Events in Film & TV
Super Bowl
Feb 5 Flavor Flav and Elton John appear in a Pepsi Co. ad during Super Bowl XLVI
Academy Awards
Feb 26 84th Academy Awards: "The Artist" wins five Oscars and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927, Jean Dujardin & Meryl Streep also win
Weddings in Film & TV
- Feb 18 Activist and contributor for ABC News Elizabeth Smart (24) weds Matthew Gilmour (22) in Hawaii
Dick Van Dyke
Feb 29 Actor Dick Van Dyke (86) weds make-up artist Arlene Silver (40) in Malibu, California
Divorces in Film & TV
- Feb 9 Actress Parminder Nagra files for divorce from photographer James Stenson due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
Deaths in Film & TV
- Feb 1 Don Cornelius, American television host, commits suicide by gunshot at 75
- Feb 3 Ben Gazzara, American actor, dies from pancreatic cancer at 81
- Feb 3 Zalman King, American actor and director, dies from cancer at 69
- Feb 5 Sam Coppola, American actor (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 79
- Feb 6 Peter Breck, American actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji), dies at 82
- Feb 7 Phil Bruns, American actor and writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "George Shumway"), dies of natural causes at 80
Whitney Houston (1963-2012)
Feb 11 American singer ("I Will Always Love You"; "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"), actress (The Bodyguard), and film producer (The Princess Diaries), dies from an accidental bathtub drowning at 48
- Feb 12 David Kelly, Irish actor (Grandpa Joe-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Fawlty Towers), dies of pneumonia and lung cancer at 82
- Feb 12 Zina Bethune, American actress, dies from hit and run at 66
- Feb 15 Lina Romay, Spanish actress (Conan the Barbarian), dies at 57
- Feb 16 Elyse Knox, American actress and model (Hit the Ice, Black Gold), dies at 94
- Feb 21 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive, dies at 89
- Feb 23 Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), dies at 74
- Feb 25 Erland Josephson, Swedish actor, dramatist and author (The Sacrifice, Utflykt), dies of Parkinson's disease at 88
Davy Jones (1945-2012)
Feb 29 British singer and actor (The Monkees - "Daydream Believer"), dies from heart attack at 66
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