Editing 1998 in film (section)

==Deaths==
{{update|date=May 2022}}
<!-- This section is in the article 1998 in "film", people that are television actors, television directors or something like that but did not have any part of a film don't belong here. Those belong to the "Notable Deaths" section in "1998 in television" -->
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! Month !! Date !! Name !! Age !! Country !! Profession !! Notable films
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| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in January 1998|January]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Mae Questel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]''| ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Sonny Bono]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Good Times (film)|Good Times]]''| ''[[Hairspray (1988 film)|Hairspray]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Walt Barnes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Big Gundown]]''| ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film)|Escape to Witch Mountain]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Murray Salem]] || style="text-align:center;"| 47 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Kindergarten Cop]]''| ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Jacqueline deWit|Jacqueline DeWit]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[All That Heaven Allows]]''| ''[[Little Giant]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Dorothy Wilson (actress)|Dorothy Wilson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[One in a Million (1935 film)|One in a Million]]''| ''[[Scarlet River]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Lorenzo Mongiardino]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''| ''[[The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film)|The Taming of the Shrew]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Jack Lord]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]]''| ''[[God's Little Acre (film)|God's Little Acre]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Ethelreda Leopold]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[In the Sweet Pie and Pie]]''| ''[[G.I. Wanna Home]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || Jim Bohan || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[American Graffiti]]''| ''[[Punishment Park]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Ferdy Mayne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Barry Lyndon]]''| ''[[Conan the Destroyer]]''}}
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| rowspan=13 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in February 1998|February]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Jack T. Collis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director, Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[Magnum Force]]''| ''[[The Last Tycoon (1976 film)|The Last Tycoon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Duilio Del Prete]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[At Long Last Love]]''|''[[Alfredo, Alfredo]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Davy Kaye]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''| ''[[Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Douglas Gamley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| Australia || style="text-align:center;"| Composer, Conductor || {{hlist|''[[Tron]]''| ''[[Enigma (1982 film)|Enigma]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[George White (film editor)|George White]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Film Editor || {{hlist|''[[Green Dolphin Street (film)|Green Dolphin Street]]''| ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Felix Nelson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Learning Tree]]''| ''[[The Ballad of Cable Hogue]]'' <ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Person/51015-Felix-Nelson "Felix Nelson Filmography"]. [[American Film Institute]]. Retrieved April 1, 2024.</ref>}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Sheila Raynor]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''| ''[[The Omen]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[James Villiers]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''| ''[[Repulsion (film)|Repulsion]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[John Nicolella]] || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Kull the Conqueror]]''| ''[[Easy Money (1983 film)|Easy Money]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Chuck Hayward]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Stuntman || {{hlist|''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]''| ''[[The Longest Yard (1974 film)|The Longest Yard]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Henny Youngman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Comedian, Actor || {{hlist|''[[History of the World, Part I]]''| ''[[Goodfellas]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[James Algar]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer, Animator || {{hlist|''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]''|''[[The African Lion]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[J. T. Walsh]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Good Morning, Vietnam]]''| ''[[A Few Good Men]]''}}
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in March 1998|March]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Donald Woods (actor)|Donald Woods]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"|Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Anthony Adverse]]''| ''[[The Case of the Stuttering Bishop]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Lloyd Bridges]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[High Noon]]''| ''[[Airplane!]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Helen Westcott]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Gunfighter]]''| ''[[God's Little Acre (film)|God's Little Acre]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Beverley Cross]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Clash of the Titans (1981 film)|Clash of the Titans]]''| ''[[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|Jason and the Argonauts]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Daniel Massey (actor)|Daniel Massey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Star! (film)|Star!]]''| ''[[In Which We Serve]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Ramsay Ames]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Mummy's Ghost]]''| ''[[The Gay Cavalier (film)|The Gay Cavalier]]''}}
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| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in April 1998|April]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Gene Evans]] || style="text-align:center;" | 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Steel Helmet]]''| ''[[Shock Corridor]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Lucille Norman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actress || {{hlist|''[[Carson City (film)|Carson City]]''| ''[[Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (film)|Painting the Clouds with Sunshine]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Charles Lang]] || style="text-align:center;"| 96 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[Some Like It Hot]]''| ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Kay Hughes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Big Show (1936 film)|The Big Show]]''| ''[[Dick Tracy (serial)|Dick Tracy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Rodney Harvey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 30 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[My Own Private Idaho]]''| ''[[Guncrazy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Peter Lind Hayes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.]]''| ''[[The Senator Was Indiscreet]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Marvin Worth]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[Malcolm X (1992 film)|Malcolm X]]''| ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Leslie Stevens]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Director || {{hlist|''[[The Marriage-Go-Round (film)|The Marriage-Go-Round]]''| ''[[Incubus (1966 film)|Incubus]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Jerome Bixby]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[It! The Terror from Beyond Space]]''| ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Dorothy Lovett]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Meet Dr. Christian]]''| ''[[The Mantrap]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Mary Castle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Gunsmoke (film)|Gunsmoke]]''| ''[[The Jailbreakers]]''}}
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| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in May 1998|May]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Maidie Norman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]''| ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Gene Raymond]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Flying Down to Rio]]''| ''[[Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Alice Faye]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Singer || {{hlist|''[[In Old Chicago]]''| ''[[Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)|Alexander's Ragtime Band]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Nat Perrin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 93 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Director || {{hlist|''[[The Great Morgan]]''| ''[[Hellzapoppin' (film)|Hellzapoppin']]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Gene Fowler Jr.]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Film Editor || {{hlist|''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''| ''[[Hang 'Em High]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Frank Sinatra]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actor || {{hlist|''[[From Here to Eternity]]''| ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Linwood G. Dunn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 93 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Visual Effects Artist || {{hlist|''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]''| ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Wolf Mankowitz]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]''| ''[[A Kid for Two Farthings (film)|A Kid for Two Farthings]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Douglas Fowley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''| ''[[Mighty Joe Young (1949 film)|Mighty Joe Young]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[John Derek]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[Knock on Any Door]]''| ''[[Saturday's Hero]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Phil Hartman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Pee-wee's Big Adventure]]''| ''[[Jingle All the Way]]''}}
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| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in June 1998|June]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Darwin Joston]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)|Assault on Precinct 13]]''| ''[[Eraserhead]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Dorothy Stickney]] || style="text-align:center;"| 101 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Catered Affair]]''| ''[[I Never Sang for My Father]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Josephine Hutchinson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 94 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[North by Northwest]]''| ''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Jeanette Nolan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance]]''| ''[[The Big Heat]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Theresa Merritt]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Billy Madison]]''| ''[[The Wiz (film)|The Wiz]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Charles Korvin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| Slovakia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Berlin Express]]''| ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Kurt Kren]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Director|| {{hlist|''8/64: Ana – Aktion Brus''| ''10/65: Selbstverstümmelung''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)|Tarzan the Ape Man]]''| ''[[The Thin Man (film)|The Thin Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Henry G. Saperstein]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]''| ''[[Mr. Magoo (film)|Mr. Magoo]]''}}
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| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in July 1998|July]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Claire Kelly]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Badlanders]]''| ''[[Party Girl (1958 film)|Party Girl]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Gregg Burge]] || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Chorus Line (film)|A Chorus Line]]''| ''[[School Daze]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Roy Rogers]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Son of Paleface]]''| ''[[King of the Cowboys]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[William Preston (actor)|William Preston]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Fisher King]]''| ''[[Waterworld]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || Leigh Brown || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[A Christmas Story]]''| ''[[It Runs in the Family (1994 film)|It Runs in the Family]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Joseph Maher]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Mars Attacks!]]''| ''[[In & Out (film)|In & Out]]'' }}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Betty Marsden]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Night and the City]]''| ''[[The Dresser (1983 film)|The Dresser]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Crossfire (film)|Crossfire]]''| ''[[That Forsyte Woman]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Binnie Barnes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 95 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]''| ''[[The Spanish Main]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Lenny McLean]] || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''| ''[[The Fifth Element]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Jerome Robbins]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Choreographer || ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]''
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[O. Z. Whitehead]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]''| ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath]]''}}
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| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in August 1998|August]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Eva Bartok]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Crimson Pirate]]''| ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || Bob Wyman || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Film Editor || {{hlist|''[[Greased Lightning (1977 film)|Greased Lightning]]''| ''[[Logan's Run (film)|Logan's Run]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Derek Newark]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[City Under the Sea]]''| ''[[Dad's Army (1971 film)|Dad's Army]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Marc Akerstream]] || style="text-align:center;"| 44 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Stuntman, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Needful Things (film)|Needful Things]]''| ''[[Rumble in the Bronx]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Phil Leeds]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''| ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Persis Khambatta]] || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| India || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''| ''[[Nighthawks (1981 film)|Nighthawks]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[E. G. Marshall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]''| ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Gene Page]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[Blacula]]''| ''[[Brewster McCloud]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Wade Dominguez]] || style="text-align:center;"| 32 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Dangerous Minds]]''| ''[[City of Industry (film)|City of Industry]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Penny Edwards (actress)|Penny Edwards]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Street Bandits]]''| ''[[Missing Women (film)|Missing Women]]''}}
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|rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in September 1998|September]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Fernando Carrere]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| Mexico || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director || {{hlist|''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]''| ''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]'' }}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Akira Kurosawa]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| Japan || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Seven Samurai]]''| ''[[Rashomon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Elaine Shepard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Seven Days Ashore]]''| ''[[You Can't Fool Your Wife]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Leonid Kinskey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 95 || style="text-align:center;"| Russia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''| ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Dane Clark]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86|| style="text-align:center;"| US|| style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Whiplash (1948 film)|Whiplash]]''| ''[[Destination Tokyo]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Patricia Hayes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''| ''[[Willow (1988 film)|Willow]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Clara Calamai]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Deep Red]]''| ''[[Ossessione]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[John Garrie]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[if....]]''| ''[[The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Marius Goring]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Ill Met by Moonlight (film)|Ill Met by Moonlight]]''| ''[[The Moonraker]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Stephen Pearlman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Pi (film)|Pi]]''| ''[[Die Hard with a Vengeance]]''}}
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|rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in October 1998|October]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Gene Autry]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US ||style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[The Singing Cowboy (film)|The Singing Cowboy]]''| ''[[The Phantom Empire]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[George Davis (art director)|George Davis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US ||style="text-align:center;"| Art Director || {{hlist|''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]''| ''[[All About Eve]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Roddy McDowall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| UK ||style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]''| '' [[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]] ''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Gigi Reder]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy ||style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Fantozzi (film)|Fantozzi]]''| '' [[Fracchia contro Dracula|Who Is Afraid Of Dracula?]] ''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Richard Denning]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US ||style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[An Affair to Remember]]''| ''[[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Joan Hickson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| UK ||style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Clockwise (film)|Clockwise]]''| ''[[Theatre of Blood]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Eric Ambler]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|A Night to Remember]]''| ''[[Topkapi (film)|Topkapi]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Christopher Gable]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Boy Friend (1971 film)|The Boy Friend]]''| ''[[The Lair of the White Worm (film)|The Lair of the White Worm]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Dennis Ayling]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Visual Effects Artist || ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Rick Dior]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Sound Engineer || {{hlist|''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]''| ''[[Juice (1992 film)|Juice]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Rosamund John]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[When the Bough Breaks (1947 film)|When the Bough Breaks]]''| ''[[Green for Danger (film)|Green for Danger]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[James Goldman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]''| ''[[They Might Be Giants (film)|They Might Be Giants]]''}}
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|rowspan=14 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in November 1998|November]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || Tommy Duggan || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Omen]]''| ''[[Superman II]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Martha O'Driscoll]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[House of Dracula]]''| ''[[Wagon Train (film)|Wagon Train]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Vincent Winter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 50 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Production Manager || {{hlist|''[[The Kidnappers]]''| ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Momoko Kōchi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Japan || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]''| ''[[The Mysterians]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Jean Marais]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[Julietta (1953 film)|Julietta]]''| ''[[White Nights (1957 film)|White Nights]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Ursula Reit]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''| ''[[Three Men in the Snow (1974 film)|Three Men in the Snow]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Valerie Hobson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]''| ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Dick O'Neill]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]''| ''[[The Jerk]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Esther Rolle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]''| ''[[Rosewood (film)|Rosewood]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Alan J. Pakula]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]''| ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Nicky Blair]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Godfather Part III]]''| ''[[Rocky V]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Enrico Sabbatini]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Costume Designer || {{hlist|''[[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)|Seven Years in Tibet]]''| ''[[The Mission (1986 film)|The Mission]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Flip Wilson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Comedian, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Skatetown, USA]]''| ''[[The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Ruth Clifford]] || style="text-align:center;"| 98 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln]]''| ''[[The Amazing Woman]]''}}
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|rowspan=18 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in December 1998|December]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Freddie Young]] || style="text-align:center;"| 96 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''| ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[John Addison]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]''| ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || John Veitch || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Executive || {{hlist|''[[Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)|Bram Stoker's Dracula]]''| ''[[Fly Away Home]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Lew Grade]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[The Dark Crystal]]''| ''[[Sophie's Choice (film)|Sophie's Choice]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Ariadna Welter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| Mexico || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Devil's Hand]]''| ''[[The Boxer (1958 film)|The Boxer]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Norman Fell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Bullitt]]''| ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || John Robert Lloyd || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''| ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Irene Hervey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Play Misty for Me]]''| ''[[Cactus Flower (film)|Cactus Flower]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Roger Avon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.]]''| ''[[Curse of the Crimson Altar]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[David Manners]] || style="text-align:center;"| 98 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Dracula (1931 English-language film)|Dracula]]''| ''[[The Mummy (1932 film)|The Mummy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Richard Paul (actor)|Richard Paul]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]''| ''[[Eating Raoul]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Hurd Hatfield]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)|The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''| ''[[The Boston Strangler (film)|The Boston Strangler]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[William Frankfather]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Death Becomes Her]]''| ''[[Foul Play (1978 film)|Foul Play]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Don Taylor (American actor and director)|Don Taylor]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[Stalag 17]]''| ''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]''}}
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