June 1971 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Jun 6 Final broadcast of "The Ed Sullivan Show" (a repeat from 7 February) on CBS-TV

Jun 6 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting
Jun 23 WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting

Jun 24 Warner Bros. releases "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", a western film by Robert Altman, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, with songs by Leonard Cohen

Jun 26 21st Berlin International Film Festival: "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" wins the Golden Bear

Jun 1 Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor
Jun 2 Anthony Montgomery, American film and television actor and graphic novelist
Jun 4 James Callis, British actor (Battlestar Galactica), born in London, England

Jun 4 American actor (Dr John Carter-ER), born in Hollywood, California

Jun 4 Shoji Meguro, Japanese guitarist and video game music composer (Persona), born in Tokyo, Japan

Jun 5 American singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Jun 5 Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress (Nora), born in Corrinshego, Northern Ireland
Jun 8 Mark Feuerstein, American actor
Jun 10 Leanza Cornett, American TV host and Miss America winner, born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia (d. 2020)
Jun 13 David Mendenhall, American actor (Over the Top, Space Raiders, Witchfire), born in Oceanside, California
Jun 15 Bif Naked [Beth Torbert], Canadian singer-songwriter ("Spaceman") and actress, born in New Delhi, India
Jun 15 Jake Busey, American actor

Jun 16 American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet), born in East Harlem, New York

Jun 17 Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer, model and businesswoman (La Chica Dorada), born in Mexico City
Jun 18 Mara Hobel, American actress (Mommie Dearest), born in NYC, New York

Jun 22 American actress (Chloe O'Brian-24), born in Detroit, Michigan

Jun 24 Christopher Showerman, American actor
Jun 25 Angela Kinsey, American actress (The Office), born in Lafayette, Louisiana
Jun 25 Scott Maslen, English actor (EastEnders), born in London
Jun 27 Jo Frost, British television personality (Supernanny), born in London, England
Jun 27 Yancey Arias, American actor (Kingpin, Thief), born in NYC, New York
Jun 28 Aileen Quinn, American actress (Annie), born in Yardley, Pennsylvania
Jun 28 Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality, born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Jun 30 Anette Michel, Mexican actress (La otra mitad del sol), born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Jun 30 Monica Potter, American actress (The Last House on the Left), born in Cleveland, Ohio

Jun 9 Harold Lloyd Jr, American actor, singer and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd sr (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 40
Jun 10 Michael Rennie, British actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
Jun 10 Virginia True Boardman, American actress of the silent era (A Blind Bargain; The Lady Lies), dies of a heart attack at 82
Jun 16 John Reith, Scottish broadcast executive (General Manager of the BBC), dies at 81
Jun 18 Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout), dies after a car accident at 65
Jun 30 Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)