Month
Date
Name
Age
Country
Profession
Notable films
January
3
David Maysles
55
US
Documentarian
Grey Gardens
9
Arthur Lake
81
US
Actor
Dance Hall
14
Douglas Sirk
89
Germany
Director
Written on the Wind
15
Ray Bolger
83
US
Actor, Singer
Babes in Toyland
15
George Markstein
60
UK
Screenwriter
The Odessa File
16
Joyce Jameson
54
US
Actress
Death Race 2000
27
Norman McLaren
72
UK
Animator, Director
Pas de deux
February
1
Alessandro Blasetti
86
Italy
Director, Screenwriter
The Countess of Parma
22
David Susskind
66
US
Producer
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
23
William Rose
68
US
Screenwriter
The Ladykillers
23
Esmond Knight
80
UK
Actor
The Red Shoes
25
James Coco
56
US
Actor
Wholly Moses!
25
John Collin
58
UK
Actor
Star!
28
Joan Greenwood
65
UK
Actress
The October Man
March
2
Randolph Scott
89
US
Actor
The Walking Hills
3
Danny Kaye
74
US
Actor, Singer
The Court Jester
7
Henri Decaë
71
France
Cinematographer
The 400 Blows
7
Waldo Salt
72
US
Screenwriter
Serpico
21
Dean Paul Martin
35
US
Actor
Heart Like a Wheel
21
Robert Preston
68
US
Actor
Victor Victoria
22
Morton Haack
62
US
Costume Designer
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
27
William Bowers
71
US
Screenwriter
Support Your Local Sheriff
28
Patrick Troughton
67
UK
Actor
Scars of Dracula
April
6
Philip M. Jefferies
61
US
Production Designer
An Officer and a Gentleman
11
Kent Taylor
79
US
Actor
Payment on Demand
17
Dick Shawn
63
US
Actor
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
19
Milt Kahl
78
US
Animator
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
May
2
Michael Gover
73
UK
Actor
Superman
4
Paul Groesse
81
US
Art Director
In the Heat of the Night
7
Colin Blakely
56
Ireland
Actor
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
14
Rita Hayworth
68
US
Actress
The Lady from Shanghai
21
Alejandro Rey
57
Argentina
Actor
Moscow on the Hudson
24
Hermione Gingold
89
UK
Actress
Gigi
29
Howard Shoup
83
US
Costume Designer
The Young Philadelphians
June
1
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
72
India
Director, Screenwriter
Awaara
3
Will Sampson
53
US
Actor
The Outlaw Josey Wales
6
Fulton Mackay
64
UK
Actor
Gumshoe
8
Daniel Mandell
91
US
Film Editor
The Best Years of Our Lives
10
Elizabeth Hartman
43
US
Actress
The Secret of NIMH
11
Dan Vadis
49
China
Actor
High Plains Drifter
13
Geraldine Page
62
US
Actress
The Trip to Bountiful
22
Fred Astaire
88
US
Actor
The Towering Inferno
24
Jackie Gleason
71
US
Actor
Smokey and the Bandit
July
1
Jerry Livingston
78
US
Songwriter
Cat Ballou
3
Viola Dana
90
US
Actress
The Show of Shows
5
Phil Abramson
54
US
Set Decorator
Bullitt
7
Hannelore Schroth
65
Germany
Actress
Beloved Corinna
12
Harold Goodwin
84
US
Actor
The Wyoming Bandit
15
Alfie Bass
71
UK
Actor
Moonraker
17
Yūjirō Ishihara
52
Japan
Actor, Singer
Crazed Fruit
20
Richard Egan
65
US
Actor
A Summer Place
22
Adele Comandini
89
US
Screenwriter
Christmas in Connecticut
31
Joseph E. Levine
81
US
Producer
The Lion in Winter
August
1
Pola Negri
90
Poland
Actress
Carmen
17
Clarence Brown
97
US
Director
The Yearling
17
Shaike Ophir
58
Israel
Actor
Blaumilch Canal
19
Hayden Rorke
76
US
Actor
The Barefoot Executive
21
Bombolo
56
Italy
Actor
Little Italy
22
Ted Sherdeman
78
US
Screenwriter
A Dog of Flanders
28
John Huston
81
US
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
29
Lee Marvin
63
US
Actor
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
September
1
Philip Friend
72
UK
Actor
The Son of Robin Hood
4
Richard Marquand
49
UK
Director
Jagged Edge
5
Bill Fraser
79
UK
Actor
Up the Chastity Belt
11
Lorne Greene
72
Canada
Actor
The Buccaneer
12
John Qualen
87
US
Actor
The Grapes of Wrath
13
Mervyn LeRoy
86
US
Director
Mister Roberts
23
Bob Fosse
60
US
Director, Screenwriter
All That Jazz
23
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude
34
Netherlands
Actor
Stir Crazy
25
Mary Astor
81
US
Actress
Meet Me in St. Louis
25
Emlyn Williams
81
UK
Actor, Screenwriter
The Citadel
October
2
Madeleine Carroll
81
UK
Actress
Secret Agent
21
Bob Simmons
64
UK
Stuntman
A Touch of Class
22
Lino Ventura
68
Italy
Actor
The Dictator's Guns
November
4
Danielle Gaubert
44
France
Actress
Camille 2000
5
Georges Franju
75
France
Director, Screenwriter
Nuits Rouges
11
John 'Dusty' King
78
US
Actor, Singer
Law of the Jungle
23
Marcia Henderson
58
US
Actress
Back to God's Country
26
Morton Lowry
73
UK
Actor
The Hound of the Baskervilles
29
Irene Handl
85
UK
Actress
I'm All Right Jack
December
4
Rouben Mamoulian
90
Georgia
Director
The Mark of Zorro
8
Fay Baker
70
US
Actress
She Devil
14
Clinton Sundberg
84
US
Actor
Easter Parade
21
Robert Paige
76
US
Actor
Bye Bye Birdie
21
Ralph Nelson
71
US
Director
Lilies of the Field