Events in Film & TV
- May 6 KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
Birthdays in Film & TV
- May 1 Ann Robinson, American actress
- May 2 Lance LeGault, American actor (The A-Team), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2012)
- May 3 Ron Popeil, American inventor and TV personality who popularized the phrase "But wait, there's more!", born in NYC, New York (d. 2021) [1]
- May 5 Douglas Marland, American soap opera writer (Gen Hospital), born in West Sand Lake, New York (d. 1993)
- May 7 Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie, Special Effects), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- May 8 Salome Jens, American actress (From Here to Eternity), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- May 9 Nole "Nokie" Edwards, American surf-rock guitarist (The Ventures) and actor (Deadwood), born in Lahoma, Oklahoma (d. 2018)
- May 11 Doug McClure, American actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots), born in Glendale, California (d. 1995)
- May 16 Jimmy LIndley, English jockey (2,000 Guineas 1963, 66; St Leger 1964) and broadcaster (BBC), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England (d. 2022)
- May 19 David Hartman, American actor and TV personality (Good Morning America), born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- May 23 Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer and actor, born in Gävle, Sweden (d. 2009)
- May 24 Joan Micklin Silver, American film director (Hester Street; Crossing Delancey), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2020)
- May 25 Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1988)
- May 26 Sheila Steafel, South African-British actress (The 10th Kingdom), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2019)
- May 27 Lee Meriwether, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones), born in Los Angeles, California
- May 30 Ni Kuang, Hong Kong-American novelist and screenwriter (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), born in Shanghai, China (d. 2022) [1]
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