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Actors Who Died on March 19

  • 1974 Edward Platt, American actor (Get Smart - "The Chief'; North By Northwest), dies of a heart attack at 58
  • 1976 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (Backbiters, Napoleon), dies at 86
  • 1979 Albert "Al" Hodge, American actor on radio (Green Hornet), and early television (Captain Video), dies of heart failure at 66
  • 1979 Richard Beckinsale, English actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
  • 1987 Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
  • 1991 Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
  • 1992 Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas, Garrison's Gorillas), dies of a heart attack at 66
  • 2003 Émile Genest, French Canadian actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Les Plouffe), dies at 81
  • 2007 Calvert DeForest, American comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman), dies at 85

Paul Scofield (1922-2008)

English actor (A Man for All Seasons and Quiz Show), dies from leukemia at 86

  • 2008 Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
  • 2012 Israel "Ulu" Grosbard, Belgian-born American actor and director (Straight Time, Georgia, Falling in Love), dies at 83
  • 2013 Harry Reems, American actor, dies from pancreatic cancer at 65
  • 2022 Scoey Mitchell [Roscoe Mitchill], American TV writer, director, and actor (Barefoot in the Park; Rhoda), dies of kidney failure at 92
  • 2024 M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor (Blade Runner; Wildcats; Blood Simple; Knives Out), dies at 88 [1]