September 1994 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

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 5 Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000

Sep 6 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"

Sep 11 46th Emmy Awards: Frasier, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer win

Sep 17 19th Toronto International Film Festival: "Priest" directed by Antonia Bird wins the People's Choice Award
Sep 17 Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995

Sep 18 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" premieres on PBS (Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series)

Sep 19 "ER" premieres on NBC, created by Michael Crichton, starring George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle

Sep 22 "Friends" TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman debuts on NBC, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer

Sep 23 "The Shawshank Redemption", directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released

Sep 28 "Ed Wood" film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp premieres

Sep 28 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS
Sep 29 Grammy Award-winning vocal group the Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Sep 17 "L.A. Law" actor Blair Underwood (30) weds freelance talent coordinator Desiree DaCosta (29)

Sep 1 Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
Sep 2 Roy Castle, English dancer, actor and tv presenter (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung cancer at 62
Sep 3 James T. Aubrey, American television executive (President of the CBS television network 1959-65), dies of a heart attack at 75
Sep 6 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69
Sep 7 Dennis Morgan [Stanley], American actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 85
Sep 7 Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney), dies at 71
Sep 7 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
Sep 9 Patrick O'Neal, American actor (Under Siege, The Stepford Wives, King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
Sep 10 Charles Drake [Ruppert], American actor (Harvey, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story), dies of a heart attack at 92

Sep 11 British-American actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85

Sep 11 Sara Southern, American actress and mother of Elizabeth Taylor, dies at 99
Sep 11 William Obanhein, American police officer and actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69
Sep 12 Tom Ewell [Sam Yewell Tompkins], American actor (Tom Ewell Show, The Seven Year Itch), dies at 85
Sep 15 Mark Stevens, American actor (Big Town, Martin Kane, Private Eye), dies of cancer at 77
Sep 16 Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
Sep 16 Jack Dodson, American actor (Howard Sprage- "The Andy Griffith Show"), dies at 63
Sep 17 Iris Adrian, American actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard), dies at 82
Sep 23 Madeleine Renaud, French actress and theater director (Plaisir), dies at 94
Sep 27 Gerald Bledsoe, American broadcaster (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of a heart attack at 51
Sep 27 Ruth Niehaus, German actress, dies at 69
Sep 28 Harry Saltzman, Canadian theater and film producer (Goldfinger), dies at 78
Sep 30 Lina Basquette, American actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87