Events in Film & TV
Film & TV History
Aug 2 NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
- Aug 4 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
- Aug 4 Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
- Aug 16 Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
Theatrical Finale
Aug 27 Neil Simon's comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 320 performances
Birthdays in Film & TV
Weddings in Film & TV
Deaths in Film & TV
- Aug 2 Bert Freed, American character actor (Shane, Invaders From Mars), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Aug 3 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
- Aug 5 Amy Sacks, American TV producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
- Aug 7 Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
- Aug 7 Robert Hutton [Winne], American actor (Torture Garden, Rocket), dies at 74
- Aug 11 Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
- Aug 11 Mark "Red" Mitchell, American actor (JFK; 8 Seconds; Want to Live), dies when his car is struck by a train at 33
Peter Cushing (1913-1994)
Aug 11 English actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81
- Aug 14 Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), dies at 83
- Aug 16 John Doucette, American actor (The Lone Ranger, Lock Up, Big Town), dies of cancer at 73
- Aug 20 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
- Aug 21 Danitra Vance, American comedienne (SNL, 1985), and actress (Jumpin' At The Boneyard), dies of breast cancer at 40
- Aug 26 Tariq Yunus, Indian actor (Bollywood; Ashanti; Deceivers), dies at 54
- Aug 29 Phillip Gilmore, American actor (Malcolm X), dies at 38
- Aug 30 Lindsay Anderson, British director (If ...), dies at 71
- Aug 30 Michael Gribble, American film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies of cancer at 42
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