- Sep 2 Eric Berry, English/American actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80
- Sep 3 Leon Liebgold, Polish American actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
- Sep 4 Clyde Adler, American writer and voice actor (Soupy Sales Show - "White Fang"; "Black Tooth"), dies at 67
- Sep 4 Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (Fantasy Island - Ze plane! Ze plane!), shoots self to death at 50
- Sep 5 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
- Sep 5 Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
- Sep 9 David Tendlar, American animator (Betty Boop), dies at 84
- Sep 9 Helen O'Connell, American big-band singer (Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - "Green Eyes"; "Anapola"), and TV host (Today Show, 1956-58), dies of cancer at 74
- Sep 10 Janice Carroll, American actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 10 Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/American actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73
- Sep 12 Charles Lamont, American actor and director (Abbott & Costello films), dies at 95
- Sep 12 Harold Innocent, English actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
- Sep 12 Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla), dies of liver cancer at 76
- Sep 17 James Griffith, American actor (Sheriff of Cochise), dies at 77
- Sep 19 Richard Landau, American screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
- Sep 20 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
- Sep 21 Fernand Ledoux, Belgian-French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
- Sep 21 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraqi-English-Dutch actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
- Sep 23 William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53
- Sep 24 Zita Johann, Hungarian/American actress (Mummy), dies at 89
- Sep 29 Gordon Douglas [Brickner], American film director (Our Gang; Laurel and Hardy; Young At Heart; Way...Way Out; Tony Rome; They Call Me Mister Tibbs!), dies of cancer at 85
- Sep 30 Tony Brafa, American actor (The Naked Gun - "Enrico Pallazzo"), dies at 72
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