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2006 Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines, dies of cancer, in Tebworth, England, at age 53

1998 John Hopkins, writer for film, television, edited screenplay 'Thunderball', television show 'Play for Today', dies in Woodland Hills, California

1997 Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83

1997 Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51

1997 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68

1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens

1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, film maker and producer, Godzilla, dies of a stroke at 86

1997 Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany

1997 King Hu, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn', dies at 64

1996 Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77

1996 Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66

1996 Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91

1996 Raaj Kumar, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', dies at 68

1996 Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81

1996 Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96

1996 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74

1996 Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84

1996 Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62

1996 David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63

1996 William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67

1996 Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86

1996 Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83

1996 Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54

1996 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69

1996 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"

1996 Donald Simpson, film producer, dies at 52

1995 John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70

1995 Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79

1995 Jimmy Jewel, comedian, television, film actor, dies at 82

1995 Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63

1995 Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64

1995 Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94

1995 Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65

1995 Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69

1995 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68

1995 Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83

1995 David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73

1995 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94

1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51

1995 Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84

1995 Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93

1995 Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95

1995 Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89

1995 Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80

1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50

1995 John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82

1995 Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70

1995 Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33

1994 Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike and Spike Festival), dies at 42

1994 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65

1994 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51

1994 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84

1994 Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55

1994 Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82

1994 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67

1994 Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81

1993 Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cinemonde), dies at 82

1993 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89

1993 Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53

1993 Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter dies at 93

1993 George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77

1992 Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90

1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies

1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith

1992 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies

1992 Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies

1992 Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95

1991 Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies

1991 John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51

1991 Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51

1991 Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81

1991 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93

1990 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82

1989 Critics Siskel and Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show

1988 Vanessa Hudgens, born in Salinas, California, actress, singer, debut album, titled, 'V', certified Gold, screen debut, drama film, 'Thirteen', 2003, known for playing role of Gabriella Montez in High School Musical series

1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"

1988 Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51

1987 Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies

1986 Shia LaBeouf, born in Los Angeles, California, voice actor, actor, comedian, appeared in Disney's 'Even Stevens' television series, film debut, 'Holes', appeared in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'

1986 Megan Fox, born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, actress, sex symbol, debut film, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', breakout role, Mikaela Barnes in movie, 'Transformers', voted 'Sexiest Woman in the World' by FHM

1983 Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78

1982 Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79

1982 Brad Renfro, born in Knoxville, Tennessee American actor, film and television

1982 Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)

1980 Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres

1979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77

1979 John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at New York Film Festival

1979 Heath Ledger, born in Perth, Western Australia, Australian television and film actor

1978 Josh Hartnett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, film producer, actor, movies include 'Black Hawk Down', 'Pearl Harbor', People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2002

1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA New York City after 21 performances

1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 21 performances

1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres

1976 1st Jewish film and TV festival

1976 Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam

1976 Alicia Witt, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, born Alicia Roanne Witt, film, stage and television actress, singer, played role of Cybill Shepherd's character in sitcom Cybill, 1995 - 1998

1974 David Moscow, born in New York City, New York, actor, played role of young Josh in film 'Big'

1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91

1973 Jeremy Jordan, born in Hammond, Indiana, singer, actor, pop, dance music, recorded music featured in the film 'Airborne', appeared in made-for-TV movies and theater performance of Never Been Kissed

1973 Eileen Percy, silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72

1973 "Live and Let Die," James Bond film premieres

1972 J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate

1971 Soundarya, born in Gangigunte, India, film actress, played heroine in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films

1971 Aileen Quinn, born in Yardley, Pennsylvania, actress, graduate of Drew University, noted for playing title role in 1982 film, Annie

1970 Doug E. Doug, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, screenwriter, comedian, played Griffith Vesey on television sitcom Cosby, voice of Bernie in the animated movie Shark Tale, and Sanka Coffie in film Cool Runnings

1969 Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79

1969 Enid Bennett, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), dies at 75

1968 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired

1968 Helen Gardner, silent film actress (Sandra), dies

1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London

1968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival

1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt

1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd

1967 House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87

1967 Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77

1967 Dylan's 1965 U.K. Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"

1966 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75

1965 Gong Li, born in Shenyang, China, actress, appeared in director Zhang Yimou's film, Ju Dhou, Red Sorghum, received Golden Rooster award

1965 Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat and Canary), dies at 83

1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)

1964 Ian Hart, born in Liverpool, England, actor, theater, television, film roles include, 'Michael Collins', 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'

1964 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London

1964 Steve Nevius, film editor, Eden, Fall Time, Damascus

1963 Mike Myers, born in Scarborough, Canada, comedian, voice actor, screenwriter, film producer, movies include 'Wayne's World', 'Austin Powers', 'Shrek'

1963 Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts

1963 Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache), dies of heart attack at 73

1962 Val Paul, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922, dies at 73 in Hollywood, California

1961 Mark Finch, film festival organiser

1961 Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'

1961 Andy Lau, born in Hong Kong, China, singer, film actor, producer, Cantopop genre, appeared in over 100 films, 300 TVB television mini-series

1960 John Taylor, born in England, rock bassist, Duran Duran-Girls on Film

1959 "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain

1958 Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66

1958 Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash

1957 Jeff East, born in Kansas, Missouri, American actor, best-known for role of Clark Kent in 1978 film "Superman"

1956 Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City

1956 Mark Handley, born in Hollywood, California, writer, screenwriter, playwright, married, lived in log cabin with his wife to live in isolation, wrote play Idioglossia, which became the film, Nell, starring Jodie Foster, 1994, directed by Michael Apted

1956 Charles Dingle, actor, stage, film, played role of senator in 'Call Me Madam', films include 'The Little Foxes', dies

1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV

1954 Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die'

1954 Rene Russo, born in Burbank, California, Renee Marie Russo, television, film actress, model, breakthrough role as Lorna Cole in 'Lethal Weapon 3' and 'Lethal Weapon 4', appeared in 'The Thomas Crown Affair' with Pierce Brosnan

1954 Trevor Rabin, born in South Africa, musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of Yes, a progressive British rock band, film composer

1952 Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines

1952 Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher

1952 William Fox, Fried, U.S. film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73

1951 Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies

1951 David Yip, born in Liverpool, England, of Chinese descent, English actor, played Johnny Ho in The Chinese Detective, played CIA liason agent Chuck Lee in 'A View to a Kill', a 1985 James Bond film

1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres

1950 Beth Anderson, born in Lexington, Kentucky, composer, singer, neo-romantic genre, invented swales, a musical form based on collages, samples of newly composed music vs. existing music, famous for singing with Limahl on 'The Never Ending Story' film title song

1948 Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50

1947 Terje Rypdal, born in Oslo, Norway, composer, guitarist, works include 'Mystery Man', 'Last Nite', featured in the film 'Heat'

1947 Paul Patterson, born in Britain, composer, professor, Royal Academy of Music, composes for orchestra, ensemble, film, television, education

1947 Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute

1946 Dawn Steel, born in America, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction'

1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York City)

1945 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer

1945 Keith Jarrett, jazz musician/film composer, Nachtfahrer

1945 Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards

1943 Kenny Vance, born in New York City, New York, musician, singer, producer, member of Jay and the Americans, guest singer on Saturday Night Live, supervised music for film Animal House

1943 Donald Simpson, film producer

1943 Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner

1943 Joel Siegel, born in Los Angeles, California, American film critic, television journalist

1942 Roger Ebert, born in Urbana, Illinois, film critic, Siskel and Ebert at the Movies

1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship

1941 Lisa Davina Phillip, born in Britain, actress, singer, voice actor, played role of teenage prostitute Macy in film 'Laters'

1941 Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48

1941 David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO, Columbia Pictures

1940 Brian DePalma, born in Newark, New Jersey, film director, Body Double, Dressed to Kill

1939 Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies

1939 Leo Brouwer, born in Havana, Cuba, Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida, composer, conductor, guitarist, studied under Vincent Persichetti, Stefan Wolpe, composed solo guitar pieces, over 40 film scores, and several guitar concertos

1938 BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)

1938 Andrew Brown, film Producer

1937 Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar'

1937 Yehuda Yannay, born in Romania, composer, film maker, performance artist, international figure in contemporary music

1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)

1936 Harold Budd, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, avant-garde, ambient music, created soundtrack for 2005 film Mysterious Skin, with Robin Guthrie

1936 Michael White, theater/film producer, From Russia With Love

1935 Verity A Lambert, film producer, Clockwise, Link, Sweeney

1934 Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive

1934 Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films

1934 Jan Klusak, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, author of incidental music, and music for television, film

1934 Donald Cammell, film director

1933 Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released

1933 Robert Goulet, born in Massachusetts, singer, actor, television, film, Canadian-American Grammy, Tony-Award winner

1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic, Film Greats

1933 Costantinos Gavras, born in Greece, known as Costa-Gavras, French filmmaker, created political-themed films, known for fast-paced thriller titled Z, first film titled Missing, 1982

1933 Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography'

1932 David Shipman, film historian

1932 Bengt Hallberg, born in Sweden, musician, pianist, composer for film, television, choir arrangements, Sweden's most influential jazz musicians

1932 Wojciech Kilar, born in Lwow, Poland, composer of film, classical, symphonic music, won French Lili Boulanger Prize for composition 1960

1932 King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn'

1932 Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema

1931 Hikaru Hayashi, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, conductor, pianist, wrote more than 30 operas, over 100 film scores, authored more than 20 books

1931 James Dean, born in Marion, Indiana, stage/film actor, Giant, Rebel Without a Cause

1931 John Hopkins, born in London, England, writer for film, television, edited screenplay 'Thunderball', television show 'Play for Today'

1930 Frank Perry, film director

1930 Kenny Ball, born in Essex, England, musician, lead trumpet player, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, appeared in film Live It Up!, featured with Joe Brown, Brenda Lee on Kapp Records

1930 James Alan Ferman, secretary, British Board of Film Classification

1930 Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker

1929 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer

1929 Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor

1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)

1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam

1929 WIlliam K. Everson, film historian

1929 Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film

1929 Aleksander Petrovic, film director

1928 Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released

1928 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented

1927 Michael Carreras, film director

1927 Raaj Kumar, born in Balochistan, Pakistan, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', starred in more than 70 Bollywood films, had an iconic, gravelly voice

1927 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker

1927 "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens

1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards

1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA

1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms

1927 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer

1925 Maurice Binder, New York City, photographer/film titler, James Bond

1925 Nanni Loy, film director

1925 John Gillett, film researcher

1925 1st film shown on an British Air flight

1925 Sam Peckinpah, born in Fresno, California, film director, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs

1924 Stanley Donen, South Carolina, film director/producer, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees

1924 Brian Rix, born in Cottingham, England, born Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, actor, appeared in film, The Night We Got The Bird, charity worker for Mencap

1923 Charlton Heston, born in Illinois, American actor in film, theater, television, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

1923 Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)

1923 Estelle Getty, born in New York City, actress in film, theater, television, appeared in sitcom 'The Golden Girls'

1923 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star, Patala Bhairavi

1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City)

1923 Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels

1922 Oskar Werner, film actor and director, Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel

1922 Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director, Le Scandale

1922 Sadao Bekku, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, classical music, wrote symphonies, film scores, sonata for flute, choral works, art songs, piano concerto, opera titled Prince Arima

1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

1922 Maria Luisa Bemberg, film maker

1921 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor

1921 Deborah Kerr, born in Helensburg, Scotland, television, stage, film actress, in 'The King and I', 'From Here to Eternity'

1921 Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

1921 David Begelman, film producer

1921 Ernest Gold, born in Vienna, Austria, Ernst Gold, composer, wrote nearly 100 film and television scores, including It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, On the Beach, four Academy-Award nominations, three Golden Globe nominations

1921 Kan Ishii, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, famous for Symphonia Ainu, inspired by national primitivism, wrote orchestral and vocal music for film and stage, including music for science-fiction film Gorath

1921 Jack Clayton, film director

1921 Betty Hutton, born in Michigan, American film actress, singer, 'Greatest Show on Earth'

1920 Ricardo Montalban, born in Mexico, American radio, television, film actor, Mr. Roarke in 'Fantasy Island' television show

1920 Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed

1919 Shirley Clarke, film director

1919 James Quinn, film producer/actor, Joey, Hammett, Overlord

1918 Guido Aristarco, film critic

1918 Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner

1918 "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater

1917 UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany

1917 Mel Ferrer, born in New Jersey, actor in television, film and theater, film director and film producer

1917 Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR, Indian film star, politician

1917 Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan

1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin)

1914 Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine

1914 "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London

1914 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh and Devil" in London

1913 Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week

1913 George H Brown, film producer

1913 John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp

1912 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"

1912 Jimmy Jewel, born in Sheffield, England, James Arthur Thomas J. Marsh, comedian, television, film actor, appeared in film 'The Krays', musical drama 'Casualty'

1912 Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree

1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert'

1912 Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)

1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City

1912 Harold Myers, film journalist

1911 Phani Majumdar, film maker

1911 Giles Grangier, film director

1911 Bernard Herrmann, New York City, composes film music

1910 Roy Rowland, film director

1910 Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer, Tonight Show

1910 Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer

1910 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer

1909 Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, born in New York City, film producer, James Bond

1909 Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth

1905 Joseph Heifitz, film director

1905 Dalton Trumbo, U.S., writer/film director, Johnny Got His Gun

1905 Pandro S. Berman, film producer

1904 Maudet Christian-Jacques, film director

1904 Rudolf Arnheim, born in Berlin, German-born author, art and film theorist, philosopher, psychologist

1903 "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released

1903 1st cowboy film "Kit Carson," premieres in U.S.

1902 Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president, 20th Century Fox

1902 1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon

1901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer, Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy

1901 Peter Shankland, film maker/writer

1900 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher

1900 Alice Calhoun, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Silent film actress, Flowing Gold

1900 Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress, Let's Go

1900 Joseph Green, film maker

1900 Jean Negulesco, born in Craiova, Dolj, Romania, film director, screenwriter, directed The Mask of Dimitrios, Three Strangers, Academy award nominee for Johnny Belinda

1899 Gaston Glass, Paris, France, film executive

1899 Arthur Lubin, film director

1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

1898 John Grierson, documentary film maker

1898 Dorothy Gish, born in Massillon, Ohio, film actress, Orphans of the Storm

1896 Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress, Birth of a Nation

1896 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City

1895 Mae Marsh, Madrid, New Mexico, silent film actress, Birth of a Nation

1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists

1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1893 Enid Bennett, Australia, silent film actress, Skippy, Hairpins

1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter

1892 Ruth Stonehouse, born in Denver, Colorado, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance'

1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC

1890 Claire Whitney, New York, silent film actress, Blind Fools, Haunted Mine

1890 Monte Blue, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, silent film actor, Montana, Oh Boy

1890 Douglas MacLean, Philadelphia, silent film comedian/producer, Going Up

1889 Abel Gance, French film pioneer/actor, Napoleon, J'accuse

1888 Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron

1887 Charles Dingle, born in Wabash, Indiana, actor, stage, film, played role of senator in 'Call Me Madam', films include 'The Little Foxes'

1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

1886 Val Paul, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922

1885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor, Grand Illusion

1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1884 Robert Flaherty, Michigan, father of documentary film, Nanook of North

1883 Florence Reed, Philadelphia, silent film actress, Dancing Girl

1883 Francis X Bushman, born in Norfolk, Virginia, silent film actor, Ben Hur

1881 David Houston patents roll film for cameras

1881 Lois Weber, 1st U.S. woman film director, What Do Men Want?

1880 Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker, Diagonal Symphony

1880 House Peters, England, silent film actor, Kansas Territory

1879 Ethel Barrymore, classic film and stage actress, Pinky, Moonrise

1879 William Fox, U.S. film pioneer, Nickelodeon

1861 Georges Melies, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story


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