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Deaths in Film & TV on April 27

  • 1873 William Charles Macready, British actor, manager, and diarist, dies at 80
  • 1876 George Aiken, American playwright and actor famous for writing the most popular stage adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", dies at 45
  • 1950 Hobart Cavanaugh, American actor (Border Town, Black Angel), dies at 63
  • 1965 Alan Bunce, American radio & television actor (Homicidal, Ethel & Albert), dies at 64
  • 1965 Edward R. Murrow, American newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57
  • 1969 Dino Terranova, American actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65
  • 1970 Arthur Shields, Irish actor (River, Enchanted Island), dies at 73
  • 1975 Nicholas Soussanin, Russian-American actor (Last Command, Captain Fury), dies at 86
  • 1977 Stanley Adams, American character actor (Star Trek - "Cyrano Jones"; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Lilies of the Field), commits suicide at 62
  • 1982 Tom Tully, American radio, stage, and screen actor (The Caine Mutiny; Shane), dies at 73
  • 1988 David Scarboro, British actor, dies at 20
  • 1994 Lynne Frederick, English actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
  • 1996 Joan Sterndale-Bennett, British actress (Brighton Rock, Those Fantastic Flying Fools), dies at 82
  • 1997 Paul Lambert, American character actor (Executive Suite, Spartacus), dies at 74
  • 1998 Godfrey Kenton, English actor (The Tempest, Well's Theater), dies at 96
  • 2000 Vicki Sue Robinson, American stage and screen actress, and pop singer ("Turn the Beat Around"), dies of cancer at 45
  • 2009 Feroz Khan, Indian actor, producer and director (known as Clint Eastwood of Bollywood), dies at 69
  • 2009 Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress & model, dies at 25
  • 2011 Marian Mercer, American actress & singer (Dean Martin Show), dies at 75
  • 2015 Suzanne Crough, American child actress (The Partridge Family), dies at 52
  • 2017 Vinod Khanna, Indian Bollywood actor (Mera Gaon Mera Desh), dies at 70
  • 2018 Paul Junger Witt, American TV and film producer (Brian's Song; Soap; The Golden Girls; Dead Poets Society), dies of cancer at 77


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