- May 1 Assaf Dayan, Israeli actor (He Walked Through the Fields), dies at 68
- May 12 Cornell Borchers, German actress (The Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul), dies at 89
- May 25 Herb Jeffries [Umberto Alejandro Ballentino], American actor and director (The Bronze Buckaroo, Mundo depravados), dies of heart failure at 100
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