Events in Film & TV
Television Premiere
Jan 9 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
- Jan 12 KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (PBS) begins broadcasting
Music History
Jan 24 Dmitri Shostakovich's comedy "Cheryomushk" premieres in Moscow
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jan 4 Vanity [Denise Matthews] Canadian-American pop and R&B singer, Prince protégé, and actress (52 Pick Up), born in Niagara Falls, Ontario (d. 2016)
- Jan 5 Clancy Brown, American film, television, and voice actor (Carnivàle, Billions), born in Urbana, Ohio
- Jan 10 Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter, born in Wellington, New Zealand
- Jan 13 Alan Taylor, American television and film director (The Sopranos; Game of Thrones; Thor; The Many Saints of Newark), born in San Francisco, California
- Jan 17 Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer & actress, born in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan
- Jan 17 Susanna Hoffs, American actress & musician (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jan 22 Linda Blair, American actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St), born in St Louis, Missouri
- Jan 23 Tyrone Power Jr., American actor (Shag), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jan 24 Vic Reeves [James Roderick Moir], English comedian, born in Leeds, United Kingdom
- Jan 26 Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish film director (Winter Sleep), born in Istanbul, Turkey
- Jan 27 Patti Cohoon, actress (Molly-Here Come the Brides), born in Whittier, California
- Jan 28 Burkhard Dallwitz, German-Australian film and television score composer (The Truman Show), born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
- Jan 28 Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
- Jan 31 Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor (Criminal Justice, Without a Trace), born in Adelaide, Australia
- Jan 31 Kelly Lynch, American actress (Drugstore Cowboy), born in Golden Walley, Minnesota
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jan 21 Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, American actor (Our Gang; Beginner's Luck; General Spanky), shot by an acquaintance during a financial dispute at 31
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)
Jan 21 American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah), dies of heart failure at 77
- Jan 22 A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), dies at 73
