Events in Film & TV
Film Premiere
Jan 15 "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", film based on B. Traven's novel, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart premieres
- Jan 18 TV talent show "The Original Amateur Hour" hosted by Ted Mack premieres on the DuMont Television Network
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jan 8 Gillies Mackinnon, Scottish film director & writer (Playboys), born in Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Jan 12 Anthony Andrews, English actor (Under the Volcano), born in London, England
- Jan 14 Carl Weathers, American actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jan 15 Tommy Nolan, Canadian actor (Jody-Buckskin), born in Montreal, Quebec
John Carpenter (75 years old)
Jan 16 American film director (Halloween, The Thing), born in Carthage, New York
- Jan 22 Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
- Jan 24 Michael Des Barres, British rock singer (Detective; Power Station), actor (MacGyver; The New WKRP in Cincinnati), and radio DJ, born in Hove, England
- Jan 24 Michio Kaku, American physicist, futurist, author (Physics of the Impossible; The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything), broadcaster, and peace activist, born in San Jose, California
- Jan 27 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American ballet dancer,and choreographer (American Ballet Theater), and actor (The Turning Point; Sex In The City), born in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Latvia)
- Jan 29 Marc Singer, Canadian-American actor (V, Dallas), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Jan 29 Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter & radio host
- Jan 30 Nicholas Broomfield, English documentary film director (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss), born in London, United Kingdom
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jan 8 Richard Tauber [Denemy], Austrian-British operatic tenor and film actor, dies of lung cancer at 56
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