March 2009 in Film & Television History

Weddings in Film & TV

Mar 11 Actress and singer Mandy Moore (28) weds alt-country/rock singer-songwriter Ryan Adams (37) in Savannah, Georgia; divorce in 2016

Mar 19 Talk show host David Letterman (61) weds longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko (48) at a civil ceremony in Choteau, Montana

Mar 21 Star of Die Hard film Bruce Willis (52) weds model and actress Emma Heming (29) in Turks and Caicos Islands

Mar 22 "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (36) weds composer Mike Verta (36) at St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California

Mar 20 "Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith (37) divorces actress Harmoni Everett (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 6 years of marriage

Mar 3 Sydney Chaplin, American actor and son of Charlie Chaplin (Limelight, Adding Machine), dies at 82
Mar 4 Horton Foote, American playwright and screenwriter (screenplay - To Kill a Mocking Bird, Pulitzer for play The Young Man From Atlanta), dies at 92
Mar 4 Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
Mar 6 Francis Magalona, Filipino Pinoy hip-hop rapper, songwriter, and television personality (Eat Bulaga!, 1995-2009), dies of leukemia at 44
Mar 7 Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress, commits suicide at 29
Mar 8 Ali Bongo [William Oliver Wallace], British comedy musician and magician (President of The Magic Circle - Shriek of Araby), dies at 79
Mar 13 Betsy Blair [Elizabeth Boger], American actress (Marty, A Double Life), dies at 85
Mar 13 Test [Andrew Martin], Canadian professional wrestler (WWF/WWE), dies of an accidental overdose of the prescription pain medication oxycodone at 33
Mar 14 Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor, dies of cancer at 61
Mar 15 Ron Silver, American actor (Reversal of Fortune, Timecop), dies of cancer at 62
Mar 17 Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (b. 1937)

Mar 18 English actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale), dies of a traumatic brain injury at 45

Mar 22 Jade Goody, English reality TV Star and Entrepreneur, dies of cancer at 27
Mar 24 Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden), dies at 67
Mar 27 Irving R. Levine, American journalist (NBC News), dies at 86
Mar 29 Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b.1975)
Mar 29 Maurice Jarre, French Academy and Grammy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence Of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; Witness; Fatal Attraction), dies at 84