- Jan 11 Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56
- Jan 18 Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (Casablanca, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
- Jan 31 Florence Bates, American actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
- Feb 9 Mabel Paige, American actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
- Feb 12 Dziga Vertov [Denis Kaufman], Russian influential film director (Man with a Movie Camera, 3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
- Apr 10 Auguste Lumière, French engineer and filmmaker who made the 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory), dies at 81
- May 1 Tom Tyler [Vincent Markowski], American actor (Stagecoach; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), dies from heart failure at 50
- Jun 22 Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
- Jul 6 Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
- Jul 13 Irving Pichel, American actor and director ("Madame Butterfly"; "Oliver Twist"), dies at 63
- Jul 14 Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
Colette (1873-1954)
Aug 3 French author, novelist (Gigi, La Vagabonde) and actress, dies at 81
Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954)
Nov 15 American actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), dies at 76
- Nov 22 Moroni Olsen, American actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White), dies at 65
- Nov 22 Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
- Nov 29 George Robey, English musical theatre actor and comedian, dies at 85
- Dec 8 Gladys George, American actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
- Dec 20 James Hilton, English novelist and screenwriter (Goodbye Mr Chips, Lost Horizon), dies at 54
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