May 1982 in Film & Television

Events in Film & TV

May 10 WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine)

May 19 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

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 Guney jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
May 28 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight

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 11 Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (Glee, Monte Carlo), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 2013)

May 1 Actress Kate Jackson (33) weds business executive David Greenwald in Beverly Hills, California

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