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Deaths in Film & TV on December 7

  • 1725 Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (Le Chevalier à la mode), dies at 64
  • 1946 Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
  • 1956 Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor, dies at 77
  • 1959 Charlie Hall, English comedic actor (Tit for Tat, A Chump at Oxford), dies at 60
  • 1967 House Peters, British silent film actor (This Is the Life; Kansas Territory), dies at 87
  • 1969 Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66
  • 1969 Hugh Williams, British dramatist, actor and writer (Wuthering Heights, Bank Holiday), dies after surgery at 65
  • 1975 Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71
  • 1982 William "Will" Lee, American actor (They Live by Night, Melody Lane), dies from a heart attack at 74
  • 1983 Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
  • 1984 Jeanne Cagney, American stage, screen, and radio actress (Lion is in the Streets; Quicksand; Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies of lung cancer at 65
  • 1988 Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
  • 1989 William 'Haystacks' Calhoun, American professional wrestler, dies at 55
  • 1990 Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka), dies at 60
  • 1990 Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (Mon oncle Antoine), dies at 67
  • 1990 Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
  • 1991 Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
  • 1994 Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
  • 2001 Pauline Moore [Joless Love], American actress (Colorado, Young Mr. Lincoln), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 87
  • 2008 Marky Cielo, Filipino and Igorot dancer and actor (b. 1988)
  • 2009 Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)
  • 2010 Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (The Blue Lagoon, Crocodile Dundee II), dies at 82

Harry MorganHarry Morgan (1915-2011)

American actor (December Bride; M*A*S*H, 1975-83 - "Col. Sherman Potter"; AfterMASH; Dragnet - "Bill Gannon"), dies in his sleep at 96

Harry Morgan
  • 2012 Russ "Rusty" Thacker, American stage actor and singer, dies of cancer at 66
  • 2013 Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter (La Cage aux Folles), dies a respiratory insufficiency at 85
  • 2014 John Bartholomew Tucker, American TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island), dies at 84
  • 2014 Ken Weatherwax, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 59


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