- 1692
Jan 19 | John Commelin director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
- 1814
Nov 27 | Philip Astley theatre manager, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1846
May 08 | Oscar Hammerstein I, Berlin, Germany, producer/playwright (Kohinoor), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 22 | Oscar Carr‚ Dutch circus director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1854
May 13 | Louis H Chrispijn Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1863
Jan 17 | Konstantin S Stanislavski Russia, director (Stanislavski Method), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1865
Jan 23 | Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1866
Jan 01 | [Lars] Peter Elfelt [Petersen] Denmark, director (Henrettelsen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1867
Jan 21 | Willem C Royaards Dutch theater director (Summer Games), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1870
May 07 | Marcus Loew, film executive, consolidated studios to create MGM, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1873
Jan 01 | Willis Robards Texas, actor/director (Mothers of Men, Every Woman's Problem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Adolph Zukor, the American entrepreneur who built the Paramount movie empire, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 15 | Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in New York & Los Angeles named after him), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 08 | Max Reinhardt Austria, theatrical director (Oedipus Rex), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 09 | Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage and screen director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1874
May 09 | Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1875
Jan 22 | D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance), is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1878
Mar 03 | Leopold Jessner, German Expressionist theatrical producer and director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1879
Jan 01 | William Fox, Tulchva Hungary, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1881
Aug 12 | Cecil B. DeMille, American film director, producer and screenwriter, famous for epic productions, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1882
Aug 27 | Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie producer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1883
Feb 01 | Jevgeni B Vachtangov Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Victor Fleming, director of the movie classics "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", is born in Pasadena CA. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 11 | Giovanni Pastrone, Italian motion-picture director and producer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1884
Jan 17 | Silent movie director Mack Sennett (Michael Sinnott) is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 16 | Robert Flaherty Michigan, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1885
Jul 04 | Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Erich von Stroheim, Austrian film director, writer and actor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1888
Jan 15 | Joseph Henabery Omaha NE, director (Cobra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Frank Lloyd Scotland, actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Dame Marie Rambert Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Jacques Feyder, French film director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 22 | Joseph Arthur Rank English film magnate/baron, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American film director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1889
Feb 03 | Carl Theodor Dreyer Danish movie director (Leaves from Satan's Body, Passion of Jeanne d'arc), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Abel Gance, film director (Napoleon), is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1890
Jan 16 | Karl Freund Czech/Austrian cameraman/director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Marcel L'Herbier French director/screenwriter (El Dorado), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 27 | Man Ray, American photographer, painter and filmmaker, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 05 | Fritz Lang Germany, director (M, Metropolis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1891
Jul 23 | Harry Cohn,American co-founder of Columbia Pictures, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1892
Jan 14 | Hal Roach early film director/producer (1 Million BC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Rex Ingram [Reginald IM Hitchcock], director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Ernst Lubitsch, American director, is born in Berlin, Germany. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 11 | Raoul Walsh New York NY, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Aug 02 | Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum) movie mogul: one of Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 13 | Brand Dirck Ochse filmer/co-founder (Polygoon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1893
Feb 21 | Vsevolod Pudovkin Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Cedric Gibbons, Irish-born American art director for M.G.M. studios, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 23 | Frank Borzage Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Guthrie McClintic Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | Earl Carroll, American theatrical producer and director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 16 | Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born English film director and producer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 17 | Erwin Piscator German stage director (Der Stellvertreter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1894
Jan 10 | Reginald Denham London England, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | King Vidor, American film director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 15 | Jean Renoir French director (La Béte Humane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Josef von Sternberg Austrian director (Der blaue Engel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Jean Renoir, French film director (Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game), is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1895
Feb 01 | John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney) Academy Award-winning director: The Informer [1935], The Grapes of Wrath [1940], How Green Was My Valley [1941], The Quiet Man [1952]; is born in Maine. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | King Vidor director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Bert I[ra] Gordon Kenosha WI, diector/producer (Empire of the Ants, Magic Sword, Amazing Colossal Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Charles Lamont San Fransisco CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Busby Berkeley (William Berkeley Enos) choreographer, director: Forty Second Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, Footlight Parade, Hollywood Hotel, Stage Struck, Gold Diggers in Paris, Babes in Arms, Strike Up the Band, Girl Crazy, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | David Butler San Francisco CA, director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1896
Jan 02 | Dziga Vertiv [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | William W Wellman Brookline MA, director (Star is Born), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Michael Balcon Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Howard Hawks Goshen IN, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Hal Wallis movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park), dies at age 87. | Ref: 17 |
- 1897
Feb 06 | Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Jean Epstein French director (Sa tête/Eau vive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Harold French director (Encore)/actor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Frank Capra, Palermo Sicily Italy, movie director (It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 08 | Rouben Mamoulian movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1898
Jan 10 | Sergei M Eisenstein Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | John Grierson documentary film maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Preston Sturges, screenwiter, film director and playwright, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 14 | Hal B. Wallis, film producer (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Nov 11 | Rene Clair director (I Married a Witch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1899
Jan 01 | Lev V Kuleshov Tambov Russia, director/theorist (Po Zakonu), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Irving Thalberg US producer (MGM) | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Irving Thalberg, American movie executive, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 07 | George Cukor, American producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, director of over 50 films including Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho and North by Northwest, is born in London, England. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 09 | Billy Rose (Rosenberg) producer, author, songwriter: Me and My Shadow, That Old Gang of Mine, It’s Only a Paper Moon, Without a Song, Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight, More than You Know, Barney Google; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Elliot Nugent director (And so They were Married), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Gustaf Gruendgens Duesseldorf Germany, actor/director (M), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Gaston Glass Paris France, film executive, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1900
Jan 03 | Dorothy Arnzer director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Luis Bruñel Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Jed Harris producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Joseph Green film maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Douglas Sirk director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Tyrone Guthrie, English theatrical director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 27 | Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born motion-picture director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 15 | Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (Devil at 4 O'Clock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Marc Alligret French director (Voyage ouch Congo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1901
Mar 06 | Mark Donskoy Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Nikolay P. Akimov, Russian scenic designer and producer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 07 | Vittorio De Sica, director: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief; actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 18 | Harold Clurman producer/director (Deadline at Dawn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Joseph Pasternak film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | William S Paley, founder & chairman of CBS, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg), director/instructs actors (Somewhere in the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1902
May 06 | Max Ophüls Saarland, director/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | David O (Oliver) Selznick, Pittsburgh PA, producer (Gone With the Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | William Wyler, film director (The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben Hur), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 05 | Darryl F Zanuck Hollywood producer & motion picture executive, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 24 | Cheryl Crawford producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1903
Feb 23 | Grigori V Aleksandrov Russian director (Veselye Rebjata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Sol C Siegel US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | John Ringling North circus director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Michael Kalatozov Russian producer (When the Cranes Fly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1904
Feb 10 | John Farrow Sydney Australia, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Emilio Fernandez El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Kermit Bloomgarden Tony Award-winning producer: The Diary of Anne Frank [1956]; Death of a Salesman, The Music Man, Equus; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | George Stevens US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Sergei Yutkevich St Petersburg Russia, director (Otello, Banya), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1905
Feb 27 | Charles de Keukeleire Belgian director (Evil Eye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Grigori Kozintsev Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Grigorij M Kosinzev Russian director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Pandro S Berman film producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Charles K Feldman [Gould] New York NY, producer (Casino Royale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Dore Schary producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Joseph Heifitz film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1906
Apr 11 | James A Bailey circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Roberto Rossellini Rome Italy, director (Open City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Billy Wilder movie director (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-born French art film director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 05 | John Huston Academy Award-winning director: Treasure of Sierra Madre [1948]; The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Prizzi’s Honor; father of Academy Award-winning actress Angelica Huston; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Luchino Visconti, film director (Obsession, Death in Venice), is born in Milan Italy. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 04 | Director Otto (Ludwig) Preminger is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Otto (Ludwig) Preminger director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 25 | Lord Lew Grade British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Sir Carol Reed motion picture director (3rd Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1907
Feb 20 | Owain Jenkins company director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Irene Mayer Selznick producer (Street Car Named Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Fred Zinnemann, American director, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 29 | Fred Zinnemann Vienna Austria, movie director (From Here to Eternity, Day of the Jackal, Julia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 25 | Robert Bresson France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Yves Allégret, French film director (Dédée d'Anvers, Une si jolie petite plage), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 10 | Michael Blankfort US, writer/producer/director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1908
Jan 17 | Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | George Pal Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Philip Dunne director: Wild in the Country, Ten North Frederick; playwright: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Ten North Frederick, Pinky, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Forever Amber, How Green was My Valley; founder of the Screen Writers Guild; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 15 | Sidney Gilliat producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler All the King's Men, Mambo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Frank Stanton Muskegon MI, broadcasting executive (CBS president 1946-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte British theater & hotel director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Helmut Käutner Düsseldorf Germany, director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Sir David Lean, Academy Award-winning director: Lawrence of Arabia [1962], The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957]; Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations; is born in Croydon England. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | David Lean British director (Lawrence of Arabia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Edward Dmytryk, American film director; one of the "Hollywood Ten", is born. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 05 | Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III) producer, director, writer: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | Jacques Tati Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime, My Uncle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Sylvester Pat Weaver President of NBC-TV, credited with the idea for Today and Tonight shows; father of actress Sigourney Weaver, is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
- 1909
Jan 14 | Joseph Walton Losey Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Joseph Mankiewicz Academy Award-winning playwright, director: A Letter to Three Wives [1949], All About Eve [1950]; The Honey Pot, Cleopatra, Guys and Dolls, The Barefoot Contessa, Julius Caesar, People Will Talk; playwright: The Keys of the Kingdom, I Live My Life, Forsaking All Others, Diplomaniacs; director: Sleuth, Suddenly Last Summer, Five Fingers, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; is born in Wilkes-Barre PA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 30 | Ernst Gombrich OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli New York NY, film producer (James Bond), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Jan Lewando British director (Marks & Spencer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Elia Kazan (Kazanjoglous), Canstaninople Turkey, director (Streetcar Named Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Jacques Tati (Tatischeff), French actor and director, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 15 | Don Large Canada, choral director (Wayne King), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1910
Jan 19 | Willi Schmidt Germany, director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Abram Hill director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Elmar Klos Czechoslovakian director (Adrift), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Michael Kanin Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Forsyth Hardy documentary film pioneer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Roger L. Stevens producer: West Side Story, Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons, Tea and Sympathy, Deathtrap, First Monday in October, Mary, Mary; founding chairman: National Council on the Arts, the Kennedy Center; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 23 | Akira Kurosawa film director: Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Ran, Rhapsody in August, The Idiot, The Bad Sleep Well; is born in Tokyo, Japan. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Irene Mayer Selznick producer (Street Car Named Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Tomoyuki Tanaka director (Godzilla), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Charles Crichton director (Battle of Sexes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 27 | Producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Fred De Cordova is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Abe (Abram Solman Borowitz) Burrows Tony Award-winning director and playwright: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [1962]; is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Roy Rowland film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1911
Jan 15 | Cy Feuer New York City NY, Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Ronald Neame director (1st Monday in October, Poseidon Adventure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Giles Grangier film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | David Merrick (Margulois) Broadway producer: Gypsy, Hello, Dolly!, Beckett, Oliver, Fanny, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off, 42nd Street, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Jules Dassin Middletown CT, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Phani Majumdar film maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1912
Mar 17 | Frederick Brisson producer: The Velvet Touch, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Generation, Mrs. Pollifax--Spy; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Georges Franju France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Roy Winsor Chicago IL, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Marcel Camus, French film director (Black Orpheus), is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 18 | Richard Brooks, Philadelphia PA, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Joseph Anthony [Deuster] US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | Jerry Wald NYC, producer (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 29 | Michelangelo Antonioni Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | David Merrick Broadway producer (Hello Dolly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Gordon Parks film director/writer (Learning Tree), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Carlo Ponti producer, director: Marriage, Italian Style | Ref: 4 |
- 1913
Feb 20 | Rex Tucker TV writer/director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) Academy Award-winning director: Gigi [1958]; An American in Paris, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Judy Garland’s husband; Liza Minnelli’s father; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 18 | Rene Clement Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Max Youngstein New York NY, producer (United Artists), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Gottfried Reinhardt theatre producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 29 | Stanley E Kramer producer/director (On the Beach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Carlo Ponti Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director (2 Women), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Rik Jacobs Flemish stage manager, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1914
Feb 20 | Marion Kettlewell British director (WRNS), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Martin Ritt director: Norma Rae, The Front, Sounder, Hud; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 07 | Morton DaCosta Philadelphia PA, director (Island of Love, Music Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Robert Wise Academy Award-winning director: The Sound of Music [1965], West Side Story [1961]; Two for the Seesaw, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Allen Funt Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Guus Verstraete Sr [August de Graef] Dutch actor/director (Black Magic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1915
Jan 14 | Mark Goodson TV game show producer: Pop the Question; Goodson-Todman Productions: What’s My Line, I’ve Got a Secret, Family Feud, The Price is Right; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Salah Abou Seif director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Sydney Pollack, film director (Tootsie, Out of Africa), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 20 | Kon Ichikawa Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1916
Jan 04 | Robert Parrish Columbus GA, director (Casino Royale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Masaki Kobayashi Japanese director (Joi-uchi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Robert Whitehead Tony Award-winning producer: Terrence McNally’s Master Class [1996]; Whitehead’s long producing career inspired the Robert Whitehead Award, established in 1993 by the Commercial Theater Institute (CTI) to honor “outstanding achievement in commercial producing” by a graduate of CTI [US’s only formal training program for commercial theatre producers], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 26 | Mort Abrahams producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Howard Koch producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Dugo D Schenker Suriname/Antillian producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Joseph Janni producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Bert Haanstra Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Irwin Allen disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Ivan Tors producer, director: Flipper, Zebra in the Kitchen, Namu, the Killer Whale, Gentle Ben, Salty; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 28 | David Brown NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | James Hill producer: Vera Cruz, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, The Unforgiven, The Happy Thieves; writer: His Majesty O'Keefe; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1917
May 15 | Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov USSR, director (Taganka), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Jean-Pierre Melville Paris France, director (Un Flic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1918
Mar 31 | Ted Post Brooklyn NY, director (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Gunsmoke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Anthony Craxton British TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 14 | Ingmar Bergman Academy Award-winning director: Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander | Ref: 4 |
Jul 31 | Bill (William) Todman game show producer: Goodson-Todman Productions: The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, I’ve Got a Secret, What’s My Line; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 09 | Robert Aldrich, American motion-picture director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 14 | James T. Aubrey Jr. movie/TV executive: president: MGM, CBS; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1919
Aug 01 | Oscar Hammerstein I, producer/playwright (Kohinoor), dies. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 08 | Dino DeLaurentis producer (King Kong), is born in Torre Annunziata, Italy. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 28 | Ernest Martin [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1920
Jan 20 | Federico Fellini Rimini Italy, director (8½, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Antony Kearey TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Martin Ritt director (The Front, Nuts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Lewis Gilbert London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Eric Rohmer Nancy France, director (Claire's Knee)/ actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Ross Hunter (Martin Fuss) producer: Son of Ali Baba, Magnificent Obsession, My Man Godfrey, Tammy and the Bachelor, Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace, Flower Drum Song, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Airport; actor: Louisiana Hayride, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Reform School Girl; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 30 | Franklin Schaffner Academy Award-winning director: Patton [1970]; The Boys from Brazil, Papillon, Planet of the Apes, The Stripper, Islands in the Stream, Lionheart; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 24 | Alexander H Cohen NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 25 | Sergey Bondarchuk Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | George (Louis) Schaefer director: The Man Upstairs, Children in the Crossfire, Deadly Game, Doctors’ Wives, The Tempest, Victoria Regina; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | David Susskind Emmy Award-winning producer: The Ages of Man [1966], Death of a Salesman [w/Daniel Melnick, 1967], executive producer: Eleanor and Franklin-ABC Theatre [1976], Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years-ABC Theatre [1977]; Kraft Television Theatre, Good Company; TV host: Open End, The David Susskind Show; is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
- 1921
Mar 01 | Jack Clayton Brighton East Sussex England, film director (Great Gatsby, Something Wicked This Way Comes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Ross Hunter Cleveland OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Satyajit Ray Academy Award-winning [life-time achievement award] director: Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Distant Thunder, The Adversary, Devi; is born in Calcutta India. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 03 | Francois-Arnold Reichenbach, documentary filmmaker, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 05 | Jack Valenti movie executive: president of Motion Picture Association of America, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Walter Mirisch Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960], is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1922
Jan 19 | Ken Hughes Liverpool England, director (Casino Royale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | William Desmond Taylor director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Pier Paolo Pasolini Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Barry Levinson Baltimore MD, director (Homicide@Life on the Street, Avalon, Rain Man, Diner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Maria Luisa Bemberg film maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Alain Resnais director: Last Year at Marienbad, Stavisky, Providence, On connaît la chanson, is born in France. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Arthur Penn Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Francesco Rosi Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Don Hewitt Emmy Award-winning producer: Coverage of Martin Luther King Assassination and Aftermath/CBS News Special Reports and Broadcasts [1969], The Selling of Colonel Herbert/60 Minutes [1973], 60 Minutes [1973], is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | George Roy Hill (director: Funny Farm, The World According to Garp, A Little Romance, Slap Shot, The Sting, Slaughterhouse Five, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, The World of Henry Orient, Toys in the Attic, Period of Adjustment, Min & Bill, Kraft Television Theatre), is born | Ref: 4 |
- 1923
Feb 05 | Stephen J Cannell TV producer/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Franco Zeffirelli Florence Italy, movie director (Romeo & Juliet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Larry Gelbart Emmy Award-winning producer: M*A*S*H [1973-74]; writer: Your Show of Shows, The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Eric Rohmer Nancy Francy, director (Claire's Knee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Mauritius H Binger director/producer (Living Ladder), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Lindsay Anderson, Bangalore India, director (Thursday's Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Aaron Spelling Dallas TX, TV executive producer (Charlie's Angels, Melrose Place, Dynasty, Love Boat, Starsky and Hutch, Mod Squad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Irvin Kershner Philadelphia PA, director (Never Say Never Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Horst Tapper German director/actor (Derrick), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Arthur Hiller director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Love Story, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, Silver Streak, Taking Care of Business, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Leonard Stern New York NY, producer/TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1924
Jan 18 | Donald Baverstock TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Tengiz Abuladze filmmaker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Lionel Dakers director (Royal School of Church Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Stanley Donen Columbia SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Daniel Melnick New York NY, producer, Get Smart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Jean J A Girault French director/screenwriter (l'Amour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Sidney Lumet Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Zelda Fichandler Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 15 | José Quintero director: Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 28 | Sam Peckinpah director: Broken Arrow [TV: 1956], Zane Grey Theater, The Rifleman, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, The Getaway [1972], Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Convoy; died Dec 28, 1984 | Ref: 4 |
- 1925
Jan 18 | Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | David Emms director (London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Per Bailey director (Gatwick & Stansted Airports), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Robert Altman Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, MASH), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Sam Peckinpah Fresno CA, film director (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Frank Henry Copplestone TV executive, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Michael Kaye director (City of London Festival), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Peter Brook director: Lord of the Flies, King Lear, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Duncan Wood TV director/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Robert P Cohan artistic director/choreographer (Contemporary Dance Trust), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Rik Kuijpers Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Executive producer Aaron Spelling is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 28 | Richard C Sarafian New York NY, director/actor (Foley Square), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Jos Jacobs Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 25 | Jerry Paris SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | John Dexter opera director: Mid-America Chorale, M Butterfly, Le Rossignol, The Abduction from the Seraglio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Jordan Klein Miami FL, cameraman/director (Thunderball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (Breathless), is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1926
Jan 11 | Grant Tinker Emmy Award-winning TV executive: Tenth Annual ATAS Governor’s Award [1987], President, NBC; producer: U.S.A. Today The Television Series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary; married to actress, Mary Tyler Moore, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 16 | John Schlesinger London England, film director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Bud Yorkin producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Andrzej Wajda Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Hildy Parks Emmy Award-winning producer: The 34th Annual Tony Awards [June 8, 1980], Night of 100 Stars [1982]; TV panelist: To Tell the Truth, Down You Go; actress: Studio One, is born in Washington DC. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 21 | Andre Delvaux Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Roger Corman, director: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, Little Shop of Horrors, The Fall of the House of Usher, Swamp Women, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Cicely Berry voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Lionel Jeffries director: Water Babies, Wombling Free, Amazing Mr. Blunden, The Railway Children; actor: Jekyll and Hyde, Prisoner of Zenda, Lola, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Those Fantastic Flying Fools, Oh Dad Poor Dad [Momma’s Hung You in the Closet & I’m Feeling So Sad], Camelot, Fanny, The Revenge of Frankestein, Bhowani Junction, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 21 | Norman Jewison director (Moonstruck, ...And Justice For All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1927
Jan 17 | Michael Herford Wooller TV/film producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Anthony Garner director (Conservative Central Office), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Frank Dunlop director (Edinburgh International Festival), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Andrzej Wajda Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Herbert Ross director: True Colors, My Blue Heaven, Steel Magnolias, Dancers, Footloose, Pennies from Heaven, California Suite, The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys, Funny Lady, The Owl and the Pussycat; actor, director: Play It Again, Sam, Goodbye, Mr. Chips; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Ken Russell England, director (Crimes of Passion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Marcus Loew, American film executive and movie theatre chain owner, dies at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 21 | Michael Carreras film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1928
Jan 11 | David L Wolper producer (Devil's Brigade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) director: Barbarella, Pretty Maids All in a Row, And God Created Woman; is born in France. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Harold Prince US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita, Phantom of Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Peter Roger Hunt London England, director (Dr No), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Alan J Pakula director (All the President's Men, Klute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Tony Richardson England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Tony Richardson, English stage and screen director, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 07 | James Ivory director: Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End, A Room with a View, The Bostonians, Roseland, Wild Party, The Householder, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Stanley Kubrick director: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Paths of Glory; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 30 | Ernest Flatt choreographer (Carol Burnett Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Tomas Gutierrez Alea filmmaker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1929
Jan 03 | Sergio Leone Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Aleksander Petrovic film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Rita Gillespie TV director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Willem Royaards theater director (Adam in Ballingschap), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Elio Petri Italy, director (Property is no theft), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Dennis Farr director (Courtauld Institute Galleries), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Chuck Barris producer: Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Three’s a Crowd; producer/host: The Gong Show; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Chuck Barris producer: Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Three’s a Crowd; producer/host: The Gong Show; songwriter: Palisades Park; novelist: You and Me, Babe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 24 | Peter Yates, British director, is born in Aldershot England. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 30 | Joan Ganz Cooney Phoenix AZ, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Alan Mouncer film director/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Jan Wiegel director/producer (Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1930
Feb 16 | Ricou Browning Florida, director/actor (Thunderball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | John Frankenheimer director: Days of Wine and Roses, Birdman of Alcatraz, The French Connection, The Manchurian Candidate, is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 23 | Imre Gyongyossy film Maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Stanley Wells director (Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Bo Gunnar Widerberg Malm” Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Claude Chabrol, French film director (The Cousins, Madame Bovary). | Ref: 2 |
Dec 03 | Jean-Luc Godard French film director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Peter Hall Suffolk England, director (Royal Shakespeare Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1931
Mar 07 | Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen director Social Businesses of Press, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Geoffrey de Bellaigue director (Royal Collection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 05 | Jacques Demy France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Lawrence K Grossman News president (NBC-TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Roone Arledge TV executive (ABC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Jan Torell Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 06 | Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky) Academy Award-winning director: The Graduate [1967]; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, The Day of the Dolphin; comedian: [w/Elaine May], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Bob Crewe producer: The Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder, The Bob Crewe Generation: Music to Watch Girls By, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Ellen Blazer Dutch TV director (Sonja), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Lionel Blair Montr‚al, choreographer (Spotlight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Evald Schorm Prague Czechoslovakia, director (Courage for Every Day), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1932
Jan 19 | Richard Lester movie director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Christopher Price Director (Leeds Metropolitan U), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Francois Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Feb 18 | Milos Forman Cáslav Czechoslovakia, director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Ragtime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Nagisa Oshima Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Andrei Tarkovski Russian director (Solaris, Stalker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Peter Moores director (Littlewoods), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Barney Simon theatre director/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | King Hu film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Florenz Ziegfeld producer Ziegfeld Follies: annual variety shows famous for the Ziegfeld Girls [1907-1930s]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Robert Benton TX, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 12 | Dusan Makavejev Belgrade Yugoslavia, director (Man is Not a Bird), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 30 | Louis Malle France, director (Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | George Schlatter TV producer (Laugh-in), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1933
Jan 07 | Elliot Kastner New York City, NY, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Jean-Marie Straub France, director (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | John Boorman producer/director (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Jörn Donner Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Costa-Gavras director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Roman Polanski, Polish film director best known for Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 18 | Roman Polanski, Paris France, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1934
Jan 17 | Donald Cammell film director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | David Hugh Jones Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ron Taylor Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Judith Jamison artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Robert Stigwood producer (Saturday Night Fever, Grease), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Claude Berri (Langmann), Paris France, director (Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Sydney Pollack director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 13 | Garry Marshall producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days, brother of actress Penny Marshall, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 23 | Michael Wayne producer: McLintock!, The Green Berets, Chisum, Big Jake, Cahill: United States Marshal, Brannigan; son of actor John Wayne, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Richard Darryl Zanuck film producer/executive, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1935
Apr 10 | Patrick Garland director (Doll House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Norma Rae Beatty Ashby broadcaster/TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Fernando Lopes Portugal, director (Encoberto, Matar Saudades), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1936
Jan 16 | Michael White theater/film producer (From Russia With Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Ronald William Eastman cinematographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Manmohan Desai filmmaker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Mark Burns British director (Juggernaut), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 12 | Jan Nemec Prague Czech, director (Diamonds of the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Irving Thalberg, 9/14/1936 American movie executive, dies at age 37. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 25 | Ismail Merchant Bombay India, producer (Householder), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1937
Jan 12 | Liliana Cavani Bologna Italy, director (Berlin Affair), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Ken Hill playwright/director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Richard Foreman NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 30 | Claude Lelouch Academy Award-winning director: A Man and a Woman [1966]; Bolero, Another Man, Another Chance, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager, dies at age 63. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 30 | Ridley Scott director: White Squall, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Thelma and Louise, Black Rain, Someone to Watch Over Me, Legend, Blade Runner, Alien, The Duelists; brother of director Tony Scott, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Rob Houwer Dutch director/producer/actor (OK, Professor Columbus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1938
May 05 | Jerzy Skolimowski Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Ralph Bakshi writer, director, animator: Hey Good Lookin’, Heavy Traffic, Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Streetfight; director, animator: The Lord of the Rings; writer, director: Fire and Ice; director: Cool World, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 28 | Michael Ritchie director: The Scout, Cops and Robbersons, Fletch, Semi-Tough, The Bad News Bears, The Candidate; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1939
Feb 14 | Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Michael Rudman English theater director/producer (Donkeys' Years), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Kenzo Takada Japanese director (Dream After Dream), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | David Mlinaric British interior director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Toni Cade Bambara director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Robert Courtneidge British theater producer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Francis Ford Coppola Academy Award-winning director: The Godfather: Part II [1974], screenwriter: Patton [1970], The Godfather [1973], The Godfather: Part II [1974]; The Godfather: Part III, Apocalypse Now, Finian’s Rainbow, Peggy Sue Got Married, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Peter Bogdanovich director/producer (The Last Picture Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Wes Craven author: A Nightmare on Elm Street; director: Vampire in Brooklyn, The People Under the Stairs, Shocker, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Swamp Thing, Summer of Fear, The Hills Have Eyes series, Last House on the Left, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 29 | William Friedkin Academy Award-winning director: The French Connection [1971]; The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1940
Jan 27 | Harry Kümel Flemish director (Monsieur Hawarden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Bernardo Bertolucci Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Lino Brocka San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Robby Mueller cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Pilar Miro director (Wether, Beltenebros), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Souleymane Cisse director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | James L Brooks producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Bernardo Bertolucci Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Adriaan J Enschedé director (Dutch printers Joh Enschedé), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Stanley Jaffe producer (Fatal Attraction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Bruce Beresford, Australian film director whose films include Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 11 | Brian (Russell) De Palma director: Carrie, The Untouchables, Bonfire of the Vanities, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Harry Kümel Flemish director (Monsieur Hawarden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Phil Spector `Tycoon of Teen': record company executive: originator of Wall of Sound; sang with The Teddy Bears; songwriter: To Know Him is to Love Him, Spanish Harlem, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 30 | James Burrows TV producer/director (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1941
Feb 05 | Stephen J Cannell producer (Rockford Files), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Michael Apted director/researcher (Granada TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Oskar Loerke German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | David Puttnam London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Sandy Wilson director (Harmony Cats, American Boyfriends), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Adrian Lyne director (Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Jacob's Ladder), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Bernardo Bertolucci Academy Award-winning director: The Last Emperor [1987]; Stealing Beauty, Little Buddha, Once Upon a Time in the West, Last Tango in Paris, The Grim Reaper, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Roman Balayan Nerke Azerbaijan, director (Filer, Biryuk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Hans W Geissendorfer Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Allan Carr Chicago IL, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | Jim McBride NYC, director/actor (Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Humberto Solas director/writer (Lucia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Daniel Schmid actor/director (Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1942
Jan 06 | Barbara Lynn Alexander producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Walter Hill director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Willy Bogner Jr Munich Germany, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Barry Diller founder (Fox-TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Claude Miller director (Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Joop van den Ende director (Alsmeer Studio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Peter Guber producer (Flashdance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Peter Greenaway director, writer: Prospero’s Books, The Belly of an Architect, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, A Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, The Draughtsman’s Contract, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 06 | Barry Levinson Academy Award-winning director: Rain Man [1988]; Disclosure, Bugsy, Good Morning, Vietnam, The Natural, Diner; director, writer: Toys, Avalon, Tin Men; writer: Best Friends, Inside Moves, And Justice for All, High Anxiety, Silent Movie; Emmy Award-winning writer: The Carol Burnett Show [1974, 1975]; Emmy Award-winning producer: Displaced Person, American Playhouse [1985]; Emmy Award-winning Director: Gone for Goode, Homicide-Life on the Street, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Douglas Trumbull director (Silent Running, Brainstorm), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Bill Bryden theatre director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Nickolas Ashford producer, songwriter: duo: Ashford & Simpson: Let’s Go Get Stoned, I’m Every Woman, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Ain’t Nothing like the Real Thing, You’re All I Need to Get By, Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 09 | David Steinberg Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Martin Scorsese director: Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn?t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear, Michael Jackson's "Bad" video, is born in Queens NY. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Mani Kaul director (Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1943
Jan 12 | Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen mime/director (Stinging Nettle King), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Mike Leigh dramatist/director (High Hopes, Secrets & Lies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | David Geffen Tony Award-winning producer: Cats [1983], M Butterfly [1988]; Miss Saigon, Beetlejuice, Risky Business; record executive: Geffen Records; partner in Dreamworks film production company with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 21 | Roberto Faenza director (Cop Killers, Corrupt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Andre Techine director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | David Cronenberg Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Paul Junger Witt Emmy Award-winning producer: Brian's Song [1972], The Golden Girls [1985-86, 1986-87], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Mike Newell director (Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace & Chuck), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Richard Eyre British director (National Theatre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | David Cronenberg director: Crash, M Butterfly, Dead Ringers, The Fly, Dead Zone, Fast Company, They Came from Within, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 16 | Jon Jost director (All the Vermeers in New York), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage and screen director, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 26 | Producer-director Bruce Paltrow is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 13 | Arturo Ripstein director (El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Steven Bochco Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Hill Street Blues [1980-1981, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84], L.A. Law [1986-1987, 1988-1989]; N.Y.P.D. Blue, Cop Rock, Capitol Critters, A Fade to Black; writer: Ironside; story editor: Columbo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Stephen Wallace director (For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1944
Feb 11 | Buddhadev Dasgupta director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | (Long Island) Jonathan Demme, Academy Award-winning director: Silence of the Lambs; Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Swimming to Cambodia, Swing Shift, Melvin and Howard, Last Embrace, Caged Heat; playwright: Fighting Mad, Caged Heat, Hot Box, Angels Hard as They Come, is born in Baldwin NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 28 | Colin Nutley director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Charles Burnett director (When it Rains, Glass Shield), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Niklaus Schilling Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Jim Abrahams Shorewood WI, director (Hot Shots, Top Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | George Lucas (George Walton Lucas Jr.) film producer, director: Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti, is born in Modesto CA. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 11 | Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show). | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Peter Weir director: Dead Poets Society, Witness, Green Card, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Television producer Marcy Carsey is born in Weymouth MA. | Ref: 68 |
- 1945
Jan 09 | Frank J Biondi Jr president (HBO), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Vadim Abdrashitov director (Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Andrew Bergman director/screenwriter (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Carlos Gimenez Argentina/Venezuela, founder (Theater festival of Caracas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 01 | Looney Tunes director Frank Tashlin left animation to work full time at Paramount doing live action movies. He wrote for the Marx Brothers and later directed the Dean Martin Jerry Lewis comedies. | Ref: 73 |
Oct 30 | Leopold Jessner, German Expressionist theatrical producer and director, dies at age 67. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 05 | J W "Corkey" Fornof New Orleans, stunt coordinator (Octopussy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Susi Hush TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Taylor Hackford Santa Barbara CA, director (Idolmaker, Officer & a Gentleman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1946
Jan 20 | David Lynch Missoula MT, actor/director (Blue Velvet, Dune, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Timothy Clifford director (National Galleries of Scotland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Hector Babenco director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | David Green English TV/video producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Michael Radford director (1984, White Mischief), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Haile Gerima director (Ashes & Embers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Bigas Luna director/writer (Anguish), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Bruce Weber director (Broken Noses), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Ronald Farrow radio producer/priest, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Franc Roddam director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | John Waters Baltimore MD, director (Hairspray), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (Marriage of Maria Braum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Russ Thacker Wash DC, producer (Golden Seal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Oliver Stone NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 26 | Ivan Reitman, Canadian director, is born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 27 | Ivan Reitman director: Ghostbusters series, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1947
Mar 22 | Priscilla Yates director (Royal Academy of Dancing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Bruce Gilbert producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Hsiao-hsien Hou director (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Ulrich Edel Neuenburg am Rhein West Germany, film director (The Little Vampire, Body of Evidence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | David Gee director (Friends of the Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Wilf Stevenson director (British Film Institute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Ann Hui director (Boat People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Alan Greisman Sally Field's husband/producer (Fletch, Surrender), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Director (of Airplane!, Naked Gun series, Ruthless People, Top Secret!, Police Squad!, Help Wanted!) David Zucker is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Jonathan Kaplan Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Ernst Lubitsch, German-born American director, dies in Los Angeles CA at age 55. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 02 | Michael Green English TV/video producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Stephen Spielberg, the movie director, is born in Cincinnati, OH | Ref: 68 |
- 1948
Jan 08 | Gillies Mackinnon director (Playboys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | John Carpenter, writer, director: Escape from L.A., Village of the Damned, Body Bags, Prince of Darkness, Starman, The Thing, Escape from New York, Elvis: The Movie, Halloween, is born in Carthage NY. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Nicholas Broomfield director/editor (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Bill Alexander theatre director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Producer/Director D.W. Griffith dies. | Ref: 24 |
May 14 | Robert Zemeckis director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | John Amiel director (Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Jacques Feyder, French film director, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 17 | Earl Carroll, American theatrical producer and director, dies at age 54. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 23 | American pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, whose directing credits included "The Birth of a Nation," dies in Los Angeles at age 73. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 09 | Marleen Gorris Dutch director (Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1949
Jan 06 | Victor Fleming, film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 12 | Wayne Wang director (Chan is Missing, Slamdance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Brandon Tartikoff TV executive: president of NBC at age 31; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 14 | Lawrence Kasdan Miami FL, director/writer (Accidental Tourist), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Victor Fleming director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Louis B. Mayer, the Mayer in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), became a millionaire once more. This deal had nothing to do with the movies, though. He sold his breeding farm of race horses for a million dollars. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 30 | Leslie Joan Corn theatre producer/director/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Stuart Marshall director (Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Joâo Botelho Lamego Portugal, director (Trafico, Hard Times), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Timothy Cordy British director (Town/Country Planning Association), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Trevor Horn rock producer (Buggles-Video Killed, Yes, Frankie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Russ Karel director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1950
Jan 18 | John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Lizzie Borden director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Neil Jordan director (Crying Game), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Jerry Zucker Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | John David Landis, US director, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Dec 18 | Gillian Armstrong Melbourne Australia, director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Jeffrey Katzenberg (movie producer: The Prince of Egypt, Chicken Run, Joseph: King of Dreams, Shrek), is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1951
Mar 23 | Lis Howell director of programs (GMTV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Robert Flaherty, American, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North), explorer, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
- 1952
May 07 | Amy Heckerling Bronx NY, director (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | William Fox Tulchva Hungary, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
May 14 | Robert Zemeckis Academy Award-winning director: Forrest Gump [1994]; Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone, Used Cars, I Wanna Hold Your Hand; script writer [w/Bob Gale]: 1941; executive producer: Tales from the Crypt, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 11 | Susan Seidelman director: Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devil, Making Mr. Right, Smithereens, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1953
Apr 01 | Barry Sonnenfeld director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Jean Epstein French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director: The Civil War [1990-91]; Baseball, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Frank Lloyd Wright, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Charles Lane director: Sidewalk Stories, True Identity | Ref: 4 |
Dec 28 | Robert Pittman TV executive/developer (MTV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1954
Jan 06 | Anthony Minghella director (English Patient), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Dziga Vertov [Kaufman], Russian director (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Piers Gardner director (British Institute of International & Comparative Law), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Michael W Butler created TODAY program, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Auguste Lumière French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Jane Campion, New Zealand film director (The Piano, A Portrait of a Lady). | Ref: 2 |
May 07 | Amy Heckerling director: Clueless, Look Who’s Talking series, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Johnny Dangerously, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Jeff Apple Miami FL, producer (In the Line of Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | James Cameron director: Titanic, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, True Lies 2, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 15 | Alex Cox director (Repo Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1955
Mar 10 | Juliusz Machulski Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Claus Strigel director (Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1956
Jan 23 | Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born English film director and producer, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 29 | Dolf de Vries Dutch musical/director/arranger (Josephine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1957
Mar 20 | Spike Lee Atlanta GA, director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Max Ophüls [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director (Caught, Exile), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Sir John Kerr, English embryologist and pioneer in naval camouflage, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
May 07 | Shauna McDonald Brown TV producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Erich von Stroheim, Austrian film director, writer and actor, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 29 | Louis B Mayer, Russian-born American movie executive, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
- 1958
Mar 29 | Fiona Reynolds director/Council for Protection of Rural England, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Tim Burton director: Planet of the Apes [2001], Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Chris Columbus director: Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone series, Only the Lonely, Heartbreak Hotel, Adventures in Babysitting, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1959
Jan 21 | Cecil B[lount] de Mille, American film director, producer and screenwriter, (10 Commandments), dies at age 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Peter Greene Brooklyn NY, producer (After Midnight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born motion-picture director, dies at age 58. | Ref: 2 |
Jun 27 | Giovanni Pastrone, Italian motion-picture director and producer, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 06 | Preston Sturges, American film director, screenwriter and playwright dies at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
- 1960
Apr 18 | Emory Johnson director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Barbara Broccoli film producer: GoldenEye, Crime of the Century, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough; daughter of James Bond film creator Albert R. Broccoli, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Cedric Gibbons, Irish-born American art director for M.G.M. studios, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 05 | Mack Sennett (Mikall Sinnott) silent movie director: Tillie’s Punctured Romance, Mack Sennett Comedies, Kid’s Auto Race, Mabel’s Married Life, Cannonball, Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts; dies. | Ref: 68 |
- 1961
Mar 14 | Gary Dell'Abate, Uniondale Long Island New York, producer (Howard Stern Show, Private Parts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Roy Del Ruth director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Robert Griffith producer of Pajama Game, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Reginald Hudlin director: The Great White Hype, Cosmic Stop, Boomerang; writer: Bebe’s Kids; writer, director: House Party; brother of producer, director Warrington Hudlin, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Moss Hart Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; playwright: You Can’t Take It with You, Gentleman’s Agreement, The Man Who Came to Dinner [w/George S. Kaufman], I Married An Angel; married to actress Kitty Carlisle; dies at age 57. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 29 | Moss Hart Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1962
Jan 05 | Joel Wyner actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Igor Aleinikov, film maker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Val Paul producer (F-Man), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American film director, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 19 | Frank Borzage academy award winning director, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
- 1963
Feb 23 | Reza Abdoh theatre director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Quentin Tarantino, Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Pulp Fiction [1994]; writer, director: From Dusk Till Dawn, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Rob Estes director, actor: Silk Stalkings, Melrose Place, Days of Our Lives, Aces: Iron Eagle III, Terror in the Mall, Outreach, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1964
Feb 08 | Tom Terriss English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
- 1965
Jan 06 | John Larkin director (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Jan Sverák Zatec Czechoslovakia, director (Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Adrian Schoevers Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | David O. (Oliver) Selznick producer: King Kong, A Star Is Born, The Prisoner of Zenda, Gone with the Wind, Duel in the Sun, The Third Man, A Farewell to Arms; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1966
Jan 17 | Vincent J Donehue director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Billy Rose (Rosenberg), US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 30 | Erwin Piscator German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
- 1967
Mar 17 | Frank Wisbar director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Anthony Mann US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
- 1968
Jan 06 | John Singleton Los Angeles CA, director/screenwriter (Boyz in the Hood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Ed Burns director/actor (Brothers McMullen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Anthony Asquith British director (Court Martial), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Carl T Dreyer Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Toby Halicki car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Charles K Feldman [Gould] producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Nikolay P. Akimov, Russian scenic designer and producer, dies at age 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Hugo Haas actor/director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66. | Ref: 5 |
- 1969
Dec 22 | Josef von Sternberg Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
- 1971
May 15 | Tyrone Guthrie, English theater director, dies at age 70. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 07 | Milton Rosmer director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
Mar 08 | Sue Sophia Dauser, American nurse; oversaw the Navy Nurse Corps in World War I, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
- 1973
May 11 | Grigory M Kosinzev Russian director, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney), director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man), dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 22 | Irna Phillips creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
- 1974
Jan 31 | Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 13 | Vittorio De Sica director: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief; actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples; dies at age 73. | Ref: 4 |
- 1975
Jan 23 | Karel Paul van der Mandele director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | George Stevens Academy Award-winning director: A Place in the Sun [1951], Giant [1956]; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 22 | Paul Verhoeven German director, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Rob Touber [Robert J Noordervliet) chansonnier/director, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
- 1976
Feb 18 | Joseph Henabery actor/director (Cobra), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Busby Berkeley (William Berkeley Enos) choreographer, director: Forty Second Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, Footlight Parade, Hollywood Hotel, Stage Struck, Gold Diggers in Paris, Babes in Arms, Strike Up the Band, Girl Crazy, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal; dies at age 80. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Luchino Visconti di Modrone It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Sir Carol Reed motion picture director (3rd Man), dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 10 | Adolph Zukor, the American entrepreneur who built the Paramount movie empire, dies. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 02 | Fritz Lang, Austrian-American motion picture director, dies. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 20 | Kermit Bloomgarden Tony Award-winning producer: The Diary of Anne Frank [1956]; Death of a Salesman, The Music Man, Equus; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Man Ray, American photographer, painter and filmmaker, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
- 1977
Jan 12 | Henri-Georges Clouzot director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Bryan Foy director/writer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Roberto Rossellini director: Seven Deadly Sins, The Messiah; dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Howard Hawks director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
- 1978
Feb 01 | Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 09 | Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum) movie mogul: one of Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 10 | Edward D Wood Jr director ("Plan 9 From Outer Space"), dies of heart failure at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1979
Feb 12 | Jean Renoir French writer/director (Human Beast), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Herb Polesie producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Darryl F. (Francis) Zanuck producer: The Jazz Singer, The Grapes of Wrath, Forever Amber, The Snake Pit; cofounder of 20th Century Studios; dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
- 1980
Apr 16 | Alf Sjöberg director (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Alfred Joseph Hitchcock British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Dore Schary, American producer, director, screenwriter and playwright, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 31 | Raoul Walsh US director (High Sierra), dies at about 88. | Ref: 5 |
- 1981
Mar 14 | René Clair French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82?. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Rene Clair, French film director, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 01 | Arthur Charles Nielsen, market researcher: founder of A.C. Nielsen Co., dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | William Wyler, American motion-picture director, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 10 | Abel Gance French movie director, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
- 1982
Jan 13 | Marcel Camus French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg) director; teacher of method acting at Actor’s Studio; dies of a heart attack at 80. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 10 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder film-maker, dies of drug overdose at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Henry King director, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Charles Walters director, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | King Vidor, American film director, dies at age 88 of a heart ailment. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 04 | Jacques Tati (Tatischeff) Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | TV game show producer Mark Goodson dies. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 29 | Sol C Siegel US film producer (High Society), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
- 1983
Jan 24 | George Cukor, American motion-picture director, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 04 | Reginald Denham director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Sydney Box academy award producer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Ivan Tors producer, director: Flipper, Zebra in the Kitchen, Namu, the Killer Whale, Gentle Ben, Salty; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Luis Bunuel, Spanish director and filmmaker, dies at age 83 of cirrhosis of the liver. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 30 | Howard Deitz MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 08 | Robert Agnew, director, died at 84 of kidney failure. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Robert Aldrich, American motion-picture director, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
- 1984
Jan 09 | Wolfgang Staudte German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Wolfgang Staudte German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Joseph Losey director, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Carl Foreman producer, dies of cancer at 69 | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Frederick Brisson producer: The Velvet Touch, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Generation, Mrs. Pollifax--Spy; dies at age 71 after a stroke. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Francois Truffaut director: Fahrenheit 451, The Bride Wore Black; dies at age 52 of brain cancer. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Norman Krasna writer/director, dies of a heart attack at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | George Waggner director/writer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Sam Peckinpah director: Broken Arrow [TV: 1956], Zane Grey Theater, The Rifleman, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, The Getaway [1972], Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Convoy; dies of cardiac arrest at age 59. | Ref: 4 |
- 1985
Apr 24 | Sergei Yutkevich Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Abe (Abram Solman Borowitz) Burrows Tony Award-winning director and playwright: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [1962]; died May 17, 1985 | Ref: 4 |
Aug 01 | Joseph Walker cameraman, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Gregory Scott director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American film producer, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
- 1986
Mar 31 | Jerry Paris director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Otto (Ludwig) Preminger director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; dies at age 79. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 25 | Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) Academy Award-winning director: Gigi [1958]; An American in Paris, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Judy Garland’s husband; Liza Minnelli’s father; dies. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 23 | Otto (Ludwig) Preminger director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Ron Kass record company president (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Andrei Tarkovski Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1987
Jan 14 | Douglas Sirk (Claus Detlef Sierck) director: Imitation of Life, A Time to Love & a Time to Die, Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, Magnificent Obsession, First Legion; dies at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 31 | Yves Allégret, French director ("Such a Lovely Tiny Beach"), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Joseph E. Levine movie producer: The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 28 | John Huston, the American motion-picture director, dies. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 13 | Mervyn LeRoy, American film director, Gypsy, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, The F.B.I. Story, Homecoming, Little Women, Madame Curie, A Majority of One, Quo Vadis, Rose Marie, Random Harvest, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Three on a Match, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 04 | Rouben Mamoulian director (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
- 1988
Jul 12 | Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III) producer, director, writer: dies at 79 of palsy. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | Edward Chodorov playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Hal Ashby academy-award winning director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies of cancer at 59. | Ref: 5 |
- 1989
Feb 12 | Mauritius Balfoort French/Flemish director, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Sergio Leone Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Jack Starrett director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, first Blood), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Franklin Schaffner Academy Award-winning director: Patton [1970]; The Boys from Brazil, Papillon, Planet of the Apes, The Stripper, Islands in the Stream, Lionheart; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 30 | Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner | Ref: 5 |
- 1990
Feb 19 | Michael Powell English director (Life & Death of Colonel Blimp), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | John Dexter, English stage director of opera and drama, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 18 | Robert D Webb director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Dr Karl Menninger, a dominant figure in American psychiatry, dies four days before his 97th birthday in Topeka KS. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 03 | Dr. David Acer, a Florida dentist, dies of AIDS after apparently infecting five people with the HIV virus. (XDG, p 4A, 9/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Oct 26 | William S. Paley Television Hall of Famer, broadcast executive: founder/owner of CBS; dies in New York at age 89. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Jacques Demy, director (Lola, Magic Donkey), playwright, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Martin Ritt director: Norma Rae, The Front, Sounder, Hud; dies at age 70 | Ref: 5 |
- 1991
Feb 12 | Edward A Blatt director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Artie Mitchell porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Richard Thorpe director (MGM), dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Sir David Lean Academy Award-winning director: Lawrence of Arabia [1962], The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957]; Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations; dies at age 83. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | Don[ald] Siegel US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Richard Thorpe director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Herman Niels Flemish radio director, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Lino Brocka director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 03 | Frank Capra Academy Award-winning director: It Happened One Night [1934], Mr. Deeds Goes to Town [1936], You Can’t Take It with You [1938]; It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Pocketful of Miracles; dies at age 94. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 13 | Joseph Pasternak movie producer, dies at 89 of cancer | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Theatrical producer Joseph Papp died in New York at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 02 | Irwin Allen producer, director: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Towering Inferno, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Tony Richardson (Academy Award-winning director: Tom Jones [1963]; A Taste of Honey, The Phantom of the Opera, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Entertainer, The Hotel New Hampshire) dies of AIDs at age 63. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Byron Q Griffith producer/actor, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
- 1992
Jan 01 | Mike Frankovich US producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Producer Hal Roach dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 22 | A J Antoon director (That Championship Season), dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Wim Ramaker Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jack McEdward assistant director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Richard Brooks, American director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), screenwriter, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Luigi De Laurentiis Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Satyajit Ray Academy Award-winning [life-time achievement award] director: Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Distant Thunder, The Adversary, Devi, dies at age 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Margareth Wallmann Austrian opera director, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Bruce Hopkins performer/director, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | John Myhers director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Philip Dunne director: Wild in the Country, Ten North Frederick; playwright: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Ten North Frederick, Pinky, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Forever Amber, How Green was My Valley; founder of the Screen Writers Guild; dies. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 18 | John Sturges director: Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed; dies. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 02 | Hal Roach producer: Hal Roach Studios; director: One Million B.C., Road Show, The Devil’s Brother; dies at age 100. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Gary Mascaro choreographer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Mark Goodson TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
- 1993
Jan 12 | Carles Mira Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Mia Meijer Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Joseph Anthony [Deuster] US director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | François Reichenbach French director (L'Amérique Insolite), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Joseph Mankiewicz, American Academy Award-winning playwright, director: A Letter to Three Wives [1949], All About Eve [1950]; The Honey Pot, Cleopatra, Guys and Dolls, The Barefoot Contessa, Julius Caesar, People Will Talk; playwright: The Keys of the Kingdom, I Live My Life, Forsaking All Others, Diplomaniacs; director: Sleuth, Suddenly Last Summer, Five Fingers, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; dies at age 83. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | Douglas Heyes director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Franz Schnyder Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | John Grossman Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | George E Wilburn film editor, dies of emphysema at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Leslie Norman English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Franco Brusati Italian director/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Ishiro Honda Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Cyril Collard French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Carlos Gimenez director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Alexander Mnouchkine French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Dieter Plage German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Henny Budie Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Cy Howard director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Richard Murphy director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Marvin Young producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Federico Fellini director, screenwriter: Oscar-winning Best foreign-language [Italian] films: La Strada [1956], The Nights of Cabiria [1957], 8 1/2 [1963], Amarcord [1974]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-born French art film director, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 22 | Alexander Mackendrick director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Alexander Mackendrick British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Arthur Dreifuss director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
- 1994
Jan 04 | Jim Booth New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Samuel Bronston Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Harold Schneider US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Ken Hall Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Derek Jarman English director (Last of England), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Manmohan Desai filmmaker, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Tengiz Abuladze filmmaker, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Igor Aleinikov Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Frank G Wells US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Marcel Ichac French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Harry la Fontaine Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Michael Carreras film Director, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Imre Gyöngyössy Hungarian director, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Phani Majumdar film director, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Andrew Brown film Producer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Forsyth Hardy documentary film pioneer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Carl Althoff German circus director, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Rita Gillespie TV Director, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Joseph Janni producer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Lindsay Anderson director: This Sporting Life, The Whales of August, Glory! Glory!, Britannia Hospital, If…, O Lucky Man!; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 03 | James T. Aubrey Jr. movie/TV executive: president: MGM, CBS; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Harry Horner Czechoslovakian/US set designer/director (Our Town), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Jan Wiegel director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Shauna McDonald Brown British TV producer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
- 1995
Jan 04 | D Elmina Davies filmmaker, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Onat Kutlar Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Ken Hill playwright/director, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Philip H Burton Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | George Abbot director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Phillip Borsos Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Siem Suurhoff TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Elfi Althoff-Jacobi Austrian circus director, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Jack Clayton British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Jaap van den Hurk TV-director (NCRV), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Carel Birnie ballet producer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Donald Baverstock television producer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Rene Allio film Director, dies at 70 | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | John Elliott Terry film financier, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Cy[ril Raker] Endfield film director (Universal Soldier), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Joseph Heifitz film director, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Maria Luisa Bemberg film maker, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Reza Abdoh theatre Director, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 23 | Louis Malle, French film director, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 05 | Robert Parrish film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Toni Cade Bambara filmmaker, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
- 1996
Jan 11 | Hubert Nicholson poet/novelist, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Donald Simpson film producer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Michael Herford Wooller TV/film producer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Ross Hunter (Martin Fuss) producer: Son of Ali Baba, Magnificent Obsession, My Man Godfrey, Tammy and the Bachelor, Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace, Flower Drum Song, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Airport; actor: Louisiana Hayride, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Reform School Girl; dies at age 75. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Krzysztof Kieslowski film director, dies of heart attack at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Lucio Fulci filem director, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Rene Clement film director, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Barbara McLean film Editor, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Donald Cammell film director, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Giles Grangier film director, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Ross Hunter (Martin Fuss) producer: Son of Ali Baba, Magnificent Obsession, My Man Godfrey, Tammy and the Bachelor, Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace, Flower Drum Song, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Airport; actor: Louisiana Hayride, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Reform School Girl; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 29 | Willaim Brown British TV executive, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
- 1997
Jan 11 | Duncan Wood television director/producer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | King Hu film director, dies at 64 | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Frank Launder director/scriptwriter, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Alexander Salkind producer (Superman), dies at 75 | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Fred Zinnemann, Academy Award-winning director: High Noon [1952], From Here to Eternity [1953], A Man for All Seasons [1966]; , dies of heart attack at 89. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 02 | Tomoyuki Tanaka producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86 | Ref: 5 |
Aug 27 | Brandon Tartikoff, Network TV programming head, dies of Hodgkins disease at age 31. | Ref: 24 |
Sep 10 | George (Louis) Schaefer director: The Man Upstairs, Children in the Crossfire, Deadly Game, Doctors’ Wives, The Tempest, Victoria Regina; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Alan Mouncer film director/producer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Dawn Steel film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Juzo Itami film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Dawn Steel producer/president (Columbia TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Juzo Itami Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | James Komack producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Giorgio Strehler theatre director, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
- 1998
Feb 02 | Roger L. Stevens producer: West Side Story, Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons, Tea and Sympathy, Deathtrap, First Monday in October, Mary, Mary; founding chairman: National Council on the Arts, the Kennedy Center; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz) Academy Award-winning director: West Side Story [1961]; dies at age 79. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Akira Kurosawa film director: Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Ran, Rhapsody in August, The Idiot, The Bad Sleep Well; dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 19 | (Long Island) Movie director Alan Paula dies in a car accident on Long Island NY at age 70. (XDG, p 4A, 11/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Dec 19 | Mel Fisher underwater film maker, dies from bladder cancer at 76 | Ref: 5 |
- 1999
Feb 26 | José Quintero director: Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 07 | Movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 01 | Edward Dmytryk, American film director; one of the "Hollywood Ten", dies at age 90. | Ref: 70 |
- 2000
Feb 11 | Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) director: Barbarella, Pretty Maids All in a Row, And God Created Woman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Sig Mickelson, the first president of CBS News, died in San Diego at age 86. | Ref: 6 |
Apr 25 | David Merrick (Margulois) Broadway producer: Gypsy, Hello, Dolly!, Beckett, Oliver, Fanny, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off, 42nd Street; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 2001
Jan 11 | James Hill producer: Vera Cruz, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, The Unforgiven, The Happy Thieves; writer: His Majesty O'Keefe; dies. | Ref: 38 |
Feb 19 | Movie producer-director Stanley Kramer died in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 16 | Michael Ritchie director: The Scout, Cops and Robbersons, Fletch, Semi-Tough, The Bad News Bears, The Candidate; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 15 | Fred De Cordova Emmy Award-winning producer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff died in Burbank, CA at age 83. (XDG, p 4A, 9/16/2002) | Ref: 83 |
Oct 09 | Herbert Ross director: True Colors, My Blue Heaven, Steel Magnolias, Dancers, Footloose, Pennies from Heaven, California Suite, The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys, Funny Lady, The Owl and the Pussycat; actor, director: Play It Again, Sam, Goodbye, Mr. Chips; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 2002
Mar 27 | Billy (Samuel) Wilder Academy Award-winning director: The Apartment [1960], The Lost Weekend [1945]; Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot, Sabrina, Irma La Douce, The Front Page, Buddy, Buddy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Movie mogul Lew Wasserman dies in Beverly Hills CA at age 89. (XDG, p 4A, 6/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Jul 06 | John Frankenheimer, director, dies in Los Angeles CA at age 72. (TWA, 2003) | Ref: 95 |
Nov 25 | Movie director Karel Reisz, who was part of Britain's gritty 1960's renaissance, dies in London England at age 76. (XDG, p 4A, 11/25/2003) | Ref: 83 |
- 2003
Jul 25 | John Schlesinger, director of "Midnight Cowboy", dies in Palm Springs CA. (WSG, p 1, 7/28/2003) |   |
Sep 28 | Director/writer Eliz Kazan ("On The Waterfront", "A Streetcar Named Desire"), criticized for naming names during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, dies at age 94 in his Manhattan home. (XDG, p 3A, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Nov 15 | Laurence Tisch, the Loews chief who took over CBS in 1986 dies in New York at age 80, of cancer. (WSJ, p A1, 11/17/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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