- Jan 26 Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
- Feb 3 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74
- Feb 12 Sidney Toler, American actor, director and playwright (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight), dies at 72
- Feb 26 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
- Mar 20 Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and film director (Ebberöds bank, Med folket för fosterlandet), dies at 62
- May 31 Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
- Jun 8 Tom O'Brien, American actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
- Jul 15 Henry Kolker, German-American actor and director (Holiday, Baby Face, Mad Love), dies at 72
- Sep 21 Harry Carey [Henry DeWitt Carey II], American actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Red River), dies at 69
- Sep 28 William B. Davidson, American film actor dies at 59
- Oct 10 [Joseph Jacinto] Jo Mora, Uruguayan-born American cartoonist, cowboy and illustrator who lived with the Hopi tribe and wrote extensively of his experiences, dies at 70
- Oct 24 Dudley Digges, Irish actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Invisible Man), dies at 68
- Nov 30 Ernst Lubitsch, German actor, producer and film director (To Be or Not to Be, Love Parade, Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies from a heart attack at 55