Actors Who Died on May 27
- 1958 Ainslie Pryor, American actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies of cancer at 37
- 1960 Edward Brophy, American character actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, The Cameraman, Doughboys), dies at 65
- 1960 George Zucco, British actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury), dies at 74
- 1969 Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers), dies of an intracranial hemorrhage at 43
- 1971 Chips Rafferty [John William Pilbean Goffage], Australian actor (Wake in Fright, Desert Rats), dies from a heart attack at 62
- 1976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
- 1985 Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80
- 1988 Florida Friebus, American actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ' Mrs. Gillis"; The Bob Newhart Show - "Mrs. Bakerman"), dies of a stroke at 78
- 1988 Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies
- 1989 Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies
- 1992 John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70
- 1993 Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies
- 1993 Roger MacDougall, Scottish playwright and screenwriter (The Man in the White Suit), dies at 82
- 2001 Ramon Bieri, American actor (Badlands, The Andromeda Strain), dies at 71
- 2006 Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
- 2006 Paul Gleason, American actor (Breakfast Club, Die Hard), dies of lung cancer at 67
- 2007 Gretchen Wyler, American actress, dancer (Silk Stockings), and animal rights activist, dies at 75
- 2010 Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (The Adventure of Sudsakorn), dies at 81
- 2011 Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (Taxi - "Bobby"; Grease - "Kenickie"; Babylon 5 - "Zack"), dies of pneumonia and sepsis at 60
- 2013 Bill Pertwee, British actor (Dad's Army), dies at 86
- 2018 Russell Nype, American singer and actor (The Stuff,;Call Me Madam; Dorothy), dies at 98
- 2021 Robert Hogan, American actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat), dies at 87
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