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Events. April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, known as "the Master of Suspense", dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at the age of 80. May 21 – The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the highest-grossing film of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years prior).
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v. t. e. The decade of the 1980s in Western cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. [1] The period was when the "high concept" picture was created by producer Don Simpson, [2] where films were expected to be easily marketable and understandable.
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Deaths in 1980. Contents. January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December. ← 1979. 1980. 1981 →. The following is a list of notable deaths in 1980. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) Jan 29 American actor, comedian and singer known as "the schnozzola" (The Durante-Moore Show, Jimmy Durante Show), dies of pneumonia at 86.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) Apr 29 English film director (Psycho; The Birds; Rear Window; Vertigo), dies of renal failure at 80. Apr 30 Mary McCarty, American singer, dancer, stage and screen actress (Babes in Toyland; All That Jazz;, Trapper John, M.D.)
- Peter Sellers (1925-1980) Jul 24 English actor and comedian (The Goon Show, Bobo, Pink Panther), dies at 54. Jul 24 Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926) Jul 25 Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b.
- Strother Martin (1919-1980) Aug 1 American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot), dies of a heart attack at 61. Aug 4 Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright and leader (Vatican movie bureau), dies at 69.
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton . The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival . [2]
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