Events in Film & TV
- Feb 4 Steele MacKay's play "Hazel Kirke" premieres in New York City
Event of Interest
Nov 8 French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her US debut at NY's Booth Theater
Sarah Bernhardt
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jan 1 Edie Martin, British actress (Titfield Thunderbolt), born in London, England (d. 1964)
- Jan 6 Tom Mix [Thomas Hezikiah Mix], American silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin), born in Mix Run, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
- Jan 28 Mary Boland, American comedienne and actress (Ruggles of Red Gap), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)
- Jan 29 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield], actor (Bank Dick), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Feb 21 Frank Orth, American actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
- Mar 3 Florence Auer, American actress (Eradicating Aunty), born in Albany, New York (d. 1962)
- Mar 12 House Peters, British silent film actor (This Is the Life, Kansas Territory), born in Bristol, England (d. 1967)
- Mar 14 Oscar [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, Dutch actor and director (Pink Kate), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1939)
- Mar 21 Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor and the 1st cowboy in a movie (The Great Train, The Lucky Dog), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1971)
- Apr 13 Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner, born in London, Ontario, Canada (d. 1955)
- May 12 W Hupkes, Dutch engineer and Dutch Rail director
- May 16 Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)
- Jun 15 Mahlon Hamilton, American actor (Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi), born at Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1960)
- Jul 4 Pat Rooney, American vaudevillian and actor (Night Club), born in NYC, New York (d. 1962)
- Jul 12 Tod Browning, American film director (Dracula), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1962)
- Aug 6 Hans Moser, Austrian actor (Hello Service Man, Once Upon a Time), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1964)
- Aug 26 Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
- Oct 21 Viking Eggeling, Swedish artist/filmmaker (Symphonie Diagonale), born in Lund, Sweden (d. 1925)
- Oct 23 Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (David Copperfield), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1959)
- Nov 1 Karel Paul van der Mandele, Dutch financier and director (Rotterdam Bank), born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1975)
- Nov 14 Eugene O'Brien, American actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), born inBoulder, Colorado (d. 1966)
- Dec 10 Fred Immler, German actor (Zapata's Gang, Madame DuBarry), born in Germany (d. 1965)