Events in Film & TV
- Apr 17 SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy" premieres in NYC
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Apr 1 Ali MacGraw, American actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus), born in Pound Ridge, New York
- Apr 3 Catalino "Lino" Brocka, Filipino film director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), born in Pilar, Sorsogon, Philippines (d. 1991)
- Apr 3 François de Roubaix, French film score composer, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 1975)
- Apr 5 David Winters, American choreographer and director (Steve Allen Comedy Hour), born in London, England
- Apr 7 David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was), (d. 2013)
Francis Ford Coppola (83 years old)
Apr 7 American director (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), born in Detroit, Michigan
Alan Ayckbourn (83 years old)
Apr 12 English playwright and director, born in London, England
- Apr 13 Paul Sorvino, American stage and screen actor (Goodfellas; Law and Order, 1991-92; Dick Tracy, That's Life), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2022)
- Apr 16 Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor, born in Split, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (d. 2008)
- Apr 16 Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster, born in Scotland (d. 2009)
- Apr 19 Ellen Weston, American actress (Betty-SWAT), born in NYC, New York
- Apr 20 Peter S. Beagle, American novelist and screenwriter (The Last Unicorn), born in NYC, New York
- Apr 22 Jason Miller, American actor and writer (Exorcist, Light of Day), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
- Apr 23 David Birney, American stage and screen actor (Bridget Loves Bernie; St Elsewhere, 1982-83), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2022)
- Apr 23 Lee Majors [Harvey Lee Yeary], American film and TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy), born in Wyandotte, Michigan
- Apr 27 Judy Carne, English comedienne and actress (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop), born in Northampton, England (d. 2015)
Weddings in Film & TV
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Apr 22 Actor and naval officer of World War II Douglas Fairbanks Jr (29) weds supermarket magnate Huntington Hartford's former wife Mary Lee Hartford
Deaths in Film & TV
- Apr 18 Theo Mann, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
