Birthdays in Film & TV
- May 2 Quinn Redeker, American actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless), born in Woodstock, Illinois
- May 5 Patrick Gowers, British choral and film score composer (Viri Galilaei; Hamlet; Smiley's People), born in Islington, England (d. 2014)
- May 6 Joanna Dunham, English actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood), born in Luton, Bedfordshire (d. 2014)
Albert Finney (1936-2019)
May 9 English actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano), born in Salford, England
Glenda Jackson (87 years old)
May 9 English actress (Women in Love), born in Cheshire, England
- May 9 Terry Drinkwater, American TV newsman (CBS), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1989)
- May 12 Klaus Doldinger, German jazz saxophonist (Passport) and composer for film, born in Berlin, Germany
- May 12 Tom Snyder, American television and radio interviewer (Tomorrow, 1973-82; The Late Late Show, 1995-99), and news anchor (NBC Weekend News; WABC), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2007)
- May 13 Rafael Campos, Dominican actor (Tonka), born in Santiago, Dominican Republic (d. 1985)
- May 15 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American Tony Award-winning stage singer and actress (Carnival), and film star (Cinderfella), born in Pesaro, Italy
- May 16 Roy Hudd, British comedian (Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood), born in Croydon, Surrey, England (d. 2020)
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
May 17 American actor and director (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider), born in Dodge City, Kansas
- May 20 Anthony Zerbe, Cal, actor (Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
- May 22 Toshiaki Tsushima, Japanese film score composer, born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan (d. 2013)
- May 23 Charles Kimbrough, American stage and screen actor (Murphy Brown - "Jim"; Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2023)
- May 27 Louis Gossett Jr, American actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep), born in Brooklyn, New York
- May 29 Arlene McQuade, American actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs), born in NYC, New York
- May 30 Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- May 30 Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
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