- Nov 10 Abel Gance, French movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
William Holden (1918-1981)
Nov 12 American actor (The Blue Knight, Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai), slips on a rug and bleeds to death at 63
- Nov 15 Enid Markey, American actress, 1st to play Tarzan's Jane, dies at 85
- Nov 16 Morgan Conway, American actor (Dick Tracy, Brother Orchid), dies at 78
- Nov 21 Harry Von Zell, American radio announcer and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), dies of cancer at 75
- Nov 22 Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74
- Nov 25 Jack Albertson, American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), dies from colon cancerr at 74
- Nov 27 Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian-American singer, muse and wife of Kurt Weill, and actress (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone; From Russia with Love), dies of cancer at 83
Natalie Wood (1938-1981)
Nov 29 American actress (Miracle on 34th Street; Gypsy; Rebel Without A Cause; West Side Story), dies due to "drowning and other undetermined factors" at 43
- Nov 30 Robert H. Harris, American actor (Jake-The Goldbergs, Mirage), dies at 70