December 1994 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Film Premiere

Dec 2 "Cobb" a film about baseball player Ty Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones premieres

Music History

Dec 4 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for actor Kirk Douglas, singer Aretha Franklin, composer Morton Gould, theater producer-director Harold Prince, and singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in Washington D.C.

Folk Singer, Songwriter and Activist Pete Seeger

Radio History

Dec 7 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide

Dec 18 Stand-up comedy revue "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances
Dec 25 "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 performances

Film Premiere

Dec 28 "The Madness of King George" film based on the play by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren premieres in the US

Birthdays in Film & TV

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

Weddings in Film & TV

Richie Sambora

Dec 17 Actress Heather Locklear (33) weds Bon Jovi lead guitarist Richie Sambora (35) at The American Cathedral in Paris, France; divorce in 2007

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

Divorces in Film & TV

Richard Gere & Cindy Crawford

Dec 1 Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce they are separating

Deaths in Film & TV

Dec 6 Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69
Dec 6 Gian Maria Volontè, Italian actor (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
Dec 7 Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
Dec 13 Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60
Dec 17 Jan Wiegel, director and producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
Dec 18 Heinz Bernhard [Löwenstein], German-born British actor and director (Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 71
Dec 18 Lilia Skala, Austrian/American actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98
Dec 21 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37
Dec 23 Nora Dunfee, American actress (Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil), dies at 78
Dec 23 Sebastian Shaw, British actor, director, playwright and poet (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste), dies of natural causes at 89
Dec 24 Julie Haydon [Donella Donaldson], American actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84
Dec 24 Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (Final Justice, South Pacific, The Barefoot Contessa), dies of a neural virus at 78
Dec 26 Robert Emhardt, American actor (Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers), dies at 80
Dec 26 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61
Dec 29 Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68
Dec 31 Leo Fuchs, Polish-born Jewish American actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Avalon), dies at 83