Events in Film & TV
Engagement of Interest
Dec 7 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
Film Premiere
Dec 25 "The Godfather Part III" directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia premieres
- Dec 31 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Dec 1 Chanel Iman, American model (Victoria's Secret Angel), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Dec 9 LaFee [Christina Klein], German pop-rock singer, and actress, born in Büsbach, Germany
- Dec 10 Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
- Dec 10 Teyana Taylor, American singer-songwriter, actress and TV personality (Teyana and Iman), born in New York City
- Dec 11 Alexa Demie, American actress (Euphoria), born in Los Angeles, California
- Dec 22 Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor, born in Brignoles, France
- Dec 23 Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer, born in San Francisco, California
- Dec 28 David Archuleta, American singer (American Idol runner-up), born in Miami, Florida
Weddings in Film & TV
John Carpenter
Dec 1 Film director John Carpenter (36) weds producer Sandy King
David Lean
Dec 15 Academy Award-winning director David Lean (82) weds interior designer Sandra Cooke (51)
Natasha Richardson
Dec 15 British actress Natasha Richardson (27) weds British stage and screen producer Robert Fox (37); divorce in 1992
Rod Stewart
Dec 15 British singer Rod Stewart (45) weds American supermodel Rachel Hunter (21); divorce in 2006
Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise
Dec 24 Actor Tom Cruise (28) marries actress Nicole Kidman (23)
Deaths in Film & TV
- Dec 1 Robert Gordon, American child actor (billed as "Bobby" - The Jazz Singer; Mountains of Manhattan), and director (The Joe Louis Story), dies at 77
- Dec 2 Robert Cummings, American actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder), dies of kidney failure at 80
- Dec 3 Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59
- Dec 4 Edward Binns, American actor (12 Angry Men; Fail-Safe), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Dec 7 Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka), dies at 60
- Dec 7 Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (Mon oncle Antoine), dies at 67
- Dec 7 Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
- Dec 8 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
- Dec 9 Mike Mazurki, Austrian-American actor and professional wrestler (Some Like It Hot, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World), dies at 82
- Dec 14 Hope Sansberry, American actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
- Dec 15 Betty Warren, British actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies at 83
- Dec 15 Jean Paige, American silent film actress (Capt Blood; Black Beauty), dies at 95
- Dec 17 Don Draper, American actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
- Dec 17 Mieke Verstraete [Maria Augustina De Graef], Belgian-Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled), dies at 79
- Dec 18 Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
- Dec 19 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
- Dec 27 Helene Stanley, American actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd),and live-action model for Disney animators (Cinderealla; Sleeping Beauty), dies at 61
- Dec 28 Kiel Martin, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Det. LaRue"), dies of cancer at 46
- Dec 31 Dalton Cathey, American actor dies of AIDS at 44
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