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Actors Who Died on April 19

  • 1926 Sir Squire Bancroft [Butterfield], British actor and manager known for creating 'drawing-room comedy' (Haymarket), dies at 84
  • 1965 George Davis, Flemish actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
  • 1980 Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
  • 1980 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
  • 1983 Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
  • 1986 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
  • 1987 Hugh Brannum, American actor and singer (Captain Kangaroo - "Mr. Green Jeans"; The Fred Waring Show - "Lumpy"), dies of cancer at 77
  • 1991 Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
  • 1992 Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
  • 1992 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
  • 1994 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
  • 1994 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
  • 1998 Liam Sullivan, American singer and actor (Star Trek; The Magic Sword; Monroes), dies of a heart attack at 74
  • 2005 George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
  • 2005 Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), dies at 93
  • 2007 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout), dies at 74
  • 2011 Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
  • 2012 Levon Helm, American drummer and singer (The Band - "Up On Cripple Creek"; "The Weight"), and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter; The Right Stuff), dies from throat cancer at 71
  • 2013 Allan Arbus, American commercial photographer, and actor (M*A*S*H - "Dr. Sidney Freeman"; Greaser's Palace; Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of congestive heart failure at 95
  • 2020 Steve Dalkowski, American baseball player and inspiration for Bull Durham film, dies of COVID-19 complications at 80
  • 2023 Moonbin [Moon Bin], South Korean K-pop singer and actor, dies in a suspected suicide at 25 [1]