Events in Film & TV
- Sep 1 Gunsmoke goes off the air
Telethon
Sep 1 Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- Sep 6 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
Film Premiere
Sep 19 "Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK
- Sep 29 "Three For Money" debuts on NBC-TV
- Sep 29 Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
Birthdays in Film & TV
Michael Bublé (47 years old)
Sep 9 Canadian Grammy and Juno Award-winning singer ("Haven't Met You Yet"; "It's A Beautiful Day"), and actor, born in Burnaby, British Columbia
- Sep 10 Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah (Top 6 in 1997) and Donald Trump accuser, born in Cedar City, Utah
- Sep 12 Tom Carroll, actor (J T Adams-Swan's Crossing)
- Sep 17 Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist (Power Rangers), born in Roswell, New Mexico
- Sep 17 Constantine Maroulis, American rock singer (American Idol, season 4), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 18 Jason Sudeikis, American comedian, writer, and Emmy Award-winning actor (Horrible Bosses; Ted Lasso; SNL, 2005-13), born in Fairfax, Virginia
- Sep 20 Asia Argento, Italian actress (Marie Antoinette), Weinstein accuser, born in Rome, Italy
- Sep 23 Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
- Sep 25 Daniel Hyde, British actor (Hollyoaks), born in London, England
- Sep 25 Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Sep 26 Jake Paltrow, American film director and brother of Gwyneth Paltrow, born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 28 Karan Ashley [Jackson], American actress (Aisha-Mighty Power Rangers), born in Odessa, Texas
Marion Cotillard (47 years old)
Sep 30 French actress (Inception, La Vie en Rose, Rust and Bone), born in Paris, France
Weddings in Film & TV
Roone Arledge
Sep 1 Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (44) weds Ann Fowler; divorce in 1985
Dudley Moore
Sep 20 British comic actor Dudley Moore (40) weds American actress Tuesday Weld (31); divorce in 1980
Deaths in Film & TV
- Sep 4 Walter Tetley, American voice-over actor (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
- Sep 5 Georg Ots, Estonian baritone singer,m and actor, dies of a brain tumor at 55
- Sep 8 John Mylong, Austrian actor (Robot Monsters), dies at 82
- Sep 9 Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
- Sep 9 John McGiver, American actor (Patty Duke Show; Jimmy Stewart Show; Fitzwilly), dies from a heart attack at 61
- Sep 9 Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
- Sep 18 Pamela Brown, British actress (Cleopatra, I Know Where I'm Going!, Beckett), dies from pancreatic cancer at 58
- Sep 22 Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
- Sep 23 Ian Hunter, South African character actor (Dr. Blood's Coffin; White Unicorn), dies at 75
- Sep 24 Clive Morton, British actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71
- Sep 25 Bob Considine, American journalist and author (Babe Ruth Story), dies at 68
- Sep 27 Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
- Sep 28 Agnes Windeck, German actress (A Time to Love and a Time to Die), dies at 87
- Sep 28 Sidney Fields, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77