Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1977

July 13, 2024

1977 Calendar

Jan 14 British-Australian radio, stage, and BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screen actor (Network; The Nun's Story; Raid on Entebbe), dies of a heart attack at 60

Jan 18 Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
Jan 25 Donald Kerr, American actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85
Jan 26 Margaret Hayes, American actress (Blackboard Jungle, Robert Montgomery Presents), dies from cancer and hepatitis at 60
Jan 27 Walter Baldwin, American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives, The Long, Long Trailer), dies at 88
Jan 28 Burton "Burt" Mustin, American actor (All in the Family, The Andy Griffith Show), dies at 92
Jan 29 Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (Chico & the Man), commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at 22
Feb 3 Pauline Starke, American actress (Dante's Inferno; Dance Magic; Sun Up), dies at 76
Feb 10 Grace Williams, Welsh composer (1st British woman to score a feature film), dies at 70
Feb 13 Jack Gardner, American actor (The Secret Code; Three Russian Girls), dies at 74
Feb 17 Quincy Howe, American newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76
Feb 18 Andy Devine, American character actor (Roy Roger's sidekick - "Cookie"; Stagecoach; Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, 1951-58), dies of leukemia at 71
Feb 18 Ralph Graves, American actor (Dirigible, Extra Girl, Flight, Dream Street), dies at 77
Feb 22 Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
Feb 27 Allison Hayes, American model and actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), dies of leukemia or lead poisoning at 47
Feb 28 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American comedian and actor (The Jack Benny Program), dies at 71
Mar 3 Percy Marmont, British actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon, Captain Apache), dies at 93
Mar 4 Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
Mar 8 Henry Hull, American actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
Mar 10 E. Power Biggs, British classical organist and composer (CBS; Bach), dies at 70
Mar 15 Antonino Rocca, Italian-Argentine professional wrestler, dies at 49
Mar 22 Hymie Shertzer, American jazz and session saxophonist (Benny Goodman; NBC's Tonight Show), dies at 67
Mar 25 Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer, dies at 79
Mar 27 Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
Mar 27 Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
Mar 30 Abdel Halim Hafez [Shabana], Egyptian singer and actor, dies of liver failure due to schistosomiasis (parasitic flatworm infection) at 47
Apr 8 Frank Milan, American actor (Witness), dies at 71
Apr 11 Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
Apr 17 Marjorie Gateson, American actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86
Apr 20 Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80
Apr 22 Charles Sanford, American orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
Apr 27 Stanley Adams, American character actor (Star Trek - "Cyrano Jones"; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Lilies of the Field), commits suicide at 62
Apr 28 Ricardo Cortez [Jacob Krantz], American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), dies at 76

May 26 Jim Boles, American actor (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, One Man's Family), dies of cardiac arrest at 63
May 31 William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
Jun 2 Forrest Lewis, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Monster of Piedras Blancas), dies at 77
Jun 2 Stephen Boyd [William Millar], Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur), dies of a heart attack at 45

Jun 6 Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
Jun 13 Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins), dies of pancreatitis at 21
Jun 14 Alan Reed, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and voice artist (Fred Flintstone, Lady and the Tramp), dies at 69
Jun 14 Robert Middleton, American actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66

Jun 19 Geraldine Brooks [Stroock], American stage and screen actress (Brightower; Embraceable You; The Dumplings), dies of a heart attack at 51
Jun 20 Abner Biberman, American director and actor (His Girl Friday, The Leopard Man), dies at 68
Jul 12 Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66
Jul 19 John R Powers, American director model bureau, dies at 80
Jul 20 Carter DeHaven, American actor (Courage, Great Dictator), dies at 90
Jul 23 René de Vos, Dutch actor and composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
Jul 26 Hans-Otto Borgmann, German film score composer under the Third Reich, dies at 75
Aug 3 Alfred Lunt, American actor (The Guardsman, Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 83
Aug 5 Charles Carson, British actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 91
Aug 9 Edward Chapman, British actor (Things to Come, Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75
Aug 10 Vince Barnett, American actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75

Aug 16 American King of Rock and Roll ("Hound Dog"; "Love Me Tender"; "Heartbreak Hotel"; "Suspicious Minds"), and actor (Jailhouse Rock; King Creole), dies at Graceland at 42, with the official cause of death being cardiac arrhythmia

Aug 21 Danny Lockin, American actor and dancer (Hello Dolly), dies after being stabbed at 34
Aug 21 Octave van Aerschot, Dutch actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87
Aug 22 Sebastian Cabot, British actor (Kismet; Family Affair - "Mr. French", Time Machine), dies at 59
Aug 27 George Merritt, English actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
Aug 29 Edward Sinclair, English actor (Dad's Army), dies at 63
Aug 29 Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54
Sep 1 Ethel Waters, American actress (Beulah), singer ("Stormy Weather"), dies at 80
Sep 2 Stephen "Steve" Dunne, American actor (Professional Father, Shock), dies at 59
Sep 8 Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel, American comedian and actor (Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 62
Sep 9 John Breeden, American actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street), dies at 73
Sep 11 Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
Sep 11 Leonard Carey, American actor (Rebecca, Laughter), dies at 90
Sep 13 Leopold Stokowski, British conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1912-39; Disney's Fantasia), dies of a heart attack at 95
Sep 27 Willis Bouchey, American character actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), dies at 70
Sep 30 Mary Ford [Iris Colleen Summers], American vocalist (with Les Paul - "How High The Moon"), dies from complications of alcohol abuse at 53
Oct 10 Angelo Muscat, Maltese-born British actor (The Prisoner, Doctor Who), dies at 47
Oct 12 Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81

Oct 15 Ralph Truman, British actor (Henry V, Treasure Island, Web of Evidence), dies at 77
Oct 16 Michael Balcon, English film producer (head of Ealing Studios), dies at 81
Oct 27 Peg Leg Sam [Arthur Jackson], American country blues harmonica player, singer and comedian, dies at 65
Oct 31 Joan Tetzel, American actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning), dies of cancer at 56
Nov 3 Florence Vidor, American actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
Nov 5 Aleksey Stachanov, Russian model miner, dies at 72

Nov 9 Gertrude Astor [Eyster], American silent and sound screen character actress (The Strong Man: Hell Bound), dies of a stroke on her 90th birthday
Nov 11 Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
Nov 18 Victor Francen, Belgian actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
Nov 25 Richard Carlson, American stage and screen actor (All I Desire,; I Led 3 Lives), screenwriter and director (Riders to the Stars), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 65
Nov 28 Trevor Bardette, American actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape), dies at 75
Nov 29 George Hamilton Combs, American politician and TV and radio commentator (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
Dec 4 Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
Dec 16 Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker, major figure during Finnish New Wave cinema, dies in a car accident at 43
Dec 18 Cyril Ritchard, Australian actor (Peter Pan; Hans Brinker), dies at 80

Dec 26 Howard Hawks, American director and producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface, The Big Sleep), dies at 81
Dec 28 Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (Oklahoma; Moon Over Miami), dies at 87
Dec 31 Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov & JJ), dies at 62

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