December 1995 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Music History

Dec 6 Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special

Dec 12 CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31

Film & TV History

Dec 13 Christopher Reeve released from physical rehab center after his fall from his horse in a riding competition

Birthdays in Film & TV

Dec 13 Emma Corrin, English actor (Princess Diana in The Crown), born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Dec 26 Zach Mills, American actor, born in Lakewood, Ohio

Timothée Chalamet (27 years old)

Dec 27 French-American actor (Call Me By Your Name; Dune; Bones and All), born in New York City

Dec 29 Ross Lynch, American singer-songwriter (R5, The Driver Era) and actor (Teen Beach Movie), born in Littleton, Colorado

Deaths in Film & TV

Dec 2 Roxie Roker, Bahamian-American actress (The Jeffersons- Helen Willis), dies of breast cancer at 66
Dec 3 Jimmy Jewel [James Jewel Marsh], British comedic actor (The Avengers, Thicker Than Water), dies at 82
Dec 5 Robert Parrish, American film director editor and actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79
Dec 6 Kathleen Harrison, English actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
Dec 8 George J. Lewis, Mexican actor (Don-Zorro), dies at 91
Dec 8 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, dies at 70
Dec 9 Benny Lee, Scottish singer and actor (Are You Being Served), dies at 79
Dec 9 Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56
Dec 9 Vivian Blaine, American actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy), dies of heart failure at 74
Dec 10 Darren Robinson [Human Beatbox], American rapper and actor (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), dies of a heart attack at 28
Dec 11 Arthur Mullard, English actor, comedian and singer (Romany Jones), dies at 82
Dec 11 John Heawood, Canadian actor, singer and choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), dies at 75
Dec 11 Robert Shelton [Shapiro], American born music and film critic, dies at 69
Dec 12 Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
Dec 15 Charles Fletcher, British pioneering physician and TV presenter (wrote the 1st report into the dangers of smoking), dies at 84
Dec 20 Madge Sinclair (née Walters), Jamaican-American actress (Conrack; Roots - "Bell"; Trapper John, M.D. - "Ernestine"; The Lion King), dies of leukemia at 55
Dec 22 (Thelma) "Butterfly" McQueen, American actress (Gone With the Wind; Flame of Barbary Coast), dies in a fire at 84
Dec 23 Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], British actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 84

Dean Martin (1917-1995)

Dec 25 American singer ("That's Amore"; "Everybody Loves Somebody"; "Sway"), comedian and actor (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), dies of throat cancer at 78

Dec 27 Jeremy John Beadle, British critic, writer and broadcaster, dies of AIDS at 39
Dec 27 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54