Year 1992 in Film & Television

Events in Film & TV

• Jan 4 8th= largest wrestling crowd NJPW Starcade (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
• Jan 10 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins

• Jan 12 13th ACE Cable Awards: CNN wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the Persian Gulf War
• Jan 16 "Two Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances

• Jan 18 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident

• Jan 19 Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
• Jan 26 8th Sundance Film Festival: "In the Soup" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

• Feb 6 "Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC
• Feb 7 Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
• Feb 9 "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 performances
• Feb 13 42nd Berlin International Film Festival: "Grand Canyon" wins the Golden Bear

• Mar 22 Herb Gardner's play "Conversations with My Father", starring Judd Hirsch and Tony Shalhoub, opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
• Mar 28 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal
• Mar 29 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Hudson Hawk" wins

• Mar 30 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"

• Apr 12 Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France

• Apr 20 100th episode of American sitcom "Murphy Brown" airs
• Apr 26 "Growing Pains" final episode on ABC TV
• Apr 26 "Who's The Boss" final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
• Apr 30 208th & final episode of "The Cosby Show" on NBC-TV
• May 9 Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
• May 9 Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe

• May 18 45th Cannes Film Festival: "Den goda viljan" directed by Bille August wins the Palme d'Or


• May 19 US VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values

• May 25 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
• May 31 "The 1992 Boat Show" - the final episode of US comedy series "Night Court" - airs on NBC-TV

• Jul 1 Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
• Jul 9 Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
• Jul 14 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
• Jul 18 Sharon Belden, of Florida, 25, crowned Miss World USA
• Jul 29 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
• Aug 1 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
• Aug 3 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot

• Aug 13 25th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at DoubleTree Hotel
• Aug 25 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
• Aug 29 Largest wrestling crowd outside US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium, London
• Aug 31 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure (best drama & drama writing),Christopher Lloyd (Road To Avalonlea) & Dana Delany (China Beach) win
• Sep 1 49th Venice Film Festival: "The Story of Qiu Ju" directed by Yimou Zhang wins Golden Lion

• Sep 4 "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
• Sep 17 House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
• Sep 20 Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993

• Sep 28 "Dog City" cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
• Sep 30 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
• Oct 1 Cartoon Cable Network premieres

• Oct 12 Brett "Hitman" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF heavyweight title

• Oct 16 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot filmed in 1964 is 1st shown on TV (TBS)
• Nov 4 NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
• Nov 12 British TV comedy "Absolutely Fabulous" written by Jennifer Saunders, starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley first appears on the BBC
• Nov 17 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test

• Dec 8 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May 1993
• Dec 12 Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World

Birthdays in Film & TV

• Jan 19 Logan Lerman, American actor, born in Beverly Hills, California
• Feb 11 Taylor Lautner, American actor, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Feb 11 Blair Dunlop, English actor, born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom
• Feb 14 Freddie Highmore, English actor, born in Camden Town, London
• Feb 17 Meaghan Martin, American actress and singer (Camp Roc), born in Fallon, Nevada
• Feb 18 Jacqueline Toboni, American actress (Grimm), born in San Francisco, California
• Mar 7 Bel Powley, English actress, born in London, England
• Mar 8 Charlie Ray, American actress
• Mar 10 Emily Osment, American actress and singer

• Mar 24 Thomas Law, English actor
• Apr 4 Alexa Nikolas, American actress (Zoey 101), born in Chicago, Illinois

• Apr 12 Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor (Gladiator), born in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy
• Apr 13 Jett Travolta, son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2009)
• Apr 13 Emma Degerstedt, American actress, born in Long Beach, California
• Apr 24 Sean Rademaker, American actor (Kirkland Harrison-Another World), born in Washington, D.C.
• May 4 Courtney Jines, American actress (Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over), born in Fairfax, Virginia
• May 7 Gavin Hetherington, British actor
• May 12 Malcolm David Kelley, American actor and rapper (Lost), born in Bellflower, California
• May 18 Spencer Breslin, American actor
• May 20 Jack Gleeson, Irish actor (Game of Thrones), born in Cork
• May 21 Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
• May 24 Travis T. Flory, American actor (Everybody Hates Chris), born in Fontana, California
• Jun 12 Allie DiMeco, American musician and actress (The Naked Brothers Band), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
• Jun 12 Ryan Malgarini, American actor (Freaky Friday), born in Renton, Washington
• Jun 13 Violet Chachki [Jason Dardo], American drag queen, dancer, model and TV personality (RuPaul's Drag Race season 7 winner), born in Atlanta, Georgia
• Jun 14 Daryl Sabara, American actor
• Jun 14 Evan Sabara, American actor
• Jun 26 Jennette McCurdy, American actress (iCarly), born in Long Beach, California
• Jun 29 Adam G. Sevani, American actor (Step Up), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jul 1 Bryant Jones, American actor (Nate Hastings-Young & Restless), born in Camarillo, California
• Jul 9 Jeremy Pope, American stage and screen actor (Ain't Too Proud, Hollywood), born in Orlando, Florida
• Jul 20 Paige Hurd, American actress

• Aug 2 Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress, born in East Brunswick, New Jersey

• Aug 10 Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
• Aug 11 Allison Lozano, Mexican actress
• Aug 12 Cara Delevingne, English fashion model, actress, and LGBT activist, born in London, England
• Aug 18 Riko Narumi, Japanese actress and model, born in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama

• Aug 21 Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor (House of Anubis-Fabian Rutter), born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

• Sep 27 Jake Burbage, American actor, born in Willingboro Township, New Jersey
• Sep 28 Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress, born in Houston, Texas, (d. 2014)
• Sep 30 Ezra Miller, American actor (Fantastic Beasts, Justice League), born in Wyckoff, New Jersey
• Oct 6 Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress
• Oct 9 Tyler James Williams, American actor (Everybody Hates Chris), born in Westchester County, New York
• Oct 12 Taylor Horn, American singer and actress, born in Redlands, California
• Oct 12 Josh Hutcherson, American actor (Hunger Games films), born in Union, Kentucky
• Oct 15 Vincent Martella, American actor
• Oct 17 Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor
• Oct 22 Sofia Vassilieva, American actress (Medium), born in n Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Nov 11 Trey Smith [Willard Carroll Smith III], American actor and son of Will Smith, born in Los Angeles, California
• Nov 16 Adam Robert Worton, American twin actor (Baby's Day Out), born in Newark, Delaware
• Nov 16 Jacob Joseph Worton, American twin actor (Baby's Day Out), born in Newark, Delaware
• Nov 17 Darian Weiss, American actor
• Nov 18 Nathan Kress, American actor

• Nov 28 Kianna Underwood, American actress
• Dec 3 Joseph McManners, English actor
• Dec 17 Thomas Law, British Actor
• Dec 17 Jordan Garrett, American actor
• Dec 24 Melissa Suffield, English actress, born in London, England

Weddings in Film & TV

• Jan 18 Chinese-American actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui

• Apr 4 John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca

• Apr 5 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka

• Apr 18 Swedish tennis ace Stefan Edberg (26) marries Danish model Annette Olsen (27) in Sweden

• May 23 "Once and Again" actress Sela Ward (35) weds actor Howard Sherman (42)

• Jun 18 Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
• Jun 21 Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
• Jun 21 Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
• Jun 27 "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (36) weds actor Michael E. Knight (33)
• Jun 30 Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye
• Jul 4 American actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
• Jul 18 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
• Jul 26 "Kiss" guitarist Paul Stanley weds model Pamela Bowen
• Aug 8 Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
• Aug 15 Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester

• Sep 5 Rock singer John Mellencamp (40) weds model Elaine Irwin (23) in Indiana
• Oct 10 Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
• Oct 10 Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
• Dec 31 WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry

Divorces in Film & TV

Deaths in Film & TV

Deaths 1 - 100 of 217

• Jan 1 Ginette Leclerc, French actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79
• Jan 1 M. J. Frankovich, American football player & film producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 82
• Jan 2 Virginia Field, British-born actress (Dream Girl), dies of cancer at 74
• Jan 3 Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek 3), dies of pneumonia at 93
• Jan 4 William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
• Jan 6 Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies
• Jan 7 Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
• Jan 9 Steve Brodie [John Stevenson], American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies from illness at 72
• Jan 10 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
• Jan 13 Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
• Jan 15 Hari Rhodes, American actor (Earth II, Detroit 9000), dies at 59
• Jan 16 Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95
• Jan 17 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
• Jan 17 Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
• Jan 23 Frederick "Freddie" Bartholomew, British child actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, Captains Courageous), dies of emphysema at 67
• Jan 23 Ian Wolfe, American actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors, Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95
• Jan 24 Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies
• Jan 24 John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
• Jan 24 Tina Chow, model, dies of AIDs at 41
• Jan 25 John Touchstone, American actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59

• Jan 27 Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101
• Feb 1 George Berkeley, American actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
• Feb 2 Bert Parks [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
• Feb 4 John Dehner [Forkum], American actor (The Right Stuff, Big Hawaii, Bare Essence), dies of emphysema and diabetes at 76
• Feb 4 Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish supermodel, dies at 80
• Feb 5 Laura Liddell, English actress (Shakespeare Wallah), dies at 83
• Feb 6 Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club), dies at 37
• Feb 6 Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62
• Feb 7 Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
• Feb 8 Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93
• Feb 10 Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61
• Feb 10 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies
• Feb 11 Raymond "Ray" Danton, American actor and director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer), dies at 60
• Feb 13 Dorothy Tree [Triebitz], American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Confessions Of A Nazi Spy; The Asphalt Jungle), dies of heart failure at 85
• Feb 14 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard), dies of cancer at 48
• Feb 20 Dick York, American actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind), dies of emphysema at 63
• Feb 20 Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66
• Feb 21 Eva A Jessye, American singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97
• Feb 23 Jacquelyn Hyde, American actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
• Feb 25 Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79
• Feb 25 John E Allen Jr, actor (1 2 3), dies
• Feb 28 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
• Feb 29 Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who), dies at 70
• Mar 3 Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare), dies from pneumonia at 82
• Mar 3 Sandy Dennis, American actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
• Mar 3 Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
• Mar 4 Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), die at 84 of heart failure
• Mar 4 Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61
• Mar 5 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
• Mar 5 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
• Mar 6 Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia
• Mar 9 Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies
• Mar 11 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
• Mar 12 Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
• Mar 13 Clarence Wright, English actor and singer, dies at 84
• Mar 14 C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
• Mar 14 Jean Poiret [Jean-Gustave Poiré], French actor, director, and screenwriter (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 65
• Mar 14 Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67
• Mar 15 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
• Mar 15 Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
• Mar 15 Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
• Mar 17 Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
• Mar 17 Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
• Mar 17 Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75
• Mar 19 Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas, Garrison's Gorillas), dies of a heart attack at 66
• Mar 20 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
• Mar 20 Georges Delerue, French film composer (Sword of Gideon, A Little Romance), dies of a heart attack at 67
• Mar 21 John Ireland, Canadian actor (All the King's Men, Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of leukaemia at 78
• Mar 25 Nancy Walker, American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife), dies of cancer at 69
• Mar 27 Anita Colby, American model, author and actress (Mary of Scotland, Cover Girl, Pepsi Cola Playhouse), dies of lung disease at 77

• Apr 2 Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
• Apr 3 Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
• Apr 3 Margaret Barker, actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
• Apr 4 Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
• Apr 6 Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
• Apr 8 Nelson Olmsted [or Olmstead], American voice actor (Sleep No More) dies at 78
• Apr 9 Ruth Hammond, American Broadway actress, dies in her sleep at 96

• Apr 10 Cecil "Cec" Linder, Polish-Canadian actor (Goldfinger, Quatermass and the Pit), dies at 71
• Apr 11 Adele Dixon, British stage and screen actress and singer (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
• Apr 11 James Brown, American actor (Objective, Burma!; The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin -"Rip"), dies of lung cancer at 72
• Apr 13 Brian Oulton, English character actor, dies at 84
• Apr 16 Neville Brand, American soldier and actor (DOA, Love Me Tender), dies of emphysema at 71
• Apr 19 Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
• Apr 19 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
• Apr 20 Benny Hill [Alfred Hawthorn Hill], British comedian (The Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 68
• Apr 22 Youcca Troubatzkoy, American actress (Flower of the Night), dies at 86
• Apr 23 Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
• Apr 26 Alberta Vaughn, American actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
• Apr 29 Mae Clarke [Violet Mary Klotz], American actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge), dies at 81
• May 2 Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84

• May 5 Ben Frommer, Polish actor (Scarface, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 78
• May 5 Richard "Dick" Yarmy, American actor (Get Smart, Arnie, Bone), dies of lung cancer at 58
• May 5 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64

• May 8 Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
• May 10 John Lund, American actor (High Society, Wackiest Ship in the Army), dies at 81

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