Year 1994 in Film & Television

• Jan 4 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)

• Jan 5 26th NAACP Image Awards: "Sister Act" wins Outstanding Motion Picture

• Jan 30 10th Sundance Film Festival: "What Happened Was" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

• Feb 4 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
• Feb 5 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
• Feb 7 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant

• Feb 8 "Sátántangó", Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, starring Mihály Víg, Putyi Horváth, is released
• Feb 10 44th Berlin International Film Festival: "In the Name of the Father" wins the Golden Bear
• Feb 11 Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
• Feb 12 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose

• Mar 7 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top

• Mar 10 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri's funeral

• Mar 20 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Indecent Proposal" wins
• Mar 20 WrestleMania X, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Bret Hart beats Yokozuna to win WWF Championship

• Mar 30 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
• Mar 31 Actor James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra

• May 1 Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
• May 6 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on The Tonight Show
• May 8 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes

• May 19 Final Episode of TV drama "LA Law" after 8 year run
• May 19 Egyptian actor Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
• May 20 Sushmita Sen from India is crowned the 43rd Miss Universe at 18 years old
• May 20 Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
• May 23 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finale airs this week in syndication
• May 23 47th Cannes Film Festival: "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino wins the Palme d'Or

• May 27 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show

• May 28 "Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 1 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts

• Jun 11 "Meet The Flintstones" by The B-52's (stylized as The B.C. 52's) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33

• Jun 20 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network

• Jul 6 "Forrest Gump", directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
• Jul 13 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing

• Jul 20 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
• Jul 22 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder

• Aug 4 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
• Aug 16 Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
• Sep 1 51st Venice Film Festival: "Before the Rain" directed by Milco Mancevski and "Vive L'Amour" directed by Tsai Ming-Liang jointly awarded Golden Lion

• Sep 17 Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995

• Sep 28 "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS

• Sep 29 Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Oct 10 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
• Oct 16 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke

• Nov 30 Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is released in Britain

• Dec 18 "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 8 performances
• Dec 25 "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 performances

• Feb 1 Julia Garner, American Actress (Ozark), born in New York City
• Feb 10 Makenzie Vega, American actress, born in Los Angeles, California
• Feb 11 Dominic Janes, American actor, born in Tucson, Arizona
• Feb 14 Paul Butcher, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California

• Feb 26 Creason Carbo Moss, daughter of American actor Ronn Moss
• Mar 14 Ansel Elgort, American actor (Fault in our Stars), born in NYC, New York
• Mar 16 Sierra McClain, American actress (Sierra James-Daddy's Little Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
• Mar 29 Sulli [Choi Jin-ri], South Korean K-pop singer (f(x)) and actress (Fashion King), born in Basun, South Korea (d. 2019)
• Apr 11 Dakota Blue Richards, English actress (The Golden Compass), born in South Kensington, London

• Apr 16 Liliana Mumy, American actress, born in San Marcos, California
• Apr 18 Moisés Arias, American-Colombian actor (The Kings of Summer), born in NYC, New York
• Apr 24 Austin Rogers, American actor, born in New Port Richey, Florida
• May 4 Alexander Gould, American actor (Weeds), born in Los Angeles
• Jun 11 Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress (Pan's Labyrinth), born in Barcelona
• Jun 28 Madeline Duggan, English actress (Lauren Branning-EastEnders), born in Bermondsey, London
• Jul 6 Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, British actresses
• Jul 13 Ridge Canipe, American actor (Walk the Line, A Single Man, Music Within), born in Laguna Beach, California
• Jul 16 Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor (Ugly Betty), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Jul 27 Winnie Harlow [born Chantelle Brown-Young], Canadian model with vitiligo (America's Next Top Model), born in Toronto, Ontario
• Aug 18 Jessie Flower [Michaela Murphy], American actress (Avatar: The Last Airbender), born in Southern Indiana
• Aug 25 Josh Flitter, American actor
• Sep 19 Alex Etel, British actor (From Time to Time), born in Machester, England
• Sep 25 Jansen Panettiere, American actor, born in Palisades, New York
• Oct 9 Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress (Silent Hill), born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
• Oct 20 Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
• Oct 31 Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor (The Final Cut)
• Nov 7 Shamir [Bailey], American singer-songwriter and actor, born in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Nov 14 Keno Eckert Ludwig, German actor (Dumbo), born in Bonn Bad Godesberg, Germany
• Nov 17 Raquel Castro, American actress
• Nov 28 Lola Sanchez, American actress
• Dec 3 Jake T. Austin, American actor (Wizards of Waverley Place), born in New York City
• Dec 17 Nat Wolff, American actor, and singer-songwriter (The Naked Brothers Band), born in Los Angeles, California

• Jan 28 American actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds American actor Edward James Olmos (46); divorce in 2002

• Feb 18 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
• Feb 26 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm

• Apr 24 Actor Lou Diamond Phillips marries Kelly Phillips
• Apr 26 "Mad About You" actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)
• May 7 Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
• May 14 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds television producer Darnay Hoffman (46) at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City

• Jun 26 Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)

• Jul 14 Princess Margaret's daughter Sarah Armstrong-Jones (30) weds ex-actor and fellow artist Daniel Chatto (37) at St. Stephen Walbrook Church in London
• Jul 30 Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (49) weds Naomi Baka (35) in Maui, Hawaii
• Aug 13 Former "Growing Pains" patriarch actor Alan Thicke (48) weds former Miss World Gina Marie Tolleson (25) at his rolling Santa Barbara ranch
• Sep 17 "L.A. Law" actor Blair Underwood (30) weds freelance talent coordinator Desiree DaCosta (29)

• Oct 8 "Growing Pains" actress Tracey Gold (25) weds Roby Marshall (29) at St. Charles Catholic Church
• Oct 29 Impressionist Rich Little (55) weds comedian Jeannette Markey (28) at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas

• Dec 26 Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)

• Apr 14 Musician Billy Joel & supermodel Christie Brinkley announce plans to divorce

• Jul 7 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert

Deaths 1 - 100 of 232

• Jan 3 Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
• Jan 4 R. D. Burman, Indian film score composer (1942: A Love Story), dies at 54
• Jan 7 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Cafe Express, Octopus), dies of heart failure at 52
• Jan 7 Llewellyn Rees, British theatre actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Invisible Creature), dies at 92
• Jan 8 Edward Duke, actor (Decadence, Silver Bears), dies of cancer at 40
• Jan 8 Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78
• Jan 10 Michael Aldridge, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Murder in Cathedral), dies at 73
• Jan 14 Esther Ralston, American actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at 91
• Jan 16 Martin Kosleck, German actor (Pursuit to Algiers, Agent for H.A.R.M.), dies at 89
• Jan 22 Jean-Louis Barrault, French stage actor, director and producer (Les Enfants du Paradis), dies at 83
• Jan 22 Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas, American singer (If?) and character actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service), dies of prostate cancer at 72
• Jan 23 Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44
• Jan 23 Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
• Jan 27 Claude Akins, American character actor (B. J. and the Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Movin' On), dies of cancer at 67
• Jan 27 Joe Mays, actor (Mr Saturday Night), dies of AIDS at 44
• Jan 28 Hal Smith, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show-Otis Campbell), dies at 77
• Jan 29 Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67
• Jan 29 Nick Cravat [Nicholas Cuccia], American actor (Gremlin-Twilight Zone), dies of lung cancer at 81
• Feb 1 Olan Soule, American actor (My 3 Sons, Captain Midnight, Arnie), dies of lung cancer at 83
• Feb 2 Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
• Feb 4 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist and director (KNMI), dies at 84
• Feb 6 Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Airport 77, Hearse), dies from pneumonia at 88
• Feb 6 Gwendoline "Gwen" Watford, British actress (Present Laughter, Cleopatra, Taste the Blood of Dracula), dies from cancer at 66
• Feb 8 Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
• Feb 11 William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
• Feb 11 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64
• Feb 15 Tiger Haynes, American actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
• Feb 15 Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), dies of heart failure 72
• Feb 19 Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
• Feb 19 Fausto Bara, Mexican-American actor (The Renegades - "Gaucho"), dies of AIDS at 42

• Feb 25 Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki, dies at 80
• Feb 26 William Melvin "Bill" Hicks, American stand-up comedian and social critic, dies of pancreatic cancer at 32
• Mar 1 Manmohan Desai, Indian filmmaker (Amar Akbar Anthony, Suhaag), dies at 57
• Mar 2 Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
• Mar 3 Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
• Mar 3 Ezra Stone [Chaim Feinstone], American director, actor and producer (My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich), dies in a road accident at 76

• Mar 6 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, activist and politician, dies of lung cancer at 73
• Mar 9 Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), dies of bladder cancer at 76
• Mar 9 John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
• Mar 9 Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
• Mar 9 Charles Bukowski, German-born American columnist (Notes of a Dirty Old Man) and writer (Hollywood: A Novel) who was described as a "laureate of American lowlife", dies of leukemia at 73
• Mar 15 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
• Mar 17 Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81
• Mar 17 Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm), dies of cancer at 68
• Mar 20 Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
• Mar 20 Don Goddard, American news anchor (ABC Evening News 1958-59), dies at 89
• Mar 21 Dack Rambo, American actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
• Mar 21 Lili Damita [Liliane Carré], French actress and wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
• Mar 21 Macdonald Carey, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Lock Up), dies of cancer at 81
• Mar 23 Giulietta Masina, Italian actress, (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) and wife of director Federico Fellini, dies at 73
• Mar 23 Jim Moloney, American actor and writer, dies of Parkinson's disease at 64
• Mar 29 Bill Travers [William Inge Lindon-Travers], British actor, director, officer and animal rights activist (Born Free, Gorgo), dies at 72
• Mar 29 Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89
• Apr 2 Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79
• Apr 3 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness, American actress, journalist and consumer activist (Dangerous Corner, Studio 1), dies of stomach cancer at 78
• Apr 3 Frank G Wells, US company director (Walt Disney Co.), dies in a helicopter crash at 62
• Apr 3 Pat Harper, NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
• Apr 4 Virginia "Ginny" Simms, American actress and singer (Night and Day, Kay Kyser Band), dies of a heart attack at 78
• Apr 8 François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
• Apr 9 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
• Apr 13 Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, Soviet film actor (Telegram, Town People), dies at 83
• Apr 13 Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
• Apr 13 Rudolf Hrusinský, Czech actor & director (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 73
• Apr 16 John McLiam [Williams], Canadian actor (First Blood, Sleeper, Men From Shiloh), dies of Parkinson's disease at 76
• Apr 16 Ron Vawter, American actor (Roy Cohn, The Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
• Apr 17 Peter Hacker, American journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
• Apr 19 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
• Apr 19 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
• Apr 20 Jean Carmet, French actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic), dies of a heart attack at 72
• Apr 25 David Langton [Basil Muir Langton-Dodds], Scottish actor (The Avengers, Quintet, St Joan, Abandon Ship), dies of a heart attack at 82
• Apr 27 Lynne Frederick, English actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
• Apr 29 William "Bill" Quinn, American actor (Star Trek, The Birds, Rifleman, All in the Family), dies of natural causes at 81
• May 6 Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
• May 6 Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
• May 8 George Peppard, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max), dies at 65
• May 8 Rupert Haselden, journalist and screenwriter, dies at 36
• May 8 Steven Keats, American actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
• May 11 Timothy Carey, American actor (Paths of Glory, The Killing), dies of stroke at 65
• May 12 Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
• May 13 Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
• May 14 Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies
• May 15 Gilbert Roland [Luis Alonso], Mexican actor (Juarez, Barbarosa), dies from cancer at 88
• May 15 Royal Dano, American actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II), dies of a heart attack at 71
• May 16 Alain Cuny, French actor (La Dolce Vita, Detective, Weite Land, Emmanuelle), dies at 85
• May 16 Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
• May 16 Vasek Simek, Czech/American actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
• May 17 Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
• May 19 Henry Morgan, American comedian and TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena), dies of cancer at 74
• May 23 Ray Candy, American professional wrestler, dies from a heart attack at 42
• May 29 Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92
• May 31 Sidney Gilliat, English screenwriter (Night Train to Munich) and director, dies at 86
• Jun 1 Frances Heflin, American actress (All My Children, The Skin of Our Teeth), dies of lung cancer at 73
• Jun 4 Stephen McNally, American attorney and actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 82
• Jun 4 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41
• Jun 4 Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33
• Jun 6 Barry Sullivan, American actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man), dies at 81
• Jun 6 John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80

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