Events in Film & TV
Panic Over War of the Worlds
Oct 30 A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells "The War of the Worlds", narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes a mass panic
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Oct 2 Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor (Myra Breckinridge), born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Oct 2 Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (Armaan), born in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan (d. 1983)
- Oct 8 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service) (d. 1993)
- Oct 8 Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player, broadcaster (French C'ship 1965, US Nat C'ship 1966), born in Sydney, Australia
- Oct 13 Jim McMullan, American actor (Dr McDaniel-Ben Casey), born in Long Island, New York
- Oct 16 Nico [Christa Päffgen], German singer-songwriter (Velvet Underground), fashion model, and actress, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1988)
Dawn Wells (1938-2020)
Oct 18 American actress (Gilligan's Island -"Mary Ann"), born in Reno, Nevada [1]
- Oct 22 Christopher Lloyd, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Taxi - "Reverend Jim"; Back to the Future films), born in Stamford, Connecticut
- Oct 22 Derek Jacobi, British Tony, BAFTA, and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor and director (I, Claudius; Much Ado About Nothing; Dead Again), born in London, England
- Oct 23 Jordan Christopher, American actor (Secrets of Midland Heights), born in Youngstown, Ohio
- Oct 26 Bernadette Lafont, French actress (Perils of Gwendoline), born in Nimes, France (d. 2013)
- Oct 28 David Dimbleby, English TV presenter and political commentator, born in Surrey, England
- Oct 29 Ralph Bakshi, Krymchak-American animator and film maker (Fritz the Cat; Lord of the Rings (1978); Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures), born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
- Oct 30 Ed Lauter, American actor (The Artist, The Number 23), born in Long Beach, New York (d. 2013)
