November 1997 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Nov 1 "Titanic" directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premieres at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Academy Awards Best Picture 1998)

Nov 2 Rodgers & Hammerstein's television musical "Cinderella", starring Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, and Bernadette Peters premieres on ABC-TV

Nov 3 British TV comedy "I'm Alan Partridge" starring Steve Coogan premieres on BBC Two

Nov 5 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages

Nov 7 "Bean" film directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean opens in the US

Nov 11 CBS News anchor Dan Rather renews his contract to 2002

Nov 12 Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
Nov 14 Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale
Nov 18 "Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture" album is released by Sony Music Soundtrax

Nov 20 Revival of Anton Chekov's stage drama "Ivanov", starring Kevin Kline, opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC; runs for 51 performances

Nov 13 Brent Kinsman, American actor
Nov 13 Shane Kinsman, American actor
Nov 21 Alton Mason, American model (1st black male to model for Chanel), born in Nebraska
Nov 26 Luka Sabbat, American model and stylist, born in New York

Nov 15 TV host and actor William Shatner (66) weds former Ford model Nerine Kidd (38) in Pasadena, California; widowed in 1999

Nov 22 "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (38) weds actress Abigail Cruttenden (29)

Nov 3 Wally Bruner, American broadcast journalist (ABC News), and TV host (What's My Line?, 1968-72), dies at 66
Nov 4 Richard Hooker [Heister Richard Hornberger], American army surgeon, and novelist (MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors - inspiration for film and TV series), dies of leukemia at 73
Nov 5 James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
Nov 10 William Alland, American actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
Nov 14 Stefan Lorant, Hungarian-American writer, photojournalist and filmmaker, dies at 96
Nov 16 George Petrie, American actor (Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Honeymooners), dies from a lymphoma on his 85th birthday
Nov 21 Robert Simpson, British classical composer, and broadcaster (BBC), dies at 76
Nov 22 Joanna Moore [Dorothy Cook] American actress (Bronk; The Hindenburg), dies of lung cancer at 63

Nov 22 Australian rock vocalist (INXS - "Devil Inside": "New Sensation"), and actor (Dogs in Space), commits suicide at 37

Nov 25 Charles Hallahan, American actor (Hunter), dies of a heart attack at 54
Nov 28 Georges Marchal, French actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way, La mort en ce jardin), dies at 77