Actors Who Died on March 11
- 1931 F. W. Murnau German film director (Nosferatu, The Last Laugh), dies of a car crash at 42
- 1941 Walford Davies, British organist, composer, educator, and broadcaster (BBC), dies at 71
- 1944 Irvin S. Cobb, American writer and humorist (Old Judge Priest), dies at 67
- 1950 Florence Arliss, British actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
- 1952 Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
- 1967 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
- 1967 Joseph Forte, British-American actor (Reefer Madness; Life With Luigi), dies at of a heart attack at 75
- 1971 Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), dies of pneumonia at 64
- 1979 Victor Kilian, American actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
- 1987 Joe Gladwin, British actor (Nearest and Dearest, No Hard Feelings), dies at 81
- 1989 William Challee, American stage and screen actor (Desperate; Five Easy Pieces; Moonchild), dies at 84
- 1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
- 1992 Richard Brooks, American film director (Blackboard Jungle; In Cold Blood; Key Largo), dies at 79
- 1993 Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
- 1996 Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 67
- 1999 Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox), dies from a heart attack at 87
- 2007 Betty Hutton [Elizabeth June Thornburg], American actress, dancer, singer and comedian (Greatest Show on Earth), dies of colon cancer a 86
- 2010 Merlin Olsen, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Father Murphy), dies of cancer at 69
- 2015 Ralph Taeger, American actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo), dies at 78
- 2018 Ken Dodd, British singer and comedian described as "the last great music hall entertainer," dies of complications from a chest infection at 90
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