Editing 1971 in film (section)

==Deaths==
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|  '''Month''' ||  '''Date''' ||  '''Name''' ||  '''Age''' || '''Country''' ||  '''Profession''' ||  '''Notable films'''
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''January'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Douglas Shearer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Sound Engineer || {{hlist|''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''|''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Fanfulla]] || style="text-align:center;"| 57 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Fellini Satyricon]]''|''[[The Clowns (film)|The Clowns]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[John Dall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Rope (film)|Rope]]''|''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Broncho Billy Anderson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director, Writer || {{hlist|''[[The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)|The Great Train Robbery]]''|''[[The Weak-End Party]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Isobel Lennart]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Two for the Seesaw (1962 film)|Two for the Seesaw]]''| ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''February'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Jay C. Flippen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Oklahoma! (film)|Oklahoma!]]''|''[[Winchester '73]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Frédéric Mariotti]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Barrabas (film)|Barrabas]]''|''[[Mare Nostrum (1926 film)|Mare Nostrum]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Matt McHugh]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Street Scene (film)|Street Scene]]''|''[[The Last Trail (1933 film)|The Last Trail]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Fernandel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]''|''[[The Little World of Don Camillo]]''}}
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| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''March'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Winnie Lightner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Gold Diggers of Broadway]]''| ''[[She Had to Say Yes]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Harold Lloyd]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;" | US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director, Writer || {{hlist|''[[Safety Last!]]''|''[[The Freshman (1925 film)|The Freshman]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Borden Chase]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Red River (1948 film)|Red River]]''| ''[[Winchester '73]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Roy Glenn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]''|''[[A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)|A Raisin in the Sun]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Tor Johnson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''|''[[Bride of the Monster]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Bebe Daniels]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]''|''[[The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)|The Maltese Falcon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Nan Wynn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Shot in the Dark (1941 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]''| ''[[Pardon My Sarong]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Nella Walker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Elmer and Elsie]]''| ''[[Fugitive Lady (1934 film)|Fugitive Lady]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Basil Dearden]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Dead of Night]]''| ''[[Khartoum (film)|Khartoum]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Selmer Jackson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Hey, Rookie]]''|''[[The Glass Alibi]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Werner Peters]] || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Dog Eat Dog (1964 film)|Dog Eat Dog]]''|''[[Death Knocks Twice]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''April'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Paulette Noizeux]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Lady Killer (1937 film)|Lady Killer]]''|''[[La Digue (film)|La Digue]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Cecil Parker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]''|''[[The Citadel (1938 film)|The Citadel]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Edmund Lowe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Dinner at Eight (1933 film)|Dinner at Eight]]''|''[[Dillinger (1945 film)|Dillinger]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[John Tansey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[The Sky Rider]]''|''[[Trouping with Ellen]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''May'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Glenda Farrell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]''|''[[I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[John Longden]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Blackmail (1929 film)|Blackmail]]''| ''[[Dial 999 (1938 film)|Dial 999]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Chips Rafferty]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| Australia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''|''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Audie Murphy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 45 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)|The Red Badge of Courage]]''|''[[To Hell and Back (film)|To Hell and Back]]''}}
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''June'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Piero Gherardi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Production, Costume Designer || {{hlist|''[[La Dolce Vita]]''|''[[8½]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Harold Lloyd Jr.]] || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Flaming Urge]]''|''[[Mutiny in Outer Space]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Michael Rennie]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]''|''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Kenneth Macpherson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| Scotland-Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Film-maker || {{hlist|''[[Borderline (1930 film)|Borderline]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Thomas Gomez]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Key Largo (film)|Key Largo]]''|''[[Pittsburgh (1942 film)|Pittsburgh]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''July'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Louis Armstrong]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Musician || {{hlist|''[[Hello, Dolly! (film)|Hello, Dolly!]]''|''[[High Society (1956 film)|High Society]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Carleton G. Young]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Hard, Fast and Beautiful]]''| ''[[Queen of Burlesque]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Cliff Edwards]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]''| ''[[Dumbo]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Norman Reilly Raine]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]''| ''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Van Heflin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]''|''[[3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)|3:10 to Yuma]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| 24|| [[Christl Mardayn]] ||  style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Singer || {{hlist|''[[The Shanghai Drama]]''|''[[Victoria in Dover (1954 film)|Victoria in Dover]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''August'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Ernst Eklund (actor)|Ernst Eklund]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Crisis (1946 film)|Crisis]]''|''[[Banketten]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Paul Lukas]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]''|''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Spyros Skouras]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| Greece || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Studio Executive || {{hlist|''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''|''[[The Hustler]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Horace McMahon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]''|''[[Susan Slept Here]]''}}
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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''September'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Spring Byington]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Meet John Doe]]''|''[[You Can't Take It with You (film)|You Can't Take It with You]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Pier Angeli]] || style="text-align:center;"| 39 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 film)|Somebody Up There Likes Me]]''|''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of the Bulge]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Bella Darvi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 42 || style="text-align:center;"| Poland || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Egyptian (film)|The Egyptian]]''|''[[Hell and High Water (1954 film)|Hell and High Water]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''October'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Chester Conklin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Modern Times (film)|Modern Times]]''|''[[The Great Dictator]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Fritz Achterberg]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Hamlet (1921 film)|Hamlet]]''|''[[The False Dimitri]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Phoebe Ephron]] || style="text-align:center;"| 57 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Desk Set]]''| ''[[Captain Newman, M.D.]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Betty Bronson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film)|Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]''| ''[[Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Cheryl Walker (actress)|Cheryl Walker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Shadows on the Sage]]''| ''[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Vincent Coleman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Has the World Gone Mad?]]''|''[[The Magic Cup]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''November'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Martha Vickers]] || style="text-align:center;"| 46 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]''|''[[Alimony (1949 film)|Alimony]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Ann Pennington (actress)|Ann Pennington]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Rainbow Princess]]''| ''[[Tanned Legs]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Gladys Cooper]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]''|''[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;| ''17 '' || [[Fania Marinoff]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[One of Our Girls]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Stuart Gilmore]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Editor, Director || {{hlist|''[[Sullivan's Travels]]''| ''[[The Virginian (1946 film)|The Virginian]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Bengt Ekerot]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Seventh Seal]]''|''[[The Magician (1958 film)|The Magician]]''}}
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| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''December'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Frank Wolff (actor)|Frank Wolff]] || style="text-align:center;"| 43 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Salvatore Giuliano (film)|Salvatore Giuliano]]''|''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Dita Parlo]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| Poland || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[La Grande Illusion]]''|''[[L'Atalante]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Diana Lynn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 45 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Miracle of Morgan's Creek]]''|''[[The Kentuckian (1955 film)|The Kentuckian]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Robert Lowery (actor)|Robert Lowery]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)|The Mark of Zorro]]''| ''[[Batman and Robin (serial)|Batman and Robin]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Max Steiner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Burt Gillett]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Flowers and Trees]]''|''[[Three Little Pigs (film)|Three Little Pigs]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Stuart Holmes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]''|''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1922 film)|The Prisoner of Zenda]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Dorothy Comingore]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Citizen Kane]]''|''[[The Hairy Ape (film)|The Hairy Ape]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Marin Sais]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Oath of Vengeance]]''|''[[Reefer Madness]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Lucien Hubbard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]''|''[[The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)|The Maltese Falcon]]''}}
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