Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1991
Publish date: 2024-09-18
1991 CalendarDeaths 1 - 200 of 226
- Jan 2 Renato Rascel, Italian actor (7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria), dies of heart failure at 78
- Jan 4 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
- Jan 4 Harry Krimer, French actor (Napoleon, Les vagabonds magnifiques, La course du flambeau), committed suicide at 94
- Jan 4 Richard Maibaum, American screenwriter (Goldfinger), dies at 81
- Jan 5 Johnny Eck [Eckhardt], American sideshow performer, actor (Freaks; Tarzan films), magician, and artist, dies of a heart attack at 79
- Jan 5 Marie Madeline Sullivan, American actress (Elvira, Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
- Jan 7 Charlotte Wynters, American stage and screen actress, dies at 91
- Jan 9 Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), dies at 86
- Jan 12 Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (Across the Pacific, Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86
- Jan 19 Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
- Jan 19 Glenn Langan, American actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Margie, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies of lymphoma at 73
- Jan 19 John Russell, American actor (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
- Jan 20 Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
- Jan 21 Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
- Jan 24 Lawrence Lott, American actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
- Jan 25 Lillian Bond, English-American actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
- Jan 25 Stanley Brock, American actor (UHF, Hard to Kill, Ivan-He's the Mayor), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Jan 30 John McIntire, American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian), dies of emphysema at 83
- Feb 1 Carol Dempster, American film actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
- Feb 1 Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
- Feb 3 Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
- Feb 3 Nancy Kulp, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, Shane), dies of cancer at 69
- Feb 4 Bob Leslie, American actor (Cinderella; Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64
- Feb 5 Dean Jagger, American actor (White Christmas, Vanishing Point), dies at about 87

- Feb 7 Dick Winslow, American actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
- Feb 13 Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of a heart attack at 67
- Feb 13 Eddie Bartell, American actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
- Feb 13 Ron Pickering, British athletics coach (GB 1964 Summer Olympics) and broadcaster (BBC), dies after a heart bypass operation at 60
- Feb 15 Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
- Feb 19 Peggy Mondo, American actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
- Feb 21 Nutan Bahl, Indian actress (Seema, Bandini), dies of breast cancer at 54
- Feb 21 Roger Swaybill, American actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
- Feb 24 George Gobel, American humorist, comedian and TV host (The George Gobel Show), dies at 71
- Feb 24 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
- Feb 24 John Charles Daly, American, newscaster and TV game show host (What's My Line), dies at 77
- Feb 26 (Bulee) "Slim" Galliard, American jazz singer, musician, songwriter ("Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)"), and actor, dies of cancer at 75
- Mar 1 Katharine Blake, South African-born British actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
- Mar 4 Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
- Mar 13 Cor Witschge, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 65
- Mar 14 Robert Maroff, American actor (Taxi Driver), dies at 57
- Mar 15 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
- Mar 18 Jack McCoy, American radio and TV personality (Live Like a Millionaire), dies at 72
- Mar 18 Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
- Mar 19 Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
- Mar 22 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
- Mar 23 Fons Jansen, Dutch cabaret comedian, writer, and television personality (Farce Majeure), dies of lung cancer at 65
- Mar 23 Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
- Mar 27 Aldo Ray [Da Re], American actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret), dies of cancer at 64
- Mar 27 Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
- Mar 27 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
- Mar 28 Carlos Montalbán, Mexican-American character actor (Bananas), dies at 86
- Mar 29 Matt Bennett, American actor (Hickey & Boggs; The Unholy Rollers), dies of a brain tumor at 57
- Mar 30 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
- Apr 9 Maurice Binder, American photographer and film title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
- Apr 10 Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
- Apr 10 Natalie Schafer, American actress (Gilligan's Island, Anastasia), dies from cancer at 90
- Apr 11 Tom Rosqui, American stage and screen character actor (The Godfather - "Rocco Lampone"), dies of cancer at 62
- Apr 15 Marjorie Warfield, American stage, radio, and silent film actress, dies of pneumonia at 88
- Apr 15 Martin Ashe, American actor, dies at 81

- Apr 19 Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
- Apr 20 Don Siegel, American film director (Coogan's Bluff, Dirty Harry), dies at 78
- Apr 25 Frank Hamilton, Canadian-American actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66
- Apr 26 Emily McLaughlin, American actress (Jessie Brewer- General Hospital), dies at 61
- Apr 28 Ken Curtis, American actor (Festus - Gunsmoke), dies at 74
- May 3 Margaret Tallichet, American actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies at 77
- May 4 Bernie Winters [Weinstein], British comedian, actor, and TV presenter (The Big Top Variety Show), dies of stomach cancer at 60
- May 4 Dennis Crosby, American singer, actors, and son of Bing, commits suicide at 56
- May 5 William De Acutis, American actor (9½ Weeks, Other People's Money), dies from a brain lymphoma at 33
- May 6 Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place), dies at 87
- May 8 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz), dies at 72
- May 15 Reno Browne, American Western actress, dies at 70
- May 15 Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
- May 16 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
- May 18 Edwina Booth, American actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86
- May 19 Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74
- May 22 Catalino "Lino" Brocka, Filipino film director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51
- May 24 Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
- May 26 Tom Cassidy, American TV news anchor (CNN), dies of AIDS at 41
- May 29 Coral Browne, Australian actress (Ruling Class, Time Express), dies of cancer at 77
- May 30 Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian, dies at 74
- May 31 H. N. "Swanie" Swanson, American Hollywood literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke
- Jun 3 Andy Milligan, American director and screenwriter (Sweeney Todd), dies of AIDS at 62
- Jun 3 Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress and director (Resurrection), dies at 92
- Jun 3 Katia Krafft (née Conrad), French volcanologist who pioneered filming volcanic eruptions, dies with her husband in a volcanic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan at 49
- Jun 3 Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist who pioneered filming volcanic eruptions, dies with his wife in a volcanic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan at 45
- Jun 6 Larry Kert, American actor (West Side Story - "Tony"), dies of AIDS at 60
- Jun 7 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
- Jun 8 Bertice Reading, American stage and screen actress and singer (The Jazz Train; Requiem For A Nun; Moon In The Gutter), dies at 57
- Jun 9 Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer's related illness at 88
- Jun 11 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
- Jun 14 Bernard Miles, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Great Expectations, In Which We Serve), dies at 83
- Jun 14 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
- Jun 18 Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
- Jun 19 Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Shane; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), dies of heart failure at 90
- Jun 22 Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
- Jun 22 Kevin O'Connor, American actor (Bogie, Special Effects), dies of cancer at 56
- Jun 24 Martin Rosenblatt, American actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74
- Jun 26 Paul Andor [Wolfgang Zilzer], American-German actor (Mad Lover; Enemy of Women), dies at 90
- Jun 27 Jason Christmas, American actor (That's Adequate), dies of a gunshot wound during robbery in NYC at 49
- Jun 27 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
Jul 1 American actor (Bonanza - "Little Joe"; Little House on the Prairie - "Charles"; Highway to Heaven - "Jonathan"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 54

- Jul 2 Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55
- Jul 6 Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78
- Jul 8 James Franciscus, American actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Mr Novak, Longstreet), dies of emphysema 57
- Jul 8 Lotte Palfi Andor, German-American actress (Lovesick, All That Jazz), dies at 87
- Jul 11 James McCallion, Scottish actor (Coogan's Bluff, Vera Cruz), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Jul 15 Bert Convy, American actor and game show host (Tattletales), dies at 57
- Jul 16 Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81
- Jul 19 Gino Negri, Italian composer, songwriter, and actor, dies at 72
- Jul 20 Rellys [Henri Marius Bourrelly], French actor (Letters from My Windmill), dies at 86
- Jul 21 Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
- Jul 25 Brian Haines, English actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70
- Jul 25 Toni Gerry, American actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61
- Jul 27 Carol Gillies, British actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50
- Jul 30 Ed Hall, American character actor (Medical Center; Mannix; Baby... I'm Back!), dies at 60
- Jul 30 William Ball, American actor, director and founder of the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT), dies at 60
- Aug 1 Stuart Wilson, English actor (The Girl Who Had Everything), dies at 87
- Aug 2 Helen Page Camp, American actress, dies at 60
- Aug 5 Gaston Litaize, French organist (St François-Xavier, Paris, 1946-91), composer, broadcaster, and pedagogue, dies at 81

- Aug 7 Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian and singer (Billy T. James Show), dies of heart failure at 42
- Aug 12 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies
- Aug 14 Douglas Kiker, American newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
- Aug 16 Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
- Aug 17 Donald "Don" Dubbins, American actor (From Here to Eternity, The Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer at 63
- Aug 20 Betty Bowden, British dancer and actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
- Aug 21 Richard Wilson, American producer, writer and actor (worked with Orson Welles), dies at 75
- Aug 22 Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American Tony and Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress (The Blue and the Grey - "Maggie"; Anne of Green Gables), dies of cervical cancer at 67
- Aug 24 Mike Sokoll, Hungarian-American cowboy actor, dies at 97
- Aug 25 Don Nute, American actor, dies of AIDS at 56
- Aug 25 Niven Busch, American screenwriter (Duel in the Sun), dies at 88
- Aug 27 Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
- Aug 28 Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies
- Aug 29 Dallas Adams, British painter, writer and actor (Terror from Within), dies
- Aug 29 Daniel Ocko, American actor dies of a respiratory condition at 78
- Aug 29 Dixie Dunbar [Charlotte King], American singer and actress, dies of a heart attack at 72
- Aug 30 Alan Wheatley, British actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies from a heart attack at 84
- Aug 31 Gerry Davis, British screenwriter (Dr Who), dies at 61
- Sep 1 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director and actress (Jane Eyre, Barocco), dies at 76
- Sep 1 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
Sep 3 Italian-AmericanAcademy Award-winning film director (It's a Wonderful Life; It Happened One Nigh; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 94

- Sep 4 Tom Tryon, American actor (The Cardinal, All That Glitters, The Longest Day) and novelist (The Other), dies of stomach cancer at 65
- Sep 7 Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
- Sep 8 Brad Davis, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
- Sep 9 Paul Michael Lombardi, American actor (The Fisher King), dies of AIDS at 31
- Sep 12 Regis Toomey, American actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction), dies at 93
- Sep 13 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
- Sep 14 Julie Bovasso, American actress (Willie & Phil, Just Me & You), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 15 Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
- Sep 15 John Hoyt [Hoysradt], American stage and screen actor (Mercury theatre; Gimme a Break!; Tom, Dick & Mary), and comedian, dies of lung cancer at 85
- Sep 16 Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47
- Sep 21 Angelo Rossitto, American dwarf actor (known as "Little Moe", Carousel), dies at 83
- Sep 23 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies
- Sep 24 Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
- Sep 25 Viviane Romance [Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns], French actress (Panic, Queen's Necklace), dies at 79
- Sep 27 Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies
- Sep 30 Nancy Welford, British-born American actress (Gold Diggers of Broadway), dies at 87
- Oct 3 Max Cantor, American actor and journalist, dies of a drug overdose at 32
- Oct 9 Roy Black, German schlager singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies of heart failure at 43
- Oct 9 Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of a heart attack at 51
- Oct 11 Redd Foxx [JohnSanford], American comedian and actor (Sanford & Son; Redd Foxx Show), dies of a heart attack at 68
- Oct 12 Aline MacMahon, American actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92
- Oct 12 Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75
- Oct 13 Donald Houston, Welsh actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror), dies at 67
- Oct 16 Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies
- Oct 17 "Tennessee" Ernie Ford, American country music singer ("Sixteen Tons"), and actor (I Love Lucy; The Ford Show), dies of liver disease at 72
- Oct 17 J. G. Devlin, Northern Irish actor (No Surrender), dies at 84
- Oct 18 Gunnar Sønstevold, Norwegian jazz pianist, and orchestral and film score composer (Litany In Atlanta; The Dorian Cage), dies at 78
- Oct 22 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies

- Oct 25 Khigh Dhiegh [Kenneth Dickerson], American actor (Forbidden Nights; The Manchurian Candidate; Hawaii Five-0 - "Wo Fat"), dies of kidney and heart failure at 81
- Oct 28 [Lawrence] G. L. Vitto American DJ and TV host, dies at 69
- Oct 29 Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies
- Oct 31 Bert Bertram, Australian actor (How to Steal a Million, Shamus), dies of cancer at 97
- Oct 31 Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
- Oct 31 Johan Schmitz, actor (Gysbregt van Aemstel/Soldat van Orange), dies
- Nov 2 Irwin Allen, American film and television producer (Land of the Giants; The Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
- Nov 5 Fred MacMurray, American actor (Double Indemnity, The Apartment, My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
Nov 6 American actress (Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, The Razor's Edge), dies of emphysema at 70

- Nov 8 Frances Faye, American cabernet singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after a stroke ay 79
- Nov 9 Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
- Nov 9 Yves Montand [Ivo Livi], Italian-French actor (Z; Napoleon; Grand Prix), and singer, dies of a heart attack at 70
- Nov 10 Dick the Bruiser [William Fritz Afflis], American professional wrestler, dies at 62
- Nov 10 Tutte Lemkow, dancer and director (Capt Paradise; I Am A Camera), dies at 73
- Nov 12 Diane Brewster, American actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
- Nov 13 Cyril Poitier, actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80
- Nov 16 Ralph Marrero, American actor (Dawn of the Dead; The Babe; Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33
- Nov 17 Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, American actress, adult film performer and Jerry Van Dyke's daughter, commits suicide at 33
- Nov 17 Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55
- Nov 19 Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80
- Nov 20 Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil), dies at 82
- Nov 23 Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82
- Nov 23 Klaus Kinski [Naksynski], German-Polish actor (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65
- Nov 24 Anton Furst, American production designer (Batman), dies at 47
- Nov 25 Eleanor Audley, American voice actress (Cinderella - "Wicked Stepmother"), dies at 86
- Nov 26 Dehl Berti, Chiricahua Apache actor (Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Guns of Paradise), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Nov 29 Ralph Bellamy, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday, Trading Places), dies at 87
- Dec 1 Byron Webster, British-American actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58
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