August 2005 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Aug 31 62nd Venice Film Festival: "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion

Aug 6 Legendary Hollywood film producer Robert Evans (75) weds Lady Victoria White (42) at the One & Only Palmilla resort in Cabo San Lucas

Aug 18 Model and former Playboy Playmate Kylie Bax (30) weds photographer Spiros Poros in Delos, Greece
Aug 20 "24" actress Sarah Wynter (32) weds "Details" magazine editor-in-chief Dan Peres in Sydney, Australia

Aug 27 American actor Robert Downey Jr (40) weds American film producer Susan Levin (31) at the Windy Dune Estat in Amagansett, New York

Aug 7 Canadian-American news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies of lung cancer at 67

Aug 8 Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (Vertigo, Dallas, Caught), dies at 82
Aug 8 Ilse Werner [Ilse Charlotte Still], Dutch-German actress (Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow), dies at 84
Aug 9 Matthew McGrory, American actor (worlds's tallest actor at 7 ft 6 in), dies at 32
Aug 11 James Booth [David Geeves], British actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum), dies at 77
Aug 16 Joe Ranft, American screenwriter and animator (Toy Story, Cars), dies at 45
Aug 18 Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
Aug 18 Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
Aug 23 Brock Peters [George Fisher], American actor and singer (Carmen Jones; To Kill a Mockingbird), dies at 78
Aug 25 Terence Morgan, British actor (Sir Francis Drake, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb), dies of a heart attack at 83
Aug 26 Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
Aug 28 Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
Aug 31 Michael Sheard, Scottish actor (The Empire Strikes Back), dies at 67