2002 in Film & Television

• Jan 11 7th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: A Beautiful Mind wins Best Film

• Jan 20 18th Sundance Film Festival: "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits", directed by Rebecca Miller, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• Feb 6 52nd Berlin International Film Festival: "Spirited Away" and "Bloody Sunday" win the Golden Bear (tie)

• Mar 3 33rd NAACP Image Awards: "Ali" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
• Mar 5 American reality TV program The Osbournes" featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV
• Mar 12 Animated film "Ice Age" directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, with voices by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo premieres
• Mar 23 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards: "Freddy Got Fingered" wins

• Apr 21 48th British Academy Television Awards: "The Sketch Show" Best Comedy, "Cold Feet" Best Drama

• May 26 55th Cannes Film Festival: "The Pianist" directed by Roman Polanski wins the Palme d'Or


• Jun 2 Crime drama "The Wire" created by David Simon and starring Idris Elba and Dominic West debuts on HBO

• Jun 14 "The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon is released in the US

• Aug 1 35th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
• Aug 27 59th Venice Film Festival: "The Magdalene Sisters" directed by Peter Mullan wins Golden Lion

• Sep 22 54th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Friends, Michael Chiklis and Allison Janney win
• Oct 27 The British ITV Network airs a regional service for the last time in England and Wales, LWT loses its identity completely
• Oct 30 British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.

• Nov 22 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest
• Dec 5 "The Two Towers" 2nd Lord of the Rings film directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in New York

• Apr 11 Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress (World Trade Center), born in NYC, New York
• Sep 8 Gaten Matarazzo, American actor (Stranger Things), born in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
• Sep 23 Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician (Stranger Things, IT), born in Vancouver, Canada

• Feb 17 Actress Joan Collins (68) weds theater company manager Percy Gibson at Claridge's Hotel in London

• Apr 13 "Law & Order" actor Benjamin Bratt (38) weds actress-model Talisa Soto (35) in San Francisco, California
• May 31 "NYPD Blue" actress Sharon Lawrence (30) weds doctor Thomas Apostle at Saint Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles

• Jun 15 "American Pie" actress Shannon Elizabeth (28) weds actor Joe Reitman (34) in Jalisco, Mexico

• Jun 21 "Tuck Everlasting" actor Jonathan Jackson (20) weds "General Hospital" actress Lisa Vultaggio (29)
• Jun 29 Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (43) weds Shelby Roos (29) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills

• Jul 5 "Smallville" actor Tom Welling (25) weds model Jamie White in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
• Jul 20 ABC's World News Tonight co-host Elizabeth Vargas (39) weds singer-songwriter Marc Cohn (43) at the Council on Foreign Relations

• Aug 10 "Baywatch" actress Angelica Bridges (28) weds Canadian hockey player Sheldon Souray (26) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Aug 24 Journalist Bryant Gumbel weds model Hilary Quinlan at Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida
• Aug 25 "Baywatch" actress Yasmine Bleeth (34) weds strip club owner Paul Cerrito at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California

• Sep 1 "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress Terry Farrell (38) weds actor Brian Baker (35) at Paris Las Vegas in in Paradise, Nevada

• Oct 5 "Angel" actress Charisma Carpenter (32) weds Damian Hardy

• Dec 31 Actress Rachel Griffiths (34) weds Australian artist Andrew Taylor (35) at Star of the Sea Chapel in Gardenvale, Australia

• Mar 1 "12 Angry Men" actor Edward James Olmos (55) divorces "Sopranos" actress Lorraine Bracco (47) after 8 years of marriage

Deaths 1 - 100 of 113

• Jan 1 Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
• Jan 2 Margaret "Bibi" Osterwald, American actress (As Good as It Gets, Bridget Loves Bernie), dies of lung disease at 83
• Jan 7 Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
• Jan 11 Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian playwright and film director (Mélodie en sous-sol), dies at 81
• Jan 12 Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
• Jan 13 Ted Demme, American film director, dies at 38
• Jan 13 Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (b. 1897)
• Jan 13 Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster), dies at 85
• Jan 16 Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
• Jan 17 Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
• Jan 20 Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer (b. 1963)
• Jan 22 Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter (Nevada Smith, Harris Against the World), dies at 77
• Jan 24 Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
• Jan 29 Harold Russell, Canadian actor (Best Years of Our Life, Dogtown), dies from a heart attack at 88
• Feb 1 Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Touch of Class, Mozambique), dies at 76
• Feb 1 Nellie "Irish" McCalla, American actress and artist (Sheena Queen of Jungle), dies at 73
• Feb 4 George Nader, American actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats), dies at 80
• Feb 11 Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)

• Feb 21 John Thaw, English actor (Inspector Morse), dies of cancer at 60
• Feb 21 Harold Pruett, American actor (Sybil, Embrace of the Vampire), dies of a drug overdose at 32
• Feb 26 Lawrence Tierney, American actor (Abduction, Dillinger, Reservoir Dogs), dies of pneumonia at 82

• Feb 28 Mary Stuart, American actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow), dies at 75
• Mar 4 Claire Davenport, English actress (The Elephant Man), dies at 68
• Mar 4 Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
• Mar 17 Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (Family Matters, The Brother from Another Planet), dies from diabetes at 90
• Mar 25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, British BBC football commentator, dies at 81
• Mar 27 Milton Berle, American actor and comedian, dies at 93

• Mar 29 Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor (b. 1975)
• Mar 31 Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
• Apr 2 Jack Kruschen, Canadian character actor (The Apartment, Busting Loose), dies at 80
• Apr 4 Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
• Apr 7 John Agar, American actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache), dies at 81
• Apr 8 María Félix, Mexican actress (Doña Bárbara), dies at 88
• Apr 16 Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
• Apr 18 Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
• Apr 25 Michael Bryant, British actor (Sakharov, Girly), dies at 74
• Apr 28 Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler, dies at 86
• Apr 29 Lor Tok [Sawong Supsamruay], Thai comedian and actor (Ngern, Ngern, Ngern), dies at 88
• May 2 John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
• May 5 George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
• May 10 Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
• May 12 Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
• May 13 Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (Mother and Son), dies at 76
• May 16 Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
• May 18 Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• May 25 Patricia "Pat" Coombs, British comedienne and actress (Carry On Again Doctor, Cranford), dies at 75
• Jun 5 Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
• Jun 26 Dolores Gray [Sylvia Dolores Finkelstein], American singer and actress (Designing Woman, Kismet), dies at 78
• Jun 29 Rosemary Clooney, American singer (Come On-a My House) and actress (White Christmas), dies of lung cancer at 74
• Jun 29 François Périer [Pillu], French actor (Gervaise, Fantasia, Les Mains Sales), dies at 82
• Jul 5 Katy Jurado, Mexican actress, 1st Latin actress to win a Golden Globe (High Noon, Broken Lance), dies at 78
• Jul 6 John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
• Jul 8 Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)

• Jul 23 Reginald "Leo" McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared), dies of health complications at 82
• Jul 24 Maurice Denham, British actor (Mr Love, Damn the Defiant), dies at 92
• Aug 3 Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress ('Allo 'Allo!), dies of lung cancer at 80
• Aug 5 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
• Aug 5 Chick Hearn, American NBA broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
• Aug 16 Jeff Corey [Arthur Zwerling], American actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men), dies at 88
• Aug 18 Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
• Aug 29 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82
• Aug 30 J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
• Aug 31 Lionel Hampton, American Jazz vibraphone player and actor, dies at 94
• Sep 5 John "Jackie" Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family, The Adventures of Superman), dies of a lung infection at 79
• Sep 7 Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
• Sep 11 Kim Hunter [Janet Cole], American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire, Planet of the Apes), dies at 79
• Sep 14 LaWanda Page [Alberta Peal], American actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons), dies of complications from diabetes at 81
• Sep 16 James Gregory, American actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller), dies at 90
• Sep 23 Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan pioneer radio broadcaster, died at 75
• Oct 3 Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
• Oct 4 André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• Oct 4 William "Buddy" Lester, American comedian and actor (Barney Miller, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 85
• Oct 8 Phyllis Calvert [Bickle], British actress (Crash of Silence, The Man in Grey), dies at 87
• Oct 9 Charles Guggenheim, American film director and producer (b. 1924)
• Oct 10 Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• Oct 11 Dina Pathak [Ghandi], Indian Gujarati theatre actress, director and activist (President-National Federation of Indian Women), dies of a heart attack at 80
• Oct 13 Keene Curtis, American character actor (The Rothschilds, Cheers, Amanda's), dies at 79
• Oct 13 Dennis Patrick, American actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals), dies in a house fire at 84
• Oct 18 Kam Fong [Chun], American actor (Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, P.I.), dies of lung cancer at 84
• Oct 20 Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
• Oct 20 Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
• Oct 24 Mary Jeanette "Peggy" Moran, American actress (Double Date, Horror Island), dies from injuries at 84

• Oct 28 Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
• Oct 29 Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
• Oct 30 Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• Oct 31 Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
• Nov 2 Tonio Selwart [Antonio Selmair-Selwart], German actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja), dies from natural causes at 106
• Nov 3 Jonathan Harris, American actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space), dies at 87
• Nov 4 Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (Yor, the Hunter from the Future), dies at 72
• Nov 5 Vinnette Carroll, American actress and 1st African-American woman to direct on Broadway (1972: Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope), dies of heart disease and diabetes at 80
• Nov 7 Margaret "Peg" Phillips, American actress (Northern Exposure, ER, Suddenly Susan), dies of lung disease at 84
• Nov 9 Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
• Nov 10 Michel Boisrond, French film director and screenwriter, dies at 81
• Nov 14 Eddie Bracken, American actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing), dies at 87

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