Editing 1978 in film (section)

==Deaths==
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|  '''Month''' ||  '''Date''' ||  '''Name''' ||  '''Age''' || '''Country''' ||  '''Profession''' ||  '''Notable films'''
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''January'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Sally Eilers]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Bad Girl (1931 film)|Bad Girl]]''| ''[[The Black Camel (film)|The Black Camel]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Arthur Sheekman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]''| ''[[Some Came Running (film)|Some Came Running]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Jack Oakie]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Great Dictator]]''| ''[[Lover Come Back (1961 film)|Lover Come Back]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Leo Genn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]''| ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Oskar Homolka]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Sabotage (1936 film)|Sabotage]]''| ''[[I Remember Mama (film)|I Remember Mama]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Tim McCoy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Texas Cyclone (film)|Texas Cyclone]]''| ''[[Two-Fisted Law]]''}}
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| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''February'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Wendy Barrie]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''| ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Claude Binyon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Writer, Director || {{hlist|''[[The Saxon Charm]]''| ''[[Dreamboat (film)|Dreamboat]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Ilka Chase]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Now, Voyager]]''| ''[[Ocean's 11 (1960 film)|Ocean's 11]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Kathleen Lockhart]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Christmas Carol (1938 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''| ''[[Bewitched (1945 film)|Bewitched]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Maggie McNamara]] || style="text-align:center;"| 48 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Moon Is Blue (film)|The Moon Is Blue]]''| ''[[Three Coins in the Fountain (1954 film)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Franco Arcalli]] || style="text-align:center;"| 48 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Last Tango in Paris]]''| ''[[Zabriskie Point (film)|Zabriskie Point]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Philip Ahn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Never So Few]]''| ''[[Paradise, Hawaiian Style]]''}}
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| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''March'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[John Cazale]] || style="text-align:center;"| 42 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Godfather]]''| ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Lafayette Russell|Reb Russell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Range Warfare]]''| ''[[Border Vengeance (1935 film)|Border Vengeance]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Peggy Wood]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''| ''[[The Story of Ruth]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Leigh Brackett]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]''| ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Leslie Fenton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[Boys Town (film)|Boys Town]]''| ''[[Whispering Smith]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Jack Hulbert]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Bulldog Jack]]''| ''[[Jack Ahoy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Hanna Ralph]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Faust (1926 film)|Faust]]''| ''[[Helena (1924 film)|Helena]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Astrid Allwyn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Follow the Fleet]]''| ''[[Love Affair (1939 film)|Love Affair]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''April'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Lynne Roberts (actress)|Lynne Roberts]] || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Girls of the Big House]]''| ''[[Port Sinister]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''| ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Paul McGrath (actor)|Paul McGrath]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|A Face in the Crowd]]''| ''[[Advise & Consent]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Will Geer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Winchester '73]]''| ''[[Bandolero!]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''May'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Loyal Griggs]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]''| ''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]''}}
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||| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Philip Ray]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|A Night to Remember]]''| ''[[Dracula: Prince of Darkness]]''}}
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||| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Robert Coogan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Skippy (1931 film)|Skippy]]''| ''[[Johnny Doughboy]]''}}
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||| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Robert Florey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Cocoanuts]]''| ''[[Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 film)|Murders in the Rue Morgue]]''}}
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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''June'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]''| ''[[The Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Bob Crane]] || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Gus (1976 film)|Gus]]''| ''[[Superdad]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Frank Santillo]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Editor || {{hlist|''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]''| ''[[Junior Bonner]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''July'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[James Daly (actor)|James Daly]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]''| ''[[The Big Bounce (1969 film)|The Big Bounce]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Jack Woolgar]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Death Line]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Thayer David]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Rocky]]''| ''[[The Eiger Sanction (film)|The Eiger Sanction]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Agnes Christine Johnston]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Life Begins for Andy Hardy]]''| ''[[Black Beauty (1946 film)|Black Beauty]]''}}
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| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''August'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Queenie Smith]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Mississippi (film)|Mississippi]]''| ''[[The Killers (1946 film)|The Killers]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Ferenc Kiss (actor)|Ferenc Kiss]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Cafe Moscow]]''| ''[[The Talking Rob]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Agustín Isunza]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| Mexico || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[El Topo]]''| ''[[Wild Flower (film)|Wild Flower]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Louis Prima]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]]''| ''[[Rose of Washington Square]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Charles Boyer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Gaslight (1944 film)|Gaslight]]''| ''[[Algiers (1938 film)|Algiers]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Robert Shaw (British actor)|Robert Shaw]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''| ''[[The Sting]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Lee Garmes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]''| ''[[A Big Hand for the Little Lady]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''September'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Karin Molander]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Halvblod]]''| ''[[Erotikon (1920 film)|Erotikon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Jack L. Warner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Studio Executive || {{hlist|''[[My Fair Lady]]''| ''[[Camelot (film)|Camelot]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Frank Ferguson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Rancho Notorious]]''| ''[[The Good Humor Man (1950 film)|The Good Humor Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Ann Shoemaker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Sunrise at Campobello]]''| ''[[Alice Adams (1935 film)|Alice Adams]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Ruth Etting]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actress || {{hlist|''[[Roman Scandals]]''| ''[[Gift of Gab (film)|Gift of Gab]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Edgar Bergen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Ventriloquist || {{hlist|''[[The Muppet Movie]]''| ''[[Fun and Fancy Free]]''}}
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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''October'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Kathryn McGuire]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Sherlock Jr.]]''| ''[[The Navigator (1924 film)|The Navigator]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Dan Dailey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[It's Always Fair Weather]]''| ''[[There's No Business Like Show Business (film)|There's No Business Like Show Business]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Gig Young]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses Don't They]]''| ''[[That Touch of Mink]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Brian Hayles]] || style="text-align:center;"| 47 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Warlords of Atlantis]]''| ''[[Arabian Adventure]]''}}
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| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''November'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Denis O'Dea]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Esther and the King]]''| ''[[Niagara (1953 film)|Niagara]]''}} 
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Florence Marly]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| Czechoslovakia || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Sealed Verdict]]''| ''[[Tokyo Joe (1949 film)|Tokyo Joe]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Claude Dauphin (actor)|Claude Dauphin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]''| ''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Robert Alan Aurthur]] || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]''| ''[[All That Jazz (film)|All That Jazz]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[June Martel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Fighting Youth]]''| ''[[Santa Fe Stampede]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Ford Beebe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Green Hornet (serial)|The Green Hornet]]''| ''[[Buck Rogers (serial)|Buck Rogers]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Susan Shaw]] || style="text-align:center;"| 44 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Wide Boy (film)|Wide Boy]]''| ''[[Fire Maidens from Outer Space]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[André Morell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''| ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''December'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[I. Stanford Jolley]] || style="text-align:center;| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[King of the Rocket Men]]''| ''[[I Killed Wild Bill Hickok]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Ed Wood]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Glen or Glenda]]''| ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Fay Compton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Othello (1952 film)|Othello]]''| ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)|The Haunting]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Chill Wills]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Alamo (1960 film)|The Alamo]]''| ''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Duncan Lamont]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Frankenstein Created Woman]]''| ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Louis de Rochemont]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[Windjammer (1958 film)|Windjammer]]''| ''[[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone]]''}}
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