June 1995 in Film & Television

Events in Film & TV

  • Jun 3 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood

Theatrical Finale

Jun 4 "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden Theater, NYC, after 347 performances

  • Jun 9 Wigstock The Movie (1994) premieres in USA

Film Release

Jun 16 "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend starring Val Kilmer, Chris O'Donnell, Tommy Lee Jones and Nicole Kidman

Film & TV History

Jun 18 Memorial service for Elizabeth Montgomery is held at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills

  • Jun 27 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears

Birthdays in Film & TV

  • Jun 19 Blake Woodruff, American actor
  • Jun 23 Danna Paola [Rivera], Mexican telenovela, film, and stage actress, and singer (Wicked (en espaƱol)), born in Mexico City

Weddings in Film & TV

  • Jun 10 Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete (29) in Los Angeles

Deaths in Film & TV

  • Jun 2 Harper MacKay, American orchestra leader (NBC Follies), dies at 73
  • Jun 3 Dilys Powell, English film critic and travel writer (Descent from Parnassus), dies at 93
  • Jun 3 Estelle Brody, American silent film actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
  • Jun 7 Joseph Tomelty, Irish actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby-Dick, Melba), dies at 85
  • Jun 13 David Parry, British-Canadian folk musician (Friends of Fiddler's Green), storyteller (Canadian Museum of Civilization), actor, stage director, and teacher (University of Toronto), dies of a heart attack at 53
  • Jun 14 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69
  • Jun 15 Charles Bennett, English screenwriter, dies at 95
  • Jun 18 Arthur John Howard, British actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage), dies at 85
  • Jun 21 Kenneth Lamb, English broadcaster, dies at 71

Lana TurnerLana Turner (1921-1995)

Jun 29 American pin-up model and actress (Peyton Place; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Imitation of Life), dies of cancer at 74

  • Jun 29 Roy Rowland, American film director, dies at 84
  • Jun 30 Gale Gordon [Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr], American actor and comedian (Our Miss Brooks; Dennis The Menace; The Lucy Show; Here's Lucy), dies from lung cancer at 89