Events in Film & TV
The Late Show with Joan Rivers
Oct 9 "The Late Show with Joan Rivers" premieres on Fox, first woman to host a US late-night TV talk show' she is fired in May of 1987
Phantom of the Opera
Oct 9 Stage musical "Phantom of the Opera" premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman; runs for 13,629 performances
Music Concert
Oct 16 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards organizes concert celebrating rock and roll legend Chuck Berry's 60th birthday at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri; performers include: Richards, Berry, Johnnie Johnson, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Cray, and Julian Lennon among others
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Oct 1 Jurnee Smollett-Bell, American actress (Lovecraft Country), born in New York City
- Oct 1 Sayaka Kanda, Japanese singer and actress, born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Oct 2 Camilla Belle, American actress (Rip Girls), born in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 6 Olivia Thirlby, American actress
- Oct 6 Yoo Ah-in, South Korean actor (Sungkyunkwan Scandal), born in Daegu, South Korea
- Oct 12 Marcus T. Paulk, American actor (Moesha), born in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 14 Skyler Shaye, American actress
- Oct 15 Paul Walter Hauser, American actor and comedian (Black Bird), born in Saginaw, Michigan
- Oct 20 Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
- Oct 21 Alex Kew, British actor
- Oct 21 Christopher Uckermann, Mexican-Swedish actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD, born in Mexico City
Emilia Clarke (36 years old)
Oct 23 English actress (Game of Thrones), born in London, England
- Oct 23 Jessica Stroup, American Actress (90210), born in Anderson, South Carolina
Drake (36 years old)
Oct 24 Canadian actor and rapper (Hotline Bling), born in Toronto, Ontario
Deaths in Film & TV
- Oct 5 Hal B. Wallis [Aaron Blum Wolowicz], American movie producer (Casablanca; Maltese Falcon; Martin & Lewis; Elvis movies; Barefoot in the Park), dies at 87
- Oct 7 Cheryl Crawford, American actress and producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), dies at 84
- Oct 14 Keenan Wynn, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), dies at 70
- Oct 22 Ivor Francis, Canadian-American radio, stage, and screen character actor (Dusty's Trail; The Prisoner of Second Avenue), and acting teacher, dies at 67
- 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)
