This Day in TV and Movie History
November 26

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What happened in history on this day: November 26?

On November 26 in ...

  • 1975 - The Canadian Radio-Television Commission orders Canadian TV cable companies to black out identical US programs available on Canadian television at the same time.
  • 1986 - Paramount releases the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to theaters.

Births on November 26

  • 1902 - Birth of Alberto Morin in Puerto Rico; actor (Armando - Dallas).
  • 1907 - Birth of Frances Dee; US actress (Of Human Bondage).
  • 1910 - Birth of Cyril Cusack in South Africa; actress (Day of the Jackal).
  • 1912 - Birth of Eric Sevareid in Velva, North Dakota, USA; CBS newsman and commentator for 38 years (CBS Weekend News).
  • 1920 - Birth of Daniel Petrie at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada; TV and stage director/actor (50 years, won 8 Emmy awards, Joe and Mabel TV show, The Hidden Room TV show, Stud's Place TV show, Eleanor & Franklin TV show, The Dollmaker TV show, Studio 1 TV show).
  • 1922 - Birth of Adele Jergens in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man).
  • 1922 - Birth of Charles M. Schulz in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; cartoonist (Peanuts, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973, Emmy award).
  • 1925 - Birth of Linda Hunt in Morriston, New Jersey, USA; actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado).
  • 1927 - Birth of Ernie Coombs in Lewiston, Maine, USA; actor (Mr. Dressup TV show (1967-1996)).
  • 1927 - Birth of John Carter in Center Ridge, Arkansas, USA; actor (Max - Falcon Crest).
  • 1929 - Birth of Betta Saint John in Hawthorne, California, USA; actress (Corridors of Blood).
  • 1933 - Birth of Robert Goulet AKA Stanley Applebaum in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA; singer (Cross Canada Hit Parade TV show, Grammy award 1962, "My Love Forgive Me" album (1964)), actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2 1/2).
  • 1935 - Birth of Marian Mercer in Akron, Ohio, USA; actress/singer (Dean Martin Show, St. Elsewhere, It's a Living, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).
  • 1938 - Birth of Rich Little in Ottawa, Canada; impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop).
  • 1942 - Birth of Olivia Cole in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; actress (Roots, Szysznyk).
  • 1956 - Birth of Elizabeth Savage; actress (Loving, General Hospital, Image Workshop).
  • 1959 - Birth of Jamie Rose in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Susan Birch - St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest).
  • 1961 - Birth of Marcy Walker; actress (All My Children, Eden - Santa Barbara).
  • 1963 - Birth of Allyson Rice-Taylor; actress (Connor - As the World Turns).
  • 1973 - Birth of Kristin Bauer; actress (Two and a Half Men, Justice League, Total Security).
  • 1973 - Birth of Peter Facinelli; actor (Six Feet Under, Fastlane).
  • 1976 - Birth of Maia Campbell; actress (South Central).
  • 1980 - Birth of Jessica Bowman; actress (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Road Home).

Deaths on November 26

  • 1980 - Death of Rachael Roberts at age 53 of barbiturate poisoning; British actress (The Tony Randall Show, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Marcus Welby MD).
  • 1982 - Death of Dan Tobin at age 73; actor (25 years on TV, Perry Mason, I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian).
  • 1982 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy - Rogues, Theodore - Nero Wolfe), dies of a heart attack in New York City at age 73.
  • 1985 - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of the Bride), dies at age 87.
  • 1991 - Death of Dehl Berti at age 70 of a heart attack; actor (Paradise TV show, Buck James, Operation Neptune, The Edge of Night, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo).
  • 2018 - Death of Bernardo Bertolucci at age 77 of cancer in Rome, Italy; Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris movie, The Last Emperor movie).
  • 2021 - Death of Stephen Sondheim at age 91; American musical theatre lyricist and composer (Gypsy (1959), Company (1970), Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962)).

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