Actors Who Died on December 8
- 1811 Eliza Poe, English-American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Po, dies of tuberculosis at 23 or 24
- 1954 Gladys George, American actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
- 1957 Reginald Sheffield, British actor (Suspicion; Of Human Bondage; Second Chance), dies at 56
- 1983 Slim Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr], American rodeo performer and actor (Dr Strangelove; Blazing Saddles), dies following surgery at 64
- 1984 Luther Adler, American actor (D.O.A., The Desert Fox), dies at 81
- 1988 Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79
- 1990 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
- 1993 Andre Cerf, French actor and filmmaker (Nana), dies at 93
- 1995 George J. Lewis, Mexican actor (Don-Zorro), dies at 91
- 1995 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, dies at 70
- 1996 Howard Rollins, American actor (Bannister-Wildside, Ed Harding-Another World), dies of AIDS related lymphoma complications at 46
- 2005 Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (The Secret Agent's Blunder), dies at 90
- 2008 Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer, dies at 83
- 2008 Robert Prosky, Polish-American actor and comedian (Christine, Thief), dies at 77
- 2013 Don Mitchell, American actor, dies at 70
- 2016 Joseph Mascolo, American actor (Days of Our Lives), dies at 87
- 2019 Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street (1969-2018), dies at 85
- 2019 Rene Auberjonois, American actor and voice artist (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, God of War), dies of lung cancer at 79
- 2023 Ryan O'Neal, American actor (Love Story; Paper Moon; What's Up, Doc?), dies at 82 [1]
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide