- Jan 2 Una Merkel, US actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
- Jan 14 Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
- Jan 18 Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
- Jan 24 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel), dies of pneumonia at 64
- Jan 27 Lilli Palmer [Peiser], German actress (Cloak and Dagger, Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter), dies from abdominal cancer at 71
- Jan 29 Leif Erickson, American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront), dies at 74
- Feb 1 Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
- Feb 6 William Collier [Charles F Gall Jr], American stage and film actor and producer, dies at 84
- Feb 10 Brian Aherne, British actor (I Confess, Titanic, Juarez), dies at 83
- Feb 12 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
- Feb 16 Howard Da Silva [Silverblatt], American actor (1776, The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia), dies from lymphoma at 76
- Feb 19 Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue), dies at 63
- Feb 19 Paul Stewart, American actor (Citizen Kane, Kiss Me Deadly), dies from a heart attack at 77
- Mar 6 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
- Mar 9 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
Ray Milland
Mar 10 Ray Milland, Welsh actor (The Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), dies at 81
Ray Milland
- 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, 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
James Cagney
- Mar 31 Jerry Paris, American director and actor (Jerry in The Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60
- Apr 13 Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
- Apr 14 Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, dies at 46
- Apr 15 Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
- Apr 19 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
- Apr 26 Bessie Love, 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
Broderick Crawford
- 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 20 Tim Herbert, American comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
- Jun 23 Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
- 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 [Robert Choromokos ], American actor (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, US 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, 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, 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 26 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
- Nov 29 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest), dies from a cerebral haemorrhage 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
Desi Arnaz
- 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 29 Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Soviet filmmaker (Andrei Rublev, Mirror, Stalker), dies at 54
- Dec 31 Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54