Directors & Producers Chronology

Births, deaths, defining moments of Directors, Producers, Movie & TV Executives

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1692
Jan 19John Commelin director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62.Ref: 5
1814
Nov 27Philip Astley theatre manager, dies.Ref: 5
1846
May 08Oscar Hammerstein I, Berlin, Germany, producer/playwright (Kohinoor), is born.Ref: 68
Dec 22Oscar Carr‚ Dutch circus director, is born.Ref: 5
1854
May 13Louis H Chrispijn Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra), is born.Ref: 5
1863
Jan 17Konstantin S Stanislavski Russia, director (Stanislavski Method), is born.Ref: 5
1865
Jan 23Benjamin 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 21Willem C Royaards Dutch theater director (Summer Games), is born.Ref: 5
1870
May 07Marcus Loew, film executive, consolidated studios to create MGM, is born.Ref: 2
1873
Jan 01Willis Robards Texas, actor/director (Mothers of Men, Every Woman's Problem), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 07Adolph Zukor, the American entrepreneur who built the Paramount movie empire, is born.Ref: 70
Mar 15Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in New York & Los Angeles named after him), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 08Max Reinhardt Austria, theatrical director (Oedipus Rex), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 09Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage and screen director, is born.Ref: 70
1874
May 09Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager, is born.Ref: 68
1875
Jan 22D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance), is born.Ref: 68
1878
Mar 03Leopold Jessner, German Expressionist theatrical producer and director, is born.Ref: 70
1879
Jan 01William Fox, Tulchva Hungary, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), is born.Ref: 5
1881
Aug 12Cecil B. DeMille, American film director, producer and screenwriter, famous for epic productions, is born.Ref: 68
1882
Aug 27Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie producer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is born.Ref: 68
1883
Feb 01Jevgeni B Vachtangov Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 23Victor Fleming, director of the movie classics "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", is born in Pasadena CA.Ref: 2
Sep 11Giovanni Pastrone, Italian motion-picture director and producer, is born.Ref: 70
1884
Jan 17Silent movie director Mack Sennett (Michael Sinnott) is born.Ref: 68
Feb 16Robert Flaherty Michigan, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North), is born.Ref: 5
1885
Jul 04Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 22Erich von Stroheim, Austrian film director, writer and actor, is born.Ref: 70
1888
Jan 15Joseph Henabery Omaha NE, director (Cobra), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 02Frank Lloyd Scotland, actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Dame Marie Rambert Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 21Jacques Feyder, French film director, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 22Joseph Arthur Rank English film magnate/baron, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 24Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American film director, is born.Ref: 70
1889
Feb 03Carl Theodor Dreyer Danish movie director (Leaves from Satan's Body, Passion of Jeanne d'arc), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 25Abel Gance, film director (Napoleon), is born.Ref: 2
1890
Jan 16Karl Freund Czech/Austrian cameraman/director, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Marcel L'Herbier French director/screenwriter (El Dorado), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 27Man Ray, American photographer, painter and filmmaker, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 05Fritz Lang Germany, director (M, Metropolis), is born.Ref: 5
1891
Jul 23Harry Cohn,American co-founder of Columbia Pictures, is born.Ref: 70
1892
Jan 14Hal Roach early film director/producer (1 Million BC), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 15Rex Ingram [Reginald IM Hitchcock], director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28Ernst Lubitsch, American director, is born in Berlin, Germany.Ref: 68
Mar 11Raoul Walsh New York NY, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), is born.Ref: 17
Aug 02Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum) movie mogul: one of Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers, is born.Ref: 68
Dec 13Brand Dirck Ochse filmer/co-founder (Polygoon), is born.Ref: 5
1893
Feb 21Vsevolod Pudovkin Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 23Cedric Gibbons, Irish-born American art director for M.G.M. studios, is born.Ref: 70
Apr 23Frank Borzage Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 06Guthrie McClintic Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 16Earl Carroll, American theatrical producer and director, is born.Ref: 70
Sep 16Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born English film director and producer, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 17Erwin Piscator German stage director (Der Stellvertreter), is born.Ref: 5
1894
Jan 10Reginald Denham London England, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 08King Vidor, American film director, is born.Ref: 70
May 15Jean Renoir French director (La Béte Humane), is born.Ref: 5
May 29Josef von Sternberg Austrian director (Der blaue Engel), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 15Jean Renoir, French film director (Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game), is born.Ref: 2
1895
Feb 01John 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 08King Vidor director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 08Bert I[ra] Gordon Kenosha WI, diector/producer (Empire of the Ants, Magic Sword, Amazing Colossal Man), is born.Ref: 5
May 03Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Charles Lamont San Fransisco CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 29Busby 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 17David Butler San Francisco CA, director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane), is born.Ref: 5
1896
Jan 02Dziga Vertiv [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 29William W Wellman Brookline MA, director (Star is Born), is born.Ref: 5
May 19Michael Balcon Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon, is born.Ref: 5
May 30Howard Hawks Goshen IN, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)Ref: 5
Oct 05Hal Wallis movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park), dies at age 87.Ref: 17
1897
Feb 06Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 26Jean Epstein French director (Sa tête/Eau vive), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Harold French director (Encore)/actor, is born.Ref: 5
May 18Frank Capra, Palermo Sicily Italy, movie director (It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace), is born.Ref: 68
Oct 08Rouben Mamoulian movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause), is born.Ref: 5
1898
Jan 10Sergei M Eisenstein Russian director (Alexandr Nevski)Ref: 5
Jan 23Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26John Grierson documentary film maker, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 29Preston Sturges, screenwiter, film director and playwright, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 14Hal B. Wallis, film producer (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca), is born.Ref: 17
Nov 11Rene Clair director (I Married a Witch), is born.Ref: 5
1899
Jan 01Lev V Kuleshov Tambov Russia, director/theorist (Po Zakonu), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Irving Thalberg US producer (MGM)Ref: 5
May 30Irving Thalberg, American movie executive, is born.Ref: 70
Jul 07George Cukor, American producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 13Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, director of over 50 films including Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho and North by Northwest, is born in London, England.Ref: 2
Sep 09Billy 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 20Elliot Nugent director (And so They were Married), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Gustaf Gruendgens Duesseldorf Germany, actor/director (M), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Gaston Glass Paris France, film executive, is born.Ref: 5
1900
Jan 03Dorothy Arnzer director, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 22Luis Bruñel Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 25Jed Harris producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Joseph Green film maker, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26Douglas Sirk director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Tyrone Guthrie, English theatrical director, is born.Ref: 70
Jul 27Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born motion-picture director, is born.Ref: 70
Oct 15Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (Devil at 4 O'Clock), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 23Marc Alligret French director (Voyage ouch Congo), is born.Ref: 5
1901
Mar 06Mark Donskoy Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 16Nikolay P. Akimov, Russian scenic designer and producer, is born.Ref: 70
Jul 07Vittorio 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 18Harold Clurman producer/director (Deadline at Dawn), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 19Joseph Pasternak film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 28William S Paley, founder & chairman of CBS, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 17Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg), director/instructs actors (Somewhere in the Night), is born.Ref: 5
1902
May 06Max Ophüls Saarland, director/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman), is born.Ref: 5
May 10David O (Oliver) Selznick, Pittsburgh PA, producer (Gone With the Wind), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 01William Wyler, film director (The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben Hur), is born.Ref: 2
Sep 05Darryl F Zanuck Hollywood producer & motion picture executive, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 24Cheryl Crawford producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), is born.Ref: 5
1903
Feb 23Grigori V Aleksandrov Russian director (Veselye Rebjata), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Sol C Siegel US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 14John Ringling North circus director, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 23Michael Kalatozov Russian producer (When the Cranes Fly), is born.Ref: 5
1904
Feb 10John Farrow Sydney Australia, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 26Emilio Fernandez El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Kermit Bloomgarden Tony Award-winning producer: The Diary of Anne Frank [1956]; Death of a Salesman, The Music Man, Equus; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 18George Stevens US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 28Sergei Yutkevich St Petersburg Russia, director (Otello, Banya), is born.Ref: 5
1905
Feb 27Charles de Keukeleire Belgian director (Evil Eye), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 09Grigori Kozintsev Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 22Grigorij M Kosinzev Russian director, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 28Pandro S Berman film producer, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26Charles K Feldman [Gould] New York NY, producer (Casino Royale), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 31Dore Schary producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 17Joseph Heifitz film director, is born.Ref: 5
1906
Apr 11James A Bailey circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58.Ref: 5
May 08Roberto Rossellini Rome Italy, director (Open City), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 22Billy Wilder movie director (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 03Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-born French art film director, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 05John 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 02Luchino Visconti, film director (Obsession, Death in Venice), is born in Milan Italy.Ref: 2
Dec 04Director Otto (Ludwig) Preminger is born.Ref: 4
Dec 05Otto (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 25Lord Lew Grade British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 30Sir Carol Reed motion picture director (3rd Man), is born.Ref: 5
1907
Feb 20Owain Jenkins company director, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 02Irene Mayer Selznick producer (Street Car Named Desire), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 25Fred Zinnemann, American director, is born.Ref: 68
Apr 29Fred Zinnemann Vienna Austria, movie director (From Here to Eternity, Day of the Jackal, Julia), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 25Robert Bresson France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 13Yves Allégret, French film director (Dédée d'Anvers, Une si jolie petite plage), is born.Ref: 2
Dec 10Michael Blankfort US, writer/producer/director, is born.Ref: 5
1908
Jan 17Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad producer, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 01George Pal Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 11Philip 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 15Sidney Gilliat producer, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler All the King's Men, Mambo), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 20Frank Stanton Muskegon MI, broadcasting executive (CBS president 1946-71), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte British theater & hotel director, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Helmut Käutner Düsseldorf Germany, director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Sir 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 25David Lean British director (Lawrence of Arabia), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 04Edward Dmytryk, American film director; one of the "Hollywood Ten", is born.Ref: 70
Oct 05Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III) producer, director, writer: is born.Ref: 4
Oct 09Jacques Tati Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime, My Uncle), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 21Sylvester 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 14Joseph Walton Losey Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 11Joseph 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 30Ernst Gombrich OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli New York NY, film producer (James Bond), is born.Ref: 5
May 31Jan Lewando British director (Marks & Spencer), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 07Elia Kazan (Kazanjoglous), Canstaninople Turkey, director (Streetcar Named Desire), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 09Jacques Tati (Tatischeff), French actor and director, is born.Ref: 2
Nov 15Don Large Canada, choral director (Wayne King), is born.Ref: 5
1910
Jan 19Willi Schmidt Germany, director, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 20Abram Hill director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Elmar Klos Czechoslovakian director (Adrift), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 01Michael Kanin Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 12Forsyth Hardy documentary film pioneer, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 12Roger 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 23Akira 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 02Irene Mayer Selznick producer (Street Car Named Desire), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26Tomoyuki Tanaka director (Godzilla), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 06Charles Crichton director (Battle of Sexes), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 27Producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Fred De Cordova is born.Ref: 4
Dec 18Abe (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 31Roy Rowland film director, is born.Ref: 5
1911
Jan 15Cy Feuer New York City NY, Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Ronald Neame director (1st Monday in October, Poseidon Adventure), is born.Ref: 5
May 05Giles Grangier film director, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 27David 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 18Jules Dassin Middletown CT, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 28Phani Majumdar film maker, is born.Ref: 5
1912
Mar 17Frederick Brisson producer: The Velvet Touch, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Generation, Mrs. Pollifax--Spy; is born.Ref: 4
Apr 12Georges Franju France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 13Roy Winsor Chicago IL, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21Marcel Camus, French film director (Black Orpheus), is born.Ref: 2
May 18Richard Brooks, Philadelphia PA, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood), is born.Ref: 5
May 24Joseph Anthony [Deuster] US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 16Jerry Wald NYC, producer (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 29Michelangelo Antonioni Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 27David Merrick Broadway producer (Hello Dolly), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 30Gordon Parks film director/writer (Learning Tree), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Carlo Ponti producer, director: Marriage, Italian StyleRef: 4
1913
Feb 20Rex Tucker TV writer/director, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 28Vincente 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 18Rene Clement Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 21Max Youngstein New York NY, producer (United Artists), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Gottfried Reinhardt theatre producer, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 29Stanley E Kramer producer/director (On the Beach), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Carlo Ponti Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director (2 Women), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Rik Jacobs Flemish stage manager, is born.Ref: 5
1914
Feb 20Marion Kettlewell British director (WRNS), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 02Martin Ritt director: Norma Rae, The Front, Sounder, Hud; is born.Ref: 4
Mar 07Morton DaCosta Philadelphia PA, director (Island of Love, Music Man), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 10Robert 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 16Allen Funt Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 24Guus Verstraete Sr [August de Graef] Dutch actor/director (Black Magic), is born.Ref: 5
1915
Jan 14Mark 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 10Salah Abou Seif director, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 01Sydney Pollack, film director (Tootsie, Out of Africa), is born.Ref: 2
Nov 20Kon Ichikawa Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks), is born.Ref: 5
1916
Jan 04Robert Parrish Columbus GA, director (Casino Royale), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 14Masaki Kobayashi Japanese director (Joi-uchi), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Robert 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 26Mort Abrahams producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Howard Koch producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 30Dugo D Schenker Suriname/Antillian producer, is born.Ref: 5
May 21Joseph Janni producer, is born.Ref: 5
May 31Bert Haanstra Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 12Irwin Allen disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 12Ivan Tors producer, director: Flipper, Zebra in the Kitchen, Namu, the Killer Whale, Gentle Ben, Salty; is born.Ref: 4
Jul 28David Brown NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 01James 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 15Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 30Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov USSR, director (Taganka), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 20Jean-Pierre Melville Paris France, director (Un Flic), is born.Ref: 5
1918
Mar 31Ted Post Brooklyn NY, director (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Gunsmoke), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Anthony Craxton British TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC, is born.Ref: 2
Jul 14Ingmar Bergman Academy Award-winning director: Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and AlexanderRef: 4
Jul 31Bill (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 09Robert Aldrich, American motion-picture director, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 14James T. Aubrey Jr. movie/TV executive: president: MGM, CBS; is born.Ref: 4
1919
Aug 01Oscar Hammerstein I, producer/playwright (Kohinoor), dies.Ref: 68
Aug 08Dino DeLaurentis producer (King Kong), is born in Torre Annunziata, Italy.Ref: 68
Aug 28Ernest Martin [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), is born.Ref: 5
1920
Jan 20Federico Fellini Rimini Italy, director (8½, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Antony Kearey TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Martin Ritt director (The Front, Nuts), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 06Lewis Gilbert London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 04Eric Rohmer Nancy France, director (Claire's Knee)/ actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval), is born.Ref: 5
May 06Ross 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 30Franklin 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 24Alexander H Cohen NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe), is born.Ref: 68
Sep 25Sergey Bondarchuk Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 16George (Louis) Schaefer director: The Man Upstairs, Children in the Crossfire, Deadly Game, Doctors’ Wives, The Tempest, Victoria Regina; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 19David 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 01Jack Clayton Brighton East Sussex England, film director (Great Gatsby, Something Wicked This Way Comes), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 06Ross Hunter Cleveland OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), is born.Ref: 5
May 02Satyajit 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 22Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park, is born.Ref: 2
Jul 03Francois-Arnold Reichenbach, documentary filmmaker, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 05Jack Valenti movie executive: president of Motion Picture Association of America, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 08Walter Mirisch Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960], is born.Ref: 4
1922
Jan 19Ken Hughes Liverpool England, director (Casino Royale), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 01William Desmond Taylor director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49.Ref: 5
Mar 05Pier Paolo Pasolini Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 06Barry Levinson Baltimore MD, director (Homicide@Life on the Street, Avalon, Rain Man, Diner), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 14Maria Luisa Bemberg film maker, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 03Alain Resnais director: Last Year at Marienbad, Stavisky, Providence, On connaît la chanson, is born in France.Ref: 4
Sep 27Arthur Penn Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 15Francesco Rosi Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Don 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 20George 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 bornRef: 4
1923
Feb 05Stephen J Cannell TV producer/writer, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 12Franco Zeffirelli Florence Italy, movie director (Romeo & Juliet), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 25Larry 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 04Eric Rohmer Nancy Francy, director (Claire's Knee), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Mauritius H Binger director/producer (Living Ladder), dies.Ref: 5
Apr 17Lindsay Anderson, Bangalore India, director (Thursday's Children), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 22Aaron Spelling Dallas TX, TV executive producer (Charlie's Angels, Melrose Place, Dynasty, Love Boat, Starsky and Hutch, Mod Squad), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Irvin Kershner Philadelphia PA, director (Never Say Never Again), is born.Ref: 5
May 26Horst Tapper German director/actor (Derrick), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 22Arthur 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 23Leonard Stern New York NY, producer/TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart), is born.Ref: 5
1924
Jan 18Donald Baverstock TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 31Tengiz Abuladze filmmaker, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 24Lionel Dakers director (Royal School of Church Music), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 13Stanley Donen Columbia SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21Daniel Melnick New York NY, producer, Get Smart), is born.Ref: 5
May 05Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child), is born.Ref: 5
May 09Jean J A Girault French director/screenwriter (l'Amour), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 25Sidney Lumet Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 18Zelda Fichandler Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 15José Quintero director: Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 28Sam 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, 1984Ref: 4
1925
Jan 18Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 16David Emms director (London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 16Per Bailey director (Gatwick & Stansted Airports), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Robert Altman Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, MASH), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 21Sam Peckinpah Fresno CA, film director (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Frank Henry Copplestone TV executive, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 27Michael Kaye director (City of London Festival), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 21Peter Brook director: Lord of the Flies, King Lear, is born.Ref: 4
Mar 24Duncan Wood TV director/producer, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 27Robert P Cohan artistic director/choreographer (Contemporary Dance Trust), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Rik Kuijpers Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 22Executive producer Aaron Spelling is born.Ref: 4
Apr 28Richard C Sarafian New York NY, director/actor (Foley Square), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Jos Jacobs Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 25Jerry Paris SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 02John Dexter opera director: Mid-America Chorale, M Butterfly, Le Rossignol, The Abduction from the Seraglio, is born.Ref: 4
Dec 01Jordan Klein Miami FL, cameraman/director (Thunderball), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 03Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (Breathless), is born.Ref: 2
1926
Jan 11Grant 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 16John Schlesinger London England, film director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 22Bud Yorkin producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 06Andrzej Wajda Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 12Hildy 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 21Andre Delvaux Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Roger 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 17Cicely Berry voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10Lionel 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 21Norman Jewison director (Moonstruck, ...And Justice For All), is born.Ref: 5
1927
Jan 17Michael Herford Wooller TV/film producer, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28Anthony Garner director (Conservative Central Office), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 15Frank Dunlop director (Edinburgh International Festival), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 06Andrzej Wajda Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna), is born.Ref: 5
May 13Herbert 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 03Ken Russell England, director (Crimes of Passion), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 05Marcus Loew, American film executive and movie theatre chain owner, dies at age 57.Ref: 70
Dec 21Michael Carreras film director, is born.Ref: 5
1928
Jan 11David L Wolper producer (Devil's Brigade), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) director: Barbarella, Pretty Maids All in a Row, And God Created Woman; is born in France.Ref: 5
Jan 30Harold Prince US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita, Phantom of Opera), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 11Peter Roger Hunt London England, director (Dr No), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 07Alan J Pakula director (All the President's Men, Klute), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 05Tony Richardson England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 06Tony Richardson, English stage and screen director, is born.Ref: 70
Jun 07James 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 26Stanley 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 30Ernest Flatt choreographer (Carol Burnett Show), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Tomas Gutierrez Alea filmmaker, is born.Ref: 5
1929
Jan 03Sergio Leone Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 14Aleksander Petrovic film director, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 22Rita Gillespie TV director, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 24Willem Royaards theater director (Adam in Ballingschap), dies.Ref: 5
Jan 29Elio Petri Italy, director (Property is no theft), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 03Dennis Farr director (Courtauld Institute Galleries), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 02Chuck Barris producer: Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Three’s a Crowd; producer/host: The Gong Show; is born.Ref: 4
Jun 03Chuck 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 24Peter Yates, British director, is born in Aldershot England.Ref: 68
Nov 30Joan Ganz Cooney Phoenix AZ, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 01Alan Mouncer film director/producer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Jan Wiegel director/producer (Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada), is born.Ref: 5
1930
Feb 16Ricou Browning Florida, director/actor (Thunderball), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 19John 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 23Imre Gyongyossy film Maker, is born.Ref: 5
May 21Stanley Wells director (Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 08Bo Gunnar Widerberg Malm” Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 24Claude Chabrol, French film director (The Cousins, Madame Bovary).Ref: 2
Dec 03Jean-Luc Godard French film director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Peter Hall Suffolk England, director (Royal Shakespeare Company), is born.Ref: 5
1931
Mar 07Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen director Social Businesses of Press, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 12Geoffrey de Bellaigue director (Royal Collection), is born.Ref: 5
May 14David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright, dies at age 77.Ref: 70
Jun 05Jacques Demy France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 21Lawrence K Grossman News president (NBC-TV), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 08Roone Arledge TV executive (ABC), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 23Jan Torell Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 06Mike 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 12Bob Crewe producer: The Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder, The Bob Crewe Generation: Music to Watch Girls By, is born.Ref: 4
Dec 03Ellen Blazer Dutch TV director (Sonja), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 12Lionel Blair Montr‚al, choreographer (Spotlight), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Evald Schorm Prague Czechoslovakia, director (Courage for Every Day), is born.Ref: 5
1932
Jan 19Richard Lester movie director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Christopher Price Director (Leeds Metropolitan U), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 06Francois Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player), is born.Ref: 2
Feb 18Milos Forman Cáslav Czechoslovakia, director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Ragtime), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 31Nagisa Oshima Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 04Andrei Tarkovski Russian director (Solaris, Stalker), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Peter Moores director (Littlewoods), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 13Barney Simon theatre director/writer, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29King Hu film director, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 22Florenz Ziegfeld producer Ziegfeld Follies: annual variety shows famous for the Ziegfeld Girls [1907-1930s]; dies.Ref: 4
Sep 29Robert Benton TX, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 12Dusan Makavejev Belgrade Yugoslavia, director (Man is Not a Bird), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 30Louis Malle France, director (Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31George Schlatter TV producer (Laugh-in), is born.Ref: 5
1933
Jan 07Elliot Kastner New York City, NY, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 08Jean-Marie Straub France, director (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 18John Boorman producer/director (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 05Jörn Donner Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 12Costa-Gavras director, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 18Roman Polanski, Polish film director best known for Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown.Ref: 2
Sep 18Roman Polanski, Paris France, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown), is born.Ref: 5
1934
Jan 17Donald Cammell film director, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 19David Hugh Jones Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 08Ron Taylor Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 10Judith Jamison artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 16Robert Stigwood producer (Saturday Night Fever, Grease), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 01Claude Berri (Langmann), Paris France, director (Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 01Sydney Pollack director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 13Garry Marshall producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days, brother of actress Penny Marshall, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 23Michael Wayne producer: McLintock!, The Green Berets, Chisum, Big Jake, Cahill: United States Marshal, Brannigan; son of actor John Wayne, is born.Ref: 4
Dec 13Richard Darryl Zanuck film producer/executive, is born.Ref: 5
1935
Apr 10Patrick Garland director (Doll House), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 27Norma Rae Beatty Ashby broadcaster/TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 28Fernando Lopes Portugal, director (Encoberto, Matar Saudades), is born.Ref: 5
1936
Jan 16Michael White theater/film producer (From Russia With Love), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 18Ronald William Eastman cinematographer, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Manmohan Desai filmmaker, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Mark Burns British director (Juggernaut), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 12Jan Nemec Prague Czech, director (Diamonds of the Night), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 14Irving Thalberg, 9/14/1936 American movie executive, dies at age 37.Ref: 70
Dec 25Ismail Merchant Bombay India, producer (Householder), is born.Ref: 5
1937
Jan 12Liliana Cavani Bologna Italy, director (Berlin Affair), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28Ken Hill playwright/director, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10Richard Foreman NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 30Claude Lelouch Academy Award-winning director: A Man and a Woman [1966]; Bolero, Another Man, Another Chance, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 25Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager, dies at age 63.Ref: 68
Nov 30Ridley 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 13Rob Houwer Dutch director/producer/actor (OK, Professor Columbus), is born.Ref: 5
1938
May 05Jerzy Skolimowski Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 29Ralph 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 28Michael Ritchie director: The Scout, Cops and Robbersons, Fletch, Semi-Tough, The Bad News Bears, The Candidate; is born.Ref: 4
1939
Feb 14Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind.Ref: 5
Feb 14Michael Rudman English theater director/producer (Donkeys' Years), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 27Kenzo Takada Japanese director (Dream After Dream), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 12David Mlinaric British interior director, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Toni Cade Bambara director, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 06Robert Courtneidge British theater producer, dies.Ref: 5
Apr 07Francis 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 30Peter Bogdanovich director/producer (The Last Picture Show), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 02Wes 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 29William 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 27Harry Kümel Flemish director (Monsieur Hawarden), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16Bernardo Bertolucci Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 03Lino Brocka San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 04Robby Mueller cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 20Pilar Miro director (Wether, Beltenebros), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21Souleymane Cisse director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara), is born.Ref: 5
May 09James L Brooks producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic), is born.Ref: 5
May 16Bernardo Bertolucci Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor), is born.Ref: 5
May 28Adriaan J Enschedé director (Dutch printers Joh Enschedé), dies at 50.Ref: 5
Jul 31Stanley Jaffe producer (Fatal Attraction), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 16Bruce Beresford, Australian film director whose films include Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 11Brian (Russell) De Palma director: Carrie, The Untouchables, Bonfire of the Vanities, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 27Harry Kümel Flemish director (Monsieur Hawarden), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 26Phil 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 30James Burrows TV producer/director (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers), is born.Ref: 5
1941
Feb 05Stephen J Cannell producer (Rockford Files), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 10Michael Apted director/researcher (Granada TV), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 24Oskar Loerke German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56.Ref: 5
Feb 25David Puttnam London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 27Sandy Wilson director (Harmony Cats, American Boyfriends), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 04Adrian Lyne director (Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Jacob's Ladder), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16Bernardo 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 05Roman Balayan Nerke Azerbaijan, director (Filer, Biryuk), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 06Hans W Geissendorfer Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof), is born.Ref: 5
May 27Allan Carr Chicago IL, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 16Jim McBride NYC, director/actor (Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 04Humberto Solas director/writer (Lucia), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 26Daniel Schmid actor/director (Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs), is born.Ref: 5
1942
Jan 06Barbara Lynn Alexander producer, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 10Walter Hill director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 23Willy Bogner Jr Munich Germany, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 02Barry Diller founder (Fox-TV), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Claude Miller director (Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Joop van den Ende director (Alsmeer Studio), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 01Peter Guber producer (Flashdance), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Peter 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 06Barry 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 08Douglas Trumbull director (Silent Running, Brainstorm), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 12Bill Bryden theatre director, is born.Ref: 5
May 04Nickolas 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 09David Steinberg Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 17Martin 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 25Mani Kaul director (Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha), is born.Ref: 5
1943
Jan 12Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen mime/director (Stinging Nettle King), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Mike Leigh dramatist/director (High Hopes, Secrets & Lies), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 21David 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 21Roberto Faenza director (Cop Killers, Corrupt), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 13Andre Techine director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 15David Cronenberg Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 20Paul Junger Witt Emmy Award-winning producer: Brian's Song [1972], The Golden Girls [1985-86, 1986-87], is born.Ref: 4
Mar 28Mike Newell director (Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace & Chuck), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 28Richard Eyre British director (National Theatre), is born.Ref: 5
May 15David Cronenberg director: Crash, M Butterfly, Dead Ringers, The Fly, Dead Zone, Fast Company, They Came from Within, is born.Ref: 4
May 16Jon Jost director (All the Vermeers in New York), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 31Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage and screen director, dies at age 70.Ref: 70
Nov 26Producer-director Bruce Paltrow is born.Ref: 68
Dec 13Arturo Ripstein director (El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 16Steven 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 23Stephen Wallace director (For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride), is born.Ref: 5
1944
Feb 11Buddhadev 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 28Colin Nutley director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 15Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 18Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor, dies at 79.Ref: 5
Apr 13Charles Burnett director (When it Rains, Glass Shield), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Niklaus Schilling Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold), is born.Ref: 5
May 10Jim Abrahams Shorewood WI, director (Hot Shots, Top Secret), is born.Ref: 5
May 14George Lucas (George Walton Lucas Jr.) film producer, director: Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti, is born in Modesto CA.Ref: 4
Jul 11Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show).Ref: 5
Aug 21Peter Weir director: Dead Poets Society, Witness, Green Card, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 21Television producer Marcy Carsey is born in Weymouth MA.Ref: 68
1945
Jan 09Frank J Biondi Jr president (HBO), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 19Vadim Abdrashitov director (Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Andrew Bergman director/screenwriter (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 13Carlos Gimenez Argentina/Venezuela, founder (Theater festival of Caracas), is born.Ref: 5
May 31Rainer Werner Fassbinder director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; is born.Ref: 4
Oct 01Looney 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 30Leopold Jessner, German Expressionist theatrical producer and director, dies at age 67.Ref: 2
Dec 05J W "Corkey" Fornof New Orleans, stunt coordinator (Octopussy), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 12Susi Hush TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Taylor Hackford Santa Barbara CA, director (Idolmaker, Officer & a Gentleman), is born.Ref: 5
1946
Jan 20David Lynch Missoula MT, actor/director (Blue Velvet, Dune, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Timothy Clifford director (National Galleries of Scotland), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 07Hector Babenco director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 13Rainer Werner Fassbinder German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 14David Green English TV/video producer, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 24Michael Radford director (1984, White Mischief), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 04Haile Gerima director (Ashes & Embers), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 19Bigas Luna director/writer (Anguish), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 29Bruce Weber director (Broken Noses), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 29Ronald Farrow radio producer/priest, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Franc Roddam director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29John Waters Baltimore MD, director (Hairspray), is born.Ref: 5
May 31Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (Marriage of Maria Braum), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 23Russ Thacker Wash DC, producer (Golden Seal), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 15Oliver Stone NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 26Ivan Reitman, Canadian director, is born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia.Ref: 68
Oct 27Ivan Reitman director: Ghostbusters series, is born.Ref: 4
1947
Mar 22Priscilla Yates director (Royal Academy of Dancing), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 28Bruce Gilbert producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 08Hsiao-hsien Hou director (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Ulrich Edel Neuenburg am Rhein West Germany, film director (The Little Vampire, Body of Evidence), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Linda Bloodworth-Thomason TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 18David Gee director (Friends of the Earth), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 19Wilf Stevenson director (British Film Institute), is born.Ref: 5
May 23Ann Hui director (Boat People), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 04Alan Greisman Sally Field's husband/producer (Fletch, Surrender), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 16Director (of Airplane!, Naked Gun series, Ruthless People, Top Secret!, Police Squad!, Help Wanted!) David Zucker is born.Ref: 4
Nov 25Jonathan Kaplan Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 30Ernst Lubitsch, German-born American director, dies in Los Angeles CA at age 55.Ref: 68
Dec 02Michael Green English TV/video producer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Stephen Spielberg, the movie director, is born in Cincinnati, OHRef: 68
1948
Jan 08Gillies Mackinnon director (Playboys), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 16John 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 30Nicholas Broomfield director/editor (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 23Bill Alexander theatre director, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 02Producer/Director D.W. Griffith dies.Ref: 24
May 14Robert Zemeckis director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future), is born.Ref: 5
May 20John Amiel director (Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow), is born.Ref: 5
May 25Jacques Feyder, French film director, dies at age 59.Ref: 70
Jun 17Earl Carroll, American theatrical producer and director, dies at age 54.Ref: 2
Jul 23American pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, whose directing credits included "The Birth of a Nation," dies in Los Angeles at age 73.Ref: 68
Dec 09Marleen Gorris Dutch director (Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island), is born.Ref: 5
1949
Jan 06Victor Fleming, film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, dies at age 65.Ref: 70
Jan 12Wayne Wang director (Chan is Missing, Slamdance), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 13Brandon Tartikoff TV executive: president of NBC at age 31; is born.Ref: 4
Jan 14Lawrence Kasdan Miami FL, director/writer (Accidental Tourist), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Victor Fleming director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65.Ref: 5
Feb 01Louis 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 30Leslie Joan Corn theatre producer/director/writer, is born.Ref: 5
May 07Stuart Marshall director (Desire), is born.Ref: 5
May 11Joâo Botelho Lamego Portugal, director (Trafico, Hard Times), is born.Ref: 5
May 17Timothy Cordy British director (Town/Country Planning Association), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 15Trevor Horn rock producer (Buggles-Video Killed, Yes, Frankie), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 04Russ Karel director, is born.Ref: 5
1950
Jan 18John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 03Lizzie Borden director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 18John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 25Neil Jordan director (Crying Game), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 11Jerry Zucker Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 03John David Landis, US director, is born.Ref: 17
Dec 18Gillian Armstrong Melbourne Australia, director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 21Jeffrey Katzenberg (movie producer: The Prince of Egypt, Chicken Run, Joseph: King of Dreams, Shrek), is born.Ref: 4
1951
Mar 23Lis Howell director of programs (GMTV), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 23Robert Flaherty, American, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North), explorer, dies at age 67.Ref: 70
1952
May 07Amy Heckerling Bronx NY, director (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless), is born.Ref: 5
May 08William Fox Tulchva Hungary, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at age 73.Ref: 70
May 14Robert 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 11Susan Seidelman director: Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devil, Making Mr. Right, Smithereens, is born.Ref: 4
1953
Apr 01Barry Sonnenfeld director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 02Jean Epstein French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56.Ref: 5
Jul 29Ken 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 26Charles Lane director: Sidewalk Stories, True IdentityRef: 4
Dec 28Robert Pittman TV executive/developer (MTV), is born.Ref: 5
1954
Jan 06Anthony Minghella director (English Patient), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 12Dziga Vertov [Kaufman], Russian director (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58.Ref: 5
Mar 26Piers Gardner director (British Institute of International & Comparative Law), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Michael W Butler created TODAY program, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 10Auguste Lumière French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81.Ref: 5
Apr 30Jane Campion, New Zealand film director (The Piano, A Portrait of a Lady).Ref: 2
May 07Amy 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 10Jeff Apple Miami FL, producer (In the Line of Fire), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 16James Cameron director: Titanic, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, True Lies 2, is born.Ref: 4
Dec 15Alex Cox director (Repo Man), is born.Ref: 5
1955
Mar 10Juliusz Machulski Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 25Claus Strigel director (Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God), is born.Ref: 5
1956
Jan 23Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born English film director and producer, dies at age 62.Ref: 70
Dec 29Dolf de Vries Dutch musical/director/arranger (Josephine), is born.Ref: 5
1957
Mar 20Spike Lee Atlanta GA, director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 26Max Ophüls [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director (Caught, Exile), dies.Ref: 5
Apr 21Sir John Kerr, English embryologist and pioneer in naval camouflage, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
May 07Shauna McDonald Brown TV producer, is born.Ref: 5
May 12Erich von Stroheim, Austrian film director, writer and actor, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
Oct 29Louis B Mayer, Russian-born American movie executive, dies at age 72.Ref: 70
1958
Mar 29Fiona Reynolds director/Council for Protection of Rural England, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 25Tim 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 10Chris Columbus director: Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone series, Only the Lonely, Heartbreak Hotel, Adventures in Babysitting, is born.Ref: 4
1959
Jan 21Cecil B[lount] de Mille, American film director, producer and screenwriter, (10 Commandments), dies at age 77.Ref: 5
May 20Peter Greene Brooklyn NY, producer (After Midnight), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 04Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born motion-picture director, dies at age 58.Ref: 2
Jun 27Giovanni Pastrone, Italian motion-picture director and producer, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
Aug 06Preston Sturges, American film director, screenwriter and playwright dies at age 60.Ref: 70
1960
Apr 18Emory Johnson director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66.Ref: 5
Jun 18Barbara 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 26Cedric Gibbons, Irish-born American art director for M.G.M. studios, dies at age 67.Ref: 70
Nov 05Mack 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 14Gary Dell'Abate, Uniondale Long Island New York, producer (Howard Stern Show, Private Parts), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 27Roy Del Ruth director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67.Ref: 5
Jun 07Robert Griffith producer of Pajama Game, dies.Ref: 5
Dec 15Reginald 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 20Moss 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 29Moss Hart Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; dies.Ref: 4
1962
Jan 05Joel Wyner actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 15Igor Aleinikov, film maker, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 23Val Paul producer (F-Man), dies at 73.Ref: 5
Apr 10Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American film director, dies at age 73.Ref: 70
Jun 19Frank Borzage academy award winning director, dies at 69.Ref: 5
1963
Feb 23Reza Abdoh theatre director, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 27Quentin 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 22Rob 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 08Tom Terriss English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91.Ref: 5
1965
Jan 06John Larkin director (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52.Ref: 5
Feb 06Jan Sverák Zatec Czechoslovakia, director (Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Adrian Schoevers Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies.Ref: 5
Jun 22David 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 17Vincent J Donehue director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50.Ref: 5
Feb 10Billy Rose (Rosenberg), US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66.Ref: 68
Mar 30Erwin Piscator German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72.Ref: 5
1967
Mar 17Frank Wisbar director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67.Ref: 5
Apr 29Anthony Mann US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60.Ref: 5
1968
Jan 06John Singleton Los Angeles CA, director/screenwriter (Boyz in the Hood), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 29Ed Burns director/actor (Brothers McMullen), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 21Anthony Asquith British director (Court Martial), dies at 65.Ref: 5
Mar 20Carl T Dreyer Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies.Ref: 5
Apr 21Toby Halicki car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt.Ref: 5
May 25Charles K Feldman [Gould] producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63.Ref: 5
Sep 06Nikolay P. Akimov, Russian scenic designer and producer, dies at age 67.Ref: 5
Dec 01Hugo Haas actor/director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66.Ref: 5
1969
Dec 22Josef von Sternberg Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75.Ref: 5
1971
May 15Tyrone Guthrie, English theater director, dies at age 70.Ref: 2
Dec 07Milton Rosmer director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90.Ref: 5
1972
Mar 08Sue Sophia Dauser, American nurse; oversaw the Navy Nurse Corps in World War I, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
1973
May 11Grigory M Kosinzev Russian director, dies.Ref: 5
Aug 31John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney), director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man), dies at age 78.Ref: 70
Dec 22Irna Phillips creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72.Ref: 5
1974
Jan 31Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91.Ref: 5
Nov 13Vittorio 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 23Karel Paul van der Mandele director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94.Ref: 5
Mar 08George Stevens Academy Award-winning director: A Place in the Sun [1951], Giant [1956]; dies at age 70.Ref: 4
Mar 22Paul Verhoeven German director, dies at 73.Ref: 5
Apr 18Rob Touber [Robert J Noordervliet) chansonnier/director, dies at 38.Ref: 5
1976
Feb 18Joseph Henabery actor/director (Cobra), dies at 88.Ref: 5
Mar 14Busby 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 17Luchino Visconti di Modrone It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69.Ref: 5
Apr 22Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation.Ref: 5
Apr 25Sir Carol Reed motion picture director (3rd Man), dies at age 69.Ref: 70
Jun 10Adolph Zukor, the American entrepreneur who built the Paramount movie empire, dies.Ref: 70
Aug 02Fritz Lang, Austrian-American motion picture director, dies.Ref: 70
Sep 20Kermit Bloomgarden Tony Award-winning producer: The Diary of Anne Frank [1956]; Death of a Salesman, The Music Man, Equus; dies.Ref: 4
Nov 18Man Ray, American photographer, painter and filmmaker, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
1977
Jan 12Henri-Georges Clouzot director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69.Ref: 5
Apr 20Bryan Foy director/writer, dies at 80.Ref: 5
Jun 03Roberto Rossellini director: Seven Deadly Sins, The Messiah; dies at age 71.Ref: 4
Dec 26Howard Hawks director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81.Ref: 5
1978
Feb 01Director 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 09Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum) movie mogul: one of Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers; dies.Ref: 4
Dec 10Edward D Wood Jr director ("Plan 9 From Outer Space"), dies of heart failure at 54.Ref: 5
1979
Feb 12Jean Renoir French writer/director (Human Beast), dies at 84.Ref: 5
Jun 08Herb Polesie producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79.Ref: 5
Dec 22Darryl 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 16Alf Sjöberg director (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76.Ref: 5
Apr 19Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure at 80.Ref: 5
Apr 29Alfred Joseph Hitchcock British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80.Ref: 5
Jul 07Dore Schary, American producer, director, screenwriter and playwright, dies at age 74.Ref: 70
Dec 31Raoul Walsh US director (High Sierra), dies at about 88.Ref: 5
1981
Mar 14René Clair French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82?.Ref: 5
Mar 15Rene Clair, French film director, dies at age 82.Ref: 70
Jun 01Arthur Charles Nielsen, market researcher: founder of A.C. Nielsen Co., dies.Ref: 4
Jul 27William Wyler, American motion-picture director, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
Nov 10Abel Gance French movie director, dies at 92.Ref: 5
1982
Jan 13Marcel Camus French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69.Ref: 5
Feb 17Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg) director; teacher of method acting at Actor’s Studio; dies of a heart attack at 80.Ref: 4
Jun 10Rainer Werner Fassbinder film-maker, dies of drug overdose at 36.Ref: 5
Jun 29Henry King director, dies at 86.Ref: 5
Aug 13Charles Walters director, dies at 68.Ref: 5
Nov 01King Vidor, American film director, dies at age 88 of a heart ailment.Ref: 70
Nov 04Jacques Tati (Tatischeff) Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958]; dies.Ref: 4
Dec 18TV game show producer Mark Goodson dies.Ref: 68
Dec 29Sol C Siegel US film producer (High Society), dies at 79.Ref: 5
1983
Jan 24George Cukor, American motion-picture director, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Feb 04Reginald Denham director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89.Ref: 5
May 25Sydney Box academy award producer, dies at 76.Ref: 5
Jun 04Ivan Tors producer, director: Flipper, Zebra in the Kitchen, Namu, the Killer Whale, Gentle Ben, Salty; dies.Ref: 4
Jul 29Luis Bunuel, Spanish director and filmmaker, dies at age 83 of cirrhosis of the liver.Ref: 70
Jul 30Howard Deitz MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease.Ref: 5
Nov 08Robert Agnew, director, died at 84 of kidney failure.Ref: 5
Dec 05Robert Aldrich, American motion-picture director, dies at age 65.Ref: 70
1984
Jan 09Wolfgang Staudte German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77.Ref: 5
Feb 09Wolfgang Staudte German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77.Ref: 5
Jun 22Joseph Losey director, dies at 75.Ref: 5
Jun 26Carl Foreman producer, dies of cancer at 69Ref: 5
Oct 08Frederick Brisson producer: The Velvet Touch, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Generation, Mrs. Pollifax--Spy; dies at age 71 after a stroke.Ref: 4
Oct 21Francois Truffaut director: Fahrenheit 451, The Bride Wore Black; dies at age 52 of brain cancer.Ref: 4
Nov 01Norman Krasna writer/director, dies of a heart attack at 74.Ref: 5
Dec 11George Waggner director/writer, dies at 90.Ref: 5
Dec 28Sam 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 24Sergei Yutkevich Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80.Ref: 5
May 17Abe (Abram Solman Borowitz) Burrows Tony Award-winning director and playwright: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [1962]; died May 17, 1985Ref: 4
Aug 01Joseph Walker cameraman, dies at 92.Ref: 5
Dec 24Gregory Scott director, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American film producer, dies at age 82.Ref: 70
1986
Mar 31Jerry Paris director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60.Ref: 5
Apr 23Otto (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 25Vincente 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 23Otto (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 17Ron Kass record company president (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer.Ref: 5
Dec 29Andrei Tarkovski Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54.Ref: 5
1987
Jan 14Douglas 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 31Yves Allégret, French director ("Such a Lovely Tiny Beach"), dies at 79.Ref: 5
Jul 31Joseph E. Levine movie producer: The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter; dies.Ref: 4
Aug 28John Huston, the American motion-picture director, dies.Ref: 70
Sep 13Mervyn 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 04Rouben Mamoulian director (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90.Ref: 5
1988
Jul 12Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III) producer, director, writer: dies at 79 of palsy.Ref: 4
Oct 09Edward Chodorov playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84.Ref: 5
Dec 27Hal Ashby academy-award winning director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies of cancer at 59.Ref: 5
1989
Feb 12Mauritius Balfoort French/Flemish director, dies at 83.Ref: 5
Apr 30Sergio Leone Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 60.Ref: 5
May 27Jack Starrett director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, first Blood), dies.Ref: 5
Jul 02Franklin 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 30Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle SeignerRef: 5
1990
Feb 19Michael Powell English director (Life & Death of Colonel Blimp), dies at 84.Ref: 5
Mar 23John Dexter, English stage director of opera and drama, dies at age 64.Ref: 70
Apr 18Robert D Webb director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87.Ref: 5
Jul 18Dr Karl Menninger, a dominant figure in American psychiatry, dies four days before his 97th birthday in Topeka KS.Ref: 68
Sep 03Dr. 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 26William S. Paley Television Hall of Famer, broadcast executive: founder/owner of CBS; dies in New York at age 89.Ref: 4
Oct 27Jacques Demy, director (Lola, Magic Donkey), playwright, dies.Ref: 4
Dec 08Martin Ritt director: Norma Rae, The Front, Sounder, Hud; dies at age 70Ref: 5
1991
Feb 12Edward A Blatt director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88.Ref: 5
Feb 27Artie Mitchell porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45.Ref: 5
Apr 01Richard Thorpe director (MGM), dies at 95.Ref: 5
Apr 16Sir 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 20Don[ald] Siegel US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78.Ref: 5
May 01Richard Thorpe director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies.Ref: 5
May 14Herman Niels Flemish radio director, dies.Ref: 5
May 22Lino Brocka director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51.Ref: 5
Sep 03Frank 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 13Joseph Pasternak movie producer, dies at 89 of cancerRef: 5
Oct 31Theatrical producer Joseph Papp died in New York at age 70.Ref: 70
Nov 02Irwin Allen producer, director: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Towering Inferno, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure; dies.Ref: 4
Nov 14Tony 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 23Byron Q Griffith producer/actor, dies at 73.Ref: 5
1992
Jan 01Mike Frankovich US producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies.Ref: 5
Jan 14Producer Hal Roach dies.Ref: 4
Jan 22A J Antoon director (That Championship Season), dies at 47.Ref: 5
Feb 10Wim Ramaker Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies.Ref: 5
Feb 22Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox.Ref: 5
Mar 09Jack McEdward assistant director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94.Ref: 5
Mar 11Richard Brooks, American director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), screenwriter, dies at 79.Ref: 5
Mar 30Luigi De Laurentiis Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies.Ref: 5
Apr 23Satyajit 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 02Margareth Wallmann Austrian opera director, dies at 88.Ref: 5
May 15Bruce Hopkins performer/director, dies at 44.Ref: 5
May 27John Myhers director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70.Ref: 5
Jun 02Philip 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 18John 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 02Hal Roach producer: Hal Roach Studios; director: One Million B.C., Road Show, The Devil’s Brother; dies at age 100.Ref: 4
Dec 02Gary Mascaro choreographer, dies at 43.Ref: 5
Dec 18Mark Goodson TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77.Ref: 5
1993
Jan 12Carles Mira Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45.Ref: 5
Jan 18Mia Meijer Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies.Ref: 5
Jan 20Joseph Anthony [Deuster] US director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80.Ref: 5
Feb 02François Reichenbach French director (L'Amérique Insolite), dies at 70.Ref: 5
Feb 05Joseph 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 08Douglas Heyes director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73.Ref: 5
Feb 08Franz Schnyder Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82.Ref: 5
Feb 10John Grossman Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies.Ref: 5
Feb 17George E Wilburn film editor, dies of emphysema at 77.Ref: 5
Feb 18Leslie Norman English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82.Ref: 5
Feb 28Franco Brusati Italian director/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70.Ref: 5
Feb 28Ishiro Honda Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81.Ref: 5
Mar 06Cyril Collard French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35.Ref: 5
Mar 27Carlos Gimenez director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47.Ref: 5
Apr 03Alexander Mnouchkine French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83.Ref: 5
Apr 03Dieter Plage German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57.Ref: 5
Apr 13Henny Budie Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies.Ref: 5
Apr 29Cy Howard director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77.Ref: 5
May 19Richard Murphy director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81.Ref: 5
May 26Marvin Young producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90.Ref: 5
Oct 31Federico 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 05Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-born French art film director, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
Dec 22Alexander Mackendrick director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81.Ref: 5
Dec 24Alexander Mackendrick British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81.Ref: 5
Dec 31Arthur Dreifuss director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85.Ref: 5
1994
Jan 04Jim Booth New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48.Ref: 5
Jan 12Samuel Bronston Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85.Ref: 5
Feb 04Harold Schneider US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55.Ref: 5
Feb 08Ken Hall Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92.Ref: 5
Feb 20Derek Jarman English director (Last of England), dies at 52.Ref: 5
Mar 01Manmohan Desai filmmaker, dies at 57.Ref: 5
Mar 02Tengiz Abuladze filmmaker, dies at 70.Ref: 5
Mar 22Igor Aleinikov Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32.Ref: 5
Apr 03Frank G Wells US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62.Ref: 5
Apr 09Marcel Ichac French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87.Ref: 5
Apr 12Harry la Fontaine Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81.Ref: 5
Apr 19Michael Carreras film Director, dies at 67.Ref: 5
May 01Imre Gyöngyössy Hungarian director, dies at 64.Ref: 5
May 16Phani Majumdar film director, dies at 82.Ref: 5
May 17Andrew Brown film Producer, dies at 55.Ref: 5
May 21Forsyth Hardy documentary film pioneer, dies at 84.Ref: 5
May 23Carl Althoff German circus director, dies at 82.Ref: 5
May 28Rita Gillespie TV Director, dies at 65.Ref: 5
May 29Joseph Janni producer, dies at 78.Ref: 5
Aug 30Lindsay Anderson director: This Sporting Life, The Whales of August, Glory! Glory!, Britannia Hospital, If…, O Lucky Man!; dies.Ref: 4
Sep 03James T. Aubrey Jr. movie/TV executive: president: MGM, CBS; dies.Ref: 5
Dec 05Harry Horner Czechoslovakian/US set designer/director (Our Town), dies at 84.Ref: 5
Dec 17Jan Wiegel director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64.Ref: 5
Dec 21Shauna McDonald Brown British TV producer, dies at 37.Ref: 5
1995
Jan 04D Elmina Davies filmmaker, dies at 36.Ref: 5
Jan 11Onat Kutlar Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59.Ref: 5
Jan 23Ken Hill playwright/director, dies at 57.Ref: 5
Jan 28Philip H Burton Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80.Ref: 5
Feb 01George Abbot director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107.Ref: 5
Feb 02Phillip Borsos Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies.Ref: 5
Feb 14Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45.Ref: 5
Feb 14Siem Suurhoff TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58.Ref: 5
Feb 22Elfi Althoff-Jacobi Austrian circus director, dies at 80.Ref: 5
Feb 25Jack Clayton British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73.Ref: 5
Mar 07Jaap van den Hurk TV-director (NCRV), dies.Ref: 5
Mar 10Carel Birnie ballet producer, dies at 69.Ref: 5
Mar 17Donald Baverstock television producer, dies at 71.Ref: 5
Mar 27Rene Allio film Director, dies at 70Ref: 5
Mar 29John Elliott Terry film financier, dies at 82.Ref: 5
Apr 16Cy[ril Raker] Endfield film director (Universal Soldier), dies at 80.Ref: 5
Apr 25Joseph Heifitz film director, dies at 89.Ref: 5
May 07Maria Luisa Bemberg film maker, dies at 73.Ref: 5
May 12Reza Abdoh theatre Director, dies at 32.Ref: 5
Nov 23Louis Malle, French film director, dies at age 63.Ref: 70
Dec 05Robert Parrish film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79.Ref: 5
Dec 09Toni Cade Bambara filmmaker, dies at 56.Ref: 5
1996
Jan 11Hubert Nicholson poet/novelist, dies at 87.Ref: 5
Jan 19Donald Simpson film producer, dies at 52.Ref: 5
Feb 20Michael Herford Wooller TV/film producer, dies at 69.Ref: 5
Mar 10Ross 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 13Krzysztof Kieslowski film director, dies of heart attack at 54.Ref: 5
Mar 13Lucio Fulci filem director, dies at 68.Ref: 5
Mar 17Rene Clement film director, dies at 83.Ref: 5
Mar 28Barbara McLean film Editor, dies at 86.Ref: 5
Mar 30Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78.Ref: 5
Apr 24Donald Cammell film director, dies at 62.Ref: 5
Apr 28Giles Grangier film director, dies at 84.Ref: 5
May 10Ross 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 29Willaim Brown British TV executive, dies at 67.Ref: 5
1997
Jan 11Duncan Wood television director/producer, dies at 71.Ref: 5
Jan 14King Hu film director, dies at 64Ref: 5
Feb 22Frank Launder director/scriptwriter, dies at 91.Ref: 5
Mar 08Alexander Salkind producer (Superman), dies at 75Ref: 5
Mar 14Fred 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 02Tomoyuki Tanaka producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86Ref: 5
Aug 27Brandon Tartikoff, Network TV programming head, dies of Hodgkins disease at age 31.Ref: 24
Sep 10George (Louis) Schaefer director: The Man Upstairs, Children in the Crossfire, Deadly Game, Doctors’ Wives, The Tempest, Victoria Regina; dies.Ref: 4
Dec 06Alan Mouncer film director/producer, dies at 68.Ref: 5
Dec 20Dawn Steel film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51.Ref: 5
Dec 21Juzo Itami film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64.Ref: 5
Dec 22Dawn Steel producer/president (Columbia TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51.Ref: 5
Dec 22Juzo Itami Japanese director, commits suicide at 64Ref: 5
Dec 24James Komack producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67.Ref: 5
Dec 25Giorgio Strehler theatre director, dies at 76.Ref: 5
1998
Feb 02Roger 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 29Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz) Academy Award-winning director: West Side Story [1961]; dies at age 79.Ref: 4
Sep 06Akira 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 19Mel Fisher underwater film maker, dies from bladder cancer at 76Ref: 5
1999
Feb 26José Quintero director: Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea; dies.Ref: 4
Mar 07Movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.Ref: 70
Jul 01Edward Dmytryk, American film director; one of the "Hollywood Ten", dies at age 90.Ref: 70
2000
Feb 11Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) director: Barbarella, Pretty Maids All in a Row, And God Created Woman; dies.Ref: 4
Mar 24Sig Mickelson, the first president of CBS News, died in San Diego at age 86.Ref: 6
Apr 25David 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 11James 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 19Movie producer-director Stanley Kramer died in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 87.Ref: 70
Apr 16Michael Ritchie director: The Scout, Cops and Robbersons, Fletch, Semi-Tough, The Bad News Bears, The Candidate; dies.Ref: 4
Sep 15Fred De Cordova Emmy Award-winning producer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, dies.Ref: 4
Sep 16Movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff died in Burbank, CA at age 83. (XDG, p 4A, 9/16/2002)Ref: 83
Oct 09Herbert 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 27Billy (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 03Movie mogul Lew Wasserman dies in Beverly Hills CA at age 89. (XDG, p 4A, 6/03/2003)Ref: 83
Jul 06John Frankenheimer, director, dies in Los Angeles CA at age 72. (TWA, 2003)Ref: 95
Nov 25Movie 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 25John Schlesinger, director of "Midnight Cowboy", dies in Palm Springs CA. (WSG, p 1, 7/28/2003) 
Sep 28Director/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 15Laurence 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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