1986 in Film & Television

• Jan 17 2nd Sundance Film Festival: "Smooth Talk" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• Jan 21 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
• Jan 23 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances

• Feb 2 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances
• Feb 3 US President Ronald Reagan announces formation of commission of enquiry on Challenger Accident

• Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
• Mar 23 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Rambo: First Blood Part II" wins

• Apr 6 CBS' fact based "Nobody's Child", story of Marie Balter

• Apr 27 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
• May 12 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

• May 19 39th Cannes Film Festival: "The Mission" directed by Roland Joffe wins the Palme d'Or
• May 20 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
• May 20 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv

• May 27 President Reagan orders 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
• Jun 11 "Blacke's Magic" last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 13 US President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
• Jun 20 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
• Jun 21 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
• Jun 23 Tip O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House
• Jul 3 US President Reagan presides over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
• Jul 21 Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
• Jul 31 19th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
• Aug 15 US President Ronald Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
• Aug 18 John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight

• Aug 27 38th Emmy Awards presentation - Golden Girls and Cagney & Lacey dominate
• Aug 28 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium

• Aug 30 43rd Venice Film Festival: "Le rayon vert" directed by Eric Rohmer wins Golden Lion

• Sep 5 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
• Sep 6 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand's benefit concert
• Sep 7 NBC premiere of "The French Connection" film based TV sequel "Popeye Doyle"
• Sep 12 Limited U.S. premiere of film adaptation of Marsha Norman's play "'Night, Mother"

• Sep 13 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
• Sep 14 CBS premiere of true life "The Last Days of Patton"
• Sep 15 1st broadcast of "L.A. Law" on NBC-TV

• Sep 29 "Designing Women" TV comedy, debuts on CBS
• Sep 29 NBC true life drama "Adam: His Song Continues" premieres, sequel to "Adam" (1983)

• Oct 16 US government shuts down due to disputes between President Reagan and the House
• Nov 6 President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
• Nov 13 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
• Nov 13 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran

• Nov 25 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal
• Nov 28 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
• Dec 7 NBC premiere of miniseries "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (Part 1)
• Dec 8 NBC premiere of miniseries "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (Part 2)

• Dec 27 2nd Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 143

• Jan 1 Vidya Balan, Indian actress
• Jan 5 Deepika Padukone, Indian model, actress, and activist (Om Shanti Om, Cocktail, Piki), born in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Jan 5 Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer
• Jan 6 Irina Shayk. Russian model, born in Yemanzhelinsk, USSR
• Jan 8 Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
• Jan 10 Saleisha Stowers, American model
• Jan 11 Rachel Riley, English television presenter and mathematician (Countdown, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown), born in Rochford, England
• Jan 16 Mason Gamble, actor (Dennis the Menace)
• Jan 22 Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
• Jan 22 Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
• Jan 24 Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
• Jan 24 Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
• Jan 26 Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
• Jan 28 Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
• Jan 29 Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
• Feb 1 Lauren Conrad, American TV star
• Feb 6 Alice Greczyn, American actress
• Feb 7 Deanna Casaluce, Canadian actress
• Feb 10 Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model, born in Tokyo, Japan
• Feb 14 Roxanne Guinoo, Filipina actress
• Feb 17 Sandra Nilsson, Swedish model
• Feb 19 Reon Kadena, Japanese model/actress
• Feb 22 Miko Hughes, American actor
• Feb 25 James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
• Feb 25 Justin Berfield, American actor
• Feb 26 Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress
• Mar 4 Margo Harshman, American actress
• Mar 6 Eli Marienthal, American actor
• Mar 9 Brittany Snow, American actress
• Mar 10 JC de Vera, Filipino Actor
• Mar 14 Jamie Bell, British actor
• Mar 15 Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
• Mar 16 Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
• Mar 17 Olesya Rulin, American actress
• Mar 20 Dean Geyer, Australian singer/actor
• Mar 20 Ruby Rose, Australian model, actor (Orange is the New Black) recording artist, and gender activist, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Mar 23 Steven Strait, American actor
• Mar 27 SoCal Val [Paige Nicole Mayo], American professional wrestling valet, born in Texas
• Apr 3 Amanda Bynes, American actress (The Amanda Show), born in Thousand Oaks, California
• Apr 8 Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer
• Apr 9 Leighton Meester, American actress
• Apr 10 Ayesha Takia, Indian actress (Taarzan: The Wonder Car), born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Apr 14 Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
• Apr 22 Amber Heard, American actress, born in Austin, Texas
• Apr 23 Jessica Stam, Canadian supermodel
• Apr 27 Jenna Coleman, British Actress (Doctor Who), born in Blackpool, Lancashire
• Apr 29 Renee Alway, American Model
• Apr 30 Dianna Agron, Savannah, Georgia, American Actress (Quinn Fabray-Glee)
• May 2 James Kirk, Canadian actor (She's the Man), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
• May 3 Poppy Delevingne, British model and actress (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), born in London, England
• May 6 Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor
• May 7 Mark Furze, Australian actor
• May 12 Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• May 13 Giuliana Marino, Playboy Playmate of the Year, Germany 2005

• May 14 Camila Sodi, Mexican actress

• May 17 Tahj Mowry, American actor
• May 19 Eric Lloyd, American actor
• May 23 Ryan Coogler, American director and screenwriter (Fruitvale Station, The Black Panther), born in Oakland, California
• May 24 Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
• May 25 Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
• May 28 Joseph Cross, American actor
• May 29 Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
• May 29 Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican-American fashion model
• May 31 Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
• Jun 1 Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
• Jun 3 Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
• Jun 4 Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
• Jun 6 Bhavana Balachandran [Karthika Menon], Indian actress, born in Thrissur district, Kerala
• Jun 9 Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
• Jun 9 Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• Jun 11 Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)

• Jun 13 Kat Dennings, American actress
• Jun 18 Richard Madden, Scottish actor (Games of Thrones, Cinderella), born in Elderslie
• Jun 22 Bob the Drag Queen [Christopher Caldwell], American drag queen, comedian and TV personality (RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 winner), born in Columbus, Georgia
• Jun 24 Kaitlin Cullum, actress (Libby Kelly-Grace Under Fire), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jun 27 Drake Bell, American actor, voice actor, and musician, born in Newport Beach, California
• Jun 28 Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High), born in Toronto, Canada
• Jun 29 Iya Villania [Raelene Villania-Arellano], Australian actress and presenter, born in Sydney, Australia
• Jun 30 Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model

• Jul 9 Kiely Williams, American singer and actress
• Jul 12 Krystal Forscutt, Australian model/reality TV contestant
• Jul 16 Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
• Jul 17 Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
• Jul 23 Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
• Jul 23 Reece Ritchie, English actor
• Jul 24 Megan Park, Canadian actress
• Jul 28 Alexandra Chando, American actress (As the World Turns), born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Aug 8 Peyton List, American actress
• Aug 9 Vanessa Morley, American actress
• Aug 11 Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress
• Aug 16 Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
• Aug 17 Bryton McClure, American actor (Richie-Family Matters), born in Lakewood, California
• Aug 20 Robert Clark, Canadian actor
• Aug 22 Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress, born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

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• May 3 Actress-singer Annette Funicello (43) weds harness racing horse breeder and trainer Glen Holt

• Jul 7 US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo

• Nov 28 NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-NY Jets football game

• Mar 7 Actor Johhny Depp and Lori Depp divorce after 2 years of marriage

Deaths 1 - 100 of 105

• Jan 2 Una Merkel, US actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
• Jan 14 Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
• Jan 18 Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
• Jan 24 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel), dies of pneumonia at 64
• Jan 27 Lilli Palmer [Peiser], German actress (Cloak and Dagger, Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter), dies from abdominal cancer at 71
• Jan 29 Leif Erickson, American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront), dies at 74
• Feb 1 Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• Feb 6 William Collier [Charles F Gall Jr], American stage and film actor and producer, dies at 84
• Feb 10 Brian Aherne, British actor (I Confess, Titanic, Juarez), dies at 83
• Feb 12 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
• Feb 16 Howard Da Silva [Silverblatt], American actor (1776, The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia), dies from lymphoma at 76
• Feb 19 Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue), dies at 63
• Feb 19 Paul Stewart, American actor (Citizen Kane, Kiss Me Deadly), dies from a heart attack at 77
• Mar 6 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
• Mar 9 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78

• Mar 14 Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
• Mar 14 Huw Wheldon, Welsh broadcaster (BBC), dies at 69
• Mar 17 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
• Mar 22 Charles Starrett, American actor (The Mask of Fu Manchu, Bonanza Town), dies at 82
• Mar 22 Derek Farr, British actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large), dies from cancer at 74
• Mar 24 Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67
• Mar 26 Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
• Mar 28 Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
• Mar 28 Virginia Gilmore, American actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies at 66
• Mar 29 Harry Ritz [Joachim], American actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie), dies at 78

• Mar 31 Jerry Paris, director, actor (Jerry in The Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60
• Apr 13 Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
• Apr 14 Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, dies at 46
• Apr 15 Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
• Apr 19 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
• Apr 26 Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87

• May 1 Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
• May 3 Robert Alda, American actor (Supertrain, By Popular Demand), dies at 72
• May 7 Jeffrey Mylett, American actor and songwriter, dies at 36
• May 9 Herschel Bernardi, American actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front), dies of a heart attack at 62
• May 12 Lee Bonnell, American actor, dies at 67
• May 22 Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63
• May 23 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
• May 24 Gunnar Bjornstrand, Swedish actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76
• May 24 Yakima Canutt [Enos Edward], American rodeo cowboy, actor and director(Texas Terror), dies at 90
• May 28 Lurene Tuttle, American actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
• Jun 3 Anna Neagle, English actress (London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell), dies at 81
• Jun 3 Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
• Jun 14 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
• Jun 20 Tim Herbert, American comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
• Jun 23 Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
• Jun 27 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
• Jun 29 Ida Mae McKenzie, American actress, dies at 75
• Jun 29 Robert Drivas [Robert Choromokos ], American actor (Our Private World), dies of Aids complications at 47
• Jul 1 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
• Jul 15 Benny Rubin, American actor and comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
• Jul 15 Florence Halop, American actress (Night Court, St Elsewhere), dies of lung cancer at 63
• Jul 20 Helen Craig, American actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night), dies at 74
• Jul 21 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
• Jul 21 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
• Aug 3 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41
• Aug 13 Helen Mack, American actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies of cancer at 72
• Aug 19 Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
• Aug 19 Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
• Aug 20 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
• Aug 20 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
• Aug 23 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
• Aug 25 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
• Aug 26 Ted Knight [Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka], American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort), dies of colorectal cancer at 62
• Sep 1 Murray Hamilton, American character actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Anatomy of a Murder), dies of lung cancer at 63
• Sep 6 Blanche Sweet, US actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
• Sep 12 Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
• Sep 15 Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
• Sep 17 Patricia "Pat" Phoenix, British actress (Coronation Street, L Shaped Room), dies of lung cancer at 62
• Sep 26 Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
• Sep 28 Robert Helpmann, Australian actor, choreographer and dancer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Don Quixote), dies at 77
• Sep 29 Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
• Oct 14 [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, US actor (Dr Strangelove), dies at 70
• Oct 22 Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68
• Oct 22 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
• Oct 25 Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 67
• Oct 29 Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
• Nov 2 Paul Frees [Solomon Hersh Frees], American voice actor (voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), dies at 66
• Nov 5 Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
• Nov 8 Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
• Nov 10 Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
• Nov 11 Roger C.Carmel, American actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
• Nov 13 Thierry Le Luron, French humorist, dies at 34
• Nov 16 Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63
• Nov 17 Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71
• Nov 18 Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
• Nov 21 Jerry Colonna, American actor (Jerry Colonna Show, Alice in Wonderland, Road to Singapore), dies at 82
• Nov 21 Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
• Nov 21 Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
• Nov 26 Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], American actor, singer, dancer and musician (Chico and the Man, The Shining), dies at 76
• Nov 27 Steve Tracy, actor (Percival-Little House on Praire), dies at 61
• Nov 28 Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76
• Nov 29 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest), dies from a cerebral haemorrhage at 82
• Nov 29 Herb Vigran, actor (Vampire, Mark of Vampire), dies

• Dec 10 Susan Cabot, American actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), is killed by her son following a psychotic episode at 59
• Dec 11 Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30

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