- Apr 2 Chester Clute, American actor ("Arsenic and Old Lace"; "Too Many Girls"; "Niagara Falls"), dies of a heart attack at 65
- Apr 21 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (The Scoundrel), dies at 60
- Apr 24 Henry Stephenson, British actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
- Apr 26 Edward Arnold, American actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66