, dies at 78
• 1918-01-09 Émile Reynaud, French inventor of the praxinoscope who created the first projected animated films (Pantomimes Lumineuses), dies at 73
• 1919-02-16 Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
• 1920-08-02 Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (The Great Air Robbery), dies at 28
• 1926-01-23 Joseph Carl Breil, American lyric tenor, and composer - one of the first to write for film (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth; Birth of a Nation; Intolerance), dies of heart disease at 55
• 1935-06-27 Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (1st sound-on-film recording), dies at 77
• 1937-06-18 Al Boasberg, American vaudeville, radio and film comedy writer (Jack Benny; Bob Hope; The Marx Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 44
• 1941-03-07 Julian Eltinge [Dalton], American vaudeville, Broadway, and silent film female impersonator star (The Crinoline Girl), dies of a suspected cerebral hemorrhage at 59
• 1942-10-23 Ralph Rainger [Reichenthal], American song and film composer (Thanks for the Memory; Love In Bloom), dies in a plane crash at 41
• 1947-01-11 Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born vaudeville and film singer and entertainer dies at 68
• 1948-12-18 Janet Fay, American murder victim of the Lonely Hearts Killers (later filmed as "The Honeymoon Killers"), hammered to death at 66
• 1951-11-18 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld's Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), dies at 66
• 1953-02-25 Jesus Garcia Leoz, Spanish orchestral and film composer (The Sun Comes Out Every Day), dies at 49
• 1959-09-30 John Kliegl, American developer of Klieg light used in filmmaking, dies at 89
• 1960-09-20 Lee Duncan, American owner and trainer film dog Rin Tin Tin, dies of a heart attack at 67
• 1962-05-28 Jesse Crawford, American pianist, theatre organist for silent films, and recording artist, dies at 66

• 1965-05-07 Charles Sheeler, American Modernist-Precisionist artist, commercial photographer, and the avant-garde film maker (Manhatta), dies at 81
• 1965-08-25 Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, American MLB baseball outfielder (New York Giants - 1 game, 1905), medical doctor, and subject of "Field of Dreams" film, dies at 88
• 1966-02-06 Narcisa de León, Filipino film mogul, dies at 88
• 1966-06-05 Natacha Rambova [Winifred Shaughnessy], American film costume designer, 2nd wife of Rudolph Valentino (1923-25), and Egyptologist, dies of a heart attack at 69
• 1966-11-03 Eric Spear, British film and TV composer (Coronation Street theme), dies at 58
• 1967-03-27 David L. Snell, American pianist and composer for films (MGM Studio), dies at 69
• 1969-03-04 Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
• 1969-04-23 Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz pianist and film composer (Rosemary's Baby), dies of head injuries as the result of a fall at 37
• 1969-08-07 Joseph Kosma [József Kozma], Hungarian-French film composer (Les Enfants du Paradis; The Grand Illusion), dies at 63
• 1970-06-16 Brian Piccolo, American NFL football running back, 1965-69 (Chicago Bears), and subject of the 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song", dies of cancer at 26
• 1970-07-23 Leith Stevens, American pianist, composer and conductor of scores for radio (Suspense), film (The Wild Ones; War of the Worlds), and television (Climax!), dies of a heart attack (upon learning his wife was killed in a car accident) at 60
• 1971-01-05 Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
• 1971-01-13 Henri Tomasi, French conductor, classical and film music composer (Requiem for Peace; The Silence of the Sea), dies at 69
• 1971-03-07 Stevie Smith [Florence Margaret Smith], English poet and novelist ("A Good Time Was Had By All"; "Not Waving but Drowning") whose life was turned into the play and film "Stevie", dies of a brain tumour at 68
• 1971-03-11 Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), dies of pneumonia at 64
• 1971-08-16 Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (20th Century Fox), dies at 78
• 1972-11-29 Carl W. Stalling, American film composer (Disney's Silly Symphonies; Warner Brothers Cartoons), dies at 81
• 1973-06-24 George "Bud" Hamilton Westmore, American film make-up artist (Westmore family), dies after a heart attack at 55
• 1974-07-12 Georg Annenkov, Russian-French artist and stage and film set designer ('The Mutiny of the Machines'), dies at 84

• 1975-10-31 SD Burman, Indian singer and film music composer (Zindagi Zindagi), dies at 69
• 1976-07-24 Leo Shuken, American film music composer and arranger (Stagecoach; The Fabulous Dorseys; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 69
• 1976-08-27 Mukesh [Mathur], Indian "playback singer" for Bollywood films, dies of a heart attack at 53
• 1977-02-10 Grace Williams, Welsh composer (1st British woman to score a feature film), dies at 70
• 1978-01-06 Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer, and subject of the film 'The World's Fastest Indian", dies at 78
• 1978-01-14 Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), dies at 78
• 1979-01-18 Cyril Mockridge, British composer for film and television (Miracle On 34th Street; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), dies at 82
• 1980-08-04 Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright and leader (Vatican movie bureau), dies at 69
• 1981-05-17 Hugo Friedhofer, American cellist and film and television composer, dies at 80
• 1982-09-21 (C. Dudley) "Pete" King, American film and easy listening music arranger and composer (The Pied Piper of Hamelin; The Last of the Secret Agents?),dies at 68
• 1982-09-29 Monty Stratton, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1937 Chicago WS; played minor leagues with prosthetic leg; 1949 film The Stratton Story), dies from cancer at 70
• 1983-01-18 Cedric Thorpe Davie, British composer of film scores (The Green Man; St. Andrews University), and pedagogue, dies at 69
• 1984-04-26 Barry Gray [John Livesey Eccles], British pianist, ondist, Hammond organ player, film and television composer (Thunderbirds; Space:1999), dies at 75

• 1985-01-04 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Army Lt-General, author (A Full Life; Corps Commander), and film consultant (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 89
• 1985-02-11 Heinz Roemheld, American film composer (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Ruby Gentry), dies of pneumonia at 83
• 1985-05-02 Hal LeRoy [John LeRoy Schotte], American vaudeville, Broadway and film dancer (Ziegfeld's Follies of 1931), dies at 71 after surgery
• 1986-11-21 Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
• 1987-02-28 Nora Kaye, American ballet dancer, and Broadway and film choreographer, dies of cancer at 67
• 1990-07-21 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
• 1990-09-27 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, Russian-Soviet composer of popular songs and film music ("Katyusha"), dies at 87
• 1991-06-03 Katia Krafft (née Conrad), French volcanologist who pioneered filming volcanic eruptions, dies with her husband in a volcanic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan at 49
• 1991-06-03 Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist who pioneered filming volcanic eruptions, dies with his wife in a volcanic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan at 45
• 1992-02-02 Maurice Kusell, American film choreographer (Puttin' On the Ritz), dies of pneumonia at 89
• 1992-05-02 Joey Cuevas, American movie dancer, dies at 34
• 1992-07-12 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies
• 1993-02-05 Tip Tipping [Tim], English film stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34
• 1993-02-17 George E. Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77
• 1993-11-27 Jerry Hunt, American experimental composer and video artist, commits suicide at 49
• 1994-03-17 Harold Myers, British film journalist (Variety), dies at 81
• 1994-07-23 Hans J. Salter, Austrian-American film composer (The Wolf Man; Christmas Holiday; This Love Of Ours), dies at 98
• 1995-09-10 Derek Meddings, British TV and film special effects technician (Supermarionation, James Bond), dies at 64
• 1995-10-30 Brian Easdale, British orchestral and film composer (The Red Shoes; Gone To Earth), dies at 86
• 1995-11-21 Dorothy Jeakins, American film and theatre costume designer (Samson and Delilah), dies at 81
• 1996-01-18 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, also known as NTR, Indian film star (Patala Bhairavi; Mayabazar), and politician (Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (1983-89 & 1994-95), dies at of a heart attack at 72
• 1996-03-28 Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86
• 1996-04-14 William K. Everson, English American film historian, dies at 67
• 1996-04-22 David Shipman, English film historian, dies at 63
• 1996-04-25 Saul Bass, American graphic designer of logos and film titles (Psycho), dies at 75
• 1996-05-01 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, German-British film scholar and exhibitor, dies at 74
• 1996-06-16 David Mourão-Ferreira, Portuguese poet (Cancioneiro de Natal) and film maker, dies at 69
• 1996-09-09 Ruggero Mastroianni, Italian film editor (Giulietta degli spiriti), dies at 66
• 1997-01-03 Burton Lane, American film and stage composer and lyricist (Finian's Rainbow), dies at 84
• 1997-01-19 Adriana Caselotti, voice of Snow White in Disney's animated film, dies at 70
• 1997-10-22 Leonid Amalrik, Russian film animator "Black and White", dies at 92
• 1997-11-04 Richard Hooker [Heister Richard Hornberger], American army surgeon, and novelist (MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors - inspiration for film and TV series), dies of leukemia at 73
• 1998-05-19 (Edwin) "Ted" Astley, British arranger, bandleader, and film and television composer (The Mouse That Roared; The Saint), dies at 76
• 1998-07-23 John Hopkins, English TV, film and stage writer (Z-Cars), dies at 67
• 1999-02-20 Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
• 1999-03-17 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77
• 2000-05-06 Leonard Salzedo, British orchestral, ballet, and film composer (The Witch Boy; Requiem Sine Voxibus, Hammer Films), dies at 78

• 2001-03-13 John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (pioneered handheld work, lighting techniques and HD video development), dies at 66
• 2001-07-20 Werner Haentjes, German conductor and composer of operas and film scores, dies at 77
• 2001-07-26 Peter von Zahn, German journalist, writer, and film maker, dies at 88
• 2001-09-03 Pauline Kael, American film critic (NY Times), dies at 82
• 2002-03-23 Eileen Farrell, American soprano (I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; Metropolitan Opera, 1960-66) and film voice (Interrupted Melody), dies at 82
• 2002-04-04 Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
• 2002-10-28 Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
• 2003-02-24 Walter Scharf, American film composer (Jerry Lewis movies; The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), dies of heart failure at 92
• 2003-11-18 Michael Kamen, American composer and arranger (film scores to Brazil and Mr. Holland's Opus; Pink Floyd), dies from a heart attack at 55
• 2004-02-26 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, dies at 94
• 2004-08-09 David Raksin, American composer renown for his work in film and TV (Laura; Modern Times), dies at 92

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