- Dec 6 Alun Owen, Welsh screenwriter and playwright (Hard Day's Night, The Rose Affair), dies at 69
- Dec 6 Gian Maria Volontè, Italian actor (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
- Dec 7 Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
- Dec 13 Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60
- Dec 17 Jan Wiegel, director and producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
- Dec 18 Heinz Bernhard [Löwenstein], German-born British actor and director (Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 71
- Dec 18 Lilia Skala, Austrian/American actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98
- Dec 21 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37
- Dec 23 Nora Dunfee, American actress (Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil), dies at 78
- Dec 23 Sebastian Shaw, British actor, director, playwright and poet (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste), dies of natural causes at 89
- Dec 24 Julie Haydon [Donella Donaldson], American actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84
- Dec 24 Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (Final Justice, South Pacific, The Barefoot Contessa), dies of a neural virus at 78
- Dec 26 Robert Emhardt, American actor (Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers), dies at 80
- Dec 26 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61
- Dec 29 Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68
- Dec 31 Leo Fuchs, Polish-born Jewish American actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Avalon), dies at 83
Woody Strode (1914-1994)
Dec 31 American football end (LA Rams, Calgary Stampeders) and actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream), dies of lung cancer at 80
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