1994 in American Television - Deaths

Deaths

• January 1 – Cesar Romero, actor (The Joker on Batman)
• January 8 – Pat Buttram, actor (Mr. Haney on Green Acres)
• January 22 – Telly Savalas, actor (Theo Kojak on Kojak)
• January 28 – Hal Smith, actor (Otis on The Andy Griffith Show)
• February 11 – William Conrad, actor (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show)
• February 11 - Sorrell Booke, actor (Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard).
• February 24 – Dinah Shore, singer and talk show hostess.
• March 4 – John Candy, comedian and actor (SCTV).
• March 21 – Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing on Dallas, from AIDS).
• March 22 – Walter Lantz, cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.
• April 2 – Betty Furness, consumer advocate and spokesperson.
• April 5 – Kurt Cobain, singer, songwriter, musician.
• April 18 – Don Fedderson, producer (My Three Sons).
• April 22 – Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States
• May 8 – George Peppard, actor (Banacek, Hannibal on The A-Team).
• May 22 – Jane Dulo, character actress (Get Smart, Gimme a Break!).
• June 1 – Frances Heflin, soap opera actress.
• June 7 – Dennis Potter, scriptwriter; Rudolph Cartier, director.
• June 14 – Henry Mancini, composer
• July 7 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (Uncle Buck on The High Chaparral)
• July 8 – Dick Sargent, actor (Darrin Stephens #2 on Bewitched)
• August 21 – Danitra Vance, comedian, the first African-American woman regular on Saturday Night Live, from breast cancer.
• September 3 – James T. Aubrey, former head of programming at CBS.
• October 2 – Harriet Nelson, singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)
• October 25 – Mildred Natwick, actress
• November 8 – Michael O'Donoghue, comedy writer (Saturday Night Live)
• November 9 – Priscilla Morrill, character actress (Mrs. Vanderkellen on Newhart).
• November 11 – Pedro Zamora, HIV-positive participant of The Real World
• November 30 - Lionel Stander, actor (Hart to Hart)
• December 27 - Fanny Craddock, TV cookery expert