- Dec 1 Robert Gordon, American child actor (billed as "Bobby" - The Jazz Singer; Mountains of Manhattan), and director (The Joe Louis Story), dies at 77
- Dec 2 Robert Cummings, American actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder), dies of kidney failure at 80
- Dec 3 Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59
- Dec 4 Edward Binns, American actor (12 Angry Men; Fail-Safe), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Dec 7 Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka), dies at 60
- Dec 7 Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (Mon oncle Antoine), dies at 67
- Dec 7 Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
- Dec 8 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
- Dec 9 Mike Mazurki, Austrian-American actor and professional wrestler (Some Like It Hot, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World), dies at 82
- Dec 14 Hope Sansberry, American actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
- Dec 15 Betty Warren, British actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies at 83
- Dec 15 Jean Paige, American silent film actress (Capt Blood; Black Beauty), dies at 95
- Dec 17 Don Draper, American actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
- Dec 17 Mieke Verstraete [Maria Augustina De Graef], Belgian-Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled), dies at 79
- Dec 18 Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
- Dec 19 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
- Dec 27 Helene Stanley, American actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd),and live-action model for Disney animators (Cinderealla; Sleeping Beauty), dies at 61
- Dec 28 Kiel Martin, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Det. LaRue"), dies of cancer at 46
- Dec 31 Dalton Cathey, American actor dies of AIDS at 44
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