Events in Film & TV
Telethon
Sep 7 Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Music Recording
Sep 15 Decca awards Bing Crosby a second platinum disc for selling 300 million records
- Sep 17 American TV variety program "The Flip Wilson Show" debuts on NBC-TV,; runs for 4 seasons, winning 2 Emmy Awards
- Sep 17 WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
Television Premiere
Sep 19 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS
Film & TV History
Sep 21 "Monday Night Football" created by Roone Arledge, premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
- Sep 21 KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Album Release
Sep 25 Ringo Starr releases his 2nd solo album "Beaucoups of Blues", a collection of country music recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
- Sep 28 TV game show "Words & Music" debuts on NBC
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Sep 1 Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
- Sep 1 Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
- Sep 4 Dave Buchwald, American hacker and filmmaker, born in New Haven, Connecticut
- Sep 4 Ione Skye, British-born American actress (Say Anything), born in Hampstead, London
- Sep 7 Tom Everett Scott, American actor (Dead Man on Campus), born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
- Sep 9 Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress, born in Madrid, Spain
- Sep 11 Chris Garver, American tattoo artist and TV personality (Miami Ink), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Sep 11 Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer, born in Washington, D.C.
- Sep 13 Louise Lombard, British actress (The House of Eliott), born in Redbridge, London, England
- Sep 13 Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese voice actress, born in Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan
- Sep 14 Robert Ben Garant, American screenwriter and actor (Reno 991!), born in Cookeville, Tennessee
- Sep 14 Satoshi Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (NJPW), born in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan
- Sep 15 Ramya Krishnan, Indian actress (Padayappa), born in Madras, India
- Sep 18 Aisha Tyler, American actress and talk show host (The Talk), born in San Francisco, California
- Sep 18 Michela Rocco, Italian actress and Miss Italy (1987), born in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Sep 19 Victor Williams, American actor (The King of Queens), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 21 John Cudia, American actor
- Sep 22 Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor (Spooks, The Strain), born in London, England
- Sep 26 Rachel Jacobs, American actress (It's Not Easy), born in Ririe, Idaho
- Sep 26 Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress, born in San Jose, California
- Sep 29 Emily Lloyd [Pack], British actress (Wish You Were Here; Cookie; In Country), born in London, England
- Sep 29 Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress (Dark Horse; SFW; High Fidelity), born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 29 Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler, born in Tamana, Japan
- Sep 30 Tony Hale, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Veep; Arrested Development), born in West Point, New York
Weddings in Film & TV
Deaths in Film & TV
- Sep 11 Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
- Sep 23 Bourvil [André Robert Raimbourg], French actor and singer (Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille), dies of Kahler's syndrome at 53
- Sep 29 Edward Everett Horton, American vaudeville, stage, silent and sound screen character actor (Top Hat), and narrator (Fractured Fairy Tales - The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), dies of cancer at 84
- Sep 30 Patrick Aherne, British actor (Green Dolphin Street, Rocketship X-M, The Court Jester), dies at 69
