- Apr 1 Mário Viegas, Portuguese actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao), dies at 47
Greer Garson (1904-1996)
Apr 6 British actress (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mrs Miniver), dies at 92
- Apr 8 Ben Johnson, American actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger), dies of a heart attack at 77
- Apr 14 William K. Everson, English American film historian, dies at 67
- Apr 16 Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (Meet Me in St. Louis; Ziegfeld Follies), dies from a heart attack at 79
- Apr 16 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuban filmmaker (Muerte de un burócrata), dies at 67
- Apr 20 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC), dies at 88
- Apr 22 David Shipman, English film historian, dies at 63
- Apr 22 Erma Bombeck, American humorist (The Grass is Greener over the Septic Tank), dies at 69
- Apr 24 Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
- Apr 24 Preston Lockwood [Reginald], British actor (Time Bandits, Jeeves and Wooster), dies of natural causes at 83
- Apr 25 Saul Bass, American graphic designer of logos and film titles (Psycho), dies at 75
- Apr 26 Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter (In the Heat of the Night, Perry Mason), dies at 78
- Apr 27 Joan Sterndale-Bennett, British actress (Brighton Rock, Those Fantastic Flying Fools), dies at 82
- Apr 28 Gilles Grangier, French film director (Archimède le clochard), dies at 84
- Apr 29 David Davis, British radio broadcaster (BBC Children's Hour), dies at 87
- Apr 29 David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
- Apr 30 David Opatoshu [Opatovsky], American actor and writer (Star Trek, Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada), dies at 78
- Apr 30 Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive, dies at 71
- Apr 30 Hélène Cordet, French actress (The Limping Man), dies at 78
- Apr 30 Jeanne Bal, American actress (Pat-Love & Marriage, Star Trek- The Man Trap), dies at 67