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Actors Who Died on December 3

  • 1949 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian stage and film actress (The Wolf Man; King's Row), and teacher (School of Dramatic Art - New York), dies following a house fire at 73
  • 1961 Mary Charleson, Irish-American silent film actress (Upstairs And Down), dies at 71
  • 1969 Mathias Wieman, German actor (The Blue Light, Fear), dies at 67
  • 1969 Ruth White, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird, Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 55
  • 1976 Mary Nash, actress (Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91
  • 1985 Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
  • 1990 Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59
  • 1991 Casey Walters, American actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), dies after a stroke at 75
  • 1992 Harry Ellerbe, American actor (House of Usher; Magnetic Monster), dies at 91
  • 1992 Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor, dies of emphysema at 74
  • 1993 Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40
  • 1995 Jimmy Jewel [James Jewel Marsh], British comedic actor (The Avengers, Thicker Than Water), dies at 82
  • 1997 Violet Carlson, American Broadway actress (The Student Prince), dies at 97
  • 1999 John Archer [Ralph Bowman], American actor (Destination: Moon, White Heat, Blue Hawaii), dies of lung cancer at 84
  • 1999 Madeline Kahn, American stage and screen actress (What's Up, Doc?; Young Frankenstein; Paper Moon; Blazing Saddles), and singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 57
  • 2000 Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera cartoon theme songs), dies at 78
  • 2002 Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
  • 2003 David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
  • 2003 Ellen Drew [Esther Loretta Ray], American actress (Isle of Dead, Christmas in July), dies at 88
  • 2006 Len Sutton, American auto racer and broadcaster (Indianapolis 500, 1962 runner-up), dies from cancer at 81
  • 2007 James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
  • 2009 Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident), dies at 90
  • 2011 Dharam Devdutt "Dev" Anand, Indian comedian, actor, director and producer, dies at 88
  • 2018 Philip Bosco, American actor (Trading Places, Lend Me a Tenor), dies at 88