Date of Death between 1979-01-01 and 1979-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

51. Billy Bletcher

Actor | The Lost City

Billy Bletcher, standing 5' 2", was known as the little guy with the big voice, who, ironically, started his film career during the silent era.

Billy's show business career began in 1913 at the age of 19 in vaudeville, and within a year, he went to work for Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn where he ...

52. Barbara Hutton

Barbara Hutton was born on November 14, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. She was previously married to Prince Pierre Raymond Doan Vinh na Champassak, Gottfried Von Cramm, Porfirio Rubirosa, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, Cary Grant, Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow and Prince Alexis Mdivani. She died on ...

53. William Gargan

Actor | The Story of Temple Drake

William Gargan was an American actor, better known for playing fictional detectives Ellery Queen, Martin Kane, and Barrie Craig. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Gargan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. He attended St. James School in Brooklyn. ...

54. Eric Pohlmann

Actor | The Return of the Pink Panther

Born in Vienna. Studied at Max Reinhardt School. Early years as entertainer at Reiss Bar in Vienna. Often appeared at still-existing Raimund-Theater. Met wife, Liselotte, on stage in Brno (now Czech Republic). She escaped to London in 1938, he in 1939, where they married that year. Frequent ...

55. Yvonne Mitchell

Actress | Woman in a Dressing Gown

Britisher Yvonne Mitchell was born on July 7, 1915, in London and was first and foremost a stage actress who, after being educated at St Paul's Girls School in London and The London Theatre Studio, began her theatrical career in the late 1930s. By the time of her death, she had performed under the ...

56. John Cromwell

Director | The Prisoner of Zenda

Actor / director John Cromwell was born December 23, 1887, in Toledo, OH. He made his Broadway debut on October 14, 1912, in Marian De Forest's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" at the Playhouse Theatre. The show was a hit, running for a total of 184 performances. Cromwell appeared ...

57. James Nusser

Actor | Gunsmoke

James Nusser was born on May 3, 1905 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Gunsmoke (1955), Perry Mason (1957) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He died on June 6, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

58. Nino Rota

Composer | The Godfather

Born in Milan in 1911 into a family of musicians, Nino Rota was first a student of Orefice and Pizzetti. Then, still a child, he moved to Rome where he completed his studies at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in 1929 with Alfredo Casella. In the meantime, he had become an 'enfant prodige', famous...

59. Sydney Tafler

Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me

Sydney Tafler was born on July 31, 1916 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and Operation Diplomat (1953). He was previously married to Joy Shelton. He died on November 8, 1979 in London, England, UK.

60. Jan Arvan

Actor | The Poseidon Adventure

Jan Arvan was born on April 10, 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Poseidon Adventure (1972), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) and The Brass Bottle (1964). He died on May 24, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

61. Jane Hylton

Actress | Here Come the Huggetts

Jane Hylton was born on July 16, 1927 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Here Come the Huggetts (1948), My Brother's Keeper (1948) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). She was previously married to Euan Lloyd and Peter Dyneley. She died on February 28, 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

62. Bern Hoffman

Actor | Nocturne

Bern Hoffman was born on February 17, 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Nocturne (1946), Li'l Abner (1959) and The Untouchables (1959). He was previously married to Diana Victory Kraft. He died on December 15, 1979 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

63. Kathleen Case

Actress | Human Desire

Kathleen Case was born on July 31, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Human Desire (1954), Running Wild (1955) and The Second Greatest Sex (1955). She died on July 22, 1979 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

64. Marjorie Rhodes

Actress | The Family Way

Marjorie Rhodes was born on April 9, 1897 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Family Way (1966), Watch It, Sailor! (1961) and The Good Companions (1957). She was previously married to Harry Colin Edgell. She died on July 4, 1979 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.

65. Richard Sinatra

Actor | Beast from Haunted Cave

Richard Sinatra was born on October 21, 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Beast from Haunted Cave (1959), Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964) and Ski Troop Attack (1960). He was previously married to Linda Marsh. He died on September 12, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

66. Fred Graham

Actor | The Giant Gila Monster

Baseball gave burly Fred Graham his start in motion pictures. In 1928 he was working for the MGM sound department and also playing semi-pro baseball on the side. The studio was making a murder mystery called Death on the Diamond (1934), starring Robert Young and Nat Pendleton. Graham was hired to ...

67. Joyce Grenfell

Actress | Stage Fright

Toothy, oval-faced Britisher Joyce Grenfell with her stark, equine features charmed and humored audiences both here and abroad on radio, stage, film and TV for nearly four decades. Lovingly remembered as a delightfully witty revue artist, monologist and raconteur, she inherited her bold talents ...

68. George Cisar

Actor | Attack of the Giant Leeches

George Cisar was born on July 28, 1912 in Cicero, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), The Ford Television Theatre (1952) and Dennis the Menace (1959). He died on June 13, 1979 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

69. Jody Gilbert

Actress | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Jody grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, where she had her own musical show on local radio while she was still in high school. In her later teens, she toured the south in musical comedies, performed in summer stock across America and discovered that she would never get any good roles on the New York ...

70. Siu-Tin Yuen

Actor | Jui kuen

Already a veteran of the Peking Opera, he starred in countless black and white costume dramas before son Woo-Ping Yuen cast him in _Snake in Eagle's Shadow_ , the film which launched Jackie Chan's career. He then went on to feature alongside Chan and Jeong-lee Hwang(_Snake in Eagle's Shadow_'s main...

71. Larisa Shepitko

Director | Voskhozhdenie

Larisa Shepitko was born on January 6, 1938 in Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and writer, known for The Ascent (1977), Heat (1963) and You and Me (1971). She was previously married to Elem Klimov. She died on July 2, 1979 in near Redkino...

72. Lewis Charles

Actor | Topaz

Lewis Charles was born on November 2, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Topaz (1969), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Al Capone (1959). He died on November 9, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

73. Sally Rand

Actress | Sunset Murder Case

She's considered an American icon in the world of entertainment although most contemporaries have no idea who she is until her legendary risqué "fan dance" is brought up. Then they put two and two together. Burlesque star Sally Rand was born in the Ozark region (Missouri) in 1904, her father a ...

74. Doris Kenyon

Actress | The Road to Singapore

The daughter of a poet, Doris Kenyon made her stage and screen debuts in 1915. She was often cast as a pleasant heroine in many silent films. She co-starred with popular silent-era actors like Rudolph Valentino and her future husband Milton Sills. Due to her stage experience she made a smooth ...

75. Robert Florey

Director | Four Star Playhouse

Robert Florey became infatuated with Hollywood while in his teens. By the time he set off for America in the early 1920s he had written articles on film for Cinemagazine, La Cinematographie Francaise and Le Technicien du Film, acted and directed one-reel shorts in Switzerland and worked as an ...

76. David Butler

Director | You'll Find Out

David Butler was born on December 17, 1894 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director and actor, known for You'll Find Out (1940), Look for the Silver Lining (1949) and If I Had My Way (1940). He was previously married to Elshie H Schulte. He died on June 14, 1979 in Arcadia, California, ...

77. Dorothy Arzner

Director | Christopher Strong

Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system--from the 1920s to the early 1940s and the woman director with the largest oeuvre in Hollywood to this day--was born January 3, 1897 (some sources put the year as 1900), in San Francisco, California, to a ...

78. Corinne Griffith

Actress | The Divine Lady

Corinne Griffith was a popular star of the silent movies. She started her film career at Vitagraph in 1916 and later moved to First National, where she became one of that studio's biggest stars. At the height of her popularity she was known as the "Orchid Lady of the Screen." Black Oxen (1923) was ...

79. Victor Kilian

Actor | The Ox-Bow Incident

American character actor of gruff demeanor who played in dozens of films through the Thirties and Forties. A native of New Jersey, he was a wagon driver for his father's laundry business before joining a vaudeville company. He played in stock and touring companies, then was cast in the Walter Huston...

80. Clarence Muse

Actor | Shadow of a Doubt

Clarence Muse was born on October 14, 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Clarence Edouard Muse. He was an actor, known for Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and The Black Stallion (1979). He was married to Irene Ena Kellman, Willabelle Burch West and Ophelia Belle Labertier. He died on October 13, 1979 in ...

81. Charles Wagenheim

Actor | Foreign Correspondent

Initially drawn to an acting career to counterbalance an acute case of shyness, diminutive character actor Charles Wagenheim's career comprised hundreds upon hundreds of minor but atmospheric parts on stage, film and TV. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1896, he was the son of immigrant parents. ...

82. Beatrix Lehmann

Actress | Doctor Who

Beatrix Lehmann was born on July 1, 1903 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Portrait of a Lady (1968) and Crime and Punishment (1979). She died on July 31, 1979 in London, England, UK.

83. Beatrice Campbell

Actress | The Master of Ballantrae

Beatrice Campbell was born on July 31, 1922 in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. She was an actress, known for The Master of Ballantrae (1953), I'll Never Forget You (1951) and Laughter in Paradise (1951). She was previously married to Nigel Patrick and Robert MacClancy. She died on May 10, 1979 ...

84. Lee Bowman

Actor | Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Lee Bowman made his reputation as a suave, polished leading man opposite glamorous stars like Rita Hayworth and Jean Arthur in the 1940s. The columnist Jack Sher, later a noted writer and director,,referred to him in 1944 as 'a very hot commodity' in Hollywood. A graduate from the University of ...

85. Archie Duncan

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Archie Duncan was born on May 26, 1914 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955), Sherlock Holmes (1954) and Saint Joan (1957). He died on July 24, 1979 in Waltham Forest, London, England, UK.

86. Sid Vicious

Soundtrack | The Astronaut's Wife

Along with fellow Sex Pistol member, Johnny Rotten, lanky, sneering, pock faced Sid epitomised the punk movement born in the mid 1970s in working class England. Sid Vicious (real name John Beverly) wasn't an original member of the Pistols, but rather joined the band after original bassist, Glen ...

87. Charles Thompson

Actor | The Twilight Zone

Charles Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Andy Griffith Show (1960), The Twilight Zone (1959), Peyton Place (1964), Gunsmoke (1955), My Three Sons (1960), and Hot Rods to Hell (1966). He died on October 26, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA. ...

88. Dave Fleischer

Director | Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Dave Fleischer was an American film producer and director of animated films. He co-founded the animation studio Fleischer Studios (1929-1942) with his brother Max Fleischer. Dave is primarily remembered for directing the studio's only two feature films: "Gulliver's Travels" (1939) and "Mr. Bug Goes...

89. John F. Seitz

Cinematographer | Double Indemnity

Distinguished veteran cinematographer John F. Seitz had eighteen patents for various photographic processes to his name. These included illuminating devices, processes for making dissolves and the matte shot, which he perfected during filming of Rex Ingram's Trifling Women (1922). Seitz started ...

90. Beatrice Blinn

Actress | The Shadow

Beatrice Blinn was born on July 7, 1901 in Forest County, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for The Shadow (1937), Art Trouble (1934) and Golden Boy (1939). She was previously married to Crane Wilbur. She died on March 31, 1979 in Oceanside, California, USA.

91. Derek Seaton

Actor | Doctor Who

Derek Seaton was born on October 1, 1943 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Troilus and Cressida (1966) and Softly Softly (1966). He was previously married to Paula Wilcox. He died on September 2, 1979 in Brent, Middlesex, England, UK.

92. Dimitri Tiomkin

Soundtrack | High Noon

Dimitri Tiomkin was a Russian Jewish composer who emigrated to America and became one of the most distinguished and best-loved music writers of Hollywood. He won a hallowed place in the pantheon of the most successful and productive composers in American film history, earning himself four Oscars ...

93. Richard Hearne

Actor | Mr. Pastry's Progress

Richard Hearne was born on January 30, 1908 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Mr. Pastry's Progress (1950), The Time of His Life (1955) and Just for Fun (1947). He was previously married to Yvonne Hearne. He died on August 23, 1979 in Bearsted, Kent, England, ...

94. Lester Flatt

Soundtrack | A Prairie Home Companion

Lester Flatt was born on June 19, 1914 in Overton County, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Dutch (1991) and Finding North (1998). He was previously married to Gladys Flatt. He died on May 11, 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

95. Vernon Presley

Self | Elvis on Tour

Vernon Presley was born on April 10, 1916 in Fulton, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Elvis on Tour (1972), Hee Haw (1969) and Elvis in Concert (1977). He was previously married to Davada "Dee" Stanley and Gladys Presley. He died on June 26, 1979 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

96. Saro Urzì

Actor | Sedotta e abbandonata

Saro Urzì was born on February 24, 1913 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Seduced and Abandoned (1964), The Godfather (1972) and In the Name of the Law (1949). He died on November 2, 1979 in San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Campania, Italy.

97. Frederick Stafford

Actor | Topaz

Frederick Stafford was born on March 11, 1928 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for Topaz (1969), Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut (1966) and OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965). He was previously married to Marianne Hold. He died on July 28, 1979 in Sarnen, Switzerland.

98. Donyale Luna

Actress | Salomè

The world's first black supermodel, Luna was born Peggy Ann Freeman was in Detroit and grew up there in the northeast side of the city. Her father, Nathaniel Freeman, worked for almost 40 years at Ford Motor Company, usually in the foundry. Her mother, Peggy, was receptionist at the downtown YWCA ...

99. James Vickery

Actor | The Secret Storm

James Vickery was born on October 7, 1918 in West Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Secret Storm (1954), Studio One (1948) and Judd for the Defense (1967). He was previously married to Diana Muldaur and Colleen Dewhurst. He died on October 19, 1979 in Los Angeles, California,...

100. Fred Aldrich

Actor | I Love Lucy

Fred Aldrich was born on December 23, 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for I Love Lucy (1951), Journey Into Light (1951) and Mrs. Mike (1949). He died on January 25, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.