Events in Film & TV
Academy Awards
Apr 14 52nd Academy Awards: Best Picture "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Apr 1 Bijou Phillips, American actress
- Apr 1 Bryan Buffinton, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light), born in Ridgewood, New Jersey
- Apr 1 Randy Orton, American pro wrestler (4 x WWE Champion), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Apr 1 Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress (Miss Sherlock), born in Urawa, Japan (d. 2020)
- Apr 2 Bobby Bones [Bobby Estell], American radio host and TV personality (American Idol), born in Mountain Pine, Arkansas
- Apr 3 Trevor Moore, American actor and comedian (The Whitest Kids U' Know), born in Montclair, New Jersey
- Apr 5 Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
- Apr 6 Matthew Thomas Carey, American actor (Old School, The Banger Sisters), born in Denver, Colorado
- Apr 8 Katee Sackhoff, American actress (Battlestar Galatica), born in Portland, Oregan
- Apr 10 Charlie Hunnam, British actor (Sons of Anarchy), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
- Apr 13 Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress, born in Shreveport, Louisiana
- Apr 14 Ben Wells, American actor, born in Springfield, Illinois
- Apr 14 Claire Coffee, American actress (General Hospital; Grimm), born in San Francisco, California
- Apr 15 Natalie Casey, British actress
- Apr 16 Jesse Tendler, American actor (Nick-Ellen Burstyn Show), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- Apr 16 Paul London, American professional wrestler, born in Austin, Texas
- Apr 22 Aaron Metchnik, American actor (Stephen-Torkelsons), born in Santa Barbara, California
- Apr 24 Austin Nichols, American actor (One Tree Hill), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Apr 26 Channing Tatum, American actor (21 Jump Street, Magic Mike), born in Cullman, Alabama
- Apr 26 Jordana Brewster, American actress (Nikki Graves-As the World Turns), born in Panama City
- Apr 26 Marnette Patterson, American actress (Nicole-Something So Right), born in Los Angeles, California
- Apr 29 Kian Egan, Irish pop singer (Westlife), and television personality, born in Sligo, Ireland
- Apr 30 Sam Heughan, Scottish actor (Outlander), born in Balmaclellan, Scotland
Deaths in Film & TV
- Apr 3 Luella Gear, American actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82
- Apr 9 Kathleen Burke, American actress (Island of Lost Souls), dies at 66
- Apr 10 Kay Medford [Margaret Kathleen Regan], American actress (Dean Martin Show: To Rome With Love), dies of cancer at 60
- Apr 11 Charlotte Henry, American actress (Alice in Wonderland; Babes In Toyland; Jungle Menace), dies of cancer at 66
- Apr 11 Florence Lake, American actress (Edgar Kennedy shorts), dies at 75
- Apr 14 Tom Fadden, American stage and screen character actor (It's a Wonderful Life; Broken Arrow; Cimarron City), dies at 85
- Apr 15 Marshall Reed, American actor (The Madmen of Mandoras, Mysterious Island), dies from a massive hemorrhage at 62
- Apr 15 Paul Langton, American actor (Till the Clouds Roll By, Peyton Place), dies from a heart attack at 66
- Apr 15 Raymond Bailey, American actor (Vertigo, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Incredible Shrinking Man), dies at 75
- Apr 19 Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
- Apr 19 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
- Apr 25 Katia Mann, German actress and wife of German writer Thomas Mann, dies at 96
- Apr 26 Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87
- Apr 28 Dee Carroll [Betty Jean Marsh], American actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies at 54
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
Apr 29 English film director (Psycho; The Birds; Rear Window; Vertigo), dies of renal failure at 80
- Apr 30 Mary McCarty, American singer, dancer, stage and screen actress (Babes in Toyland; All That Jazz;, Trapper John, M.D.), dies of a heart attack at 56
