Events in Film & TV
Television Premiere
Dec 11 "Magnum P.I." starring Tom Selleck premieres on CBS
Film Release
Dec 19 "Raging Bull", directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta and Cathy Moriarty as his wife, is released in the United States
Film Release
Dec 19 Comedy film "9 to 5" starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin is released
- Dec 30 "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Dec 3 Anna Chlumsky, American actress (My Girl, Veep), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Dec 3 Jenna Dewan, American actress
- Dec 5 Shizuka Itō, Japanese voice actress (seiyū), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Dec 9 Simon Helberg, American actor (The Big Bang Theory), born in Los Angeles, California
- Dec 11 Arya [Jamshad Cethirakath], Indian actor, born in Trikaripur, Kerala
Christina Aguilera (42 years old)
Dec 18 American singer ("Genie in a Bottle"; "What a Girl Wants"), and TV personality (The Voice, 2011-16), born in Staten Island, New York
Jake Gyllenhaal (42 years old)
Dec 19 American actor (Donnie Darko, Jarhead), born in Los Angeles, California
- Dec 19 Marla Sokoloff, American actress (The Practice), born in San Francisco, California
- Dec 22 Chris Carmack, American actor, born in Washington, D.C.
- Dec 25 Laura Sadler, British actress, born in Ascot, United Kingdom (d. 2003)
- Dec 25 Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan
- Dec 27 Claudio Castagnoli, Swiss wrestler
- Dec 28 Vanessa Ferlito, American actress, born in Brooklyn, New York City
- Dec 30 Eliza Dushku, American actress (True Lies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Dec 30 Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer (Boy'z), and actor (Banana Boys), born in The Philippines
- Dec 31 Matt Cross, American professional wrestler, born in Brecksville, Ohio
Weddings in Film & TV
Martin Short
Dec 22 Actor Martin Short (30) weds comic actress Nancy Dolman (29)
Deaths in Film & TV
- Dec 1 Sam Levene, American Broadway actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
- Dec 24 Siggie Nordstrom, American singer (The Nordstrom Sisters), dies at 87
- Dec 25 Fred Emney, British actor (Let the People Sing; Adventures of a Private Eye; Lilac Domino), dies at 80
- Dec 29 Roy Engle, American writer and actor (The Man from Planet X, The Wild Wild West, My Favorite Martian), dies from meningitis at 67
