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Actors Who Died on December 24

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  • 1955 Nana Bryant, American stage and screen actress (Ladies of the Chorus; Harvey; Brewster's Millions), dies at 67
  • 1957 Norma Talmadge, American silent screen actress (Within the Law, Sign on Bay), dies at 64
  • 1972 Melville Ruick, American actor (Sun Valley Serenade, City Hospital), dies at 74
  • 1975 Bernard Herrmann [Maximillian Herman], American radio and Academy Award-winning film score composer (Mercury Theatre on the Air; Citizen Kane; Vertigo; Psycho; Taxi Driver), and conductor, bdies of a heart attack at 64
  • 1975 Tilly Losch, Austrian dancer and actress (Duel in the Sun; Garden of Allah), dies at about 71 (birth date disputed)
  • 1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
  • 1984 Ian Hendry, British actor (The Avengers, The Lotus Eaters), dies of a stomach haemorrhage at 53
  • 1984 Peter Lawford, British actor, producer and socialite (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
  • 1993 Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman, broadcaster (The Art Of Living), and author (The Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95
  • 1994 Julie Haydon [Donella Donaldson], American actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84
  • 1994 Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (Final Justice, South Pacific, The Barefoot Contessa), dies of a neural virus at 78
  • 1997 James Komack, American writer, director, and actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father; Chico and the Man; Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 73

Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997)

Japanese writer and actor (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Shogun), dies at 77

Toshiro Mifune
  • 2005 Michael Vale, American actor known for being Dunkin' Donuts mascot "Fred the Baker", dies at 83
  • 2006 Frank Stanton, American television executive (CBS), dies at 98
  • 2006 Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet, comedian, and composer, dies of complications from epilepsy at 66

Harold Pinter (1930-2008)

British playwright and screenwriter (The Birthday Party, The Homecoming), dies at 78

Harold Pinter
  • 2011 Cheetah [Cheeta, Cheta, Chita], chimpanzee actor (1930s Tarzan franchise), dies of kidney failure at 80
  • 2012 Charles Durning, American actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), dies from natural causes at 89

Jack Klugman (1922-2012)

American actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus), dies at 90

Jack Klugman
  • 2012 Richard Rodney Bennett, English pianist, classical and film score composer (Four Weddings And A Funeral), dies at 76
  • 2013 Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter (The Man Who Planted Trees), dies at 89
  • 2016 Liz Smith [Betty Gleadle] British BAFTA Award-winning character actress (A Private Function; 2point4 Children -"Belle" and "Bette"), dies at 95
  • 2017 Dick Orkin, American radio performer (Chickenman), and screenwriter (The Tim Conway Show), dies of a stroke at 84
  • 2017 Heather Menzies-Urich, Canadian actress (The Sound of Music; Piranha), dies of cancer at 68
  • 2022 John Bird actor, British satirist, actor, writer, and director (That Was the Week That Was; Bremner, Bird and Fortune), dies at 86
  • 2022 Tunisha Sharma, Indian actress (Alibaba - Dastaan-e-Kabul), found dead at 20 [1]
  • 2023 David Leland, English BAFTA, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning stage and screen director, playwright, and screenwriter (Wish You Were Here; The Borgias; Band of Brothers; Concert for George), dies at 82 [1]


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