1967 | Theater, Film
Theater, Film
Theater: Marat/Sade 1/3 at London's Majestic Theatre, with Douglas Wilson as Jean Paul Marat, William Roerich as the marquis de Sade, Vera Bloom as Charlotte Corday in an English translation by Geoffrey Skelton of the 1964 Peter Weiss play; MacBird by Brooklyn-born playwright Barbara Garson, 25, 2/22 at New York's off-Broadway Village Gate Theater, with Stacy Keach, 386 perfs.; Fortune and Men's Eyes by Toronto-born dancer-playwright John Herbert (Brundage), 40, 2/23 at New York's off-Broadway Actor's Playhouse, with Robert Christian, Victor Arnold, 382 perfs.; You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running by Robert Anderson 3/13 at New York's Ambassador Theater, with George Grizzard, Eileen Heckart, Martin Balsam, 755 perfs.; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard (Tomas Straussler), 29, 4/11 at London's Old Vic Theatre, with John Stride, Edward Petheridge, John McEnery; Little Murders by New York cartoonist-playwright Jules Feiffer, 38, 4/25 at New York's Broadhurst Theater, with Elliott Gould, Heywood Hale Broun, Barbara Cook, 7 perfs.; Let Sleeping Wives Lie by English playwrights Harold Brooke, 56, and Kay Bannerman, 47, 7/19 at London's Garrick Theatre, with Derek Farr, 55; Elspet Gray, 38; Leslie Crowther, 44; Leo Franklyn, 70, 647 perfs.; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by English playwright Peter Nichols, 39, 7/20 at London's Comedy Theatre, with Joe Melia, Zena Walker, 148 perfs.; Dream on Monkey Mountain by St. Lucia-born poet-playwright Derek Walcott, 37, 8/12 at Toronto's Central Library Theater; Soldaten by Rolf Hochhuth 10/7 at West Berlin's Freie Volksbuhre; Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan 10/10 at Dublin's Abbey Theatre; More Stately Mansions by the late Eugene O'Neill 10/31 at New York's Broadhurst Theater, with Ingrid Bergman, Colleen Dewhurst, Arthur Hill, Helen Craig, Ojai, Calif.-born ingénu Lawrence Linville, 28, 142 perfs.; Dingo by English playwright Charles Wood 11/15 at London's Royal Court Theatre, with Tom Kempinksi, Henry Woolf, Leon Lissek, 19 perfs.; Home Front (Cimmerschlecht) by Martin Walser 12/7 at Munich's Werkramm Theater der Kammerspiele; Spofford by Colorado-born Broadway producer Herman Shumlin, now 69 (based on Peter DeVries's novel Reuben, Reuben) 12/14 at New York's ANTA Playhouse, with Melvyn Douglas, Barbara Britton, sets by Donald Oenslager, 202 perfs.
Onetime stage beauty Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw) dies at a Santa Monica convalescent home January 18 at age 81; Broadway set designer Lee Simonson at Yonkers, N.Y., January 23 at age 78; Montana-born Australian vaudeville comedian Will Mahoney (William James Fitzpatrick) at Melbourne February 8 at age 73; actress Judith Evelyn of cancer at New York May 7 at age 54; playwright Elmer Rice of pneumonia at Southampton, England, May 8 at age 74; actor Philip Coolidge of lung cancer at Los Angeles May 28 at age 58; playwright-wit Dorothy Parker of a heart attack in her Volney Hotel suite at New York June 7 at age 73; playwright Joe Orton is murdered by his roommate lover (who then commits suicide) at London August 9 at age 34; playwright Joseph Kesselring dies at Kingston, N.Y., November 5 at age 65; actress Florence Reed at East Islip, N.Y., November 21 at age 84; comedian Bert Lahr of an internal hemorrhage at New York December 4 at age 72.
Television: The Forsyte Saga 1/7 on BBC with Eric Porter as Soames Forsyte, Kenneth More as his cousin, Susan Hampshire, 25, as his daughter Fleur in a serialized dramatization of the John Galsworthy novels (U.S. Public Broadcasting stations pick up the series and show episodes on Masterpiece Theater); The World About Us in July on BBC-2 with naturalist David Attenborough in a weekly show that will continue to 1986; The Flying Nun 9/7 on ABC with Sally Field, Madeleine Sehrwood, Marge Rettmann, Vito Scotti (to 9/18/1970); The High Chapparal 9/10 on NBC with Cameron Mitchell, Leif Erickson, Linda Cristal, Frank Silvera (to 3/12/1971); The Carol Burnett Show 9/11 on CBS with Burnett, Vickie Lawrence, Tom Conway, Harvey Corwin (to 3/20/1978); Ironside 9/14 on NBC with Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-bound police chief, Elizabeth Baur, Barbara Anderson (to 1/16/1975); Mannix 9/16 on CBS with Fresno, Calif.-born actor Mike Connors (Krekor Ohamian), 42, as private detective Joe Mannix, Gail Fisher as his assistant (to 8/27/1975); Phil Donahue 11/6 on a Dayton, Ohio, Multimedia station with Cleveland-born host Donahue, 31, interviewing atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair in the first audience-participation talk show. It will go national in 1970, appearing afternoons daily on 221 U.S. stations, stations in 10 foreign countries, and the Armed Forces TV Network, emphasizing sensationalism and continuing to 1/1996.
TV puppeteer Cora Baird dies of cancer at New York December 6 at age 54.
Films: Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour with Catherine Deneuve; Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway; Mike Nichols's The Graduate with Los Angeles-born actor Dustin Hoffman, 30, Katharine Ross, Anne Bancroft; Richard Brooks's semidocumentary In Cold Blood with Robert Blake, Scott Wilson; Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night with Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier; Peter Brook's Marat/Sade with the Royal Shakespeare Company; Theodore J. Flicker's The President's Analyst with James Coburn, New York-born comedian Godfrey Cambridge, 34; Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace with Ludmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tihonov. Also: Joseph Losey's Accident with Dirk Bogarde; Ralph Nelson's Charly with La Jolla, Calif.-born actor Cliff Robertson, 42, Claire Bloom; Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman, Jo Van Fleet, George Kennedy; Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen with New York-born actor John Cassavetes, 37, New York-born actor Lee Marvin, 43, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Georgia-born former Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown, 31; D. A. Pennebaker's documentary Don't Look Back with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan Leitch, Allen Ginsberg; John Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd with Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp, 27; Gene Kelly's A Guide for the Married Man with Walter Matthau, Swedish-born actress Inger Stevens, 33; Michael Winner's I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name with Orson Welles, (Robert) Oliver Reed, 29; Larry Peerce's The Incident with Bridgeport, Conn.-born actor Tony Musante, 21, Martin Sheen, Hollywood, Calif.-born actor Beau Bridges, 25, Jack Gilford, Thelma Ritter, Gary Merrill; Ingmar Bergman's Persona with Bibi (originally Berit) Andersson, 31, Liv (Johann) Ullmann, 27; John Boorman's Point Blank with Lee Marvin, North Dakota-born actress Angie Dickinson (Angeline Brown), 35; Luchino Visconti's The Stranger with Marcello Mastroianni; Franco Zefferelli's The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton; Fred Wiseman's documentary The Titicut Follies; James Clavell's To Sir with Love with Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson; Buzz Kulik's Warning Shot with Nebraska-born actor David Janssen (David Meyer), 37; Vittorio De Sica's Woman Times Seven with Shirley MacLaine, Rome-born actress Elsa Martinelli, 35, Adrienne Cori, Anita Ekberg, Philippe Noirette, Peter Sellers, Vittorio Gassman, Rossano Brazzi.
Actress Ann Sheridan dies of cancer at her San Fernando Valley home January 21 at age 51; Martine Carol of a heart attack in her Hotel de Paris suite at Monte Carlo February 6 at age 46; comedian Toto (Antonio de Curtis Gagliadi Griffo Focas) at Rome April 15 at age 68; director Anthony Mann of a heart attack at Berlin April 29 at age 60; director G. W. Pabst at Vienna May 29 at age 82; actor Claude Rains of an intestinal hemorrhage at Sandwich, N.H., May 30 at age 77; Spencer Tracy of a heart attack at Beverly Hills June 10 at age 67; Reginald Denny of a stroke while visiting his sister at Surrey, England, June 16 at age 75; Françoise Dorleac in a car accident near Nice June 26 at age 25; Jayne Mansfield in a car crash near New Orleans June 29 at age 34; Vivien Leigh of tuberculosis at London July 8 at age 53; Basil Rathbone of a heart attack at New York July 21 at age 75; actor-director Anton Walbrook of a heart attack at Starnberg, West Germany, August 9 at age 66; Jane Darwell of a heart attack at Hollywood August 13 at age 87; Paul Muni of heart disease at Santa Barbara August 25 at age 71; director Julien Duvivier of a heart attack at Paris October 24 at age 71; Albert Warner of Warner Brothers at Miami Beach November 26 at age 84.