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Actors Who Died in May 1961

  • May 4 Anita Stewart, American silent film actress (South of Hell Mountain), producer, and mystery novelist, dies of a heart attack at 66

Gary Cooper (1901-1961)

May 13 American 2 time Academy award-winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60

  • May 18 Henry O'Neill, American actor ("Lady Killer"; "Nothing But Trouble"), dies at 69
  • May 22 Joan Davis [Josephine Davis], American comic radio and screen actress (I Married Joan; The Rudy Vallee Show), dies of a heart attack at 48