- Dec 2 Roxie Roker, Bahamian-American actress (The Jeffersons- Helen Willis), dies of breast cancer at 66
- Dec 3 Jimmy Jewel [James Jewel Marsh], British comedic actor (The Avengers, Thicker Than Water), dies at 82
- Dec 5 Robert Parrish, American film director editor and actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79
- Dec 6 Kathleen Harrison, English actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
- Dec 8 George J. Lewis, Mexican actor (Don-Zorro), dies at 91
- Dec 8 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, dies at 70
- Dec 9 Benny Lee, Scottish singer and actor (Are You Being Served), dies at 79
- Dec 9 Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56
- Dec 9 Vivian Blaine, American actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy), dies of heart failure at 74
- Dec 10 Darren Robinson [Human Beatbox], American rapper and actor (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), dies of a heart attack at 28
- Dec 11 Arthur Mullard, English actor, comedian and singer (Romany Jones), dies at 82
- Dec 11 John Heawood, Canadian actor, singer and choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), dies at 75
- Dec 11 Robert Shelton [Shapiro], American born music and film critic, dies at 69
- Dec 12 Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
- Dec 15 Charles Fletcher, British pioneering physician and TV presenter (wrote the 1st report into the dangers of smoking), dies at 84
- Dec 20 Madge Sinclair (née Walters), Jamaican-American actress (Conrack; Roots - "Bell"; Trapper John, M.D. - "Ernestine"; The Lion King), dies of leukemia at 55
- Dec 22 (Thelma) "Butterfly" McQueen, American actress (Gone With the Wind; Flame of Barbary Coast), dies in a fire at 84
- Dec 23 Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], British actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 84
- Dec 27 Jeremy John Beadle, British critic, writer and broadcaster, dies of AIDS at 39
- Dec 27 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54
Lita Grey (1908-1995)
Dec 29 American actress and second wife of Charlie Chaplin, dies of cancer at 87
- Dec 30 Doris Grau, American script supervisor, actress and voice artist (Point Blank, King Kong), dies from respiratory failure at 71
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