births
June 18, 1928
Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)
Michael Blakemore
Michael Howell Blakemore AO OBE was an Australian actor, writer and theatre director who also made some films. A former Associate Director of the National Theatre, in 2000 he became the only individual to win Tony Awards for Best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate.