Deaths
- Fred Haggerty
- January 9 — Bill McCutcheon
- January 21 — Junji Kurata
- February 4 — George Nader
- February 15 — Lee Van Atta
- February 19 — Gene Ruggiero
- February 20 — Stephen Longstreet
- February 21 — Chuck Lacey
- February 22 — Barbara Valentin
- March 2 — Don Haig
- March 3 — Dan Sonney
- March 20 — Carl Roup
- March 31 — Marvin Goldhar
- April 7 — John Agar
- April 21 — Terry Walsh
- April 27 — Robert L. Joseph
- May 4 — Elizabeth Russell
- May 20 — Jerry Dunphy
- June 2 — Herman Cohen
- June 9 — James Almanzar
- June 28 — Roger Til
- July 17 — Harry D. Gerstad
- July 26 — Tony Anholt
- August 22 — Marvin Bryan
- August 29 — Paul Tripp
- September 21 — Maurice Manson
- October 7 — Domenico Paolella
- October 12 — Sidney W. Pink
- October 13 — Dennis Patrick
- October 13 — William Hughes
- October 23 — Nathan Juran
- October 25 — Cheryl Smith
- November 4 — Antonio Margheriti
Home Media Releases
- March 26 — I Accuse My Parents
- March 26 — Red Zone Cuba
- June 11 — The Crawling Hand
- June 11 — The Hellcats
- November 12 — The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Volume 1
Events
- March 2 — Timothy Van Patten shares an Episodic Drama Writers Guild of America Award with Terence Winter for The Sopranos episode "Pine Barrens".
- March 5 — Mind Over Matters by Michael J. Nelson is published.
- March 24 — At the 74th Academy Awards, Ron Howard wins the Best Picture and Best Director Awards for A Beautiful Mind.
- August 20 — A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy is published.