Events in Film & TV
- Aug 10 3rd Venice Film Festival opens
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Aug 5 John Saxon, American actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2020)
- Aug 5 Zakes Mokae, actor (Comedians), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Aug 8 Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
- Aug 12 John Cazale, American stage and screen character actor (The Godfather; Dog Day Afternoon; The Deer Hunter), born in Revere, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
- Aug 15 Abby Dalton, American actress (Joey Bishop Show), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Aug 15 Jim Dale, English actor, director and singer (Barnum; My One & Only), born in Rothwell, England
- Aug 16 Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress (Machine Calls it Murder)
- Aug 17 Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre), born in Saratov, Russian SFSR (d. 2018)
- Aug 18 Gail Fisher, American Emmy Award-winning actress (Mannix - "Peggy"), born in Orange, New Jersey (d. 2000)
- Aug 20 Charles Shere, American contemporary classical composer, broadcaster, music critic, and educator, born in Berkeley, California (d. 2020)
- Aug 22 Morton Dean, American TV newscaster (CBS, ABC), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
- Aug 23 Roy Strong, English writer, art historian and director (Victoria & Albert Museum), born in Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, England
- Aug 28 Richard Branda, American actor (You Are There, Two-Minute Warning), born in Port Arthur, Texas (d. 1993)
- Aug 29 William Friedkin, American director, producer, writer (The Exorcist, The French Connection), born in Chicago, Illinois
Deaths in Film & TV
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Aug 15 American humorist and actor (Judge Priest), dies in a plane crash in Alaska at 55
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