Events in Film & TV
Event of Interest
Dec 5 Former NFL star O.J. Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery

O.J. Simpson
Event of Interest
Dec 6 American pin-up model Bettie Page (85) is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack

Bettie Page
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
Dec 21 Talk show host Craig Ferguson (46) weds art dealer Megan Wallace Cunningham (26) in Chester, Vermont

Craig Ferguson
Wedding of Interest
Dec 28 "Cheers" actor Woody Harrelson (47) weds longtime girlfriend Laura Louie (43) in Maui Island

Woody Harrelson
- Dec 31 Former American Idol finalist Gina Glocksen (24) weds teacher Joe Ruzicka (32) at the Century Memorial Chapel at Naperville Settlement in Naperville, Illinois
Divorces in Film & TV
- Dec 1 "CSI" actress Marg Helgenberger (50) divorces actor Alan Rosenberg (58) due to irreconcilable differences after 19 years of marriage
Deaths in Film & TV
- Dec 1 Paul Benedict, American actor (Harry-Jeffersons), dies at 70
- Dec 5 Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, An American in Paris), dies from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome at 84
- Dec 5 Beverly Garland [Fessenden], American actress (My Three Sons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King), dies at 82
- Dec 7 Marky Cielo, Filipino and Igorot dancer and actor (b. 1988)
- Dec 8 Robert Prosky, Polish-American actor and comedian (Christine, Thief), dies at 77
- Dec 8 Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer, dies at 83
Bettie Page
Dec 11 Bettie Page, American pinup model considered the 'Queen of Pinups' and the 'Dark Angel', dies at 85

Bettie Page
- Dec 11 Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
- Dec 12 Van Johnson, American actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks, dies at 92
- Dec 13 Horst Tappert, German director, actor and former SS member (Derrick), dies of diabetes at 85
- Dec 13 Kathy Staff [Minnie Higginbottom], British actress (Mary Reilly, Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours), dies from a brain tumour at 80
- Dec 18 Jack Douglas, English actor (Carry On films), dies at 81
- Dec 18 Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (Star Trek), and the widow of Gene Roddenberry, dies at 76
- Dec 20 Dorothy Sarnoff, American operatic soprano, Broadway actress (Rosalinda), author and pioneer of the self-help movement (Speech Can Change Your Life, Speech Dynamics), dies at 94
- Dec 25 Eartha Kitt, American singer (Santa Baby), dancer, comedian, actress and activist (Catwoman-Batman), dies at 81
- Dec 26 Gösta Krantz, Swedish actor (b. 1925)
- Dec 30 Dick Green, Canadian actor