Notable Deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 2 | Alan Hale, Jr. | 68 | USA | Actor | Hang 'Em High • Johnny Dangerously • The Fifth Musketeer |
| 5 | Arthur Kennedy | 75 | USA | Actor | Lawrence of Arabia • They Died with Their Boots On • Peyton Place • Elmer Gantry • The Man from Laramie • Fantastic Voyage • Nevada Smith | |
| 6 | Ian Charleson | 40 | UK | Actor | Chariots of Fire • Gandhi • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | |
| 10 | Lyle R. Wheeler | 84 | USA | Art Director | Gone with the Wind • The Day the Earth Stood Still • All About Eve • The Diary of Anne Frank • Rebecca • Broken Lance • Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 15 | Gordon Jackson | 66 | UK | Actor | The Great Escape • The Ipcress File • Shaka Zulu | |
| 18 | Rusty Hamer | 42 | USA | Actor | Dance with Me, Henry | |
| 20 | Barbara Stanwyck | 82 | USA | Actress | Double Indemnity • Stella Dallas • Ball of Fire • Sorry, Wrong Number • Crime of Passion • Cattle Queen of Montana • Roustabout | |
| 25 | Ava Gardner | 67 | USA | Actress | The Barefoot Contessa • Earthquake • Mogambo • Show Boat • Bhowani Junction • The Snows of Kilimanjaro • The Bible: In the Beginning • On the Beach | |
| February | 13 | Ken Lynch | 79 | USA | Actor | North by Northwest • Bad Charleston Charlie • Paratroop Command • Willie Dynamite • Across 110th Street |
| 14 | Jean Wallace | 66 | USA | Actress | Lancelot and Guinevere • No Blade of Grass • The Big Combo • Beach Red | |
| 15 | Henry Brandon | 77 | Germany | Actor | The War of the Worlds • The Searchers • Assault on Precinct 13 • To Be or Not to Be | |
| 16 | Joshua Shelley | 70 | USA | Actor | All the President's Men • Funny Lady • The Front Page • Quicksilver • Little Miss Marker | |
| 28 | Fabia Drake | 86 | UK | Actress | A Room with a View • Year of the Dragon • Valmont | |
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