Events in Film & TV
Academy Awards
Apr 5 37th Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win awards
- Apr 24 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
Television Premiere
Apr 28 "My Name is Barbra", Barbra Streisand's first television special, premieres on CBS
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Apr 1 Mark Jackson, American basketball guard (NBA All Star 1989; Rookie of the Year 1988; NY Knicks), coach (Golden State Warriors) and broadcaster (ESPN), born in Brooklyn, New York
Robert Downey Jr (57 years old)
Apr 4 American actor (Charlie Chaplin, Iron Man, Avengers), born in NYC, New York
- Apr 7 Bill Bellamy, American actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker), born in Newark, New Jersey
- Apr 9 Jeff Zucker, American television executive (CEO of NBC Universal), born in Homestead, Florida
- Apr 9 Mark Pellegrino, American actor (Lucifer-Supernatural), born in Los Angeles, California
- Apr 9 Paulina Porizkova, Czech-born Swedish American supermodel (Sports Illustrated), born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia
- Apr 12 Tom O'Brien, American actor and director, born in Burbank, California
- Apr 14 Tom Dey, American film director (Shanghai Noon)
- Apr 16 Jon Cryer, American actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV), born in NYC, New York
Martin Lawrence (57 years old)
Apr 16 American comedian (Martin), born in Frankfurt, Germany
- Apr 16 Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong-American actor and director, born in Troy, New York
- Apr 17 William Mapother, American actor (In the Bedroom), born in Louisville, Kentucky
- Apr 19 Natalie Dessay, French soprano and actress, born in Lyon, France
- Apr 22 Lauri Hendler, actress (Julie - Gimme a Break), born in Ft Belvoir, Virgina
- Apr 24 Son Chang-Min, South Korean actor, born in Busan, South Korea
- Apr 26 Kevin James, American actor and comedian (The King of Queens), born in Mineola, Long Island, New York
- Apr 28 Steven Blum, American deep-voiced voice actor, born in Santa Monica, California
- Apr 30 Adrian Pasdar, American actor (Top Gun; Judging Amy), born in Pittsfield Massachusetts
Deaths in Film & TV
- Apr 8 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), dies after illness at 78
- Apr 10 Linda Darnell, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives), dies from burns received in a house fire at 41
- Apr 14 Leonard Mudie, British actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence), dies of heart ailment at 82
- Apr 15 Sydney Chaplin, English actor, half brother of Charlie Chaplin and his business manager, dies at 80
- Apr 19 George Davis, Flemish actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
- Apr 20 Dick Wessel, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie), dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
- Apr 23 Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67
- Apr 24 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
- Apr 27 Alan Bunce, American radio & television actor (Homicidal, Ethel & Albert), dies at 64
- Apr 27 Edward R. Murrow, American newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57
- Apr 30 Helen Chandler, American actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 59
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