September 1940 in Film & Television

Events in Film & TV

Sep 2 Beverly Sanders, actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey), born in Hollywood, California
Sep 2 Harry Northup, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver), born in Amarillo, Texas
Sep 3 Pauline Collins, English actress (Shirley Valentine), born in London, England

Sep 5 Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (Myra Breckenridge; 1,000,000 BC; 100 Rifles), born in Chicago, Illinois

Sep 6 Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter (Neighbours theme) and actress, born in Newcastle-under-Lyme (d. 2015)
Sep 8 Willie Tyler, American ventriloquist (Lester), born in Red Level, Alabama
Sep 11 Brian DePalma, film director (Body Double, Dressed to Kill), born in Newark, New Jersey
Sep 12 Linda Gray, American actress (Sue Ellen Ewing-Dallas), born in Santa Monica, California
Sep 12 Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, rodeo performer, model and actor best known for playing the Marlboro Man and for dying of lung cancer, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana (d. 1992)
Sep 12 Patrick Mower, English actor (Emmerdale), born in Oxford, England
Sep 15 Merlin Olsen, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Father Murphy), born in Logan, Utah (d. 2010)
Sep 17 Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (Zorba the Greek), born in Limassol, Cyprus (d. 2007)
Sep 18 Frankie Avalon [Francis Avallone], American actor and singer (Beach Party, Venus), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 19 Paul Williams, American singer, actor and composer (Rainy Days and Mondays, Evergreen), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Sep 21 Bill Kurtis, American newscaster (American Parade), born in Pensacola, Florida
Sep 22 Anna Karina, Danish French 'New Wave' actress (Alphaville), born in Solbjerg, Denmark (d. 2019)

Sep 1 Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon

Sep 22 "Adventures of Superman" actor George Reeves (26) weds Ellanora Needles at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California

Sep 25 "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31)

Sep 10 Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (Modern Times, The Dumb Messenger), dies at 69
Sep 25 Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57