Events in Film & TV
Academy Awards
Mar 23 22nd Academy Awards: "All The King's Men", Broderick Crawford and Olivia de Havilland win
- Mar 27 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 2 Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet)
- Mar 2 Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
- Mar 3 Re Styles [Shirley Macleod], Dutch-American actress (Space Is The Place), designer, and rock vocalist (The Tubes, 1976-79), born in the Netherlands (d. 2022)
- Mar 3 Tim Kazurinsky, American comic actor and screenwriter (SNL, 1980-84; Police Academy 2, 3, 4), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- Mar 4 Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
- Mar 5 Harvey Jacob Alperin, actor (Cocktail), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mar 7 Iris Chacón, Puerto Rican singer, dancer, and TV personality born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Mar 7 Mark Pinter, American actor (Behind the Screen, Another World), born in Decorah, Iowa
- Mar 9 Andy North, American golfer, broadcaster (US Open 1978, 85; ESPN), born in Thorp, Wisconsin
- Mar 12 Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
- Mar 12 Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author
William H. Macy (73 years old)
Mar 13 American actor (Homicide, Water Engine), born in Miami, Florida
William Hurt (1950-2022)
Mar 20 American Academy Award-winning actor (Big Chill; Children of a Lesser God; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Broadcast News), born in Washington, D.C. [1]
- Mar 23 Anthony De Longis, American actor
- Mar 23 Corrine Clery, actress (Moonraker, Yor), born in Paris, France
- Mar 25 Robert O'Reilly, American stage and screen actor (Star Trek - "Klingon Chancellor Gowron"), born in New York City
- Mar 26 Alan Silvestri, American film score composer (Back To The Future films; Forrest Gump, Cosmos), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 26 Ernest Thomas, American actor (What's Happening!!), born in Gary, Indiana
Martin Short (72 years old)
Mar 26 Canadian comedian (SNL; SCTV; 3 Amigos), born in Hamilton, Ontario
- Mar 26 Tony Papenfuss, American actor (Daryl-Newhart), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mar 27 Tony Banks, British progressive rock keyboardist (Genesis - "Supper's Ready"), and film score and classical composer, born in East Hoathly, Sussex, England
Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
Mar 30 Scottish comedian and BAFTA Award-winning actor (Cracker; Harry Potter films; Nuns on the Run), born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire
- Mar 31 Ed Marinaro, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Ofc Joe Coffey"; Laverne & Shirley, 1980-81 - "Sonny"), and NFL running back, 1972-77 (Minnesota Vikings and 2 other teams), born in NYC, New York
Weddings in Film & TV
Ingrid Bergman & Roberto Rossellini
Mar 24 Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) weds Roberto Rossellini
Divorces in Film & TV
Ingrid Bergman
Mar 1 Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) divorces dentist Petter Aron Lindström after 12 years of marriage
Deaths in Film & TV
- Mar 6 Lew Lehr, American comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
- Mar 10 Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
- Mar 11 Florence Arliss, British actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
- Mar 25 Frank Buck, American actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs), dies at 62
- Mar 28 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67
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