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Actors Who Died on November 28

  • 1959 Lester Vail, American actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage), dies at 60
  • 1963 Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55
  • 1963 Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23
  • 1964 Charles Meredith, American actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70
  • 1969 Roy Barcroft [Howard Ravenscroft], American actor (Oklahoma!; Freckles), dies at 67
  • 1976 (Catherine) Rosalind Russell, American stage and screen actress (His Girl Friday; Auntie Mame; Gypsy), dies of breast cancer at 69
  • 1977 Trevor Bardette, American actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape), dies at 75
  • 1978 André Morell [Cecil André Mesritz], British actor (Ben-Hur, The Message, Hound of the Baskervilles), dies from a heart attack at 69
  • 1983 Christopher George, American actor (The Rat Patrol; Chisum; The Immortal), and US Marine Corp veteran, dies of a heart attack at 52
  • 1990 Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
  • 1992 Bill Kearns, American actor (Playtime), dies of lung cancer at 69
  • 1993 Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78
  • 1993 Kenneth Connor, English comedian and actor, best known for his "Carry On" films, dies of cancer at 75
  • 1997 Georges Marchal, French actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way, La mort en ce jardin), dies at 77
  • 2000 Liane Haid, Austrian actress (Lady Hamilton), dies at 105
  • 2005 Marc Lawrence [Max Goldsmith], American character actor (Man With Golden Gun), dies of natural causes at 95
  • 2006 Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
  • 2009 Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
  • 2010 Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Spy Hard, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun), dies of pneumonia at 84
  • 2015 Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), dies of natural causes at 97
  • 2016 Grant Tinker, American TV executive (Chairman of NBC), dies at 90
  • 2016 Van Williams, American actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon), dies at 82
  • 2017 Shadia [Fatmah Ahmed Kamal Shaker], Egyptian actress ("Al Maraa Al Maghoula" (The Unknown Woman)), and singer ("Ya Habibti Ya Masr" (Oh Egypt, My Love)), dies from respiratory failure at 86
  • 2020 Dave Prowse, English actor (Darth Vader), dies of COVID-19 at 85
  • 2022 Clarence Gilyard Jr, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger - "Trivette"; Matlock, 1989-93 - "Conrad"; Die Hard), and educator, dies at 66