- Jan 3 Rex Lease, American actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer's Last Stand), dies at 62
- Jan 22 Herbert Marshall, English actor (Trouble in Paradise; The Little Foxes), dies at 75
- Jan 31 Elizabeth Patterson, American stage, silent and sound screen character actress (The Boy Friend; Intruder in the Dust; I Love Lucy - "Mrs. Trumbull"), dies of pneumonia at 91
Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
Feb 1 American actor and comedian (Navigator, Steamboat Bill Jr, The General), dies at 70
- Feb 1 William Harrigan, American actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
- Feb 3 June Walker, American actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
- Feb 6 Narcisa de León, Filipino film mogul, dies at 88
- Feb 9 Sophie Tucker [Kalish], Russian-born American singer and actress (My Yiddish Mama) known as "last of the red hot mammas", dies at 79
- Feb 17 Frank Pettingell, English actor (Becket, Up the Creek), dies at 75
- Feb 17 Gail Kane, American actress (White Sister, Arizona), dies at 81
- Feb 18 Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and film director (All the King's Men, The Hustler), dies at 57
- Feb 26 Minerva Urecal [Dunnock], American stage, radio, and screen character actress (Accent on Love; The Adventures of Tugboat Annie; Peter Gunn; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao), dies of a heart attack at 71
- Feb 28 Jonathan Hale [Hatley], Canadian-American, actor (Blondie films; The Saint films), shoots himself at 74
- Mar 3 Alice Pearce, American Emmy Award-winning comedienne and actress (On the Town; Bewitched - "Mrs. Kravitz" (the 1st one)), dies from ovarian cancer at 48
- Mar 3 William Frawley, American vaudeville, silent and sound screen actor (I Love Lucy - "Fred"; My Three Sons - "Bub"; Miracle on 34th Street), dies of a heart attack at 79
- Mar 12 Estelita Rodriguez, Cuban actress (Rio Bravo, Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose), dies of influenza at 37
- Mar 23 Johannes W Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82
- Mar 24 Lola Beltrán, Mexican ranchera singer ("Priscila elque se fue"; "Paloma Negra") and actress (El revólver sangriento), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 64
- Mar 25 Colin Campbell, Scottish actor (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys), dies at 83
- Mar 30 Erwin Piscator, German theater and film director (Nathan the Wise; Revolt of the Fishermen), dies at 72
- Apr 1 Flann O'Brien [Brian O'Nolan], Irish novelist (At Swim-Two-Birds; The Third Policeman), playwright, and satirist, dies of a heart attack at 54
- Apr 6 Julia Faye, actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73
- Apr 15 Joseph Crehan, American actor (The Roaring Twenties, Meeting at Midnight), dies of stroke at 82
- Apr 28 Ralph Bunker, American actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
- Apr 29 Eugene O'Brien, American actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
- May 21 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
- May 23 Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
- May 26 Don Castle, American actor (Born to Speed; The Invisible Wall), and television producer (Lassie), dies of accidental pain medication overdose at 48
- May 26 Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86
- Jun 3 Alice Calhoun, American silent film actress (Flowing Gold; Between Friends; Pampered Youth), and movie theater owner, dies of cancer at 65
- Jun 5 Natacha Rambova [Winifred Shaughnessy], American film costume designer, 2nd wife of Rudolph Valentino (1923-25), and Egyptologist, dies of a heart attack at 69
- Jun 11 Ethel Clayton, American actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
- Jun 11 Wallace Ford [Samuel Jones Grundy], British actor (Freaks, Harvey, Spellbound, Deputy), dies of a heart attack at 68
- Jun 12 Thomas Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
- Jun 19 Ed Wynn [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], American comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
- Jun 21 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer, dies at 48
- Jun 22 Roger Blunt, New Zealand cricket all-rounder and broadcaster (9 Tests; BBC), dies at 65
- Jun 29 Isabel Dawn, American screenwriter, dies at 68
- Jun 29 Ronald Shiner, British actor (Dry Rot, Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara), dies at 63
- Jul 6 Ann Nagel [Anna Marie Dolan], American actress (Don Winslow of the Navy, The Green Hornet), dies of cancer at 50
- Jul 20 Julien Carette, French actor (Sylvia & the Phantom), dies of burns at 68
- Jul 23 Donald Novis, British singer and actor (Monte Carlo; The Singing Plumber), dies at 60
- Jul 23 Douglass Montgomery, American actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane), dies from spinal cancer at 56
- Jul 23 Montgomery Clift, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Judgement at Nuremberg), dies of a heart attack at 45
- Jul 30 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), dies at 94
- Aug 3 Lenny Bruce [Leonard Schneider], American comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39
- Aug 8 Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler, dies at 75
- Aug 15 Gerhart Pohl, German broadcaster, writer (The Crazy Ferdinand; Flüchtburg), and publisher, dies at 64
- Aug 15 Jan Kiepura, Polish vocalist and actor (Her Wonderful Lie; Give Us this Night), dies of a heart attack at 64
- Aug 15 Seena Owen, American silent screen actress and screenwriter (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
- Aug 16 Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Aug 17 Michael Garrison, American TV producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
- Aug 23 Francis X. Bushman, American silent film actor (Sabrina, Ben-Hur), dies at 83
- Aug 26 Art Baker, American TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 68
- Sep 7 Al Kelly, American double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
- Sep 9 Nestor Paiva, American-Portuguese actor (Zorro, The Creature from the Black Lagoon), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 11 Charlie Cantor, American radio and television actor (The Fred Allen Show - "Socrates Mulligan"; The Jack Benny Program -"Logan Jerkfinkel"), dies at 68
- Sep 14 Gertrude Berg, American actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66
- Sep 14 Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
- Sep 26 Helen Kane, American actress and singer (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
- Sep 28 Eric Fleming, American actor (Gil-Rawhide), drowns at 41
- Oct 6 Sydney Chatton, English actress (Once Upon a Horse), dies of a heart attack at 48
- Oct 13 Clifton Webb [Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck], American actor (Razor's Edge, Laura), dies of a heart attack at 76
- Oct 16 George O'Hara, American silent era screenwriter and actor (The Sea Beast, The Grapes of Wrath), dies at 67
- Oct 17 Soledad Jiménez, Spanish actress (Kid Galahad, The Phantom of the Range), dies at 92
- Oct 18 Bill Nestell, American actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier), dies of a heart attack at 73
- Oct 21 Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
- Oct 23 Claire McDowell, American silent film actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
- Nov 3 Eric Spear, British film and TV composer (Coronation Street theme), dies at 58
- Dec 13 Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer
- Dec 14 Emma Dunn, British-American stage, silent and sound film actress (Dr. Monica; Dr. Kildare (films); Hideaway), dies at 91
- Dec 14 Richard Whorf, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Keeper of Flame), and director (It Happened In Brooklyn), dies from a heart attack at 60
- Dec 14 Verna Felton, American actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Dec 15 American animator (Mickey Mouse), producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Co., dies of lung cancer at 65
- Dec 18 Gene Gauntier [Liggett], American silent film screenwriter and actress. dies at 81
- Dec 22 Robert Keith [Rolland Keith Richey], American character actor (Guys and Dolls; The Wild One; Battle Circus; Branded), dies at 68
- Dec 31 Nipo T. Strongheart, Native American activist, lecturer and film consultant (Pony Soldier), dies at 75
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