Deaths
- March 1 – Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester in The Addams Family)
- March 24 – Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr. Zorba in Ben Casey)
- March 31 – Jack Howarth, actor (Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street, 1960–1984)
- May 4 – Jack Barry, game show host/producer
- May 4 – Diana Dors, British actress
- May 16 – Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka Gravas on Taxi)
- June 15 – Ned Glass, actor
- August 27 – Bernard Youens, actor (Stan Ogden in Coronation Street, 1964–1984)
- October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (of a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a freak accident on the set of the TV series Cover Up)
Read more about this topic: 1984 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 (19131992)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldiers sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)