Deaths in Film & TV
- Aug 8 David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73
- Aug 9 John Schofield, BBC journalist, shot to death in Croatia at 29
- Aug 10 Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
- Aug 11 Phil Harris [Wonga Philip], American actor and singer (Anything Goes, Robin Hood), dies of heart failure at 91
- Aug 11 Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83
- Aug 12 Frank Cvitanovich, Canadian filmmaker, dies at 68
- Aug 16 John Cameron Swayze, American newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg), dies at 89
- Aug 17 David Warrilow, English actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
- Aug 17 Howard Koch, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 92
- Aug 18 James Maxwell, American actor and director (The Portrait of a Lady, The Shadow of the Tower, The Evil of Frankenstein), dies at 66
- Aug 19 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
- Aug 20 Vladimír Škutina, Czechoslovakian writer and actor (Hvezda jede na jih), dies of cancer at 64
- Aug 21 Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69
- Aug 23 Leslie Graves, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2), dies of AIDS at 35
- Aug 24 Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61
- Aug 27 Dick Bentley, Australian comedian and actor (The Glums), dies at 88
- Aug 29 Frank Perry, American film director (Diary of Mad Housewife, David & Lisa), dies at 65
- Aug 30 Thomas Chalmers, British broadcaster, dies at 82
- Aug 31 David Farrar, English actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse, Watusi), dies at 87
- Sep 1 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Sep 4 John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42
- Sep 6 Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36
- Sep 10 Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
- Sep 12 Jeremy Brett [Peter Huggins], English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 61
- Sep 14 Eiji Okada, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), dies of heart failure at 75
- Sep 16 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), dies at 67
- Sep 17 Grady Sutton, American actor (The Bank Dick; The Pruitts of Southhampton), dies at 89
- Sep 21 Irven Spence, American animator, dies at 86
- Sep 21 Peter Shankland, filmmaker/writer, dies at 94
- Sep 25 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy), dies at 102
- Sep 28 Eddy Grove, American actor (Dragnet, The Silent Service, Medic), dies at 78
- Sep 29 Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51
- Sep 30 George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
- Oct 1 Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90
- Oct 5 Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
- Oct 12 Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55
- Oct 12 David McLean [Eugene Joseph Huth], American actor known for appearing in Marlboro advertisements (Days of Our Lives, Tate), dies of lung cancer at 73
- Oct 15 Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69
- Oct 16 Richard Caldicot, British actor (Horse's Mouth, Strife, Mrs Thursday), dies at 87
- Oct 20 Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53
- Oct 20 Jack Rose, American screenwriter, dies at 83
- Oct 22 Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
- Oct 25 David Healy, American-born actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies following a heart operation at 66
- Oct 25 Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (Way We Were, Life Goes On), dies from complications of rheumatoid arthritis at 74
- Oct 27 Mike Dutfield, documentary producer, dies in motorcycle accident at 48
- Oct 27 Susi Hush, English television producer, dies at 49
- Oct 31 Rosalind Cash, American actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies of cancer at 56
- Nov 2 Gilbert "Gil" Lamb, American actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High), dies at 91
- Nov 3 John Orchard, British actor (Capone, M*A*S*H), dies at 66
- Nov 3 (Sidney Edward) "Eddie" Pola [Pollacsek], American radio and TV producer, and lyricist ("The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"; "I Love The Way You Say Goodnight"), dies at 88
- Nov 4 Paul Eddington, British actor (Devil Rides Out, Yes Minister), dies at 68
- Nov 4 Edward "Eddie" Egan, American actor (The French Connection, Joe Forrester), dies of cancer at 65
- Nov 5 Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
- Nov 6 Aneta Corsaut, American actress, (The Andy Griffith Show), dies at 62
- Nov 7 John Patrick, American screenwriter and playwright (Pulitzer Prize 1954), commits suicide at 90
- Nov 7 Melvin "Slappy" White, American comedian and actor, dies of heart attack at 74
- Nov 10 Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
- Nov 13 Sir Robert Stephens, British actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust, Chaplin, QB VII, Cleopatra), dies from complications of surgery at 64
- Nov 19 Bruce Trent [William Butters], British singer and actor (The Passing Show, Band Waggon), dies at 83
- Nov 23 Louis Malle, French film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63
- Nov 24 Jeffrey Lynn [Ragnar Godfrey Lind], American actor (Four Daughters, Roaring Twenties), dies from natural causes at 86
- Nov 30 William Roerick, American actor (The Wasp Woman, Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
- Dec 2 Roxie Roker, Bahamian-American actress (The Jeffersons- Helen Willis), dies of breast cancer at 66
- Dec 3 Jimmy Jewel [James Jewel Marsh], British comedic actor (The Avengers, Thicker Than Water), dies at 82
- Dec 5 Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79
- Dec 6 Kathleen Harrison, English actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
- Dec 8 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, dies at 70
- Dec 8 George J. Lewis, Mexican actor (Don-Zorro), dies at 91
- Dec 9 Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56
- Dec 9 Vivian Blaine, American actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy), dies of heart failure at 74
- Dec 11 Arthur Mullard, English actor, comedian and singer (Romany Jones), dies at 82
- Dec 11 John Heawood, Canadian actor, singer and choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), dies at 75
- Dec 11 Robert Shelton [Shapiro], music and film critic, dies at 69
- Dec 12 Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
- Dec 20 Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55
- Dec 22 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind, Flame of Barbary Coast), dies in a fire at 84
- Dec 23 Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], British actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 84
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Dec 25 Dean Martin [Dino Paul Crocetti], American singer, comedian and actor (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), dies of throat cancer at 78
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- Dec 30 Doris Grau, American script supervisor, actress and voice artist (Point Blank, King Kong), dies from respiratory failure at 71