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Actors Who Died in February 1966

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