Year 1982 in Film & Television

Events in Film & TV

• Jan 4 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show"
• Jan 4 ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) & ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th & 6th ABC radio network

• Jan 7 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
• Jan 10 NBC's premiere of TV film "Will: G. Gordon Liddy", based on the Watergate conspirator, participant and convict

• Feb 12 32nd Berlin International Film Festival: "Veronika Voss" wins the Golden Bear
• Mar 7 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time

• Mar 12 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"

• Mar 15 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
• Mar 15 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)

• Mar 25 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly on CBS-TV


• Mar 26 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
• Mar 29 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: "Mommie Dearest" wins

• Apr 12 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot

• May 3 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)

• May 10 WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network
• May 13 Terri Lea Utley, 20 (Arkansas) crowned 31st Miss USA

• May 23 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
• May 26 35th Cannes Film Festival: "Missing" directed by Costa Gavras and "Yol" directed by Serif Goren and Yilmaz Güney jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
• May 28 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
• Jun 4 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA

• Jun 10 "Taxi" last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall

• Jun 18 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
• Jun 23 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight

• Jul 1 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
• Jul 8 15th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
• Jul 26 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe

• Aug 2 Roger Ebert's "Movie News" premieres on ABC FM network
• Aug 28 39th Venice Film Festival: "The State of Things" directed by Wim Wenders wins Golden Lion

• Sep 11 Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983

• Sep 29 1st broadcast of comedy "Cheers" on NBC-TV starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long
• Nov 18 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World

• Dec 5 15th NAACP Image Awards: "An Officer and a Gentleman" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
• Dec 8 "Sophie's Choice", directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on William Styton's 1979 novel of the same name, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1983)
• Dec 31 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
• Dec 31 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features

Birthdays in Film & TV

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 188

• Jan 4 Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress, born in Incheon, South Korea
• Jan 6 Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality, born in Utica, New York

• Jan 7 Lauren Cohan, English-American actress (The Walking Dead), born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
• Jan 7 Ruth Negga, Irish-Ethiopian actress (Loving), born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Jan 8 Gaby Hoffman, American film actress (Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now & Then), born in NYC, New York
• Jan 10 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor, born in Hayward, California (d. 2002)
• Jan 11 Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer, born in Manchester, United Kingdom
• Jan 11 Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress, born in Sang-dong, South Korea
• Jan 13 Ruth Wilson, English actress (The Affair), born in Ashford, England
• Jan 16 Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Danish actress (Borgen, Pitch Perfect 2), born in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Jan 19 Jodie Sweetin, American actress (Stephanie Tanner-Full House), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jan 19 Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer & actress, born in Taoyuan, Taiwan
• Jan 22 Kevin Sheridan, American actor (Soul Man), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jan 25 Sho Sakurai, Japanese J-pop and hip-hop singer-songwriter, and actor, born in Tokyo, Japan
• Jan 25 Shawna Waldron, American actress, born in Glendale, California
• Jan 29 Heidi Mueller, American actress (Passions), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Jan 31 Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor & comedian, born in Lisbon, Portugal
• Feb 2 Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress
• Feb 4 Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler, born in Pinckney, Michigan
• Feb 6 Alice Eve, English actress, born in London, United Kingdom
• Feb 8 Satomi Kōrogi, Japanese voice actress
• Feb 8 Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
• Feb 8 Danny Tamberelli, American actor
• Feb 17 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor and filmmaker (Third Rock From the Sun, Inception), born in Los Angeles, California
• Feb 18 Courtney Act [Shane Jenek], Australian drag queen, pop singer, entertainer and reality television personality, born in Brisbane, Queensland
• Feb 23 Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor and screenwriter, born in NYC, New York
• Feb 23 Karan Singh Grover, Indian actor, born in New Delhi, India
• Feb 25 Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
• Feb 25 Tara Wilson, Canadian actress
• Feb 26 Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model & actress, born in Daegu, South Korea
• Feb 28 Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel, born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

• Mar 5 Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
• Mar 7 Erika Yamakawa, Japanese model and gravure idol. born on Moriaka, Japan
• Mar 7 Kate Michael, American beauty queen
• Mar 9 Paul Ballard, English television presenter, born in Essex
• Mar 10 Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

• Mar 11 Lindsey McKeon, American actress
• Mar 14 Kate Maberly, English actress (Secret Garden), born in Reigate, England
• Mar 15 Emily Tyndall, American actress
• Mar 19 Matt Littler, British actor

• Mar 24 Eddie Peng, Taiwanese born Canadian actor (The Great Wall), born in Penghu, Taiwan
• Mar 25 Sean Faris, American actor and model
• Mar 27 Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006, born in Naha, Japan
• Mar 28 Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
• Mar 30 Jason Dohring, American actor (Veronica Mars - "Logan"), born in Toledo, Ohio
• Mar 31 Brian Tyree Henry, American actor (If Beale Street Could Talk), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Apr 1 Sam Huntington, American actor (Jungle 2 Jungle, Being Human), born in Peterborough, New Hampshire
• Apr 1 Gemma Hunt, British children's television presenter, born in Wiltshire, England
• Apr 1 Taran Killam, American comedian, actor, and writer (Saturday Night Live, 2010-16; Single Parents), born in Culver City, California
• Apr 2 Bianca Chatfield, Australian netball defender (42 caps; World C'ship gold 2007; C'wealth Games gold 2014) and TV personality (The Block 2018), born in Somerville, Mornington Peninsula, Australia
• Apr 2 Leyla Milani, Iranian-Canadian actress and model, born in Toronto, Ontario
• Apr 3 Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress (How I Met Your Mother), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Apr 5 Hayley Atwell, British-American actress (Captain America; Agent Cater), born in London, England
• Apr 6 Bret Harrison, American actor (Orange County), born in Portland, Oregon
• Apr 7 Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
• Apr 9 Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor (Man Seeking Woman), born in Ottawa, Ontario
• Apr 10 Chyler Leigh, American actress (Not Another Teen Movie), born in Charlotte, North Carolina

• Apr 17 Lee Joon-gi, South Korean actor and model, born in Busan, South Korea
• Apr 19 Ali Wong, American stand-up comedian, actress and writer (Always Be My Maybe), born in San Francisco, California

• Apr 26 Jon Lee, English actor and singer (S Club 7), born in Ipplepen, Devon
• Apr 27 Katrina Johnson, American actress, born in San Diego, California
• Apr 29 Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic

• Apr 30 Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress (Cleopatra), born in Birmingham, England
• Apr 30 Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
• May 1 Jamie Dornan, Irish actor (Fifty Shades of Grey), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• May 1 Katya [Brian McCook] American drag queen, comedian and TV performer (The Trixie and Katya Show), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• May 5 Dieter Brummer, Australian TV actor (Home and Away), born in Sydney, New South Wales
• May 9 Rachel Boston, American actress
• May 10 Despina Caldis, Greek-Australian actress
• May 11 Jonathan Jackson, actor (Lucky-General Hospital), born in Orlando Florida

• May 15 Alex Breckenridge, American actress
• May 15 Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
• May 15 Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
• May 16 Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
• May 18 Eric West, American singer and actor
• May 22 John Bobek, American actor
• May 26 David Reed, British writer and comedian
• May 28 Alexa Davalos, American actress
• May 29 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• May 29 Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
• May 31 Jonathan Tucker, American actor
• Jun 2 Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
• Jun 3 Jodie Whittaker, English actress (1st female Doctor Who), born in Skelmanthorpe, England
• Jun 8 Irina Lazareanu, Romanian-Canadian model
• Jun 9 Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
• Jun 11 Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler, born in Spring Lake, New Jersey
• Jun 16 May Andersen, Danish supermodel
• Jun 16 Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
• Jun 19 Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
• Jun 21 Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer (Empire), born in Santa Rosa, California
• Jun 22 Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
• Jun 22 Mati Diop, French Senegalese director and actress (Atlantic), born in Paris, France

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Weddings in Film & TV

• Aug 2 "Dangerous Liaisons" actor John Malkovich (28) weds film and stage actress Glenne Headly (27)

Divorces in Film & TV

Deaths in Film & TV

• Jan 1 Victor Buono, American actor & comic (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43
• Jan 1 Margot Grahame [Margaret Clark], British actress (The Three Musketeers, Criminal Lawyer), dies from chronic bronchitis at 70
• Jan 5 Hans Conried, American actor (Peter Pan; Bullwinkle Show; Make Room for Daddy - "Uncle Tonoose"; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T), dies from a heart ailment at 64
• Jan 5 Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56
• Jan 8 Grégoire Aslan, American actor (The Return of the Pink Panther, King of Kings), dies of a heart attack at 73
• Jan 8 Reta Shaw, American actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir, Mary Poppins, Picnic), dies of emphysema at 69
• Jan 10 Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares, Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies after a heart attack at 55
• Jan 13 Marcel Camus, French film director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
• Jan 18 Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 20
• Jan 23 Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83
• Jan 27 Iris Korn, actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies at 60
• Jan 30 Stanley Holloway, English comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
• Jan 31 Jiří Srnka, Czech classical and film score composer, dies at 74
• Feb 4 Sue Carol, actress (She's My Weakness), dies at 73 of a heart attack
• Feb 5 Dolores Moran, actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at 56
• Feb 11 Eleanor Powell, American stage and screen actress and tap dancer (Born to Dance, Broadway Melody films), dies of ovarian cancer at 69
• Feb 11 Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
• Feb 11 Victor Jory, Canadian actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79
• Feb 13 Gluyas Williams, American cartoonist (Fellows Citizen), dies at 93
• Feb 14 Henk Schaer [Hendricus Schaareman], Dutch actor and conductor (Majoor Barbara, Lijmen), dies at 79
• Feb 17 Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night), dies at 80
• Feb 18 Tina Carver, actress (Inside Detroit, Uranium Boom), dies at 58
• Feb 24 Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
• Feb 26 Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japanese actor and director (Gate of Hell; A Page of Madness; Jujiro; Jigoku-mon), dies at 86
• Mar 5 John Belushi, American comedian (Saturday Night Live; Animal House; Blues Brothers), dies of a drug overdose at 33
• Mar 6 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum], Russian-American author, screenwriter and philosopher who developed the philosophical system of "Objectivism" (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), dies of heart failure at 77
• Mar 6 Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer and actor (Village by the River, Beautiful Juliet), dies at 97
• Mar 9 Alan Badel, British actor (Shogun, Salome, Bill Brand), dies of a heart attack at 58
• Mar 9 Rex Marshall, American TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies from a heart attack at 64
• Mar 17 Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
• Mar 18 George Lampe, Dutch painter and director (Free Academy), dies at 60
• Mar 21 Harry H Corbett, British actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
• Mar 24 Goodman Ace, American writer, radio presenter, actor and humorist (Better of Goodman), dies at 83
• Mar 29 Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68
• Apr 3 Warren Oates, American actor (Dillinger, East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies of a heart attack at 53
• Apr 7 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
• Apr 15 Arthur Lowe, British actor (Dad's Army, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ruling Class), dies following a stroke at 66
• Apr 20 Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roses), dies at 82
• Apr 21 Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
• Apr 25 Celia Johnson, English actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73
• Apr 25 Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
• Apr 26 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
• Apr 27 Tom Tully, American actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85
• Apr 28 Bert van Dongen [Albert Cohen], Dutch singer, impressionist and actor (Het meisje met den blauwen hoed), dies at 66
• May 1 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
• May 2 Helmut Dantine, Austrian-American actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies of a heart attack at 64
• May 2 Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve, Ellery Queen), dies from a heart attack at 71
• May 6 Sam Baker, American actor, dies at 75
• May 11 Leigh Snowden [Martha Lee Estes], American actress (All That Heaven Allows), dies of cancer at 51
• May 14 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver), dies from a heart attack at 73
• May 25 Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
• May 29 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43
• Jun 9 Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at 74
• Jun 10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German filmmaker and director (Marriage of Maria Braum), dies of drug overdose at 37
• Jun 13 Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
• Jun 14 Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer
• Jun 15 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90
• Jun 18 Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens], German-born Austrian actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day), dies of an acute heart attack at 66
• Jun 22 Alan Webb, British actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie), dies at 75
• Jun 26 Charles Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71
• Jun 26 Sandy Powell, English comedian, dies at 82
• Jun 27 Jack Mullaney, American actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49
• Jun 28 Gerard Rutten, Dutch film director (Sterren stralen overal), dies at 79
• Jul 1 Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86
• Jul 3 Henry King, US film director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies at 96
• Jul 6 Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72
• Jul 7 Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
• Jul 8 Isa Miranda, model/actress (Summertime), dies of infected bone at 77
• Jul 12 Kenneth More, British actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House) dies of Parkinson's disease at 67
• Jul 13 Edith Heerdegen, German actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti), dies at 69
• Jul 13 John Alexander, actor (Alien PI), dies at 85
• Jul 16 Patrick Dewaere, actor (Catherine & Co), shoots self at 35
• Jul 19 John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
• Jul 21 Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69
• Jul 23 Vic Morrow, American actor (Cimmaron), killed by helicopter crash during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" at 53
• Jul 26 Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at 54
• Jul 29 Harold Sakata [Toshiyuki], American actor (Gold Finger, Dimension 5), dies of liver cancer at 62
• Jul 30 Roberta Pedon, American glamour model, dies at 28
• Aug 2 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
• Aug 5 Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72
• Aug 9 Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-French filmmaker (pinscreen animation) and artist, dies at 81
• Aug 11 Tom Drake [Alfred Sinclair Alderdice], American actor (Meet Me in St. Louis, Warlock), dies of lung cancer at 63

• Aug 13 Charles Walters, American actor, choreographer and director (Lili, Easter parade), dies of lung cancer at 70
• Aug 13 Joe E Ross, American comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 68
• Aug 14 Patrick Magee [McGee], Northern Irish actor and director (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon), dies from a heart attack at 60
• Aug 17 Barney Phillips [Bernard Philip Ofner], American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies from cancer at 68
• Aug 18 Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87
• Aug 19 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• Aug 20 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu, One Summer of Happiness), dies of bone cancer at 53
• Aug 25 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27

• Sep 2 Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78
• Sep 2 Tom Baker, American actor, dies of a drug overdose in New York at 42
• Sep 3 Michael Thoma, American actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
• Sep 12 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and radio play director (Tomorrow It Will Be Better), dies at 89
• Sep 13 Philip Ober, American actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80

• Sep 16 Rolfe Sedan, American actor (Young Frankenstein, Ninotchka, George Burns Show), dies at 86
• Sep 24 Sarah Churchill, British actress (Matinee Theatre, All Over Town, Royal Wedding), dies at 67

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