April 1979 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Apr 8 205th & final episode of "All in the Family"; followed by "Archie Bunker's Place" for 4 seasons

Apr 9 51st Academy Awards: "The Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win

Apr 17 Brian Clark's stage drama "Whose Life is it Anyway?" starring Tom Conti and Phillip Bosco, and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, opens at the Trafalgar Theatre, NYC; runs for 223 performances, winning Conti a Tony Award
Apr 18 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
Apr 30 Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA

Apr 4 Australian-American Actor (Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight), born in Perth, Western Australia

Apr 4 American actress (Orange is the New Black), born in New York City

Apr 9 Keith Nobbs, American actor (Phone Booth), born in Chicago, Illinois
Apr 9 Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress (The Cosby Show - "Rudy"; Tyler Perry's House of Payne - "Miranda"), born in Newark, New Jersey
Apr 10 Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese actor and singer (KinKi Kids), born in Nara, Japan
Apr 11 Josh Server, American actor (All That), born in Highland Park, Illinois
Apr 11 Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Canadian human rights activist, Miss World Canada, born in Tehran, Iran

Apr 12 American actress (Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet), born in NYC, New York

Apr 12 Jennifer Morrison, American actress (Once Upon a Time, House), born in Chicago, Illinois
Apr 12 Paul Nicholls, English actor (EastEnders), born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Apr 13 Tony Lundon, Irish pop singer (Liberty X - "Thinking It Over"), TV presenter (Toast), and filmmaker, born in Galway, Ireland
Apr 14 Rebecca DiPietro, American model, born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Apr 17 Siddharth Narayan, Indian film actor, born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Apr 17 Tram-Anh Tran, American actress (Ghostwriters'), born in NYC, New York
Apr 18 Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star, born in Los Angeles, California

Apr 19 American actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree), born in Los Angeles, California

Apr 21 Scottish actor (X-Men: First Class), born in Glasgow, Scotland

Apr 23 Jaime King, American model and actress (Bulletproof Monk), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Apr 23 Yana Gupta, Czech actress and author (How To Love Your Body And Get The Body You Love), born in Brno, Czechoslovakia
Apr 26 Sean Fox, American actor (3 Ninjas Kick Back, Calendar Girl)
Apr 28 Bahram Radan, Iranian actor (The Passion of Love), born in Tehran, Iran

Apr 6 British singer Rod Stewart (34) weds American model and actress Alana Collins(33); divorce in 1984

Apr 28 Actor and comedian John Candy (28) weds Rosemary Margaret Hobor at St. Basil's Church in Toronto, Canada

Apr 4 Edgar Buchanan, American actor (Petticoat Junction), dies at 76
Apr 9 Staats Cotsworth, American actor (Hamlet, Peyton Place), dies at 71
Apr 10 Henriette P "Hetty" Beck, Dutch actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
Apr 10 Nino Rota [Giovanni Rota Rinaldi], Italian classical and film score composer (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze; The Godfather (I & II; 16 Fellini films), dies from a coronary thrombosis at 67
Apr 20 Peter Donald, British-born American actor and radio host dubbed "one of radio's great dialecticians" (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
Apr 24 John Carroll [Julian LaFaye], American actor (Flying Tigers, Go West), dies from leukemia at 72
Apr 29 Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (Little Toot), dies at 72