August 1987 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Aug 1 Music video channel MTV Europe launches, with Elton John throwing the switch; "Money For Nothing" Dire Straits is the first video presented

Aug 4 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
Aug 6 20th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Holiday Inn
Aug 21 "Dirty Dancing" film directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey opens in the US
Aug 29 44th Venice Film Festival: "Au revoir les enfants" ("Goodbye, Children") directed by Louis Malle wins Golden Lion

Aug 31 Michael Jackson's "Bad" video, directed by Martin Scorcese, premieres during TV special "Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns" on CBS

Aug 5 Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress (Bommarillu), born in Bombay, India
Aug 5 Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss model, born in Magnitogorsk, Russia
Aug 8 Katie Leung, Scottish actress
Aug 8 Kim Chi [Sang-Young Shin], Korean-American drag queen, artist, and reality television personality (RuPaul's Drag Race), born in Chicago, Illinois
Aug 16 Kyal Marsh, Australian actor, born in Clare, South Australia
Aug 18 Mika Boorem, American actress (Hearts in Atlantis), born in Tucson, Arizona
Aug 19 Ileana D'Cruz, Indian-Portuguese actress, born in Mumbai, India
Aug 21 Kibum [Kim Ki-bum], South Korean actor (Rainbow Romance), and pop singer (Super Junior, 2003-06), born in Seoul, South Korea
Aug 23 Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer, born in Manila, Philippines
Aug 25 Blake Lively, American actress (Gossip Girl), born in Los Angeles, California
Aug 25 Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer, born in Wuhan, China
Aug 25 Stacey Farber, Canadian actress

Aug 7 "Magnum, P.I." actor Tom Selleck (42) weds actress and dancer Jillie Mack (29) in Incline Village, Nevada

Aug 24 Actor Patrick Dempsey (21) weds manager Rocky Parker (47)

Aug 1 Benson Fong, American character actor (Charlie Chan films; Purple Heart; Flower Drum Song), and restaurateur, dies of a stroke at 70
Aug 1 Pola Negri [Apolonia Chalupec], Polish-American stage and silent and sound screen actress (Forbidden Paradise; Madame Bovary), and singer, dies of pneumonia and a brain tumor at 92
Aug 4 Kenny Price, American country singer ("Walking on New Grass"; "Happy Tracks"), dies of a heart attack at 56
Aug 5 Anatoli Papanov, Russian actor (Cold Summer of 1953) named as a People's Artist of the USSR (1973), dies at 64
Aug 6 Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies
Aug 10 Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
Aug 10 Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies
Aug 17 Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor, comedian and Israel's 1st mime (The Policeman; The Delta Force), dies of lung cancer at 57
Aug 19 Hayden Rorke, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, When Worlds Collide), dies from multiple myeloma at 76
Aug 24 Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
Aug 28 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
Aug 29 Archie Campbell, American country recording artist, comedian, and writer (Hee Haw), dies of a heart attack at 72