Musical Finale
Aug 6 Revival of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' musical comedy '"Damn Yankees", starring Jerry Lewis and Bebe Neuwirth, closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 519 performances
- Aug 15 Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
Film & TV History
Aug 23 Actor Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
Theatrical Finale
Aug 27 Tom Stoppard's comedic play "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 204 performances
- Aug 30 52nd Venice Film Festival: "Cyclo" directed by Anh Hung Tran wins Golden Lion
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Aug 6 Amy Forsyth, Canadian actress (The Gilded Age, CODA), born in Ontario
- Aug 9 Justice Smith, American actor (Pokémon Detective Pikachu), born in California
- Aug 18 Parker McKenna Posey, American actress (My Wife and Kids), born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 19 Big Zuu [Zuhair Hassan], English rapper and TV personality (Big Eats), born in London, England
- Aug 24 Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model, born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Aug 27 Jessie Mei Li, English actress (Shadow and Bone), born in Brighton, England
Weddings in Film & TV
Steve Carell
Aug 5 Comedian Steve Carell marries fellow comedian Nancy Walls
- Aug 8 "Veronica's Closet" actress Kathy Najimy (38) weds actor Dan Finnerty (25)
Deaths in Film & TV
- Aug 1 Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
- Aug 3 Ida Lupino, British-American actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) and director (The Hitch-Hiker), dies from a stoke while undergoing cancer treatment at 77
- Aug 8 David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73
- Aug 9 John Schofield, English BBC journalist, shot to death in Croatia at 29
- Aug 10 Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
- Aug 11 Kenneth Lo [Lo Hsiao Chien], Chinese-British food writer, restaurateur, and television personality dies at 81
- Aug 11 Phil Harris [Wonga Philip], American actor and singer (Anything Goes; Robin Hood), dies of heart failure at 91
- Aug 11 Wilbur Stark, American film screenwriter, director, and producer (Vmpire; Circus The Thing), dies at 83
- Aug 12 Frank Cvitanovich, Canadian filmmaker, dies at 68
- Aug 13 Per-Jakez Helias, French Breton writer (Le Cheval d'orgueil) and actor, dies at 81
- Aug 16 John Cameron Swayze, American newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg), dies at 89
- Aug 17 David Warrilow, English actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
- Aug 17 Howard Koch, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 92
- Aug 18 James Maxwell, American actor and director (The Portrait of a Lady, The Shadow of the Tower, The Evil of Frankenstein), dies at 66
- Aug 19 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
- Aug 20 Vladimír Škutina, Czechoslovakian writer and actor (Hvezda jede na jih), dies of cancer at 64
- Aug 21 Nanni Loy, Italian film director (The Four Days of Naples), dies at 69
- Aug 23 Leslie Graves, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2), dies of AIDS at 35
- Aug 24 Gary Crosby, American singer (with Bing -"Play a Simple Melody"), and actor (The Bill Dana Show -"Eddie"; Mardi Gras), dies of lung cancer at 62
- Aug 27 Dick Bentley, Australian comedian and actor (The Glums), dies at 88
- Aug 29 Frank Perry, American film director (Diary of Mad Housewife, David & Lisa), dies at 65
- Aug 30 Thomas Chalmers, British broadcaster, dies at 82
- Aug 31 David Farrar, English actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse, Watusi), dies at 87
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