September 1995 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Sep 4 Cult TV series "Xena: Warrior Princess" starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor debuts in the US

Sep 4 Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000

Sep 15 "Se7en" directed by David Fincher and starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey premieres in New York

Sep 16 20th Toronto International Film Festival: "Antonia's Line" directed by Marleen Gorris wins the People's Choice Award
Sep 16 Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996

Sep 24 TV adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth debuts on BBC One

Sep 28 Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "New York News" on CBS; cancelled after 8 episodes

Sep 29 Trial for former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson sent to the jury

Sep 20 Sammi Hanratty, American actress
Sep 22 Juliette Goglia, American actress (That's So raven), born in Los Angeles, California

Sep 2 Actor Charlie Sheen (30) weds model Donna Peele (25) in Malibu, California

Sep 9 American pop singer Chynna Phillips (27) weds American actor William Baldwin (32)
Sep 30 "Judging Amy" actress Amy Brenneman (31) weds TV and film director Brad Silberling (32)

Sep 21 Actor and host Wayne Brady (23) divorces Diana Lasso after almost 2 years of marriage

Sep 1 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun; Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
Sep 4 John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42
Sep 6 Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36
Sep 10 Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
Sep 10 Derek Meddings, British TV and film special effects technician (Supermarionation, James Bond), dies at 64
Sep 12 Jeremy Brett [Peter Huggins], English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 61
Sep 14 Eiji Okada, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), dies of heart failure at 75
Sep 16 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), dies at 67
Sep 17 Grady Sutton, American actor (The Bank Dick; The Pruitts of Southhampton), dies at 89
Sep 21 Irven Spence, American animator, dies at 86
Sep 21 Peter Shankland, filmmaker/writer, dies at 94
Sep 25 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy), dies at 102
Sep 28 Eddy Grove, American actor (Dragnet; The Silent Service; Medic), dies at 78
Sep 29 Susan Fleetwood, British actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies of cancer at 51
Sep 30 George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71