Timelines for year 1967

Alan Alda

Has been nominated three times for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1967, as best actor-musical for The Apple Tree, in 1992, as best actor-play for Jake's Women and in 2005 as best performance by a featured actor-play for Glengarry Glen Ross.

Shannen Doherty

In her family, her father Tom, works at a bank; her mother Rosa, is the owner of a beauty parlor; she also has an older brother named Sean; born 1967.

Sissy Spacek

Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in 1967 from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college.

Cher

Sonny & Cher's film Good Times was such a flop, that Columbia pictures immediately sold rights to their intended follow-up film, Speedway to MGM as a vehicle for Elvis Presley.

Auditioned for the role of Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde .

Bill Murray

His father Edward was a lumber salesman. He died in 1967.

Candice Bergen

Auditioned for the role of "Elaine Robinson" in The Graduate .

Mike Nichols

When he won his first Oscar as Best Director for The Graduate , the statuette was presented to him by actress Leslie Caron.

He is one of 7 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie. He won for The Graduate . The other directors to have achieved this are Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Richard Attenborough for Gandhi , Oliver Stone for Platoon , Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List , Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain , and Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire .

Walt Disney

The last animated movie he ever put his personal touch on was The Jungle Book .

Charlton Heston

A World War II U.S. Army veteran, he visited troops fighting during the Vietnam War in 1967. In fact, in one camp in South Vietnam's delta area, he was "initiated" into the GI's on-base club, by having to receive a kiss on the ear!.

On 18 June 1968, Heston appeared on "The Joey Bishop Show" and, along with Gregory Peck, James Stewart and Kirk Douglas, called for gun controls following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Ironically, thirty years later, Heston was elected President of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and campaigned against gun control.

Dwayne Johnson

Has expressed his desire to play a villain in a James Bond film. Dwayne's grandfather Peter Fanene Maivia appeared as a Bond villain in You Only Live Twice .

Doris Day

Turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate . The role went to Anne Bancroft.

Glenda Jackson

Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award four times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), in 1966 for portraying Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade," a performance recreated in the film version of the same title, Marat/Sade ; and, as Best Actress (Play): in 1981 for "Rose;" in 1985 for playing Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," a role she recreated in a television version of the same title, Strange Interlude (TV); and in 1988 for playing Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." She has yet to win.

Carrie-Anne Moss

Was named after The Hollies' 1967 song "Carrie Anne", which was on the charts when she was born.

Elizabeth Taylor

Became friends with Marlon Brando while shooting Reflections in a Golden Eye . Brando agreed to pick up her Best Actress Award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from the New York Film Critics Circle. When Brando made his appearance at the NYFCC Award ceremony at Sardi's on January 29, 1967, he berated the critics, querying them as to why they hadn't recognized Liz before. He then flew to Dahomey, Africa, where she was shooting The Comedians with Richard Burton to personally deliver the award, a development Burton thought odd. Several years later Brando socialized with the Burtons, visiting them on their famous yacht the Kalizma, while they plied the Mediterreanean. Brando's ex-wife Anna Kashfi, in her book "Brando for Breakfast" , claimed that Brando and Burton got into a fist fight aboard the yacht, probably over Liz, but nothing of the incident appears in Burton's voluminous diaries. In his diaries, Burton found Brando to be quite intelligent but believed he suffered, like Liz did, from becoming too famous too early in his life and believed their affinity for one another was based on this (both Liz and Marlon would later befriend Michael Jackson, another superstar-cum-legend who had become too famous too soon). Burton recognized Brando as a great actor, but felt he would have been more suited to silent films due to the deficiency in his voice (the famous "mumble"). As a silent film star, Burton believed Brando would have been the greatest motion picture actor ever.