Events in Film & TV
Video Music Awards
Sep 10 15th MTV Video Music Awards: Madonna & Will Smith win
Film Release
Sep 18 "Rush Hour" directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker released - Jackie Chan's Hollywood breakthrough
Toronto Film Festival
Sep 19 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: "Life Is Beautiful" directed by Roberto Benigni wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 21 TV comedy "Will & Grace" starring Eric McCormack and Debra Messing premieres in the US
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Sep 21 Brino quadruplets (Lorenzo, Myrinda, Nikolas, and Zachary), American actor/actresses (7th Heaven - "The Camden twins"), born in Woodland Hills, California (Lorenzo - d. 2020)
Weddings in Film & TV
Kim Cattrall
Sep 4 "Sex and The City" actress Kim Cattrall (42) weds audio designer Mark Levinson
Brendan Fraser
Sep 27 "The Mummy" actor Brendan Fraser (30) weds actress Afton Smith (32) at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 2007
Deaths in Film & TV
- Sep 5 Leo Penn, American actor and film director, dies at 77
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Sep 6 Japanese director and screenwriter who was posthumously named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category (Rashomon, Drunken Angel, Seven Samurai, Ran), dies of a stroke at 88
- Sep 10 Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
- Sep 11 Dane Clark, American actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason), dies at 86
- Sep 18 Leonid Kinskey, Russian actor (Casablanca, Duck Soup), dies at 95
- Sep 23 Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
- Sep 30 Marius Goring, British actor (Stairway to Heaven, The Red Shoes), dies from cancer at 86
