On This Day in Film & TV for August 24

Events in Film & TV

Birthdays in Film & TV

1891 Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Kniertje in On hope), born in Halluin, France (d. 1960)
1896 Phil Baker, American comedian (Who's Whose), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1963)
1900 Preston Foster, American actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), born in Ocean City, New Jersey (d. 1970)
1904 Rodd Redwing, American actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), born in NYC, New York (d. 1971)
1905 Don Douglas, Scottish actor (The Black Castle), born in Kinleyside, Scotland (d. 1945)
1912 Durward Kirby, American TV announcer (Garry Moore Show), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2000)
1913 Dorothy Comingore [Linda Winters], American actress (Citizen Kane), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1971)
1915 Ronald Ibbs, Irish actor (No Hiding Place, The Saint), born in Hendon, Middlesex, England (d. 1990)
1916 Hal Smith, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show-Otis Campbell), born in Petoskey, Michigan (d. 1994)
1917 Dennis James, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
1919 Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler, born in Otumba de Gómez Farías, Mexico (d. 2004)
1923 Helena Carter [Helen Rickerts], American model and actress (Invaders from Mars), born in NYC, New York (d. 2000)
1934 Kenny Baker, English actor (R2D2-Star Wars), born in Solihull (d. 2016)
1938 Mason Williams, American musician, songwriter, author and photographer (Classical Gas, Smother Brothers Comedy Hour), born in Abilene, Texas
1944 Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler
1944 Peter Hutton, American filmmaker, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2016)
1945 Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1949 Joe Regalbuto, American actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown), born in Brooklyn, New York
1949 Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)

Stephen Fry

1957 Stephen Fry, English comedian, writer and actor (Blackadder, QI), born in London

1958 Steve Guttenberg, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit), born in Brooklyn, New York
1960 Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
1961 Jared Harris, English actor
1962 David Koechner, US actor, born in Tipton, Missouri
1964 Dana Gould, American comedian and writer

Marlee Matlin

1965 Marlee Matlin, American actress and the only deaf performer to win an Academy Award (Children of Lesser God), born in Morton Grove, Illinois

1968 Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler, born in Toyko
1971 Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor, born in Rome, Italy
1973 Barret Oliver, actor (Never Ending Story, Secret Garden)
1973 Dave Chappelle, American actor and comedian, born in Washington, D.C.
1973 Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor, born in Port Richmond, New York
1980 Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress (Punch), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1981 Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer and actor, born in Taipei, Taiwan
1981 Chad Michael Murray, American actor (One Tree Hill), born in Buffalo, New York
1981 Mercedes Scelba-Shorte, American model, born in New Jersey
1983 Christopher Parker, British actor (Eastenders), born in London
1984 Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor, born in Mississauga, Canada
1985 Destiny Davis, American model and Playboy Playmate, born in Glendora, California

Rupert Grint

1988 Rupert Grint, English actor (Harry Potter), born in Harlow, Essex, England

1995 Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model

Weddings in Film & TV

Wedding of Interest

1970 Actor Peter Sellers (44) weds model Miranda Quarry

Actor and Comedian Peter Sellers — Actor and Comedian
Peter Sellers

Wedding of Interest

1987 Actor Patrick Dempsey (21) weds manager Rocky Parker (47)

1996 Actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Journalist Bryant Gumbel weds model Hilary Quinlan at Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida

Divorces in Film & TV

2009 American actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces TV personality Brandi Glanville (35) due to irreconcilable differences

Deaths in Film & TV

1956 Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
1957 Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, British priest, broadcaster and author (Viaduct Murder), dies at 69
1967 Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1973 Billy Greene, American actor (Single Room Furnished, One Man's Family), dies at 76
1980 Yootha Joyce, British actress (Man About the House, George and Mildred), dies of liver failure at 53
1983 Jack Somack, American actor (Ball Four, The Frisco Kid, Stockard Channing Show), dies of a heart attack at 64
1987 Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
1988 Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49
1991 Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97
1995 Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61
1998 E G Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), dies of lung cancer at 88
1999 Mary Jane Croft, American actress (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks), dies of natural causes at 83
2001 Bettejane "Jane" Greer, American actress (Out of the Past, Prisoner of Zenda, Clown), dies at 76
2006 Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
2007 Aaron Russo, American political activist, movie producer and director (Trading Places, Wise Guys, The Rose), dies of cancer at 64
2010 Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
2013 Julie Harris, American actress (Bell Jar, I Am a Camera, East of Eden), heart failure at 87

Richard Attenborough

2014 Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), dies at 90

2017 Jay Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell], American actor and comedian (Cheers, Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 69

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