Migden is credited with enshrining the principle that actors deserve perpetual residuals for TV reruns. Charlton Heston on the picket line outside Paramount Pictures on Aug. 26, 1980 Bettmann ...

If those assurances aren't won, actors will fail to reap benefits commensurate with their worth -- which, the leaders believe, is exactly what happened in 1980. 'A Very Bad Deal' Few actors were ...

After 118 days, SAG-AFTRA and the studios have reached a tentative deal bringing an end to the strike. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Everyone from Emmy-winners like Bryan Cranston and Sarah ...

With Mr. Schallert it was different. In 1980 he led the union as it staged a 13-week strike over such issues as actors’ pay for films made for the then-new cable television industry. He told the ...

Some actors become forever associated with a particular era. While he starred in some interesting movies in the 1990s and 2000s, Michael J. Fox was a quintessential 1980s star. He’s so ...

The gang of attractive actors, who frequently socialized together, were dubbed The Brat Pack after appearing in movies like “Taps,” “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish” that signaled a ...

SAG-AFTRA, a union representing 160,000 Hollywood actors, is set to go on strike for the first time since 1980 after failed negotiations with major studios and streaming services, CNN reports.

Hollywood’s actors had not been on strike since 1980. They joined 11,500 screenwriters, who walked out in May. Both unions have said they are fed up with exorbitant pay for entertainment moguls ...