Taking my cue from Life magazine and the Oscars, I thought I’d compile a list of Deaths You May Have Missed for this year. These are only actors and actresses, not playwrights, musicians, producers, etc. (I didn’t include musicians, producers, etc., only actors and actresses).
Please chime in with whomever I’ve forgotten!
Don Adams died on Sept. 25 at 82.
Mason Adams (Lou Grant) died on April 26 at 86.
Eddie Albert died at 99 on May 26.
1980s child actor Philip Amelio died of a heart infection at 27 on April 1.
Film and TV actor Keith Andes died on Nov. 11 at 85.
British comic actress Avril Angers died on Nov. 9 at 87.
Austrian actor Leon Askin (Hogan’s Heroes) died on June 3 at 97.
Anne Bancroft died on June 7 at 73.
British comic Ronnie Barker died on Oct. 3 at 76.
Barbara Bel Geddes died on Aug. 8 at 82.
Author and actress Mary Hayley Bell died on Dec. 1 at 94.
British character actor John Bennett died on April 11 at 76.
Lamont Bentley (Moesha) died in a car accident at 31 on Jan. 18.
British actor Michael Billington died on June 3 at 63.
Ed Bishop (UFO) died on June 8 at 72.
Lloyd Bochner (Dynasty, The Twilight Zone) died on Oct. 29 at 81.
Tommy Bond (Our Gang’s Butch) died at 79 on Sept. 24.
Character actress Doris Bowden died on Aug. 9 at 90.
Stage and TV actress Jocelyn Brando (Marlon’s sister) died on Nov. 27 at 86.
Actor and singer Hamilton Camp died on Oct. 3 at 71.
J.D. Cannon (McCloud, The Fugitive) died on May 20 at 83.
Brassy blonde Jean Carson (The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone) died on Nov. 2 at 80.
British stage and screen actor Richard Clarke died on Jan. 7 at 70.
B-horror actor Robert Clarke died on June 11 at 85.
Character actor Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk) died on Dec. 1 at 71.
Actor and cartoon voice-over Henry Corden died on May 19 at 85.
Stage and screen star Constance Cummings died at 95 on Nov. 23.
Ossie Davis died on Feb. 4 at 87.
British silent film actress Winnie Dangerfield died on March 13 at 96.
Coronation Street actress Gabrille Daye died on Jan. 5 at 93.
Sandra Dee died at 62 on Feb. 20.
Bob Denver died on Sept. 2 at 70.
Nicole Dehuff (Meet the Parents) died of an asthma attack at 31 on Feb. 16.
Movie and TV actor Badja D’jola died at 56 on Jan. 8.
Star Trek’s James Doohan died on July 20 at 85.
Stage and film actress Nicole Dufresne was killed in a holdup on Jan. 27 at 28.
B-actress Pamela Duncan (Attack of the Crab Monsters) died on Nov. 11 at 73.
TV actor Don Durant (Johnny Ringo) died on March 15 at 72.
Character actor Stephen Elliott died on May 20 at 86.
Jason Evers (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die) died on March 13 at 83.
Character actor John Fiedler (Winnie the Pooh’s Piglet) died on June 25 at 80.
Movie and stage star Geraldine Fitzgerald died on July 17 at 91.
Film and TV actor Robert Fortier died at 78 on Jan. 1.
Eastenders actress Gretchen Franklin died on July 11 at 94.
Elisabeth Fraser (The Phil Silvers Show) died on May 5 at 85.
Wizard of Oz flying monkey Sig Frolich died at 95 on Sept. 30.
TV actor Anthony George (Dark Shadows) died on March 16 at 84.
Ileen Getz (3rd Rock from the Sun) died from cancer on August 4 at 44.
British actress Sheila Gish died at 62 on March 9.
Frank Gorshin died on May 17 at 71.
Longtime film actor Robert Gottschall died on Jan. 3 at 89.
1940s film star June Haver died on July 4 at 79.
Comic and actor Mitch Hedberg died at 37 on March 30.
British stage, screen and TV actress Jan Holden died on Oct. 11 at 74.
William Hootkins (Star Wars) died on Oct. 23 at 58.
British actress Ursula Howells died on Oct. 16 at 89.
Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story) died on April 9 at 93.
B-actress Carolyn Kearney (Hot Rod Girl) died on Nov. 18 at 70.
James Bond costar Geoffrey Keen died on Nov. 3 at 89.
TV actor Brian Kelly (Flipper) died on Feb. 12 at 74.
Character actor Warren Kemmerling died at 76 on Jan. 3.
Singer and actress Frances Langford died on July 11 at 91.
Character actor John Larch died at 91 on Oct. 16.
Broadway actress Paula Laurence died at 89 on Oct. 29.
Tough-guy actor Marc Lawrence died on Nov. 28 at 95.
Gordon Lee (Our Gang’s Porky) died on Oct. 16 at 71.
Mexican film star Marga Lopez died on July 4 at 81.
Musical film actress June MacCloy died on May 5 at 96.
Barney Martin (Seinfeld) died on March 21 at 82.
Virginia Mayo (White Heat, Best Years of Our Lives) died on Jan. 17 at 84.
1940s actor Lon McCallister died on June 11 at 82.
Giant actor Matthew McGrory (Big Fish) died on Aug. 9 at 32.
Character actor Pat McCormick died on July 29 at 78.
British actor John Mills died on April 23 at 97.
1930s and ‘40s starlet Maria Montgomery died on May 9 at 84.
Actress and singer** Constance Moore** died on Sept. 16 at 84.
British actor Terrence Morgan died at 83 on Aug. 25.
Movie and TV actor Pat Morita died at 73 on Nov. 24.
Comic actor Howard Morris died on May 21 at 85.
Movie, stage and TV actor Dan O’Herlihy died at 85 on Feb. 18.
Movie and TV actress Sheree North died on Nov. 4 at 72.
Comic and actor Louis Nye died on Oct. 9 at 92.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre actor Paul Partain died on Jan. 27 at 58.
British stage actor Graham Payn died on Nov. 4 at 87.
Brock Peters died on Aug. 23 at 78.
Musical star John Raitt died at 88 on Feb. 20.
Ziegfeld Follies Girl Dorothy Raphaelson died at 100 on Nov. 7.
British TV actor Stan Richards died on Feb. 11 at 74.
SNL star and actor Charles Rocket committed suicide at 56 on Oct. 7.
Carry On actress Patsy Rowlands died on Jan. 22 at 71.
Comic and actor Nipsey Russell died on Oct. 2 at 81.
Austrian actress Maria Schell died on April 26 at 79.
Debralee Scott (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Welcome Back, Kotter) died on April 5 at 52.
British actress Margaretta Scott died on April 15 at 93.
1930s starlet Mildred Shay died on Oct. 15 at 94.
Movie star Simone Simon (Cat People) died on Feb. 23 at 94.
Lane Smith (Lois and Clark) died on June 13 at 69.
TV actress Wendie Jo Sperber (Bosom Buddies) died of cancer at 46 on Nov. 29.
Character actor Harold Stone died on Nov. 18 at 92.
British actor Jimmy Thompson died on April 21 at 79.
Joan Tompkins (Little House on the Prairie, several soaps) died on Jan. 29 at 89.
Irish actor Geoffrey Toone died on June 1 at 94.
John Vernon (Animal House) died on Feb. 1 at 72.
British actress Kay Walsh (Mrs. David Lean) died on April 16 at 93.
Ruth Warrick (Citizen Kane, several soaps) died on Jan. 15 at 88.
Mel Welles (Little Shop of Horrors) died on Aug.18 at 81.
Ubiquitous character actor Charles White died on June 20 at 87.
Thelma White (Reefer Madness) died on Jan. 11 at 94.
Radio, TV and movie actress Mary Wimbush died at 81 on Oct. 31.
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell died on June 24 at 82.
Film star Teresa Wright died on March 6 at 86.