Editing 1976 in film (section)

==Deaths==
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|  '''Month''' ||  '''Date''' ||  '''Name''' ||  '''Age''' || '''Country''' ||  '''Profession''' ||  '''Notable films'''
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| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''January'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Walter Janssen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Great Longing]]''| ''[[Maskerade (film)|Maskerade]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Agatha Christie]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Writer || {{hlist|''[[Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)|Witness for the Prosecution]]''| ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Margaret Leighton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]''| ''[[The Best Man (1964 film)|The Best Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Sonia Dresdel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[This Was a Woman]]''| ''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Paul Dupuis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Against the Wind (1948 film)|Against the Wind]]''| ''[[Madness of the Heart]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Paul Robeson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Show Boat (1936 film)|Show Boat]]''| ''[[The Proud Valley]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Michael Gwynn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''| ''[[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|Jason and the Argonauts]]''}}
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| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''February'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Roger Livesey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]''| ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Lee J. Cobb]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[On the Waterfront]]''| ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[John Twist]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[King Richard and the Crusaders]]''| ''[[Annie Oakley (1935 film)|Annie Oakley]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Sal Mineo]] || style="text-align:center;"| 37 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''| ''[[Exodus (1960 film)|Exodus]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Lily Pons]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actress || {{hlist|''[[I Dream Too Much (1935 film)|I Dream Too Much]]''| ''[[Hitting a New High]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[John Lounsbery]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Animator || {{hlist|''[[Dumbo]]''| ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Maria Corda]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[White Rose (1919 film)|White Rose]]''| ''[[The Private Life of Helen of Troy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Campbell Singer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Square Peg]]''| ''[[The Hands of Orlac (1960 film)|The Hands of Orlac]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Peter Madden (actor)|Peter Madden]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]''| ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''}}
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||| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Frieda Inescort]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Place in the Sun (1951 film)|A Place in the Sun]]''| ''[[The Letter (1940 film)|The Letter]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''March'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Doris Hill]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Sons of the Saddle]]''| ''[[Men Are Like That]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Charles Lederer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[His Girl Friday]]''| ''[[Ocean's 11]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Busby Berkeley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Choreographer || {{hlist|''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]''| ''[[Hollywood Hotel (film)|Hollywood Hotel]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Luchino Visconti]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Writer || {{hlist|''[[The Leopard (1963 film)|The Leopard]]''| ''[[Death in Venice (film)|Death in Venice]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Michael Goodliffe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Cromwell (film)|Cromwell]]''| ''[[Jigsaw (1962 film)|Jigsaw]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Richard Arlen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]''| ''[[Wildcat (1942 film)|Wildcat]]''}}
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| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''April'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Ray Teal]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]''| ''[[Ace in the Hole (1951 film)|Ace in the Hole]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[George Pastell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| Cyprus || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]''| ''[[The Magus (film)|The Magus]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Howard Hughes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Hell's Angels (film)|Hell's Angels]]''| ''[[The Outlaw]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Producer || {{hlist|''[[One Way Passage]]''| ''[[20,000 Years in Sing Sing]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Liam Dunn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Blazing Saddles]]''| ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Paul Ford]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Advise & Consent]]''| ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Léonide Moguy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| Russia || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Writer || {{hlist|''[[Paris After Dark]]''| ''[[Action in Arabia]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Carol Reed]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Writer || {{hlist|''[[Oliver! (film)|OIiver!]]''| ''[[The Third Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Neil McCallum (actor)|Neil McCallum]] || style="text-align:center;"| 46 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''| ''[[Dr. Terror's House of Horrors]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Sid James]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Lavender Hill Mob]]''| ''[[Trapeze (film)|Trapeze]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Thelma Connell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Film Editor || {{hlist|''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]''| ''[[The Deadly Affair]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''May'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[David Bruce (actor)|David Bruce]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Susie Steps Out]]''| ''[[Lady on a Train]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Alan Baxter (actor)|Alan Baxter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Saboteur (film)|Saboteur]]''| ''[[The Set-Up (1949 film)|The Set-Up]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Hilde Hildebrand]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Victor and Victoria]]''| ''[[Little Dorrit (1934 film)|Little Dorrit]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Ruth McDevitt]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''| ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''June'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Violet Wilkey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''| ''[[The Burned Hand]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Victor Varconi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The King of Kings (1927 film)|The King of Kings]]''| ''[[The Sea Hawk (1940 film)|The Sea Hawk]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Sybil Thorndike]] || style="text-align:center;"| 93 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Magic Box]]''| ''[[Melba (film)|Melba]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Adolph Zukor]] || style="text-align:center;"| 103 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Studio Executive || {{hlist|''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]''| ''[[Shanghai Express (film)|Shanghai Express]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Johnny Mercer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Songwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Harvey Girls]]''| ''[[Darling Lili]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Stanley Baker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 48 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''| ''[[Helen of Troy (film)|Helen of Troy]]''}}
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''July'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Frances Howard (actress)|Frances Howard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Shock Punch]]''| ''[[The Swan (1925 film)|The Swan]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Norman Foster (director)|Norman Foster]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[Pilgrimage (1933 film)|Pilgrimage]]''| ''[[State Fair (1933 film)|State Fair]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[James Wong Howe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| China || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[The Rose Tattoo (film)|The Rose Tattoo]]''| ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Rina Morelli]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Leopard (1963 film)|The Leopard]]''| ''[[Senso (film)|Senso]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Lucie Mannheim]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The 39 Steps (1935 film)|The 39 Steps]]''| ''[[The High Command]]''}}
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| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''August'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Fritz Lang]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Writer || {{hlist|''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]''| ''[[The Big Heat]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[William Mervyn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Ruling Class (film)|The Ruling Class]]''| ''[[The Long Arm (film)|The Long Arm]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Ray "Crash" Corrigan|Ray Corrigan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Three Mesquiteers (film)|The Three Mesquiteers]]''| ''[[Range Busters]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[William Redfield (actor)|William Redfield]] || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''| ''[[Death Wish (1974 film)|Death Wish]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Murvyn Vye]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]''| ''[[Al Capone (film)|Al Capone]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Luigi Serventi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Woman's Story]]''| ''[[The Story of a Poor Young Man (1920 film)|The Story of a Poor Young Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Alastair Sim]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Green Man (film)|The Green Man]]''| ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)|Scrooge]]''}}
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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''September'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Dalton Trumbo]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]''| ''[[Roman Holiday]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Paul Dehn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger]]''| ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]''}}
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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''October'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Barbara Nichols]] || style="text-align:center;"| 47 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]''| ''[[The Naked and the Dead (film)|The Naked and the Dead]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Edith Evans]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]''| ''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]''}}
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''November'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Ramsay Hill]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Technical Advisor || {{hlist|''[[The Crusades (1935 film)|The Crusades]]''| ''[[One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''<ref>Stewart, William T. (1981). ''[https://archive.org/details/internationalfil0000stew/page/244/mode/2up?q=%22cyril+seyes+ramsay-hill%22 International Film Necrology]''. New York: Garland Publishing. p.&nbsp;244. {{ISBN|0-8240-9552-9}}.  See also:
*Seibel, George (September 24, 1935). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-sun-telegraph/145033355/ "Saladin Gets the Vote as Richard Makes War and Love in 'Crusades'"]. ''Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph''. p.&nbsp;14.
*Blum, Daniel, ed. (1962, 1982). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ukFl5C_3npMC&pg=PA21&dq=%22One+hundred+and+One+dalmatians%22+%22Ramsay+Hill%22 Daniel Blum's Screen World]''. Cheshire, CT: Biblio & Tannen. p.&nbsp;21. {{ISBN|0-8196-0303-1}}.</ref>}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Jean Gabin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[La Grande Illusion]]''| ''[[Port of Shadows]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Rupert Davies]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Waterloo (1970 film)|Waterloo]]''| ''[[The Criminal (1960 film)|The Criminal]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Rosalind Russell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[His Girl Friday]]''| ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Godfrey Cambridge]] || style="text-align:center;"| 43 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Cotton Comes to Harlem]]''| ''[[The President's Analyst]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''December'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Mary Nash (actress)|Mary Nash]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]''| ''[[The Human Comedy (film)|The Human Comedy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Cathy Downs]] || style="text-align:center;"| 50 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[My Darling Clementine]]''| ''[[The Dark Corner]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Jack Cassidy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Bunny O'Hare]]''| ''[[The Eiger Sanction (film)|The Eiger Sanction]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Walter Fitzgerald]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]''| ''[[Man in the Sky]]''}}
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