February 1968 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Feb 12 25th Golden Globes: "In the Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger, & Edith Evans win

Feb 14 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
Feb 15 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
Feb 19 Children's educational TV program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)

Feb 22 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"

Feb 27 CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War

Feb 1 Pauly Shore, American comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man), born in Hollywood, California
Feb 1 Sean Millington, Canadian football fullback (Grey Cup 1994, 2000; BC Lions) and broadcaster (cfl.ca and CBC), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Feb 4 Kristen Marie, actress (Cheryl McKinnon-Another World)
Feb 4 Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
Feb 5 Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor, born in Iceland
Feb 8 Gary Coleman, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), born in Zion, llinois (d. 2010)
Feb 9 Rahul Roy, Indian actor
Feb 10 Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster, born in Riau, Indonesia
Feb 11 Mo Willems, American author & screenwriter (Sesame Street), born in Des Plaines, Illinois
Feb 12 Gregory Charles, French Canadian performing artist, born in Montreal, Quebec

Feb 12 American actor (Young Riders - "Jimmy Hickok"; W. - "George Bush"; Hail Caesar! -"Eddie Mannix"), born in Santa Monica, California

Feb 13 American actress ("Sunset Beach"; "The Scorpion King"), model and beauty queen (Miss Teen USA 1985), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

Feb 14 Jules Asner, American television personality, born in Tempe, Arizona
Feb 14 Phil Lewis, American actor and director (The Suite Life - "Mr. Moseby), born in Arua, Uganda
Feb 15 Kurt Robin McKinney, American actor (Ned-General Hospital), born in Louisville, Kentucky
Feb 18 Molly Ringwald, American actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink), born in Roseville California
Feb 22 Jeri Ryan, American actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager), born in Munich, Germany
Feb 23 Marc Price, American actor (Family Ties - "Skippy"), and stand-up comedian, born in New Jersey
Feb 24 Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
Feb 29 Frank Woodley, Australian comedian
Feb 29 Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress

Feb 20 British future Monty Python comedian John Cleese (28) weds American actress and writer Connie Booth (27); divorce in 1978

Feb 4 Eddie Baker, American actor (A Man About Town, Collars and Cuffs), dies of emphysema at 70
Feb 6 C. Montague Shaw, Australian actor (Buck Rogers; Zorro's Fighting Legion), dies at 85
Feb 7 Nick Adams [Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock], American actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), dies of a drug overdose at 36
Feb 9 Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
Feb 11 Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), dies at 78
Feb 13 Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
Feb 17 Donald Wolfit, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed), dies of heart ailment at 65
Feb 19 Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
Feb 19 Ralph Dunn, American actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 67
Feb 20 Anthony Asquith, British film director (Court Martial), dies at 65
Feb 26 Eric Feldary, Hungarian actor (Hold Back the Dawn, 16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55
Feb 28 Doretta Morrow, American actress (Because You're Mine), dies from cancer at 41
Feb 28 Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66