January 1956 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Jan 9 Musical "Peter Pan", starring Mary Martin broadcast live, for a 2nd time, on NBC as part of "Producers' Showcase" series

Jan 21 Victor Borge's one-man show "Comedy in Music" closes at John Golden Theatre, NYC; runs for 849 performances, a Guinness world record

Jan 30 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
Jan 30 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

Jan 1 Kôji Yakusho [Hashimoto], Japanese actor (Shall We Dance?), born in Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan

Jan 3 American actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) and filmmaker, born in Peekskill, New York

Jan 4 Ann Magnuson, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger), born in Charleston, West Virginia
Jan 7 David Caruso, American actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes), born in Forest Hills, New York
Jan 9 Imelda Staunton, British actress (Finding Your Feet, Maleficent), born in Archway, London
Jan 9 Kimberly Beck Hilton, American actress (Kim-Peyton Place), born in Glendale, California
Jan 10 Don Letts, British film director & musician (Big Audio Dynamite), born in London, United Kingdom
Jan 13 Janet Hubert-Whitten, actress (Vivian Banks-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Jan 14 Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor, and broadcaster, born in Murrayville, British Columbia
Jan 16 Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress, born in Toronto, Canada
Jan 17 Mitch Vogel, American actor (Jamie-Bonanza), born in Alhambra, California

Jan 20 American comedian & political commentator (Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect), born in NYC, New York

Jan 21 Geena Davis, American actress (Beetlejuice, Fly), born in Wareham, Massachusetts
Jan 21 Robby Benson, American actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen), born in Dallas, Texas
Jan 27 Mimi Rogers [Miriam Spickler], American actress (The Rapture; Paper Dolls; Weapons of Mass Distraction), and producer, born in Coral Gables, Florida
Jan 30 Jeremy Gittins, English actor, born in Manchester, United Kingdom

Jan 1 American actor Gene Hackman (25) weds Fay Maltese; divorce in 1986

Jan 5 Mistinguett [Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois], French actress and singer (Moulin Rouge star), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 80
Jan 12 Norman Kerry, American actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of the Opera), dies at 61
Jan 13 Lyonel Feininger, German-American cartoonist and painter, dies at 84
Jan 19 Charles Dingle, American actor (The Little Foxes), dies at 68
Jan 23 Alexander Korda, British movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
Jan 27 Erich Kleiber, Austrian-Argentine conductor (Teatro Colón, 1937-49; NBC Symphony, 1947-48), dies at 65
Jan 30 Jane Seymour [Marjorie S Fitz-patrick], Canadian-American actress (Tom, Dick and Harry, Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 62