Events in Film & TV
Film Release
Jan 24 Adventure film "Gunga Din", based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is released
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jan 1 Michèle Mercier, French actress (Angelique, Marquise des Anges.), born in Nice, France
- Jan 9 Susannah York, English actress (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Superman), born in London, England
- Jan 10 Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), born in NYC, New York (d. 1976)
- Jan 17 Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung
- Jan 22 Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba [Sadaho Maeda], Japanese martial artist and actor (The Street Fighter; Kill Bill: Volume 1), born in Fukuoka, Japan (d. 2021)
- Jan 25 Angela Thorne, British stage and screen actress (To The Manor Born; Three Up, Two Down), born in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan)
- Jan 31 Claude Gauthier, Canadian folk singer-songwriter, and actor, born in Lac-Saguay, Quebec
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jan 10 Jameson Thomas, British actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies from tuberculosis at 50
