Deaths in Film & Television in 1986

Ray Milland

Mar 10 Ray Milland, Welsh actor (The Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), dies at 81

Mar 14 Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
Mar 14 Huw Wheldon, Welsh broadcaster (BBC), dies at 69
Mar 17 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
Mar 22 Charles Starrett, American actor (The Mask of Fu Manchu, Bonanza Town), dies at 82
Mar 22 Derek Farr, British actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large), dies from cancer at 74
Mar 24 Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67
Mar 26 Bartlett Robinson, American actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
Mar 28 Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
Mar 28 Virginia Gilmore, American actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies at 66
Mar 29 Harry Ritz [Joachim], American actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie), dies at 78

James Cagney

Mar 30 James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at 86

Mar 31 Jerry Paris, American director (Happy Days) and actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show- Jerry), dies at 60
Apr 13 Stephen Stucker, American actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies at 38
Apr 14 Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, dies at 46
Apr 15 Tim McIntire, American actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
Apr 19 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
Apr 23 Otto Preminger, Austrian director and producer (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
Apr 26 Bessie Love, American actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87

Broderick Crawford

Apr 26 Broderick Crawford, American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol), dies after a series of strokes at 74

May 1 Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)

May 3 Robert Alda, American actor (Supertrain, By Popular Demand), dies at 72
May 7 Jeffrey Mylett, American actor and songwriter, dies at 36
May 9 Herschel Bernardi, American actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front), dies of a heart attack at 62
May 12 Lee Bonnell, American actor, dies at 67
May 22 Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63
May 23 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
May 24 Gunnar Bjornstrand, Swedish actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76
May 24 Yakima Canutt [Enos Edward], American rodeo cowboy, actor and director(Texas Terror), dies at 90
May 28 Lurene Tuttle, American actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
Jun 3 Anna Neagle, English actress (London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell), dies at 81
Jun 3 Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
Jun 14 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
Jun 19 Coluche [Michel Colucci], French comedian (My Best Friend's Girl), dies at 41
Jun 20 Tim Herbert, American comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
Jun 23 Nigel Stock, British actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies at 66
Jun 27 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
Jun 29 Ida Mae McKenzie, American actress, dies at 75
Jun 29 Robert Drivas [Choromokos], American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man, Our Private World), dies of Aids complications at 47
Jul 1 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
Jul 15 Benny Rubin, American actor and comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
Jul 15 Florence Halop, American actress (Night Court, St Elsewhere), dies of lung cancer at 63
Jul 20 Helen Craig, American actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night), dies at 74
Jul 21 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
Jul 21 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
Aug 3 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41

Aug 13 Helen Mack, American actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies of cancer at 72
Aug 19 Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck; Maude), dies at 79
Aug 19 Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
Aug 20 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
Aug 20 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
Aug 23 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
Aug 25 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
Aug 26 Ted Knight [Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka], American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort), dies of colorectal cancer at 62
Sep 1 Murray Hamilton, American character actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Anatomy of a Murder), dies of lung cancer at 63
Sep 6 Blanche Sweet, American actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
Sep 12 Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
Sep 15 Virginia Gregg, American actress (Little Women), dies at 69
Sep 17 Patricia "Pat" Phoenix, British actress (Coronation Street, L Shaped Room), dies of lung cancer at 62
Sep 26 Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
Sep 28 Robert Helpmann, Australian actor, choreographer and dancer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Don Quixote), dies at 77
Sep 29 Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
Oct 5 Hal B. Wallis [Aaron Blum Wolowicz], American movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park), dies at 87
Oct 7 Cheryl Crawford, American actress and producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), dies at 84
Oct 14 Keenan Wynn, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), dies at 70
Oct 22 Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68
Oct 22 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
Oct 25 Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 67
Oct 29 Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
Nov 2 Paul Frees [Solomon Hersh Frees], American voice actor (voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), dies at 66
Nov 5 Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
Nov 8 Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
Nov 10 Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
Nov 11 Roger C.Carmel, American actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
Nov 13 Thierry Le Luron, French humorist, dies at 34
Nov 16 Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63

Nov 17 Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71
Nov 18 Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
Nov 21 Jerry Colonna, American actor (Jerry Colonna Show, Alice in Wonderland, Road to Singapore), dies at 82
Nov 21 Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
Nov 21 Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
Nov 22 Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], American actor, singer, dancer and musician (Chico and the Man, The Shining), dies at 76
Nov 27 Steve Tracy, actor (Percival-Little House on Praire), dies at 61
Nov 28 Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76

Cary Grant

Nov 29 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 82

Nov 29 Herb Vigran, actor (Vampire, Mark of Vampire), dies

Desi Arnaz

Dec 2 Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies of lung cancer at 69

Dec 10 Susan Cabot, American actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), is killed by her son following a psychotic episode at 59
Dec 11 Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30
Dec 13 Heather Angel, actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77
Dec 18 Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies
Dec 26 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84
Dec 26 Leslie Dwyer, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!), dies at 80
Dec 29 Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Soviet filmmaker (Andrei Rublev, Mirror, Stalker), dies at 54
Dec 31 Lloyd Haynes, American actor and TV writer (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies of lung cancer at 54

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