Events in Film & TV
- Feb 1 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Ronald Reagan later hosts
Event of Interest
Feb 1 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
Walter Cronkite
Television Awards
Feb 5 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes win
Helen Hayes
Film and TV Awards
Feb 26 10th Golden Globes: "The Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper, & Shirley Booth win
Gary Cooper
Shirley Booth
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Feb 8 Mary Steenburgen, Newport Ark, actress (Parenthood, Time After Time)
- Feb 9 Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer
- Feb 11 Philip Anglim, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds), born in San Francisco, California
- Feb 12 Joanna Kerns, [de Varona], actress (Maggie-Growing Pains), born in San Francisco, California
- Feb 12 Nabil Shaban, British actor
- Feb 12 Robin Thomas, American actor
- Feb 13 Sharon Wyatt, Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
- Feb 15 Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005)
- Feb 17 Janice Dickinson, American model (Vogue), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Feb 19 Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
- Feb 21 Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Valerie, Tootsie)
- Feb 21 William L Petersen, actor (Return to Lonesome Dove)
- Feb 22 Nigel Planer, British actor
- Feb 25 Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight)
- Feb 25 Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
- Feb 26 Bree Walker, news anchor (WNBC TV, KNBC TV)
- Feb 28 Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat, [Richard Blood], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
Feb 14 Actress Agnes Moorehead (52) weds actor and film director Robert Gist (35)
Agnes Moorehead
Deaths in Film & TV
- Feb 8 Cliff Clark, American actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout), dies from a heart attack at 63