March 1976 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Mar 4 2nd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV)

Mar 25 Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick, and Sherman Yellen's musical "Rex", starring Nicol Williamson and Glenn Close, opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater, NYC; runs for 48 performances

Mar 29 48th Academy Awards: "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", its stars Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher, and director Miloš Forman win

Mar 1 Dave Malkoff, American TV News Reporter
Mar 5 Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
Mar 6 Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
Mar 8 Freddie Prinze Jr, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Mar 9 Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host, born in Montreal, Quebec
Mar 10 Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese-Egyptian actress, model, pop and world music singer, born in Mahrouna, Lebanon
Mar 12 Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
Mar 13 Danny Masterson, American actor (That '70s Show - "Hyde"), and convicted sex offender, born in Long Island, New York
Mar 14 Corey Stoll, American actor (House of Cards, The Strain), born in NYC, New York
Mar 14 Daniel Gillies, New Zealand-Canadian actor (The Vampire Diaries), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Mar 15 Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
Mar 16 Nick Spano, American actor
Mar 16 Paul Schneider, American actor
Mar 17 Brittany Daniel, American actress
Mar 17 Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
Mar 18 Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress

Mar 18 Michael Spillane, American wrestler, better known as Mike Quackenbush
Mar 19 Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress (Clueless -"Cher Horowitz"), born in Toronto, Ontario
Mar 22 Kellie Shanygne Williams, actress (Laura-Family Matters), born in Washington, D.C.

Mar 22 American actress (Pleasantville, Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

Mar 23 American actress (Felicity, The Americans), born in Fountain Valley, California

Mar 25 Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
Mar 25 Gigi Leung, Hong Kong actress and singer (Tempting Heart), born in Hong Kong
Mar 26 Amy Smart, American actress, born in Los Angeles, California
Mar 26 Natalia Livingston, American actress (General Hospital; Days of Our Lives), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Mar 26 Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress, born in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
Mar 27 Tia Fuller, American jazz saxophonist (Soul (film); Beyoncé backing band), composer, and educator (Berklee School), born in Aurora, Colorado
Mar 31 Josh Saviano, actor (Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years)

Mar 6 Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), dies of Paget's disease of bone at 68
Mar 13 Willy Alfredo [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/ and poet, dies at 77
Mar 14 Alberta Franklin, American silent screen actress, dies at 79
Mar 14 Busby Berkeley [Enos], American film choreographer (42nd Street) and director (Strike Up The Band: They Made Me A Criminal), dies at 80
Mar 19 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (Backbiters, Napoleon), dies at 86
Mar 20 Michael Goodliffe, British actor (A Night to Remember, Cromwell, 5th Day of Peace), commits suicide at 61
Mar 21 Spider Sabich, American alpine skier (Olympics 1968), dies when shot by actress Claudine Longet at 31
Mar 24 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
Mar 28 Richard Arlen, American actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
Mar 30 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, Dutch actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99