Events in Film & TV
Weddings in Film & TV
- Aug 10 "Baywatch" actress Angelica Bridges (28) weds Canadian hockey player Sheldon Souray (26) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Lisa Marie Presley & Nicolas Cage
Aug 10 Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) weds "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (34) at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii; divorce in 2004
Deaths in Film & TV
- Aug 3 Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress ('Allo 'Allo!), dies of lung cancer at 80
- Aug 5 Chick Hearn, American basketball broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
- Aug 5 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
- Aug 15 Kyle Rote, College Football HOF halfback (SMU; 4 × Pro Bowl; NY Giants) and broadcaster (WNEW, NBC, WNBC New York), dies at 74
- Aug 16 Jeff Corey [Arthur Zwerling], American actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men), dies at 88
- Aug 18 Dean Riesner, American film and television screenwriter (Bill and Coo), dies at 83
- Aug 22 Mark Bucci, American opera, theater, and film composer and lyricist (1959 Arts & Letters Award), dies at 78
- Aug 25 William Warfield, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor (Show Boat), dies from neck injuries suffered in a fall at 82
- Aug 29 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82
- Aug 29 Paul Tripp, American TV host (Mr I Magination), songwriter (Tubby the Tuba), and children's book writer (Rabbi Santa Claus), dies at 91
- Aug 30 J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
- Aug 31 Lionel Hampton, American Jazz vibraphone player, pianist, drummer, and actor, dies from congestive heart failure at 94
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