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Actors Who Died on November 15

Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954)

American actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), dies at 76

  • 1958 Tyrone Power, American actor (The Mark of Zorro; Nightmare Alley), dies of a heart attack at 44
  • 1961 Douglas Walton, Canadian-American actor (Bad Lands), dies of a heart attack at 51
  • 1961 Elsie Ferguson, American actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 78
  • 1967 Alice Lake, American silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72
  • 1969 Roy D'Arcy [Roy Giusti], American actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies), dies at 75
  • 1974 James Morrison, American actor (Wine of Youth, Little Detectives), dies on his birthday at 86
  • 1976 Jean Gabin, French actor (Moulin Rouge, La Grande Illusion), dies at 72
  • 1979 Jed Harris, Austrian-born American theatre producer and director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball), dies at 79
  • 1981 Enid Markey, American actress, 1st to play Tarzan's Jane, dies at 85
  • 1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (The Italian Job, Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 71
  • 1988 Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
  • 1990 Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
  • 1993 Evelyn Venable, American model and actress (Death Takes a Holiday, Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80
  • 2003 Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Annie), dies of cancer at 78
  • 2003 Laurence Tisch, American businessman (CEO of CBS Television, 1985-96; co-founder of Loews Corp), dies of gastroesophageal cancer, at 80
  • 2004 John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
  • 2006 Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
  • 2011 Dulcie Gray, British singer, actress, author and lepidopterist (Mine Own Executioner), dies at 95
  • 2015 Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor (The Chess Players, Gandhi), dies at 86
  • 2015 Vincent Margera, American reality TV personality (Viva La Bam - "Don Vito"), and convicted sex offender, dies of kidney and liver failure at 59
  • 2017 Keith Barron, English actor (At Earth's Core, Baby Love), dies at 83
  • 2020 Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor, playwright and poet (Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy), dies of COVID-19 complications at 85 [1]
  • 2023 Ken Squier, American sportscaster (NASCAR on CBS, TBS 1983–99; first lap-by-lap commentary of Daytona 500 1979), dies of an intestinal blockage at 88