Deaths
- April 26 – Jim Davis (b. 1909), actor (Jock Ewing) on Dallas
- June 9 – Allen Ludden (b. 1917), game show host
- August 1 – Paddy Chayefsky (b. 1923), writer
- September 27 – Robert Montgomery b. 1904, actor
- November 25 – Jack Albertson (b. 1907), actor
Read more about this topic: 1981 In American Television
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)