Events in Film & TV
Film and TV Awards
Mar 12 15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
Event of Interest
Mar 24 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" 1st seen on TV since 1973
Mary Martin
- Mar 27 1st African American soap opera, "Generations" premieres on NBC-TV
- Mar 29 61st Academy Awards: "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win
- Mar 29 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Cocktail" wins
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Mar 5 Jake Lloyd, American actor
- Mar 7 Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model (Maalaala Mo Kaya), born in Subic, Philippines
- Mar 8 Ming Xi, Chinese model, born in Shanghai, China
- Mar 11 Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (d. 2016)
- Mar 15 Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
- Mar 18 Lily Collins, British American actress (Mirror, Mirror), born in Guildford, England
- Mar 25 Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
Mar 4 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline
Divorces in Film & TV
Divorce of Interest
Mar 1 "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5 years of marriage
David Hasselhoff
Deaths in Film & TV
- Mar 1 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress & director (Bluejackets, De kleine zielen), dies at 71
- Mar 6 Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
- Mar 12 Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched), dies at 87
- Mar 17 Merritt Butrick, American actor (Shy People, Square Pegs), dies of AIDS at 29
- Mar 18 William Challee, actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies
- Mar 20 Alan Gifford [John Lennox], American actor (Time Lock, 2001: A Space Odyssey), dies at 78
- Mar 21 Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
- Mar 27 May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
- Mar 29 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73
- Mar 30 Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies