November 1925 in Film & Television History

Birthdays in Film & TV

Doris Roberts (1925-2016)

Nov 4 American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond), born in St Louis, Missouri

Nov 4 Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker (Titash Ekti Nadir Naam), born in Dhaka, East Bengal (d. 1976)

Nov 10 Welsh Tony and BAFTA Award-winning stage and screen actor (Cleopatra: Camelot; Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and fifth and sixth husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1964-74, 1975-76), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales

Nov 11 John Guillermin, British film director (The Towering Inferno), born in London (d. 2015)

Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)

Nov 11 American comedian (The Jonathan Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), born in Dayton, Ohio

Nov 11 June Whitfield, English comedian (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous), born in London, England (d. 2018)

Rock Hudson (1925-1985)

Nov 17 American actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, Ice Station Zebra), born in Winnetka, Illinois

Nov 18 Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), born in Fulham, London (d. 1997)
Nov 18 Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1992)
Nov 20 Kaye Ballard, American stage and screen actress, comedienne, (Mothers-in-Law - "Kaye"), and singer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2019)
Nov 23 Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), born in New York City (d. 2020)
Nov 24 Alun Owen, North Wales, writer (Hard Days Night)/actor (Servant)
Nov 27 Ernie Wise [Wiseman], English comedian (Morecambe & Wise), born in Bramley, England (d. 1999)
Nov 27 Marshall Thompson, American actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari), born in Peoria, Illinois
Nov 27 Michael Tolan, American actor (Nurses, Senator), born in Detroit, Michigan
Nov 28 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 1986)
Nov 29 Chet Leaming, American stage and screen actor, born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1992)