Events in Film & TV
Television Premiere
Jun 8 "Texaco Star Theater" premieres on NBC-TV, with "Mr. Television" Milton Berle made permanent emcee in September of the same year
Television Premiere
Jun 20 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
- Jun 21 WNAC (now WHDH) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jun 1 Powers Boothe, American Actor (Sin City, Deadwood), born in Snyder Texas (d. 2017)
- Jun 2 Albert Innaurato, American playwright and stage director (Age in Soho; Gemini), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2017)
- Jun 2 Jerry Mathers, American actor (Leave It To Beaver - "Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver"; The Trouble with Harry), born in Sioux City, Iowa
- Jun 4 Rosemary Joyce, model and actress (Daphne Draper-Search For Tomorrow)
- Jun 11 Lynsey de Paul, British singer and actress (Sugar Me), born in London (d. 2014)
- Jun 11 Stephen Schnetzer, American actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Jun 13 Joe Roth, American film executive, producer and film director (America's Sweethearts), born in NYC, New York
- Jun 19 Phylicia Rashad, American Tony Award-winning actress (The Cosby Show - "Clair"; A Raisin in the Sun; One Life to Live), and singer, born in Houston, Texas
- Jun 25 Broery Marantika [Simon Pesulima], Indonesian blues and jazz singer, and actor, born in Ambon, Maluku, Japanese-occupied East Indies (d. 2000)
- Jun 25 Michael Lembeck, American actor (Max-One Day at a Time), born in Brooklyn, New York
Kathy Bates (74 years old)
Jun 28 American Academy Award-winning actress (Misery), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- Jun 29 Fred Grandy, American actor (The Love Boat - "Gopher") and politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa), born in Sioux City, Iowa
Weddings in Film & TV
José Ferrer
Jun 19 "Cyrano de Bergerac" actor José Ferrer weds second wife actress Phyllis Hill
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jun 26 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (Sa Kabukiran), murdered by former co-star Narding Anzures at 24
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