- Dec 6 Frances Bavier, American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress (The Andy Griffith Show & Mayberry, RFD - "Aunt Bee"), dies of congestive heart failure at 86
- Dec 6 John Payne, American actor (The Restless Gun, Miracle on 34th Street), dies aged 77
- Dec 7 William 'Haystacks' Calhoun, American professional wrestler, dies at 55
- Dec 14 Jock Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney], American actor and stuntman (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury), dies of a stroke at 70
- Dec 15 Arnold Moss, American actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata), dies at 79
- Dec 15 Edward Underdown, British actor (Beat the Devil, Thunderball), dies at 81
- Dec 16 Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies
- Dec 16 Lee Van Cleef, American actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 64
- Dec 16 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas), dies at 59
- Dec 20 Audrey Christie, American actress (Splendor in the Grass, Fair Exchange), dies at 77
- Dec 23 Peter Bennett, British actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at 72
- Dec 26 Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies
- Dec 30 Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
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