Events in Film & TV
Music History
Oct 17 Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
Film Release
Oct 18 Walt Disney's animated musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" film is released; cast featured Phil Harris, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, and Sebastian Cabot
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Oct 4 Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer, born in Hong Kong
- Oct 4 Liev Schreiber, American actor (Spotlight), born in San Francisco, California
- Oct 5 Guy Pearce, British-Australian Emmy Award-winning actor (Jack Irish), born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
- Oct 8 Ivonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress, born in Valencia, Venezuela
- Oct 9 Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player and actress (Spring Fever, 2 x WTA titles), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Oct 9 Eddie Guerrero, Mexican pro wrestler (WWE Championship 2004; WWE Tag Team C'ship x 4), born in El Paso, Texas (d. 2005)
- Oct 10 Michael Giacchino, American Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar Award-winning composer for television, film, and video games (Lost; Up; Jojo Rabbit), born in Riverside Township, New Jersey
- Oct 11 Artie Lange, American comedian (The Howard Stern Show), actor (Beer League), and writer, born in Livingston, New Jersey
- Oct 11 Sean Moynihan, American actor (Powell-One Life to Live), born in Burlington, Vermont
- Oct 11 Tazz [Peter Senercia], American professional wrestler and commentator, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Oct 11 Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer, born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- Oct 13 Kate Walsh, American actress (Grey's Anatomy), born in San Jose, California
- Oct 14 Arleen Sorkin, American actress (Days of Our Lives, America's Funniest Videos), born in Washington, D.C.
- Oct 16 Davina McCall, British television presenter
- Oct 19 Yoko Shimomura, Japanese pianist and video game composer, born in Hyogo, Japan
- Oct 20 Luck Mervil, Haitian-Québécois actor and singer-songwriter, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Oct 20 Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor and director (La città ideale.), born in Palermo, Italy
- Oct 20 Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor, born in Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Oct 20 Susan Tulley, English actress (Michelle-EastEnders), born in London, England
- Oct 21 John Flaherty, American baseball catcher (Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Yankees) and broadcaster (YES Network, NY Yankees), born in NYC, New York
- Oct 22 Carlos Mencia, Honduras-born American comedian
Keith Urban (55 years old)
Oct 26 New Zealand-Australian Grammy, CMA, and ARIA Award-winning country music singer-songwriter ("Somebody Like You"; "The Fighter"), and television personality (American Idol; The Voice Australia), born in Whangarei, New Zealand
- Oct 28 John Romero, American video game designer (id Software), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Julia Roberts (55 years old)
Oct 28 American actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman), born in Smyrna, Georgia
- Oct 28 Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director
- Oct 29 Joely Fisher, American actress (Paige-Ellen), born in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 29 Rufus Sewell, English actor (A Knight's Tale, Middlemarch), born in London, England
Vanilla Ice (55 years old)
Oct 31 American rapper (Ice Ice Baby) and actor (Cool as Ice), born in Miami, Florida
Weddings in Film & TV
Morgan Freeman
Oct 22 Actor Morgan Freeman (30) weds Jeanette Adair Bradshaw
Deaths in Film & TV
- Oct 3 Pinto Colvig, American animation voice actor (Goofy, Pluto), dies at 75
- Oct 12 Nathaniel "Nat" Pendleton, American wrestler (Olympics 1920, Silver) and actor (The Thin Man, Reckless), dies from a heart attack at 72
- Oct 24 Lyle Latell, American actor (Not of This Earth; Dick Tracy's Dilemma; Sky Dragon),, dies of a heart attack at 63
- Oct 29 Julien Duvivier, French film director (La Bandera), dies at 71
- Oct 30 Charles Trowbridge, Mexican-American actor (Fatal Hour), dies at 85
