Actress Elizabeth MacGraw won a Golden Globe Award
for Most Promising Newcomer for her role in Goodbye,
Columbus (1969).
She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and
won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion
Picture – Drama.
1978
Oscar-winning actor Christopher Walken is noted for offbeat performances in films like "The Deer Hunter" and "Pulp
Fiction."
Walken has earned him numerous accolades including an
Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild
Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy
Awards and two Tony Awards. His films have grossed
more than $1.6 billion in the United States alone.
Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28, 1961, until August 30,
1966.
(The Hollywood Reporter) – Richard Chamberlain died Saturday
night in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications following a stroke.
He was two days shy of his 91st birthday.
Shōgun is a 1980 historical drama miniseries
first broadcast on NBC over five nights
between September 15 and 19, 1980.
The Thorn Birds TV miniseries broadcast on ABC from
March 27 to 30, 1983.
Denis Arndt, the Tony Award-nominated actor whose many
onscreen roles included starring in "S.W.A.T."(2003) and
famously interrogating Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct,"
(1992) has died.
According to an obituary published Wednesday, Arndt died
"peacefully in his bed" at his longtime cabin home in Ashland,
Oregon on Tuesday, March 25.
Denis Arndt served in the Vietnam War as a United States
Army helicopter pilot, earning a Purple Heart and Medal of
Commendation
After the war, Arndt flew helicopters in Alaska for several
years before completing a degree at the University of
Washington.
He joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland,
Oregon where he completed 15 seasons and was a charter
member of Seattle‘s Intiman Theatre.
By the time James Cameron (above) took the stage to accept
his Academy Award for Best Director on the night of March 23,
1998, the Oscar dominance of his blockbuster film Titanic was
all but assured.
Titanic tied the record for most Oscar nominations with 14—
joining 1950’s _All About Eve—_and by night’s end would tie
with Ben Hur (1959) for most wins by sweeping 11 categories,
including the coveted Best Picture.
