October 1917 in Film & Television

Birthdays in Film & TV

  • Oct 7 June Allyson, American actress ("Too Young to Kiss"; "The DuPont Show with June Allyson"), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2006)
  • Oct 10 Ilona Ference, American actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), born in Bar Harbor, Maine (d. 1996)
  • Oct 12 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), born in Blaricum, Netherlands (d. 1976)
  • Oct 15 Jan Miner, American actress (Crime Photographer), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
  • Oct 16 Alice Pearce, American comedienne and actress (On the Town, Bewitched), born in NYC, New York (d. 1966)
  • Oct 17 Marsha Hunt, American actress (Born to the West; Cry 'Havoc'; Johnny Got His Gun), and human rights and peace activist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2022)

Joan FontaineJoan Fontaine (1917-2013)

Oct 22 British-American Academy Award-winning actress (Gunga Din; Ivanhoe; Rebecca), born in Tokyo, Japan

  • Oct 23 Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West), born in Kalispell, Montana (d. 1983)
  • Oct 28 Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], Japanese-American actor (Flower Drum Song, Barney Miller), born in Oakland, California (d. 1979)

Deaths in Film & TV

  • Oct 13 Florence La Badie, American silent film actress, dies of injuries from automobile accident at 29
  • Oct 17 Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59