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Actors Who Died in September 1978

  • Sep 8 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentine film director (Monday's Child), dies at 54
  • Sep 12 Frank Ferguson, American character actor (My Friend Flicka - "Gus"; Peyton Place - "Eli Carson"), dies of cancer at 71 (0r 78, birthdate disputed)
  • Sep 22 Lina Carstens, German actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
  • Sep 23 Jay Adler, American actor (Macon County Line; Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79
  • Sep 24 Ruth Etting, American stage, radio, and screen singer ("Shine On Harvest Moon"; "Ten Cents A Dance"), and actress (Roman Scandals; Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
  • Sep 24 Virginia Valli [McSweeney], American (mostly silent) film actress (Wild Oranges; Pleasure Garden), dies at 73
  • Sep 25 Claire Adams, Canadian born silent film actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
  • Sep 30 Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75