Film Tv Birthdays Date 1937 April

Billy Dee Williams (87 years old)

Apr 6 American stage and screen actor (Brian's Song; Lady Sings the Blues; Mahogany; The Empire Strikes Back), painter, and singer, born in New York City

Merle Haggard (1937-2016)

Apr 6 American country singer-songwriter ("Mama Tried"; "If We Make It Through December"; "Okie from Muskogee"), born in Oildale, California

Apr 9 Marty Krofft, Canadian puppeteer and television producer - with his brother Sid (H.R. Pufnstuf; Land of the Lost; Sigmund and the Sea Monsters; Donny & Marie), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2023) [1]
Apr 9 Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster (Blue Peter), born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Apr 11 Jill Gascoine, British stage and pioneering TV actress (The Gentle Touch - "Maggie Forbes"), and novelist, born in Lambeth, London, England (d. 2020)
Apr 13 Edward Fox, English actor (The Day of the Jackal, Gandhi), born in Chelsea, London
Apr 17 Daffy Duck, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Porky's Duck Hunt"
Apr 18 (Bobby) "Robert" Hooks, African-American stage and screen actor (Fast Walking; Aaron Loves Angela), and theater director (The D.C. Black Repertory Company), born in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C.
Apr 19 Elinor Donahue, American actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life), born in Tacoma, Washington

Joseph Estrada (87 years old)

Apr 19 Filipino actor and 13th President of the Philippines (1998-01), born in Tondo, Philippines

George Takei (87 years old)

Apr 20 American actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets), born in Los Angeles, California

Jack Nicholson (87 years old)

Apr 22 American actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Shining; A Few Good Men), born in Neptune City, New Jersey

Apr 25 Bo Brundin, Swedish actor (The Rhinemann Exchange; A Baltic Tragedy), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 2022)
Apr 27 Sandy Dennis, American Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress (Any Wednesday; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?; The Out-of-Towners), born in Hastings, Nebraska (d. 1992)