She moved to New York City in 1984 and appeared in the Broadway production of The Real Thing alongside Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Close has also won Tony Awards in 1984 for The Real Thing, and in 1992 for Death and the Maiden.

Close was previously married to Cabot Wade ( 1969 – 1973 ) and James Marlas ( 1984 – 1987 ).

A video was filmed for the song " Gonna Get Close to You ", written and originally recorded in 1984 by Dalbello.

In 1984, he co-wrote several hits with the Art of Noise including " Close ( To the Edit )", " Beat Box " and " Moments in Love ".

* 1984 Close Company ( Epic )

* 1984 Close to the Wind ( Dave Swarbrick )

He also appeared in the hit dance movie Footloose in 1984 as the best friend of Kevin Bacon's character ; played a villain in the Clint Eastwood western Pale Rider ( 1985 ); and co-starred with his brother Sean Penn and mother Eileen Ryan in At Close Range ( 1986 ).

Their music is also featured in the 1984 movie Suburbia, the 1985 version of popular horror movie Return of the Living Dead, Summer Sessions ( Skateboarding Video ) in 1985 and Dangerously Close in 1986.

Too Close for Comfort is an American television sitcom which ran on the ABC network from November 11, 1980 until May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984 until September 27, 1986.

* Too Close for Comfort ( syndication ) ( for its entire run, 1984 – 1986 )

Her second book, also published in 1984, In Banks We Trust: Bankers and Their Close Associates: The CIA, the Mafia, Drug Traders, Dictators, Politicians and the Vatican.

In 1984, with partner Del Close, she began teaching The Harold to many students in the Chicago theater community.

Richardson Primary school, located on May Gibbs Close, opened in 1984 ; the school has a major focus on information and communications technology in education.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose.

From 1984 to 1988 she starred on the television series Santa Barbara as Kelly Capwell which earned her Daytime Emmy nominations.

In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of the 1949 Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, a role he reprised in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries.

Eastwood next starred in the period comedy City Heat ( 1984 ) alongside Burt Reynolds, a film about a private eye and his partner who get mixed up with gangsters in the prohibition era of the 1930s.

Five years later, in 1984, actress Sandra Wey starred as " O " in The Story of O: Part 2.

In 1983 Collins starred in Making of a Male Model with young model-actor Jon-Erik Hexum, and in 1984 played a soap star in The Cartier Affair with David Hasselhoff.

He also starred in and produced a pair of Christmas specials in 1984 and 1985.

Douglas ' acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone.

In 1983, he had a role in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence ( which also starred his future wife Genie Francis ), and a supporting role in the equally short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls in 1984.

In 1969, Supergirl's adventures became the lead feature in Adventure Comics, and she later starred in an eponymous comic book series which debuted in 1972 and ran until 1974, followed by a second monthly comic book series titled The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl, which ran from 1982 to 1984.

He starred in the 1984 film The Census Taker, a 1984 black comedy directed by Bruce R. Cook.

Walter Davis Pidgeon ( September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984 ) was a Canadian actor, who starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise & Consent, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Funny Girl and Harry in Your Pocket.

During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in one of the decade's defining sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which aired eight seasons from 1984 to 1992.

He starred in Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, which also featured Milligan, The National Health directed by Jack Gold, and appeared in the 1984 film Scandalous.

In 1984, she starred in the TV mini-series Lace.

' He guest starred on an episode of Diff ' rent Strokes as himself in 1984.

From 1984 to 1989, Olmos starred in his biggest role up to that date as the taciturn police Lieutenant Martin Castillo in the television series Miami Vice, opposite Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.

She starred opposite Laurence Olivier in The Ebony Tower ( 1984 ), also appeared on Kavanagh QC and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

A 1984 made-for-television sequel, Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues, starred Blythe Danner as Sullivan, Mare Winningham as Helen Keller, and Jack Warden as Mark Twain.

In 1984, York starred as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol ( 1984 ), based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

She played both Cordelia and the Fool in a 1984 staging of King Lear by the Nimrod Theatre Company, and also starred in its productions of Strindberg's Miss Julie, Chekhov's The Bear, Louis Nowra's Inside The Island and, in 1986, the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Sydney Theatre Company

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

A critically panned film he made about the life of Richard Wagner ( noted for having the only onscreen teaming of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the same scenes ) was shown as a television miniseries in 1983 after failing to achieve a theatrical release in most countries, but Burton enjoyed a personal triumph in the American television miniseries Ellis Island in 1984, receiving a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his final television performance.

He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack ( 1980 ), Ghostbusters ( 1984 ), and Groundhog Day ( 1993 ).

Since January, 1984 he has written a critically acclaimed daily column on national affairs.

Whilst many of the releases were critically acclaimed, the company suffered from a lack of experience and through various reasons, cash-flow being one, was forced to cease trading in 1984

They were one of the initial roster of acts signed to Trevor Horn's ZTT label, between 1984 and 1986, during which they released the critically acclaimed album A Secret Wish.

In 1993, Dorothy Hamill, who headlined the East Company from 1977 to 1984, bought Ice Capades assets in a bankruptcy sale and attempted to revive the company with the critically acclaimed Frozen in Time: Cinderella on Ice, but attendance figures remained stagnant.

Todorović has an extensive acting career, and has had roles in critically acclaimed Yugoslavian films such as Who's That Singing Over There ( 1980 ), The Marathon Family ( 1982 ), Balkan Express ( 1983 ), Balkanski Špijun ( Balkan Spy, 1984 ), Time of the Gypsies ( 1988 ), and Underground ( 1995 ).

Rakhee worked with Shashi Kapoor in 10 released films and the pair gave 7 hits-Sharmelee ( 1971 ), Jaanwar Aur Insaan ( 1972 ), Kabhi Kabhie ( 1976 ), the critically acclaimed Trishna ( 1978 ), Baseraa ( 1981 ), Zameen Aasmaan ( 1984 ) and Pighalta Aasman ( 1985 ) and had 3 box-office flops-Bandhan Kuchchey Dhaagon Ka ( 1983 ), Bandh Honth ( 1984 ), Doosara Aadmi ( 1977 ).

* The Cowra Breakout ( 1984 ): a critically acclaimed 4½-hour television miniseries, written by Margaret Kelly and Chris Noonan, and directed by Noonan and Phillip Noyce.

Henry is best known for his critically acclaimed performance as serial killer Dennis Rader in the made-for-television movie The Hunt for the BTK Killer, and for playing various " heavies " in various films, such as in Payback ( 1999 ) and Brian De Palma's Body Double ( 1984 ).

Interspersed with his cinema work are some interesting and critically successful television films including The Manipulators ( 1973 ), Squaring The Circle ( 1984 ; scripted by Tom Stoppard ), Dandelion Dead ( 1993 ; scripted by Michael Chaplin ), and The Healer ( 1994 ; scripted by GF Newman ).

His most famous and critically acclaimed work was Homecoming ( 1984 ).

Torreya taxifolia became one of the first federally listed endangered plant species in the United States in 1984 ; the IUCN lists the species as critically endangered.