Events in Film & TV
Top of the Pops
Jan 1 "Top of the Pops", British pop music television program premieres; acts performing include Dusty Springfield; The Rolling Stones; Dave Clark Five: The Hollies; Swinging Blue; and The Beatles
- Jan 1 KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jan 1 KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
Music History
Jan 25 Dale Wasserman's stage play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey, starring Kirk Douglas, Ed Ames; Joan Tetzel, and Gene Wilder, closes at Cort Theatre, NYC, after 82 performances
Dr Strangelove
Jan 29 "Dr Strangelove", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, premieres
- Jan 29 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jan 1 DeDee Pfeiffer, actress (Cybill)
- Jan 1 Juliana Donald, American actress
- Jan 3 Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
- Jan 3 Cheryl Miller, American Basketball Hall of Fame forward, coach and broadcaster (Olympic gold 1984; USC; TNT), born in Riverside, California
- Jan 6 Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler, born in Dallas, Texas
- Jan 6 Yuri, Mexican actress and singer, born in Veracruz, Mexico
Nicolas Cage (59 years old)
Jan 7 American actor (Moonstruck; Leaving Las Vegas; Nathional Treasure), born in Long Beach, California
- Jan 10 Krista Tesreau, American actress (Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings), born in St Louis, Missouri
- Jan 13 Penelope Ann Miller, American actress (Awakenings; Chaplin; Kindergarten Cop), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jan 14 Ernest Miller, American wrestler, born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Jan 14 Mark Addy, British actor, born in York, United Kingdom
- Jan 18 Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor, born in Palermo, Italy
- Jan 18 Jane Horrocks, British actress (Little Voice, Corpse Bride, Absolutely Fabulous), born in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England
- Jan 20 Kazushige Nojima, Japanese video game writer, born in Hokkaido, Japan
- Jan 20 Victoria Sellers, English actress (Crime Zone, Warlords), born in London, England
- Jan 22 Maria Ellingsen, Icelandic actress (Katrina-Santa Barbara), born in Reykjavik, Iceland
Mariska Hargitay (59 years old)
Jan 23 American actress (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit), born in Santa Monica, California
- Jan 26 Cathy Podewell, American actress (Cally Harper Ewing-Dallas), born in Evanston, Illinois
- Jan 26 Paul Johansson, American actor, born in Spokane, Washington
- Jan 27 Bridget Fonda, American actress (Scandal, Single White Female), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jan 29 Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
Weddings in Film & TV
Bill Cosby
Jan 25 Comedian and actor Bill Cosby marries Camille Olivia Hanks
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jan 1 Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at ~86
- Jan 4 Ralph Dumke, American actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64
- Jan 15 (Weldon Leo) "Jack" Teagarden, American jazz trombonist (Paul Whiteman, 1933-38; Louis Armstrong's All-Stars, 1946-51), singer ("Basin Street Blues"), and bandleader, dies from bronchial pneumonia at 58
- Jan 21 Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (Cleopatra, Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank), dies from a heart attack at 68
- Jan 29 Alan Ladd, American actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers), dies from an overdose at 50
